Monday is Conservative Shopping Day!

G.O.P Senators Hurry to Quell Furor Over Gas
Chevron Earnings Soar 49 Percent to $4 Billion
Bush rejects tax on oil companies’ windfall profits
Shell unveils plans for ‘biggest refinery in US’
U.S. Economic Growth Rises Sharply
Bush Says Anthem Should Be in English
Iran Is Not Cooperating, Agency Says
Bush approves Dubai takeover of defense plants
Iraqi Forces Kill Al Qaeda Leader

Milloy:  ‘Green’ Politicians Add to Gas Price Woes
Kudlow:  The Greatest Story Never Told
Limbaugh:  Big Awl and Gasbags
Sowell:  Oily Politicians:  Part II
Cain:  Gas Prices and Political Hot Air
Gaffney:  Bad Business
Riedl:  Dr. Coburn’s Operation
O’Sullivan:  Rounding Up the Usual Suspects
Johnson:  A Day Without Illegal Aliens?  It’s a Start!

Oil Companies Post Record Profits

Exxon Quarterly Profit 5th Highest Ever
ConocoPhillips profit soars as oil prices surge
Key Lawmakers Demand Oil Co. Tax Records
Senate Panel Demands Oil Co. Tax Records
Second Thoughts in Congress on Oil Tax Breaks
Exxon Profits Rise, and So Does Congressional Scrutiny
Going a Short Way to Make a Point
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship
Woman Uses Nail Clippers in Desert Birth
Senate Panel Recommends Abolishing FEMA
Threatened veto of spending bill will hold, GOP leaders say
Government sued over Medicare drug benefit
1 in 5 pay more in Medicare Rx plan
Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds
Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French pride
‘Progressive’ media stalls:  ‘Air(head) America’ in audience plunge NYC, ‘Daily Kos’ book sells only 3,600 copies

Noonan:  The Big Three
Lukas:  One in Four?
Coticelli & Schwab:  Sickening Incompetence
Sowell:  Oily Politicians
Coulter:  It’s Hard Out Here for a Pump
Elder:  Iraq:  Were We Greeted as ‘Liberators’?
Corsi:  ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ Is Bad Approach

Hank’s Military Update:
Anti-war messages painted on ROTC building
Israel:  Iran Missiles Can Carry Nukes, Hit Europe
Senate votes to divert war funding to border security
Bulgarians Protest Base Deal With U.S.

Bush's New Gas Plan: A Start

Democrats call for new energy laws
Big oil defends its big profits
Effect of gas plan may be limited
Fed survey: More companies trying to pass lofty energy prices on to consumers
Tony Snow Named White House Press Secretary
Senate votes to divert war funding to border security
Minutemen Gaining in Immigration Debate
Congresswoman’s son sentenced for slashing GOP tires
Scientists find secret to gas-free beans

Lt. Col. Rutter: America Remembers United Flight 93
Myers: Expect more arrests
Gingrich: Honesty in Immigration
Malkin: The Victims of Illegal Immigration
Cost: House Arrest
du Pont: Dog the Swag
NR Editors: Bridge to November
Satter: Chernobyl, Twenty Years Later
Beran: Professor Schlesinger’s Diplomacy
Corsi: Stop This ‘Addicted to Oil’ Nonsense, Mr. President
Human Events: Taxpayers Lose Three More Days to Big Government in 2006
Williams: Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly


Thank you to 1350 WNNG in Warner Robins, GA for spotlighting Mercer Radio and the Jeff Scott Show on their Morning Show today!

Politicians Pandering on Gas Prices

New Criticism Falls on ‘Supplemental’ Bills
Bush to Halt Deposits to Oil Reserve
Bush eases environmental rules on gasoline
Big engines stay popular despite gas spike
U.S. hybrid sales slack despite gasoline hike
“Experts”:  Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes (never mind the experts who disagree)
McKinney draws re-election foe, loses attorney
Consumer Confidence Highest in 4 Years

WSJ:  Denny Pelosi
NR Editors:  Our Gaseous Capitol
Schulz:  Pandering at the Pump
WFB:  Gas Gouge?
Murchison:  The Silliness of the So-Called ‘Energy Debate’
Melloan:  Remembrance of Times Past
NR Editors:  No Left Turn
Bartlett:  Veteran Conservatives Speak Out Against Bush

More Trouble for "Crazy Aunt Cynthia"

Evidence of work fraud untapped
Bush Says Massive Deportation Not Realistic
Bush Urges Congress to Develop Immigration Reform Bill
Feds Arrest 183 Illegal Immigrants in Fla.
GOP leaders urge price-gouging probe on gas
Congress Debates Windfall Tax on Oil Companies
McKinney Files Papers for Re-Election
TV station catches McKinney bad-mouthing staffer
Court Won’t Hear Fight Over Jesus Poster
Emergency spending bill spotlights GOP division

Macon Telegraph:  Moving in the right direction
WSJ:  Breathe Easier
WSJ:  Hamas in Charge
WSJ:  The Virginian
Luskin:  “Social Security Reform Is Dead…”
Aarons:  Georgia’s Deregulation Helps Consumers
Johnson:  The O’Reilly Fiction

High gas prices? Blame government!

High crude oil prices could be here to stay
US fuel crunch worsens
Iran leader hails rising oil prices as ‘very good’
Switch to Ethanol-Based Fuel Causing Disruptions
Democrats Eager to Exploit Anger Over Gas Prices
Leaders Question Gasoline Prices
Mercer names building for Godsey
FEMA wants some Katrina aid back
FBI:  Georgia men talked of U.S. terror plan
China heckler at White House charged
US says Medicare drug plan passes 30 million goal
CIA Officer Fired for Leaking Classified Info to Media
CIA Officer Is Fired for Media Leaks
NBC:  CIA officer fired after admitting leak
C.I.A. Fires Senior Officer Over Leaks
Senior Democrat Exits House Ethics Panel
Immigration Debate to Reach Supreme Court
Why a strong economy is no GOP asset

Brzezinski:  Requiem for Environmentalism
Milloy:  The Greenhouse Myth
Pipes:  Celebrate, Earthlings!
Goldberg:  Conveniently Missing the Truth
Hayward:  China Comes Clean
Edwards:  The Simple (Tax) Life
Coulter:  Lie Down With Strippers, Wake Up With Pleas
Berthoud:  Pork-Barreling Republicans Fighting Earmark Reform
De Silva:  Illegal Immigration Is Not a Civil Right
WSJ:  Bush and Iran
Reisman:  Where Would General Motors Be Without the United Automobile Workers Union?


The Jeff Scott Show should return on Monday, if the folks in Web Management are able to get our server running properly again.  If not, they will have a very angry Station Manager on their hands.          

Pelosi gets it right, for once

Hu heckled on South Lawn:  ‘Your days are numbered’
Protester Disrupts Hu Arrival Ceremony
Iran among topics on Bush-Hu agenda
Chinese man admits plot to import missiles to US
Chinese military linked to missile smuggling
Novak:  Feds know who outed CIA agent
Minuteman leader pushes border fence
Companies using illegal workers to be targeted
Hundreds Arrested in a Crackdown on Illegal Workers
Russia will deliver air defense systems to Iran – top general
Muslim students ‘being taught to despise unbelievers as filth’
Meat-Eaters Aiding Global Warming?
No Playboy Bunnies at Baylor

Pelosi:  Hu’s visit nothing to celebrate
Bookman:  Newt for president?
NR Editors:  Before the Fall
Williams:  Random Thoughts on Immigration
Novak:  The GOP’s Budget Problem
Corsi:  Policy Disasters Cost Karl Rove His Role


Update (17:20):  The Mercer Radio server is still down due to rebuilding.  Hopefully we will return to the air tomorrow.    

Praise for GA Illegal Immigration Law

McKinney report cites assault with ‘closed fist’
USA records largest drop in annual deaths in at least 60 years
Lawmakers far outpace most Americans in benefits
Mexico blasts Georgia illegals law
More call to get tough on illegals
Arizona governor vetoes criminalization of immigrants
Few Protections for Migrants to Mexico

McElroy:  Did Justice or Politics Drive Arrests in Duke Lacrosse Case?
Lefty Burleigh Hates America, Son’s Patriotism
AJC:  Not mean or extreme
Tallman:  Immigration law a federal matter
Matthews:  The Real Solution to Illegal Immigration
Hentoff:  ‘Free speech’ cries ring hollow on college campuses and beyond
Kudlow:  Waking Up to Hillary’s Big-Government Nightmare
Goldberg:  Can’t You Hear the Whistle Blowin’?
Ross:  Popular Nonsense
Williams:  Is There a Federal Deficit?


Update (17:20):  Tech Support is rebuilding our server, putting Mercer Radio temporarily offline.  There will be no show today, but this should make the Mercer Radio stream more stable in the future.  The Jeff Scott Show will return tomorrow.

Government to blame for high gas prices

OPEC believes oil prices are too high:  delegate
Uncle Sam’s hand in high gas prices?
Honda Eyes Production Cut as Accord Hybrid Sales Fall
Exxon Chairman’s $400 Million Parachute
Black business owners on rise
Russia Still Opposed to Sanctions on Iran
Iran says any attacker will regret action
Bush:  ‘All Options on the Table’ With Iran
Israel Warns of New ‘Axis of Terror’
Georgia governor signs sweeping immigration law
Anger Rises on Both Sides of Strike at University of Miami
GM spends $17-million on erectile dysfunction drugs

Blogcritics.org:  A Thought On Gasoline Prices – Rats…Maybe They Sorta Make Sense
Fund:  Meet Masood Farivar
WSJ:  Democracy by Decree
Factor:  Get Serious About Tax Reform
Stoltzfus:  At Tax Day Rally, Conservatives Want Taxpayers to ‘Get Mad and Stay Mad’
Dunphy:  The Constitutional Right to Be a Bum
Rice:  Miserable Failure
Will:  Promises that cannot be kept

Government Theft Day 2006!

Gingrich warns Republicans Americans want change
‘Roe v. Wade’:  The divided states of America
Demonstrations on Immigration Harden a Divide
Omaha school district to split along racial lines
Tax freedom day comes later
Iran advances could speed nuke process

WSJ:  The Minority Maker
Milloy:  Twenty Years After Chernobyl
Garnett:  Campaigning from the pulpit:  Why not?
McCarthy:  Iraq Is the War on Terror
Murdock:  A Taxing Wait
Goldblatt:  Supply Side 101
Cornyn:  April 15 Without Forms and Headaches
Johnson:  Do You Really Believe Illegal Immigrants Will Save Social Security?
O’Sullivan:  “No Illegal Alien Will be Left Behind”
Haynes:  Just What About ‘Illegal’ Do They Not Understand?
Johnson:  May 1 Is Conservative Shopping Day!

More GOP Cowardice on Immigration

Oprah Winfrey:  Wealth Is ‘A Good Thing’
GOP Chiefs Don’t Want Immigrants Charged
GOP Leaders to Remove Felony Charges for Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants’ firing leads to protest
Database at Center of Immigration Reform
Kennedy Tactics on Immigration Vex Democrats
Immigration marches:  What’s next?
Guest-worker hopes spark rush to border
Big Oil makes big push in on-campus recruiting
White House Takes Issue With Media Reports on WMD Claims
Rice Wants U.N. to Take ‘Strong Steps’ Against Iran
Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says
USS Gettysburg Concludes Record-Setting CNT Deployment
Government Spending Hits Record in March
FOX News Tax Poll (pdf)


Domin:  Democrats’ new agenda lacks fresh ideas (scroll to bottom)
Conway:  Passion Week
Homnick:  Memo to GOP:  Respect Your Voters
Hurley:  Illegal Immigration?  No Problem!
Barr:  Bush gives immigration wink and nod
Frist, Hastert:  Democrats to Blame for Felony Provision
Kirsanow:  2,000 Flavors and Counting
Lindzen:  Climate of Fear

Just deport them already!

Immigration marches could mark rise of Hispanic power
Midstate Hispanics pointing to May 1 as day of protest
Public divided over how to treat illegals
Air trends ‘amplifying’ warming
FLASHBACK:  Scientists blame sun for global warming
Iran Hits Milestone in Nuclear Technology
Reaction grows to gay student’s expulsion
Clinton Describes ‘Troubling Issues’ in Economy
Gingrich at USD:  Pull out of Iraq
In France, an Economic Bullet Goes Unbitten

AJC:  Just say no to limbo
Krikorian:  Guest-worker programs make matters worse
Krikorian:  Not Just Mexicans
Lowry:  Liberal Sellout
Woolley:  My Undocumented Radio Station
Tancredo:  Strike Back Against Illegal Alien Lobby
Sowell:  Immigration ‘Solutions’
Schlafly:  ‘Comprehensive’ Immigration
Bartlett:  Tax Stats

Global Warming Ended in 1998?

Bush ‘is planning nuclear strikes on Iran’s secret sites’
Bush:  Force May Not Be Required to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Weapon Plans
Saudis plan to fence off border with chaos
Powell:  U.S. mistakes hurting Iraq now
Democracy in the Arab World, a U.S. Goal, Falters
Hamas Calls Israel’s Boycott a ‘Declaration of War’
Town Sees Nuclear Plans as a Boon, Not a Threat
Immigration rallies kick off in Atlanta, other cities
Lawmakers:  Immigration bill not dead
In Carpool Lanes, Hybrids Find Cold Shoulders

Carter:  There IS a problem with global warming…it stopped in 1998
Kling:  If Medicare Were a Country
Ferguson:  An open letter to U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Dunphy:  Trumping the Race Card
Conway:  The State of the GOP, 2006
Ledeen:  Sixteen Words, Again
Murdock:  Connections
Brown:  For Pro-Lifers, Timing is Everything
Elder:  How Does Mexico Treat Its Illegals?
Johnson:  Is God a Mexican?
Human Events:  The 10 Most Harmful Government Programs
Human Events:  And the Winner Is…Social Security

No Show Today

Due to continued illness, the Jeff Scott Show will not return today.  We will return on Monday.

McKinney in another run-in

Due to course registration, there will not be a show today.  Hopefully my voice will return by tomorrow so I can return to the air.

Grand Jury to Hear McKinney Run-In Case
McKinney apologizes on House floor
Congresswoman in Capitol Fight Apologizes
Senate GOP to filibuster alien bill
Poll Finds Steele May Be Magnet for Black Voters
U.S. Rolls Out Nuclear Plan
Welfare Rolls Falling Again, Amid Worries About Poverty

DeLay: "McKinney is a racist"

Due to illness (and the subsequent loss of voice), there will not be a show today.  Tune in on Friday—hopefully by then my voice will be back.

Race Swirls Around McKinney Confrontation
Capitol Police Chief Denies Racism Charge
Florida Gov. Bush Calls Tone of Immigration Debate ‘Hurtful’
Senate Democrats Push for Immigration Vote
Drudge Flashback:  Harry Reid on Immigration, 1993
Schools Ban Patriotic Clothes, Flags
New Orleans Mayor Blocks FEMA Trailer Park
House GOP lacks agenda, DeLay says
Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century

"Crazy Aunt Cynthia" even too much for Dems, AJC

Rioters Clash With Police in France Protests
French strikers are ‘lazy frogs’ says airline boss

Experts forecast another active Atlantic hurricane season
Expert says it was hotter 247M years ago

Organ re-engineered for the first time in bladder transplants

McKinney Case Goes to Federal Prosecutor
House to vote on praising Capitol Police
McKinney Statement
McKinney is distraction, say the Dems
McKinney Admits Misusing Taxpayer Money
AJC:  McKinney’s arrogance crosses line

Q&A:  Tom DeLay Talks with TIME
TIME Exclusive:  Tom DeLay Says He Will Give Up His Seat

Graves won’t seek re-election

Not Enough Support to Pass Guest Worker Program, McCain Says
Lowry:  Poor Trend
Derbyshire:  Putting the World to Rights

Time Really Is Money for This Kid

Voting Rights Act pointed in a new direction

No Terrorist Left Uneducated

Meeting Doctor Doom
DOOMSDAY: UT professor says death is imminent
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to offer abortions
10 Questions for Mikhail Gorbachev
Former PM says Russia is turning into dictatorship
Killing Bin Laden will inspire 10 more: Dalai Lama
Growth in federal spending unchecked
How federal spending has climbed since 2001
Iran Says It Test-Fired Underwater Missile
Lawmakers draw immigration battle lines
Sen. Obama hits administration’s energy policies
Supreme Court Rejects Padilla Appeal
With session over, campaigning in Ga. begins
Capital police ask for arrest warrant for McKinney
Indian director hopes to cast Paris Hilton as Mother Teresa

Will: Let cooler heads prevail: The media heat up over global warming
Ledford: As a Republican, I ask Reed to withdraw (scroll to bottom)
Wooten: GOP control brings ripple, not sea change
O’Sullivan: Senate’s Upside-Logic Cake
Murdock: Get Him to Gitmo
YAF: No Terrorist Left Uneducated
Cain: Stop Lying About Tax Cuts

Mercer Hilton News, Including Mercer Press Release

McKinney Cancels News Conference
No Apology From McKinney for Hill Scuffle
Bush Presses Plan for Legalizing Immigrants in U.S.
G.O.P. Is Taking Aim at Advocacy Groups
Eminent domain protection won’t help Stockbridge florist

Milloy: Senate Sets Up Lopsided Global Warming ‘Debate’
AJC: A drop in the bucket
Kazman: New fuel standards unnecessary
AJC: Taxpayers drilled by oil industry
Goldberg: Careless Caucus
Lowry: Running on Empty



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Hilton Garden Inn to be Constructed on Mercer Campus

MACON, Ga. - Mercer University President and CEO R. Kirby Godsey announced today that the university has signed a letter of intent to construct a 101-room Hilton Garden Inn on the campus off Mercer University Drive, near I-75. The construction is the first step in the university’s redevelopment efforts to have Mercer University Drive become the main entrance to the campus.

“We are delighted with the prospect of adding this significant amenity to the campus,” said Godsey. “The hotel’s location, just off of I-75, will make it available to business and leisure travelers as well as provide housing for alumni and visitors attending special programs and athletic events and for parents of current and prospective students.”

After interviewing a number of prospective developers, Mercer selected PHD Hotels, formerly known as The Hotel Group, of Auburn, Ala., for the $10 million project. Construction will begin this spring, with the Inn expected to open in spring 2007. The upscale hotel will offer a restaurant and a small conference area. After construction, PHD Hotels will operate and manage the inn, with the university being an equity partner.

“We are thrilled to be involved with the University in building this hotel on campus, and we look forward to being part of the redevelopment plans for the campus,” said Tom Hunt, president and CEO of PHD Hotels.
“Being on campus is going to be a real benefit for the hotel as well as the university.”

The Mercer project is the fourth Hilton Garden Inn and the ninth hotel that PHD Hotels has constructed and operated. The company’s other Hilton Garden Inns are in Auburn, Montgomery and Huntsville, Ala. There are 270 Hilton Garden Inns across the nation.

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Proof of Saddam's WMD

After an argument in my international conflict and security class today, I decided that the proof for the existence of Saddam’s WMD programs needed to be published in a constant place on this website. It will be forever linked on the left sidebar for easy access when you are arguing with the uninformed.

Intelligence Summit to Air ‘Saddam’s WMD Tapes’
Secret Saddam WMD Tapes Subject of ABC Nightline Special
ABC News Exclusive: Saddam’s Secret Tapes
CNS News Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties
Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard
Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq
Iraq’s WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says (among others)
Geraghty: The WMD Road to Damascus
Hayes: Who’ll Let the Docs Out?