Chuck Muth's WET News Views - September 19, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** There's Got to Be a Morning After We lost electricity around midnight last night. Still out. Half our neighborhood is completely submerged under water...and it's not even high tide yet. We're one of the lucky ones. Just a few downed tree limbs. Nevertheless, we may be off-line for a while as we help neighbors the clean up from Hurricane Sheilajacksonlee. Will get a BIG News Views out as soon as we make contact with the outside world again. Chuck
Chuck Muth's News Views - September 1-21, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Yowza! Whadda Storm As I'm finishing this up, it's late Saturday afternoon and we just got our electricity back. Fortunately for us, we're too poor to be able to afford food, so we didn't really lose much in the ol' refrigerator. On the other hand, we're still without phone service, so I'm not exactly sure when this issue will actually get out. And we might still miss another few days due to clean-up efforts. In fact, the phone company said they couldn't send someone out to check on our lines for a WEEK. So please bear with us. *** Repeal the 16th! The income tax amendment (the 16th) in 1913 hammered the final nail into the coffin of limited, constitutional government. Now the politicians had not only the authority, but also the unlimited revenue, to do whatever they wanted. . . . If we repeal the federal income tax and yours is an average American family, you'll have at least $10,000 a year more to spend or invest. . . . All you have to do in return is to restrict the government to the Constitution - giving up whatever pittance unconstitutional government provides to you personally. - Columnist and former Libertarian presidential candidate Harry Browne *** NEW: Survey Says! If a lot of time and money is going to be devoted to fiddling with our Constitution, should those efforts be directed toward passing a new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, or toward repealing the 16th amendment and thereby eliminating the income tax and the IRS? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com *** House Votes to Protect 'Net from Taxes The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would extend the moratorium on taxing people for connecting to the Internet. . . . Two members of the Bush administration, Secretary of the Treasury John Snow and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, were thrilled with the ban. . . . Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) is unhappy with the bill's passage because he said his state will have to make up the $45 million in taxes elsewhere to shore up the budget. Green said the Internet tax is needed in every state to provide additional revenue to deal with budget problems. - Talon News, 9/18/03 *** Ah, That Age-Old Question If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, would they eventually write a speech for Howard Dean? - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 9/18/03 *** Son of Gov. Moonbeam My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. - California Gov. Gray Davis, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/18/03 *** Ooops...So Much for That Argument The California Institute of Technology and MIT, conducted a study of error rates with various voting machines. Would any of you care to guess the results? Well, you don't have to ... because I have them right here. Here are the error rates .. the percentages of votes cast with errors, using different types of machines: * Optical scanners have an error rate of 3.3% * Touch screen systems have an error rate of 3.0% * Data Vote systems have an error rate of 3.2% * Punch Cards? They have an error rate of 2.5% ... the best of the bunch. - Talk-show host Neal Boortz *** Bring Back the Embeds Interestingly, we started to lose this war (in Iraq) only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire. - Columnist Ann Coulter *** Who Said This? To (President Bush) I say...that you lied to yourself, to your people, and to all others. You did this along with those who got involved with you. Or there might be some who lied to you, but you believed those lies after you were tempted to do some action. You even changed your slogans and the reasons you used several times as a pretext for your hostile military campaign against (Iraq). Was it. A) Howard Dean B) John Kerry C) Dennis Kucinich D) Dick Gephardt E) Hillary Clinton The answer is actually none of the above. These remarks were delivered this week via tape by Saddam Hussein. Maybe HE should get into the Democrat presidential primary. He's certainly got the rhetoric and talking points down. *** Our Enemy, The French It's time we Americans came to terms with something: France is not just our annoying ally. It is not just our jealous rival. France is becoming our enemy.
Chuck Muth's News Views - September 22, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great Minds Do Think Alike In response to our blurb of Jeff Jacoby's column lamenting that Taiwan is still being denied a seat in the United Nations, more than one News Views reader wrote suggesting we give them...ours. All in favor... Franken-idiot Al Franken has written a new fairy tale about the Clinton administration's record on defense. His new book supposedly outlines whoppers told by conservatives. But it only serves to highlight what a big idiot Franken himself is. - Columnist Peter Huessy Who's Afraid of the IRS? To get an idea of what it's like to tangle with the Internal Revenue Service, imagine having to fight Mike Tyson - with both hands tied behind your back. The IRS is the most feared government agency, and with good reason. Americans who run afoul of this bureaucratic behemoth have little chance of surviving unscathed. - Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation *** NEW: Survey Says! If we're going to spend time and money amending the Constitution, should we work to pass a new 28th Amendment to ban gay marriages or to repeal the 16th Amendment and eliminate the income tax and the IRS? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com Alabama Massacre (W)hen the Sept. 9 (Alabama tax hike) votes were counted, the tax increase was massacred by 68 percent to 32 percent. The establishment tax increasers got a smaller percentage of the vote than Alf Landon did against Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. - Columnist Peter Ferrara The Tax Diet The core of some popular weight-loss programs is a reduction in carbohydrates. Lower carbs allow the body to burn fat and weight loss follows. Government's 'carbohydrate' is money. Reduce the amount and government will shrink. But the cravings of people for more services must also be controlled, just as a dieter must reduce his intake. - Columnist Cal Thomas *** Feeding at the Trough It's amazing, isn't it, that Democrats never worry about federal spending unless it is for defense. . . . We spend billions on hot lunches and breakfasts for schoolchildren, though the greatest health threat to the poor in America these days is not hunger but obesity. Besides, why can't poor children take their lunches to school in a brown bag, as my kids do? How much does a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, an apple and a yogurt cost? Maybe $1.50. - Columnist Mona Charen Birds of a French Feather The New York Times reports that establishment Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark 'met Hillary Clinton in 1983 in France at a conference of French-American Young Leaders.' - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 9/19/03 Military Genius (Gen. Wesley) Clark was the commander who won NATO's first war, a 78-day air campaign to force Mr. Milosovic to withdraw his troops. The war plan proved to be deeply flawed. NATO's 19 members, and the White House, micromanaged target selection. There were not enough allied aircraft available when the time came to ramp up air strikes. Mr. Clark's plan to put Apache attack helicopters in Albania, on the Kosovo border, ended in failure. - Washington Times, 9/18/03 *** Clinton's General One retired four-star general called (Gen. Wesley Clark's) ideas for command 'goofy,' and told The Washington Post that, 'The simple fact is, a lot of people just don't trust his ability.' One soldier who served under Mr. Clark told us that, 'It was obvious that his only priority was his own advancement, and his troops were just tools to help him climb up the ranks.' ...Since the Civil War, only two generals have been elected president without first holding another elected office. The two who went directly from the generalship to the presidency were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ulysses S. Grant, who respectively defeated Hitler and saved the union. By comparison, all Mr. Clark has done as commander is order bombs to be dropped on a more or less defenseless Serbian civilian population. - Washington Times, 9/18/03 *** Gen. Disaster Retired Gen. Wesley Clark has thrown his helmet into the ring. He has improved the Democratic presidential field by entering it, just as he improved the Army by leaving it. ...Gen. Clark 'is able, though not nearly as able as he thinks, and has tended to put his career ahead of his men to the point of excess,' said a defense consultant well acquainted with the Army's senior officers. . . . An officer who served under Clark when he commanded the 1st
Chuck Muth's News Views - September 23, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This Week on Always Right TWO great guests this week! First up will be syndicated talk-show host Laura Ingraham who has a new book out titled, Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics and the UN Are Subverting America. Laura doesn't sugarcoat it. For example, when liberal actor Tim Robbins whined last spring about a chill wind of censorship blowing through the entertainment community, Ingraham responded: With all the media face time Robbins and (actress Susan) Sarandon get, you can forget a chill wind. A Category 5 tornado wouldn't shut them up. Priceless. We'll also have Greg Conko of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) to discuss the government's continuing War on Tobacco and an upcoming Senate bill to authorize the FDA to ban public dissemination of information on tobacco alternatives, particularly smokeless tobacco. Tune in Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. EST (or catch the re-run at 11:00 p.m. EST) for Always Right with Chuck Muth featuring Laura Ingraham and Greg Conko. 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 www.CitizenOutreach.com *** The More the Merrier? Polygamy (multiple spouses) is not worse than gay marriage, it is better. At least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children. - Columnist Maggie Gallagher ** The Real Threats The real threats to family values are divorce, out-of-wedlock births and infidelity. - Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson *** Survey Says! If we're going to spend time and money amending the Constitution, should we work to pass a new 28th Amendment to ban gay marriages or to repeal the 16th Amendment and eliminate the income tax and the IRS? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com ** Ditzy Chicks Dump Country Music The Dixie Chicks say they don't want to be a country music band any more. Violinist Martie Maguire told Spiegel magazine: 'We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more.' She said she was disappointed other country singers didn't back up the Dixie Chicks in their criticism of George W Bush's politics on Iraq. - Ananova.com, 9/22/03 ** Coz Hits Air for Street Sam thinks Bill Cosby is very funny and a great pitchman for Jell-O. The difference here is that everybody likes Jell-O. - Maureen Garrity, spokesman for Sam Katz - the GOP candidate opposing Democrat Philadelphia Mayor John Street - on Cosby's campaign commercial for Street ** Let's Pack It In, Guys If one were to listen to the clownish Democratic mouthpiece James Carville and the rest of his 'Democracy Group,' there is practically no chance Mr. Bush can win in November 2004. Between the lines of their most current status report is the implied suggestion Mr. Bush should announce he will not seek re-election. - Columnist Dan Thomasson ** Don't Call Us, We'll Call You I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls. - Attributed to Wesley Clark, quoted in Newsweek, Sept. 29 issue ** The General Not Ready for Prime Time (Democrat candidate Wesley Clark is) not ready for prime time, he's not ready to be president. He's not ready to be a member of Congress. In a debate, any freshman congressman could kick his four-star butt back to Arkansas. - Rich Galen, Mullings.com, 9/22/03 ** Bubba to Wife: Run! Bill Clinton has been urging his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to break her promise to serve her full, six-year Senate term so that she can run for president next year, it was reported yesterday. Citing two sources close to the Clintons, Time reports that the former president has been urging his wife privately to reconsider her pledge not to run for president in 2004. The report said Bill also is pondering the most feasible way for her to back out of her pledge to serve her full Senate term for New York. - New York Post, 9/22/03 ** Mrs. McGovern-Steinberg-Dean A former Reagan White House official in Washington says the Clintons, for the first time this summer, believe George Bush is vulnerable. While a Democrat can win the White House, they think, none of the Democrats in the field either please them or can win. (Howard) Dean, the frontrunner, can win the nomination, but can't win in November. Already painted as part of the McGovern wing of the party, other personal issues will dog Dean.
The Recall is Back ON!
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Chuck Muth's News Views - September 27, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Vast Right-Wing Hijacking The biggest issue in this campaign is the question of patriotism and democracy. I am tired of having John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney and Jerry Falwell and Rush Limbaugh lay a claim to patriotism and lay a claim to the American flag. That flag belongs to every single one of us. And I am tired of having our democracy hijacked by the right wing of this country. - Democrat presidential dwarf Howard Dean ** Clark Hails Bush Team Newly minted Democrat Wesley Clark blasted the Clinton administration as clueless and praised the 'great team' headed by President Bush in a 2001 speech in Arkansas that Republicans circulated on transcript and video last night. . . . (C)lark hailed the Bush team: 'I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill - people I know very well - our president, George W. Bush. We need them there.' - New York Post, 9/26/03 *** Chick Droppings Ditzy Chick Natalie Maines released a ridiculous letter criticizing country music, President Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger and conservative talk radio. If you have any interest in the actual content - though I don't know why you would - you can read Talon News' report on it at: http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/september/0926_dixie_chicks.shtml ** Let Every Bought Vote Count Liberals claim to want to count every vote and have every vote count. But what they really want is to win at all costs, even if it means passing out absentee ballots to incapacitated nursing home residents, or giving away free cigarettes to vagrants if they'll follow campaign workers to the polls and pull the Democrat lever. - Columnist Linda Chavez ** Opposition Stiffens to President's Medicare Bill If the White House is dead set on getting a (Medicare prescription drug) bill, America's going to get a Democrat bill. A large number of House conservatives will not go along with creating the largest new entitlement since 1965. - Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Washington Times, 9/26/03 ** School Choice for Me, But Not for Thee Sen. Specter's (children) attended a private school in Philadelphia because, according to their father, 'they didn't have access to a good public school.' Of course most students in the nation's capital also lack access to a quality public school.(and) Sen. Specter's opposition to parental-choice legislation has helped make sure they'll be denied the leg up his children enjoyed. - Columnist Krista Kafer in National Review Online *** Hittin' 'Em in the Ol' Pocketbook I just had a call from a Republican committee. I firmly told the caller that until I see the Republicans (who are in power) support our President, vote for what is right regarding the judicial nominees, and a host of other things they are NOT doing, I will not send another cent. - News Views reader Jeannette ** Marriage Amendment Just Won't Work Proponents of the Federal Marriage Amendment...are wrong in thinking an amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman will save the institution from the depredations of the postmodern deconstructionists. . . . Judges who are unconstrained by the actual text of the Constitution, the doctrine of federalism, or America's legal history are unlikely to be deterred by a mere amendment. If such judges are willing to ignore the plain language of the Constitution in other circumstances, why would they suddenly be obliged to respect the text of a marriage amendment? - Richard Lessner, executive director of the American Conservative Union and former executive director of American Renewal: the legislative action arm of Family Research Council and a senior advisor on Gary Bauer's 2000 campaign for president *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com ** A Word About the Racial Privacy Initiative Those of us who support Proposition 54 (the Racial Privacy
Chuck Muth's News Views - September 30, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This Week on Always Right My guest this week will be Utah House Speaker Marty Stephens. Mr. Stephens is the only Speaker in Utah history to have been elected for a third term and is also the new president for the National Conference of State Legislatures. The Speaker is a true and recognized friend of taxpayers and a gubernatorial candidate in 2004. He was also intimately involved with a new report by the Representative Democracy in America Project which studied the declining participation of citizens, especially among the young DotNets, in public life. Tune in Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. EST (or catch the re-run at 11:00 p.m. EST) for Always Right with Chuck Muth featuring Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Marty Stephens. 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 www.CitizenOutreach.com ** Poll Vault: Arnold Jumps to Lead Arnold Schwarzenegger has muscled his way to a commanding lead in California's recall campaign, according to the results of a stunning poll released yesterday. A Gallup survey commission by CNN and USA Today showed Golden State voters poised to pink-slip Gov. Gray Davis and install political newcomer Schwarzenegger as their leader. Davis' recall has the support of 63 percent of voters, compared with 35 percent who oppose it, according to the poll. It also shows a pumped-up Schwarzenegger with a formidable lead, 40 percent to 25 percent, over his closest rival, Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. - New York Post, 9/29/03 *** Hillary Blasts Arnold As Right-Winger New York Sen. Hillary Clinton warned Californians on Friday that GOP gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger is part of a right-wing stampede hell-bent on taking over California the same way they've taken over the nation. 'Let's make it absolutely clear that California is not going to be stampeded by the same right-wingers that gave us the election in Florida and are trying to do things that are really against our interest,' Clinton told a West Hollywood 'women's rally' for incumbent Gov. Gray Davis via telephone. - NewsMax.com, 9/28/03 ** Last Call for October War College There are still a couple seats available for the Campaign War College in Baltimore on October 17-19. If you're a candidate who REALLY wants to get your WINNING campaign off on the right foot, this three day workshop is just what the doctor ordered. Get all the details by clicking on the Campaign War College button at www.citizenoutreach.com ** Crowded Field The situation in Iraq is not good, it's bad, said French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin on Europe-1 radio over the weekend. There's a spiral of violence and terror and everything must be done to stop it. Villepin was immediately added to the field of Democrat candidates for president, but experts predict he's more likely to emerge as French-looking John Kerry's vice-presidential running mate. Dean Takes Shot At Former General I think what you see in the Wes Clark candidacy is a somewhat of a desperation by inside-the-Beltway politicians. You've got a lot of establishment politicians now surrounding a general who was a Republican until 25 days ago. I do not think that the solution for Democrats to...win again is to draft Republicans and to support people who have been in Washington for 25 and 30 years. - Democrat presidential dwarf Howard Dean *** Panic City at GOP HQ Anxiety about the 2004 presidential election that suddenly has grasped Republican hearts, from the White House to the grass roots, can be traced to President Bush's two important speeches on Iraq delivered over 15 days. They were both duds. ...Until now, George W. Bush always had risen to the occasion. But failure marks current efforts of the president and his vaunted political team, headed by Karl Rove. . . . Replacing the old mantra that there is no way for Bush to lose, panicky Republicans studying the electoral map wonder whether there is any way that they can win. - Columnist Robert Novak *** Which Way Do We Go, George? Which Way Do We Go? I was chatting with some key staffers for the Majority in both the House and Senate last week. They all said the same thing: Republican legislators are confused. They are rudderless. They aren't sure which way they want to go. Some feel they must back the White House on everything. Others want to oppose the White House on selective issues, such as the new entitlement program for prescription drugs. - Paul Weyrich, president of the Free
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 1, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Our Pleasure! Mr. Muth, thanks for providing the information that I cannot find anywhere in the four newspapers that are delivered to my home. Neither can I find that info anywhere on the TV network programs. Keep it coming! - Jack Sherratt of Burlingame, CA *** Help Wanted I need a few volunteers with some time and/or expertise to spare for a couple Citizen Outreach projects. Primarily I need folks who can devote a little time doing basic Internet searches for contact information on various people and organizations. But I could also use the services or some advisors with technical know-how on email communications programs and systems, web design work and e-commerce/fundraising. If you might be able to volunteer some time or expertise in these areas, please click on the Volunteer page at www.citizenoutreach.com and click Other on the list of ways you might like to help. Please note any areas of expertise in the Message box. And...thanks! *** Not All Actors Are Jackasses Bruce Willis recently staged a rock concert at a desert airfield to entertain the soldiers who were stationed near the Syrian border. Wearing a military hat and jacket, he belted out some rock 'n' roll and blues with his band, the Accelerator. 'We're here to support you,' he told America's finest. 'If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.' The star then offered $1 million to the soldier who captures the overthrown Iraqi dictator. - Left Coast Report, NewsMax.com, 9/30/03 *** The Liberal Mouth That Roared For the past two weeks, Mr. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, has been leading his party's opposition to the war, calling it a 'fraud' cooked up for political reasons. On Friday, Mr. Kennedy went further, accusing the president, in effect, of killing American troops through poor planning. ...Some Democratic leaders have since embraced Mr. Kennedy, with presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton doing so at a Congressional Black Caucus event Friday. 'This is the Kennedy tradition. We stand with you,' Mr. Sharpton said. 'You have nothing to apologize for.' - Washington Times, 9/30/03 ** The Ambassador's Spooky Wife This is a set-up and the New York Times and Washington Post are only too glad to play. Ambassador Wilson's wife was not a CIA 'operative.' She is an ANALYST. They are a dime for two dozen out there in Langley. Thus, there was nothing to leak about her highly sensitive job. Analysts are perfectly free to tell the world what they do. Does anyone really think our foreign policy/national security apparatus would allow an Ambassador's wife to be a spy? There is no evidence that anyone at the White House leaked this information; it wasn't even classified. I'm told that Ambassador Wilson (a Clinton appointee who has given money to Kerry and other Democrat candidates) is already backpedaling from his accusation that Karl Rove leaked classified information about his wife. Rove wouldn't even have known if she was an undercover operative and, anyhow, she wasn't. - David Luken ** Um, Now About That DOMESTIC Spending... We're all for Congress paying close attention to what it spends. But would that our honorable representatives were applying as much skepticism to the fine print of, say, the energy bill as they are to President Bush's $87 billion request for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. - Wall Street Journal editorial, 9/30/03 ** Democrats Belly Up to the Trough Today, Reps. Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) will unveil their 'American Parity Amendment' -- backed by organized labor -- that would add $20 billion in domestic spending to mirror the infrastructure, health care and education spending Bush wants for Iraq. - Washington Post, 9/30/03 ** Howard's End Vermont's former Gov. Howard Dean is a charismatic campaigner who knows how to rock the world of anti-Bush people. That's pretty much his only strong suit, as Gary Coleman could probably govern Vermont if he knew where it was. . . . Osama loves this guy as much as Tim Robbins does. - Columnist and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly ** Wes Must Have Missed a Memo Somewhere The only voters who will have something to say about who the (presidential primary) front-runner is will be the Democrats of New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and after that, maybe, primary voters in other states. These are the voters unforgiving to anyone who says nice things about Republicans. The correct way to respond to Republicans, as we know, is to hate them. Activist Democrats never think happy
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 4, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Who Should Pick Up the Tab in Iraq? The Bush administration proposes spending another $87 billion ($20 billion for Iraq reconstruction) on top of what has already been spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, this country should be calling on Iraq and the rest of the oil-producing states to rebuild those nations. Freedom costs, but it should not just cost the United States. Those who benefit most from freedom should pay part of the bill. - Columnist Cal Thomas *** NEW Survey Says! Part of the President's $87 billion war supplemental request includes some $20 billion in reconstruction aid for Iraq. As proposed by the administration, this money would simply be given to Iraq as a grant. However, some Republicans are suggesting that this money, in whole or in part, be extended instead as a loan, to be repaid with revenue from the country's vast oil reserves once up and running again. Some Democrats, on the other hand, are saying the $20 billion should be financed by repealing some of the president's tax cuts for the rich. And some conservatives are saying the $20 billion should be offset with $20 billion in spending cuts, particularly in foreign aid. Still others think the $20 billion should be rejected outright. What do you think? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com *** Medal Mania Recently in Iraq, an Army two-star general put himself in for the Silver Star, a gallantry award, for just being there, and for the Combat Infantryman Badge, an award designed for infantry grunts far below the rank of this division commander. During the war, members of an Air Force bomber crew were all awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for lobbing a smart bomb from 30,000 feet onto a house where Saddam was rumored to be breaking bread - even though Saddam's still out there somewhere sucking desert air. In 1944, the only way a bomber crew might have gotten the DFC would have been if it had wobbled back from Berlin on one wing and a prayer after a dozen-plus missions of wall-to-wall flak. ...The U.S. Air Force has approved more than 50,000 medals for operations in the Middle East. The U.S. Army, trying to catch up with the folks in blue who flew through all that imaginary Iraqi flak, has issued medals as though they were Cracker Jack prizes. So far they've pinned on tens of thousands of awards, from the coveted Distinguished Service Cross to the CIB. More than 5,000 Bronze Stars alone have been awarded. - Columnist David Hackworth *** We Want What's-His-Name! According to a new survey, six out of 10 Americans can't name a single Democrat running for president. And that poll was actually taken among the 10 current Democratic candidates. According to the survey answers, 'the military guy' leads with 19 percent, followed by 'that doctor - what's his name?' with 12 percent, and 'the French-looking guy' with 9 percent. - Columnist Ann Coulter *** Oops The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said yesterday that the former general is not yet a registered Democrat, but that the paperwork to change his registration 'has been sitting on his desk for the last couple of weeks.' - Washington Times, 10/3/03 *** New Deployment of Weapon of Mass Obstruction Democrats, including two presidential hopefuls, boycotted a Senate committee meeting yesterday, preventing Utah's governor from being approved as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. . . . The committee had planned to vote on Gov. Michael O. Leavitt's EPA nomination yesterday but was blocked because none of the eight committee Democrats showed up to the meeting. To hold a vote, the panel must have 10 members present, including two Democrats. - Washington Times, 10/3/03 *** All In the Family Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante isn't the only rising star in his family -- his 39-year-old sister, Nao Bustamante, is making news for herself as well, as an avant-garde performance artist. Her more notable performances include: * Wrapping herself in clear packing tape and emptying an entire can of hair spray into her hair while perched atop a 15-foot ladder. * Exploring the pop cultural relations between Mexico and the United States by traveling to fast-food restaurants dressed up as Ronaldo McDonald. * Strapping on burrito-dildos, upon which white males feast in an absolution ceremony for 500 years of colonial guilt. - Matier Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/29/03 *** OK, Let's Circle the Firing Squad A new poll of conservative Republicans finds that close to two-thirds of (GOP gubernatorial candidate
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 4, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** The Rush to Sack Rush One has to wonder, what precisely did Mr. Limbaugh insinuate (about Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb) that was so wrong? That the NFL has ethnic double standards? Of COURSE it does. This past year, the NFL instituted a new policy that will enact sanctions against teams that fail to interview minorities for vacant coaching positions. . . . (I)s mandating that black coaches at least get interviewed racist? Of course. - Columnist Armstrong Williams ** About That Hyped Spy Scandal The only matter that troubles me about the episode is that the CIA would employ a man as left-wing as Mr. Wilson to go to Niger unless they planned to leave him there. Unfortunately he has returned. - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. ** Clowns to the Left of Me You just have to laugh at the Angry Left. How can these people expect anyone to take them seriously when they publish books with titles like 'The Big Lies of George W. Bush and the Big Lying Liars of George W. Bush Who Tell Them?' - and their hero is Bill Clinton? Reasonable people can disagree with Bush policies, of course, but constantly calling him a 'liar' serves only to remind people of how honest he is compared with his predecessor. - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 10/3/03 *** The Ol' Double Standard The double standards of some on the press corps continue to astound. When former president Bill Clinton was sued in court for sexual harassment of women who either worked for him or were in positions of vulnerability, the liberal media said it was irrelevant. Feminists decried the women who came forward; political apparatchiks called them 'trailer-trash;' liberals re-described sexual harassment as a harmless romp-around in the Oval Office. Even now, it's almost impossible to get liberal feminists to decry Clinton's abusive behavior. Now here comes Arnold Schwarzenegger. No one has filed suit against him for anything. No one even came forward to accuse him of anything. None of the allegedly abused women worked directly for him. But the Los Angeles Times set up its own dragnet, scouring for dirt and came up with six women over three decades, four of whom remain anonymous. And they do this only days away from the recall election, and just after Schwarzenegger has opened up a real lead in the polls. This is about as transparent a smear as you can imagine. - Columnist Andrew Sullivan ** Conservative Paper of Record Backs Arnold We understand why principled conservative Californians would consider voting for state Sen. Tom McClintock -who is a solid, experienced and admirable conservative across a broader range of conservative concerns. But, in elections, it is the results that matter. Somebody will be sitting in the governor's chair after the election, raising or lowering taxes, cutting or not cutting budgets. Assuming the recall wins, there is no plausible view of the current state of public opinion that would put Mr. McClintock in that chair. It will be occupied by either Mr. Schwarzenegger or Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. While a principled vote for a candidate with whom you agree is always a civically virtuous act, we are convinced that sensible, conservative policies are more likely to become law if Mr. Schwarzenegger wins the election, and restores a platform from which traditional conservative voices can be heard. - Washington Times editorial, 10/3/03 ** Reconstruction Aid Raising Ruckus on Right Opposition is growing in Congress to the Bush administration's $20.3 billion request for rebuilding Iraq. . . . In the days since President Bush unveiled the plan, a cadre of both congressional Republicans and Democrats have argued that Iraqi oil revenues should be used to rebuild the country's infrastructure - millions of dollars for infrastructure items like building a postal system, improving the nation's power grid and restoring wetlands. . . . Meanwhile, a handful of conservative Republicans, including Republican Study Group chair Rep. Sue Myrick (N.C) and Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.), said the $20 billion should be offered only as a loan or be offset by cuts in the federal budget. - CNSNews.com, 10/3/03 ** Big Boo-Boo on Rebuilding Bucks You've got $20 billion for things like garbage trucks and English language training programs and college courses. That should be paid for by Iraqi oil money. They're sitting on a trillion dollars worth of oil. The White House has really made a big mistake on this one. - Steve Moore, president, Club for Growth *** SURVEY SAYS!: How to Handle That $20 Billion in Iraqi Reconstruction Aid Part of the
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 5, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** No News Views Today Nothing happens as quickly as I would like, including getting all the various projects I was previously working on separately moved under the new umbrella of Citizen Outreach. One of the last pieces of the puzzle to flesh out is the nature and benefits of the Goldwater Club. While the final restructuring is still in the works, one of the additional benefits we'll be extending to financial contributors will be a new weekly e-newsletter called, DC Confidential. While News Views focuses primarily on current events and opinion, DC Confidential will focus more on insider political dope; campaign behind-the-scenes goings-on, rumors, gossip and inside poop you definitely won't find in your hometown newspaper. The first issue of DC Confidential is going out today. Now, we've had a bear of a time trying to merge and streamline a bunch of different contributor databases over the past year, so if you've made a financial contribution to Citizen Outreach and DON'T receive DC Confidential today, make sure you email me your name, address and phone number so we can verify your data and add you to the new subscriber list. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause as we try to straighten out our contributor database. Once this initial run-through is complete, we should be OK. What sort of things will be included in DC Confidential? Well, here's a brief look at what's in today's issue: * The bad luck charm in Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign pocket * How the Tom McClintock campaign dropped the ball and forfeited our enthusiastic support WEEKS ago * A list of Nancy Pelosi's Most Wanted Republicans walking around with bull's-eyes on their backs * How two different candidate's spouses have thrown monkey wrenches in otherwise promising Republican campaigns in 2004 * The hottest RINO Hunt in the country and what you can do to help * And the surprising emergence of an Indian-American whiz kid Republican superstar in the heart of Cajun Country If you'd like to receive DC Confidential in the future and haven't yet made a contribution to Citizen Outreach, you can do so with your Visa or MasterCard today by clicking on the Contribute button at www.citizenoutreach.com. We'll be back with a regular edition of News Views tomorrow. Chuck Muth President Citizen Outreach
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 6, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Now...About That $20 Billion, Mr. President Part of the President's $87 billion war supplemental request includes some $20 billion in reconstruction aid. As proposed by the administration, this money would be simply given to Iraq as a grant. However, some Republicans are suggesting that this money be extended instead as a loan, to be repaid with the country's vast oil reserves once up and running again. Some Democrats, on the other hand, are saying the $20 billion should be financed by repealing some of the president's tax cuts for the rich. And other conservatives are saying the $20 billion should be offset with $20 billion in spending cuts, particularly in foreign aid. Still others think the $20 billion should be rejected outright. What do you think? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com ** Dear Congress Just so y'all know, your responses to our regular online surveys serve a definite purpose. I referred to your responses to recent surveys in a letter to Members of Congress yesterday urging them not to get bogged down in a political quagmire in the war against Big Government, even if it meant finding themselves in opposition to the White House. You can read the text of the letter - which was faxed to congressional offices over the weekend - by clicking on the Dear Congress button at www.citizenoutreach.com ** Forget Where's Waldo, Where Are the WMD's? The question is not whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The mystery is: What did he do with them? - Clifford May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ** French Democrats Unfortunately, Democrats seem to see (President Bush) as their enemy. It would be nice if they could put aside their lust for power and focus their ire on America's true enemy - the terrorists. - Columnist Oliver North ** The Rush to Silence Speech In the current tempest in a teapot over what Rush Limbaugh said about the National Football League, neither ESPN nor Rush himself will pay any serious price. He doesn't need the job and apparently feels he doesn't need the hassle. The question of the validity of what was said has already been lost in the shuffle. In a sense, that doesn't matter. What matters enormously is whether people lose the freedom to say what they think. That loss is a loss to all of us, those who agree and those who disagree. - Columnist Thomas Sowell ** Nah, There's No Liberal Bias In the Media For your readers it might be interesting for them to be informed of how the Los Angeles Times covered the controversy about Arnold's admiration of Hitler. It was a large-print front page story dealing with his admiration of Hitler. It was a page 22 small story that the quote was out of context. Slash-and-burn page one; retraction on page 22. - News Views subscriber Barry Levy ** Of Saints and Sinners Arnold (Schwarzenegger) isn't Mother Teresa, and I join those who disagree with his positions on abortion and gun control. But in present-day California, he is clearly the first hope and best chance for successfully countering the state's economic woes. He possesses the character, wit and courage to create a partnership between himself and the governed that encourages the proposition the state treasury should be used for the benefit of all and that the state doesn't have unfettered and unaccountable claim on the people's largess. - Columnist and historian William Goldcamp ** Miller Time He's a Hollywood celebrity. And he's smart. He's one of the country's favorite comedians. And he's a conservative. Wipe that smirk off your face and meet a patriotic entertainer. So says the introduction to a rip-roaring interview with Dennis Miller in the current edition of The American Enterprise magazine. His dream matchup for the 2008 presidential race: Condoleeza Rice vs. Hillary Clinton, an imagined track record versus a real track record. You can read it online by going to: http://taemag.com/issues/articleID.17708/article_detail.asp *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue
Chuck Muth's News Views - GAME DAY, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** From the South Lawn of the White House. As Grand Imperial Pooh-bah of Citizen Outreach, I was honored with an invitation to the White House to attend yesterday morning's welcoming ceremonies for the state visit of Mwai Kibaki, President of the Republic of Kenya. I was situated about ten yards from the Coast Guard contingent during President Bush and President Kibaki's review of the troops on the South Lawn. Pretty cool. The ceremony included a 21-Gun Salute - but Howard Dean's request that the cannons be aimed AT the White House were denied. By the way, on the drive down to DC I was listening to Ronald Reagan's autobiography on tape. He is STILL da man! But he said something I'd love to confirm if any of you can track it down. He said that in FDR's first campaign for president, his platform included a call for a 25 percent REDUCTION in government spending. Hoo-hah! Of course, he ended up doing the exact opposite thing once in office, giving the country the RAW DEAL. Still, I'd like to find confirmation that FDR actually proposed this at one time. If anyone can track this down, please forward to my attention. Thanks! ** News You Won't Find in the Mainstream Press More than 1 million girls in Afghanistan have entered schools since the fall of the hard-line Taliban regime - which had forbidden the education of girls - according to a UNICEF survey issued last week. - Betsy Pisik, The U.N. Report, 10/6/03 ** The Rush to Sack Limbaugh (Rush) Limbaugh charged the media...with practicing a kind of affirmative action toward (Eagles quarterback Donovan) McNabb -- holding him to a lesser standard of excellence than white quarterbacks would be held to. If he had been talking about the University of Michigan's admission policies, or about Jayson Blair's career at The New York Times, nobody would have raised an eyebrow. But he said it about professional football, and for that he is being denounced as a vile bigot. - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby ** Racial Double Standard In the wake over the Rush Limbaugh flap on ESPN, it's clearer that the double standards employed by the political correctness police are doing more to harm race relations than any effort since Lester Maddox's. . . . Just last month, Chicago Cubs Manager Dusty Baker claimed that 'blacks and Latins take the heat better than most whites, and whites take the cold better than most blacks and Latins. That's it, pure and simple. Nothing deeper than that.' While the ignorance in this statement is shocking, neither resignation nor apology were necessary. You see, Dusty Baker is black. - Horace Cooper of the Centre for New Black Leadership ** What's Up With This? Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, who recently accused President Bush of perpetrating a fraud on the American people in regard to the prewar threat from Iraq, will receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service. . . . . Former President Bush has sole discretion on who receives the award, said Penrod Thornton of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. - Greg Pierce's Inside Politics, 10/6/03 ** The Mean Dean Tax Hike Machine I think (President Bush's) tax cuts are a disaster, and I'd repeal all of them. - Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean, The Jewish Week, 10/3/03 ** Donkey Infighting I love watching Howard Dean attack Wesley Clark: a Gingrich Republican debating a Nixon Republican over who's the better Democrat. - David Wade, spokesman for John Kerry, Washington Whispers, U.S. News World Report, 10/13/03 ** Smelling Blood The political feeding frenzy over the White House/CIA leak story spotlights just how desperate the Democrats are to find an election issue with legs. For nearly three years, they have repeatedly attacked this administration, hoping by sheer numerical odds to find the one issue that would politically damage George W. Bush. Naturally, not one - the corporate accounting scandal, the tax cuts, the Iraq war or the failure to find weapons of mass destruction - has had any long-term traction. Now, three months before the opening bell for the 2004 election year, the Democrats claim they smell blood in the water. - Columnist Donald Lambro ** Why the Leak Actually Happened The leak (about Joe Wilson's wife working for the CIA) was not to discredit Wilson in the eyes of those who might otherwise agree with him. It was to explain the administration's baffling use of a former Clinton administration official to take on this sensitive assignment--a decision that eventually
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 8, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** California Wins! The people have spoken. The system works. Congratulations to Republican GOVERNOR Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hasta la vista, Davis. Maybe now some of those Gray skies are gonna clear up. ** French Insignificance The French, it isn't a question that they are not our friends anymore, they are leading the world against the United States every time that we turn around. It just wasn't against us going to war in Iraq, every single time that they turn around they are subverting the efforts, to try and make themselves more important in the world. France is insignificant to the world. - Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Jon Ralston's Flash, 10/7/03 ** Panic City In a sharp reversal, Republicans who just months ago daydreamed about a 2004 election landslide now worry that President Bush is losing control of events at home and abroad and faces a real chance of leading the party to defeat. - Miami Herald, 10/5/03 ** From Wesley Clark's New Party The liberal website democraticunderground.com called (talk show host Rush) Limbaugh a 'vulgar pigboy' who may turn out to be a 'terrorist-supporting, hillbilly-heroin addict.' - CNSNews.com, 10/7/03 ** Al Franken Is a Big-Mouth Idiot (I'm) looking forward to the perp walk. I'll be switching channels to get it from every angle. My favorite part is when they push their heads to get them down into the [police] car. - Comedian Al Franken hoping to see Rush Limbaugh arrested on drug charges ** Turning the Tables on Wilson I assume that if (Joe Wilson) went into this job for the CIA, he had to sign an oath of secrecy - a confidentiality (agreement). And if he did, then he violated it and he should be prosecuted. He conducted a so-called 'secret' mission for the CIA. [However] he's talking about it all over national and international television - undermining the president of the United States. ... Why wasn't this guy called in before a grand jury? - Rep. Pete King (R-NY) to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, 10/5/03 ** The Penalty for Puke Politics There is, of course, another debilitating facet of the mudslinging brand of politics that seems to have become ever more popular. It not only discourages voters but does the same thing in spades for candidates. Who wants to run for public office in an atmosphere that holds one accountable for every silly remark or minor insensitivity in his or her life. The answer is, quite simply fewer and fewer qualified men and women, that's who. - Columnist Dan Thomasson ** The Right to Feel Comfortable In a scene reminiscent of the Wild West, about 75 people paraded through Northside (Ohio) with handguns strapped to their sides Sunday. Unlike the Old West, though, it was a modern-era media publicity stunt to protest last week's Ohio Supreme Court ruling upholding the state's ban on carrying concealed weapons. ...There was heckling, however, from a half-dozen counter-protesters, some of whom carried plastic 'Super Soaker' water guns and walked alongside demonstrators packing real guns in their holsters. On numerous occasions, counter-protesters poked their water guns in the faces of marchers and asked, 'How do you like a gun pointed at you? You gonna murder somebody?' ...Anti-gun protester Jacob Hand of Walnut Hills, who taunted marchers with his 'Super Soaker' water gun.(said), 'Guns don't make me feel safer. They make me uncomfortable. These people are violating my right to feel comfortable.' - The Cincinnati Post, 9/29/03 *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com ** The Bigger Dangers to Marriage This marriage protection week does NOTHING to reduce the rate of divorce, illegitimacy rates, adultery, gambling, and other behaviors that seem to be rather epidemic in the heterosexual lifestyle. It's so much easier to just blame the gays. - News Views reader Eva Young ** Bigger Fish to Fry Amending the Constitution is a rare
Chuck Muth's News Views - BACK ISSUES - October 7-8, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Due to technical difficulties, News Views did not go out over the 'net as normal and most people haven't received an issue for the last couple of days. The problem appears to be resolved, as today's issue appears to have finally posted this afternoon. Well...better late than never, so below are the two back issues from Tuesday and Wednesday. We now return to our regular programming... Chuck - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OCTOBER 7, 2003 ** From the South Lawn of the White House. As Grand Imperial Pooh-bah of Citizen Outreach, I was honored with an invitation to the White House to attend yesterday morning's welcoming ceremonies for the state visit of Mwai Kibaki, President of the Republic of Kenya. I was situated about ten yards from the Coast Guard contingent during President Bush and President Kibaki's review of the troops on the South Lawn. Pretty cool. The ceremony included a 21-Gun Salute - but Howard Dean's request that the cannons be aimed AT the White House were denied. By the way, on the drive down to DC I was listening to Ronald Reagan's autobiography on tape. He is STILL da man! But he said something I'd love to confirm if any of you can track it down. He said that in FDR's first campaign for president, his platform included a call for a 25 percent REDUCTION in government spending. Hoo-hah! Of course, he ended up doing the exact opposite thing once in office, giving the country the RAW DEAL. Still, I'd like to find confirmation that FDR actually proposed this at one time. If anyone can track this down, please forward to my attention. Thanks! ** News You Won't Find in the Mainstream Press More than 1 million girls in Afghanistan have entered schools since the fall of the hard-line Taliban regime - which had forbidden the education of girls - according to a UNICEF survey issued last week. - Betsy Pisik, The U.N. Report, 10/6/03 ** The Rush to Sack Limbaugh (Rush) Limbaugh charged the media...with practicing a kind of affirmative action toward (Eagles quarterback Donovan) McNabb -- holding him to a lesser standard of excellence than white quarterbacks would be held to. If he had been talking about the University of Michigan's admission policies, or about Jayson Blair's career at The New York Times, nobody would have raised an eyebrow. But he said it about professional football, and for that he is being denounced as a vile bigot. - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby ** Racial Double Standard In the wake over the Rush Limbaugh flap on ESPN, it's clearer that the double standards employed by the political correctness police are doing more to harm race relations than any effort since Lester Maddox's. . . . Just last month, Chicago Cubs Manager Dusty Baker claimed that 'blacks and Latins take the heat better than most whites, and whites take the cold better than most blacks and Latins. That's it, pure and simple. Nothing deeper than that.' While the ignorance in this statement is shocking, neither resignation nor apology were necessary. You see, Dusty Baker is black. - Horace Cooper of the Centre for New Black Leadership ** What's Up With This? Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, who recently accused President Bush of perpetrating a fraud on the American people in regard to the prewar threat from Iraq, will receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service. . . . . Former President Bush has sole discretion on who receives the award, said Penrod Thornton of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation. - Greg Pierce's Inside Politics, 10/6/03 ** The Mean Dean Tax Hike Machine I think (President Bush's) tax cuts are a disaster, and I'd repeal all of them. - Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean, The Jewish Week, 10/3/03 ** Donkey Infighting I love watching Howard Dean attack Wesley Clark: a Gingrich Republican debating a Nixon Republican over who's the better Democrat. - David Wade, spokesman for John Kerry, Washington Whispers, U.S. News World Report, 10/13/03 ** Smelling Blood The political feeding frenzy over the White House/CIA leak story spotlights just how desperate the Democrats are to find an election issue with legs. For nearly three years, they have repeatedly attacked this administration, hoping by sheer numerical odds to find the one issue that would politically damage George W. Bush. Naturally, not one - the corporate accounting scandal, the tax cuts, the Iraq war or the failure to find weapons of mass destruction - has had any long-term traction. Now,
BRUSHFIRE ALERT: Stupidity Virus Hits Texas
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Stupidity Virus Hits Texas October 10, 2003 Fifteen-year-old Andra Ferguson, a student at Caney Creek High School in Conroe, Texas, suffers from asthma, which she treats with Albuterol, a prescription inhaler, reports James Taranto of Best of the Web. One day last month, Houston's KPRC-TV reports, she suffered an attack and had forgotten to bring her inhaler. Brandon Kivi, her boyfriend and a fellow asthmatic who uses the same medicine, lent her his inhaler. 'It made a big difference,' said Ferguson. 'It did save my life.' OK. Now who can't see from a mile away what happened next? Yup. The school nurse said young Brandon's action was a violation of the school's zero-tolerance drug policy. The very next day he was arrested and suspended from school for three days. He faces expulsion and could be sent to juvenile detention on drug charges. The mothers of both kids are furious, but the school principal, Greg Poole, says tough cookies. Poole says he can't do anything about it because Kivi broke school rules as well as state law. If this is indeed Dr. Poole's position, he is, in our humble opinion, a moron. However, that's probably what makes him eminently qualified for the position of principal at a public high school in the first place. In any event, I just called the school and was told a meeting with the families involved is occurring this afternoon. BRUSHFIRE ALERT: If you'd like to weigh in with your own opinion, you can call the school at (936) 231-3330. Or you can email Dr. Poole some ruminations on the value of common sense at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Muth President Citizen Outreach www.citizenoutreach.com
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 10-12, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Special Weekend Edition Hoo-hah! Man, oh man, do we have a LOT to cover this weekend. Just a reminder, there won't be a regular issue of News Views on Sunday, but this action-packed edition should be MORE than enough to hold you over. However, for those of you who have made a financial contribution to Citizen Outreach, our second edition of DC Confidential WILL hit your inbox Sunday morning. Here's a peak at what you'll find this week. * Who's winning the money chase in this post-McCain/Feingold world * A formerly toasted Democrat congresswoman who may be toast in next year's Democrat primary * How the CA goober election re-opened some old wounds between two right wings of the GOP * How Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudy Giuliani are re-defining the word moderate in political circles * The Governator's secret neutron bomb he just might drop to terminate Democrats who don't get with his program * Rep. David Dreier's amazing flip-flop...with a twist * More on the GOP's un-Duke superstar in the Bayou * Early look at the race to fill Don Nickles' senate shoes in Oklahoma * The simmering cat-fight for the soul of the Republican party in Pennsylvania begins to boil over * An Air Force pilot with a congressional socialist in his sights * The emergence of a black Jesse Helms in North Carolina * And the return of the conservative Jazz Singer All that and more. It's not too late to get a subscription to DC Confidential. Just make a contribution of $5 or more to Citizen Outreach. Click on the Contribute button at www.citizenoutreach.com. ** White Knight Hung Out to Dry A meeting was held Friday for a student accused of breaking school rules and state law by giving his girlfriend (Andra Ferguson) his inhaler when she had trouble breathing, News2Houston reported. . . . On Friday, school officials decided to expel (Brandon) Kivi but not press criminal charges. . . . Ferguson said Kivi possibly saved her life and should never have been punished. ...Conroe Independent School District officials released the following statement: 'Texas school districts are required by law to expel students who commit certain offenses. Delivery of a dangerous drug is one of those offenses.' - Click2Houston.com, 10/10/03 (Note: You can express your opinion on the school district's decision to expel a student for sharing an inhaler with a fellow student suffering an asthma attack by emailing the clowns at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ** This BS's for You Thank you for your recent contact to Anheuser-Busch. We would like to take this opportunity to respond back to you and clarify the situation. Anheuser-Busch has a long tradition of giving to both political parties in California. Our 2003 support reflects that bipartisan stance. The donation in question was represented to us to be for a 'get out the vote' initiative, which is where we believed we were providing our support. - Lame response from Anheuser-Busch to emails from News Views readers complaining about the beer giant's sponsorship of last-minute telephone messages from Al Gore urging Californians to vote for Cruz Bustamante in Tuesday's recall election ** This Bud's NOT for You Chuck: We used to have a fleet of private charter yachts which provided Budweiser on tap. We still have the fleet, but as of today we have instructed our bar manager to switch to MGD. At full capacity our yachts accommodate 1067 guests; we host several hundred events every year. Because of Anheuser-Busch's political allegiance (to Democrat California gubernatorial candidate Cruz Bustamante), over 100,000 MGDs will be consumed every year instead. As an aside, my husband said he always thought Budweiser sucked anyway. Have a good day! - Elisa M. Mohr, Vice President, Adventures At Sea Yacht Charters Gondola Cruises in Newport Beach, CA (www.boatcharter.com) *** Suddenly, It's Cool to Be Republican There's one last, large intangible that Arnold (Schwarzenegger) has slipped into the political waters: He's cool. Like it or not, the force field of celebrity is part of the cultural physics of our era, and it looks as if the first party to get totally wired-in to a mega-celebrity is, incredibly, the GOP. . . . Arnold, with all that media reach and the aura of living wholly inside the country's popular culture, may be changing ideas of who can live comfortably on election day among the Republicans. - Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger ** Hasta La Vista, Bonehead The Oakland Tribune reports that (California) state Sen. John Vasconcellos, a San Jose Democrat, has called the governor-elect (Arnold Schwarzenegger) 'a boob' and is threatening to leave
DC Confidential - October 12, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Federal Marriage Amendment As the country begins Marriage Protection Week today, you can read an op/ed published this weekend in the Las Vegas Sun where I outline ten reasons for conservatives to OPPOSE the federal marriage amendment currently being discussed in Congress. Just surf over to: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/commentary/2003/oct/10/515725767.html *** Kendel vs. Brittany - Round 1 Maryland's First Lady, Kendel Ehrlich, stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy last week when she used a figure of speech to verbally take music sensation Brittany Spears to the proverbial woodshed for being such a lousy role model for teenage girls. Something about wanting to shoot her. Of course, those of us with an ounce of common sense fully understood exactly what Mrs. Ehrlich meant, but that didn't stop the PC police coast-to-coast from having a cow. To her credit, however, Kendel didn't respond with the traditional groveling and gnashing of teeth Republicans are so famous for. Instead, she simply acknowledged an inadvertent figure or speech and changed the topic in a press conference.by announcing that she and the Governor were expecting their second child. Talk about spin control! Congrats to the Ehrlichs. Republicans could use more plain-spoken leaders who don't wither under fire. Of course, not all of us can call up a new baby at the snap of our fingers when the heat is on, but give Kendel a A for creativity. *** The Money Chase Republicans are crushing the Democrats in the war to raise campaign cash under new restrictions imposed on the parties by the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform restrictions. Through August, the Republican National Committee has raised almost $70 million, with about $25 million on hand. On the other side, the Democrat National Committee has raised only $26 million, with just under $8 million in the bank. Restrictions on illegal and union campaign contributions is really killing Terry McAuliffe and the DNC. *** GOP's Secret Weapon When it comes to boots on the ground, the Democrats have had the unions and Republicans have had...well, squat. But that may be changing. Though a small group by comparison right now, the home school folks are growing in both size and significance. Still operating under the political radar screen these days, homeschoolers nevertheless are quickly becoming the liberals' worst political nightmare. First, homeschoolers pose a very real threat to the government and teachers union monopoly liberals have over the education of our kids. Break up that monopoly and you break up the brainwashing that's been indoctrinating our kids into believing that government is the answer to all our problems. Secondly, there are a ton of interest groups out there; however, by and large home schoolers are VERY politically active. As World magazine notes, just 29 percent of 18-24 year olds voted in elections over the last five years, but among former home schoolers in that exact same age bracket, a whopping 74 percent went to the polls. Among the general population of all age brackets, around 40 percent voted, but among folks with homeschooling backgrounds, 93 percent went to the polls. While those percentages are impressive, it should be noted that there are only about 2-3 million homeschoolers in a voting population of 80-100 million. BUT...the numbers of home schoolers is increasing dramatically and will continue to do so as the Internet makes such a choice more appealing and more and more parents flee the government schools. But there's more. Home schooling families don't just vote. In fact, they are at least two or three times as likely as others to be financial contributors to political candidates, parties and causes. In addition, they are two to ten times as likely to be on-the-ground workers. What this means, concludes World's report, is that homeschoolers' extraordinary activism eclipses their relatively small numbers. Looks like the right has found a potent David to take on the left's Goliath. And don't be surprised to see a similar result. Homeschoolers don't just win spelling bees. Oh, and one last thing. If you ever get into an argument with an educator or liberal who dumps on homeschooling, ask them to take out a one or five dollar bill. The faces on those bills are the faces of two former home school student...who also happen to be two of the greatest presidents in our nation's history. *** One Step (Out the Door) At a Time It's not much discussed in the mainstream press, but Rep. Karen McCarthy's (D-Mo.) career in Congress is hanging by a thread. After falling down an escalator while three sheets to the wind last
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 13, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Happy Birthday By now you all know that I inadvertently hit the wrong button yesterday and sent out DC Confidential to everybody rather than just to those who have made a financial contribution to our efforts at Citizen Outreach. Well, consider my oops a birthday gift and I hope everyone enjoyed this week's issue. And if you would like to CONTINUE receiving DC Confidential, again all you need do is make a donation of $5 or more by clicking on the Contribute page at www.citizenoutreach.com. *** Should Drug Benefit Be Means Tested? Day by day we get closer and closer to a showdown over adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare. Conservatives in Congress say that any such benefit should be available only to the poor who can't afford it. Liberals and some moderates are insisting that any new drug benefit should be made available to everyone, regardless of income. What do you think? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com ** Long Live the Queen As much as we despise her, she cannot be drawn out...the Queen lives - Joby Fortson, aide to Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), in an email lamenting that Texas redistricting efforts wouldn't eliminate race-hustling liberal Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee's district. ** Fish or Fowl It takes more time and effort to stalk beasts in the backwoods than it does to shoot fish in a barrel. . . . (For this appeal) not much stalking by plaintiffs' counsel was required. - 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting a bill of $76,109 from attorneys who successfully argued for the removal of a Ten Commandments shrine from an Alabama courthouse. The court noted that the lead attorney in the case had focused on First Amendment religious cases for the last five years, including seven other Ten Commandments cases ** Stupid Is As Stupid Does Why is it that whenever we learn of something really, really stupid going on...our government schools always seem to somehow be involved. Here's the latest example, courtesy of an editorial in yesterday's Union Leader: When federal education officials told states to do something about dangerous schools, they weren't talking about kindergarten finger paintings. That didn't stop Massachusetts from leaping into the void to protect students from their own artwork and poetry. Saying taped-up paper represents a fire hazard, the state forbade teachers this fall from covering more than 20 percent of classroom wall space with any kind of 'flammable material' - otherwise known as cardboard cutouts of the alphabet, postings of classroom rules, educational posters and student reports on explorers or rain forests. Somebody pass me an inhaler. ** Let's Play Hardball Senate Republicans plan a blitz to confirm President Bush's stalled judicial nominations soon after returning from break next week. Though their first priority will be passing Mr. Bush's $87 billion request for occupying and rebuilding Iraq, top Republicans said the blocked judges will be next on the agenda. Their plans include forcing around-the-clock debate on filibustered nominees, introducing a change in Senate rules that would bar filibusters against judicial nominees and creating a 'judges week,' during which all other legislative issues would be pushed aside to make way for debate on the nominees. . . . Democrats said they've heard rumblings about Republican plans but remain committed to blocking the nominees. - Washington Times, 10/12/03 ** Enough Is Enough We've been very patient in the face of filibusters against the president's (judicial) nominees, but we won't be for much longer. Much of their obstruction has been limited to committee rooms and unspoken threats. If they want to continue dancing to the tune of special interests, they're going to have to do it live on C-SPAN. - Don Stewart, spokesman for Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and member of the judiciary committee, Washington Times, 10/12/03 *** Time to Buck Up the Troops It appears pressure from conservative grassroots activists such as yourselves on Republicans in the Senate to play hardball and break the Democrats' filibusters of the President's judicial nominees is starting to have an effect. Many of you recently contacted your senators asking them to support using, if need be, the nuclear option to clear the judicial logjam. Now would be an excellent time to follow-up with yet another encouraging note or phone call to buck up our troops on the eve of this incredibly important battle. For a list of phone numbers and email addresses for Republican senators who need to
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 14, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Inhaler Update Regarding that matter in Texas where a student was expelled for sharing his inhaler with a fellow student suffering an asthma attack. As you know, the school issued the canned response to your emails which claimed we were operating on erroneous information and blamed the Internet for creating one of those urban legends we've become accustomed to on the web. Such an accusation understandably raises concerns on our end. So let me assure you of two things: (1) I attempted to get the school's side of the story last Friday before sending out our Brushfire Alert. Principal Poole's secretary blew me off. So *if* there was any erroneous information out there, it was only because the school refused to clear it up when given the chance. (2) In any event, the information we acted upon was provided by, not one, but THREE credible media outlets; a Wall Street Journal column, a major Houston newspaper and a Houston television station. This was NOT based on some unreliable Internet source. Early yesterday afternoon I received a professional and courteous phone call from Dr. Poole, the principal. I offered him an opportunity to come on Always Right tonight to discuss the situation but haven't heard back from him with a yes or no. In the meantime, some quick points of clarification which came from our conversation: 1) As the school's response notes, the boy in question is not in jail; however, it is TRUE that he WAS taken into custody by police and had formal felony charges brought against him. Those charges have since been dropped and the kid will NOT have any kind of permanent criminal record. 2.) The boy in question WAS expelled, but Principal Poole says it was a probationary expulsion (an oxymoron along the lines of postal service and military intelligence). The young man could have returned to school after a few days, but was subject to being formally tossed out if he didn't keep his nose clean, so to speak. 3.) If the nurse involved in the incident had reported it to Principal Poole instead of the school police, Dr. Poole maintains this molehill might not have been blown into such a mountain. However, he says that once the cops were brought into the equation, his hands were tied and there was no wiggle room for him to exercise any discretion. 4.) The main bone of contention here seems to be the characterization of the asthma attack. Yes, the girl originally went to the nurse for a headache as Dr. Poole's email suggests, but it was THERE that the girl and boy involved say she had the attack. The girl says the boy saved her life; the school maintains there was no life-threatening situation. It's a classic he said/she said. You be the judge. Now, the school may be calling into question the girl's veracity; however, the girl hasn't changed her story. We did report ACCURATELY, not erroneously, what the girl told the authorities and the media at the time. In conclusion, Dr. Poole complimented us profusely on the effectiveness of our Brushfire Alert. He said he had received over 1,400 emails on the incident and that because of them, the school will take a look at how they respond to public inquiries in the future. Indeed, had the school responded to my inquiry last Friday instead of stonewalling me, maybe the whole thing would have gone unreported. In any event, don't let anyone tell you getting involved like this doesn't make a difference. The folks at Caney Creek High School will certainly attest otherwise. Your public pressure helped resolve this matter in a satisfactory manner and may have helped prevent problems of this nature from occurring in the future. ** Jensen Update 12-year-old Parker Jensen of Utah was diagnosed with Ewings sarcoma, a form of cancer. A tumor was removed from his mouth six months ago. Subsequent blood tests have found no lingering cancer cells. Nevertheless, the state of Utah has attempted to grab custody of Parker from his parents in order to force Parker into chemotherapy treatments...and even went so far as to file kidnapping charges against the Parkers for to taking their son out of state to avoid the court-ordered chemotherapy. Last month the state dropped the kidnapping charges along with their efforts obtain custody; however, Utah officials are refusing to withdraw a petition accusing the parents of medical neglect which could still result in lost custody and forced chemo. Richard Anderson, director of the Utah Division of Child and Family Services said the law requires that he continue to hound the Parkers with a medical-neglect complaint. A trial has been scheduled for November 17. ** Turning Up the Heat Students of the partisan divide in Congress find it heating up to the level of kickboxing this year. In
Tonight on Always Right
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be There or Be Square My guest tonight on Always Right will be Lori Waters, executive director of the Eagle Forum. We'll be discussing the federal marriage amendment, the Senate Democrat filibusters of judicial nominees and the pending Medicare prescription drug benefit. 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 featuring Lori Waters. The link to listen in is... http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/srv1.asx
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 15, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** More Erroneous Information? Caney Creek High School of Conroe, Texas, has decided to expel 15-year-old Brandon Kivi because he let his girlfriend, Andra Ferguson, use his asthma inhaler when she had an attack after forgetting to bring her inhaler to school. Although the two teens both use the same prescription medicine, the school deemed Kivi's actions a violation of its zero-tolerance antidrug policy. 'On Friday, school officials decided to expel Kivi but not press criminal charges,' reports Houston's KPRC-TV. Says Kivi: 'I'm happy. Everything's final. I'm expelled till after Christmas and I can come back after Christmas, but I won't.' He and Ferguson are both leaving Caney Creek High to be home-schooled. - James Taranto, OpinionJournal.com, 10/14/03 ** Miller Time While performing at a benefit concert in Las Vegas, Elton John let loose with an Al Franken-like attack against Dennis Miller. Prior to John's performance, Miller served the crowd a special heaping of his ultra-hip wry commentary. In between the humor, Miller urged that we do some drilling in ANWR to lessen our dependence on oil imports. After singing 'Tiny Dancer,' John blamed the comedian-turned-Fox News commentator for the disdain that Kofi company have toward the U.S. 'Americans are always asking why the rest of the world hates them,' the wildly bespectacled entertainer explained. 'Well, the reason is Dennis Miller.' - James Hirsen's, Left Coast Report, 10/14/03 ** This Is A Miserable Failure? Miserable failure. That's the term Dick Gephardt used to describe President Bush's foreign policy efforts in the Middle East. Well, here's another example of just how failed those policies have been: Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, just announced it will hold its FIRST EVER democratic elections one year from now. If that's the definition of failure, I wish ever more failures in that part of the world. ** It's Official Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) officially announced his campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination on Monday, saying, I'm running for president of the United States to enable the armies of peace. Armies of peace. Isn't that an oxymoron? Or is Denny just a plain, old-fashioned moron without the oxy? ** Joining the Pack Australian legislator Harry Quick intends to turn his back on George W. Bush during the President's address to the Australian parliament next week. I'm showing no disrespect to the position of the U.S. president, Quick told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. What I'm showing is disrespect for the man himself and what he represents for many of us in the peace movement. Democrats immediately added Quick to their field of presidential candidates, though some pundits think Quick's really just angling for the #2 spot on Dennis Kucinich's ticket...or is a stalking horse for George McGovern. *** Must Not See, Gore TV Al Gore and some liberal investors are about two weeks away from striking a deal to acquire Newsworld International, a cable network they plan to remake into a liberal news channel. But AdAge reports they're hoping to avoid the 'liberal' label (just like every other liberal news channel). 'Instead, it will be aimed at the under-25 crowd,' AdAge reports. An unnamed adviser characterizes it as a combination between liberal news channel CNN and liberal music channel MTV. - Best of the Web, 10/14/03 *** And the Lesson Is. If there is any national political lesson out of California, it is that Democrats are delusional if they think they can win by moving left in order to mobilize and turn out their liberal base. This is precisely the strategy that Gray Davis tried in a desperate attempt to save his governorship, and it managed to sew up all of 45 percent of the electorate. . . . Only a tremendous degree of wishful thinking in the press could spin these results as nationwide anti-incumbent sentiment rather than see them for what they are: an utter repudiation of liberal governance. - Greg Pierce's Inside Politics, 10/14/03 *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views
Brushfire Alerts: I Didn't Inhale Death Sentence on CBS
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Triple Play Here's a final update on last Friday's Brushfire Alert, along with two new ones... I Didn't Inhale Update A handful of the more than 1,400 people who emailed that principal down in Conroe, Texas, over the punishment meted out to a student who let his girlfriend use his albuterol inhaler for an asthma attack are concerned about the email response they received from Dr. Poole. The email starts off by claiming your email was based on erroneous information and scolded you not believe everything you read. Once again, the supposedly erroneous information you were operating from was provided by a Wall Street Journal publication, a major Houston newspaper and a Houston network-affiliate television station. Yet some people are taking at face value what the principal said in his email about the information being erroneous. I addressed most of the inaccuracies in the principal's message in Tuesday's News Views, but let's close the book on this incident by addressing the principal's primary contention that No student was ever in any life-threatening situation. My friend Michael Ostrolenk sent me today some information that is VERY germane to this incident. Seems there's a bill in Congress called the Asthmatic Schoolchildren's Treatment of Health Management Act of 2003 (ASTHMA 2003) authored by Representatives Cliff Stearns (R) of Florida and Patrick Kennedy (D) of Rhode Island. The bill, according to the sponsors, provides incentives to states to help guarantee the rights of students to carry and use prescribed lifesaving asthma and anaphylaxis medications while at school. Specifically, it would allow kids suffering from asthma to carry and use albuterol in school because albuterol save lives! Stearns and Kennedy note that most states prohibit students from carrying their prescribed medication with them at school. This may be an unintended consequence of the 'zero-tolerance' movement in the '80's and '90's, which aimed to root out illegal drug abuse, but swept prescription medication in with it, they wrote in a May 6, 2003, Dear Colleague letter. In an onset of asthma or anaphylactic, every minute counts, and a schoolchild who has to go to a teacher's desk or school nurse's office to get his or her asthma medication may not have sufficient time to initiate treatment, they wrote. It is not uncommon to read about a student struggling to make it to his inhaler, and dying on the sidewalk on the way to the nurse's office. In another Dear Colleague letter dated September 23, 2003, Stearns and Kennedy point out that asthma medications are prescribed for patients who may need them immediately when an emergency strikes and carrying on their person can mean the difference between life and death. According to these members of Congress, When an asthma attack or anaphylaxis strikes, every minute counts. The letter continues, Along with parental support (which the students in Texas had), it just makes good medical sense to allow a student to treat himself and avoid possible tragedy in the classroom. The Allergy Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) supports ASTHMA 2003 because, in part, Asthma and anaphylaxis emergencies can occur at any time-in the classroom, on the playground, in the lunchroom, on field trips-and can claim a young life within a matter of minutes. In response to aggressive efforts to curb illegal drug use, many schools have instituted 'no-tolerance' policies that prohibit students from carrying drugs of any kind on campus, adds AANMA in a briefing issued last April. While these 'no-tolerance' policies may have helped curb illegal drug use, they have put the lives of students with asthma and severe allergies at risk. Again, Principal Poole's response to those of you who emailed him maintained that No student was ever in a life-threatening situation. Well, take Principal Poole's advice and don't believe everything you read. The girl who HAD the asthma attack thought she was in a life-threatening situation. And apparently the problem of life-threatening asthma attacks in schools is serious enough to warrant federal bi-partisan legislation to address it. On the other hand, Principal Poole also wrote, It is sad that our nurses and police do not have more discretion without violating the law. On that we can agree 100%. Texas and Congress should fix this zero tolerance perversion of the intent of laws to keep illegal drugs out of schools. For one high school asthmatic to face expulsion and criminal prosecution for allowing another asthmatic student suffering an asthma attack who didn't have her albuterol inhaler with her to use his is...well, just plain stupid. Death Penalty A 39-year-old Florida woman is in the process of having the death
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 16, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cruel Unusual Punishment Chuck, thanks for telling the story of Terry Schiavo. The judge that has ordered the removal of her feeding tube, should be forced to visit Terry every day to see what he is doing. It's a tragedy when this judge wouldn't think of forcing a murderer to starve to death; in fact they are given a final meal, and then given the most humane death possible. - John C. Skaggs of Indianapolis, IN A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words The family of Terri Schindler Schiavo has disclosed a videotape made in violation of a court order they say disproves her husband's contention that she is in a 'persistent vegetative state,' as is required by Florida law to end her life. . . . Robert Schindler admits that he knowingly violated a court order issued by Pinellas-Pasco County, Fla., Circuit Judge George Greer barring Terri's family from providing her with any form of rehabilitative therapy or from taking still photographs and audio or video recordings of his daughter. - CNSNews.com, 10/15/03 (Note: You can read my letter to Gov. Bush emailed Wednesday evening by clicking on the Press Releases button at www.citizenoutreach.com) CBS' Low Blow Against Home Schoolers I am outraged at the blatantly one sided and extremely biased CBS News attack on the Home Schooling movement. One needs only look at the shootings at schools (Columbine, etc.), the bullies who hurt our children and the peer pressure to participate in activities that could be injurious to know that public schools have been killing our children in droves since they started. Prom parties, homecoming parties, driving under the influence after those parties, unsafe sexual habits, fights, gangs, etc. I think that when the public schools have a handle on the problems mentioned above, then they can come point the finger at an aberration in the home schooling movement. - News Views reader Mrs. Dressendorfer Protect Your Kids from the Public Skools There can be no more compelling argument for ending the government school monopoly than the issue in Conroe, TX (kid punished for sharing his inhaler with a classmate suffering an asthma attack). Why the hell is Congress even thinking about that issue? If there is a better reason for parents to 'opt out' of the government school monopoly, I would certainly like to hear about it. - Dave Pearson of Arvada, CO *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com Let's Review More than 800 (Israeli) civilians, the majority women and children, have been murdered in the last three years by terrorists. Thousands more have been injured. - Columnist Abraham H. Foxman Mars Venus Americans tend to trust Republicans more than Democrats when it comes to national security, suspecting that Republicans are from Mars and Democrats from Venus. - Columnist Helle Dale He's a Full-Fledged Donkey Now Even though he has only been a Democrat for a few weeks, Wesley Clark has already figured out that the key to being a real Democrat is creating new programs without figuring out how to pay for them. - Christine Iverson, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, on Clark's new plan for an army of volunteers who could be called up in times of national emergency Liberal Media Bias? Say It Ain't So. The condescension of The New York Times toward minority conservatives is so thick, you need an electric carving knife to slice it. - Columnist Michelle Malkin *** Britney the Naked School Teacher Had I not gone into music, I probably would have gone to college and become a school teacher. . . . (W)hen I was 13 years old, I used to walk around the house completely naked. . . . My family just always walked around the house naked. We were earthy people. - Britney Spears in the November issue of Esquire *** Loony Clooney's Turkey Ratings for 'K Street,' the much-hyped HBO docu-comedy about
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 17, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Hold Down the Fort There won't be a News Views this weekend, as I'll be holed up with Mark Montini and a dozen candidates in at the Campaign War College in Baltimore for the next three days at the most intense training workshop we've ever put on. Should be back with a new News Views on Monday. But there WILL be a new edition of DC Confidential published for Citizen Outreach donors on Sunday. See ya in a few days. * Tensions Running High In High-Stake Standoff Chuck: Before anyone starved my daughter to death, they'd have to get past me and a 12-gauge. This is a decision that should have been made by the people who gave (Terri Schiavo) her life: her parents, not her husband or some judge, both of whom may have other agendas. Despicable is the only word to describe this travesty. - News Views reader R. Simon * Jeb Back In the Game to Save Schiavo Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has instructed his legal staff to try to find a way to save the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo, a disabled 39-year-old woman whose feeding tube was removed under court order Wednesday at her husband's request. ...George Felos, one of the attorneys representing Terri's husband Michael Schiavo, told the St. Petersburg Times that Gov. Bush has no right to try to influence the courts. 'I think it is very unfortunate that the governor persists in trying to exert political influence on the judicial system,' Felos said. ...Dehydration is expected to end Terri's life in less than a week. . . . While it is possible that she could live up to 15 days or longer, eventually dying of starvation, medical experts believe that without hydration, she will not live long enough to starve to death. - CNSNews.com, 10/16/03 Wanted: New Judges Back in the spring, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution requiring a 2/3 vote of the Legislature to approve any tax hike was just to darned inconvenient for those who wanted to spend more on government. So they just...well, ignored it. That set in motion the circumstances which allowed the Legislature to pass the largest tax increase in the state's history, almost a billion fungolas. Alas, some folks in my former state have decided it's time for some changes on the bench. So they're looking for potential Supreme Court judicial candidates to run in next year's elections. For those of you who live in Nevada, if you can think of anyone who might be a good possible candidate for the Nevada Supreme Court, send me their names, any brief info on them and some kind of contact information if you have it. I'll pass it along to the appropriate parties. Thanks. ** NEW Muth's Truths: Just Say No to FMA Top ten reasons conservatives should oppose the federal marriage amendment. Read all about it in the latest edition of Muth's Truths at www.CitizenOutreach.com And the Winner Is. Citizens Against Government Waste (www.cagw.org) announced its Porker of the Month last Tuesday in Washington. And the winner is: Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican. It should be noted that Specter faces a spirited challenge from the conservative right in the state's Republican primary next year from Rep. Pat Toomey. We wonder if Toomey will use Specter's award in the campaign? ** CBS' Fear and Smear Campaign Homeschooling advocates are accusing CBS News of trying to damage their reputation with a two-part report focusing on the 'dark side' of the 'largely unregulated' homeschool movement. The reports aired Monday and Tuesday nights. . . . According to the CBS reports, the practice of educating children at home carries with it the risk that children will be abused or even 'killed while homeschooling.' - CNSNews.com, 10/16/03 *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com *** A Good Rule to Remember The first rule of conservatism is to accept the fact that if you are true to yourself, Susan Sarandon will never hug you in public. - Former Rep.
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 20, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Lawyers' War on Success Microsoft was sued because so many people bought its operating system that Microsoft was said to 'control' too much of its market. . . . It used to be said that nothing succeeds like success. Today, nothing draws fire like success. - Columnist Thomas Sowell ** Rubbing Salt Into the Wound The case of Terri Schiavo, the woman in Florida who recently had her feeding tube removed in order to starve her to death, gets more bizarre every day. Over the weekend, it was reported that her husband, Michael, who has been pushing to off his wife for years now, ordered that her body be cremated as soon as she passes into the great beyond. This would, obviously, preclude any kind of autopsy which might determine whether her brain damage was really caused by a heart attack or some kind of physical abuse at the hands of Michael 13 years ago. Then, to add insult to injury, the Associated Press reports that Terri was denied her last Communion before she dies. Police officers stationed at the hospice told Monsignor Thaddeus Malinowski that delivering her a wafer, even a small piece moistened with water to prevent choking, would violate the doctor's order not to put anything in her mouth. ** Since You Asked Many of you who read a rather insightful commentary last week written by News Views reader Adrian Cronauer emailed to ask if it was the same Adrian Cronauer depicted in the movie, Good Morning, Vietnam. I've exchanged emails with Mr. Cronauer over the years and always just assumed they were one and the same; however, at your request, I wrote him over the weekend to verify his identity. Yup. However, despite what a lot of people assume from watching Robin Williams play a character named Adrian Cronauer who shared some of my experiences in Vietnam, I've always been a card-carrying Republican, he wrote back. I'm an economic conservative, a social moderate and, when it comes to unnecessary governmental intrusions into my personal life, I'm close to being a libertarian. I'm not sure precisely where that puts me on the political spectrum but I've always felt more comfortable in the GOP than anywhere else. I read Ayn Rand in college years ago, supported Barry Goldwater, I've read Hayek, Bastiat, von Mises, and Milton Freedman. My favorite columnists are Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and George Will. I'm still not sure exactly where that puts Adrian on the political spectrum, either, but I do know it's pretty much exactly where I am, as well. Were only there a LOT more of us! ** Why Can't We Be Friends? The timid and the fearful want to imagine that if somehow Israel could be made to go away America's troubles in the Middle East would dissolve and our friends would be their friends and their friends would be our friends and we would all be friends together. The timid and the fearful are fools. - Wes Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 10/17/03 ** The Moron Kings At this point in the Democratic lunge for the presidential nomination, does Howard Dean have a monopoly on that sector of the Democratic vote that we may classify as the moron vote? Or is the idiotic Sen. John Pierre Kerry of Massachusetts chipping away at these serried ranks of oafs? ...Deception plays very well with the Democrats' moron vote, though it is perhaps more accurate to refer to that vote as the indignant moron vote, for it is very indignant and in fact proud of its anger. Anytime I write something discourteous about Dr. Howard Dean I receive a torrent of e-mails from the indignant moron vote. ...Now I wonder if Sen. John Pierre Kerry has nibbled away at Dr. Howard Dean's vote. The Vietnam veteran who supported the war in Iraq, but did not support the war, who boasts of his war record but does not boast of his war record, is certainly an obvious enough fraud to appeal to the moron vote. Moreover, he is sufficiently angry to give the morons goose pimples. - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com ** It's the Spending, Stupid Did you know
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 21, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Tonight on Always Right Our guest this week will be Jim Prendergast, executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership. We'll be discussing everything you ever wanted to know about computers and the Internet but didn't know who to ask: spam legislation, computer viruses as terror threats, political cyber-squatting, privacy legislation, open source software, employee stock option legislation, and the lingering effects of the Clinton administration's jihad against Microsoft. 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 ** Political Mainstream In yesterday's edition of News Views, Adrian Cronauer wrote: I'm an economic conservative, a social moderate and, when it comes to unnecessary governmental intrusions into my personal life, I'm close to being a libertarian. I'm not sure precisely where that puts me on the political spectrum but I've always felt more comfortable in the GOP than anywhere else. It seems Mr. Cronauer isn't alone. News Views reader Ken Klosterhaus writes, I think there are virtually millions of us with that same, untitled political slot that you and Adrian describe. The problem is we are all brow-beaten into supporting whatever Republican jokester comes along lest some demo/socialist get in. Lois Breur Krause wrote, Here's two more! (Mr. Cronauer) describes pretty much where my husband and I are. And Dorothy Erickson adds, Gosh...he sounds like meexcept I may be a tad more socially conservative. But I think reader Nat Hooper put it most succinctly when he wrote, YO...there's my kinda guy!!! I guess there are a lot more of us than we all realized. ** Airport Insecurity Why does the media continue to tell us how box cutter boy smuggled dangerous items onto Southwest Airlines' planes as if Southwest was somehow at fault? Southwest isn't responsible for passenger screening; the federal government is. One of the post-September 11 security changes included turning what were perceived as inefficient and unreliable private airport screeners and turning them into government employees to improve the system. The result is that someone can now tell our national security folks IN ADVANCE what dates and locations he plans to sneak weapons onto planes...AND THEY STILL CAN'T CATCH HIM IN THE ACT! Sure glad we made this a government function at taxpayer expense. We've said it before and we'll say it again. The best protection in the unfriendly skies is an ARMED PILOT. ** If She Only KNEW Me! In response to my column on ten reasons to oppose a constitutional amendment on marriage, which appeared in the Denver Post last week, Denver resident Lynn Buschhoff had the following letter-to-the-editor published this week: My thanks to Chuck Muth. I consider myself to be moderately liberal, but I do have some conservative friends. They hand me tacky stuff by the likes of Ann Coulter and Gary Aldrich and expect me to take it seriously. It was so refreshing to read something from a conservative who didn't rely on falsely trying to link the Founding Fathers with 'Christian values' (whatever those are) and remind me that 'We saved their hides in World War II.' Though I didn't agree with everything he said, I found Muth's argument to be sensible and pragmatic, with no name-calling or snide innuendo. He raises my hopes that intelligent people of all political persuasions can still talk to each other and consider each other's points of view. I know I will be more willing to listen. Well, yes, my argument against the Federal Marriage Amendment WAS sensible and pragmatic; however, I'd hate for Lynn to think that name-calling and snide innuendo are beneath me. Heck, I love that kinda stuff. Maybe she should read News Views on a daily basis. I like to think I'm every bit as tacky as Ann Coulter when it comes to ridiculing the stupidity of the left. Guess maybe I need to work on it some more. *** How to Subscribe If you'd like to receive our FREE News Views e-newsletter, you can sign up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizen Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public policy organization and does not endorse candidates or lobby for specific legislation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. To be REMOVED, go to:
New Hope for Terri Schiavo
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * October 21, 2003 Lawmakers sent Gov. Jeb Bush a bill Tuesday that will give him the power to order a feeding tube reinserted into a brain-damaged woman at the center of one of the nation's longest and most bitter right-to-die battles. Bush said he will immediately sign the bill and order the tube to be reinserted into Terri Schiavo. http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20031021_1400.html
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 23, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Yeah, But the Unborn Kids Are Pretty Darned Happy! This is a sad day for the women of America. - Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Tuesday lamenting passage of a ban on an abortion procedure which entails sucking the brains out of partially delivered babies in order to kill 'em. Ought to make a great re-election slogan for next year, Babs. * Schiavo's Hubby Socks Family Again The parents of Terri Schindler Schiavo, joyful upon learning that their daughter's life had been spared Tuesday by an act of the Florida legislature and Gov. Jeb Bush, have since been barred from seeing their daughter or learning anything about her condition by Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo. . . . 'Michael Schiavo has ordered that the hospital may not permit any visitors for Terri, including her parents and siblings,' Schindler family spokeswoman Pamela Hennessy said in a statement issued Wednesday morning. 'Terri's immediate family is not allowed to visit her and is not permitted to have any information regarding her physical condition.' - CNSNews.com, 10/22/03 *** What to Do With Box Cutter Boy? Should the government prosecute Nathaniel Heatwole, the student who hid box cutters on various airplanes in an effort to expose weaknesses in airport security? What do you think? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.CitizenOutreach.com * French Democrats What is appalling is that...Sens. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, and John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, and 10 other (Senate Democrats) voted against the entire (Iraqi aid) package, most of which goes to fund U.S. troops. . . . (N)ever before in American history have presidential contenders been so willing to sabotage the security of their country for short-term political advantage. The Democratic candidates often seem to be running more for president of France than for president of the United States. - Columnist Jack Kelly * Greatest Foreign Policy Failure I said then as I say now: Bill Clinton's inability to understand what was fueling the rise of bin Laden as a phenomenon - not as an individual - was the greatest U.S. foreign policy failure of the last half-century. It has affected hundreds of millions worldwide. Even if we get him now, who will be the next bin Laden? There are many willing candidates standing in line. Islamic radicalism exists today because Clinton didn't dismantle al Qaeda when he had the chance. - Mansoor Ijaz, former big-league Clinton SUPPORTER who served as a go-between for the administration and various Muslim officials in the 90s, in an interview this week with the Washington Times The Political Grim Reaper For Democratic candidates, (Bill Clinton) is the equivalent of kryptonite. He stands next to them, and they die. - GOP consultant Craig Shirley, noting high profile Democrat losses by candidates who the former president has stumped for in recent years, including California Gov. Gray Davis, Walter Mondale in his effort to return to the Senate and nine gubernatorial candidates in 2002, including Kathleen KENNEDY Townsend in Maryland, Washington Times, 10/22/03 *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com * Another Senseless Drug War Casualty Comedian Tommy Chong began a nine-month federal prison sentence on October 7 for operating a glass-blowing shop that sold pipes to marijuana smokers. . . . At last, the homeland is secure from Chong, a 65-year-old comic whose merchandise spared potheads from fumbling with rolling papers. Could there be any greater triumph for public safety than that? And in this peaceful world and placid nation, taxpayers can rest assured that officials are using their hard-earned cash as wisely as possible. Recall that Chong and 54 others were busted in Operation Pipe Dreams, a February 24 crackdown on the drug paraphernalia industry. That project involved 1,200 local, state and federal authorities, the Drug Enforcement Administration estimates. These professional sleuths could have pursued al-Qaeda instead,
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 24, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Smearing the Gipper Ronald Reagan's legacy is under attack. For years, liberal academics have tried to explain how the Soviet Union collapsed without giving credit to the U.S. president who challenged communism head on and won. Now Hollywood is opening up another front. Next month, Mr. Reagan will be tarred and feathered in a made-for-TV docudrama by CBS. It is a transparent attempt to obscure historical fact with Tinsel Town glitz. - Washington Times editorial, 10/23/03 * Summing It All Up Former first lady Barbara Bush offered a tart-tongued analysis this week of the Democratic candidates who want her son's job. 'So far, they are a pretty sorry group, if you want my opinion,' Mrs. Bush said in an interview with NBC's 'Today' show. The way I see it, never have 13 words said so much about so few who offer so little. - Columnist Donald Lambro * Brown vs. Board of Liberal Education (California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown) is a conservative African-American woman, and for some, that alone disqualifies her nomination to the D.C. Circuit. - Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch on Democrat objections to Brown's nomination at Wednesday's judicial hearing in the Senate * Airport Insecurity A 20-year-old college student just made a mockery of Uncle Sam's 50,000 member airport security army. Nathaniel Heatwole of Damascus, Md., carried concealed weapons - including box cutters and dummy explosives - onto two flights, stashing the goods on airplanes where they remained hidden for many subsequent flights. Mr. Heatwole e-mailed the Transportation Security, Administration informing them of his actions - but it took the TSA five weeks after receiving the e-mail before it began investigating. ...Perhaps the TSA can issue a regulation requiring that all e-mails exposing the agency's security failings be written in Arabic - thereby providing a simpler alert system for TSA employees who may have limited fluency in English. - Columnist James Bovard *** What to Do With Box Cutter Boy? Should the government prosecute Nathaniel Heatwole, the student who hid box cutters on various airplanes in an effort to expose weaknesses in airport security? What do you think? Cast your online vote by going to the Survey Says page at www.citizenoutreach.com * Your Medicare Dollars Hard At Work Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, is spending $600,000 this year to have a blimp fly at sporting events, including Saturday's Tennessee-Alabama college football game in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The blimp is part of a $30 million advertising campaign in 2003 to make the program better known to its 40 million participants. - Associated Press * Doctor, Doctor...Gimme the News The House and Senate conference to work out differences in a proposal to provide a new prescription drug benefit through Medicare is reaching the end game, and conservative sources close to the action aren't happy with what's coming out of the ol' legislative sausage grinder. Worries run deep that not only won't the benefit be means tested - so that taxpayers aren't covering the cost of Ted Turner's Viagra - but significant reforms to the Medicare program itself are being thrown under the bus. If you're uncomfortable with Congress approving this largest new entitlement since LBJ's Great Society days, you might want to weigh in before it's too late by signing a petition to Congress being hosted by our friends over at ConservativeHQ. http://www.conservativehq.com/petition_sr1.php Space...The Final Free Market Frontier On Oct. 15, 2003, China joined the United States and Russia as a country capable of putting humans in space. . . . Today the U.S. government's reaction to China's challenge should not be a new space race and bigger NASA budgets. Rather, the United States should turn to private providers in a free market to open outer space to all humanity. - Ed Hudgins of the Objectivist Center *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to:
Chuck Muth's News Views - WEEKEND EDITION - October 25-26, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tomorrow in DC Confidential * The GOP's new ball breaker in the House * Why the Spy-gate scandal is about to end * How AWOL Dem's screwed Big Labor on key vote * The lone Republican who's bought lock, stock and barrel by a huge Democrat special interest * What's Howard Dean hiding in that vault? * Trash talker's million dollar fishing expedition * Upcoming donkey bloodbath in MO * Tax-hiking R's taken to woodshed by congressman's son * A Texas GOP leader hangs up her spurs * And what is probably the first serious look at the 2008 GOP primary field All this and more in Sunday's DC Confidential...which is published exclusively for financial contributors of $5 or more to Citizen Outreach. To make you online contribution, just click the Contribute button at www.citizenoutreach.com American As Apple Pie Clearly, home schooling is a mixed bag, and an issue that is becoming increasingly contended as it becomes a more popular choice with parents. Yet its core value of individualism is purely American. . . . Home schooling may be the wave of the future, along with telecommuting and running home-based businesses. - Columnist Meredith McGhan, Las Vegas City Life, 10/22/03 http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/10/22/cover_story/coverschool.txt ACLU to the Rescue Here's a real shocker. The loony-tunes at the ACLU have joined up with Michael Schiavo in his efforts to off his wife, Terri. The ACLU can and does take some very good, principled stances on important civil liberty issues from time to time; but they also float off into outer space on others. This is space cadet time. Siding with a guy to defend his right to kill his wife by starving her to death strikes us as Fruit Loop-ville. Internet Tax Vote Is NOT a Hoax The old Bill 602P internet hoax has many people believing just because THAT particular effort to tax the Internet wasn't real that NO efforts to tax the Internet are real. Those folks couldn't be more wrong. Five years ago, Congress passed a TEMPORARY ban on Internet taxation which EXPIRES on November 1st unless Congress votes to make it PERMANENT. If Congress fails to act, you COULD end up paying some new taxes on the Internet very quickly. This is NOT a joke and it is NOT a hoax. So get your cyber-butt in gear and let your elected officials know how you feel. To make life a little easier for you - which, after all, is part of MY life' s mission - here's a link which will take you to an online petition site hosted by the National Taxpayers Union which will make contacting your U.S. Senator on this issue a snap: http://ga1.org/campaign/pass_net_moratorium Cruel...But Usual (T)he 92-year-old former president (Ronald Reagan) does have Alzheimer's disease. His wife, family, and friends live with great sadness, and for Mrs. Reagan grave burdens. So what can we say in the end of CBS' broadcast just now of this anti-historical life of a great man? We can say (A) the childlike mind of the Hollywood artistes ignored 'the evidence,' and (B) CBS and the producers of 'The Reagans' have publicly committed an act of remarkable cruelty. - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Can I Take That Knife From Your Back, Mr. Reagan? I just want to repeat something somebody said earlier, which I thought was brilliant, which is what they do in Hollywood is they soften up their subject like Ronald Reagan. They show some nice pictures. They say some nice things about them that they can't deny saying nice things about them. They do it to soften them up, and they'll put the dagger in. . . . And I think in this kind of case it's too bad you can't sue the bastards. Because what is happening here is clearly, these are late hits. - MSNBC's Chris Matthews on the upcoming CBS mini-series on Ronald Nancy Reagan, Hardball, 10/21/03 The Only Way The only way to defeat terrorists is to take the war to them, to go after them where they are, where they live, where they plan, where they hide, go after their finances, go after the people who harbor and assist them. - Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld, Associated Press, 10/24/03 Oh, Yeah...We Almost Forgot About That Do you remember when President Clinton mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Serbia? Now, do you remember who the commanding general was whose I'm running out of targets demands helped cause the error? Yup. Gen. Wesley Clark, newly registered Democrat and leader of the pack of presidential wannabes; the man whose whole campaign is based on his experience as a military leader. Based on his record, we think we'd prefer Captain
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 27, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannon Fodder There's a new development and update on the trials (literally) and tribulations of deadbeat congressman Chris Cannon of Utah. It's a shame we don't tar-and-feather con men like him any longer. Read all the sordid details in a new Muth's Truths column at www.citizenoutreach.com. Trashing the Gipper What should conservatives do about the upcoming CBS mini-series which trashes Ronald and Nancy Reagan: Boycott the sponsors...or blow the whole thing off as another typical Hollywood smear that we just can't do anything about? Cast your ballot by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com. Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ AWOL Joe Sen. Joe Lieberman has put a hold on Mike Leavitt, the President's choice to head the EPA, saying he doesn't have enough information on the nominee...which really has some Republicans in the Senate steamed. As the Hill reports, Of 27 meetings that have taken place this year before both the full (Environment and Public Works) committee and subcommittees Lieberman sits on, the presidential candidate has attended just two. This led Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) to declare Lieberman's obstruction outrageous since Lieberman won't even come to our hearings, let alone the confirmation hearing. Nerves are getting a little raw as Congress winds down and the election season heats up. * Taking the Gloves Off As noted in yesterday's DC Confidential, Senate Republicans have just about come to the end of their rope in this standoff with Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Pat Leahy over President Bush's judicial nominations. While some GOP senators would just like to look the other way on the judges fight and move on to other business, conservative grassroots activists have been hammering Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for being too timid in his efforts to break the rolling filibusters. The GOP base is highly agitated over this issue, and Frist and the White House can't ignore it any longer. So, according to conservative columnist Robert Novak, Frist is about to mount a new three-stage campaign designed to turn the heat up on the Democrats. Novak writes: Phase One: Start this week with a cloture vote on the nomination of U.S. District Judge Charles Pickering Sr. of Mississippi for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. Pickering, bottled up in the Judiciary Committee during the 2001-02 Democratic interregnum, has just been sent to the Senate floor. Phase Two: Next, order a cloture vote for the second time on Alabama State Attorney General William Pryor for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. Claims by opponents that Pryor's 'deeply held beliefs' taint him for the court have produced accusations of anti-Catholicism. Phase Three: Vote on three female nominees. Attempts to get cloture on Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen's nomination for the 5th Circuit has failed three times. California Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl's two-year-old nomination for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco is coming to the Senate floor for the first time. Just released by the Judiciary Committee and already threatened with a filibuster is California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, an African-American. Failure to reach 60 votes for cloture on each of these three women is scheduled to be followed by consideration of the bill co-sponsored by Frist and conservative Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia. That measure would reduce the number of votes needed to end filibusters on nominations. That, too, will be filibustered in order to defeat it. All this refocusing is intended to set the scene for a bitter battle in next year's session of Congress. At that time, an effort may be made to rule out of order a filibuster against judicial nominations -- the 'so-called' nuclear solution. This would require only 51 votes, but Frist does not even have that many today because of reluctance to tamper with the traditions of the Senate. Whether or not Bill Frist's offensive eventually places any of these well-qualified judges on the bench, it will sound a stentorian refusal to surrender. That means a Republican president and a Republican-controlled Senate have not acquiesced in letting Ted Kennedy determine the membership of the federal judiciary. The battle resumes today. Let the games begin. And keep your calls and emails going to Senate offices. They are definitely having an effect. * Loony Clooney Rolling Snake Eyes Actor George Clooney has been one of the most vocal and vitriolic critics of
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 28, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ Must-Not-See, TV Dear Chuck, writes News Views reader Grant MacDonald. We certainly should boycott the sponsors of the Reagan mini-series. Also, we should boycott the program! They are probably licking their chops at CBS, thinking that all the advance publicity will boost the ratings of this show. Let's not cooperate. The show should bomb. Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm with Grant. You won't catch me watching this garbage. I'd rather watch a re-run of Ishtar. Yechhh! And yes, I'm trying to come up with an accurate and verifiable list of sponsors which I'll share with you all as soon as I get it. Thanks, France Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was just a floor away from danger yesterday when a missile barrage blitzed the Baghdad hotel where he was staying - killing an American colonel and wounding 18 other people. . . . The London Sun reported today that half of the rockets used in the attack were French weapons produced after the arms embargo against Iraq following the Gulf War. - New York Post, 10/27/03 Return of the McCain Mutiny? Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman said Friday that if elected president, he would tap Republican Sen. John McCain as defense secretary. Doing little to dispel the criticism that he's a closet Republican, Mr. Lieberman told Don Imus' syndicated radio program that he would want the Arizona senator, a colleague and a friend, for the Pentagon post. - Greg Pierce's Inside Politics, 10/27/03 Judicial Booby Hatch Some Senate Republicans are growing frustrated with Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch after he again postponed last week the vote on President Bush's nominee to the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals because of Democrats' opposition to the nomination. Mr. Bush nominated Michigan Judge Henry W. Saad to the federal appeals court nearly two years ago, and for the past several months, Mr. Hatch, Utah Republican, has negotiated with Democrats to find a compromise that would get Judge Saad confirmed. Mr. Hatch has placed the judge on his committee's agenda for a vote six times, but has each time postponed it at the last minute to appease Democrats. . . . Mr. Hatch said he wants to 'resolve this without poking anybody in the eye,' but some Republicans are not feeling so diplomatic. 'We've gone this route all year,' a Republican staffer said. 'They just won't negotiate. We should just move forward.' - Washington Times, 10/27/03 Judging Janice Justice (Janice Rogers) Brown is not a typical Republican judicial nominee. She understands the crucial role of courts in a constitutional republic: She is deferential to the elected branches when they act within their prescribed boundaries, but zealous in the defense of individual liberties against majoritarian tyranny. Brown's nomination affords a rare chance for a lasting legacy of freedom. Indeed, her appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit would vastly strengthen the institution of government most entrusted with the protection of individual liberty. - Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice Liar, Liar...Pants on Fire The truth carries little weight - if any - in political efforts to block judicial nominees. What matters is whether enough special interest groups are determined to block that person. Many liberal-left organizations are determined to prevent Janice Rogers Brown from becoming a member of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in part because they are alarmed that she might move on up from there to the U.S. Supreme Court. If a few lies are all it takes to prevent that, they are more than willing to lie. - Columnist Thomas Sowell *** Misplaced Priority Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are making plans to turn gay marriage into a major issue in next year's elections, with some Christian groups saying that banning same-sex unions is a higher immediate priority for them than restricting abortion. - Washington Post, 10/25/03 The Postal Monopoly Vigorous competition has made many types of day-to-day communication better and more convenient, as seen with overnight delivery, faxes, email, and electronic bill payment. But the Postal Service's legal monopolies deny the mail-using public the opportunity to benefit from similar improvements. ...In fact, the Postal Service is insulated from competition by more
BRUSHFIRE ALERT: Don't Pay Extortion Money to Free Bush's Judges!
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Judicial Booby Hatch October 28, 2003 The Democrats have launched an unprecedented use of the filibuster to block President Bush's judicial nominees. Republican leaders for months have been swearing that there would be a pay to price for their continued obstruction. Now we're finally finding out just who is going to pay that price: You! That is, if Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) gets his way. You see, Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, has been blocking all of the President's judicial nominees from Michigan because he wants one of the vacancies to go to the wife of Mr. Levin's first cousin. But rather than penalize Levin for his continued self-serving obstruction, the Washington Times reports today (http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031027-115723-2323r.htm) that Hatch is prepared to create TWO NEW SEATS on the federal courts, ostensibly to give one to Levin in return for his releasing the rest of President Bush's nominees...a deal other Republicans are comparing to negotiating with terrorists. If Hatch gets his way and Levin gets his deal, the only people paying a price for the Democrats' obstruction will be...you! Big time. That's because the taxpayers will pick up the full cost of the two new judicial seats. The Times estimates that the first year cost will be $1.8 million, with an additional cost to maintain those seats exceeding $1.6 million PER YEAR. When talk turns to breaking the Democrats' filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees, GOP leaders have been telling us, Don't worry, be happy. We have a plan. Everything is under control. You'll see. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Uh-huh. Well, we've already lost one stellar judicial nominee this fall when Miguel Estrada called it quits and withdrew his nomination. Is that the Republican leadership's plan to end the filibusters? Wait until all the blocked nominees quit? Gee, that's wonderful. Or is the plan to buy off the Democrats with taxpayer-funded extortion money and reward such political blackmail? Is that what is meant by having everything under control? Sorry folks, but this is REALLY starting to tick me off. Here's the bottom line: The Democrats aren't the problem. The problem is the Republicans. They can break the Democrat filibusters any time they want. All they need are all 51 Republicans who make up the MAJORITY (hello!) in the Senate to say enough is enough and change the filibuster rules to get the President' s nominees an up or down vote. It's commonly referred to as the nuclear option. Instead, the Republican leadership keeps telling us at the grassroots level to contact Democrats and ask them to please, please, please-with-sugar-on-top stop the filibusters. What a waste of time, effort and energy. What we really need to do is force the 51 Republicans in the Senate to lay their cards on the table and let the grassroots know who's with us and the President...and who's with the political extortionists. The GOP leadership' s plan to break the filibusters isn't working. Just ask Miguel Estrada. It's WAY past time to grow a little hair on their Clymers and play a little hardball with Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. BRUSHFIRE ALERT: You don't pull on Superman's cape. You don't spit in the wind. You don't negotiate with legislative terrorists. And you don't pay extortion money (especially with taxpayer dollars). That's the message Sen. Hatch and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist need to hear from the grassroots. And if you'd care to deliver such a message in your own words, here's how to do it: Sen. Bill Frist (202) 224-3344 Sorry, but apparently Sen. Frist no longer accepts email communications. The link to the contact page which is listed on the official U.S. Senate website now redirects you to a Frist web page which doesn't appear to have any option available for contacting the Majority Leader electronically. You might want to mention THAT to his staffer who answers the phone, as well. Sen. Orrin Hatch (202) 224-5251 Web Form: www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 29, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ The Natives Are Getting Restless Apparently it's not just News Views readers who aren't happy with Senate Republicans over how they're handling the President's judicial nominees. CNSNews.com asked the following question on its website yesterday: Do you think Senate Republicans have worked hard enough to support President Bush's judicial nominees? A whopping 96% of people responding (including yours truly), had answered No when I checked the site Tuesday evening. Is anybody in the GOP leadership listening to its base? Does anybody really care? Who's On Frist? Hi Chuck. I sent Sen. Hatch an email, then phoned Sen. Frist's office. I asked to speak to someone about the judiciary problem in the Senate (see Brushfire Alert at www.citizenoutreach.com). I was told by the female staffer who answered the phone to talk to my own senators in AZ. I told her they were not the problem. She said she wouldn't talk to me that she was going to transfer me to their 'comment line,' even though I asked if I could just tell her what I wanted to say. So, I left my message on their comment line. - Judy Dutko of Prescott, AZ (Editor's Note: A couple of crack News Views readers found Sen. Frist's comment page where you can leave email messages: http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutSenatorFrist.ContactForm ) Just Say No to Drug Benefit The non-partisan National Taxpayer Union coordinated a joint statement by 38 citizen groups representing millions of Americans, including your own Citizen Outreach, which was mailed this week to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). In the joint statement, the organizations wrote to strongly urge you to oppose the huge entitlement expansion contained in the Medicare prescription drug legislation currently moving through Congress which the signatories referred to as the largest entitlement expansion since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. To read the full text of the letter along with the complete list of signers, go to: http://www.ntu.org/features/ntu_on_capitolhill/L0310statemedicare.php3 Only Some? Last week a significant minority, including leading Democrats, moved to the left of Syria and France by opposing funding for troops and reconstruction in Iraq. Some Democrats seem to think we would be better off had an international coalition not removed Saddam Hussein from power. - Ed Gillespie, Washington Times, 10/28/03 It's the Spending, Stupid Ironically, the same day the Bush administration announced a record $374.2 billion deficit for fiscal 2003, the House went on a 24-hour spending spree - authorizing $3.6 billion in spending. Worse yet, taxpayers got stuck with the bill by voice vote, meaning members never voted on record. - John McCaslin's Inside the Beltway, 10/28/03 Micro-Wal-Mart-Soft Wal-Mart in the present decade is playing the same role that Microsoft did in the 1990s. It's the big company that everyone (except its consumers) loves to hate. - Investors Business Daily, 10/28/03 * HQ for the Right Merchandise FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ CBS Hatchet Job It looks as if CBS is about to depict one of the greatest American presidents as a forgetful, inattentive, callous lout with a domineering, pill-popping spouse, who royally bumbles his way through the Oval Office. . . . Ironically, the man once known as the Great Communicator is in the grips of Alzheimer's disease and can't speak for himself. This cruel fact makes the decision of CBS all the more heinous, if indeed its leftist hatchet job is carried out as currently scripted. - NewsMax.com, 10/28/03 Trashing Ronald Reagan Since the New York Times story last Tuesday, the DrudgeReport.com has been given more excerpts from the script of CBS' mid-November mini-series, 'The Reagans,' in which Nancy Reagan slaps 5-year-old daughter Patti, Ronald Reagan curses in the Oval Office and refers to himself as 'the anti-Christ,' and, in what Drudge dubs the 'showcase line,' Nancy Reagan argues: 'Ketchup is a vegetable! It is not a meat, right? So IT IS a vegetable.' - Brent Baker of the Media Research Center Let the Boycotts Begin Hallmark Entertainment is bringing us
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 30, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** What Do the Democrats Have Now? The economy grew at a 7.2% annual rate in the third quarter, fueled by greater consumer and business spending. The gain in gross domestic product, exceeding forecasts by a full percentage point, was the sharpest advance since 1984. - Wall Street Journal, 10/30/03 Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ *** You Gotta Have Heart Ronald Reagan, about to be portrayed as an unfeeling, forgetful conservative, had the biggest heart of any President in America's history - so big that CBS had no trouble finding it when they decided to plunge a dagger into it. - Michael Reagan, the Gipper's son and talk show host *** Cowardly Cruel Here is a man (Ronald Reagan) who is on his deathbed. He's in the last stages of Alzheimer's, and a woman who has been sitting by the bedside there holding his hand for nine years. They can't fight back. . . . From what I've read -- I have not seen the film, I have not read the script - but I have certainly seen enough excerpts from it in the promos. I mean it's, I think it's cowardly. I think it's the most cowardly thing I've ever heard ... How can it be so cruel? That's not, from what I've read in the scenes, that's not Nancy and the president at all. - TV producer Merv Griffin in an MSNBC interview with Keith Olberman *** Mommie Dearest Meets Forrest Gump Since it was at a private, off-the-record briefing, I can't tell you all how or where I saw it; however, I did view an eight-minute highlight reel of the upcoming CBS mini-series on Ronald and Nancy Reagan yesterday. And I can tell you, it's FAR worse than anything I expected. In fact, I've read that some people are urging CBS and the producers to simply edit out the more egregious and factually incorrect scenes. I can tell you from my first-hand look at this crap that a little selective editing won't be nearly enough. This whole movie stinks like yesterday's diapers and would be appropriately shown only on the Sci-Fi channel...if there. The clips I saw were nothing short of revolting. The portrayals of Ron and Nancy Reagan are worse than fictional, they're criminal. You get the impression that the Gipper couldn't tie his shoelaces without falling into his oatmeal. And Nancy Reagan is depicted as a power-hungry, maniacal shrew far worse than First Lady Hillary actually was (is). I was going to recommend that everyone visit a particular website and sign up for updates on who the sponsors are going to be for this trash-umentary; however, it appears the CBS attorneys may have gotten involved because the site was up yesterday but has since been taken down. So I'm looking at how we might be able to set up our own petition site hosted by folks who won't be intimidated by the network's legal beagles. Stay tuned. This mini-series is a strike at the very heart of our movement, folks. Please consider that all those kids in college today really have no recollection of President Reagan. Their impression of this great man will be influenced by this grotesque mini-series. The movie isn't just a character assassination of the Reagans, it's a declaration of war on all the Gipper and we in the movement stand for as free and proud Americans. This is a fight we can't duck and MUST win. It reminds me of a quote from another great conservative Hollywood actor, Clint Eastwood, in The Outlaw Josie Wales movie. Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is. So it is. Lock and load, folks. We ride at dawn. *** Speaking of CBS Hatchet Jobs. Do you remember that other hatchet job CBS News with Dan Rather did on home-schoolers a couple weeks ago? Well, Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute has drafted an excellent response to the biased report which you can read at: http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-29-03.html * The Right Place for Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ Stupidity Virus Hits New Jersey A 'patriotic' stick-figure drawing of a U.S. Marine blowing away a Taliban fighter earned a 14-year-old schoolboy a five-day suspension. Scott Switzer, of Colts Neck, N.J., whose father and stepfather serve in the military, was sent home last
Chuck Muth's News Views - October 31, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Halloween Hysterics Do you want your children and grandchildren involved in a celebration of demons and witchcraft? Halloween is not innocent fun with costumes and candy, as many believe. . . . Every year we hear warnings of the dangers of Halloween on the news, which many parents ignore. Children have received poisoned candy and apples containing razor blades. Abductions of children increase on Halloween. There have even been infant sacrifices. . . . The occult practices and animal sacrifices, combined with the drugs used in Halloween fertility rituals and witchcraft practices, often resulted in violence and even death. - Columnist Tom Barrett, Conservative Truth, 10/27/03 Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ *** Make CBS/Hallmark Feel Your Pain OK. The boycott site I alluded to yesterday still isn't back up, so instead I've teamed up with the great Alan Keyes to host our own online petition to flood CBS and Hallmark Entertainment with emails objecting to their upcoming smear of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Please go to the website below and sign the online petition to Les Moonves at CBS and Donald Hall at Hallmark: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=238 This is one we MUST win for the Gipper, so please get this information to everyone in your email address book today. There's not much time left. The trash-umentary is scheduled to air in less than three weeks. *** Sliming Rummy The far-left wackos over at MoveOn.org are going after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with a vengeance. In full page ads in the New York Times, MoveOn accuses Rumsfeld of being a TRAITOR and demands that he be removed from office. A traitor? Rumsfeld is a former Navy pilot, former ambassador to NATO, a former U.S. congressman, former chief-of-staff to President Ford and the youngest secretary of defense in the nation's history back in the 70s. He's also received the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Traitor? I don't think so. And our friends over at RightMarch.com don't think so either. They hope to set the record straight on this great American patriot by running a full-page ad in USA Today to counter the slime coming out of those anti-war pukes over at MoveOn. They expect the ad to cost a little over $70,000 and are trying to raise the money to make it happen. If you'd like all the details about this effort, just go to my personal website at http://chuckmuth.com/saverummy.htm Or if you want to go directly to the web page where you can donate to the cause, cyber-surf your way over to: http://www.campaigncontribution.com/alerts/rumsfeld5/ * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ *** The Ol' Cut-and-Run Crowd Returns It's a good thing the current crop of Democratic candidates weren't running for president in 1944. Instead of defeating Hitler and Tojo, we might have ended up with an 'exit strategy' that saved American lives in the short run but cost us our freedom and way of life. Indeed, the Democrats' disgraceful performances to date suggest that most of the candidates would like to cut and run from Iraq, no matter what the consequences. Unfortunately, they've managed to convince a majority of their fellow party members that this is the right thing to do. - Columnist Linda Chavez *** Democrats for Bush Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA), the conservative lawmaker who is stepping down following his current term in office, startled his fellow Democrats on Wednesday by throwing his support in the 2004 election behind Republican President George W. Bush. . . . Expressing his concern about the extreme negativity emanating from the Democrat candidates for president, Miller says they all need to take some 'calm-me-down pills,' according to a statement. He also said in the statement that he is concerned that the generations coming after him in his family will not be served well by any of the candidates running for president on the Democrat ticket. - Talon News, 10/30/03 *** Here We Go Again Mississippi federal judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. became the fourth judicial nominee this year to be filibustered by Senate Democrats. His nomination to a federal appeals court was blocked Thursday. Republicans were unable to muster the 60 votes needed to cut off debate in the
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 1, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ * Welcome to the Spin Zone Hallmark Entertainment and its parent company Hallmark Cards are spinning like Tasmanian devils. When you sign our petition protesting the upcoming series trashing the Reagans (http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=238), you'll receive a canned response from Hallmark which supposedly will provide you with the correct information. The correct information these weasels want you to have is that they didn't produce the mini-series on CBS, but are merely distributing it around the globe. As News Views reader Bob Golenkow noted in his response to Hallmark's response, such a distinction without a difference is much like Pontius Pilate's washing his hands of the Crucifixion of Christ. Or as James Robinson of Colorado wrote, I did not realize that (Hallmark) worked on the German Holocaust guard theory that they have no responsibility if they did not make the order. I found their response very insulting to my intelligence. I suppose that they would feel it okay to distribute 'child porn' as long as they did not film it. Also, as we noted a couple days ago, as recently as August Hallmark was BOASTING of its participation in the Reagan series (http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k3/aug/aug155.htm). Now they seem to be trying to distance themselves from it. Don't let 'em get away with it. The pressure you all are bringing to bear appears to have these people on defense now. Another point: One News Views subscriber was told that Hallmark Cards isn 't associated with Hallmark Entertainment. Hallmark Cards is indeed the parent company of Hallmark Entertainment, as you'll be able to verify for yourself from their own website at: http://www.hallmarkent.com/corporate_information.shtml. One additional note: My understanding is that most local Hallmark stores are not company owned stores, but rather are independently owned franchises. If so, it would be a GREAT idea to call the local store in your neighborhood and let them know you will be boycotting their business the Christmas season and exactly the reason why. Let THEM put the pressure on the parent company. You gotta hit these people where they live. * Hanging Col. West Out to Dry Lt. Col. Allen West of the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq twice fired his gun away from a prisoner under questioning in an effort to scare the dirtbag into revealing information about planned ambushes of soldiers under West's command in a town north of Tikrit. After wetting himself, we presume, the prisoner spilled the beans and Col. West was able to thwart the planned ambush, thus saving untold American lives. Give the man a medal...or at least an Atta Boy, right? Wrong. Instead the Army, in their infinite wisdom, is prosecuting West for assault over the incident and is giving him the option of resigning and losing all his retirement benefits (he reaches 20 years today) or face a full blown court martial which could result in up to eight years in the slammer. I cannot afford to be sent to jail and my daughters never see their daddy again, said West in an email to the Washington Times this week. My family is all I have now. Nevertheless, Col. West has decided NOT to resign and will fight this injustice at great risk to his family's well being. What in the hell is going on here? Our men are facing an enemy wearing civilian clothes and hiding behind women and children, and we're going to hang him out to dry for scaring the crap out of an informant in order to get information which saved the lives of the very men who are overseas protecting OUR lives? What's wrong with this picture? Either we're serious about this war or we're not. Folks, we can NOT let this man be railroaded like this. Stay tuned. * The Idiots Are Coming! The Idiots Are Coming! If Howard Dean was living back [when Paul Revere came riding through] he would have yelled out the window, 'Shut up I'm trying to get some sleep in here.' It's a disgrace. - Sen. Zell Miller, (D-Ga.) * It's a Start The United States this week proposed shutting down the influential office of the U.N. representative in Washington, prompting complaints from some U.N. officials that the move would curtail the organization's access to Congress. - Washington Times, 10/30/03 * Duh The Bush administration is attempting to reform and improve the Head Start program for pre-schoolers. Testing is being introduced to objectively evaluate progress by participants; however, Sen. Hillary
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 4, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ *** This Week on Always Right Our guest this week will be Ronald Reagan's former press secretary, adviser and close family friend of many years, Lyn Nofziger. We'll discuss, of course, the upcoming CBS mini-series on the Reagans, but Lyn has been a leading principled conservative voice in the movement for decades, so we'll get his take on the state of the conservative movement, a three-year anniversary assessment of the Bush II administration, the Col. West flap, the Democrat filibusters of judicial nominees and his predictions for the future of his home state of California under its new leader, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You won't want to miss this one. Tune in Tuesday 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 Hallmark of Shame In addition to sending Hallmark a ton of emails and online petitions objecting to their role in distributing the upcoming mini-series smearing the Reagans, you might want to give 'em a jingle toll-free at 1-800-Hallmark. Now, you'll have to go through some push-one-push-zero-push-three tele-gymnastics, but eventually you'll reach a living, breathing human being who probably won't know what the heck you're talking about. At least, the operator I finally reached on Monday didn't. He had to look it up on his computer and then come back and read the exact same canned BS response we've gotten via email. Nevertheless, it's a FREE call and it's really tying Hallmark's business up when they'd rather be focusing on overcharging for their Christmas card-selling season. So why not pick up the phone and give 'em a call? Reach out. Reach out and touch someone. Targeting Target News and Views reader John Falk had reason to believe that Target, the retail giant, was possibly one of the sponsors of the upcoming Reagan mini-series on CBS and sent them a letter objecting to their involvement in this smear. In response, Chandni in Guest Relations wrote: Target is not a sponsor of the two-part movie 'The Reagans.' However, we frequently advertise on several television networks, including the one airing this particular program. The purchase of commercial airtime is a complicated process. As a matter of course, Target contracts with television networks, which then provide us with a block of programming time in which our commercials may air. Leaving aside the question of just how difficult it is to purchase commercial airtime, Chandni would have us believe that Target's CEO is powerless to pick up the phone and call CBS and tell them specifically NOT to air any Target commercials during The Reagans. Just how stupid do these people think we are? Why not give 'em a ring on their toll-free line and ask? That number is: 1-800-440-0680. Scary Kerry's Alternative Plan Under John Kerry's 'plan,' Saddam would still be in power, the French would still be selling him the 68mm missiles used in the attack on Paul Wolfowitz's Baghdad hotel last week, and there would still be Iraqis being fed feet-first into the industrial shredders. Or have I missed something? - Columnist Mark Steyn The Great Untold Story There are now more than 60,000 Iraqi policemen on duty, up from zero the day Saddam's statue fell. Electric power generation is higher than it ever was under Saddam, and oil production is approaching its pre-war peak. - Columnist Jack Kelly West's Fate in Rummy's Hands Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday he has the power to intervene in the assault case of a lieutenant colonel, but gave no sign whether he would stop the Army from court-martialing the officer. The Army in Iraq charged Lt. Col. Allen B. West with criminal assault for threatening a suspected Iraqi guerrilla supporter to learn information on pending attacks against soldiers in a small town north of Tikrit. - Washington Times, 11/3/03 NOTE: You can contact Secretary Rumsfeld and urge him to intervene on Col. West's behalf by going to: http://www.contactrumsfeld.com What to Do with Col. West? What should happen to the Army colonel who fired his weapon in an attempt to scare a captured Iraqi prisoner into revealing planned ambushes against American soldiers? Should he be court-martialed, allowed to retire with full benefits...or be promoted to Secretary of the Army? Cast your ballot by clicking on the Survey Says!
NV EXTRA: CBS Having Second Thoughts on Reagan Movie
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * From TVGuide.com Monday, November 3, 2003 FIRESTORM: News flash: Les Moonves can be intimidated. According to reports, CBS's fearless leader is considering dropping The Reagans, the network's upcoming four-hour miniseries about the former president. Scheduled to air on Nov. 16 and 18, the controversial project has come under fire from conservative groups who claim the movie casts Ronald and Nancy in an unflattering - and inaccurate - light. One scenario has Moonves dumping the telepic on sister pay-cabler Showtime. A decision is expected in the next couple of days. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Folks, now is the time to REALLY pour it on. This show should NOT air...especially considering the cruel effect it would have on Nancy and the entire Reagan family. Take a minute if you haven't done so already and sign the petition to Les Mooves and CBS at: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=238 And tell all your friends. It's NOT too late deep-six this smear of a great American. Chuck Muth Citizen Outreach
CBS Caves!
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] From today's Drudge Report: http://www.drudgereport.com/ VIACOM CHAIR SUMNER REDSTONE EXPRESSED GRAVE CONCERN FOR NETWORK BROADCAST... WILL AIR ON SHOWTIME UNCUT [WITH AIDS QUOTE ONLY DELETION]... CBS will issue press release early in morning; Robert Greenblatt, head of SHOWTIME will announce that SHOWTIME will air the telepic. Bob Ackerman the Director has said he will re-edit some portions of the film for SHOWTIME. CBS to write-off $9 million...
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 8-9, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This Sunday in DC Confidential * Ex-spouse to tell all about Demo hubby's life in the House * The joke's on the...left? * Post-election tidbits from around the country * Little Big Man in the Big Apple * GOP's desperate attempt to find a challenger for Chuck Schumer * Everybody loves nobody in CA quest for a Boxer challenger * The coming in-house GOP bloodbath over clipping the cardinals' wings * Max Burns eats worms if his GOP campaign can't pull out of tailspin * RINO hunting on MD's Eastern Shore * Meet the new boss DC Confidential is published on Sundays for financial contributors of $5 or more to Citizen Outreach. To make your contribution and get tomorrow's edition, kick in a few bucks today by using our secure, online Contribution page at www.citizenoutreach.com. *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ ** Marlins Win Again A recent survey by The Polling Company asked 1,000 Americans who they would rather dine with, the World Series Champion Florida Marlins of the Democrat candidates for President. Only 30 percent chose the nine dwarfs panting for the Oval Office. *** Lesson Learned Every nation has learned - or should have learned - an important lesson: Freedom is worth fighting for, dying for and standing for - and the advance of freedom leads to peace. Liberty is both the plan of heaven for humanity, and the best hope for progress here on earth. - President George W. Bush, 11/6/03 *** Fighting One Enemy Overseas, and Another at Home Our enemies in Iraq know they cannot defeat us militarily. Their campaign of terror is intended to sap our will. Their strategy dovetails with that of Democrats, who do not wish to acknowledge American successes, for fear President Bush will get credit for them. - Columnist Jack Kelly *** Camp for Juvenile Political Delinquents One of the last redoubts of peaceful coexistence in Congress has been the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sensitive matters of national security come before it, and the tradition is for Senators to leave their party affiliations at the door. So much for that honorable tradition. Senator Jay Rockefeller buried it this week with his ho-hum response to the leak of a strategy memo on how Democrats can exploit for partisan gain the committee's investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq. . . . (T)he West Virginia Democrat has either been asleep on the job or he's running a camp for juvenile political delinquents. - Review Outlook, Wall Street Journal, 11/7/03 * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ *** The Reviews Are In: Pe-Yew! (P)art of me is disappointed that I won't be able to see CBS's movie, 'The Reagans,' in about a week. I wanted to invite my pals over to watch James Brolin acting his heart out to be the Gipper. You don't get that many chances to see the first screening of a movie that was headed straight for that rare, wonderful ranking in the paperback movie guides--BOMB. - Columnist Daniel Henninger *** Perspective Chuck: Just an observation over this CBS controversy: If a movie had been made about the life of Martin Luther King, which glossed over his civil rights accomplishments, his commitment to peace, and his effective use of non-violence, but which instead emphasized his philanderous affairs and association with known communists, the liberal left might understand this concept of artistic unfairness from a better perspective. - News Views reader J. T. Griffith ** Musings of a Right-Wing Extremist Democrats in the Senate have the long knives out for California Supreme Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown, one of president Bush's nominees for a federal bench seat, who will likely face a filibuster soon to prevent her nomination from coming to the floor for a vote. Here are some examples of what Democrats are using to call her an extremist. From a 1999 speech at Claremont McKenna College in California: Where government advances, it advances relentlessly - freedom is in peril, community impoverished, religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized. And from a 2000 speech at the University of Chicago Law School: Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 10, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Self-Esteem Doing More Harm than Good In the past several decades, the effort to respect, protect and even puff up children's self-esteem has resulted in a generation of children who expect to win, whose feelings are never hurt and who believe they are the best. . . . 'As with everything else in life, you can overdo a good thing,' (author and psychologist Charles Elliott) says. 'Praise loses its meaning when it is tossed around like confetti. Some parents virtually follow their kids around the playground complimenting them on their teeter-tottering.' - Washington Times, 11/9/03 Vote 'Em Up or Vote 'Em Down...Just Vote! Weary of Senate Democrats' continued efforts to block President Bush's judicial nominees, Republicans have planned a 30-hour, all-night session Wednesday to force a marathon debate about Democratic stalling tactics that have left several nominations in limbo. The talkathon, supported by the entire 51-member GOP caucus, would freeze the business of the Senate, preventing further work on the nine unfinished fiscal year 2004 spending bills, a comprehensive energy measure and Medicare legislation. It also endangers the target recess date of Nov. 21. 'The objective is to get an up or a down vote. These nominees deserve their day in court,' said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., architect of the GOP strategy. ...Republicans plan to debate throughout Wednesday night and possibly Thursday, and if a window opens in which all 51 GOP senators are present but no Democrat is available to object to a unanimous consent motion, Brown, Kuhl and Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen could be confirmed. 'One of the reasons you do it at night is you may have a situation where someone doesn't drink enough coffee and you have the opportunity to put a vote and if we have that opportunity, we're going to take it,' Santorum said. - Fox News, 11/7/03 Disorder In the Court Democrat pollster Mark Mellman was quoted as saying that judicial nominations consistently rank dead last among voter concerns and that attempts to raise public interest in the issue simply constitute 'wishful thinking and gratifying the base.' In terms of public opinion, this may well be true. There are few things that are more 'inside baseball' than Beltway bickering over appointments to positions that receive relatively little day-to-day attention, especially when these debates usually turn on sensationalistic personal scandals and obscure, often ancient quotes dredged up and ripped out of context in an effort to rile up some interest group. But for the millions of moderate-to-conservative voters in Middle America, there are few things more important to the outcome of issues they do care about than the shape of the federal judiciary. It has become a cliché among conservatives to talk about judges 'legislating from the bench' or the 'imperial judiciary,' but both are precisely what we are faced with. The courts have elevated themselves above the executive and judicial branches and claimed the power to decide our most contentious social issues for us. - Columnist W. James Antle III *** Taste of Their Own Medicine Republicans are planning a marathon 30-hour overnight debate this week to show what they say is 'obstruction of justice' by Democrats who are blocking judicial nominations. . . . Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee also intends to bring up legislation he proposed in May to ease Senate rules on judicial nominations during the all-night debate. . . . . Republicans say they're giving Democrats a taste of their own medicine. . . . Republicans contend that filibustering judges is unconstitutional. - The Sun Herald (Mississippi), 11/10/03 *** Gloves to Come Off... The Senate Republican leadership is planning to conduct a 30-hour debate marathon next week on the topic of President Bush's judicial nominees. It is an attempt to give the issue more national exposure. Democrats have filibustered a handful of the President's nominees. They claim all of them are conservative judicial activists who don't deserve a seat on the bench. But Republicans say Democrats are way off base and that all of the nominees have the highest recommendations. Once Republican leadership announced their plans for next week, Democrats complained and said that they may decide to retaliate with other delay tactics if this continues. - CBN.com, 11/9/03 ...But Will the Public Care? Republicans and their supporters are taking the debate over President Bush' s stalled judicial nominations directly to voters in an untested effort to find out whether people actually care about the increasingly politicized issue. . . . (R)epublicans
Chuck Muth's News Views - Veteran's Day, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Happy's All Around A very sincere Happy Birthday to the Marine Corps (128th, I think) as well as a Happy Veteran's Day for all branches of our nation's military. *** Waaahh!!! I half-listened to Harry Reid (D-Nevada) complaining endlessly from the Senate floor on Monday about the upcoming 30-hour marathon to expose the Democrats' obstruction of judicial nominees. He droned on and on and on and on and on...and on and on and on and on...and on and on about all the other matters that were supposedly more important than the four (and counting) judicial nominations which have been blocked by the minority's unconstitutional filibusters. And you know what? He has a point. There ARE a lot of other critical matters the Senate can and should be addressing. Not necessarily the liberal issues Reid whined about, but certainly very important ones. We could start with getting to the bottom of that leaked memo revealing how the Democrats were going to use the Intelligence Committee as a political weapon against the White House in next year's election. Or how the Army is hanging a lieutenant colonel out to dry for using reasonable tactics to gain information which saved the lives of GI 's fighting in Iraq. And did we ever get to the bottom of how those missing Rose Law Firm billing records magically re-appeared in the White House a couple years back? (I know, I know. Move on.) So yes, maybe those 30 hours which are being set aside to talk about the judicial filibusters would be better spent talking about other issues. And there's a quick and easy way to move on to those other important matters: Democrats could just STOP unconstitutionally filibustering the President's judicial nominees and give 'em a straight up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. It's just that simple. *** Your Front Row e-Seat at the Justice for Judges Marathon! One thing I learned a long time ago as a GOP county chairman in Las Vegas is that the best way to handle a critic is to put 'em in charge of the thing they're criticizing. For the last couple of months, we - meaning you and I - have been rather critical of Senate Republicans and their failure to play hardball with the Democrats over these judicial filibusters. I think we may have called 'em things like wimps and threatened to withhold financial support if they didn't find their backbones and take off the gloves. Well they did...and they're gonna. So you can guess what happened next, right? Yup. At a briefing in the Capitol last Friday, Citizen Outreach was asked to manage and oversee the web room during the marathon debate on the Democrats' judicial filibusters scheduled for later this week. So when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist takes to the floor Wednesday evening to launch the 30-hour Justice for Judges marathon, Citizen Outreach will be squirreled away in Internet Alley in the Capitol managing the official website for this historic marathon effort. You can take a look at it by going to: www.justiceforjudges.com. In addition to serving as a kinda clearinghouse portal where you'll find links to news stories on the marathon (already up), press conference schedules, live online chats, breaking news and links to leading conservative organizations working on this issue, we'll also be conducting regular live webcast interviews with leaders of the effort, compliments of the good folks at Radio Free Republic who host our weekly Always Right talk show. This is a very BIG deal for us and I'm excited about our being such a significant part in this extremely important fight. Breaking this unconstitutional obstruction and ending this tyranny of the minority is critical for the long-term good of our country (unless you LIKE judicial decisions saying the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional in public schools). And you all are gonna have a front-row e-seat at it! While there are a LOT of other organizations and individuals who have been around in this town a LOT longer than we have, Citizen Outreach will be runnin' the e-show at ground zero because you all took such an active role in letting our leaders know how angry and frustrated we were with what the minority was getting away with...especially after we lost Miguel Estrada. You spoke. They heard. Anyway, there's a TON of stuff for me to do getting this whole thing ready and organized (not to mention resting up a bit before embarking on this 30-hour marathon all-nighter), so please pardon me if I don't put out a regular version of News Views for the next couple of days. Also, I could sure use a little emergency financial help for this project. The government and the Senate cannot, and are not, contributing ONE PENNY to this effort to bring the Justice for Judges marathon to the Internet community.
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 14, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Tyranny of the Minority Just a really short little News Views tonight. The Justice for Judges marathon continues and we're covering it minute by minute. In fact, I've set up a blog on the www.justiceforjudges.com web site and will keep updating it for all long as I can keep my eyes open. Check it out. At the time I'm sending this out, I've been up for about 36 straight hours with nothing but a 30 minute power nap around dawn this morning. The marathon is scheduled to end at midnight tonight...but rumors abound that ticked-off Republicans, like the Eveready Bunny, are going to just keep going, and going and going...right on through to cloture votes on Friday morning. These guys are NOT kidding around any longer, folks. Tempers are short; tension is high. I'll give you a full after action report when all is said and done later this weekend. Some really interesting inside perspectives to share with you all. Talk on! ** Speaking of Filibusters Senate leaders are trying to find a way to extend a ban on Internet taxation that expired Nov. 1. On Friday, a vote on the moratorium was canceled in response to a filibuster threat led by freshman Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and George Voinovich of Ohio. - Washington Times editorial, 11/13/03 ** Speaking of Judges Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office Thursday for refusing to obey a federal court order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse. The Alabama Court of the Judiciary unanimously imposed the harshest penalty possible after a one-day trial in which Moore said his refusal was a moral and lawful acknowledgment of God. Prosecutors said Moore's defiance, left unchecked, would harm the judicial system. - Associated Press, 11/13/03 *** How to Subscribe Chuck Muth's News Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a member-supported 501(c)3 non-profit corp. If you enjoy News Views, please make a tax-deductible contribution to support our work: http://www.citizenoutreach.com If you'd like to receive our FREE News Views e-newsletter, you can sign up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. To be REMOVED, go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove/default.cfm and complete the removal request instructions you'll find there. Or send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # #
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 15-16, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Extra! Extra! Read All About It As you all know, Citizen Outreach was neck deep in the just-completed Justice for Judges marathon (www.justiceforjudges.com). I did manage to squeeze in about 5 hours of total sleep during the 52+ hours we were engaged in this effort starting early Wednesday morning. I'll have more to say on the entire experience in the days ahead (including a revealing, in-depth insider after-action report this Sunday in DC Confidential), but here's a nice write up by CNS News on the marathon which notes our participation in this important effort: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200311\NAT20031112a.html Sit Ubu, Sit ***QUOTE*** As the Senate concludes its 30-hour talkathon on judicial filibusters, we thought readers might like to peer inside the filibustering Democratic mind, such as it is. This plunge into the murky deep comes from staff strategy memos we've obtained from the days when Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2001-2002. Or, rather, appeared to run the committee. Their real bosses are the liberal interest groups that more or less tell the Senators when to sit, speak and roll over -- and which Bush judges to confirm or not. Here are some excerpts: November 6, 2001/To: Senator Dick Durbin You are scheduled to meet with leaders of several civil rights organizations to discuss their serious concerns with the judicial nomination process. The leaders will likely include: Ralph Neas (People For the American Way), Kate Michelman (NARAL), Nan Aron (Alliance for Justice), Wade Henderson (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights), Leslie Proll (NAACP Legal Defense Education Fund), Nancy Zirkin (American Association of University Women), Marcia Greenberger (National Women's Law Center), and Judy Lichtman (National Partnership) ...The primary focus will be on identifying the most controversial and/or vulnerable judicial nominees. The groups would like to postpone action on these nominees until next year, when (presumably) the public will be more tolerant of partisan dissent. November 7, 2001/To: Senator Durbin The groups singled out three -- Jeffrey Sutton (6th Circuit); Priscilla Owen (5th Circuit); and Caroline [sic] Kuhl (9th Circuit) -- as a potential nominee for a contentious hearing early next year, with a [sic] eye to voting him or her down in Committee. They also identified Miguel Estrada (D.C. Circuit) as especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible. February 28, 2002/To: SENATOR [Kennedy] Ralph Neas called to let us know that he had lunch with Andy Stern of SEIU. Andy wants to be helpful as we move forward on judges, and he has great contacts with Latino media outlets... April 17, 2002/To: SENATOR [Kennedy] Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund tried to call you today...Elaine would like the Committee to hold off on any 6th Circuit nominees until the University of Michigan case regarding the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education is decided by the en banc 6th CircuitThe thinking is that the current 6th Circuit will sustain the affirmative action program, but if a new judge with conservative views is confirmed before the case is decided, that new judge will be able, under 6th Circuit rules, to review the case and vote on it. June 12, 2002/To: SENATOR (Kennedy) ...Ultimately, if [Chairman Pat] Leahy insists on having an August hearing, it appears that the groups are willing to let [Timothy] Tymkovich [10th Circuit] go through (the core of the coalition made that decision last night, but they are checking with the gay rights groups). Mr. Tymkovich apparently got the gay OK. ***UNQUOTE*** - Wall Street Journal editorial, 11/14, 03 Battle of the Blowhards Who is the biggest windbag in the Senate? Cast your vote by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com Also, some folks suggest that it's better if we DON'T break the Democrat filibusters, so that WE can use the filibuster against liberal nominees if, God forbid, she-who-shall-not-be-named gets elected and Republicans lose the majority in the Senate. What do you think? Vote in our Online Poll at www.justiceforjudges.com * Consciousness Raising Chuck: Good work, by the way, covering the marathon. I'm sending a donation soon, in the form of No-Doze. . . . Seriously, I've watched more C-SPAN lately than I have my entire adult life. And if this is any indication of how things are debated in general, may the gods deliver us all. I sometimes felt I was watching a cross between Comedy Central and a Michael
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 18, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Off to a Darn Good Start Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his first official act as California's new governor, repealed the car tax increases imposed by former Gov. Gray Davis. Fulfilling a central promise of his successful campaign, the actor-turned-political leader signed an executive order Monday bringing down the dreaded tax shortly after being sworn-in as the state's new chief executive. - UPI, 11/17/03 *** Tuesday Night on Always Right House/Senate negotiators released a Medicare reform compromise plan this week which includes a new prescription drug benefit for seniors. Conservatives are leery. But Sen. Ted Kennedy and John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO are howling mad. So what should you and I make of this piece of legislation? Is it good or bad policy? Is it good or bad politics? We'll discuss the good, the bad and the ugly this week on Always Right with our guest Robert Goldberg, a health care expert, national columnist and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Tune in Tuesday night 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 ** Free Market Meets Medicare Congressional leaders have in their hands a deal to add a prescription-drug benefit to Medicare, the biggest expansion in the program's 38-year history. But the pact is threatened by the same philosophical clash that has dogged the program for years: How big a role should competition among profit-seeking companies play in the Great Society program that insures one out of seven Americans? ...Backed by an army of conservative Republicans who seek fundamental change in Medicare, Rep. Bill Thomas of California, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has been determined to use the popular drug benefit as a way to widen the role of private health plans and to force government-run Medicare to compete directly with private alternatives. ...In recent months, a dozen members of Congress -- 10 Republicans and two Democrats -- have been wrestling with details on everything from payments to health-care providers in rural areas to the design of the prescription-drug benefit. . . . Over the past week, Republican leaders reached an agreement with (the Democrat) Sens. Baucus and Breaux, and Rep. Thomas signed on as well. . . . If it gets through Congress in the next couple of weeks, it will give advocates of market forces the strongest toehold since Lyndon Johnson signed the bill in 1965. - Wall Street Journal, 11/17/03 ** Drug Bill's Fate Uncertain Having reached a historic Medicare compromise, Republican leaders in Congress and the White House still face a floor fight in which the legislation could be sunk either by conservative defections in the House or a filibuster by liberals in the Senate. Led by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, Democrats wasted no time in attacking the weekend agreement, which goes next to a House-Senate conference committee Tuesday. ...Modifications may be needed if the Congressional Budget Office calculates that the measure surpasses its $400 billion cost limit. But the framework is in place for what amounts to a huge government and business experiment that would remake the Great Society-era social insurance program more in the image of a competitive, market-driven alternative favored by Republicans. - Wall Street Journal, 11/17/03 * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ ** Windbag Winner by a Mile Commenting on the recently concluded Justice for Judges marathon, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, said, What has not ended is the resolution and the determination of the members of the United States Senate to continue to resist any Neanderthal that is nominated by this president of the United States for any court, federal court in the United States. The three conservative women who were denied an up-or-down vote on their nominations last Friday are knuckle-dragging Neanderthals? Is it any wonder that Uncle Ted won our Biggest Windbag in the Senate poll this week, racking up over 50% of the vote? Bobby KKK Byrd came in a distant second with 17% of the vote, followed by, in order, Chuck Schumer (11%), Hillary Clinton (10%), Tom Daschle (9%), Pat Leahy (2%) and Mary Landrieu (1%). *** Obstruction by the Numbers (D)emocrats have entered into uncharted waters with at least the quantity of judicial filibusters they have undertaken. In arguing that their
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 19, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** When Harry Married Gary OK. OK. I know many of you are just champing at the bit to inveigh over the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling handed down on Tuesday regarding the state's restriction on an individual's right to marry the person of their choice. Indeed the sky-is-falling hysterics began almost immediately after the decision was released (with the requisite fundraising appeals right behind). Randall Terry - considered a zealot by many, but a hero in some social conservative circles - issued a statement saying, If outraged citizens see one of these judges in a bar, they may be tempted to spit in their face, or beat them, or get a bunch of friends to tar and feather them. Nice, Randy. Very nice. So much for reasoned argument. Gary Bauer's press release included a suggestion that Perhaps it is time for another Boston Tea Party, though I fail to see how polluting Boston Harbor with little bags of Lipton has anything to do with the issue of gay marriage. It's not like the government is trying to tax heterosexuality. Or maybe Mr. Bauer just wants to protest England being ruled by a queen. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was apoplectic. This is THE wake-up call for both the American public and our elected officials, Perkins gushed in a news release. If we do not amend the Massachusetts State Constitution so that it explicitly protects marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and if we do not amend the U.S. Constitution with a federal marriage amendment that will protect marriage on the federal level, we will lose marriage in this nation. No we won't, Tony. Just because the Massachusetts Supreme Court said the state couldn't discriminate against gay couples seeking a marriage license doesn't mean men and women won't be allowed to marry any longer. We're not going to lose marriage in this nation. How silly. Anyway, I've given a cursory read to the opinion and to the dissents, and the opinion appears reasoned and rational while the dissents are unpersuasive. But that's just my first reading. I might change my mind after giving it more thorough scrutiny. I'm sure many of you can't wait to tell me how wrong I am and how wrong the court was. That's fine. It's an important public policy issue. Far from being THE most important issue facing our nation today, but of significant concern to many Americans. However, in arguing your point in emails to me, please do so on the merits of the decision itself. Quote me the law, not Leviticus. This is about the state Constitution, not the Bible. And if you can't start every message with the words, Dear Butthead, I have read the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision, and. then don't waste your time. Because I won't waste MY time arguing with someone who won't invest THEIR time to actually read what the justices wrote. For those of you interested in a serious debate on the substance of this issue, not the hysterics, you can read the court's decision, as well as the dissents, by going to: http://www.socialaw.com/sjcslip/sjcNov03c.html New Drug Benefit This is your Congress. This is your Congress on drugs. Read all about it in the latest Muth's Truths column at www.citizenoutreach.com Also, our announced Always Right guest this week had to cancel, but we were fortunate enough to grab Mike Collins, former RNC press secretary and public policy guru to discuss the prescription drug bill on this week's show. If you missed it on Tuesday night, catch a rebroadcast later this week. Just click on the Always Right page at www.citizenoutreach.com for the complete schedule and link to listen in. And after reading and hearing all about it, it's your turn to weigh in: Should Congress pass the compromise plan to add a new prescription drug benefit to Medicare? Cast your ballot today by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com. * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ ** UN Wants Control of World Wide Web Governments spearheaded by China, Brazil, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia are trying to place the Internet under the control of the United Nations or its member governments, a move that the United States and other developed countries are determined to resist. - Washington Times, 11/18/03 ** Cheap Shot Artists Democratic presidential candidates have been taking cheap shots at President Bush almost since he took office. Instead of offering real plans to get out of the mess and acknowledging the realities of the Sept. 11 attacks, they blast
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 20, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Drug Benefit Should Congress pass the compromise plan to add a new prescription drug benefit to Medicare? Cast your ballot today by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com. ** When Harry Married Gary Folks, as Felix Unger famously taught us back in the 70s, never *assume.* I have NOT said I support gay marriage. I did say that in quickly reading through the Massachusetts opinion that some valid and legitimate points were raised which deserve consideration. And I specifically wrote in yesterday's News Views, I might change my mind after giving (the decision) more thorough scrutiny. I'm in the process of doing just that and will comment on the decision further in the days and weeks to come. That being said, I continue to reject the hysterics of some that civilization as we know it is going to come crashing down around us if two gay guys get a marriage license. It makes great rhetoric for all the fundraising letters which are, at this very minute, on their way to a lot of your mailboxes, but I don't buy it. On the other hand, I am not yet persuaded that gay couples have a right to marry, although a credible equal protection argument exists regarding some of the benefits denied gay couples. I do find it thoroughly inconsistent, however, to argue that one state shouldn't be forced to recognize a gay marriage from another state, but that through a constitutional amendment every state SHOULD be forced to DENY gay marriages, even if a certain state's citizens so desire. I thought as conservatives we FAVORED states rights over federal dictates. Anyway, the Massachusetts opinion is long and couched in a lot of legalese. It is NOT easy to digest in one or two readings. I'm going through it line by line and am not jumping to any conclusions. You shouldn't either. For those of you who actually took time to read the decision and referred to it in your objections you emailed to me...thank you! I will weigh them considerably in my in-depth analysis, which I hope to share in the next few days. Your comments are VERY helpful and appreciated. For those who did NOT read the opinion and still quoted me Leviticus despite my request, I can only remind you that we do NOT live in a theocracy. In the meantime, we conservatives have a much more urgent issue before us to consider... ** Gimme Drugs A lot of us don't think the federal government should be involved in health insurance...period. Medicare is a liberal Great Society program which FAR exceeded the notion of limited government as envisioned by the Founders. And perhaps it should be scrapped altogether. That's a great academic argument. The reality, however, is that Medicare is here and it ain't going away any time soon. Now, the question of prescription drugs is upon us. If we're going to have Medicare, it doesn't make sense that the program will pay for kidney dialysis but won't cover the cost of less-expensive modern drugs which could prevent the need for the kidney dialysis in the first place. If the miracles of today's prescription drugs had been available in 1965, it is inconceivable that a drug benefit wouldn't have been included in the program. It is, therefore, inevitable that such a benefit is, sooner or later, going to be added to the program. The question is how and when? The current House/Senate compromise bill is FAR from perfect. It is NOT what you or I would want if we had CONSERVATIVE (not just Republican), veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress. We do not. That's another cold reality. This compromise bill, for all its faults, is about the best we could possibly get under the circumstances. The question then becomes, is it good enough for conservatives to vote for...or bad enough to reject? I gotta tell ya, there are a lot of good conservatives who simply say to kill this turkey. But there are also a number of equally good conservatives who say this bill moves the ball downfield in the direction we want it to go; that it's a good first step and the best we can do right now under the current make-up of Congress. Both sides make compelling and persuasive points...which place me firmly on the fence. A couple days ago, I was opposed to the bill. However, after interviewing Mike Collins on this issue Tuesday evening on Always Right and hearing an extremely persuasive argument by Newt Gingrich at a private briefing Wednesday morning, I've moved to an official neutral position. At the very least, I sure wouldn't tar-and-feather any conservative who votes for this bill. And I gotta tell you, seeing Teddy Kennedy and the AFL-CIO come unglued over this is definitely a point in the bill's favor. In an ideal world this would be a black and white issue. But again, we're not
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 22, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** I'm Lea-ving...On a Jet Plane We're heading for the ol' stomping grounds in Sin City for the next week to punch Michael Jackson in his plastic nose, celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends, plus conduct a Campaign Boot Camp next weekend. Barring any unforeseen dropping-of-the-laptop again, we'll still bring you News Views from the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas. I'm also planning to hop OFF the fence on this Medicare reform bill and will outline my decision on this important public policy legislation in Sunday's DC Confidential. In addition, I'll give you a heads up on the latest rumored presidential candidate for 2004 (no, it's not Hillary...yet), a look at an old political war wound which still hasn't healed, an ungrateful mayor lashing out against a national icon to save his diminishing political fortunes, a supreme electoral contest in the Silver State and more. DC Confidential is a weekly e-publication for financial contributors to Citizen Outreach. For a minimum donation of $5 or more, you, too, can get this inside look at the political landscape delivered to your inbox every Sunday morning. Just use your credit card and go to: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=donations%40citizenoutreach.comitem_name=Citizen+Outreachno_shipping=1tax=0currency_code=USD *** A New Internet Tax Grinch Surfaces A U.S. senator said on Thursday that he would hold up a massive year-end spending bill if it included a ban on Internet-access taxes that he and several colleagues fear would harm state and local finances. Delaware Sen. Thomas Carper, a Democrat, told reporters he would try to keep the omnibus bill from coming to the Senate floor if the ban was included in its present form, which he said infringed on the rights of state and local governments to raise revenues. - Reuters, 11/21/03 EDITOR'S NOTE: Hang on. Let's see. I think I have it right...HERE! OK, to contact Sen. Carper: Phone: (202) 224-2441 Web form: http://carper.senate.gov/email-form.html *** Justifying Internet Taxation Five years ago, Congress put a moratorium on taxing Internet access. I supported that moratorium to make sure the Internet had the opportunity to get up and running. However, now it's a grown up business - it's no baby in a crib. - Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on his (untaxed for now) website, 11/21/03 *** Setting the Record Straight Chuck: You have misstated my position. Under the current social system and circumstances it is insane to allow blacks to procreate with whites, UNLESS it is done under government regulation. . . . Frankly I think you are stupid for suggesting Blacks and Whites should intermarry. But if you are going to disagree with me, at least state my position fairly and accurately. . . . There may be isolated examples of Black/White unions being genetically sensible. But unless and until our government sets up a screening and eugenics program to ensure the union is not grossly unwise, such unions should be banned altogether. - Bob Hurt (Editors Note: Thanks for clearing that up, Bob. I'm sure people will think you're MUCH more reasonable now. Not.) Run Hillary, Run! Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., may not enter the primaries, but she has not given up hope of being the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, reports Newsweek. Asked if she plans to compete for the nomination, one of her closest friends and advisers reportedly said: 'That depends on what you mean by 'get into the race.' 'The scenario, as sketched by this hard-boiled insider, calls for Clinton to make an entrance as healer and unifier at the end of the primary season in May or June in the unlikely - but not impossible - event that none of the existing contenders has amassed a majority of the convention delegates,' reports Newsweek. - WorldNetDaily.com, 11/21/03 End of Liberty As We Know It Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men's lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado. In the magazine's December edition, the former commander of the military's Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. - NewsMax.com, 11/21/03 *** Don't Forget Fox News Channel is reporting that Osama
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 24, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Spearing the First Lady A few weeks ago, Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich, speaking of bad examples being set for young girls, said to an audience, If I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would. Ehrlich was clearly using a figure of speech to convey an important point. Well, little Britney has fired back in an Entertainment Weekly interview, saying of the First Lady, She probably needs to get laid. Thanks for further making Kendel's point, Britney. The PREGNANT Mrs. Ehrlich chose not to respond. * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ ** Too Far to the Right (Roy Moore) rode the Ten Commandments from county office to the state supreme court, and seems prepared to advance his career further from the platform of his refrigerator-sized monument. . . . The installation of an intrusive Ten Commandments monument, with pride of place in a state judicial complex, is closer to an establishment of religion than not. And as a church-going Christian myself...I found its colossal size, kitschy design and conspicuous display embarrassing. - Columnist Philip Terzian ** Too Far to the Left The Colorado ACLU is threatening to sue a school if the principal refuses to censor Christmas for its students. In a joint letter with the Anti-Defamation League, the state American Civil Liberties Union alleged 'Jewish students no longer feel safe or welcome' at the Elbert County Charter School in Elizabeth, Colo. The Nov. 10 letter demands Principal Les Gray censor Christmas and insists the school 'must take immediate steps to comply with the constitutional separation of church and state.' It insists the school must ban all references to Christmas in its annual holiday program, including secular songs such as 'Jingle Bells.' - WorldNetDaily.com, 11/21/03 ** Fat-Cat Fever Republicans worry that President Bush may not be able to fill his re-election fund with anything close to what Democrats are raising to defeat him next year, thanks to a loophole in the campaign finance law. 'The Sierra Club, the AFL-CIO, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, MoveOn.org and America Coming Together are raising up to $421 million to spend on the presidential election next year,' Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie wrote last week to former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, in a letter urging the leading Democratic candidate to take a stand against the flood of unregulated 'soft money' contributions. - Washington Times, 11/18/03 ** Bad Precedent .(T)he so-called 'AgJobs' bill, sponsored by Reps. Chris Cannon (R) of Utah and Howard Berman (D) of California, would allow 500,000 undocumented farm workers to become legal residents. Such an amnesty, however, would set a bad precedent and encourage more illegal immigration. - Christian Science Monitor, 11/17/03 ** It's the Spending, Stupid Federal discretionary spending is up 12.5%? I had to shake my head and clean my glasses when I saw that one. The front page of a recent edition of the Washington Post (no enemy to government spending) said that we have just witnessed the government grow by over 27% in the last two years. What in the world is going on? Who is in charge? Where are the Republicans? Since they are now a separate group. where are the fiscal conservatives? Where is the 4% growth cap promised to us in the not-too-distant past? - Jill Farrell of the Free Congress Foundation ** Pushing the Envelope The U.S. Postal Service's unofficial motto says that neither rain, nor snow, nor heat, nor gloom of night can stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds but don't tell that to Linda Wedin. When the Murrieta (CA) woman didn't get her mail one day recently, she asked her carrier the next day what had happened and was told 'it was too dark.' She's not alone in her dissatisfaction with mail service in the area. Other Murrieta residents have complained recently of late delivery, no delivery, receiving other people's mail, having their mail delivered to other people and poor handling of mail. 'I won't use the mail system if I can avoid it. I use another delivery service instead,' said Lynn Rucker, who lives in the neighborhoods around the Southern California Golf Course. Packages delivered by the post office are often left on the top of the community mailbox where anyone could pick them up, she said, and her mail was once delivered to another
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 25, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Prez Joins Us in Las Vegas President Bush arrives here in Nevada later today for the first time since the 2000 campaign and is expected to visit a local Las Vegas hospital to discuss the Medicare bill. He is NOT expected to join me and the kids at Circus-Circus to ride the merry-go-round, eat some cotton candy and watch the clowns. But the offer stands, Mr. President! ** Amateur Hour Speaking of clowns: Today is also the deadline for Nevada buffoon Tony Dane to turn in his 120,000+ signatures to effect a recall election of Gov. Kenny Guinn (who was just elected to chair the Republican Governors Association in 2005). But word on the street here is that Dane doesn't have more than 7 signatures on his petition to show for his three month effort. That's absurd. We're pretty sure the clown has at least DOUBLE that number. Way to go, Tony. At least you're consistent. And down in New Mexico, clueless state GOP Chairwoman Ramsay Gorman - under fire for running a Keystone Kops operation which includes hiring a former big-time Democrat operative as her fourth executive director in six months - got a vote of confidence on Saturday by the party's executive committee. In unrelated news, Saddam Hussein got a vote of confidence by al Qaeda on the same day. Gorman's executive committee drafted a lame letter to the White House and the RNC begging them to work with the state party no matter how screwed up Gorman is running it. The Bush-Cheney folks are actively considering setting up a separate operation from the state party for Campaign 2004. In fact, Gorman wasn't even invited to attend a recent statewide re-election strategy meeting with the White House folks. Good grief. In less than six months, the NM GOP has gone from having one of the best-run party organizations in the nation to perhaps the worst. Paging Dr. Dendahl. Dr. John Dendahl. Hey, maybe Gorman should hire Tony Dane next. It would do Nevada a BIG favor to be rid of him and the two appear meant for each other. ** Dissing Jesus: It Isn't Just for the ACLU Any More It hasn't taken Dot Greener long to get embroiled in controversy since recently taking on the role of president of the Arizona Federation of Republican Women. Greener is pushing for a ban on the invocation of Jesus' name in prayers at AFRW events. During AFRW's recent state convention in Tucson, Brenda Barton opened a meeting with a prayer that closed with the mention of Jesus. Non-Christian members of the organization have been complaining ever since. Greener is considering a policy to ban 'Jesus Christ' from future prayers at all AFRW events. - GOPUSA.com, 11/24/03 * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ * Howard's End Over the weekend the New York Times picked up the story of (Howard) Dean's Vietnam-era draft deferment. While in high school Dean had been diagnosed as suffering from spondylolysis, 'a low-back pain that sometimes radiates into the legs,' and as a result the Selective Service classified him as 1-Y, 'qualified for military service only in case of extreme national emergency.' What happened next makes for a funny story at Dean's expense: 'In the 10 months after his graduation from Yale, time he might otherwise have spent in uniform, Dr. Dean lived the life of a ski bum in Aspen, Colo. His back condition did not affect his skiing the way the rigors of military service would have, he said, nor did it prevent him from taking odd jobs like pouring concrete in the warm months and washing dishes when it got cold.' - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 11/24/03 *** We Just Can't Afford Howard Dean We cannot afford to have a leader who weaseled out of going to Vietnam on a medical deferment for a bad back and wound up on the ski slopes of Aspen like Howard Dean. - Former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) ** Patriot Act Abuse Whisked through Congress in the weeks after 9/11, the Patriot Act, which gives federal law enforcement wide-ranging powers to track and eavesdrop on suspected terrorists, was promoted as an urgently needed law to thwart future attacks. 'It's an extraordinary power,' says David Aufhauser, a former general counsel at the Treasury Department, who insists the Act is being used responsibly. But in one recent case, 'Operation G-String,' the Feds used the provision to see the financial records of local officials in Las Vegas that they believed were being bribed by the city's biggest strip-club baron. - NewsMax.com,
Chuck Muth's News Views - November 28, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ ** Playing Hardball During 14 years in the Michigan Legislature and 11 years in Congress, Rep. Nick Smith had never experienced anything like it. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, in the wee hours last Saturday morning, pressed him to vote for the Medicare bill. But Smith refused. Then things got personal. Smith, self term-limited, is leaving Congress. His lawyer son Brad is one of five Republicans seeking to replace him from a GOP district in Michigan's southern tier. On the House floor, Nick Smith was told business interests would give his son $100,000 in return for his father's vote. When he still declined, fellow Republican House members told him they would make sure Brad Smith never came to Congress. After Nick Smith voted no and the bill passed, Duke Cunningham of California and other Republicans taunted him that his son was dead meat. .Republicans voting against the bill were told they were endangering their political futures. Major contributors warned Rep. Jim DeMint they would cut off funding for his Senate race in South Carolina. A Missouri state legislator called Rep. Todd Akin to threaten a primary challenge against him. Intense pressure, including a call from the president, was put on freshman Rep. Tom Feeney. As speaker of the Florida House, he was a stalwart for Bush in his state's 2000 vote recount. He is the Class of 2002's contact with the House leadership, marking him as a future party leader. But now, in those early morning hours, Feeney was told a 'no' vote would delay his ascent into leadership by three years -- maybe more. Feeney held firm against the bill. So did DeMint and Akin. And so did Nick Smith. - Columnist Bob Novak ** Playing Let's Make a Deal As part of the horse-trading to win votes for the prescription-drug bill, House Republican leaders promised to hold a vote on a bill requiring hospitals that treat illegal aliens to report them to federal authorities. The Medicare overhaul bill, which passed the House on Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday, includes $1 billion to reimburse hospitals for treating indigent illegal immigrants. But in exchange for supporting the bill, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, extracted a promise from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois to allow a vote on making hospitals report illegal aliens. 'I told leadership that if they wanted my vote they would have to mitigate the damage that is done by financing illegal immigrant health services. They needed my vote, so they took the deal,' Mr. Rohrabacher said in a statement. - Washington Times, 11/27/03 ** Power Shift The passage of the Republican Party's Medicare/prescription drug bill - and its support by the AARP - is by far the most convincing evidence to date that the political center of gravity in Washington is shifting definitively to the GOP for the first time since the pre-FDR era. . . . (A)s the Republicans continue to peel away more and more pieces of the remaining Democratic influence in Washington, more and more Democratic senators and congressmen will feel compelled to work with, and vote with, the Republicans on legislation. Crumbs are better than starvation. The remaining loyal Democrats will sound ever more shrill and thus unfit to govern - pungent adjectives being the last resort of a minority party. So, the political center of gravity in Washington will continue to shift toward the Republicans. And the longer this process continues, the harder it will be for the Democrats to regain power. - Columnist Tony Blankley ** Billionaire King of Hypocrites Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing through the enactment of the so-called Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, (George) Soros was one of the leading proponents of the campaign finance reform. . . . Now, however, Mr. Soros has apparently had a change of heart. Having succeeded in restricting the fund raising and spending activities of political candidates and political parties, Mr. Soros has found a way to skirt the very laws he helped enact in order to advance his personal political agenda. He has committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, an organization that airs ads and organizes rallies denouncing the president's policies at home and abroad. To date, Mr. Soros says he has spent upwards of $15.5 million to oust (President) Bush, and he's prepared to spend even more. Of course, there's no outcry from the liberal establishment and media
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 1, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Slicing Dicing Aloha All: Tonight I canceled our subscription to 'Showtime.' The fact that they would air, 'The Reagans,' was bad enough, but, to put it after, 'We Were Soldiers,' showed they had no respect for either the US Military or President Reagan. I can only hope that they pay a high subscription price for their bias. God Bless America and the free world military. Mele Ka Like Makaha. - News Views reader John Burt ** Risky Business Chuck: I received a Christmas card yesterday from our President and the First Lady. On a whim, I turned the card over and read that it was paid for by the RNC and produced by.yes, it was HALLMARK. Just great, the money I give to the RNC goes to HALLMARK, who uses it to produce shows that smear President Reagan. I think I'll be sending an email to the RNC very soon. - Christy Schroeder, San Jose, CA. [ Editor's Note: The address to access the e-mail form to contact the RNC can be found at: http://www.rnc.org/contact/contact.htm ] ** So Much for Reagan's 80 Percent Rule If you can't stand up for what is right or wrong 'queer, homosexual marriages,' absolutely shows me where you are in this issue. So take me OFF YOUR EMAIL mailings because you are a lilly livered spineless, wimp. - Former News Views reader Gary White Run Hillary, Run The Democrats are generally NOT happy with ANY of the announced candidates for president next year, fueling speculation that Hillary Clinton could ride in at the convention next year to save their bacon. Her undercutting of the presidential wannabes recently in Iowa as well as her Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan and Iraq do nothing to squelch the speculation of a 2004 run for the gold. Do you think Hillary will find a way to get into the presidential campaign this election cycle or do you believe her when she says she will not be a candidate in 2004? Cast your ballot today by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com. *** How to Subscribe Chuck Muth's News Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a member-supported 501(c)3 non-profit corp. If you enjoy News Views, please make a tax-deductible contribution to support our work: http://www.citizenoutreach.com If you'd like to receive our FREE News Views e-newsletter, you can sign up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. To be REMOVED, go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove/default.cfm and complete the removal request instructions you'll find there. Or send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # #
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 2, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Heading Back to the Barn Our time in Las Vegas was WAY too short. We're heading back east today and will get back to a full, regular publication schedule in the next day or so. *** Hallmark of Shame Chuck: Your reader's comment on the use of Hallmark Cards as the Official Presidential Christmas card supplier is right on the money. Someone at the RNC needs to understand one very important fact, 'THIS IS POLITICS, NOT BUSINESS.' It is just a card that any company can produce. But who the 'President' chooses to do business with says a lot. - News Views reader Robert S. Bingham *** Drafting Hillary Hi Chuck: On Hillary. I don't know if you saw it, but last week, during an interview with Dick Morris, he was asked if he thought Hillary would be drafted. He said, and I quote, 'Hillary will dodge the draft, just like her draft-dodging husband.' I was floored. I despise Morris for being the one who was mostly responsible for putting Clinton into office, and for his immorality, but I must say, he redeemed himself, SLIGHTLY, with that comment. - News Views reader Stella *** A Matter of Trust Howard Dean likes to present himself as a straight talker. But he took an extra long walk from straight talk when he sealed his records as governor and recalled his letters from state agencies just to avoid potential political embarrassment. That's not the way to build public trust ... - Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman *** Shifting Politics If a party appropriates the best idea of the opposition, that's how we create a majority realignment of power. It's a substantial achievement. The Republican Party, in fact, modified its strictest ideological elements to make itself relevant as part of a broad domestic agenda in a way that is going to be devastatingly effective. George Bush is quietly creating a new Republican Party, compassionate-conservative, not the same old tired Republicans. - GOP pollster Bill McInturff, Newhouse News Service, 11/30/03 *** Era of Big Government Is Back The conservative Bush administration is presiding over one of the biggest and most costly government build-outs in history. Massive legislation for energy production and Medicare prescription drug subsidies shower hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits on selected industries - corn, soybeans, coal, oil, gas, drugs, hospitals - like some five-year plan out of the old Soviet Union. These measures follow the creation of the Department of Homeland Security - a ballooning of the scope and cost of the federal government without precedent. - Columnist John Hall of Media General News Service *** The State of Marriage More than 40 percent of first marriages in the United States end in divorce. Cohabitation by unmarried heterosexual couples has risen rapidly, from 523,000 in 1970 to 4.9 million today. Procreation outside of marriage, although the seedbed of millions of individual tragedies and myriad social pathologies, has lost much of its stigma now that 33 percent of births - including about 60 percent of births to women younger than 25 - occur to unmarried mothers. So the 'sanctity' of American marriage is problematic. ...Amending the Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman would be unwise for two reasons. Constitutionalizing social policy is generally a misuse of fundamental law. And it would be especially imprudent to end state responsibility for marriage law at a moment when we require evidence of the sort that can be generated by allowing the states to be laboratories of social policy. - Conservative columnist George Will *** Civil Marriage is Secular .(A)s the Massachusetts court recognized, civil marriage is 'a wholly secular institution' - a fact that all the talk of defending 'the sanctity of marriage' tends to obscure. Atheists and agnostics have been known to marry, after all, and states recognize unions - between Jew and non-Jew, for example, or between Catholics whose earlier marriages have not been annulled - that are forbidden by religious law. - Jacob Sullum, senior editor, Reason magazine Run Hillary, Run The Democrats are generally NOT happy with ANY of the announced candidates for president next year, fueling speculation that Hillary Clinton could ride in at the convention next year to save their bacon. Her undercutting of the presidential wannabes recently in Iowa as well as her Thanksgiving trip to Afaghanistan and Iraq do nothing to squelch the speculation of a 2004 run for the gold. Do you think Hillary will find a way to get into the presidential
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 12, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Rewarding Friends Excluding countries that opposed the war in Iraq from those that will reap the largest profits in the country's reconstruction is 'perfectly appropriate and reasonable,' a White House spokesman said yesterday. . . . White House spokesman Scott McClellan defended the policy, saying 'those who have been sacrificing' soldiers and treasure in Iraq deserve to bid on the $18.6 billion in U.S. funds to rebuild the country. 'These are countries that have been with us from Day One,' Mr. McClellan said. 'These are countries that are contributing forces, that have been making sacrifices, and that's why this decision was made.' - Washington Times, 12/11/03 *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ * Conspiracy Theory The Supreme Court ruled that radio and TV ads by outside groups in the closing weeks of a campaign - you know, when people are actually paying attention to them - are now prohibited. So for groups such as Citizen Outreach, the National Rifle Association and the Right to Life folks, we'll have to rely on getting our message out via...mail. A government-controlled monopoly. Remember, it's not paranoia when they really ARE out to get ya. - Chuck Muth, Editor *** Supreme Injustice Prohibiting the use of TV and radio ads in the days and weeks right before an election will blindfold voters just as they are interested in learning about the candidates and the issues. This decision is a disappointing step back toward less information, fewer options, and restricted speech. - Thomas Donohue, president of the US Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling upholding the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform law, Boston Globe, 12/11/03 *** So Much for Plain English The court's decision in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission is a body blow to the protection of political speech, which the Founding Fathers thought so important that they wrote the First Amendment explicitly to make clear that Congress 'shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.' You wouldn't think they could be more clear. But by a 5-4 majority the Supreme Court upheld McCain-Feingold's restrictions on 'electioneering communications,' or ads that run close to an election and mention a particular candidate. - Columnist John Fund, OpinionJournal.com, 12/11/03 * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ *** Party's Over...Unless Hillary Crashes It Unless Hillary Clinton steps in, in which case I believe the nomination would be hers, Dean will probably emerge as the nominee in February. - Eddie Mahe, GOP strategist, Washington Times, 12/11/03 *** More on Gore His '04 Endorsement Al Gore has done it again. There's a reason he isn't president, and it's not just the chads in Florida. Gore has the worst political instincts of anyone to have gotten as far as he did. Once again, he has proven why he is a loser and not a leader. - Democrat consultant and commentator Susan Estrich *** Oink, Oink Go the Elephants We as Republicans have exploded the number of earmarks (pork barrel spending). We seem to have no shame. - Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Must Starve the Beast The mountain of pork in the House-passed omnibus spending bill is a shameful and irresponsible example of unbridled excess and greed. It is another reason why we must cut taxes further to let workers keep more of what they earn, because if we don't, Congress will continue to spend and waste more money than we can afford. - Columnist Donald Lambro *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News
Chuck Muth's News * Views - December 13-14, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** If the Shoe Fits... I sometimes feel guilty for thinking that the Democratic Party has gone nuts. But it's hard to ignore the evidence. - National Review Online columnist Jay Nordlinger Your Calls Emails Made a Difference...Again Louisiana's Bossier Parish School Board 'will take a second look at its punishment policy for students caught with over-the-counter medications on campus,' the Associated Press reports. As we noted last week, the board suspended sophomore Amanda Styles for possession of Advil. The publicity around Styles's case prompted 'a barrage of critical telephone calls and e-mails,' and the Bossier school board apparently does not want to become known as the bossiest school board in the country. - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 12/12/03 *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** Supreme Injustice There are only three, maybe four, judges on the (U.S. Supreme) court who can be counted on consistently to take the Constitution seriously in their deliberations. . . . In (the campaign finance ruling), of course, its not just the judges who are at fault, but a Congress whose members have now made it that much harder for anyone to challenge them for office, and a White House that caved under pressure, as it often does. - Columnist Jay Ambrose *** Not a Pretty Sight The list of eligible countries (to receive contracts for rebuilding Iraq) reflects not so much a punishment for those that were missing, but recognition of those that--some at great political risk--made the sacrifice. Britain and Poland sent fighting troops, for example, and Italy, Spain and others have provided security forces. They've all taken casualties. Germany and France not only opposed the war but actually tried to obstruct the waging of it. They did not pledge any money at the donors' conference in Madrid this fall. And they, along with Russia, have not sent any troops to postwar Iraq. Worse, these countries, which took what they implied was the high moral ground against the war, are now complaining that they cannot make private profit from its aftermath. It's not a pretty sight. - Wall Street Journal, 12/12/03 * The Right Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. Bush 2004 gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ * Unlawful Entry The White House yesterday said a new immigration review is under way that could lead to amnesty for millions of illegal aliens living and working in the United States. Confirmation of the review came during a White House briefing, just two days after Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said during a town hall meeting in Miami that the government had to 'afford some kind of legal status' to the 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens in the country. - Washington Times, 12/12/03 * No Butting In Line To grant special treatment to those breaking the law is grossly unfair to those who are foolish enough to obey the law, who get in line and go by the rules. What Mr. Ridge, and perhaps the administration, proposes is nothing short of declaring open season on the borders. Granting citizenship to the world, amnesty by amnesty, may make some of us feel good, but it is foolish, dishonest and irresponsible. If we don't respect our borders, no one else will. - Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 12/12/03 * Bad Idea Whose Time Has Not Come It's time for the administration to put this bad idea to rest. We believe that legal immigration to the United States is a good thing for our country. But the same is not true of illegal immigration. When someone decides to sneak into this country or to overstay their visa, they show a disrespect for an important principle that should unite us as Americans: adherence to the rule of law. . . . Even if there were no significant terrorist threat to the American homeland, there would still be compelling reasons to oppose mass legalization. The U.S. government cannot abandon the position that as a sovereign nation, we have the right and the duty to protect our borders. - Washington Times editorial, 12/12/03 * TSA Still Jeopardizing Airline Safety On Nov. 25, 2002, President Bush signed the Arming Pilots
Muth's Truths - December 14, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Separation of Extremists and Religion In America (SPECIAL NOTE: Congratulations to our military for bagging Saddam!) Is there no room for moderation and reason in this country when it comes to religion any longer? In Bakersfield, CA, the local YMCA recently sent fliers promoting an upcoming basketball camp home with students. No biggie. The Y's been sending fliers like this home with students for years. No mas. At least, not in Bakersfield. Some egg-headed, numb-skull school district lawyer ruled the Y could no longer include its mission statement - To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build spirit, mind and body for all - on such fliers. Promotion of religion. Separation of church and state. Blah, blah, blah. Same ol' song and dance. This is ridiculous. The fliers promoted a BASKETBALL CAMP, not religion, for crying out loud. OK, let's swing east to North Carolina where, according to WSOCTV.com, A guidance counselor at Concord High School was suspended Wednesday for answering a student's question about homosexuality. Beth Pinto said she was suspended with pay after students asked her what the Bible's position was on homosexuality and she quoted a verse, said the report. School leaders say that's against the state's position on the separation between church and state. Seems to me there's a big difference between advocating or promoting religion and honestly answering a student's legitimate question. Um, isn't that the role of an educator in the first place? Which brings us to Christmas. That's right, Christmas. Not the holiday season. Not the winter recess. Christmas. Good grief, Charlie Brown. In Tacoma, WA, an elementary school music teacher changed the lyrics of a classic song at a holiday concert from The harsh wind blows down from the mountains, and blows a Christmas to me to blows a white winter to me. I'm surprised Jesse Jackson and the NAACP haven't filed an objection to the change yet, but that's another story for another day. And don't even get me started about the Christmas tree. It's bad enough that seasonal nativity scenes representing Christ's birth are banned from public display during, um, CHRISTmas...but decorated trees? What kind of imbeciles come up with kooky ideas like this? Now it's no secret that I'm a supporter of the principle of REASONBLE separation of church and state; a position not specifically spelled out in the Constitution but certainly embraced by no less than Thomas Jefferson his own self. Neither TJ nor I think mixing the two too closely is good for either. We are, after all, a constitutional republic, not a theocracy. I believe, therefore, that ex-judge Roy Moore went too far in using his government position to promote a religious doctrine in a government building with his 2 1/2 ton Ten Commandments shrine down in Alabama. HOWEVER, I also believe that efforts to erase even a HINT of religion from the public square are equally extreme and patently absurd. There is and should be a reasonable line of separation between church and state. But you've got the ACLU trying to draw the line on the far left and Roy Moore trying to draw it on the far right. What we need is to find a reasonable man standard to resolve these issues in a...duh...reasonable manner. I'd be happy to volunteer for the job if it would mean we could put these silly little battles behind us and focus on, oh, I don't know, how about shrinking the size and cost of government while killing terrorists before they kill us. At least, that seems reasonable to me. # # # Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a non-profit public policy advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Citizen Outreach. He may be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 15, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Ding, Dong the Witch Is Dead Ladies and gentlemen, we got him! - Paul Bremer announcing the capture of the Butcher of Baghdad, 12/14/03 *** Taking the Words Right Out of Their Mouths Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. - Saddam Hussein I don't know where bin Laden is, I don't know where (Saddam) Hussein is, and I still don't know where all of these weapons of mass destruction are -- I'm going to put George Bush in the Bureau of Missing Persons because he keeps missing everything he goes after. - Rev. Al Sharpton I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably. - Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) We've gotten rid of [Saddam Hussein], and I suppose that's a good thing. - Howard Dean This president is a miserable failure. - Rep. Dick Gephardt I can't maybe even convey it as strongly as I feel, how dangerous this (Bush) administration is to the future of our country. - Sen. Hillary Clinton I voted for what I thought was best for the country. . . . Did I expect George Bush to f*ck it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did. - Sen. John Kerry Let's make one thing real clear, I would never have voted for this war (in Iraq). - Wesley Clark In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the 'W' stands for -- wrong. - Sen. John Edwards *** Bah Humbug 'Tis the season to be jolly. Unless you're a Democrat, that is. - Columnist Oliver North *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** West Case Comes to a Close Lt. Col. Allen B. West was fined $5,000 by his commanding officer yesterday, closing a case in which the Army charged him with assault for firing his gun to frighten an Iraqi detainee into disclosing a planned ambush. Neal Puckett, Col. West's civilian attorney, said the officer plans to return to Fort Hood, Texas, where he expects to be granted a full-benefits retirement this spring after a 20-year Army career. ...With the case closed, civilian defense attorney Puckett harshly criticized the Army. 'The problem with today's Army is that the top brass seem to have become paranoid about making common sense decisions without the 'advice of counsel.' ' said Mr. Puckett, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. 'Those counsel usually have no idea what it means to command troops in combat.' Mr. Puckett said that early on in the case, the 4th Infantry's staff judge advocate offered a deal: If Col. West would resign short of qualifying for retirement benefits, the Army would not seek a court-martial. Mr. Puckett rejected the offer. 'Had true Army leaders been allowed to handle this without benefit of counsel, I believe Al West would still be in command, would have been privately congratulated, and told to stay out of the interrogation business in the future,' Mr. Puckett said. 'That would have been true Army leadership. Those type of leaders are still in the Army. It's just that they have been subverted by job-justifying lawyers who seek to play a larger role in the command.' - Washington Times, 12/13/03 * Send In the Clowns ...Howard Dean's homeland security plan, to quote directly and liberally, is 'built around three circles of defense': a 'circle of preparation,' a 'circle of protection,' and a 'circle of prevention,' which, I guess, would make it a three-ring circus. ...Howard Dean may win the (Democrat) nomination, but his name will appear in the history books beside George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. And thankfully, he will take Al Gore with him. - Columnist Oliver North * Ho-Hum For a sizable group of Democrats, Al Gore gets the blood pumping. For the rest of us, he's the human incarnation of footnotes: dry data compressed into an amazingly dull format. - Columnist Jonah Goldberg Making a Bad Situation Worse There is something else afoot with Mr. Dean's candidacy and Al Gore's endorsement. It affirms Mr. Gore's unvarnished liberalism and reveals he is not the moderate he portrayed himself as in the 2000 campaign. But it also suggests the Clinton-Gore-Terry McAuliffe wing of the Democratic Party wants to set the stage for the biggest liberal takeover of America since Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. An election loss by Mr. Dean would clear the deck of lesser lights, so Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has an unobstructed path to the
BRUSHFIRE ALERT: Stop the Insanity!
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop The Insanity! U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman yesterday freed John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan, for unsupervised trips from the mental hospital where he has been confined for more than two decades, reports the Washington Times today. Judge Friedman granted the trips over the objections of the U.S. government and the family of the former president. Judge Friedman was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton and served for two years as an associate independent counsel for the Iran-Contra investigation. Go figure. ( Comment on this story by going to: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ ) BRUSHFIRE ALERT: You might want to share your thoughts on Judge Friedman's decision with a call to his office. (202) 354-3490. Chuck Muth President Citizen Outreach
Muth's Truths - December 21, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PATRIOT GAMES by Chuck Muth December 21, 2003 Hearken back, dear reader, to 1970. The government decided it needed to get tough on organized crime, so it passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations act, more commonly referred to as RICO. In the legislation, racketeering activity was defined as any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical. Now, fast-forward to 1986. The National Organization for Women (NOW) use RICO to sue pro-life organizations who were exercising their First Amendment rights to protest against abortion. Talk about a dramatic expansion of a piece of legislation's original intent in the span of just 16 years. But it's gotten worse. Last month Ellen Mariani, whose husband was one of the victims of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack, filed a RICO lawsuit against...President Bush, for failing to act and prevent the attack (http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0311/S00261.htm So whenever anyone questions why I have such grave concerns about the nature and scope of the hurriedly-passed PATRIOT Act in 2001, I immediately think of RICO. Sure, the original purpose of PATRIOT was to provide the government the tools desired to get tough on terrorists, but we've seen the damage done to our liberties in the past once the government camel gets his nose under our constitutional tent. Indeed, only recently we witnessed how the government's new PATRIOT powers were used in a corruption probe nicknamed Operation G-String in Las Vegas. The act's provisions were used to nab some elected officials with absolutely no ties to terrorism in any way, shape form or fashion...unless you consider lap-dancing a terrorist activity. And you can bet this won't be the exception that proves the rule. This is only the opening gambit. Just as government mission creep took RICO from its anti-mob intent and expanded it to clamp down on free speech by anti-abortion protestors, you can bet the farm that some PATRIOT provisions intended to clamp down on terrorists will one day in the not so distant future be used on ordinary non-terrorist Americans. There is legislation currently pending in Congress to roll back and/or sunset portions of the PATRIOT Act, as well as proposals for additional government powers known as PATRIOT II. This is an issue which freedom-loving Americans from coast-to-coast had better start paying attention to. As Ben Franklin warned in the days of our nation's founding, those who will trade essential liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will soon lose both. Based on history and the nature of the beast, there is definite potential for infringements on individual liberty and privacy embedded in the PATRIOT Act. As such, I've added a new page to our Citizen Outreach website titled, PATRIOT Games. As we come across conservative arguments, news stories, studies, opinion columns raising legitimate concerns about the PATRIOT Act, we'll add them to the page, making it a one-stop shopping place of ideas where you can educate your friends, co-workers and neighbors on the dangers of this well-intentioned but slippery slope legislation. If you have any examples or documentation of PATRIOT Act abuse or danger, please forward it along to me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And finally, the PATRIOT Act is already stirring considerable debate on our Discussion Board. Read what others have to say and join the discussion by visiting http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ Remember, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance...now, more than ever. # # # Chuck Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a non-profit public policy advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Citizen Outreach. He may be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 23, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Remembering Those Who Were Against Us If it had been left to Kofi Annan, the French, Germans, Russians, Canadians, Arabs and all but two of the nine Democratic presidential candidates, Saddam Hussein wouldn't have been getting inspected for lice by American medics; he would still be sitting on his solid gold toilet in his palace, reading about the latest massive anti-Bush demonstrations in Le Monde. - Columnist Mark Steyn *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** Thanks Again, Gipper ...Libya went public this week that it was cooperating with the U.S., and planning to destroy its weapons of mass destruction. We owe some gratitude on this 'coup' to former President Ronald Reagan, who was the first world leader to stand up to Khadafy when he sent a fleet of B-52s over Tripoli to teach the Colonel a lesson. Nor should we forget that our 'allies' the French opposed Reagan's bombing. - NewsMax.com, 12/21/03 *** The Big Stick Works The timing and nature of (Libya's) conversion also vindicates the Bush anti-terror Doctrine. Gadhafi's emissaries first approached British officials in March, just as the war in Iraq was getting under way. From the first days after September 11, Mr. Bush offered state sponsors of terrorism a choice to be with us or against us. If Gadhafi had any doubts about U.S. resolve after the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, they vanished once he saw that Saddam Hussein was also headed for the spider hole of history. - Review Outlook, Wall Street Journal, 12/22/03 *** We Mean Business I don't think you can separate out the relevance of military action in Iraq from the decision the Libyans have taken. We showed, after Saddam Hussein had failed to cooperate with the U.N., that we meant business, and Libya - and I hope other countries - will draw that lesson. - British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon *** Patriot Games You are absolutely 100 percent dead on about the Patriot Act (Muth's Truths, 12/21/03). To those who think it's no big deal - I'm sure there are a lot of self-righteous conservatives who don't have a problem with it being used to bust a strip club - I say consider this: Imagine what might have happened had this law been in effect back when Bill Clinton and Janet Reno were in office. - News Views reader TJ *** RICO Abuse Chuck: You forgot what I consider to be the absolute worst example of RICO excess (Muth's Truths, 12/21/03): The lawsuit Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D) and others filed against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R) for his political fundraising activities. - News Views reader David Luken ( Comment on Patriot Act at our Discussion Board: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ ) Muth's Truths Is PATRIOT the next RICO? Read this week's Muth's Truths at www.citizenoutreach.com. *** King of the Wackos Howard Dean is increasingly looking like he's come unhinged. While the Democratic front-runner shows no sign of slowing his long march toward his party's nomination, he has begun saying things that are not only irresponsible, they sound downright wacky. - Columnist Linda Chavez *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.newsandviewslongdistance.com *** Hey, Big Spender Under President Bush, the federal budget has been driven deep into the red, thanks to generous spending, successive tax cuts, the war and a momentarily slowing economy. Now there are the first signs the record deficits might become a political issue for Mr. Bush. . . . According to estimates developed by the Senate Republican leadership, if Congress and the White House continue spending as they have been - 7 percent annual increases since 1998 - the 2009 deficit will be $666 billion. If by some miracle the
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 24, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Twas the Night Before Christmas... Not the night before the winter holidays. More on this in tomorrow's EXTRA SPECIAL (albeit brief) Christmas edition. *** Flying the Unfriendly Skies John McCaslin's Inside the Beltway column on Tuesday included the latest example of stupidity striking the airline industry. Seems award-winning fiddle champion Bonnie Rideout was on her way from Washington, DC, to Wichita, Kansas and didn't wish her violin to get damaged or even lost by baggage handlers. Rideout took the valuable violin from its case, checked the bag and wanted to hold the instrument in her lap for the duration of the flight. My violin is smaller than an infant and bothers no one, the musician pointed out. The airline folks didn't agree and refused to let her violin onboard. Rideout objected...and was promptly arrested. She and the violin will have their day in court on February 13. Now...don't you feel a lot safer about air travel this Christmas season? *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** Another Victory for Bush's Cowboy Diplomacy Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made it clear that his decision to disarm was prompted by Operation Iraqi Freedom. 'I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid,' Mr. Gadhafi told Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, according to a Berlusconi spokesman who was quoted in yesterday's Telegraph of London. - Washington Times, 12/23/03 *** And Yet Another Victory for Bush's Cowboy Diplomacy Russia has offered to write off more than a half of the $8 billion it is owed by Iraq, but in return it envisages a multi-billion investment in rebuilding the country. . . . Moscow earlier said it had no intention of writing off the debt, after learning that it -- along with other countries that opposed the U.S.-led war -- was unable to participate in the U.S.-funded reconstruction projects. But after a meeting last week with President Bush's special envoy on Iraq, former Secretary of State James Baker, Putin expressed conditional readiness to ease the debt burden. In exchange for the debt reduction offer, Russia expects to benefit from the rebuilding efforts. - CNS News, 12/23/03 *** Boca Cerrada, Muy Bueno Libya's decision to give up its weapons of mass destruction is making it harder for Democrats such as Howard Dean to disparage President Bush's war against Iraq, which prompted Libya's move. Mr. Dean, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been uncharacteristically silent about Mr. Bush's bombshell announcement on Friday that Libya has agreed unconditionally to relinquish its chemical-, biological- and nuclear-weapons programs. - Washington Times, 12/23/03 *** The UN's Spider Hole Many of the Democratic presidential candidates, their fannies smarting from having the rug pulled out from under them, returned to their favorite mantra - the capture of Saddam, said Sen. John Kerry and others - was an 'opportunity' to get the United Nations more involved in postwar Iraq. What is this mythic U.N. they keep invoking? Memo to liberals: The U.N. bugged out of Iraq after the bombing of its headquarters, remember? It's perched at a safe distance in Cyprus. - Columnist Mona Charen *** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge *** Liberty vs. Security If you are sleeping easy at night over the federal government's success at protecting the nation from more mega-terrorist atrocities since the horrors of September 11, read James Bovard's latest broadside and think again. . . . Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil is a timely, troubling book, exhaustively and impeccably researched and documented. One need not agree with all Mr. Bovard's conclusions or arguments to welcome it as an important, indeed essential, guide to the complex issues with which we must now grapple. It is difficult to argue with the author's claim that the more freedoms Americans lose, the
Chuck Muth's News Views - Christmas, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Merry Christmas! I'm sending out this Christmas Day message rather early on Christmas Eve because I'm gonna be a little tied up later tonight and, of course, tomorrow. See, Santa brings and sets up EVERYTHING - the tree, the lights, the stockings, the decorations and the presents - on Christmas Eve AFTER the kiddies are nestled in their beds with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads. When the kids go to sleep after leaving Santa his milk and cookies (chocolate chip, of course), the house pretty much looks like it does the rest of the year. But when they wake up...HOO-HAH!...what a magical surprise. It makes for a rather long night, but it's an old family tradition which many friends think Gia and I are NUTS to continue. But heck, when it comes to family I'm a traditional kind of guy, right? Anyway, I'm gonna take a few days off for Christmas. Will be back on Monday. But before signing off, let me leave you with a little something to reflect upon. Yes, we're all rightly agitated about some of the ridiculous actions by government to deny the true meaning of Christmas. Efforts by government bureaucrats, functionaries and ACLU lawyers to ban Nativity scenes and Christmas trees are well documented and should be opposed with vigor. However. Government and the ACLU are NOT the only problem. As columnist Tom Piatak noted last week in the American Conservative, In one generation - I was born in 1964 - Christmas has gone from being a wide-spread and joyous public celebration to the holiday that dare not speak its name. We now have 'holiday trees,' 'holiday cards,' 'holiday parties,' (and) 'holiday songs.' That's not government, folks; that's you and me. How many of us have unwittingly wished someone a Happy Holiday instead of the traditional Merry Christmas? How many of us have purchased holiday cards which make no mention of Christmas? How many of us sing holiday songs instead of Christmas carols? I know it's something unconscious; I've done it myself in the past. Most of us don't even think twice before whipping out the old holiday word instead of the politically incorrect C-word. So if Christmas is no longer part of our OWN lexicon, we have only ourselves, not government and the ACLU, to blame. This year I've gone out of my way to catch myself and make SURE I didn't inadvertently advance the cause of the dark forces attempting to redefine the holiday. And I encourage all of you, regardless of religion, to do the same. There is simply no harm or insult in calling the holiday what it is. So as a traditional family kinda guy.let me wish you all a Merry Christmas a Happy New Year! Chuck Muth Citizen Outreach
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 30, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** The Junto Is Alive and e-Kicking Longtime subscribers will recall last September in Baltimore that we resurrected an old idea pioneered by Ben Franklin called the Junto. The Junto was a regular meeting of like-minded folks who got together to discuss the issues of the day, break bread and maybe tilt back a tankard or two of ale. It was an idea that many of you outside the Baltimore area expressed an interest in for your own town. Well, here's your chance. Townall.com has taken this ball and run with it on a national basis. Called Meetup Days, Town Hall is using the power of the Internet to facilitate conservative juntos all across America on the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. local time. The next meeting in a city/town near you will be next week, on January 6. And yes, I'm planning to attend the one here in Baltimore...and encourage you to attend the one nearest you (or start one yourself if one doesn't already exist). You can get all the details by visiting: http://townhall.meetup.com/ *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** In Readers' Hearts, Good Guy Comes in First Regular readers will also recall the name of Capt. Chris Carter, a true hero of the Iraq war and a soldier's soldier whose actions have been chronicled here in News Views from time to time. You might also recall that we urged folks to vote for Capt. Carter as the top local newsmaker in the Athens Banner-Herald poll a couple weeks back. Well, good news! Although the paper's editors selected the local college president who's been under fire for some questionable financial shenanigans on top of a sports scandal as their top newsmaker, the paper's readers themselves selected our guy who was under fire...well, literally. You can read all about it by going to: http://onlineathens.com/stories/122803/new_news.shtml Congratulations, Chris! *** Navy to ACLU: Pound Sand! The ACLU is targeting the voluntary lunchtime prayer that has been a tradition at the Naval Academy since its founding. . . . But the Navy did not retreat. In August, it announced it would keep its prayer, and the ACLU went ballistic. 'We tried things the nice way, and they've told us to pound sand,' ACLU lawyer David Rocah told the Baltimore Sun. - Columnist Terence Jeffrey *** Dissing Dixie (Presidential candidate Howard Dean's supporters) don't believe in much, but they are fervent on the subject of their own superiority. To them, America's red states - as identified in TV maps on Election Night 2000 - are populated by ignorant cowboys, unwashed swampies, hellfire preachers, beauty parlor bimbos, redneck sheriffs, Confederate flag wavers and retarded hillbilly kids sitting in trees playing the banjo. This picture of Southern inferiority, like all articles of faith, is immune to both empirical observation and personal experience. To guys like Dean, Dixie is and will forever remain a vast county fair where a slick Yaleman can sell 5-gallon jugs of snake oil in return for votes. - New York Daily News columnist Zev Chafets *** Howie's Energy-Efficient Glass House Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean, who has criticized the Bush administration for refusing to release the deliberations of its energy policy task force, as governor of Vermont convened a similar panel that met in secret and angered state lawmakers. - Associated Press, 12/29/03 *** Goin' Goldbergean Arthur Goldberg was a fine public servant . but a dreadful candidate for governor of New York in 1970, when it was said that if he gave one more speech he would lose Canada, too. Howard Dean is becoming Goldbergean. - Columnist George Will *** Break Out the Kool-Aid Will they really do it? Just 22 days until the Iowa caucuses, and the Democrats show every sign that they are going to plunge into the abyss by nominating Howard Dean for president. At a time of war, one of our major political parties seems on the verge of abandoning any pretense of national unity and choosing a candidate who seemingly hates the president of the United States but is blasé at best about the country's enemies. - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 12/29/03 *** '72 Déjà Vu Even though doubts about Mr. Dean's national security policies run deep, his feisty antiwar attacks on the president remain as popular as ever among liberal Democratic
Chuck Muth's News Views - December 31, 2003
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Goodbye Good Riddance The terrorism alert is at Code Orange, a new infestation of bedbugs has swallowed Manhattan and is believed headed south, Paris Hilton is still employed, and Howard Dean is about to be the Democratic nominee for president. Begone, wicked and malevolent 2003, and good riddance. - Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 12/30/03 *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ . And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** War Powers The key fact is not that Jose Padilla is a U.S. citizen. It is that Mr. Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir, was an al Qaeda agent who worked directly with terrorist mastermind Abu Zubaydah to plan a dirty bomb attack on a major American city. He was captured in Chicago-O'Hare airport on his way back from Pakistan to scout potential targets. He was, in short, an active enemy fighter making war on the U.S. and its citizens, just as the 19 hijackers who attacked New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania were. A person making war on the U.S. who seeks to slaughter thousands of our citizens in the streets of our cities must face our military, not our judges. Such a person, U.S. citizen or not, is not a common criminal. He is an avowed enemy of our system of laws and government and a mortal threat to our way of life. The powers implicated are not the president's law enforcement powers but his war powers. - Rule of Law, Wall Street Journal, 12/29/03 *** Backsliding Dean After building a campaign on the anger of the Democratic electorate, the former Vermont governor can now be called 'Backsliding Dean.' He leaps forward with a bold statement aimed at pleasing his core supporters, but ultimately is forced to slide back because of the ludicrousness of his position. - Wall Street Journal columnist Brendan Miniter *** Wa! They're Being Mean to Me! Howard Dean has enjoyed being his party's front-runner with the national exposure that comes with it, but now he is crying foul after being attacked by his Democrat rivals and wants his party to step in and make the other campaigns stop. While campaigning in Iowa on Sunday, Dean (D-VT) suggested that he has a lock on his party's nomination and that Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe should step in and stop the attacks he is receiving from his rivals before young voters turn away from politics in discouragement. - Talon News, 12/30/03 *** Lost Their Minds Has the left lost its mind to vote for this waffler and crybaby? - Bob Kunst, president of a draft Hillary website, on the prospect of Howard Dean being the Democrat presidential nominee in 2004 *** Can You Smell What the Rove...Is...Cooking? Throughout this year, Howard Dean has repeatedly attacked other Democratic candidates. But when recently challenged on his own policies, misstatements and retractions, Dean responded by complaining to the party chairman that we're being mean to him. I've got news for Howard Dean: the primaries are a warm up compared to what George Bush and Karl Rove have waiting for the Democratic nominee. If Howard Dean can't stand the heat in the Democratic kitchen, he's going to melt in a minute once the Republicans start going after him.' - Democrat presidential candidate Joe Lieberman *** Long Savings on Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. Just go to: http://www.newsandviewslongdistance.com *** TSA Keeping Skies Safe for Terrorists The Homeland Security Department announced yesterday that it will require armed air marshals on selected foreign flights entering U.S. airspace. It's a welcome move. But all the 'chatter' indicating al Qaeda's continued interest in aviation targets suggests the government still hasn't done enough to protect our airspace. Start with the domestic air marshal program, which covers only a tiny fraction of flights. Meanwhile, Homeland Security's misnamed Transportation Security Administration has only grudgingly been executing the obvious alternative of having all willing pilots protect their aircraft with firearms. . . . Unfortunately, Congress left the TSA with way too much discretion in implementing the program, and the
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 2, 2004
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** From the Department of Go Figure The top U.S. commander in Baghdad said yesterday that guerrilla attacks in his sector have dropped sharply since the Dec. 13 capture of Saddam Hussein. - Washington Times, 1/1/2004 *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** Meet and Greet The next Conservative Townhall MeetUp is January 6th at 7pm. To date over 15,000 readers across the country have signed up. During the past two weeks readers have been voting on where to meet. That decision has been made and now it's time to RSVP. The Townhall MeetUp is already the biggest conservative MeetUp and it's quickly climbing the ranks of all the MeetUp topics. Thousands of conservatives will be meeting in over 200 cities. All you have to do is RSVP and show up. To RSVP or sign up quickly go to: http://townhall.meetup.com *** Those Rich SOB's The top 400 American earners in 2000 provided nearly 7 percent of all the charitable gifts reported on income tax returns for that year, well in excess of their roughly 1 percent share of overall income, according to data released yesterday by the NewTithing Group, a charity that tracks giving. - New York Times, 1/1/04 NEW! Survey Says! With the official start of balloting for the Democrat nomination for presidential sacrificial lamb just days away, it seems wholly appropriate to start guessing which of the nine candidates/dwarfs will be...the next one to drop out of the contest. Cast your ballot today by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com. *** Thank God (Howard) Dean is God's reward to Mr. Bush for doing the right thing in the war on terror. - Columnist Dick Morris *** American Nightmare In 24 months the United States defeated two of the most hideous regimes in modern memory. . . . Yet no one would ever gather even the slightest acknowledgment of such success from our Democratic grandees. Al Gore dubbed the Iraqi liberation a quagmire and, absurdly, the worst mistake in the history of American foreign policy. Howard Dean, more absurdly, suggested that the president of the United States might have had foreknowledge of September 11. Most Americans now shudder at the thought that the former might have been president in this time of crisis - and that the latter still could be. - Columnist Victor David Hanson, National Review Online *** Looking Into the Crystal Ball As the current economic and stock market revival continues to work for Mr. Bush, it seems near certain that he will win in a landslide. Huge progress in the war against terrorism will add to his totals, with the GOP picking up three tour seats in the Senate and 10 to 12 in the House. - Columnist Larry Kudlow *** Run Hillary, Run! Conservatives for Clinton? Count me in. Yes, I've officially thrown my support behind the Draft Hillary movement. Think I've lost my marbles? Check out our new website at www.runhillaryrun.com. *** Expensive Prediction While there are too many uncertainties to predict the distant future, it is possible to make reasonably sound judgment calls about near-future events based on analyzing shorter-term trends. . . . Getting a budget passed that will gently apply the brakes on spending would be a big achievement, but don't hold your breath. Congress always spends more in an election year. - Columnist Donald Lambro *** Compassionate Conservatism's High Price Tag (Washington Times reporter) Stephen Dinan wrote an article Tuesday that warned of the defection of 'hard-line' conservatives from President Bush in the upcoming presidential election. This debate has been ongoing for months, and it will be much more of a factor in the coming election than the president and top adviser Karl Rove are willing to admit. Many conservatives feel abandoned by this administration and the Republican Party as a whole. While many conservatives want to lay substantial blame at the president's feet, and deservedly so, the current Congress has proved itself very liberal in its spending habits as well. - Letter writer Scott Boles, Washington Times, 1/1/04 *** Beer Busters A well-funded, well-organized campaign is afoot to make it as difficult to drink a beer as it is becoming to smoke a cigarette. This
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 5, 2004
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Another Prosperous New Year for Congress A happy new year? For US senators and representatives, it certainly is: As of Jan. 1, their salary is $158,100 -- the highest ever and an increase of $3,400 over the amount they collected last year. Congress is notorious for procrastination, and the tally of unfinished business on Capitol Hill is a long one. But no one can accuse the legislative branch of dragging its heels when it comes to congressional pay. Appropriations bills may gather dust, judicial nominations may languish, but members of Congress are johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to their own salaries. The most recent raise is only the latest in an ongoing series: On Jan. 1, 2003, they took a raise of $4,700. On Jan. 1, 2002, they took a raise of $4,900. On Jan. 1, 2001, they took a raise of $3,800. On Jan. 1, 2000, they took a raise of $4,600. On Jan. 1, 1998, they took a raise of $3,100. That comes to six raises totaling $24,500 since January 1998. . . . Under the system now in place, House and Senate members automatically get a pay raise every year. The only way *not* to get the raise is to pass an amendment blocking it, and parliamentary hurdles make that difficult to accomplish. Upshot: a congressional paycheck that grows by thousands of dollars a year -- with no hearings, no debate, no media coverage, no public explanations. Above all, no embarrassing votes. - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby ( What do you think about the congressional pay raise? Weigh in on our Discussion Board at http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ ) *** Subscribe FREE to News Views If you or someone you know would like to receive our FREE daily News Views e-briefing, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ And if you want to read past issues of News Views, you can do so by going to: http://www.mail-archive.com/newsandviews%40chuckmuth.com/ *** What Are the Odds? On Friday, a liberal activist Clinton-appointed judge, Gladys Kessler, blocked implementation of a new requirement that unions fully disclose their finances the same way corporations do. Go figure. Mad Cow Stampeded The chances of anyone in this country eating beef product contaminated by mad-cow disease is something like 1 in 10 billion, a federal agency has estimated, but that doesn't mean you're safe. Hysteria about the disease could kill you. The risk exists because new job-diminishing, economy-shrinking regulations are already in the works, and excessive, irrational regulations take lives. - Columnist Jay Ambrose *** Donkeys' Doomsday Scenarios Howard Dean says the Democrats' 2004 presidential aspirations are doomed if he doesn't get the nomination. Mr. Dean's Democratic opponents say the Democrats are doomed if Mr. Dean does get the nomination. I think they're both right. - Columnist David Limbaugh Middle East 101 If you want to understand the Middle East conflict, Iran has just provided all you need to know. A massive earthquake kills between 20,000 and 40,000 Iranians, and the government of Iran announces that help is welcome from every country in the world . . . except Israel. ...That is how deep the hatred of Israel and Jews is in much of the Muslim world. Hundreds of millions of Muslims -- Arab and non-Arab, Sunni and Shi'a -- hate Israel more than they love life. Leaders of the Palestinian terror organization Hamas repeatedly state, 'We love death more than the Jews love life.' And now, Iran announces that it is better for a Muslim to asphyxiate under the earth than be rescued by a Jew from Israel. . . . Not since the Nazi hatred of Jews has humanity witnessed such hate. - Columnist Dennis Prager *** Long Savings on Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. Just go to: http://www.newsandviewslongdistance.com *** Simple Way to Prevent Terror in the Skies The September 11 attacks were preventable: It doesn't require a blue-ribbon commission to figure this one out. . . . And here's the simplest way that the attacks of September 11 could have been foiled: Had...trained and armed pilots been on the planes, they would have been able to stop terrorists whose only weapons were box cutters. Yet in 2003 the Transportation Security Administration continued to do everything it could to prevent pilots from protecting their planes and passengers. - Cliff May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 6, 2004
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Tuesday Night on Always Right Tune in Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. EST (or catch the re-run at 11:00 p.m. EST) for Always Right with Chuck Muth. Our special guests this week will be Steve Moore, president of the Club for Growth, an organization dedicated to thinning the GOP elephant herd of RINOs, and Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation to discuss the pork-barrel spending orgy going on right now under Republican control of Congress and the White House For the full re-broadcast schedule, click on the Always Right link at www.citizenoutreach.com. The link to listen in is... http://www.theotherradionetwork.com/srv1.asx Help Wanted I'm looking for someone with experience/knowledge regarding copyright law, particularly in the area of re-printing public domain/non-copyrighted material. We just have a few questions regarding a couple of projects in the works. If you might be able to help me out, send your contact info and best time/means of reaching you to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Long Tradition of Pre-Emption The Bible is full of examples of sanctioned 'pre-emptive wars.' (Did the Canaanites attack the Israelites?) The Talmud admonishes: 'If one comes to kill you, kill him first.' Saddam and his terrorist allies were coming to kill us (The Ba'athist regime had well-documented ties to al-Qaeda). From a Talmudic perspective - Praise the Lord and drop the bunker-busters. - Columnist Don Feder Papers, Please Many Americans are encountering the Patriot Act when opening bank accounts. The law requires financial institutions to run the names of customers through the Office of Foreign Asset Control database, which lists people who are known terrorists or who associate with known terrorists. New bank customers are asked how many wire transactions they expect to make each month. If the reply is five or more, the customer would be reported to the federal government. - Washington Times, 1/5/04 Look! Isn't That a Camel's Nose? Federal agencies are demanding that Las Vegas hotels turn over guest lists. They want the names and addresses (and who knows what else) of everyone who stayed in these hotels over the holidays. . . . How many of you think that the government is going to absolutely, for-sure, positively limit the use of that information to merely matching those names against a database of terror suspects? - Talk-show host Neal Boortz, 1/5/04 The Unfriendly Skies According to a report by CNS News on Monday, a suspicious Air France flight bound for Los Angeles on December 30 was tailed by two F-16 fighters until it finally landed. More than two years after September 11th we're still in the position we're in, where, as a final line of defense, we're relying on F-16s to shoot down the airliner and kill all of those on board in order to prevent the airplane from being used as a weapon of mass destruction, (Capt. Tracy Price, a commercial passenger airline pilot and chairman of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance) said. We think that's unacceptable. Price said the solution is to speed up implementation of the armed pilots program. Will That Be Armed or Unarmed? The next time you call an airline or your travel agent to book a flight, tell them you want a flight with an armed pilot. When customers start demanding armed pilots in the cockpit the airline industry will pressure the Transportation Security Administration to make it happen. - News Views reader Dave Undis *** Long Savings on Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. Just go to: http://www.newsandviewslongdistance.com Oh, Here's a Real Surprise Howard Dean is earning higher marks - and twice as much money - from college professors than the other Democratic presidential candidates. - Associated Press, 1/5/04 Another Loser to Back Dean Former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, who lost the Democratic nomination for president to Al Gore in 2000, is expected to endorse front-runner Howard Dean, party officials said Monday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Dean and Bradley planned to announce the endorsement this week. - Associated Press, 1/5/04 Joey vs. Howie (In the Iowa Democrat presidential debate on Sunday), Mr. Dean reiterated his position that Saddam Hussein was 'not a
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 7, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 7, 2004 Subscribe to News Views FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Your HQ for Limited-Government Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! Tuesday Night on "Always Right" The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Long Savings on Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Affordable Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Citizen Outreach is entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge for anyone with an email address who wishes to sign up. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 "Which message would you MOST like to hear in the President's State of the Union Address this year?" * He's sending troops to Pakistan to hunt down Osama * He's going to veto the omnibus spending bill * He's supporting the federal marriage amendment * He's proposing a major new tax cut * He's introducing major Social Security reform * He's recess-appointing judges being filibustered Cast your ballot on the "Survey Says!" page HERE! ___ THIRD TIME THE CHARM? After nine years of publishing News Views as a simple text-only e-newsletter, were launching a whole new, modern, fancy-schmancylook...while retaining the same ol cynical, sarcastic, smart-aleck attitude youve come to know and love (and sometimes hate). We still have some "tweaking" to do, but I thought wed give the new format a little test drive today and see if everything is working OK. Well, actually we gave it a test drive on New Years Eve...and it didnt work. And last Friday...and it didn't work.So thisis actually our THIRDtest drive. I hope this one makes it to you! Anyway, were expecting 2004 to be a BIG year with the White House, Congress AND control of the Supreme Court up for grabs. So buckle up, Buckaroos...its going to be a bumpy ride. THE GREAT WHITE HYPE John Kerry is the Ed Muskie and the John Glenn of 2004 - so much promised, so little delivered. - Columnist Barry Casselman HOOF-IN-MOUTH DISEASE Why did God give Howard
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 8, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 8, 2004 Subscribe to News Views FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Your HQ for Limited-Government Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! Tuesday Night on "Always Right" The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Long Savings on Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Affordable Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Citizen Outreach is entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge for anyone with an email address who wishes to sign up. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Put Your Two Cents In On the Discussion Board... *Congressional Pay Raise *Compassionate Conservatism *Gay Marriage * Illegal Immigration * The Patriot Act Click HERE to join in the online debate_ Testing, Testing For the most part, our launch of the new-and-improved lemon-freshened News Views went out OK last night. Now, some readers had some problems with HTML gobble-di-gook code ending up in the text making it all but unreadable. Our tech guys tweaked something or other this morning and (hopefully) that problem will be resolved for most of you (he says with fingers tightly crossed). For those who are ABLE to read the new News Views HTML format but PREFER the old plain-text version, sit tight. Im working on an alternative for you and hope to have it in a couple of days. _ SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CAL CAMPBELL: Cal, baby. Consider this a courtesy shot across the bow. You might do well to consider this wisdom from Sun Tzu: He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. Is this really a fight you want to take public? You might want to reconsider. __ Uncool Republicans may control the White House and Congress. They may be right or wrong about tax cuts and preemptive military strikes. They may be moral or self-righteous or bumptious or bold. One thing Republicans are not: cool. . . . Going to Republican events is
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 9, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, December 9, 2004"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." Subscribe to News Views FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Your HQ for Limited-Government Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! Tuesday Night on "Always Right" The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Long Savings on Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Affordable Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Citizen Outreach is entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge for anyone with an email address who wishes to sign up. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 PUT YOUR TWO CENTS IN... * Congressional Pay Raise* Compassionate Conservatism* Gay Marriage* Illegal Immigration* The Patriot Act ClickHERE to join our online
Chuck Muth's News Views - FORMAT OPTIONS
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Out With the Old; In With the New As most of you know, starting on Tuesday night we began publishing a new, upgraded HTML-version of News Views. There are still a few more tweaks to work out for some of you, but all in all, most everyone is now receiving the new version with no problem. But like all major changes...some people love it, others hate it. But look at it this way: At least it's still FREE! :) OK. For those folks who are receiving the new newsletter but are having trouble with the HTML code showing up in the text making it next-to-impossible to read, I've set up a new, separate subscriber list which will allow you to continue receiving a plain, text-only version of News Views. Here's what you need to do: 1.) Go to http://www.citizenoutreach.com and type in your email address in the Subscribe to Our Newsletter box at the end of the left-hand corner. Then click on the Go button. That'll get you on the new, text-only list. 2.) To remove yourself from the HTML-version list, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove/ . Type in your email address in the box and click on the Remove button. That's it. If you have any problem with either, just shoot me a note and I'll take care of it for you. Now, if you are receiving the new HTML version of News Views and would just like to continue getting a plain-text version, just follow the same two steps as outlined above. Or you can remove yourself from both email lists and just read News Views every day on Citizen Outreach's website. Now, if you haven't received News Views at all over the last three days...but are receiving this note...then you obviously have a problem receiving HTML emails and need to sign up for the new text-only version (#1 above). I suspect we may be having such problems with some hotmail accounts...and we continue to have sporadic problems with juno, even before we upgraded the newsletter format. Change is never easy. Just ask all the blacksmiths who lost their jobs when the automobile was invented. But we needed to get with the times and make this upgrade. However, by setting up the second list for folks who prefer to get the plain-text version, I hope we can make everybody happy...except, of course, the liberals and the RINOs! Yours in HTML-Liberty, Chuck Muth Doctor of Psephology January 9, 2004
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 10, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday,January 10, 2004"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." Subscribe to News Views FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Your HQ for Limited-Government Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! Tuesday Night on "Always Right" The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Long Savings on Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Affordable Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Citizen Outreach is entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge for anyone with an email address who wishes to sign up. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 - THE (CAMPAIGN) DOCTOR IS IN! NEW! You cant change public policy if you dont change public officials. So Citizen Outreach has established a separate website project dedicated to helping under-funded, underdog campaigns...especially at the state and local levels. Visit today...and make sure
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 14, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 14, 2004 "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." Subscribe to News Views FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Your HQ for Limited-Government Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! Tuesday Night on "Always Right" The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Long Savings on Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Affordable Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Citizen Outreach is entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge for anyone with an email address who wishes to sign up. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 - TONIGHT ON "ALWAYS RIGHT"! Tune in Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. EST (or catch the re-run at 11:00 p.m. EST) for Always Right with Chuck Muth. Our special guest this week will be T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Control Council
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 15, 2004
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GETTING THE LAST BUGS OUT Most of you are receiving the new HTML-version of News Views with no problems. A few bugs still exist for others, and we're working on getting them fixed. So I'm sending this particular issue out the old-fashioned way today. A new simplified HTML design will be tested with tomorrow's edition which should take care of most of the remaining problems, including the removal of the blue background which makes it so difficult to read messages when you reply - and the broken display problems some AOL subscribers have been experiencing. And again, for those of you who would prefer to receive a text-only version of News Views, just go to www.citizenoutreach.com and sign up for it by simply entering your email address in the box at the end of the left-hand column and clicking on Go. Ditto if you haven't been receiving you regular News Views for the past week...BUT are getting this one. If so, for some reason the HTML version isn't getting to you or is being blocked. If that's the case, please see above and go sign up for the new text-only option. Or here's another new option our designers came up for us. Just click on the following link to go online to read each day's automatically updated issue of News Views: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm One final note on printing out News Views. We're not able to produce a Printable Page option just yet, but in the meantime, if you're having difficulty printing the new HTML version without having part of the right-hand column cut off, here are two options. 1.) Highlight all of the text from the daily content portion of the newsletter, copy it, and then paste it into a separate word-processing program on your computer, such as Notepad or Word or Wordpad. Then go ahead and print. 2.) Set your print option from Portrait to Landscape. If you continue to have any difficulties, let me know. I have no idea how any of this stuff works, but will forward your problems to our tech guys at World Profit and have them try to fix 'em for you. LIBERTY CALENDAR If you haven't chipped in yet for our Winter Fundraising Drive...or taken a look at our new LIBERTY CALENDAR...please go to www.citizenoutreach.com Unlike activist groups on the left, we get no taxpayer money to fund our operations and the have no sugar daddies such as George Soros pouring millions into our operation. We rely on voluntary contributions from readers such as yourself to continue publishing News Views every day...along with all the other programs and projects of Citizen Outreach. Without your continued support, I just might have to scale back our publishing schedule to just a couple days a week. You know the old saying: You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent. So please take a moment to check out our new Liberty Calendar, while at the same time helping us continue bringing you News Views every day. All the details on how kick in a few bucks - either by making a secure online contribution using your credit card or by sending a check or money - can be found at www.citizenoutreach.com. Oh, and by the way, your contribution IS tax-deductible. Thanks for your continued support. * AND THE LOSER IS. A couple weeks ago we posted a Survey Says! question asking who you thought would be the first donkey-dwarf to drop out of the Democrat presidential race. Carol Mosely Braun was your #1 choice with 37 percent of the vote. And it looks like y'all were dead-on balls accurate, as Braun prepares to throw her support (what little of it there is) to Howard Dean. Gov. Whitebread must be thrilled. * AMERICA'S FOUNDING LIBERAL (Thomas) Paine was not content with advocating reform of government. He went much further. Once a truly democratic government is established by the people what should its goal be? . . . Paine's plan called for free public education, for the relief of the poor, for old-age pensions, for cash benefits to be given at birth and at marriage, and for government-provided jobs and housing to assist the unemployed and immigrants. He urged increases in salaries for excise officers (tax collectors), the lower clergy, and soldiers and sailors. To pay for the operation of his social welfare plan, Paine proposed a graduated income tax. - Tom Paine: Voice of Revolution by Milton Meltzer __ Chuck Muth's News Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. Published by: Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 16, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 16, 2004 Subscribe to News Views FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Your HQ for Limited-Government Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! Tuesday Night on "Always Right" The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Long Savings on Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Affordable Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Citizen Outreach is entirely funded by voluntary contributions. Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge for anyone with an email address who wishes to sign up. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121 GET YOUR LIBERTY CALENDAR TODAY! Unlike activist groups on the left, we get no taxpayer money to fund our operations and the have no sugar daddies such as George Soros pouring millions into our
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 19, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 19, 2004 How to Subscribe FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Citizen Outreach Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! "Always Right" Interviews The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Saveon Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government *
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 20, 2004
Title: ChuckMuth.com - Political Action with an Attitude! January 20, 2004 How to Subscribe FREE! Get your daily dose of uncommon common-sense from the right mixed with the latest outrages from the loony left. FREE short digest of current events written in a truly original and irreverent style delivered straight to your email inbox. Click here to sign up! Visit the Discussion Board Put your two cents in on the hottest political issues of the day. Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Find out what everyone else is talking about! Citizen Outreach Citizen Outreach is the leading conservative/ libertarian online organization educating and advocating for limited-government public policies. From unique opinion columns to activist Brushfire Alerts; from special projects to online petitions and surveys, you'll find everything you need to fight Big Brother here! "Always Right" Interviews The hottest public policy issues are discussed with top public policy experts and elected leaders every week via webcast courtesy of our friends at Radio Free Republic. Tune in Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. EST for "Always Right with Chuck Muth." Saveon Long Distance * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day, 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Easy sign-up. * Click here to get started! Campaign Websites Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing? * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer * For more information, click here. How to Contribute Chuck Muth' s News Views and other general distribution publications are provided free of charge. You can help us continue this important educational work by making a secure, tax-deductible contribution using your credit card by clicking here or mailing a check or money order to: Citizen Outreach, 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, #439, Washington, DC, 20003 How to Petition Your Government * E-mail President Bush * Contact your Senator * Contact your Representative * White House switchboard: (202) 456-1414 * House and Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Chuck Muth's News Views - Special Post-SOTU Issue
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** SOTU WRAP-UP Some observations and reflections on last night's State of the Union address: * It was worth the price of admission just to see ol' Ted Kennedy shaking his head no, rubbing his jowl and smirking when the President spoke about prescription drugs and weapons of mass destruction. What a dinosaur. * Despite other serious differences conservative may be having with this president on other issues these days, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we are a safer and stronger nation with him and Dick Cheney in the White House than we were when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were there...or would be with Howard Dean or John Kerry or Hillary Clinton or any of the other donkey-dwarfs seeking the Oval Office. Except maybe Joe Lieberman. * Best line of the evening: America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Take THAT Howard Dean and Wesley Clark! * Judging from the reception it received during SOTU, the President is going to have a VERY tough time getting the Patriot Act renewed. * Make tax cuts permanent. Make tax cuts permanent. Make tax cuts permanent... * The President mentioned, not once, but twice, the terrible toll junk and frivolous lawsuits are having on our economy and on health care, calling for reform legislation. * On the other hand, he didn't mention the filibusters a half-dozen of his judicial nominees still face in the Senate. Recess appointing Pickering last week was good, but it would have been nice to see the President put this critical issue on his list of priorities for the coming year by discussing it with the American people in the SOTU. I mean, for crying out loud, if steroid use made the list, you'd think something as important as judicial nominations would. * You just had to love the dagger aimed directly at Hillary's cold heart when the president said, in no uncertain terms, that a government-run health care system was the wrong prescription. * As expected, the biggest disappointment of the speech was in the area of restraining government. There will be no veto of the pork-laden omnibus spending bill. And again, the President called on Congress to only limit the growth of discretionary spending to under 4 percent and cutting the deficit in half over five years. * No mention of freezing spending, rolling back spending or even cutting older or non-essential programs in order to fund new or more important ones. For example, the President called for doubling the budget for the National Endowment of Democracy to help in the war on terror, but didn't suggest that maybe, in order to fund some of it, we eliminate, say, the National Endowment for the Arts. * The President finally and forcefully threatened, in no uncertain terms, to use his veto pen. Unfortunately, it was to threaten Congress to veto any attempt to roll-back or repeal the largest expansion of government since LBJ 's Great Society days, the prescription drug bill. * It's a shame that, considering how the president failed to scold the Senate for holding up his judicial appointments, he devoted so much time talking about judges and gay marriage. He warned activist judges to cool their heels on this issue or he would favor some kind of constitutional marriage amendment (though not necessarily the one presently being considered). This statement, designed to further clarify and solidify the President's position on this issue, only raised yet another question: What if a state legislature or ballot initiative approves gay marriage in a particular state rather than a court? Would the President be OK with gay marriages under those circumstance and oppose a federal constitutional marriage amendment banning them? * As for the Democrat response: Good grief. Nancy Pelosi came off looking like a complete boob. Despite what appears to have been an extreme physical make-over - maybe even by those queer-eyes-for-straight-guys guys - Pelosi is a walking liberal cliché in drag. And what was up with those deer-in-the-headlights eyes? It looked like they were propped open with invisible toothpicks. * As for Tommy Daschle, well...he still seems saddened, saddened. What a lame-o. If this is the best the Democrats can come up for leaders in the Congress, no wonder the best they can come up with for presidential candidates is an off-his-rocker doctor, a French-looking dude (who, by the way, served in Vietnam), a fired general, a trial lawyer, a peacenik, a race-baiter and she-who-shall-not-be-named (yet). Oh, and Joe Lieberman. * Finally, my favorite line of the entire evening. In giving that 10-year-old girl her good-citizen marching orders, the
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 22, 2004
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * NOTHING VENTURED... Now I know how the folks who brought us New Coke felt. For the great majority of you who have had no problem receiving and reading the new HTML version of News Views, the new look, feel and hotlinks have been an improvement on the old text-only version. But for those whose email programs and computers couldn't read the HTML code properly or print out the newsletter without cutting off the right-hand edge, it's been a nightmare. But the straw that broke the camel's back for me was discovering that I couldn't get my OWN newsletter. Thanks all the Viagra and sex spam out there, I discovered that, while the old text-only emails were being delivered to my back-up AOL address, the new HTML version was being blocked by spam filters or something. And I had no idea. No notice. Nothing. So it appears a bunch of subscribers were suddenly NOT getting the newsletter and had no idea why. Now...maybe there's a way to fix it with AOL and other ISP's. I don't know. But I also don't have the time nor inclination to try to figure it out. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to go back to the old way of publishing News Views. Until the industry gets its act together and figures out a way to block spam without also blocking legitimate publications such as ours, we'll just have to stick with what we know works. Down the road, when we have enough money, maybe we'll set up two separate lists and give folks an option to again begin receiving the HTML version...but for now, back to the future. However, you can catch a running blog on CPAC over the next few days on the old/new HTML newsletter format by going to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm SUCKING DOWN A COLD ONE DOWN UNDER If there's one restaurant in Australia where you won't find Bill Clinton on his next visit, it's Lewinsky's in Darwin. Four entrepreneurs are planning to open a theme restaurant inspired by Monica Lewinsky next month, the Sydney Telegraph reports. 'We're going to go very funky,' explained one partner who plans to expand the concept into a chain. 'There are no other bars registered in her name and we think she'll be quite flattered.' The eatery will feature handbags designed by the former White House intern, and, of course, Lewinsky's will sell cigars. - Page Six, New York Post, 1/21/04 DISSING DR. KING'S DREAM Four students at Omaha, Neb.'s Westside High School are in trouble for distributing a poster urging the school to give Trevor Richards its 'Distinguished African American Student Award,' the Omaha World Herald reports. Although the school refuses to say what punishments it meted out, Trevor's mother says he was suspended for two days for hanging the poster. Trevor is in fact African-American; indeed, he's an immigrant from South Africa. But school officials say he's ineligible for the award--which is given out every Martin Luther King Day--because he's a person of pallor. One of the four students 'was punished for circulating a petition Tuesday morning in support of the boys.' So not only is the school 'honoring' Dr. King by judging students on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character; they're punishing anyone who dares question their policies. - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 1/21/04 OF CHAMPS AND CHUMPS When (John F'ing Kerry) declared for the presidency amongst a field of midgets, his already tall physical stature projected his image as the colossus of the field - after which he proceeded to stumble around the stage, bump into furniture and stutter in the senatorial style. From champ to chump, and now back to champ again. But the giddy current hopes of the Kerry fans should be tempered by the likelihood that the Massachusetts liberal probably can't carry a state south of the Mason-Dixon line. - Columnist Tony Blankley LIEBERMAN'S LAST HOPE (Joe) Lieberman's camp, meanwhile, is looking to (John) Edwards' performance in Iowa for inspiration. Like Mr. Lieberman now, Mr. Edwards was languishing in single digits in some Iowa polls about a week before the caucuses. But Craig Smith, Mr. Lieberman's campaign director, yesterday said the endorsement by the Des Moines Register began a good week for Mr. Edwards that propelled him into second place. For his part, Mr. Lieberman yesterday picked up the endorsement of the Manchester Union Leader, the largest paper in New Hampshire. - Washington Times, 1/21/04 LENO ON THE IOWA CAUCUS * Did you see that speech Howard Dean gave last night? I heard that the cows in Iowa are now afraid of getting Mad Dean disease. I'm not an expert in politics, but I think it's a bad sign when your speech ends with your aides
Gun Owner Fires Back
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gun Owner Fires Back Do you remember that recent story about the Wilmette (IL) home owner and father, Hale DeMar, who shot a burglar who had broken into his house TWICE in two nights...only to be charged with violating some mamby-pamby gun control law about updating his ID card? And do you remember how the police chief there suggested the proper response would have been to lock himself in a room and call 911...and that residents would be safer if they didn't have guns for self-protection? Many of you wrote to the chief and town leaders in response to our Brushfire Alert on this. Well, in an extraordinary letter-to-the-editor published this morning in the Chicago Sun-Times, Mr. DeMar justifies his actions and tells the town's political leaders to Stick to Parade Schedules Planting Our Parks. If you cherish the Second Amendment, you have GOT to read this letter. And I hope you will distribute it FAR and WIDE. I'm on my way down to CPAC this morning. In the meantime, Mr. DeMar's letter is posted on the new News Views website. Just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm Chuck Muth Citizen Outreach
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 23, 2004
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ LAST CHANCE Only another day or so left to get your copy of the new Liberty Calendar during our Winter Fundraising Drive. Check it out at www.citizenoutreach.com _ CPAC UPDATE Cheney, First Lady appeal to GOP: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040122-104707-6441r.htm Conservatives grumble over Bush's policies: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040122-104721-3989r.htm Listen to CPAC coverage live on the web! For a look at the schedule of speakers and panels, go to: www.cpac.org To listen in live via the web, go to www.rightalk.com ANOTHER GREAT LETTER While we thoroughly enjoyed Hale DeMar's letter to the Wilmette town leaders telling 'em to stick to planting trees and leave defending his home and family to him and Smith Wesson, another must-read letter emerged this morning which blames President Bush for costing him his job and killing two of his sons in Iraq...with a rather surprising twist at the end. You gotta read this one, too. I've it posted on the News Views website at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm IT'S SPELLED: I-L-L-E-G-A-L The most compelling reason to oppose this latest amnesty effort, of course, has to do with the rule of law. Amnesty for illegal aliens is simply a reward for law-breaking. No system depending on a strict regard for the rule of law can treat law-breaking so casually. Amnesty will be a magnet for further illegal immigrants, who hope to be the future recipients of the nation's 'compassion.' . . . Public opinion is firmly opposed to increased immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. . . . Amnesty not only encourages illegal immigration, but contempt for the law as well. - Edward J. Erler of the Claremont Institute __ MUTH'S TRUTHS Why are conservatives so ticked off at the President's amnesty...er, temporary worker program? Find out in this week's Muth's Truths at www.citizenoutreach.com __ LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL...IF YOU CAN FIND IT The other big development (in the Iowa caucus) that sent disturbing signals to the (Democrat) party was organized labor's failure to turn out the union vote for Mr. Gephardt or Mr. Dean. Mr. Gephardt had more labor endorsements than anyone, but Mr. Dean had won support from several of the biggest unions in the country. Neither were helped by them, despite thousands of union volunteers working in their behalf in a big labor state. Mr. Gephardt drew more than 15 percent of the vote in only 23 of Iowa's 99 counties. Labor's failure to turnout the vote for the candidates it has endorsed suggests two things: Labor unions are no longer the political powers they once were in election contests, union households no longer follow the dictates of their union bosses in how they vote. - Columnist Donald Lambro MY BIG, FAT UNION GOOSE-EGG Richard Gephardt's devastating fourth-place finish trumpeted the limits of organized labor support. Everyone knows union-backing is not enough anymore. But even in a caucus state, the strong endorsement of 21 labor unions was not enough to turn out more than 11 percent of the 122,000 caucus voters for Mr. Gephardt, resulting in zero national delegates. - Columnist Maggie Gallagher MIGHTY, MIGHTY INVISIBLE GROUND GAME Iowa Democrats also throttled the political engines of organized labor - the bulk of which supported Mr. Dean or Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri. That loud sound you hear is the collective head scratching of most political pros around the country wondering what happened to the vaunted union 'ground game.' 'Our (labor) guys were nowhere to be seen,' said a Democrat who supported Mr. Gephardt. For all the talk about this being a big fight between the new services oriented unions such as (Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) and 'old' labor (Teamsters and the United Auto Workers), neither team apparently showed up in full force. 'This was a double loss for labor leaders,' a former Democrat hill staffer told me. 'Not only did the two candidates they backed lose, but the majority of rank-in-file labor union members supported (Senators) Kerry and Edwards.' Some may ask who the labor bosses support if both Mr. Gephardt and Mr. Dean implode; others may ask, 'Who cares?' - Columnist Gary J. Andres THE (CAMPAIGN) DOCTOR IS IN! NEW! You can't change public policy if you don't change public officials. So Citizen Outreach has established a separate website project dedicated to helping under-funded, underdog
Chuck Muth's News Views - January 24, 2004
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Chuck Muth' s News Views - February 4, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - February 5, 2004
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SPECIAL EDITION: DC Confidential - February 12, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - Friday the 13th, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - February 14, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - February 16-18, 2004
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES... ..compouned by the fact that they occurred over a holiday weekend when all the tech gurus were off, Monday's Tuesday's News Views didn't make it out over the 'net. So here are all three days combined in a special Triple-Issue. Sorry for the inconvenience. CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS VIEWS February 16, 2004 To view the HTML version of today's News Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ _ WE'RE ALL AT RISK Hi, Chuck: You concluded (in Mutiny On Bush's Bounty?), President Bush pooh-poohs conservative unrest at his own peril.' If GWB is, indeed, pooh-poohing conservative unrest, I'd say it's at the Nation's peril. - Former NM GOP chief John Dendahl THE OL' DOUBLE STANDARD John Kerry was asked on Friday about that photograph of him and Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally in 1970. Kerry responded, We're 30 years beyond that. And I think people are interested in the future. Interesting, huh? Kerry wants us to be beyond discussion of his relationship with Fonda from 30 years ago, but are supposed to support him because of his military service of...30 years ago. And, of course, we're NOT supposed to be beyond discussing President Bush's military service from 30 years ago. How do Democrats get away with this stuff? TRUE AMERICANS I guess most of 'em just have a lot of common sense. I like to say we're true Americans. We don't fall for as much as those guys on the other side of the aisle. - NASCAR driver Terry Labonte on why he and his fellow drivers are Republican supporters FISH OUT OF WATER Having Democrats trolling for votes among NASCAR dads is like Republicans trolling for votes at a NOW convention. - GOP pollster Whit Ayers SURVEY SAYS! Who would be your leading candidate for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination? Florida Gov. Jeb Bush Colorado Gov. Bill Owens Former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour NY Gov. George Pataki Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Somebody else Cast your ballot today by clicking on the Survey Says! button at www.citizenoutreach.com __ THE TIMES, THEY ARE A'CHANGIN' What do you call a born-again, pro-life, pro-gun Southern candidate who disparages lawyers and big government? Republican you say? What about Jimmy Carter? That's exactly how Carter campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. It gives you a sense of how far both major parties have moved since then. - Columnist Ron Faucheux, Campaigns Elections, February 2004 BAD IMAGE So, how does the NAACP choose to celebrate Black History Month? Among other things, they've nominated accused rapist, child pornographer and drug addict R. Kelly for their annual image award. . . . There is absolutely no valid reason R. Kelly deserves an Image Award. Not unless you want to try to argue that criminal charges and investigations into drug use present a model worthy of emulation and praise. . . . How disgusting. Who are they going to nominate next year, O.J. Simpson? - Columnist Armstrong Williams __ NEW! HOW TO REPORT FOR ACTIVISTS PARTY LEADERS! Hot off the press! Laying the Groundwork: 15 Things to Do Right NOW to Prepare for the Upcoming Election was written more for independent grassroots activists, precinct captains and local party leaders than candidates. In it, you'll find 15 things YOU can do right now to prepare your cause, organization or even neighborhood for victory in November. Just $4.95. Order online with your major credit card. Just go to: http://chuckmuth.com/specialreports.htm __ BAD DRUGS A bipartisan coalition of senators is again trying to make it legal to reimport price-controlled drugs from Canada. To these legislators, providing seniors with a prescription-drug entitlement for the first time ever - which President Bush accomplished last year with the help of Republican congressional leaders - isn't enough. The costly new entitlement supposedly is inadequate because it leaves some medicine costs to the consumer. While cheap Canadian drugs might lower costs initially, the policy is dangerous to the consumer and unfair to pharmaceutical companies. It also takes a big step toward nationalized health care. Reimportation would be bad for America. ...The debate on this issue has been anything but
Chuck Muth's News Views - February 19-20, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - March 2, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - SPECIAL EDITION
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOW YOU CAN HELP ME TRAIN THOUSANDS OF CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES THIS YEAR. As y'all aren't garden variety political activists who just fell off a turnip truck last night, I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on WHY candidate training is so important to our cause. I'll just make a few quick observations...and then ask for your help, OK? 1.) You can't change public policy without changing public officials. 2.) You can't beat somebody with nobody. 3.) You can't govern if you can't win. 4.) More races are lost because of lousy campaigns, not lousy candidates. Campaigns are increasingly complicated and technical. You wouldn't try building a house without some training, but all too many rookie candidates - with nothing but the best of intentions - try to get themselves elected without knowing spit from spam when it comes to running a campaign. I have NO training for being a lawyer or a surgeon and I can GUARANTEE you don't want me defending you in court or cracking open your skull for brain surgery. Candidates need to think about running a political campaign the same way. They NEED training. They WANT training. And with just a little bit of help, a large number of almost winners can become ACTUAL winners. Now here's the problem. Or I should say...problems. Thanks to the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform law, the Republican National Committee can no longer take soft money contributions. Those were the large corporate donations which the RNC used to fund its extensive candidate training programs...which, at one time, were GREAT. No mas. ...And ever since Newt left Congress, GOPAC - which also once did GREAT candidate training seminars - has been but a shell of itself and no longer produces the workshops, tapes and books it once did. ...And the Leadership Institute, which used to conduct the best darn Grassroots Activist training program in this hemisphere, has dramatically scaled back its efforts for some reason. As of today, they have ONLY TWO training schools scheduled between now and the November elections: One in Wilmington, DE, in March...and one in Arlington, VA, in June. Not much help to folks west of the Mississippi. ...And frankly, at the state and local level you often have people putting on training seminars who are either (a) political hacks whose expertise stops at which side of a stamp to lick, or (b) political consultants who are only looking for new clients and really have no ability (or desire) to teach under-funded candidates how to run a winning campaign without the candidate paying them major fungolas. Now, as you know I've been conducting training seminars around the country for the last eight years or so. And in all modesty, I'm pretty darn good at it. In fact, if I ever give up this political gig I'd probably want to become a teacher (much to the consternation of that terrorist organization, the NEA!). But it is VERY expensive to put on a live seminar to train just a couple dozen candidates in person. Between the travel expenses and the cost to rent a hotel meeting room - not to mention some compensation for the trainer 's time - a good, quality training workshop can easily run a couple thousand dollars. And without some serious underwriting by some major donors, the only way to offset those costs is to charge an arm-and-a-leg for registration fees. But, heck, if the candidates had THAT kind of money they wouldn't NEED the seminars. They'd just go out and hire a professional campaign manager to run their race. Now add in the fact that, since most candidates still have jobs, you have to conduct these seminars on weekends. That means time factors alone limit the number of seminars you can do in the few months' time leading up to an election to a couple dozen. With those cost and time limitations in mind, that means seminars generally must be held ONLY in major cities. So what about those candidates who can't get away to attend the seminar for job, money or other reasons...not to mention those who live in small towns and cities such as Minot, North Dakota or Elko, Nevada? THEY have to travel themselves, stay overnight in a hotel, etc. Again, the cost keeps them from learning the sorts of things which could very well help put them in the winner's circle on election day. And finally, there's my own selfishness. I've never had a problem with traveling around the country and taking a couple days off to help these good, deserving candidates get off on the right foot with our Campaign War College. But that was before I had kids. Frankly - and I KNOW this is selfish - but given a choice between taking a weekend to fly to St.
Chuck Muth's News Views - March 8, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - March 9, 2004
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] CHUCK MUTHS NEWS VIEWS March 9, 2004 To view the HTML version of todays News Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ To reach our 7-day News Views archive, go to www.citizenoutreach.com _ KISS OF DEATH That photograph of (Rosie ODonnell) kissing her new wife inflicted more damage on the same-sex marriage movement than a dozen sermons. In-your-face exhibitionism doesnt sell well in the cheap seats. - Columnist Suzanne Fields FAT CATS Litigation against the food industry is not going to make a single individual any skinnier. It will only make the trial attorneys' bank accounts fatter. - Rep. Ric Keller, R-FL REPLACING DICK Here's an unsigned question: 'Mr. Vice President, don't you think it's time to step down and let someone else add new energy and vitality to the ticket?' No, I don't. And Rudy, you need to do a better job disguising your handwriting. - Vice-President Dick Cheney poking a little light-hearted fun at former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani at the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington on Saturday A VERY SIMPLE BALL GAME The Bush side, with the Democratic nominee chosen, will spend the next 8 months and millions of dollars exposing Kerry for what he is: a flip-flopping liberal who is soft on terrorism, and someone who wants to turn our military over to the UN to protect us. John Kerry thinks terrorism is a law enforcement problem and George Bush views them as an enemy that must be destroyed. It's no more complicated than that. - Talk-show host Neal Boortz A REAL STIFF John Kerry is so stiff. You sort of see him sitting at home with a powdered wig watching C-SPAN. For John Kerry, being rebellious is having red wine with fish. - Time magazine's Matthew Cooper NOT A CANDIDATE TO DIE FOR I have never met anybody, nor seen anybody interviewed, nor received an email from anybody, nor read a letter to a newspaper from anybody who really woke up in the morning and thought: If John Kerry doesn't win, I just don't know what I shall do. - Columnist Christopher Hitchens USPS MONOPOLY The U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft violates antitrust law, stating that we believe this transaction is anti-competitive - pure and simple. Ironically, in the same week the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States Postal Service v. Flamingo Industries, decided that the massive U.S. Postal Service is exempt from all antitrust laws. Yet anticompetitive behavior by the Postal Service is more harmful to consumers, competitors and the overall economy than most private sector mergers. - Rick Geddes of the Hoover Institute __ PUSHING THE ENVELOPE Last year, the President appointed a commission to study how the post office runs its operations in this new Internet age. Congress will soon weigh the recommendations for USPS reform made by the commission and consider possible legislation. What do you think Congress should do? Are you pretty much happy with the post office and believe Congress needs to just do a little tinkering around the edges? Or is major reform called for, including an end to the monopoly the post office has on first-class mail delivery and mailbox access? Or is it time for radical change, including the complete privatization of the post office the way the Japanese are doing? Weigh in on the Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ PRINCIPLES SACRAFICED FOR...NOTHING Last year, when Republicans rammed a new Medicare drug benefit through Congress, I warned they were unlikely to get the political boost they were expecting. Now, just three months after the legislation was signed into law, many now realize too late that I was right. . . . Every poll since the drug bill was enacted shows a distinct lack of enthusiasm for it on the part of the elderly. . . . In the end, Republicans will lose far more votes from this legislation than they gained. - Columnist Bruce Bartlett DELAYS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, criticized by some conservatives for toeing the White House line too often over the past three years, is about to announce his own legislative agenda. . . . On Wednesday, Mr. DeLay will take the extraordinary step of introducing his own set of legislative and policy goals, for this year and beyond. . . . We're trying to get people excited about being Republicans again, the Texan said. ...Mr. DeLay,
Chuck Muth's News Views - March 12, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - March 13, 2004
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Muth's Truths - March 14, 2004
If you are unable to view html within your email program please use the following link to view Chuck Muth's latest News and Views: http://chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Vote Swapping: Protesting Bush Without Electing Kerry The Libertarians may be on the verge of doing something politically smart this year. Dont laugh. Im serious. For years, the Libertarian Party has had a major public relations problem, brought on by...well, themselves. To most Americans, the libertarian philosophy is defined solely as drug legalization and open borders. And as a political party over the last 30-some years, the LP has had all the success of the French military. What is truly unfortunate is that the libertarian philosophy is truly the governing philosophy most closely related to that of our founding fathers; things such as limited government, low taxes, individual liberty and a free market. Of course, those are the same principles often articulated by Republicans. So whats the difference? The Libertarians mean it. Still, you cant ignore the fact that Libertarian Party candidates at the state and national level (were not talking about local hospital board races here) dont win elections. So when Republicans wander off the limited-government reservation, the LP doesnt exactly offer a credible alternative, but rather serves solely as a spoiler which often results in the election of the far worse liberal Democrat. In the past, Ive taken a back seat to no one in criticizing the spoiler role that LP candidates play in elections between marginal Republicans and horrible Democrats. But at the same time, Ive criticized Republican candidates for not reaching out to libertarian-leaning voters in the same manner as they suck up to blacks, Hispanics, women and NASCAR dads. After all, the Libertarians actually have alternative candidates on the ballot. Shouldnt Republicans at least throw a bone to libertarian-leaning voters? Dont hold you breath. The GOP establishment continues to simply blow off these voters. Where else are they gonna go, right? Well, just ask FORMER moderate Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA), who lost his re-election bid in 2000 by 2,229 votes...while the LP candidate on the ballot pulled in 64,734 votes. The result: Democrat Sen. Patty Murray. Lovely. The 2000 presidential contest was a squeaker. Expect the same this year. And President Bush, without listing all the examples here, is deservedly under fire by limited-government conservatives and libertarians. But instead of addressing their concerns, the campaign is again just blowing them off. And why not? Where are they going to go, right? Kerry? They have a point. In this environment, who wants to trust the nations defense to Jane Fondas old running buddy? But by the same token, many voters still want to send the president a message that theyre mad as hell with his big-government policies and theyre not going to take it any longer. And heres where the LP might show some political smarts and maturity. Back in 2000, when it looked as though Ralph Naders third-party candidacy could cost Al Gore the presidency, an Internet phenomenon arose called vote swapping. It works like this (Warning: You must understand how the Electoral College works to understand this strategy): There are some states which the two major-party candidates have locked, and there are others which are toss-ups. So if you were a Nader voter in 2000 who lived in a toss-up state, you could go on the Internet and swap your vote with a Gore voter in a lock state. You agreed to vote for Gore in the competitive state if the other person agreed to vote for Nader in a lock state. That way, in theory, you didnt risk a Gore loss in the Electoral College, but still registered your disapproval in the aggregate general election total. Libertarians supporting Gary Nolan, their candidate for president in 2004, may launch a similar vote swap effort this year on the right. If so, a significant protest vote against some of President Bushs policies could be registered in the general election vote total without jeopardizing the nation by electing Kerry in the Electoral College. If theyre successful, you just might see the largest vote total for a Libertarian Party candidate in the nations history. Nevertheless, the LP will continue to serve as nothing but third-party spoilers in close elections at the state and congressional levels. But if the GOP continues to blow off the growing number of voters who are sick and tired of big-spending, big-government compassionate conservatism, then they DESERVE to have their elections spoiled. # # #
Chuck Muth's News Views - Ides of March, 2004
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Chuck Muth's News Views - March 16, 2004
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