Chuck Muth's News & Views - September 4, 2002

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> For Everything, There Is a Purpose
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> "It's sad to see a man who was the great communicator not being able to
> communicate really at all. But for some reason, God is keeping him with us.
> I don't know what that reason is, he is with us and we still love him and
> cherish him."
>
> - Talk-show host Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan,
> during an interview with Fox News on his dad's deteriorating health due to
> Alzheimer's disease
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> The Boys Are Back in Town
>
> Members on Congress returned from their summer vacations yesterday.  The
> stock market took a nose-dive yesterday, as well, falling a whopping 355
> points.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.
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> Good Unions/Bad Unions
>
> "There are obviously some union leaders who have the willingness to put
> national interests above partisan party interests.  There are other union
> leaders who are really appendages of the Democratic National Committee."
>
> - President George W. Bush
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> Party Hearty
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> "Back in the '60s, the left was the home of humor, iconoclasm, pleasure.
> But over the past two decades, the joy has gone out of the left - it now
> feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism - while the right has been
> having a gas, be it Lee Atwater grooving to the blues, Rush Limbaugh
> chortling about Feminazis or grimly gleeful Ann Coulter serving up bile as
> if it were chocolate mousse, even dubbing Katie Couric 'the affable Eva
> Braun of morning television.'"
>
> - Columnist John Powers, "Bubble Wrap," L.A. Weekly, 8/30/02
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> Lack of Intelligence
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> Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times reports today on the lack of
> intelligence reports American special forces are getting in their efforts to
> track down and wipe out remaining al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan.  One
> special-ops officer blames it on a Clinton-era directive barring
> intelligence personnel from using sources with a checkered past.
>
> "I believe the biggest hit to collection (of intelligence) has been the
> policy of not recruiting sources with a history of human rights abuses or
> criminal activity," the officer tells Scarborough.  "Anyone who tells you
> otherwise is a staff weenie.  Why would an intelligence officer recruit
> someone the higher-ups will whine over for the rest of the guy's career?"
>
> Is the Administration REALLY taking serious this "war on terrorism?"  I'm
> starting to have my doubts.
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> The Risk of Doing Nothing
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> "(W)hat if George W. does the usual Republican turn, and climbs meekly down
> from the confrontation he so carefully set up and nurtured for the months
> since September 11?  Wouldn't this give Saddam Hussein the triumph he
> craves, avenging the humiliation of the Gulf war and making him the master
> of the Arab world, revealing George W. to be the champ of chumps, the wussy
> of the West and the standard by which presidential wussyhood would be
> forever judged?  That's why it can't be allowed to happen.  But the
> president has only himself to blame if the debate seems to be getting a
> little out of hand."
>
> - Washington Times editor Wes Pruden, "Pruden on Politics," 9/3/02
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> Treat Saddam Like a Mother-In-Law
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> "The story is told about Winston Churchill, a back-bencher in the House of
> Commons around Munich-time in 1938.  During a debate about defense,
> Churchill was demanding increased appropriations for air defense, arguing
> that the Chamberlain government hadn't appropriated enough to meet the
> threat of an expanding Luftwaffe.
>
> "An irate MP shouted out, 'How much is enough?'  The future prime minister
> said the questioner reminded him of the man who received a cable from Brazil
> informing him of death of his mother-in-law and requesting instructions.
> 'Embalm, cremate, bury at sea,' the man wired back, 'take no chances.'"
>
> - Columnist Arnold Beichman
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> The War on Air Travel
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> "(I)t has become apparent to everyone that the tide that rose with stunning
> military success in Afghanistan has ebbed dramatically.  This, too, has been
> largely the president's making.  He called it a war on terror, but it's so
> far more skirmish than struggle, fought largely through harassing action
> against elderly ladies at the nation's airports, and there's so much
> official fraternizing with the enemy that it's difficult for the rest of us
> to understand who we're supposed to be at war against."
>
> - Washington Times editor Wes Pruden, "Pruden on Politics," 9/3/02
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> Injustice at Justice
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> "The Justice Department took time out from its war on terrorists this month
> to order local election boards all across the country to publish ballots for
> the November election in various foreign languages.
>
> "...Only U.S. citizens may legally vote.  In order to become a naturalized
> American citizen, our laws require that you demonstrate 'an understanding of
> the English language, including an ability to read, write and speak...simple
> words and phrases...in ordinary usage in the English language.'
>
> "Printing ballots in foreign languages is fundamentally anti-democratic
> because fair elections depend on public debate on the issues and candidates.
> People who don't understand the public debate are subject to manipulation by
> political-action groups that can mislead them in language translations and
> then tell them how to vote.
>
> "Nevertheless, the Justice Department has ordered more than 335
> jurisdictions in 30 states to provide ballots, signs, registration forms and
> informational brochures in foreign languages.
>
> "...It's unfortunate that the Justice Department isn't just as aggressive in
> making sure that votes are not cast by persons ineligible, such as those who
> are dead, noncitizens, not registered, moved away, registered in more than
> one jurisdiction, felons, mentally incompetent, or living in nursing homes
> where their vote is co-opted and cast by someone else."
>
> - Columnist Phyllis Schlafly
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> If Only He'd Skip Some MORE
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> "Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, has missed more than one out of every
> 10 votes in the Senate since 1995, the second-highest voting-absenteeism
> rate in the 100-member Senate.  Only Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina
> Republican, in poor health at age 80 and leaving office in January, has
> missed more votes this year than Mr. McCain."
>
> - Reporter Billy House, Arizona Republic
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> It's the Constitution, Stupid
>
> "It is the corruption of the Constitution itself that explains the current
> stall (on judicial nominees) and the decision by Democrats on the Senate
> Judiciary Committee to impose an ideological litmus test on Bush nominees.
> Judges today do set national policy far more than they used to - and far
> more than the Constitution contemplates.  In fact, it is because the
> original design has been corrupted, especially as it relates to the
> constraints the Constitution places on politics, that we have come to
> ideological litmus tests for judges."
>
> - Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute
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> The Goldwater Doctrine
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> "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more
> efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote
> welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to
> repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones
> that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose,
> or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not
> attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first
> determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later
> be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I
> was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am
> doing the very best I can."
>
> - Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), "The Conscience of a Conservative"
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> COMING EVENTS
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>
> *  17th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. September 27,28 and 29, 2002 at
> the. Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona sponsored by the Citizens
> Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the Second Amendment
> Foundation. Registration is free. You can register by email to GRPC@saf.org
> or by phone at 425.454.4911. For more information go to: http://www.saf.org/
>
> *  "A Salute to House Majority Leader Dick Armey."  Saturday, October 19,
> 2002.  Dallas Marriott Las Colinas.  Irving, Texas.  VIP Reception: 6pm.
> Dinner: 7pm.  $65.  For information or reservations call:  Institute for
> Policy Innovation.  Misty Woodruff
> 972-874-5139 or misty@ipi.org
>
> *  30th Annual CPAC conference at the Gateway Marriot in Arlington, VA from
> January 30 - February 1, 2003.  Details to follow.
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