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*********************************** That Old Dutch Wisdom "It has been said that, when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, someone told him that admitting students to the University of California on individual performance alone could mean that all the students at Berkeley might be Asian Americans. 'So what?' was his response. Like many other remarks by Mr. Reagan, it cut through mountains of nonsense and knocked over numerous houses of cards that keep the intelligentsia wringing their hands." - Columnist Thomas Sowell *********************************** 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. *********************************** Paid In Full "The time for the U.N.'s Inspector Clouseaus and Mister Magoos has almost run out. It is time to act. . . . God bless the French, someone once said, they're always there when they need us. Well, Lafayette, we have arrived twice this past century to rescue Europe, and that debt has been paid in full. With the blood of our finest. This country is not prepared to pay for Europe's follies a third time, not after September 11." - Columnist Paul Greenberg *********************************** Dear Dad: A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we Americans were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface again at some point in the near future anyway. He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Dad, tell Mom I love her. Your loving daughter, Mary Beth Johnson, Lt. Col., USMC ********************************** Naked (Non)Aggression "Protesters are trying a nude way to stir interest in the anti-war movement. . . . Just after dawn yesterday, roughly 30 women scurried into the heart of (New York's) Central Park, splitting up into groups to avoid arousing police suspicion. Once they reached their destination, the Bethesda Fountain, they displayed their deep misgivings about the war (with Iraq) by disrobing amid a steady snowfall." - Reuters, 2/8/03 ************************************ Dancing on Astronauts' Graves "Deposed from his mosque because of his anti-Western rhetoric, cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri took his radical brand of Islam to the streets yesterday and told worshippers President Bush is a curse to his people and the planet. The Egyptian-born activist, who is wanted in Yemen on terrorism charges, also said the space shuttle disaster was an alarming sign from Allah that America will face fresh calamities. "...According to British tabloid reports, al-Masri 'gloated' over the Columbia crash and the death of its crew of seven on Feb. 1. 'It was a trinity of evil against Muslims, because [the shuttle] contained Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu,' he was quoted as saying." - Washington Times, 2/8/03 ************************************ 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. ********************************** Snow White(water) Leads Pack of Dwarfs "A new poll says Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could sweep the entire field of Democratic presidential candidates if she wanted to challenge President Bush in 2004 - fueling talk she's leaving the door open to doing just that. "Clinton would be the choice of 42 percent of Democrats - a nearly 3-1 margin over second-place Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), who got 15 percent. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) each had 11 percent and all others were in single digits." - New York Post, 2/7/03 *********************************** Hey, Big Spenders "Whatever happened to the GOP's crusade against bloated government? President Bush's $2.25 trillion budget released Monday is almost 30 percent larger than the budget he inherited three years ago. Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, the budget has grown by 50 percent. If the Republicans are fighting a war against big spenders, the big spenders are winning." - Stephen Moore, president, Club for Growth ************************************ NASA's Funding "According to the government accounting office, waste and fraud in the federal budget is larger than NASA's budget. In May of last year, the Office of Management and Budget announced that the federal government had doled out $20 billion in health, housing and food benefits to people not entitled to them. Erroneous Medicare payments alone were almost the size of NASA's budget. "When it comes to waste, the GAO barely scratches the surface. The federal education budget is several times larger than NASA's. What's to show for it? According to a recently released report, a 1955 high-school education is the equivalent of a university education today." - Columnist Paul Craig Roberts *********************************** Good Lord "A Vietnam combat veteran was fired from his job as an honor guardsman at a New Jersey veterans cemetery after he said the phrase 'God bless you and this family' during a burial service last fall. Patrick Cubbage, 54, of Philadelphia, says his supervisor told him not to offer the religious blessing because it might offend families who are not Christian. . . . 'We' re one nation under God,' Mr. Cubbage said. 'You're going to tell me millions and millions of people can't have God present with them because one person might be offended? That's ludicrous.'" - Washington Times, 2/8/03 [Read the full, ridiculous story at http://washingtontimes.com/national/default-20032825534.htm, which includes a link to where you can sign a petition supporting Mr. Cubbage] *********************************** Time to Support Pro-Choice...in Education "Teacher unions exert a stranglehold over the Democratic Party, which in turn does the unions� bidding when it comes to education policy. But if children in the District (of Columbia) and other failing schools systems around the country are to have any chance of succeeding, they have to be allowed to abandon schools that don't teach, and that means giving school vouchers to poor parents so they can choose better schools for their children." - Columnist Linda Chavez *********************************** Making Quotas Obsolete "Anyone who is serious about wanting to help minority young people must know that the place to start is at . . . (the) beginning in the earliest grades teaching reading, math and other mental skills on which their future depends. But that would mean clashing with the teachers� unions and their own busybody agenda of propaganda and psychological manipulation in the classrooms. The path of least resistance is to give minority youngsters a lousy education and then admit them to college by quotas. With a decent education, they wouldn't need the quotas." - Columnist Thomas Sowell *********************************** 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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