THANKS, AUSTIN!

I want to thank the incredible staff of 590 KLBJ in Austin for inviting me to participate in their Talkfest event on Saturday.  The standing room only crowd at the Austin Convention Center surpassed all of my expectations.  I must say that the Aggie was treated very well in the heart of Teasip land.  Now I remember again why I love Texas.  When KLBJ has another event, you can bet I'll be there.  For those of you who were at the convention center yesterday, or who were listening to our live broadcasts ---- No.  Clark Howard and I didn't make it back to Atlanta.  We hopped on a Southwest Airlines 737 and headed straight for Tampa, Florida.  We're now hanging out at my home in Naples (which, by the way, was the warmest city in the US yesterday) waiting for the ice to thaw back home.  Things could be worse.

AND WHY DO THEY KILL?

I hope you're keeping up with the news from Iraq today.  Millions of Iraqi citizens are literally risking their lives to cast their votes in the Iraqi national election today.  This is truly a momentous event in the history of the Middle East.  Islamic fanatics are out in strength trying to kill their own people today.  They're killing their own people, men and women, for no other reason other than to keep them from expressing their desires as to how they want to live, and who they want to lead them.   The United States, Great Britain and a precious few other countries are willing to try to protect them as they create a new future.  For this Americans should be proud.  It's Sunday.  If you're the praying type, you shouldn't have any trouble figuring out what to pray for today.  The safety of our troops, and the future of freedom in Iraq. 

SENATOR CUT AND RUN

It is an absolute mystery why the citizens of the state of Massachusetts have elected and re-elected Ted Kennedy to the Senate over and over again for 42 years.  Because every time he speaks out on an issue, he is an absolute embarrassment to his constituents. 

Now the brave hero of Chappaquiddick has decided to regale us with his solution to the growing insurgency in Iraq.  It's all so easy.  We just leave!  We cut and run.  That's right, he's calling for the United States to simply leave Iraq.  "There will be more serious violence if we continue our present dangerous and reckless course," said the Senator.  Oh really? What does he propose will happen if we just leave?

First of all .. someone has to say this, so I will.  With those words yesterday Ted Kennedy signed a death warrant for more American soldiers.  Those words encouraged the people in Iraq who are trying to kill their fellow Iraqis and as many American troops as they can. If, in the next few days, you get that knock on the door telling you that your son or daughter was killed in a bombing in Iraq, you might want to reflect on the role Ted Kennedy played in that tragedy.  I just can't say it strongly enough.  This man is a vile, repugnant, leftist pig and he's costing lives .. American lives ... in Iraq.

So .. what if we do follow Kennedy's advice? What will happen is another Taliban, that's what.  The Islamic jihadists will immediately take over, start executing all of the non-believers, enslave the women and institute a terrorist state.  Training camps would be set up, and we would have a whole new generation of suicide bombers, hijackers and Al-Qaeda hit men, all thanks to Teddy Kennedy's disastrous foreign policy advice.

What kind of message would that send to the rest of the world? To the Iraqi people?  To the other members of the Coalition?  The wrong message.  Then again, Ted Kennedy specializes in cutting and running.  Just ask Mary Jo Kopechne.

IRAQI DEMOCRACY TAKES HOLD

Have you seen the pictures from around the world of Iraqis flocking to the polls to cast their vote in the upcoming election?  It seems they are awfully eager to make their voice heard and get democracy underway in their homeland.

Oh ... you haven't seen the pictures?  No surprise there.  The media knows that every depiction of an Iraqi eager to vote is an embarrassment to The Kennedy faction and an acknowledgment that things in Iraq are not quite so bad as the media has been suggesting.  So many Democrats truly believe that Iraq and the world would be better off right now if Saddam Hussein had never been removed from power.  Freedom?  Sorry, not important to the left.  They want peace.  If its the peace that's brought about by tyranny, so be it.  Peace it is, and peace is good.  Freedom?  OK, we'll go with freedom just so long as nobody has to fight or die.  If you have to spill blood to be free, then the left says no.

Here's a little prediction.  The Iraqi elections are going to be this Sunday, January 30th.  There will be isolated pockets of violence, like there are now.  Insurgents will kill their fellow Arabs and Iraqis simply because they wanted to voice an opinion as to how they will be governed.  But the elections will happen and people will show their eagerness to vote.  This will not be good news for the Democrats.  You see, they enjoy playing politics with America's national security.  Every success for the United States in the war on terror is bad for the left.

They said it couldn't be done in Afghanistan.  It was done in Afghanistan.  They said it couldn't be done in the Palestinian territories.  And it was.  They say it can't be done in Iraq, and it will be.  Leftists and Euro-weenies may not want democracy to succeed in Iraq, but the Iraqis do.

Just watch.

AUSCHWITZ AND ABU GHRAIB

Given that yesterday's 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp has come and gone, how long before the media starts comparing the interrogation tactics at Abu Ghraib to the extermination of Jews and others by the Nazis?  Well, it turns out not long.  It's already happened.

The Daily Texan, which serves the University of Texas at Austin, published an op-ed piece today.  Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the Auschwitz memorial service yesterday, and this is what they had to say about it:

"Cheney's words ring hollow as his administration attempts to promote a man who expressly condones torture, Alberto Gonzales, to the highest law-enforcement position in the United States. They ring hollow as more evidence is uncovered that the acts of barbarism at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but rather acts according to policy set down by the executive branch."

So there you have it.  There are others, but you get the idea.  The left, blinded by their hatred for all things George Bush, have now decided that a few isolated incidents of prisoner humiliation are the same thing as The Holocaust.  The fringe liberals in this country have completely divorced themselves from reality.

And just think...we have 4 more years of the Bush administration to go.  These people could get really entertaining.

STIRRING UP THE MASSES

Yesterday on the Boortz show we somehow got into a series of telephone calls from people discussing the best way to get me taken off the air ...permanently.  It was quite entertaining.  Really, it was! 

Of all the things that I say on the air, there are two things that are absolutely, positively guaranteed to bring hellfire, damnation, condemnation and the worst wishes of loving people down about my head and shoulders.  The first would be any statement which would indicate that I don't hate, fear, loathe and condemn homosexuals.  The second would be an expression in my belief in evolution.

So, just to stir the puddin' a bit more today, let me quote Richard Burton who, if we can draw anything from his experiences with Elizabeth Taylor, was not a homosexual:  "I have never known anyone who took great exception to homosexuals...that there wasn't something drastically wrong with that very person himself."   

Uh oh.  Here comes the email.

Why do I keep doing this to myself? 

READING ASSIGNMENTS

So .. you aren't sending your child to one of those troubled urban government schools.  You think that your particular government school is doing just fine.  Well, I don't want to ruin your day.  I don't want you to feel like you're short-changing your child.  So don't read this.

The Wall Street Journal is wondering if Harry Reid is going to follow Ted Kennedy off the cliff.  Maybe Ted can put Harry in his car and give him a tour of Martha's Vineyard!

Bruce Bartlett says that Republicans are suffering from benefit-cut phobia.  Add that to the smaller-government phobia that Republicans already have. 

Some more information about the Great Georgia Land Grab bill now slithering through the Georgia General Assembly.

Democrats are running around talking about how if 50,000 votes had gone the other way in the election, then The Poodle would have won the election.  Nathan Gonzales says this proves the Democrats are living in a fantasy world.

There is a college professor at the University of Colorado who has written that the 3,000 innocent people murdered at the hands of Islamic terrorists on 9/11 were not innocent people.  As you can imagine, it has really hit the fan over this one.

The Bush-bashing mainstream media continues to live up to their agenda.  The Media Research Center reports on their disgraceful antics at the president's press conference.

Jeff Jacoby writes about his father, who spent time at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote about how terrible it was that George Bush wasn't popular in Europe.  David Limbaugh takes exception.

Condoleezza Rice was confirmed to be the secretary of state by a vote of 85 to 13.  What you may not know is the politics behind that vote, as Charles Krauthammer explains.

With her re-election campaign in New York coming up next year and her campaign for president underway for 2008, Hillary Clinton is slowly moving to the center.  Mona Charen asks, can a Hildabeast change its spots?

The vote in Iraq will signal the birth of a new democracy...but that's not how the media looks at it.  Oliver North says the left wants us to believe the election is going to be a dangerous, failed experiment.

Democrats had no problem playing the race card in the 90's when it involved the Clinton administration.  Yet for some reason, as Jonah Goldberg points out, they seem to have hidden the deck when it comes to the Rice nomination.  Interesting take.

The ACLU is taking on a public utility company in South Carolina for distributing a free calendar which happens to feature Christian religious figures on it.  Perhaps the ACLU could help defend property owners whose property is being confiscated by the government.  Just a suggestion.

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