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*********************************** Same Ol' Bubba "Sen. John Kerry, recovering from prostate surgery, was told it would be six weeks before he could be sexually active. Joe Lieberman called to wish Kerry well. Al Sharpton called Kerry to offer prayers. BiIl Clinton called Mrs. Kerry." - Jay Leno, "The Tonight Show" *********************************** 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. *********************************** Undeniable Denials On Thursday the Tehran government denied an assertion by CIA director George Tenet that al Qaeda terrorists were living in Iran. In unrelated news, the French denied there were weenies living in Paris, Hollywood denied there were liberals starring in motion pictures and Hillary Clinton denied that she would run for president in 2004. ************************************ The Chamberlains of Today "(Winston Churchill) warned the world about Adolf Hitler - and suffered personal attack from press and peaceniks for his visionary understanding of evil men, their aims and the consequences of appeasing them. The contrast between Churchill and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain - the man who gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler - couldn't be clearer. "...Chamberlain judged himself by his 'good intentions,' but his peace march and mantra were lies. Terrible events proved Chamberlain morally, intellectually and spiritually bankrupt. Now, his name's a synonym for sellout to the vicious and genocidal. "...The Chamberlains of today - they call themselves the 'anti-war movement - are as deeply in denial of the stakes and consequences of failing to defeat Iraq's Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda's global terror machine as Neville and the neutralists were in the 1930s when they kowtowed to Hitler." - Columnist Austin Bay *********************************** The Million Dollar Question "When it comes right down to it, who would you rather trust to protect and defend your democracy - Berlin or Washington?" - Columnist Maggie Gallagher *********************************** Straight Talk from the Straight Talk Express "Containment failed yesterday in Iraq. Containment fails today. And containment will fail tomorrow. We would be placing hope before experience to think otherwise, and we will have bequeathed to our children a much more dangerous world. . . . Is there any doubt in anybody's mind that if Saddam Hussein thought he could harm the United States that he wouldn't give any terrorist organization some weapon of mass destruction? I don't think he would discriminate." - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Washington Times, 2/14/03 *********************************** Depends on Your Meaning of "Co-operation" Saddam's own generous agreement this week to 'allow' U-2 surveillance oversight flights and other 'gestures of co-operation' is absurd on its face, too, suggesting that he is playing games with himself. This is 'co-operation' of a piece with Bill Clinton's famous offer of 'co-operation' when, after Monica was discovered on her knees in the Oval Office pantry, he solemnly promised not to make any decisions 'until we get more facts.' Who knew the facts better than Bubba himself? If Saddam, who knows what his weapons of mass destruction are and where they are, would cooperate, nobody would need inspectors." - Wesley Pruden, Pruden On Politics, 2/14/03 ************************************ 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. *********************************** French Taking Yet Another Beating "The French are not doing well in the American press. The New York Post cover featured a doctored color photo yesterday, depicting French and German delegates to the United Nations as a pair of weasels in fancy suits. "...'Cheese-eating surrender monkeys,' a phrase borrowed from 'The Simpsons' cartoon show, recently surfaced in the National Review magazine and has been echoed in the global media for days. ".'Next time the French need their chestnuts pulled from the fire, it either will or will not be in our interest to do it. If not: Hard cheese, Jacques,' Human Events, a conservative newsweekly, stated yesterday, suggesting France change its tri-colored flag - removing the red and blue, but leaving the white." - Washington Times, 2/15/03 *********************************** Passing the Buck & Paying the Piper "The Second Gulf War is about to begin. This is not the Apocalypse. But it is excellent preparation for it. You don't get to a place like this overnight. It takes at least, oh, a decade. We are now paying the wages of the 1990s, our holiday from history. During that decade, every major challenge to America was deferred. The chief aim of the Clinton administration was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch. Accordingly, every can was kicked down the road." - Columnist Charles Krauthammer *********************************** Oldest Trick in the Book "If you don't put a stop sign up on that street corner, mark my words, somebody's gonna get hurt or killed," say the do-gooders with an air of moral superiority. This puts the decision-makers in a tight spot, for if someone actually DOES get hurt at that corner, the do-gooders will say, "See, I told you so." What they fail to acknowledge, however, is that unless you intend to put a stop sign up on EVERY street corner, accidents are bound to happen somewhere, sometime. Of course, to achieve the do-gooder's desired level of safety, a ten-block trip to the grocery store would take ten hours instead of ten minutes. But HEY, if just one child's life is saved, that's an inconvenience we're just going to have to suffer, right? This is the exact same ploy currently being used by Nancy Pelosi, Tommy Daschle, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats with regard to homeland security. Here are the relevant facts: (1) Another terrorist attack IS going to occur in the United States somewhere, sometime. (2) President Bush has asked for a whopping $41 BILLION for domestic security programs for 2004, a significant 10 percent increase. (3) Desperate for a campaign issue to use against the President, Democrats are cynically laying a trap with, "If you don't put more even money into homeland security, somebody's gonna get hurt or killed." Of course, that's the Democrats' answer to EVERY problem: more money. And of course, it won't fix the problem or prevent another terrorist attack from ever happening ever. But, of course, when the inevitable inevitably occurs, they'll cynically stand up on the floor of Congress and say, "See, I told you so." Republicans and the White House are being set up by one of the oldest tricks in the book. They'd better expose what the Democrats are doing NOW before the Democrats get their chance to actually do it or there may well be hell to pay at the ballot box in November 2004. - Chuck Muth, Editor *********************************** Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk "(The Three) Stooges comedy consisted mainly of wild physical antics and verbal chicanery. Unfortunately for Stooges fans, by the 1970s, a new generation of...post-Vietnam, anti-ROTC feminist moms seemed intent on programming aggressive male traits out of their young sons. "Random violence, even comic violence, became distinctly unfashionable. Guns and G.I. Joe dolls soon bit the dust, and even the old Warner Bros. cartoons - wildly anarchistic and hilariously violent escapades starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner - started getting the evil eye. "Eventually, the comically aggressive, all-male and somewhat misogynistic Three Stooges got caught in the crossfire. They and Bugs gradually melted away from after-school fare, replaced by safer figures such as Big Bird, Barney and the pre-porn Pee-wee Herman. It was part of the emasculation of America. It was never an organized thing, but as it accelerated through the Carter era, this phenomenon began to produce harmful effects: men with perms, Alan Alda, boys who don body armor to ride their bikes." - T.R. Ponich, Washington Times, 2/15/03 (A Three Stooges 75th Anniversary special airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. EST on NBC) *********************************** Upcoming Grassroots Training Seminars Anything worth doing is worth learning how to do right... * March 15-16 - GRAS - Montgomery, AL * March 22-23 - GRAS - Houston, TX * March 22-23 - GRAS - Olympia, WA * March 29-30 - GRAS - Knoxville, TN * March 29-30 - GRAS - Baton Rouge, LA Yours truly will be one of the instructors at the Houston seminar. Hope to see some of you there. For additional information, contact Matt Lewis at the Leadership Institute: (800) 827-LEAD *********************************** 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/ ************************************ Two New "Muth's Truths" Can reciting a children's rhyme about catching a tiger by the toe be racist? 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 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 Project by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/goldwater.htm ********************************* ********************************* Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. 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