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************************************ Standing Tall For those of you who wrote asking for a link to Justin Berzon's redesign proposal for the World Trade Center site, go to: http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~jpb424/index.htm *********************************** Hippie Liberalism "Modern liberalism was born during the Vietnam War, when anti-war activists (thought) America was an international bully, a supporter of tyrants on the 'wrong side of history' and a deeply immoral nation. The sharpness of that indictment has blurred over the intervening years, but it remains the picture that liberals carry around in their mental wallets." - Columnist Mona Charen ************************************ Another Donkey Jumps Ship "Another Mississippi state legislator has crossed the aisle. State Rep. John Read of Gautier, first elected to the House as a Democrat in 1992, has changed his affiliation and will run for a fourth term as a Republican. Read is the fifth Mississippi lawmaker to change to the GOP since state Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck jumped the fence in December." - Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 2/10/03 *********************************** Airport Insecurity "Chuck, you are SO right about airport security. I'm a Delta Gold flyer, which means I have the misfortune of having to run the gauntlet several times a month. The system is BEYOND ABSURD. And it doesn't work. The real security problem is on ramps where Lord-Only-Knows-Who is loading and unloading airplanes." - News & Views reader Jim Petersen ************************************ Two New "Muth's Truths" Can reciting a children's rhyme about catching a tiger by the toe be discrimination? And more importantly, is it actionable in a court of law? Find out in this week's Muth's Truths column, "Junk Racism Meets Junk Lawsuit." And against my better judgment, I recently weighed in on the abortion debate, specifically on a measure dealing with parental notification introduced in this year's Maryland legislature. Catch both issues of "Muth's Truths" at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm *********************************** The Material (Breach) Girl "(O)ver the weekend, following hard on the examples of Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and the Hollywood Rifles, . . . Madonna, the material girl, warned that she would unleash her own inhumane weapon if George W. Bush continues to harass Saddam Hussein over his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. "'Editing is in progress on a musical video concept which insiders say may be the most shocking anti-war, anti-Bush statement yet to come from the show business industry,' one breathless correspondent of the culture war cabled the Drudge Report from the front. "...The material girl, decked out in commando togs tailored by the most expensive seamspersons on Rodeo Drive, will throw live grenades, or at least authentic fake live grenades, and bloody babies and random arms and legs of genuine foam rubber in realistic flesh tones will decorate the video attack of the sharps and flats." - Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics," 2/11/03 *********************************** Filibuster in the Senate: Bring It On "Democrats have disruptive designs on much of the Bush agenda, but since the announced offensive against fully qualified judicial nominees is unprecedented, so too should be the response of the Senate's new majority. A threatened filibuster alone should not allow 41 senators to block the confirmation of federal judges. Rather than surrender pre-emptively to the need for 60 votes to confirm a judge, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist should call the Democrats' bluff, and bring back the traditional filibuster. Let Kate Michelman, leader of the abortion lobby, man the cots and wipe the brows of weary Democrats forced to talk 'round the clock.' "In response to Democrats' threats to filibuster Miguel Estrada's confirmation, Sen. Orrin Hatch has vowed to make them put up or shut up. Hatch, who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, recently told GOP colleague s that, as far as he is concerned, 'If they want to talk about him for two weeks, they can talk about him for two weeks.' If Bill Frist shares Hatch's welcome resolve, it would be a sharp departure from the Senate's present practice, which allows a single senator to disrupt legislation simply by asserting his intent to mount a filibuster." - Columnist Kate O'Beirne in National Review *********************************** The World According to Fat Albert "According to Al Sharpton, the behavior of Al Sharpton is synonymous with the cause of civil rights, and therefore any criticism of Al Sharpton is, by definition, an attack on racial justice. By running for president, Sharpton is effectively asking the Democratic Party to bless that proposition. He knows that, by treating him as a legitimate candidate, the party is ratifying his self-coronation as the leader of black America. And, if the Democratic Party and the media accept him as the leader of black America, the post-Martin Luther King Jr., post-Jesse Jackson civil rights movement will become, in effect, whatever Sharpton says it is." - Columnist Peter Beinart of the New Republic *********************************** 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 *********************************** Camel's Nose Getting Further Under Tent "When President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act into law 10 years ago it was hailed a triumph for working families. Now, a decade later, the measure's original sponsor, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), wants to expand the law to smaller businesses and turn what was 12 weeks of unpaid leave into six weeks of paid time off. "For small business owners like George Daniels, president of Daniels Manufacturing Corp., that would be a nightmare. Between 20 and 30 workers at his 150-employee plant in Orlando, Fla., take advantage of the family leave law each year, he said. "It is already a cumbersome duty for the aerospace tool manufacturer to keep track of each employee's time off and medical problem, Daniels said. If his company had to pay employees while on leave, he said chaos would ensue. 'You might as well move my factory to Mexico,' Daniels said." - CNSNews.com, 2/11/03 *********************************** School Segregation Today "Pockets of segregation persist in some of the nation's largest cities, and this is reflected in their public schools. But when we talk about the cause of segregation these days, we're talking about something very different from the past. . . . The racial makeup of our schools results not from the return of Bull Connor, but from economics, immigration and birthrates. Middle-class blacks, whose ranks continue to grow, have moved into mixed neighborhoods." - Wall Street Journal editorial, 2/7/03 *********************************** NPR Eats Crow...Finally "It took awhile to get around to it, but National Public Radio has belatedly apologized for airing a slanderous 'news' story last year that suggested the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) may have been involved in sending anthrax-tainted letters to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. "...On Thursday, more than one year after the report aired, NPR finally got around to issuing a real apology: 'No one had told our reporter that the Traditional Values Coalition was a suspect in the anthrax mailing. No facts were available' on Jan. 22, 2002, or since then to suggest that the TVC 'had any role in the anthrax mailing. NPR deeply regrets this mistake and apologizes for any false impression that the coalition was involved in this investigation.' "While the belated apology is better than no apology at all, it is simply disgraceful that such a report made it to the air in the first place." - Washington Times editorial, 2/11/03 *********************************** 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. ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. 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