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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... America�s current energy problem isn�t for want of crude oil...it�s for want of refining capacity. We haven�t built a new refinery in this country for decades. Why? Environmental extremism. Read all about the sky-is-falling chicken little enviro-wackos and how to bring balance between the environment and modern-day living on Planet Earth in our new publication �Hot Air� - debuting today on our News & Views EXTRA page at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ SEPTEMBER 11 AMERICANS �Like Pearl Harbor, Sept. 11 steeled our resolve to defend America - but for some, only temporarily. . . . I believe there are two very distinct groups of Americans now: the Sept. 10 Americans, who are in denial, and the Sept. 11 Americans. . . . I am a Sept. 11 American. I know the world has changed and that Americans must defend America. Everything else we do, everything else we believe, pales in comparison to that duty.� - Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Colorado Republican, Denver Post, 6/4/04 IT�S ALWAYS ALL ABOUT BILL �Former President Bill Clinton has privately expressed anger he has apparently been left off the speakers list of Friday's Reagan State Funeral, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. . . . Clinton's inner circle is convinced Nancy Reagan has personally shut out Clinton from any high-profile participation.� - Drudge Report, 6/8/04 A DIXIE TWIT SOUL-MATE �Controversy ensued during a live concert appearance in Ireland when British music act and ex-Smiths lead singer Morrissey [who?] announced to his fans that former President Ronald Reagan had died. The singer then added that he wished current President George W. Bush had died instead. The concert crowd, attending the event at Dublin Castle, actually cheered upon hearing that Reagan died after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Yet, when Morrissey opined that he wished Bush had died, the crowd allegedly erupted into a tizzy.� - Talon News, 6/8/04 PITIFUL PETTY POLITICS �Back in Washington, staffers at the Democratic National Committee stopped a couple of interns who were lowering the flags to half mast outside their headquarters. �The interns were just doing what they thought was right,� says a DNC staffer, who heard about the incident. �But somebody a bit more senior told them not to lower the flags until they absolutely had to, I guess when President Bush announced that all flags should be lowered. There was only an hour's difference. It was pretty petty, but that's how bad things have gotten around here.� " - �The Prowler,� American Spectator, 6/7/04 KERRY ON REAGAN �My life history is I fought Reagan, fought Nixon, fought the war in Vietnam, fought their struggle against civil rights, and I fought against their tax cuts for the wealthy.� - Sen. John Kerry to the Miami Herald last year during the Democrat presidential primary SPITTING ON REAGAN�S GRAVE �Much of the world remembers Ronald Reagan as a friend and a historic president, but some writers and activists are vilifying the late president. . . . We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military, in which over 200,000 people died,� (actor Danny) Glover said at a Sunday rally in Los Angeles to protest U.S. involvement in Iraq. . . . Christopher Hitchens, in a column for the online journal Slate, said Mr. Reagan was �dumb as a stump� and �a cruel and stupid lizard.� �...Liberal author Greg Palast begins a column on his Web site with, �You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.� Mr. Palast blamed Mr. Reagan for the 1983 terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon. �Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance,� the column ends. �On his Web site, cartoonist Ted Rall said of Mr. Reagan: �I'm sure he's turning crispy brown right about now. . . . A real piece of work, Reagan ruined the federal budget, trashed education, alienated our friends and allies and made us a laughing stock around the world,� wrote Mr. Rall - Washington Times, 6/8/04 TODAY ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD Join the Discussion Board and post your thoughts/memories of Ronald Reagan by surfing over to: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ VINTAGE REAGAN �I thought that remark accusing me of having amnesia was uncalled for. I just wish I could remember who said it." - Ronald Reagan MOUNT REAGAN �Ronald Reagan should not be on Mt. Rushmore.� Ronald� Reagan deserves his own mountain in his own park paid for by donations from the private sector not from the federal government. Mt. Rushmore is not broke.� Do not fix it.� Give Reagan his own park and mountain for he deserves it.� He is the best president this country has ever seen.� - News & Views reader Scott Hollenbeck AN AMERICAN BEACON OF LIBERTY �Mount Rushmore sounds good, but as a back up plan I suggest a huge statue of Reagan to take the place of the Statue of Liberty...which can be sent back to France to remind them that there was a time the French people understood what liberty was all about, and worth fighting for.� - News & Views reader Gary R. McElwee of Hellertown PA LIVING MONUMENT TO THE GIPPER �It's virtually inevitable that, in any given election, we are faced with at least one race in which we have no genuine choice.� Either the office is uncontested (with only a Democrat running) or the Republican candidate is unacceptable to us for one reason or another (ideology, competence, embarrassment, etc.). Let me propose that this November, when we face this situation in a voting booth, we write in the name �Ronald Reagan� for that office wherever write-ins are allowed. This will be an�active, vivid�memorial to our great President and at the same time communicate support for his philosophy of limited government. A national, spontaneous movement to make Ronald Reagan the most written-in name on ballots -- from city council to Congress -- will have a tremendous effect.� � - Columnist Rick Sincere LIMITING GOVERNMENT �There is a proposal in Congress to end subsidized, fixed-rate student loans.� For those of you that were educated in government schools, that means that people who take out student loans will have to pay the going rate for interest, and the government will no longer kick in somebody else's money to pick up the slack.� Good. �Predictably, (John Kerry) has come out against the idea, saying that the plan would harm students.� But why is it the function of the federal government to subsidize student loans and guarantee them?� Why should the taxpayer get the shaft when people default?� Why are we paying to artificially lower the rates on these loans? The federal government should get out of the student loan business entirely.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 6/8/04 GET KID OFF DRUGS...GO TO JAIL? �When Chad Taylor noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he decided to take the boy off the medication. Now, he says he may be accused of child abuse. In February, 12-year-old Daniel began displaying some symptoms that his father suspected were related to the use of Ritalin. So Taylor took Daniel off Ritalin, against his doctor's wishes. �And though Taylor noticed Daniel was sleeping better and his appetite had returned, his teachers complained about the return of his disruptive behavior. Daniel seemed unable to sit still and was inattentive. His teachers ultimately learned that he was no longer taking Ritalin. School officials reported Daniel's parents to New Mexico's Department of Children, Youth and Families. Then a detective and social worker made a home visit. �The detective told me if I did not medicate my son, I would be arrested for child abuse and neglect,� Taylor said.� - ABCNews.com, 6/7/04 PUTTIN� THE HURT ON BOB HURT The following note from News & Views reader Harry A. Madden of Rancho Cordova, CA, is pretty representative of a number of emails I�ve received on this subject: �Chuck: As one Neanderthal to another, why do you keep wasting valuable letters of the alphabet on publishing the mouth-breathing comments of Mr. Bob Hurt, who, in my mind, doesn't qualify even as a pre-hominid?� Hurt isn't a �racist,� he's an idiot.� � I completely understand the sentiment. I guess I occasionally post Hurt�s rantings for a few reasons. One, I�m just incredibly dumbfounded that any form of so-called �intelligent� life could possibly be so stupid. I�m simply amazed that in 21st century America, idiots such as this still exist. Secondly, one doesn�t cure cancer by ignoring it. Bob Hurt�s mentality IS a cancer on humanity. And thirdly, shining a light cockroaches often gets them to scurry back into the woodwork. Regrettably, it doesn�t appear there�s much chance of that happening in this case. Anybody got some �Raid�? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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