Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 Posted 9:25 AM by Hank CLINTON, KERRY AND BIN LADEN: IT'S THE TERRORISM, STUPID Today's New York Post is reporting that the Clinton Administration "failed to aggressively track one of the [September 11] hijackers after obtaining his first name and phone number more than two years before the attacks." According to the article: The tip, received in March 1999, appears to be one of the earliest signs that U.S. officials had about one of the 2001 hijackers. It also may have represented a missed chance for U.S. intelligence to uncover a terror cell in Germany that was a key element of the hijacking plot. Despite the hopes and pleas of Democrats that Clinton's record has no bearing on the present, this information, if true, has implications for the 2004 presidential election. Like Clinton, John Kerry, does not think the "war on terror" should be fought as a war, but as "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation." Further, not unlike Clinton, Kerry thinks the threat of terrorism is "greatly exaggerated," and we should, instead, be concentrating on domestic issues. It is becoming more likely every day that the Clintonesque view of foreign policy allowed the attacks on September 11 to occur. Accordingly, we need to ask whether we want that view back in the White House, to further endanger our citizens. Sunday, February 22, 2004 Posted 8:06 AM by Hank HOW BUSH COMPARES TO HOOVER: THE REST OF THE STORY Today's Detroit News has a brilliant piece, deconstructing the democrat lie that the President has "the worst job loss record of any president since Herbert Hoover." Besides noting that the job losses did not begin with President Bush, and that September 11 exacerbated the country's economic problems, the article points out: True, under Bush, jobs have declined 2.2 million, about the same as under the four years of the Hoover administration from 1929 to 1933. But in 1929, when the population was 121 million, a job loss of two million was a national catastrophe. It sent unemployment rocketing from 3.2 percent in 1929 to 23.6 percent in 1932. In 2004, when the population is more than 280 million, a loss of two million jobs means a national unemployment rate of 5.6 percent, sorrowful for the individuals involved but hardly a national calamity. It also reminds us: During his four years in office, Hoover followed the very policies being advocated most ardently these days by the Democrats — tax increases, trade barriers and higher spending on social programs. If anybody is following in the tradition of Hoover, it’s Kerry and Edwards Between this and Kerry's constant harping on his Vietnam service, maybe it's time for the Republicans to start pointing out the obvious: that the Democrats are living in the last century. Thursday, February 12, 2004 Posted 9:55 AM by Hank WITNESSES TO BUSH IN GUARD Turns out that there are people who remember working with President Bush in the National Guard. But you probably won't read about them in the "national" media. Instead you have to look for local stories from places as far ranging as Western New York and the Deep South. From the Buffalo, New York, area comes this account: "A Town of Tonawanda man says he remembers George Bush working just as hard as any other young pilot in training when he served in the National Guard...Jack Lang ...was an Air Force flight instructor in 1968 at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. He was one of eight instructors for Bush and other who were learning how to fly jet fighters for various units including the Air National Guard in Texas. Lang says he knows none of the instructors would cut any student a break in the training because they all needed to know how to fly the supersonic planes with the possibility they could be sent into combat." And, according to the Birmingham News: Joe LeFevers, a member of the 187th in 1972, said he remembers seeing Bush in unit offices ...in Montgomery." The President has proven his service. First through official records, and now through eyewitnesses. It's time for even the liberal media to move on, as much as they don't want to. Thursday, February 05, 2004 Posted 7:13 AM by Hank TALK ABOUT "ENTRAPMENT" A few years ago, New York State passed a largely unenforced ban on using cell phones while driving. Apparently, however, at least one (most likely) fine-hungry politician wants to see the law enforced. The Associated Press is reporting that: A Brooklyn state assemblyman wants a special hotline to report drivers who are talking on hand-held cell phones. Assemblyman Feliz Ortiz says the hotline would connect to the State Department of Motor Vehicles. The caller would report the time, date, location and license plate number of the car being driven by the talker. Think about this for more than two seconds and it becomes obvious that this plan is flawed. The only people who are going see a person using a cell phone while driving would be other drivers. And how are those other drivers going to call the hotline unless they use their own cell phones while driving? On the other hand, maybe this is part of the plan. Maybe everyone who calls the hotline to report a "driving while phoning" offense will also be prosecuted, resulting in two fines for the price of one? This is New York, after all. When it comes to government spending and taxes anything is possible. Home