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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... If you haven�t refreshed your memory in a while about exactly what it was the Founders were declaring independence from back in 1776, you can find their/our Declaration of Independence posted on today�s News & Views EXTRA page at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm. _____________________________________ THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY Founding Fathers and former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the exact same day of the exact same year...July 4, 1826...on exactly the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. What are the odds? INDEPENDENCE DAY �Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July.� - Ronald Reagan, President of the United States (1981) SURVEY SAYS! Are America�s best days ahead of us...or behind us? * Ahead of us * Behind us * I�m clueless Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com CELEBRATING OUR BIRTHDAY �The best way to celebrate Independence Day is to understand that we must counter the seduction of dependence on government which robs us of our liberty.� - Richard E. Ralston of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine NO TIME FOR HEROES In California last week, Democrats in the state assembly refused to allow a floor ceremony honoring Admiral Jeremiah Denton for the Fourth of July. Denton was a Navy pilot who was shot down over Vietnam and then spent eight years of hell in a POW camp. The Democrats said there wasn�t enough time due to budget negotiations and other �pressing� business. Part of the pressing business that day: A 20-minute ceremony honoring a Los Angeles Times reporter. A DIFFERENT COURSE OF ACTION �Repeatedly, (terrorists) had struck America (during the 1990s) with little cost or consequence. In none of these cases did the United States (under President Clinton) respond very forcefully. Under President Bush�s leadership, we answered that challenge with decisive and relentless action. We did not fire million-dollar cruise missiles into empty tents, or drop bombs from 30,000 feet on abandoned obstacle courses. Instead, America launched a broad and sustained war on terrorist networks around the globe.� - Vice President Dick Cheney in New Orleans on Thursday REAP WHAT YE SOW The United Nations as a whole ganged up on the United States to force the U.S. soldiers under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for any actions which might be taken during U.N. military missions. The Bush administration sought to obtain a waiver for U.S. troops, but the votes weren�t there. So what did the Bush administration do? They announced this week that the U.S. would begin withdrawing U.S. troops from some U.N. missions. The U.N. is very upset with the decision. Nice job, Kofi. Duh. THEN AND NOW �Then (in the late 1980s), as now, I thought Al Gore was an unprincipled loser. Then, as now, I thought he needed to grow up. Then, as now, I wished he would just go away. . . . As the last sitting vice president since Hubert Humphrey to run for the White House and lose, Al Gore consistently looks more smarmy than smart, calculating than classy and always graceless under pressure - remember those �sighs� during the 2000 presidential debates.� - Columnist and former White House lobbyist Gary J. Andres TRUTH IN LABELING �While I do not endorse using crude language in public, we would all be better served if we knew what politicians really think. Who believes that �my good friend� baloney members of Congress always say to each other?� - Columnist Cal Thomas on Dick Cheney telling Sen. Pat Leahy last week to go �F� himself FRENCH PREZ TO U.S. PREZ: BUTT OUT President Bush threw his support behind Turkey�s bid to join the European Union last week. French President Jacques Chirac responded, �Not only did he (Bush) go too far, he ventured into territory which is not his concern.� We suggest President Bush tap Dick Cheney to give the official U.S. response to Chirac. HECK, IT�S ONLY TAXPAYER MONEY According to the Washington Times, in 2002 the United States taxpayers ponied up $3.6 million to send 236 persons to an AIDS conference in Barcelona, Spain. That comes to over $15,000 per person. Yowza! That�s a lot of caviar in a five-star resort! This year, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson put the kibosh on such an outrageous expenditure. He�ll only be sending 50 HHS employees to this month�s conference in Bangkok at a cost of $250,000...or $5,000 per person. Some Democrats in Congress are howling mad that more people aren�t being allowed to go (on the taxpayer�s dime), but Thompson�s folks say that with technology being what it is today, anyone wanting to participate can do so via teleconferencing. Indeed. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO COZ Bill Cosby is NOT backing down. His stinging criticism of black culture in this country last month stirred up a hornet�s nest among so-called black leaders who attacked Cosby for airing the black community�s �dirty laundry� in public. But at another conference this week, Coz stayed on offense. �Let me tell you something,� Cosby told attendees. �Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day. It�s cursing and calling each other niggers as they�re walking up and down the street. They think they�re hip. They can�t read; they can�t write. They�re laughing and giggling...and they�re going nowhere.� Hoo-hah! Can you imagine if a white dude said something like that? It would be mandatory sensitivity and diversity training for sure. Cosby also told black men to �stop beating up your women because you can�t find a job, because you didn�t want to get an education and now you�re (earning) minimum wage. You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity.� He also told blacks to stop blaming whites for problems in the black community such as teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates. Holy personal responsibility, Batman! But are the so-called black �leaders� listening? Not a chance. Check out this one... MEANWHILE, BACK IN DETROIT �Detroit has followed the lead of two other large cities - Los Angeles and Chicago - in enacting legislation that requires companies seeking contracts with the city to disclose any profits received from slavery. . . . �The purpose of this ordinance is to set the groundwork for [slavery] reparations. First, you have to get the information and show the companies that benefited from the slave trade,� Detroit City Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins, a former Democratic congresswoman from Michigan and sponsor of the Detroit ordinance, said Tuesday.� - Washington Times, 7/1/04 YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN ACTION Ah, the worst of both worlds: Rap music and government schools. You just KNOW nothing good could come of it. And you�d be right. Get this: School�s out�and in some jurisdictions around the country, they�re replacing Shakespeare with Shakur for their summer reading assignment. �That's slain gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur - the drug-dealing, baseball bat-wielding, cop-hating, Black Panthers-worshipping, convicted sexual abuser who made a fortune extolling the �thug life� before he was gunned down in Las Vegas eight years ago,� writes columnist Michelle Malkin. �Teachers in Worcester, Mass., have embraced Shakur's posthumously published book of poems as a way to get middle school students' attention. �We wanted to include books that kids would want to read,� Michael O'Sullivan, a member of the summer reading list selection committee, explained to the Telegram and Gazette of Worcester last month before school let out.� A Worcester Public School official told Malkin that �Shakur's book will remain on the list (of summer reading) for the foreseeable future because it �heightens awareness of character education� and, more importantly, because it's �popular with the kids.�� Malkin notes a sample awareness heightener Tupac penned in one of his poems titled �2 Marilyn Monroe,� which reads: �They could never understand what u set out 2 do instead they chose 2 ridicule u." That�s only a �reading� assignment if you�re majoring in hieroglyphics. By the way, where�s the teacher�s union while something this stupid is going on? Oh, wait a minute, here they are... YOUR TEACHER�S UNION IN ACTION Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association, has come under fire for an award the union was to present last night to Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The goal of Jennings� organization is to incorporate �homosexual concepts into all curriculum� and �ensuring that only positive discussions about homosexuality are allowed into elementary school classrooms, including kindergarten.� Kindergarten? Are you kidding? Do they know about this in New Jersey? Gee, wouldn�t it be nice if the teacher�s union was more interested in ensuring that reading, writing and �rithmetic were allowed in the government schools instead? 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