INDEPENDENCE DAY

Today we'll be running a "best-of" version of the Neal Boortz Show.  Belinda has worked her hillbilly buns off to come up with some segments that will be challenging and entertaining.  Me? Trust me, you don't want me to work on the 4th of July.  I'll just go into one of my insensitive rants about how Americans .. most Americans anyway .. no longer have any real love of freedom.  Security is the word today, not independence.  Oh, to be sure ... we want to be free to chose where we work (as long as we don't have to negotiate our own salary), where we live, where we worship and what's for dinner.  Beyond that ... all too many of us want to government to step in and relieve us of the responsibilities and consequences of choice.

Reading assignment?  Sure .. I have one for you.  Go buy the book "1776" and read it.  Read how American patriots in 1776 marched across frozen ground without shoes --- leaving a trail of blood --- just to fight for independence from Great Britain.  Today?  See how many people you can find today who would make that sacrifice for freedom.

See why I just have to go hide somewhere today?  You don't want to hear this.  Just go out and have a great day with your family.

C-SPAN 2 AT 3:21 pm EDT

I know ... it's an odd time ... but they'll be running the Media Research Center's "2007 Dishonor Awards" celebration that I was a part of several months ago.  Tune in ... it's fun.

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