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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... Does anyone in their right mind really think that the problems at the post office are a lack of diversity, affirmative action, quotas and racial set-asides? Hint: I said �in their right mind.� Find out how Congress has slipped some of these politically correct provisions into the House postal reform bill. This...and more...in today�s edition of �Goin� Postal,� posted on our News & Views EXTRA page at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm. _____________________________________ PAGING JOHN GALT �The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. . . . (T)he doers, are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers. Those who have created nothing have maintained a constant barrage of criticism of those who created something, because that something was considered not good enough, or the benefits turned out to have costs. �...Doctors and hospitals have helped, but much of the improvement in our health has been due to pharmaceutical drugs that keep us from having to go to hospitals and have enabled doctors to head off many serious medical problems. �Yet the people who produce pharmaceutical drugs have been under heated political attack for years - attacks that often do not let the facts get in their way. . . . People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance. �...As for computers, no one made them more usable by more people around the world than Microsoft. And no one has been hit with more or bigger lawsuits as a result. �Why can't the talkers leave the doers alone?� - Columnist Thomas Sowell 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 FORMER FIRST NAPPERS �Chuck: After I got over the disgust of the Clintons' behavior (dozing off during President Reagan�s memorial service at the Cathedral), I tried to find some humor, as The Gipper would have.� I had to laugh as I looked again at the picture of the Clintons at his funeral.� This is probably the first time they�ve slept together in a long time!!� � - News & Views reader Jocelynn Bailey of Clifton, VA PREZ JUST SAYS �NO� TO NANCY REAGAN �The White House rejected calls Monday from Ronald Reagan's family and others to relax President Bush's restrictions on stem-cell research in pursuit of potential cures for illnesses. Bush signed an executive order in August 2001 that limited federal help to financing stem cell research on 78 embryonic stem cell lines then in existence. Because day-old embryos are destroyed when stem cells are extracted, the process is opposed by some conservatives who link it to abortion. . . . Nancy Reagan has long argued that using stem cells from embryos could lead to cures for a number of diseases like the Alzheimer's that afflicted her husband.� - Associated Press, 6/14/04 GIVING A DIME ABOUT REAGAN�S LEGACY �Grover Norquist, the tireless chairman of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, says that Reagan's death will revive efforts to put his likeness on half the dimes minted each year, while keeping FDR's visage on the other half. Mr. Norquist says former First Lady Nancy Reagan only rejected an earlier attempt by Rep. Mark Souder of Indiana to replace Franklin D. Roosevelt on all 10-cent pieces. �This is different, we continue to recognize Roosevelt but we also honor the other most honored president of the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan,� he says. Unlike changing pictures on currency, which requires Congressional approval, the Bush administration could issue an executive order that would put a likeness of Reagan on any percentage of dimes it chose. A similar executive order put FDR on the dime within a year of his death.� - John Fund, Political Diary, 6/8/04 PAYBACK�S A... Justice often occurs in unlikely places. This time in Mississippi...the Lawsuit Capital of the World (or close to it). Kimberly Banks burned herself while cooking earlier this year. She had some scars from the third-degree burns which she wanted removed. So she went to see Dr. Michael Kanosky, a plastic surgeon, on Wednesday. Thinking he recognized the last name, Dr. Kanosky asked Kimberly who her father was. Turns out he�s Earle Banks. As in State Rep. Earle Banks, Jackson Democrat. So Dr. Kanosky told Ms. Banks to take a hike. Politely, of course...offering her a list of other doctors who might be willing to treat her (http://cbs2.com/national/RefusedTreatment-aa/resources_news_html). OK, here�s why: Dr. Kanosky said he wouldn�t treat Ms. Banks �because your father is against tort reform.� Bravo, Dr. Kanosky! Malpractice insurance costs for doctors is sky-rocketing due to all these often-frivolous lawsuits, forcing many doctors to abandon their practices. Banks has voted against tort reform legislation to provide some relief to doctors. Now, bear in mind the good doctor elected not to provide COSMETIC, not life-saving, surgery...and did offer alternative practitioners for Ms. Banks to contact...so don�t let the liberals try to tell you this was a cold, heartless act. It was a doggone effective and ethical act of political protest. Of course, Ms. Banks intends to file a complaint against Dr. Kanosky. She�ll probably even sue him. Any bets? REAGAN�S LAW �Realize that the doctor�s fight against socialized medicine is your fight. You can�t socialize the doctors without socializing the patients.� - Ronald Reagan READY...FIRE...AIM! Two years ago, New Mexico Republicans circled up the firing squad and resoundingly shot themselves in the collective foot by ousting John Dendahl, one of the more effective and combative state party chairmen in the country at the time. They replaced him with a clueless gal who went through executive directors like Liz Taylor goes through husbands...and who garnered such little confidence in her ability to run the show that the Bush/Cheney folks had to set up a separate organization for their campaign in New Mexico instead of working with the state party. Following this senseless act of political suicide, New Mexico Republicans again drank the Kool-Aid last weekend and ousted their highly effective conservative National Committeeman, Mickey Barnett. Barnett�s crime: Backing strong, credible conservative Republican candidates in primaries...even against incumbent RINOs. Talk about stupid is as stupid does. No wonder New Mexico�s Democrat governor, Bill Richardson, has that huge bird-eating grin on his face all the time. His GOP opponents these days are the political equivalent of the Keystone Kops. BONG HITS AND PANTY RAIDS Although our interest in Nathan Tabor has waned along with his prospects for even being nominally considered a credible candidate in the North Carolina District 5 congressional race, we received an email last week which we just couldn�t pass up. The sender, who requested anonymity due to the Tabor family�s penchant for filing lawsuits, relates his first-hand experiences with the SoyBoy Playboy. And I gotta tell ya, it squares with exactly the impression we have of the kid: A spoiled little Richie Rich hypo-Christian. �He put up a good little Christian boy act around his parents,� writes this former college classmate, �but when their back was turned he was doing bong hits, dropping acid, and trying to get in the pants of anybody he could.� Even guys? You can read the full expose on the �Tabor Tales� page at www.tabortales.com I SPY Joe was traveling through Mexico on vacation when, lo and behold, he lost his wallet and all identification. Cutting his trip short, he attempts to make his way home but is stopped by the Customs Agent at the border. "May I see your identification, please?" asks the agent. "I'm sorry, but I lost my wallet," replies the guy. "Sure, buddy, I hear that every day. No ID, no crossing the border," says the agent. "But I can prove that I'm an American!" he exclaims. "I have a picture of Ronald Reagan tattooed on one butt cheek and a picture of George Bush on the other." "This I gotta see," replies the agent. With that, Joe drops his pants and bends over in front of the agent. "By golly, you're right!" exclaims the agent. "Go on home to Boston." "Thanks!" Joe says. "But how did you know I was from Boston?" The agent replies, "I recognized the picture of John Kerry in the middle." - Forwarded by a News & Views reader * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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