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_______________________________ How to Subscribe If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ ______________________________ Due to Popular Demand OK, OK, OK. First, I acknowledge the two emails I received yesterday pointing out that I spelled "Pollock" incorrectly. Fine. (Like they'd ever know the difference.) What do you expect from a drunken kraut-mick who spent a few years in publik skools anyway? But even more of you wrote begging to hear the old joke about the Polish gentlemen, the Irish gentleman and the Italian gentlemen in a bar. Thanks to another (anonymous) News & Views reader, we found a perfect example which is just a tad bit too risqu� to put into this newsletter. But I've posted it on my personal website. Adults with a real sense of humor who are not easily offended can enjoy it at: http://chuckmuth.com/news&views.htm ______________________________ Moore Lies "In a fascinating essay in Dissent, a magazine of the respectable left, Kevin Mattson demonstrates how Michael Moore, America's most prominent (or at least the loudest) leftist, hurts the cause he wants to serve by seeking to entertain rather than inform. . . . If Michael Moore's movies were put through a lie-detector test, they'd break the machine." - Columnist Suzanne Fields ______________________________ Dems Still Using Weapons of Mass Obstruction "A group of 45 Democratic senators voted for a seventh time yesterday to bar Mr. Estrada's nomination from reaching the floor for a final vote. On Tuesday, many of the same Democrats voted for a third time to block the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals." - Washington Times, 7/31/03 ______________________________ Hook, Line and Sinker "If Democrats take the bait and mount a crusade to take away middle-class tax cuts, Bush will prevail. . . . When Mondale proposed raising taxes at the Democratic national convention, he was cheered by the delegates, but we lost 49 states to Ronald Reagan that year." - Democrat Leadership Council founder Al From ______________________________ The Edwards Tax Cut Plan: Just Don't Pay 'Em "Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat and 2004 presidential hopeful, is four months delinquent in paying the property taxes on his Georgetown mansion and owes the cash-strapped District more than $11,000, city records show." - Washington Times, 7/31/03 ______________________________ Osama bin Murray Gets a Race "Suddenly it looks like a real race for U.S. Senate in Washington. Leading Republicans had been avoiding next year's race for the seat currently held by Patty Murray, best known for her delusional comment last year about al Qaeda-built 'day care centers.' But now Rep. George Nethercutt, who beat then-House speaker Thomas Foley in 1994, says he'll run." - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 7/31/03 _______________________________ NEW! Citizen Outreach Online Store Get your official Citizen Outreach apparel and merchandise today: http://www.cafeshops.com/citizenoutreach ______________________________ Cell or Cemetery "In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery." - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to Israel's Knesset on Wednesday ______________________________ Elian-izing the Smothered Brothers "(In a recently released audiotape, Saddam) Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that didn't work, U.S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban boy was inside the house." - Columnist Ann Coulter ______________________________ Rome Wasn't Built in a Day Either "We've been (in Iraq) for 90 days since the cessation of major military operations. I never have expected Thomas Jefferson to emerge in Iraq in a 90-day period. . . . I remind some of my friends that it took us a while to go from the Articles of Confederation to the United States Constitution. Even our own experiment with democracy didn't happen overnight." - President Bush at a White House press conference, 7/30/03 ______________________________ If We Stay on Track. "In the Iraq war and the subsequent occupation, we have lost fewer men to hostile fire than in a single terrorist attack in Lebanon in 1983. We've been losing about a soldier a day since the first of June. At this rate, we'll reach the Vietnam total in about 158 years." - Columnist Jack Kelly, retired Marine and Green Beret ______________________________ Return of the Copperhead Democrats "There is a good old-fashioned American word for politicians and pundits who would undermine the commander-in-chief in time of war: Copperheads. This term, referring to a snake that strikes without warning, originated early in the Civil War to describe Northern opposition to Lincoln's war policies. Although not all Northern Democrats were Copperheads...virtually all Copperheads were Democrats. "...Because the labels Democrat and Copperhead had become virtually synonymous in much of the North by the end of the war, historians have concluded that the Democratic Party carried the stigma of disloyalty for decades after Appomattox. Will history repeat itself?" - Daniel Rezneck, The Hill, 7/30/03 _______________________________ 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.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com> today. ______________________________ This Ain't Your Daddy's Vietnam "It's amazing how many people who've never been to either place say Iraq is 'another Vietnam.' There are a few differences worth noting. To begin with, at no point in the Vietnam war did the United States utterly destroy the North Vietnamese Army; occupy North Vietnam; send Ho Chi Minh into hiding, and kill or capture most of his Politburo. Had we done so, the war might have had a different outcome. "...The North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies were bright, skilled, resourceful, well-led, and very brave. In Iraq, we're fighting Arabs. "...Finally, those who draw the comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq tend to forget that the U.S. military did not lose the Vietnam war. The U.S. military did not lose a single battle in the Vietnam war. It was American politicians who lost the war, by failing to come to the aid of the South Vietnamese in the face of a North Vietnamese invasion three years after almost all U.S. troops had come home. "The one similarity between Vietnam and Iraq is that the only way we can lose in Iraq is the way we lost in Vietnam - through a failure of political nerve." - Columnist Jack Kelly, retired Marine and Green Beret ______________________________ Democrats' Setting Stage for Flood of Death "For those of us who believe that America and our way of life is in danger from jihadist terrorists and the WMD rogue states that help them (and that is at least two-thirds of Americans), it has been breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which elements of the media, the Democratic Party and our former allies in Europe have been attempting to turn our military victory in Iraq into a postwar debacle. "...Of course, it is fair game to criticize the president's handling of any aspect of his administration. Constructive suggestions for how to do a better a job are both fair and needed. Even cheap, vicious, lying accusations against the president's domestic and non-critical foreign policies and politics are (perhaps regretfully) part of our political tradition. "But what are we to conclude about the breathless Washington journalists who incorrectly, but genuinely, think they smell Watergate and Pulitzers as they obsessively try to destroy a president by undercutting public support for his vital Iraq effort? How are we to judge Democratic presidential aspirants who, half-crazed by their desperate search for votes, don't even address the consequences of their opposition? "Undercutting a life-and-death presidential policy without even considering the consequences is like tearing down a dam without first draining the water it contains. Only a flood of death can follow: American death; here, at home." - Columnist Tony Blankley ______________________________ No End in Sight to Mail Monopoly "As U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong won his fifth consecutive Tour de France, he brought widespread attention to the sport of cycling -- and, improbably, to the U.S. Postal Service -- whose $40 million sponsorship over the past six years was seen in the blue logo plastered across his jersey and cap. "Unfortunately the joy of Armstrong's victory will not carry over to this week's reform report issued by the President's Commission on the United States Postal Service. The report will contain many good and needed changes, but will fall short if -- as the preliminary documents indicate -- it rejects fundamental change to the Postal Services' protected, government status." - James Gattuso, The Heritage Foundation, 7/29/03 _______________________________ Affordable Campaign Websites! Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. That's right...just ten smackeroos a month. Here's what's included in this fantastic new program from Campaign Secrets, Inc. (available ONLY to Republican candidates): * Free Hosting * Unique Domain Name * Personal Email Accounts * Credit Card Processing * Unlimited Edits * Event Calendar * Volunteer Sign-up Page * Built-in Bulk Emailer Campaign Site Builder can be used for political organizations and non-profits, as well. For more information, just go to: http://www.campaignsecrets.com/websites.asp ______________________________ Dems Vote to Stall Head Start Reform "Last week, the House passed a Head Start reform bill without the benefit of a single Democratic vote (217-216). . . . Interestingly, the self-styled child advocates opposed to Head Start reform are the very same bitter-enders, led by Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund, who railed against welfare reform, which has proved to be wildly successful. That should have been the first tip-off to the soundness of the administration's Head Start reform plan." - Washington Times editorial, 7/31/03 ______________________________ Democrat Sues 20-Year-Old Freedom-Fighter "In May, former Sen. James Abourezk (D-SD) filed a $5 million lawsuit against a website operator who included him among a group of 'traitors.' The website, www.ProBush.com, lampoons liberals from the entertainment industry and politics who have been vocal in their opposition to the war in Iraq or critical of President George W. Bush. "...While the website disclaimer states that the list is a parody and is not to be taken seriously, Abourezk claims that he has been defamed. . . . The operator of the website is Mike Marino, a 20-year-old web designer from suburban Philadelphia. He believes that Abourezk's lawsuit against ProBush.com is without merit. While Marino is concerned about the legal ramifications of the lawsuit, he feels the need to stand up for the constitutional principle of free speech." - Jeff Gannon, Talon News, 7/30/03 _______________________________ How to Subscribe If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ 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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