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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... The latest edition of “Smoke Screen: The War on Tobacco” appears in today’s News & Views EXTRA at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO THE “COS” “Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids--$500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' . . . (Kids are) standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. . . . You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!" - Comedian Bill Cosby in decidedly unfunny remarks Monday night commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision AID & COMFORT “The media wrap themselves in the First Amendment and proclaim ‘the public's right to know’ but there is also such a thing as common decency — or at least there once was. How much public demand was there to see the anguish of a young woman the day after her brother had been brutally slaughtered by terrorists whom the media have christened ‘militants’ or ‘insurgents?’ Since the whole purpose of terrorism is to maximize the pain from whatever acts they can get away with, the media are making themselves accomplices of our enemies.” - Columnist Thomas Sowell SURVEY SAYS! Should high school teachers be prohibited from showing the Nick Berg beheading in their classrooms? * Yes * No * I’m a Kerry Democrat...Yes AND No Cast your vote by clicking the “Survey Says!” tab at www.citizenoutreach.com THE AWOL SENATOR “A conservative activist group says John Kerry isn't showing up for his day job as U.S. Senator and should follow the example of Bob Dole, who resigned his Senate seat six months before the 1996 election in which he was a candidate for president. Dave Bossie, the president of Citizens United, is launching a petition drive asking Mr. Kerry to resign his Senate seat. . . . Mr. Kerry has missed 80 out of 94 Senate roll call votes this year. That's an attendance record of 15%.” - John Fund, Political Diary, 5/19/04 DUMPING DASCHLE “The latest South Dakota media poll shows Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Republican John Thune in a virtual dead heat. The poll, conducted for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and KELO-TV, has Daschle at 49 percent and Thune at 47 percent, which, as longtime political observers of all stripes can say, is not a good place for a third-term U.S. Senate incumbent and national party leader to be.” - Peter Roff, “That’s Politics!” 5/20/04 TURNING THE TABLES ON MIKE MOORE “Michael Moore, the loudmouth director whose Bush-bashing film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ just won a 20-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, is being tailed by Mike Wilson, a young filmmaker who plans to explode the Michael Moore myth with his own documentary. Mr. Wilson is using techniques similar to the ones Mr. Moore employed to ridicule General Motors chairman Roger Smith and National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston in earlier films. “First, Mr. Wilson spent a year trying to get an on-camera interview with Mr. Moore. When he was rebuffed, he finally confronted Mr. Moore at a book-signing in Minnesota. ‘He started screaming at me,’ Mr. Wilson recalls. ‘We were able to get the whole thing on film. We've decided to call the film 'Michael Moore Hates America.' “ - John Fund, Political Diary, 5/19/04 FRENCH LESSON “The French government Monday described the 35-hour working week as a financial disaster that was costing the state billions of dollars and promised to reform the system despite fierce union opposition. . . . The 35-hour week came into effect in 1997, as the Socialists' idea for reducing unemployment. Unemployment now is just under 10 percent.” - Daily Telegraph, 5/18/04 ENVIRONMENTAL GASBAGS “Sure...oil is up to over $40 a barrel..but guess what? Your SUV doesn't run on crude oil, does it? Nope. That oil has to be refined, and we haven't built a new refinery in the United States since 1976. What's more, some of the refineries we do have are shutting down because they simply cannot afford to meet some of the new environmental standards we've created. What about building new refineries? Yeah ... try to get that by the anti-capitalist, environmentalist socialists. Oil companies are left simply trying to increase the capacity of the refineries they do have. “...If the liberals really wanted cheaper gas, they would allow us to drill for our own oil, and build more refineries. They would also talk about lowering the gas tax. They won't do any of that, so it's really they that are to blame for the high prices.” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/19/04 THE MAKING OF A REPUBLICAN "It became clear in the presidential election of 2000 that the company as well as the industry would be better off with a free marketplace, and that's what caused him to come out strongly in favor of George W. Bush. There's no party that supports the free-enterprise system like the Republican Party." - Former Microsoft Chief Operator Officer Bob Herbold, explaining to the Seattle Times how Bill Gates became a Republican “BENEDICT ARNOLD CEO” SPEAKS OUT It’s unusual for a corporate CEO to actually tell it like it is and call a spade a spade when it comes to politics and public policy issues. Cypress Semiconductor’s T.J. Rodgers is an exception to the rule. From moving jobs overseas to the anti-business climate in California, from President Bush to the AFL-CIO, from corporate welfare to Jesse Jackson, from Ayn Rand to the moral majority, from stock option expensing to antitrust regulations...this is an interviews you’ll want to read: http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020490,39155164,00.htm RAISING CAIN “Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, has never run for office before but he is certainly shaking up the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Georgia. . . . (At last weekend’s GOP) convention he turned up the heat on moderate Rep. Johnny Isakson, the frontrunner. Mr. Cain complained that the Republican Party had failed to live up to its conservative promise, and he vowed to push issues such as school choice and individual Social Security retirement accounts. ‘If you want someone who will show up and vote and not rock the boat, that's Mr. Isakson. If you want someone who will rock the boat then drive the boat, then you should be raising Cain,’ he told the crowd.” - John Fund, Political Diary, 5/20/04 NC GOP KICKS LCR OUT OF THE TENT “The North Carolina Republican Party is refusing to let the Log Cabin Republicans set up a booth at this weekend's state convention… Ed Farthing, a North Carolina Log Cabin Republican, said he purchased a table at the NC state convention on behalf of the group in early April. But N.C. GOP Chairman Ferrell Blount recently returned the money, along with what the Log Cabin Republicans called ‘a lengthy vitriolic letter’ that said the group could not have a table after all.” - CNSNews.com, 5/20/04 SCHWARZENEGER VS. FALWELL “Chris Barron, the national political director of the Log Cabin Republicans and a lawyer originally from Goldsboro, said he found the language (of a proposed anti-gay platform proposal) troubling and harmful to the GOP's future. ‘The Republican Party in North Carolina, like the national party, is facing a stark contrast about the future of the party,’ Barron said. ‘It could be the party of Rudolph Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger – or the party of Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Chairman Blount apparently envisions a party of Gary Bauer and Jerry Falwell.’ “ - Raleigh News & Observor, 5/19/04 TODAY ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD The North Carolina Republican Party has refused to allow the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of gay Republicans, to have a booth at this weekend’s party convention like the ones available to the Republican Women, the College Republicans and the Hispanic Republicans. Chairman Blount said the decision was based on LCR’s opposition to a federal marriage amendment and their criticism of President Bush over the issue. (Heck, if that’s the criteria, I’d be banned as well!) Do you support this decision by the party chairman to deny the Log Cabin Republicans a booth at the Republican convention? Can someone be both gay AND a Republican in good standing? Or should the party follow Chairman Blount’s lead and simply drum them out of the GOP? 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