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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS March 5, 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 _____________________________________ OH, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD �Everyone knows that in a chess game white moves first. This abstractly implies that white has a distinct advantage over black because black has to always take a defensive stand. Some see this as a continuing form of racism and want to change the rules of the game. Bill Ware, a devoted chess player, is one of these people and has come up with a new form of chess. �By saying that white automatically is offensive, it states that white is better than black,� Ware said.� - The Southern Digest, 3/4/04 RESTORING THE FIRST �On February 11, 2004, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, along with several other members of The Liberty Caucus, introduced the �First Amendment Restoration Act� (H.R. 3801).� This legislation would restore Americans' First Amendment rights by repealing sections of the McCain-Feingold law that forbid issue-advocacy groups (from informing) their members about important issues and votes relative to incumbent candidates during the 30 and 60 days before primary and general elections. . . . The Liberty Committee strongly supports H.R. 3801 and encourages you to speak in favor of this critical legislation -- while you still can.� - The Liberty Committee, 3/3/04 THE ICE QUEEN�S ENDORSEMENT �Boy, that junior senator from New York is a real risk-taker, isn't she? Yesterday, the Associated Press reports, (Hillary Clinton) issued a presidential endorsement: �This is going to be a year, I believe, for Senator Kerry who will be our nominee and I will do everything I can to get him elected. So I hope that next year we will have a Democrat in the White House,� she told Japan's Nippon Television Network Corporation. Not only does she withhold her endorsement until the contest was over, but she decides to tell the Japanese.� - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 3/3/04 THE NEW KING OF PANDER-BEARS �Boy, wait until you see the fire in my belly. President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second." - John Kerry RULER OF THE WORLD �I present to you the lead paragraph in an article which appears in today's edition of The Independent from London: �If the human race as a whole, rather than 50 states plus the District of Colombia, could cast a ballot this coming November, John Kerry would surely win the presidency by a landslide.� Now ... just why is this?� . . . It's just this simple:� These people would vote for Kerry because he would weaken us and empower them.� - Talk-show host Neal Boortz DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT �Here's an interesting promise from a John Kerry position paper titled �A New Army of Patriots: John Kerry's Plan to Enlist Citizens in the Cause of a Safer, Stronger, and More Secure America.� �In a Kerry Administration, no university that receives federal aid will be allowed to ban the ROTC from their campus, except for religious reasons.�� � �This is actually already the law of the land, thanks to the�Solomon Amendment, which the House added to a 1996 defense spending bill. Kerry voted against final passage of the bill, the� National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, but we can't find any record of his taking a position on the ROTC issue at the time. It's possible that his �no� vote simply reflected a general aversion to spending money on defense.� - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 3/4/04 PUT ON YOUR BOOTS �This will be the dirtiest, filthiest presidential campaign in modern American history. . . . Kerry knows he'll be given a pass by the media and his party faithful for anything he says and does on the road to defeating Bush, who has become the news media's least popular chief executive since Nixon.� - Larry Sabato, � Political Crystal Ball,� 3/3/04 BOOM, BOOM...OUT GO McAWFUL�S LIGHTS �The ouster of Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe is high on the agenda of the party's presumptive U.S. presidential nominee, it was reported. �One of the first things Sen. John Kerry will do now that he has won de facto control of the party is to oust� McAuliffe, the New York Post reported Thursday. The Post quoted an unnamed top Democrat saying the Kerry team dislikes McAuliffe and wants �their own man in charge of the party, someone they can trust.� � - UPI, 3/4/04 WINTER SOLDIER There is a TON of information out there in cyber-space about John Kerry�s Vietnam war experience and subsequent buddy-buddy activities with Jane Fonda & Company, but one particular website is really pulling all the various information together in one place. Check out www.wintersoldier.com __________________________________________ THE (CAMPAIGN) DOCTOR IS IN! You can�t change public policy if you don�t change public officials. So Citizen Outreach has established a separate website project dedicated to helping under-funded, underdog campaigns...especially at the state and local levels. Visit today...and make sure you sign up for FREE email �hot tips� on how to get more votes, more money and more volunteers for your campaign or grassroots organization. Go to: www.campaigndoctor.com __________________________________________ TERRORIST ORGANIZATION? �Education is not the goal of the NEA (National Education Association) - it is indoctrination, and the NEA will take whatever steps needed to accomplish their goal, including intimidation of teachers, parents and taxpayers who disagree with their agenda and world view. What does that make them? I think Secretary Paige knows.� - Columnist Barnnon Howse referring to Secretary of Education Rodney Paige�s characterization of the NEA as a �terrorist organization� STUPIDITY VIRUS STRIKES ANOTHER SKOOL �Officials at Indianapolis's Lincoln Middle School�expelled 12-year-old Jacob Finklea for a year for bringing a �weapon� to school--a pair of fabric scissors, which he planned to use in a sewing class, WRTV reports: �I put them on the desk because [the teacher] said, 'Get all your supplies ready to make the pillows,' and I put the scissors on the desk and she just freaked out,� Jacob said.� Jacob's mother, Chrystal Finkela, �said she has contacted several schools to see if they'll teach her son� during the year he's banished from Lincoln, �but the word 'weapon' on his record has deterred many schools from even meeting with her.� " - Best of the Web, 3/4/04 SMOKE �EM IF YOU GOT �EM The National Post reports that a Canadian man who was convicted of aggravated assault for shooting at two men trying to repossess his snowmobile has requested a LONGER sentence than that handed down. 73-year-old Angelo Foti was sentenced to 20 months in a provincial prison, but requested a 24-month sentence in a federal prison. Why? Because the provincial prison bans smoking by inmates and Foti smokes more than a pack a day. Maybe Mr. Foti should consider a compromise: Switching to smokeless tobacco. That way he could have his nicotine...and get out sooner, too. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO HIDE? If importing drugs from Canada and elsewhere around the world is such a good idea, why did five senators (Dorgan, McCain, Daschle, Snowe and Stabenow) try to SNEAK legislation allowing it into the hopper last week? Bob Cusack of The Hill reports that, contrary to standard operating procedure for politicians, they opted to introduce the measure without holding a press conference or, for that matter, even issuing a press release. Their silence says a lot about the merits of this idea. FINDING FISCAL RELIGION �House Republicans will propose a fiscal 2005 budget less than what President Bush wants by freezing spending unrelated to defense and security, and providing less of an increase for defense and homeland security, the top Republican on the House Budget Committee said yesterday. . . . Spurred on by House Republicans bent on tightening spending, (Chairman) Nussle's 2005 budget resolution � which is expected to come before his committee one week from today � will institute mechanisms to hold down spending, including a one-year ban on lawmaker-specified earmarks, or �pork,� in spending bills.� - Washington Times, 3/3/04 OF POUTS AND HISSY FITS �Democrats do not say outright that they are now blocking all GOP judicial nominees in the Senate Judiciary Committee. But Chairman Orrin Hatch says they are � after they vanished late last week and took a voting quorum with them.. . . The disappearing Tuesday came after Democrats complained for two hours about �hackergate� � GOP aides raiding Democratic computer files � and about President Bush using �recess appointments� to temporarily put on the bench two controversial nominees who had been blocked for a year by Democratic maneuvering.� - Lee Davidson, Deseret Morning News, 3/2/04 BOMBSHELL MEMOS �I may go to my grave with it because it would so damage the trust of the American people in their judicial system. I wouldn�t reveal it, no matter what the partisan advantage.� - Former Judiciary Committee staffer Manny Miranda on the content of Democrat memos he read which show �cash for judges� schemes and other shenanigans ESCAPE HATCH ON MARRIAGE AMENDMENT �In a sign that the constitutional (marriage) amendment endorsed by President Bush may be running into trouble on Capitol Hill, the Judiciary Committee's chairman, Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), is preparing to introduce wording that would leave the definition of marriage up to the states. . . . �A number of us think Senator Hatch's approach is the most promising on strategic, legal and political grounds,� said Michael Horowitz, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. �He is focusing on a target that is capable of generating broad, across-the-board support.� " - Washington Post, 3/4/04 COMPLETE COVERAGE Citizen Outreach got a good amount of ink on my testimony before Sen. Cornyn�s Constitution sub-committee opposing the federal marriage amendment on Wednesday. You can check out stories by the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Salt Lake Tribune, CBS News, etc., by visiting our �In the News� page at www.citizenoutreach.com. 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