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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 _____________________________________ CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR �The CA state legislature is trying to make it a crime if you smoke in a car with kids. You know, I need to find someone to propose a law that would make it a crime if you don't cover your face when you sneeze or cough. That makes more sense. I mean, if someone has TB, that's how it is passed. So shouldn't there be a fine? Could you just see the health police in kindergarten classes citing 5-year-olds?� - News & Views reader Lynda Rose McMahan SURVEY SAYS! Three California high school teachers have been suspended for allowing students in their classroom to view the execution video of American Nick Berg. One 14-year-old remarked to the San Diego Tribune, �You can watch things about the Holocaust. Why can�t you watch this?� 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 WHY GEPHARDT WON�T BE JFK�S VP �...(Dick) Gephardt served in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam era, 1965-71 to be exact. There's no reason to doubt that he served honorably, but then so did President Bush, and Kerry and others in his party have been implying that Air National Guard service is tantamount to dodging the draft (or even desertion, in the case of a Wesley Clark supporter). Given this, they can't very well put an Air National Guard veteran on the ticket, can they?� - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 5/18/04 KISS OF DEATH �In an interview on Melbourne's 3AW radio, Gene Simmons used his elongated tongue to speak his mind on Muslim extremists. The Kiss bass player said Muslim women have to walk behind their men and are not allowed to be educated or own homes. . . . �This is a vile culture,� the Israeli-born rocker said. �And if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit, you've got another thing coming. They want to come and live right where you live, and they think that you're evil.� Simmons also asserted that the United Nations' approach did not work and the West had to �speak softly and carry a big stick.� � -Left Coast Report, 5/18/04 THE REVIEWS ARE IN! The big hit at the Cannes Film Festival? �No surprise here,� writes talk show host Neal Boortz.� �It's Michael Moore's �Fahrenheit 9/11,� an anti-Bush screed from the hyper-liberal who developed a compilation of lies and half-truths called �Bowling for Columbine� that thrilled the Hollywood crowd mightily.� Drudge was reporting yesterday that Moore's hit-piece drew the longest standing ovation in the history of the film festival.� �This is supposed to be news?� Hey, folks.� Cannes, in case you didn't know, is in France!� And the people who are swarming around that place, especially in the showings, are the Hollywood elite!� Of COURSE they're going to jump to their feet and applaud anything that denigrates Bush, America, or our efforts to make the world safe from Islamofascist terrorism.� If you're surprised that Michael Moore received a standing ovation from THAT crowd, you need to increase your dosages.� A DYING BREED �Today, at the national level, 212 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, 42 Republican senators and one Republican president have signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge against any tax increase. No Republican in Congress has voted for a tax hike since 1990. And, in the past three years, a Republican House, Senate and president have cut taxes three times. . . . The future of the Republican Party belongs to those who vote for lower taxes. Republican tax hikers are a dying breed.� - Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, USA Today, 5/17/04 SMOKE-EATERS FOR BUSH �Citzens United, a U.S. political group Monday launched a Web-based ad campaign featuring firefighters praising President George W. Bush's war on terror. . . . �Every firefighter in the nation personally felt the tragedy on (Sept. 11) and President Bush has stood by first-responders' sides first by fighting for record-level funding and secondly promising to defeat the terrorists responsible,� said David Bossie, the president of the conservative grassroots group and a 15-year volunteer firefighter. The ad can be seen by going to the group's Web site at citizensunited.org.� - UPI, 5/17/04 IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE The Capital Research Center has charged that the New York Times was "grossly derelict in not disclosing -- or even bothering to investigate -- the well-known activities" of supposedly nonpolitical people quoted in a front-page story on the new Medicare discount card. The article by John Leland, entitled "73 Options for Medicare Plan Fuel Chaos, Not Prescriptions," quotes two seniors, Mildred Fruhling and Sidney Bild, as strident critics of the card.� Both are presented as typical seniors. But both seniors have well-known histories of political activism.� For example, they both appeared in a 2004 anti-Medicare reform video produced by the liberal partisan group Families USA. As CRC notes, a simple google search would have uncovered the pair�s obvious bias. OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE There�s been a lot of outrageous rhetoric coming from a number of so-called religious leaders since Monday�s start of legal gay marriages in Massachusetts, but this one takes the cake: �Like mile markers in time, certain calendar dates stand in memory as not only historic, but momentous,� writes R. Albert Mohler Jr. for the Baptist Press on Monday. �Dates like Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001, represent far more than mere days on a calendar. Now, May 17, 2004, must be added to that list.� And you wonder why so many people don�t take people like Mohler seriously on this issue? Comparing gay marriage to the Japanese sneak attack at Pearl Harbor and the terrorist sneak attack against the World Trade Center/Pentagon in which thousands died? What�s next? Blaming gays for the September 11 attacks in the first place? Oh. That�s right. Never mind. THE VICE-PRESIDENT�S WIFE FREE event this Friday in Rapid City, SD. Join Lynn Cheney at a lunchtime rally for Republican congressional candidate Larry Diedrich, who is vying to replace Rep. Bill Janklow in a special election to be held on June 1st. Photo opportunity also available for $250 donation to the Diedrich campaign. For additional information, call (605) 343-1948. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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