If the web wench were in today I would post a picture of my father's and mother's grave at the Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio.  On the front it says Neal A. Boortz, Sr.  Lt. Col.  USMC  WWII, Korea, Vietnam.  On the back it says Mary Frances Boortz.  USN  WWII.  Both of my parents were veterans of WWII. 

There's a story out there that is very fitting for Veterans Day.  Here's your link.  Four muggers attack a man in an alley in Milwaukee.  They take his wallet ...everything.  The leader of the gang opens the victim's wallet and sees a military ID card.  He then orders his buds to put everything back.  The victim's wallet and other belongings are laid on the ground next to him.  The leader then apologized for the robbery and thanked the man for his service.  He even came back for a fist bump after the robbers were walking away.

This story caused me to think ... to wonder if all of us give our men and women in uniform and our veterans the respect these criminals did.  I think that generally we do ... I certainly hope I'm right.

Both Royal and I are from military families.  From the entire Boortz show staff a big thanks and a heap of respect to all of the men and women out there who are serving and have served in our armed forces.  You're truly the cream of the crop.

We'll certainly have some discussion on this today. Suffice it to say for these notes ... when I went to bed last night (after a particularly fun party) I didn't know the name of the shooter. I told my wife that it was my guess the shooter would turn out to be a Muslim. Well .. this morning we're treated to the name ... the shooter was Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Doesn't sound like a Deacon in the local Baptist church to me. It seems that Major Hasan had some problems with American foreign policy. So ... let's just shoot up some soldiers. According to a fellow soldier this Muslim (I'm guessing) goon said that Muslims had a right to rise up attack America. Word is that he is actually a convert to Islam. More news expected today.

Waking up to the wonderful, peaceful, serene, peaceful religion of Islam.

By now, I am sure you have seen the pictures of "I Swastika Obama" etched into golf course in Massachusetts. The Secret Service is now involved to investigate the incident. Who knows, maybe it will be considered ... wait for it ... a hate crime!

Who does this suck for the most? The owner of the golf course. Whomever vandalized his green should absolutely be held responsible for the damage.

But we will see how far this goes with secret service investigations into a possible threat against Obama.

The Swastika is a super-charged icon ... and even if it does represent the very economic system Obama has brought to this country, it represents so much more. Yes, Obama is an economic fascist. We have to find some other way to bring this to the attention of the American people ... the Swastika ain't it.

It's sweet, sweet justice that these thugs got their asses kicked by a dude in a skirt.

Adult male drugs 13-year-old girl. Then he takes some nude pictures. Then he sodomizes her. Then he runs to avoid jail. He manages to escape justice for 30 years and is finally caught. Extradition proceedings are initiated. Hollywood comes to his rescue and wants all forgiven. Lesson? Rape a 13-year-old, and if you can just hide long enough all will be forgiven ... at least by the Hollywood culture; if, that is, you have some talent important to Hollywood. If you're a gardener things might be different.

So ... what if you had a 13-year-old daughter. Here's how you might try to explain the Polanski situation to her.

The body of a 51-year-old man was found hanged in rural Kentucky earlier this month. Bill Sparkman was a part-time census field worker. He reportedly also worked as what the AP describes as an "occasional teacher." There's an unconfirmed report that the man had the word "fed" written on his chest. As of now officials aren't saying much, including whether this is a murder or a suicide.

One thing for certain ... suicide or murder, this is going to be seized on by the left to paint all Americans concerned with government growth, and especially all Americans who are opposed to our intrusive census, as homicidal maniacs. This is the way the left works. They'll find some bizarre and isolated incident - like the possible lynching of a census worker - and from that point on every person who isn't willing or, in fact, eager to answer in excruciating detail every question on the long census form is a threat to all mankind.

If this Kentucky incident is, in fact, a homicide ... then let's hope the murder is caught and eventually executed ... by hanging. Remember, I'm so warped that I believe murderers ought to die the way they killed their victims.

Clearly we know of the recent scandals involving ACORN ... unless you have been living under a rock. Or you are Charlie Gibson. But at any rate, it turns out that after all the fuss and calls for ACORN to sue FOX News ... ACORN can't legally operate in the state of Maryland. Here's the deal:

According to the following documents, ACORN, Inc. - the parent organization of all things ACORN - forfeited its corporate charter in Maryland in 2006. ACORN Housing forfeited its corporate charter in 2008. Any ACORN office in the state of Maryland is potentially operating illegally.

This leads me to the latest Republican endeavor ... defunding ACORN. House Republicans have introduced the Defund ACORN Act to make sure that ACORN does not receive one more penny from the taxpayers.

This, as we've already pointed out, is most certainly based on racism.

If the Democrats treat this the same way they have treated Republicans proposals, bills and amendments on healthcare ... it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

By now you know that some thug shot and killed an anti-abortion protestor outside of a school in Michigan last week. James Pouillon was standing across the street from a school holding aloft pictures that were purported to represent aborted fetuses when he was gunned down. A man has been arrested and charged with Pouillon's murder.

Now .. .make no mistake. I believe that the man who gunned down Pouillon should be convicted and then executed. In keeping with my oft-stated position, I think that he should die the same way his victim did. He should stand before a firing squad.

So .. why this column? Well, two reasons, actually, First ... I want to address the way the media defined the players in this sad story. Secondly; I just feel like really stirring up the pudding here with the anti-abortion crowd. Since most of these anti-abortion activists are men and will never really come face-to-face with the issue, I just enjoy getting under their skin.

You will notice that I've been using the sobriquet "anti-abortion" thus far in this piece. For the most part the media has been defining him as "pro-life." Well, I have a problem with that ... so let's proceed with making a huge number of people mad as a hornet's next. Just send your "I'm never going to listen to you again" emails to getoveritfool@hotmail.com.

Simply put, the "pro-life" label is bogus. It doesn't work. These labels have to define both sides of this issue on comparative terms. "Pro-life" fails the test. If one side is "pro-life," than the other side must be "anti-life." You simply cannot take people who support the idea of a woman's right to chose as "anti-life." Being "anti-life" would mean that in virtually all cases where a decision had to be made between life and death, that person would chose death. I would hate to be a bicyclist on a narrow road in front of such a person.

OK .. let's move on to "anti-abortion" and "pro-abortion." Again, it doesn't work. I'll use me as the example here. I am most definitely anti-abortion with exceptions, of course, to protect the health and life of the mother. Having said that; I do not want our government to have the power to use a gun to force a woman to have a child that she does not want to have. Now don't give me a hard time with this "use a gun" thing. Government is force. Government is the only entity in our society that can use deadly force to accomplish its goals. That's what the so-called "pro-life" activists are after ... giving the government the authority to use force in this manner. Anyway; to use the "pro-abortion" label to describe me would be factually wrong.

So, where does this leave us? Well, just what are we discussing here? That would be whether or not a woman should be able to make the choice between terminating a pregnancy or going full term. And there is our solution. There we have the proper way to describe the combatants in this seemingly endless argument. If you believe the ultimate choice should rest with the woman, then you would be pro-choice. If you believe that instead of choice there should be compulsion, then you're anti-choice.

If the media in this country actually gave a rip about accurate and objective journalism these are the phrases that would be used in reporting on the controversy.

The mainstream media also had a hard time covering the ACORN scandal that hit last week. To my knowledge, FOX was the only channel carrying the story that went a little something like this: James O'Keefe video tapped his counseling session with an ACORN employee. He posed as a pimp and brought along a "prostitute" and was advised by an ACORN employee how they could get loans for their prostitution business, etc.

Somehow, the revelation of this video turned into an issue of race.

Here's a statement released by Margaret Williams, a board member of Maryland's ACORN office: It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage.

Here's another statement from ACORN's chief organizer Bertha Lewis. She says that conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the "Willie Horton for 2009." She also says, "We are the boogeyman for the right wing and its echo chambers."

The latest? Now ACORN is claiming that the video was altered and in no way represents what went on in that office in Baltimore.

Meanwhile, the fallout from this ACORN expose is not looking good for James O'Keefe. He is now facing the prospect of being prosecuted by Baltimore City's State Attorney. His crime? Violating a Maryland law that makes it illegal to tape someone without prior permission. If he is convicted, he could go to state prison for five years.

Isn't this just rich? O'Keefe vividly illustrates for the American people the essential corrupt nature of the ACORN organization .. and now he's facing the possibility of criminal prosecution. The ACORN workers who aided and abetted the illegal prostitution business? They can't be prosecuted because the only evidence against them was illegally obtained .... In Maryland you can't videotape someone without their permission.

Something good has come from this whole episode. The Census bureau has informed ACORN that they will have no role assisting the federal government in the 2010 Census. I say watch this one closely. The Obama Administration is going to do all it can go inflate the census numbers in minority areas, especially Hispanic areas, so we'll see if this ban of ACORN actually holds. My guess? ACORN will be up to its usual corrupt tricks during the Census. We'll see if I get a big "I told you so" on this one.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania is about to become the Big Brother of the United States. The community is installing 165 surveillance cameras, making their system larger than systems in cities like Boston or San Francisco.

So what are the people of Lancaster upset about?

The fact that these cameras will be monitored by ordinary citizens rather than the police. They will be monitored 18 to 24 hours a day by the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition, which is a nonprofit board that works with police.

Now, all of the sudden, the people are concerned about their privacy. They aren't concerned when it is the government monitoring their communities ....

Is there a problem here? Only if these cameras can observe what people are doing in private. If these cameras are monitoring the streets and sidewalks then the people monitoring these cameras can't see a thing they wouldn't see if they were standing there on that very same street. I don't really see the problem here.

Every once in a while I just get lucky. I make an offhanded remark on the air that sends the looters into such paroxysms of angst and outrage that I get about a weeks worth of a free ride in blogs, columns and radio and TV shows.

Such was the case about 10 days ago when I made a comment about Barack Obama's plans to spend even more money that we don't have to "rebuild" New Orleans. I wondered why we would spend all of that money on an effort that would simply serve to bring back much of the debris that Hurricane Katrina washed out.

Look .. I guess I'm not as perfect a human being as so many of you are. When someone asks me if I think that some people are better than others, I'm not afraid to answer "Oh HELL yes." I understand and support the concept of equal rights under the law. Having equal rights does not make one equal. There are worthy human beings out there, and there are people you would have to be generous to call trash.

Let's take a look at New Orleans before Katrina struck. Here are some statistics from City Journal:

"New Orleans's poor population includes a sizable underclass. Before Katrina struck, fully 10 percent of New Orleanians lived either in public housing or Section 8 housing, far above the rates in Houston or New York. Only 36 percent of New Orleans's adults were married, compared with more than 49 percent in Houston, and more than half of mothers were unmarried, compared with 28 percent in Houston. In some New Orleans neighborhoods, only a quarter of the children lived with married parents. More than two-thirds of female-headed black households lived in poverty. Though many of New Orleans's underclass had moved from idleness into low-wage, tourist-trade jobs over the past decade, thanks to federal welfare reform and an abundance of such work in the city, their family structures and social skills hadn't improved along with this fledgling work ethic. The concentration of weak families partly explains why the city endured some of the nation's highest violent-crime rates."

Who were these people described in City Journal? Many of them were the people who were put on busses and sent to places like Houston. It didn't take any great amount of brainpower to see how this was going to work out for Houstonians. I can remember the day that the busses rolled out of New Orleans on Interstate 10. I told my listeners "Houston, you have a problem." What kind of a problem? Here's more from City Journal:

"Houston has slowly acknowledged, Katrina evacuees pushed up Houston's rates for some crimes, particularly homicide, not just the raw number of offenses. Houston's post-Katrina crime surge is an extension of the pre-Katrina violence of New Orleans's criminal underclass. Before Katrina, New Orleans had the highest murder rate of any big U.S. city, almost four times Houston's, with 58 people killed per year for every 100,000 citizens. The murder numbers Houston has racked up since Katrina prove that violent New Orleanians haven't changed their ways, but only their scenery.

Since Katrina, Houston police have identified New Orleans evacuees as either suspects or victims (or often both) in more than 30 Houston-area homicides. Of an evacuee population of 175,000, this works out to a per-capita annual murder rate of about 34 per 100,000, well above Houston's pre-Katrina rate. News of violent murders committed by and against Katrina evacuees has created a bit of a backlash in Houston. In a recent Rice University poll of Houston-area residents, two-thirds of the participants blamed Katrina evacuees for the crime spike and for a "considerable strain" on community resources."

I don't mince words. I'm not controlled by the dictates of political correctness. There are human beings out there - human beings that will readily export their culture of dependency and predatory violence to wherever they travel - that are deserving of the title "debris."

I love New Orleans. Been there many times, and the Boortz Crew was there in the French Quarter the night before Katrina hit. New Orleans is critically important to the US economy. The Port of New Orleans is the principal export point for the millions of tons of grain produced in America's heartland. Clearly New Orleans had to be brought back from the brink after Katrina. But for the life of me I don't see the need to spend taxpayer's money to rebuild New Orleans as it was before the storm .. a haven for welfare criminal parasites. Those who stayed and rebuilt .. fine. Those are the type of citizens of which New Orleans can be proud. These people ought to be screaming over the prospects of a federal rebuilding program that would bring back much of the welfare and criminal element that Katrina chased away.

There .. I said it again.

There is a movement happening in the UK right now. Insurance companies are considering the idea of raising insurance premiums for anyone who uses social networking sites. This includes sites like Facebook or Twitter. They say premiums could rise, even if only your children are on social networking sites. Why? Because burglars are using the sites to "shop for victims" ... keeping track of when you are on vacation, home addresses, birthdays, etc.

The question here is whether or not the insurance regulations in the UK will allow insurance companies to compete on something like this. The private market can take care of asinine ideas like raising premiums on Facebook customers. Let some company try this, and another company comes along and steals their customers. All you need is competition. Unfortunately, competition is poison to governments. We'll see what happens.

Just watched a few episode of Cops over the weekend. Some conclusions are obvious. I'm sure cops already know these truths .. but if not, I'm only too glad to help.

• The term "trailer trash" didn't just appear out of thin air.
• Perp's pants never fit
• There are plenty of minorities in prime time television.
• Bad teeth apparently cause criminal behavior
• So, apparently, do neck tattoos.
• A cop in full uniform with street shoes, a Kevlar vest and 20 pounds of stuff on his belt will always outrun a shirtless perp in running shoes.
• Nobody ever has a clue as to how those drugs got into their pocket
• If you see a man driving with no shirt on, pull him over. He's a perp
• That goes double for shirtless with a mullet
• Perps never clean their homes or wash dishes
• Street hookers are just flat-out ugly

At the end of one episode a special treat. Part of the show was filmed in Atlanta and the credits said "Special Thanks to Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell." Ole Bill just got out of jail. He was worse than the crooks they showed in the program.

.... especially those who live in Cambridge, Mass., the home of Harvard University and, not coincidentally, Professor Henry Louis (You do realize I'm important and black, don't you?) Gates. Now I really don't think that it's cool to make your living breaking into folks houses and stealing their stuff. But, if that's the way it's going to be, you might as well choose your targets wisely.

Man ... do I have the house for you. The house is on Ware Street in Cambridge, Mass. The owner and presumably sole occupant of the house is none other than esteemed Harvard Professor Henry ("you don't know who you're messin' with) Gates. I can almost promise you that if you decide to burglarize Mr. Gates' home there isn't a Cambridge police officer who would respond to the call. You'll have pretty much a free shot at all of the professor's stuff until he gets home. At that time you'll have to endure a screaming tirade about "this is what happens to a black man in America" and that you are a "racist burglar."

Really, though, you'll probably be able to get away because you'll hear Professor Gates coming a mile away. They say he's somewhat loud.

Now go knock yourselves out!

It's the 100th anniversary of the NAACP. I used to be a member. I no longer am. Let me tell you about their convention in New York City and you'll see why.

At their convention the NAACP announced what they call a "rapid response system." The idea is to get people with cell phones to capture videos and pictures of police "misconduct" and send those videos to the NAACP. The NAACP will then send back a form to be filled out giving details of the bad po-po.

The NAACP does NOT, however, have a program whereby citizens can take cell phone videos of gang activity or people committing crimes and forward them to any one for any action.

Go figure.

In case you don't know, Brinks security is now Broadview security. I saw their latest ad on television this morning. You have some guy stalking a winsome young mother and her daughter. Finally he tries to break into her home. The security alarm goes off and Broadview saves the day. As usual - as is the case in every single television ad ever put on television by Brinks - the perp is white. In the wonderful world of Brinks/Broadview only white guys try to break into houses to rob and rape. Political correctness to the extreme.

During a recent audit here in Georgia, the state Board of Education discovered something fishy about some standardized test scores. Specifically, the fifth grade Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRTs). Administrations and/or teachers at four elementary schools are believed to have tampered with the CRT results.

The audit was conducted by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement. It noticed something was strange when some of the answer sheets had up to 40 erasure marks on them; when students on average only changed their answers twice. Not to mention that most of the changed answers always went from a wrong one to a right one.

Here's the deal. Based on previous results, the four schools involved must have been on the verge of being sanctioned under the federal No Child Left Behind law. In other words ... they were going to receive an "F." Once the answers were changed on these tests ... guess what? No "F"! Now suddenly these schools look golden! Whoever changed those scores ... were they helping the kids? Hardly. If the school was sanctioned the parents could then transfer kids to another school. In effect, the altered answers trapped these kids in these poor schools.

So now the state board has to vote on whether or not to toss the scores. The principal at Atherton Elementary, James L. Berry, has already resigned. His assistant principal Doretha Alexander also resigned. Both have been arrested and charged with altering public documents. Isn't that just sweet!

Now state senators have called for a bill that would make it a crime for educators to change answers on standardized tests.

As we well know, California is in some deep horsesqueeze. They need to come up with some serious cash to balance the budget, and luckily Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refuses to increase taxes. So his latest idea to save taxpayer money is to deport illegal immigrates in California jails. Wow! A sane and logical plan from government? The only question is .... why have they waited so long?

The proposal will supposedly save California more than $180 million. It plans to commute the sentences of thousands of illegal immigrants and turn them over to the Feds to be deported.

Something tells me that there will be a lot of panties in a wad over this one. Besides .. how long do you think it will take the illegals to get back across the border once they're sent home ... and they'll be out of jail and ready to commit more crimes! What a state!

We've been talking about this local story quite a bit this morning, so here's a place for you to discuss it. An Atlanta woman accused a man of kidnapping her, taking her to the Smokey Mountains, and raping her. A pizza delivery guy saw her tied up on the couch and called the police. Now it turns out that she has pled guilty to filing false reports in the past.

I guess these cops were so angry with this suspect that they forgot about the rolling dashboard cameras. Whoops. Five of the cops have been fired.

(From Breitbart.com)

Happy ending for the muggers? I like the word "fends".

I know that a lot of callers have said that census workers have begun to knock on doors. The latest story about the census comes from Kansas where a woman says a census worker asked her some questions beyond the typical "how many people live in your household."

Kim Mertin says that the census workers asked her if she'd like a backrub and it she "was wearing pink undies." Who knows ... maybe these are the kinds of details the new administration is looking for. Either way, Mertin closed the door and called the police.

My first gut reaction to this story was that this census worker was clearly a fake, an imposter. But Mertin got ahold of the Census Bureau and it turns out that the man is really employed as a Census worker.

I suppose that is what you get when you team up with organizations like ACORN to hire your Census workers.

A man gives up everything in life, including half a million dollars to build a solar-powered car and drive it around the country. He has been touring the country in his solar-powered car, followed by a van of international volunteers. They pull into an American city and within one hour, over $10,000 worth of passports, laptops, credit cards, and cash was stolen from his escort van.

Now my question is: In which American city were they robbed?

Think about it folks. A city that is crawling with parasites. Any guesses? Ok, here is your answer.

You should talk to George Bartusek. He was arrested for having a ménage a trois. In public. In his car in a grocery story parking lot. Before you start to feel a little jealous, you should read the rest of the story. With pics!

How are you preparing for survival panic? No, seriously. Psychologists are worried that with the current economy, people are going to go into panic mode. This means more theft. More crime. Drug use. Work place violence. Depression. People are getting seriously worried how our entitlement, wealth-envy culture is going to handle a tough economic climate.

Take this AP article, for example: "In the coming months, mental health experts expect a rise in theft, depression, drug use, anxiety and even violence as consumers confront a harsh new reality and must live within diminished means." What they mean by "diminished means" is that it is going to be harder for you to buy your lifestyle using a credit card. You will complain that your children are hungry and you can't afford healthcare, but your wife will have the latest designer handbag from the mall and you will have the newest cell phone plastered to your ear.

Now I know, I know .. this doesn't go for EVERYONE. There are some of you who know how to live within your means and aren't playing this game of wealth envy. But the painful truth is that you are in the minority, folks. The vast majority of people in this country are more concerned about the size of their TV screen than their child's education.

Know what? Sounds like a pretty good time to buy a gun ... and learn to use it. I'm looking for some DRT stories on predators who break into homes and threaten innocents.

Just yesterday I was setting myself up for a little "I told you so." There is a street down in Miami that will be renamed Barack Obama Avenue. And you just wait for the activists to cry "racism!" if your town refuses to rename a street in honor of Barack Obama.

Anyway, now get this report out of Atlanta ... since Barack Obama was elected, the number of hate crimes is on the rise. That is according to a civil rights group. Hundreds of incidents of abuse and intimidation have occurred since November 4th, and they seem to have been motivated by racial hatred. However most of them have not involved violence. Now this report comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center ... so I'm skeptical. Are we having more incidents? Or are more being reported. Or are more ordinary indicants being categorized as hate crimes? I don't like the concept of "hate crimes" anyway. If it's a crime, it's a crime. Punish the perp. You punish these people for what they did ... not for what they were thinking when they did it.

This morning, Neal started up the national show with a few "great moments in parenting." In case you wanted to learn more about these stories, wanted to put in your $0.02 or missed it entirely, here are the links to the stories and you know what to do in the comments, if you are so inclined.

• MySpace suicide case
• Parents send kids out to collect $3,000 in volleyball scheme
• Mother convicted of ordering a hit on the mother of daughter's cheerleading rival