FAIRTAX, THE TRUTH

Thanks to the people who showed up at the Borders Book Store in Atlanta last night. A great time. Tonight we'll be at the Barnes & Noble at the Avenue West Cobb for another signing. By all accounts the book is selling well. The higher we finish this first week ... the greater the signal to the politicians that the people, if not the politicians, want the FairTax.

MIXED EMOTIONS ...

... on the imminent collapse of Hillary's quest for ultimate power and the ascendancy of Barack Obama

What do you think is Barack Obama's biggest weakness? Lack of accomplishments Muslim roots Seeming disregard for the importance of freedom Lack of experience Something else

• Truly disappointed that I may not have Hillary to talk about during the campaign. Her dishonesty, corruption, anti-individualist and big-government views.
• Concerned that most of the people who show up at the Obama rallies in the tens of thousands are economically illiterate and have no real understanding of the history of this country and what has made it great.
• Concerned that once Obama gets into office – if, that is, he wins – any opposition to his policies will surely be branded by some as racist in nature.
• Can't recall hearing Obama utter the word "freedom." But ... same for Hillary.
• No ... I don't think he's a Muslim, but his father was. Certainly there are sympathies there ... and you have to wonder to just what degree he will pander to Islamist desires and demands.
• Hillary was going to be such a disaster as president that it is quite likely the Democrats would have lost one or both houses of the congress during the mid-term elections. Obamamania will remain strong .. a loss of power is less likely unless he really does something absurd.
• I truly do believe that the Obama movement is largely based on political mass hysteria. Hillary's campaign rode on a desire to pass personal responsibilities to the government. Which is worse? Haven't figured that one out yet.
• Any state that doesn't vote for Obama will be branded as racist. I hear you groaning .. but it's true. Remember, in 21st Century America any disagreement with the words of a black politician, any opposition to a policy proposed by a black politician ... all based on racism.
• Obama has accomplished .... NOTHING. Nothing of note in the world of political, and nothing at all in the world of business ... right up to this campaign. He's good looking, articulate, glib, young ... and that's what has created the hysteria.
• Obama has proposed nothing that would further the cause of freedom. His campaign is centered around increasing the cost and the size of government.
• Every one of the criticisms I've listed of Barack Obama will be labeled by some as racist.

AND WHAT'S TO BECOME OF REPUBLICANS?

How about some more time in the wilderness? Much deserved, by the way, due to the growth of government and government spending that has occurred during the Bush years. Prescription benefit plan? Let's see how much that entitlement program costs us. Oh ... and the doubling of spending on government indoctrination (schools). Let's hope when they come wandering back from the desert they've managed to lose those absurd (mostly male) abortocentrists ... the men who deem it their life's work to control the reproductive processes of their womenfolk.

WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THESE SUPERDELEGATES

I've been getting a lot of questions about these "superdelegates." For those of you who are too lazy to do your own research, I have created a quick Boortz re-cap of the purpose of superdelegates.

Superdelegates are a way for Democrat office holders and party officials to make sure that their preferred nominee wins the nomination. These superdelegates are not awarded because of any primaries or caucuses. They are simply Democrat politicians who get a say, without having to reflect the popular vote. Call them a firewall against the dumb Democrat masses, if you will. Hey ... they know their voters.

Now the Democrat Party does not actually use the term "superdelegate," probably because it makes it look like these people have more power. Their formal designation is "unpledged party leader and elected official delegates." At the 2008 Democrat Convention, superdelegates will make up about one-fifth of the total number of delegates deciding who will be the nominee.

So now the infamous question, why? The quick version goes ... back in the 1960s the Democrats changed their delegate selection process to make the nomination more responsive to the voters. This is when they started to move away from caucuses and toward primaries. But then the 1980s rolled around and Democrat party leaders felt like they weren't getting their "fair say." They felt like they knew better than the people, who were weakening the Democrat ticket. So after the 1980 election (when Ronald Reagan won) they instituted this superdelegate rule that gave these politicians a greater role in selecting their nominee. So when the 1984 election hit, Gary Hart almost claimed the nomination ... that was until almost all of the superdelegates decided that Walter Mondale was their man. And so he won the nomination.

In other words, superdelegates give Democrat party leaders more power to select the candidate they want running for president. Got it?

Now ... the question ... quickly fading into irrelevance, I might add ... is whether or not these superdelegates will step in to derail Obama and hand the nomination to Hillary. If they do, you can expect black voters to cry foul like fouls never been cried before, and then to sit on their hands in November.

What fun.

'COLD WAVE IN INDIA ATTRIBUTED TO GLOBAL WARMING'

No, folks. I am not making that up. That is an actual headline that ran in an Indian newspaper. Does that make any logical sense at all?

It has been cold in India. They have been having a cold wave, but they decided that they are going to host a conference on global warming in Mumbai. Now you don't want to have a big-deal conference on global warming during a cold snap, so they have to come up with an explanation. The explanation, of course, is to blame the cold on global warming.

The former Union minister for power and environment Suresh Prabhu says that it is the increase of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and methane that have caused this situation. Oh and in case you didn't know, 70% of India's water bodies are polluted ... and that is because of global warming. Oh and by the way ... by 2050, seven million people are expected to take refuge in Mumbai because global warming is going to cause a drought or a deluge ... take your pick. Whatever happens, we all know that we can blame it on global warming.

Megan Kendall won't give me the time of day. I'm blaming global warming.

YOU MEAN GLOBAL WARMING IS RELATED TO THE SUN?

Say it ain't so!

Sorry .. it's so. Here's a study that I will bet you dollars to doughnuts will not get covered by the lamestream media.

Astrophysicist Dr. Sallie Baliunas has been studying the sun as it relates to global warming. She has started a lecture series called "Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change." Guess what she has found, working with a fellow astrophysicist from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ... global warming is more directly related to solar variability than to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is pretty much the opposite of what you will see reported in the mainstream media.

Baliunas believes that increases and decreases in solar output have caused there to be historically warmer and cooler periods. She also points out that civilizations have always been looking for the cause of climate changes. Like back in 16th and 17th century Europe ... they used to execute "witches" – mostly women – for "weather cooking." Nowadays, we are going to throw people in jail if they fail to believe in global warming. Looks like we haven't come all that far.

BRIDGING THE 'INEQUALITY GAP' ... ACCORDING TO A LIBERAL

The New York Times published an article by former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who now holds the Moonbat Chair of Asinine Political Analysis at the University of California, Berkeley. According to Robert Reich, this is what we need to do in order to solve this "inequality gap" between the evil rich and the "less fortunate."

First you have to increase the wages of the bottom two-thirds of Americans. Not because they have earned it, not because they're worth it, not because they've worked hard for it --- but because, by golly, they deserve it. They only have one big screen TV in the household. That just won't do.

You give the bottom two-thirds of American a larger earned-income tax credit. And who is going to fund this tax credit? Those evil high margin income tax earners. Guess who those people are going to be ... the small business owners of this country. That's really a great way to support American jobs, don't ya think? Tax 'em more so the less fortunate can by three Happy meals at McDonalds instead of just one.

Oh and we can't forget this one. This one is very important. We need to support the bottom two-thirds of Americans by giving them stronger unions ... "especially in the local service sector that's sheltered from global competition." And workers should be able to form a union with a simple majority vote. None of this certification nonsense. And as for those employers who fire workers for trying to organize, they will be forced to pay heavy fines for the social injustice. (Fines which, by the way, will inevitably be paid for by the customers.)

There's something else we must do in order to reverse inequality in America, we must send our children to government schools. Then after we enroll our ankle-biters in these schools we have to make sure that they receive more funding, even in lower and moderate-income communities. And we must start this indoctrination in preschool ... because the sooner the government gets a hold of your child, the sooner we can turn them into candy asses and cry babies. The sooner we can make them understand that government is great and they don't have to work hard because the government is always going to be there to support them.

Yes, folks. These are the ways that the Democrats would like to close the gap. I hope you are ready for it.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Are you surprised that this fake id is from Mississippi?  More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Neal is such an ape!

Former campaign manager for Bill Clinton's campaign is going to endorse Barack Obama, rather than Hillary. Oh and he happens to be a superdelegate.

Top Republicans in the House of Representatives have endorsed John McCain. No shocker there.

Just in case you were not aware, "White born again and evangelical Christian voters have made up Huckabee's core of support all year." At least, that is according to the lamestream media. No mention of the FairTax

One of Hillary's most visible supporters Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell believes that white people in Pennsylvania will vote against Obama because he is black. That, my friends, is called "playing the race card."

Obama wants to spend $210 billion to create "green collar" jobs and fund projects to help US infrastructure. Oh cute. He's invented a new phrase.

Maureen Down tries to argue that it's impossible to use Hillary Clinton as a feminine test because you can't take the Bill out of her.

This music video for Hillary Clinton should get you going this morning ... or not. By the way, the comments feature for this video has been mysteriously disabled.

Here's what John Stossel has to say about this stimulus package. Any government program that wins support from the political class and media commentators makes him very suspicious.

New York City wants to find a way to squeeze tax money out of those evil rich who have their clothes laundered and get Botox injections. So here come the tax increases.

Someone did some digging in the Obama flag flap and came up with a granola crunching, Che Guevara loving moonbat (a woman) as the culprit.

This should come at little surprise to you. Canadians overwhelmingly favor a Democrat for US president. In this case, they want Barack Obama.

Hamas children's TV has a new character: a rabbit that promises to "eat up the Jews."

Scientists have taken time out of their busy schedules to unravel the mysteries of your favorite fairy tales.

Is the Huffington Post serious? It is promoting eating bugs and worms because of worsening food shortages around the world, which is caused by none other than global warming.

Idaho made one of its towns increase its speed limit because it was "unrealistically" low. If they didn't change it, they were going to lose their power to set their own speed limits.

Eight million Americans admit that they have sent Valentine's Day gifts to themselves.

Ever hear of choreplay? Husbands ... you may want to consider.

Listen to Neal tell a caller what he believes to be the black man's greatest accomplishment.

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