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*********************************** Burn Baby, Burn "If you must burn our flag, wrap yourself in it first." - Sign at the counter-antiwar demonstration in Washington, DC this weekend ********************************** 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 Mother-In-Law "'The mother-in-law of an airport baggage handler has confessed to trying to help frame him by arranging for weapons and explosives to be placed in the trunk of his car,' the New York Times reports (second item). 'Fatia Bechiri blamed her son-in-law, Abderazak Besseghir, for her daughter's death in a household fire and intended to seek vengeance by having him jailed as an Islamic terrorist.' "Should legislators pass new laws to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future? Probably not. After all, if in-laws were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws." - James Taranto, Best of the Web," 1/17/03 *********************************** Cut-Rate Tuition for Illegals Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore thinks out-of-country illegal aliens should pay the same, higher college tuition rate as out-of-state legal Americans rather than the lower in-state rate for legal Virginia residents. Radical extremist. A Democrat state legislator, however, is sponsoring a bill to provide illegal aliens the same lower in-state rate as legal residents. Go figure. A Democrat? Who'd a thunk it? But backing up the AG's position was a Washington Times editorial yesterday which pointed out that "thousands of military families stationed temporarily in Virginia must pay out-of-state tuition." So let's recap here: In Virginia, the Democrats want to hand cheaper tuition on a silver platter to illegal aliens who have already broken the country's laws, but soak the families of underpaid American military personnel temporarily stationed in Virginia while serving and protecting the country. Makes perfect sense to me. - Chuck Muth, Editor ********************************** Yer Publik Skools at Werk "Meeting with Department of State to discuss new immigratin laws and how that effect immigrate students and other issues of such Meeting with White House to follow up from last years meeting and to see if they obtained thier goals." - Verbatim description of the first agenda item at last week's convention of the Union of American Student Associations at George Washington University, OpinionJournal.com, 1/7/03 ********************************** Kids in the Senate Sandbox "George Wallace used to brag that if he were elected president the first thing he would do is go to the capital and throw the bicycles and briefcases of all the pointy-headed intellectuals into the Potomac. . . . If there ever was a time when Wallace's pledge might need renewing, it is now, when the Senate, that august body of presidential aspirants, seems to have taken leave of its senses, common or otherwise. "...(W)ithin the first few days of the 108th Congress, the Senate has set a tone of rancor and divisiveness that holds very little prospect for achievement. . . . With at least four members of the Senate and one member of the House seeking the Democratic nomination, one can expect nothing less than all-out political partisanship." - Columnist Dan Thomasson *********************************** CPAC 2003 The 30th annual Conservative Political Action conference will be held in Crystal City, Virginia from January 30 through February 1. For more information, go to www.cpac.org. ********************************** One Plus One Equals...Duh? "The 'dumbing down' of school math courses and the lack of student accountability are producing millions of math illiterates, despite increased spending on education, mathematics educators say. . . . (P)aul J. Sally Jr., head of the University of Chicago's undergraduate mathematics program,...said the trend toward 'fuzzy math' in college, rather than teaching students to do 'serious mathematics' has led to growing numbers of college graduates who are numerically illiterate." - Washington Times, 1/19/03 ********************************** Drugging America's Kids "From 1987 to 1996, researchers are telling tell us, the number of children and adolescents taking prescribed psychiatric drugs has more than doubled. . . . Yet is it all that amazing? "If you were a young person today, would you not be a little blue after a day in the classroom? From all I can tell, the American classroom is a dreary place. Little history is taught and when it is, the history is a tale of man's inhumanity to man, or rather person's inhumanity to person, or is it person's inhumanity to minorities? At any rate, it is very depressing - bereft of drama or heroics. "...Of course, there are other reasons our children and adolescents are in need of psychiatric medication. For one, their homes are often lonely places. No adult is home, not even a grandparent, occasionally not even a foreign-speaking attendant. The rat race that adults so eagerly leap into has left the children without companionship. Readily available divorce has also assisted in making the home a barren place for the young." - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. *********************************** Government-Created "Problem" "Ultimately, the SUV 'problem' - if that's what you want to call it - is an unforeseen result of government meddling with the automobile marketplace, not the evil machinations of the automobile industry. "It was government-mandated fuel-economy requirements (CAFE in Washington-speak) that made it all-but-impossible for the automakers to continue manufacturing large sedans and station wagons after the late 1970s. "But the public - denied large sedans and wagons by government fiat - noticed that SUVs offered similar room, size and features - and began snapping them up as fast as they could be built." - Columnist Eric Peters ************************************ Long Savings on Long Distance 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. *********************************** Litigation Nation "Jenny Lawson of Ecceleshall, England, is an exchange student attending Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, as an exchange student. As a member of the school cheerleading squad, she was performing a jump and ran into another cheerleader. She fell and broke her leg. A simple accident? No, she says: the school is negligent for failing to require cheerleaders do their stunts on 'absorbent mats' and 'encouraging more than one cheerleader to jump at once.' Therefore she has sued the Des Moines School District, seeking unspecified monetary damages." - Randy Cassingham, StellaAwards.com, 1/15/03 *********************************** An Alternative Plan for Tort Reform "Chuck, my 90-year old mother has for years proposed an excellent solution to the problem of rampant litigation and slime-ball trial lawyers. Her proposal is for a 10-year moratorium on new law school applications, during which time trial lawyers will be used for medical experiments. After 10 years things should be back to a reasonable equilibrium." - News & Views reader Roy Guinn ********************************** The Box Cutter "The vast majority of Americans of all races and ethnicities reject race-consciousness in public life. Voters in multiracial California and liberal Washington state did just that when they passed ballot initiatives banning government racial preferences in 1996 and 1998. "Nevertheless, the president (and his brother) continue to spurn one of the conservative movement's greatest, modern-day civil-rights heroes, the man behind those ballot measures: Ward Connerly. "...Mr. Connerly's latest crusade has similar wide appeal. The Racial Privacy Initiative would bar California government officials from requiring people to check off their race when they apply for a job, register for school or have a child. It would abolish those oppressive little boxes that encourage college applicants, for example, to cram themselves into one of a litany of categories, including 'African-American,' 'American Indian/Alaska native,' 'East Indian/Pakistani,' 'Chinese/Chinese-American,' 'Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Pacific Islander,' 'other Asian (not including Middle Eastern),' 'Mexican American/Chicano,' 'other Spanish American/Latino,' 'white/Caucasian (including Middle Eastern),' and simply 'other.' "Such intrusive government bean-counting for the purpose of awarding race-based bonuses, to use President Bush's words, is 'divisive, unfair, and impossible to square with the Constitution.' The time for Mr. Connerly's prescription is at hand: To prevent the government from boxing Americans in, throw away the boxes." - Columnist Michelle Malkin ********************************** Weaning NPR from the Gov't Teat "The MacArthur Foundation has just awarded an unrestricted $14 million grant to National Public Radio .It is the largest single gift in the network's history, and it brings to $31 million the total that NPR has received in donations from just the MacArthur Foundation alone. "It also raises an obvious question: Why should a radio enterprise able to raise tens of millions of dollars from a single private donor -- and many millions of additional dollars from all its other willing donors and sponsors -- continue to put the arm on the US Treasury? Other broadcasters do without government subsidies. NPR can, too." - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby *********************************** 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 15307 Middle River, MD 21220 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. To be REMOVED, go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ and complete the removal request instructions you'll find there. Or send your request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # #
