GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK
January - June 2005
When government, which our Founding Fathers envisioned as protector of individual freedom, turns against the citizens with unjust laws, unjust treatment, and other unjust actions, it has truly run amok. But America's government is not alone when it comes to running amok.

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Posted here for 6-27-05:

"[J]udges in Texas and New York ordered a $5 billion tax hike -- in each state -- to pay for public schools. Translation in Texas and New York: your property taxes just went up by 40 percent!" [Who gave judges the power to tax?]
From "A Good Lesson in School Choice and Parents' Rights," Freedom Fighter, Summer 2005, page 2. Address: Southeastern Legal Foundation, Incorporated, 6100 Lake Forrest Drive, Suite 520, Atlanta, Georgia 30328-3837. Phone: 404-257-9667. Fax: 404-257-0049. Website.


"CAFTA [Central America Free Trade Agreement] -- rather than being a 'free' trade pact -- is actually a disguised form of foreign aid intended to benefit the governments of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. [. . .] This would mean creating another huge magnet drawing manufacturing jobs south -- and further erosion of our own manufacturing base and middle class economy."
From "Bush Backers Admit: CAFTA Not a Free Trade Pact," Insider Report, The New American, June 27, 2005, 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.


"Contrary to conventional wisdom, aid to the developing world has been a big disappointment. The one trillion dollars [. . .] spent on aid since the 1960s, with the efforts of advisers, foreign aid givers, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, have all failed to attain the desired results. [. . .] Back in 1963, political analyst Dan Smoot explained what the World Bank/IMF apparatus was really designed to do: strip the United States of its gold reserves; build up the industrial capacities of other nations; remove markets from American producers; [and] entwine America's affairs with those of other nations so that the U.S. could no longer act independently. That is precisely what has been happening."
From "From One Wolf to Another," by William F. Jasper, The New American, June 27, 2005, 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.


"The U.S. now takes in almost half of the world's immigrants. Immigrants, legal and illegal, cost taxpayers a record $66 billion in 2002. Immigrants were 64% more like to receive Medicaid benefits than native Americans and 75% more likely to get food stamps, medical benefits and housing assistance. All told, non-citizens now collect nearly $7 billion a year in benefits. Bilingual programs currently consume over $28 billion education dollars a year (because 1 child in 20 now can't speak English adequately), even though bilingual education has been proven to be an ineffective way to teach English."
From "Immigration Facts," Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"The Associated Press reports that Detroit's mayor plans to ask city voters to approve a 2% fast-food tax, on top of the 6% state sales tax already imposed on restaurant meals." [The first "fat tax"?]
From "The 'Fat Tax' Is Coming," Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 6-20-05:

"[M]ore than 5 million acres [of U.S. land] owned by Uncle Sam are classified as 'vacant,' with no definable purpose."
From "Inside the Beltway," by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 6-12, 2005, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003."
From "U.S. Taxpayers Supporting Billionaire Soros' Foundation," by Jeff Johnson, NewsMax.com (the magazine), June 2005, page 50. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"[T]he 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. threw out Virginia's partial-birth abortion ban, sanctioning the actions of an abortionist plaintiff who crushes the heads and dismembers the arms and legs of infants as they emerge from the womb."
From "Infanticide in Virginia," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 13-19, 2005, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 6-13-05:

"Houses about 15 feet wide will be common. Maryland, the first state to pass state-wide Smart Growth legislation in 1997, requires some lots to be a minimum of 20 feet and a maximum of 35 feet."
From "Mobile, Alabama, Answer the United Nations Call!" by Don Casey, Resource Roundup, April 2005, page 7. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"That child abuse rates climbed after the legalization of abortion is no accident. According to pro-life writer Karen Gordon, after 'New York legalized abortion in 1968, it experienced a rise in child abuse of 44 percent per year. Washington state legalized abortion in 1970. Within 28 months, incidents of child abuse in Seattle, its largest city, rose 379 percent.'"
From "The Perfect Child," by George Neumayr on May 5 in American Spectator Online, as quoted in "Culture, etc.," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 16-22, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"While we are saving ten cents for each head of lettuce we buy, we taxpayers of California are spending ten billion dollars each year to cover the costs of births, medical care, schooling, crime, incarceration, traffic accidents, and subsidized housing for illegal aliens."
From "Remaking America," by Roger D. McGrath, The New American, June 13, 2005, page 18. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"L.A. County Deputy Sheriff David March [. . .] was murdered by a Mexican drug dealer in June 2003. Like thousands of other criminals, March's murderer slipped into Mexico, where he is protected from extradition by that nation's unfathomably corrupt government."
From "The Bloody Border," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, June 13, 2005, page 23. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 6-6-05:

"[I]n same-sex-marriage-Massachusetts, the move toward unisex took another giant leap forward after state marriage licenses erased all mention of bride and groom and replaced it with identification only as Party A and Party B. The public health department then proposed 'a similar rewrite of the state's birth certificate, replacing 'Mother' and 'Father' with 'Parent A and Parent B'."
From PC Police Bans 'Mom and Dad'," by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, May 2005, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"In Maryland, four counties allow students to use sun-screen only if they bring a doctor's note. Eleven require a parent's signature, and eight insist students store their sunscreen with the school's health officer."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, July 2005, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"America's criminal justice system is so lax that one-fourth of the more than 500,000 convicted sex offenders at large have failed to report their addresses to authorities and have thus far eluded detection, according to Associated Press."
From "No Help from the Feds," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2005, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 5-30-05:

"The federal government will spend nearly $2 billion in the next decade on male impotence drugs under its Medicare program [. . .]"
From "Uncle Sam's Viagra? Funding for Male Impotence Drugs Riles Lawmakers," by Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 23-29, 2005, page 10. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"New passenger cars must have tire pressure monitoring systems in place by the 2008 model year, the government announced Thursday. . . The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the upgrade will cost manufacturers between $48.44 and $69.89 per vehicle."
From "No Item too Small for Big Government," from the AP, found at Chuchmuth.com, as quoted in Resource Roundup, May 2005, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Much of our military boot and uniform production [. . .] has moved to China, which made it difficult to outfit our troops for war in the Mideast on a timely basis."
From "Outsourcing Security?" Resource Roundup, May 2005, page 16. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers [. . .]"
From "Border Patrol Told to Stand Down," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 16-22, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 5-23-05:

"Today, we spend about 20% of our total economic output on the federal government. That percentage will rise to a record 25% of output in 2025 and then to 34% in 2040. [. . .] Let's not mince words: This is a path toward socialism . . ."
From "Is U.S. in Slow Motion to Socialism?" by Stephen Moore, Human Events, May 9, 2005, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[F]irefighters conducting a routine inspection in a Brooklyn supermarket found 200 automobile airbags and a room lined with posters of Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq. An element in the airbags can be used to make pipe bombs. The owner of the building, according to the New York Post, 'served jail time in the late 1970s and early 1980s for arson, reckless endangerment, weapons possession and conspiracy, according to the records.' But officials were definite: This has nothing to do with terrorism. [. . .] Similarly, when explosions killed 15 people and injured more than 100 at an oil refinery in Texas CIty, Tex., on March 23, 2005, the FBI quickly ruled out terrorism as a possible cause. When a group calling itself Qaeda al-Jihad and another Islamic group both claimed responsibility, the FBI was still dismissive."
From "Terrorism? Naah. . ." by Robert Spencer, Human Events, May 9, 2005, page 16. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Red has become so symbolic of negativity that some principals and teachers will not touch it. . . Joseph Foriska, principal of Thaddeus Stevens Elementary in Pittsburgh, has instructed his teachers to grade with colors featuring more 'pleasant-feeling tones' so that their messages do not come across as derogatory or demeaning. . . At Public School 188 in Manhattan, 25-year-old teacher Justin Kazmark grades with purple, which has emerged as a new color of choice for many educators, pen manufacturers confirm."
From "Political Fashion Can Hurt, Even Kill," by Karl Zinsmeister, The American Enterprise, June 2005, page 4. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson [. . .] ruled that UPS's policy requiring its drivers to pass a hearing test was un-Constitutional. The reason? Because it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, or course. Studies that show the deaf to be more accident-prone are inconclusive, insisted Henderson [. . .]"
From "Blind Justice," The American Enterprise, June 2005, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 5-16-05:

"In the past year, the number of apprehensions of 'Other Than Mexicans (OTMs)' increased by 137 percent. Owing to a lack of detention space, most OTMs are released on their own recognizance. An estimated 90 percent (about 75,000 individuals) of those released fail to appear for their deportation hearing." [I suppose the government is surprised by this.]
From "'OTMs' Surging Across the Border," FAIR Immigration Report, April 2005, page 3. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"As part of its own independent investigation of the United Nations (UN) Oil for Food program, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the State Department for all correspondence and documents related to the program. The State Department, however, refuses to cooperate, saying that it must obtain UN concurrence before releasing any documents." [So who's in charge?]
From "U.N. Uncovered," Judicial Watch Verdict, May 2005, page 11. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"The National Commission on Children notes many children are removed from their families 'prematurely or unnecessarily' because federal aid formulas give states 'a strong financial incentive' to do so rather than keep families together. [. . .] Private agencies, CPS [Child Protective Service] employees, foster home administrators and adoption bureaucracies reap what amounts to a 'per-head' payment formula for every kid in the system. The problem [. . .] is there are few if any incentives within current funding arrangements to encourage the reunification of families. This creates an institutional bias toward breaking up existing families -- frequently on flimsy grounds -- in order to supply children to boost the budgets of state-run, federally-funded foster care systems. [. . .] [A]bout $5.2 billion [is] disbursed annually to a dizzying array of private 'service providers,' Child Protective Service agencies and foster home administrators. In Massachusetts, for example, each kid in the foster home system is worth $90,000 in grant dollars to an army of therapists and psychotropic drug dispensers and foster home/adoption administrators."
From The American Sentinel, May 2005, pages 1-2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"When two men in ski masks allegedly pushed their way into Sean Roisten's Brighton, Massachusetts home and held his wife at gunpoint, Roisten got his gun and shot one of the men. Police proceeded to arrest Roisten for assault and battery with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm." [It would seem self defense is no longer legal.]
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, June 2005, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.



Posted here for 5-9-05:

"Sponsored and co-sponsored by a Who's Who of Ultra-Liberal Senators, the bill S.966, 'Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2003' could criminalize church leaders' sermons which portray the practice of homosexuality in an unfavorable light."
From "U.S. Senate Considers 'Shut-Up the Preacher' Act," by William Jud, Resource Roundup, April 2005, page 7. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Philadelphia has joined Chicago in forcing firms that do business with the city to report whether they ever made money from slavery. The law, which went into effect in March, says that any company that gets a city contract must file an affidavit within 90 days stating it has checked its records for any evidence of profits from slavery. If there ever were such profits, the company must list the names of the slaves and slave owners. If the business does not file the affidavit or lies in it, it will lose the contract."
From "Sins of the Father," American Renaissance, May 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Mexican politicians routinely campaign for votes in the United States, and plans are underway to make the US a Mexican voting district for the next presidential election in 2006."
From "Mexican Fears," American Renaissance, May 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Andrew Brock, a Republican state senator in North Carolina, has introduced a bill that would forbid an adult driving an automobile with a child under 17 in it from having any amount of alcohol in his or her body. Someone who had consumed a single glass of wine or beer could be charged as a drunk driver."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, June 2005, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.



Posted here for 5-2-05:

"Much of the world has come to realize that the dollar's value is steadily being undermined. But few Americans understand that our own government -- along with its partner, the Federal Reserve -- is accomplishing the undermining."
From "Government's Attack on the Dollar," by John F. McManus, The New American, April 18, 2005, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Tax Freedom Day this year falls on April 17[,] two days later than in 2004. [. . .] Americans will still spend more on taxes than they spend on food, clothing and medical care combined."
From "Freedom," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 18-24, 2005, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A 2003 report by the Government Services Administration shows that 91.9% of the state of Nevada is owned by the federal government."
From "Socialistic and Obscene," from the Elko Daily Free Press, as quoted in Resource Roundup, April 2005, page 3. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"[A]nyone can end up losing his or her lifelong contributions to Social Security just by dying early."
From "Social Security?" from Elizabeth Crowley, Political Diary (1-26-05) as quoted in Resource Roundup, April 2005, page 6. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Vermont Human Rights Commission has officially urged the Vermont Teddy Bear company to stop selling its 'Crazy for You' bear. The reason? The bear, which comes wrapped in a straight jacket with a little heart on it, might offend the mentally ill."
From "Crazy Bears," excerpted from The Manchester Union-Leader (2-2-05), by Resource Roundup, April 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 4-25-05:

"The Brennan Center studied the New York State Assembly from 1997 to 2002, and discovered that during that time every single one of the 11,474 bills that hit the floor in either chamber passed. None failed."
From "Winning Politicians," by Paul Jacob, No Uncertain Terms, the Newsletter of the Term Limits Movement, March/April 2005, page 3. Address: U.S. Term Limits Foundation, 10 G street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Phone: 800-733-6440. E-mail. Website.


"Mexico is threatening to sue Arizona's taxpayers in U.N-backed tribunals to reverse their lawful approval of Proposition 200 (denying driver's licenses and public assistance to illegal aliens)."
From The American Sentinel, April 2005, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"$100 million a year is spent by the federal government's national Institutes of Health on autism research. By contrast, the total HIV/AIDS budget for 2005 is estimated at just under $20 billion. That is $66 spent per person with autism, versus NIH spending of $3,084 on each citizen with HIV/AIDS. [. . .] [T]he U.S. Government has spent $150 billion to fight AIDS here and abroad."
From "Cliff's Notes," AIM Report, March-B 2005, insert. Address: Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.


"A January study published by Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns, reports that since 1990, between 4 and 6 million American jobs have been lost to illegal aliens in a rapidly growing underground economy."
From "Oklahoma Legislation Would Make Hiring Illegal Aliens an Unfair Labor Practice," FAIR Immigration Report, March 2005, page 4. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he U.S. government's Export-Import bank has given preliminary approval to $5 billion in loans or loan guarantees to the China National Nuclear Corp., which has been implicated in proliferating nuclear-weapons-related technology to Iran and Pakistan [. . .]"
From "China Loans?" Capital Briefs, Human Events, March 21, 2005, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"75 percent of the Mission High School students in San Francisco own cell phones, and 75 percent of the students quality for free or reduced-price lunches."
From "Cell-Phone Outrage," Letters to the Editor, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 21-27, 2005, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 4-18-05:

"Democrats have prevented the Senate from considering about one-fourth of the president's nominations to the appellate courts, through filibustering."
From "Obstructionists at Work," The New American, April 4, 2005, page 43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"An expansive smoking ban approved by San Francisco supervisors prohibits lighting up in all city-owned parks, public plazas and sports facilities except golf courses."
From "San Francisco Bans Smoking Outdoors," by the Associated Press, NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2005, page 50. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Ruling that the words, 'white pride' are 'offensive' and 'scandalous,' the U.S. Department of Commence reportedly turned down an application to trademark them. . . [T]he U.S. Patent and Trademark Office . . . website indicates . . . many other racially identified trademarks [have been approved] such as Asian Pride, Black Pride, Kwanzaa Pride, Mexican Pride, and others."
From "Scandalous Thought," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2005, 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 most significant finding in the Volcker Report is undoubtedly the revelation that Kofi Annan's then-Chief of Staff Iqbal Riza authorized the shredding between April and December 2004 of thousands of UN documents -- the entire UN Chef de Cabinet chronological files for the years 1997, 1998 and 1999, many of which related to the oil-for-food program."
From "UN Mired in Shred-Gate," by Nile Gardiner, Human Events, April 4, 2005, page 8. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[The] Associated Press reports that 110 United Nations member nations (a majority), will vote on September 13 to impose a system of global taxation on the American people. The forum for this global tax vote is being billed by the world body as the 'Millenium Declaration Summit.'"
From The American Sentinel, April 2005, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 4-11-05:

"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed legislation that holds gun makers and dealers liable for injuries and death caused by criminal use of their products." [Will farmers, next, be held responsible for obesity?]
From "Freedom Index," America's First Freedom, April 2005, page 20. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"In Melbourne, Florida, anyone over the age of 10 caught wearing a thong bathing suit in public now faces a $5,000 fine."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, May 2005, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"The Georgia Department of Revenue seized 280 bottles of high-priced wines from one of Atlanta's most exclusive restaurants. Tax officials say the restaurant didn't purchase the wine from a whole-sale dealer. Owner Richard Lewis says there's a reason for that: The wine belongs to regular customers, for whom the restaurant holds it to drink when they eat there. No dice, say the revenuers, that's still illegal."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, May 2005, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"The government has finally done something about the shortage of decent, affordable tomatoes in the wintertime: made it worse. The produce gatekeepers on the Florida Tomato Committee, a New Deal relic charged with judging tomato quality (apparently a task too esoteric for consumers to handle on their own), won't allow a tasty but bumpy variety known as the UglyRipe to be shipped from the state's main growing area because they don't like the looks of it."
From "Rotten Tomato Rules," Reason Magazine, May 2005, page 66. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Continuing a trend of caving in to international tribunals, President Bush issued an executive order on March 8 directing state courts to review dozens of death row cases involving Mexican nationals. The president's order came in response to a ruling by the International Court of Justice, a UN tribunal more commonly known as the World Court, which claimed that the U.S. violated the rights of 51 Mexicans on death rows in eight states. The president's order applies to 28 Mexican convicts in California prisons, 15 in Texas and others in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Nevada, Ohio, and Oregon."
From "Bush Caves In to World Court on Death Penalty," The New American, April 4, 2005, 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.



Posted here for 4-4-05:

"This November, the UN will convene a 'World Summit on the Information Society' in Tunis. In Tunisia, reported a February 21 Reuters dispatch, 'global control of the world wide web may be decided." [When are people going to realize the UN is up to no good?]
From "UN to Make Internet a Global 'Common Heritage'?" The New American, March 21, 2005, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"At the behest of Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the House Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations Subcommittee, Congress has authorized a task force, to be organized by the U.S. Institute of Peace, to figure out ways to strengthen the United Nations." [See above.]
From "Congress Authorizes Group to Aid in Strengthening the UN," The New American, March 21, 2005, 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.


"[M]any individual states in the United States are adopting or planning to adopt greenhouse gas reductions in line with the spirit of the [Kyoto] protocol. The U.S. State Department is also using Kyoto as a guide. [. . .] For 2005, the United States has committed nearly $5.8 billion to address climate change. [. . .] Federal and state governments are implementing the provisions of the treaty, even though implementation will do little or nothing to rectify the supposed problem with greenhouse gases." [See above again.]
From "The Back Door to Kyoto," by William P. Hoar, The New American, March 21, 2005, page 43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"[T]his year, a record 44 million Americans will file tax returns but not have to pay any income taxes. [. . .] [T]he richest 20 percent of taxpayers -- those making more than $68,000 a year -- will pay 82 percent of all federal income tax revenue, also a record[.]"
From "The Truth about the 'Shrinking Middle Class'," by Donald Lambro, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 14-20, 2005, page 29. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Should convicted murderers be allowed to vote? If the federal Count Every Vote Act of 2005 passes, they will be. The bill -- sponsored by Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski and others -- would mandate felon voting across the country, regardless of state law." [Just guess which party all these felons will be voting for.]
From "Felons and Democratic Politicking," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 14-20, 2005, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 3-28-05:

"In December [. . .] four Christian men were charged with three felonies and five misdemeanors stemming from the 'hate crime' of attempting to preach at a homosexual street fair in Philadelphia in October 2004. If convicted, the men face up to 47 years in prison."
From "Christians Arrested Face Felony Charges, 47 Years of Prison," by Robert Knight, Family Voice, March-April 2005, page 4. Address: Concerned Women for America, 1015 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005. Phone: 800-323-2200. Fax: 202-488-0806. E-mail. Website.


"[F]ive months after banishing 'junk food' from their premises, Los Angeles public schools have stumbled upon a remarkable discovery: children won't spend their allowance money on carrot sticks and broccoli. Also, banning soda at schools caused soft drink companies to cancel their sponsorship deals that provided a lucrative source of income for local campuses. Now, the Los Angeles Unified School district faces a serious decline in revenue."
From "And Now Pornographic Food," by Deborah Lambert (from the New York Times), CampusReport, March 2005, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"As Dan Rther stepped down as anchor of the 'CBS Evening News' last Wednesday, the person who deceived him with fake memos on President Bush's National Guard service remained at large, spared from even the threat of a federal or state investigation. Both federal and state felony statutes exist that give law enforcement authorities the right to pursue the culprit. But neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor prosecutors in Texas have taken up the cause." [Was justice served?]
From "Feds Refuse to Pursue Forger," by Robert B. Bluey, Human Events, March 14, 2005, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The principal of Stevens Creek Elementary School in Cupertino, California banned the Declaration of Independence and other historical documents from being taught in the classroom because of their references to God and Christianity."
From "Education Bias, Corruption, . . . and Stupidity," Libertas, Winter 2005, page 30. Address: Young America's Foundation, FM Kirby Freedom Center, 110 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170. Phone: 703-318-9608, or 800-USA-1776. Fax: 703-318-9122. Website.



Posted here for 3-21-05:

"According to the (Newton, Massachusetts public school system) math program, the top objective for the district's math teachers is to teach 'respect for human differences' and to 'live out the system-wide core value of respect for human differences by demonstrating anti-racist and anti-bias behaviors.' All of this, believe it or not, is to be taught in MATH class. If you send your kids to government schools, they are going to be indoctrinated day in and day out with this type of nonsense."
From "Public School Math," by Neal Boortz (found at www.chuckmuth.com, as quoted by Resource Roundup, March 2005, page 10. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he U.S. Forest Service is suing a teenager for $10 million for suppression costs for a 16,439-acre wildfire inadvertently set by a muffler on his motorcycle. The agency also filed a $14 million lawsuit against a Boy Scout troop suspected of inadvertently starting a 2002 wildfire."
From "Who Can Taxpayers Sue?" Resource Roundup, March 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"David Muhlhausen, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, cites evidence showing that most job-training programs fail. In particular, he recommends that Congress eliminate the Job Corps, a legacy of Lyndon Johnson's 'Great Society' domestic policy, calling it a 'wasteful and unproductive program.'"
From "Job-Training Programs: More Politics than Promise?" by Tom Harmon, Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, February 2005, page 1. 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 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights [. . .] spent more than $100,000 on a private public relations firm to promote its reports that were primarily critical of Republicans."
From "Rights Panel Paid Public Relations Firm to Push Anti-GOP Views," by Steve Miller, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 7-13, 2005, page 9. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 3-14-05:

"About four years ago, the [British] government appointed an 'English' lord, Bhiku Parekh, as co-chairman of something called the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain. Among other things, the commission recommended that British history no longer be taught from a British perspective but from the 'colonized' people's point of view."
From "A Nation Betrayed," by Terrence Jackson, American Renaissance, March 2005, page 8. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"First it was Iowa and Connecticut. Then [. . .] Texas. Now, an Assembly bill has been introduced in New York to make hunting a punishable act of animal cruelty."
From "Vague Attempts," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 28 - March 6, 2005, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"When fully implemented, LOST [the Law of the Sea Treaty] would consummate the largest act of territorial conquest in history, turning seven-tenths of the Earth's surface over to the jurisdiction of the United Nations."
-- "Sink the Law of the Sea Treaty!" by William Norman Grigg, The New American, March 7, 2005, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Influential members of Congress want to curtail your freedom to live a healthier life. I am referring to 'bipartisan' House and Senate legislation to severely limit consumers' access to inexpensive, over-the-counter, life-saving vitamin supplements. [. . .] [T]he trend toward medical autonomy, self-education and preventive care is regarded as a threat by powerful pharmaceutical interests and others in the politically well-connected medical and regulatory establishment."
From The American Sentinel, March 2005, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 3-7-05:

"Food, blankets, and medicine meant for Malaysian victims of the tsunami that swept Asia were held up pending the arrival of politicians to take credit for them."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, April 2005, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"A British man was barred from his home for six months, kept from unsupervised visits or telephone conversations with his 3-year-old son, and placed on two years' probation. All this for giving the boy a single swat on the bottom after the child almost ran into traffic."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, April 2005, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Colorado paid more than $2 million in 2003 to doctors and others who claimed to be treating people who were already dead."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, April 2005, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.



Posted here for 2-28-05:

"The city of San Francisco began fighting to place an initiative on the November ballot that would strip citizens of their right to own a handgun for any reason." [Regardless of what the Second Amendment says. It seems: if you don't like the law, ignore it.]
From "Freedom Index," America's First Freedom, March 2005, page 21. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"Houston's schools reported that drop-out rates had fallen significantly, down to a surprisingly low 1.5 percent when most urban high schools report drop-out rates of 20 percent to 40 percent. Unfortunately, that 1.5 percent rate just wasn't true. Robert Kimball, an assistant principal at Sharpstown High School on Houston's West Side, was shocked when he discovered, for example, that his school claimed that not one single student had dropped out from 2001 to 2002. He told CBS News that actually 463 students had dropped out. 'School officials hid that fact by classifying, or coding, them as leaving for acceptable reasons: transferring to another school, or returning to their native country,' CBS reported."
From a solicitation letter from Sylvia Crutchfield, executive vice president, The FOundation Endowment, 611 Cameron Street, Alexandria, VIrginia 22314. Phone: 703-683-1077. Fax: 703-683-1272. E-mail. Website.


"Houston schools also won national acclaim for seeming to raise the average scores on 10th grade achievement tests. But Kimball [see above] says the schools raised their average scores simply by preventing low-performing students from taking the test. [. . .] '[S]chools may hold back 9th graders who do poorly on a pre-test for the 10th grade math exam, producing an artificial 9th grade bulge in student enrollment,' according to Kimball."
From a solicitation letter from Sylvia Crutchfield, executive vice president, The FOundation Endowment, 611 Cameron Street, Alexandria, VIrginia 22314. Phone: 703-683-1077. Fax: 703-683-1272. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 2-21-05:

"A ten-year-old Philadelphia area fourth grader was 'recently placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school,' violating a rule that considers scissors as potential weapons, according to PCspot.com. Since the student did not threaten anyone, police officers decided to let her go, although she was suspended from school for five days. Administrators must now decide whether she can return to class or be expelled to a special disciplinary school."
From "Law and Order," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, February 2005, pages 3-4. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"The Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns, conduct[ed] its own research on the illegal immigration to the United States. [. . .] [R]esearchers . . . conclude[ed] that the illegal alien population of the U.S. is about 20 million people -- roughly the equivalent of the population of New York State -- more than double the official government estimates of about 9 million."
From "Bear Stearns Finds Government Vastly Underestimates Illegal Immigration," FAIR Immigration Report, February 2005, page 6. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"The goal of French policy in helping China flood the Third World with nuclear technology is to 'rebalance' U.S. power by 'augmenting' China's. (French President Jacques Chirac refers to it as a 'necessary rebalancing of the grand triangle formed by America, Europe and Asia.'"
From The American Sentinel, February 2005, pages 1-2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein pocketed $45 billion from the corrupt United Nations administered 'Oil-for-Food' program. [. . .] Also raking in big money from the Oil-for-Food scam were French and German big-wigs, terrorist groups and other opponents of U.S. foreign policy."
From The American Sentinel, February 2005, pages 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"In France, as in many other EU countries, it is illegal to express opinions about history contrary to the government's official version."
From "Free Speech, French-style," World Watch, Middle America News, February 2005, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 2-14-05:

"Klamath farmers and businesses were driven to bankruptcy by a fish [coho salmon] that even the court now agrees should never have been put on the Endangered Species list."
From "Good News! Klamath River Salmon Protections Ruled Illegal!" by the Pacific Legal Foundation, as reported by Resource Roundup, January/February 2005, page 5. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"In the African state of Zimbabwe, the remaining 500 farms owned by white farmers are to be confiscated by the government in the next few months. The 500 farms are all that remain of the nearly 5,000 white-owned farms that have been confiscated in the jihad instigated by the Magabe government in 2000."
From "Zimbabwe Confiscates All White Farms," from Liberty Matters, as reported by Resource Roundup, January/February 2005, page 10. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"In an international anti-trust case, a European Union court ruled on Wednesday that Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), an American institution, was being unfair to its European competitors and consumers by controlling such a large percentage of the fast-food chicken market in Europe. And to fix this inequity, the court ruled that KFC has to disclose to its competitors the 'secret recipe' for making their chicken taste so darn good."
From "Outrageous and Stupid," by Chuck Muth, Resource Roundup, January/February 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 2-7-05:

"[A] story run by the BBC in August 2001, report[ed], 'A 93-year-old woman who put up barbed wire around her home after repeated burglaries has been ordered to take it down because it could injure intruders.'"
From "Will Britain Rise Up?" by James O.E. Norell, America's First Freedom, February 2005, page 42. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"[A]ccording to the London Sunday Mail, a school chorus was recently forced to cut the line 'Birthday greetings, bottle of wine' [from the Beatles song, 'When I'm Sixty-Four'] in case it would upset Jehovah's Witnesses who do not celebrate birthdays. The singers were also informed that changing the wording could be a breach of copyright, so they decided to simply stop singing during that portion of the song while the pianist continued playing."
From "Beatles Song Censored," by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, January 2005, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"The Mexican government is handing out a guide that tells Mexicans how to immigrate illegally to America. First published in December by Mexico's Foreign Ministry, the 32-page booklet, called The Guide for the Mexican Migrant, is in comic book format and is distributed as a free supplement to El Libro Vaquero, a popular cowboy comic book. Mexico plans to hand out 1.5 million copies. [. . .] The book also gives advice on how to deal with [U.S.] Border Patrol officers: 'Don't throw stones or other objects at the officers, since this is considered a provocation.'"
From "Border-Jumper's Guide," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, February 2005, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Guadalupe Madrigal fumbled a few words while performing Mexico's national anthem before a soccer game. The government fined her $40 for her mistake."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, March 2005, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"San Francisco officials are considering charging grocery stores a 17-cent tax on each bag they give customers. The stated objective is to reduce the use of plastic bags, but the tax would apply to all sacks, including paper."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, March 2005, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.



Posted here for 1-31-05:

"Mexico's Foreign Ministry has produced and distributed a 'Guide for the Mexican Migrant' that is essentially a 'how to' manual for illegal entry into the United States."
From "Mexico Publishes Guide for Illegal Aliens," by Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Human Events, January 17, 2005, page 3. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"A criminal, convicted and sentenced by a jury for brutally clubbing to death a 71-year-old woman with an axe handle so he could steal her Social Security check, got his sentence overturned. Why? The prosecuting attorney, in a statement lasting less than five seconds, mentioned a Bible verse in the courtroom."
-- "Burying the 'Big Lie' of Church-State Separation," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, December 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"A public cemetery, ruled a federal court, couldn't have a planter in the shape of a cross, since, as the court explained, the mere sight of it could cause 'emotional distress' to a passerby and thus constitute 'injury-in-fact'."
-- "Burying the 'Big Lie' of Church-State Separation," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, December 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.



Posted here for 1-24-05:

"Our leaders, by joining the UN in 1945, canceled a major element of U.S. sovereignty. Article 25 of the UN Charter reads: 'The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.' If our nation agrees to 'accept and carry out' UN resolutions, hasn't the U.S. Constitution been trumped?"
From "A Slippery Way to Protect the UN," by John F. McManus, The New American, January 24, 2005, 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.


"In the months following 9-11, American Airlines flew 23 million passengers. Of that number, a grand total of 10 Arabic nationals were denied access to a plane, due to suspicious behavior noted by the crew. American was promptly sued by the Department of Transportation for discrimination."
From The American Sentinel, January 2005, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"To take advantage of taxpayer-funded medical care at emergency rooms [. . .] over 300,000 pregnant illegal women arrive in this country each year. Once accepted into the emergency room for delivery, the U.S.-born child is entitled to food, housing, medical care and schooling until the age of 18."
From The American Sentinel, January 2005, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The biblical 'Hansen's disease' (known popularly as Leprosy) has forced its way back into the U.S., carried by illegals from Brazil, India, Mexico and the Caribbean. Some 7,000 cases have been diagnosed, mostly in the northeastern United States. [. . .] Malaria, polio and hepatitis B are making a comeback in some parts of the country, due to the influx of illegals."
From The American Sentinel, January 2005, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 1-17-05:

"Political correctness is at the heart of why Congress's new intelligence reform bill is a 'nothing-burger' relative to very real national security threats facing our country. It is a case where minority Democrats hectored reluctant Republicans to embrace and rashly enact the 9/11 Commission's largely ineffective and politically-correct 'reforms,' often at the expense of national security."
From The American Sentinel, January 2005, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"A study by the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies confirms a 13-percent increase in the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. since 9-11-01."
From The American Sentinel, January 2005, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The states of Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin require no proof of lawful residence before issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens."
From The American Sentinel, January 2005, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 1-10-05:

"Cartwheels and handstands have gotten an 11-year-old girl temporarily bounced out of her Los Angeles-area school,' reports Reuters on Thursday. Deirdre Faegre, who has been doing gymnastics for five years, was told by school principal Denise Patton that she could injure herself or that other children trying to imitate her might get hurt."
From "Stupidity Virus Strikes Again," Resource Roundup, December 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"The American colonists fought a war for independence rather than accept taxation without representation. Under the emerging global trade regime, the WTO is actually imposing punitive taxes against the United States, with the acquiescence and support of both the president and Congress."
From "The WTO Trap," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, January 10, 2005, page 12. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"A Brazilian legislator wants to make it illegal for people to give their pets names commonly held by people. Reinaldo Santos e Silva says children may get depressed if they find out they share the same name as someone's pet."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, February 2005, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Giovanna Pizzorno was fined $216.50 for showing friends around Rome. According to authorities, she was guiding tourists without a license. . . A local newspaper advises natives that if tourists stop them asking for information, 'just tell them I don't know'."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, February 2005, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.



Posted here for 1-3-05:

"You'll have a devil of a time finding hot cross buns in some parts of Merrie Olde England these days. John Ray reported in PCWatch.com that 'a number of local governments have banned them because the shape of the pastries offends Muslims.' Ray believes that it's time to reciprocate the protest by organizing a boycott of croissants, the crescent-moon-shaped pastries,' which are in turn the traditional symbol of Islam. Such a boycott would show the multiculturalists and the Islamophants just how stupid this game really is."
From "Hot Crescent Buns?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, December 2004, page 4. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"Maryland public school kids were told they could express thankfulness to anyone they wanted during the [Thanksgiving] holiday season -- as long as it wasn't God."
From "Maryland Schools Make a Turkey out of Thanksgiving," American Family Association Journal, January 2005, page 23. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"The Scottish Parliament introduced legislation to ban certain Glasgow shops from selling 'assault knives.' The law would also increase the age at which someone can buy knives to 18. Critics argue that the law would be useless because most knife crimes are committed with kitchen knives."
From "Freedom Index," America's First Freedom, January 2005, page 30. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.





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