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L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE Number 220, April 21, 2003 DECADE
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BOHICA! From Neal Knox's "Firearms Coalition's Alerts" newsletter: Gunowners around the country are steaming that the White House said last week that Pres. Bush supports re-enactment of the prohibition against so-called "assault weapons" and over-10-round magazines. There's been no retraction, but no additional noise from either NRA or the White House. A White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, told a Knight-Ridder reporter: "The president supports the current law, and he supports reauthorization of the current law." I've seen nothing else in the press except an almost-invisible note in last Saturday's Washington Post, citing the Knight-Ridder report. TAMI'S GOT HER GUNS! Both my wife and I fly quite a lot separately in our work, and when she first mentioned to me how airport security personnel were deliberately harassing her on her flights, I took it with a grain of salt. When I fly, no security people ever look at me twice and I'm over 6'2" and 210 pounds. Read Ron Holland's article "Meet My Wife Tami — 'A Domestic Terrorist'" about her travails at a regional airport. DEATHLESS PROSE Got MSS?[*] "They think we are retarded — they are retarded." "Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them." "... they are nowhere (pause) ... they are nowhere, really." "We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.">> This, and more at welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com - - - [*] Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, that is, who bravely provides much-needed comic relief in The Terror War. IT'S HARD TO KNOW WHOM TO DESPISE MORE The Bush administration has blamed the return of deficits on lingering effects of the 2001 recession and the costs of fighting terrorism at home and abroad. Democrats say a major cause of the red ink has been Bush's 10-year $1.35 trillion tax cut and what they contend are bad economic policies being pursued by the administration. Source: Yahoo News AS REMF AS I WANNA BE Sen. Lindsey Graham, the only U.S. senator in the reserves, donned combat fatigues Thursday and spent the day working in this Air Force base's legal office. ... Four Republican members of the U.S. House are in the reserves: Mark Kirk and John M. Shimkus of Illinois, Steve Buyer of Indiana and Roger Wicker of Mississippi. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is in his state's Army National Guard. Source: Yahoo News HBOYCOTT Cable TV network HBO has pulled director Oliver's Stone's controversial documentary about Cuban President Fidel Castro from its May schedule following Cuba's recent crackdown on dissidents, an HBO spokeswoman said on Thursday. Source: Yahoo News HAIKU "Happy" 114th
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