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*************************************** This Week's "Survey Says!" Question: Should the other credible GOP candidates follow Bill Simon's example and clear the field to give Arnold Schwarzenegger a clear shot at Cruz Bustamante in the October California recall election? Yes. No. Or...Not until Arnold signs the no-tax pledge. Cast your online vote by going to the "Survey Says" page at www.CitizenOutreach.com *************************************** Logical Conclusion "The FEDERAL government is forbidden to establish or support a church or religion. Where is it written that they can forbid a STATE to do ANYTHING religious, including create or support one over the other!! I would rather risk the allowance of Michigan supporting the Muslim religion, with those vehemently opposed the ability to move to 49 other states, (just like fleeing California because of high taxes) than to have one unelected federal judge or a group of elite, life-time appointed federal judges dictate their agenda or malleable interpretation of the Constitution. You may not like Judge Moore's decision, indeed, I may not like it. But it should be left to Alabamians to work out, to fire or impeach (or not), NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT." - News & Views reader "Maudie from Mandevill" *************************************** Establishing an Official State Church "When Jefferson wrote about the infamous 'wall of separation between church and state' he was, in essence, saying...the U.S. can neither institute nor abolish any religion in particular. That is a state matter. If a state's citizenry decides it wants to make Presbyterian the official religion of their state, they have that right as a sovereign state, and the Constitution gives no authority to the federal government to rule either way upon it." - News & Views reader Ken Klosterhaus *************************************** Point of Clarification In a Wall Street Journal piece this morning (http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003926), Alabama Judge Moore explains his actions. He says this argument is over the right - actually the requirement, in Judge Moore's opinion - to acknowledge God. But for the record, the 2 1/2 ton granite monument Judge Moore has installed in the rotunda of the courthouse is a monument to the Ten Commandments, not to God. It is a subtle but significant distinction. And for the record, just as the phrase "separation of church and state" doesn't appear in the Constitution, I haven't been able to find the word "God" there either, as Judge Moore claims in his op/ed. Let's not be bearing false witness here. That being said, while I think Judge Moore has gone over the line, I also think federal court Judge Thompson did as well. Is it possible that two wrongs could somehow make a right in this matter? Don't hold your breath. *************************************** 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 *************************************** Vouching for Vouchers "Here's an item to rile the anti-choice extremists: A new report by a New York think tank says school vouchers are boosting educational performance in Florida's disastrous government schools. Researchers for the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research say pupils at voucher schools show more improvement than students at other low performing schools." - NewsMax.com, 8/24/03 *************************************** Era of Big Gov't Has NOT Ended "The conservative movement has scored historic gains but has yet to achieve several of its basic goals. . . . 'We won the battle against communism, but I guess we've largely lost the battle against big government,' says Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly, 79, who defied conventional wisdom by leading a women's crusade that defeated the Equal Rights Amendment in the mid-1970s. ".'By far the biggest political disappointment for me - and I think for many other conservatives - has been our failure to get a handle on the problem of big government," (M. Stanton) Evans (of the Education and Research Institute) says. 'This very much interacts with the question of the GOP, which always runs pretty hard on this issue but has trouble translating its rhetoric into practice.'" - Washington Times, 8/24/03 *************************************** California and Taxes "The trouble with California taxes is not that property taxes are too low, but that income and sales taxes are way too high." - Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute *************************************** Rich Uprising "On average, Californians pay a higher percentage of their income in federal taxes than most Americans because Californians earn more per capita than most Americans, and because the federal tax code - even with the reductions in the top income tax rates signed by Mr. Bush - is still designed to impose a disproportionate burden on people who earn more money. "... What we are seeing now is a revolt by California's productive taxpaying classes. If they see their enemies clearly, they won't stop at removing Gray Davis. They will also remove the Democrats they have sent to Congress, who have squandered far more of their money than Mr. Davis could ever dream of." - Columnist Terence Jeffrey *************************************** Delusion of Grandeur "(Talk show host) Michael Savage is delusional,' says the New York Post's Page Six column. 'Fox would hire me in a minute,' Savage is quoted as saying in the September issue of GQ. 'And believe it or not, CNN would, too. ' A spokesman for Fox News Channel told GQ, 'Not a chance would we ever be interested in him.' CNN said it 'had not pursued nor are we pursuing Mr. Savage. And we have no interest in him.' MSNBC fired him after he told a caller to 'get AIDS and die.'" - NewsMax.com, 8/24/03 *************************************** 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. 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