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************************************* Bah-Humbug in Baltimore "Better not be any BB guns under the Christmas trees in Baltimore this year. The city has made it a misdemeanor to sell or give a BB gun to anyone younger than 18. People who violate the new ordinance - passed earlier this month - face a $500 fine and or two months in jail." - CNSNews.com, 12/23/02 *********************************** Go Forth and Multiply If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. ************************************ Where the Wheels Came Off the Apple Cart "I think (Trent Lott) got sucked into this thing, and he reacted improperly in that he was trying to be compassionate, instead of just saying, 'Look, you guys are wrong. There's nothing racist about what I said. We were talking about a great man.' Instead of that, he started going sideways and disavowing some of the things that distinguish Democrats from Republicans, and that was very confusing to a lot of people." - Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), CBS's "Face the Nation," 12/22/02 ************************************ Haunting Patty Murray "Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state is refusing to apologize for extolling Osama bin Laden as a humanitarian. . . . It's an eerie echo of the Trent Lott episode. In both cases we have U.S. senators making repugnant comments that reinforce the worst stereotypes about their parties: Republicans as racists, Democrats as sympathizers with America's enemies. "...(But) Murray's remarks have not brought anything like the national outcry that Lott's did. . . . It's also probably bad news for the Democrats. Whereas the furor over Lott's comments forced the GOP to do the right thing and demote him, Murray's ode to Osama is likely to come back to haunt her in 2004, when she faces re-election. In a state that leans Democratic but not so far that it tips over, she ought to be beatable." - Best of the Web, 12/23/02 ************************************ Moderates Command No Loyalty "The recent apologetic flailing of Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott seemed familiar to me, but it took a while to figure out why. Then I remembered Oregon Sen. Robert Packwood, who, like a panicked man drowning in an icy pool, thrashed his way from national prominence to obscurity seven years ago, sunk by his own shortcomings. "...The bottom line is that these things never seem to end well for Washington moderates. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and one-time White House staffer Oliver North came through similar media firestorms successfully in large part because they had strong backing from the strong-willed conservative wing of the GOP. President Clinton survived because liberals came to his aid in times of need. Moderates just don't seem to inspire the same sort of loyalty." - Toledo Blade, 12/23/02 *********************************** Democrats Real Losers Over Lott Mess "Tim, I think the Democrats lost ground, in part, my old - former Senator Al Simpson from Wyoming said to me, they have defanged [Democratic leader Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota] now. Daschle can stand up there and point his finger and talk about those rotten, evil Republicans, and people are going to see Bill Frist standing across the aisle from him, who doesn't look rotten or evil. "The other reason I think the Democrats are losers is that, when they had a moral issue in front of them, with President Clinton, they denounced him, but they never acted against him. Indeed, they rallied around him. And I think that contrast is one that people will remember." - Political pundit David Broder, "Meet the Press," 12/22/02 *********************************** Saying What Needed to Be Said News & Views reader Dolly Bixler of St. Paul, Minnesota, writes: "Your depictions of Trent Lott, were right on the money! WOW! Seeing them all at once, was stunning! It's about time that someone had the cojones to say what's needed to be said for many years." To read this latest "Muth's Truths" column - "Humpty Dumpty Lott" - go to: http://chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm ************************************ Right Is Right on Race "Mr. Lott's seeming conversion to the contrary, there's no reason Republicans should be ashamed of a conservative approach to race relations. Indeed, it is a position more just and egalitarian than the contorted calculations and computations promoted by liberals. Simply put, if race no longer is to be a consideration, then race should truly no longer be a consideration. As long as there is official ethnic or racial categorization, there will be no end to perceived disparities - or remedies." - Washington Times editorial, 12/23/02 ************************************ White Flight & Liberal Guilt "Trent Lott had become a diversion, and had to be replaced as the Republican leader in the Senate because he had begun to preach the liberal agenda, an agenda that is destructive first of all to the interests of blacks, and thus destructive to the interests of all of us. "White liberals like throwing more money at bad inner-city schools because it relieves their patronizing guilt; the fact that the money will be wasted and the schools will remain bad is of no personal consequence, because they can flee with their children to suburban (and mostly white) schools or pay for expensive private (and mostly white) schools." - Columnist Suzanne Fields ************************************ Everyone Loves Quotas...Not "Public-opinion polls consistently find that a majority of every racial group strongly opposes racially preferential treatment (i.e., racial discrimination) in college admissions - and for good reason. "It is immoral; it deepens racial divisions; and, at publicly supported institutions, it is unconstitutional. Yet, sadly, it is practiced by administrators at far too many American colleges. The justifications for this continued racial discrimination vary, including many that are well-meaning but deeply misguided." - Edwin Meese & Todd Gaziano of the Heritage Foundation *********************************** Keep Your Hands Off Our Hooters "Several days after Sen. Trent Lott seemed to replace Saddam Hussein as public enemy No. 1 among all decent and heaven-bound human beings, the National Organization for Women (stop laughing) jumped into the fray. "Several days after Trent Lott's self-immolation, NOW suddenly remembered that not only is Trent Lott a racist but - thank Gaia! - he's a sexist, too. Apparently, during the same birthday farewell to Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott made some jokes about Britney Spears and the restaurant chain Hooters, which features comely waitresses who often appear to have natural flotation devices under their extra-tight T-shirts. ".'Lott not only insulted millions of African-Americans last week, but he also offended women,' NOW's President Kim Gandy declared in a prepared, yet tardy, statement. . . . NOW's tantrum is a perfect example of why feminists have lost so much clout. Take note: Nobody but NOW seems to care about Lott's Hooters jokes." - Columnist Jonah Goldberg *********************************** Your Tax $$ At Work: What Makes Women Horny? "A federally funded study has paid women as much as $75 to watch pornographic videos to determine 'what types of audiovisual erotica women find sexually arousing.' "Women participating in the $147,000 study at Northwestern University - funded through the federal National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) - were paid to 'watch a series of commercially available film clips, some of which will be sexually explicit, while we monitor your body's sexual arousal,' according to a flyer seeking volunteers for the study. 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