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***************************************** Blockbuster of an Idea "You read about all these terrorists -- most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10 -15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. Let's put Blockbuster in charge of immigration." - Joke of the Day, 6/29/03 ***************************************** Typical Kennedy "I made my money the old-fashioned way. I inherited it." - Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-Rhode Island ****************************************** Yeah...So Are Their Cars "I'm not sure where Arnold [Schwarzenegger] gets his political instincts. People often say that for Kennedys, it's in the water." - Sen. Ted Kennedy, Associated Press, 6/27/03 ****************************************** The Mean Dean Fundraising Machine "Quarterly campaign filings are due at the Federal Election Commission tonight, and the New York Times reports '(Democrat presidential candidate Howard) Dean's aides said he would report raising at least $6.2 million in the three-month period that ends at midnight.' "...Money isn't everything, of course; just ask John Edwards, whoever he is. But Dean also has energy, a distinctive message and an enthusiastic cadre of supporters. Now that he's proved his fund-raising prowess, there's no excuse not to take his candidacy seriously. . . . Dean's star could fade, but for now it would be hard to reckon him as anything other than the front-runner. ".(Bush presidential adviser) Karl Rove must be jumping for joy. Apart from the Sharptonkucinichmoseleybraun also-rans, Dean is the best opponent the Republicans could possibly hope for. Can anyone imagine such an intemperate lefty winning a single 'red' state? If President Bush merely carries the same states he did last time around, he has 278 electoral votes and a second term. Against Dean he could phone it in." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 6/30/03 ***************************************** Unaffordable Extravagance "The Senate (prescription drug) bill would provide an equal benefit to all seniors, regardless of income or need. That means that retired multimillionaires would get the same benefit as widows and retired social workers. That's an extravagance we simply cannot afford. Real reform will help the truly needy, without creating an open-ended entitlement." - Ed Feulner, president, Heritage Foundation ***************************************** It's the Spending, Stupid "The impending prescription drug bill, with its huge 10-year price tag and the historical trend that Medicare entitlement costs outpace the initial predictions, has prompted a round of worries about Bush administration spending. "...The size of the pending prescription-drug entitlement tied to Medicare is not the only spending that has stirred deepening concerns at such conservative think tanks as Heritage and at budget-watchdog groups. "They point to $3.5 billion in a refundable, add-on child tax credit for families who pay no income taxes, which the White House supports, and a massive $360 billion highway bill, which it opposes, as symptoms of spending that is speeding out of control." - Washington Times, 6/30/03 ************************************ 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.GOPLongDistance.com> today. ***************************************** A Lot of Smoke, But No Fire "Moving on to MoveOn.org's recent adventure: The website got a great deal of attention by announcing that it would be running the first-in-the-nation on-line straw poll the results of which were to be released this past Friday. "The media, while not exactly breathless about it, gave it more than enough attention as if a poll, on the internet, seven months before the first ACTUAL primary, among a Democratic field which is probably not yet completed, would mean anything; Nothing more than McVoting. "...MoveOn claims some 1.4 million members. Let's take that as read. Let's also take as read that those 1.4 million members have a far greater interest in politics - Democratic politics, liberal Democratic politics - than the average American citizen. "...According to the site's official results some 317,600 people participated in the straw poll. That means the 'turnout' for this poll was something under 23%. If less than a quarter of the activists who are members of MoveOn.org - even after being alerted via e-mail that this poll was taking place - bothered to participate...then what does that tell us about the level of enthusiasm even among Liberal activists for this crop of candidates?" - Rich Galen, "Mullings.com," 6/29/03 ***************************************** Affirmative Action Ruling's Silver Lining The prevailing notion is that Sandi O'Connor's Supreme Court ruling will allow racial discrimination in college admissions for the next 25 years, but it really doesn't have to be that way. See, what the Supremes said was that it was "okay" to use such discriminatory practices; it didn't say they were mandatory. Indeed, states can adopt their own laws prohibiting such harmful practices should they so choose, as Californians did some years ago. Leading the ballot effort to bar race-based admissions policies back then was California University Regent Ward Connerly. Mr. Connerly is now mulling a similar initiative in Michigan - home to the now-infamous Supreme Court case on affirmative action - allowing the people themselves to overrule Justice O'Connor & Company. "If the state that gave rise to these high-profile court decisions to use race preferences for the sake of diversity says we do not agree with the court, that would send a powerful message and others will follow," says Connerly. "Michigan is the big tortilla here." If you'd like to be kept updated on Mr. Connerly's efforts to eliminate ALL race preferences, you can join his American Civil Rights Institute by going to: http://acri.org/ ***************************************** Dangerous Monopoly "(Deputy Postmaster General John) Nolan argues that the public policy benefits of preserving the magnitude of the Postal Service's massive infrastructure and status-quo definition for 'universal-service' outweighs the negative effects created by such incursions into the private sector. . . . Allowing or encouraging a governmental monopoly to freely enter competitive markets is not only poor public policy, but a dangerous one as well. "An aggressive, massively capitalized Postal Service free to disrupt small-business markets could easily cause irreparable harm to this important job-creating segment of our Nation's economy. Masquerading the cost of providing postal services by siphoning money from other private sectors of the economy for the sole purpose of institutional preservation does not serve the greater good, nor will it prove effective in the end. A desire to maintain the Postal Service's massive size and current 'universal service' levels does not trump our Nation's free-market and pro-competitive policies." - Rick Merritt, executive director for PostalWatch.org ****************************************** 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. 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