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*********************************** Keeping Their Priorities Straight "The Senate has used one of the first votes of its lame-duck session to accept a pay raise for the fourth consecutive year. With the 3.1 percent pay raise, senators and representatives will make $154,700 next year instead of the $150,000 earned this year. Lawmakers' salaries have gone up $18,000 since the end of 1999." - Associated Press *********************************** We're SHOCKED! "The first full day on the job for the first woman ever to lead her political party in the U.S. House of Representatives began under a cloud Friday over allegations of campaign fundraising violations by California Democrat Nancy Pelosi." - CNSNews.com, 11/15/02 *********************************** Muth's Truths Catch Chuck's latest biting commentaries on "Libertarians: The Party of Party Poopers" and "Where the GOP Screwed Up In Nevada" at: http://chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.TEMP.htm *********************************** Credibility a Problem for Losertarians "I was seriously considering joining the Libertarian Party, (but they) lost all credibility with me when they ran Howard Stern for office. Any party who would do that can't be taken seriously!" - News & Views reader Earl Albright of Barstow, Ca. *********************************** Political Malpractice "Chuck, there isn't a nickel's worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans," writes News & Views reader Duane Arquette. But that tired, worn-out phrase is nothing more than a cop-out for shallow thinking. It's a soundbite. It's a clich�. It's a feel-good one liner. It's also crap. Anyone who believes there isn't a "nickel's worth of difference" between the GOP's new Majority Leader Tom Delay (ACU Lifetime Rating of 96) and the Democrats' new Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (ACU Lifetime Rating of 2) is either in clinical denial, perpetrating an intentional misrepresentation for personal gain or is dipping into the medical marijuana. Get help. Get real. Get bent. *********************************** Unfair & Unbalanced Alexander Bolton reported in the Hill this week that the Democrats are falling all over themselves trying to figure out what went wrong and what to do to reverse the drubbing they took in this year's elections. "Party allies even entertained the possibility of a liberal television network to offset Fox News, which they view as an adjunct of the Republican Party." Um, isn't that the job of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC? *********************************** Inventing Palestinians "The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. . . . Before the Israelis won the land in war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, and there were no 'Palestinians' then, and the West Bank was owned by Jordan, and there were no 'Palestinians' then. As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the 'Palestinians,' weeping for their deep bond with their lost 'land' and 'nation.'" - Comedian Dennis Miller *********************************** Telephone, Television & Tell-a-Friend If you know someone who might like to join the growing army of conservatives and "rational" libertarians (and a few Palm Beach Democrats) who receive our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views briefings, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com. *********************************** Piece of Cake "Mr. Bush, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it's in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, that can't be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels who've just had their drugs taken away." - Comedian Dennis Miller *********************************** Let's Pretend "After weeks of negotiation, hesitation and general vacillation, our 'friends' on the (United Nations) Security Council - France and Russia - have agreed to pretend to crack down on Saddam Hussein. In return, he can pretend to obey." - Columnist Paul Greenberg ********************************** 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 *********************************** Gays Defending America...Not "Since August, as intercepted 'chatter' from suspected terrorists has grown louder, the Army has dismissed seven Arabic-language specialists from Monterey, California's Defense Language Institute (DLI). Their offense? They happen to be gay. "As the New Republic's Nathaniel Frank first reported, these highly-trained Arab speakers were sacked as America braces for possible war with Iraq and against potential terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Personnel who speak Arabic are desperately needed for battlefield and espionage duties. As the House Intelligence Committee complained last fall, 'Written materials can sit for months, and sometimes years, before a linguist with proper security clearances and skills can begin translation.' Questioning captured terrorists and enemy soldiers is crucial, too. "...Whatever one thinks of homosexuality, Americans should agree - - especially now - - that the Pentagon ought to stay focused on first things, such as preventing America's wily enemies from converting more skyscrapers into high-rise crematoria." - Columnist Deroy Murdock *********************************** Enviro-wackos vs. the Navy "The latest cause of the greens is attempting to deep-six a new Navy sonar system that, yes, might protect the nation's ships and shores, but at an unacceptably high price of potentially startling whales. A federal judge in San Francisco has issued an injunction stopping the Navy from deploying its new high-volume, low-frequency active sonar around the world because the system would impermissibly 'harass' marine mammals." - Columnist Rich Lowry [Editor's Note: What are the odds of such a ridiculous ruling coming out of Nancy Pelosi's home town?] *********************************** Gun Hysteria "A senior at Lincoln-Way High School in New Lenox, Neb., has been suspended for five days for carrying a pellet gun--a prop he was using in a school play. Ott now has a charge of 'possession of a look-alike weapon' on his school record. Says his father, Mark Ott Sr., 'For some crazy reason, the school refuses to put in his record that he was walking through the hall with a school prop.' The Otts worry that the charge will hamper Mark Jr.'s ambition to become an FBI agent." - Best of the Web, 11/15/02 *********************************** Disorder in the Court "A jury awarded the widow of teacher Barry Grunow $1.2 million from a gun distributor Thursday. Pam Grunow's lawsuit accused Valor Corp of distributing a gun that was 'unsafe, defective and lacked features that would have prevented a minor from using it.' "The case stems from the murder of teacher Barry Grunow by one of his students. Nathaniel Brazill, 16, shot Grunow to death two years ago in a West Palm Beach classroom. Grunow's lawyer asked for $76 million. But the jury found gun distributor Valor Corporation 5 percent liable for Grunow's death. . . . "The jury didn't find any liability for Brazill, who pulled the trigger. Brazill stole the unloaded gun and bullets from a cookie tin stashed away in a dresser drawer of family friend Elmore McCray. "...This is the first lawsuit in the country in which a gun company has in any way been held responsible in a murder." - Click10.com, 11/15/02 *********************************** Rise and Fall of the Kennedy Dynasty "Hidden among the many messages delivered last Tuesday was this one: The Kennedy captivity of the Democratic Party appears to be over. . . . (T)here are only two Kennedys left on the public payroll. There is 70-year-old Edward M., whose girth and ideology accord him the status of extinct volcano; and his 35-year-old son Patrick, congressman from Rhode Island, whose apparent instability and low-wattage brain have made him the laughingstock of Capitol Hill. . . . Indeed the only Kennedy with any future in politics seems to be the movie muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger, married to Maria Shriver (daughter of Eunice). 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