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Saturday, October 15, 2005

HOT STUFF

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WHO'S "STAGING" WHAT? NBC's Today Show was whining about Bush's photo op with the troops, claiming it was rehearsed. Then a major "oops" of their own doing:
http://newsbusters.org/node/2199

SPEAKING OF MEDIA BIAS: Blockbuster new study reveals with they're really up to when it comes to covering the War on Terror:
http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2005/sum/sum101405.asp


LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL:
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/102005g.asp

FLU MANIA: The national media are in an info-orgy over the threat of a pandemic. Here's more: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4484333 Hey, wash your hands. Be Careful out there. in 1918 my grandfather was declared "dead" in that year's epidemic. Lived to age 91.

NOT PARANOID YET?: Try this... http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2005-10-10T191716Z_01_YUE063240_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-PANDEMIC.xml

LET THE KURDS PUNISH SADDAM AND SAVE US ALL SOME TIME:http://www.washtimes.com/world/20051010-120339-7219r.htm

LARSON OF ARABIA: Journal on the road in the Middle East.
http://www.kogo.com/larson_in_iraq.html

ACTIVIST JUDGES GALORE: Cast your vote in the current Larson Poll by visiting
http://www.larsonpoll.com

GOOD GRIEF: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-10-saddam-vote_x.htm?csp=34

BRAVO ARNOLD! Veto on the latest Single-bill-Gil Cedillo attempt to hijack citizens rights and undermind security: http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/regstate/articles/1897862.html

MISSED HIM BY "THAT MUCH": Looks like the horrible quake in Pakistan hasn't snuffed out Osama... maybe there's still hope:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171684,00.html

THE CURRENT MOOD: For what it's worth, check out the latest national polls:
http://realclearpolitics.com/polls.html

BING WEST IS RIGHT: He was a guest on our show last week and the author of "No True Glory: A Firsthand Account of the Battle for Fallujah". He writes a fine column in the Washington Post: "Slighting This Greatest Generation".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701703.html

HOT TITLES: As heard on the Larson show, books you'll want to read include 'GREATNESS:Reagan, Churchill & The Making of Extraordinary Leaders" by Steven Hayward; "A War Like No Other" by Victor Davis Hansen and "No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life" by Kyle Maynard.

LET THAT BE A LESSON TO ALL ANIMALS: Python alert! Last week it was the story of the python that tried to eat an alligator and EXPLODED. Now this: http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=19803
I can hear Mom saying, "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach... dont try to eat too much".