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> Proud to Be an Extremist
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> "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Let
> me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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> - Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) in his 1964 presidential nomination
> acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention
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> Darn Interesting Scenario
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> "Control of the U.S. Senate, for a couple of months anyway, may be a matter
> for voters in the state of Missouri to decide. Capitol Hill Republicans,
> recently returned from the August district work period, are chatting up the
> idea that a victory by Republican Jim Talent in the November election could
> give the GOP control of the chamber for remainder of the year.
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> "Talent is running against Sen. Jean Carnahan, widow of former Gov. Mel
> Carnahan, who was killed while on the campaign trail when the small private
> plane on which he was traveling crashed in bad weather. Though Carnahan was
> dead, Missouri voters nevertheless elected him to the Senate in November
> 2000. Jean Carnahan was appointed to fill the vacancy.
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> "According to Missouri law, appointed senators serve until the next general
> election and, if they wish to remain in office, must contest for the right
> to serve out the balance of the term -- essentially making the fall contest
> a special election. As the GOP reads it, Talent, should he win, immediately
> becomes the junior senator from Missouri and does not have to wait until the
> Senate reconvenes in January 2003 to take the seat.
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> "A Talent victory would, for the balance of the year, change the partisan
> split in the chamber to 50 Republicans, 49 Democrats and one independent --
> Jim Jeffords of Vermont who voted with the Democrats to organize the chamber
> after he left the GOP in 2001.
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> "Normally, this would not matter but it is increasingly likely that there
> will be a lame-duck session of Congress after the fall elections -- raising
> the stakes for this one senate race substantially."
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> - UPI's Capital Comment, 9/6/02
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> I Pledge!  I Pledge!
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> "Now, raise your right hand and join me in taking this pledge:  If we ever
> spend one dime of U.S. taxpayers' money on that kind of international street
> theater again (the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development), we will
> demand it come out of the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts."
>
> - Rich Galen, "Mullings," 9/6/02
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> Whew!  Woman Can Certainly Breathe Easier Now
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> "If you still think Islam is a violent religion, Sam Hamod would like to set
> you straight. In a letter to the Washington Post, he argues that a sharia
> court in Nigeria that sentenced a woman to death by stoning for adultery was
> not following the true faith: 'As the former director of the National
> Islamic Center of Washington, the focal point of Islam in North America,
> allow me to make clear that there is no dictum in the Koran to allow the
> stoning death of an adulteress; the penalty the Koran prescribes is lashing.
> '"
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> - OpinionJournal.com, 9/4/02
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> A Swedish Meatball Clinton Would Love
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> "A Christian Democratic politician running for a seat in Sweden's parliament
> called for porn to be broadcast on television all day every Saturday in
> order to help boost the population and thereby the economy.
>
> "Teres Kirpikli, a municipal councillor in the southern town of Skoevde,
> said pornography was the best way to get couples to have more sex and
> procreate.  'I want erotica and porn on television every Saturday, all day.
> Then people would feel like having more sex. I think most people like porn,
> even though they don't want to admit it,' she said in a statement."
>
> - Agence France-Presse, 9/5/02
> <http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5040145%5E13762,00.html>
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> Feminists' Latest Tempest in a Tee-pot
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> "(A)s a matter of pure merit, I really couldn't give a rat's patoot if the
> Augusta National Golf Club became the new temple for the Divine Secrets of
> the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, let alone if it admitted a few well-qualified female
> golfers.  In fact, until the current kerfuffle made its way to the front
> pages, I had no idea that Augusta didn't accept women already. But as of
> now, I couldn't be a bigger supporter of the He Man Woman Haters Club of the
> links.
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> "If, like me, you normally bask in your golf ignorance, let me bring you up
> to speed.  The Masters is like the Super Bowl of golf, and it's always
> played at Augusta, Ga., and has been broadcast by CBS Sports since woolly
> mammoths were a putting hazard.  Augusta doesn't admit women as members,
> though they are allowed to play there - something many men-only clubs still
> prohibit.
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> "In June, the National Council of Women's Organizations launched a campaign
> against Augusta demanding that the club admit women.  The feminist effort
> became predictably shrill when the ladies encountered resistance from
> Augusta.  Hootie Johnson, the chairman of the club, said, 'There may well
> come a day when women will be invited to join our membership...but not at
> the point of a bayonet.'
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> "In response, the NCWO threatened to go after the event's television
> sponsors...with boycotts, letter-writing campaigns, foot-stomping and all
> other tantrum-like means at their disposal.  Mr. Johnson called their bluff
> and simply canceled the sponsorships, entirely refunding CBS' share of the
> loot.
>
> "...I say, Go, Hootie.  Anybody willing to turn his back on millions in
> sponsorship money on principle gets an attaboy from me."
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> - Columnist Jonah Goldberg
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> "We're At War" Bad Excuse for Bad Ideas
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> "Since 9/11, anyone who has questioned a proposed extension of government
> power or contraction of individual liberty has had to deal with an
> intimidating three-word rejoinder: 'We're at war.'
>
> "Among other things, 'we're at war' has been offered as a justification for
> trying noncitizens before military tribunals, holding citizens in military
> custody without charging them, eavesdropping on attorney-client
> conversations, conducting secret searches, obtaining email information and
> library records without a warrant, relaxing restrictions on FBI surveillance
> of religious and political activity, setting up a nationwide network of
> civilian informers, installing police cameras in public places, allowing the
> armed forces to play a more prominent role in law enforcement, establishing
> a national ID card, conscripting young people into 'national service,' and
> repealing President Bush's tax cuts."
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> - Columnist Jacob Sullum, Reason magazine, October 2002
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> What Osama Hath Wrought
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> "In just one year...we've become trained to show up hours earlier to
> airports and to shuffle passively through security checkpoints, to unbuckle
> out pants and untuck our shirts, to hold our feet up in the air while agents
> wave wands over our shoes, to surrender nail clippers at the gate or just
> travel without them, to grin and bear it while Grandma's walker gets the
> once-over.
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> "...Has any of this made us safer?  Not from our government, which has done
> little to earn our trust over the years, especially when it comes to law
> enforcement.  And not from terrorists, either. . . . How wrong, then, that
> we've dealt away some of our freedom and privacy for a promise of safety and
> security."
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> - Nick Gillespie, editor, Reason magazine, October 2002
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> Berkeley Sounds "Retreat"
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> "University of California, Berkeley officials "back-pedaled Thursday on
> their plans for a Sept. 11 memorial after incurring national ridicule for a
> tribute that originally was to exclude signs of patriotism," the California
> Patriot reports: 'As news of UC Berkeley's plans to exclude patriotic songs
> and the American Flag at next Wednesday's memorial spread across the
> country, Chancellor Robert Berdahl held a press conference extolling the
> campus's patriotism.  Berdahl also said the university would distribute red,
> white, and blue ribbons, as had originally been planned. The patriotic
> ribbons had, until yesterday, been scrapped and replaced with white ribbons
> so as to avoid offending students on campus.'"
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> - OpinionJournal.com, 9/6/02
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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
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> *  "A Salute to House Majority Leader Dick Armey."  Saturday, October 19,
> 2002.  Dallas Marriott Las Colinas.  Irving, Texas.  VIP Reception: 6pm.
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