The Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1992. It's a very simple amendment, originally written by James Madison in 1789. The full Amendment states:

"No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."

That was written so Congress could not vote themselves an immediate pay raise. If they give themselves a pay increase, voters would have a chance to have at them before it took effect.

That section of the Constitution was violated quicker that any other. To get around the Twenty-Seventh Amendment, Congress passed a law that gives themselves an automatic "cost of living" increase. So now, they get a raise every year, but it's not their fault, they say. "It's automatic. We didn't vote for it."

To stop the courts from totally blasting this scam out of the water, Congress included judges in this cost of living scheme. So, judges have a vested interest in keeping their mouths shut.

Worse, for many years during the Clinton administration, members of Congress would get on television and tell Americans that we have zero inflation. Still, they would get a hefty cost of living increase.

Unconstitutional? Sure. Completely. But, so is much of what Congress does lately. We have lost the concept of a "Congress" and replaced it with a Parliament that has no constraints.

For instance, the Senate took two weeks off from lowering our taxes to debate McCain's unconstitutional farce called campaign finance reform. We see how serious McCain is about that because he is still using the "soft money" he publicly decries to run ads against soft money. To say McCain is but a simple hypocrite would be very kind. He is much worse.

Back in old England King John liked to say: "The law is in my mouth." Not anymore, the lesser nobles told him on June 15, 1215. In a meadow called Runnymede, they put the point of a sword to the tyrannical King John and forced him to sign the Magna Carta.(1)

Congress, operating outside the authority of the Constitution as a Parliament, now tells us the law is in their mouths. Little the Senate said these past two weeks has even approached being Constitutional and many in the House are not doing any better.

For instance the Democrat-fascists, who would keep us galloping towards national socialism, fight giving a significant tax break. As outward proof of their total disdain for the American way of life and our rule of law, they call for a "trigger" scheme to stop the tax breaks if they want to overspend again.

In "The Road to Serfdom," Professor of Economics and Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek says of the Rule of Law: ". . . this means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand -- rules which make it possible to foresee with fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances and to plan one's individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge."

That trigger scheme is stupid! It trashes the Rule of Law and makes it nearly impossible to plan personal finances.

For instance, lets say a toolmaker and his wife have four young kids. They have the normal two cars and a house payment, plus incidentals. Two of the kids are already attending private school and the wife is working part time to help pay for that.

This family would realize a total tax reduction of about $2,000 under the full Bush package. So, child number three can start out in the church school and all else will remain equal.

Then, just as child number three gets to third grade, Congress wants to start yet another expensive giveaway program -- which is common for that crowd. So, the "trigger" automatically raises everyone's taxes back to what they are now.

Bummer for anyone planning their life around a budget!

There is also yet another big lie involved in this scheme: The Democrats want an annual growth of 8% over the next decade. The socialists in the national media don't even bat an eye over that. But, you should.

Eight percent annual growth for ten years means that the federal government will be 80% larger in a decade. Is that what we want?

The Bush administration wants to allow 4% annual growth. Do we want the federal government to be 40% larger in ten years?

Real Republicans would be downsizing the federal government by closing down some of these useless agencies and departments. A Republican would lay off bureaucrats, close down departments and streamline everything until the federal government is rolling in extra cash. Then, they would send that cash back to us.

But, those in the federal government will not even obey the Constitution, let alone support what was once known as our American way.

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(1.) http://minos.bl.uk/index.html

Back in the 1970s, the capitalism haters on the far-left started rumors that, if man did not change his ways, man would cause a new ice age. They brought out their charts and graphs -- and trotted out a couple scientists who happened to be famous in fields that had nothing whatsoever to do with weather changes -- and attempted to convince the masses.

They had stories of a "nuclear winter" and one wag even got on TV and postulated that a certain volcano out in Washington could and might throw the whole Northern hemisphere into winter when it blew its top. It was all sensational stuff, so the national media encouraged them to babble on.

Well, this small group of "ice age" kooks was greatly outnumbered by those of us working in the physical sciences. Suddenly, hundreds of common sense scientists around the country were studying the kook's data and finding it greatly wanting. The "ice-agers" on the far-left were not just a little wrong, they were ridiculously wrong!

Thereafter, we had a very good time ridiculing them. Real scientists around the country traded proven facts in their area of expertise with other good scientists, wrote fact sheets and started confronting these ice-agers when they made public presentations.

Suddenly, the few kooks on the far-left were finding themselves laughed at within the scientific community -- and then also in public. So, they stopped spouting that baloney about global cooling.

When Mount St. Helens in Washington blew its top, the loudest of the far-left kooks were shut up permanently. Nature proved them completely wrong. The volcano made a localized mess, to be sure. But, there was no noticeable cooling evident on our continent, let alone in the whole Northern hemisphere.

So, the environmental ecowackos stayed out of the news for a while. They regrouped, worked on financing, recruited a few thousand "down with the establishment" hippies, and started looking for new "problems" to fight.

Along the way, they picked up some strange bedfellows. These far-left groups needed money. Captains of industry needed "grass roots" activists who were willing to protest "problems" and cause government to promulgate new rules, regulations and laws that would be favorable to their bottom line. And so, a well financed movement was born.

Along the way, the groups helped get others on the far-left elected to government office and installed in the federal bureaucracy. Then, they initiated a major propaganda campaign. At times, these activist groups bit some of these captains of industry in the butt with their activities. Nonetheless, business tended to fund these groups simply because, overall, these groups were a stealth method of promoting the increased government intervention that was necessary to keep competition out of the market.

Lately, the big scam is "global warming." The gasses most common to the earth are now said to cause problems. And, the major laugh-and-a-half is when the subject turns to carbon dioxide.

So, what do we know, conclusively, about this problem gas? CO2 is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. It does not burn, and under normal conditions it is stable, inert and nontoxic. In various parts of the world -- notably in Italy, Java, and Yellowstone National Park in the United States -- carbon dioxide is formed underground and pours out of fissures in the earth. Natural mineral waters such as Vichy water effervesce because excess carbon dioxide that dissolved in them under pressure collects in bubbles and escapes when the pressure is released. Carbon dioxide is a raw material for photosynthesis in green plants and is a product of animal respiration. It is also a product of the decay of organic material. And, millions of tons of it are released every time a volcano gives a little burp.

For instance, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California: The carbon dioxide discharge from Mammoth Mountain alone ranges from 50 to 150 tons a day.(1) That's a whole lot more than most cities. Yet, we do not see the federal government putting any filters on the "pollution" under their charge. Instead, we see the bureaucrats putting restraints on the local people of California. Go figure.

In truth, there are easy ways for us to significantly reduce atmospheric CO2 without any great amount of effort: Plant a couple trees a year. Also, we could put a CO2 filter over the faces of all those mouthy liberals. . . .

However, the major benefit of more CO2 in the atmosphere is that plants (like crops) will grow faster. Which means, they would also help clean the air and produce more oxygen for us.

That is the natural system. Man may have the ability to disrupt small segments of it momentarily, but we do not have the knowledge or means to change it.

For the real story, by practicing scientists, please see the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change's "CO2 Science Magazine."(2)

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1. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/VOLCANOES/LongValley/CO2.html

2. http://www.co2science.org

3. http://www.nature.com/nsu/010329/010329-13.html

Picking any specific fool for April fools day would be very difficult. A quick scan of the political news gives dozens of choices.

For instance, we note with interest that the federal government is still intentionally discouraging matrimony. A married couple with a combined annual income of about $50,000 receive an annual federal fine of $1,400. According to the fools in Congress, shack up and save money.

Back in the 1920s, the word Volsteadism was used to denote a police force gone feral. Prohibition police made a practice of illegal searches and seizures and had a habit of shooting people just because they could get away with it. Of course, that promoted disrespect of the law and actually helped organized crime and bootleggers because they could buy cops and use them to attack the competition.

The word "Volsteadism" is being used again. The unconstitutional "war on drugs" has now become even more corrupt than the Constitutional war on demon rum was back then.

We also got word that one of the protected ones, a government official, was arrested, tried and convicted for taking just $118,000 in bribes. He got life in the slammer, too. But, April fool. It was not a federal employee. That was in communist China.

Senator Tom Daschle wants to make the queers from Queer Nation and their friends the transsexuals and transvestites a protected class we all must honor. His bill, S. 19, which is titled, "Protecting Civil Rights for All Americans Act," would have the federal government include sexual orientation as a protected class. Thereafter, businesses would be forced to hire homosexuals, cross-dressers, and transsexuals. Some of them could be fun to watch, actually. I can't wait to see what happens to the first big hairy truck driver who walks into a busy truck stop dressed in high heels and a formal.

Of course, say anything about this protected class and they'll send you for indoctrination . . . er, sensitivity training.

Apparently, military uniforms are out now, too. At least in government courts, anyway. Maricopa County (AZ) Superior Court Judge Penny Willrich took it upon herself to bar a robbery victim from testifying in his U.S. Air Force uniform. Willrich ruled that the witness's testimony in uniform would be "unfairly prejudicial" against the perpetrator because he might be construed to be some sort of authority to the jury. Also, he was not in uniform when robbed. Shall we call her a fool, too?

Maybe some of us are the fools this April Fool's day, though. There's that old story about the workers in one particular field: 7 have been arrested for fraud, 19

have been accused of writing bad checks, 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses, 3 have done time for assault, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit, 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges, 8 have been arrested for shoplifting, 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits, and 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year or so. Yet, we allow them to tell us what to do. Yeah, all these fools are among the 535 members of Congress.

According to an article by Linda Chavez, even after nearly 20 years of U.S. residence, fewer than one in five Mexicans living in the U.S. choose to acquire American citizenship. As of 1990, three-quarters of the Mexicans who arrived in the 1980s still spoke little or no English. Of course, over 15-million of them are here illegally.

Talk about fools, James and Sarah Brady of Handgun Control Inc. were at a Washington news conference last week. As usual, these hypocrites had their normal contingent of armed guards with them. They want to take away our guns, yet they have bodyguards carrying fully automatic weapons. Nothing wrong with their thinking, they're convinced. It's everyone else who is wrong.

It was also interesting to learn that the National Democratic Club in Washington, D.C. might soon belong to the city government because they didn't pay their taxes.

The over-opulent club was formed by friends of Harry S. Truman back in the early 1950s. Millions and millions of dollars in graft, bribes and campaign donations have changed hands in that place over the years. But, someone forgot to skim a little off the top for the tax man, evidently. They now owe the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue at least 2 1/2 years of back taxes totaling over $79,461.37 and another $44,186.62 to an unnamed lienholder for unpaid 1999 taxes.

Volsteadism appeared again, this time in Oceanside, CA and might also be starting in Tucson, AZ. "Knock'n Talk" is the name of this strange program. Apparently, uniformed police come knocking at residents doors to inquire if they have any guns. If so, the enquiring constabulary want to know how many, if they are registered, where they are kept, and how many "illegal" guns the person has. The only correct response to cops like these is "good by."

As the year 2001 is now almost one fourth of the way over, I can't help but wonder with much astonishment how long the American people will continue to wander around aimlessly, with no clue as to what is going on around them. How long can ignorance and apathy reign supreme?

We read in all the major newspapers that the Power problem in California is being caused by a "bungled attempt at de-regulation." My fellow Americans, that is the farthest thing from the truth. California has a problem because of a very loud and well financed group of environmentalists who don't want anything in the form of a gas refinery to spoil their area's majestic beauty. Nor do they want power plants cropping up around the state. In fact, for close to 20 years, these people have succeeded in keeping any government or private utility from building power plants in energy-starved California. At the same time, California's population has climbed dramatically and industrial development has skyrocketed.

It was only a matter of time before the energy ran out.

We continue to read the various articles and comments from the mainstream media about the shortage of natural gas and oil products because OPEC had dropped its prices. We're told that cheap overseas oil caused American producers to stop exploring for oil.

The media is, once again, lying to you.

During the Clinton Administration, every possible action that could be taken by the US government was taken to stop any and all exploration for energy sources in the United States. EPA, OSHA and the Department of Energy were all involved in that.

Let me give you a scenario and you decide for yourself what you think is true and what isn't: Lets roll back the clock to November-December of 1999. The media was telling us about Y2K implications and the possible catastrophic events that could begin to unfurl as the clock struck Midnight, January first. Americans from sea to sea and border to border topped off their automobile gas tanks -- and extra gas cans in the garage -- as well as their home heating fuel oil or propane tanks, before December 31, 1999.

As you may recall, Y2K was a non-event. Nothing happened. Everything went fine until January 25, 2000, when a huge nor-easter suddenly slammed into the New England area and buried most of the area under a heavy blanket of snow. Then, suddenly, as if by magic, we had a shortage of oil, natural gas and other energy products.

Doesn't that strike you as odd?

We have since learned that the oil refiners around America, in collusion with the US Government, moved hundreds of millions of gallons of gas and heating oil from areas where they were desperately needed to other areas of the country, where they were not needed, in order to manufacture a shortage of gas and oil products.

It was colder than hell in New York. So the oil companies sent oil and gas to Texas for storage, where it wasn't very cold at all. Oil industry insiders, who must remain anonymous, told us that the movement of gas and heating oil was unprecedented. They also said that this was done with the full knowledge of the Clinton administration, through the Department of Energy.

By the time March 2000 rolled around, thousands of small truck fleet owners and operators were going broke due to the high cost of diesel, as well as the depressed freight rates that are generally controlled by the large carriers.

As the spring and summer months unfurled, more and more small trucking companies went out of business. By mid summer, one of America's major truck finance companies was calling people in their database of former customers to see if they had any need for "like new" trucks, trailers and associated equipment. That equipment was then available for virtually pennies on the dollar.

In other words, a one hundred thousand dollar tractor trailer, with possibly only 50 to 100 thousand miles on it, could be had for anywhere from 25 to 50 thousand dollars.

The thousands of men and women who lost their livelihoods because of the fuel crisis of 2000 have now exhausted their savings. They are, for the most part, behind on their bills -- including taxes owed to the IRS.

Many of them had to seek out other employment after losing their trucks and found that there was no way they could pay their bills and also pay for their truck -- which was in the process of being, or had already been, repossessed. The after-shock came when they were later advised that the $100-thousand note they owed had been reduced to $50-thousand by the re-selling of their former truck. But, they were still responsible for paying the remaining $50-thousand.

A lot of these problems can be blamed on naïve owner operators who didn't do their homework before going out on the limb for a truck that cost over $100-thousand. Many were highly professional truck drivers but were not highly skilled business men and women. In any event, they are now lining up by the thousands to attempt to file personal bankruptcy.

Suddenly, Congress tightens up the Federal Bankruptcy laws.

Once again... Isn't it odd that Congress decided to revise the bankruptcy laws at this point in time? In fact, one might say that all of the events that I've already described are very coincidental. Maybe coincidental isn't exactly the proper word. Perhaps the proper word is "contrived."

For instance: As of this date, we are now reading about blackouts that could affect the entire nation this summer. Utility companies are already serving notice that electric rates could go up as much as fifty percent this coming summer.

These people must have crystal balls that they peer into several times a day.

Because, as the price of gas and diesel starts to escalate in the coming months, I strongly suggest you go to any discount chain and price a few quarts of oil for your car. Please note that the price of oil has not skyrocketed to three or four bucks a quart as one might expect.

No... Quite the contrary... The price of a quart of oil in most retail chains is the same as it was in the middle seventies.

Have you ever questioned how this could be? How can we have such a huge oil shortage, but yet the price of oil for lubrication purposes is the same as it has been for almost 30 years?

The answer is simple: We do not have an oil shortage!

What we have is a shortage of facilities that turn crude oil into useful products necessary to maintain the American way of life. Products like diesel fuel, heating oil, kerosene -- and naturally -- gasoline. We don't have these facilities because of an overzealous EPA that was motivated by the environmental movement to clamp down on every facility that produced fossil fuels for energy.

Because of the fears of possibly killing a snail that is indigenous to the area where the construction was being planned, or possibly a remote chance that the balance of nature might be upset if man encroached upon the wilderness any further than he already had, EPA refused to allow the construction of any new refineries in the United States.

At the same time, however, man continues to push the boundaries of civilization all across the globe. Where there used to be swamp in Florida, there is now a huge area known as Kendall, Perrine, Cutler Ridge, and other communities that are part of the city of Miami. Miami continues to expand its boundaries west, into what was once the Everglades.

We read where once abundant hydro electric power is falling off sharply in the Pacific Northwest. Due to a drought, the water levels are at all time lows. In this case, you're being told the truth.

But the other side of the coin is hidden. That is, hydro electric power generating plants in the Northwest have been forced to open the locks so that the Salmon and other fish species could make their pilgrimages into the inland waterways.

We find that the hydroelectric plants are producing more fish than electricity of late.

Ladies and Gentlemen... This country is headed directly into a recession, and possibly a depression, if the American people do not wake up and start demanding that the Government of the people, by the people and for the people start being accountable to the same people who call themselves Americans.

The future of this country is what is at stake. And it is your children and grand-children who will suffer the most after we are long gone from this earth.

Dale Sommers is also known as the "Truckin' Bozo." His all-night radio program has been broadcast for 17 years from WLW Radio in Cincinnati and is syndicated around the country.(1)

Dale Sommers wasn't around yet when Guglielmo Marconi invented radio. Nonetheless, during his 40 year radio career, many have listened to Dale on crystal sets and his broadcasts were received on many thousands of old five-tube radios. When the transistor radio was invented, Dale Sommer's voice was one of the first received.

Mid-career, he won a seat at the microphone of the blowtorch WLW in Cincinnati (700 on the AM dial). Then he was syndicated on radio stations around the country. Now, he's on the Internet, too. But that's not enough for "The Bozo." Soon, very soon, the Truckin' Bozo Show will celebrate yet another radio first: It will also be the first show of its kind to cover the North American continent via satellite radio.

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1. http://www.thebozo.com

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