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************************************* Must've Been the French-Trained Iraqis "Terrified Iraqi soldiers who thought the war had already started, crossed the Kuwait border and tried to surrender to British forces, according to a report in the London Sunday Mirror. The drama unfolded last Monday, when a dozen troops waved the white flag as British paratroopers tested mortars and artillery weapons to make sure they were working. "The Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off with barbed-wire fencing, watchtowers and huge trenches. The stunned troops were forced to tell the Iraqis they weren't firing at them, and ordered them back to their home country, telling them it was too early to surrender." - WorldNetDaily, 3/9/03 *********************************** 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. ************************************* That's Why They Call Them Marines "For reasons that have escaped most Marines, the Pentagon has provided press credentials to a significant number of foreign journalists. Unfortunately, many of the international media appear to have an overt hostility to the subjects they are covering. "One female correspondent from a European news service was overheard asking - or was it telling - one of the Marines that she had 'never seen so much bravado, machismo or arrogance' in her life. The young NCO listened and appeared to mull over her grievance before replying, 'Yes ma'am, that's why they call themselves U.S. Marines.'" - Columnist Oliver North ************************************* Interference? "Wordy, slow, at cross-purposes, impotent, officious, insufferable... the United Nations may be many things. But serious? If it were serious, if it had been serious for the last 12 years about disarming Iraq, Saddam Hussein wouldn't be a problem today. "Speaking about the demand that Saddam destroy his illegal missiles (among a lot of other scary weapons), the [United Nations] secretary-general [Kofi Annan] said of this latest contretemps, 'We hope it will be resolved peacefully, without the interference of others, particularly the Americans. '" - Columnist Paul Greenberg ************************************ Get US Out of UN "I think the United Nations is dangerous to our republic and therefore we ought not to participate." - Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Washington Times, 3/9/03 [EDITOR'S NOTE: Last week Mr. Paul re-introduced a bill, H.R. 1146, which would "end membership of the United States in the United Nations."] *********************************** We Don't Need No Stinkin' "Permission" "Regardless of where you stand on Iraq, the mere suggestion we need to have the good graces of nations not concerned with our well-being or security...is bogus." - Peyton Knight of the American Policy Center, Washington Times, 3/9/03 ************************************ U.S. Sovereignty "If you're a strict constructionist, it becomes very difficult to reconcile (participation in the United Nations) with our Constitution. . . . I see the United Nations as having very little value to us for our interests. Their constant carping about (the U.S.) being in arrears, in light of the fact we contribute 25 percent (of the U.N. budget) since its inception is a source of irritation." - Former Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas), Washington Times, 3/9/03 *********************************** Chowing Down at the American Trough "I think most people who have a sense of the world order realize the United Nations has become a bunch of bureaucrats more concerned about the next state dinner than preserving world peace. What I don't like about the United Nations is that while the average taxpayer is out there working hard, the U.N. people are out there enjoying American tax dollars and just nibbling away at American freedom." - Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Georgia), Washington Times, 3/9/03 ************************************ Medicare Boondoggle "Medicare taxes young workers on the first and last dollar they earn, regardless of how poor they are, in order to subsidize medical bills for those over age 65, regardless of how rich they are. There is no conceivable justification for such a scheme. . . . No sensible person would participate in Medicare if it were not both heavily subsidized and mandatory." - Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute *********************************** The Busybody Rich "People once complained about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left that hurt the very people the left claims to care about - working people, minorities and children." - Columnist Thomas Sowell *********************************** Education Psychobabble "The education establishment is using its money and influence - not to mention coerced union dues - to insulate itself from the competition that school-choice initiatives would deliver. Their protected monopoly breeds the insane, anti-educational psychobabble that pervades our schools, from outcome-based education and multiculturalism to sexual-orientation lunacy." - Columnist David Limbaugh ********************************** Why Johnny Can't Read "It was called 'A Nation At Risk,' and it was a devastating report, one that spoke to Americans in unforgettably vivid language, telling us that if 'an unfriendly foreign power' had imposed our mediocre educational system on us, we might have 'viewed it as an act of war.' Just about everyone was energized to do better. Heaping piles of money were shoved education's way. And what is the consequence 20 years later? Nothing much. "Just as the National Commission on Excellence in Education told us in 1983 we were doing a miserable job of teaching our youngsters, a new report tells us meaningful reform has not occurred, thanks largely to the most powerful force in education, teachers unions. . . . The liberals, who claim to be the vessels of compassion, are mainly the ones who have been cheating the students, largely because of the Democrats' alliance with the teachers unions. This is an outrage." - Columnist Jay Ambrose ************************************ Yer Gummint Skools in Axion ".(A) new study by conservative education experts concludes that 'there is little sign of gains in student learning' since publication of the landmark 1983 study 'A Nation At Risk.' "Published by the Hoover Institution, the study finds that 'test scores are basically the same level today as in 1970. Students do no more homework than they did 20 years ago. . . . Graduation rates have actually declined. . . . And international assessment results reveal that American 17-year-olds know far less math and science than their peers in other modern nations.' "The authors emphatically believe that more education spending is not the answer - they favor more parental choice and tough accountability." - Columnist Morton Kondracke ********************************** Hollywood Joins Attack on Homeschooling Isabel Lyman reports via the Ludwig von Mises Institute that Hollywood has discovered home schooling and has fired its first salvo against folks who reject government-run monopoly schooling. Lyman notes the new WB network show, "The O'Keefes," a sitcom about "eccentric parents who've homeschooled their three children." If Hollywood is against it, along with the teachers union, it must REALLY be good. ************************************ Counter-Productive "Why do people who believe in and teach their children about God at home and in church put them in government schools that often undermine those beliefs?" - Columnist Cal Thomas ************************************ NEW! 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 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. 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