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********************************* 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. *********************************** Everybody Loves Fidel "Cuba's Communist Party said yesterday that more than 97 percent of voters showed support for the nation's socialist system by electing 609 candidates who ran uncontested for parliament." - "World Scene," Washington Times, 1/21/03 *********************************** Here's a Lawsuit We'd LIKE to See "With regard to the disabled Maryland man who was denied a permit for concealed carry: Wouldn't it be great if he sued under the 'Americans with Disabilities Act?'" - News & Views reader *********************************** Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho...Body Odor's Got to Go "That was a motley crew down at...Saturday's march against the 'war' on Saddam Hussein . . . A few of the 'peace activists' in the crowd did in fact look like they had been here since 1969, sleeping it off after rallying against Ho Chi Minh. With their scraggly beards, scuffed boots and ferocious body odor, still searching for the sex and revolution that has successfully eluded them for these past four decades, they were pleased to finally have somewhere to go." - Wesley Pruden, "Pruden on Politics," 1/21/03 *********************************** Bottom Line on Death Penalty "The death penalty is something Americans want to get right, not rid of." - Columnist Hans Allhoff *********************************** Takin' Your Inner Wolf Out for a Spin "I don't own an SUV, but now that they've been identified as the locus of evil, I'm thinking of getting one. And if I do, I figure I might as well let the inner wolf out for a rampage and get the most obnoxious SUV I can find. "My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork. "Inside I'll install video screens so that impressionable youngsters can play Grand Theft Auto on the way to weekly NRA meetings. And there will be room in the back for tobacco lobbyists nibbling on french fries and endangered prawns." - Columnist David Brooks, Wall Street Journal, 1/21/03 ********************************** Stones Run Out of Town for Lighting Up "With New York City facing a fiscal crisis and graffiti having returned to the subways, Mayor Mike Bloomberg knows what his priorities are. 'Bloomberg is fuming mad over Rolling Stones members smoking on stage at Madison Square Garden during an nationally televised concert this weekend,' according to the Drudge Report. 'HBO cameras captured band members Keith Richards and Ron Wood smoking cigarettes while performing,' " "Drudge reports: 'The mayor sent cops to issue summonses,' one stage source told the Drudge Report late Saturday. 'But the cops watched the show, off stage, by a monitor, instead of stopping the concert.' . . . 'The band raced out of the Garden after they finished their last number, avoiding the police,' an insider said. 'The music had not even finished playing; and they were in cars already, spinning away. They did not even go to their dressing rooms!' " - OpinionJournal.com, 1/20/03 *********************************** 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. ********************************** San Francisco Threat "(I)f you want to see what's really wrong with the Democratic Party today, you need look only at the first move by California Democrat and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Her push for allowing Mexican ID cards to be used for entry to the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco should go down as this era's equivalent to Bill Clinton's 'gays in the military' policy in the first few months of his administration, which immediately alerted the nation to his essential lack of seriousness." - Columnist Georgie Anne Geyer ********************************** Just a NORML Football Jock "To me, (arresting people for simple marijuana possession is) just a huge waste of taxpayers' money. It's not educating people, not doing anything to reduce use. All it does is put people in jail, eat up police time, judges' time, right down the line. I've met a lot of people in my life who occasionally use marijuana. People who are responsible, who have jobs, who pay taxes, who raise families. Productive members of society. They shouldn't be treated like criminals." - Five-time Pro Bowler and two-time Super Bowler Mark Stepnoski, new spokesman for NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Washington Times, 1/21/03 ********************************* Hey, Was That Sen. John Edwards? "A friend recently got caught by a red light too far out in an intersection and, rather than go ahead against traffic, decided to back up. Although he checked his rearview mirror, it took only an instant for a pedestrian to walk behind him. The pedestrian was jarred but not hard enough to knock him down. "My friend jumped out of the car full of apologies and concern, only to see an onlooker step off the curb, hand the pedestrian his card and announce he was a lawyer and if he wanted to take action against my friend, he, the lawyer, would be available." - Columnist Dan K. Thomasson ********************************* Why Medical Insurance Costs So Much "While infant mortality has declined and the kinds of injuries that routinely left children handicapped for life generally have disappeared, parents encouraged by attorneys specializing in malpractice now treat even the slightest blemish on a newborn as the fault of the doctor and the liability of his insurance carrier. Doctors in all disciplines routinely order every expensive test imaginable to head off the possibility of being sued, driving up the costs of medicine dramatically." - Columnist Dan K. Thomasson ********************************* Read My Lips: No More Lawyers "As for myself, I have taken a personal pledge that I will not vote for any candidate, local, state, or federal, who is, by profession, a lawyer -- and I'm getting a lot of others to take the same pledge. If we are to save the republic we must begin to flush lawyers out of the legislative branch of government. Do we find judges who also serve in the legislature or in the executive branch? No. Do we find presidents, governors, or cabinet officials who simultaneously serve in the legislature or sit on the bench? No. Why should lawyers, officers of the court, be allowed to serve simultaneously in two branches of government?" - News & Views reader Paul R. Hollrah ********************************* What Did We Ever Do Before "Diversity"? "The (University of Michigan) maintains that students learn better in a diverse environment created by racial discrimination. . . . The problem is that Western learning thrived for centuries before anyone thought about racial diversity. Did Immanuel Kant suffer from the stultifying racial sameness of the University of Koenigsberg? Was Bertrand Russell hampered by the monochromatic classrooms of Cambridge?" - Columnist Rich Lowry ********************************* No Place in Life or Law "It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.' Nowhere is such a duty to be found in the Constitution. It is the government's responsibility to not discriminate against any of its citizens on the basis of their 'race,' ethnicity, skin color or national origin or that of their ancestors. When the government uses 'race-neutral' means to achieve a desired racial outcome instead of explicit race preferences, the two approaches become a distinction without a difference." - Ward Connerly, chairman, American Civil Rights Institute ********************************** Hot Off the Press...A New "Muth's Truths" "Founding Father Benjamin Franklin would have celebrated his 297th birthday last week, and it's probably a good thing he wasn't here to see it. Or, as a Nevada state senator recently proclaimed on another subject, Franklin would be rolling over in his grave if he were alive today." Catch this birthday reflection, "The Franklin Word Mint," in the latest issue of "Muth's Truths" by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. 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