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************************************ 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 Crunch. ************************************ Goin' Soft on Wes "It sure looks as if key players in the campaign press corps are trying to rig the rules and create a double standard to favor newbie contender Wesley Clark, a k a The General, in the race for the Democratic presidential nod. . . . When (Joe) Lieberman first hinted he'd try to skip the Iowa caucuses, it was billed as a sign of weakness. When Clark does it, suddenly it's a brilliant new political paradigm hailed by the New York Times. . . . And he gets a pass on most issues on grounds he's still formulating positions while anyone else would get slammed as not ready for prime time." - New York Post columnist Deborah Orin ************************************ Protecting the Unfriendly Skies "It is ironic that this incident (the student who was able to sneak box cutters onto airplanes) occurred at a time when the TSA is continuing to drag its feet on the program authorized by Congress last fall and signed into law to train pilots to carry firearms during flight. As the Airline Pilots Security Alliance (www.secure-skies.org) points out: 'Clearly, had any of the pilots of the hijacked aircraft been armed on September 11, at best those hijackings, through deterrence alone, would have been thwarted; at worst, the pilots would have been provided a fighting chance to defend the cockpits from terrorists.' Searching grandmothers will not make air travel safer, but arming pilots and looking for those who really threaten us will. - Daniel John Sobieski, Washington Times, 10/24/03 *************************************** 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 ************************************ Pssst...Anybody Seen Dick? According to an RNC tracking sheet, Rep. Dick Gephardt has missed an astounding 90 PERCENT of recorded votes in this Congress due to his presidential campaign activities. Sen. Kerry, another presidential wannbe, has missed 60 percent of recorded votes while Sen. Lieberman has "only" missed a little more than half. By comparison, Sen. John Edwards gets a gold star for attendance by only being AWOL for a third of recorded votes. Unfortunately, space cadet Dennis Kucinich continues to show up for vote after vote, missing only 7 percent of them. Why can't this wing-nut play hooky like the rest of his little friends? ************************************ Depends on Your Definition of "Pay Raise" "The Senate voted itself a pay raise for the fifth straight year, boosting the annual salary to about $158,000 in 2004. . . . Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, said it was a mistake to call it a pay raise, and that lawmakers were merely receiving a cost-of-living increase." - Associated Press, 10/24/03 ************************************ Senate Says Adios to Cuba Sanctions "The Senate defied a presidential veto threat in voting yesterday to end the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba. . . . The Cuba amendment passed after senators ended up one vote shy, 59-36, of blocking it. . . . Rep. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican and sponsor of the House amendment, which passed 227-188 in September, said sanctions just haven't worked." - Washington Times, 10/24/03 ************************************* Let Bygones Be Bygones? I would be willing to bet that most of us who were outraged at the French for undercutting our anti-terror efforts in the Persian Gulf region are still miffed at the French, especially since their obstinacy and obstruction hasn't changed much (if at all) in the last nine months. Alas, 26 members of Congress - 16 Republicans and 10 Democrats - have decided to forgive and forget anyway. Led by liberal Republican Amo Houghton of New York, the Congressional French Caucus has been formed to make nice with our "cheese-eating surrender monkey" allies. Isn't that special? ************************************ NOW Gals Throw Hissy Fit "Feminists across the country are outraged that ultraconservative attacks could have resulted in former NOW President Patricia Ireland's recent dismissal as the CEO of the YWCA. Ultraconservative groups slammed the YWCA for hiring a strong supporter of women's rights." - National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy *********************************** Judicial Hell "Whether you agree or disagree with an opinion from Justice Scalia, and I regularly do both, you can always understand it, see how he came by it and where he would have the law go. That is a lot more than one can say about the vaporous effusions from most of the other justices. My vision of judicial hell is being locked into a room and forced to listen, 'Clockwork Orange' fashion, to the collected works of the Ginsburgs, Breyers, Souters, et al. Those types would make you long for the company of an aluminum siding salesman." - Columnist Paul Greenberg ************************************ Growing Right-Right Schism Are libertarians giving up on conservatives? It appears some are. In fact, they are so fed up with big government "compassionate conservatism" that some are actually contemplating a vote for Howard Dean over George W in the 2004 presidential contest. "Why?" asks columnist W. James Antle III. "Because instead of smaller government, free market economics and fidelity to the Constitution, these libertarians associate conservatives and Bush's Republican Party with an invade-and-democratize foreign policy, modest tax cuts accompanied by large-scale deficit spending, a growing welfare state and civil liberties threats in the name of national security. "Libertarians believe in minimal government and maximum individual freedom. For them, their association with the GOP and the broader right was a means to an end. If the right and the Republicans change in ways less conducive to their goals, the means no longer serve the end." Defections of libertarians who see Republicans as being no more for limited government as Democrats could be disastrous for the conservative movement. Republicans need to get back with the program - that is, the program of sharply limiting government programs. Or else. To read Antle's full column, go to: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2749.html ************************************ Recalling the Recall Californians successfully and overwhelmingly recalled their governor earlier this month, scaring the bejeepers out of every elected official under the sun. How dare the voters throw out a bum who lied to them on the campaign trail? Why, if politicians let this stand, every elected official in the country might have to actually say what they mean and mean what they say while campaigning for office. We can't have that! So there's only one thing to do. No, not start telling the truth. Getting rid of the recall effort. Which is exactly what California Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas (D) hopes to do. He's championing a new constitutional amendment which would gut the recall option for citizens. What a surprise, huh? ************************************ Break the Monopoly "In 1998, the U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, maintaining that the world's largest maker of software held an illegal monopoly and stifled competition. Microsoft was found to use its monopoly power to harm competitors. This begs the ensuing question, 'Couldn't the Justice Department then file a lawsuit against the United States Government for its blatant monopoly status in postal delivery?' "To allow the existence of the United States Postal Service in its current form is inimical to the principles upon which this nation was founded. The time for eliminating this monopoly is long overdue. The laws that protect the U.S. Postal Service must be repealed, letting free market forces and the will of the people determine its fate." - NationalCenter.org, 10/19/03 *************************************** Affordable Campaign Websites! Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. That's right...just ten smackeroos a month. Here's what's included in this fantastic new program from Campaign Secrets, Inc. (available ONLY to Republican candidates): * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing * Unlimited Edits * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer Campaign Site Builder can be used for political organizations and non-profits, as well. For more information, just go to: http://www.campaignsecrets.com/websites.asp *************************************** How to Subscribe Chuck Muth's News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a member-supported 501(c)3 non-profit corp. 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