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***************************************** Happy Potter Eve Finally, a fiction book about a witch and magic that doesn't involve Hillary Clinton and those amazing Rose Law Firm billing records. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" hits the shelves at midnight tonight and will FINALLY, mercifully knock Hillary Clinton's tome off the front pages and airwaves. And if this latest yarn by J.K. Rowling lives up to its predecessors, "Phoenix" will likely be more believable than "Living History." It'll certainly be more entertaining. ***************************************** Kim Bryant Interview Next on "Always Right" Kim Bryant - the courageous Waltham, Massachusetts mother whose refusal to knuckle under to the strong-arm tactics of government bureaucrats over the home schooling of her two children has ignited a national firestorm and heated debate over who should control a child's education - will be my special guest for a one-hour interview this Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on "Always Right with Chuck Muth." You won't want to miss this one. The link to listen in is... http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/srv1.asx If you have any questions you'd like me to consider asking of Mrs. Bryant, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And by the way, yes, we have bestowed upon George and Kim Bryant our "Profiles in Conservative Courage Award." You can tune in to previous "Always Right" interviews by visiting our archives at: http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/pgs/archives-fr.htm ***************************************** In the Interest of Full Disclosure Most readers who emailed me about the Bill O'Reilly interview with Kim & George Bryant on Wednesday night thought O'Reilly was unduly harsh on the homeschooling couple. His comment that there would be "anarchy" if everyone pulled their kids out of the government education system completely missed the point about parental vs. government control. I couldn't understand where O'Reilly was coming from. That is, until John, our producer of "Always Right," informed me that O' Reilly was once a high school teacher. THAT explained his hostility to home schooling. Only wish he'd have disclosed that fact and potential conflict of interest before his interview with the Bryants. ***************************************** Freedom vs. Gov't Control "(S)ome home-schooling families are still reluctant to submit to standardized testing because it would be an indirect method for the state to gain control over the curriculum. If home-schoolers were required to pass standardized tests geared to public school curricula, is it not inevitable that their families would have to alter their curricula to teach to those tests? "Don't just assume the (Massachusetts home school parents Kim and George Bryant) are being stubborn and unreasonable. This is a freedom issue. Why shouldn't the Bryants or any other parents be free to make their own curricular choices?" - Columnist David Limbaugh ************************************ 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views e-newsletter. Just go to: <http://www.GOPLongDistance.com> today. ***************************************** WMD Corpses "Beneath one layer of bodies is sometimes another." - Associated Press report on about 60 mass graves discovered so far in post-war Iraq **************************************** State of the State Department "We can no longer accept a (State Department) culture that props up dictators, coddles the corrupt, and ignores secret police." - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the upcoming July/August issue of Foreign Policy ***************************************** Birds of an Anti-American Feather. "Folk singer Pete Seeger, actress Susan Sarandon and singer Harry Belafonte are among those scheduled to appear at a benefit tomorrow for the Rosenberg Fund for Children, 'which assists children of people imprisoned, attacked or fired for taking a public stand,' the Associated Press reports. The fund is named for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose 'public stand' consisted of betraying America and spying for the Soviet Union." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 6/18/03 ***************************************** Kerry Calls Bush a Liar "Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday that President Bush broke his promise to build an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein and then waged a war based on questionable intelligence. 'He misled every one of us,'' Kerry said. ''That's one reason why I'm running to be president of the United States.'' . . . Still, Kerry said it is too early to conclude whether or not war with Iraq was justified." - Associated Press, 6/18/03 ****************************************** And the Winner Is. "There has been a spirited contest to see who could use the words 'Bush' and 'lied' (or 'misled,' 'deceived' or 'tricked') most often in the same paragraph. So far, Sen. Bob Graham, Florida Democrat, seems to have a narrow lead." - Columnist William Rusher ***************************************** Go Dean, Go! "'If (Howard) Dean is the (Democrat) nominee it will make 1972 look competitive,' said one Democratic strategist not aligned with any of the presidential campaigns, referring to the resounding defeat of Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) by President Richard Nixon. 'Members and candidates in marginal seats will be running for the hills.'" - Chris Cillizza, Roll Call, 6/19/03 ***************************************** A Drug Benefit Socialist Could Love "If you love the federal government and the federal government's control over all of our lives, boy, this is the program for you." - Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, on Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow's government-run prescription drug proposal ***************************************** Taxpayer's Best Friend "President Bush's two major tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 have removed nearly 4 million taxpayers from the income tax rolls, so that nearly 30 percent of all income-tax filers pay nothing." - Washington Times, 6/19/03 ***************************************** Death to the Death Tax "The House yesterday passed its third major tax bill of the year, a permanent repeal of the inheritance tax, as Republicans continued to make good on their promise to exhaust the full $1.2 trillion of tax relief allowed in their budget. "...The legislation faces a hurdle in the Senate, which failed in the 107th Congress to pass any of the three versions passed by the House. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, said yesterday that he doesn't believe Republicans have the votes this year, either." - Washington Times, 6/19/03 ***************************************** A Little Help Please Abuse by social service bureaucrats who rip families apart under dubious claims and allegations is certainly nothing new and I'm now getting horror story after horror story about such incidents from around the country. Often, the parents who have had their kids taken from them don't have the financial resources necessary to pay for legal help to fight the system. Does anyone out there know of any organizations or attorneys who specialize in and offer help to such parents? Also, on another topic altogether, I seem to recall that there is a Republican congressman out there somewhere who has proposed legislation which would require that the Constitutional authority for any new law be cited. 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