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*********************************** I Stand Corrected...And Happy Veterans Day "Hi, Chuck. I really enjoy your newsletter. FYI, 'Hooah' is what the Army guys say. The Marine term is 'Oorah!'" - Chris Brose, SSgt, USMC *********************************** Telephone, Television & Tell-a-Friend If you know someone who might like to join the growing army of conservatives (and a few Palm Beach Democrats) who receive our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views briefings, just go to http://www.chuckmuth.com. *********************************** Action With No U.N. Resolution "'A squirrel which terrorised a Cheshire town by attacking people has been shot and killed by the grandfather of its latest victim,' Reuters reports. 'Geoff Horth, enraged by the squirrel biting his two-year-old grand-daughter Kelsi Morley on the face, took up his airgun and hunted down the rogue rodent, the Sun newspaper said on Friday.' "The Guardian published an editorial blasting Horth's 'cowboy-style unilateralism,' and the Independent's Robert Fisk denounced Kelsi as an 'imperialist.' The U.N. General Assembly and the Arab League passed resolutions calling the squirrel a victim of a 'Zionist conspiracy.' Belgian prosecutors are mulling war-crimes charges, and Amnesty International and Rodent Rights Watch are both investigating." - Best of the Web, 11/8/02 *********************************** Politics 101 Today's lesson, class - "Terms From the Democrat Lexicon" - is brought to us by my favorite Republican Party State Chairman, John Dendahl of New Mexico: GRIDLOCK: The condition existing when the socialist march of the Democrat Party is impeded by, for example, a Republican executive whose vetoes the Democrats can't override. MODERATION: Gridlock, when it is sought by Democrats to thwart Republicans in power. PROGRESS: What is accomplished when a Democrat legislature and the Democrat executive are unimpeded by "gridlock" or "moderation" and support the Democrat Party's march toward socialism and one-world government. There will be a pop quiz, oh, sometime around January or February on this subject material. *********************************** Another Libertarian "Victory" "Republican Kevin Mannix conceded to Democrat Ted Kulongoski on Wednesday in one of the closest Oregon gubernatorial races in decades. "Kulongoski, the front-runner throughout the race, narrowly beat the Republican in a race where counties will not officially certify results for weeks. At press time, Kulongoski had 592,591 votes, or 49.1 percent, to Mannix's 558, 470 votes, or 46.3 percent. A third-party candidate, Libertarian Tom Cox, garnered 4.6 percent of total votes in the nailbiter. "...Cox, the third-party candidate, took much of the credit for Mannix's loss. As a Libertarian, Cox said his staff had been conducting exit polls that suggested his campaign had gathered twice as many Republican votes as Democratic votes." - Oregon Daily Emerald, 11/10/02 *********************************** Equal Time: GOP's Turn on the Hot Seat OK. I think I've made my position on the self-defeating political actions of the Libertarian Party pretty clear. The solution to bad Republicans is to replace them in the primary with better Republicans, not with worse Democrats in the general election. Nevertheless, the GOP has to shoulder some of the blame itself for helping to create the political environment which has so distressed constitutional conservatives and drove them out of the GOP "tent" in the first place. The pure and simple fact is that while many, if not most, of the Republicans running for office talk the talk of less government, all too many fail to walk the walk once in office. If their campaigns were a business they'd be prosecuted for the ol' "bait and switch" scam. Lord help 'em if a "truth in political labeling" law is ever passed. I recognize and accept that political compromise is a necessary evil in a representative republic like ours; however, compromising on clear-cut matters of principle is something many of us find very difficult to swallow. You can't keep voting for pet government projects, programs and laws that aren't authorized by the Constitution and expect true conservatives in the mold of Barry Goldwater to go along. You can't vote for something as clearly unconstitutional as this year's campaign finance reform bill and still hold yourself out as a defender of the Constitution. You can't keep voting for the National Endowment for the Arts or a greater federal intrusion into our failing education system and then claim to be the party of "less government." You can't enthusiastically back encroachments on personal liberties - as exists in the horribly misnamed "Patriot Act" or under the auspices of the failed "drug war" - and hope to appeal to those of us who still believe in Ben Franklin's admonition that those who choose a little temporary safety over liberty deserve neither. If Republicans want to attract Libertarians back in the fold, it is incumbent upon them to pick up a copy of the Constitution and READ it - over and over again if necessary - and begin to take their oath to honor and defend it seriously. The proof is in the pudding. As long as unconstitutional government continues to grow - even if at a smaller rate than under the Democrats - we're failing the country. Period. As long as the government continues to do for the people what they can and should do for themselves, we're failing the country. As long as the tax bite coming out of a family's paycheck remains at its current inexcusable and unacceptable level, we're failing the country. And as long as the long arm of government continues to interfere with and inject itself into the private relationships between consenting adults - in the home OR in the workplace - we're failing the country. And as long as our God-given right to self-defense is restricted by government, we're failing the country. Yes, the Libertarian Party is the equivalent of political kamikazes, but the failure of Republicans to walk-the-walk of limited government over recent years has sown the seeds of frustration and discontent of truly patriotic Americans. If the GOP wants to win such folks back it's simply going to have to do more than give lip service to the Constitution during the campaign season. They're going to have to stand and deliver once elected. To borrow a phrase from the Nixon era, the people are not going to listen to what Republicans say, they're going to watch what Republicans do. The GOP now has control of the White House and both houses of Congress. What they do with it will determine whether or not we usher in a new political realignment dedicated to the restoration of Constitutional government and principles, or continue down the slippery slope of nanny-state, cradle-to-grave socialism. The ball's in your court, Republicans. ********************************** In Your Heart You Know He's (Still) Right Join the "next generation of Goldwater Conservatives" by joining the Goldwater Club. Annual dues for as little as $25. Just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/goldwater.htm ********************************* This Is What the GOP Needs to Stop...NOW! "In the mid-1990s, politicians began cutting wasteful government spending to balance the budget and bring relief to overtaxed families. Since 2000, however, things have changed, with almost daily reports of yet another 'record spending increase' from Congress. "With the 2003 federal budget almost done, there's now a price tag for this 2000-2003 spending spree: $782 billion in new spending. Not $782 billion in total spending, mind you, but $782 billion above what Washington spent in the previous four years. "...Few taxpayers can claim the Denali Commission (an Alaskan public-works program) enriches their lives. But Washington increased its four-year budget from $1 million to $169 million. How much of a national priority is the Bureau of Export Administration? The Maritime Administration? The Foreign Agriculture Service? Most Americans have never heard of these obsolete agencies, yet Congress and the president bumped each of their four-year budgets by more than 70 percent." - Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation *********************************** The Democrats' Mid-Term Massacre "Where was the Election 2000 anger that was supposed to be an asset for Democrats? Jeb Bush stomped the Democrats in Florida. And African-American voters--who supposedly were the most enraged about the recount mess--do not seem to have flooded the polls on behalf of Democrats in Florida, Georgia, Maryland or Massachusetts. "In Georgia, Republican congressman Saxby Chambliss upset Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a decorated war hero. In Maryland--a state with a five-to-one Democratic edge in voter registration--Republican Bob Ehrlich trounced Democratic Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. In Massachusetts, Republican Mitt Romney defeated Democratic Treasurer Shannon O'Brien. "As even Democratic loyalist (and apologist) Donna Brazille complained before the election, Democrats were practicing 'drive-by' politics, zooming past urban voters (meaning African-Americans) and trying to appeal to suburban swing voters. That's another way of saying the Democrats had no message to inspire a crucial bloc." - Liberal columnist David Corn of the liberal magazine The Nation, 11/6/02 ********************************* Democrats Who Voted Republican "On paper, I look like a Democrat. I'm pro-choice on abortion. I detest guns. I'm also an enrolled Democrat, and don't intend to switch parties anytime soon. But on Tuesday morning, I waltzed into the voting booth in my left-leaning corner of the People's Republic of Brooklyn, and performed an act of once-unthinkable infidelity - one that gets ever-easier with each repetition: I pulled the lever under the Republican line. "...New York's longtime love affair with the Democratic Party is in its death throes. It's over, except for the whining. In this city, positively stinkin' with Democrats, the party to which my immigrant parents once pledged loyalty has failed to notice that people like me feel increasingly taken for granted, misunderstood, misrepresented - or even outright betrayed. Even my formerly Socialist mom now routinely votes Republican. "...So clueless were the Dems, they also failed to notice many of us stand firmly behind the party of our president in the war against terror - a struggle whose outcome could decide no less than the survival of our culture. In a sense, my vote for (New York Gov. George) Pataki was a vote for Bush to kick Saddam's ass. "...These days, it's the Democrats who scare me stiff. I fear that, given the chance, the party would pull this country backward, to places I don't care to revisit. "Personally, I like tax cuts. And the death penalty. Welfare reform has, in my view, been a resounding success, helping infantilized adults grow up and, likely, helping to reduce crime and child abuse. "Meanwhile, nothing the Dems have shown me proves they have a single, sound idea for improving education. Bring on the vouchers!" - New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser, 11/7/02 ********************************* Baby You Can Drive My Car In case you missed it with all the great election news, poor little Salini Sinan al-Harethi and a small band of his blood brothers didn't have a very enjoyable Sunday drive last week. They were cruising along a Yemeni road - not in their father's Oldsmobile - when BLAM! - a pilotless CIA Predator aircraft's wonderfully-named Hellfire missile blew the gang to smithereens. Hoo-hah! al-Harethi was al Qaeda's chief terrorist operative in Yemen who was believed to have been the mastermind behind the bombing of our USS Cole two years ago which killed 17 U.S. sailors. Ain't payback a bitch? Swedish Foreign Meatball ... er, Minister ... Anna Lundh condemned the successful strike as a "summary execution that violates human rights." Yeah? Tell it to the widows and families of those 17 U.S. sailors. USA! USA! *************************** Oh, Those Poor Babies Reginald and Jonathan Carr were convicted last week of one of the most heinous crimes ever recorded in Kansas, shooting execution-style five young people on a frozen, snow-covered soccer field as they knelt side-by-side. Defense attorney's are trying to save the brothers from the death sentence they so richly deserve by, get this, blaming their poor upbringing. Who didn't see THAT one coming a mile away? The Associated Press also reports that "The mother of the two brothers" asked the jury "to spare the men's lives, saying her children are 'good' and that what they did two years ago was a horrible mistake." "Good"? Is she kidding? Just a "horrible mistake"? I'm sure this mom is suffering a lot of pain and anguish over the prospect of her two boys getting a front-row seat on Ol' Sparky - and I have a certain amount of empathy for her - but to suggest that these animals should be extended mercy - which they certainly didn't extend to their innocent victims - because they were "good" and just made a "mistake" due to their "troubled childhood and dysfunctional family" is beyond the pale. Fry 'em. I'll bring the popcorn. I'm sorry. Wasn't that compassionate? ********************************* Time for Regime Change at INS The Immigration and Naturalization Service is an even clearer and more present danger. Though Commissioner James Ziglar announced in August he is leaving by the end of the year, he should go now, and President Bush should order a complete transformation of the agency that regularly fails this country because of the people it lets in and can't find once they are admitted. "While sleeper terrorist cells, said by both Republican and Democrat congressional leaders to be in this country, await instructions to kill us, Commissioner Ziglar and company continue to dither. While they do, even more illegal aliens enter the country, or stay here, and break our laws, which are not enforced." - Columnist Cal Thomas ******************************** Why Campaign Finance Reform Won't Work "As long as the federal leviathan insists on exerting its vast, and growing, powers over its citizens and their business pursuits, efforts to influence that power by funding similar electoral interests will not cease. With the federal government now spending more than $2 trillion annually (and raising nearly as much in taxes), this simply will not happen. Nor will it happen as long as the 130,000 staff members of 55 federal regulatory agencies continue to issue 20,000 new regulations every five years or so, as they did from April 1, 1996, to Sept. 30, 2000, according to the General Accounting Office." - Washington Times editorial, 11/6/02 *********************************** Upcoming Mergers The following was sent to me by a good friend and bona fide political guru, Marc Sperberg... In light of the Exxon/Mobil deal and the AOL/Time Warner implosion, I wanted to make a few select friends aware of the next anticipated wave of mergers so you can get in on the ground floor and hopefully make some nice returns. Watch for these consolidations in late 2002... 1. Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush and W.R. Grace will merge and become Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace. 2. Polygram Records, Warner Bros. and Zesta Crackers join forces and become...Polly, Warner Cracker. 3. 3M will merge with Goodyear and issue forth as MMMGood. 4. Zippo Mfg., Audi Motor Car, Dofasco and Dakota Mining will merge to become, of course, ZipAudiDoDa. 5. Federal Express is expected to join its major competitor, UPS, and consolidate as FedUP. 6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become FairwellHoneychild. 7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become Poupon Pants. 8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become Knott NOW. ********************************* Conservative Books for Your Christmas List "Slander" - Ann Coulter: How prominent liberals are leading a "Big Lie" propaganda war against conservatives...and how the media is letting them get away with it! To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c5985&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Bias" - Veteran CBS reporter breaks ranks - and names names - to expose how liberal bias "pervades" the mainstream media. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c5866&sour_cd=C ME005601> "When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country" - G. Gordon Liddy explains why you're not as free as you used to be - and what you can do about it. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6070&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Invasion" - * Michelle Malkin's book "Invasion" shows how and why every component of America's immigration system has failed. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6063&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Breakdown" - In Breakdown, America's premier national security reporter Bill Gertz reveals how, since the 1970s, liberals have ravaged the CIA and FBI until both were rendered incapable of effective clandestine operations. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6007&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Let Freedom Ring" - In Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity comes out swinging, showing how liberal ideas have made America more vulnerable and created confusion in our society about what is right and wrong. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6024&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Fighting Back" - From 9/11 to victory in Afghanistan...the dramatic inside story of how the Bush White House mobilized against terror. To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6076&sour_cd=C ME005601> "The Threatening Storm" -- From Kenneth Pollack -- a top CIA Iraq expert: why we must go to war with Iraq.Now a New York Times Best-Seller!To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6114&sour_cd=C ME005601> "Why the Left Hates America" -- Exposing the lies that have obscured our nation's greatness.To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6065&sour_cd=C ME005601> "First Among Equals" -- Ken Starr reveals: How the Supreme Court became the Left's favorite tool for making laws -- and what conservatives can do about it.To order now, click here: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c5990&sour_cd=C ME005601> ********************************* Long Savings on Long Distance! 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