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) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:43 GMT Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:43 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Today at noon Barack Obama addresses the nation's schoolchildren .. or a good number of them anyway. Many students won't hear the speech because of a rather severe miscalculation from the right. Republican screaming... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/09/08/republicans_get_rolledand_deservedly_so 95d5181a-67dc-4007-92b8-1badd189059c Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:00:43 GMT Transcript of remarks made by Leo Carrington (who doesn't exist) to a mandatory meeting of all employees of Carrington Automotive Enterprises, Inc. (which doesn't exist either) on August 17th, 2009 at the Royal Payne... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/08/17/just_a_little_company_get-together 4ef21254-6c6d-4b97-bec1-a680f5ffe013 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:00:40 GMT Well now. Our economy is really lunging forward, isn't it? What a ride! Are you holding on? We're billions of dollars further in debt (trillions?) and the economy is still stagnant. TARP, the stimulus bill,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/07/06/hows_the_stimulus_working_for_you_so_far 26d20f23-62d8-4216-a058-1b7f1495a30c Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT This is nuts. I mean, really folks ... we have gone bat-guano insane over this AIG bonus brouhaha. You're being manipulated. The wealth-envy is being stoked. What we have here is a phony outrage wholly generated by the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/03/23/off_with_their_heads 3167f849-4cea-449e-9721-e3249c9a4e88 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:00:46 GMT We now have the benefit of PEBO's* general position on a plan to stimulate our economy. Government shall be our savior. We shall not want. More specifically, government spending. About $800 billion (probably more)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2009/01/12/there_is_a_better_stimulus_plan_out_there 0a8891bf-3e07-4eb3-9152-eec1761d4804 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:00:56 GMT There's a lot of talk in Washington about yet another so-called "stimulus" package. If the next one is anything like the last one it will simply be a mechanism for taking money away from people who aren't spending it... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/12/09/the_perfect_stimulus_package 29d35b4b-07d4-474d-8fad-600b4f5d2e1b Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:00:51 GMT You might think that the election is over -- has been for two weeks now. Not so. There's another election tomorrow; and then one the day after tomorrow followed by yet another one. Every day is Election Day in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/11/17/the_voting_is_far_from_over fc7dbc79-6e53-4749-ab25-9508ee20aede Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:09:48 GMT The election is now eight days way. If you've made up your mind for Obama; or if you're trying to noodle through some of the things he's been saying on the campaign trail, this should help. And if you're voting for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/10/27/decoding_barack 80ea966c-e3a0-4063-9506-9b00fbc4887b Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:00:35 GMT This is long; very long. Hey, I'm a pretty entertaining writer . so give it a go. If you're an undecided voter in this presidential election the least you owe your country is to try to base your final choice on some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/10/21/to_the_undecided_voter 27a5cfdf-8de6-4af7-a4bc-9ca0b8991e6b Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:13:56 GMT First ... If you're not from Atlanta or any other area where about one out of five gas stations is open and the lines are 90 minutes and more, read this story. If you like this kind of stuff you can read this one too. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/09/29/how_to_solve_the_gas_panic b77ef6fc-dd68-43d8-9fab-10660580bef7 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:01:13 GMT What in the world is going on here? You've seen the headlines, and you heard of the failures and buyouts. Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, AIG; all big names and all in big trouble. Then those... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/09/19/the_rest_of_the_meltdown_story 4fe0642c-3ab2-4236-8a36-07d25a23463c Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:02:00 GMT 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