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*********************************** Last Appeal... I want to thank everyone who kicked in a few holiday season shillings to help me offset some of the expense of publishing News & Views. Heck, we probably won't need another PBS-style pledge drive like this until after the snows melt (in Florida!). 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! ********************************* Muth's Truths What's in the Democrat Leadership Council's double-super-secret Thanksgiving Day memorandum of doom and gloom? Read all about it in the latest "Muth's Truths" column. Just go to: www.chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm ********************************* Donkeys Cheat Executioner in Bayou State "After a lackluster midterm showing last month, Democrats found something to cheer about in Louisiana, where incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu was reelected to the Senate Saturday in a runoff election against Republican Suzanne Terrell, winning by a 51-49 margin. . . . Appearing before supporters who chanted 'six more years,' Landrieu quoted scripture and declared, 'The Democratic Party is alive and well and united.' " - CNSNews.com, 12/8/02 ********************************* The Whole Nine Yards "What President Reagan did not have was a Congress controlled by his conservatives when he lowered taxes. There was still no fiscal constraint. This time the conservatives have both possibilities, control of fiscal constraints and reduction of taxes. Now let's demonstrate the will of our convictions and make it happen...this is the time. Seize the moment. Where is Barry Goldwater when we need him?" - M. Gene Aldridge, New Mexico Independence Research Institute ********************************* Dumping on Doc Kissinger "...Mr. Kissinger had to know that his appointment as chairman of the president's September 11 commission would provide an excuse for every Nixon-hater to dip his pen in poison. They haven't disappointed. The dependably vindictive Maureen Dowd compared him to 'Dr. Strangelove,' while CNN's Mark Shields likened Mr. Kissinger's appointment to putting Dracula in charge of the local blood bank. "Those rather monstrous suggestions are easily countered by the common sense suggestion that, in taking on this national service at this point in his 79-year life, Mr. Kissinger has little to gain and a great deal to lose. He certainly doesn't need the money, there's little luster to add to a career that includes a Nobel Peace Prize (1973) and simultaneous service as national security adviser and secretary of state to two presidents (he's the only person to ever have done this)." - "Nobles and Knaves," Washington Times, 12/7/02 ********************************* Radical AIDS Vaccine Discovered in Africa "World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) came and went with barely any notice of the fact that a kind of vaccine against HIV has been researched, tested and is available to save countless lives in Africa. It was first developed during the late 1980s in Uganda, where it has created the biggest drop in HIV prevalence in the world. It hasn't been patented or advertised, but it has a name: abstinence and marital fidelity." - Columnist Rich Lowry ********************************* Hot Books for Your Christmas List! Guaranteed conservative selections for the entire family -- click here and save: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com?sour_cd=CME007302> ********************************* Media's Double Standard "When vicious, sadistic murders are committed by whites against blacks, or straights against gays, that news is trumpeted throughout the media. But when similar atrocities are committed by blacks against whites, or gays against straights (including children), there is again utter silence in most of the media. "Instead of learning that some terrible and vile things have been done by human beings of every race, color, creed, national origin, and sexual orientation - in countries around the world - the message of the media is that some groups are victimized by American society. That is media bias, made more insidious by the fact it is not expressed openly as editorial opinion, but by corrupting the reporting of news." - Columnist Thomas Sowell ********************************* Reefer Madness an Abysmal Failure "Make no mistake: The 'noble experiment' of marijuana prohibition that was enacted in 1937 has been an abysmal failure. The goal of marijuana prohibition was to prevent people from using marijuana. Yet, according to government figures, only a tiny percentage of Americans had tried marijuana in 1937, but as of last month, a Time magazine poll indicated that 47 percent of adults - an astounding 98 million people - have used marijuana." - Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project ********************************* We the People & the NRA "There's a problem in the land, or so said the so-called reformers. Powerful organizations, they told us, are taking over our politics. They are drowning out the voice of the people. Democracy is in peril unless we can reconstitute our campaign finance laws to shut these organizations up when elections draw nigh. Need an example? They had one they loved to trot out - the National Rifle Association. "There are many problems with the analysis. One is that the First Amendment's free speech guarantee applies to everyone, even the powerful. Another is that the threat to democracy - at least according to any traditional understanding of democracy - is not people speaking out, but governmental attempts to control these people. And still another problem with the reformers' view is that many of the groups in question - including the NRA, their favorite whipping boy - are nothing more than collections of citizens exercising citizenship. They ARE the people. "It may serve the purposes of those who don't like the NRA to portray it otherwise. Some references make it seem a dark, menacing force of secretive conspirators. The truth is that it is a group that operates in the open and has 4 million members, some of whom are almost surely your neighbors and friends." - Columnist Jay Ambrose ********************************* 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 ********************************* Constitutional Conservatives ".'Conservative' traditionally has meant a government based on the original intent of our founding fathers. Few would disagree with the statement that our government today has little resemblance to the one envisioned by our founders. . . . For those with a genuine concern for the future of our country, we might want to consider adapting the term 'constitutional conservative' as the one to describe the principles which we feel are best for our country and which are based on the original intent of the constitution." - News & Views reader Lester Searer ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance! 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