ISRAEL GETS BACK ON TRACK

So much for that 48-hour cease-fire nonsense. Israel has gotten back down to business, swinging the bat against Hezbollah in Lebanon. After the IDF determined that they might not have been responsible for the deaths at Qana, the war was back on. In fact, they're stepping up their efforts...not only are the air strikes back on, but the ground war is being expanded. Good stuff.  

The world would have been a much more dangerous place had Israel caved in to the demands of the appeasers and stopped pounding Hezbollah.  Now Israel is back to doing just what they should be: destroying Hezbollah. The solution is not to force the surrender of Hezbollah, nor is it to make them stop firing rockets into Israel. The goal should be to eliminate the Islamic terrorist organization entirely. So why should you care?

I know,  you're tired of hearing about it.  Every time you turn on the news or look at the news sites on the Internet, it's Israel this and Hezbollah that. But this is now one of the most important fronts in the War On radical Islam, a world war if ever there was one.  You will ultimately be affected by what is happening in Lebanon.  Whether it is a positive or a negative effect is pretty much up to Israel right now.

The appeaser label can be applied to anyone, on the left or the right, in this country or elsewhere, who speaks of a cease fire.  The cease fire and start negotiating route has been tried for decades, and it doesn't work.   Islamists view any call for a cease fire from the infidels to be a sure signal of weakness.  An Islamist views weakness as something to be exploited.  A cease fire would do nothing more than give Hezbollah time to regroup, retrain, rearm and get ready to strike again.

Yesterday, during an interview in Miami with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, George W. Bush said it best. The world has excused tyranny for far too long and while it may have once looked like the world was a peaceful place in recent times, it was not. Israel's war against Hezbollah affects us just as much as our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq did.

After they're done cleaning house in Lebanon, Israel should do the world a favor an eliminate Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza.

HAZY SKIES

Just a point of interest here.  Have you noticed how hazy the skies are over much of our country lately?  An hour before sundown I was able to look directly at the sun yesterday.  No, it's not pollution.  Not in the sense you might think.  It's not carbon emissions, exhaust, smoke, or anything man made.  It's sand.  That's right .. sand.  Sand from the Sahara Desert which, for those of you who went to government schools, is in Africa.  The sands are being blown across the Atlantic by high level winds .. and dirtying up our atmosphere.  I'm telling you this in case your local eco-nutcase tries to blame it on SUVs.

HEAT!  BROWN OUTS!  NO POWER!

Believe it or not, the temperature in New York City could hit 100 degrees or more today.  The forecast high is 101.  

Naturally, this is going to be blamed on global warming.  Didn't you know?  Everything negative that's happening anywhere in the world that hasn't been shown to be Bush's fault is to be blamed on global warming.  Global warming has little, if anything, to do with it.  Blame it on the jet stream.  It's just running unusually far to the north right now.

At any rate, the people in New York are bracing for more power outages.  Power grids in the Midwest have been stretched to capacity.  There will undoubtedly be more brown outs and black outs.  So ... as a public service .. I just thought I would let you know who you should be blaming.

Environmentalists.

Think about it.  We'll cover it on the show.

SAY WHAT?

U.S. District Judge James Whittemore has raised a bit of a controversy across the country with a ruling that basically affects the Tampa Buccaneers.  He has banned mass pat-down searches at Bucs games.  In doing so Judge Whittemore cited the Constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

I bring this up today because I caught a bit on CNN this morning covering this ruling.  Now I don't know who this clown was, but someone protesting the Judge's ruling actually said that "The public interest outweighs the alleged constitutional impairment."  

Got that?  Here is someone (wish I had seen his name) who seems to feel that our Constitution should only rule the day when it doesn't interfere with public interest.  So .. that's what's happening to our rule of law these days.  The law counts, but not as much as the "public interest," whatever that may be from time to time.

If anyone knows this scholar's name ... fill me in!

ENDORSEMENTS FOR MCKINNEY

Jeez ... I don't really know if I want to tell you this or not, but the line-up of endorsers for the McKinney/Johnson runoff is getting quite interesting.

First -- the McKinney side.  Cynthia McKinney, the cutest little jihadist in Congress, has garnered the endorsements of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young.  Of those, only Young lives in Georgia.  Georgians will remember that Andrew Young also threw his support behind former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell ... who is on his way to federal jail right now.

Now -- Hank Johnson.  His endorsements include the sheriffs in every county covered by the 4th Congressional District plus a former Georgia Democratic governor, and Home Depot founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, 

Plus .. most of Johnson's campaign donations are coming from within Georgia.  Most of McKinney's donations are from out of state.

Just the same ... I'm suggesting to those who don't like McKinney to either vote for her or stay home.  Either way we're going to get a Democrat in that seat.  Better a clown than someone who is taken seriously.  Better someone who can be depended on to show her ass, than someone who might actually become an effective Democrat.

THE END OF THE ERA OF CASTRO?

In case you're wondering why Cubans are dancing in the streets in Miami, Fidel has stepped down.  We're told it's temporary, but the presidential powers now rest in Fidel's brother.  Fidel, it seems, is suffering from intestinal bleeding.  Many think that Fidel's days are numbered, and that his brother just lacks the charisma to maintain any hold on power.

Fidel's 47 years of rule in Cuba have been an absolute disaster for the Cuban people.  Cuba has the people and the natural resources to be an economic powerhouse in the Caribbean.  All it takes is for Fidel to take that eternal celestial dirt nap and the people of Cuba to give his brother a retirement party.

Cuba .. another great example of a communist people's paradise.

FREE HEALTH CARE FROM THE POODLE

In his quest to get his picture into the dictionary next to the word "futility," John Kerry is running for president in 2008.  He has no chance of winning the Democratic nomination, but don't tell him that.  He knows that the name of the game, if he even has a chance, is to run as far to the left as possible.  That's what you have to do to win over leftist primary voters.  Then once you get nominated, you run back to the right .. which is where you need to be in the general election.

Anyway, The Poodle's latest proposal is universal health care. The leftist utopia --- where government controls all access to health care in this country.  What better way to make government omnipotent?

This is hardly a new idea, but Kerry has now said we should all have free health care by 2012. And who will be providing this wonderful service?  The federal government, of course.   And just how will it be paid for?  The Poodle's great idea is to repeal all of Bush's tax cuts on people who make more than $200,000 a year. In other words, soak the rich.  What a novel idea from a Democrat!

It would be easy to laugh off Kerry's proposal...but it could very well become policy.  The Democrats, with help from the Republicans, have done a very good job of addicting the American people to "free" government services.  It was George W. Bush who signed the biggest expansion of the welfare state in decades, the prescription drug program for Medicare.  Politicians have a vested interest in keeping people in need of one entitlement program or another.  It is a source of power for them.

It would be easy to dismiss The Poodle on this one, but I'm sure that one day socialized medicine in the United States will become a reality.  It's inevitable. Then where will the people escaping government health care in Canada go?

GREAT VENT!

This "Vent" from this morning's Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Religion is like good underwear. It supports you; it comforts you. It's worn on the inside, and it's bad manners to show it off. I wish certain people would remember this.

The people who understand this won't be the people who need to hear it.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

What is this? A tractor? A car? You decide. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

View our Orlando FairTax Rally photo gallery. Thanks again to those who sent in pictures.

There was a little hip-hop party in Atlanta over the weekend hosted by Jermaine Dupri.  So, what do you think the chances were that a little violence would break out?  Yup ... about 100%  Three people hit.  Nobody dead.  It seems that someone tried to steal someone else's gold chain.  Imagine that!

So .. what do you think the future holds for Mel Gibson?  What's the Latin saying?  In Vino Veritas?  Hollywood is debating the issue even as we speak!

Israel is going to expand its ground operations in Lebanon.  Good!  Israel realizes the threat presented by Islamists.  Sooner or later we'll figure it out too. 

Three children arrested in Great Britain.  DNA samples taken.  Mug shots.  The whole works.  The crime? They climbed a tree.

Democrats are supposedly uniting in their call for the Bush Administration to pull us out of Iraq.   The movement to cut and run is now taking over the Democratic Party.  They might still ruin their chances of winning the House and/or Senate this fall.  Give them time.

Good news: Fidel Castro looks like he is nearing the end of his miserable, tyrannical life.  The bad news: his more radical brother is taking over.  Perhaps there will be hope for the people of Cuba someday.

Senate Democrats are planning to spend $25 million in advertising in an attempt to bring down incumbents in places like Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania.  The only problem?  The lack of any real issues to run on.  Small details, you know.

Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card has come out swinging in a new interview.  He says Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge lacked leadership in his post.  Imagine the books that are going to be written once Bush 43 is out of office.

For years, we have heard that the "inmates" (Islamic terrorists) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are supposedly being mistreated by the guards.  But now it seems the opposite is true.  Guards say the inmates are the ones attacking them.   Somehow I don't think this is going to generate many headlines.

Charles Krauthammer says the war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah is part of the global war on terror and we should recognize that it's our war too.  He points out that this has been coming for a long time.

Since it seems to be dominating the headlines the past few days, Christopher Hitchens takes a look at Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic meltdown during his DUI arrest Friday morning.

The media likes to remind us that the world supposedly doesn't like the United States.  Dennis Prager says flatly that world opinion is worthless.   He couldn't be more right.  In fact, he points out that world opinion has never mattered.

Thomas Sowell has an interesting take on service in the military.   He says there was a time when most in Congress and the media had served in the military.  Since that is no longer the case, he says it shows in many ways.  Should we have a military draft?  Read on.

David Limbaugh presents the best reason yet why John Bolton should be confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations.   Limbaugh tells us that the simple fact that Bolton's approach to foreign policy is different from John Kerry's should be enough.

Today's eye candy: Anna Kournikova gallery - Life After Tennis.

BOORTZ BLAST NEWSLETTER
Everyone is talking about the Boortz Blast newsletter. Do you want yours? Sign up here and we'll deliver it directly to your inbox every 2 weeks. If you signed up but aren't receiving it, either your company or your spam filter could be keeping it from you. Try using a personal email address and check your spam filter's junk folder for wayward newsletters.

COMMUNITY
If you like Neal and are looking for like minded people to hang out with online or off, check out these places:

Talkmaster Yahoo Group

Belinda Skelton, Ken Rogers, Laura Nunemaker and Brian Ganey assist in the daily preparation of Nealz Nuze!