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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS March 10, 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 _____________________________________ FROM THE DEPT. OF �DUH� �U.S. Marine Col. Charles Gurganus said gunfire broke out on the northeast corner of the plaza and several people were wounded before Marines spotted two gunmen� reports the Associated Press on events in Haiti which resulted in the death of one of the gunmen. When the reporter asked how the colonel knew the man killed was a gunman, Gurganus replied, �He had a gun, and he was shooting at Marines. That's what I call a gunman." Boy, those crack reporters at AP really know how to ask the tough questions, don�t they? And don�t ya just love plain-spoken Marines?� FRY HIM...I�LL BRING THE POPCORN �John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death Tuesday for his role in the sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington area. . . . Muhammad denied any involvement in the killings Tuesday, telling the judge, �Don't make a fool of the Constitution of the United States of America.� " - Associated Press, 3/9/04 TAXATION 101: CORPORATIONS DON�T PAY TAXES �The actual cost of whatever taxes a corporation collects is passed along to others in some combination of lower dividends or profits for shareholders, higher prices for consumers, or lower wages and benefits for employees.� - �Review & Outlook,� Wall Street Journal, 3/9/04 AH, THE GOOD OLD DAYS �Up until the late 19th century, the state had nothing to do with marriage. People got married in the church.� - Columnist Ted Baehr WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, JESSE HELMS? The Land of the Sea Treaty has been bottled up in the Senate for 22 years due to the efforts of conservatives led by former Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jesse Helms. The LOST treaty, according to the Liberty Committee, �would give international bureaucrats the power to assess taxes on the United States� along with a lot of other really bad stuff. But Helms is retired and the fate of LOST is now in the hands of his replacement, Sen. Dick Lugar, who is apparently aiding LOST supporters in their efforts �to sneak this anti-American treaty through the Senate quietly and quickly.� BRUSHFIRE ALERT: Tell your senators that not only do you oppose this treaty, but if it comes up for a vote you want a recorded vote, not a voice vote, so the American people know who sold �em out. 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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.� Go to http://chuckmuth.com/specialreports.htm to check out our ever-growing library of winning publications! __________________________________________ SCARY KERRY CAUGHT ON BOTH SIDES...AGAIN �In an hour-long meeting with reporters, (Bush campaign manager Ken) Mehlman fired back at the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee (John Kerry) for accusing Mr. Bush over the weekend of failing to provide adequate body armor to U.S. forces. . . . In November, Mr. Kerry voted against the president's request for $87 billion to fund security and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. That measure included $300 million for body armor designed to help GIs in Iraq survive the sort of sniper fire that had claimed dozens of American lives at the time.� - Washington Times, 3/9/04 NO MORE MR. NICE GUY...PLEASE �After years of friendly overtures and bipartisanship, President Bush should accept the fact an extended hand to the Democrats is likely to be bitten off. . . . So as the 2004 campaign gears up, President Bush can drop the Mr. Nice Guy approach. They�re going to hate him anyway, so he might as well fight like a cougar.� - Columnist Mona Charen PRESIDENT TAKES OFF GLOVES �One very important part of this war is intelligence-gathering, as Senator Kerry noted. Yet in 1995, two years after the [1993] attack on the World Trade Center, my opponent introduced a bill to cut the overall intelligence budget by $1� billion. His bill was so deeply irresponsible that he didn't have a single co-sponsor in the United States Senate. . . . Once again, Mr. Kerry is trying to have it both ways. He's for good intelligence, yet was willing to gut the intelligence services, and that is no way to lead the nation in a time of war. �...Senator Kerry voted for the Patriot Act, for NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], for the No Child Left Behind Act and for the use of force in Iraq. Now he opposes the Patriot Act, NAFTA, the No Child Left Behind Act and the liberation of Iraq. My opponent clearly has strong beliefs � they just don't last very long." - President Bush in Dallas on Monday CALL IT THE �KERRY SYNDROME� �Across the nation, people of all professions and backgrounds are being exposed, and sometimes convicted of fraud, for exaggerating their military records, wearing decorations they did not earn, even trafficking in the nation�s highest award, the Medal of Honor.� - Edward Colimore in the Philadelphia Inquirer LEAVE NO LOST CAUSE BEHIND MoveOn.org has GOT to be the most successful political organization in the country today...that is, if you judge success on the ability to raise a boatload of money as well as hackles over invented and/or misleading issues. �Cause if you base their success on actually WINNING their issues, they are The Loser Kings by a country mile. Let�s start with the issue they were founded upon - keeping Bill Clinton from being impeached. He was. Stopping the war in Iraq. Too bad; we won. Stopping the FCC from deregulating the media. Goose-egg. Howard Dean for President. Pass the Kool-Aid. Now the Loons from the Left are targeting a new conservative victim: Secretary of Education Rodney Paige. The MoveOn-ites are pushing a petition demanding that President Bush fire Paige for correctly calling the teachers� union a form of a �terrorist organization.� Let�s just hope they hold their collective breaths waiting. The nation could use a break from these blowhards. WASTE NOT, WANT NOT Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) has released�a letter by CCAGW President Tom Schatz to members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee relating to scheduled hearings on reforming the United States Postal Service. It said that �as Congress moves forward to reform the USPS, it should act upon another key USPS commission finding: that the USPS is burdened with excess capacity, both in personnel and bricks and mortar infrastructure, and the first step in any postal reform effort must be �right- sizing� the USPS. The USPS must be required to eliminate any non-postal services it currently offers and put a moratorium on the development of any new, non-postal commercial ventures. In so doing, Congress would get postal reform off on the right footing.� FF&C NO REASON FOR FMA The most compelling, legitimate argument supporters of a federal marriage amendment have in their arsenal is the contention that the �full faith and credit� (FF&C) clause of the Constitution will force one state to recognize the gay marriages of another state. But in a Wall Street Journal column on Tuesday, Yale Prof. Lea Brilmayer (who I sat next to in last week�s Senate hearing on the issue and who is an expert on FF&C) convincingly blows that straw man clear out of the water. �If today's proponents of a marriage amendment are motivated by the fear of some full faith and credit chain-reaction set off in other states by Massachusetts, they needn't be,� Prof. Brilmayer writes. You can read her full column, �Full Faith & Credit,� by clicking on the �In the News� tab at www.lawfullywedded.com __________________________________________ Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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