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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... The Senate has scheduled a July vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment which would ban gay marriages nationwide regardless of what the people or their elected representatives in any individual given state might want to do. So much for states rights...or even independent thought. One GOP congressional candidate actually said this week he supports FMA because George Bush told him to, �Regardless of whether it conflicts with philosophy and states' rights.� Lovely. Real profile in courage there, huh? Anyway, catch the latest �Lawfully Wedded� FMA update posted today on our News & Views EXTRA page at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm. _____________________________________ THE PERFECT CANDIDATE �Several recent writers have encouraged readers to consider Nathan Tabor as the candidate to represent the 5th District (North Carolina). So I went to his Web site. . . . One hundred and fifty years ago he would have made an excellent candidate for the Know-Nothing Party.� - Michael Streich, Winston-Salem Journal, 6/17/04 SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT �This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda." - President Bush on Thursday FOREIGN BABES FOR BUSH "(Bill) Clinton had a lot of tea parties with celebrities, but (right after) his term, somebody flew two planes into the Twin Towers. What do you want -- somebody who keeps your children safe or somebody who throws nice tea parties? . . . If I could, I would vote for Bush. He has done what needed to be done because if Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden had their way, none of us would be around in 10 years." - Rachel Hunter - actress, former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, New Zealand citizen and ex-wife of rocker Rod Stewart - in an interview with the World Entertainment News Network CAN�T ANYONE DRIVE A STAKE THRU THIS PROGRAM�S HEART? �In votes Wednesday, the House...approved an amendment by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., adding $10 million to the National Endowment for the Arts' budget, bringing its total to $131 million.� - Associated Press, 6/17/04 OUR KINGDOM FOR A VETO PEN �To date, Mr. Bush hasn't vetoed a single spending bill, no matter how pork-laden. This is a shame because the government is needlessly spending billions of dollars on programs we do not need, cannot afford and that do not work.� - Columnist Donald Lambro BUMMER: BAPTISTS CHICKEN OUT Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting have rejected a proposal which would have asked all Baptist parents to withdraw children from the public system in favor of home-schooling or Christian school. MOORE MISINFORMATION Former Alabama chief justice Roy �Ten Commandments� Moore testified before the Senate Judiciary sub-committee on the Constitution last week, complaining that, �We have the federal courts coming into our states telling us we cannot acknowledge God.� Actually, Moore DOES raise a legitimate constitutional question as to whether or not federal judges have proper jurisdiction to rule on certain matters which would appear to be reserved to the states, despite the 14th Amendment. HOWEVER� The federal judge who ruled against Moore did NOT say people weren�t allowed to acknowledge God. Moore�s contention otherwise is simply rubbish. The judge ruled that Moore, an official government employee, could not erect and display a 2 1/2 ton granite monument to a religious doctrine - not God - and display it under klieg lights in the rotunda of a public courthouse. Although Moore DOES have an arguable point regarding constitutional jurisdiction, he continually undermines his credibility by incessantly mischaracterizing the dispute as being over �acknowledging God.� I mean, if you have to constantly mislead the public to make your point, how valid is your point in the first place? It�s a shame. This is a constitutional issue which deserves further discussion. But not with Roy Moore. Not if he can�t play it straight. He ought to re-read the commandment about lying. CROSSING THE ACLU A war memorial dedicated to World War I veterans - which happens to include an 8-foot cross - was constructed in the Mojave National Preserve out in California way back in 1934. I�m sure you can guess what�s happened? Yup. Some numb-nut former park service employee with nothing better to do with his miserable life, objected to the memorial and went whining to the ACLU...which, of course, sued to have the cross removed under the ridiculous argument that it was an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. Last Monday, the 9th Circus Court of Appeals sided with the ACLU. Go figure. Judge Moore at one extreme. The ACLU at the other. What a toxic pair. ONLY IN GOV�T COULD THIS MAKE SENSE Montgomery County (MD) school officials announced a crackdown on folks sending their kids to Montgomery County schools who don�t legally live in Montgomery County. They say it�s costing Montgomery County taxpayers money to educate kids coming from neighboring cities and counties who are not legal residents of Montgomery County. It�s estimated that some 2,000 illegal students from other cities and counties will not be allowed to attend Montgomery County schools when they reopen in the fall if their parents can�t prove they legally live in Montgomery County. Now here�s the kicker... Montgomery County public school officials announced last week that they would NOT report to federal authorities illegal aliens living in Montgomery County who they discover through their residency verification program. To recap: Montgomery County school officials will NOT allow Americans who don�t live in Montgomery County legally to go to their schools, but they WILL let foreigners who don�t even live in this COUNTRY legally to go to their schools. Makes perfect sense to us. STUPIDITY VIRUS CURED IN GRASONVILLE Do you remember the Brushfire Alert we sent out about the 11-year-old kid who included a steak knife in a box of things he took to his government school in Maryland as part of a class project illustrating what one would take on a camping trip? If so, you�ll recall that the bozos running Grasonville Elementary School suspended the boy for violating the school�s �zero tolerance� policy for weapons. Well, good news (for a change). School superintendent Bernard Sadusky overturned the suspension this week, rightly noting that no threat had been made by the boy and there was never any intent to harm. Such brazen common-sense. What do you want to bet Sadusky gets taken to the woodshed next? BUYING VOTES WITH YOUR MONEY �John Kerry is getting more specific with some of his spending plans when the people of this country actually make him our president.� Yesterday he came out with a plan to increase the child care tax credit from $3,000 to $5,000.� What's more, he plans to extend the eligibility for this credit to people who have no job whatsoever. . . . He wants to extend this income redistribution program to single mothers who don't work!� In plain language this means that the government would simply write a $5,000 check to every single, non-working mother out there every year and call it a �tax credit.�� Can't you just see these women stampeding to the polls in November to vote for Kerry!� For $5,000 untaxed dollars a year ... why the hell not?� - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 6/17/04 MAGIC CARPET RIDE Going after the president on Iraq hasn�t worked...despite obvious recent setbacks. Nor has attacking him on the economy...which is picking up nicely, thank you very much. Nor jobs...which are multiplying like rabbits. So what�s a Democrat presidential candidate to do? Well, if you�re the desperate campaign of John Kerry, you attack the president over...carpet? Yup. The Kerryites are having a cow this week over the cost of erecting a platform, complete with red carpet, for President Bush�s 60th anniversary D-Day address commemorating the sacrifice of American and allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy. One�s almost tempted to suggest the Kerry whining over this is...unpatriotic. FAHREN-HYPE 911 First, Disney told Michael Moore they wouldn�t distribute his propaganda muckumentary blasting President Bush over the September 11 terror attacks. Then Moore lied about it. Now he has a new distributor. But he also has a new problem. Due to the film�s �violent and disturbing images and for language,� Fahrenheit 911 has received an R rating by the Motion Picture Association. This is likely to tamp down sales, so the Moore-on has hired former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a true liberal�s liberal, to file an appeal in hopes of changing the rating before the Bush-whacking movie hits theaters on June 25. Whatever. Real Americans won�t go see it no matter what the rating is. BUSHWHACKING FROM THE RIGHT �The Thomas Dunne imprint of St. Martin's Press has agreed to pay around $500,000 to Pat Buchanan for an anti-Dubya book to be called �Where the Right Went Wrong.� . . . Publishing insiders say Buchanan's thoughts on the 43rd president are surprisingly out of character. �They could put Michael Moore on the jacket of this book, and people would believe he wrote it,� one said. . . . �Where the Right Went Wrong� is scheduled to go on sale in early August, to coincide with the start of the Republican National Convention - at which Buchanan will be a commentator for MSNBC.� - New York Post, 6/17/04 Rx ROULETTE �Ryan Haight was a 16-year-old honor roll student in La Mesa, Calif. He took advanced placement classes and was active in sports. On Feb. 12, 2001, he died from a mixture of hydrocodone, morphine, Valium and Oxazepam (an anti-anxiety drug). Ryan obtained those narcotics from Internet pharmacies. For some of the drugs, he didn't have a prescription. Others he got from a doctor he never met. Ryan's tragic story illustrates just how dangerous ordering drugs on the Internet can be. �...Surely we don't want to play what some correctly call �Rx Roulette� with the health of American consumers by blindly ignoring real safety concerns about the drugs we allow to be imported from the vast unregulated Internet pharmacy. Ignoring those concerns can have tragic consequences, like the story of Ryan Haight.� - Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota Republican, Wall Street Journal, 6/17/04 REAGAN & STEM CELL RESEARCH �It is another pretty sure bet that President Reagan, who was staunchly pro-life, had he not been incapacitated by Alzheimer�s disease, would have supported President Bush�s stand restricting the use of live human embryos or aborted fetuses for stem cell research. Nancy Reagan, however, who has become convinced that stem cell research can eventually lead to a cure for Alzheimer�s, wants those restrictions relaxed in the belief that this will hasten progress toward a cure for Alzheimer�s and other neurological diseases such as Parkinson�s. Had her husband not been afflicted with Alzheimer�s it is doubtful that she would have become so intimately involved in the issue.� - Former Reagan press secretary Lyn Nofziger, �Musings,� 6/17/04 GOV�T VS. PRIVATE MONEY �President Bush has never said that fetal stem cells cannot be used for research. He said �federal money� cannot be used to fund such research. If leading scientists believed fetal stem-cell research would prove to be so fruitful in curing Alzheimer's, why is the private money not pouring in hand over fist? Do you realize how many billions a cure for Alzheimer's would be worth, let alone all the other cures some are claiming fetal stem-cell research would lead to? Forget Alzheimer's -- do you know how much middle-aged men would pay for a GENUINE baldness cure?� - Columnist Ann Coulter * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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