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*********************************** Dirty Bombs & Butter "...Nate Heasley, spokesman for Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS)...warned that the Bush administration's cost estimates of a potential war against Iraq are 'alarmingly low' and ignore major costs to taxpayers. 'Efforts to save Social Security, pay for prescription drug benefits and education initiatives, and to increase domestic security will be severely affected,' Heasley added. "...Chuck Muth, executive director of the American Conservative Union (ACU), said Heasley's views exemplify the 'loony left at its finest.' ".'They want to take taxpayer money being spent on a legitimate role for the federal government, which is national defense, and instead spend it on things that are not within the province of the federal government, like education,' Muth said of the agenda promoted by Taxpayers for Common Sense. "...'If Saddam Hussein unleashes a dirty bomb in the middle of downtown Manhattan, none of those people are going to be getting Social Security anyway,' Muth said. "The bottom line is national defense is a legitimate purpose for the federal government.'" - CNSNews.com, 11/6/02 *********************************** 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. *********************************** Forget Osama; Beware a Bigger Threat "Whhhewwww. It was a close call, but the nation can breathe another sigh of relief. The threat has been extinguished. "Nine soldiers who attended a training center in Monterey, including at least six who speak Arabic, have been discharged by Army storm troopers. "Suspected spies? No. Terrorist collaborators? No. But they threatened to undermine military unity and national security nonetheless. "They're gay. "The nine were dismissed over several months, but the news of their discharge couldn't have been more appropriately timed. "There was the contemptible Osama bin Laden again last week, or so the experts seem to think, speaking to us from who-knows-what cave. I still get a shiver when the FBI warns in dire terms, as it did Thursday, that intelligence 'chatter' suggests Al Qaeda is planning another 'spectacular' attack. "Didn't the first one happen at least partly because of a shortage of intelligence personnel to intercept and interpret such chatter? And if so, is this any time to worry about the sexual orientation of someone who might help save our lives? "...I don't want them thrown away. Gay, straight, short, tall, young, old, it doesn't matter. Anyone who can help protect us from killers, sign them up and put them to work. I wonder if the best way to bag Bin Laden is to convince the Army he's got a boyfriend." - Columnist Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11/17/02 *********************************** The Lawsuit Lottery "If smokers can sue and win against tobacco companies, even though they knew all along that cigarette smoking could be hazardous to their health, why not sue McDonald's because you're fat, as someone is doing now? He'll never win that suit, you say? Well, maybe not. But in Manhattan, a woman who fell over a broken parking sign was awarded $21 million. "And how about this? In West Virginia, a guy named Dustin Bailey spent a night in a bar and somehow ended up under a parked truck that was delivering supplies to a restaurant. When the unwitting driver returned to his vehicle and pulled forward, the man was killed. Now Bailey's mother is suing the driver, the owner of the truck, the owner of the restaurant, and the owner of the bar -- because they failed to keep her son alive. She wants a measly $350,000. Nothing in her legal filings, though, about whether her son had anything to do with drinking himself into a stupor." - Paul Jacobs, "Common Sense," 11/16/02 ********************************* The Straight Poop Catch Chuck's latest biting commentary on today's current events at "Muth's Truths". Go to: http://chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.TEMP.htm *********************************** Immigration Eroding Free Speech "A strong case can be made that the price we pay for Third World immigration is our freedom. Consider the case of Manistee, Mich., housewife Janice Barton, who was convicted and jailed for using the word 'spics' in a private conversation with her mother. . . . Mrs. Barton used it when, passing a group of Hispanics chatting in their native tongue, she expressed her wish to her mother that these 'spics would learn to speak English.' "...Mrs. Barton expressed an annoyance, hardly a criminal action. Yet a Hispanic off-duty deputy sheriff overheard the private remark, noted down her car license, and Mrs. Barton was arrested and convicted for committing a 'hate crime.' "Something has badly gone wrong when native-born Americans cannot express private thoughts to their own family without being put in jail. "...On Nov. 1, a Michigan appeals court reversed Mrs. Barton's conviction. The reversal, however, was on the very narrow grounds that Mrs. Barton was convicted for 'conduct she could not reasonably have known was criminal.' "Note that the appeals court did not say that in America the Constitution guarantees free speech and that no American under any circumstances can ever be arrested, charged and convicted for expressing their thoughts and feelings privately to another person." - Columnist Paul Craig Roberts *********************************** Our Friends, the Europeans "You want to know what I really think of the Europeans? I think they have been wrong on just about every major international issue for the past 20 years." "They told us they could fix the Bosnian mess all on their own. Wrong." "They told us the Russians would never accept NATO enlargement. Wrong." "They told us that the Russians would never accept National Missile Defense. Wrong." "They told us that if we withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 the whole structure of international arms control agreements would come crashing down. Wrong." "They told us that the Kyoto Protocol was a good and worthwhile treaty, more than just cosmetics. Wrong." "They told us that the European Union's new common security and defense policy would improve the military abilities of the NATO allies in Europe. Wrong." "These were also the people who were wrong about Ronald Reagan and the Evil Empire, the same 'friends' who helped vote us off the United Nations Human Rights Commission. These are the people who whine about our farm bill when they are the world's prime protectionists. They are not just repeatedly wrong; they are also a bunch of hypocrites. So why should we pay attention to a single thing they say?" "...One more thing. Whenever I use the word Europeans, I don't mean the Brits." - Unnamed senior State Department official in an interview with UPI correspondent Martin Walker *********************************** The Reagan Way "Strategies used by President Ronald Reagan to defeat Communism in the 1980s could serve as a model for the Bush administration to defeat an insurgency by radical Islam today, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. "When Reagan won the White House in 1980, he did not plan to engage the Soviet Union in detente. Instead, the new president set his sights on the higher goal of freeing Russia and Eastern European countries from the Communist yoke, Gingrich said. Similarly, the United States today has to come up with 'goals worthy of the leading power on the planet' in its dealings with the Muslim world. ". . . Gingrich addressed his comments Wednesday to policymakers at the American Enterprise Institute, where he serves as a senior fellow, on the presentation of a new book, 'Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph over Communism,' by Peter Schweizer." - CNSNews.com, 11/15/02 Get your copy of REAGAN'S WAR today. Save 25% by going to: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C6106&sour_cd=C ME007102> ********************************* Thinking Of Throwing Your Hat In the Ring? Don't make the same mistakes most first-time candidates make. Read the FREE special reports on the RIGHT way to make the decision to seek public office, what to do first, what to do second - and what NOT to do. Just go to: http://chuckmuth.com/reports.htm ********************************* Long Savings on Long Distance! 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