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*********************************** The Liberator "The United States does not occupy other countries. We liberate them." - President George W. Bush *********************************** 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. *********************************** The Sound of Media Silence "Sen. Patty Murray's outrageous comments extolling Osama bin Laden as a humanitarian continue to draw mostly silence from the national media. . . . Those who're skeptical of liberal media bias should ponder this hypothetical: Suppose that during President Clinton's Kosovo war, a Republican congressman had sung the praises of 'great humanitarian' Slobodan Milosevic. Is it even imaginable that the (New York) Times would omit such a comment in an article on GOP critics of the war--let alone that the paper would ignore it altogether?" - Best of the Web, 12/26/02 *********************************** Hollywood's Latest Three Stooges "I have a few choice words for Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte. Congratulations. You are the moral equivalents of people who gave aid and comfort to Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin." - Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com *********************************** Great Society on the Mekong "It is an ideological folly to attempt to recreate in foreign lands with utterly different cultures what 200 years of American history produced here. . . . Today's democratist prattle about converting a post-Saddam Iraq into an Arab model of 'American values' calls to mind LBJ's burbling on about 'building a Great Society on the Mekong.' " - Columnist Pat Buchanan, American Conservative, 12/16/02 *********************************** Making An Example Out of Saddam "American intelligence has known for years that Kim Jong-il made fools out of President Clinton and his negotiator Jimmy Carter in 1993, and probably already possesses one or two nuclear weapons and the missiles to drop them on South Korea or Japan. But the announcement confused a good many Americans. "If North Korea is a more immediate danger than Iraq, why are we planning to attack Iraq? The answer is that Mr. Bush is determined to prevent Iraq from becoming another North Korea. . . . Once Iraq is purged of Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-il may well see the wisdom of negotiating an end to the his own program of nuclear armaments." - Columnist William Rusher ********************************** The Costs of War "As large as the potential costs of war may be, however, it is important to keep in mind that we cannot necessarily avoid them by doing nothing. The fear of terrorist attack imposes a very real cost on the economy now. And if Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and uses them, the cost of doing nothing could be much greater than the cost of a preemptive strike. "...Of course, the ultimate justification for war is that Iraq threatens our physical safety and those of our allies. One really can't put a price on that." - Columnist Bruce Bartlett of the National Center for Policy Analysis *********************************** School Daze "Next semester the whole country can get a lesson in Bill Clinton. The C-SPAN public-affairs cable network will broadcast every class of 'The Clinton Presidency,' a new course at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock that will examine the former president's achievements and scandals, the Associated Press reports. . . . The course will be taught by political science professor Margaret Scranton." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 12/26/02 *********************************** OK, Class, Please Turn to Page 173... "The 1948 States' Rights Party campaign failed to derail the proper extension of civil rights to all Americans. Yet the effort nonetheless managed to hijack the vital concept of federalism, even today. . . . Federalism means the federal government should focus on its main responsibilities and not meddle in matters best handled closer to home. "...As for education, the federal government provides only about 6 percent of all funding for K-12 schooling. Yet the feds hope to leverage that minor sum by bullying schools to conform to federal standards - a tactic other countries have used to brainwash children with pro-government propaganda. "...The younger generation needs to relearn the value of federalism in order to understand that the states' rights crusade was an illegitimate corruption of the idea. But the whole idea that government-run schools might teach students that the federal government should be limited in any way seems an unlikely dream if the federal government keeps encroaching on what our children are taught and how." - Columnist Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute *********************************** Voting With Your Feet "Federalism diffuses political tensions by allowing for a wide variety of local cultural and political tastes. Las Vegas and Salt Lake City are geographically close, yet far apart when it comes to social mores. If you cannot tolerate being near gambling and prostitution, don't live in Nevada. The ease of voting with your feet makes federalism an excellent safety valve for social intolerance. Abortion became such a nationally divisive issue because the Supreme Court 'made a federal case out of it,' even though murder cases are left to local jurisdictions." - Columnist Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute *********************************** Hey, Kids...Can You Say "Republic"? "One of the hallmark issues of the Rehnquist (Supreme) court is that, in the face of a lot of criticism, the court has just been adamant and steadfastly faithful to the vision that (founding father James) Madison and others lifted up; that this is a federal republic. Ours is a government of (enumerated) powers. I worry that the rising generation may not know this. It is simply not the case that every time there is a social problem, Congress is empowered to address it. Or at least to address all the ramifications of it. And sometimes this comes as a bit of a surprise, I think to members of Congress and to the American people." - Former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr in a recent speech at the Heritage Foundation ************************************ The Word for Today, Boys & Girls, Is "Privatization" "Civil service unions and civil service regulations have made it almost impossible to fire incompetent workers. . . . The inability to get rid of poor performers has a debilitating effect on the vast majority of workers who do an adequate or superior job, and undermines the public's respect for government workers in general. The inability to fire or adequately punish poorly performing employees, or sufficiently reward outstanding employees, greatly limits management's ability, hence the lower productivity levels normally found in government vs. the private sector. "The solution is to realize that most of the legitimate functions of government do not have to be done by government employees. Most government functions can be performed by private companies who compete on the basis of competency and cost effectiveness. . . . Almost every area of government is capable of being simplified and contracted out. The problem is not 'the government worker'; it is the system under which 'government work' is done." - Richard W. Rahn of the Cato Institute ************************************** And Now for Today's History Lesson. "In 1968, during the war in Vietnam, a U.S. officer told an American reporter that U.S. forces bombed and shelled the South Vietnamese community of Bentre because 'it became necessary to destroy the town to save it' from the communists. "Today, as we begin our war on terrorism and search for the most effective strategy and tactics to win this new conflict, we must not let it become necessary to destroy our freedom to save it from the terrorists. Instead, we must remember the advice Benjamin Franklin gave in 1759 when he warned: 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' " - Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, chairman of the president's Advisory Panel on Terrorism ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance! 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