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*********************************** Subscribe Now to Litigation Nation Online The issue of lawsuit abuse is so critical and so big that we now publish a completely separate e-newsletter dedicated strictly to this subject titled "Litigation Nation Online." The newsletter is published weekly, with important, timely breaking news as it develops. If this is an issue of importance to you, subscribe to Litigation Nation Online at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/junklawsuits/ ********************************** Clinton's Bomb Former president Bill Clinton thought he was pretty hot stuff introducing the Rolling Stones at a concert in Los Angeles last week. The guy is obsessive in his pursuit of rock star status, hoping, we assume, to attract hordes of teenage groupies who will "Lewinski" him at a moment's notice. But it appears the former commander-in-briefs' speech before the L.A. concert bombed. Reuters reported that that the impeached president's appearance "cast a pall over the crowd." Bummer, dude. Pass the doobie. Yet one optimist saw the proverbial silver lining around Bubba's dark cloud. At least "it's not Al Gore that's there," said one concert-goer to the Los Angeles Times. "We'd never hear any music." Thank God for small favors, right? *********************************** 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. *********************************** Killing Off the Source of the Infection "We're told (by the anti-war crowd) to concentrate on defending ourselves against the terrorists rather than go after their source. We're warned that, if we do, we'll set off a wave of terrorist attacks in revenge. . . . Goodness, what do you think these terrorists will do to us if we strike in Iraq - fly planes full of passengers into the World Trade Center? Attack the Pentagon? . . . It has all been done. And more will be done unless the source of the infection is cleaned out. "No, toppling Saddam Hussein will not put an end to the hatred for America that pervades a once great but now sick, decayed civilization. But acting in Iraq will strike a clarifying blow at the widespread contempt for America in that part of the world. We're supposed to be a fat, weak, self-absorbed society that trembles before a few suicide bombers. After Afghanistan, that delusion was a little harder to sell." - Columnist Paul Greenberg ********************************** The French Are Toast "We are witnessing the last days not just of Saddam Hussein, but also of French pretensions to be a world power, and perhaps of the United Nations. . . . The French haven't had a battlefield success since the time of Napoleon. The Germans whipped them in the Franco-Prussian War, and again in World Wars I and II. The Vietnamese kicked them out of Indochina, and the Algerians kicked them out of North Africa. "The only value the French could have in a 'Coalition of the Willing' would be to teach the Iraqis how to surrender. But - on the evidence of the first Persian Gulf war - the Iraqis already have this down pat. We have nothing to fear from the French as an enemy, and nothing to gain from France as an ally." - Columnist Jack Kelly *********************************** D�j� Vu: French Collaboration? "The most sinister interpretation of French delaying tactics is that they have much to hide. . . . (I)ntelligence analysts at the Pentagon say the French want to conceal the magnitude of their involvement in providing Iraq with the means of producing chemical and biological weapons and delivery systems as well. There is widespread suspicion Paris is so concerned about U.S. intelligence officers and FBI agents going through the records in Baghdad after an invasion that French commercial and intelligence officials are actively helping the Iraqis destroy the evidence. "In the military, it's become a humorless joke: 'French duplicity' is now described as a redundancy. After (U.S. Secretary of State Colin) Powell's presentation (to the United Nations last week), I asked an officer, 'When should I head out to join the unit I'm going to cover for Fox News?' His reply: 'You'll know the shooting is about to start when all the purchase orders, invoices and bills of lading for chemical weapons printed in French have been shredded.'" - Columnist Oliver North ************************************ 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. ********************************** Million Dollar Question In a column this week, Cal Thomas recalls a bumper sticker bearing the message, "If you can read this, thank a teacher." So, then, who do you blame if you CAN'T "read this", asks Thomas? Darn good question. I think it's spelled, N*E*A. Which is short for, D*E*M*O*C*R*A*T*S. ********************************** Wising Up to Stinkin' Skools "An increasing number of black families nationwide are choosing to home-school their children as they become fed up with what they call the country's "inadequate" public school system. Blacks now make up nearly 5 percent of the estimated 1.7 million children who were home-schooled last year, according to estimates by the National Home Educators Research Institute in Oregon, a non-profit organization devoted to research on home-based education. That's about 85,000 black children - almost 10 times as many the federal government estimated in 1999..." - Washington Times, 2/9/03 *********************************** More on Dixon vs. the DA "(Ronald) Dixon was upstairs, in bed, when he heard a noise in the hallway. Half asleep, he opened his eyes and saw a man at the top of the stairs heading toward the bedroom of Mr. Dixon's 2-year-old son, Kyle. That was enough for the father. He grabbed a 9-millimeter pistol that he kept in a closet, walked toward the man and asked what he was doing there. This man, Mr. Dixon said, ran at him, screaming. That's when he pulled the trigger. He shot the intruder twice, wounding him seriously but not mortally. Other points are worth noting. "Mr. Dixon, 27, is your basic straight arrow, a Navy veteran who works two jobs as a computer specialist to provide for his girlfriend and their two small children. The man accused of being the intruder, Ivan Thompson, 40, is a career lowlife with a blocklong record of burglaries and other crimes. If convicted this time, he could be hammering out license plates for years to come. "Case closed, you might think. But there is one more critical detail: "Mr. Dixon's gun was illegal. He had no New York license for it. He also lives in a borough whose district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, considers the prosecution of illegal-gun charges a supreme virtue. Mr. Hynes wants Mr. Dixon to do jail time - not much, but at least some. If convicted of the misdemeanor charge against him, Mr. Dixon could get as much as a year. Mr. Hynes is offering a plea bargain that would involve four weekends, tops, on Rikers Island. "'Nobody,' the district attorney said, 'is going to get a bye' on a gun charge. 'Everybody is going to do some time. There have to be some consequences. The Dixon case is a perfect example of what we're trying to do. We're sympathetic. No question, he had the right to shoot the guy in his house. But he had no right to have an illegal weapon.'" - New York Times, 2/7/03 ************************************ Retiring the Term "Affirmative Action" "Two words muddle America's entire dialogue on race. The phrase 'affirmative action' should be set aside as an overly-broad, unwieldy formulation. "If someone dislikes hip hop, it would be wrong to say he hopes to 'end music.' No one who disputes global warming theory could be accused fairly of wanting to 'stop the environment.' Yet this exact problem befalls critics of racial preferences, the peculiar institution through which government discriminates for and against citizens based on skin color. "...Americans - - Left, middle and Right - should retire the term 'affirmative action.' Instead, we should discuss the pros and cons of particular racial policies: outreach, public-sector anti-discrimination laws, private-sector anti-discrimination laws and racial preferences. An accurate debate is likelier to ensue over these practices if we address them specifically rather than try to navigate the clumsy expression 'affirmative action.'" - Columnist Deroy Murdock *********************************** 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. 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