Neal Boortz (that's me) has been a Talk Show Host (What Bill Clinton would refer to as a "Preacher of Hate") in Atlanta, Georgia since 1969. Since 1993 I have been holding forth on News Talk 750 WSB, a radio station with a 50,000 watt afterburner. Since early 1999 my show has been syndicated on radio stations from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida. My program airs live from 8:30 to 1:00 pm each weekday. Right now I am closing in on four million listeners nationwide. Hey, that's not up to Limbaugh standards, but then I'm growing faster than he is. Background? O.K., as if you weren't bored enough. I was born on April 6, 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. I didn't particularly like the accent of the people up there so I left for Texas about 30 days later when my Dad returned to the Pacific to continue his participation in World War II. (Marine pilot.) Texas was always my "official" residence, but I lived all over the place since Dad was in the Marine Corps. Some addresses would include Honolulu, Hawaii, Laguna Beach, California, Morehead City, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia, Pensacola, Florida and others. By the ever-loving skin of my teeth I graduated High School in 1963 from Pensacola High with something like a C- average. A good collection of Polaroid photos of a member of the admissions staff opened the doors to Texas A&M University, and off I went. I was a worse student at A&M than I was in high school. I finished at A&M in 1967 and came to Atlanta to visit my parents. Dad was working at Lockheed at the time. I liked the place, and I stayed. I've been here ever since. I wasn't through with higher education after Texas A&M. I entered law school in Atlanta in 1973 and graduated in 1977. Law school finally presented a challenge worthy of my attention, so I worked at it and graduated near the top of my class. I passed the bar before graduation so I went into practice immediately. I continued practicing law until I signed a contract with WSB in 1992. During my years in talk radio I have managed to find other things to do. We'll attribute this to the fact that I am easily bored. From 1977 to 1992, as I said, I practiced law in addition to doing the talk show. Prior to 1977 you could find me working as a jewelry or carpet buyer, an insurance salesman, selling life and casualty insurance, loading trucks, slinging mail at the post office, working in an employment office, writing speeches for the Governor of Georgia and auditing the books overnight at a sleazy motel. Since I didn't retire from my law practice until I signed with WSB in 1992 this would mean that I was 47 years old before I ever had less than two jobs I live in the Northern 'burbs during the week and in Southwest Florida during most weekends. When I'm not on the air or giving a speech somewhere, I like to spend whatever free time is left playing golf or flying. When it's time to slip the bonds of gravity I choose between a hot air balloon, my Mooney Ovation2 or my Super Decathlon. There's nothing like flying upside down to clear your mind ... among other things. When I feel particularly frisky I like to sit down and write. My first book, "The Terrible Truth About Liberals," has been through six different printings. I'm presently working on my next book, "Somebody Has To Say It." I expect a brutal bidding war from several publishers for that one. Politics? I'm a confirmed Libertarian. I believe that the principal difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats just want to grow our Imperial Federal Government a bit faster than the Republicans do. Yes, I'm married. My wife, Donna, doesn't listen to the show. Never has. This is good. My daughter, Laura, uses a fake last name. Another good idea. Run for office? Well, thanks for asking --- but I'm afraid that the worst possible thing would happen. I would win. That would be a financial disaster for me. I am, however, toying with the idea of running for President on the Libertarian Party ticket after I retire from talk radio. I'll run just once --- and just for the hell of it. I'll select the most qualified vice-presidential candidate possible just in case something strange happens and I win. After I'm sworn in I hang around long enough to sign an Executive Order requiring all airport screeners to have graduated in the top one-half of their high school class. Then I'll free all non-violent drug offenders, take a few spins on Air Force One and get to know the interns. Then I'll resign and let the vice president take the controls. Yes, I am available for speaking engagements. And --- no. I'm not free. I'm a confirmed greedy capitalist. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:01:24 GMT Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:01:24 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A typical column runs some 800 words. For some subjects, that's far too many. One case in point: your "right" to health care. Among the rights guaranteed (not "given" as Bill Clinton believes) to you in our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/04/07/whos_right 7c9f2b1b-d7e2-483d-8a65-a2ad5a164457 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:01:24 GMT Last week during the Republican presidential debate televised by CNN there was a thunderous reaction from the crowd upon Governor Mike Huckabee's mention of the FairTax. CNN, in fact, said that Huckabee's mention of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2007/12/04/responding_to_still_more_absurd_attacks_on_the_fairtax 36c91427-830f-4579-8927-19bb9124917c Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:05:12 GMT Last Thursday Townhall contributor Hank Adler published a column on this website entitled "A Hard Look At The Fair Tax (sic)". Almost immediately the emails started pouring into my show - literally by the hundreds -... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2007/11/27/the_fairtax_--_the_truth 4ef057bc-4632-4391-b2b3-6e858769d507 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:02:43 GMT Perhaps you've noticed lately - it sure hasn't escaped our attention - that the FairTax proposal (H.R. 25) is really creating quite a stir lately. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's endorsement of the FairTax... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2007/09/11/fear_of_the_fairtax 9da5efe3-5b3b-4c03-86d0-0af4a37bc187 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:35:09 GMT Drudge posted this Thursday. Since it appeared on Drudge, you can rest assured that by today everybody in a position of power over radio - that would be politicians - have either heard it or heard about it. What am... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2007/05/10/opie_and_anthony_--_a_threat_to_us_all edf425c1-5d96-4e66-aec2-26ce5113c1db Fri, 11 May 2007 01:17:05 GMT Let's talk Social Security here. Those of you who follow national elections know that Democrats just love to demagogue the Social Security issue. In almost every federal election I can remember since I've been on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2006/11/02/what_the_democrats_have_in_store_for_you e7c081d9-98b2-4b13-abf8-414b8970c7b1 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:05:24 GMT Warren Buffet is giving away about 85% of his fortune. Now that certainly makes Warren a very special guy, and the media is fawning over him as if he had discovered a cure for baldness, age spots and body odor in one... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2006/06/29/giving_back a7702fdd-03d0-4fb1-839a-5756f8c7e21a Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:01:00 GMT I’m not here to write about any weighty issue of politics, the war on terror or tax reform. I’m just here to help. Buried deep in this column is a bit of advice that you would actually pay me for …... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2005/11/14/the_pesky_stickers b75f3b66-79b3-4970-b261-e1c896454513 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:05:00 GMT It is my considered opinion, backed by 37 years of radio yammering, that 98.4% of the people in this country who use the word “fascist” have no idea what the word actually means. Ditto for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2005/11/03/whose_profits_are_they_anyway 7341f997-85b7-4aa0-bc3e-4968c2382a3f Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:05:00 GMT When President Bush formed his President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform he charged that panel with developing a tax reform proposal that would achieve three principal objectives:1. The proposal should... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2005/10/14/dissolve_the_presidents_tax_reform_panel 711a32a8-92fb-45f3-8030-e6e849b26ae3 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:05:00 GMT I signed off my talk show yesterday, stuffed unused newspaper articles in my briefcase, and headed home. As I pulled out of the studio parking garage I did what I usually do ? I tuned in to see what Rush was talking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2005/03/24/because_shes_earned_it 2d8ea42c-c914-4840-ba2f-5d389574dec4 Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:00:00 GMT On May 28th I wrote a Townhall column that seemed to strike a few nerves. To get the full effect of today?s effort you might want to go back and read ?The dumbing down of America? again. You?ll find it in the Townhall... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2004/09/24/asleep_at_the_wheel 4ec454b8-6e72-489b-8de0-ec98e6a5168f Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:00:00 GMT Barring some mental of physical disaster, you --- whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you?re doing, and whatever your economic and social status in life ? are experiencing at this very moment the net result of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2004/09/10/whats_the_worst_that_could_happen ce06fc92-384e-4880-a2f9-334deb0d706c Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:00:00 GMT Two weeks ago a man stood up at a George Bush campaign appearance in Florida to ask about a piece of legislation known as HR25. Many, including myself, were pleased to hear Bush respond with some positive thoughts... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2004/08/27/imagine_receiving_100_of_your_paycheck! c3d11d01-96b6-479d-aade-b62027d81afb Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:00:00 GMT The very milk of human kindness and the spirit of love compel me to write this note to you. I know that things have been a bit rough for you during the past few weeks. I thought it might be a nice gesture if I tried... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2004/08/20/dear_kerry_supporter 66e2f093-ac7e-4041-ac07-5be97f9b15c8 Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:00:00 GMT