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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH’S NEWS & VIEWS March 6, 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 _____________________________________ WEBCAST SYSTEM We’ve raised $325 so far of the $2,500 needed to purchase that webcast system I wrote about yesterday enabling us to offer more training programs to more candidates around the country for the 2004 campaign season. Thanks a million to everyone who has kicked in a few bucks! Now, I know donating money for training programs isn’t as exciting or as “sexy” as giving money to fight illegal immigration, gun control, higher taxes, bigger government, national health care and John Kerry...but electing the *right* people who make decisions on our behalf at EVERY level of government is critical to holding back the hounds of left-wing hell from our doors. So if you haven’t taken a minute to help us help these conservative candidates nationwide, I hope you’ll take a minute right now to do so. Just go to our webpage at www.citizenoutreach.com and click on the “Donate” page. You’ll find all the information you need to either donate online to our secure PayPal account using your credit card...or where to “snail-mail” a check. Thanks for your help in getting this very important project off the ground. JUST DON’T DO EENIE-MEENIE-MINEY-MOE As you’ll recall from yesterday’s edition, an elderly black dude down in Louisiana has determined that chess is a racist game because whitey always gets to go first. Plenty of readers wrote in to remind us of the “old-fashioned” way we amateur chess players decide who gets to go first rather than automatically deferring to the player with the white pieces. Here’s what ya do Mr. Ware: Put one black pawn in one hand behind your back where the opposing player can’t see which hand you’ve put it in. Put a white pawn in the other hand. Now take both hands and hold them out over the board, being careful not to let the other player see the chess pieces in your closed hands. Then...now get ready, because this is the tricky part...let the other player choose one hand by tapping it gently. Whichever colored pawn is in the hand the player chooses, that’s who goes first! TAKING SEPARATION DOCTRINE WAY TOO FAR “Air Force Academy commanders admonished cadets for using academy e-mail to tout Mel Gibson's movie about the crucifixion of Jesus. In an e-mail obtained by The Associated Press, Superintendent Lt. Gen. John Rosa said the cadets' use of an academy e-mail distribution list to encourage people to see ‘The Passion of the Christ’ was inappropriate. . . . He also admonished cadets for displaying fliers for the movie in the cafeteria, according to the e-mail sent Wednesday. At least one academy graduate complained to Rosa that the students' e-mail was insensitive to cadets who are not Christians, Academy spokesman Johnny Whitaker said.” - Associated Press, 3/5/04 KOMMIES FOR KERRY “John Kerry has picked up an endorsement of sorts, from Kim Jong Il, the lunatic communist dictator of North Korea, the Financial Times reports: ‘In the past few weeks, speeches by the Massachusetts senator have been broadcast on Radio Pyongyang and reported in glowing terms by the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), the official mouthpiece of Mr. Kim's communist regime. . . . Rather than dealing with President George W. Bush and hawkish officials in his administration, Pyongyang seems to hope victory for the Democratic candidate on November 2 would lead to a softening in US policy towards the country's nuclear weapons programme.’ Oh well, things could be worse for Kerry. At least Al Gore hasn't endorsed him.” - James Taranto, Best of the Web, 3/5/04 SHOW US THE RECORDS “Reading the account of John Kerry’s three Purple Hearts and the Silver Star action, being a former officer who served with the 4th ID Artillery in Vietnam I would like to see the medical reports for the Purple Hearts. For the Silver Star, I would like to see the Sitrep and After Action Reports and eye witness statements for the award. Based on what I read on the Silver Star he should have been reprimanded for extremely poor judgment unnecessarily putting his crew, boat and himself in danger.” - News & Views reader Stan Spolski STEPPING ON POSTAL REFORMER’S TOES “(Japanese) Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi went on the defensive Friday after posts minister Taro Aso voiced anger at being bypassed in a decision to appoint a postal privatization minister. . . . On Tuesday, Koizumi told reporters of his plans to appoint a special minister in charge of privatizing the nation's postal services, although Aso is the minister who oversees mail delivery, postal savings and postal insurance operations. “At a regular news conference Friday morning, Aso indicated he was displeased at the plan, saying, ‘Nothing has been explained to me yet.’ Koizumi rushed to patch things up, noting that Aso himself is now a reformist who advocates the postal privatization initiative.” - The Japan Times, 3/6/04 (Don’t you just wish President Bush would appoint a “postal privatization” czar here in the U.S.?) PRICE-CONTROLLED DRUGS “On February 5, two U.S. Senators, Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), introduced legislation allowing the federal government to directly negotiate drug prices with private drug companies. The legislation, called the ‘Medicare Enhancements for Needed Drugs Act,’ also takes steps to legalize the importation of drugs from Canada and penalize drug companies that limit their exports to Canada. “This bill is just plain politics. The ink is barely dry on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which President Bush signed on December 8, and already liberal Democrats and liberal Republicans are trying to score election-year points by promising voters something for nothing. In this case, they are promising cheaper drugs for seniors that are just as safe and effective as the drugs they are buying today. It's a promise they can't keep.” - Joseph Bast of the Heartland Institute MEMOGATE UPDATE The brouhaha over those leaked Judiciary Committee memos showing Democrat collusion with left-wing special interests to block the president’s judges continues on a slow-burn (see tomorrow’s DC Confidential for how WE’RE being pulled into this mess). But why is Sen. Hatch more focused on how the memos were obtained than the ethical violations and lawbreaking indicated by the CONTENT of the memos themselves. Read a “Memogate” update in the Wall Street Journal, including passages from some of the more outrageous memos here: http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004779 HMMM...ISN’T MARRIAGE AN INSTITUTION? “…(L)aws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.” - Thomas Jefferson JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IS THE REAL THREAT “We already see the [judiciary] power, installed for life, responsible to no authority (for impeachment is not even a scare-crow), advancing with a noiseless and steady pace to the great object of consolidation. 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