I was glued to the Masters on TV when the text message came through: The Navy Seals have saved the day.

You know the story by now. Three Seal snipers on the USS Bainbridge coordinated their efforts and delivered three simultaneous head shots to the three Muslim pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips. I'm really looking forward to getting the details on this. The seas were getting rough and both the lifeboat and the Navy vessel were rolling on the seas when the shots were taken.

On Friday I said quit a bit on the air about the United States showing weakness: Weakness with Korea, and weakness in dealing with these Muslim pirates. Well, Obama came through. He told his military commanders to bring this episode to an end if they saw the means to do so. Obama said yes to a Pentagon request for standing authority to use appropriate force to save the life of the captain. We have to recognize that a failure of this mission would have been used against Obama ... so his decision showed courage. I was surprised. Pleasantly surprised.

Now we're getting reports that the Muslim pirates are really PO'd that actual force was used against them. They're vowing revenge against the United States and France? Why France? Because the French military killed a few Muslim pirates while rescuing hostages from a yacht the pirates had seized. One hostage was killed in that attack.

One regret. The head shots that killed the three pirates were simultaneous. This means that none of the Muslim goons got to see their buddy's heads explode. Oh well ... can't have everything, I guess.

Now its time for the shipping lines to do a bit more to defend and protect themselves so that the U.S. Military won't have to do the job for them. Hire Blackwater .. get mercenaries .. do something! But put some really mean and serious guards on these ships so that they can feed the sharks some more good, tasty Somali garbage.

This is a day-after-Easter edition of Nealz Nuze. In other words .. not much work done yesterday, and I didn't exactly get up early this morning. If you're a paid subscriber I'll listen to your complaints.

Paid subscribers .. now there's an idea. I'm sure this would go over well in this economy.

There's talk about bringing one of these Muslim pirates back to the US for trial! What? And afford him all of the privileges of our Constitutions? How about a summary execution? Live in a US prison would be paradise compared to his life in Somalia.

Is it any wonder Somalia is ungovernable? Any Somali capable of anything resembling leadership is already living in the United States. They were living in the Atlanta area, then a radio station in Atlanta told them that there was a town in New England where they could get monthly checks just for being there. The migration was on!

Do you know why Obama's half-brother didn't make it here to the inauguration? Seems he has a history of being a sex predator in Great Britain. And Jimmy thought Billy was embarrassing.

Last week the reports were that the Muslim pirates were "annoying" Barack Obama. Perhaps its not a good idea to annoy the president.

Israeli President Shimon Peres says that if Ahmadinejad doesn't start to come around Israel is going to attack. I guess Peres wasn't listening last week when Biden warned him not to do that.

DC's Mayor is considering taxing residents for street light usage. Across the nation local officials are looking for more ways to get into your pockets. There's a "crash response fee" in Winter Haven, Florida. Like I've said before, there is absolutely no limit whatsoever to the hunger politicians have for your money.

The unionization-through-intimidation bill is still a hot item in Washington. If the government-educated dumb masses in this country actually knew what was going on here the bill would be dead. Democrats and union goons know this. That's why they gave it this asinine "Employee Free Choice Act" title.

Do you want to join a union at your workplace? If not, you have better begin paying attention to what's happening in Washington. Soon you may be put into a position of either signing that union petition or having your car vandalized ... or worse.

Get your Navy Seal and dead Muslim pirate links right here!

The way AP sees it.

From Reuters. Pirates vow revenge.

The Wall Street Journal: "Saving Captain Phillips."

New York is not the tax capital of the world! Why in the world to people even stay there?

Rich Lowery on "The Rise of the TARP State."

Justice Ginsburg shows us what happens when you appoint an ACLU lawyer to the Supreme Court. She thinks referring to foreign law and foreign judges in rendering decisions is just fine.

Read this to understand how your health care is about to go straight into the toilet. It's the last stand for private health insurance. The savages will win.

Economists believe that the recession will end this year, but unemployment will hit 10%.

Which US state has the highest taxes? I thought Barack Obama's stimulus plan was supposed to alleviate the need for states to increase taxes.

Speaking of taxes ... here are some other creative ways states are trying to raise revenues.

The Washington Times says that a provision slipped into a House climate bill would allow people "suffering" from global warming to sue the federal government or private businesses.

Here's a no brainer: Educators and child development experts say the self-esteem movement of the 1980s did kids a disservice and adults should resist over praising.

A convicted drug dealer has to pay $47 million to the state because he failed to purchase "drug stamps."

Have you been following any of the brouhaha at Arizona State University? Apparently the school will now name its largest scholarship program after Barack Obama.

And for the real news of the day ... Barack Obama finally got a dog.

Virginia Beach wants Obama to use stimulus money to pump sand onto their beaches. Yeah ... pumping sand. Now THAT'S stimulus you can believe in. That's almost as good as my raking leaves in a National Forest.

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Our Jacksonville affiliate has up a photo gallery from the event this weekend if you want to have a peek at the Talkmaster, Jamie Dupree and Clark Howard.