CPAC
SIMULCAST!
CPAC is
the grand-daddy of all conservative political action
conferences on the planet. And for the first time in
CPAC's history, we'll be webcasting "live" for the entire
three days, beginning on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. (EST).
For additional details or to listen in, go to www.rightalk.com
For
additional information on CPAC and to see the line-up of
conservative super-stars who will be speaking this year, go
to: www.cpac.org
In
addition, we’ll have a special up-to-the minute play-by-play
News & Views “blog” running throughout the
conference. You’ll be able to access it at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm
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CLOUDING KING’S
VISION
“My
problem with Martin Luther King Day is that it celebrates a
civil rights revolution that achieved the opposite of King’s
intention. Today we are judged by the color of our skin.
This conclusion is inescapable wherever we look.
“Those
with darker skins have become ‘preferred minorities’ with
rights to employment, promotions, training programs,
university admissions, and federal contracts that are greater
than those of ‘whites.’ New crimes known as ‘hate
crimes’ are being created that only ‘whites’ can commit and
only ‘preferred minorities’ can suffer. If a ‘white’ assaults
a ‘black,’ the charge will be assault and a hate crime. If a
‘black’ assaults a ‘white,’ the charge is only assault.
"‘Preferred minorities’ have special rights to be
offended that ‘whites’ do not have. Indeed, a ‘white’ who
offends a ‘black,’ whether intentionally or unintentionally,
can be charged with racial discrimination or with a hate
crime. Preferred minorities can call whites names, but
whites cannot call preferred minorities names. Ordinary
language has become a minefield for whites, who must tiptoe
around, aware that the slightest mishap can bring a lawsuit or
destroy a career.”
- Columnist Paul
Craig Roberts
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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 guest
this week will be Tom Schatz of Citizens Against
Government Waste
. For the full
re-broadcast schedule, click on the “Always Right” link at
Citizen
Outreach
.
Click HERE to listen in at
airtime.
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MUCH AT
STAKE FOR UNIONS IN IOWA
“Government employee unions back Howard Dean.
Industrial unions are for Dick Gephardt. If either Mr. Dean or
Mr. Gephardt wins (the Iowa caucus) it will be a big
psychological boost for his wing of the union movement. If
John Kerry or John Edwards score a surprise win without having
major union support, it will call into question how much clout
labor's vaunted ground troops really have.”
- Wall Street
Journal columnist John Fund, 1/19/04
CARTER
SAYS DEAN LIED
“Former
Vice President Jimmy Carter revealed on Sunday that he never
actually invited Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean
to come to church with him on the day before the Iowa
caucuses. . . . ‘I didn't invite him, but I'm glad he came,’
Carter stated. ‘[Dean] called me on the phone and said he'd
like to come worship with me... He called and asked me if it
would be all right.’
“This
contradicts what Dean said last week after his campaign sent
out the press release. ‘When the former President of the
United States asks you to go to church with him on a Sunday
before the caucuses, I think you probably take that up,’ said
the Democrat presidential front-runner during a campaign stop
in Iowa. Dean had been offered several dates in February
and March, but chose to make the visit the Sunday before the
Iowa caucuses.”
- Talon News,
1/19/04
McGOVERN’S
PICK
“Democratic White House hopeful Wesley Clark was
endorsed yesterday by George McGovern, the former South Dakota
senator who ran as the party's presidential candidate in 1972
on an anti-Vietnam War platform. . . . ‘I've been around the
political block, and I can tell you I know a true progressive
when I see one,’ Mr. McGovern said.”
- Greg Pierce’s
“Inside Politics,” 1/19/04
THE LOONY
BIN
“If the
rap against (Howard) Dean is that he's gaffe-prone, shoots
from the hip, says loopy stuff — that goes tenfold for
(Wesley) Clark. . . . I would say Howard Dean is a sane man
pretending to be crazy. Whereas Mr. Clark gives every
indication of a crazy man pretending to be sane.”
-
Columnist Mark
Steyn
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SURVEY
SAYS!
Which is
the more frightening “Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue” -
Howard Dean winning the presidency in 2004 or Hillary Clinton
winning it in 2008? Cast your ballot today by clicking
on the “Survey Says!” button at www.citizenoutreach.com
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DEPENDS ON
YOUR DEFINITION OF “UNITED”
RNC
Chairman Ed Gillespie said on “This Week” Sunday he expects
the presidential race will be close in November, but also said
the GOP was “as united today under George W. Bush as I have
seen it since Ronald Reagan.” Other than those minor
disagreements on immigration amnesty, prescription drugs,
campaign finance reform, government marriage counselors and
putting a man on Mars, that is.
Is the White House
unaware of the serious cracks in its base, or just
unconcerned. After all, looking at the Democrat field of
candidates, where else do conservatives have to go?
Weigh in on this issue on our Discussion Board.
PATRIOT
GAMES
"U.S.
census information provided by millions of Americans was used
in a government study to profile airline passengers as
terrorist risks. The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration also obtained for its study the private
information of hundreds of thousands of passengers flying
Northwest Airlines, an action NASA denied to The Washington
Times in September.
"...The
NASA study highlights concerns among civil-liberties advocates
that the government is gathering private information and even
using its own data — contrary to repeated official assurances
from the Census Bureau — to develop a data-mining system to
prescreen all airline passengers. ... Bill Scannell, president
of the group DontSpyOnUs.com, called the inclusion of census
information 'absolutely appalling.' "
- Washington
Times
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MUTH’S
TRUTHS
Why are so
many conservatives up in arms and in open revolt over the
President’s illegal alien amnesty proposal? Find out by
reading this week’s “Muth’s Truths” at www.citizenoutreach.com
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ENFORCE
CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS
“If we are
not enforcing current immigration laws, the question naturally
arises: Why would we be any more likely to enforce new
laws? Without a clear, firm intent to enforce existing
laws, what would discourage more illegal immigrants from
entering the country in hopes of yet another 'guest-worker' or
amnesty bill in the future. . . . As a nation, we need to
return to Thomas Jefferson's point about immigration: that we
should welcome all, but take seriously the rules governing
their entry and participation in American life. Anything
less undercuts the sanctity of our laws and the value of being
a citizen of the greatest nation on earth."
- Sen. Jon Kyl
(R-Arizona), Washington Times, 1/19/04
BACK TO
IMMIGRATION BASICS
“Instead
of squabbling over piecemeal legislation in an election year,
rolling amnesties or a return of braceros, we might as well
bite the bullet and reconsider an immigration policy that
worked well enough for some 200 years for people from all over
the world.
“Reasonable advocates can set a realistic figure for
legal immigration from Mexico. Then we must enforce our border
controls; consider a one-time citizenship process for current
residents who have been here for two or three decades; apply
stiff employer sanctions; deport those who now break the
law--and return to social and cultural protocols that promote
national unity through assimilation and
integration.
“In the
short term, under such difficult reform, we of the American
Southwest might pay more for our food, hotel rooms and
construction. Yet eventually we will save far more through
reduced entitlements, the growing empowerment of our own
entry-level workers (many of them recent and legal immigrants
from Mexico), and the easing of social and legal problems
associated with some eight million to 12 million illegal
residents. More importantly still, our laws would
recover their sanctity.”
- Columnist
Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institute, Wall Street
Journal, 1/19/04
RESTRICTING SERVICES FOR
ILLEGALS
“U.S. Rep.
Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is working to put a state
constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would bar
people living in Colorado illegally from receiving state
services, he said Friday. The proposal is a reaction to
President Bush's plan, announced earlier this month, to
legalize as many as 8 million immigrants who live and work in
this country illegally.”
- Denver
Post,
1/17/04
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THIS WEEK
ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD
State of
the Union Address
Democrat Primary
Omnibus Spending
Bill
Bush & His Base
Immigration Nation
Weigh in.
Share your opinion. Comment. Inter-activate.
Just go to: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/
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CONSERVATIVE CLUB KID
THREATENED
A 17-year-old
California student has been the subject of threats in response
to his founding of a conservative club on his high school
campus...and teachers are accused of sitting back and doing
nothing to help. Last week, 15 police officers were
summoned to the school after Tim Bueler’s lunchtime meeting
was interrupted by angry students who objected to the
Conservative Club’s criticism of President Bush’s amnesty
proposal for illegal aliens. For their part, many of the
teachers have their knickers in a twist over the Conservative
Club establishing a “liberal assault hotline” to report
left-leaning teachers. Read more HERE.
BIG TAX
BATTLE LOOMS IN OREGON
“On Feb.
3, Oregonians will vote on an $800 million tax increase that
legislators passed last August in their latest attempt to
patch holes in the state budget. (Former House Majority
Leader Dick) Armey's Citizens for a Sound Economy, which was
instrumental in putting the Oregon tax increase before voters
by collecting 118,000 petition signatures, argues that state
government needs to reduce spending rather than raise taxes. .
. . Public opinion polls have shown the tax increase is
opposed by a majority of voters.”
- Washington
Times, 1/19/04
