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*****************************************' A Little Help From My Friends We're starting to compile our own "Endangered Species" list: conservative/libertarian and/or Republican celebrities. Actors, musicians, sports stars, authors, etc. Any and all names and/or web sites where such a list might already be compiled would be greatly helpful to our research. Send 'em to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, my 78-year-old father-in-law is going under the knife for some rather serious surgery this morning. Would appreciate a good thought or a little prayer to the Big Kahuna in the sky for Gia and her dad today. Thanks. ***************************************** Pushin' the Envelope...Very Slowly "Thank goodness Francie Hawkins' package was sent with some urgency, The box, a Priority Mail parcel, arrived Saturday a mere five years and a month after it was sent. Had the package made its way through the U.S. Postal Service system as regular mail it might not have arrived for several more days. Time was of the essence for this package. Inside was four packages of jerky and sausage. All carried expiration dates in 1998 and 1999." - Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times, 6/25/03 ***************************************** That Uppity Negro ".(Supreme Court Justice) Clarence Thomas isn't just opposed by many on the Left; he is hated." - Columnist Andrew Sullivan ****************************************** Frist Puts Foot Down In the event of one or more retirements from the Supreme Court when this session ends (PLEASE let it be O'Connor! Please, please, please.), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has put the Democrats on notice that there will be NO screwing around with the President's nominee(s) for replacement. In a letter to his Senate colleagues yesterday, Frist lets it be known that the Judiciary Committee will hold hearings in July with the full Senate voting up or down before the August recess. "Any tactics to endlessly delay the process and prevent the Senate from performing its Constitutional responsibility to vote on a Supreme Court nomination would be inconsistent with the Constitution and contrary to the Senate's traditional practice for more than 200 years," wrote Frist. I'd say that's one whale of a warning shot across Tom Daschle's bow. Should the minority party again unleash its weapons of mass obstruction, don't be surprised to see Frist resort to the "nuclear option" - overturning Senate rules to end any judicial filibuster whether the donkeys like it or not. Much like Bush to Saddam, Frist has now given the D's fair warning. Ball's in their court...so to speak. ****************************************** Then Give It Back "Why should wealthy people such as myself receive a tax cut? I will be the first to admit that I don't need it." - Democrat "strategist" Barbra Streisand ***************************************** What Took 'Em So Long? "'The U.S. Senate Rules Committee moved closer on Tuesday to issuing this warning to lawmakers: Do not remove from the U.S. Capitol furniture, paintings and other historic items,' Reuters reports. . . . Hillary's been a senator for 2 1/2 years, and they're just now getting around to this?" - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 6/26/03 ****************************************** Ol' Blue Eyes Eyed for Top Donkey Job "Democratic lawmakers and aides said yesterday there is growing interest in tapping Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as the Senate Democratic leader if Sen. Tom Daschle retires next year. Sources said elevating Clinton - in the Senate for only 2 1/2 years - would be the best way to raise the party's profile in the face of a popular president and at a time when both houses of Congress are ruled by Republicans. For the former first lady, the powerful post could offer her a high-profile platform from which to pursue the White House in 2008, as many believe she wants to do." - New York Post, 6/26/03 ***************************************** The Yesterday Show, Starring Al Gore! "When (NBC's "Tonight Show" host) Jay Leno heard that the former vice president (Al Gore) wanted to match the conservatives in the media, he agreed there is no outlet for the liberal viewpoint, 'except for ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, Bravo, BET, Showtime, Lifetime, MTV, Oxygen, National Public Radio and IFP. Other than that,' he said, 'there's nothing.'" - Columnist Suzanne Fields ****************************************** Mean, Green Dean Machine "David Brooks has the best explanation of the (Democrat presidential candidate Howard) Dean phenomenon, albeit in an article that mentions Dean only in passing. In brief, the Democrats who make up the party's base are mad--in both senses of the word. So blinded are they by their frustration at being out of power, and by their inexplicable hatred of President Bush, that they are astonishingly detached from reality. That Dean is determinedly wrong about Iraq is, for this constituency, a selling point. They are too." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 6/26/03 ***************************************** The Nepotism King "The (Los Angeles) Times singles out Nevada's Senator Harry Reid as the nepotism king of the Hill, noting that one of his sons and his son-in-law are Washington lobbyists for companies, trade groups and municipalities seeking Reid's help in the Senate. Moreover a second son has lobbied in Nevada for some of those same interests, and a third has represented a couple of them as a lawyer. "In the last four years alone, the Times reports, the firms his relatives worked for have raked in more than $2 million in lobbying fees from special interests that the Reid kids represented and were generously helped by the senator in Washington. . . . Reid, the number two Democrat in the Senate's minority leadership may have learned a lesson or two from his boss, Senate minority leader Tom Daschle whose wife is a top lobbyist." - NewsMax.com, 6/25/03 ************************************ 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 ***************************************** The Big Con "(I)f Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair were telling lies about these weapons (of mass destruction), then so were the intelligence services of France, Germany and Russia, as well as the U.N. Security Council. Further, if Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair were capable of such a colossal lie, why weren't they capable of planting the evidence? . . . The fate of those WMDs is an unfolding drama. But to believe they never existed is to flout all the available facts." - Columnist Mona Charen ***************************************** They're There...And We'll Find Them "I'm confident we will show that there was deception (over banned weapons by Iraq). And I am also confident that at some point it will lead us to actual weapons of mass destruction. . . . And I think that bringing this brutal regime down with as many of the hundreds of thousands of people that (Saddam Hussein) killed was a good thing in its own right." - Army Lt. Gen. John P. Abizaid at a Senate hearing on his nomination to be chief of the U.S. Central Command, 6/25/03 ****************************************** Do As We Say, Not As We Do At his nomination hearing this week, Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid said that coalition forces were on offense in Iraq, encouraging troops to "kill those who would try to kill us." As they should be. But it's still unclear to me how following the exact same strategy by Israel against Palestinian terrorists is somehow NOT acceptable. There appears to be a real double-standard here that just doesn't make sense. Maybe we should have the Supreme Court clear this up for us. ***************************************** Expensive Camel's Nose Legislation "Adding a prescription drug benefit to Medicare will cost many times its estimated $400 billion price tag for the next decade, judging from past growth in health care entitlement programs. ".Medicare has exceeded its projected costs from the beginning. When the initial program, hospital insurance, was instituted in 1965, the projected cost in 1990 was $9 billion. The actual cost in 1990 was $67 billion - more than seven times the estimate. ".In 1987, Medicaid's special hospitals subsidy was projected to cost $100 million per year by 1992, but the actual cost by then was $11 billion." - Washington Times, 6/26/03 ***************************************** Got Skills? "How does it benefit anyone - especially minorities - if they know that regardless of their performance a way into a university will be made for them, based not on the content of their character and achievement but on the color of their skin? "...We don't apply affirmative action in professional sports where minorities have succeeded disproportionately to their numbers in society. That's because of their skills. If skills are paramount in sports, why should they also not be paramount in education?" - Columnist Cal Thomas ***************************************** Appeasing Blackmailers It's no secret that race-hustler Jesse Jackson has been shaking down corporate America for years and has profited handsomely from his extortion. One of his victims has been NASCAR, which in the past has ponied up a reported quarter-million dollars to the reverend's Rainbow/PUSH syndicate in the hope of avoiding a racial mud bath fight. Alas, it appears NASCAR might just as well have flushed its protection money down the toilet. At this week's annual convention, Rainbow/PUSH board member Bill Shack blasted the auto-racing industry as "the last bastion of white supremacy" in sports. Let me assure NASCAR right here, right now that if it were to re-direct its $250,000 to Citizen Outreach, we would instead use the money to bash Jesse Jackson and the other race-hustlers instead of NASCAR. Call me. I'm in the book. *********************************** 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. 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