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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... “The reason we can’t find a relationship between the Constitution and the (present) government is that there is none,” declared Michael Badnarik in accepting the Libertarian Party nomination on Sunday. Many of you have expressed an interest in learning more about Mr. Badnarik. His website can be found at http://www.badnarik.org/ and you can send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if you missed my invaluable “free advice” to Mr. Badnarik in yesterday’s News & Views, I’ve reprinted it today on the News & Views EXTRA page...which you can read by going to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ FIRST THEY CAME FOR BOOZE, THEN CIGARETTES, AND NOW... “Advertisements for junk food are to be banned during children’s television programs in Britain in an attempt by the government to reduce obesity in the young,” reports the London Sunday Telegraph. Actually, if they really want to reduce obesity in the young, they wouldn’t stop at banning junk food...they’d ban television. Oops. I shouldn’t give them any ideas! Then again...maybe I should. THANK GOD “Al Gore is proving to be the most irrelevant comically absurd former vice president since Spiro Agnew. This blustering ‘Saturday Night Live’ caricature is no longer a serious political figure. . . . Sean Hannity appropriately called for a moment of prayer in the opening of his radio show yesterday to thank God Al Gore isn’t running the country.” - Columnist Barbara Comstock, National Review Online AWARD-WINNING AIRHEADS “Michael Moore is a celebrity propagandist puffed up by a culture of sycophants long on emotion and short on intellect. . . . The likes of Barbra Streisand and Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Michael Moore see themselves as thinkers. Intoxicated with celebrity status, they confuse their talent for fantasy with real-life significance. The prizes they win say more about the prize-givers than about the fantasizers they celebrate.” - Columnist Suzanne Fields WASTE OF MONEY “…(T)he cost of these dumb conventions beginning July 26 for the Democrats and August 30 for the Republicans will be enough to cut a big hunk out of the national debt or, better yet, considerably lower the poverty rate in the United States.” - Columnist Dan Thomasson IT’S THE FEDS, STUPID “Many states are having trouble accepting the changes the No Child Left Behind Act mandates. . . . (O)ne of the bigger problems this group has with NCLB is that it is federal legislation and therefore creates federal control over the education system of each state.” - Columnist Frank Salvato SURVEY SAYS! Do you agree with the 9th Circuit Court decision telling the federal government it can’t block voter-approved assisted suicide in the state of Oregon? * Yes * No * Not Sure Cast your vote by clicking the “Survey Says!” tab at www.citizenoutreach.com TIME TO BECOME PRO-CHOICE “The state of public schooling in general these days is nothing to boast about, but for black and Hispanic kids in particular, it is shocking. Disparities in education have become so pronounced, as the scholars Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom have shown, that the average black high school senior today is less competent in reading, math, and history than the average white 8th-grader. “...“By now it is obvious that spending even more money and hiring even more teachers isn't going bring about the equality that (Brown vs. Board of Education) called for. Neither will shifting students around on the basis of skin color, as decades of forced busing certainly proved. Mandatory testing hasn't led to equality, Head Start hasn't led to equality, and huge federal mandates like No Child Left Behind are not likely to lead to equality either. “So maybe it's time to try a *really* radical reform: choice. “...The public education system is essentially a monopoly, and like most monopolies, it wastes money, performs indifferently, and doesn't much care if its customers -- American mothers and fathers -- are satisfied. But give those mothers and fathers the same freedom of choice when it comes to their kids' education that they have when it comes to their kids' shoes or dinner, and all of that would change. “State and local governments should stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars to run public schools directly. Instead they should spend the money on vouchers that would let parents freely choose the schools their children attend. Education would still be compulsory. It would still be publicly financed. But no longer would it be the inferior, one-size-fits-all product of sclerotic government bureaucracies.” - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby WELL, NO WONDER “It’s no wonder it takes eighth-graders several attempts to pass the U.S. Constitution test. They are too busy learning about the rights of homosexual foreign terrorists who are petitioning the U.N. to condemn the United States for not embracing an entitlement program for illegal immigrants who want abortions performed by non-English speaking graduates of colleges favoring affirmative action.” - Columnist Frank Salvato LIB-RADIO IN THE TOILET “Remember back when the Liberal Talk Radio Network was announced? There was more press for this radio network that had 3 stations on it than probably any other radio network has ever received. The media has ignored talk radio for years, but suddenly they took an incredible interest in ‘the answer to conservative talk radio.’ Well it's been downhill ever since. In fact, it's gone into the toilet so fast, it's rather astonishing. “...Liberal radio failed for the same reason it usually does: there's no audience for it. To be sure, they drew some interest in their first month ... with all the press coverage how could they not? But advertisers don't put their money into train wrecks. In this case, sheer incompetence hastened their departure. I wonder if the media will cover their demise as heavily as they did their debut? I doubt it.” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/31/04 CAMEL’S NOSE The new prescription drug cards haven’t even hit mailboxes yet, and already AARP is yammering for ‘more.’ This is what happens when conservatives go along to get along with new government programs which are ‘small.’ Liberals consider such things as nothing more than opening bids. Once the camel gets his nose under the tent, it’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose. America will be paying (literally) for this new prescription drug entitlement for a long time...maybe until we finally go broke. And although the Bush administration and (most) Republicans in Congress are ultimately responsible for the slippery prescription drug slope they put us on, blame the greedy AARP for stoking the flames and not being satisfied until a full-blown HillaryCare monstrosity is foisted upon the American public. A lot of people like AARP because they think the organization is good to old folks. But AARP is really a cancer on our way of life and I hope the public wakes up to their socialistic agenda...before it’s too late (if it isn’t already). TODAY ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD Two-year-old Ryshawn Lamar Bynum “died of a brain injury and had a broken neck, broken ribs and as many as 70 whip marks on his legs, buttocks, back and chest that were of various ages,” reported the Oregonian (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1086004710123410.xml) on Monday. The boy’s African-American father, Issac Bynum, has been charged with the murder, and it appears to be an open-and-shut case. No doubt that the man did it. Enter an assistant professor at the Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work. Joy DeGruy-Leary has invented something she calls “post traumatic slave syndrome” and Bynum’s lawyer intends to use her theory to argue “in a general way” that since masters beat their slaves, little Ryshawn’s father was justified in beating his son to death. “DeGruy-Leary testified this month in Washington County Circuit Court that African Americans today are affected by past centuries of U.S. slavery because the original slaves were never treated for the trauma of losing their homes; seeing relatives whipped, raped and killed; and being subjugated by whites,” reports the Oregonian. “Because African Americans as a class never got a chance to heal and today still face racism, oppression and societal inequality, they suffer from multigenerational trauma, says DeGruy-Leary, who is African American. Self-destructive, violent or aggressive behavior often results, she says.” AGAINST A TWO-YEAR-OLD? Slavery from over 100 years ago is a reason to beat a toddler to death today? Am I the only one who wants to beat DeGruy-Leary for coming up with this ridiculous defense of the indefensible? Join the Discussion Board on this subject by surfing over to: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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