CAPE COD!

If you've read "Somebody's Gotta Say It" you'll be aware of some of the problems that we've had getting my radio show on some stations in the northern part of the country. There's this idea, probably promoted by some of my competitors, that The Neal Boortz Show is a "southern show." Never mind that we're heard as far north as Portland, Maine in the east and Anchorage, Alaska in the west; this "southern show" nonsense persists. There is, my friends, a deep and boiling prejudice against any and all things that come from the south.

That brings us to Cape Cod. I don't know how much more "Yankee," if you will, you can get than Cape Cod. Two words: "Kennedy Compound." This is a state where every single member of the congressional delegation is a Democrat. It was about a year ago, I think, that WXTK-FM (95.1) replaced G. Gordon Liddy with Boortz live! Oh boy ... did they get the phone calls and emails from some devout Liddy fans ... but things worked out and The Neal Boortz Show -- yeah, the show that is "too southern" for the Northeast -- is number one on Cape Cod!

All of this leads up to a great big THANK YOU for the incredible turnout at my book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Hyannis last Friday night. The book store was blown away by the crowd, and so was the 95 WXTK staff in attendance. OK, so was I, and I loved meeting each and every one of you as you came through to get your copies of "Somebody's Gotta Say It" and "The FairTax Book" signed.

Saturday morning, before heading to Boston to catch a flight home (for a big whopping 48 hours) I drove around the Cape looking for breakfast. I just couldn't bring myself to go to an IHop ... how much local flavor do you get there? I asked a local in the Barnstable Harbor area where a good breakfast can be found, and he led me to the Back Again Cafe. There were three cop cars parked outside. Either a crime had been committed there ... or there was some mighty good eating. It turned out to be mighty good eating. The next time I'm in town, breakfast there on me!

Can you just imagine how well I could do on these Northeast stations if I wasn't such a "southern show?" Wait ... It's hard to do better than number one, isn't it?

TONIGHT -- TULSA!

As soon as I finish the show today I head for Tulsa. The book signing this evening will be at the Barnes & Noble on East 41st Street. We'll be broadcasting Tomorrow morning from 740 KRMG and then off to Kansas City! After a stop in Washington DC, we'll end the week in New Orleans!

WHY PEOPLE THINK CONSERVATIVES ARE IDIOTS

Sorry .. it's true. Liberals love to paint conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on occasion, retarded. For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage with someone who thinks differently than they. After all ... you really don't have to consider the opinions offered by someone who disagrees with you if you can successfully and falsely brand them as ignorant.

Sadly ... many conservatives seem to have dedicated their lives to lending credence to the left's "conservatives are idiots" claim. You will remember several weeks ago I told you about one Georgia Republican (former Democrat) legislator whose campaign chairman sent out some memos and letters promoting legislation to outlaw the teaching of evolution in government schools. The letter referred the reader to the website of "The Fair Education Foundation, Inc." In this website --- and I'm not kidding you here --- you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself.

Well .. there's more. Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us about another website, this one run by Andrew Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly. Conservapedia pushes the creationism theme with revelations that dinosaurs and humans roamed the Earth at the same time.[video] You'll also learn that atheism has led to a large increase in bestiality. But once again you'll learn that not only is the Earth standing still, but it's actually flat ... and sitting still in space while everything revolves around it.

Tell me .. how do you counter the "conservatives are ignorant" argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to office as conservatives, and running websites as conservatives all the while telling us that the earth does not spin on its axis and does not revolve around the Sun .. and that everything in the known universe revolves around the Earth?

If true conservatives really want to expand their philosophy and mount a sustained movement that just might save individualism, freedom and economic liberty --- they had better jettison these zealot nut-cases .... and FAST.

This all sure makes me glad to be a Libertarian.

WHO'S GETTING THE GOODIES .. AND WHO'S PAYING THE TAB!

The Tax Foundation has issued a new report entitled "Who Pays America's Tax Burden, and Who Gets the Most Government Spending". You can read the report for yourself right here, though I suspect you already know the answers to the questions.

As you might now, economists and government bureaucrats divide us into quintiles. There's the highest income one-fifth, the lowest income one-fifth, and the three-fifths in the middle. The Tax Foundation study shows that the lowest-earning one-fifth of households in America get about $8.21 in federal, state and local government spending for every dollar they paid in taxes in 2004. If you're in the middle one-fifth, you got about $1.30 in spending for every dollar in taxes. Now, can you guess what happens if you're in the top one-fifth? Right. You get raped. You get about 41 cents in government spending for every dollar you pay in taxes.

Those of you out there who so ardently hate the rich might want to rethink things. Looks to me like you need them to cover your cost of living. Pity you can't care for yourselves. Maybe that's where the hatred comes in. The dependence that those in the lower income brackets have on government handouts breed resentment .. and that resentment is aimed at those who have more. Perhaps instead of resentment these people might want to think in terms of gratitude. Thank goodness there are people out there who do go the extra mile, make the extra effort, work the extra hours to get themselves into those higher brackets. Who is going to create all of this wealth that gets redistributed if they don't? The government?

THE FINAL FOUR IN ATLANTA

... anyone want to make any guesses as to how many rapper wannabe murders and Hip Hop related violence there will be over the weekend?

IRAN PUSHING THEIR LUCK

Iran continues to play games regarding these British sailors they took hostage in Iraqi waters the other day. These were our allies operating in a war led by the United States. Is it time for a showdown? Is it time for Bush should give Tehran 24 hours to return them without a scratch...or else?

The Islamic fascists are going to continue to push until they find that magic point where we push back. Evidently kidnapping soldiers off the high seas isn't that point. Our response should be no different than if Iran took a group of U.S. Marines hostage from international waters. So what are we doing about all of this? Not much. How about the Brits? Well, not much either.

Tony Blair says they're taking Iran's actions seriously. Yeah! That ought to show them! This is why Iran does the things that it does...because it knows it can get away with it. Ahmadinejad knows he can exploit the weakness of the politically correct Islamic appeasers in Europe. He rightly calculated that he could draw attention to himself by capturing these soldiers and perhaps arranging a prisoner swap. No one is standing up to him thus far. So, perched atop his phone book in Tehran, he continues his nuclear weapons program and has now taken these prisoners.

Britain is an ally and this was an act of war. Why not give them what they seem to want? Reagan wouldn't have put up with this. And just to be bipartisan about it, neither would Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. How long do we wait until we push these dangerous people back?

CHUCK HAGEL FLOATING IMPEACHMENT

Republican (in name only) Senator Chuck Hagel, darling and hero of the leftist media, appeared on 'This Week' yesterday. It was there that he used the "I" word....impeachment. Hagel's all upset about the war and says some see impeachment of the president as an option to stop said war. Of course, Hagel is running for president...and whenever he criticizes George Bush the media considers him the most important, solid, hard-core Republican ever. This is all despite the fact that 99% of Americans outside of Nebraska have never heard of Chuck Hagel and couldn't pick him out of a lineup.

The threat against Bush went this way. When speaking about his frustration that Bush is going ahead with the war despite it being unpopular, Hagel said: "Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed if a president really believes that, then there are what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that." Ahh yes...ways to deal with that. Nice threat, Senator.

Not listening to the majority of the American people does not constitute a "high crime and misdemeanor." In fact, it might very well show wisdom. Remember, the majority of the American people (a) think this country is a Democracy; and (b) can't name their two U.S. Senators.

But .. Hagel is just huffing and puffing. Just like the Democrats who don't have the votes to cut off funding and end the war, Hagel doesn't have the ability to deliver impeachment. Perhaps he should be reminded of the process....the House would have to pass articles of impeachment, and we all know they can't agree on anything.

But to the media...Hagel is the man. There is no more important or powerful Republican, but only when he criticizes Bush.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

If you're marketing to rednecks, this is probably quite effective. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

A new study says that the poor received $8.21 in government spending compared to the rich only receiving .41

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