From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

MARINE WITCH-HUNT SUFFERS ANOTHER SET-BACK

“You’d hardly know it if you relied on the mainstream media, but the government’s case against the Haditha Marines took another body blow last Friday that may be the beginning of the end for this whole sorry attempt to severely punish eight heroic United States Marines for doing what they are trained to do. In a surprise development on the day Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum’s court martial was scheduled to begin, all charges against him were dropped without explanation.”

- Columnist Michael Reagan

WE CAN BEAT EITHER ONE

“Originally people thought Hillary would be better to run against only because she generated so much ill will among the Republican base. But I don’t think professional politicians on the Republican side have a rooting interest anymore because it doesn’t matter. We can beat either one. We just wish the election was tomorrow.”

- Rich Galen of Mullings.com, 4/3/08

POOR BILL AND HILL…NOT

“Hillary Clinton has been pulling out all the stops to win the Democratic nomination for president—but one: she still has not released her family’s tax returns. . . . An independent review by ABC News has found that since leaving the White House seven years ago, the senator and her former president husband have made well over $50 million, much of it from paid speeches made by Bill Clinton.”

- ABC News, 4/3/08

A LAUGH A MINUTE

“Hillary Rodham Clinton made fun of herself Thursday, telling ‘Tonight Show’ host Jay Leno she almost didn’t make it to his studio. It is so great to be here. I was so worried I wasn’t going to make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire,’ Clinton said after joining him onstage, referring to her claims, since disputed, that she dodged sniper bullets while arriving in Bosnia as first lady. Clinton later said she ‘misspoke’ about the Bosnia incident.”

- Associated Press, 4/3/08

LIAR, LIAR

“As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying. The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.

“Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. . . . When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career. Why? ‘Because she was a liar,’ Zeifman said in an interview last week. ‘She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.’”

- Columnist Dan Calabrese

IT’S THE PROSTITUTES WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN OFFENDED

“Randi Rhodes, an afternoon host for the progressive Air America radio network, was suspended Thursday after repeatedly insulting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at an event last month. Ms. Rhodes used vulgar language that likened Mrs. Clinton to a prostitute at an event sponsored by KKGN, the Air America affiliate in the San Francisco area, on March 22.”

- The Caucus, New York Times, 4/3/08

ANOTHER BUBBA MELTDOWN

“.(Democrat super-delegate) Rachel Binah, a former (Bill) Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill (Clinton) how ‘sorry’ she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a ‘Judas’ for backing Obama. It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade. ‘Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,’ a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted. The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media’s unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama.”

- San Francisco Chronicle, 4/2/08

WELL, HERE’S A BIG SHOCKER…NOT

“Republicans in Congress, trying to appear tightfisted with taxpayer dollars this election year, found yesterday that some in their ranks led a list of ‘pork’ spenders in a watchdog group’s analysis of government waste. The annual survey by Citizens Against Government Waste contends that 11,610 special-interest projects were stuffed into spending bills approved by the Democratic-led Congress last year at a $17.2 billion cost to taxpayers. But according to the survey, individual Republicans pushed the most pork last year.”

- Reuters, 4/3/08

CELL PHONE FINES PROPOSED

“State legislators may pass a bill that fines pedestrians for using cell phones while crossing the street. The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Kenneth Dunkin (D-Chicago), isn’t anywhere close to becoming law, but it’s drawing a host of reactions—from outrage to ridicule to grudging acceptance.”

- Chicago Sun-Times, 4/3/08

TODDLER MARRIAGE LAW REPEALED

“(An Arkansas) law that mistakenly allowed anyone – even toddlers – to marry with parental permission was repealed by a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Mike Beebe, ending months of embarrassment for the state and confusion for county clerks. Lawmakers didn’t realize until after the end of last year’s regular session that a law they approved, intended to establish 18 as the minimum age for marriage, instead removed the minimum age to marry entirely.”

- Associated Press, 4/3/08

THANKS, TSA

Wondering how a gun might have gone off in that cockpit recently? Might well be because of the “chastity lock” the TSA requires on the guns pilots are allowed to carry with them. See a demonstration of this TSA idiocy on THIS YouTube video.

WILL HE OR WON’T HE?

Longtime News & Views reader Mike Ferguson is the chief organizer for the Libertarian Party conference in Kansas City tomorrow, where former Congressman Bob Barr may or may not officially announce that he’s joining the presidential campaign as a candidate for the LP’s nomination.

Barr is scheduled to deliver his remarks to the conference at 2:50 p.m. Central Time. Mr. Ferguson advises that you should be able to listen in live to Barr’s speech online HERE

THE OINK REPORT

Pork – and the completely non-transparent, back-scratching, quid pro quo manner in which it is usually appropriated – is a gateway drug for political corruption and shady dealings. Case in point, check out this former congressional aid who is now campaigning on the amount of federal money he was able to bring his hometown during his time in Washington DC.

THE UNION LABEL

One thing liberals do very well is hide behind grand sounding organizations that claim to be “community”-based, “non-partisan,” or but humble servants of the people. In reality, they’re massively funded operations by people like George Soros who have specific anti-American policies they wish to put into effect. Read all about it HERE on The Union Label.

TELECOMMIES

It seems Google – the leading voice for government regulation of the Internet – is a bit of a hypocrite on this issue. Read about it in our new blog on “net neutrality” HERE at Telecommies.

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