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***************************************** 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 week. Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on "Always Right with Chuck Muth." The link to listen in is... http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/srv1.asx You can catch previous interviews on "Always Right" by visiting our archives at: http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/pgs/archives-fr.htm ***************************************** I Don't Want Him, You Can Have Him "The more of Bill Clinton we can have, the better." - Joel Ferguson, member of the Democrat National Committee, on the hiring of two black former Clintonites in an effort to diffuse a racial revolt in the party after the DNC got caught trying to fire 10 black staffers, Washington Times, 6/20/03 ***************************************** Bye-Bye Living History "Conservative author Ann Coulter has dethroned Hillary Clinton on the Amazon.com bestseller list, even though her latest blockbuster 'Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism,' isn't due to be released for another four days. As of Friday morning, Coulter's 368-page tome had rocketed to the number three position on the Amazon list, with Mrs. Clinton's 'Living History' trailing in fourth place." - NewsMax.com, 6/20/03 ***************************************** Oh, Boy...Let's Be Like the French, OK? "All those countries the president insulted on his way into Iraq--they all have health insurance." - Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean ***************************************** Man Without a Home Ralph Nader is mulling yet another quixotic bid for president in 2004, but if the Green Party tells him to take a hike, he says he may consider running as a Republican and challenge W in the GOP primaries. We're quaking in our boots. ***************************************** Hail Arizonans! Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, has introduced legislation that would cut the United States' dues to the United Nations from $341 million a year to around $100 million. Well, it's a start. Also, it's another Arizona, Rep. John Shadegg who has introduced the latest version of the "Enumerated Powers Act," which would require "each Act of Congress to contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that Act." An idea whose time is WAY overdue. Thanks to everyone who helped track this down for me. I'm SURE you'll be hearing more on this topic in the days, weeks and months to come. ***************************************** Another Slap at the Boy Scouts "California judges who belong to the Boy Scouts must disqualify themselves from cases in which they appear to be biased because of the organization's policy of excluding homosexuals, according to new rules (drafted by the California Supreme Court) announced Tuesday." - San Francisco Chronicle, 6/19/03 ************************************ 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. ***************************************** Brits Tell Waffle-heads to Shove It "Belgium said yesterday it has received lawsuits against President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair under a war crimes law granting its courts universal jurisdiction. . . . Britain immediately said it would discard the lawsuits and take no further action on it." - "World Scene," Washington Times, 6/20/03 ***************************************** Dems vs. Dems Over WMDs "If the Bush administration was wrong about Saddam's WMD (weapons of mass destruction) program, so, too, was just about everybody else, including U.N. inspectors, the French, the Germans, the Russians, and the Chinese, all of whom accepted prior evidence of such a program as beyond doubt." - Democrat Leadership Council memo, 6/16/03 ***************************************** Ignoring Iraq's Killing Fields "There is something obscene about the rising clamor for evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. . . . It is not only that for a dozen years there has been international agreement that Saddam Hussein's regime had these weapons and, in some instances, used them. It is what we have already found in abundance throughout Iraq that makes the sniping contemptible, namely: mass graves, torture chambers, hidden prisons. "The hubbub over the missing weapons of mass destruction, attendant as it is with the suggestion that Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush are liars, has gotten more attention than the existence of these grisly killing fields and of instruments of torture." - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. ***************************************** Libertarians Join Bush-Is-a-Liar Chorus "Congressional hearings into the Bush administration's claims about Iraq's weapons program are a waste of time, Libertarians say, because the public already knows that presidents routinely lie or exaggerate to justify waging war." - Libertarian Party news release, 6/20/03 ****************************************** Free Press: You Get What You Pay For "A few years from now, the current national reporting and commentary will be seen to be utterly blind to the reality of our times. In the 19 months since September 11, we have fought two wars and authorized the reorganization of much of our government. France has arisen in an attempt to lead the Third World and Europe in explicit opposition to America. Confidence in the efficacy of the United Nations has shriveled. NATO is divided and adrift. "...At such a moment, the national media is focused on four national topics: (1) whether President Bush precisely described the exact level of certainty he subjectively felt about Saddam's possession of weapons of mass destruction; (2) whether, two months after major combat has finished, a country that has not known a semblance of even vaguely representative government in its 5,000 year history, and whose religious and ethnic sub-groups are being manipulated by most of its neighbors, is a functioning democracy - or if there is still some disarray; (3) whether the wife of the former president has written an accurate memoir; and (4) whether a man in California killed his wife. "We do have a free press. But as Oscar Wilde once observed, we are overcharged for everything these days." - Columnist Tony Blankley ****************************************** Simple Message on Tax Cuts "The push to give child tax credits to people who don't pay income taxes is a blatant attempt by those who believe taxes and government spending are too low to buy votes with another special-interest program. Republican legislators need to stick to a simple message: Tax cuts are for people who pay taxes." - Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute ***************************************** Yer Publik Skools in the Nation's Capital "The District of Columbia's schoolchildren rank as the worst readers in the country and only slightly better in some grades than non-English-speaking children in the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa, according to a new national report." - Washington Times, 6/20/03 ***************************************** Breaking the Back of the Gov't School Monopoly "As more parents opt for home-schooling, public schools will grow increasingly nervous. Home-schooling's financial impact on public schools can be significant. If thousands of students are home-schooling in a school district, it stands to lose millions of dollars in revenue. And with every additional home-schooled student, the public education monopoly is eroded a little further, and control over children's academic and social development shifts away from the state and back to the family unit. "So despite home-schooling's outstanding academic track record, we can expect persistent opposition from the establishment, sometimes reaching the point of policemen and social workers at home-schoolers' homes threatening to snatch away their children." - Columnist David Limbaugh ***************************************** Not All Threats Are Created Equal "I read the article you referenced on the Bryants and home schooling and found the following quote by the Department of Social Services spokesman interesting: 'The ultra-conservatives and Bible-thumpers have inundated us with threats and phone calls. No one deserves to be threatened,' said (Denise) Montero.' "Hmm... No one deserves to be threatened? Except, perhaps, the Bryants for refusing to succumb to the will of the state. Thanks for bringing this story to our attention." - News & Views reader Mike Reed ***************************************** Gov't School Tests and Homeschoolers "Many people misunderstand the reason why homeschoolers don't want their children to take standardized school tests. A public school pupil can do very well on tests by blindly memorizing the 'correct' material. Not blindly following the curriculum, homeschoolers aren't preparing for the standardized test ... they are preparing for 'a good life.' "Homeschoolers don't 'teach to the test' as is done in government schools, because their home curriculum is different from the public school's ideas about what is important. Homeschoolers teach their kids how to think about information, analyze it, and search the published material and the Internet to find out what they need to know about a subject. Knowing where to look and how to look ... being thrilled to learn new stuff every day ... is more important than memorizing the pap that some school board thinks is important." - News & Views reader John DeLasaux ****************************************** Affordable Campaign Websites! Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. That's right...just ten smackeroos a month. Here's what's included in this fantastic new program from Campaign Secrets, Inc. (available ONLY to Republican candidates): * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing * Unlimited Edits * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer Campaign Site Builder can be used for political organizations and non-profits, as well. 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