Radio talk show host Neal Boortz told students Monday night the “things they won’t teach you at the University of Georgia.”

Boortz discussed teachers’ unions, voting rights, global warming and tax policies with a crowd of about 800 people.

He referred to Zaid Jilani’s column in Monday’s Red & Black multiple times during the speech.

Boortz said while he was misquoted in the column about teachers’ unions, Jilani got his sentiment correct.

“Teachers’ unions present a greater threat to America than Islamic extremism,” Boortz said.

He said America can recover from a massive bombing but can’t recover from poor education.

Boortz said schools will not teach students that the right to vote in a federal election is not a constitutional right. He said the 2000 Bush v. Gore case stated citizens have no federal right to vote.

Boortz said he wants to set eligibility criteria – such as identifying Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or Vice President Dick Cheney – for voters.

Boortz gave students a list of “inconvenient facts” to combat former Vice President Al Gore’s book and film about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Boortz said the temperatures have risen about one degree during the last 100 years.

The NASA Web site states “that a strong underlying warming trend is continuing.” The site states since the 1970s, temperatures increased about 1 degree Fahrenheit.

Boortz, with Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.), authored “The FairTax Book.” The plan proposes eliminating income and estate taxes and adding a 23 percent sales tax. To pay for “basic necessities,” Boortz said citizens will be given a credit. He said there will be no tax on education.

Boortz said people who are not paying taxes will with the FairTax plan.

“Visitors will be funding social security and medicare,” he said.

He referred to other groups and said the “underground economy” will be hurt, because drug dealers – who under the current system do not have to pay taxes – will under Boortz’s plan.

Boortz said politicians “use tax policy to control (citizen) behavior,” and the plans enaction would be the “largest transfer of power” from politicians to the public.