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CITIZEN OUTREACH IN THE
NEWS
The left-wingers
over at MoveOn.org have a big, five-year head start on us here at
Citizen Outreach - not to mention a huge bank account from folks
like George Soros - but we’re in the game now and catching up.
Think “tortoise and hare.” Anyway, an article by the
Sacramento News & Views on MoveOn includes a reference to our
efforts here on the “right” side of cyber-space. Read it
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MORE BAD NEWS FOR
DONKEY-DWARFS
“The unemployment rate fell to 5.7% in
December, its lowest level in 14 months.”
- Wall Street Journal,
1/9/04
COULTER-GEIST
“When they were fund-raising, the
Democratic candidates for president all claimed to be Jewish. Now
that they are headed for Super Tuesday down South, they've become
Jesus freaks.”
- Columnist Ann Coulter
WARMING UP
“Richard Gephardt's campaign manager
Steve Murphy has accused the Dean campaign yesterday of planning to
sneak non-Iowans into the January 19th Iowa caucuses to pose as
state residents and vote for Dean. I guess the Democrats have to
practice for the November election somehow.”
- Talk-show host Neal Boortz,
1/9/04
HILLBILLARY MIGHT HOP ON
CLARK-WAGON
“Bill and Hillary Clinton will likely
endorse Gen. Wesley Clark for president in February if he looks like
he has a good chance of defeating Howard Dean, MSNBC's Chris
Matthews said Wednesday. ‘I think Clark is counting on Clinton
sending some sort of endorsement to him if he does well in the early
going and looks like he might beat Dean, the ‘Hardball’ host told
radioman Don Imus. ‘At the critical moment - maybe in the
Michigan primary next month, if [the Clark campaign is] doing well
and they've got a shot of knocking off Dean - that's when the
cavalry attacks. And that's Bill and Hillary.’ Michigan's
Democratic presidential primary is Feb. 7.”
- NewsMax.com, 1/8/04
WEIRD AL DUMPS ON
BUBBA
“The Democratic Party is dead,
presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday. And it's Bill
Clinton's fault. Launching into a tirade against Democratic
centrists during an interview on Washington, D.C. TV station WJLA,
Sharpton complained that it's been all downhill for Democrats since
Clinton took over 10 years ago. ‘Bill Clinton won, the party
didn't,’ railed the radical reverend. . . . ‘We didn't regain the
Congress in 1998. . . . In 2000 we lost it all. In 2002 we were
demolished, we were demolished. We lost everything as a
party.’ Sharpton said Democrats certainly couldn't do any
worse if they nominated him for president, since the party seems to
be flatlining already.”
- NewsMax.com, 1/9/04
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UNCOMMON
SENSE
“Immigration laws are on the books to
protect Americans. We can only ‘come to grips’ with illegal
immigration by enforcing them.”
- Columnist Diana West
BUTTING IN
LINE
“(Mexico President) Vicente Fox is
desperate for a place to dump several million more of his
countrymen, and George W.'s amnesty looks cooked to order.
Under George W.'s amnesty scheme, 8 million (or maybe it's as many
as 14 million) illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, will
get to jump ahead of everyone who was silly enough to line up
according to the law to seek permanent residence in the United
States. . . . Promises to enforce the law from now on ("this time we
really mean it"), like the notion that this is the final amnesty,
invite hoots of knowing laughter.”
- Wesley Pruden, “Pruden On Politics,”
1/9/04
GIVE ‘EM AN
INCH…
“We’re going for more. We’re going
for more.”
- Mexico President Vicente Fox saying he
wasn’t entirely satisfied with President Bush’s new “amnesty”
program for illegal Mexican aliens in the U.S.
RISKY
BUSINESS
“Analysts call the Bush immigration plan
a political move calculated to win Hispanic votes for the president
come November, a risky strategy at best. Worth noting is a study
released by the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that
advocates tighter immigration controls, which argues that the nearly
7 million illegal aliens counted in the 2000 Census cost the GOP at
least nine House seats during the 2000 redistricting
process.”
- Columnist Diana West
MEXICO: SAFE HARBOR FOR
COP-KILLERS
“Hundreds of Mexican citizens suspected
of committing violent crimes in the United States have escaped
justice by slipping across America's porous southern border into
Mexico, which refuses to extradite suspects facing the death penalty
or life imprisonment. Authorities have identified more than a
dozen cases in which illegal aliens were accused of injuring or
killing a U.S. law-enforcement officer but are believed to have fled
to Mexico.”
- Washington Times, 1/9/04
CHA-CHING!
“President Bush yesterday announced that
he will propose increasing federal education funding by more than $2
billion next year for disadvantaged and disabled children. In
his second initiative of the new year directed at minorities, the
president said the additional funds will be used to continue the
progress made under the No Child Left Behind Act, which Mr. Bush
signed into law two years ago yesterday.”
- Washington Times, 1/9/04
SAN DIEGO TO SCOUTS: TAKE A
HIKE
“The city Thursday agreed to pay nearly
$1 million to settle a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties
Union over land in two public parks the city leases to the Boy
Scouts for free or a nominal charge. San Diego will pay the
group $950,000 in court costs and attorney's fees and will ask a
federal judge to void the lease the Scouts have held in Balboa Park
for nearly a half-century.
“City officials said they were cutting
their losses with the settlement, which leaves the Boy Scouts on
their own in the lawsuit. The ACLU contends the Scouts should be
evicted from the parks because the organization discriminates on the
grounds of sexual orientation and religion. . . . The Boy Scouts
said they will continue to fight. But the group added in a statement
that they were ‘staggered by the amount of the settlement, which
provides funding to the ACLU lawyers to continue their attack on the
Boy Scouts.’ "
- Associated Press, 1/8/04
LITIGATION
NATION
“ ’Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted
to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he
says.’ This according to an article in yesterday's Reporter of Fond
du Lac, Wis. He's threatening to sue the cable company: ‘Timothy
Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a
lifetime supply of free Internet service from Charter
Communications’--presumably so he can get addicted to the Web and
file his next lawsuit.”
- James Taranto’s “Best of the Web,
1//8/04
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MUTH’S TRUTHS
Are efforts to amend the Constitution pro-marriage or
anti-gay? Are they intended to handcuff judges or handcuff the
next generation of Americans? Are amendment supporters
thumbing their nose at Founding Father Tom Paine (“Common Sense”)
and attempting to govern from the grave? Read this
week’s “Muth’s Truths”
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OOPS...BIG
BACKFIRE
“An American Family Association poll on
gay marriage has backfired on its anti-gay sponsor as gays and their
allies are apparently flooding the organization’s Web site to
participate. Americans favor same-sex marriage by an almost
two-to-one margin, according to the unlikely results of the ongoing
poll. The poll showed nearly 60 percent favored gay marriage.
Another 32 percent opposed gay marriage and civil unions. About 8
percent favored civil unions carrying ‘the full benefits of
marriage’ except for the name. The poll includes votes from
about 800,000 participants as of Thursday, according to the AFA Web
site.”
- Dallas Voice, 1/9/04
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