Posted here for 6-22-09

"U.S. banks under the federal thumb have stopped making loans to coal mining projects the environmentalists object to. It is the continuation of a process by which federally-commandeered U.S. banks are doling out credit based on what their political masters in Washington want. [. . .] [G]overnment-run banks under TARP are now being pressured to give money to left-wing extremist groups such as ACORN."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2009, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"The President's fiscal year 2010 budget for the federal government was just unveiled and surprisingly he found one agency that he thinks deserves a 9% budget cut: This agency is the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) in the U.S. Department of Labor. [. . .] OLMS is the federal agency that investigates financial crimes that occur when union officials steal from their union."
-- "Obama CUts FUnds for Union Corruption Busters," by Don Todd, Human Events, May 18, 2009, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"Date on which Barack Obama implemented new ethics guidelines restricting former lobbyists' roles in government: 1/29/09. [Number of days] later that he waived the guidelines for the deputy secretary of defense: 1."
-- "Quick Turnaround," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 1, 2009, page 8. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In Sweden, it is now illegal to verbally show disdain for homosexuality because of hate-crime laws, similar to those being pushed by mainly Democrats in the U.S. Congress. A Swedish pastor, Ake Green, was prosecuted for a sermon in which he called homosexuality a 'cancerous tumor.' His defense counsel, [. . .] needed to go to the supreme court to have the conviction overturned on the grounds of religious free speech."
-- "Controlling Thoughts, Words, and Deeds," by Selwyn Duke, The New American June 8, 2009, page 22. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"President Obama's April announcement that stimulus transportation projects were coming in 'ahead of schedule' and under budget seemed pretty amazing for government work. A little too amazing, it turns out. The Transportation Department later admitted to ABC News that work on most of the 2,000 projects cited had yet to begin."
-- "Presidential Puffery," NewsMax magazine, June 2009, page 11. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Savana Redding was strip-searched by school staff when she was 13 because she was falsely accused of bringing prescription-strength ibuprofen to school, and the staff wanted to penalize any bad behavior. If a parent had strip-searched a 13-year-old child, it could have been considered child abuse by Child Protective Services."
-- "Tracking Your Digital Trail," by Beverly K. Eakman, The New American June 8, 2009, page 13. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

Posted here for 6-15-09

"Administrative Law Judge Catherine Bennett has ruled that Nite Moves, an Albany gentleman's club, qualifies for New York State's 'dramatic arts' tax exemption. Thanks to pole dancing. After viewing a slew of pole-dance videos, according to The New York Law Journal, Judge Bennett noted the artistic nature of the 'acrobatic pole maneuvers, splits, and other patterned repetitions [. . .] The pole maneuvers in particular are no small feat to accomplish, and attempting such a performance without the skill and a planned routine of steps could prove dangerous.' The judge ruled that the tax auditor had an erroneous 'preconceived opinion' that cover charges and private couch dances were subject to sales taxes."
-- "Pole Tax," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2009, page 4. 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.

"Mary Pratte, 88, of Rochester, PA is well known at St. Cecilia Catholic Church for her sinfully delicious homemade coconut pie. Going for $1 a slice, Mary's pies -- and those of her fellow parishioners -- have raised needed dollars for the church for many years. But now she's afraid to bring her wares to the church bake sale -- lest she be nabbed by the state. According to The Wall Street Journal, selling homemade pies is illegal in Pennsylvania under the state's food-safety code. Indeed, a state inspector [. . .] told the women the state would only let them sell their pies if they paid $35 to have their kitchens inspected."
-- "Pie Holes," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2009, page 4. 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 Massachusetts state health board just voted to include students' 'body mass index' on report cards. The idea, reports Reuters, is to 'encourage parents of overweight children to seek help for their kids' -- and themselves."
-- "Weight List," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2009, 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.

Posted here for 6-8-09

"The District of Columbia has come up with a plan to save some money -- just let 80 percent of the criminals now in jail go free. The city hopes to save $4.4 million under a plan to grant criminals early release. Officials said about 2,400 inmates would be eligible."
-- "Fat Deal for Jail Inmates," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2009, 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.

"[T]he City of New Haven, Connecticut [. . .] discarded the results of a test used to identify candidates for promotion to fire department captain and lieutenant because no African Americans passed the test. [. . .] Although great care had been taken to ensure that the examination did not discriminate in any way against minority candidates, the results of the test were unacceptable to the City because the process produced no African American candidates for captain or lieutenant."
-- "City Uses Quota to Promote Firemen," The Litigator, Spring 2009, page 3. Address: Mountain States Legal Foundation Executive Offices, 2596 South Lewis Way, Lakewood, Colorado 80227. Phone: 303-292-2021. Fax: 303-292-1980. Website.

"A 2002 National Research Council study found that the old Federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) mandates to build smaller cars contributed to 2,000 U.S. highway deaths per year." [The CAFE mandates have just been raised, so expect more deaths.]
-- The American Sentinel, May 2009, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[Democrat U.S. representatives] Waxman and Markey are planning on inserting a provision in a coming energy bill [. . .] to make it easier for lawyers to sue over 'global warming.' Look for your local utility company and its customers to soon be paying massive amounts of money defending (and settling) against skin-cancer lawsuits, for example."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2009, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 6-1-09

"The Orange County Register reports that regulators are mulling a proposal to ban California retailers from selling 'all but the most energy-efficient televisions.' This would effectively ban big-screen TVs. Legislators admit the measure would take 25 percent (!) of televisions off the California market [. . .]"
-- "BS-TU," The Limbaugh Letter, May 2009, 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.

"[I]n Colorado, 'rainwater harvesting' is a crime [. . .] The [Wall Street] Journal explains: 'Colorado law explicitly states that every drop of moisture suspended in the atmosphere . . . must be allowed to hit the ground and seep through the watershed into distant rivers, where it can be doled out' to various public and private outfits, who get access to Colorado's river water on a first-come, first-served basis."
-- "Water Foul," The Limbaugh Letter, May 2009, 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.

"[T]he newly-installed Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazer, flat-out favors $10+ per gallon gasoline and has said so publicly. Another major Administration player, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, told The Wall Street Journal last fall that 'somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. . .' [Over $8 per gallon.]"
-- The American Sentinel, April 2009, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"A ruling by Zimbabwe's anti-white 'Supreme Court' endorsed eviction notices served on white fanners, paving the way to eliminate the last remaining white-owned farms. Mugabe took power in the former Rhodesia with help from the U.S. and Britain more than 20 years ago. Hundreds of whites were beaten and killed when gangs of Mugabe's cutthroat followers arrived to 'evict' the property owners."
-- "The Triumph of Multiculturalism," World Watch, Middle America News, May 2009, 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.

Posted here for 5-25-09

"Children attending grade school in London are having their lunches inspected by school staff and all items determined to be unhealthy are confiscated. The Danegrove Primary School has been accused of running a 'mealtime Gestapo.' The confiscated items will be returned at the end of the day but only if the parents ask."
-- "Food Nazis, Fast Forward," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, April 2009, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"Eight federal bills focusing on mental health screening were introduced in the first few months of 2009, with one bill targeting children aged 0 to 5 years old. In addition, the U.S. Preventive Services Task force, a panel convened by the federal government, is now urging routine screening of all American teens for depression. This type of mental health screening uses psychiatric multiple-choice questionnaires to diagnose whether a person is 'mentally ill' or not. The questionnaires are essentially a skewed marketing tool to get more people labeled with a mental disorder and prescribed psychiatric drugs."
-- "Every Child, Starting at Age 0, to Be Screened for Mental Disorders. Don't Think It Could Happen? Think Again." a flyer by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, 6616 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90028. Phone: 800-869-2247. Fax: 323-467-3720. Website.

"[I]t is startling to realize how much the federal government is encroaching on our freedoms. The latest United States Government Manual lists more than five hundred different federal agencies having thousands and thousands of federal bureaucrats. You and I are being taxed to pay their salaries, all so they can regulate our lives in countless ways."
-- "When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country," by G. Gordon Liddy, Whistleblower magazine, February 2009, page 36. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Posted here for 5-18-09

"President Obama's energy tax plan -- a version of the failed European 'cap and trade' global warming fiasco -- may cost families $1,800 yearly in higher utility bills, far exceeding his promised $800 year tax cut for 95% of Americans. While campaigning, Obama admitted that his energy plan would cause electric bills to 'skyrocket.'"
-- "Obama's Energy Plan Will Raise Your Electric Bill," by Ernest Istook, Human Events, March 30, 2009, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"The United States is closing Camp Bucca, a prison camp in Iraq, releasing hundreds of prisoners into the general Iraqi population. The camp once held 26,000 inmates; now only 9,600 remain, and the camp will be closed this summer."
-- "Camp Bucca Closing Means MOre Jihad in Iraq," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, March 30, 2009, page 12. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"President Obama's [recent] European visit [. . .] strained Air Force heavy-airlift capabilities and obliged the military to hire more foreign contractors to help resupply U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, according to military sources. [. . .] The Air Mobility Command, part of the U.S. Transportation Command, was ordered to provide airlift for the president's entourage of nearly 500 people, including senior officials, staff, support personnel, news reporters and some 200 Secret Service agents for the European visit, which began March 31 in London. Airlift for the traveling entourage also was used to move the president's new heavy-armored limousine and several presidential helicopters used for short transits."
-- "Air Obama," INside the Ring, by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 6, 2009, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates denied permission for the U.S. Northern Command to use the Pentagon's most powerful sea-based radar to monitor North Korea's recent missile launch, precluding officials from collecting finely detailed launch data or testing the radar in a real-time crisis, current and former defense officials said."
-- "U.S. Failed to Use Best Radar for N. Korea Missile," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 20, 2009, page 22. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 5-11-09

"[W]hat of the tragedy in Zimbabwe? What of the brutal rule of Mugabe? Is he considered an international outlaw? Has the UN sent out a call for troops? Is there an international movement to have him removed from office? Has the UN Security Council met to demand action? Is there an international outrage aimed at Mugabe, as there was against the white Apartheid government of South Africa? Sanctions? Blockades? Protest songs by Bono? Anything? No."
-- "Why the UN Is Worthless to Human Existence," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, February 2009, page 5, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

"As with most of the actions the Bush and Obama administrations have taken to fight the recession, the bailout and takeover of GM is flagrantly unconstitutional. Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress, the president, or the Supreme Court given the authority to bail out ailing firms."
-- "The New GM: Government Made," by Charles Scaliger, The New American April 27, 2009, page 22. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"[W]hat is Sustainable Development? The Sustainablists insist that society be transformed into feudal-like governance by making nature the central organizing principle for our economy and society. To achieve this, Sustainablist policy focuses on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control."
-- "The Wrenching Transformation of America," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, April 2009, page 4, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 5-4-09

"United States Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has proposed legislation, H.R. 875, which would literally prohibit Americans from raising food for themselves, their families, or even for their animals, without the [. . .] national government's permission! [. . .] H.R. 875 [. . .] will subject hobby gardeners, home canners, anyone with a few chickens, or anyone who 'holds, stores, or transports food' -- including mushrooms or wild berries gathered in the wild -- to registration, extensive management, and inspection by a huge new bureaucracy, the Food Safety Administration (FSA) -- even if the food items will only be consumed personally. [. . .] Among the statutory foundations [H.R. 875] claims for guidance and authority is the National Animal Identification System [NAIS], which HAS NEVER BEEN ENACTED INTO LAW BY CONGRESS!" [See also this article.]
-- "Ultimate Civil Liberties Threat!" by Kathy Lehman, The DeWeese Report, April, 2009, page 10, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

"In the 1990s, Anchorage, Alaska had some of the most pristine water in the nation. It literally had no pollution. Yet, because of govemment-mandated clean water standards, the federal government ordered the city to meet strict federal rules that required the city to remove a certain percentage of pollution from its water. The city simply couldn't do it because there wasn't that amount of pollution to be removed. But the government insisted that the law be upheld -- no exceptions. Therefore, in order to meet the federal requirements (and avoid huge fines or jail terms), Anchorage city officials were forced to pollute its pristine water by dumping fish parts into it so they could then clean out the required quota."
-- "The Wrenching Transformation of America," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, April, 2009, pages 7-8, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-27-09

"The state [of Massachusetts] is considering using GPS chips to charge motorists a quarter-cent for each mile driven [in their own cars]."
-- "Big Brother Tracking Your Auto Mileage," NewsMax magazine, May 2009, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"The Kennedy legacy must be important to the nation, because more than $32 million in taxpayer dollars are going to preserve it. Here's the breakdown: $22 million to expand the JFK library; $5 million to enhance the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway park; and $5.8 million for a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate at the University of Massachusetts."
-- "Preserving Camelot," NewsMax magazine, May 2009, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Home schoolers throughout the country are on notice that government officials can order them to send their children to public schools. As part of a divorce ruling last month, a judge in North Carolina ordered three Raleigh children to be taken out of home schooling by their mother and placed in public schools. The children, aged 10, 11, and 12, have tested two years above their grade level, but the Judge agreed with the husband who said he didn't like the Christian religious slant that the mother imparts to the lessons."
-- "Home Schoolers Beware," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2009, 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.

Posted here for 4-20-09

"Zimbabwe's dollar is currently enduring hyperinflation of up to 89.7 sextillion percent (meaning prices double every 24 hours or so). Zimbabwe's woes started with its confiscation of white-owned farms and its repudiation of debts owed to the IMF in the early 2000s. Hyperinflation is a very real possibility in the United States if the irresponsible printing of dollars to finance our own huge debts and deficits continues."
-- "Creating 'Wealth'," by Charles Scaliger, The New American April 13, 2009, page 16. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"A bill that swept through the Senate and is now pending passage in the House could put rockhounds in the klink. A forfeiture provision in the Omnibus Public land Management Act of 2009 says that if anyone removes or disturbs a 'paleontological resource' on federal land, the government can legally seize their car and toss them in jail for up to five years. [. . .] 'The forfeiture provision is effective before a trial and conviction, making the defendant guilty until proven innocent,' notes John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute."
-- "Rock and a Hard Place," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, April 2009, page 4. 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.

"Dust is against the law. The Environmental Protection Agency calls it 'coarse particulate matter' in the air, and urban areas aren't allowed to have any. Now, according to AP, neither are farmers. Federal regulators refused to exempt farmers from the new environmental regulations -- so farmers sued, because the only way to comply with EPA regulations is not to use tractors and combines. In other words, not farm. But a U.S. District Court of Appeals just decided that the Clean Air Act requires the EPA to go after farmer and non-farmer alike. Explained EPA spokeswoman Cathy Milbourn, 'We don't look at a particular industry. The goal is to protect public health.'"
-- "Rock and a Hard Place," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, April 2009, 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.

Posted here for 4-13-09

"The Obama Administration is setting up the U.S. energy sector to fail in a very dramatic way. [. . .] $4.00+ per gallon gasoline is returning soon, as are rolling blackouts, long lines for fuel, and ultimately rationing."
-- The American Sentinel, April 2009, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In 1981, the U.S. had 324 mostly new oil refineries. By 2005, regulatory overkill, predatory lawsuits and attrition (no new refineries built in 25 years) have reduced the U.S. to 132 antiquated fuel processing facilities. In addition to being at the end of their service lives, most of these surviving U.S. oil refineries must operate 24/7 to process some 22 different mandated blends of gasoline to meet a bizarre and often conflicting patchwork of EPA mandates all over the country."
-- The American Sentinel, April 2009, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Interior Secretary Ken Salazer has reversed a Bush Administration initiative to finally allow energy development off-shore. In one stroke, the Obama Administration has made 20 billion barrels of oil and 97-trillion cubic feet of natural gas illegal to bring to market."
-- The American Sentinel, April 2009, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 4-6-09

"What are the steps that are being proposed toward a world government? There are many, but [. . .] the principal steps are these: transforming the International Money Fund (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System; concluding a new United Nations climate-change agreement to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol -- with the United States locked in; and creating a 50,000 UN army."
-- "New Horsemen of the Apocalypse," by William F. Jasper, The New American March 30, 2009, page 44. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency accused [John] Rapanos of polluting 'waters of the U.S.' by spreading sand on his property twenty miles from the nearest navigable waterway. When Rapanos told them to 'take a hike' they retaliated at his lack of respect for their omnipotence and sued him, criminally and civilly. One judge remarked during one of the many trials that his 'crime' appeared to be 'moving sand from one end of his property to another.' [. . .] The feds argued the government had jurisdiction over Rapanos' land because the Clean Water Act extended its authority to all waters that could be used by migratory birds." [Which would be every pond or puddle in the country.]
-- "Greens' Continuing Assault on Humanity," by Liberty Matters News Service, The DeWeese Report, March 2009, page 12, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 3-30-09

"The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has approved legislation (S. 160) to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Representatives -- ignoring the crystal-clear constitutional bar against such an action."
-- "True Tales of Jerks in the Dome," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, March 2009, page 12. 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 3-23-09

"Denise Dawson, a model British citizen, was robbed a year ago by a dangerous gang that surrounded her car, smashed her window, and stole her laptop. According the The [UK] Daily Mail, one thug punched her in the face, breaking her nose. After Dawson picked her attacker out of a lineup and courageously testif[ied] against him in court, Judge Jamie Tabor found her so 'honest, utterly decent, and brave' . . . that he dismissed the charges against her assailant. The judge argued that Dawson's very credibility might cause the jury to 'lend more weight to her evidence than the facts allow.' In other words, the criminal had to go free because the victim was too believable."
-- "NewsDigest," The Limbaugh Letter, March 2009, page 4. 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 English 'bobby' is going the way of the Dodo bird. The UK's official police uniform has now been redesigned to accommodate Muslim women who want to be cops. The new uniform allows for the wearing of the Muslim hijab. The uniform's hijab is plain black, on top of which female officers may wear the official police hat, if they choose."
-- "Transformation of Britain," World Watch, Middle America News, March 2009, 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.

"Hundreds of thousands of illegal alien workers in the U.S. will likely be getting paid taxpayer money on government-contracted jobs. A provision that would have required employers who get federal economic stimulus money to verify that their employees are legally entitled to work in the U.S. was stripped from the final version of the $787 billion spending package approved by Congress last month."
-- "Illegals Get Access to Stimulus Jobs," Middle America News, March 2009, 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.

"U.S. Senate Bill Number 9, the 'Stronger Economy, Stronger Borders Act of 2009,' is aimed at 'reforming and rationalizing' avenues for immigration -- which means amnesty for illegal aliens."
-- "Amnesty Number 9 Coming Down the Track," Grassroots Action, by Peter Gemma, Middle America News, March 2009, page 8. 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 3-16-09

"[The] new spending bill jumps the federal government's total unfunded liabilities to about $65.5 trillion -- now in excess of the gross domestic product of all countries in the entire world."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2009, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"When priced in gold, the DOW from 1999 to [the present] is down 81%."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2009, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In recent weeks, President Obama issued a series of executive orders handing the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) an array of new powers to blacklist nonunion companies who perform virtually any kind of government work. [. . .] [A]nother executive order punishes all contractors who share truthful information with their employees about the many downsides of unionization."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2009, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 3-9-09

"[F]ederal fishing bureaucrats have been so aggressive in micromanaging thousands of independent commercial fishing businesses that most are going into bankruptcy. The new regulatory regime has quietly ended the age-old tradition of small family-run fishing operations in favor of politically-connected corporate monopolies."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2009, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"New York Gov. David Patterson proposed taxing down1oad music in order to get money for the state's $121 billion budget. Among a total of 88 new fees and taxes, Patterson suggested levies on movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars, and massages."
-- "The Taxman Cometh," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2009, 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.

Posted here for 3-2-09

"On Dec. 31, 2008, the brilliant EPA and FDA banned all inhalers containing eeevil ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS). Of course, when it comes to inhalers, CFCS are the chemicals that propel medication to the lungs. But thank goodness, you 40 million Americans who rely on inhalers can no longer threaten the planet. According to a Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers report, the devices will henceforth be made with earth-friendly hydrofluoroalkane (HFA). So what if at $50 the HFA inhaler is more than double the price of the old CFC inhaler? And so what if doctors are already hearing complaints about the new devices' ineffectiveness? What's more important? You? Or the earth?"
-- "NewsDigest," The Limbaugh Letter, February 2009, 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.

"America and the rest of the modern world, by doggedly pursuing the same mistaken policies of the 1920s and '30s, have made a full-blown depression -- lasting years, not months, and featuring catastrophic failures in entire economic sectors along with chronic double-digit unemployment and monetary malaise -- all but inevitable. In fact, the parallels between the run-up to the Great Depression and today's economic havoc are stunning. [. . .] During the Great Depression, as in our day, politicians and the news media blamed the crisis not on government malfeasance but on a failure of the free markets. This false conceit was responsible for a revolution in the relationship between the federal government and the private sector, transforming America from a free-market system into the largely managed economy that we have today."
-- "Parallels with the Great Depression," by Charles Scaliger, The New American February 16, 2009, pages 21, 23. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"During the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt lobbied for and signed economic-recovery legislation that skyrocketed government spending and regulations, thereby worsening the depression and delaying the recovery. With his support for additional bailouts and government-provided 'stimulus,' President Obama appears to be following in FDR's footsteps."
-- "A Bad Deal Revisited," by William P. Hoar, The New American February 16, 2009, page 42. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"New York state's political elite decided seven years ago to establish a uniquely useless gun registration program under the guise of fighting crime. Rather than get tough on criminals, the state got tough on inanimate objects. Under the law, all new handguns must be submitted for test firings. The rifling marks on the bullets from each gun are then recorded and stored in a digital database. Elites claimed that a record of the rifting marks would enable police to trace the owners of guns fired during crimes by examining recovered bullets. But so far, not one single conviction has resulted from use of the database, for which taxpayers are forced to shell out $1 million a year. In fact, the database hasn't been used for even one single prosecution of any kind."
-- "Policy at Work," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2009, 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.

Posted here for 2-23-09

"Zimbabwe's formerly thriving economy has disintegrated, causing the world's highest -- and frankly incomprehensible -- inflation rate, over 11 million percent! Average life expectancy has been cut almost in half, from 57 to only 34 years."
-- "Why We Elect Liars as Leaders," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, January 2009, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Europe and the United Kingdom, once the crown of Western civilization, are firmly in the grip of secular (de facto atheistic) socialism, which suffocates their once-vibrant Christian culture and seduces their citizens into giving up their hard-won freedoms, independence and wealth in exchange for 'cradle-to-grave' security."
-- "Why We Elect Liars as Leaders," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, January 2009, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"In a major speech focused on Obama, titled "A Springtime of Possibility,' CPUSA [the Communist Party of the U.S.A.] leader Sam Webb declared the U.S. is now 'on the road to socialism.'"
-- "Communist Party Chief: U.S. on Road to Socialism," by Aaron Klein, Whistleblower magazine, January 2009, page 11. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"By acting without rhyme or reason, politicians have destroyed the rules of the game. There is no reason to invest, no reason to take risk, no reason to be prudent, no reason to look for buyers if your firm is failing. Everything is up in the air and as a result, the only prudent policy is to wait and see what the government will do next. The frenetic efforts of FDR had the same impact: Net investment was negative during much of the 1930s."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2009, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 2-16-09

"[A] recent audit showed the U.S. Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused commercial airline tickets it had purchased, never bothering to collect refunds even though the tickets were totally returnable and refundable."
-- "Why We Elect Liars as Leaders," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, January 2009, page 14. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"The Democrats have changed the wording of a rule known as 'motion to recommit' so that massive amounts of legislation can be rammed through Congress without chance for amendment or adequate debate. The 'motion to commit' rule-change reverses a Pelosi promise to moderate voters that 'Bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full and fair debate consisting of a full amendment process that grants the minority the right to offer its alternatives, including a substitute. Upshot: The path has now been cleared for the passage of extremist legislation."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2009, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Rep. Jose Serrano is so enthralled with Barack Obama -- whose election prompted the New York Democrat to gush, 'Our national dream is realized' -- that he is paving the way for Obama to become President for Life. In January Serrano introduced H.J. Res. 5, a proposal to repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment [which limits a president to only two terms]."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2009, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"February 10, 2009 is being proclaimed 'National Bankruptcy Day' by some entrepreneurs. That's the day when the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 goes into effect -- provisions of which could destroy thousands of small businesses. The law mandates lead testing on all products intended for children under the age of 12. For a business operating on the scale of a WalMart, the costs of compliance may be negligible. But for an independent clothier, book retailer, or toy store owner, such costs -- around $150 per mandated lead test -- could be ruinous."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2009, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 2-9-09

"Last October, officials in Wadebridge, England constructed a six-foot-high, 30-foot-long wall. It was built, naturally, for the children -- 'so youths could practice their graffiti artwork without vandalizing local property,' notes The [UK] Telegraph."
-- "The Writing on the Wall," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, January 2009, page 4. 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.

"[W]hat's the Democrats' top priority when it comes to energy policy? Abolish the number one domestic source of electricity, which happens to be coal. Consider: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently ranted, 'Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick . . . We've got to stop using fossil fuels.' While on the campaign trail, Vice President-elect Joe Biden expressed his antipathy toward the single most plentiful and cost-effective energy source we have in the U.S. as follows: 'No coal plants here in America.' Obama has said coal would technically be legal but practically impossible. Here's how he describes his 'cap and trade' anti-emissions regime: 'If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.'"
-- The American Sentinel, December 2008, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Mark it down as the first tax increase of the new Democratic era. The Journal reported [Jan. 12] that President-elect Obama and Congressional leaders intend to maintain the estate tax rather than let it expire on schedule in 2010."
-- "Raising Taxes," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 19, 2009, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Obama talks about a 'stimulus package' that he says will rebuild the infrastructure and 'green' the energy industry. That won't happen, of course. Government performance consistently falls far short of its goals. Forgive me for pointing out that President Jimmy Carter's Synthetic Fuels Corporation cost taxpayers at least $19 billion without giving us an alternative to oil and coal."
-- "The President's Deficit Disorder," by John Stossel, NewsMax (the magazine), February 2009, page 40. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 1-26-09

"As of January 1, 2009, millions of asthma sufferers are no longer legally able to obtain the low-cost albuterol inhalers that enable them to breathe. The inhalers have been outlawed by FDA regulations under the UN Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion. [. . .] [N]o effective and affordable substitute [is] available to replace them."
-- "Asthma Sufferers Victimized by UN Ozone Madness," Inside Track, The New American January 19, 2009, page 7. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"[S]ince 2000 NICE [the National Institute for Clinical Evidence] has denied access to 226 different innovative drugs for seriously-ill patients on cost-savings grounds. (The National Comprehensive Cancer Network estimates in most cases where NICE bureaucrats have blocked access to life-saving drugs, there was 'high level evidence' or 'uniform consensus' of clinical benefit to the patient.)" [Socialized medicine will make things much worse.]
-- The American Sentinel, January 2009, pages 2-3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State will impose a globalist agenda on domestic issues, including an open border with Mexico, a new Canadian-Mexican-American currency known as 'the Amero,' and establish new UN-hatched restrictions on gun ownership, capital flight, taxation and of course energy usage."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2009, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[T]he Federal Reserve and the Treasury are attempting to get away with the biggest heist in history. In addition to the $700 billion voted by Congress, the Fed has admitted to authorizing at least another $7 trillion for various bailout schemes and 'loans' to banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. [. . .] For years, Rep. Ron Paul has been trying to force Congress to conduct an audit of the Federal Reserve System, a most basic responsibility that Congress has shirked."
-- "Ponzi, Madoff, and the Fed," by William F. Jasper, The New American January 5, 2009, page 44. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

Posted here for 1-19-09

"One Long Island school has already changed its name to Barack Obama Elementary -- before Mr. Obama has even been sworn in. The former Ludlum Elementary School in Hempstead, New York, is nearly all black and Hispanic, with many children from Africa and the Caribbean. [. . .] Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream, New York, [also] plans to take Mr. Obama's name, as does a school in Portland, Oregon. [. . .] In heavily-black Opa-locka, Florida, the city council is considering naming a street after Mr. Obama, and the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda says the country will have its highest mountain, Boggy Peak, renamed Mount Obama."
-- "Hail to the Chief," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, January 2009, pages 13-14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"The Valley Race Equality Council (Valrec) in Wales wants to protect the public from words it may find offensive. Forbidden terms include 'half-caste,' 'Negro' and 'British.' Why British? 'The idea of British implies a false sense of unity -- many Scots, Welsh, and Irish resist being called British and the land denoted by the term contains a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions,' say Valrec's guidelines."
-- "Hail to the Chief," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, January 2009, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"In November, the people of Dallas found out that their own school district was systematically handing out the Social Security numbers of legitimate citizens to foreigners just so they could get on the school system payroll [. . .] Because the school district is flooded with foreign students, the district hired foreign (mostly Spanish-speaking) teachers who had work visas issued by the federal government."
-- "The Criminals Running the System," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2009, 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.

"America has long been characterized as the wealthiest of nations. That designation is fading rapidly. The very definition of wealth has been swept away. It is based on productivity. It is generated when industrious people take the raw materials of the Earth and fashion them into goods. In other words, wealth and manufacturing go hand in hand. When a nation is a strong wealth producer, it will have a strong middle class and will not become dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers for the goods it needs. But over the past 30 years, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has declined from 19 million to 13 million -- and is still shrinking. America is on its way to becoming a service economy full of paper pushers, a land relying on others for its goods. Our nation is being taken down the wrong road. Time will tell whether the needed turnabout will be demanded."
-- "The Obama Economic Team," John F. McManus, The New American December 22, 2008, page 44. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

Posted here for 1-12-09

"Great Britain has installed an estimated 4.2 million surveillance cameras utilizing facial recognition technology to keep tabs on all citizens. These cameras, of which there is 1 for every 14 citizens, can observe a person up to 300 times in a normal day in the city of London."
-- "Real ID," by Representative Sam E. Rohrer, The DeWeese Report, September 2008, page 3, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

"It is estimated that beneath America's coast lies enough oil to fuel 60 million cars in the United States for 60 years and enough natural gas to heat 60 million homes for 160 years. . . If allowed access to American oil reserves in Alaska and off our coastline, American oil companies could increase our country's reserves an estimated fivefold, taking the United States from 11th place to fourth among the countries with proven oil reserves."
-- "Greens' Stranglehold on Congress," by Walter Williams, quoting Sterling Burnett in the Houston Chronicle (May 21, 2008), Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 36. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"After throwing trillions of dollars they don't have at 'saving' the U.S. financial system, the crisis continues to worsen and deepen. The increasingly frequent bailouts are not working, and the government is getting deeper and deeper into red ink. [. . .] [I]t would take each U.S. family coughing up half a million dollars just to keep the U.S. government solvent."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2008, pages 4-5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 1-5-09

"Today, no one knows for sure how much gold is left in Ft. Knox -- or more crucially, whether the U.S. government still actually has direct ownership of much of the gold remaining in its vaults. The feds have in recent years 'leased' gold stockpiles to various parties and failed to account for them like a normal business should. Moreover, no comprehensive independent audit of U.S. gold stockpiles has been conducted since 1954."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2008, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Initially conceived in the early 1990s and projected to cost $71 million, the CVC [U.S. Capitol Visitor Center] has become an example of out-of-control government contracting and mismanagement. [. . .] The final price tag: $621 million (and three years behind schedule)."
-- "No Comment," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 8, 2008, page 8. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"The Lambeth Council in South London has no money for new library books, and has even shut off park fountains. But now they're shelling out $210,000 for 'reflexologists' to massage the feet of naughty public school children."
-- "Happy Feet," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, December 2008, page 4. 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.

"[A]ccording to The Scotsman, there is a serious proposal in Scotland to do away with old-fashioned school subjects and replace them with 'cross-curricular' topics. For example, instead of studying physics, chemistry, or biology, students would take a course on 'air,' during which teachers would thoroughly and brilliantly cover all of the sciences."
-- "Airheads," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, December 2008, page 4. 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.