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************************************ Due to Technical Difficulties A possible snafu on the technical side, which I'm sure is really some kinda left-wing conspiracy, some folks may not have received the last two issues of News & Views. We're working on the problem. In the meantime, if you're one of our readers who missed the big announcement concerning Citizen Outreach yesterday, go to www.chuckmuth.com to get the poop. We now return you to our regular programming... ************************************ Elephants on the March "Just months after a Georgia colleague ousted him from Congress, Republican Bob Barr announced yesterday he will run again for the House. Meanwhile, former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour entered the Mississippi governor's race." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 2/18/03 *********************************** Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel "Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich's announcement yesterday that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination further muddles the field of candidates. . . . Mr. Kucinich's campaign, a long shot by any estimation, says a lot about the state the Democrats are in, said Republican strategist Michael McKenna. 'It's symptomatic of the deep pathologies of the party,' he said. 'In a normally functioning political party a midlevel elected official like Dennis Kucinich is kept out of things like this, because all he serves to do is remove time and resources from people who could actually win.'" - Washington Times, 2/18/03 *********************************** The Crawl to War "President Bush has allowed this process (debating military action in Iraq) to drag on, even though he knows keeping the world in limbo is costly. For months American military forces have been building up around Iraq. In Kuwait alone 70,000 U.S. soldiers await orders from the president, as they try to avoid terrorist attacks. "...In more civilized regions, the delays have emboldened the weasels. The French supported Resolution 1441, but in the months since have been working, along with Germany's anti-American government, to undermine President Bush. . . . The delays have also seriously damaged the U.N. It is now clearly irrelevant. "There are military reasons to have waited this long. The U.S. needed to build up its forces in the region. . . . But if President Bush accepts the French preferred schedule of waiting for (weapons inspector Hans) Blix to report back to the U.N. on March 14, he will have frittered away the cool winter months and risks sending America's troops to fight in the perilous desert heat. When will the waiting game be over, Mr. President?" - Columnist Brendan Miniter, OpinionJournal.com, 2/18/03 *********************************** Setting the Trap & Waiting for Disaster "I'm not saying they want us to be attacked. But it's almost as though the Democrats can't wait for another attack. If it happens, they're prepared to unleash an assault on the president the likes of which we haven't seen from them in a long time. . . . They see this as a political opportunity and they 're going to make the most hay out of it they can. Although it's distasteful that more loss of life resulting from a terrorist attack will spiral into just another political issue for the left, but it will. That's what they're setting up." - Rush Limbaugh, quoted in a column by Morton Kondracke *********************************** Compassionate Liberalism ""I hate to say it, but I wish [Rush Limbaugh] had gone deaf. I shouldn't say that, but on behalf of the country, it would be better without Rush Limbaugh and his 20 million listeners." - Nation columnist Eric Alterman in an Esquire interview *********************************** What a (Bad) Joke "A group of wealthy Democratic donors is planning to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance the conservative tenor of radio programs such as 'The Rush Limbaugh Show.' . . . The group, led by Sheldon and Anita Drobny, venture capitalists from Chicago who have been major campaign donors for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is in talks with Al Franken, the comedian and author of 'Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.' It hopes to enlist other well-known entertainers with a liberal point of view for a 14-hour, daily slate of commercial programs that would heavily rely on comedy and political satire." - Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times ************************************ 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. *********************************** Affirmative Cookies "The UCLA Bruin Republicans riled up a top California Democrat and other liberals by holding an affirmative-action bake sale. 'The sale, held on Bruin Walk on Feb. 3, offered cookies at different prices depending on the customer's race and gender,' reporter Nicolas Taborek writes in the Daily Bruin. 'Black, Latina and American Indian females were charged 25 cents for cookies that cost males of minority descent 50 cents. White females were charged $1, and white males and all Asian Americans were charged $2.'" - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 2/18/03 *********************************** Is That Another Chicken Joke? "Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being." - Bruce Friedrich of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Washington Times, 2/18/03 *********************************** Fixing the Armed Pilots Loophole "Key House lawmakers are working to close a loophole in the Homeland Security Act that excludes cargo pilots from carrying firearms to protect their aircraft from terrorist attacks. The legislation now moving through Congress would allow 10,000 cargo pilots to train and carry weapons in the cockpit after undergoing background checks. In addition to cargo, the planes carry vendor customers and company employees." - Washington Times, 2/18/03 *********************************** Crime Compounding Crime "A 42-year-old woman, gang-raped a few days before Christmas last year, might never have faced that ordeal except for the federal government's neglect. . . . It could have been just another horrible crime, except that the five men charged should never have been in that neighborhood. All were illegal immigrants who under federal law were subject to being deported. Four were petty criminals, and two had done jail time." - Cox News Service, 2/18/03 *********************************** Title IX Biting Hand that Feeds It "The governor of Nebraska wants to pay Cornhusker football players a stipend. . . . (W)hat Gov. Mike Johanns is suggesting should make the NCAA at least a little nervous, because the last thing it needs is a national debate on this subject. A national debate would bring some uncomfortable facts to light, No. 1 being that college football is basically bankrolling women's athletics at many universities. "Let's use Nebraska as an example. According to figures supplied by the school in its Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act report - figures that were published recently by the Orlando Sentinel - Cornhuskers football turned a $22.7 million profit in 2001. Twenty-two million bucks! The women's athletics program, on the other hand, showed a $6.25 million loss. Where would women's volleyball have been without Eric Crouch and Co.? "And yet, Title IX advocates continue to complain about inequities in athletic scholarships - inequities that exist essentially because there's no female equivalent of football. In most places, this would be known as biting the hand that feeds you. But in the Never-Never Land of Title IX, such behavior brings only cries of 'You go, girl!'" - Columnist Dan Daly ************************************ Hot Off the Press: New "Muth's Truths" How is it that the United States is on the brink of military action over in Iraq in 2003? Well, you can thank the peanut gallery of "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," "can't we all just get along" Hollywood windbags, "give peace a chance" anti-war hippie-wannabes and, of course, the Democrats. But I repeat myself. Catch this latest edition of "Muth's Truths" at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm ********************************* ********************************* Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizen Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public policy organization and does not endorse candidates or lobby for specific legislation. 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