House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to shut up Talk Radio.

She has promised to help restore the so called “Fairness Doctrine”.

This would virtually ensure the silencing of Talk Radio by requiring an equal amount of time be given on controversial issues.

Here’s what the Media research Center says about this issue…

ALEXANDRIA, VA – In today’s Human Events, writer John Gizzi reported that Speaker Pelosi and the entire Democratic Caucus is actively seeking a return of the Fairness Doctrine. When asked whether she would allow Congressman Mike Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA), which would kill the Fairness Doctrine, onto the floor for a vote, the Speaker without hesitation said, “No.” She elaborated, “The interest of my Caucus is the reverse,” and said New York Democratic Representative “Louis Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for awhile now.”

From 1949 to 1987, the Fairness Doctrine silenced radio airwaves through government censorship.  Since its repeal, conservative talk radio has flourished, while liberal attempts to compete in the marketplace have repeatedly failed.  

The Media Research Center, long a defender of the freedom of speech, has drafted a petition to tell Members of Congress to allow a full up or down vote for Congressman Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act by July 4^th, deemed Radio Independence Day. To sign the petition, visit www.MRCAction.org.

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, today issued the following statement:

“Liberals who have been publicly denying an interest in the Fairness Doctrine have now been exposed as liars.  We knew that liberals wanted to return to government censorship of political free speech.  The Fairness Doctrine is an abomination of free speech and the Constitution, neither of which apparently bothers the Speaker or the Democratic Caucus.

“Now more than ever there must be a vote and let every member of Congress go on the record either for or against censorship of free speech.  It is unimaginable that political leaders in this country would favor a policy that not only undermines free speech, but democracy itself. 

“Now more than ever it’s time to sign the discharge petition for broadcaster freedom by July 4^th.”  

It’s amusingly ironic that the liberal Democrats who constantly preach openness and diversity only approve of it when the opinion agrees with their own. I guess they just can’t bring themselves to approve of constitutionally guaranteed free speech.

I would encurage you to log on to the above address and sign the petition to tell Congress their attempt to silence Talk Radio is unacceptable.

Bob Mc 

That’s the slogan for the push to get the heads in the sand members of Congress to get off their lobbyist softened butts and actually do something about the high cost of gasoline.

With a TRILLION gallons of oil just waiting to be drilled out of the U.S., it’s beyond absurd to send billions of dollars to Middle East despots who hate us when we could have energy independence on our own.

Here’s the web address to sign the petition.

  http://www.americansolutions.com/

Let’s get Washington to WISE UP!

Thanks,

Bobby Mc

Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court shows once again just how insular and far removed they are from the real world.

From their ivory tower they have just handed the Jihadists Carte Blanche to continue their unholy Holy War on the infidels, namely us.

The Court started down this slippery slope back in 2004.That was when they issued their ruling in  Rasul v. Bush, saying that the prisoners were entitled to have access to the American court system. So the government established a military tribunal process. As it stands, the prisoners can appeal adverse rulings to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Solicitor General Paul Clement argues the process provides  the other enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, the opportunity to enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy combatants in the history of warfare.

But the detainees’ lawyers contend the current law fails to protect the constitutional rights the court said their clients were entitled to receive in Rasul. They want full habeas corpus rights, a constitutional protection that forces the government to justify in an open courtroom legitimate reasons an individual needs to be behind bars.

Although Congress expressly chose to keep detainees from challenging their status via habeas, it decided that prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants should receive administrative hearings before a military tribunal, subject to judicial review in the District of Columbia Circuit.

It’s obvious the distinguished constitutional jurists have never read former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy’s book “Willful Ignorance”. In it, he describes the stupidity with which the U.S. has approached fighting Islamic Terrorism. Our enemies, McCarthy writes, are waging war, while we are prosecuting them as mere criminals. That places much of the burden of an imminent national security threat on the criminal justice system.

Folks, the courts are a bad substitute for the real battlefield, so much so that leading up to 9-11 they were consistently able to outflank us. Witness the FBI HQ in Washington telling the Minneapolis field office they could not take the computer of one of the 9-11 hijackers from his home because it violated search and seizure laws. That was one of the terrorists  who was in this country taking pilot training, but never asking the instructors how to land the plane, only how to fly it. Had the agents request to look at the computer been granted thousands of American lives may have been saved. 

The liberal left cries and moans about how Bush has ‘damaged the image of America around the world’. They conveniently forget that the jihadists hated us and wanted us dead before Bush, during Bush and will still be trying to kill us after Bush is gone. They rail that once Barack Obama is in the White House he’ll meet with these despots around the globe (without preconditions he has said), they’ll roast S’Mores around the fire, sing kumbiya and suddenly the world will love us again.  This is such a naïve and dangerous perception it’s laughable. They will use today’s court ruling to say this improves America’s image in the Muslim world.  “Look they will say, how fair and just we are”.  I hate to be the one to break this to them, but far from viewing this in that light, the terrorists see it as yet more evidence of America’s weakness and lack of will in confronting their murderous intentions.

Remember, we are not talking about Constitutional rights for American citizens here, we are talking about granting constitutional protections to enemy combatants, some of whom are like Ramzi Binalshibh, who admitted to helping plan 9-11. McCarthy was the prosecutor who sent Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the so called blind sheik to prison. After today it’s apparently not only Rahman who is blind. It’s the American court system. You would have thought the horror of 9-11 would have awakened America to the hate that drives our jihadist enemies. We are “the other”, infidels who deserve to be slaughtered as victims of their religious zealotry. Apparently the 5 justices who voted to grant our enemies constitutional rights today are more than willing to help them out in their war on us. 

Many of you who listen know about the project I put together at the request of a Marine Mom in Iraq. Her son, Charley is with an Upstate unit that just began their tour in Iraq. They needed some personal items, so we made a list and thanks to our generous listeners were able to collect several huge boxes of razor blades, batteries, skin lotion and lots of other items that are much needed over there.

Well, I just got another email with some pictures and wanted to share it with you;

Mr. Bob: Here are the pictures of my Marine son, Char
AKA — Charley or Charles!!!

He shared the items that he received from you & your listeners with the
members of his platoon. BUT he had also asked me to come up with some
items he could share with some of the men he works with directly who are
not members of his platoon. Each night my son makes nightly chow runs to the
men who are standing post in each of the 13 towers of his base. These men
are Ugandians who work with the Marines at his Base. So, being the faithful
Marine Mom that I am, my husband and I bought about $100 worth of gum,
tic tacs, starbursts, just something that would not melt in Iraq and then I
asked my sister-in-law, Betty Morgan (the Hygiene Instructor at Tri County
Tech) for some small travel size tooth paste and some tooth brushes.
All in all, there were 4 cases of supplies that I sent to help Char give to
these other men working with the Marines there.
In the photos you will see him there in his little hut stuffing baggies
with items for the Ugandians.
I again want to thank you for your help.
Keep up the good work you do there.
Sincerely, Joni Morgan

When I was first approached by the folks at Land Rover of Greenville asking if I’d like to drive a Land Rover 2 for a month to see what it was like, I though it’d be pretty nice. My car is an older Mustang ragtop, so going to an SUV would be different.

It’s actually been VERY different and I’m getting spoiled. I guess the L.R. people knew that once I drove the “2″ for a while this would happen.

I’ve driven a lot of different SUV’s before, but this one is by far the nicest. At one time or another I didn’t own but I drove a Lincoln Navigator, a Cadillac Escallade, A Ford Explorer and a Chevy/GMC Suburban. All of those had a very different feel than the Land Rover. They are bulkier and frankly, the handling is not as crisp.

Here’s some specs on the LR2;

• MSRP starting at $34,700* I think the one I’m driving, which is identical to the black one pictured on their website at ;http://www.landrovercarolinas.com/greenville/newproduct.html goes for right around $40k. But the difference is that the LR2 has a ton of standard features that are options on the BMW it most directly competes with.

 Because it has a 3.2-litre inline 6 engine with  230 horsepower there is plenty of juice for getting up to interstate speed quickly. Nice to know if there’s an 18 wheeler bearing down on you.

And with 59 cubic feet of space (largely because of the engine being in transverse, or sideways) it feels much bigger than it is. Best of both worlds; tons of space, great sightlines from the driver’s seat, but not so big you feel like you need a harbor tug to help you park it.

It also has great safety features like a 7-Airbag SRS system.

The ride is also enhanced by the 18″ Alloy Wheels and oversize tires. Great ride, again, like a much bigger SUV.

And it hasn’t been bad on gas either, a fill-up has run me just under $50 and I’ve filled it up once a week, driving mainly back and forth to work here at the station (about 15 miles each way) and for shopping trips and golf course runs on the week-end.

It just runs great with a new six-speed automatic transmission with CommandShift™

And WORD as well as the other Entercom stations (Magic 98.9, Rock 101, B-93 and The Planet 98.9) all sound super on the 9 speaker Alpine audio system with 320 watts of sound.

If there were any negatives I had found in the LR 2, I’d share them with you because I feel I’d have too. Honestly it’s been a treat to drive it and if you are thinking about an SUV because your lifestyle, family, etc demand it, I suggest before you buy anything you drive one of these LR2’s. I think you’ll love it as much as I have. I’m going to hate to give it up!