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*********************************** Talk About Irony " 'A march by mothers protesting gun violence was re-routed by police on Saturday after a man was shot and killed along its intended path,' the South African Press Association reports from London. This just goes to show how urgent it is for the British government to heed the advice of Mothers Against Guns and enact tough gun controls. What? Britain already has tough gun controls? Oh shoot, never mind." - Best of the Web, 12/2/02 *********************************** Ho, Ho, Ho-liday Gift-Giving "Hi Chuck. I consider it a privilege to be able to help with expenses, and my check for $20.00 will be in the mail by morning. I can't even recall how I became a subscriber ( I think someone signed me up), but I read 'News & Views' everyday, and it's my major source of political news. Keep up the good work, and thanks for all of the time you don't get 'paid' for....You da man!" - News & Views reader, Rick Knoff [If you haven't yet added a "voluntary subscription" to News & Views to your holiday gift-giving basket, please take a minute to visit http://chuckmuth.com/voluntarysubscription.htm. And thank you for your support!] *********************************** Liberal Democrats Comin' Out of the Closet "Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, said he will take the first step toward a 2004 presidential campaign this week by forming an exploratory committee. . . . Mr. Kerry also said he would oppose further tax cuts. "...A member of the Senate since 1984, Mr. Kerry has been Massachusetts' junior senator throughout that period. Both he and the state's senior senator, Edward M. Kennedy, are liberal Democrats." "...Asked to explain his opposition to the death penalty, Mr. Kerry said he believes life imprisonment is a far tougher punishment than death." - Washington Times, 12/2/02 *********************************** Terror Magnet "I saw something recently that I still can't believe I saw. I watched a Ryder truck park in a public parking space. Two men got out and put change in the parking meter and walked away. Big deal? This happens thousands of times per day in America. That's true, but this happened on 9th Street, Northwest (Washington, DC), fifty paces from the FBI's headquarters building. "...If the bomb that leveled the federal building in Oklahoma City had gone off in front of the FBI's Hoover Building, casualties would have been many times worse. All four streets (surrounding the building) offer unrestricted public access. All four offer metered parking. "All the concrete planter boxes and shatterproof glass in Washington cannot insulate this building from an Oklahoma City type bombing. Terrorists haven 't destroyed it yet because they haven't tried. This is a target so rich as to be a magnet for carnage. The FBI's headquarters building must be moved to a suburban location as rapidly as possible." - David Luken, a Washington, DC lobbyist who works near the FBI headquarters *********************************** Fine Whine "There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus," whines John J. DiIulio, a Democrat and former head of the President's faith-based initiative office, in the upcoming issue of Esquire magazine. "What you've got is everything - and I mean everything - being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis." OK, a couple points here. One: It serves President Bush right for appointing Democrats in the first place. I suppose a case could be made that the effort to reach out a bipartisan hand to the other side early in his term was laudable, but that hand has since been slapped more times than Larry, Moe and Curly's faces. But secondly...huh? No precedent for the political taking precedence over the policy? Was DiIulio on another planet during the Dark Years of the Clinton administration? THAT White House didn't blow its nose without taking a poll first. It was eight years of nothing BUT political considerations. Heck, the guy even took a poll to figure out politically whether or not to tell the truth about a certain intern with knee pads. And what's up with that knock on Mayberry? Does this qualify as "hate speech?" Get me Barney Fife on the phone. *********************************** Out With the Inbox "In valedictory comments to fellow conservative Republican senators, retiring Sen. Phil Gramm warned of 'the tyranny of the inbox' - letting events determine their agenda. 'I reminded myself every single day,' he told me, 'that I came here with an agenda, and my agenda was not to empty that inbox. My agenda is to change the country. I don't get confused in running down these little rabbit trails that a lot of my colleagues do.' " - Columnist Bob Novak *********************************** There Ought to Be a Law "More than 40 million American citizens do not have health insurance, while they pay their tax bills for free medical care for Mexican nationals, many of whom are illegally working at American jobs - a double-dip rip off. Furthermore, hospitals closing and emergency rooms crowded with illegal aliens mean that an American needing speedy treatment may have to wait far longer to receive it." - Brenda Walker, www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org *********************************** The Conservatives Are Coming! The Conservatives Are Coming! "Every year conservatives from around the United States come together at CPAC (www.cpac.org), an annual conservative political action conference now in its 30th year. This year's meeting, to be Jan. 30-Feb. 1 in Arlington. Va., will open with an address by Vice President Dick Cheney, a longtime conservative favorite. "CPAC has also announced that their annual presidential banquet will be held in honor of Phyllis Schlafly, the well-known conservative leader who almost singled-handedly led the drive to defeat the adoption of the equal rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution." - Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 12/2/02 ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. 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