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[EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to technical difficulties with our network service provider, I'm not sure if today's issue sent earlier actually ever went out, so I'm re-sending just in case. Please excuse the duplicate if you receive two issues today.] ********************************** Fat Chance "(Rep. Dennis) Kucinich (D-Ohio) is about as likely to be elected president as Janet Reno is to become the next Miss Venezuela." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 2/24/03 ************************************ Political Twilight Zone Republican governors raising taxes while Democrat governors are cutting spending? Have we warped into a political twilight zone? Catch this latest "Muth's Truths"...co-authored with the infamous champion of tax cuts, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform...at http://www.chuckmuth.com/muthstruths.htm ********************************** Probable Cause, Please "Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, alone among airports it seems, has resisted the Transportation Security Administration's call to conduct random searches of vehicles entering airport terminals. Sea-Tac officials say they need some sort of probable cause to search vehicles outside the airport. The TSA says the Code Orange terrorism alert is all the reason you need." - Reason Express, 2/25/03 ********************************** Useless Idiots "If (the anti-war demonstrators') policies had prevailed during the Cold War, the Soviet Union would be in business today. And if their policies prevail in this latest war (in Iraq), we must all prepare to don burkas and grow beards." - Columnist Mona Charen ********************************** Give War a Chance "Every additional day Saddam retains power means new crimes against humanity and prolonged enslavement of 22 million Iraqis. Indeed, the humanitarian misery in Iraq equals or exceeds that of Kosova under Slobodan Milosevic that provoked President William Jefferson Clinton to pre-emptive warfare. Who today maligns Mr. Clinton for initiating conflict without imminent danger to the people of the United States?" - Columnist Bruce Fein ********************************** Held Hostage by the UN "...I do not see how the United States can be held hostage by a United Nations that neglects to enforce its resolutions. That's not international law. That's international malfeasance." - Columnist Jay Ambrose *********************************** 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. Also, occasionally, the automatic listserve we use will "bump" subscribers off the list if your mailbox is full or experiences some other technical glitch. If you suddenly stop receiving News & Views, the first thing you should do is try to re-subscribe using the link above. ********************************** Big Trouble in Little Donkeytown "The Democrats have a big-time problem as they prepare for the next presidential election - too little money and too many candidates, all but a few of whom have this much chance: none." - Columnist Dan Thomasson ********************************** War on Bongs The nation is on its second-highest terror warning level on the eve of military action to liberate Iraq, but that hasn't stopped Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department from pursuing with vigor that "other" war, the failed War on Drugs. On Monday, the feds busted 55 persons for "coast-to-coast trafficking" from both "stores and the Internet." But in what can only be described as "mission creep," the busts weren't for trafficking in actual drugs, but in "paraphernalia," such as marijuana "bongs" and "roach clips." Acting DEA Administrator John Brown said the 55 retailers are "in essence no different than drug dealers." These non-drug-dealing dealers are subject to three years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for not dealing actual drugs. Three years and a quarter mil for selling a bong? And people still wonder why other people are increasingly questioning this misguided "War on Drugs"? Don't we have bigger fish to fry? I don't know how many people have been killed by a "dirty bong," but I'm pretty sure the number who could be killed by a "dirty bomb" is in the thousands - if not hundreds of thousands. Wouldn't the DEA's time be better spent on homeland security, including plugging our southern border where illegal hard drugs are entering the country by the truckload? - Chuck Muth, Editor ********************************** Like, For Sure, Dude "Young people today are particularly in need of standards of speech. . . . 'Like' is (a) source of concern. The word has its proper uses. Yet it should not introduce everything a person means to say or be used as a verbal crutch. This past year I forbade my students from saying 'like' while answering questions in class. Some of them could hardly make it through a sentence." - Terrence Moore, www.ashbrook.org ********************************** Uncle Sam's Best Little Whorehouse "The Bureau of Land Management assumed ownership of the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel (in Nevada) and is seeking ideas on what to do with the prime riverfront property. A bureau spokesman said the federal agency took title to the 340-acre ranch after guilty verdicts against the brothel's parent companies and manager on federal fraud and racketeering charges." - "American Scene," Washington Times, 2/25/03 ********************************* Motion Picture Madness "Lawyers filed suit Tuesday 'against movie theaters that claim in their ads they'll show movies at a certain time, but, instead, show on-screen commercials at the advertised time, delaying the movie's start. Theaters are committing consumer fraud when they claim in advertising that a movie starts at a certain time but it really starts a few minutes later because of the ads, said Mark Weinberg, a Chicago attorney who filed the two suits.'" - Overlawyered.com, 2/21/03 *********************************** 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," which you can access at www.chuckmuth.com. 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/ ********************************** Black Men Can't Swim? "'North Miami City Councilman Jacques Despinosse created a bit of a stir Tuesday when he asked the police department to rescind its swimming requirement for recruits because it eliminated many black candidates,' the Miami Herald reports. ' 'We can't swim,' said Despinosse, a Haitian American. 'Most of us didn't come on the Mayflower. We came on slave ships.' ' Hmm, didn't the late Al Campanis get fired awhile back for saying more or less the same thing?" - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 2/20/03 ********************************** RIP: Hasta la Vista, Liberals "The New York Liberal Party, billed by members as the longest-existing third party in the nation, has shut down after nearly 60 years. The Liberal Party failed to collect the 50,000 votes it needed in November's gubernatorial race to maintain its status as a recognized party. . . . Party leaders...closed their state headquarters in December and last month announced the party's demise." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 2/25/03 ************************************ 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. *********************************** It's the Taxes, Stupid "America has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world. This is hurting U.S. competitiveness, especially since we then tax that income a second time at the individual level." - Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation ********************************** Stupid Government Tricks "Marc LaCloche was behind bars for first-degree robbery at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility (note: many potential jokes there) and he decided to take advantage of the prison's vocational-training program to learn a trade. The New York Post reports LaCloche 'spent 1,200 hours in prison learning to cut hair.' When he got out, he applied for a barber's license, which the state denied because he has a felony record." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 2/21/03 ********************************** Mission Accomplished "Ralph Reed...is stepping down as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. Far from a consensus choice when he announced for the post, Reed presided over what is probably the Georgia GOP's most successful election cycle. On his watch, they won the governorship for the first time in history, cobbled together a first-ever majority in the state Senate, won a U.S. Senate seat and racked up several upset victories in races for the U.S. House of Representatives." - Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 2/24/03 ********************************** Upcoming Grassroots Training Seminars Anything worth doing is worth learning how to do right... * March 15-16 - Montgomery, AL * March 15-16 - Munster, IN * March 22-23 - Houston, TX * March 22-23 - Olympia, WA * March 29 - Communications Workshop, San Diego, CA * March 29-30 - Knoxville, TN * March 29-30 - Baton Rouge, LA * April 12-13 - Jackson, MS 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 *********************************** 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 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. 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 Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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