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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS February 23, 2004 To view the HTML version of today's News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ _____________________________________ AS DEPENDABLE AS A MORNING SUNRISE "Leave it to Congress to break one thing while attempting to fix another: So it appears to be with Medicare (and prescription drugs)." - Columnist Doug Bandow WILL WE EVER LEARN? "Various groups, 'alliances,' 'majorities' and 'coalitions' have tried to prevent or retard what they see as social decay through the political system. It should be obvious after repeated failures that this tactic does not and cannot work." - Columnist Cal Thomas ________________________________________ NEW SURVEY SAYS! OK, OK, OK. A lot of you wrote in suggesting a number of additional choices for the 2008 GOP presidential race other than those included in last week's Survey Says! And almost a third of folks who responded chose "Somebody else." So here's what we're gonna do. We'll have a sorta Survivor Series of 2008 GOP candidates leading up to a Super Tuesday championship showdown. The winner of the first round was former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani with 37 percent of the vote. Here are your Round Two options: Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo Texas Rep. Ron Paul National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice Virginia Sen. George Allen Secretary of State Colin Powell Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Make your selection by going to the Survey Says! page at www.citizenoutreach.com. And if you have any additional suggestions for Round Three, make sure you send 'em to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________ POP QUIZ Bill Clinton's 1994 "assault weapons" ban was based on: A. A lie. A false premise and a discredited study. B. Something Janet Reno told Clinton. C. An article Clinton read in the New York Times. Find out the answer to this question and many others by visiting www.ClintonGunBan.com. TRIM THE FAT "If the post office is experiencing a progressively declining volume, then why don't they do what every other 'business' would do.......trim the fat and scale back. Create value added service. Adjust to the market. Suck it up or become extinct. Happens every day." - News & Views reader Cliff Harris THE COST OF DOING BIZ IN THE U.S. "...$100 in wages is not the only cost of hiring the American worker. There are numerous federal and state regulations that add to worker costs, such as: Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission mandates, Social Security and Medicare, Family Medical Leave and many other workplace regulations. Added to worker costs that businesses incur are: Americans With Disabilities Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act and many other regulations. ".There are no two ways about it: There are benefits from all the costly federal, state and local regulations imposed on American businesses. But we must also acknowledge our federal, state and local regulatory agencies have no jurisdiction in India, China, Southeast Asia and Latin America. That means for many products and services, people who are far less productive than we, in a physical sense, can beat us in the global marketplace." - Columnist Walter Williams _________________________________________ MUTH'S TRUTHS Worried over "outsourcing"? Find out how the government and unions are conspiring to ship high-tech and other jobs overseas in this week's "Muth's Truths" column at www.citizenoutreach.com. Then weigh in on the subject on our Discussion Board at http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ UP IN SMOKE John Kerry was a pot-head. So was John Edwards. They've both admitted it publicly. George W probably was, as well, but he's chosen not to discuss it in public. Does the fact that the top candidates for the top office of the United States have all, at least in the past, used the exact same kind of drug that can land you or I in prison today mean it's time to re-evaluate our "drug war" on marijuana? Does past marijuana use mean anything at all when running for office any longer? Should it? Or is it time to rethink how we deal with marijuana use and maybe look to ways to decriminalize it? Join the debate on our Discussion Board at http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ _______________________________________ THIS WEEK IN DC CONFIDENTIAL If you missed yesterday's edition of DC Confidential, you missed. * The link to a Fox News story quoting Citizen Outreach on the issue of third parties in the 2004 presidential campaign. * Why the Republican FEC Chairman is taking the Republican National Committee to the woodshed over political speech restrictions. * The real nature of the vein of discontent that John Edwards has tapped into over jobs which the Bush administration would be wise to address...and soon. * The political reason why it is all but inevitable that the president will eventually endorse the federal marriage amendment. * Some poll numbers which will make Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle even more "saddened" than usual. * A huge power play in New York which threatens a major war for black leadership in the Democrat party. Not surprisingly, Hillary is at the center or the brouhaha. * Some left coast tidbits on early jockeying for various California offices in '06 . . . and a union-backed, anti-taxpayer initiative which will be on the ballot there in a couple weeks. * And serious talk about a run at the nation's #2 Democrat by the son of a legendary college basketball coach out in Las Vegas. Don't miss another issue of DC Confidential as the 2004 campaign heats up. Get an automatic subscription to this weekly email publication by making a donation of $5 or more to Citizen Outreach by going to the "Donate" page at www.citizenoutreach.com. __________________________________________ Chuck Muth's News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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