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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH’S NEWS & VIEWS April 30, 2004 To view the HTML version of today’s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ SINCLAIR PULLS PLUG ON KOPPEL “The ‘Nightline’ roll call tribute to U.S. troops killed in Iraq will not be seen tonight in several cities because station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group called the broadcast ‘motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq.’ "…’While (Sinclair) honors the memory of the brave members of the military who have sacrificed their lives in the service of our country, we do not believe such political statements should be disguised as news content,’ the Maryland company said in a statement. It owns or operates 62 stations reaching nearly one-fourth of all U.S. TV viewers.” - Indianapolis Star, 4/30/04 KOFI BREAK: WRONG THEN, WRONG AGAIN “Violent military action by an occupying power against inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse,” said UN chief Kofi Annan this week about the battle of Fallujah. “It’s definitely time, time now, for those who prefer restraint and dialogue to make their voices heard.” Of course, had we listened to the likes of Kofi Annan and John Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power and filling up those mass graves. Don’t call us, Kofi; we’ll call you...when the latrines need cleaning. I’m sorry. Was that disrespectful to a world leader? GORELI-SCAM “Newly released Justice Department memos show that September 11 panel commissioner Jamie S. Gorelick was more intimately involved than previously thought with hampering communications between U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies fighting terrorism,” reported the Washington Times on Thursday. Please, please, PLEASE, Jamie...stay on this kangaroo court and DON’T testify. You are without a doubt the single best “useful idiot” our side could possibly have right now. As long as you remain on the commission and refuse to testify, the inevitable anti-Bush final report will be completely, totally discredited and useless. COULTER-GEIST “On Sept. 21, (2001) as the remains of thousands of Americans lay smoldering at Ground Zero, (Secretary of Transportation Norman) Mineta fired off a letter to all U.S. airlines forbidding them from implementing the one security measure that would have prevented 9-11: subjecting Middle Eastern passengers to an added degree of pre-flight scrutiny. He sternly reminded the airlines that it was illegal to discriminate against passengers based on their race, color, national or ethnic origin, or religion. “Mineta would have sent the letter even sooner, but he wanted to give the airlines enough time to count the number of their employees and customers who had just been murdered by Arab passengers.” - Columnist Ann Coulter YIKES! THIS FROM THE VILLAGE VOICE? "With the air gushing out of John Kerry's balloon, it may be only a matter of time until political insiders in Washington face the dread reality that the junior senator from Massachusetts doesn't have what it takes to win and has got to go.... The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner. What to do? Look for the Dem biggies, whoever they are these days, to sit down with the rich and arrogant presumptive nominee and try to persuade him to take a hike. Then they can return to business as usual -- resurrecting John Edwards, who is still hanging around, or staging an open convention in Boston, or both" - Columnist James Ridgeway of the super-liberal Village Voice POSSESSED SCARECROW “(CNN’s Lou Dobbs is) on a jihad. It's as if whatever made Linda Blair's head spin around in 'The Exorcist' has invaded the body of Lou Dobbs and left him with the brain of Dennis Kucinich." - John Castellani to reporters after a speech before the Detroit Economic Club on Dobbs’ ongoing rants about “outsourcing” MILLER TIME “Federalism, for all practical purposes, has become to a generation of leaders some vague philosophy of the past that is dead, dead, dead. The reformers of the early 1900s killed it dead and cremated the body when they allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators. Direct election of senators, as good as that sounds, allowed Washington's special interests to call the shots, whether it's filling judicial vacancies or issuing regulations. The state governments aided in their own collective suicide by going along with the popular fad of the time. Having jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge of political reality, before I hit the water and go 'splat,’ I have introduced a bill that would repeal the 17th Amendment." - Sen. Zell Miller, Georgia Democrat REPEAL THE 17TH! “Senator Zell Miller...says that the 17th Amendment should be repealed. . . . Just what does the 17th Amendment do? It provides for the popular election of U.S. Senators. Under our original Constitution Senators were appointed by state legislators. The idea was for the House of Representatives to represent the interests of the people in Washington, while the Senate would represent the interests of State governments. Since the 17th Amendment was ratified State governments have been without any official representation in Washington. You can see what this has brought us ... complete federal domination ... the Imperial Federal Government of the United States.” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 4/29/04 STILL HATING THE GIPPER “You wouldn't think Ronald Reagan would still be so controversial a figure in America. But a proposed Ronald Reagan University, to be built with private money on private land, has drawn the ire of Democrats in the Colorado State House. This week, a resolution praising the creation of the university cleared the House Education Committee by only a six-to-five vote, with every Democrat playing spoilsport and opposing it.” - John Fund, Political Diary, 4/28/04 DEMONIZING LIFE SAVERS “Perhaps no one is more consistently demonized for doing more good today in America than the drug companies. . . . People who think drugs are expensive should consider the cost of not having drugs. . . . Bashing the drugmakers may win votes. But the price of such demagoguery will be high if fewer people are treated as a result.” - Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute CHEAP DRUGS VS. SAFE DRUGS “The overwhelming fallacy of the argument coming from the ‘cheap drugs are more important than safe drugs’ crowd is centered on the false assertion that drugs coming back to the U.S. through internet websites were produced here, sold abroad, and then u-turned back into American medicine cabinets. This is patently false, as many of these drugs are counterfeited under unsterile and dangerous conditions in third world nations, many with terrorist ties. “Some ‘drugs’ have active ingredients, some don’t, and consumers can’t tell the difference. Nearly two-thirds of drug websites purporting to be in Canada are not, and a recent trip to real Canadian facilities by the Minnesota Pharmacy Association revealed that even the pharmacies that actually are in Canada are rife with safety violations.” - Kerri Houston, Vice-President of Policy, Frontiers of Freedom, 4/19/04 CANDID CAMERA Well, it seems the “Photo-Fuzz” busted my wife’s car. One of those Big Brother traffic cameras in Washington, DC, snapped a picture of my wife’s car allegedly speeding. Problem is...she definitely wasn’t driving the vehicle on the alleged infraction date. In which case, the citation notice says she’ll be let her off the hook...provided she “snitches” on whoever WAS behind the wheel on the date and time in question. She’s required to either pay the fine for an infraction she didn’t commit...or provide a notarized statement ratting out the name and address of the actual driver. But let’s say, hypothetically speaking of course, that the driver was, say, her husband. By law, is she compelled to rat him out and testify against him? Hmmm. Anyway, I’ve been on record as being against these municipal money-makers from day one and would love to fight this battle in court. Does anyone know of any civil rights attorneys working on this issue who might be interested in a defendant willing to make a federal case, literally, out of these damn traffic cameras? If so, shoot me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, this is one of those issues which you might not be paying any attention to right now because it doesn’t affect you...yet. But as local governments continue to spend like drunken sailors while the taxpayers continue to adamantly oppose tax hikes, more and more of YOUR towns and communities are going to be sucked into these traffic cameras. Not because they make your roads safer, but because they generate a boatload of cash for the government without incurring the wrath of anti-tax voters. These DC cameras are raising MILLIONS for this mismanaged city. In fact, the Washington Times today reports that just ONE camera on New York Avenue in the District “issued” 13,200 citations last month alone...worth a minimum of $396,000 worth of fines. And you think your local politicians will be able to resist THAT kind of pot of gold? So beware: The Photo-Fuzz is comin’ for you soon. HOT OFF THE PRESS! 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