It is the nature of man to be free.

Such a simple idea, yet so powerful. It was understood by President Reagan, it is understood by President Bush. Both men will go down in history as great world leaders who sparked events which will, in the end, lead to the liberation of hundreds of millions, if not a billion or more co-travelers on this little blue ball.

In Mr. Reagan's case it was victory in the Cold War and the downfall of the Soviet Union. In Mr. Bush's case it will be ultimate vitory in the War on Terror and the downfall of the Butcher of Baghdad.

As I type this two extraordinary events are unfolding, events heretofore impossible.

The first is the stunning news out of Cairo that legitimate and free elections will take place in that country. Western media have been reporting Egyptian man on the street reaction all weekend. Those Egyptians feeling free to make political statements that would have previously sealed their fate in that authoritarian nation.

The second is reminiscent of the day the Berlin Wall came down. Tens of thousands of Lebanese are pouring into the streets and have forced their entire Syrian-backed puppet government to resign. Damascus must now face the prospect of the people turning on the 14,000 Syrian occupation troops in Lebanon, there to enforce the Syrian iron-fist and prop up their (Syria's) hand picked goons.

As Walid Phares said on my KFBK (1530 AM) show a couple of weeks ago, the liberation of Iraq has uncorked a genie – an appropriate metaphor if ever there was one – that cannot be stuffed back into the lamp.

As I have argued for years; the people of the Middle East have been mired in savagery. This culture of savagery has been orchestrated by the religious leaders of a 7th Century death-cult called “Islam” , which as resisted all evolution into a genuine religion, with the help of despots and genocidal freaks who both kept the mullahs in power, and were kept in power by those same mullahs.

Now the Purple Finger of Freedom is sweeping through the streets of these cultures, awakening the power within those previously considered powerless.

We can still lose. If we lose our nerve and fail keep the Bomb out of Allah's hands while he resides with Satan for example. But if we, and those people in the streets prevail Mussolini will soon have plenty of company, and Muslims may finally be standing on the dawn of a day when “Allah be Praised” is not a euphemism for “let’s go blow up some children”


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Mark Williams
Weeknights 7 - 10 PM
News/Talk 1530 KFBK AM

I had no idea that Rob Reiner was considering running for Governor. Well, polls show that he leads all Democrat contenders.

…movie director and actor Rob Reiner outpolled three Democratic statewide officeholders believed interested in running: Attorney General Bill Lockyer, Treasurer Phil Angelides and Controller Steve Westly.

Of course, this should not be a big surprise. Reiner has a much more liberal image that any of his potential competitors. But in the end, I believe he is too liberal to get elected. That 20% support he now touts represents the most leftist voters in California. And there just aren’t enough of them, who don’t like the Governor Schwarzenegger for Reiner to get the win.

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Your PDA's server has a record of what was on there (Paris Hilton can fill you in). The FBI is real good about those kind of things. They will, I am sure, be very happy to help you recover your "stolen" information. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't already downloading it for you now! "DOH!" You could've saved yourself the Windex and lame story.


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Mark Williams
Weeknights 7 - 10 PM
News/Talk 1530 KFBK AM

Thank you Chad! I too am growing weary of the hay-seed mentality screeching the bogus argument against spending money “for the Kings”.

To address just that one point:

1) An arena, especially as part of a mixed development including: retail, office, transportation and residential is a public utility no different than are roads, fire and police protection, public transportation, sidewalks and parks. All of which are just the beginning of the list of proper expenditures of taxpayer’s hard-earned money.

2) An arena is NOT “for the Kings”. The Kings and the Monarchs combined account for only around 100 dates out of the 300 or more events which would book into a proper venue. The Kings are only the anchor tenant for the entertainment mall that is an arena which brought 2,000,000 bodies through the turnstile last year....despite the fact that it is an ill-placed, substandard dump. Figure a conservative C-Note per body and do the rest of the math yourself.

The argument that tax money should not be spent on a private enterprise is specious in that all of the tax expenditures which I listed above are exactly that!

• Roads are built specifically to facilitate private enterprise in the form of: giving General Motors (for only one example) a place where people may use GM products, and to make possible the distribution of goods and services from private enterprise to private individuals. This is not to even begin to mention the costs associated, such as: patrols, plowing (where it snows) and the various environmental and social costs arising from those roads (for air travelers; make note that you would be grounded if not for taxpayer funded Air Traffic Control, publicly funded-airports and military money that keeps Boeing afloat - for starters). This is why GM & Firestone combined forces in the early days of the last century to buy up and dismatle public transportation systems nation-wide and lobby for tax-funded road and highway improvements and expansions! Entire industries (and tens of millions of jobs, including yours - and their hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes) that we take for granted today would not exist today if they hadn't.

• Police and fire are designed to provide protection to private business and residential property

• Public transportation provides a means of mobility to private individuals, who have already paid taxes to finance roads for GM but choose not to purchase a product from GM

• Sidewalks are a convenience to shield private pedestrians from the consequences of co-existing on the roads built for private enterprise

• Parks are built for private individual’s recreation


You get the idea. All of the tax-funded things that I mentioned, which we all agree are perfectly appropriate tax expenditures are designed almost exclusively for the benefit of private enterprise or private individuals. None of the above is designed to make a direct profit, but rather to contribute to the overall prosperity of any given geographic region and population. If an arena is not a proper expenditure – as part of a planned mix of development – then why should GM and the other vehicle manufacturers not be forced to pay to build and maintain the street upon which you live, or the individual user not pay a fee to cover the full costs of those roads? The answer is simple. Either cars and trucks would not exist, or you'd pay more for a Yugo than what you paid for your house..... which you could not afford either because you would have to bear all of the costs involved in maintaining and protecting it that are now taken care of by the rest of us. But that point is moot, because you would likely not have a job to pay for your home, Yugo, food, education for your kids or anything else. Do you feel up to sod-busting and wringing the necks of chickens to survive?

As for the “for the Kings” idiocy… Yea, let’s have a big barn for tractor pulls and Disney on Ice paid for by… oh, wait. Yea. Let the arena be a privately funded, for-profit institution and see how many Gun & Doll shows it takes to make it work. Even the most wooden-headed moron knows that a shopping mall will not succeed without at least one major anchor. Unfortunately, the so-called leadership here is not up to the level of wooden-headed morons.


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Mark Williams
Weeknights 7 - 10 PM
News/Talk 1530 KFBK AM

Whew! Glad that’s over.

I did morning drive radio for 5 years in Boston, and for another almost a year in San Diego. (Best time I ever had getting fired was from that San Diego job. The station flipped to a sports-talk format before the first year of being news/talk station was up and let me go, but I had a contract and they had to pay me for the next year. I was barely 30, single and making 15-hundred dollars a week - good money in 1989 - and living in a condo mere steps from the OB Pier. Broke my heart when those checks finally stopped and I had to become a productive member of society again).

This week started with my doing a 9 AM - Noon show in Washington DC (6-9 our time) and 4-days filling-in on the Armstrong & Getty radio & TV network (with KFBK afternoon co-anchor Jay Allen). Before mid-week it all came back to me…. As much fun as those shows are to do, NO human-being should have to face an alarm clock at 3:30 AM. That is also one of the two major reasons why I do not fish. The second is that I might actually catch one and have to deal with it. Not having to kill my own food is one of the chief reasons I am in radio.

Congratulations are coming in from all directions today… not for me, for Casey the Pound Dog. My wife’s baby has been nominated for an ASPCA “Humanitarian of the Year” award. We’ll ignore for the moment the fact that she (Casey) is not a human (although, try to tell that to Holly). The nomination is for her role in thwarting Arnold’s attempt last year to weaken the Hayden Law (a body of state law that protects stray and abandoned animals) and for her role as a pound dog in encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters. Honest to God, this dog knew this morning where to look for the camera and to be as cute as humanly.... er, dogly possible - straight into the lens and even kissed daddy right on cue.

And a final note: Air anti-America has proven valuable in one respect. Christine Craft is not your cookie-cutter liberal. One of the very few on the left who have earned my respect because she actually thinks through her positions and is capable of defending them (as wrong as they are) rather than just spouting off pamphlet slogans and talking points. That and her stepping up to the plate to care for her father. The traditional liberal position would be to pawn him off on you and me. She is hot on the Widow Matsui’s case and has been reporting on the huge money pouring into the widow’s campaign coffers from out of state interests, and the tiny amount trickling in from her own (Matsui’s) “constituents” proving what we all know…. the Widow Matsui is a left-wing version of carpet-bagging Dan Lungren and, like him has been hand-selected by outsiders to represent their interests against ours.

Now that my stint on Ch 58 is over, it’s back to my own show (after another week off for down time with the family), weeknights from 7 – 10 PM on KFBK (1530 AM) and Fox Network News. Look for me on Fox News Channel this Sunday at 11:10 AM....and when I get back for a major announcement about a blomb-shell show schueduled for Wednesday March 9th at 7 PM.


Listen to KFBK weeknights from 7-10 PM for details on how you may join in me banging pots and pans for immigration reform in the very belly of the beast, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. this April 23-28!

Mark Williams
Weeknights 7 - 10 PM
News/Talk 1530 KFBK AM