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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... There’s a bill before the Senate (S. 2328) which would allow re-importation of prescription drugs from Spain, Portugal, Canada and Greece. And there are some conservatives out there who support this on free-market grounds. Now, if you’re one of those folks you just might want to take a look at who’s backing this bill and then ask yourself if maybe you might not be in the wrong camp. Read all about it in this new “Muth’s Truths” column posted today on our News & Views EXTRA page at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm. _____________________________________ POLITICAL RHETORIC COSTING AMERICAN LIVES “At first I was very depressed and hurt for his family, but then I got angry. Americans need to understand what is going on and unite in this effort to stop terrorism. I don't care if you are conservative, liberal, Democrat or Republican. The name-calling needs to stop, they need to stop calling the president a liar because it is emboldening these people and just making their resolve stronger and they think they are winning. It breaks my heart, this guy was not doing anything but working." - Rick Warren of Lexington, KY, on the beheading of Paul Johnson by al Qaeda terrorists in Saudi Arabia, Washington Times, 6/19/04 TERRORISTS VS. POW’S “Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that he approved the secret detention of a suspected terrorist in Iraq after receiving a request from the CIA. . . . The Geneva Conventions call for prompt registration of the prisoner of war and access by the Red Cross. . . . There's only one problem with all of this: terrorists are not prisoners of war, and thus are not entitled to the protections afforded to them by the Geneva Conventions. . . . To be entitled to prisoner of war status, the combatant must conduct operations according to the laws and customs of war. For example, be part of a chain of command, wear a uniform and bear arms openly. Terrorists and spies are excluded. Those are the rules.” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 6/18/04 SURVEY SAYS! Should the U.S. government prohibit the use of torture against terrorists, even if it could save American lives? * Yes * No * Not Sure Cast your vote by clicking the “Survey Says!” tab at www.citizenoutreach.com TALE OF TWO PRISONS “Why have the media continued to report, obsess and revel in the same old humiliation photos from U.S.-controlled Abu Ghraib even as they ignore never-before-aired videotape that documents the hacking, maiming, bloody torture that took place at Abu Ghraib under Saddam Hussein? Terror expert Michael Ledeen told the New York Post's Deborah Orin, who posed this excellent question, that ‘most journalists want Bush to lose.’ " - Columnist Diana West LET’S GO TO THE VIDEO...NOT “I spent a good bit of time last evening watching the coverage of the 9/11 Commission's last public hearing. We heard tapes from the hijackers of the four commercial airliners. We saw computerized depictions of the paths these airliners took on their way to murder over 3,000 people. What we didn't see, though, was pictures of the airplanes crashing into the World Trade Towers. Our media is perfectly willing to show us video of the so-called abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison over and over, but how long has it been since you've seen those airplanes exploding through the towers?” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 6/18/04 REPLACING TENET “The next CIA director should be someone who understands the world situation and the intelligence business. But he ought not come from the CIA itself, where old bonds of loyalty could impede him from making necessary reforms. He must have skill in managing a large enterprise. And, like (current CIA director George) Tenet, he should have the ear of the president and good ties on Capitol Hill. . . . My candidate would be Dick Cheney. He fits all the specifications above. And if he were to agree to serve at CIA, Cheney would free up the vice presidential nomination for someone like, say, (former New York City mayor Rudy) Giuliani…” - Columnist Jack Kelly LET THE TRIBUTES BEGIN “A postage stamp honoring Ronald Reagan will be issued next year, the Postal Service announced yesterday. Postal policy is to honor prominent Americans with a stamp no sooner than 10 years after their death, except for former presidents, who the agency said can be honored on their first birth anniversary after death. Mr. Reagan was born Feb. 6, 1911, and died June 5.” - Greg Pierce’s “Inside Politics,” 6/17/04 DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND… Many of you have expressed an interest in reading the full transcript of the 1967 debate where Ronald Reagan mopped up the floor with Bobby Kennedy, leading Kennedy to tell and aid he never wanted to go head-to-head with the Gipper again. Your wish is my command. Catch the full exchange here: http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/rfk-reag.htm THE SIMPLE LIFE “A generation ago, there was not near the amount of sex, violence and profanity on television and in movies that there is today. But I still remember how my parents dealt with it. They would get up and turn the television off.” - Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) THE DIFFERENCE A REPUBLICAN GUV CAN MAKE Haley Barbour, former Republican National Committee chairman and now governor of Mississippi, signed a bill this week putting limits on out-of-control lawsuits which will certainly help besieged small business owners and doctors. Prior to Barbour’s election and passage of this bill, Mississippi was considered a lawsuit hell-hole and playground for unscrupulous ambulance-chasers. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION’S PANDORA’S BOX The guilty verdict of a Maryland man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old step-son is now up in the air after it was discovered that one of the jurors in his trial was not a legal citizen. Jury pools in Maryland are drawn from both voter registration rolls and driver’s license registrations. Last October, Maryland’s Democrat attorney general, Joe Curran, ruled that the DMV had to issue driver’s licenses to immigrants, even if they couldn’t “prove [their] lawful presence” in the United States. By the way: Have we mentioned lately the fact that Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Juarez) is leading the charge out in Utah to provide illegal aliens driver’s licenses, reduced tuition fees and amnesty. Just checking. BOORTZ BLASTS LP FOR BLOWING IT Radio talk show host Neal Boortz is a unabashed card-carrying, small “l” libertarian who has had it with the political stupidity of the Libertarian Party. He spoke at the LP convention a couple weeks ago...for the last time. He says they “blew it” big time...and boy did they ever. It appears folks such as Boortz and myself belong to a political movement without a party...because the LP is incompetent and the GOP is all hat and no cattle. Anyway, if you’d like to read Boortz’s post-convention commentary, go to: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/nb20040618.shtml SO WHAT IF THE KIDS ISN’T LEARNING? They walked to the edge of the cliff...and decided not to jump after all. At the Southern Baptist Convention this week, a proposal urging Baptists to pull their kids out of the government schools was defeated. The exodus would have been a major step, so it wasn’t all that surprising that members would get cold feet. But it was the reason that Rev. Bobby Welch, the newly elected SBC president, gave for the decision which was disturbing. While some have suggested that too many Baptists didn’t want to sacrifice their SUVs and summer vacations in order to pay the tuition required to place their kids in private schools, Welch, according to the Associated Press, “called it a mistake to withdraw Christian influence from public schools, saying it would hinder evangelism.” So the fact that Christian kids are graduating from government education camps without the ability to read their own diplomas or make change from a cash register is less important than the “zealous preaching and spreading of the gospel” (Webster’s II)? Hello? Doesn’t it make it more difficult to preach and spread the gospel IF THE KIDS CAN’T READ IT IN THE FIRST PLACE? There may have been a lot of good, legitimate reasons for not encouraging Baptist parents to pull their kids out of government-run schools (I can’t think of any, but there might be some out there), but keeping kids in educational ignorance and mediocrity simply to use them as tools to indoctrinate other kids into their religious beliefs defies common sense. Religious fervor sure can cloud one’s thinking sometimes, can’t it? GOOD ADVICE "I think it's very important for people who are serving to make sure there's a separation of church and state." - George W. Bush, 6/15/04 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth’s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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