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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS February 24, 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/ _____________________________________ HOME ON THE RANGE �Next week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case to decide whether or not all Americans must have identification on them at all times. The case has been brought by a cowboy in Nevada who was asked to show ID while he was leaning against his pickup truck on the side of the road near his ranch. The police officer did not offer any specific reason why he demanded proof of identity. Having committed no crime, Dudley Hiibel, the cowboy, refused � and was arrested. He was later convicted for �Delaying a Peace Officer.� �In America, still a free country, citizens should not be required to provide identification papers at any whim of the authorities. . . . The cowboy-ID case is timely because of the momentum in the federal government to mandate various kinds of national identification cards. . . . The openness of the prairie symbolizes this freedom. It would be a shame if cowboys were required to carry a driver's license to ride a horse while roaming the open range.� - Washington Times editorial, 2/23/04 BIGGEST SCAM OF THEM ALL �In an effort to protect consumers, the U.S. Postal Service has just released a list of the top five mail fraud scams: work-at-home dream jobs, foreign lottery tickets, get-rich-quick investments, pyramid wealth schemes and free-prize offers.� These five are responsible for conning Americans out of billions of dollars every year. �Not surprisingly, however, the Postal Service�s scam-awareness list doesn�t include what may be the cleverest swindle of all � Postal Insurance � that routinely dupes even the savviest consumers.� If private companies tried to sell such a scam, they would likely be sued.� But the �courts impose a much less stringent standard on the Postal Service due to its status as a governmental agency,� according to (Shelley) Dreifuss (consumer advocate for the Postal Rate Commission).� - Sam Ryan of the Lexington Institute, 2/19/04 (http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/postal/postalinsurance.pdf) FOLLOW THE MONEY �What would be truly shocking to the American people is the profit motive that is involved (in the Democrat obstruction of the president�s judicial nominations). It isn't just about 'abortion rights', the battle is about abortion profits. The axis of profits that under girds the fight in the Judiciary Committee is the axis between trial lawyers - who want particular types of judges who rule in particular ways on their cases - and not the 'abortion rights' lobby but the abortion clinics lobby. �The 'abortion rights' lobby is just a front for something worse which is the abortion clinics' lobby, represented by the National Abortion Federation. . . . That's where the money is. That's what is really happening here. . . . When you combine it then with the interests of the labor movement then you start seeing that the effort to control the judiciary is really an enormous and well orchestrated profit making business." - Former Judiciary Committee staffer Manny Miranda on the brewing �Memogate� scandal over leaked memos showing Democrat collusion & obstruction of judicial nominations with left-wing special interests, Notable News Now, 2/24/04 ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROCLAMATION �Six weeks and five days ago, our president brought forth to this nation a new amnesty proposal, conceived in political cynicism and dedicated to the propositions that public opinion and American workers don't count, the rule of law is pass�, and future generations should suffer for today's political expediencies. Now we are engaged in a great civil war of words, testing whether this proposal, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.� - Columnist Mike McGarry in the Denver Post, 2/22/04 (http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~75~1966913,00.html) THIS AMNESTY DOG WON�T HUNT �Opposition to (President Bush�s) immigration reform proposal has reached a point where no amount of persuasion can convince his conservative base to support it. Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo told an unofficial rally at (last week�s California GOP) convention that a doctor he knows surveyed his patients on the measure �and it rated below genital herpes.�" - John Fund, OpinionJournal�s Political Diary, 2/23/04 _____________________________________ THIS WEEK�S �MUTH�S TRUTHS� There's been lots of talk about "outsourcing" American jobs overseas lately. Naturally, the Democrats blame President Bush. And as usual, they're wrong. While admittedly some companies may indeed be relocating overseas simply and solely for cheaper labor, it's more than that. It's to protect their companies from two lethal business-killers: unions and government. Read more at http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/2004/cm_0223.shtml Then weigh in on the subject on our Discussion Board at http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ ______________________________________ STUPID CONSERVATIVES? �I am a conservative, born and raised in the South, and I'm fed up and fighting mad � not with the honorable President George W. Bush � but with threats from conservative �leaders� that the conservative base will stay home on Nov. 2 ("Evangelicals frustrated by Bush"). Conservatives made similar threats against Mr. Bush's father in 1992, and the result was eight miserable years under Bill Clinton. All that the �leaders� of the conservatives did for eight years was whine and complain about the social peril this country was in under Mr. Clinton. �...You should all be ashamed of yourselves. I used to have respect for all of you, but now I have none. You are simply ungrateful contrarians. You should remember the lessons from eight years of Mr. Clinton and four years of Jimmy Carter. Stop your threats to stay home in November and do everything you can to get every single conservative voter to the ballot box to vote Bush-Cheney. And if you don't and you stay home, then the next four or eight years of a John Kerry or Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency will be a direct result of your actions and stupidity.� - Patricia Dill of Jacksonville, FL, Washington Times, 2/23/04 LOBOTOMIZING DEMOCRACY �With Howard Dean gone from the race, the last traces of passion � and, I fear, conviction � have been leached from the electorate. Instead of voters, we have handicappers. Ask a civilian why she likes Kerry or Edwards, and more often than not, you get dime-store Capital Gang: 'Kerry can match up with Bush on national security,' or 'Edwards can win in the South.' �This is a form of pragmatism, I suppose. Democrats are desperate to beat George W. Bush. But it is also fresh evidence of television's ability to lobotomize democracy. With serious issues of war and prosperity at stake, horse-race punditry seems particularly vacant right now � and particularly useless in a year when we professional blabbers have demonstrated yet again the essential idiocy of political prognostication." - Time magazine columnist Joe Klein DISCOVERED POVERTY SYNDROME �Sen. (John) Edwards was elected in 1998. By my count, during his first four years in the Senate, he introduced a single bill aimed at alleviating material poverty. Apparently unmoved by the plight of the urban poor, in 2000, and again in 2002, Edwards introduced a bill to promote the development of affordable rental housing in rural areas. That's it. And, the emotional exhortations on behalf the poor that are his standard fare on the (presidential) campaign trail must represent a wholly new John Edwards to his Senate colleagues. While pet causes are typically the stuff of Senate speeches, Sen. Edwards appears to have kept his current obsession to himself." - Columnist Kate O�Beirne MEDIA OBSESSION WITH THE IRRELEVENT �How goes the war? No, not Vietnam. The other one. You remember. It was in all the papers until a month ago when Vietnam returned for a Democratic Party dinner-theater tour starring Massachusetts' answer to Robert Goulet. Can't get into it myself. I dozed off the other day watching a White House press conference in which President Bush was asked nary a question about anything that had happened since 1972, and I dreamt there was a muffled explosion from al-Qaeda down the street blowing up the Capitol. And, when it had died away, the press corps brushed the plaster dust off their suits and said, �But, Mr. President, critics point out that National Guard pay stubs from the '70s are notoriously easy to forge...� " - Columnist Mark Steyn MINI-McGOVERN �With Vietnam war hero John Kerry�the Democrats seem well positioned to neutralize the traditional Republican advantage on foreign policy. But George McGovern also could boast that he was �a decorated combat pilot in World War II, � and McGovern nonetheless lost 49 states, largely because the voters thought him weak on national security.� - Columnist Joshua Muravchik, Washington Post, 2/23/04 DON�T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY �Vietnam is not likely to be a major campaign theme after all, despite much GOP smoke-blowing on the subject. Still, a worthwhile Republican commercial would be one that addressed Mr. Kerry's much-repeated canard that he �stood up against Richard Nixon's Vietnam War.� Americans don't deserve to be misled about their own history. Who got us into Vietnam and who pulled us out could be set straight with a simple ad featuring two pieces of data: U.S. troops in Vietnam at the end of Lyndon Johnson's last term: 530,000. U.S. Troops in Vietnam four years later, after the first Nixon term: 170,000.� - Holman Jenkins, OpinionJournal�s Political Diary, 2/23/04 SLEEPING WITH THE GOVERNMENT �Gays are doing their cause no long-term good by pushing for official government validation of their unions as marriages at a time when public opinion is hardening against such a notion. . . . Both sides would do well to recall Ronald Reagan, who courageously opposed a 1978 initiative in California that would have barred gays from teaching in public schools. When a small group of gays met with him after his opposition led to the measure's overwhelming defeat, he was asked his opinion of gay marriage. �Well, now,� he told them, �I would just warn you that if you get in bed with the government, you'll get more than a good night's sleep.� " - John Fund on the Trail, 2/23/04 __________________________________________ WINNING �HOW TO� CAMPAIGN REPORTS Quick, down-and-dirty "how to" reports on specific aspects of political campaigns and grassroots organizations.� Written primarily for beginners with little or no experience, but certainly chocked full of tidbits and hot tips to benefit even the most seasoned political pro.� Generally 8-16 pages of A-Z, step-by-step instructions to gain more votes, more money and more volunteers for your political activities and/or campaign. � Don't expect fancy packaging with a lot of bells and whistles.� Just solid, up-to-date how-to information you can put to use IMMEDIATELY.� Nobody provides better, more useful, practical information as quickly and inexpensively as these babies.� Stock up.� Build a library.� Heck, become a bona fide political guru yourself!� Go to http://chuckmuth.com/specialreports.htm to check out our ever-growing library of winning publications! __________________________________________ Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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