Here's a quick wrap-up of what we covered on the show.

A 13-year-old student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school over an alleged assault with a rubber band

These zero tolerance policies are getting ridiculous, they need to be done away with,stuff like this should be handled on a case by case basis. I get the feeling we're not getting all the details. Based on the information we have the maximum penalty should have been detention.

ORANGE CITY -- Alex Crionas needs a kidney, and Patrick Garrity has one to give him.

They went through rigorous blood and tissue testing last month at LifeLink HealthCare Institute, which coordinates the transplant program for Tampa General Hospital, and say they were declared physically compatible for the operation.

But the hope of a new life for the 28-year-old Crionas didn't last long.

Crionas got a letter earlier this month from LifeLink, a Tampa nonprofit that links patients and donors, telling him his request for surgery was rejected because Crionas had a Web site seeking a donor.

The organ transplant system in this country is all screwed up. It's not based solely on need but rather geographic location. I think people should be allowed to buy and sell organs. We brainstormed on-air for ways to increase the pool of available organs.

MAN CHARGED WITH ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT BUSH: Twenty-three-year-old Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a U.S. citizen born in Houston and raised in Virginia, was charged yesterday with conspiring with al-Qaida to kill President Bush in a conspiracy thought up while he studied in Saudi Arabia. Abu Ali had been held without charges in Saudi Arabia since June 2003. He was returned yesterday and made an initial court appearance soon after. He didn't enter a plea, but charged he was tortured in Saudi Arabia. According to the charges, Abu Ali discussed plans with an al-Qaida member in 2002 and 2003 to kill Bush by either shooting him or using a car bomb. His family and friends contend the charges are not true, and had previously filed a lawsuit claiming U.S. officials had Saudi authorities detain Abu Ali so he could be harshly questioned.

After I shared this story Kiefer Sutherland of FOX's hit TV series 24 made a cameo appearance to issue the following disclaimer...

"Hi. My name is Kiefer Sutherland. And I play counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer on Fox's 24. I would like to take a moment to talk to you about something that I think is very important. Now while terrorism is obviously one of the most critical challenges facing our nation and the world, it is important to recognize that the American Muslim community stands firmly beside their fellow Americans in denouncing and resisting all forms of terrorism. So in watching 24, please, bear that in mind."

We also talked about No Media Interest in Secret Clinton Tapes?

Newsmax is reporting...
The New York Times thought it was front page news when it obtained secret recordings of presidential candidate George Bush sharing a few personal insights, like admitting that he once tried marijuana.

But the Times and the rest of the prestige press don't seem particularly interested in another set of secret tapes, recorded while one of the participants actually occupied the Oval Office. Only last June, former White House paramour Monica Lewinsky revealed that she's sitting on a stash of never-before-heard tapes of her own - recordings of President Clinton whispering sweet nothings into her answering machine.

At the time, Lewinsky threatened to make the tapes public, telling London's Daily Mail:

"If I chose to, I could bring out ... the messages on the answering machine tapes that no one's heard. I could make it into something big to try to demonstrate that this wasn't just inappropriate intimate contact - that it really was something."

Really something?

Wouldn't you love to hear some of these tapes? They'd be in heavy rotation on my show!

Local 6 reporting...
Man In Uniform Falsely Tells Army Wife Her Husband Died In Iraq

POSTED: 2:32 pm EST February 22, 2005

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Military police are investigating a cruel hoax in which a man wearing an Army dress uniform falsely told the wife of a soldier that her husband had been killed in Iraq.

What a sick stunt, find this SOB and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.

Who would really benefit from an Election Day holiday?

Bruce Bartlett has a different argument:

I don't agree that giving people the day off on election day will benefit Democrats. Think about it. Most of their constituency doesn't work that day anyway. They are either retired, on welfare, or union members who have already negotiated that as a day off. Republicans mainly get votes from people who are working and paying taxes. That's why they are Republicans. On balance, making it easier for those people to vote would probably help the Republicans more than the Democrats, in my opinion. I think there is even some academic literature supporting this proposition.

Update on the Brooklyn 6th Graders that slammed a GI.

The NY POST reporting...
WRITING A WRONG
By DAVID ANDREATTA

The city Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter of apology today.

Deputy Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, who has a nephew serving in Iraq, plans to personally contact Pfc. Rob Jacobs and his family, said department spokeswoman Michele McManus Higgins...

In an accompanying letter to Jacobs, Kunhardt had written that the students "come from a variety of backgrounds and political beliefs, but unanimously support the bravery and sacrifice of American soldiers around the world."

The teacher is the one that owes the GI an apology!