May 31, 2006

Brit Hume Became So Discouraged Last Night that He Has Given Up
       Brit Hume became so discouraged last night having to deal every day with the nonsense from Nina Easton that he has appeared to give up. What else can he do when he is forced by Fox News to put up with her foolishness not only on Sundays but on his own daily show? He is supposed to be Managing Editor on the daily program.

Fox Will Begin Publishing Its London Times in New York to Attract “Wealthy” Readers
       The owner of Fox, which is the publicly-traded “News Corp,” tells The Wall Street Journal that it will begin publishing its London Times in New York City on June 12 in a bid to add more “wealthy” New Yorkers to its bottom-line. Money is the only thing that interests Fox. It wants to increase its annual profits of $25 billion. It will be competing in New York for the same readers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Concerned Women Seek Federal Marriage Amendment
       Concerned Women for America is seeking the immediate passage of a Federal Marriage Amendment because: “Rogue judges and legislators are creating counterfeits.” CWA seeks an amendment which will not allow counterfeit marriage of civil unions.
       The wording is: “Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither the United States nor any State shall recognize or grant to any unmarried person the legal rights or status of a spouse.” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) has promised a vote on a marriage amendment on June 5. But that proposal is for a soft amendment which would not ban civil unions.
       Full text of the CWA alert is at: http://www.cwfa.org/articles/10811/CFI/family/index.htm

American Family Association Disagrees with CWA
       The AFA is favoring a soft federal marriage amendment which will just protect the word “marriage.”
       Its founder and Chairman, Don Wildmon, says: “I only wish we could get Congress and conservatives (even Christian conservatives) to implement Mike’s proposal. While it breaks my heart to say so, "It ain’t going to happen." So I must be satisfied at the present time to take most of the pie if we can get it. Perhaps those who come after us will take up the cause and eventually succeed where we have failed. Pray to God that they will.”
       The pressure for a soft Amendment is apparently coming from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church inasmuch as a news story from AFA says that “all eight U.S. Catholic Cardinals” are prominent in the group that is pushing for a soft Amendment.
       We in Massachusetts know by heart the words that Justice Sosman of the Mass. SJC wrote when she voted against Justice Margaret Marshall’s illegal imposition of gay marriage upon the state. Justice Sosman spoke of civil unions as counterfeit marriage and put the following words in her opinion: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

We Didn’t Encourage Germans and Japanese to Move Here after WWII
       An article in WorldNet Daily points out that we didn’t encourage the Germans and Japanese to move here after WWII. We helped them where they were, in their own homelands. “If Mexico and Central America could become Latin versions of the success stories of the destroyed countries of WWII, economic migration would end of its own accord,” writes Ronald F. Maxwell.

Readers Wonder How to Defeat Majority Leader John Rogers
       Many readers are wondering how to defeat Majority Leader John Rogers this fall after his repudiation last week of traditional marriage. Some are even determining whether it is too late to run someone else in the Primary this fall.

Democratic Senator Harry Reid Denied He Did Anything Wrong In Taking Free Tickets to Boxing
       Although Brit Hume tried to get his panel to discuss the damage to Democrats by the news that their leader in the Senate gets into to the fights in Las Vegas without paying, his newest panelist, Nina Easton, explained that there was nothing at all wrong, even in appearance, in what he did. She was gleefully reporting throughout the show that her “colleagues” at Fortune magazine were filling her in on the important news to which they were privy. If they were busy reporting news, everyone knows they didn’t have time to talk with their newest token minority. Although Brit would disagree with Maura Liasson much of the time, at least she made intelligent discussions.
       It was interesting that Fred Barnes knew what we had written yesterday morning about the Associated Press and others have written for years about the connections of Reid to the lobbyist Harry Abramoff, but even Barnes got discouraged with both Nina and Mort Kondracke loudly proclaiming the Democratic line.

Senator Schumer Made Headline News Again
       The private Senator of the New York Times, Chuck Schumer made headline news again yesterday with his endorsement of the new appointment of Henry Paulson of Goldman Sachs as Secretary of the Treasury. It led some to wonder how many of Pinch’s billions are invested with Goldman.