Wednesday -- August 10, 2005
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 TONIGHT'S BOOK SIGNING
Tonight The FairTax Book signing will be at the Borders Bookstore in
Gainesville, Florida. That's Florida Gators territory. Borders is located at
6837 Newberry Rd. Gainesville, Florida.,
As for last night ... well, I just continue to be amazed at the crowds. Not only
did I underestimate what this book would do ... but so did some others. The
Orlando Barnes & Nobles sold out of The FairTax Book before I even arrived ...
over 500 books ... and the call was put out to other Orlando area stores for more
books, but they were sold out too. Last night I asked for a show of hands of
people who bought more than one copy. Almost one-half of that portion of the
crowd that I could see from my signing position raised their hands. Amazing.
The hunger for some meaningful tax reform it amazing. The American people
seem to fully realize that our present tax system is just as much a tool for
class warfare and vote buying as it is a tool for raising the funds needed for
the operation of the essential functions of the federal government. As I told
the crowd last night, and as I have been saying on the air day ad nauseum, the
FairTax plan goes nowhere if you don't get proactive ... very proactive. About
230+ years ago, in the winter of 1776, we had patriot soldiers marching on frozen
ground with bare feet to fight a seemingly impossible fight against the British
for independence. They were easy to track because their torn feet left a bloody
trail on the frozen ground. This revolution - this tax revolution - can be won
far more easily. Read the book, or go to
FairTax.org to familiarize
yourself with the FairTax plan. Then start the phone calls and faxes. Get the
emails flowing. [contact
your Congressman] Spread the word. Show up at your congressman or senator's
community meetings. Do it week after week. Be relentless ... and recruit the
relentless. This can be done. Difficult? You bet, but possible. The Berlin Wall
fell, didn't it? The Soviet Union is no more. This fight is easier, but will be
lost if we don't actually join the battle. 
The crowd in Orlando. More signing pics.
ATTACKING JOHN ROBERTS
 If anybody thought for two seconds that the upcoming confirmation hearings were
going to be anything less than an all-out brawl, then they were kidding
themselves. When John Roberts' nomination was announced, several Democrats
stepped forward in support, and even the harshest critics such as Teddy
Chappaquiddick seemed to withhold judgment. It almost seemed like there wouldn't
be much of a fight.
Fat chance.
Sooner or later, the people for whom abortion is the #1 issue in their lives
were going to weigh in. There are groups of people on both sides of the issue
that go to bed and wake up thinking about nothing but abortion. It defines their
political beliefs, whom they vote for and it's all they care about. So now
they're after John Roberts, and in a big way.
First up:
a TV ad being run by NARAL, the National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League. As you might guess from their title, this is a pro-choice
group. The only problem with the TV ad is it's a lie. This should come as no
surprise...political groups run such propaganda all the time.
The ad shows a 1998 Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic that had been bombed.
The ad accuses John Roberts of filing legal papers in support of the bomber. The
only problem? John Roberts signed the legal briefing 7 years before the bombing,
clearly having nothing to do with the actions of the bomber.
The ad has been found to be false by, among others,
Factcheck.org. The real
shame here? CNN has agreed to run the ad, in exchange for $125,000. That's too
bad.
9/11 HIJACKERS KNOWN IN ADVANCE
 Republican Congressman Curt Weldon from Pennsylvania has made the explosive
allegation that more than a year before the attacks on 9/11, Clinton
administration intelligence officials
knew who four of the hijackers were,
including ringleader Mohammed Atta. So why wasn't anything done?
Because information wasn't allowed to be shared between federal agencies, thanks
to 9/11 commissioner and former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (not
pronounced the way it's spelled.) She instituted rules that forbade sharing of
intelligence between, for instance, the CIA and the FBI. She was reportedly
hired at the insistence of The Hildabeast. Thank you Hillary Clinton.
Here's what Weldon told the New York Times. He says a military group, called
'Able Danger' had identified the four terrorists, knew they were trouble and
said the FBI should know about it. They were rejected, because of Gorelick's
rules. Since the Islamic hijackers had legitimate visas, Able Danger's
recommendation was turned down. A quote from Weldon: "In fact, I'll tell you how
stupid it was, they put stickies on the faces of Mohammed Atta on the chart that
the military intelligence unit had completed and they said you can't talk to
Atta because he's here." Curt Weldon say he got the info from some of the agents
in the Able Danger unit.
If true, and there's no reason to believe it isn't, this is yet another example
of how the debacle of 9/11 should be laid at the feet of the Clinton
administration. No president did more to ignore the mounting threat of Islamic
terrorism than did Bill Clinton, and 3,000 people paid for his policies with
their lives.
The 9/11 Commission is coming back to investigate this one. We'll be watching.
ENDORSING THE PORK
Today in Illinois, President George W. Bush will sign the recently passed
highway bill. The $286.4 billion transportation legislation is
so overloaded
with pork that it contains 6,371 pet projects for all 535 members of Congress.
How nice. Aren't you so glad that our politicians are confiscating your personal
wealth to buy votes from people in their districts? So what else is new.
One of the more outrageous examples is funding for a bridge in Alaska, secured
by Republican Representative Don Young. $231 million will go for a bridge near
Anchorage to be called...yup...you guessed it..."Don Young's Way." Another
outrage is this one: $2.3 million for landscaping along the Ronald Reagan
Freeway in California. If that doesn't keep The Gipper spinning in his grave for
awhile, nothing will.
At any rate, this bill shows more than any other that the Republican Party has
long abandoned its quest for limited government. Aside from national security
issues and a few other things, we have reached a point where there is no
difference between a Republican and a Democrat. REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Well, I guess he's at least getting some good use out of
an item that would be completely
unused in a redneck household. More in the
Redneck Scrap Book. 
No, this isn't completely random. There's actually a story behind it.
READING
ASSIGNMENTS
Democrats have been whining for 4 years about George Bush exploiting the attacks
of 9/11.
Michelle Malkin turns the tables on the left, and points out their own
exploitation.
Alan Keyes has an interesting idea for the Jacko jurors who now say they
think he's guilty: jail them for perjury.
Thomas Sowell's 'Trashing Our History' series continues. It has become
fashionable in the halls of academia in recent years to trash Abraham Lincoln.
Sowell thinks it's time for a new book on the subject. Also, on the subject
of Iraq,
he says the liberal media is ignoring the heroic acts of our soldiers.
With the breakup of the AFL-CIO,
George Will says the era of organized labor is long gone. Not just long
gone, but long, long gone.
Here's a shocking title for a column: 'Big Government Libertarianism.'
John Tabin says that calls for increased spending are coming from some
interesting quarters.
John Stossel has interesting new proposal regarding taxpayer funding for
PBS: cut them off. Entirely. Good idea. Time for more 'contributions from
viewers like you.' Or just maybe...commercials! Imagine that.
Cindy Sheehan, the mom of the soldier who died in Iraq...has set up a protest
outside Bush's Crawford Ranch.
Debra Saunders calls it a 'bizarre encampment' and takes a look at the facts
of the situation.
The Media Research Center says the networks are all right there pushing
Sheehan's cause, no matter whether she's credible or not.
Everybody makes mistakes.
Walter E. Williams says there are two kinds of errors, and applies them to
the decision to go to war in Iraq. Outstanding column, as always, from the good
Dr.
Linda Chavez takes a look at Harry Belafonte's "black tyrants" comment.
Linda Chavez calls it what it is: hate speech. Heather's Reading Assignments I have no strings to hold me down to make me fret; to make me frown.
I broke ties with hu-man-ity, I have no guilt on me! But
this blog makes him 17. You can leave your phone in the van, you can leave your kid in the van, but
if you leave your pet in the van...
and you're PETA, then you get attention. Negative publicity is still
publicity, right?
As a South Korean moved into town, RPG's take off in a mad way. I'll take a Venti Decaf Sugar-free Soy Vanilla-light no foam Latte with 2
sweet-n-lows...
in every city please, Joe. See his blog
here . Anything for publicity, again... From the 'Hey Mom! Where are you?' files: It is "
unrealistic and unobtainable" to expect a child to read or count on his
grade level in Kansas, but that is just because they don't have enough funding.
I can't leave you without something disturbing to think about for the rest of
the day. There is a girl who refused to let her parents raise her baby over seas
and she couldn't afford an abortion, the baby is born but does not live. "
Thanks anyhow, Grandma!" | 
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