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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 08 May 2013 11:26:00 GMT Wed, 08 May 2013 11:26:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Here we go. The House Oversight Committee hearings on Benghazi begin today, and do you know what we're going to learn? We're going to learn that 0bama and Hillary Clinton were informed almost immediately that the attack... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/05/08/why-the-benghazi-coverup-is-not-the-next-watergate-n1590848 89979871-c1ed-4461-9914-c44965989c34 Wed, 08 May 2013 11:26:00 GMT Allergies, I'm told, can be cumulative in nature. This happened to me with eggs. For years I burned some eggs pretty much every morning for breakfast . literally burned 'em . hash browned eggs . until finally the doctor... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/05/01/is-there-a-roundup-for-liberals-n1583590 e0d9f482-7bca-49bc-8934-08966741d706 Wed, 01 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT You know what it comes down to, Barry-0? People don't trust you. Simple as that. Oh . certainly you do have your supporters. It's not that NOBODY trusts you .... just most productive Americans above the median IQ. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/04/18/obama-fail-n1571465 2402e301-d19d-4abe-af4d-250fe47d050d Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:53:00 GMT You were shocked - SHOCKED, you say - at the very idea that the government of Cyprus would order banks to seize 10% of every bank account and hand the money over the government? Well . excuse me for being rude, but... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/03/19/the-cyprus-cash-grab--coming-to-america-n1538080 63aa881c-60f4-49f2-9529-eaefdad4c73a Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT Sit down. I'm truly sorry about this, but we really need to take another trip into the dark recesses of the liberal mind. A dangerous journey to a world where it is greedy to want to keep your own money, but not to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/02/21/another-trip-into-the-recesses-of-the-liberal-mind-n1517169 a30c8840-bb24-490c-9ec2-7d697cb7f672 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:00 GMT Before this column is done I'm going to make a point on federal spending that really should open your eyes. Actually, you will think that it's so basic and simple that it's a wonder nobody has presented it to you in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/02/15/a-politicians-guide-to-the-dollar-bill-savings-plan-n1513045 87cffde9-c99d-4d43-a9fd-ca073ab85055 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT You're snug in your cabin in the mountains outside of Big Bear, California. Snug, but fearful. They're searching for a killer near you. A terrifying, heavily armed former cop from Los Angeles who has gone on a killing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/02/13/why-the-liberal-hatred-of-citizens-with-guns-n1511221 eceffbd0-b07b-4c38-be30-9ac03b18ae01 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT When someone says "First Amendment" you immediately think about your right to free speech, or perhaps freedom of religion. The First Amendment actually goes beyond that. For those of you who attended government schools,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/02/08/title-n1507620 623a1ebe-37a6-4f23-875e-d71a5282ca47 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Please tell me this is some sort of a sick joke. Phil Mickelson is a professional golfer. He makes boatloads of money. Millions. What's more, he makes boatloads of money for a lot of other people in the process,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/01/23/phil-isnt-the-one-who-needs-to-apologize-n1495237 4f6f1ec4-fd85-4477-b908-5e4d12863c89 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT So now we're learning that Barack Obama wants to make the sale of high capacity magazines illegal. How nice. Nice --- and easy to expose as completely absurd. Let's just use one occurrence to address the dream... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2013/01/15/obamas-disarm-the-victim-movement-n1489366 8aff3866-dd51-4bde-a6fd-63eaa99e164d Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT The first I heard of the horrific shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton was from the security guard at the gate returning to my home in Naples. He was in shock, and you could see that he had been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/12/18/newtown-connecticut-there-is-no-why-n1469185 0ecb2a89-32d0-4190-b6ed-7d9b42cc8329 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT No .. I'm not talking about the fiscal cliff, nor am I talking about the almost $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities we face as a nation. Iran and a nuke? Yeah .. that's serious all right, but I'm told that we are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/12/13/we-have-a-problem--a-real-problem-n1465920 65889e63-c88b-47de-87d1-1c11b8ece336 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:55:00 GMT Excuse me for a minute here, but someone straighten me out on something. Are we trying to put together a golf foursome here, or are we trying to hire a new president that can get our economy smokin' and our country on a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/09/24/were_hiring_a_new_ceo 584975b9-f408-4554-a9de-04a927b28cea Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT By now you certainly know that the Democrats have been suffering from a self-inflicted injury since their convention began in Charlotte on Tuesday. For the first time in many presidential election years, the word God... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/09/06/the_nays_have_it__oh_never_mind f9db84f6-9747-49d7-9817-c87c1bbf64b5 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:41:00 GMT Please stand back. I've been waiting for day to say this; waiting to calm down enough that my keystrokes won't break the keyboard. I heard some lady say something on TV, and seldom have I heard a more idiotic statement... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/09/05/the_risk_of_being_poor 8a739ace-b3db-43ae-a82d-86b29368c598 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT Dear Ruler: First, let me say how thrilled I am that you went off-teleprompter last week. This "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen" thing was just wonderful. Now I know... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/07/19/hey_obama_we_built_that_stuff_too 68ed5659-ff26-45d8-80ad-8bc56df09720 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT Last week, Dear Ruler paraded around the country declaring that we needed to raise taxes on the evil rich people earning more than $250,000 a year. As many of you know, this means tax increases on almost one million... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/07/17/obama_revealed 0b95e619-eab5-4a6b-877c-8dfc10527f24 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT Do Americans – do you -- really understand the gravity of what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday? Do you have any idea at all how the power of the Imperial Federal Government of the United States has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/06/29/the_true_impact_of_the_obamacare_decision a4774010-1cfb-49d5-abd0-f4dd9f9f46c0 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT Well, I think he can relax. Pretty sure, actually. Governor Scott Walker is facing a recall election in Wisconsin as a result of a pretty impressive union petition drive. Unions aren’t happy about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/04/11/scott_walker_can_relax 6066a7f5-7b13-4707-a432-fbcf0d02e619 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT While Jesse Jackson tries to figure out who on his staff needs to be disciplined for failing to notify him of the events in Sanford, thus allowing Al Sharpton to get a few days head start on the self-aggrandizing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/03/28/treyvon_martin__putting_the_drama_aside 687b4539-544d-4713-b9e7-0092e3b70e52 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT We all know the answer to that one. She's the latest recipient of the legendary "15 minutes of fame," and she is surely making the most of it. Fluke is the Georgetown Law student who was invited to Nancy Pelosi's little... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/03/06/who_is_sandra_fluke f20ad53a-e0a4-4bbe-b5c3-efd5518ca1ae Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Let’s see ... how was it the Fox News Channel anchor phrased it? Oh yeah. Here we go: “Bank of America is going to penalize some of its customers by charging them a fee for their checking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/03/02/lets_kill_all_the_banks 62233e0a-9b84-40b6-a6b1-57a861dbba53 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Several Florida newspapers carried this story yesterday. Here's the story from the Naples Daily News showing a picture of the front page of the Miami Herald on January 19, 1977. "The Day It Snowed In Miami." ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2012/01/20/snow_in_south_florida__and_an_amazing_coincidence 668ce52e-dc4e-42f4-9965-034e87539a6d Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT NO SANTA IN YOUR KID'S SCHOOL? QUIT WHINING. We have some government school bureaucrats in Texas who have decided that there will be no Santa Clause in the classrooms this year. Their first excuse was that Santa... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2011/12/05/if_theres_no_santa_in_your_kids_school_quit_whining 7659f574-a450-4a8b-8d0e-7c42e3649608 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:03:00 GMT OK, Republicans. Since you’re so religious and all – it’s time for a little “come to Jesus meetin’”. If you’re not familiar with the term, click on the link. It’s time... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2011/11/29/newt_on_immigration 8c7e75a5-5d9f-433c-8091-36f507df4271 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT The deficit super committee has now waved the white flag of defeat. They’ve thrown in the towel. They failed. And who among you thought it would be any other way? So now the blame game begins. It’s... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2011/11/22/its_all_the_republicans_fault ce6a320f-483b-47f2-8ce9-2fcbbab35a16 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT Well now! That was quite a ride last week for the American economy, don't you think? We raised the debt ceiling and within 36 hours America's debt exceeded our GDP. Then there was the stock market . yeah, that very... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2011/08/08/turn_around_our_economy_its_not_really_that_hard cfb0c0d7-9ed2-49c6-b426-932e8873b1e5 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:01:21 GMT Not sure about you, but I was absolutely thrilled last week when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the legislation ending most collective bargaining rights for government worker unions. The more these government... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2011/03/14/to_americas_hot-to-protest_college_students faf83920-0b2b-434f-a4e1-6650ed7fcc38 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:00:08 GMT In the wake of the Tucson tragedy the left has made quite the big deal of a map that Sarah Palin put on her website To listen to the media murmur you would think that Palin's Map was the primary, if not the sole cause... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2011/01/12/sarah_palins_map 470ca336-f429-44ee-bbc6-c32d73e88b51 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:26:57 GMT On your trip through Townhall.com today, will you read every single word of every single column? Or will you take one literary taste here, another taste there, and try to cover as much ground as possible in the limited... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2010/10/19/below_the_belt b69ff8c8-c366-41f4-83b7-cad3a7c6f8e6 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:01:00 GMT 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 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