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***************************************** Pushin' the Envelope on "Always Right" Our guest tonight on "Always Right" will be Rick Merritt of PostalWatch.org. We'll discuss the post office monopoly on mail delivery, as well as access to YOUR home mailbox, the money it loses year after year, the money it spends on Lance Armstrong, the non-competitive advantage it has over private package delivery carriers, its deceptive advertising for Priority Mail, its claims of sovereign immunity to anti-trust laws, its private police force, the President's Commission on Postal Reform and much, much more. Tune in tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST (or catch the re-run at 11:00 p.m. EST) for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." The link to listen in is... http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/srv1.asx You can catch previous interviews on "Always Right" by visiting our archives at: http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/pgs/archives-fr.htm **************************************** Well, Let's Start With Howie Dean... "To believe that the Saddam regime had nothing to hide is to believe that he threw out the U.N. inspectors in 1998 and then said to himself: 'Great. Now I can get on with my dream of unilaterally disarming Iraq!' Who can be such a fool as to believe any such thing?" - Columnist Christopher Hitchens **************************************** The Mad Party "One reason why the President...is all but certain to win re-election is the descent into madness of his (Democrat) opponents. They've let post-impeachment, post-chad-dangling bitterness unhinge them to the point where, given a choice between investigating the intelligence lapses that led to 9/11 and the intelligence lapses that led to a victorious war in Iraq, they stampede for the latter. . . . This is not a serious party." - Columnist Mark Steyn **************************************** How to Subscribe If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. **************************************** Conservative Revolution a Terrible Failure "The so-called conservative movement of the last 20 years, starting with the Reagan revolution of the 1980s, followed by the 1994 Gingrich takeover of the House, and culminating in the early 2000s with Republican control of both Congress and the White House, seems a terrible failure today. Republicans have failed utterly to shrink the size of government; instead it is bigger and costlier than ever before. Federal spending spirals out of control, new Great Society social welfare programs have been created, and the national debt is rising by more than a half-trillion dollars per year. Whatever happened to the conservative vision supposedly sweeping the nation?" - Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), The Federalist, 7/21/03 **************************************** It's the Spending, Stupid "In the first three years of the Bush administration, government spending has climbed -- in real, inflation-adjusted terms -- by a staggering 15.6 percent. . . . To be sure, Bush's budgets have had to account for the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But even when defense spending is excluded, discretionary spending has soared by nearly 21 percent in Bush's first three years. "The budget cycle Bush inherited in 2001 closed with a surplus of $127 billion. The deficits that now stretch as far as the eye can see are the result of reckless budget-busting that would have Republicans shrieking if Al Gore were president. To see such promiscuous budgeting come out of a Republican administration, with the consent of a Republican Congress, should outrage loyal GOPers even more. "...From the pork-laden homeland security bill to last year's bloated farm bill, Washington's orgy of spending is bringing on the biggest deficits in American history. The gigantic prescription-drug entitlement making its way through the Capitol will force the budget even further into the red and the nation even deeper into debt. "Americans count on Republicans to enforce, or at least invoke, the First Law of Holes: When in one, stop digging. But Republicans rule both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and the digging proceeds more furiously than ever. How will the GOP explain that at its next convention?" - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby **************************************** Need Some New Economists "In business/economic news, after announcing that the federal budget deficit will reach a record $455 billion this year, President Bush rolled out some economists who claimed deficit spending is not so bad. . . . Memo to W: May we suggest you talk to a few of those wacky economists who suggest cutting taxes AND government spending would be good for the economy?" - The Federalist, 7/18/03 **************************************** Postal Unions Drive Up Cost of Stamps "Chuck: Here's a possible answer as to why, in spite of many rate increases, the post office consistently loses money. I think if you'll check the history, you'll find that after every rate increase, the postal unions almost always win a wage increase that approximately offsets the postal rate increase. Also, check the postal salary level for clerical work against the rates paid for private industry clerical work." - News and Views reader **************************************** Helloooo, Federal! "I got in an argument with a mail carrier who would drop off a card instead of making a good faith attempt to find me to deliver a package. I told her FedEx can find me. UPS can find me. Why can't you find me? She said it's not part of her job to search for people. I said the way the post office is operating, none of you will be having jobs, so you won't have to worry about it. She became very quiet." - News & Views reader **************************************** Graham Takes Gloves Off "Sen. Lindsey Graham, the aggressive freshman Republican from South Carolina, last week acted on his own without a green light from a displeased White House. He began circulating a letter that is intended to radically reduce violence in the bitter Social Security wars. 'This is a ceasefire declaration,' Graham told me. "Addressed to the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic campaign committees in both houses, the letter promises, 'We will no longer turn a blind eye to political attack ads that accuse responsible reform advocates of wanting to dismantle Social Security or slash benefits of current retirees.' Contending that 'it is time for the demagoguery to stop,' signers of the Graham letter 'pledge to defend' all candidates 'who support Social Security modernization.'" - Columnist Bob Novak **************************************** 2A Victory in Cheesehead State "A state Supreme Court decision allowing home owners and business owners to carry concealed weapons on their property has re-ignited a movement to relax Wisconsin's 130-year-old ban on carrying concealed weapons." - CNSNews.com, 7/21/03 ***************************************** Why We've Learned to Hate Trial Lawyers "Shawn Perkins of Laurel, Ind., took his family to Paramount's Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio, on 12 June 2001," reports Randy Cassingham at StellaAwards.com. "As they left the park to go to their car, a thunderstorm was approaching" and lighting struck a car Mr. Perkins was touching, destroying the car and injuring the man. Act of God, right? Not according to his blood-sucking, ambulance-chasing, bottom-feeding lawyer, Drake Ebner. Ebner has sued the amusement park for failing to warn Perkins that storm clouds were gathering and maybe he should take cover rather than running around a bunch of big, metal objects. "We believe that the weather system was predictable," claims Ebner. "Therefore, the risk and injury to Mr. Perkins was predictable and therefore avoidable." What a shame the predictable risk of injury to our society by litigation extortionists like Ebner isn't avoidable. 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