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*********************************** Cloning Around With Al Gore "Presidential contender John F. Kerry will become the new Al Gore. With the original Al Gore out of the race, American politics will need a yin to George W. Bush's yang - a polar opposite for a polarized electorate. The junior senator from Massachusetts is wooden, humorless, self-aggrandizing and fancies himself an intellectual. Sound familiar? "Kerry will put off reporters who follow him around. Friends will protest that in private he's incredibly charming. But nobody will believe those friends. He will be ripe for spoof and satire, and the parodies of him will quickly become better-known than Kerry himself." - New York Post columnist John Podhoretz *********************************** 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. *********************************** Trying to Clone the Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy "Worried that their party has been outgunned in the political propaganda wars by conservative radio and television personalities, influential Democrats are scouring the nation for a liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh and the many others on the deep bench of Republican friends. "...People working on these projects acknowledged they were venturing into territory where liberals have failed and failed again, most notably with the short-lived radio programs of Mario M. Cuomo and Jim Hightower, not to mention Phil Donahue's struggling liberal talk show on MSNBC. "...The (Heritage) foundation is part of a circuit of influential conservative groups that are credited with helping to hone a singular message, bolstered each Wednesday at back-to-back meetings held by Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, and the conservative activist Paul Weyrich. Those meetings are monitored and at times attended by some conservative commentators, columnists and Internet writers. "Democrats have long claimed that the circuit has corralled conservative thinkers, and more important, conservative media, into a disciplined message of the week that gets repeated attention from Web sites like the Drudge Report, Mr. Limbaugh's radio show, Fox News's prime-time talk shows and the editorial pages of The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal." - Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 1/1/03 *********************************** Don't Call Us, We'll Call You Warren Christopher - who served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State from 1993 through 1997 - offered up his foreign policy advice to the Bush administration in a self-serving letter to the New York Times on Tuesday. He told the White House to put Iraq on the "back burner" and focus its attention on terrorism and North Korea. That takes a lot a stones, considering how all three of those problems were left to fester while Clinton and Christopher were at the helm and all three chickens have come home to roost on Mr. Bush's watch. Now we're supposed to take advice from a guy who has been proven to be a complete and total foreign affairs disaster? Not. *********************************** TIME's Feminists of the Year "There they are! The Persons Of The Year according to the esteemed editors of Time Magazine. Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins, whistleblowers to WorldCom, the FBI and Enron, America's new square-jawed superheroes. "We can only speculate, but you could almost see the editors of Time breathlessly drooling. Each woman certainly had their 60s feminist credentials in order: Overdriven, maniacally obsessive breadwinners, complete with a little man in the kitchen nurturing those inconvenient children as she climbed the career ladder.then single handedly assaulted the system by bringing down those evil corporate and investigative bureaucracies (during a conservative administration, please note), overcoming level upon level of decidedly uncaring male superiors. Why, a little more butch (like Hillary, perhaps), and they could have been named 'The Three Greatest Women In The Universe' without blowing a whistle." - Tom Adkins, The Common Conservative, 1/1/03 ************************************ Sometimes It's Better to Switch Than Fight AT&T, MCI and Sprint are all raising or considering raising their already-too-high long distance rates. Isn't it time you made the switch to GOPLongDistance.com? Just 4.97 cents/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. *********************************** Belt-Tightening vs. Wallet-Lifting "(I)t is in spotlighting waste, fraud and abuse that the administration can make the most headway in reducing the size and cost of government. President Bush should reach back 20 years to the days of the Grace Commission - appointed by Ronald Reagan to 'root out government inefficiency and waste of tax dollars' - and create a new panel to locate, with the help of citizens, areas where government misspends our money. "Individual states should be urged to establish state commissions that would watch how state taxes are being misused. "...Why is it always assumed that we taxpayers can afford to give government more of our money, but that government can never afford to spend less and shouldn't be expected to put its own house in order?" - Columnist Cal Thomas [Tune into "After Hours with Cal Thomas" on Fox News, Saturdays at 11 p.m. (EST). ] *********************************** Has America Lost Its Revolutionary Spirit? ".(W)hat I love most about America is the God-breathed revolutionary spirit that led its founders to risk everything in a desperate fight for freedom and a noble effort to write the greatest Constitution the world has ever known. However, something dreadful has happened to that spirit. It's gone. ".(Americans) have no sense of history. They have no connection with their revolutionary past. They have no idea how blessed they are to live with even the fleeting legacy of freedom they inherited. They don't want to know what they can do for their country. They want to know what their country can do for them. "It's enough to make you sick." - Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily.com *********************************** Legal Vultures Flock to Mississippi "Lawyers have been rushing to file asbestos lawsuits against plastic manufacturers in Mississippi before a new state law capping damage awards takes effect today. . . . Georgia-Pacific Corp. of Atlanta reported last month in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that 9,500 claims in multiple suits were filed against it in the third quarter. "Mississippi 'is a judicial hellhole for any defendant, and asbestos cases are no different,' said Mark Behrens, an attorney for the Coalition for Asbestos Justice, a Washington group seeking to curb personal injury suits. . . . The state's juries have handed down awards including a $150 million verdict in November 2001 against Halliburton and 3M. "...Asbestos suits have forced more than 60 companies into bankruptcy since 1982, including 20 since January 2000, the Rand Institute said in September. . . . With defendants including Owens Corning, Federal-Mogul Corp. and W.R. Grace & Co. now bankrupt, lawyers are turning their sights to companies better able to pay damage awards and settlements, a lawyer said. 'The lawyers wanted some fresh blood to feed off of,' said (Jackson, Mississippi, attorney Marcy) Croft." - Bloomberg News, 1/1/03 *********************************** Black "Leaders" Leading Blacks Astray "Black Americans have pushed into the mainstream. They are found in the upper echelon of America's economic hierarchy. . . . From politics to corporate finance to litigation to fashion, blacks succeed. "Yet, despite these obvious successes, there remains much talk about how blacks remain victims of a cruelly unjust past. Our most visible civil rights leaders, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, make a living telling poor blacks that they are trapped in a repressive white society that neuters their talents. "Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton are the dispensers of a warm drug, a surrender of the will to the feelings of victimization. Their rhetoric gives people the feeling that they are not to blame for the missed opportunities of their lives." - Columnist Armstrong Williams *********************************** Goldwater & the Civil Rights Act In his own words, why Sen. Barry Goldwater voted against the 1964 civil rights bill. And get this, it was based on constitutional principles. What an extremist! Read all about it in the latest "Muth's Truths" column at: http://chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm *********************************** The Goldwater Doctrine "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." - Barry Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative" [ To help promote the "Goldwater Doctrine" in public policy and government, join the Goldwater Club by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/goldwater.htm ] ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. Box 19893 Alexandria, VA 22320 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the sponsors, advertisers ... heck, even some of our readers. 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