Friday - Februgly 23, 2007
 ONWARD TO DAYTON!
 Last night we were in Winter Park, Florida (Orlando) for a book signing at
Borders. WDBO also has
some photos. All I can say is Amazing. Events held in hotel ballrooms like Wednesday
night's signing in Jacksonville tend to be large, but that crowd that showed up
last night was quite a surprise. What a great time. Dayton is still the champ
from the 2005 FairTax Book tour, but the Orlando crowd last night easily holds
second place. We'll see if Dayton can live up to its reputation. I'll be signing
books at Books & Company at The Green on Walnut Street tonight as soon as I get
there from the airport. My flight to Dayton is supposed to land at 5:20 .. and
it's straight to the book signing, so I should make it on time.
I'm thrilled to say that Somebody's Gotta Say It remains
at the top of the Amazon.com Bestseller's List this morning. You people are just incredible ...
thanks so much for your support. If this keeps up I'm going to be able to use
all of those "New York Times No. 1 Bestseller" stickers I have left over from
The FairTax Book. Oh .. and speaking of The FairTax Book. I'm signing about a hundred of these
at each book signing. The FairTax Book is currently No. 167 on Amazon.com .. and
that's not too shabby for a book that was published two years ago. Nice to know
the interest is still out there. I have some meetings over the weekend with the
folks from Americans For Fair Taxation in Houston, so perhaps I'll have some
interesting news for you next week. One of the Somebody's Gotta Say it chapters is titled "Because She Earned
it." Here's an email I received from Anthony: "Neal, I just finished reading the chapter about Terri Schiavo in your
new book, and I felt compelled to write you. You can be one hell of a hard
ass on the radio sometimes, which is one of the main reasons I love
listening to your show. I also know a lot of people give you a pretty hard
time for that same reason. After reading that chapter, I was confused how
some people could say such evil things about you and your book. Of course, I
know the reason, it's because they didn't read the entire thing, they only
read the part that someone else told them would tick them off. I think
anybody who could read that chapter, and still call you an evil bastard,
well, they've got bigger issues in life. Keep up the good work Neal, and I
look forward to seeing you in College Station." (Anthony)
Thanks, Anthony. Many of the chapters in Somebody's Gotta Say It are written
to entertain, some to infuriate, some to inform. This chapter was written to try
to explain a position that probably set a record in "I'm never going to listen
to you again" letters and emails. BOOK SIGNINGS!  Ok ... here's the schedule for the rest of the week
and beginning of next week:
Friday: Dayton, Ohio. Book signings in Dayton are awesome. You folks sure read a
lot of books up there. We'll be at Books & Company at The Green, 4453 Walnut
Street. Signing starts at 6:00 p.m. .... Looks like I'm going straight there from
the airport!
Saturday, Houston, Texas. I'll be the keynote speaker for
the annual state convention of the
Young
Conservatives of Texas. Monday, Dallas, Texas. Come on down to the Barnes & Noble,
7700 W. Northwest in Dallas. I'll start signing at 7pm.
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WHILE ON THE ROAD.... I've had some people ask me how I handle the show prep and printing while I'm
on the road with Somebody's Gotta Say It. So, for you tech types out there ...
here are some details. The laptop comes, of course, from Vision Computers. I
don't have all the gee-whizz details, but there's more computing power in this
laptop than there was on the Apollo mission to the moon. I connect to the
Internet pretty much anywhere through a Cingular aircard. The printer -- and
it's a gem -- is a Canon iP90. Small, fast, and can even print pictures! All of
this goes into one simple little rolling computer case the size of a large
briefcase. Ain't technology grand? DEMOCRATS PUSH FOR SURRENDER
The Democrats are running full steam ahead with trying to cut off our troops in
Iraq and ensure failure and surrender in Iraq. Their latest plan is to push
through a piece of legislation
revoking Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq.
You mean the same authority those same Democrats voted to give George W. Bush in
2002? Yeah..that's the one. So what does this latest legislation do? Read on to
find out.
This isn't like the other non-binding resolutions that just disapprove of the
war in Iraq or the way it is being handled. No, this one would have teeth. So
far, one draft would restrict the troops in Iraq to fighting Al-Qaeda only. Are
they kidding? Guess not. So now we have 100 commanders in chief in the United
States Senate that are going to decide who the troops can fight and who they
can't. Unbelievable...this is what the left calls "limiting the mission."
Instead of trying to tie the hands of our troops in Iraq, the Democrats need to
either cut off funding for the war or sit down and shut up. It really makes you
wonder just whose payroll these politicians are on these days.
The Islamic fascists who want us dead must be partying BIG TIME!
LIEBERMAN MIGHT SWITCH PARTIES .... BUT IS HE REALLY THAT SMART?
 Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman says if Democrats move to cut off funding for
U.S. troops,
he'll switch to the GOP. That would end the Democrats' majority in
the Senate and put Harry Reid back in the minority leader's office. Some may
think there's no way he'll do that. But those are probably the same people that
didn't think he'd run for re-election as an Independent after losing the
Democratic primary.
That would be something, wouldn't it? Here you have the 2000 Democratic nominee
for vice president talking about moving to the other side. He's already not
really a Democrat...having continued to run for Senate after losing the
Democratic primary in 2006. So why not make the switch? He is currently aligning
himself with a political party that opposes the War On Terror and promotes a
policy of Islamic terrorist appeasement.
If he doesn't change his mind, he'll be switching. Democrats aren't going to
quit trying to stop the war in Iraq...and cutting off funding is the next
logical step.
How about switching to the Libertarian Party?
STOPPING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Looks like the Feds are finally doing something about illegal immigration...sort
of. They've
indicted three cleaning company executives for tax evasion. That is,
collecting income tax from illegals, but not sending it to the IRS. How about
indicting them for hiring the illegals in the first place? Oh wait...we don't
arrest people in this country for being illegal aliens. Darn.
But really, this is the way illegal immigration is going to be stopped, if we
ever do anything about it. As long as there are companies willing to employ
illegals, the Mexican invasion will continue. It's a simple issue of supply and
demand. If the government and law enforcement would make hiring illegals
expensive and painful, the practice would stop.
In the case of these three executives, if they had paid the taxes on the
illegals, nothing would've happened to them. So the message is clear: hire as
many illegals as you want..just pay off the government in the process and you'll
be fine. REDNECK SCRAP BOOK
Oh yeah, this is definitely a
redneck limo. More in the Redneck Scrap
Book.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
A 70-year-old retired military man
on vacation in Costa Rica put a mugger in a headlock and snapped his neck.
No more mugger...he was DOA and is now enjoying his dirt nap. That'll teach
hoodlums to hold up a tour bus full of senior citizens.
Here's a statistic for you about the high cost of illegal immigration.
More Americans have been killed by illegal aliens than the war in Iraq,
according to a new study. But for some reason, you just don't hear too much
about it in the media. Can't imagine why.
James Carville has come out swinging for his old boss, Hillary Clinton. He
says she won't be "swift-boated" in the upcoming 2008 presidential campaign.
Maybe not...but imagine all of the skeletons in her closet. We're sure to hear
about all of it in the coming months.
The money train continues to run in the political world...with
Republicans ahead of the Democrats by almost 2 to 1. When it comes to
campaign financing, John Edwards and The Hildabeast have turned down public
financing...while
Barack Obama is trying to figure out how to do both.
Iran is ignoring the U.N. Security Council's ultimatum to stop enriching
uranium. As a result, the U.N. will now impose sanctions....maybe. I'm sure
the mullahs in Iran are shaking in their turbans. Saddam Hussein ignored the
U.N. for what...12 years?
Charles Krauthammer holds the Democrats' feet to the fire on the war in Iraq.
For all of their criticism now, large majorities of Democrats authorized the use
of force in 2002, using the exact same information and intelligence the Bush
Administration had.
Pat Buchanan notes that the "Coalition Of The Willing" that went to war with us
in Iraq is no more. The Brits are going home and other countries left a
long time ago. Hey, we still have the Aussies. At any rate, Pat says it's all
one big "I told you so" from people who opposed the war.
Columnist Mark Steyn says Tony Blair made the right call pulling out his troops
in Iraq....because they just aren't needed anymore. Did you know that 80%
of the violence in Iraq happens within 50 miles of Baghdad? Yup...it's true.
Robert Novak weighs in on the conflict between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and
David Geffen. He says the whole thing started back in 2001 when Bill
Clinton was busy pardoning people on his last day in office...and passed over a
few Hollywood wanted pardoned.
Barack Obama is pushing the idea of unions to create prosperity in the middle
class.
Thomas Sowell takes exception to that, saying unions don't create prosperity...and
that's why they're slowly starting to disappear.
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