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*********************************** Dancin' With Their Cousins "When the chips are down, Democrats will always favor the interests of unions, trial lawyers and environmentalists over those of business." - California GOP Chairman Shawn Steel, Orange County Register *********************************** Lott-a Heat Still On "No one, except the most purblind racist, believes that if the Dixiecrats had prevailed 'we wouldn't have had all these problems.' For heaven's sake, what was (Sen. Trent Lott) thinking? The country, black, white and other, would be infinitely worse off if the segregationists had won. Mr. Lott either does not really believe this, in which case he is a moral cretin, or he spoke without thinking, in which case he's a fool. Either way, he's a disaster." - Columnist Mona Charen *********************************** "Step Down" Caucus Grows "While Sen. Lott's speech is 'protected' under the First Amendment, his position as Republican Leader in the Senate is not. Senator Lott's inadvertent remark re-opened a wound which is so deep, so hateful, and so divisive that even after it heals - as it certainly will with time - it will leave an ugly scar. "Mr. Lott presents a constant distraction and a constant worry to his colleagues on both sides of the aisle, in both Chambers of the Capitol, and at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. When the Senate opens for business on January 7, 2003 Trent Lott should step aside as the Republican Leader." - Rich Galen, "Mullings," 12/16/02 *********************************** Crush, Kill, Destroy "A Bush administration policy authorizing the CIA to kill individuals on a list of accused terrorists was defended by leading senators yesterday as appropriate in time of war. . . . The New York Times) reported yesterday that Mr. Bush had given authority for the CIA to kill principal figures from al Qaeda and affiliated groups if they could not be captured." - Reuters, 12/16/02 *********************************** The Other Side of Gitmo "Flies everywhere. No decent showers. Latrines infested with insects. Contaminated food. And a living space the size of a minivan. Welcome to Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "But that's not a description of the prison for 500 detainees in the war on terrorism. No, that's how our soldiers live while they guard Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners. 'Most of us thought we were prisoners ourselves,' said Sgt. Richard Riestenberg of the Army Reserves, who just returned home from almost a year of baby-sitting terrorists. 'The U.S. troops' hands are just tied,' he said. 'The detainees pretty much ran the place.' "This is not what we hear from the International Red Cross and the ACLU lawyers who flocked to 'Gitmo' to protect and defend the detainees. They tell a story, amplified by the media, of harsh conditions, brutal punishment and oppression of religious liberties. As if the detainees were U.S. citizens, not terrorists trying to overthrow the U.S. Constitution they now hide behind." - Enquirer columnist Peter Bronson [ http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/12/15/loc_bronson15.html ] *********************************** Getting' What You Subsidize A study by the Manhattan Institute shows that when public school districts are given money based on the number of special education students it claims to have, the number of kids dumped into the special education category goes up dramatically? Who'd a thunk it? ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance! Just 4.97 cents per minute (5.97 cents for some non-regional bell companies) * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments after the first 18 seconds * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $2.50 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. *And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views e-newsletter. go to <http://www.GOPLongDistance.com> today. *********************************** OMB & the Bureaucrats "Budget bosses throughout government have a few choice words for the latest bid by the Office of Management and Budget to make agencies justify funding increases. . . . It took OMB dozens of pages to explain its new 'program assessment rating tool,' or PART, but it boils down to this: What works gets funded. Do better to get more. That might sound like a big duh to the rest of us, but not in government. . . . Many in government, used to regular, unquestioned increases, hate it. Some even think it's an insult." - Columnist Paul Bedard, "Washington Whispers," U.S. News & World Report *********************************** Hey, Big Spenders "It was because of the Gingrich Republicans that the federal government posted a budget surplus in 1998 - its first in nearly 30 years. Unfortunately, House Republicans have since gone soft on fiscal discipline. In recent years, they have been spending at a clip that rivals the House Democrat majorities they used to criticize. That threatens a return to the yearly deficits that House Republicans used to decry when they were the minority." - Columnist Joseph Perkins *********************************** Throwing Kids Overboard Because the Boy Scouts have defended their constitutional right of free association, the California city of Berkeley has decided to take it out on the Sea Scouts, a small organization that teaches kids the basics of seamanship. Berkeley has decided to penalize the Sea Scouts by rescinding their decades-old free berthing rights for its training ship at the public marina. This is a purely punitive slap at a bunch of kids solely because its affiliate organization exercised its constitutional rights. As Wayne Besen of the Human Rights Campaign notes, "This sends a strong message that (the Scouts) can choose their membership, but there are ramifications for discrimination and bigotry." Why do activists such as Besen constantly use innocent children to target for advancing their agenda? Why don't they pick on somebody their own size? Hey, Berkeley, leave the kids alone. *********************************** Soft Dictatorship "It's called 'soft dictatorship' - government's attempt to control every aspect of American life for your own good or for the good of the children. The ultimate issue is power. This week's example: government's assault (at all levels) on the home-school movement, which now includes threats to send home-school parents to jail. Government's great fear in this matter is not that the kids are being short-changed or abused - it's that they might be getting a better education than the government-educrat de facto monopoly can provide and that the word might get out." - Dr. Michael Arnold Glueck & Dr. Robert J. Cihak, WorldNetDaily.com, 12/12/02 *********************************** Castles in the Sand "The inspector general of the post office (Karla W. Corcoran) wastes money on 'team-building' retreats and intimidates staffers who don't embrace her management style, according to written complaints sent to Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa). . . . Mrs. Corcoran defended her 'values-oriented' management style, saying it helps foster teamwork and efficiency. "...Current and former employees...say too much time and money is spent on team-building. '(Mrs. Corcoran) had the staff building gingerbread houses and going on leadership retreats to learn the values of teamwork,' said a former staffer. At a retreat two years ago in Ocean City, 'she had us out their building sand castles on the beach in November,' she said. ".'Before taking the position (of inspector general, Mrs. Corcoran) served on then-Vice President Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government." - Washington Times, 12/16/02 *********************************** Strength in Numbers If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. And if you want to help us continue offering News & Views to the widest audience possible for FREE, please consider making a "voluntary contribution" (just like the liberals do over at PBS) by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/voluntarysubscription.htm. ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. 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