THANKS FT. LAUDERDALE AND BOCA!

Well ... we sold 'em out. Last night we had a book signing for the softcover edition of The FairTax Book at the Borders Book Store in Boca Raton, Florida ... and we emptied the store of the books! Good news! Last night's signing was hosted by my friends at 850 WFTL, a blowtorch radio station that broadcasts my show from noon to three all the way from Miami to West Palm Beach. In fact, today's show will be coming to you from the studios of WFTL. Fire up the decaf, Angela!

AND TONIGHT IT'S NAPLES!

As soon as I finish the broadcast today I'll head across Alligator Alley to Naples where tonight I'll be signing books at the Barnes & Noble Book Store at the Waterside Shops on Highway 41. My hosts there will be my Naples affiliate WGUF 98.9 FM. So .. this will be my first "official" public appearance in my second home. We'll see if we can sell out the Barnes & Nobles

AND ABOUT THE FAIRTAX .......

Events like these book signings, and the FairTax Rally several weeks ago in Atlanta, energize me. I am such an ardent supporter of this tax reform plan that I could easily talk about it day after day after day on the show .... but I'm smart enough to realize that I would chase away more listeners than I would attract. I truly love this country ... and I'm deeply concerned about the direction in which we're headed. We now have a tax system that is openly used by politicians to control personal behavior. Think about that for a moment. Taxes should be used for one and for only one purpose: to raise needed revenue for the proper functions of government. The tax code should never be used to control or modify the behavior of the people being taxes, yet that is exactly what our politicians do. What's more, our current tax code punishes the very behavior that we should want out of the American people; hard work! Under our current income tax, the harder you work and the more you succeed at what you do, the harsher the punishment from the IRS! On the other side of the equation, the less you do, the more you complain, the less you accomplish, and the more you sit around on your fat ass watching the world go by, the more you're rewarded! Work hard and the government gives other people access to your wallet. Don't work and the government gives you access to the wallets of those who do! Who the hell thought up this system?

Do you have any idea how much money has been sent overseas to work in foreign financial markets in order to escape our crushing tax system? Try $11 trillion dollars. No small amount. That is money that could come back home to go to work in the financial markets of this country if our current income tax system were scrapped and the FairTax was put in its place. You just cannot imagine the financial boost to our economy that would result from an infusion of that much capital.

This is up to you, my friends. Sure, the FairTax would cost Congressmen and Senators a lot of power. They would lost the ability to control individual behavior through our tax code. Lobbyists would lose their half-million dollar salaries earned by lobbying politicians to grant specific tax favors to selected clients. But there is one thing that these politicians dread more than the loss of this power, and that is the loss of their jobs. When they believe that their stance on any piece of legislation, including the FairTax, will have a direct bearing on whether or not they will keep their jobs .... they will act. The power is in the hands of the American people, not the politicians. We just have to recognize that, and act accordingly.

ANOTHER FAIR TAX RALLY COMING!

The location will be Orlando, Florida. Date? Well ... I just can't announce it yet because it's not etched in stone. Let's just say that it will be later in July, and we'll be looking for a crowd of 10,000 people. Can we do it? Can we send another message to Washington by drawing FairTax supporters from Orlando, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm, Boca Raton, Naples, Ft. Myers, Ocala, Tampa, Gainesville, Jacksonville and the rest of Florida to support the FairTax? We'll give you the details right here as soon as everything is firmed up.

NO TO THE FLAG BURNING AMENDMENT!

It comes at little surprise that the House, again, passed the amendment to outlaw the burning of the American flag. But yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, among other Senate colleagues, announced their support for the June 26th Senate vote on the Flag Desecration Amendment. The announcement came on non-other than Flag Day. How quaint. But don't be too alarmed, it seems a 2/3 majority is still lacking in the Senate. The House has passed a similar amendment half a dozen times in the past few years. While it has never gained enough votes in the Senate, it gets closer every time. The concept itself is ridiculous. Since when does the government have the right to tell people what they can and cannot do in regards to their freedom of expression? Ever heard of a little something called John Stuart Mill's harm principle? It goes a little something like this: you do whatever the hell you want, so long as it doesn't hurt me. Fine. If you want to burn American flags, be my guest. Would I burn it? No. But our Constitution explicitly gives us the right to freedom of expression. It is just a symbol for goodness sake. I don't want the government to force me to sing or pledge to it, so why the hell can't I burn it? This is not just about a flag folks. In the bigger picture, this is just another step toward a fascist society where the government slowly chips away at every right, freedom and individualistic expression you have. Also, take a look at the language of the amendment. One line: "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." How vague can we get? Just how does the government "prohibit?" Does this mean the government can roll the tanks into Union Square and shoot Americans (paid for by YOUR tax dollars), just because protestors decided to get a little crazy with the matchbook? I would hope not. But who's to stop the government if it did? The answer: NO ONE, if the amendment actually passes. If I go out and buy an American Flag at Flags-r-Us, and then decide to burn it, bury it, stomp it, shred it ....whatever ... it's my choice. It's my property, and I can do what I damned well want to do with it. If I burn your flag, that's another matter. Swear out a warrant and have me arrested for destroying your property.

I want you to consider one very important point here. If this flag-burning amendment were to pass, it would be the first constitutional amendment since prohibition to tell you what you cannot do. The entire Bill of Rights to our Constitution sets forth a list of prohibitions for government. Now we have a sizeable portion of the so-called "citizens" who want an amendment telling US what we cannot do; limiting OUR power. Where does this stop?

It's a hideously bad idea, and what we see in Washington is politicians simply pandering to the base emotions, if not the outright ignorance, of the American people. Instead of making the tough choices on items such as government spending, immigration, tax reform and returning our economic liberties, these political hacks are spending time on this nonsense. What's next? An amendment banning speech that others may find offensive? That's where we're headed if this nonsense isn't nipped in the bud.

LAWMAKERS UPSET ABOUT KATRINA WASTE

The story that hit the news yesterday that over $1 billion in FEMA aid to hurricane victims last year was squandered on things like strip clubs and divorce lawyers has quite a few people upset. But the biggest sham has to be the members of Congress that are expressing outrage over the spending abuse. What did they expect was going to happen?

Since when does free money handed out to supposedly needy people not get misspent? One North Carolina Democrat said there is no excuse for the lack of preparation and internal controls. How? Do they really think there would have been any way to keep these "evacuees" from not spending the money on whatever they wanted to? Nope. As decades of various welfare programs have shown, people will find a way to do whatever they want with the money.

What if the money had not been doled out? Then you can be sure that FEMA would have been loudly condemned for not doing enough for the victims of Katrina. Then, when they hand out emergency assistance...they get condemned for it not being spent on the right things. They can't win. Some are saying there should have been a better way to figure out who deserved the money and who didn't. That's fine, but that won't do anything to control the way the money is being spent.

Besides, there have been stories for months that hurricane evacuees had been spotted in places like Houston blowing their federal assistance on strip clubs. Where was the outrage then?

Prosecute some of these fraudsters ... put them in jail. Ignore the screams about "human rights violations." Punish the behavior you don't want .... and you'll get less of it.

DEMOCRATS AND THEIR TIMETABLE

With things seemingly having turned the corner in Iraq, Democrats are still demanding a timetable for our withdrawal. This despite Zarqawi's death and Bush's recent visit to Baghdad. Yesterday in the Rose Garden, Bush called such an idea "bad policy" and said it would be a danger to our country to pull out before the mission was complete.

Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democrats and potential Speaker of the House, complained that a policy of staying the course was no policy at all. She wants a timetable for withdrawal. This explains more than anything why Democrats should not be trusted with our national security. What would happen if there was a planned withdrawal? The United States has never .. not once in its entire history .. prevailed in a military conflict where a timetable was established for the cessation of the fighting. Democrats know this, but they also know that the people are largely ignorant on the matter ... so the ignorance of the people must be exploited!

The Islamic terrorists in Iraq would just wait for us to leave. They could just sit back, watch the last American troops depart...then turn Iraq into their own personal Al-Qaeda training camp. Also, what if the mission isn't completed by the time the withdrawal date arrives? Do we just cut and run? Humiliate our nation on the world stage? Break promises it will take years to recover from?

But that's what Democrats want...it's what they need. If things go well for Bush in Iraq, then they really have no issues to run on this fall.

JOE LIEBERMAN MAY LEAVE PARTY

Speaking of Democratic failure -- here a bit of interesting news. Joe Lieberman, perhaps the only Democrat in the Senate who has any sense about national security, may have to quit his party and run as an independent in the fall. The reason? He has an anti-war Democratic primary challenger who might win. The issue: Lieberman's support of the war in Iraq.

Just because the Senator from Connecticut supports the war in Iraq evidently means he can no longer serve in the Congress. The left finds it completely unacceptable....and so the leftist primary voters are on the verge of turning him out of office. This is the same reason why Lieberman had no chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president. The fringe left makes up most Democratic primary voters...and so that's who wins most of the time.

It's pretty bad when one of the best politicians the Democratic party has winds up having to leave the party...just to stay in office. No wonder Democrats can't win anything these days.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Here's a nothing story that won't quit: President Bush made fun of a reporter that asked him a question at a Rose Garden news conference yesterday...with sunglasses on.  It turns out the reporter was blind and Bush didn't know...but that hasn't stopped it from being actual news.

Bill Clinton, who once cried poverty because of all of his legal bills, has been raking in the dough since he left office. In 2005 alone, the former president cleared $7.5 million in speaking fees.

Keith Olbermann, who loves to make fun of other people, apparently does not stop at his own coworkers.  A viewer sent in some e-mails from Olbermann to a New York newspaper in which he called MSNBC host Rita Cosby "dumber than a suitcase of rocks."  That's not nice.

Now that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi is pushing up daisies, columnist George Will offers a critique of his operations in Iraq.  Particularly how well he used the media to further his goals.

Today Professor Mike Adams offers a transcript of his recent interview with former Vice President Al Gore.  Gore talks about the second documentary he's doing....one you may not have heard of yet.

Now that Zarqawi has been caught, Larry Elder wonders if John Kerry will lay off his criticism of the Bush Administration over the war in Iraq.  Fat chance.

Just a few weeks ago, people were giving the Bush presidency up for dead.  But with the death of Zarqawi in Iraq, things have turned the corner.  Matt Towery takes a look at whether or not this marks a turning point for the president.

With her book at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, Ann Coulter tackles the issue of just whether or not liberals really are "Godless" as her book title says.

Supporters of the guest worker program for illegal aliens contend that the program would only address the illegals already here, not encourage more to come.  But what do the immigrants think about a guest worker plan?  You may be surprised.

Remember that United Nations official that slammed the U.S. the other day, claiming we didn't given the UN enough credit for the things it did?  Well, the media may have forgotten...but Ambassador John Bolton has not.

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