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*********************************** Barefoot Beggar in the Park "I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator's name: SAH-dum, not sah-DAM. Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means 'One Who Confronts,' the former means 'Barefoot Beggar.' Be assured that when Mr. Bush says SAH-dum in his speeches broadcast to the Arabic world, he is doing it on purpose." - Jack Wheeler, president of the Freedom Research Foundation *********************************** Saudis on the Hot Seat "But facts are facts. And that is that the Saudis have been engaged in a Faustian bargain with the radical Islamic fundamentalists for many, many years in order to stay on the throne. (The Saudis) have got to stop this business of funding these radical Islamic organizations which are intent on destroying the West and the U.S." - Sen. John McCain, ABC's "This Week," 11/24/02 *********************************** Homeland Bureaucracy "...Congress has created yet another Cabinet-level department - the 15th - that will further inflate the federal bureaucracy. . . . (T)his department will bring with it a whole new layer of bureaucrats and bureaucracy that has yet to exist. There will be another Cabinet secretary, Tom Ridge, plus an untold number of assistant secretaries, deputy secretaries, assistant deputies and personnel. "They will all have substantial staffs of their own and, in many cases, the staffs will have staffs, eventually adding hundreds to thousands of people to the federal work force. In the end, figuring in all the additional overhead, the cost to run these agencies will multiply like rabbits in a wildlife sanctuary. . . . (L)ets not kid ourselves. This will still be a government bureaucracy that will, by its very nature, be inherently inefficient." - Columnist Donald Lambro *********************************** Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels "It would be comforting to view the strange press conference held last Wednesday by outgoing Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle - in which he blamed Rush Limbaugh and other talk-show hosts for inciting hatred - as an instance of garden-variety sore-loserdom. But the charges Daschle flung indicate something more serious: an anti-democratic arrogance that looks increasingly like a bedrock principle of the Democratic Party. "Daschle's disingenuousness and hypocrisy are startling. First, Limbaugh ranks rather low on the calumny scale compared with certain of Daschle's fellow Democrats. We cannot think of a Republican equivalent of Alec Baldwin's urging, at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, that impeachment manager Henry Hyde be stoned to death. Nor can we recall any Republican commercial with nearly the potential to incite hatred as the Democratic ads run in the 2000 campaign cycle warning that black churches would burn if Republicans were elected." - Christopher Caldwell, the Weekly Standard *********************************** Daschle Unglued "He's very exasperated. They expected to gain seats, and they lost seats so it was clearly a setback for them. . . . Senator Daschle is obviously looking around for somebody to blame other than himself and his leadership. I think it's somewhat laughable." - Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on why he thought Senate MINORITY Leader Tom Daschle lashed out at conservative radio talk show hosts last week, Fox News Sunday, 11/24/02 *********************************** Swiss Cheese Borders "An analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of the latest data from the Census Bureau indicates that more than 33 million legal and illegal immigrants live in the United States - an increase of 2 million, or a population four times the size of Washington, D.C. - since the last official count, in 2000." - John McCaslin's "Inside the Beltway," 11/25/02 *********************************** Amnesty Fight Simmers "Republican governors over the weekend defended President Bush's immigration policies, arguing that he isn't proposing amnesty, as critics claim, for Mexicans and others who entered the United States illegally. "...But other RGA members, here for their first annual meeting since the midterm elections, agreed that the issue posed at least some problems for the president with his political base. "Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., elected Nov. 5 as Maryland's next governor, said, 'Probably the most negative feedback I've received in my eight years in Congress occurred as a result of' a House vote last year on the immigration issue. 'It is an important political issue with the Republican political base these days,' he said. "...The new Bush plan does not appear to go as far as the original proposal, which critics said would have led to amnesty for as many as 3 million illegal aliens now living in the United States...(but) many rank-and-file Republicans have viewed the administration's use of phrases such as 'guest worker program' and 'putting people on the path to citizenship' as politically inspired euphemisms for immigrant amnesty." - Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, 11/25/02 *********************************** Earth to Peanut Man, Earth to Peanut Man "Former president Jimmy Carter...complained to CNN: 'There is a sense that the United States has become too arrogant, too dominant, too self-centered, proud of our wealth, believing that we deserve to be the richest and most powerful and influential nation in the world.' Reality Check for Jimmy: it's not that we BELIEVE we deserve to be the richest and most powerful - we ARE." - Columnist Tammy Bruce, Front Page *********************************** Gore's Yucky Book "I hadn't intended to read that Gore book on families. I expected it to be a sugary celebration of home and hearth, a public-relations exercise aimed at convincing suburban moms and other swing voters that Gore was not in fact an android but a man with a heart as big as all of Tennessee. In other words: something yucky. "Not so, according to Andrew Hacker, a very smart left-wing sociologist, in the current (Dec. 5) issue of the New York Review of Books. Hacker contends that 'Joined at the Heart' follows in the tradition of 'Earth in the Balance': another Gore production written in a voice of almost terrifying frankness. "In 1992, Gore told us that if he ever became president, he would dismantle the American economy in the name of environmental regulation. Ten years later, he is ready to execute similar destruction on the American family. I think I am going to have to read the dratted thing after all." - Columnist David Frum, National Review Online, 11/25/02 *********************************** Rescuing Black Kids from Publik Skools ".(M)ore black families are taking on the responsibility of teaching their children at home. Home-schooling, once thought of as a preserve of white conservatives, is undergoing an image change. "Three years ago, black families accounted for 1 percent of the 850,000 American families who home-schooled their children, according to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics. That is about 8,500 black families. 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