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*********************************** Apology to Cornhuskers Everywhere "Chuck, please publish a correction. You have terribly insulted Nebraska! We are nowhere NEAR as stupid as those people over in Illinois. That school (that suspended the student for carrying a prop pistol from his school play) is in ILLINOIS, not in Nebraska." - News & Views reader Moses Lambert ********************************** 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 *********************************** Donkeys Giving the Hook to Bill & Al Show "Almost half the members of the Democratic National Committee think that Al Gore should forgo a run for the presidency in 2004. The Los Angeles Times poll of members of the DNC showed significant support for a run by Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts as well as dark-horse bids by Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. . . . Most members also thought President Clinton should limit his campaign appearances for other candidates in 2004." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 11/18/02 *********************************** Latte Liberal Heads Back Into Closet "It's no surprise that [the next House Democratic leader Nancy] Pelosi is working so hard to dispel the notion that she's a liberal. Already, Republicans are painting her as a combination of Maxine Waters and Barbra Streisand. That's unfair: Pelosi isn't a wild-eyed ideologue; she's just a fairly typical member of the House Democratic caucus. And that's exactly the problem. The caucus was already to the left of the country as a whole - even before Nov. 5. And now many of its members have decided that the lesson of last week's election disaster is that the party wasn't liberal ENOUGH." - Columnist Michael Crowley, New Republic *********************************** Chafee Insurance "The White House and Senate Republicans are handling Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell's Louisiana runoff election on December 7 against Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu as if control of the Senate hung in the balance. "...A victory in Louisiana would boost the Republican margin to two seats, but it would also translate into conditions favorable to the GOP in some other important ways, Mr. McConnell said. "A Terrell win would help diminish the ability of liberal Republicans such as Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee to ally with Democrats to water down Mr. Bush's conservative legislative agenda. "...One reason Republicans can't always get what they want, even when in the majority, is that liberals like Mr. Chafee often vote with Democrats, thus earning the tag of 'RINOs - Republicans in name only.' Sen. Jim Bunning, Kentucky Republican, expressed conservative frustration with the problem when, at one point in an interview, he said: 'I would rather Chafee switch now, if he's going to do it, rather than worry about him later.' " - Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, 11/18/02 *********************************** Your Tax Dollars at Work ""The Department of Health and Human Services announced it will provide up to $250,000 to the state of Maryland to provide mental health services for those traumatized by the Beltway Sniper." - From a recent HHS press release, John McCaslin's "Inside the Beltway," 11/18/02 *********************************** Not Exactly the "Average" Woman "(W)hile Rosie O'Donnell appreciates Halloween cakes in the shape of spiders, a left-wing lesbian mother of three may not be exactly a reassuring embodiment of Middle American norms." - Columnist Judith Newman in the December issue of Vanity Fair explaining why she thinks Rosie's magazine went belly-up ********************************* Conservative Books for Your Christmas List 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> *********************************** A True, Abused Minority on College Campuses "Anyone familiar with the argot of modern identity politics should be able to fill the blanks in this quotation from the student newspaper at Amherst College. The speaker is explaining why the minority group he belongs to should be granted its own 'diversity' seat on the student senate: " 'It ought to go without saying that (BLANK) students have been silenced on this campus. . . . There is only one (BLANK) among this year's faculty. . . A number of crimes have been perpetrated against (BLANK)s in recent years as a result of their . . . orientation.' "Is he talking about gays and lesbians? Blacks? Hispanics? The handicapped? "Nope, none of the above. The oppressed minority being described is -- conservatives. The speaker is Theodore Hertzberg, an Amherst junior and chairman of the Amherst College Republicans. He was making the case for designating a 'diversity' seat for Amherst conservatives -- a slot on the student senate that would be open to conservatives only, just like the ones specifically set aside to represent gays, Hispanics, and international students. "A nutty idea? Hertzberg certainly thinks so. That's why he was making his pitch. 'This was from the get-go an attempt to demonstrate how ridiculous the notion of diversity seats is,' he was saying the other day. 'They are nothing more than a way of giving preference to favored groups on campus.' "And what better way to prove the point than for a disfavored group to apply -- citing the same criteria used to justify other 'diversity' set-asides -- and get turned down?That is exactly what happened late last month when the student senate voted to deny Hertzberg's request." - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby *********************************** Targeting or Celebrating Wal-Mart "Wal-Mart is the nation's largest retailer. It offers a wide variety of products at low prices, and employs more people than any competitor. That makes it a target of organized labor. The Union of Food and Commercial Workers has set November 21 as the 'Wal-Mart Day of Action.' The union says it is mounting a 'People's Campaign for Justice at Wal-Mart.' "Actually, the union represents supermarket workers who fear the lower-cost, nonunion retailer. They want Americans to pay more for less. . . . By all means, let's have a 'Wal-Mart Day of Action.' A day to celebrate an entrepreneurial company that offers consumers super value while creating jobs across America." - Columnist Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute ********************************* 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 *********************************** Have You Hugged Your Trial Lawyer Today? "(T)he Clark County (Las Vegas) OB/GYN Society said that 30 obstetricians have either left town, retired early or stopped delivering babies in recent months because they cannot find malpractice insurance or afford the soaring rates." - Washington Times editorial, 11/18/02 *********************************** Ensign vs. the Ambulance-Chasers "One of the top issues that needs to be on the agenda for the next Congress (and many state legislatures as well) will be tort reform - in particular, the problems resulting from escalating jury awards in medical malpractice cases that have shaken the American medical system, Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican, told The Washington Times. "But Mr. Ensign, perhaps the Senate's most tenacious proponent of medical-liability reform, made clear that a battle lies ahead on Capitol Hill. In September, the House voted overwhelmingly for such legislation, only to have a parallel Senate bill sponsored by Mr. Ensign bottled up by the Democratic majority. ".This one's going to be a tough one,' Mr. Ensign says of the prospects for the enactment of tort reform in the next Congress. The best thing going for his side is that 'we've got a great president with a great bully pulpit' that can be used to negate the lobbying power of groups like the American Trial Lawyers Association, Mr. Ensign said. President Bush's willingness may well make the difference in the next Congress." - Washington Times editorial, 11/18/02 *********************************** Lawsuit Abuse Issue Gaining Attention Charlie Jarvis of the United Seniors Coalition did an extensive post-election survey and found some very interesting results. Among them was support from 75% of those surveyed who said they "want limits on trial lawyers' fees and malpractice awards." Seems this "sleeper" issue is finally waking up. *********************************** Temper, Temper Seems some Libertarians are great at dishing it out when they complain incessantly about the flaws in the GOP (often deserved), but they sure can't take it when the shoe is on the other foot. To give you an idea of the mentality of what we're dealing with here, take a gander at the response from one reader who got his panty-hose all up in a bunch when I dared to criticize his beloved Libertarian Party: "Mutt - I've got more important things than than to play silly games with a pea brained Republican faggot. Just delete my name from all your e-mail lists you and then go f*ck yourself. <;) bob" Such command of the English language. 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