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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr is a bona fide, card-carrying conservative. His 2001 and 2002 ACU (American Conservative Union) Ratings were perfect 100�s. His Lifetime ACU Rating is a stunning 98. He was one of the hero House Impeachment Managers who the Senate cut off at the knees. He�s on the Board of Directors for the National Rifle Association. He�s a self-described social conservative who authored the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Yesterday, he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Constitution AGAINST the federal marriage amendment. �Resisting the temptation to use the federal government to meddle in state matters is the test of this conservative principle (federalism),� Barr told the committee.� �Indeed, it is the test separating conservative federalists from hard-line social conservatives, willing to sacrifice the Constitution in their understandable anxiety over the sorry state of modern morality.� For any of you who STILL think there should be a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage - whether you support gay marriage itself or not (Barr doesn�t) - you NEED to read every last word of this staunch conservative�s testimony before you do any more damage to the underpinnings of our constitutional form of government. Barr�s testimony is pure dynamite and the sort of thoughtful dissertation you�d expect to hear from the Founders themselves. It�s posted on today�s News & Views EXTRA page. GO READ IT at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm. _____________________________________ THE LIBERALIZING OF CONSERVATISM �More and more I�m beginning to think that I�m not a conservative at all, but a libertarian. But I think it�s the conservatives who are leaving me and not the other way around. �I believe, and conservatives for the most part used to believe, that government should let law-abiding citizens alone. I also believe in small government, low taxes, individual responsibility as well as being let alone. Republicans, who under Ronald Reagan, at least, were the conservative party, used to believe these things, too. But that was then and this is now. And what is now keeps getting worse. �Yesterday the supreme court voted five to four that the police can stop a person and demand for any reason, or no reason at all, that that person identify himself or herself. The five members of the court who decided that �the right to remain silent� no longer exists were the five most conservative members--Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and O�Connor. �The five voted to uphold a Nevada state law that makes it a crime for a person to refuse to give his name when stopped for what a policeman deems to be suspicious behavior. Eighteen other states have similar laws. The court�s ruling may not seem significant but the fact is it is one more little step toward turning this nation into a police state. And that�s the way it happens--one tiny step at a time.� - Former Reagan press secretary Lyn Nofziger, �Musings,� 6/22/04 PRIVATIZING SPACE TRAVEL �Three years from inception to accomplishment.� Thirty million dollars.� A private astronaut in sub-orbital space.� Do any of you think that the government could have pulled this one off?� Do you folks realize what was accomplished yesterday?� I'll guarantee that if someone went to NASA and told them to develop a completely new, from top to bottom, vehicle to send three men into sub-orbital space and return to a landing strip, and to do the whole project for under thirty million...they couldn't do it.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz THE WORLD ACCORDING TO REAGAN �Government is not the solution, it�s the problem.� - Ronald Reagan SURVEY SAYS! Steven Parish of cigarette maker Philip Morris recently told Congressional Quarterly that �The public wants more regulation� of tobacco. Do you support new FDA regulation of tobacco products? * Yes * No * Not Sure Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com ZELL MILLER AD For those of you who kicked in a few bucks this past weekend to help place that full-page ad highlighting Georgia Sen. Zell Miller�s comments regarding the Abu Ghraib prison brouhaha, it ran in USA Today yesterday. You can view your ad by going to: http://www.rightmarch.com/media/zell1.pdf WHERE TO FIND THE SADDAM TORTURE VIDEO �Several readers responded to our� Wednesday item�on the Saddam torture video by asking where to find them. The American Enterprise Institute has links on this page� http://www.aei.org/events/eventID.844,filter.all/event_detail.asp . AEI warns that the video is �very graphic� and �not suitable for children.� We've seen part of it, and we're not sure it's suitable for anyone, so proceed at your own risk.� - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 6/21/04 TALE OF TWO JFK�S �Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy, 1961 � "In a Kerry Administration, if you believe in yourself enough to work hard and do what's right, your country will invest in you." - John F. Kerry, 2004 SEN. RUNNING EAGLE �During a campaign tour of the Apache Nation Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he had a plan to increase every Native American's income by $40,000 a year.��Senator Kerry refused repeated requests for details of his plan, however. He also told the Apaches that during his Senate career, he has voted �YES� 9,637 times for every Indian issue ever introduced. Before his departure, the Apache Tribe presented the Presidential candidate a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name, �Running Eagle�. After Kerry left, tribal officials explained that �Running Eagle� is a bird so full of crap it can't fly!� - Forwarded by a News & Views reader (For publik skool students, this is called �satire�) STICK A FORK IN HIM, HE�S DONE �Before Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan finished a news conference in which he discussed allegations by his former wife that he pressured her to have sex in clubs while others watched, calls for him to get out of the race began. U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Peoria, said Ryan needs to quit the campaign for the good of himself, his family and his party. Former Gov. Jim Edgar also distanced himself from supportive comments made earlier on Monday, before documents containing the allegations by Ryan's former wife, actress Jeri Lynn Ryan, were released.� - Associated Press, 6/22/04 LIBERAL TALK RADIO ON LIFE SUPPORT �More news today that the end of Air America may be near.�� How terrible!� . . . Investors and executives say they thought the network had taken in $30 million....but it turns out they have only raised $6 million.� All of that money was spent in the first six weeks, and now they're $2 million in the hole.� That's what happens when you pay radio stations to carry your shows...something most real radio stations would never do to pick up a brand-new show.� Those are called infomercials, and they run in the middle of the night or on weekends. It won't be long before Air America goes off the air...and it will happen, because they have no idea what they're doing.� - Libertarian talk-show host Neal Boortz, 6/22/04 LEGAL VULTURES GUNNING FOR WAL-MART �A judge ruled a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could move forward as a class action, allowing the lawsuit to apply to up to 1.6 million current and former female employees who worked for the company since Dec. 26, 1998. The move makes the case the largest civil-rights action ever brought against a private employer in the U.S.� - Wall Street Journal, 6/22/04 YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU VOTE FOR The voters of Utah�s 3rd congressional district re-nominated Rep. Chris Cannon in the state�s GOP primary race yesterday. Despite being outspent $307,510 to $37,006, challenger Matt Throckmorton still posted a respectable 42% of the vote against the wealthy incumbent. But folks...this was a blown opportunity. Big time. Cannon was ripe for the picking this time around...especially after he and his aide were caught encouraging illegal campaign contributions on a radio show. Throckmorton made two lethal mistakes in his campaign: (1) He didn�t hire a professional campaign manager who knew what he was doing and had experience taking out entrenched incumbents, and (2) he didn�t actively and aggressively raise money. I know this for a fact...because he never even called ME...and I was probably the easiest target in the country. The best man certainly didn�t win this race; the worst campaign lost. Oh well, onward and upward. At least we�ll still have Chris Cannon to kick around for another two years! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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