January - June 2004
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"The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has joined with the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) in an effort to defeat President Bush . . . NRDC gets significant money from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants. [E]stimates [are] that during the first three years of the Bush Administration, NRDC received $2.6 million from the EPA." [So the Bush administration is funding its own defeat. Don't think this is the only example.]From "PhilanthropyNotes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, June 2004, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.
"'The State Department is in Kerry pre-inauguration mode,' a senior Bush administration official tells NewsMax, warning that the department's bureaucracy is desperate to get President Bush out of the White House. How Desperate? Well, last year the State Department invited billionaire financier George Soros, President Bush's archenemy, to be its keynote speaker at an internal program known as 'The Secretary's Open Forum.'"From "The State Department's War with the White House," by Christopher Ruddy, NewsMax.com (the magazine), June 2004, page 38. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"[T]here are 31 nations [in the UN] with a full vote that have less than a half million people. Even our least populated State, Wyoming, has more people. These UN member nations have the same vote as the U.S., China, India, Russia, Great Britain, Japan or any other major power in the world. Indeed, fourteen nations with less than 100,000 people have a vote equal to ours. They include Tuvalu (10,836), San Marion (26,937) and Liechtenstein (31,130)."From "The UN: Irrelevant & Malignant," Warning Signs, by Alan Caruba, 2003, page 26. Published by Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington 98009.
"While Juan Miguel Gonzalez is Elian's biological father, Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro is Elian's legal father. Or, as Castro spokesman Luis Fernandez candidly explained it: 'He [Elian] is a possession of the Cuban government.'"From What's the Difference? Gray Liberal Mush or Vivid Conservative Facts, by Mike Thompson, 2002, page 95. Published by on-demand in cooperation with Trafford Publishing, Suite 6E, 2333 Government Street, Victoria, B.C. V8T 4P4, Canada. Phone: 250-383-6864 (or toll-free: 888-232-4444). Fax: 250-383-6804. E-mail. Website.
"In 2001, the Social Security Administration issued 5.8 million numbers, including 1.5 million to non-citizens."From "Mexicans, Legal & Illegal, transform U.S.," Warning Signs, by Alan Caruba, 2003, page 78. Published by Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington 98009.
"Corrections Canada won't allow prison guards to wear vests that prevent them from being stabbed by inmates. They say it sends a message to prisoners that the guards consider them dangerous."From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, July 2004, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"The California Department of Real Estate says advertising your home for sale on the Net requires a real estate license."From "Balance Sheet," Reason Magazine, July 2004, page 13. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Social Security faces a $26 trillion [$26,000,000,000,000] deficit over the next several decades."From "Shaw: How to Fix Social Security," NewsMax.com (the magazine), June 2004, page 41. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"The City Council of Hamtramck, Michigan, has given approval to a mosque's request to broadcast Muslim calls to prayer on loudspeakers. The Bangladeshi al-Islah Masque wants to air the messages five times a day, but agreed not to air them between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. . . . Estimates indicate that about one-third of the Detroit suburb's population is Muslim."From "City Approves Public Muslim Prayer Calls," American Family Association Journal, June 2004, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"The state of Maine has decided to wink at criminal conduct and provide cover for potential terrorists by helping them gain access to taxpayer-funded services. Democrat Gov. John Baldacci last month issued an executive order prohibiting all state employees from asking about any person's 'immigration status.'"From "Maine Promises Aid to Illegal Aliens," Middle America News, June 2004, 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.
"The top immigration law enforcement officer in Houston last month assured illegal aliens working in and around the city that he doesn't intend to enforce immigration laws against them." [Law enforcement officers are choosing what laws they wish to enforce. Is that the oath they took?]From "Maine Promises Aid to Illegal Aliens," Middle America News, June 2004, 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.
"Incumbent Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) saw his 145 vote victory in his March 9th primary turned into a 203 vote defeat after an April 15th recount. The recount, claims Rodriguez, reported 115 more votes cast in Webb County than there were residents who voted on election day." [There's more than one way to win an election.]From "New Math in Texas Congressional Race," English First Members' Report, May 28, 2004, page 2. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website.
"Unelected international bureaucrats at the United Nations are secretly conspiring . . . to force the United States to give away [to Russia] a huge chunk of sovereign American territory. . . . eight islands that are now part of Alaska . . . Wrangell Island, Herald Island, Bennett Island, Jeanette Island, Henrietta Island, Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock and Sea Otter Rock, [that] represent thousands of square miles of sovereign American territory."From a solicitation letter from Carl Olson, chairman, State Department Watch, PO Box 97343, Washington, DC 20090-7343.
"The Bush Administration's Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has recently signed the 'Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,' the first ever global health policy negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The treaty turns power over to an unelected, unaccountable world authority to regulate advertising as well as limits on so-called second-hand smoke."From The American Sentinel, June 2004, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[T]he 2000 Census Bureau counted 7 million illegal aliens as part of our population. California, where one in six residents is an illegal, gained 6 House seats as a consequence of census-based reapportionment of Congressional seats. The result? Liberal California took House seats away from U.S.-born voters in Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Utah."From The American Sentinel, May 2004, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[F]ederal spending now exceeds $20,000 per household [per year]."From The American Sentinel, June 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[F]ully one-fifth of all peoples of Mexican ancestry now [live] in the United States."From The Death of the West, by Patrick J. Buchanan, 2002, page 125. Published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010.
"The Patriot Act only mentions protecting our northern border. It says not a word about the southern one. Our southern border remains absolutely wide open, allowing anyone to literally walk into this country."From "Let the Patriot Act Die," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, May 2004, 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.
"[T]he Department of Justice announced last March (2003) that accuracy is no longer a concern for the building of one of the world's largest databases called the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). The NCIC has been exempted from the Privacy Act of 1974 that requires information entered into government databases be timely, relevant, complete and accurate."From "Let the Patriot Act Die," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, May 2004, page 6, 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.
"After July 1 [in Australia], swords will be banned and violators will face penalties that previously have been reserved for laser pointers -- six months in jail and a $12,000 fine." [My guess: pea shooters will be next.]From "The Awful Aussie," by John R. Lott, Jr., America's First Freedom, June 2004, page 43. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"It all started, says Mike Burita of the American Beverage Institute in Washington, when a mom brought her children to a family restaurant and ordered a single glass of wine. A short time later, the courts took her children away."From "Pass the Pinot," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 17-23, 2004, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Residents of the Italian town of Reggio Emilia better take good care of their pets. They can be fined 500 euros for dyeing their pets' fur, boiling live lobsters, or failing to provide their dogs with spacious housing in the shade."From "Brickbats," Reason, June 2004, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Maryland's House of Delegates voted to give illegal aliens a cut-rate deal on tuition at the state's colleges and universities. If the bill becomes law, illegal aliens will be eligible for the lower in-state tuition rates reserved hitherto only to legal residents."From Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2004, 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.
"[T]he New York State Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies warns that parents who resist state interference, believe in spanking, or display an 'over involvement in religion' are suspect."From Children No More -- How We Lost a Generation, by Brenda Scott, 1995, page 162. Published by Huntington House Publishers, PO Box 53788, Lafayette, Louisiana 70505.
"[S]tate misuse of the tobacco windfall . . . includes paying down deficits and even buying tobacco-company stocks."From "States Burning Up Litigation Funds," Insight on the News, May 11-24, 2004, page 36, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The state of New York has directed that its public schools teach children that one of the two primary influences for the U.S. Constitution was the government of the Iroquois Indians."From Why the Left Hates America, by Daniel J. Flynn, 2002, page 74. Published by Prima Publishing, Roseville, California, member of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Incorporated, New York City, New York. Website.
"Washington now spends more than $20,000 per household [per year]."From "Waste Not, Want Not," Heritage Members News, Spring 2004, page 8. Address: The Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4999. Phone: 800-546-2843. Website.
"New York City pays high school chemistry teacher Elihu McMahon $77,000 a year to do nothing. Because of his history of insubordination, incompetent teaching, improper grading, sexual harassment, and racist remarks to students, administrators won't let the 69-yera-old . . . man near a classroom, but union rules make it nearly impossible to fire him. During the past 15 years, the city has paid $600,000 for his non-services."From "Bad Chemistry," American Renaissance, May 2004, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"New Jersey's 2002 guidelines for teaching history in the public schools contained no mention of the Founding Fathers, the Pilgrims, or the Mayflower. The first five pages of the section on World War II in a textbook used by Palm Beach County are exclusively about such fashionable topics as sex roles in the armed forces, racial segregation and the war, women and the war effort, and the relocation camps for Japanese."From "Textbook Horrors," American Renaissance, May 2004, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"Following Zimbabwe's lead, the government of Namibia announced it will soon begin the forcible expropriation of white-owned land for redistribution to 'the landless masses'."From "More Blood to Flow," World Watch, Middle America News, May 2004, 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.
"Some close allies of Zimbabwe racist strongman Robert Mugabe have creamed off more than $100 million in British and European Union aid that was intended to fight AIDS and help the poor."From "Mugabe's Pals Rip Off Western Taxpayers," World Watch, Middle America News, May 2004, 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.
"[T]he September 11 hijackers could not have pulled off the operation save for their success at getting drivers' licenses. Yet to this day, only 20 states refuse to issue drivers' licenses to illegal aliens."From The American Sentinel, April 2004, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Chris Simcox of Arizona's Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper reports that Mexican army units continue to provide cover for drug smugglers along the U.S. border and have even engaged U.S. law enforcement in hostilities. 'The [Mexican] soldiers we captured on tape have been seen laying down suppression fire during the drug dealers' dash back across the border -- this is not hyperbole -- our guys are being fired upon from the other side of the border and they will not return fire. . . .'"From "Border War," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2004, 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.
"There have been 40 million abortions in the United States since 1973, and 25 percent of pregnancies in the U.S. now result in abortion."From The Insider, Insight on the News, April 13-26, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"A Ventura County, California man hired someone to clear about 20 of his 44 acres. In the process, 301 'protected' Coast Live Oak trees were uprooted and piled, a violation of the county 'tree protection' ordinance. The landowner, William Kaddis, was fined $500,000 (prosecutors tried for $1 million) and sentenced to 210 days in jail -- for 'killing' trees on his own land. The jail term is being delayed pending appeal."From "Pay the Taxes, but Don't Use the Land," Resource Roundup, April 2004, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"The only Sept. 11 suspect ever convicted walked out of [a German] jail Wednesday (April 7) smiling and laughing, freed less than 2 1/2 years into a 15-year sentence after judges ruled the evidence was too weak to hold him pending a retrial."From "Germany Frees 9/11 Suspect," Capital Briefs, Human Events, April 12, 2004, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"Israel's intelligence agencies announced before the outset of the Iraq war that Saddam was moving his WMDs to Syria."From a 4-18-04 e-mail newsletter from NewsMax.com.
"The radicals who run the U.S. Department of Education under President George Bush are investigating the East Valley Institute of Technology in Mesa, Arizona, for possible 'civil rights' violations. That's because a teacher allegedly requested that students speak English in her classroom. The Feds also are probing to find out whether the school 'failed to inform national-origin language-minority parents about school-related matters in a language they understood."From Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2004, 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.
"Councilwoman Wanda Jones Dixon in the town of McKees Rocks in northeastern Pennsylvania wants to euthanize or permanently lock up 'Dolpho,' a police German shepherd accused of 'racial profiling.' In 2002, the town conducted what Associated Press called 'a two month investigation' to find out if the dog was 'singlling out blacks while on patrol.' . . . [The father of a child bitten by Dolpho] told AP he thinks the dog hates blacks. 'I still say that dog . . . is a racist dog,' he said."From Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2004, 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.
"The International Court of Justice ruled on March 31 that the United States 'must' review the convictions and death sentences of 51 Mexicans in U.S. jails, saying local authorities had failed to consult Mexican consulates in violation of international law." [Sovereignty, sacred sovereignty, where art thou?]From "World Court Orders Review of 51 Death Penalty Cases in U.S.," by Betsy Pisik, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 5-11, 2004, page 13. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The California Supreme Court ruled on March 1 that Catholic Charities must provide its employees contraceptive coverage in its health-care plan even though the Catholic Church is opposed to contraception."From "Coerced Contraceptive Coverage," The New American, April 5, 2004, 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.
"[S]ix U.S. Supreme Court justices have cited foreign authorities to support their decisions." [Just whose constitution are they supposed to be interpreting, anyway? These justices should be impeached!]From "Coerced Contraceptive Coverage," The New American, April 5, 2004, 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.
"Federal officials fine a Maine man $10,000 for repeatedly crossing the Canadian border to attend church. His mistake was failing to drive three hours each way to the only Sunday-manned border checkpoint, opting instead to cross, as he has for decades, near his home."From "Balance Sheet," Reason, May 2004, page 13. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"[A] New York couple was fined $30,000 for building a deck on their house because it cast a shadow on a wetland."From a March 2004 solicitation letter from Robert K. Best, president, Defending Our Values, Pacific Legal Foundation, 10360 Old Placerville Road, Suite 100, Sacramento, California. Phone: 916-362-2833. Fax: 916-362-2932. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he United States lost manufacturing jobs for the 43rd month in a row . . ."From "What the Non-Racial Right Thinks," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, April 2004, page 6. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"An elementary school in Wilmington, N.C., has put in its library a book about two princes who fall in love and 'marry,' prompting outrage from the parents of a first-grade girl who brought the book home."From "Gay Princes Book Infuriates GIrl's Parents," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 22-28, 2004, page 12. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"It all began when the Justice Department had accused New Jersey State Troopers of engaging in 'racial profiling,' based on the fact that they were pulling over a higher percentage of black drivers than white drivers. Justice bureaucrats issued orders for an immediate investigation . . . . The . . . investigation revealed that blacks are twice as likely to speed on the NJ Turnpike as their white counterparts."From The American Sentinel, March 2004, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"In Los Angeles and most U.S. cities with high numbers of illegal aliens, police are banned from arresting people solely because they are here in violation of U.S. law. In short, U.S. cities are 'safe harbors' for illegal aliens. Ninety-five percent of all outstanding warrants in Los Angeles for homicide (about 1,500) target illegal aliens."From The American Sentinel, March 2004, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"It started on little league baseball and soccer fields. Goofy communities around the country stopped keeping score in competitive sports for youngsters so that the losers wouldn't get their tender little egos bruised. . . . Down in Nashville, Tennessee, all schools have been instructed to stop posting honor rolls. Indeed, according to the Associated Press, 'some schools are also considering a ban on hanging good work in the hallways.' . . . [S]ome Nashville schools have . . . killed academic pep rallies and others are mulling a ban on spelling bees." [The liberal view: achievement must be discouraged.] From "In Search of Mediocrity," Resource Roundup, March 2004, page 5. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Animal rights activists at www.ida.usa.org have announced that Woodstock, New York has joined several other (wacko) cities that have amended their municipal codes 'to refer to people as guardians of their companion animals rather than the antiquated term owner.'"From "More Animal 'Rights'," Resource Roundup, March 2004, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Out in Arizona, it's reported that 'no more than 21 percent of Arizona's eight-graders' have been able to pass the state's math test. This is simply not tolerable! Something MUST be done! So, naturally, state officials plan to ask the Arizona Board of Education to . . . make the tests easier. Whew! For a minute there we thought elected officials weren't taking their job of protecting kids' self-esteem seriously."From "It Doesn't Add Up," Resource Roundup, March 2004, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Last month the national debt reached $7,017,309,022,990.02. . . It goes up by about $2.34 billion a day."From "National Debt Rising," Middle America News, March 2004, 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.
"[F]ive U.S. Supreme Court Justices have cited foreign sources, even though it is self-evident that U.S. judges should be bound by the U.S. Constitution and U.S. laws, not foreign ones."From "We Must Reject the Rule of Judges," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, March 2004, page 2. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"California . . . . legislators have proposed lowering the voting age to 14. . . . The teachers union would love to give the vote to kids in the K-12 system -- would you vote against what your teacher told you in the eighth grade?"From "Big Education's Awesome Idea," The Furies, Insight on the News, March 30-April 12, 2004, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"A proposed amendment to California's constitution would give 16-year-olds a half-vote and 14-year-olds a quarter-vote in state elections."From "Unlikely Proposal," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 15-21, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The NTU [National Taxpayers Union] study found that of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, only a paltry 26 voted to reduce overall government spending -- the balance, about 95% of the House, voted to increase the size of government. The NTU study also revealed that not one of the 100 Senators supported bills that would have reduced overall spending."From The American Sentinel, March 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The era of forced multilingual ballots 'hit a new low' when the town of Briny Breezes, Fla., was forced to print election notices in Spanish despite the fact everybody understands English. Furthermore, federal law required leaders of the tiny oceanfront retirement community to provide bilingual election information to residents -- even though there was no election to hold."From "No Election," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 1-7, 2004, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Consider the Bush-era $35,000 NEA [National Endowment for the Arts] grant being used to produce a musical about homosexual serial killer Andrew Cunanan."From "Important Art Selected by Important People," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2004, 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.
"New rules for allocating who gets donated kidneys will result in more blacks getting transplants, while the number of whites will decline."From "Equality for Them, None for You," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2004, 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.
"A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of an intensive three-week course in California public schools that teaches students how to follow Islam."From "Teaching Islam in School OK'd by Court," American Family Association Journal, March 2004, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"In December the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, in a 2-1 decision, a lower court ruling that said the Ten Commandments cannot appear on government-owned property even when they are surrounded by other legal and historical documents."From "Federal Court Says Decalogue Must Go," American Family Association Journal, March 2004, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"As George Pulildo and his sons were walking home from a birthday party in New York City, a small balloon his oldest son was carrying hit the sidewalk and burst. Police immediately ticketed him for making an unreasonable noise."From "Brickbats," Reason, April 2004, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Last month the CDC admitted this year's flu vaccine could not prevent flu because it did not match the circulating strains. The CDC and flu vaccine manufacturers also admit that even if the vaccine does match the circulating flu strains, children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems -- the same ones most likely to get sick with the flu -- are subject to adverse reactions to the vaccine."From "The Flue Shot Insanity," The Idaho Observer, February 16, 2004, page 2. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website.
"A New York attorney and talk show host, Bob Unger, related the struggle he and his wife had with their first grade son's math problem which asked: 'There are ten children in the small school Samuel goes to. There are five jars of paint. How many children can paint?' After trying to work that math problem for several hours they faxed it to their CPA. From the school they ultimately learned the answer was: 'If they share, they can all paint.'"From None Dare Call It Education, by John A. Stormer, 1998, page 4. Published by: Liberty Bell Press, PO Box 32, Florissant, Missouri 63032.
"The first version of the National Standards for History for high school students, released in 1994, mentions [Senator Joseph] McCarthy and McCarthyism 20 times, lavishing more attention on him than any other politician in recent American history and suggesting that the entire anti-communist movement was guilty of violating fundamental American values." [That McCarthy was correct apparently doesn't stop the smear.]From "Demonized for All Time," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 23-29, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he New Mexico state house passed a bill last week requiring a breathalyzer to be installed on every car sold in the state."From "The Right Ear," Human Events, February 23, 2004, page 19. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"During the Bosnia conflict, we were told by the Clinton Administration that American forces would be home by Christmas 1997. Almost seven years later, they're still there, with virtually no complaints from liberals. No Senator is demanding hearings; no Congressman is marching before the cameras crying, 'What's the plan? Where's the exit strategy?' Every incident in Iraq, on the other hand, proves quagmire; every setback is an opportunity to bash Bush and Remsfeld, and to whine whether we should be there at all."From "Double Standard: Rules for Republicans Only," The Limbaugh Letter, November 2003, page 14. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.
"The [London] Telegraph reports that to comply with new EU safety rules, circus performers have been told to start wearing hard hats. That's right: jugglers, tightrope walkers, trapeze artists, and acrobats with the Moscow State Circus, now touring Britain, have been 'instructed to don safety headwear because of European regulations covering workers employed at heights greater than the average stepladder.'"From "It's a Circus," The Limbaugh Letter, September 2003, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he FDA announced that the anthrax vaccine was 'safe and effective' for our troops, even though a federal judge reviewing the evidence found that it had not been approved for exposure to weaponized or inhaled anthrax."From AIM Report, January 7, 2004, insert, page 2. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.
"'The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a universal curriculum for teaching global citizenship, peace studies and equality of world cultures,' reported the January 18 Washington Times."From "Bush Supports UN Classroom Indoctrination," The New American, February 23, 2004, 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.
"On January 20, the Postal Service issued the latest stamp in its 'Black Heritage' series. The new stamp honors identified Communist Party member Paul Roeson. Americans of African ancestry, like all Americans, should be outraged by this insulting elevation of an admitted enemy of the American system to hero status."From "A Mockery of Black Heritage," by Warren Mass, The New American, February 23, 2004, 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.
"Texas housewife Joanne Webb is facing obscenity charges. If convicted, she could serve up to a year in jail and pay a fine as high as $4,000. Her crime? Selling a vibrator to undercover narcotics agents."From "Brickbats," Reason, March 2003, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"The European Parliament will reportedly take up a bill next year that would require wild game to be certified as fit and healthy before it is shot."From "Brickbats," Reason, March 2003, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"A Norwegian court has ordered the government to buy a car for a man who says he is too short to use mass transit. The man, who stands about 4 feet, 8 inches, says he was bullied as a child because of his height and has bitter memories of riding the school bus. The court ruled that society should not expose him to further psychological trauma."From "Brickbats," Reason, March 2003, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"The school honor roll, a time-honored system for rewarding A-students, has become an apparent source of embarrassment for some under-achievers. As a result, all Nashville schools have stopped posting honor rolls, and some are also considering a ban on hanging good work in the hallways -- all at the advice of school lawyers."From "Nashville Seeks to Protect Underachievers," (AP) The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 2-8, 2004, page 2. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"In San Francisco a federal jury in December awarded Macan Singh, 33, an illegal alien worker from India, $200,000 in damages for a threat from his employer to turn him over for deportation to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The employer is his uncle, Charanjit Jutla, who had earlier settled a $70,000 wage claim lodged against him by Singh."From "Alien Infighting," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2004, 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.
"In America, you can get fired for quoting the Bible, and the courts won't help you. In a propaganda campaign serving America's new left-wing elites, the Hewlett Packard company politicized its workplace by putting up posters endorsing the homosexual agenda with the slogan, 'Diversity is Our Strength.' Employee Richard Peterson responded by posting on his desk quotations from the Bible condemning homosexuality. One quote from Leviticus read, 'If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. . .' So HP fired him. Left-wing Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the infamous 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Peterson's claim of religious discrimination."From "Fired for Bible Quote," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2004, 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.
"In 2002, only 36 percent of 12th graders were 'proficient' or better on the NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress] reading test. That was 42 percent of whites, 16 percent of blacks, and 22 percent of Hispanics. In 2000, the latest available year for math scores, only 17 percent of 12th graders were 'proficient:' 20 percent of whites, but only three percent of blacks, and four percent of Hispanics. It is inconceivable that every student in America will be 'proficient' in math and reading by 2014 [as is mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act]."From "Fantasy and Fraud: No Child Left Behind," American Renaissance, February 2004, page 3. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"Dishonesty has cropped up all over the country in the wake of accountability programs [that require high graduation rates in the schools]. South Carolina reported 2001 graduation rates of 87 percent; on closer inspection, it turned out to be 57 percent. California claimed a rate of 87 percent when it was really 70 percent. Indiana reported a graduation rate of 90 percent that was actually 74 percent."From "Fantasy and Fraud: No Child Left Behind," American Renaissance, February 2004, page 7. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"Malaysia is to consider using mass circumcision ceremonies to promote racial harmony."From "Try Anything Once," American Renaissance, February 2004, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"Immigrants are estimated to be pouring into the country at a rate that increases the population by about 1.4 million each year. That's hundreds of thousands more than the average rate during the 1990s."From "Immigration Soaring Since 2000," FAIR Immigration Report, December 2003/January 2004, page 5. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.
"Critics ask why health officials are insisting that the public get a flu vaccine that doesn't match the flu strain but does contain mercury."From "Flu Secrets You Should Know," by Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Insight on the News, February 3-16, 2004, page 18, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The adverse-reaction rate of the anthrax vaccine is anywhere from 5 percent to 35 percent."From "FDA Fails to Halt Anthrax Anxiety," by Timothy W. Maier, Insight on the News, February 3-16, 2004, page 21, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Directors of a California high school musical program changed Lee Greenwood's patriotic anthem, 'God Bless the USA,' to say, 'I love the USA."From "Parents Get God Back in Patriotic Song," American Family Association Journal, February 2004, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"In 2001, 80,000 blacks filed returns claiming the slavery tax credit, for a total of $2.7 billion. In 2000 and 2001, the government actually paid out $30 million in 'reparations credits.'"From "13 Years for '40 Acres'," American Renaissance, December 2003, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"A high school student in Louisiana has been expelled from her school for one year because she had Advil pills in her purse."From "No Drugs, No Exceptions: More School Stupidity," Resource Roundup, January/February 2004, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"The would-be assassin who almost killed President Reagan is a free man. After four days of weighing various legal and medical opinions, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman decided that John Hinckley Jr. could leave the custody of a mental hospital for unsupervised visits with his parents. For the first time in 21 years, he will be allowed six day-long and two overnight visits, which will be spent in the Washington, D.C. area."From "Hinckley on the Loose," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 29 - January 4, 2004, page 36. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The U.S. Postal Service will release a 'Black Heritage' postage stamp on Jan. 20 honoring Paul Robeson, a prominent entertainer and athlete who nonetheless was a longtime member of the Communist Party." [Is the stamp intended to honor blacks or communists? Or both?]From "The Insider," Insight on the News, January 20 - February 2, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"How is it . . . that the Clinton-Gore administration, which had been more lenient toward millions of immigrants than any in the history of this nation, had a vendetta against little Elian Gonzalez? . . . Did you know that all of the other survivors [who had clung to the raft before it was rescued] were granted asylum in American. . ."From Savage Nation, by Michael Savage, 2002, page 201. Publisher: WND Books, a division of Thomas Nelson, Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee. Website.
"A growing number of states, nine in the past several years, are allowing convicted felons to regain their voting rights."From "More States Allow Felons to Regain Voting Privileges, Study Finds," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 5-17, 2004, page 8. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"China is now spending billions to build a new department for its military specifically for destroying computer systems of its enemies through the use of computer viruses."From "The UN Moves to Snuff Out the Light of the World," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, December 2003, page 2, 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.
"When one computer controls the operations of another, the two machines are called 'master' and 'slave.' Los Angeles County has now decided such language is offensive, and has asked computer companies to call their machines 'primary' and 'secondary.'" [Isn't political correctness just dandy!]From "PC PCs," American Renaissance, January 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"As many as 620,000 disenfranchised felons in Florida may regain their right to vote, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling allowing their class-action suit to proceed." [My guess is that about 80% will vote Democrat.]From "Court Lets Felons Sue for Right to Vote in Florida," by David Freddoso, Human Events, January 5, 2004, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"[H]uge stocks of Soviet-made nuclear warheads and 'dirty bomb' components are unaccounted for and apparently available on the global arms black market."From The American Sentinel, January 2004, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The feds spend about $21,000 per household these days, as compared to $16,000 per household when BIll Clinton was president 4 years ago."From The American Sentinel, January 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[A] $14 billion a year item [in the GOP-backed Medicare 'overhaul' bill] gives illegal aliens supplement low-income housing, food stamps and of course Medicaid assistance." [Illegal aliens!]From The American Sentinel, January 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The costly and intrusive money-laundering provisions put into the USA Patriot Act at the insistence of Democrats are in use for more than terrorism cases."From "Money Laundering and Mission Creep," by John Berlau, Insight on the News, January 6-19, 2004, page 28, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Hundreds of Christians who fled Egypt to the United States claiming persecution under Islam showed up outside a Southern California middle school [recently] to protest an extra-credit assignment urging students to participate in the Muslim Ramadan fast."From "Ramadan: Holiday Classic in Southern California?" by Lars Larson (website), as quoted in Insight on the News, January 6-19, 2004, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Moscow authorities are considering a ban on all public kissing, even between spouses."From "Brickbats," Reason, February 2004, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Video store owner Marty Arno faces $6,000 in fines because health inspectors caught him with an item banned in New York City businesses: an ashtray."From "Brickbats," Reason, February 2004, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Dozens of residents in Florida's Broward County received as many as three extra mail-in ballots for recent elections. No one is sure how many extra ballots were mailed. County officials attribute the problem to the fact that thousands of people have moved, died, or been imprisoned but are still on the rolls." [A more important question: how many of these ballots were counted?]From "Brickbats," Reason, February 2004, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.  Government Run Amok items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2000. Second Quarter, 2000. Third Quarter, 2000. Fourth Quarter, 2000. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2001. Second Quarter, 2001. Third Quarter, 2001. Fourth Quarter, 2001. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2002. Second Quarter, 2002. Third Quarter, 2002. Fourth Quarter, 2002. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2003. Second Quarter, 2003. Third Quarter, 2003. Fourth Quarter, 2003.The way back home. |
