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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS March 2, 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/ To reach our 7-day News & Views archive, go to www.citizenoutreach.com _____________________________________ AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...WHO CARES? �Academy Awards. Didn't watch.� Don't care.� As I write this particular note I have no idea what movie won, or what actors got to gush and thank everyone from their third grade teacher to their gynecologist for all of their success in life.� Bread and circuses.� It's clear why politicians -- especially of the leftist variety -- love Hollywood.� The more attention we pay to what goes on in Hollywood, the less attention we pay to what these politicians are trying to do to us in Washington.� To those of you who didn't tune in to simply another in an seemingly endless succession of mindless awards shows ... congratulations.� - Talk-show host Neal Boortz FOUNDING WISDOM FROM THE ORIGINAL KING OF BEERS �The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.� - Samuel Adams SELL-OUT GETS JUST DESSERTS �(Smith & Wesson) cut a deal with the Clinton administration in 2000 and agreed to require background checks at gun shows and install safety locks on all new guns. S&W's peace powwow with the Clintonites was supposed to be a political triumph and bring security to the gun industry. S&W would go forth and proselytize for the idea that Dems were a party gun owners could do business with after all. It didn't turn out that way. S&W became mud in the eyes of gun customers, sales plummeted 40% and the company was effectively taken over on the cheap by Saf-T-Hammer, a firm that makes trigger locks. Adding insult to injury last week, the new chairman installed by Saf-T-Hammer was himself forced to resign after it was revealed that, 30 years earlier, he had done time for a string of armed robberies.� - Political Diary, 3/1/04 AUTHORS WHO AREN�T WRITERS �The majority of books published nowadays aren�t by �writers,� per se, but celebrities: Hollywood stars, television talk-show hosts, political pundits, ex-presidents...sports figures...and politicians lately retired or disgraced, or the young and ambitious ones about to embark upon their dismal careers.� - Bill Croke, American Spectator Online THIS IZ MY HOWZ �Despite mounting public criticism, (New York) state education officials refuse to remove from the school system a book titled �This Is My House,� which depicts typical Americans as homeless people living in cars. �This is where I live right now. My family is staying in our car,� reads the text by author Arthur Dorros. �We will move into a house when we can.� �The accompanying drawing shows a scowling white mother and two children sitting in a car parked in a dilapidated urban neighborhood of graffiti-covered houses with boarded-up windows. An empty lot is strewn with trash and a discarded tire. . . . Below the caption of the title illustration is an apparent �ebonic� spelling of the phrase reading: �This Iz My Hows.� Ebonics is a black vernacular advocated by some educators.� - Washington Times, 3/1/04 GOIN� POSTAL �...I was delighted to see that Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) anticipates investigating the postal service.� The first thing, in my opinion, is to find out exactly how much has been spent in the many sponsorships of Tour de France and Lance Armstrong.� The MILLIONS of dollars will shock everyone.��Also, the USPS sponsorship of the 1996 Olympic Games was outrageous...and at what cost?� Every postal increase is apparently supporting these unauthorized sponsorships.� The advertising budget for slick page magazine ads is totally unnecessary since we have no other alternative.� Who would pay their utility bill using FEDX?� - J. R. Evanger, Denver, CO GIVE UP THE CELLPHONE? OH, THE HUMANITY! �The Washington Legislature is considering �whether poor families can afford $5 a month in Medicaid premiums for their kids,� the Associated Press reports from Olympia. �Democrats say premiums will force families to drop out of Medicaid. They argue the state should take responsibility for making sure poor kids get health care.� The paper quotes Annette Hensley, a 43-year-old mother of a 14-year-old Medicaid beneficiary: �It would put a big strain on us. Something would have to go. I don't have cable, so probably the Internet. Maybe my cellphone.� And don't poor people have a right to cellphones?� - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 3/1/04 GOP SURVIVOR SERIES SUPER-TUESDAY ELIMINATION ROUND of the 2008 GOP Presidential Survivor series is under way. The top two finishers for Round Three were Alan Keyes and Sen. Rick Santorum. They join Round One finalists Rudy Giuliani and Bill Owens, along with Round Two finalists Ron Paul and Condi Rice for this final elimination round. The Top Two finishers of this Super Tuesday round will square off in a one-on-one face off later this week. So cast your vote by going to the Survey Says! page at www.citizenoutreach.com GOLD-DIGGER COULD TRY NEW MINE �Mr. Kerry was a blueblood of relatively minor means who married a woman worth $300 million and then traded up to a woman worth $500 million. If I were Teresa Heinz Kerry I would be worried, now Massachusetts is introducing gay marriage, that hubby may start giving the come-hither look to some of the state's elderly bachelor billionaires.� - Columnist Mark Steyn MAYBE HE NEEDS TO GO SEE THE WIZARD OF OZ �(John Kerry) is increasingly being described as a �flip-flopper� or a �waffler� or �two-faced.�� But the real problem with Kerry is something more fundamental.� As the Times rightly notes, he lacks political courage. Perhaps that is why he and his campaign talk about it so much. . . . At the age of 25, John Kerry's courage was indisputable.� Now, at age 60, it is more or less undetectable.� - Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby AL GORE WITHOUT THE CHARM �The other day, President Bush went to Florida for NASCAR's Daytona 500. His likely Democratic rival, John Kerry, did not approve. �We don't need,� he declared, in the portentous drone he's been perfecting for three decades, �a president who says, 'Gentlemen, start your engines.' We need a president who says, 'America, let's start our economy.' � �Hmm. If this is the best material Mr. Kerry's high-price consultants can provide, it's going to be a long, long while from here to November. It's unlikely that any but the most partisan Democrats can stomach nine months of a candidate who's Al Gore without the personal charm and affable public-speaking style.� - Columnist Mark Steyn KERRY: NOT MUCH BESIDES �NAM �I would argue that Kerry keeps Vietnam at the forefront of his campaign because it is just about all he's got ... . Kerry thinks his brief tour in Vietnam qualifies him to be president and commander in chief. But commanding a riverboat and leading a country are different. . . . I'll bet Republicans would be more uneasy with John Edwards as the Democratic nominee than they are about John Kerry who, without Vietnam, is not much." - Toronto Sun columnist Peter Worthington THE EDWARDS ALTERNATIVE �...John Edwards had a dirt poor, hardscrabble childhood but managed to sue his way out of poverty. He's made $25 million just from suing tobacco companies. . . . For single-issue guys like me, Mr. Edwards barely says a word on Iraq and the war, though I'm inclined to think he'd be better than Mr. Kerry. The latter seems eager to do whatever French President Jacques Chirac and the United Nations want, whereas with Mr. Edwards there's always the possibility he'll wind up suing the Security Council for emotional distress. . . . It's true that in his five years in Washington Mr. Edwards hasn't accomplished anything, but then neither has Mr. Kerry and he's been there four times as long.� - Columnist Mark Steyn VYING FOR KERRY�S #2 �(Virginia) Gov. Mark Warner has already pulled off the impressive feat of being elected as a Democrat in a state that has voted Republican for president in every election since 1964. Now he is trying to convince this conservative state to raise $1 billion in taxes to plug a budget deficit. 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