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**************************************** No Half-Measures Here "We're not just softening them up. We're destroying them." - Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Moseley, the allied commander overseeing the air attacks on Hussein's forces, 4/4/03 *********************************** How to Subscribe 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. **************************************** Armchair Generals "Couch-potato Clausewitzes who last month couldn't tell a tank from a taxicab now talk sagely about the vulnerability of the M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank's turbine exhaust to enemy antitank fire. . . The Rommels of the recliner know an M88 tank recovery vehicle because NBC's David Bloom rides on one. Cable is the common man's war college." - Columnist Dale McFeatters **************************************** Don't Call Us, We'll Call You "It would only be natural to expect that after having participated in having liberated Iraq with coalition forces and having given life and blood to liberate Iraq that the coalition intends to have a leading role. The exact character of the U.N.'s role is not an issue for discussion right now." - National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 4/4/03 **************************************** Embedded Casualty Syndicated columnist Michael Kelly was the first casualty among reporters embedded with coalition forces in Iraq. The man certainly had a way with words and sure didn't sugarcoat it. Here's how he described an Al Gore speech critical of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq situation last September: "Gore's speech was one no minimally decent politician could have delivered. It was entirely dishonest, cheap, low. It was utterly hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts - bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in smarmy tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible. But I understate." **************************************** New Generation Gap "(F)or two weeks now we have watched, in random interviews (of military personnel in Iraq), remarkably well-spoken, courteous and other-directed 26-year-old American adults. These young soldiers seem without modernist guile; they show no need, or inclination, to create an ironic, snickering distance between themselves and everything around them. What I am suggesting is that maybe it's time for the 'youth culture' back home to think about growing up. "Even antiwar protests now get reduced to a kind of goofy joke, as with the recent 'Puke-In for Peace' in San Francisco, featuring forced vomiting by some protesters. Or wearing a big smile and a baseball cap to accept an Oscar and insult the President of the United States. This is infantilism. This isn't protest by people concerned about what is going on over there; it's about drawing attention to THEM, to 'me'." - Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger **************************************** The War on Air Travelers "When will the airlines, the Congress, and - primarily - the media admit that the reason the airlines are in such deep trouble is not a fear of hijacking, of (foreign) terrorists, of the unexpected or unforeseen? What keeps me and so many others from flying is the airport Gestapo. "As a citizen of what formerly was the United States of America, I will not willing to submit to being treated worse than a common criminal, strip-searched by some semi-literate government functionary drunk with a power he could never dream of had he obtained the type of job he was 'qualified' for. "It goes well beyond the tearing up of checked baggage in search of 'deadly' mustache scissors (while ignoring a 4" folding knife less than six inches away from it), or going ballistic over the metal buttons on my jeans. In the America I'm old enough to remember, if some fool pulled out a box-cutter on an aircraft, he'd look up into the muzzles of a half-dozen handguns (unless, of course, the flight left from NY or Chicago). "Now, looking at the lines of those who, for whatever reason must fly, one is reminded of lines of Iraqi refugees being 'processed' to separate out the guerillas, or German refugees to filter out the fleeing SS." - News & Views reader J.D. "Duke" Schechter (Sgt, USMC 66-70) ************************************ 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. Just go to: <http://www.GOPLongDistance.com> today. **************************************** Amateur Hour "Presidential hopeful Gary Hart recently met with 35 supporters in a New Hampshire restaurant, and is due to return later in the month, according to the Manchester Union-Leader. A few have broached the touchy subject of Mr. Hart's affair with Donna Rice, which effectively removed him from the 1988 presidential race. Will the indiscretion matter this time around? "It won't be a serious issue, says local Democratic heavyweight Dan Calegari. 'After all, Bill Clinton made him look like an amateur,' he said." - Jennifer Harper, Inside Politics, 4/4/03 **************************************** Affirmative Fraud "Affirmative action is great for black millionaires, but it has done little or nothing for most people in the ghetto. Most minority business owners who get preferences in government contracts have net worths of more than $1 million." - Columnist Thomas Sowell *************************************** Some More Equal Than Others On Thursday, the Federal Elections Commission extended an additional six-year exemption to the Socialist Workers Party which allows them to keep the names of their donors secret. The commies are the only political party in the country that continue to enjoy being able to play politics under this different set of rules from everybody else. *************************************** Legislators Tell Reid to Let Judge Go The Nevada state senate voted last week on a resolution to instruct U.S. Sen. Harry Reid - the nation's #2 Democrat and Tommy Daschle's left-hand man - to allow a floor vote on judicial nominee Miguel Estrada. Estrada has been stuck in a Democrat quagmire for months now, with Reid, Daschle & Company effectively filibustering the man's nomination out of pure partisan obstructionism. The resolution is part of an ongoing nationwide effort by Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform to enlist state legislators in the effort to bring pressure on Senate Democrats to stop holding the Estrada nomination hostage and allow the up-or-down vote. To have such a resolution pass in his home state must be especially embarrassing to #2. *************************************** Bonehead Bill of the Year "Members of the Washington state House of Representatives have passed a bill allowing illegal aliens to attend the state's public colleges and universities at tuition rates given to legal residents. The only condition is that they agree to take civics or citizenship courses. "How about a course in obeying our laws? "Most of those affected are Hispanics, but the bill makes no distinction about origin. So a terrorist could be hiding out in the classroom and getting a subsidy from taxpayers while he is plotting to kill them. "Why should illegal aliens get any services at all from taxpayers and legal citizens? It only insures we will attract more illegals to break our laws and burden our social programs that the rest of us will end up paying for." - Columnist Cal Thomas *************************************** Time Up on Term Limits? According to a story in last week's The Hill, the Term Limits movement may well be on life support and the 2004 election could spell its ultimate doom. As reporter Allison Stevens notes, there are 20 lawmakers in Congress who signed pledges to retire in 2004, but at least 14 of those don't plan to honor the pledge. To make matters worse for supporters of term limits, few new candidates are taking such pledges any longer. Seems term limits are being put back where they belong: In the hands of the voters themselves. *************************************** Help Is On the Way in Colorado "Colorado is on its way to becoming the first state to enact a statewide school-voucher program since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last summer upholding vouchers in Cleveland. Texas and Louisiana may not be far behind. "The Colorado state Senate on Monday voted 36-28 to enact a House-passed bill to allow students in Denver and 11 other districts with eight or more schools rated "poorly" under state criteria to opt out of public schools. Those students can then use 75 percent to 85 percent of its public per-pupil funds, ranging from about $5,000 to $6,000, at private schools of their choice." - Washington Times, 4/3/03 *************************************** Breeding RINOs "Washington has spawned a new breed of politician that deserves careful watching: the Big Government Republican. Elected on a free-market platform, this dangerous species catches Potomac fever and proceeds to regulate and tax to fix society's ills." - Columnist David Davenport *************************************** Spend-a-holics "The U.S. Senate last week behaved like a drunk who testifies at a temperance meeting that he has seen the evil of his ways and vows to become sober but then, on his way home, yields to temptation while passing a saloon, goes in and gets plastered. "Fearful that President Bush's proposed $726 billion (over 10 years) tax cut would allow taxpayers to keep too much of their own money, 'moderate' Republican senators joined most Democrats to halve the president's proposed tax reduction on the pretext that there is a war to pay for and a 'large' tax break is unaffordable at this time. "...While positioning themselves as guardians of the nation's financial security, many members of Congress are, in fact, hitting the spending bottle with all of the gusto of a confirmed and unrepentant drunk." - Columnist Cal Thomas *************************************** Money for Nothing "As baseball salaries have soared, so too has the cost of a family outing at the ballpark. Chicago-based Team Marketing Report conducts an annual survey calculating what it costs a family of four to attend a game at each Major League Baseball park. The fan cost index is based on average ticket prices for two adults and two children; it also includes two small beers, four soft drinks, four hot dogs, parking, two programs and two adult baseball caps. "For the entire league, the fan cost index for this year averages $148.66 - for a single game. An Orioles game, which entitles the family to view perhaps the worst team in all of Major League Baseball, will put a $140 dent in the family budget." - Washington Times editorial, 4/5/03 ************************************ Hitting the Airwaves Here are scheduled talk show appearances where I'll be discussing the idea of pulling the U.S. out of the U.N. April 7, 2003 at 7:00 a.m. (ET) Shannon Burke Show WFLA in Tampa, Florida April 9, 2003 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) Clay Douglas Show Free American Network April 10, 2003 at 3:10 p.m. (ET) Brant Hansen Show Champaign, IL April 11, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. (ET) Northland Notebook with host Ted Elm WWJC in Duluth, MN Hope you'll "turn on and tune in." **************************************** Mother of All Entangling Alliances Tell Congress it's time to stop funding and appeasing the United Nations when it comes to American security interests. Sign this online petition telling asking your congressional representatives to get the US out of the UN. 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