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*********************************** O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree "Our schools have turned into a breeding ground for hostility towards Christmas. . . . What must a young child think when her teacher tells her that it is wrong to sing about Christmas? How must students feel when their classroom is decorated with the symbols of Hanukkah, Ramadan and Kwanzaa, but there is not even a Christmas tree in sight?" - Columnist David Montgomery, FrontPageMag.com, 12/23/02 *********************************** Go Forth and e-Multiply If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. *********************************** Holy Hooters, Batman! "A Brazilian woman, shot in crossfire between police and drug dealers, was saved by her silicone breast implants. Doctors said the silicone had slowed the bullet up enough to prevent it from causing her a serious injury. "Jane Selma Soares was caught up in shooting between police officers and drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro. She told Las Ultimas Noticias newspaper that even though she tried to hide, a bullet hit her in the chest. When she got to a nearby hospital doctors realised her implants had stopped the bullet entering her body further." - Ananova, 12/23/02 *********************************** Bill Frist's Abortion Scorecard "(T)he National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) issued a statement to the media characterizing (incoming Senate Majority Leader Bill) Frist as 'pro-life.' 'Senator Frist has a pro-life voting record,' NRLC declared. The group scored several votes on issues it considers important to the sanctity of life - such as attempts to pass a law restricting partial-birth abortions, and a proposal to allow overseas military medical facilities to be used for abortions - to give Frist a 100 percent rating for the past six years." - CNSNews.com, 12/24/02 *********************************** Nah, There's No Such Thing as Media Bias "A New York Times article by Elisabeth Bumiller describes James Carville as a 'Democratic strategist.' That's a neutral and accurate designation. The same article, however, describes the late Lee Atwater as 'the bad-boy strategist of the first President Bush's successful 1988 campaign.' " - Best of the Web, 12/23/02 ************************************ Limiting the Lawsuit Lottery "Litigation reform is essential to both long-term economic growth and quality-focused health reform. The current model of predatory trial lawyers using their wealth to launch even more financially rewarding lawsuits is a downward spiral that sickens the entire culture. In the area of health litigation, reformers are working hard for transparency and cooperation in the systems, The burden will be on the trial lawyers to argue that it is better that someone dies so the family can sue than it is for doctors and hospitals to share information that could save a life." - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, OpinionJournal.com, 12/26/02 ************************************ Jesse "The Bull" Ventura "The best governors out there are snake charmers. (Minnesota Gov. Jesse) Ventura was quite the opposite. He was the bull in the china shop." - David Strom, Minnesota Taxpayers League, Associated Press, 12/26/02 *********************************** The e-Governor "(Gov.) Jeb Bush has stunned many Floridians over the last four years by passing out business cards with his personal e-mail address at public appearances, and then actually responding to their messages. 'I get perhaps 150 to 200 e-mails a day,' he told The Wall Street Journal's editorial board this month. 'It helps me keep close to the pulse of the people. I get unfiltered advice or criticism, and different information than my staff can give me.' "The governor answers some e-mails and forwards others to relevant department heads, but he reads them all. . . . There are real people out there with real pains needing real attention,' Mr. Bush tells his staff. 'Some we can satisfy, some we can't. That is why it is so important that we respond to the hundreds of e-mails.' " - John Fund's Political Diary, 12/26/02 *********************************** >From the Department of "Duh" "Democrats around the country say the replacement of Trent Lott with Bill Frist as Senate Republican leader greatly complicates their task of taking advantage of the racial furor sparked by Mr. Lott." - New York Times, 12/24/02 *********************************** 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 *********************************** Dissing Blacks With Impunity "Incoming House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California this week picked fellow California Democratic Rep. Robert T. Matsui to head the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. . . . Mrs. Pelosi, in anointing Mr. Matsui, passed over Louisiana Rep. William J. Jefferson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which had lobbied hard for her to choose one of their own." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 12/26/02 *********************************** Some Are More Equal Than Others "Conservatives say Democrats such as (West Virginia Sen. Robert) Byrd - who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act, opposed Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court and vowed never to serve in an integrated Army - are not held accountable for their records on racial issues. "...Mr. Byrd has said his 1940s work as a KKK recruiter and organizer was a youthful indiscretion. "In a 1945 letter, Mr. Byrd lamented the proposed desegregation of the U.S. armed forces. He wrote that he would 'never submit to fight beneath [the American flag] with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.' " - Washington Times, 12/24/02 ************************************ GOP Hands Off Racial Hot Potato "(W)ith rare exceptions, conservative Republicans in Congress and the executive branch have desisted from disturbing preferences through legislation or executive orders. . . . Conservatives reason that the political risk of alienating or antagonizing minority voters would be too steep to justify exalting a colorblind principle throughout the United States and earning a chapter in 'Profiles in Courage.' Their inglorious sotto voce motto: 'Let the Supreme Court do the political dirty work.' "...What three decades of grappling with (racial) preferences proves is that conservative Republicans will throw social policy questions to the Supreme Court if a political resolution risks unpopularity and a shipwrecking of their vaulting ambitions." - Columnist Bruce Fein ************************************ All in the Murkowski Family "When Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski announced he was naming his daughter Lisa Murkowski to serve the two years remaining on the Senate seat he vacated after winning last month's gubernatorial race, he said he wanted someone 'who shares my basic philosophy, my values.' "...What does it say about Gov. Murkowski's view of his party that he would reject everyone else in the state for his own flesh and blood, a two-term state legislator from Anchorage who was just named the House majority leader? . . . Mr. Murkowski's choice smacks more of trying to establish a family dynasty than serving the taxpayers of either Alaska or the U.S. "For now the Democrats have been largely quiet. No doubt that's because they appreciate that Gov. Murkowski's nepotism will make it harder for Republicans to keep this seat against popular former Gov. Tony Knowles come 2004." - Wall Street Journal editorial ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance! 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