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**************************************** 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 Cavalry Division said he was 'the poster child for everything that is wrong with the general officer corps.' "...Gen. Clark picked up where he left off in his second career as a television kibitzer of military operations. As an analyst for CNN, Gen. Clark harshly criticized the war plan for Iraq devised by Gen. Tommy Franks, the CENTCOM commander, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Gen. Clark turned out to be completely wrong. It says something fascinating about the Democratic field that this failed general is the class of it." - Columnist Jack Kelly *************************************** 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 *************************************** Charismatically Challenged "(Democrat presidential candidate Dick Gephardt) seems like a decent man but he suffers from a Dukakis-ian lack of charisma. Most politicians are transparent. He's translucent." - Columnist Dennis Miller *************************************** Stylin' & Profilin' "I think I probably bring more style to the (Democrat presidential) field than the other candidates. John Kerry always appears like he thought about what he was going to wear that morning. But I wouldn't say he's got style like I do." - Al Sharpton in the September issue of GQ *************************************** Make That "Ten" "The 'Nine Horsemen of the Apocalypse' (the Democrat presidential candidates) are all hat and no horse, lacking real alternatives, unless you consider vitriolic criticism of Mr. Bush a jobs program." - Columnist Gary Andres *************************************** NOW or Never "NOW (National Organization for Women) is a marginal political organization with no impact or clout, that no one takes seriously, and now they endorse a candidate that no one takes seriously, so they're perfect together." - GOP pollster Bill McInturff on NOW's endorsement of Carol Mosely Braun for the Democrat presidential primary, "Inside Politics," 9/18/03 *************************************** Disorder in the Courts "One of the signs of our times is a recent ruling by a federal judge that those who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks can sue the planes' manufacturer and the owners of the World Trade Center, among others. This extraordinary - indeed, unique - terrorist attack was 'foreseeable,' according to Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein in New York. "By the same reasoning, it was 'foreseeable' there would be jackasses like Judge Hellerstein on the federal bench. Similar judges have allowed our courts to become clogged with frivolous lawsuits and turned law into an instrument of legalized extortion." - Columnist Thomas Sowell *************************************** Pro-Choice "All parents would be rightly outraged if bureaucrats alone could choose where their kids could attend college. Yet those who define 'public' schooling as synonymous with zero choice claim parents have no right to be outraged when arrogant bureaucrats insist their children be assigned to K-12 schools like branded cattle." - Columnist Alan Reynolds *************************************** Minorities Howl Over Caucasian Club "A Freedom High School freshman in Oakley, Calif., has run up against opposition in her quest to start a Caucasian Club for white students. A local NAACP leader said Lisa McClelland's proposed club smacks of racial division, a charge the 15-year-old denies. McClelland said she and some of her friends simply feel a bit slighted since other school clubs cater to specific cultures and races, such as the Black Student Union and the Asian Club. "'It's not racist because we're not excluding anyone, and we're just trying to solve the issues of racial disparity,' McClelland said. 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