PUTTING AMERICANS BACK TO WORK

JOBS - it should be job number one for Congress when it returns to its job in September. It is a job, I fear, that will go wanting while Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid still hold the gavel of congressional leadership.
What is needed?
This is not rocket science.
Lower corporate tax rates and provide incentives and loan guarantees to small businesses to expand and hire more workers. Institute incentives to bring industry outsourced to Mexico (like the recently closed Whirlpool plant in Evansville, IN) and China back to America. Close tax loopholes that allow such outsourcing in the first place.
Immediately lift the Obama-imposed ban on drilling in the Gulf and put the estimated 18-25 thousand workers back on payrolls and off unemployment rolls.
Lift the ban on drilling in Alaska's Anwr refuge and allow drilling on 1.5 million of the refuge's nearly 20-million acres on the north coast of that state. Anwr holds an estimated six to sixteen billion barrels of oil.
What about the Caribou calving areas so sacred to the environmentalists who have blocked drilling in Anwr for more than a quarter century? Endangering caribou was the same argument used to try and block oil drilling in Prudhoe Bay. When drilling began in Prudhoe Bay more than a quarter century ago, caribou native to that area numbered about 3,000. Today the herd is estimated at 23,000.
Case closed!
Drilling in Anwr would put up to a half-million Americans back to work - at top wages - and bring in tens of millions annually to Alaska and the U. S. Treasury from royalties for the drilling rights.
Anwr could supply up to 20-percent of America's oil needs. We could then cease doing business with Saudi Arabia, from whom we import 14.3-percent of our oil and put a big dent in oil imports from Venezuela, which supplies 12-percent of our annual petroleum needs.
Without the need for oil from those two despotic nations we could thumb our nose at Chavez and begin to finally cut-off the money rolling into this country from Saudi Arabia to fund mosques that teach the radical theology of Wahhabism, which calls for Jews to be eradicated and considers Christians and other non-Muslims infidels.
Does that word sound familiar?
Saudi money makes its way into this country through Muslim charity fronts - fronts that build mosques and madrassas - schools where Muslim children are indoctrinated with the radical Wahhabi teachings, which include stoning women who commit adultery (most men get by with flogging or no punishment at all); and upholds honor killings by male family members of any female family member who dares to offend the strict behavior and dress codes inflicted on females in this male dominated society.
In Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism's Sharia law requires married women cover their faces in public; all women must cover their heads; women are not permitted to vote, drive a car, or go anywhere without being accompanied by a male family member.
Gays must also fear for their lives in Saudi Arabia. If caught they can be stoned, flogged and at best, imprisoned.
Tolerance in any form is lacking in Saudi society. While members of the Muslim faith should be welcomed and respected by all Americans, the barbaric religious practices of Saudi Arabia should be confined to that country and not exported to America through charitable fronts. Wahhabism is offensive to American values of personal freedom and more humane punishment.
The development of Anwr is key to cutting off oil imports from Saudi Arabia and ultimately to our national and economic security.
As we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11, let us remember 15 of the 19 terrorists who attacked America were from Saudi Arabia.
And please, let me never see another American President holding the hand of, or bowing to, the King of that despotic country. Such a sight is offensive and denigrates a document signed in 1776 by a brave band of patriotic brothers who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to not have to bow to a despotic King of England.
Put Gulf workers back to work. Develop Anwr on a priority basis. Drilling for oil in American waters and on American soil are good first steps to righting our upside down economy.

RACE BAITERS

Never has the face of America's mainstream news media been more turned from the truth than in its reporting and analysis of the events of the Tea Party protests in Washington during the weekend the health care bill was narrowly passed.
In a politically provocative action, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi marched through the center of the protesters holding a large ceremonial gavel, surrounded primarily by members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Members of that caucus later charged they were assailed with racial invectives and even spat on by the protesters as they walked to the Capitol.
Several news cameras were following the parade of Democrats. Yet, not one of those cameras recorded any invectives being shouted, nor does video footage confirm a man spit on Congressman Emanuel Cleaver as Cleaver has insisted. What we do see is a protester with hands cupped around his mouth shouting kill the bill while Cleaver was shouting something back at him.
Which raises the question of just who was behaving badly.
What the news cameras did show was Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. recording the protesters as he walked past them. You see him panning the crowd with the camera. Surely Jackson would quickly share his video with the media if his camera had caught any such invectives being shouted.
Police and other security around the congressional parade heard nothing. And not one of the thousands of Tea Party protesters was arrested.
At a Tea Party rally in Nevada this weekend, conservative Andrew Breitbart (Breitbart.com) offered a substantial reward to anyone who has recorded proof of racial slurs being hurled at the congressmen or any other insults, racial or otherwise, as Democrats have charged; which the media, from the New York Times; to the Washington Post; to NBC and CNN, have reported as gospel.
So far, no one has come forward to collect the reward. And that includes Congressman John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement in the 1960's, who was one of the Congressional Black Caucus members declaring he was the target of racial slurs.
Something the racial slur brouhaha has accomplished is to distract attention away from the health care bill itself - which those same members of congress helped saddle on the backs of every American - except of course themselves, since senators, congressmen and their staffs are exempt.
The anger of the country is not grounded in racial divide. It is an anger being stoked by fear of economic loss - loss of personal freedoms - of frustration that the voice of the people is being ignored.
A dispatch from the McClatchy news service described those in Pelosi's Parade as running a "racial gauntlet" - and this verbiage was carried in many newspapers around the world. What is lacking in that verbiage are facts. And it is such a disingenuous slap at the right of Americans to speak out against that with which they disagree.