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The Coward's Weapon
"What really frosted me was McVeigh's 'collateral damage' gimmick,
and his 'Too bad the innocents had to die.' They didn't HAVE to die
-- all he needed to do was set off his 'statement' at, say, 0400 instead
of
mid-morning. Anyway, a bomb is a coward's weapon. You set the
fuse and run away. Nobody within its range has a chance: no warning,
no way to fight back. Disgusting. Gotta say this much for the
Muslim human-bomb 'martyrs':
At least they blow themselves up with it!"
- GOPN&V reader Charles Chandler
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McVeigh Killed His Own Cause, Too
"Beyond the horror and carnage inflicted on Oklahoma City, McVeigh
did great damage to the movement he professed to be a part of. The
anti-government mood was really gaining strength in the country. The l994
elections swept into office some of the most determined reformers ever in
modern times.
These reformers were just beginning to flex their muscles is the 104th
Congress and they had the public behind them when the bombing occurred.
"That bombing completely tore the heart out of the anti-government
movement in the country. It enabled President Clinton, who had been on the
ropes, to make a comeback. It put the forces of less government completely
on the defensive lest somehow they be linked to Oklahoma City.
"The anti-government forces have never regained the momentum they had
before the bombing occurred. Only God knows how far things might have gone
had this man-made act of vengeance not interfered with the political
forces which had been building for years. McVeigh may have thought
he was getting even for his side. In fact, he ended up setting his cause
back so far that it may never, ever recover again."
- Paul Weyrich, Free Congress Foundation, 6/8/01
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Take a Prozac and Call Us in the Morning
"Is Vincent Bugliosi a danger to himself or others? That's the
question that went through our mind when we read this USA Today online
chat with the author of 'The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court
Undermined Our Constitution and Chose Our President,' a screed against the
Bush v. Gore decision. Sample: 'When the Supreme Court stopped the
recount in Florida, took the election away from the American people and
handed it to George Bush, they committed one of the biggest and most
serious crimes in American history, and in a fair and just world would
belong behind prison bars as much as any American white collar criminal
who ever lived. ... When these justices are at cocktail parties talking to
someone, I want the thought to enter their mind whether the person they're
talking to has read 'The Betrayal of America' and thinks 'I belong behind
bars.' ' There there,
Vince, take a breath. Everything's going to be all right..."
- Best of the Web, 6/11/01
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Sad & Dishonest Are the Democrats' Middle Names
"As the Miami Herald reported last week, experts do not believe that
differing voting systems were the source of the difficulty. They think
'the underlying problem was the surge in first-time minority voters who
did not know how to cast a ballot correctly - regardless of the voting
technology.' It's folly to 'define disenfranchisement downward' by
including honest mistakes. Most of what went wrong in Florida's balloting
was the result of voter error, well-intentioned mistakes (like the
butterfly ballot layout), and stress on the system - so many people showed
up that officials had little time to advise confused voters. Trying to
depict this as a conspiracy or a massive civil rights violation is a sad
and dishonest business."
- Columnist John Leo, U.S. News & World Report
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Left Side Story
Californians who once liked to boast
Of the
absence of rigs off their coast
Are suddenly thrilling
To the prospect of drilling
If it means they can always make toast.
- F.R. Duplantier
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Aid & California Comfort
"Responding to the sudden attention given another Republican
gubernatorial prospect, Secretary of State Bill Jones on Monday blasted
Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's history of supporting Democrats,
bluntly declaring that Riordan 'does not have the track record as a
Republican to represent the GOP and to beat Gray Davis.'
"Speaking to conservative activists in San Diego, Jones suggested
Riordan's campaign contributions to Gov. Davis and other Democratic
candidates had worked against the interests of the GOP, and that Riordan
should be held accountable if he seeks the Republican nomination. 'If Dick
Riordan wants to run for governor, he's certainly welcome to do so,' Jones
said. 'But the Republican Party's nominee for governor ought to be a
Republican.'
" ... Recent campaign records show Riordan, a multimillionaire lawyer
and businessman, contributed to candidates of both parties during the past
two years, including $12,500 to Davis... Jones hammered on
endorsements Riordan gave to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2000 and
Attorney General Bill Lockyer in 1998, both Democrats, and the money he
has sent Davis' campaign committee. ... Riordan, in the years before he
became mayor, also was a major financial supporter of then-Los Angeles
Mayor Tom Bradley's two attempts at the governor's office against
Republican George Deukmejian in
1982 and 1986."
- Sacramento Bee, 6/12/01
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Phony Injury Finds Miracle Cure?
Remember 'carpal tunnel syndrome,' also known as 'repetitive stress
injury'?
Canada's National Post reports that 'the syndrome has all but disappeared
from Canadian offices.' Edward Shorter, the University of Toronto's
history of medicine chairman, tells the Post: 'The whole RSI thing has
sort of evaporated in a cloud of smoke. The fact is that most of these
people didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome. They had hysteria.'"
- Best of the Web, 6/11/01
***************************How Do You Spell Tax Relief? ... GOP
Wanna know just how much money President George W. Bush and Republicans
just saved you and your family by passing the largest tax cut in two
decades?
Check out the "Tax Relief Calculator" at Americans for Tax
Reform's web site: http://atr.org/
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Leave It to the Democrats
Yesterday, President George Bush signed the first significant tax cut this
country has seen since Ronald Reagan. And almost every Democrat in
Congress voted against it (bet they take it on their tax returns next year
though).
So what does the Democrat National Committee (DNC) want you to do with
your tax cut now? Spend it on what YOU want? Not on your life.
One of our readers forwarded the following e-mail sent out this week by
the tax-cuts-bad/government-spending-good crowd.
"George Bush knows your meager tax cut will be used to pay off the
rising cost of energy prices. But there is a better way to use your tax
cut to offset the rising cost of energy! Make a symbolic 'tax cut'
contribution to the DNC today dedicated to kicking the Republicans and
their Big Oil Administration out of office and we'll send George Bush an
electronic postcard telling him so! After all, the very people
making energy policy in Bush's Administration are from the oil and gas
industry!"
That's right. Don't buy shoes for your kid or go on vacation or get
that
heart transplant you've been saving up for . give it to those fine folks
at the DNC. As you know, THEY know how to spend your money better
than YOU do.
Can you imagine anyone being so stupid as to give their tax cut to the
Democrats in order to elect more Democrats who will then take the tax cut
away? Yup, we can too. W.C. Fields had it right: There's
a sucker born every minute . and they're registered with the party of the
jackass.
- Chuck Muth, Editor
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Don't Spend Your Tax Cut . Until the State Gets THEIR Cut
"When taxpayers in Iowa and eight other states get their federal
rebate checks this summer, they may have to turn around and give some of
the money back to the government. Nine state laws make the rebates
subject to state income tax. The laws - designed to give taxpayers a break
- let people deduct federal tax payments from their state tax liability.
So when those payments go down, the liability goes up. 'I'm outraged
by it, but I'm not surprised,' said Oklahoma City taxpayer David Dank.
'The whole state system is totally out of whack.' Oklahoma is one of
the other states in question, as are Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri,
Montana, North Dakota, Oregon and Utah, according to the Federation of Tax
Administrators."
- Associated Press, 6/6/01
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The Party Hasn't Changed . McCain Has
"Two years ago (John McCain) was a solid conservative except for his
then-quixotic support of campaign-finance reform restrictions.
But since then he has opposed oil drilling in Alaska, sponsored a version
of HMO changes that Mr. Bush and most Republicans oppose, co-sponsored a
gun show loophole with Sen. Joe Lieberman, supported the Democratic
Party/trial lawyer attacks on the tobacco industry and, most flamboyantly,
he was one of
only two Republicans who voted against Mr. Bush's tax cut."
- Columnist Tony Blankley
**************************
The "Good" Moderates
"There is another kind of Republican to whom the label 'moderate' is
also attached, though the title 'libertarian Republican' would probably be
more accurate. These Republicans want the size of the federal government
to shrink. They want the federal government out of much of K-12 education
-- saying no to national tests and no to the national curriculum that will
surely follow.
"They say no to federal orders requiring the use of race in deciding
which students are admitted or faculty are hired. They want people to be
free to have maximum control over their own lives and their children's.
They want government to take a smaller percentage of individuals' property
from them, and that it be taken in such a way as to interfere least with
freedom to create wealth. They want to encourage private charity. They
want the government to leave people's private lives alone, including the
very difficult question of abortion, or whether a person is gay or
straight.
Religion should be taught to children by parents not by government.
"For libertarian Republicans, something more than half of all their
positions are shared by those currently in charge of the Republican Party
-- those dealing with a desire for smaller government. (Sen. Jim)Jeffords,
both before and after his switch, doesn't share the libertarian
Republicans' views about smaller government. Libertarian Republicans don't
believe that having the Democrats writing the tax laws is better than
Republicans doing so; evidently, Jeffords did. Nor would libertarian
Republicans favor Democrats chairing the committees on appropriations,
financial institutions, banking and commerce.
"Most media commentators mistakenly combine the two forms of
'moderate' Republican, liberal and libertarian, in arriving at the number
of potential party-switchers in the House. The latter won't switch
to the Democratic Party, nor help it gain control by switching to
independent. The former might; and they are just numerous enough to
matter."
- Former Rep. Tom Campbell (R-CA), San Jose Mercury News, 5/31/01
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But What Would Brian Boitano Do?
"British police were investigating the case of a flatulent officer
yesterday after a family complained that a policeman broke wind in their
London home during a drug raid and failed to apologize. The Daily
Mail newspaper yesterday printed a letter from Scotland Yard to the
officers involved in the drug raid informing them of the complaint.
'An allegation has been received from a person in the house that one of
the male officers broke wind and did not apologize to the family for his
action; the complainant felt it was rude and unprofessional,' the letter
stated. A Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that the Department of
Professional Standards was looking into the
charge. Police did not say what discipline the officer might receive if
found guilty of breaking wind."
- Washington Times, 6/7/01 (Editor's Note: Wasn't this the
same sort of behavior by Terrance & Phillip that precipitated the
great war between Canada and the United States after Sheila Broflovski got
her pantyhose all up in a bunch?)
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Chafee: I Might Pull a Jeffords
"The GOP's chances of regaining majority status in the U.S. Senate
dimmed considerably Tuesday morning when Sen. Lincoln Chafee publicly
threatened to jump ship if Republicans pick up another Senate seat. In an
interview with the Providence Journal's Neil Downing, the Rhode Island
Republican revealed he's considering torpedoing his own party's prospects.
Says Downing:
"'On Sunday's Channel 12 News Makers, [Chafee] said [Vermont Sen.
James] Jeffords' defection enables Democrats to 'slow down' some of the
more conservative initiatives of the Bush administration. He seemed to say
he might jump ship if [New Jersey Sen. Robert] Torricelli had to leave and
Republican Trent Lott re-emerged as majority leader.'
"On Monday, Downing caught up with Chafee and asked him point-blank:
'Are you saying that you're not thinking of bolting now, but if the
Republicans somehow get back the majority, you're going to start thinking
about it again?'
"'Yes,' the Rhode Island Republican warned, adding that he was
'genuinely dismayed' by the direction of the party under President Bush
and conservatives in Congress. GOP faithful have pinned their hopes
on reports that Torricelli's indictment on corruption charges is imminent,
an event that could force him to step down. New Jersey's GOP governor,
Donald DeFrancesco, has already vowed to replace Torricelli with a
Republican, making Lott Senate Majority Leader once again.
"Chafee told Downing that he came perilously close to bolting the
party before Jeffords made the first move. But now, with Democrats already
in control, his defection wouldn't decide the balance of power and so the
pressure is off. Chafee says that for the time being, he's 'holding
his breath' to see if he can get the GOP to tone down its
conservatism."
- Carl Limbacher, NewsMax.com, 6/12/01
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Lincoln Chafee: The Weakest Link
As a practical matter, I've subscribed to the GOP's "big tent"
strategy,
recognizing that majorities get to lead . and you get majorities by
addition, not subtraction. That means tolerance of liberal
Republicans and their wacky "philosophy" if it means a GOP
majority in the Senate.
But when a liberal such as Lincoln Chafee not only votes against the
president's most important piece of legislation . a TAX CUT, for crying
out loud . and then threatens to vote with the Democrats for leadership
EVEN IF Republicans regain the majority . it's time to say enough is
enough.
So I've set up a new web site . Liberty Petitions . and have included as
our first petition an e-mail to Sen. Trent Lott urging him not to cave in
to Chafee's ideological extortion and asking him to even consider tossing
Chafee out on his ear BEFORE he gets the opportunity to "pull a
Jeffords."
You can sign the petition by going to: http://www.libertypetitions.com.
And tell all your friends about the petition, as well. It's high
time to
"thin the herd."
Lincoln Chafee, you ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
- Chuck Muth, Editor
***************************
Democrat Senate Kills Vouchers
Appropriately, the first major action taken by the U.S. Senate under the
leadership of Sen. Tom "Rocket Scientist" Daschle, was to
sentence another generation of poor, minority and inner city children to a
bleak future of false hope and empty promise by killing a school voucher
proposal that would have rescued these kids from the failed
government-controlled, union-run schools they've been condemned to.
So much for the party of caring for children.
That being said, we had grave reservations about the plan, as well . not
over the issue of vouchers themselves, but of FEDERALLY-FUNDED vouchers.
But when push came to shove, this was the least-worst of alternatives on
the table ... and just about anything that moves the ball up the field
toward breaking the public school monopoly and giving less-advantaged kids
the basic education they need to rise above their circumstances as they
move into adulthood has tremendous value to the future of our country.
Sens. Daschle and Kennedy should be hung in effigy from the nearest
school-yard flag pole for once again snatching the rug of opportunity out
from under the least-fortunate of our society.
- Chuck Muth, Editor
*****************************
Internet Posing HUGE Threat to Gov't Skools
"When monopolies begin to die, the powerful entities that benefit
from
guaranteed income and an absence of competition scratch and claw to
survive.
That's exactly what we're seeing from the public school establishment as
the rise of innovative Internet-based charter schools, which provide new
choices to families, poses a direct threat to their long-held monopoly.
Not surprisingly, they're doing everything they can to kill these new
schools."
- Sean Duffy, The Commonwealth Foundation, 6/12/01
***************************
The Perfect Deterrent
"Timothy McVeigh . chose to express himself by blowing up a building,
a political act that killed 168 innocents. For that, the government
yesterday executed him. Asked by the press afterward whether the
death penalty was a deterrent, victim relative and witness Anthony Scott
said, 'It's a deterrent for Timothy McVeigh.'"
- Wall Street Journal editorial, 6/12/01
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McVeigh-niacs Still Seeing Spooks Behind Every Pillar
"The McVeigh story sputtered to its end yesterday, amid a final flood
of meditations on the death penalty, and on the Federal Bureau of
Investigation 's failures to turn over witness statements, and how this
would only fuel the suspicions of anti-government zealots. As though
these armies – close cousins, psychologically speaking, of the
CIA-is-controlling-me-through-radio-waves-
in-my-fillings
crowd – required fuel for the maintenance of their obsessions, which
include, of course, the unshakable belief that agents of the federal
government conspired to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma
City."
- Columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal, 6/12/01
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Tales From the Left Side California
Bumper Snicker
"Black Out in 2001 - Gray Out in 2002."
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Drilling a Dry Hole
"(Sen. John McCain's) key issue . campaign finance . remains as
important to average Americans as Arbor Day."
- Columnist Stephen Hayes, National Journal's "Hotline"
***************************
Tubin'
We caught the second half of the Bret Schundler/Bob Franks New Jersey GOP
gubernatorial debate on CSPAN last night. Nothing we saw changed our
mind one iota about our early support for Mr. Schundler. He is the
conservative candidate in the race; Mr. Franks is the career-politician
moderate in the race. There is indeed a clear choice in this
contest. No one can stay home on election day (June 26) under the
false excuse that there is no difference between the candidates.
But listening to Mr. Franks answer a question about racial profiling
brought another question to mind . one which I'm sure isn't original, but
compelling nonetheless. Mr. Franks said racial profiling was bad
because we should treat all people the same regardless of race.
Hmmm. Doesn't that, by extension, also mean we should do away with
all quotas, racial preferences and affirmative action programs, as well .
for the same reason? And doesn't that also mean we should abolish
this whole stupid notion of "hate crimes?"
Would have loved to have heard the answer to that as a follow-up question.
Alas, the interrogators from the media dropped the ball . again.
After the debate, we channel-surfed over to "The Edge with Paula Zahn"
on Fox News ... who was interviewing former Clinton attorney general Janet
"The Waco Kid" Reno about her former boss and her potential run
for governor of Florida against Gov. Jeb Bush. Please, please,
PLEASE run! This woman couldn't beat an EGG! Bill Clinton is
an 800-pound albatross around her neck and she can't answer a straight
question with a straight answer to save her life. She was and
continues to be nothing but a pathetic Clinton apologist who covered his
"Clymer" for eight years. The Bushies have GOT to be
salivating at the prospect of running against this loser. I know I
am.
Run, Janet, run! Run, Janet, run!
- Chuck Muth, Editor
***************************
He's Everywhere, He's Everywhere
"Like Andre Agassi, we were startled last week to see Bill Clinton
suddenly appear inside the tennis stadium at Roland Garros, with an
entrance befitting the Sun King himself. . Then walking by a bar's
TV on Saturday, we looked up and noticed that alongside Point Given in the
Belmont winner's circle was . Bill Clinton. Next day, returning to
TV's halftime of the Lakers-76ers game in Philly, we see a reporter under
the stands interviewing . Bill Clinton. The U.S. Open begins today
in Tulsa. Tune in Sunday for the adult version of Where's
Waldo?"
- "Asides," Wall Street Journal, 6/14/01
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Bring Back the Good Old (Partisan) Days
"When I vote for a Democrat, the last thing I worry about is whether
he'll be able to get along with the Republicans. I never consider
his ability to reach across the aisle, or his willingness to act in a
bipartisan manner or take conservatives into consideration. Quite
the opposite: I expect that Democrat to fight like hell to stop
Republicans from getting any of their stupidass ideas enacted into law.
If I wanted a Republican, I'd vote for one. But I don't. And
if a Democrat sells me out - by voting with the Republicans on anything
important - I will never vote for that Democrat again, for by that one sin
he is no Democrat at all. Never once have I ever met, or heard of,
anyone who voted for a Democrat because he was willing to suck up to the
GOP. The same, of course, is true for Republicans.
" . Bipartisanship, by extension, is simple political treason.
When
Democrats vote for Bush's $1.3 trillion deficit-busting tax cut for the
ultra-wealthy, they sell out every citizen who voted for them. When
Republicans vote for the Democrats' pissant $600 per family tax rebate,
they betray all of their supporters. . Obviously it's sometimes necessary
to horse-trade to get things done. But an era of diminishing party
loyalty and disinterest in politics requires renewed attention to the
reasons people choose candidates in the first place. Give us back
the good old days of filibusters and gridlock and partisans who'd rather
die than socialize with members of the other party - we have nothing to
lose but low voter turnout!"
- Columnist Ted Rall, Universal Press Syndicate
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Inappropriate Attire
"Two graduating seniors at Indiana's Elkhart Memorial High School
were kicked out of their graduation ceremonies for failing to comply with
the school's dress code, which, the Associated Press reports, required
'that males must wear socks, a shirt with collar, tie and slacks.'
These guys weren't wearing ratty T-shirts, blue jeans, backward baseball
caps and nose rings. They weren't in drag. No, they were wearing Marine
uniforms—dress blues, no less.
"Pfc. David Hobbs and Pvt. Josh Beam had enlisted in the Marines,
gone to San Diego for three months of basic training and returned to
graduate with their class in Elkhart. They might as well not have
bothered: 'Hobbs said he was pulled aside by school officials and
given a choice on his attire.
'They said I either had to take my (jacket) off and put on a shirt and tie
or put a tie on my military uniform.' Hobbs said he told school
officials that neither one would be possible because military personnel
can neither wear an incomplete uniform or add anything to it that is not
part of the uniform. 'I told him several times that I was going to
wear the cap and gown,' he said. It was at that time Hobbs said he and
Beam were asked to leave and escorted out of the Joyce Center.'"
- Best of the Web, 6/11/01
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Can You Imagine the Uproar If a White Guy Said This?
"The Education Intelligence Agency, a group that monitors the
education debate, is sharing this quote they say originated with National
Alliance of Black School Educators' Andre Hornsby when he was asked to
explain the high rate of African-American support for school choice:
'Black people can be gullible.'"
- Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 6/13/01
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Fry In Hell
By all
accounts, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh peacefully and quietly
passed into the next world yesterday following a painless and civilized
injection of what basically amounts to a really strong sleeping pill. And that really ticks me off.
McVeigh got off WAY too easy.
Even if you
grant him his contention that the federal government was out of control in
the storming of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco (as we do), what in
the hell did those innocent men, women and children in Oklahoma have to do
with that? If this low-life
chicken-$#!+ had any stones he'd have tried bombing a military
installation ... where the people might have been prepared for him and
could have shot back.
Instead,
this gutless piece of human garbage snuck a truck in front of a harmless
government office building, ran away and detonated his cargo from a safe
distance. He didn't even have
the balls to look his unsuspecting victims in the eye before snuffing out
their lives.
Lethal
injection was too kind for this coward.
What we
should have done was tape small, non-lethal explosives to different parts
of his body and detonate them over a period of weeks.
A hand one week, a foot the next . until McVeigh's body parts were
strewn around his prison cell like the victims of his own bombing. THEN put this miserable wretch out of his misery by lighting
a stick of dynamite with a REALLY long fuse down his throat.
Ah, but I'm
sugar-coating it.
Goodbye, Tim
McVeigh. If there is a hell,
you got yourself a well-deserved one-way ticket.
I just wish you had died the same kind of violent, tortured death
you condemned your innocent victims to.
But something tells me you're about to get what's coming to you.
All I know for sure is the world is a better place with you gone.
- Chuck Muth,
Editor
**************************
Sen. Gumby
"(Sen.
John) McCain (R-Ariz.), who has always claimed to be a conservative, now
seems to be changing his views to accommodate his new constituency.
He suddenly thinks the Grand Old Party is too conservative, too
inconsiderate of party 'moderates,' too unwilling to embrace the
opposition's agenda. The way
things normally work, a candidate develops a political philosophy and
hunts for voters who support it. But
McCain stumbled onto a contingent of voters who supported him and decided
to conjure up a philosophy that would
keep those
voters interested."
- Ft. Worth
Star-Telegram columnist Bill Thompson
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Beware
Home-Schoolers: Gov't Hates
Competition
"It's
no wonder government educators and administrators are dead-set on keeping
kids in their schools. It's
because they know home schooling programs constitute a competitive threat. What's more, a home-schooled child means there's one less
child being indoctrinated into the NEA supported and promoted
great socialist society. Home-schooled
children will be able to think and act independently...and that's
something government educators can't stand.
So...parents, don't stop home-schooling your children--but be aware
that the government is out to recapture them."
-
WorldNetDaily.com, 6/6/01
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Gov't Is the
Problem, Not the Solution
"The
United States does not need a massive federal strategy to guide and
regulate its creation of energy. It doesn't need government subsidies for
alternative fuels, it doesn't need price caps, it doesn't need new taxes
on SUVs, it doesn't need mandatory conservation. All it needs is economic
liberty. Entrepreneurs, self-interested consumers, and the free market
will take care of the rest."
- Boston
Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, 6/11/01
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Masters of
Their Own Misery
"Californians
didn't want dams across their rivers, derricks on their ocean, power lines
across their borders, or fossil fuel smoke in their sky. These might
interfere with all the smart things Californians do, such as hang-glide.
California was going to rely on 'negawatts' dramatic power conservation.
(But California regulators put price controls on electricity that lowered
prices, and even Californians weren't dumb enough to skip a bargain.) And
California was going to rely on alternative power generation.
With all the
puffery from Silicon Valley dot.com start-ups, wind farms
wouldn't be
a problem. But it turns out that alternative power generation is an
alternative, mostly, to generating power. ... (E)veryone is wrong to
listen to Californians whine about electricity deregulation. There never
was any deregulation. The California Public Utilities Commission merely
changed its regulations, which apparently weren't stupid enough to meet
Golden State standards."
- Columnist
P.J. O'Rourke, Cato Institute, 6/7/01
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Natural Home
for Today's Union Movement
"For
whatever reason, unions today are a growth industry in only one sector:
government
work. Why would that be?
Perhaps because bureaucracy is the one place where the normal rules of the
capitalist free market are pretty much suspended, anyway. . I went to work
as a summer replacement mailman when I was a gung ho youngster of 18. I
can still remember being taken aside by a delegate from my fellow carriers
after a few days and told in no uncertain terms that a route rated at
seven hours had better take seven hours -- none
of this
coming back with the route done at noon and looking for more work.
Go read a
book in the park; play pinball in the back room of the pizza
parlor; they
didn't care. Just so I didn't make everyone else look bad.
Ever watched
four county employees change a street sign, or the light bulb in a
stoplight? Notice one young
fellow working with particular zeal in hopes of drawing the attention of
his supervisor and thus earning a merit raise?
No, I didn't think so."
- Columnist
Vin Suprynowicz, "The Libertarian"
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