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*************************************** Guess This Is Dead, Too, Huh? "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." - Barry Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative" *************************************** Rim Shot, Please "Bill Clinton is out in California helping Governor Gray Davis. Well what makes more sense than an impeached President helping out a recalled Governor?" - Late Show host David Letterman *************************************** Letting bin Laden Run Wild "Richard Miniter's new book, 'Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror,' tells the sad, infuriating history of the number of opportunities President Clinton had to capture and imprison or kill the terrorist Osama bin Laden. "...This is the long sad story of the Clinton Administration's blind refusal to accept offer after offer to deliver one of the world's terrorist leaders before and after his minions killed thousands in various terrorist attacks. The book is climaxed by a documented recital of the links between bin Laden's al Qaeda units and Iraq that should convince all but the most extreme Bush-haters that these links exist and continue." - Former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger *************************************** 911: Clinton's Lasting Legacy ".(T)he record will show that September 11 is the true legacy of the Clinton administration. . . . Even after al Qaeda had killed Americans on American soil, clear warnings that bin Laden was a growing threat to the United States were repeatedly ignored by Mr. Clinton and his cabinet. Offers to hand bin Laden over to the U.S. were rebuffed, and American officials squelched efforts by foreign governments to assassinate him." - Washington Times editorial, 9/2/03 *************************************** When No Means Maybe...Or Not Yet "We're moving past Labor Day, and the Hillary for President campaign is beginning to bubble and soon there may be a little steam. . . . She is 'absolutely ruling it out,' the former first lady told reporters in New York. Well, of course she is. Ruling it in comes later. She didn't say, as the infamous Tecumseh Sherman famously did, that she wouldn't run if nominated and wouldn't serve if elected. "Clintonspeak is not difficult to parse. Bill was similarly coy, back in Arkansas in that other century, making a solemn promise to his constituents that if they would elect him governor one more time he would absolutely, positively serve the full term and not even think about the White House. The dust had hardly settled on the Bible on which he made his oath before he was on his way to New Hampshire." - Wesley Pruden, "Pruden On Politics," 9/2/03 *************************************** Howard's End "(I)t's clear that many of allies and supporters of Bill and Hillary Clinton don't want Howard Dean to be the party's 2004 standard bearer. . . . Al From, the founder of the moderate DLC, was instrumental in promoting Mr. Clinton as a candidate back in 1992. He now says that Mr. Dean belongs to the party's 'McGovern-Mondale wing' and that he would repeat their failed candidacies by being swamped in the popular vote. The Clintons may not be keen on a Democrat winning the White House in 2004, but a Bush blowout might weaken the Democratic Party for 2008 when Mrs. Clinton is expected to run." - John Fund's "Political Diary," 9/2/03 *************************************** Lowlights From That French-Looking Guy "In challenging times we need leadership that knows how to make America safer, that knows how to put America back to work. The president has misled America and he has made our path more difficult as a result. . . . I reject George Bush's radical new vision of a government that comforts the comfortable at the expense of ordinary Americans. George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend. . . . Americans have always had the extraordinary courage to do what's right for the country. He (Bush) has turned it into a game for the privileged." - Democrat presidential wannabe John Kerry formally announcing his vanishing candidacy, 9/2/03 *************************************** 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 *************************************** Killing Off Drug Development "Americans pay some of the highest prices for drugs in the world. We do so mainly because of our free market and our willingness to shoulder most of the global costs of new drug development. If not for the innovative work being done by the American pharmaceutical industry, global development of new drugs would slow to a crawl." - Robert Goldberg of the Manhattan Institute *************************************** Terminating the Liberal Cash Machine "I will never take money from the special interests and the Indian gaming or from the unions or anything like that. I get donations from business and from individuals." - CA gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reuters *************************************** Cruz Control "(California Lt. Gov. Cruz) Bustamante, the only prominent Democrat on the second half of the recall ballot, hasn't been able to shut down the media's interest in his involvement with the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA) while he attended Fresno State back in the mid-1970s. MEChA, which advocates a separate Chicano nation, goes by the slogan: 'For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.'" - Columnist Bill Whalen in the Weekly Standard *************************************** Looney Tune Arianna Huffington is SUCH a joke. She's running in the California recall election for no reason other than ego gratification and to promote her wacko environmentalist agenda. But to see just how lame her campaign is, take a look at this campaign video on her website: http://www.HYBRIDvHUMMER.com/movie *************************************** The World According to the Teachers Union "What will your child learn about 9-11 on the second anniversary of the attack on America's security and economy? Last year, on the first anniversary of 9-11, the National Education Association urged teachers to not 'suggest any group is responsible.' In suggested lesson plans, the NEA recommended that teachers 'discuss historical instances of American intolerance' as the lesson America's schoolchildren should take away from the most dastardly attack on America since Pearl Harbor. The NEA is an American Fifth Column, an enemy within that uses our public schools to turn children against their nation." - Columnist Alan Caruba (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200309/C OM20030902c.html) *************************************** Classics Re-Emerge, But Not in Gov't Skools "More and more students are returning to classics in home schooling, charter schools and private Christian schools. Dissatisfied with traditional public education, they've left it behind as they trade in their secondary-source textbooks for original works by intellectual staples such as Plato, Shakespeare and Nietzsche." - Washington Times, 9/2/03 *************************************** Home School Discrimination "I found out one of conditions to become a Foster Parent or an Adoptive Parent, is that you must put the child in public schooling," write News & Views readers Michael Niese. "My wife and I found this out while taking training to become a Foster to Adopt Parent in Indiana. When I referred to statistics showing that Home Schooled children become more productive versus those in public school, I was informed in no uncertain terms that it was the law regardless of the facts." Has anyone else experienced this in other states? If so, please drop me a short note at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************** Taking on the Ten Commandments For those of you who think I've been unduly unsympathetic to Judge Roy Moore and his Ten Commandments shrine down in Alabama, wait 'til you read Harry Binswanger's commentary at CNSNews.com. I'm a piker compared to this guy: "Religious conservatives claim that the Ten Commandments supplied the moral grounding for the establishment of America," writes Binswanger. "But is that even possible? Let's put aside the historical question of what sources the Founding Fathers, mostly Deists, drew upon. The deeper question is: can a nation of freedom, individualism and the pursuit of happiness be based on the Ten Commandments?" And it goes downhill from there. You can read the full opinion by going to: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200309/COM20030902d.html *************************************** Ropewalking: Eat, Drink & Be Merry! Borrowing an idea from Ben Franklin, the first get-together of the Charm City Junto will convene for food, libations and stogies - mixed with a healthy dose of political networking and information-sharing next Tuesday, September 9th at the Ropewalk Tavern in historical Federal Hill in Baltimore from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Open to anyone and everyone who wants to stop by. No formal program, no admission fee and dress is casual. Join fellow right-wing conspiratorialists as we plot the overthrow of Big Brother, cradle-to-grave, nanny-state government! The Ropewalk is located at 1209 S. Charles Street. Just come to the antique bar in the back. There's a parking garage just a half block away near the Cross Street Market if you have trouble finding a spot on the street. The Ropewalk's phone number is (410) 727-1298. You can get directions from their website at: http://ropewalktavern.com *************************************** Affordable Campaign Websites! 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