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************************************* BLEW OUT MY FLIP-FLOPS My baby bro' and sister-in-law extraordinaire are in town from Las Vegas visiting for a couple of days...and they are our oldest daughter's Godparents...so I'll be spending some time hanging out with them at the beach this afternoon and on the Boardwalk tonight. Which means I might not make a full issue of News & Views tomorrow. HOWEVER. I WILL be responding to some emails from outraged government school employees who wrote in response to Friday's item about the kindergarten teacher in New Jersey pulling down $70,000 a year for a 10-month job teaching "Old McDonald Had a Farm." They are demanding that I apologize. Hmmmm. Maybe they have a point. Or maybe they've just ticked me off even more. Well, I've got to go check out the Chiquita's all covered in oil...so you'll have to wait until tomorrow. But I suspect you will NOT want to miss it...and it will be well worth the wait. Surf's up, dudes! FAHREN-HYPE 9/11 The left is drooling like village idiots over the box office take of Mike Moore's new Bush-whacking movie over the weekend. The flick took in around $22 million...a record for an independent fictional film. "These are mind-blowing numbers," the 800-lbs. Moore-on said, claiming it proves the movie isn't just talking to the Bush-hating choir, but enjoys widespread appeal Hmmmm. Sounds like just more hype to me. Let's run the numbers. At, let's say, eight bucks a pop, that means less then 3 million folks nationwide went to see this crap. Now, at last count I think we have some 280 million people living here in this country that Moore despises so much. You take the math from here. Widespread appeal? I don't THINK so. NOW THIS TAKES CHUTZPAH For months now, Democrats and Democrat front groups have been hammering President Bush...especially the clinically insane Al Gore and the terminally obnoxious Michael Moore and...arrgghhhh!...Howard Dean. And MoveOn.org actually produced two TV ads comparing the president to Adolf Hitler. Well, the Bush campaign took clips from these various attacks and put together their own little ad titled, "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party: The Coalition of the Wild-Eyed." ( http://www.georgewbush.com ) Now get this. The Kerry campaign is having a cow over the Bush ad. "The Bush campaign should immediately remove these hateful images from its website and apologize for using them," said Kerry mouthpiece Phil Singer. "The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong." Does that take brass, or what? For the record, the Kerryites didn't issue any condemnation of MoveOn.org when they originally released their Bush-as-Hitler ads earlier this year. Expressing outrage over having their own words used against them. Priceless. WHAT'S SHOCKING...IS THAT THIS WON'T SHOCK ANYONE "Minneapolis Tribune columnist James Lileks asked several liberal friends if they would rather have Osama bin Laden captured and President Bush re-elected, or Mr. Bush defeated and Osama still at large. They all said they would prefer to have Mr. Bush defeated. That's a choice many in the media made long ago." - Columnist Jack Kelly OUT OF CONTROL Democrats in the House teamed up with about a third of their big-spending GOP brethren to kill the Spending Control Act on Friday. OK, show of hands: Who's surprised? I am. I'm surprised it was only a THIRD of Republicans. As Rep. Charlie Stenholm, Texas Democrat, remarked, "Republicans control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Republicans control the White House. The only thing Republicans cannot control is spending." Ouch...and touch�. COMRADE CAMEJO Folks paying close attention know that Ralph Nader picked Green Party activist Peter Camejo to be his vice presidential running mate. And those paying even closer attention will recall that Camejo was the Green Party gubernatorial candidate in last year's California special election to replace Gray Davis. But what you might NOT know is that Camejo was a card-carrying commie from the sixties through the early eighties before joining the enviro-wacko party. Or as Max Friedman of Historians of American Communism put it in the Washington Times on Saturday, "Mr. Camejo has completed the radical-left circuit from 'red' to 'Green.'" The problem is, ideologically you can't tell the difference. VATICAN RAG Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops, endorsed on Friday a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Sorry, but as a Roman Catholic myself, I have to say the padre overstepped his bounds and crossed the wall of separation you've heard so much about. You don't see members of Congress trying to tell the Vatican how to do ITS job, do you? And considering the Catholic church's recent track record on sex issues with under-aged boys, Bishop Gregory might want to heed the old wisdom about "people in glass houses." INDEPENDENCE DAY "The Fourth of July is Independence Day, but America's leaders and intellectuals have been trying to move us further and further away from the meaning of Independence Day, away from the philosophy that created this country. What we hear from politicians, intellectuals, and the media is that independence is pass�, that we've reached a new age of 'interdependence.' We hear demands for mandatory 'volunteering' to serve others, for sacrifice to the nation. We hear demands from trust-busters that successful companies be punished for being 'greedy' and not serving society. But this is not the message of America. "...To the Founding Fathers, there was no authority higher than the individual mind, not King George, not God, not society. Reason, wrote Ethan Allen, is 'the only oracle of man,' and Thomas Jefferson advised us to 'fix reason firmly in her seat and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God.' That is the meaning of independence: trust in your own judgment, in reason; do not sacrifice your mind to the state, the church, the race, the nation, or your neighbors. "Independence is the foundation of America. Independence is what should be celebrated on Independence Day. That is the legacy our Founding Fathers left us. It is a legacy we should keep, not because it is a legacy, but because it is right and just. It has made America the freest and most prosperous country in history." - Michael Berliner of the Ayn Rand Institute * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth's News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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