Posted here for 5-12-08

"Last week, South African President Thabo Mbeki claimed that there is 'no crisis' in Zimbabwe. By this definition, there is no such thing as a crisis. The same day Mr. Mbeki spoke these words, a second major opposition leader was murdered. The first was stabbed to death on April 12 by supporters of Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF political party."
-- "The Zimbabwe Impasse," editorial, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 21, 2008, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"And now comes the 'Merida Initiative' -- a $1.4 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded scheme to help the Mexicans beef up their own border security -- not with us on their northern border -- but with Central America on their southern border -- the southern border of the 'North American Union'."
-- From a solicitation letter from Morgan Norval, executive Director, the Selous Foundation, 325 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., PO Box 97207, Washington, DC 20090-7207.

"NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement] promised greater exports, better jobs and better wages. Since 1994, just the opposite has occurred. The U.S. trade deficit soared and now approaches $1 trillion dollars per year; the U.S. has lost some 1.5 million jobs and real wages in both the U.S. and Mexico have fallen significantly."
-- "Toward a North American Union," by Patrick Wood, page 5, The August Review, PO Box 1309, Rathdrum, Idaho 83858. E-mail. Website.

"The stated target for full implementation of the North American Union is 2010."
-- "Toward a North American Union," by Patrick Wood, page 8, The August Review, PO Box 1309, Rathdrum, Idaho 83858. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 5-5-08

"From 2004 to 2006, according to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics, the net worth of members of Congress increased by 84 percent. The median net worth of senators currently stands at $1.7 million, while House members are worth a mere $675,000."
-- "Political Riches," Briefs, NewsMax (the magazine), May 2008, page 11. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"If Democrat leaders get their way, the Fairness Doctrine, a policy abolished by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987, will be reinstated to regulate the opinions aired by broadcasters. Talk-radio and religious broadcasters would be significantly impacted. Democrat leadership has called for it, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi."
-- "Free Speech in Broadcasting Threatened by Fairness Doctrine," The New American, April 28, 2008, page 8. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"[A] drug addict [Clarabel Ventura, was] arrested for injuring her four-year-old son. She was one of 14 children of a Puerto Rican immigrant all living on welfare, with 74 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren all on the state dole. At the time, this family cost Massachusetts over a million dollars a year. When interviewed about whether the taxpayers should continue to be burdened by her family, one of Clarabel's sisters said, 'Just tell them to key paying.'"
-- "Creating Corruption," by Gregory A. Hession, J.D., The New American, April 28, 2008, page 30. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"David Drake was fired for doing his job too well. Drake was hired by Brevard County, Florida, as the county's land acquisition manager for the Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) program. [. . .] He asserted that he reported to the county problems with his dealings with the Nature Conservancy (TNC) such as overbilling and invoicing errors. Drake said he reported his suspicions to his boss that TNC was misappropriating public money, but was rebuffed.
-- "Whistle-Blower Files Suit Against Florida County," Resource Roundup, April 2008, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-28-08

"[A] Saudi court recently sentenced a 20-year-old female victim, who had been gang-raped by seven men, to 200 lashes and six months in prison for the crime of being in a car will a man not her husband, brother, or father. In this case, thanks to intense international pressure including a public appeal from President Bush, Saudi King Abdullah pardoned the rape victim, taking care to explain that although he was 'convinced and sure that the verdicts were fair,' he was nevertheless interested in 'alleviating the suffering of the citizens.'"
-- "Understanding the Islamist Death Cult," by David Kupelilan, Whistleblower magazine, March 2008, page 19. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"[O]n March 11, 2002, ['religious police' in Saudi Arabia] allowed 15 young girls to die horrible deaths when a fire broke out in their school in Mecca. The religious police literally stopped firefighters from saving the girls because they weren't dressed in the proper Islamic way for girls and women to be seen outdoors. With helpless firemen watching, the religious police literally beat the girls -- those who were not wearing their headscarves or abayas -- back into the inferno."
-- "Understanding the Islamist Death Cult," by David Kupelilan, Whistleblower magazine, March 2008, page 20. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"[T]he government of Sudan 'is giving [Sudanese Arab gangs] a license to rape' black women and girls in Darfur."
-- "Not as Evil as Global Warming, but Bad Stuff Nonetheless," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 14, 2008, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-21-08

"[T]he funeral and interment for Thomas R. DeKay, 61, a former Nixon White House official who later became a Catholic priest in the Arlington [Va.] Diocese and chaplain in the Navy, have been postponed until such time the Postal Service locates the cremated remains, which have been lost in the mail for 12 days."
-- "Lost in the Mail," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 14, 2008, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[I]t was revealed that Planned Parenthood, the nation's most prominent abortion provider, received an astounding $336 million in government (both federal and state) grants. [. . .] According to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's annual report (2006-2007), the organization conducted 289,570 abortions, an increase of almost 25,000 abortions over the previous year. [. . .] Planned Parenthood is actually responsible for the deaths of more than 5,500 innocent lives every week. Through the years, more than three million unborn babies have had their lives snuffed out at a Planned Parenthood facility."
-- "Raking It in," Off the Tracks, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 14, 2008, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In Zimbabwe, one of the world's longest-reigning tyrants, Robert Mugabe, began to violently annul the latest elections. He has virtually destroyed a once thriving country. Unemployment is 80 percent. The Zimbabwean dollar has been trading at a rate of 55 million for one U.S. dollar. And life expectancy has gone from 60 to 35."
-- "Not as Evil as Global Warming, But Bad Stuff Nonetheless," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 14, 2008, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In Woodbridge, Va., moronic officials at an elementary school called in police to arrest a 6-year-old boy for slapping a 6-year-old on her bottom. He has now been labeled a sex offender for life."
-- "Not as Evil as Global Warming, But Bad Stuff Nonetheless," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 14, 2008, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-14-08

"At Timberline Elementary school in the town of Grapevine [Texas], more than half -- 54 percent -- of students are Hispanic. So to make American children conform to the majority, Spanish is now mandatory."
-- "It's for Your Own Good," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2008, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies -- including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage -- raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has found."
-- "The Outsourcing of U.S. Passports Raises Security Concerns," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 31, 2008, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"A story based on the 'Three Little Pigs' fairy tale was turned down by a British government agency awards panel, as the subject matter could offend Muslims. [. . .] When a British school came under fire last year for sponsoring a children's performance of the story ["Three Little Pigs"], officials changed the name of the production to the 'Three Little Puppies' for fear of offending Muslims [. . .]"
-- "PC Fairy Tale Flap," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, March 2008, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he average annual compensation package for each D.C. area school superintendent will run well over $350,000 per year, according to The Washington Post."
-- "The Rewards of Failure," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, March 2008, page 4. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-7-08

"A man driving 100 MPH in a 55-MPH zone struck and killed a teenager. Now he's suing the parents for damages to his luxury car. After Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 struck Enaitz Irondo, 17, who wasn't wearing a helmet or reflective clothing, a Spanish court declared mutual fault. Delgado's insurance company compensated the parents $48,500, but Delgado later filed suit to recover $29,400 for repairs."
-- "High-Speed Justice, Spanish Style," NewsMax (the magazine), April 2008, page 11. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"When FBI agent George Piro recently described debriefing Saddam Hussein for seven months after his capture, he disclosed that the Iraqi dictator admitted planning to restart his weapons of mass destruction program within a year. That plan included developing nuclear weapons, according to Saddam. The revelation should have been Page One news in every newspaper. It would have further justified President Bush's decision to invade Iraq. But many in the mainstream media could not bear to hear that Bush might have done something right."
-- "Beltway Bits," NewsMax (the magazine), April 2008, page 26. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"In Los Angeles, legislators attempt to ban fast food in certain areas creating 'health zones.' Up the coast in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom intends to levy taxes on unhealthy foods. [. . .] And recently, in the well to-do community of Belmont, California the city council passed a landmark ordinance declaring secondhand smoke a public nuisance and extending the city's already draconian smoking ban to include multi-unit and multi-story residences. In other words, your own private property. [. . .] In New York CIty, the mayor and city council have banned trans fats in all public eateries."
-- "The Coming Nanny State," by David Harsanyi, Fusion, magazine, March 2008, page 8. Address: Mercury Radio Arts, Inc. 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Website.

"On February 28, the California Court of Appeals [. . .] declared that all forms of homeschooling by an unaccredited parent violate California state law and that parents possess no constitutional right to homeschool their children."
-- "California Court Declares Homeschooling Is Criminal," by Tom Feeney, Human Events, March 17, 2008, page 19. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

Posted here for 3-31-08

"U.S. and other coalition forces in Afghanistan are now serving under the auspices of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Those forces were transferred to NATO Command in 2003. That transfer of power also placed our Afghanistan military operations under United Nations command since NATO has always been a UN subsidiary."
-- "NATO Is a UN Subsidiary," by John F. McManus, The New American, March 17, 2008, page 44. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Early in his first term President Bush signed the UN Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Convention, effectively banning many important insecticides, including DDT, that are essential for controlling malaria-carrying mosquitoes."
-- "Misdirected Malaria Program Causes Disease to Spread," Inside Track, The New American, March 17, 2008, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"The National Academy of Sciences has found that U.S. students consistently perform near the bottom among all industrialized countries."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2008, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 3-24-08

"How can we have fair trade with a country that is a major thief of our intellectual property? The Chinese don't even believe in individual intellectual property rights, which they look upon as a Western concept."
-- "Patents, Poisons, Prescription Drugs," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2008, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"The Massachusetts Legislature, both the House and the Senate, will be considering a bill called 'The Safer Alternatives Proposals'. Although the proposed legislation is supposed to replace 'toxic chemicals' with safer alternatives, lead appears at the top of the list of substances to replace. Because most bullets are made of lead, its elimination would have significant impacts on sportsmen and gun owners."
-- "Bill to Ban Lead Proposed," Resource Roundup, February/March 2008, page 2. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"St. Charles, Missouri is looking to ban swearing in bars. [. . .] The owner of R.T. Weiler's bar objects: 'We're dealing with adults . . . and I don't think it's the city's job or the government's job to determine what we can and cannot play [or say] in our restaurant.'"
-- "Bull$&!% Bill," The Limbaugh Letter, March 2008, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Made in China. Or so reads the tag on the navy blue 'Pentagon United States -- Department of Defense' cap purchased for this columnist on the main concourse of the Pentagon at the Fort America concession."
-- "Unacceptable," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 10, 2008, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 3-17-08

"In what could be a federal precedent-setting legislative move towards paying reparations to minorities claiming compensation for supposed historical injustices, the U.S. Senate is set to grant special rights and economic privileges to ethnic Hawaiians. Senate Bill 310, proposed by Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), will create a 'Native Hawaiian Governing Entity' which would define and empower about 20% of Hawaii's population as ethnically superior -- and entitle them to special economic and political rights." [Obviously, for some, "equal justice under the law" no longer has any meaning.]
-- "Racial Politics," Grassroots Action, Middle America News, March 2008, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"You wouldn't know it from the dramatic, tearful pronouncements of doom that emanated from the UN's recently concluded climate summit in Bali. Nor would Al Gore be likely to let on. But the really, really inconvenient truth is that, for six years now there has been no global warming. According to former long-time BBC correspondent and editor David Whitehouse, global warming, in contradiction to current theories predicting ever increasing temperatures, has stopped. 'Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming -- the greenhouse effect.'"
-- "Six Years and Counting with No Global Warming," The New American, January 21, 2008, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 3-10-08

"In 2001, a third of the students at Timberline Elementary in Grapevine, Texas, were Hispanic. Now they are more than half, while white enrollment has dropped to 36 percent. The school used to post announcements and write letters to parents in both English and Spanish, but the school now requires all English-speakers to learn Spanish."
-- "Mandatory Spanish," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, March 2008, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"Having multiple wives is a crime in Britain, punishable by up to seven years in prison -- except for Muslims who marry in a country where polygamy is legal. In that case, Britain recognizes multiple marriages, and pays welfare benefits for all wives and children. [. . .] A man with more than one wife may also be eligible for extra housing and tax benefits."
-- "Polygamy Good," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, March 2008, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"In New York last month, a state appellate court ordered that the state must recognize the 'marriages' of same-sex couples performed out of state, even though New York does not grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples."
-- "Edict Recognizes Gay Marriage," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2008, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The Toronto School District voted last month to approve creation of a school for blacks who don't like going to school with whites. By a vote of 11 to 9, the district's trustees decided to create what they called an 'Afro-centric' school that will open in 2009 to teach black students a recially-oriented curriculum about blackness and being black."
-- "Back to Square One," World Watch, Middle America News, March 2008, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 3-3-08

"In the United States today, we have in effect two governments [. . .] We have the duly constituted government [. . .] Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to the Congress by the Constitution." [This comment, made in 1964 by Texas Congressman Wright Patman, remains true today.]
-- "What Happened to Our Money?" by John F. McManus, The New American, February 4, 2008, page 36. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he Fed giving in to stock market demands and lowering rates threatens an international dollar sell-off that could lead to a dollar collapse. [. . .] The ecomonic reality today is that the U.S. dollar is losing value and will most likely continue losing value. [. . .] [W]ith America's large and growing trade deficits and the move of governments around the world away from the dollar as the standard for holding foreign exchange reserves, a dollar decline is now almost inevitable. Ironically, as the dollar declines, proponents of the amero will most likely advocate its introduction with increased vigor. Put simply, a dollar collapse, even a slow collapse as the Fed and Treasury are now trying to manage, is a necessary precondition for the amero to be introduced."
-- "Will the Dollar Collapse in 2008?" by Jerome R. Corsi, Whistleblower magazine, November 2007, page 18. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"According to a Justice Department audit, the agency's [FBI's] failure to pay its bills on time led telecommunications companies to cut phone service. As a result, wiretaps monitoring suspected criminals went dead. The audit found that more than 990 phone bills in five FBI offices weren't paid on time. One office owed $66,000."
-- "Good News for Criminals: FBI Wiretaps Go Dead," Newsfront, NewsMax (the magazine), March 2008, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Of the 42 states that run gaming programs, 23 have allocated some proceeds for education. Yet less than 5 percent of public school funding in those states come from lotteries, a New York Times study finds. Most money collected from gambling goes to support lottery bureaucracies and to fund prizes, the Times found."
-- "Lotteries Fail Schools," by Clayton B. Reid, NewsMax (the magazine), March 2008, page 33. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 2-25-08

"For all the Democrats' loud complaints and preaching against interrogation techniques such as simulated drowning (waterboarding), CIA insiders recently released documents proving Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats had been thoroughly briefed on the rarely-used procedure in the dark days after 9-11. At that time, when stringent measures against terrorism were popular with the public, Democrats were totally supportive of the procedure. In short, Pelosi and other top liberals switched sides for crass political gain, and not out of principle."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2008, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Conservatives should keep a close eye on House Resolution (H.R.) 900, the Puerto Rican statehood bill. This legislation is being quietly advanced by Democrats despite three separate major votes by the Puerto Rican people to maintain their independent status. [. . .] Puerto Rican statehood would immediately add two Democratic Senators and 6-8 members to the House of Representatives. Overnight the U.S. would officially become a bilingual country. [. . .] [T]he Puerto Rican statehood bill is rigged to put the statehood matter before the people there until they eventually approve it. Another piece of related liberal legislation is H. Con. Res. 11, which would force the entire country to emulate Puerto Rican bilingualism (under this plan, deceptively called the 'English-Plus Resolution,' all governments would be discouraged from existing English-only printing of ballots, etc.)."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2008, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[S]ome 85% of all off-shore mineral and oil deposits off the lower 48 states are banned from mining and drilling by U.S. companies."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2008, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"The American people may soon pay a high price for their generous toleration of the homosexuals' agenda to be embraced by the cultural mainstream. Medical researchers reported last month that homosexual men are spreading a drug-resistant strain of a killer bacteria that was once found only among hospital patients, according to a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. [. . .] 'Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable,' warned Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California [. . .]"
-- "Gays Spread Drug Resistant Germ," Middle America News, February 2008, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 2-18-08

"Thanks to Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, Mr. [Michael] Chertoff may no longer need to worry about thwarting the will of the American people single-handedly. In December 2007, Sen. Hutchison attached an amendment to a $555 billion Senate spending bill that explicitly leaves fence-building [along the U.S.-Mexico border] up to the discretion of the secretary of homeland security [Mr. Chertoff]. Critics say that if the House accepts the Senate's amendment the fence is as good as dead. [. . .] Chris Simcox, president of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, says, 'Congress truly pulled the rug out from under us while we were doing our last-minute holiday shopping, deceiving the American people and only showing goodwill to the 12 million lawbreakers living among us.'"
-- "Betrayal," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, February 2008, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"After listening to thousands of hours of covertly recorded telephone conversations, [Sibel] Edmonds [a former paid Turkish language translator for the FBI] discovered evidence that countries such as Pakistan have been able to acquire nuclear weapons technology with the knowledge and participation of high-level State Department officials."
-- "Whistle-Blower Exposes Nuclear Smuggling Ring," The New American, February 4, 2008, page 7. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"In 2005, the European Union enacted a ban on many vitamins and supplements. If fully enacted, the ban would have knocked 5,000 vitamin and mineral products from store shelves in the UK alone. The ban seemed tailor-made for pharmaceutical companies, as it banned natural forms of supplements, such as vitamin E, calcium, and selenium, yet allowed manufactured forms of the same items."
-- "Health Threat from EU and UN," by Gregory A. Hession, J.D., The New American, February 4, 2008, page 25. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John Straw [. . .] saw the evacuation, cleanup and transportation of WMD stockpiles and production equipment in [Iraq]. Stephen was able to observe the operation being conducted by non-uniformed Russian special forces (Spetsnatz) who loaded the drums of chemicals and biotoxins on huge 18-wheelers, and shipped them to destinations inside Syria and Lebanon. Amazingly, Stephen's network was so good that he was able to track the shipments to specific villages in Syria or to hospitals in Beirut and, in some cases, even to the specific doctor who received the drums. [. . .] The Ukrainians reported to Straw that the former head of the KGB, Yevgeny Primakov, [. . .] headed up the WMD evacuation operation and even learned its code name, Sarandar (Russian for emergency exit)."
-- "Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government," by Larry Kelley, Human Events, February 4, 2008, page 19. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

Posted here for 2-11-08

"England is becoming the most crowded nation in Europe, according to the government's Office of National Statistics. The number of people living in each square mile of the country is soon to overtake levels in every other European country, thanks to mass uncontrolled immigration."
-- "Crowded England," World Watch, Middle America News, February 2008, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"In a ruling typical of the nuttiness that has swept the American judicial system, a federal appeals court ruled last month that companies can't refuse to negotiate with unions run by illegal aliens, even though it is illegal for the company to employ the union members who are in the country illegally."
-- "Another Crackpot Federal Court Ruling," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2008, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"States that already give special breaks to illegals include California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Utah, and Washington."
-- "Another Big Shot Favors Illegals," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2008, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Sources say as many as 80,000 mementos from Reagan's White House years have mysteriously vanished from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, which is run by the National Archives and Records Administration."
-- "Reagan Mementos Missing in Action," NewsMax (the magazine), February 2008, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 2-4-08

"President Bush signed H.R. 6, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, into law on December 19 [. . .] The requirements under the law will effectively ban the traditional incandescent 100-watt bulb beginning in 2012, followed by the 75-watt bulb in 2013, with 40- and 60-watt bulbs being phased out in 2014."
-- "Bush Signs Stringent Energy Bill," The New American, January 21, 2008, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded . . . ecstatically by most Germans. He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika Germany was unified. His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning. The 'socialist' part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they did eat."
-- "Putin Is Time Magazine's Person of the Year," by Warren Mass, The New American, January 21, 2008, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"The current tax code runs 67,204 pages."
-- "Liberal Failures," The Limbaugh Letter, December 2007, page 13. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 1-28-08

"The libs' fond notion of 'progressive' taxation was the basis of the 1969 Alternative Minimum Tax, or AMT, designed to close 'tax loopholes' for the super-rich. Under 200 taxpayers, in those days. [. . . The] 'super-rich tax' [today] is set to clip 23 million Americans -- 34 percent of taxpayers making between $50,000 and $100,000 -- costing them as much as $2,000 in extra taxes."
-- "Liberal Failures," The Limbaugh Letter, December 2007, page 13. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program), originally designed to provide poor children with health insurance, has swelled into a socialist monstrosity covering the non-poor and non-children. Liberal states have maneuvered the funds to cover both adults (700,000 last year alone) and illegal immigrants, a practice encouraged by Congressional Democrats. [. . .] Democrats intend to finance their SCHIP expansion with a 156 percent increase in the federal cigarette tax [. . .]"
-- "Liberal Failures," The Limbaugh Letter, December 2007, page 14. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Do you know the story of the Incredible Disappearing Border Fence? It's an object lesson in gesture politics and homeland insecurity and a tale of hollow rhetoric, meaningless legislation and bipartisan betrayal. [. . .] Last fall [2006], Democrats and Republicans in Washington responded to continued public outrage over border chaos by passing the 'Secure Fence Act.' [. . .] It's no coincidence they finally got off their duffs to respond just before the 2006 midterm elections. Lawmakers vowed grandiosely to keep America safe. [. . .] President Bush made a huge to-do in signing the bill into law. [. . .] On the very day the bill was signed, open-borders politicians were already moving to water it down. [. . .] More than a year after the law's passage, [reports indicate] that only five miles of double-layer fencing have been built in the first 12 months of implementation of the act. [. . .] As part of the omnibus spending package passed last week, [. . .] language guts the Secure Fence Act almost entirely."
-- "The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence," by Michelle Milking, Human Events, December 24, 2007, pages 7, 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

Posted here for 1-21-08

"Currently New Jersey firearms law states that one must have a permit to carry a gun, even in historical reenactments and movie/television productions."
-- "New Jersey Permit Statutes Scrutinized," Resource Roundup, December 2007, page 2. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works committee marked-up Global Warming legislation in early December that mandates a 70 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from present-day levels by 2050. [. . .] Enviro groups in Washington, predictably, said the bill did not go far enough, calling for emissions cuts of 80 percent or more."
-- "Global Warming Bill Clears Committee," Resource Roundup, December 2007, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"President George W. Bush is the biggest spending president since liberal Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson mastermind of the federal government's 60s-era 'war on poverty.' [. . .] McClatchy News reported that when adjusted for inflation, discretionary federal spending -- which does not include entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security -- has gone up at an average annual rate of 5.3 percent during Bush's first six years. That's more than the annual 4.6 [percent] rate increase under left-wing President Johnson's 'big spending' programs. Under President Ronald Reagan, discretionary spending increased by only 1.9 percent each year."
-- "Bush: The Big Spender," Middle America News, December 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The Clean Water Act of 1972 designated 'navigable waters of the United States' to be under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers. 'Navigable' was once defined to be water in which a canoe would float. But lawsuits brought by environmental organizations resulted in the courts redefining 'navigable' to include virtually any land that is moist within 12-inches of the surface for seven consecutive days during the growing season. This so-called 'wetlands' policy gathered more than 200-million acres of private property under the control of the federal government. [. . . The] Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (H.R.2421) [. . .] removes the word 'navigable' from all references to the water under the jurisdiction of the federal government. [. . .] This means that if rain falls on your land, the federal government can control the use of your land."
-- "Private Property -- Foundation of Prosperity?" by Henry Lamb, Resource Roundup, October/November 2007, page 7. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 1-14-08

"Hate-crime laws are not only a violation of our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion, but a violation of the 10th Amendment's limitations on the power of federal government."
-- "How to Outlaw Christianity," by Chuck Norris, Whistleblower magazine, September 2007, page 25. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"In 1965 LBJ's 'Great Society' programs, including the 'War on Poverty,' promised to eradicate poverty with federal dollars. To date, this has meant a $6.6 trillion transfer of wealth. The result: destruction of the black family, with illegitimacy rates at 75 percent (85 percent in some inner cities); an increase in the number of poor people (nearly 15 million on welfare and a tripling in the percentage of children on welfare); higher crime rates among the poor; families trapped in dependency."
-- "Liberal Failures," by Rush Limbaugh, The Limbaugh Letter, December 2007, page 13. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"The federal government -- the taxpayer -- currently spends about $560 billion on both Medicare (health insurance for seasoned citizens) and Medicaid (health care for the poor). In 1965, defenders promised that Medicaid would cost no more than $12 billion by 1990; they were off by $52 billion."
-- "Liberal Failures," by Rush Limbaugh, The Limbaugh Letter, December 2007, page 14. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Two eighth grade students were suspended from the Queen Creek, Arizona school because they sketched guns on their homework. The mother of one of the boys told the media that her son was very upset with the way things have been handled and that he has been made to feel like a criminal. The two students were promptly suspended for their artwork."
-- "Gun Sketch = Suspension," Resource Roundup, October/November 2007, page 2. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 1-7-08

"Four years ago, the California legislature decided that medical insurance companies must provide non-English speaking alien customers with printed materials in their native languages as well as translators when they visit doctors or hospitals. Lawmakers set a deadline of mid-2008 for insurers to submit compliance plans. That means health care costs will skyrocket as medical insurance companies race to meet the deadline and hire interpreters and translators."
-- "Law Requires Translators for Aliens," Middle America News, January 2008, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The [San Francisco city] council decided that beginning this year, the city will issue municipal identification cards -- but they will conceal the holder's gender. The cards will reveal the name, birthday, and photo, but not the sex of the person. The decision came after heavy lobbying by what local newspapers called the transgender community."
-- "ID for Illegals," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2008, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"[In] the school district in Glendale, Aricona [. . .] a 9-year-old boy was suspended from school for a 'hate crime,' and made to stand in front of his class and render a Soviet-style public 'confession' of his crime. The boy was suspended for three days from Abraham Lincoln Traditional School for using the expression 'brown people,' even though he insisted the words were put into his mouth by others."
-- "A Child's 'Hate Crime'," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2008, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"In September the Democrats attached so-called hate-crimes legislation to a must-pass Senate Defense Department authorization bill to fund the Iraqi war. It was done in the dead of night via voice vote (there were no dissenting votes). Hate-crimes (more correctly, 'thought crimes') legislation is an attempt by government to assign greater penalties against the person committing a crime if it was committed against members of certain federally recognized victim groups."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2007, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.