CONGRATULATIONS TO THE YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION

Perhaps you're not aware of the kerfuffle between the Council on American-Islamic Relations (a group whose officials openly promote Islamic law in the United States) and the Young America's Foundation. YAF, it seems, invited one Robert Spenser to address their National Conservative Student Conference.

CAIR is none too pleased.

Spenser, you see, maintains a website called JihadWatch, and is the author of several books that would not be considered to be very friendly toward Islamic fascism. We have such titles as "The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion" and "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam."

CAIR issued a demand to YAF that Spenser not be allowed to speak, and in the event he does speak CAIR demands that YAF "ensure that false and defamatory statements are not disseminated at that session." Of course, to CAIR, a "false and defamatory statement" is defined as any statement that accurately describes the intolerant nature of the religion of Muslim and the truth about the atrocities committed worldwide in the name of Allah.

You have to love YAF if for no other reason than for their response to CAIR. Jason Mattera, a spokesman for YAF said that they would not be intimidated by Islamic thugs and followed up with:

"CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them."

Well said, Jason.

NEAL BOORTZ – PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL

OK ... so I joined some fellow talk show hosts for a meeting with the President in the Oval Office Wednesday. Apparently that is a very, very bad thing.

Here is just a sampling of the howls of protest from various corners over the visit:

The New York Daily News "Bush welcomes right-wing talkers to the West Wing."

"Who gets inside the bubble?" Puffington Host

"Conservative Talkers in the Presidential Echo Chamber"

"White House soiree, part deux" from Media Myrmidons

The very fact that my colleagues and I actually talked face-to-face with The President of the United States is driving the lunatic left absolutely nuts. Gotta love it. Their Bush hatred has robbed them of any ability to engage in sustained rational thought.

YOUR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

Does $22 billion sound like a small amount of money to you? Well, let's try to figure out just how many taxpaying American families it takes to cough up $22 billion. It's not easy to find the tax burden of the average American family ... but as best I can figure it out, the median American family pays about $25,000 a year in federal income taxes. Let's just go with that figure. So ... back to the $22 billion. Quick! Work this out in your head! How many families does it take to cover that huge amount. You've probably quickly figured out it takes 40 families to pay $1 million in taxes. You have a thousand million in one billion. So that means 40,000 families to pay one billion in taxes. Multiply that by 22 and you're there. Using our $25,000 per median family, it takes 880,000 families to pay $22 billion in taxes.

OK .. why did I go through all of that trouble? Because there's a little urinating contest going on in Washington this week. The Democrat congress is about to go into its summer recess without sending even one of the 12 spending measures congress is charged with passing. It does appear, however, that when the congress comes back in September they're going to send Bush spending bills – perhaps an omnibus spending bill – that exceeds Bush's target by $22 billion dollars. Bush is threatening a veto, and Nancy Pelosi is having her say. Pelosi says that the $22 billion that is separating congressional Democrats from the White House is a "very small difference."

How do you like this? Pelosi thinks that the total taxes paid to the Imperial Federal Government of the United States by 880,000 American families amounts to a very small amount. That, my friends, is arrogance ... and it's not just Democrats who feel that way. You put a Democrat in the White House and the Republicans in charge of passing some spending bills I guarantee you would hear the same sentiments from Republican big spenders.

We've lost control, my friends. The American voters no longer have a grip on what is happening with their government. Year after year these free-spending, vote-buying, power-hungry politicians in Washington increase the size and the cost of government. They can increase government spending over a four-year period of time by more than 50%, and then when someone comes along and suggests that they ought to follow this spending binge with a simple 1% cut in government spending; why ... they just start screaming bloody murder.

Voters need to wake up. Too many voters out there think that all of those rascals in the House need to be replaced; every one, that is, except for theirs. If your congressman is a porker; if your congressman doesn't feel that $22 billion is all that much money, then maybe it's time to think about a replacement.

THE BLAME GAME BEGINS

The media waited less than 17 hours after the tragic bridge collapse before pointing fingers. At least one U.S. Senator, Patty Murray, seemed to blame Bush when she said yesterday that the Bush Administration has not supported Democrat efforts to increase spending on critical infrastructure. One of the problems here is that in so many instances a Democrat demand for infrastructure spending is merely a thinly disguised attempt to funnel money to construction unions as thanks for electoral and financial support.

Nick Coleman at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune says that this collapse never would have happened if it wasn't for Governor Tim Pawlenty (a Republican) and his refusal to raise taxes.

He writes:

"For half a dozen years, the motto of state government and particularly that of Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been No New Taxes. It's been popular with a lot of voters and it has mostly prevailed. So much so that Pawlenty vetoed a 5-cent gas tax increase - the first in 20 years - last spring and millions were lost that might have gone to road repair. And yes, it would have fallen even if the gas tax had gone through, because we are years behind a dangerous curve when it comes to the replacement of infrastructure that everyone but wingnuts in coonskin caps agree is one of the basic duties of government."

What Mr. Coleman fails to point out is that there was no need for a tax increase. None. Because at the time when Governor Pawlenty vetoed this 5-cent gas tax increase, the state of Minnesota already had a $2.1 billion budget surplus. This surplus came from over-taxation.

Over-taxation in America? Imagine that!

And around the same time that the Governor vetoed the tax, the state legislature passed an amendment to spend all, rather than half, of the motor vehicle sales tax revenue on transportation. This added $60 million a year to road, bridge and transit spending. And that is expected to more than double in five years.

Coleman wants us to believe that more taxes would have saved these people, and it is all the Governor's fault for refusing to increase those taxes. The fact is that the problem wasn't low taxes, the problem was fiscal irresponsibility.

Let's take a look at Citizens for Government Waste's "The Pig Booklet" for the state of Minnesota for the year 2006. Take a look at all of the "pork" projects. I'll give you a taste of a few:

• The state bailout of the Minneapolis Teacher's Retirement Fund, which puts state taxpayers on the hook for $972 million in unfunded liabilities
• A new $776 million Twins Stadium to be paid for with a Hennepin County sales tax increase -- (approved by state legislators with no voter referendum)
• $97.5 million for the Northstar Commuter Rail line
• $34 million in subsidies to ethanol producers that have seen a 300 percent increase in profits in the last year
• $30 million for bear exhibits at the Minnesota and Como Zoos
• $12 million to renovate the Shubert Theater in downtown Minneapolis
• $1 million for a replica Vikings ship in Moorhead
• $500,000 for a skating rink in Roseville
• $310,000 for a Shakespeare festival in Winona
• $129,000 for state art grants for North Dakota museums and theaters

And the list goes on and on, folks. This was all tax money spent in Minnesota while that bridge remained un-repaired. Now we're told that the problem is that taxes weren't high enough.

RUSSIA CLAIMS THE NORTH POLE

Russia sent a little mini-sub to the bottom of the Arctic Sea yesterday to plant a Russian flag on the sea floor. In so doing they now have claimed ownership of the seabed at the North Pole. Why? Well, there's supposed to be quite a bit of gas and oil up there.

A few points to consider.

First of all, the United Nations, Canada and the United States are expressing their thoughts that the Russian's claim is bogus. We'll see how that plays out.

Second ... even if the United States did have drilling rights to the seabed at the North Pole, you can bet your gas guzzler that Democrats, liberals and assorted eco-nuts would make damned sure we never get the chance to poke so much as one drill bit into the seabed.

Third ... if a flag is all it takes to claim territory .. how about that flag we put on the Moon? How about some creativity here? Tell Russia if they claim that the seabed of under the Arctic sea belongs to them, let's tell them that we're just fine with that, and, by the way, the Moon belongs to us.

Then we sit back and wait for the screaming.

THE 'NUANCES' OF TERRORISM

A man in Ohio pleaded guilty to terrorism charges – plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Columbus.

Why plead guilty rather than stand trial? Mahir Sherif the lawyer of Nuradin Abdi says his client "would not have faced a jury of his peers but rather people with only limited understanding of the issues surrounding the war on terror."

Oh yeah. That's it.

A limited understanding? What is so hard to understand about plotting to blow up hundreds of innocent Americans out shopping? What sort of an education to you need to grasp the nuances surrounding a plot such as this?

This Muslim terrorist's lawyer is telling us that the average American just can't understand the issues that would drive some Muslim killer to try to murder hundreds of innocent Americans. I'm sorry ... but what an asshole.

Then again, maybe he is right. Maybe the average American simply can't understand the true nature of the treat against their lives posed by Islamic extremism.

Abdi will serve ten years in jail. Then he'll be deported. Maybe he won't survive those 10 years in jail. Believe it or not, there are a lot of big hairy brutes in our prisons with a limited understand of the "issues surrounding the war on terror," but who do understand the basic issues around setting off a bomb in a shopping center.

Oh and by the way, Abdi suggested the attack at a meeting in August 2002. Who was he meeting with? Now-convicted terrorist Lyman Faris. You might remember him from a little plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge by providing material and information to al Qaeda.

TRAINING SCHOOL SHAM

In Queens, NY the Jackson Heights training school was supposed to teach workers how to remove asbestos. Seems simple enough. But this training is then used on highly sensitive local government projects. These projects give workers access to New York City's bridges, tunnels and airports.

Now, more than 80 percent of the Queens school's students used false identification to get certificates. They are illegal aliens. We have no prior knowledge of who they are, where they came for, or what their motives are (if they have any).

In a 2005 investigation, investigators were handed applications and told to make up Social Security numbers. If you didn't want to make one up, or use someone else's number, then you could buy one on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights.

Our government employees ...

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

The South shall rise again...in landscaping form, at least. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Should children ever be allowed to sit at a bar, even if it is in a restaurant? No, it's never appropriate Maybe if the bar is part of a restaurant Sure, and give them drinks too. Preferably enough to make them pass out so I can enjoy my meal in peace & quiet.

European socialists have devised their brilliant plan to combat "Islamophobia" ... "listen" to the 20 million European Muslims, try to understand their problems, and provide solutions to alleviate their grievances. In other words ... find out just what they want, and then give it to them.

It looks like it would take 9.4 billion dollars a year for 20 years to eliminate all bridge deficiencies in the U.S. Maybe this is somewhere we could put our illegal aliens to work doing. If they'll work to fix up these bridges we'll let them camp under them for a while.

Meanwhile, here is Bush's response to the bridge crisis.

An article from the American Chronicle about the FairTax. This one is written by Bonnie Alba. Lord, please make her Jessica's mother.

Condi Rice continues to urge Israel and Palestine to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state. Palestinians are not about to give up their victim status.

Legislation passed the House yesterday that would protect journalists from being forced to reveal confidential sources. The Justice Department is not too pleased.

Yesterday on the show I was talking about Kansas Rep. Nancy Boyda, the one who walked out on an Iraq hearing. Her response to the positive news: "This will further divide this country!" You people in Topeka have a lot of 'splaining to do.

Rudy Giuliani unveiled his health plan, enacting just the opposite of Hillary's universal vision. Imagine this: Giuliani actually believes in the free market! Liberals are horrified.

More pork in a water projects bill that Bush has threatened to veto. This is the one that went into committee as a $14 billion bill and magically came out as a $20 billion bill. What the hell .. that's only $6 billion.

Yesterday the Senate approved tougher ethics and lobbying rules. We'll see how many Congressmen actually follow them.

Matt Towery gives an in-depth look at our own Georgia's illegal immigration laws and how one county is hard at work to enforce them. Surely we can find a federal judge somewhere to thwart these efforts.

The head of the British Medical Association says obese people are greedy and shouldn't be treated with pills. He says an obsession with medical labels is leading less people to take personal responsibility.

A mother in Italy took away her 61-year-old son's house keys, cut off his allowance and turned him in to the police. Why? Because he stayed out too late.

A teenager in Georgia was jailed over a parking ticket he already paid.

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