NEWT ... A CANDIDATE?

Newt Gingrich said that he might still consider throwing his hat into the ring if he can raise $30 million by November.

After our American Solutions workshop on the FairTax next week, he is going to spend the month of October seeing if he can bring that money in.

By November 1st, he will decide whether or not to run.

Remember what I said on the air the other day? A caller asked me what I looked for in a presidential candidate. I answered that I wanted someone who really didn't want the job all that badly; someone reluctant to serve. People who spend their live chasing after that kind of power give me a rash.

This Gingrich bit ought to be interesting to watch.

Speaking of the American Solutions Day events...we'll be broadcasting the show live from Cobb Galleria Centre here in Atlanta as part of the festivities and you are all invited! Come watch the Boortz Show broadcast live September 27th.

THEY'RE PUSHING FOR A HATE CRIMES LAW IN GEORGIA

Big deal, you say. So many other states have hate crime laws. Yeah, and that makes them just nifty, I suppose.

Why is it so hard for people to understand that a hate crimes law is a thought crimes law? You're punishing someone not for what they did to someone else, but because of what they were thinking either before or while they were doing it.

An assault is an assault. A beating is a beating. You punish the person for what they did to another person. There is no need for a prosecutor or a jury to go beyond that and try to figure out what the person was thinking when they did it. Intent is enough. The why of the intent isn't important.

"Motive!" That's what I'll be hearing on the air. "Motive! What about motive?" Now hold on a minute. Are you telling me that you can't convict a man for murder and send him to prison for the rest of his life unless you can figure out just why he killed his victim? Can't you just see a jury coming back and telling the judge "Well, your Honor, we believe that the defendant killed that other dude, but for the life of us we can't figure out why he did it, so we're going to return a verdict of not guilty." Yeah ... that's the way things work.

The head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation may want a hate law, but the people of Georgia should tell him now. GBI boss Vernon Keenan says: "A hate crimes law is a statement that a crime committed because of hate or bias is a serious matter." Oh, and a crime committed just because someone wants someone else's car or money isn't?

ANCIENT GLOBAL WARMING

Scientists in Britain have determined that massive belches of methane from bogs - deposits of dead plants - contributed to the global warming 55 million years ago. The emissions amplified an ancient and extreme global warming.

Richard Pancost and his colleagues at Britain's University of Bristol studied the 55-million-year-old sediment of the Cobham Lignite wetland in southeast England. What they found were belching bogs. (I think one of those was sitting next to me at the Waffle House this morning).

Pancost agreed that methane released from the wetlands could play a key role in modern global warming. This is because warm, wet weather accelerates the rotting of plants, which causes these methane "burps." He says that if you assume other wetlands are reacting similarly, that such large amounts of methane would explain an increase in global warming.

Simple solution? Dry up the wetlands and build stuff there.

GOVERNMENT AND AVIATION

The House approved legislation on airline passenger rights. The legislation would allow the government to force airline schedule changes ... if too many delays are caused by operating too many flights at peak periods at busy airports.

Just last week the retiring head of the Federal Aviation Administration said that the primary cause of airline delays in this country is the airlines themselves, and their practice of scheduling too many departures at peak times from the nation's airports. It looks like congress is going to have to step in and straighten this scheduling mess out. In the meantime ... the airlines continue to blame the scheduling delays on general aviation ... small airplanes like mine, and corporate jets. That, of course, is nonsense. We usually operate out of completely different airports and, in many cases, at altitudes and on routes not used by commercial flights.

The new bill also requires that airlines submit plans to federal authorities on how they plan to ensure passenger comfort and convenience during ground delays. Here's a concept (and the beauty of the FREE market) ... if people aren't comfortable, they'll choose a different airline next time. It's that easy.

One more thing. It also increased corporate jet fuel taxes from 21.8 cents to 35.9 cents per gallon. Airlines will love this. They want to chase these evil, rich executives out of their private jets and back into the commercial airliners.

OREGON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ... AGAIN!

This time, students in Nyssa, Oregon are learning the Muslim religion in history class. Students are diligently taught the "Five Pillars" of Islam -- charity, fasting, prayer, belief, murdering infidels and pilgrimage. Then they even perform skits to illustrate the tenets.

OK .. here's the kicker. The hostages at this government school are learning about Islam. Fine .. it's a big religion and a threat to whirled peas. But are they learning about other religions as well? Come on! What do you think? The school's curriculum director could not point out any instances where students are taught the basics of any other religions, besides Islam.

One lawyer, Edward White III, points out that teaching Christianity is a government school "wouldn't last 10 seconds." White, in the past, has argued similar cases before the U.S. Supreme Court where government teachers were having students memorize Islamic prayers, wears Islamic dress and learn to behave as Muslims ... all in "history" class.

MOM ON SCHOOL BUS

A mom in Florida boarded a school bus and supposedly encouraged her daughter to fight another girl. Apparently the girl had slapped the woman's daughter just days before.

The mom got onto the bus, held her daughter's backpack and told her daughter to "handle it." Then she stood there while the two girls fought.

Well now the mother is going to spend a year in jail. She was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and trespassing. Trespassing? Isn't a government school bus the property of the taxpayers? Anyways ...

The mom is a single mother of three. She also has previous criminal convictions. I think we have a good idea why she's single.

LAUREN CAITLIN UPTON

Did you forget her name already? The South Carolina beauty queen who was endlessly mocked for her, like, such as, comments about U.S. Americans and the Iraq.

Well we knew this was coming. She is now has the chance to make $25,000 per day as the newest model at Donald Trump's Trump Model Management.

You heard it. She gets to live in the Trump Apartments in Manhattan and travel around the world as a model ... so much for her, such as, aspiring college education at, like, Appalachian State University.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Hey y'all, hold my beer and watch this! More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Al Sharpton wants the Jena DA to appear before the Congress. He says, "What we need is federal intervention to protect people from Southern injustice." Al Sharpton loves stuff like this. A real chance to strut his racial pimp routine.

Jesse Jackson is back-tracking on his "Obama is 'acting like he's white'" comment. He says he doesn't remember making that comment. Then his story became that it was taken out of context. Poor Jesse ... he just looks awful next to Barack Obama. Nothing quite so sad as a tired and fading race warlord.

The Senate went on record to "strongly condemn" the Betray Us ad that MoveOn.org ran in The New York Times. Not all Senators joined in the condemnation. Many refused ...and, to no surprise, they were ... all Democrats, including Hillary herself. Never forget that the political director of MoveOn.org said a few months ago that MoveOn.org "owns" the Democrat party. Bought and paid for. Meanwhile, President Bush expresses anger over the ad.

Senate Democrats failed to pass a bill that would have cut off funding for the troops in Iraq by June. Don't worry ... they'll certainly try again.

Liberals like Hillary Clinton refuse to refer to themselves as "liberal" and now want to be called "progressive." Finally, someone has written a column on the origin of the word "progressives." Let's take a look at exactly what that means.

Germany's top spy said that an increasing reliance on private security firms in foreign conflicts is a "worrying trend." This is because they lack government oversight ... and government is always the solution for liberals.

The other day I read a column by Mike Adams during the Information Overload Hour. Here's the latest on the pro-terrorist professor at Kent State University, Julio Pino. According to student reports, many wouldn't be surprised if the guy was the head of a terrorist organization, considering his hatred for American, capitalism and Christians that he dispels during his lectures.

More on Columbia University's decision to invite Ahmadinejad to speak. Meanwhile, Columbia's president reinforced a ban on the ROTC from being on campus back in 2005.

A judge ruled that students at a New Jersey school can wear buttons featuring Hitler youth, in order to protest the school's uniform policy.

Environmental groups want the government to regulate air fresheners because they aggravate asthma and pose other health risks.

Did you ever have a teacher crush in middle school? Apparently students who have teacher crushes are likely to do better and work harder. Here's to flat-bellied teachers! I wonder what ever happened to Miss Hunt, my English teacher at Pensacola High?

People in parts of the Congo no longer kiss one another because of a deadly Ebola virus that is spreading.

A man went to jail because he attacked his wife with an onion.

Georgia man stole neighborhood cats, injured them, then threw them to his pitbull. This guy should be injured and thrown into a pit of alligators...but small ones so it'll take them a while to kill him.

Man in England jailed for urinating on a woman as she lay dying in the street. Nice. Bet he and Mr. Kitten Killer above would get along famously.

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