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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS March 29, 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 _____________________________________ DISCUSSION BOARD I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who takes time to read and respond to our online surveys and discussion questions. While quite often they are an exercise in fun, as often as not they have also been EXTREMELY helpful in our work here at Citizen Outreach. I regularly use the results of �Survey Says!� and your reader/activist comments from the Discussion Board in letters to Congress and other elected officials. In fact, I recently blast-faxed a letter to every Member on Capitol Hill which included many of your comments on what we�d all like to see on postal reform. And I�ve also posted many of those comments on our new website dedicated to postal reform at www.postalreform.com. In addition, I often use your comments and ideas when writing op/ed columns and letters-to-the-editor. So please don�t think that responding to the online survey questions or joining the discussion on the �blog� is a waste of time. Your responses have proved invaluable to our good work here at Citizen Outreach. But for now, let�s stick to talking about something completely useless just for the fun of it. The question today: What do you think about the idea of liberal talk-radio in general and �Weird� Al Franken�s upcoming show in particular? Will it succeed or bomb? If a liberal hosts a talk show on radio and no one hears him, does it matter? Should conservatives be rooting for Al to hit a home run...or strike out swinging? And here�s another one of greater weight at the suggestion of News & Views reader Tom Henderson: �Chuck, would you consider addressing some specifics on why the NEA (teachers union) is bad for American education?� I'd like to see a cyber column, or a big chunk of one, focused on that topic.� Heck, I could go on for days on that subject, but I know a lot of you have much more personal experience - working both inside and outside the government education system - so I�ll post Tom�s question on the �blog� and hope you all will share your stories and opinions...which I�ll be only too happy to share with Congress on your behalf. Join the discussion and throw your two cents in at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ UPDATE UPDATE There are two new updates on postal reform and the federal marriage amendment now posted on our special project websites dedicated to those issues. Read yesterday�s FMA Update by going to www.lawfullywedded.com and/or the Postal Reform Update at www.postalreform.com. Or better yet, while there just sign up for these free updates (about weekly) and I�ll deliver them directly to your email address as soon as they come out. BRING IT ON, AL FRANKEN-FLOP �Al Franken launches his new talk-radio program next week. The nation�s news media is working overtime to help him succeed. . . . With all this hoopla and all this cheerleading...if Franken still falls on his face, there will be no excuses. A lesson will be written in stone. That lesson: The left doesn�t have a popular following, only special interests addicted to benefits or power or both.� - Columnist Hugh Hewitt YEAH...WHAT HE SAID �Quit blaming tax cuts for all the problems in the world.� - Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA) THIS ONE DOESN�T PASS THE SNICKER TEST �President Bush (on Friday) insisted his proposal to relax immigration laws would not allow illegal aliens from Mexico to �cut in line� in front of legal immigrants.� - Washington Times, 3/27/04 DASCHLE THREATENS PRESIDENT �Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle threatened yesterday to block all of President Bush's judicial nominees unless Mr. Bush promises to not appoint federal judges while Congress is on recess. . . . The threat brought immediate outrage from Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. . . . �The only reason the president had to use the power that is very clearly conferred upon him in the U.S. Constitution is because of this unprecedented obstruction by the Democratic minority in the Senate.� " - Washington Times, 3/27/04 DON�T NEGOTIATE, EXTERMINATE �By taking out (Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed) Yassin, Israel removed one of many heads from the terrorist hydra. Instead of recoiling in the face of criticism from the usual sources, Israel, the United States and those not suffering from spinelessness should take out as many of the rest of them as can be found and targeted.� - Columnist Cal Thomas THE MAN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT �The Senate (on Thursday) approved a bill that would recognize two victims when a pregnant woman and her unborn child are injured or killed as a result of a federal crime. . . . Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts voted against it.� - Washington Times, 3/26/04 WON�T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR �At a Palm Beach luncheon this week we were fortunate to sit in the company of an interesting Bostonian woman, who just happens to be a neighbor of John Kerry.. . . Of course, we couldn't help but ask - and we won't mention her name - �What do you think of John Kerry?� She told us. �I think he's the rudest, ugliest, most arrogant man I've ever met,� she replied without a second's hesitation. �...The last anecdote she gave us was about a visit to the grocery store. It seems the Beacon Hill neighborhood has a popular little market, which is nearly always quite crowded with long lines of shoppers waiting to check out. On one of this neighbor's shopping trips, she said, Kerry appeared with his groceries and went straight to the front of the line demanding, �I'm a senator. Take these.� " - NewsMax.com, 3/27/04 HOWLIN� HOWARD ASKS WRONG QUESTION In his cynical endorsement of John Kerry on Thursday, former presidential candidate Howard Dean said, �The real issue is this: Who would you rather have in charge of the defense of the United States of America? A group of people who never served a day in their life, or a guy who has served his country honorably and has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star?� Actually, the question one should ask is: �Who would you rather have defending the United States: A man who as commander-in-chief kicked the Taliban and Sadddam Hussein out of power while capturing or killing more than half of al Qaeda�s leaders, or a guy who slandered his former Vietnam brothers and gave aid and comfort to the enemy by sucking up to Jane Fonda while undermining the U.S.�s ability to win the war?� PROMISE �EM ANYTHING & EVERYTHING On Friday, John Kerry promised to create 10 million jobs in four years if elected president. Yeah, right. The fact is, government doesn�t create jobs...except government jobs, and who needs that? The best thing government can do is get the hell out of the way of entrepreneurs and business people who really DO create jobs. But that�s NOT what John Kerry and his anti-business union backers are all about. �Clearly (John Kerry�s) going to overregulate us to death,� Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox says. �A friend of mine who works for the auto industry calls him the �Boston strangler� because he�s going to strangle the domestic auto industry with regulations.� And every other successful industry, as well. The Kerry campaign is a �death star� for American jobs. SURVEY SAYS! Should airports �fire� the TSA�s (Transportation Security Administration) federal airport screeners and return to the days when private companies operated the checkpoints? * Yes, the TSA is lousy * No, anti-terror efforts are a gov�t responsibility * I�m a Kerry supporter: Yes AND No Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK �A billiard table with a price tag of $2,295. An aquarium valued at $2,929. Premium satellite and cable TV packages billed at $4,843 (including pornographic-movie hookups). Fish costumes and a hand-stitched salmon tent threaded for $16,250. �Just a few recent items bureaucrats purchased with taxpayer-funded credit cards, says Washington Waste Watchers, citing General Accounting Office probes.� - John McCaslin�s �Inside the Beltway,� 3/26/04 YER GUMMINT SKOOLS INAXION �Time magazine has reported that 600,000 entering freshmen, 29 percent of the total, have to take at least one remedial class in their first year of college. . . . . As a result, college professors, Ph.D�s in philosophy and history and physics and mathematics, end up teaching students things they should have learned in the seventh grade.� - Columnist and school principal Terrence Moore DON�T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY �Social studies textbooks used in elementary and secondary schools are mostly a disgrace that, in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism, fail to give students an honest account of American history, say academic historians and education advocates. Most textbooks, produced by a handful of giant commercial publishers, are exposing generations of children to cultural and history amnesia that threatens the very basis of American free institutions and liberties, warn leading historians who are calling for better-defined, more rigorous state teaching standards.� - Washington Times, 3/28/04 THIS WEEK�S �MUTH�S TRUTHS� The bureaucrats running �Old Europe� have struck a blow against an American company that could spark a world-wide trade war. Check out this week�s Muth�s Truth�s column on how the Euro-weenies stuck it royally to Microsoft at www.citizenoutreach.com YOU�VE GOT BLACKMAIL �As I feared last August, the European Union just shoved its grasping hand deep into the pockets of a leading American firm � Microsoft � while also attempting to dictate the features of Windows and expropriate intellectual property rights of its creators. Microsoft is to be fined about $600 million, which is essentially a foreign tax on the primarily American owners of Microsoft stock. The EU also ordered Microsoft to share more information about Windows with competitors, which amounts to compulsory licensing at best. �...American outrage over this heavy-handed European meddling in American business affairs is emerging as I anticipated last August. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Tennessee Republican, called the EU ruling �preposterous,� adding, �I now fear that the U.S. and the EU are heading toward a new trade war � and that the commission's ruling against Microsoft is the first shot.� Trade wars are always mutually destructive, but allowing foreign antitrust czars to pander to whining companies at the expense of consumers is destructive, too.� - Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute THE POINT IS TO PUNISH SUCCESS �The best that can be said for the EU sanctions against Microsoft is that they probably won't have a big impact on the company. The measures proposed by European anti-trust officials seem confusedly overzealous and restrained at the same time. While Microsoft is being fined over $600 million for a crime that doesn't exist, officials set up regulatory roadblocks for Microsoft while simultaneously providing detours. 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