BACK FROM VACATION

Much to the regret of more than a few, no doubt. Actually ... doing a talk show every day is pretty much a vacation in and of itself. No big "what I did on my vacation" rant here; I just want to thank Cristina Gonzalez for working every day to make sure we had some reading assignments to post on the page and for saving some wonderful news stories that are sure to cause me to go ballistic over the next weeks.

All right everyone .. let's resume our normal offensive behavior.

THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT.

Hillary is a liar. She's a pathological liar. A habitual liar. She lies when there is no compelling reason to do so. She lies when the truth is easily ascertainable. It's just part of her psychological makeup ... when she talks you can't believe what she's saying.

Hillary is such an accomplished liar that books have been written dedicated solely to exposing her lies! One you might like to try is "I've Always Been a Yankees Fan, Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words."

Now I know that this is old news, but I was on vacation last week and didn't get to gleefully join in the raucous laughter when Senator Rodham Clinton Rodham came out with this wonderful comment about ducking sniper fire upon her arrival in Bosnia. By the end of the week we were being treated to a video of Hillary saying something like "So, I made a mistake. I'm human" in an overly snotty and condescending manner..

Mistake? This was a mistake? Did she, as she says, "misspeak?" Let's subject this ridiculous assertion to a little logical scrutiny.

Hillary says it was a mistake. Well, what was the nature of this mistake? Did she confuse Bosnia with some other dangerous location she visited while First Lady? Think about it ... There was not. To accept that this was a mistake you would have to form some sort of a belief that she was actually thinking of some other situation - some other landing and visit to a combat zone - and errantly transposed that experience to the Bosnia visit. Well, have you been listening? Have you heard her say that she just transposed events? Have you heard her explain that the sniper fire actually happened at another time and another place? I'll answer that one for you .. no, you haven't. That would be because the whole "corkscrew landing" and running from sniper fire never happened anywhere at any time. It was completely made up. It was a lie .. a lie told to make her appear to be more important and courageous to the voters than she really is. It was a lie to enhance her image and credentials. Mistake? Give me a big time break. Her mistake was in making up and telling the lie in the first place. But that is a mistake she makes quite often.

Let's just do a quick review here.

• Then there's the story about Chelsea jogging around the World Trade Center when the Islamic terrorists attacked on 9/11. Wasn't true. Chelsea was nowhere near the trade center. Where did Hillary get this story? Did her daughter make a mistake and tell her that she was out jogging? Hardly. There was no basis at all for this lie. None. This was Hillary trying to make herself a part of this tragic story .. telling a bold lie in order to bring to herself just some of the sympathy felt for those who suffered actually losses in this attack by Muslim goons.
  
• How about Monica Lewinsky? Do you really think that the whole story was just made up by some "vast right wing conspiracy" to discredit her husband? Come on now. How many so-called "bimbo eruptions" had Hillary handled before Monica came huffing along? She knew what a whore-dog her husband was, yet she sat there and prattled on about a right-wing conspiracy. Just another lie.
  
• Then we have the Sir Edmund Hillary thing. Yeah .. her mother named her after the first person to climb Mt. Everest. Problem is, nobody had heard of Sir Edmund Hillary when Hillary Rodham was born. A lie.
  
• Remember Bill Clinton pardoning those Puerto Rican FALN terrorists as he left office? Hillary was running for the Senate in New York at the time, and the Puerto Rican community was demanding these terrorists be pardoned. Hillary - the woman so involved with everything Bill did in the White House - says she didn't know about the pardons. Right.
  
• Oh yeah ... Hillary wanted to be an astronaut. Remember this one? She wrote NASA to find out how to apply, and she says they wrote back saying that they "don't take girls." Sally Ride was about three years younger than Hillary when she became the first U.S. woman in space. Do you believe that NASA actually sent that letter to Hillary.
  
• Then there's this biggie. The Rose Law Firm billing records. This wasn't an inconsequential lie designed to enhance her image. It was a lie to cover her rear end. Investigators wanted her billing records from the Rose Law Firm to see if she had done any work on a tax scam known as Casa Grande. She claimed - under oath - that she didn't have those billing records, that she didn't know where they were, and that she frankly doubted that they existed at all. Well .. it turns out they did indeed exist. They were found in her private quarters in the White House two years after she swore under oath that she didn't have them. Not only were they found, but they had her handwriting and fingerprints on them. This particular lie was a crime. She was never prosecuted.
  
• Moving right along to the soccer lie. The story here was supposed to be that Hillary was on a junior high school soccer team and had a confrontation with the goal tender from an opposing team. If I remember the story correctly, the opposing goalie told Hillary that she didn't like white people. Oh yeah .. like high school soccer goalies just spontaneously blurt out their hatred for white people during a soccer game. The problem here was that the school Hillary was attending didn't have a soccer team. Another lie.
  
• Hillary says she didn't give the order to fire the White House travel office staff. Staffers remember the exact words she used: "Fire their asses." She then had their asses and all their belongings unceremoniously dumped on the Ellipse behind the White House.

Well, as much fun as we're having here remembering Hillary's lies - it really is somewhat of an exercise in futility. She's toast. She has so many forks sticking out of her she looks like a porcupine. I'm just sitting around waiting for her to completely implode as her presidential aspirations - her quest for the job she's flat-out entitled to - goes up in smoke.

LIKING THIS GUY MORE AND MORE

The best headline I saw during my week off was "McCain Opposes Homeowner Bailout." I know that the media and the Democrats are doing everything they can to paint all of these people facing foreclosure as victims of evil mortgage companies ... and perhaps some are. Most of them, however, bought homes they could not afford and obligated themselves for payments they could not possibly make. Now they're facing the music. As McCain says, it is not the role of the government to save people from the consequences of irresponsible behavior.

OBSERVATION ON COLLEGE STUDENTS

I was on CNN Saturday night [WATCH THE VIDEO - ignore the added commentary] discussing some items in the news with Rick Sanchez. The subject of that idiotic question that college student asked Chelsea Clinton last week came up. You remember .. the question about how her mother handled things after the Lewinsky affair came to light. I said that Chelsea should have invited that college student up on the stage and then proceed to slap the dog squeeze out of him. During the course of the conversation I made a reference to college students being at that remarkable point in their lives where, for a few years, they actually think that they know everything.

Web Guy sent me an email late last night telling me that we had received no small number of emails from college students calling me everything but a child of God. So ... thanks to all of those college students for proving my point.

I've been amazed by this phenomenon for some time now. You have one year of college under your belt. You just moved out of Mommy and Daddy's house about 18 months ago .. and you still go running back there during breaks. You probably have never filled out a long tax form in your life or wrestled over deductions. You haven't had anything more than a basic entry-level job yet and suddenly you know how the college you're attending should be run, what classes should be offered, and which professors deserve tenure. Not only that, but you know exactly what needs to be done in Iraq and just what needs to be done to cure poverty and solve the global warming puzzle. I've even come up with a wonderful suggestion which, of course, I shall repeat here. Let's gather a ruling body comprised of a representative from the student council of the leading university in every state and give them something to actually run ... a country. Haiti is the obvious candidate. Give them that in-the-gutter waste of a country and let them show us all how it should be done. (My apologies to 58% of the NYC cab drivers).

Calm down, kids. There's plenty of time for you to run things after you get a degree and a job. Right now your biggest problem is that you don't know what you don't know. True intelligence rests with figuring that out.

Keep listening to the show, though. It'll help.

ANOTHER WONDERFUL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHER

It is no secret that I am not a fan of government education. Not to rehash the whole thing here, but the idea that loving parents would turn the most precious things in their lives - their children - over to the government to be educated astounds me. If you can trace the decline in our country to any one thing, I would put government schools right there at the top of the list.

At any rate --- let's just say that I'm not at the top of the Christmas Card list for too many government school teachers, and that would include one Lana Snellgrove at the Peachtree Ridge High School, one of the wonderful Gwinnett County Georgia government schools.

According to an email we received from one of Ms. Snellgrove's students, she assigned her students the task of writing a research/persuasive essay. The topic was meant to be controversial. One student chose to write about the FairTax. She was informed by Ms. Snellgrove that The FairTax Book could not be cited as a source of information on the FairTax because one of the book's co-authors, (that would be me) is not a credible source. This student tried to explain to the government employee that The FairTax Book was one of the most reliable and direct sources of information available to her. The teacher wasn't swayed. She insisted that I am not a credible source and that the student had to find information on the FairTax elsewhere.

This is way past amazing. The FairTax Book, written by yours truly and Congressman John Linder, the author of H.R. 25, The FairTax Act, debuts at Number 1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list .. and this government school teacher says that the book is not a credible source of information about the FairTax? Does this make sense on any level?

The student tells me that she is going to cite my book in her essay anyway ... and let Lana Snellgrove respond as she pleases. We'll be hearing back from the student on this, so let's see if Ms. Snellgrove stops being a government employee and starts being an actual teacher for a few days.

Oh .. an update. I'm now informed that Ms. Snellgrove did provide this student with what she (Ms. Snellgrove) determined to be a reliable and credible source for information about the FairTax. The source is an anti-FairTax article written by one Joel Slemrod and published in the New York Times. No surprise there. Slemrod says in that article that there is not one reputable economist of any political stripe that would support the FairTax. Tell that to the economists who support the FairTax, like Lawrence Koltikoff, the chairman of Boston University's Economics department. This is what Ms. Snellgrove decides is a credible source for information on the FairTax, not a book co-authored by the Congressman who wrote the bill.

What do you think, folks? Is this teacher just taking out her dislike for me on one of her students? I wonder if she would like to invite me to appear before her class and make her case then and there that I am not a credible source of information about the FairTax?

And before we move on to something else, let's recognize how good it is that some high school students out there - probably more than I suspect - are aware of the FairTax and would like to see it in place before they start their working careers.

I EXPECTED NOTHING LESS

There was an aircraft crash in England yesterday. I was watching CNN when the word first came in, and to nobody's surprise CNN had a local anti-airport activist on the air giving us the usual blather about "expanding the airport" and "airplanes falling through the roofs of houses." The only thing missing was a few statements about "rich people and their toys."

ETHICS OF GREED

Last week, Obama made a speech in New York where he blamed lobbyists, greedy businessmen and complacent Washington politicians for creating "an ethic of greed." He says that this "greed" of the evil rich has led to today's "foreclosure crisis." Then Obama traipsed off to the Manhattan headquarters of Credit Suisse for a fundraiser.

So what is Obama's solution to the "foreclosure crisis"? Why that would be seeking a new, modern-era oversight system for the financial and housing markets, which is a fancy way of saying "more government." He also wants greater transparency "in the complex transactions that turned a weakness in the mortgage industry into a global economic event." In other words: more government. And he wants the Federal Reserve Board to have supervisory authority over these mortgage companies. More government.

Obama had this to say to his evil Wall Street supporters, "We have an economy that is out of balance ... It's one in which most of the people in this room have benefited enormously over the last decade- and I include myself in that group. But it is an economy that has left millions of Americans behind."

Economies don't leave people behind ... especially ours. These people are behind because they didn't do what it took to get ahead. The didn't learn, they didn't work ... they sat on their asses, had babies they couldn't afford to raise, and waited for someone else to cover the tab.

Oh ... and about this "greed" thing. There is no workable definition for the word "greed." And don't bother emailing me your offering. People have been trying to define "greed" to me for 15 years with no success. The word is simply a weapon used by politicians and the left to foment class hatred .. nothing more.

OWLGORE ... THE DEMOCRAT'S SAVIOR?

I think it's an unlikely rumor. For now. But senior figures and aides to OwlGore see him as the "savior of a bitterly divided party" and plans are actively being discussed for his run. They say that the bickering between Hillary and Barack has really opened a door for Gore to emerge as a "compromise candidate."

Actually ... this would be fun. Global warming would be the issue ... and it would be fun to see him embarrassed by fact and truth.

GOTTA LOVE THOSE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS --- PART DEUX

When 13-year-old Amber showed up at her government middle school with crutches, it took no time at all for government school employees to find something wrong with the situation. Amber was on crutches after dislocating her kneecap. But her injury may have gotten worse after a school nurse decided to take a power trip.

The government school nurse took away Amber's crutches and made her walk around all day without them and without the use of an elevator to get upstairs. The nurse took away Amber's crutches because of a government school policy "prohibiting them without a doctor's note and that the intent is to prevent other students from being injured." In fact, Amber's mother even called the hospital to fax a doctor's note to the school so that Amber could use her crutches ... but the school fax machine was broken.

Apparently there is no district policy requiring doctor notes for crutches, but the government school health supervisor decided this would be the policy in an email sent to the principals. But even in the email, there is nothing that says that the crutches can be taken away until a note is produced. This is just a government bureaucrat letting her position as a government employee go to her head. It's a power trip.

The family, needless to say, is suing the Hillsborough County School District and will pursue a claim against the school nurse for violating Amber's civil rights.

SEX OFFENDER UPDATE

Just in case you were not aware, I wouldn't recommend taking videos or pictures of cheerleaders performing their little routines ... otherwise you might be in possession of child pornography.

PROUD OF OUR ADVERTISERS, PAST AND PRESENT

I haven't been delivering advertisements for The Capital Grille for some time now. Business just got so good, I guess, that they didn't need to advertise any more. Still ... I was their spokesman for so long that a lot of people just associate me with them .. that led to this email:

I pick the people I'll advertise for carefully ... and letters like this make me glad that I'm so picky!

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Okay, so maybe this is a little bit redneck, but doesn't it look like fun? More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

More fallout from the mortgage crisis. Now the Federal Reserve is toying with the idea of nationalizing American banks?

Gallup says that Obama now has a 10 point lead over Hillary. Stand back! She's going to blow!

Now some scientist saying that cell phones are more dangerous than smoking or asbestos. Call the law offices of James Sokolov.

Here's an article that goes to show that in this YouTube-age of journalism, Hillary Clinton was just asking for someone to dig up footage of her trip to Bosnia. Andrew Sullivan also has some insight into Hillary's "misspoken" statement.

If Hillary doesn't make it in the presidential race ... is being the governor of New York her next option? Against Rudy Giuliani?

Is Hillary running a deadbeat campaign? She seems to have been avoiding paying hundreds of bills for months.

Obama says that he will have a more "traditional" foreign policy like that of George H. W. Bush, Reagan and Kennedy.

President Bush has decided that it is the government's role to help homeowners reduce their mortgage payments.

When you think your city is in a housing crisis, leave it up to a non-government official to figure out that it might not take the government to solve the "crisis."

No surprise here ... the UN Secretary General has declared "Fitna," the film about the Koran, to be an offensively anti-Islamic film. Hopefully you were able to watch the film, which was posted on Friday's reading assignments, before it was taken down.

The newspaper industry suffered the biggest drop in advertising revenue in over 50 years.

Here's some comforting news to start off the week: Muslims outnumber Catholics worldwide.

Jeremiah Wright decided to drop in on a Chicago congregation to say Happy Birthday to Maya Angelou. Here's the video of his reception.

Coming to the US soon ... a Muslim bus driver in the UK kicks passengers off his bus so that he can pray to Allah.

No wonder cities in the Bay Area are going broke ... they are forced to pay their government employees hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in overtime pay.

How much will it cost to fix global warming, which is caused by man, by the way ... and almost all scientists believe that (at least that's according to this article).

Did you feel the affects of Earth Hour this past weekend? Even Google decided to go black. Me? I turned on every light in the house and then turned up the heat on the hot tub.

Katrina victims may be forced to pay back millions of dollars after being overcompensated. Wait for the screaming and howling over this one.

Child abuse in overprotected government schools now includes forehead touching?

Doctors are now saying that cell phones are more dangerous than smoking.

I know you are thrilled to hear that the 600 pound man from Georgia will be able to ride his government transportation once again.

Somebody put up a billboard in Orlando, Florida saying "All religions are fairy tales" ... you can only imagine what happened next.

So .. the groomer cuts the dog's ear off. Well, that's what super glue is for, isn't it?

Saddam paid for Jim McDermott and David Bonior to visit Iraq! The question here is just who in the hell did these people think was paying for their trip? It seems to me they would have wanted to know.

Hard to find skilled workers in the U.S. Blame our wonderful government education system.

Muslims are now more numerous than Catholics .. though not quite so thin-skinned. Oh yeah ... now that one is going to get me some choice email.

Will Wake Forest still offer this kid a basketball scholarship? Well, that just depends on just how good a jock he really is, doesn't it? After all, isn't that what's important here?

Now what do you expect to find when you get your nifty little warrant in hand and raid a brothel? Not this, I would suspect. Oh these illegals and their weird sex practices.

Idiot government schools. That should be all I need to say to get you to take a look at this story.

Sorry to be insensitive, but people don't die because they don't have health insurance. They die because they get sick or hurt. You will never find a death certificate with "lack of health insurance" listed as the cause of death.

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