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THE GOOD NEWS
"Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do And doesn't do it,
sins." (James 4:17)
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UPRIGHT
"Virtually every argument for more gun control laws is either based on
lies or is grossly misleading. ...[H]ard data show that, on net
balance, gun control costs more lives than it saves." --Thomas Sowell
++ "Only the terminally naive fail to see that the ultimate goal is
to take the guns out of the hands of ordinary Americans. Every tragedy
is turned into yet another opportunity to perform the twist and the
double twist." --Balint Vazsonyi ++ "Disarmed citizens encourage
crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer
line of work." --Harry Browne ++ "So in the end, the Million Mom
March turned out to be little more than a superhyped Democratic Party
campaign rally. ... Bill and Hillary Clinton hosted the organizers at
the White House. Mrs. Clinton and Tipper Gore campaigned personally
among the obviously sympathetic crowd." --New York Post {} "With all
our looking back at the 20th century, we have missed some of its most
blatant and most horrifying lessons. The worst horrors of this
century, under both the Nazis and the Communists, came from
concentrations of political power, brought about by heady rhetoric,
powerful visions and emotional manipulations. Yet we remain as
susceptible to all these things as if none of these horrors had
happened." --Thomas Sowell
++ "History is to civilization what memory is to an individual: a
source of identity and meaning." --National Review ++ "Watching the
effects of 30 years of the deliberate dumbing-down of a people is not
a pretty sight. [America's conscience] has been co-opted by government
propaganda." --Joe Farah {} "When politicians declare religious
arguments out of bounds, they not only condemn discourse to a level of
stunning superficiality. They wage war on all faiths. And let's face
it, there's nothing more dangerous or extreme than a politician
determined to step in and take the place of God." --Tony Snow {}
"Love and respect for the great American experiment in free government
does not appear out of thin air." --Larry P. Arnn {} "Clinton has
brought us face to face with who we are and what we are. Simply put,
we are witnessing the denouement of the sorry saga of the '60s, the
drugs, the promiscuity, the vulgarity and the perversion." --Linda
Bowles ++ "[The Clintons] have left our political process distorted
and misshapen; they have stopped good things from happening, and
allowed bad things to occur; when caught they have covered-up and
dissembled, which in turn has added a new level of sourness, cynicism
and confusion to our politics and our culture." --Peggy Noonan {}
"Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he
is the worst person to be president." --George Will
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ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE
>From the Bush campaign journal...
Calling George W. Bush a man "Ronnie would be proud of," former First
Lady Nancy Reagan endorsed Governor Bush this week. "He is doing a
fine job of carrying on Ronnie's legacy," Mrs. Reagan said. "His
agenda of tax cuts, smaller government, and a strong national defense
will build pride in America just as it did when my husband was
president... George W Bush will help America once more become a
'shining city on a hill'."
In response, Mr. Bush said, "I...pledge an optimistic, positive
campaign, in the Reagan tradition, to renew America's spirit and
encourage a new era of personal responsibility and freedom."
Next up, Bush is scheduled to meet with retired General Colin Powell,
who would be tapped as Secretary of Defense by a Bush administration.
Mr. Bush marched deep into Demo territory by announcing a proposal to
strengthen Social Security by letting workers invest 2% (that's TWO
PERCENT) of their payroll taxes in private accounts. Gore scared
10,000 senior citizens at an AARP convention, saying that this
incremental step toward privatization was "reckless." He added, "This
could mean the end of Social Security as we know it." We certainly
hope so!
You may recall, last year Gore said, "During the whole national
discussion [about Social Security], one of the single most important,
salient facts that jumped out at everybody is that, over an 10-year
period in American history, returns on equities are just significantly
higher than these other returns." The government's annual return for
Social Security has been about 1%, while the stock market's annualized
return has been about 9%. What really constitutes "reckless" in Gore's
view is any effort to reduce anyone's dependence on the central
government.
In Republican platform news, Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist and North
Carolina Rep. Sue Myrick will serve as co-chairs of the committee to
draft the platform for this summer's Republican convention. (One
might hope Mr. Frist will produce something more than the drivel he
drooled after Clinton's last State of the Union speech!) The two
members of Congress will work with Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson,
chairman of the Platform Committee, which consists of 107 delegates,
including a male and a female delegate from each state, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and one delegate each from American
Samoa, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The platform must be approved
by a majority of the 2,066 delegates at the July 31-Aug. 3 convention.
BushBits: "For businesses, workers and farmers it will mean lower
trade barriers and enormous opportunities. For the people of China, it
holds out hope of open contact with the world of freedom."
Observation Points: "Bush must avoid the typically inept Republican
pandering to groups that will never vote for him in the first place
and which only serves to alienate and demoralize the base.
..Republicans too often worry more about placating those who oppose
them than delivering for their supporters. ... Bush must heed Reagan's
example of communicating conservative principles in ways that appeal
to broader audiences, rather than abandoning them wholesale." --W.
James Antle III
>From Bore2000 -- The Vice Prevaricator...
GoreGasms: "Tobacco is one of the most addictive substances known to
man and should be regulated as a drug. ... It is time for the
Republican Congress and George Bush to show their independence from
Big Tobacco and do the right thing by passing legislation that has had
bipartisan support." **We checked, and a big share of that tobacco
litigation money is flowing full circle back into Gore's coffers.
Observation Points: "The unions have replaced the feminist left as the
Democrats' chief source of energy. Feminists lost moral authority when
they abandoned principle to support Bill Clinton against impeachment,
thereby establishing themselves as part of a very old profession;
their recent endorsement of Gore, despite his lies about his former
votes against abortion, showed they charge a very low price."
--Michael Barone
In other political news...
HILLARITIES!
"What was good about it was that we protected and saved the
Constitution. And that was a very good outcome." --Ms. Rodham-Clinton,
when asked in an interview what was good about Bill Clinton's
impeachment and acquittal.
Observation Points: "Nothing in recent memory has so demoralized the
Republican establishment, from Manhattan to Capitol Hill, than last
week's apparent self-immolation of Rudy Giuliani." --Robert Novak
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"Simplistic gun-control solutions to complex social problems,
involving everything from one-parent families to parental neglect to
lousy schools, divert attention from the real problems facing American
families and contribute to unjustified complacency in responding to
them. ...One can only hope the ['MMM'] marchers don't find out the
hard way." --The Washington Times
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DEZINFORMATSIA
"As the former head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely
hailed as the man who brought an end to the Cold War." --Bryant
Gumball {} "Today in Russia, far too much power resides in media
outlets controlled by a select few, including the powers-that-be in
the Kremlin itself. The emergence of a more diffuse, balanced and
genuinely independent media remains a key challenge in deepening
democracy's roots in Russia over time." --Deputy Secretary of State
Strobe Talbott, an expert on "media outlets controlled by a select
few." {} This month's "Pierre Salinger Non Compos Mentis" Award:
"This is going to be an interesting election, I think. It's going to
be an election where Democrats will tend to vote for the Democrats,
Republicans will tend to vote for the Republican and I think right now
it's really too early to say what these independents are going to do."
--CBS's Bob Schieffer with some less-than-earthshaking analysis.
(Editor's Note: Ms. Helen Thomas is retiring after a century of so of
covering the White House for various media outlets. She is ending a
long career of "objective journalism" highlighted by comments like:
"[George W. Bush and John McCain] are about as far right as you could
get without dropping off the edge." Farewell!)
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SOCIOCRATS
Clintonese: "I got a friend. He sleeps with me when Hillary's not
here. He's my true friend. We have a great time." - Bill Clinton, on
Buddy, his dog. **And Buddy doesn't buy dresses from the Gap! {} "We
must either change the minds of lawmakers on these issues, or, for
God's sake, this November let's change the lawmakers." --Sarah Brady,
now calling for gun control measures in the name of God. {} "After
the good will created between the [U.S. and Cuba] ... by the [1999
Havana] visit, we -- Mr. [lawyer, huge Demo-donor and team owner
Peter] Angelos in particular -- feel it best to not do anything that
could be interpreted as being disrespectful or ... encouraging players
to defect." -- Syd Thrift, V.P. of the Baltimore Orioles explaining
why the team refuses to hire escapees from Castro's prison island.
**What is it about baseball -- first Teddy Turner's pandering to
Communists and now the Orioles.
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
"The Million Mom March's rhetoric strikes a blow at the psychological
solar plexus of the pro-gun movement, the alliance between pro-gun and
anti-abortion sentiments. Reproductive control and lack of gun control
are inseparable halves of what feminists once dubbed the 'male
protection racket': If women have no control over their wombs, then
they are helpless dependents in need of men's protection. But if women
can make their own choices, they no longer need the paternal
guardianship either. That is why gun ownership and anti-abortion
advocacy go together: each props up the other." --Susan Faludi **Huh?
{} "We're both against the economic sanctions, the embargo. And I
think there're so many great parts of that system--women and men doing
the same jobs for the same pay. I'm very pro-socialism. But there's a
lot of repression there." --Amy Ray of the "Indigo Girls" duo on the
great state of Cuba. {} "This does not heal. It does absolutely
nothing." --South Carolina House Minority Leader Gilda Cobb-Hunter, on
the decision to move the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome to
the Confederate Soldier's Monument on the Statehouse lawn. The NAACP
says it will continue its South Carolina boycott.
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SHORT CUTS
" 'He's doing fine.' That's the political professionals' code for,
'Get paid in advance. This campaign is toast'." --Rich Galen on how
Gore's handlers are explaining his lag in virtually every poll. {}
"If it were written today in the decade of the victim, the
Constitution probably would read like a 12-step pamphlet." --Debra
Saunders {} "That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't
need a brain -- I've got a womb'." --Ann Coulter {} "I hope it's
midlife!" --Rudolph Giuliani (who is battling cancer) when asked if
his marital infidelity was a "midlife crisis." {} "...Bill [Clinton]
never needed Socks to turn the White House into a cat house or Buddy
to turn it into a dog house or anyone else to turn it into an
outhouse." --Lyn Nofziger {} "Vladimir Putin was sworn in as
Russia's second...president...an event that raised the national spirit
in Russia from morose to gloomy." --Jon Stewart {} "Before we
legislate an end to gun abuse by outlawing guns, perhaps we should
legislate an end to drug abuse by outlawing drugs!" --Member Comments
Night Lines:
Leno.... Al Gore visited a pharmacy in Connecticut yesterday where he
was getting some Advil. Apparently he hurt his back flip-flopping on
this Elian issue. .... Clinton said that he hasn't decided what to
do when he leaves office. He did say that he will find something
useful to do because he has always enjoyed every stage of his life.
Every stage? He hasn't made it past his adolescence. What the heck is
the midlife crisis going to be like? .... Elizabeth Taylor and
Julie Andrews honored by Queen Elizabeth. Hey, that's something new. A
queen who likes Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Andrews. .... According
to the British Dental Journal, eating cheese helps prevent cavities.
British Dental Journal. Hmm, isn't that a little like the Amish
Stereo Review? .... Looks like Diana Ross is getting back together
with the Supremes. They are going on the road together this summer.
Who would have thought that the Supremes would get back together and
Microsoft would break up? .... I was watching Martha Stewart this
morning and they said that if your shoes smell bad, just pour kitty
litter in them and it takes the smell out. Unless, of course, you have
a cat.
Letterman.... Apparently, Al Gore doesn't attract women in the polls.
That is a big problem for him. But I'm thinking that after all we have
been through, isn't that a positive thing? .... Things were pretty
dull here in New York. It's been 24 hours since we have had a
startling announcement from Mayor Rudy Guiliani. Here is the startling
announcement from Mayor Rudolph Guiliani. He is a woman trapped in a
man's body. Poor Rudy. He is having a bad week. He didn't even get an
adultery bump in the polls. Yesterday he was out playing golf. That's
unbelievable to me. He's having an affair, he's playing golf. This guy
doesn't want to be mayor, he wants to be president.
O'Brien.... Hillary Clinton says that out of respect, she wishes
reporters would stop asking Mayor Giuliani about his marriage
problems. She stuck up for him. Meanwhile, Giuliani's wife said out of
respect, she wishes Bill Clinton would stop calling her.
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