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Tony Harris of CNN, Jake Tapper of ABC, Mara Liasson from NPR, and CNN's Candy Crowley all used exactly the same word in referring to Obama's shallow foreign policy address. The same word ... and it's probably a word you've never heard before in your entire life used to describe a speech. Now think back a bit ... think back to the Gettysburg Address if you wish. What the hell, let's go all the way back to the Sermon on the Mount. We can call that a speech, can't we? Are you working on this? Are you conjuring up each...

BEND OVER ATLANTA OK .. here's the way it works: Steve learns to weld. Steve would rather be an artist than working in a machine shop Steve obtains some scrap metal and starts welding it together in odd shapes which he declares to be art. Steve can't find anyone who will voluntarily pay for the piles of scrap metal he has welded together. Steve changes his name to Stephano and drops his last name. Still nobody will buy Stephano's art, though there is one Buckhead matron who has taken a rather prurient interest in some of Stephan's other talents. The...

Things have actually been going a bit better in Iraq these days.  Fewer American soldiers are dying and the Iraqis are slowly taking on more power and responsibilities.  This presents a quandary for the media.  You see, as part of their Bush-bashing template, they need to continue to push the war in Iraq as an un-winnable failure.  The Democrats are counting on failure in Iraq to carry them to victory this fall. That's right...the Democrats are actually invested in American failure in Iraq.  They need more American troop deaths to put them over the top at the polls in November. ...

WHAT KIND OF MINDLESS HORSESQUEEZE IS THIS? I spent the first part of the Independence Day weekend at the Grove Park Inn & Spa in Ashville, North Carolina playing a bit of golf, relaxing and working on "Somebody's Gotta Say It" While there I was treated to several editions of The Asheville Citizen-Times. This is a Gannett newspaper ... same folks as USA Today. Needless to say, the slant is decidedly leftists. That seems to fit in quite well with the Asheville community which, I'm told, is quite proud of its liberal leanings. A quick glance at the letters to...

The publication of these cartoons of Mohammed are not the reason for the rioting and violence. They are the excuse. Islamic protesters burned down the Danish consulate in Beirut in response to those cartoons making fun of Islam. Riots are ongoing, cars are being overturned and at least one person is dead in Afghanistan. Pakistan is boycotting prescription drugs from companies based in countries where the cartoons were published. This is absolutely insane. What we are witnessing is the ultimate conclusion to militant political correctness. Many leftists would excuse this behavior...because these Muslims are "offended." Know this: in the world...

The Drudge Report is reporting this morning that several broadcast television networks are considering a series loosely based on the concept of the end of America. Details on the various programs aren't yet available, but my bet is that the fictional end will come through either terrorism or some sort of a natural disaster. The networks have part of this right. The end of America as we know it could well be on the horizon. The networks just wouldn't dare present the end as it very well may happen. The death of America will more likely come from the advancement...

As you know, I contributed $100 of my hard-earned cash to help keep Air America on the air. I think that the survival of Air (Hate) America radio is important to the survival of the rest of talk radio. If Air America fails the left will start clamoring for controls on talk radio because all that will really be left, except for NPR, will be conservatives and libertarians. Anyway ... when I contributed my $100 I was promised an Air America tote bag. Do you think it ever arrived? Of course not! Those people are too busy stealing money from...

I cannot remember being more dismayed at a court ruling, and this includes the occasional ruling against me when I was practicing law. What ruling? Just in case you don't already know, the United States Supreme Court yesterday issued a ruling that goes a long way toward destroying private property rights in this country. Background. The Fifth Amendment to our Constitution restricts the government's right of eminent domain. It does not, as I heard so many commentators say yesterday, grant a right of eminent domain, it restricts it. The right of eminent domain was assumed as a basic part of...

If you really want to be all-but guaranteed to pick up on a bit of leftist Bush bashing on television, there's no better place to turn than to NBC's "Law & Order" TV series. The season finale of the show featured a storyline on judicial security. Detectives think a white supremacist is involved in the shootings of a judge's family. Here's part of the dialogue from that show: ADA RON CARVER: An African American judge, an appellate court judge, no less. MAN: Chief of DS is setting up a task force. People are talking about multiple assassination teams. DET. ALEX...

Yesterday afternoon I did what I usually do after finishing my program; I checked in with the Godfather to see what was on his talk radio agenda. The Man was engaged in a riff about the partisan warfare between Democrats and Republicans and, as usual, doing a sensational job. One problem though. I could have sworn that I heard the words "The Democrats have no agenda." I'm probably mistaken there .. but just in case I wasn't driving through an area of high interference and actually heard him right .. I now offer an alternative opinion. The Democrats most certain...

Virtually every single day across this country decisions are made to discontinue extraordinary medical intervention and people are allowed to proceed with the process of dying. In some cases feeding tubes are removed. More often ventilators are turned off. In one case a person starves to death, in another they are suffocated. It happens every day ... but you don't hear politicians screaming about murder. And why? Because those cases don't generate the media heat that this one has. What makes the Terri Schiavo case different? One thing .. the Schindler's, her parents. I have every bit of sympathy in...

I think that I am about the only radio talk show host in the nation that thinks that nature should be allowed to take its course and Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die. Expect an absolute media frenzy today as the time approaches for Schiavo's feeding tube to be removed. The demonstrators are already gathering outside of the nursing facility. Republicans in the congress are getting in on the act. Republican Mike Enzi of Wyoming, The chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, says that he is going to issue a subpoena today to Terri Schiavo ......

Tax reform, Social Security reform, budget deficits, tax cuts....all the talk in the media these days about spending money in Washington essentially comes back to one thing: the federal budget of the United States. President Bush proposed his about two months ago. It h was a spending blueprint for Fiscal Year 2006, that runs between October 2005 and September 2006. The proposed budget was for $2.57 trillion. If you're unfamiliar with what a trillion dollars is, think of it this way: $2,570 Billion, or roughly 100 times the net worth of Bill Gates. That's a lot of money ... more...

Those who understand that America is not, was not designed to be, and should not become a democracy -- those who recognize the dangers of mob rule --will be disturbed by this. Most Americans, victims of government school misinformation and indoctrination, will not be. Yesterday we had a ruling from the Supreme Court in the case of Christopher Simmons. You see, in 1993, Simmons was 17 and decided, along with his 15-year-old buddy, to kidnap Shirley Crook in her St. Louis home. Simmons and his pal must not have liked Shirley Crook too much, for they tied her up, threw...

I know you've grown tired of hearing me hammer this point home ... but in the history of civilization no culture based on freedom and economic liberty has survived without recognizing the individual's right to property and zealously protecting those rights. For many years now property rights have been under a clear assault from politicians seeking to solidify their positions of privilege and power through the misuse of eminent domain. Unfortunately, as has been documented numerous times in this space and on the air, a new national epidemic has emerged. Politicians, hungry for tax revenues at all costs, have started...

Yesterday, President Bush released his budget blueprint for fiscal year 2006, which begins in October of this year. It was $2.57 trillion. It does not include the additional $80 to $100 billion that will be needed for Iraq and Afghanistan. The White House claims it cut or eliminated 150 programs. This, of course, is unacceptable behavior for those who believe that America is great because of its government. Democrats are already spinning around on their eyebrows because of the cuts that were made, and because of the size of the deficit. But make no mistake: the Democratic answer to the...

Much to the dismay of the mainstream media and many in the Democratic party, including John Kerry, voters turned out in Iraq in record numbers with minimal violence to make Iraq's first election in 50 years a smash success. Here are the final statistics, with results expected in 7 to 10 days: * 8 million Iraqis voted in the election * Unofficial estimates put the turnout at between 60 and 70%, higher than our most recent presidential election * 44 people were killed in attacks on election day. While tragic, nowhere near the doom and gloom predicted by the left...

I do think that I have at least one issue that I talk about on the air that most ... not all ... but most of my listeners agree with. Private property rights. I believe, and nobody has presented me with any evidence to the contrary, that no political system based on liberty and economic freedom has ever survived once private property rights came to be ignored. Now .. let me tell you a quick story about something called Fanplex. Fanplex was a the bright idea of some politicians representing a district adjoining Atlanta's Turner Field, the home of the...

This morning on CNN Jack Cafferty was a bit exercised over reports that more and more companies are not only refusing to hire smokers, they're firing them. They're getting fired not for smoking on the job .. but for just being smokers. Bad? No ... Good! In Michigan Weyco, Inc. has a new policy. They won't hire smokers. They're also requiring all current employees undergo testing to see if they are currently smokers. Presumably this will be a step toward firing all smokers. Employment lawyers says this reeks of discrimination. Well, duh! Of course it's discrimination! It's discrimination against people...

If you can believe this, President Bush's Inaugural speech is catching flack from some quarters, particularly American leftists and Euro-weenies, because he used the "F" word 27 times. This is an "F" word that is even more offensive to the left than the "F" word. Yup ... Bush said "Freedom" at least 27 times during the speech. Evidently Bush didn't get the booklet of instructions for Presidents making State of the Union or Inaugural speeches. You're supposed to talk about security, not freedom. Bush was talking about spreading freedom around the world, and much of the world was having none...

THE SWINE SPEAKS AGAIN We heard from that tired old Social Democrat Ted Kennedy again yesterday. Ted Kennedy. The man who never had to struggle to pay a bill in his entire life. The man who has never held an actual job. The man who wandered up and down a deserted seaside road worrying about his political career while a young woman (his girlfriend?) suffocated in the back seat of a car in just over four feet of water. Yeah ... that' Ted Kennedy. Well .. there he was yesterday engaging in his usual hyper-leftist over-the-top liberalism. Mr. Cradle-to-Grave government...

Those of you who listen to my show and read my ramblings know that I have a passionate belief in property rights. There has never been a "free" society that survived past the point that it started to ignore the private property rights of its citizens. One of the greatest threats to private property rights in this country is the newfound love that so many local governments have for the concept of eminent domain. It's as if politicians have just recently found out that they can use their governments monopoly on the use of deadly force to seize property from...

HOW DO WE ELECT DANGEROUS IDIOTS LIKE THIS? The brain-dead, idiotic, disgusting, anti-American, childish, can't-get-over-it politician of the day is one Nelson Polite, a member of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania city council. Thankfully this jerk will rise no further up the political ladder. Even Democrats think he's a fool. Polite is upset because of David Stoltzfus who runs a baked goods stand at the local city market. Stoltzfus has a picture of President Bush hanging in the stand. Polite is a Democrat. Polite made a trip to visit Stoltzfus to tell him that he and other Lancaster Democrats are "offended" by...

Did you happen to catch "CNN Presents" last night? I know .. it's hard to stomach Aaron Brown for longer than just a few minutes, but last night's program actually made it worth it. The subject was nuclear terror. Just what are the chances that a group of Islamic terrorists could manage to smuggle a nuclear weapon into this country and set it off? Answer: Pretty close to 100%. First of all; just how much weapons grade plutonium do you think would be needed to create a nuclear bomb? Would it take 100 pounds or so? Would you be surprised...

We have to go back to the Vietnam for a bit here. We have to go back because it looks like John Kerry has been caught in yet another lie .. and this one may be quite serious. Here's the story: In 1970 John Kerry went to visit the communist delegation to the Vietnamese peace talks. Then he went to visit them again. The congress of the United States was not informed of these visits until almost a year later. By the way, Kerry was a Navy Reserve Officer at the time. Finally ... then the leftist media found out...

This has to go at the head of the Nuze today. It's official. The Islamic bastards killing our men and women in Iraq are pulling for John Kerry. Most of us aren't surprised. The Islamic murderers in Iraq ("insurgents," as the media calls them) have now removed all doubt as to their objective. Is it just to kill Americans? Prevent democracy from taking hold in Iraq? Avenge the overthrow of Saddam Hussein? None of the above. They have now said their #1 objective is to elect John Kerry president of the United States next Tuesday. Surprised? You shouldn't be. A...

At first it didn't seem like that big of a deal in Wednesday night's debate. Bob Schieffer asked the candidates whether they thought homosexuality was a choice, and The Poodle brought up Vice President Cheney's daughter Mary, who is a lesbian. That turned out to be a big oops. It was the second time Mary Cheney had come up in the debates, with The Super Lawyer mentioning it in the Vice Presidential debate. Well, the Cheneys didn't seem to appreciate it one bit, and apparently have had enough. Lynne Cheney let Kerry have it first: "Now, you know, I did...

I actually stayed up to watch the so-called "debate." It's now before 5:00 am and I drawing some notes together. No problem ... I can always take a nap this afternoon and, after all, it's not like my job requires any heavy lifting. Now ... some disjointed thoughts on the debate. It looked like Bush was a bit slow getting started. The hesitations in his language stand out in contrast to the determined rhetoric of John Kerry. It's probably wiser to listen to the actual words being said rather than the hesitations. There's enough "ahs" and "uhs" during one of...

This is really about the sad status of Jimmy Carter. Carter made quite a new splash yesterday when he said that the State of Florida didn't even meet minimal international standards for holding a fair election. Carter's main points of contention seem to be that the Governor of Florida is the president's brother, and the Secretary of State was a Bush elector in the 2000 election. The presence of these two partisan individuals portends a rigged or unfair election. A few points about Florida and about Carter. First: You won't find the press hammering this, but the problems with the...

John Kerry and his keepers are making a big deal out of the cool reception President Bush received at the United Nations yesterday. Even some members of the media are joining in. I listened to a CNN newscast where it was reported that Bush's speech was not interrupted once by applause, and that there was only polite applause at the finish. This is supposed to give you the idea that Bush's speech was in contrast with other foreign leaders who are apparently met with with multiple interruptions of raucous applause and a balloon drop at the end. Compare the approach...

So where did the now-discredited Bush National Guard forgeries come from? According to one source one of the documents has a header on it showing that it was faxed from a Kinko's in Abeline, Texas. So what's in Abilene, Texas, besides a Kinko's? Who would go through all the trouble to anonymously fax the documents to CBS News? That Kinko's is 21 miles from Baird, Texas where Bill Burkett lives. Who is Bill Burkett? I told you about him yesterday. He is a retired Texas Air National Guard officer who is and has been hell bent on the political destruction...

As Donna got into the cab there was an anti-war demonstration brewing at Ground Zero. As I was dressed in running shorts, a t-shirt and sneakers I thought it would be a good chance to wade into the middle of the mob to listen and observe. Bottom line ... my earlier perception about these demonstrators turned out to be pretty much correct. They were overwhelmingly young, cocky and grungy. I would stand next to some of them until they tried to engage me in conversation. "Hey, dude. Is this a great way to meet girls, or what?" One unkempt and...

Have you been injured in an accident? If so, then last night was your night at the Democratic National Convention. North Carolina Senator and trial lawyer John Edwards addressed the crowd at The Fleet Center, along with the 483 people watching on television at home. So how was it? It was a pretty good speech....like Zell Miller said to Tom Brokaw afterward, the wrong man is at the top of the ticket. Edwards borrowed a lot of Reagan optimism....but in the end, would up towing the same old tired, boring, Democratic political line. Let's break it down, shall we? Edwards...

Speaking yesterday in Philadelphia, John Kerry said he will fight a more effective war on terror than President Bush. He then went on to say that President Bush should act on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and that their work should be extended for another 18 months. What for? What is it that these people are going to do in the next year and a half that they haven't already done? Kerry wants the 9/11 Commission extended because it provides a handy platform from which to launch his attacks on Bush. The Democrats want an extension so that the...

What got them riled up, you say? Me. Friday. Oh boy, you should see the email. Letters to sponsors, radio stations, the Democratic National Committee all pretty much demanding the same thing ... that I be cancelled/fired/executed. So, why all the fuss? Because I said on Friday that I honestly couldn't make up my mind which group of people was more dangerous to the future of this country: (a) Islamic jihadist terrorists; or, (b) people who intended to vote for The Poodle for president. It seems that some of the more strident complainers were convinced that I had compared Kerry...

Yesterday, New York Senator Hillary Clinton was speaking at a fund-raiser in San Francisco on behalf of Senator Barbara Boxer. At that fund-raiser, she told those in attendance to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress. That's right...she's telling everyone in advance she and the rest of her leftist pals are going to raise their taxes. Hillary really showed herself at this fund raiser --- if, that is, they manage to get the White House and control of the congress. Not only did Shrillary reveal...

Do you realize that at this point the story of the abuse of some Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison has received more press coverage for a longer period of time than did the story of the capture of Saddam Hussein? And just why is that? Come on, haven't you been listening? It's because the media believes the story of Abu Ghraib hurts George Busy, while the story of the capture of Saddam Hussein helps George Bush. You heard what Democrat Billionaire George Soros was up to yesterday, didn't you? Soros is the money behind such leftist anti-Bush organizations...

Iraq's new Prime Minister Allawi held a news conference on Tuesday. During that news conference he switched to English to say "I would like to thank the coalition, led by the United States, for the sacrifices they have provided in the process of the liberation of Iraq." Then President Busy had a news conference in Washington. Three times during that conference Bush said that he appreciated Allawi's words of thanks to the American people. According to Fox News Channel as of Wednesday evening not one major American newspaper had reported Allawi's remarks. Not one. The only thing you could find...

For days now the world's media has been full of stories about the abuse of prisoners at the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Let's review. We had pictures of Iraqi prisoners in a pile, pictures of an Iraqi prisoner wearing a leash held by an female American soldier. There was a picture of another Iraqi prisoner being intimidated by dogs and one standing on a box with a hood over his head and some wires attached to his hands. Strong stuff, right? And ohhhhh ... the outrage! Now ... what pictures did we see yesterday? We saw pictures of...

This is almost too good to be true. John Kerry granted an interview to Black Entertainment Television and, wouldn't you just know it, one of the questions was about whether Al Sharpton would be a speaker at the Democratic National Convention. The Poodle's response? "If he wants to do it, I'd like him to do it. I think he'd do a terrific job. I think he'll add something...there's no plea necessary. It's my invitation." There's no way in hell Sharpton, who has never found a camera he didn't like, will turn down the invitation. You can bet he'll be there...

If there is one man the Bush-haters hate more than Bush, it's John Ashcroft. To the left, he might as well be the devil himself. Anyway, Attorney General John Ashcroft testified yesterday before the 9/11 Blame Commission and dropped a bombshell. And it's about time somebody said it...these "hearings" have turned into a partisan debacle, so the Bush administration is fighting back. Ashcroft blamed the Clinton administration for leaving America open to attack, saying that the attacks of 9/11 happened because "for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to our enemies." The Democrats on this commission and their...

President Bush came out swinging last night at his nationally televised press conference, and as usual, the media made a bunch of idiots out of themselves. But that's par for the course, I suppose. Bush began with a 17-minute address to the nation that focused entirely on the situation in Iraq. Throughout the course of his remarks, he shot down just about every argument the Democrats and the media have been making about Iraq. Don't expect to see that analysis in the press reports of his news conference today however. The president said that the violence in Iraq is neither...

The testimony in front of the 9/11 Commission yesterday by Bush National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice finally put to rest all of the nonsense that has been out there, peddled by Richard Clarke, that Al Qaeda simply wasn't a concern or a priority for the Bush administration. The three hours of testimony (carried on all the networks) was electric, and a political home run. There were a few heated exchanges between Condi and the liberals on the panel...and she wasn't going to have any of it. This woman is tough as nails. Like I said yesterday, she could run for...

It has become even more clear that the Islamo-fascist movement has scored a tremendous strategic victory with its attacks last week in Spain. Dutch economist Bernard Walschots nails it: "Al Qaeda or its affiliates have toppled a democratic government for the first time. This may have dramatic implications for the Western democracies." Did you get that the first time around? The Islamic Jihadists have just toppled the government of a major Western nation. Socialists have taken over in Spain. Islamic terrorists like socialists ... they're brothers under the skin. This morning we learn that CNN has discovered an Al Qaeda...

This morning on CNN they were asking whether or not the socialist victory in Spain meant the terrorists were winning. Answer: Definitely. Up until the time of the terrorist (apparently Islamic) attack on those trains in Spain the government of Jose Maria Aznar was holding a dominating lead in the polls. Spain's new leader will be Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. He is pledging to bring Spain's troops home from Iraq. He will also adopt a foreign policy that is decidedly less friendly to the United States than was Aznar. The new Spanish government will align itself with the European Axis...

I ask you today to consider a time in America when there will be no such thing as the private ownership of real estate; where the American dream of home ownership will belong to a past era. Instead of title to a parcel of real property, you'll get a license to occupy that property for a determined period of time. That license will be issued by the government, and subject to renewal on a periodic basis. Renewal will be considered based on several factors, including how you are using that land, and whether or not the license fees you pay...

George Bush has been president of the United States for three and one-half years. During that time, what is the single most important event that happened, not just here, but anywhere in the world? Let's state it more strongly. What one even defines the first Bush term. Now, we may have some egocentric whiners out there who believe that the IT jobs they lost to some call center in India is that defining moment. Right ... it's all about them. The correct answer, though, is the Islamic terrorist attack on New York and Washington DC. George Bush is the 43rd...

I present to you the lead paragraph in an article which appears in today's edition of The Independent from London: "If the human race as a whole, rather than 50 states plus the District of Colombia, could cast a ballot this coming November, John Kerry would surely win the presidency by a landslide." Now ... just why is this?  You can search the newspapers and the Internet for commentary by a lot of people a whole lot smarter than me who are adept at using the language of international diplomacy who present all sorts of complex reasons why the "world"...

Well ... the battle now seems to be joined. The most liberal Senator in the United States Senate, the most liberal Senator from Massachusetts, is going to be the Democratic nominee. Today John Edwards will drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination. He will then wait patiently for the call from Kerry to be his vice-Presidential nominee. Never, in modern history, have the Democrats crowned their prince this early in an open primary season. This campaign has a long way to go ... and many things will become known about John Kerry that aren't known right now. Perhaps,...

Today's show will come to you from The Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. I'm here in this frightening place (DC, not The Heritage Foundation) to attend the annual Radio & Records Talk Radio convention. This year's convention buzz? Government ... the FCC ... censorship .... fines ..... fired disk jockeys. The mood in Washington is ugly. It's an election year. The full House and one-third of the Senate are up for reelection ... as is the president. These politicians want to get themselves on record for "protecting family values" and a making sure that your precious children never, ever get...