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*********************************** Legitimate Role for Federal Gov't "Now, we're typically not ones for run-away spending, but when it comes to NASA we're prepared to push for more. Indeed, in the absence of any obvious private-sector interest (and it is limited), space exploration is precisely the kind of project our government should undertake." - Washington Times editorial, 2/3/03 *********************************** 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. *********************************** Retro-Action "I don't understand those who want to wait until the threat [from Iraq] is imminent. Do we wait until the missiles are launched, until the smallpox is in the country? The consequences of error could be catastrophic." - Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana Democrat, to the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes *********************************** Americans Don't Trust Donkeys "A Washington Post poll finds that when respondents were 'asked which party is more trusted to keep America safe, the Republican margin was 47 percent to 16 percent.' That's a difference of 31 percentage points--and it can't bode well for the Dems going into the next election." - James Taranto's Best of the Web, 2/3/03 ********************************** The So-Called "Rush" to War "As slogans, 'rush to war' and 'unilateralism' are catchy. But they are also false. If anything, Bush has been *inching* his way to war. . . . The English language is a marvel of nuance and flexibility, and there is no shortage of words one might use to describe the administration's pace toward regime change in Iraq: gradual, measured, careful, deliberate, implacable, remorseless. But some linguistic contortions are impossible. It isn't a 'rush to war.'" - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, 2/2/03 ********************************** Oh, Happy Day "Administration officials are bracing for the resignation of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the 71-year-old former Clinton Cabinet member..." - Paul Bedard's "Whispers" column, U.S. News & World Report ********************************** Count Taxula "In debating whether there is a liberal bias in the way the establishment media reports the news, acclaimed conservative columnist Robert Novak Saturday said putting a tax cut in front of a liberal journalist is 'like putting a cross in front of a vampire.'" - CNSNews.com, 2/3/03 ********************************** Treasure Bath! "Someone quoted in the New York Times recently referred to the Bush tax cut as one in which 'most of the benefits would be showered on the richest taxpayers.' Keeping money that you yourself earned is called having benefits 'showered' on you. . . . Big spenders and big taxers never want to face the fact that wealth is not created by government, but by the people the government taxes." - Columnist Thomas Sowell ********************************** Right Shown to Be Right...Again "Two new studies appear to support the tough 'work first' approaches to welfare reform advocated by many Republicans in Congress. . . . The data also showed that welfare reform was a major factor in increasing incomes. Regardless of state unemployment rates, they said, families with the highest income gains lived in states with strong welfare-to-work incentives, strict penalties for not cooperating with welfare agencies or strict time limits on benefits." - Washington Times, 2/2/03 *********************************** 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. ********************************** Alien Nation "The population of illegal aliens in the United States more than doubled in the past decade, with more than 7 million, mostly Mexicans, now living here, according to a report issued yesterday by the Immigration and Naturalization Service." - Washington Times, 2/1/03 *********************************** The "Benefits" of Unchecked Immigration "What does America get out of the deal of a million immigrants a year? Crowded schools, congested roads, longer commutes, higher taxes to subsidize these burdens, to name a few things. A tiny minority of newcomers enter as talented, skilled, educated or fluent in English." - Columnist James Edwards Jr. ********************************** The Short Answer Is: Yes "(Former Attorney General) Edwin Meese III's argument that trade unions should report their finances 'in the same detail we ask of Enron' is unassailable. . . . Extending his argument one step further, should not the requirement for 'transparency'...extend to all American institutions that receive tax money, including public schools and universities?" - Ernest W. Lefever, letter-to-the-editor, Washington Times, 1/30/03 *********************************** Stupidity Virus Hits 'Bama "A third-grader at Pauline O'Rourke Elementary School in Mobile, Ala., 'was suspended for five days for violating the Mobile County system's zero-tolerance policy for substance abuse.' The boy's crime? He took a 'green multivitamin' with his lunch." - James Taranto's "Best of the Web," 1/31/03 *********************************** Stupidity Virus Hits Brits "Farmers throughout the country have 90 days to put a toy in every pigsty or face up to three months in jail. The new ruling from Brussels, which is to become law in Britain next week, is to keep pigs happy and prevent them chewing each other. Official instructions to farmers are to give pigs 'environmental enrichment' by providing 'manipulable material,' which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs last night defined as balls." - Times of London ********************************** Gray Days Ahead for CA Guv "It is also rumored that a left-right coalition may come together to mount a recall campaign against (California) Gov. Gray Davis. . . . The effort will be mounted under the theory that voters in a recall election are asked whether they want to retain or oust the object of the recall and, at the same time, are given a chance to choose a replacement from among a list of those who filed for consideration. If a majority of voters chose to oust Davis then the candidate who gets the most votes among the potential replacements becomes governor." - Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 1/30/03 *********************************** 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. 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