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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Mexico City) is desperate to keep his congressional seat...and apparently if he has to break a few laws in the process, well so be it. With a week to go before his GOP primary showdown with conservative challenger Matt Throckmorton, Cannon has chickened out on a challenge to independently confirm his pro-amnesty legislative proposals, has encouraged illegal aliens to contribute illegally to his campaign, and has asked a judge to seal records in a lawsuit (one on MANY) which accuses him of being a deadbeat employer (he is). Read all about it in the latest edition of �Cannon Fodder,� posted on our EXTRA page today at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm. _____________________________________ CHANGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM? �Ronald Reagan's favorite patriotic song was �God Bless America.�� A fitting tribute to Ronald Reagan would be to get rid of that hideous takeoff on an old English drinking song we now use as a national anthem, and replace it with �God Bless America.�� As for those who would object to the word �God� in that song.� Two words.� Screw them.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 6/11/04 NEW SURVEY SAYS! Should the Star Spangled Banner be replaced by God Bless America as our national anthem? * Yes * No Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com THE QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN �This is a man who exemplified - in the face of what became political correctness - what our forefathers had in mind, what America was supposed to be about.� - Carol Williams of Chesterfield, VA, while waiting in line to pay her last respects to Ronald Reagan at the Capitol last week, Washington Times, 6/10/04 SUMMING IT ALL UP �But in the larger sense, there is no truly fitting way to honor Mr. Reagan. Although those who loved him will try, there is no fitting way to say thanks. No procession, no matter how stately, no tribute, no matter how heartfelt, could truly commemorate the man who changed the world in such a profound manner.� - Washington Times editorial WHY NANCY NIXED BUBBA �It was reported earlier this past week that former President Bill Clinton was furious that he had not been invited to speak at the Friday state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan. Clinton, so the story went, felt that the Reagan rites were being 'politicized' and he preferred the Nixon funeral 10 years ago in which both former Democratic and Republican presidents spoke. �In fact, Newsmax.com's John LeBoutillier has learned, it indeed was Nancy Reagan's adamant wish that Bill Clinton NOT speak at her late husband's funeral. . . . A source close to Nancy told LeBoutillier that Mrs. Reagan would have loved to have had the popular Democrat president eulogize her husband - but she did not want the funeral service �sullied� by the man who desecrated one of Ronnie's favorite places: the Oval Office.� - NewsMax.com, 6/14/04 CLINTONS IN ALL THEIR GLORY Praying...or nodding off? You be the judge... http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061104/content/eib_extra.guest.html WAAHHHHH! �Anchormen Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw work for different networks, but agree (on) one thing - coverage of Ronald Reagan�s death has been excessive, they say. . . . �Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it�s very hard to turn it, even slightly,� Mr. Rather said.� - Greg Pierce, �Inside Politics, 6/10/04 FRENCHING AN OUTSPOKEN SEX KITTEN �Here's a tidy little reminder of what life would be like if the politically correct thought police get their way in this country.� French actress Brigitte Bardot was convicted yesterday of inciting racial hatred and ordered to pay $6,000 -- her fourth fine since 1997. And what was her crime? �She wrote a book. �That's right...she was punished in a French court of law for something she wrote in her book. So what did she say?� According to the court, her book �presents Muslims as barbaric and cruel invaders, responsible for terrorist acts and eager to dominate the French to the extent of wanting to exterminate them.�� Obviously, truth isn't a defense when it comes to free speech in France.� It sounds like the old sex kitten adequately described Al-Qaeda. �This is what life is going to be like in this country when the leftist, hyper-compassionate elites get their way. They want to criminalize thought and criminalize what they classify as �hate speech.�� It's the same thing with hate crimes...punishing someone for what they were thinking at the time they committed a crime is a slippery slope.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 6/11/04 HECK, IT�S ONLY TAX DOLLARS �Hoping to cut down on deaths of illegal border crossers this summer, the federal government will launch a $13 million pilot program to fly illegal aliens back home rather than escort them to the frontier,� reported WorldNetDaily.com on Friday. Gee, why don�t we tuck �em in and leave a mint on their pillows, as well? THE NEW ZEALAND MODEL �In a lecture at (Hillsdale College) on February 11, 2004, Maurice P. McTigue, a former New Zealand cabinet minister, outlined his government�s educational reforms. . . . They have done nothing less than break up the public school monopoly. . . . Where did they start? They did not tinker at the edges of the problem. . . . . They �immediately eliminated all of the boards of education in the country...(and advised) the parents that they had an absolute right to choose where their children would got to school. . . . (They) converted 4,500 schools to this new system on the same day.�� - Columnist James K. Fitzpatrick, 6/10/04 SEPARATION ANXIETY IN TEXAS �Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man,� said son Ron Reagan Jr. at his father�s sunset funeral service at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley on Friday. �But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.� Apparently those remarks were blacked out in Texas, as the Texas Republican Party decided to wear its faith on its collective sleeve and stir up a new political holy war less than 24 hours later by adopting the following religious statement into its official party platform at its state convention: �The Republican Party of Texas affirms that the United States of America is a Christian nation...founded on fundamental Judeo-Christian principles based on the Holy Bible.� Good grief. There they go again. While this is a nation whose citizens are primarily Christian (including yours truly), this is decidedly NOT a Christian nation...any more than it is a �white� nation just because the vast majority of its citizens are white. Indeed, the fact that we are NOT a Christian nation was affirmed in official U.S. policy during our founding. You could look it up. The Barbary Treaties were agreed to in Tripoli on November 4, 1796 and ratified by the United States Senate on June 10, 1797. They were signed by one of the Founding Fathers, John Adams, who was President of the United States at the time. Article 11 of the treaty reads, in part: �As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion�� The treaty was adopted unanimously. No debate. No dissension. Case closed. We are a constitutional republic, not a theocracy. Yes, most of us are Christians. But that does not mean most Christians want to live in a Christian version of Iran. We wish to freely practice our religion, not impose it on others. This kind of crusade by the Texas GOP is not helpful and only serves to stir up a religious hornet�s nest unnecessarily. It�s hard to imagine this is something Ronald Reagan, �a deeply, unabashedly religious man,� would cotton to. They ought to knock it off. CHRISTIAN NATION VS. REAGAN COUNTRY The Texas GOP adopted a party platform plank over the weekend stating that this is a �Christian nation,� sparking a whole new brouhaha over the proper separation between church and state. Do you agree with the Texas party resolution? Is it helpful to inflame Christian religious passions here in America at the same time the U.S. is fighting radical Islamic passions around the world? And shouldn�t a political party worry about politics and let the churches worry about religion? Is this an issue and a fight that Ronald Reagan would have embraced? 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