From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

CANADIANS BEAT AMERICANS

While Congress continues to dither and drag its feet on Social Security reform – reform which is absolutely critical before the system goes belly up – the Canadians are moving forward with efforts to allow their citizens to invest some of their own money in private savings accounts. Click HERE for the details as outlined by columnist Norma Greenaway of Canada.com.

THE RIGHT TO PETITION GOVERNMENT

“A veteran activist for taxpayer ballot initiatives and two associates could face up to 10 years in prison in Oklahoma for exercising what libertarians say is a basic constitutional right: circulating petitions to get an initiative on the state ballot,” reported CNS News yesterday. Read all about it HERE

THE RIGHT TO BE RUDE

“We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, ‘Isn’t that cute?’ As a post-racial American, I do not believe ‘the legacy of slavery’ gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.”

- Columnist Ann Coulter on the racist rantings of Barack Obama’s mentor and pastor

A TRUE BLACK UNITER

“White America’s search for a racial healer will go on. We yearn to support a black man who is proud of both his ethnic heritage and his country. Which brings me to Allen West. ‘The flag that will one day drape my casket is not a rag to be burned in some semblance of self-expression,’ said Mr. West, 46, a retired Army lieutenant colonel turned public school teacher, in an interview last year. ‘I like to sing the national anthem…and I detest self-loathing. It’s a cancer I cannot tolerate.’

“’The West family is an example of the triumph of the civil rights movement, as well as Ronald Reagan’s challenge to the black community,’ he said. ‘My parents were middle class, inner city Atlanta people. They were raised in the segregated South, but had a vision for their three boys…They did not sit back and wait for anyone to give them a handout, and that sentiment permeated throughout our extended family.’

“There are many blacks who share the sentiments of Allen West – more, I suspect, than who share those of Jeremiah Wright. But they tend to be ignored by the news media, who tend to view as ‘authentic’ only the voices of anti-American radicals.

“Lt. Col. West is running for Congress in Florida’s 22nd district (Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach) against Democrat Ron Klein, who upset longtime GOP incumbent Clay Shaw there in 2006. Rep. Klein is able and well funded. LtCol. West faces an uphill battle, as he did in Iraq and Afghanistan. But if he wins, he’ll do more for racial healing than any speech by Barack Obama.”

- Columnist Jack Kelly

THE FOUNDERS’ BRILLIANCE

“(T)he Constitution separates the power of the state into those three branches which are for most of us (I include myself) the only thing we remember from 12 years of schooling.

“The Constitution, written by men with some experience of actual government, assumes that the chief executive will work to be king, the Parliament will scheme to sell off the silverware, and the judiciary will consider itself Olympian and do everything it can to much improve (destroy) the work of the other two branches. So the Constitution pits them against each other, in the attempt not to achieve stasis, but rather to allow for the constant corrections necessary to prevent one branch from getting too much power for too long.

“Rather brilliant. For, in the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious bullsh*t and go straight to firearms.”

- Playwright David Mamet in “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” Village Voice, 3/11/08

SPEAK ENGLISH, HE SAID

“A small blow for sanity was struck yesterday when a local regulatory body in Philadelphia ruled that a famous cheesesteak restaurant did not violate anyone’s human rights by posting a small sign: “This is America: WHEN ORDERING PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH.”

“Joe Vento, owner of Geno’s Steaks, says he never in fact refused service to anyone who didn’t speak English and only put up the sign out of concern that so many in the neighborhood were lapsing into their native tongues when they could have used basic English. By a 2 to 1 vote, the city’s Commission on Human Relations ruled that Mr. Vento’s sign did not convey any message that business will be ‘refused, withheld or denied.’

“The ruling was a surprise because just last year the commission had found probable cause to charge Mr. Vento with violation of anti-discrimination laws. The same panel later decided to charge him only with posting an ‘offensive’ sign.”

- John Fund, Political Diary, 3/20/08

MAY CLEARS GOP FIELD FOR SHADEGG

“Former state Representative Steve May has dropped out of the Republican primary race against incumbent U.S. Representative John Shadegg in the 3rd Congressional District. . . . The 36-year-old May entered the race last month after the 58-year-old Shadegg first announced he planned to retire from public office then changed his mind.”

- Associated Press, 3/20/08