GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK
January - June 2006
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 6-26-06:

"For more than a decade, State Department bureaucrats have worked behind the scenes (mostly in secret) to cede to Russia control of Wrangell Island, Herald Island, Bennett Island, Jeannette Island, Copper Island, Sea Lion Rock and the Sea Otter Rock [near Alaska]. These islands and the waters around them are rich in ore, oil and millions of tons of seafood (at a time when U.S. consumers are indirectly paying for $70+ per barrel oil out of the Middle East). Worse, there are NO benefits in the State Department scheme for U.S. taxpayers -- it is a flat out giveaway."
-- The American Sentinel, June 2006, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"One elementary school in Harlem [. . .] is named after Don Pedro Albizu Campus, a Puerto Rican terrorist who directed two of his followers in an assassination attempt on President Harry Truman (one policeman and one terrorist were killed in the assault), and Powell Middle School in Harlem [is] named for former congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. who was found guilty by the U.S. Congress of misappropriation of funds and other illegal activities."
-- "A Rousing Success -- Academic Freedom Conference," News from the Front, May 2006, page 1. Address: Center for the Study of Popular Culture, PO Box 361269 Los Angeles, California 90036. Website.


"In [a] course on Counter-Terrorism, [UC-Davis student Mason Harrison] was told [by his instructor] that the number one middle-eastern terrorist was Jesus Christ."
-- "A Rousing Success -- Academic Freedom Conference," News from the Front, May 2006, page 2. Address: Center for the Study of Popular Culture, PO Box 361269 Los Angeles, California 90036. Website.


"Last September, according to ABC's John Stossel, 400 doctors, nurses and first responders were ready to head into New Orleans. 'Then FEMA gave them something to do: fill out 60-page applications that demanded photographs and tax forms.'"
-- "Catastrophes, Then and Now," by Marvin Olasky, Capital Research Center Compassion and Culture, June 2006, page 3. 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 Brussels Court of Appeal has convicted Daniel Feret, founder and leader of the National Front party and a member of parliament, of violating Belgium's law against propagating racism and xenophobia. His crime was to have published pamphlets critical of African and Muslim immigrants."
-- "Outlawing Dissent," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, June 2006, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Ten years after the North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA] went into effect, Mexico's real wages are lower than they were before, and both inequality and poverty have grown."
-- Robert Reich, as quoted in "Former Labor Secretary Blasts NAFTA," QuickQuotes, The New American, May 1, 2006, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"The buffoons who run New York's rather awful public school system have started teaching kindergartners about AIDS. Yeah, kindergartners. Elementary school teachers in all grades were instructed to start teaching about HIV-AIDS in March. The lessons include a project in which kindergartners are told to play 'doctor' and discuss the deadly disease. News reports say the new curricula does not require telling the youngsters that HIV is contracted through sexual contact. That comes later -- in the fourth grade."
-- "The Horror of Public School," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2006, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Apprehensions of non-Mexican foreigners crossing into the U.S. illegally have more than tripled from 49,545 in 2003 to 155,000 in 2005. Because Congress declined to fund enough detention facilities, most of the non-Mexican illegals -- about 70 percent -- have simply been released into the general U.S. population (despite the terror attacks of 9-11), accompanied by a piece of paper called a 'Notice to Appear' at a deportation hearing. Most never show up."
-- "More Sloppy Policy," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2006, 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.


"By an overwhelming 76 percent, Georgia's voters back in November of 2004 approved a state constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage, including disguised marriages such as 'civil unions,' and limited the authority of courts to rule on disputes involving same sex couplings. But America's ruling elites hate it when the people assert their own values, customs and traditions against ruling class ideology. So last month, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell ruled the amendment violated the state's constitution."
-- "Gay Marriage Ban Overturned," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2006, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 6-19-06:

"The Marine Corps is livid over the mistreatment of three Marines at the hands of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Philadelphia last month. According to a Marine corps memo [. . .], three Marines were 'humiliated' by TSA security guards while escorting the body of Marine Sgt. Lea R. Mills, 21, who was killed April 28 along with two others in Al Anbar province, Iraq, by an improvised explosive device. [. . .] The three Marines who were accompanying the casket [. . .] were forced to remove their dress blue uniforms, belts and shoes, which were then scanned. They were then 'patted down' by TSA inspectors."
-- "Marines Humiliated," Inside the Ring, by Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 5-11, 2006, page 18. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Some people worry amnesty will give illegal aliens the same rights as U.S. citizens. In reality, it will give illegals more rights than the average citizen. Since most of the illegals are Mexican, that makes them a minority. Under affirmative action, combined with amnesty, they would have preferences in jobs and other benefits."
-- "Senate Bill Would GIve Illegals More Rights Than Citizens," by Thomas Sowell, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 5-11, 2006, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Using schools to disseminate homosexual propaganda is the tactic of choice among radical gay organizations. In one of the most recent hijackings of schools for homosexual political ends, parents of students attending high school in Port Washington, Wisconsin, were rather upset after a 'Heterosexual Questionnaire' approved by two teachers was handed out that asked, 'If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?' Hundreds of students were told to submit written answers and attend discussions about the survey."
-- "School Hijacking by Gays," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2006, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 6-12-06:

"San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said the city will not cooperate with any federal attempt to criminalize illegal immigration. 'This is a city of refuge,' Newsom said at a press conference Thursday."
-- San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2006, as quoted in "Of Note," Judicial Watch Verdict, June 2006, page 3. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"The five standard requirements for certifying a drug safe and effective were circumvented to rush RU-486 [the abortion pill] to market."
-- "The Clinton Administration's Radical Drive to Force an Abortion Drug on America," Judicial Watch Verdict, June 2006, page 6. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"Heather Kramer, a second-grade teacher at Estabrook Elementary School, decided to read a book to her students that normalized gay marriage. King & King, a book for children, is a tale about a young prince who can't find a princess he wants to marry. Then, one day, he spies another prince and decides to marry him. Following the wedding, the picture book shows them kissing. Parents complained that state law requires parental notification before human sexuality issues are broached in public school settings. In response, however, both the Estabrook principal and Kramer told parents [. . .] that same-sex marriage was not a human sexuality issue, and that no notification would be given in the future."
-- "Parents Fight Back in Massachusetts City," American Family Association Journal, June 2006, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.



Posted here for 6-5-06:

"Taxpayers have now provided $20 billion into the scientific community for global warming work."
-- "Fanatics, Heretics and the Truth about Global Warming," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, May/June 2006, page 3, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.


"Most discussion of the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (generally referred to as the Hagel-Martinez bill), centers on the fact that it would grant amnesty to 10 million illegal immigrants. But this is a mere drop in the bucket. [. . .] If enacted in its original form, S 2611 would have resulted in an estimated 103 million immigrants entering the U.S. or achieving legal status over the next 20 years."
-- "Senate Bill Adds 66 Million Immigrants," by Robert Rector, Human Events, May 22, 2006, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[T]he Bush White House is now posting the President's speeches, statements and radio addresses on the immigration issue in both English and Spanish [. . .]"
-- "Discurso Del Presidente," Capital Briefs, Human Events, May 22, 2006, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The UN has been attempting to impose a gun control treaty on the US. It would require registration of all guns, and the stated intention of the promoters of this treaty, on the record, is to keep guns out of all private hands."
-- "Death by a Thousand Cuts," by Larry Pratt, Gun Owners, May 29, 2006, page 7. Address: Gun Owners of America, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8585. Website.



Posted here for 5-29-06:

"Profligate printing of money by the government of President Robert Mugabe has driven inflation in Zimbabwe to an annual rate above 1,000 percent, adding to the misery of its already impoverished people. [. . .] When Mr. Mugabe came to power in 1980, Zimbabwe's currency was stable, with one Zimbabwean dollar valued at $1.60. At the close of business on May 17, banks in the capital, Harare, were offering 100,000 Zimbabwean dollars to one U.S. dollar, and the black market rate was double that. [. . .] A quarter of Zimbabwe's 14 million people are estimated to have left the country, and money that they send home has replaced tobacco, maize, mining and tourism as the nation's largest source of income."
-- "Zimbabwe Inflation Rate Hits More than 1,000 Percent," by Geoff Hill, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 22-28, 2006, page 22. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Mexican government is encouraging a mass migration movement aimed at altering American politics and society. [. . .] The politically-explosive term 'Re-occupation' or Reconquista (a scheme to 'undo' the outcome of the U.S.-Mexican war of 1848, in which 2.5 million kilometers of Mexican territory were ceded to the United States) was not coined by immigration activists, but by the Mexican government itself."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2006, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"It took seven long months for the U.S. Postal Service to restore full service to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans [but] private-sector shipping services such as DHL, Federal Express and United Parcel Service were fully operational within three weeks of the disaster, according to statements issued by the companies."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2006, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Texas Congressman Ron Paul is warning of a secret State Department deal with the Mexican government to make 10-12 million illegal aliens eligible for full social security benefits."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2006, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The federal Centers for Disease Control wants airline personnel and crew ship staff to watch 'customers' for signs of fever, coughing or other symptoms associated with bio-terrorism or the flu. In the event of a bird flu pandemic, says Ram Koppaka (chief of the CDC's Quarantine and Border Health Services branch), passengers should be detained for up to three days for monitoring, and to prevent them from spreading disease."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2006, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 5-22-06:

"Following the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Cancun, the White House issued a press statement on the progress of the SPP that included a vow to implement a 'single integrated North American trusted traveler program.' That means integrating the border security functions of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, creating, in effect, a single North American 'security perimeter,' as called for in documents prepared by the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR]. These are the first baby steps toward merging the three countries into an EU-style sovereignty-destroying supra-national government for North America."
-- "Western Hemisphere Goes EU-Style," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2006, 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.


"Leftwingers are making a big push to let non-citizens vote in local elections in New York City. The Voting Rights Restoration Act pending in the city council would allow permanent resident aliens -- 'green card' holders -- who have lived in the city for at least six months to vote in local elections. [. . .] In Maryland, six cities allow noncitizens to vote, and in Chicago, permanent residents may vote for school board members."
-- "Aliens May Get to Vote," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2006, 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.


"When the Housing Authority [in Freeport, Illinois] discontinued a food program that benefited [Kathleen] Dennison and other residents, Kathleen asked for prayer for the executive director at a church service. [. . .] The Housing Authority slapped her with a lease violation for 'slander' and 'disturbing the peace' -- because she requested prayer for the executive director."
-- "ADF Defends Elderly Woman's RIght to Pray," Alliance Defense Found Briefing, May 2006, page 5. Address: 15333 North Pima Road, Suite 165, Scottsdale, Arizona 85260. Phone: 800-Tell-ADF. Website.


"As protests demanding amnesty for illegal aliens spread across the country, thousands of kids [. . .] ditched school to take part in the rallies. Many of these kids waved Mexican flags as they walked out of school and in some cases pulled American flags off of their school buildings and replaced them with Mexican ones. Witnessing these demonstrations, many American kids responded by displaying American flags as a show of support for their country. School officials in California and Colorado reacted to these spontaneous displays of patriotism by banning flags and flags on T-shirts and other apparel from school grounds."
-- "Outrage of the Month," FAIR Immigration Report, May 2006, page 8. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 5-15-06:

"[I]n Houston, Police Chief Harold Hurtt says [the] local building code should be changed to require that private apartment complexes install surveillance cameras. He said: 'I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" [How would Chief Hurtt feel about a camera in his bedroom?]
-- "Want to Know Why We Need Term Limits?" from Human Events, as quoted in No Uncertain Terms, the Newsletter of the Term Limits Movement, March/April 2006, page 3. Address: U.S. Term Limits Foundation, 10 G street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Phone: 800-733-6440. E-mail. Website.


"In Louisville, city officials are considering spending $63 million to move an existing electric transmission station 3O yards."
-- "Want to Know Why We Need Term Limits?" from Human Events, as quoted in No Uncertain Terms, the Newsletter of the Term Limits Movement, March/April 2006, page 3. Address: U.S. Term Limits Foundation, 10 G street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Phone: 800-733-6440. E-mail. Website.


"[California] SB 1437's purpose is to ban "discrimination" in school textbooks based on sexual orientation and encourages schools to include Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transsexual (LGBT) material in the curriculum. The bill was introduced by state Senator Sheila Kuehl, an admitted lesbian. SB 1437 would not only add to the brainwashing of students with the notion that homosexuality is 'normal'; it would also have such ludicrous effects as making a prom 'king and queen' illegal. Nor could textbooks use the terms 'mom,' 'dad,' 'husband,' or wife.'"
-- "Calif. Bills Push "Gay" Agenda," Education Report, The New American, May 15, 2006, page 31. 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 5-8-06:

"Something [. . .] insidious and destructive to our military and our culture has [. . .] been going on. Clinton's famous 'don't ask, don't tell' regulations do not merely mean tolerance of gays in the military; they also mean that commanders' eyes are diverted away from all sexual misconduct. The result is a breakdown of military discipline and a dramatic coarsening of women and of men's treatment of women. This has caused a critical diversion of time and energy away from the essential task of teaching men to be soldiers into dealing with the obvious problems caused by the powerful factor of sex in a wartime environment. The current high percentage of women in the military has been achieved by gender quotas in recruitment and retention, and by affirmative action to promote women to higher ranks so they can command men. Nobody admits the existence of gender quotas, but everybody knows that recruitment quotas explain why we now have a 15% female military."
-- "The Feminists Continue Their War Against Men," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2006, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 5-1-06:

"The California State Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill last week that would require public schools to teach students in all grades, about the contributions homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals have made to society."
-- "Bill Would Require Promoting 'Sexual Diversity' to All Grades," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 10-16, 2006, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"That time-honored childhood tradition -- the thrill of speeding downhill on a sled -- has been banned in parks in Warren County, New Jersey after the family of a boy sued the county because he broke his leg . . ."
-- "The Thrill of the Hill is No More," The DeWeese Report, March 2006, page 7, 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.


"The expansion of benefit programs since 2000 has led to the greatest increase in social spending in American history -- with entitlement programs now accounting for more than half of all federal spending."
-- "Social Program Growth Greatest in U.S. History," by Jim Meyers, NewsMax.com (the magazine), May 2006, page 42. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"The camera focuses on two gay men kissing in a park. Later, a topless woman emerges from the sea and walks onto a crowded beach. For would-be immigrants to the Netherlands, this film is a test of their readiness to participate in the liberal Dutch culture. If they can't stomach it, no need to apply. Applicants must buy a copy of the movie and watch it if they hope to pass the Netherlands' new entrance examination. The test -- the first of its kind in the world -- recently became compulsory and was made available at 138 Dutch embassies."
-- "Dutch Immigrants Must View Racy Film," NewsMax.com (the magazine), May 2006, page 66. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.



Posted here for 4-24-06:

"[T]he Social Security Administration did not respond when we asked where the Constitution authorized Social Security. It is understandable SSA would have a hard time finding an answer. The Constitution does not authorize a compulsory federal pension program for seniors."
-- "Most Harmful: Social Security," Human Events, April 10, 2006, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"If not reformed, Social Security and Medicare together will confront taxpayers with $32 trillion in unfunded liabilities over the next 75 years."
-- "Most Harmful: Social Security," Human Events, April 10, 2006, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[A]mong some of the more bizarre state and local laws, we'll have you know that it was once illegal to insert pennies into your ear in Hawaii; husbands were forbidden from kissing their wives on Sunday in Hartford, Conn.; marrying the same man more than three times was against the law in Kentucky; it was unlawful to sit in an Indiana movie theater if you ate garlic in the previous four hours; under no circumstances could one make a face at a dog in Illinois; a woman in Maryland was not allowed to search through her husband's pockets while he was sleeping; and once inside its state line, you had better not mispronounce Arkansas (actually, that still holds true today.) Now let's say you're out for an evening stroll with your wife and children in Ohio, when suddenly from behind a tree a thug appears and demands all of your valuables. What's husband and father to do? By law, after you help the thief remove your wife's diamond-stud earings, you must retreat."
-- "Silly Stuff," by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 3-9, 2006, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Lenin executed more people in his first year than the Spanish Inquisition did in 300 years, said Solzhenitzyn."
-- "Killing in God's Name Has Long Been Man's Way," by Pat Buchanan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 27 - April 2, 2006, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 4-17-06:

"Undercover police are hanging out in North Texas bars and hauling off those they deem inebriated. No breath test required, just an officer's observations."
-- "Texas Police Going into Bars after Drinkers," by Hugh Aynesworth, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 3-9, 2006, page 9. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"There's a real war going on in U.S. border states involving private citizens and Mexican army units, illegal smugglers and vicious alien street gangs. [. . .] [T]he Department of Homeland Security concedes there have been 231 'documented' incursions by Mexican military or police units (or drug smugglers dressed in uniforms) during the last 10 years."
-- The American Sentinel, April 2006, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Doctors and nurses who flew into New Orleans [following Hurricane Katrina] were prohibited from saving lives because they hadn't been 'federalized' (a process which includes sexual harassment sensitivity training)."
-- The American Sentinel, April 2006, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The current dollar 75-year unfunded liability in Social Security and Medicare is $51 trillion. The total household wealth in America is less than $44 trillion. If you took every asset from every American and applied it to our retirement programs, it would cover only 80 percent of the shortfall."
-- A Deficit of Decency, by Zell Miller, 2005, page 132. Published by Stroud & Hall Publishers, PO Box 27210, Macon, Georgia 31221. Website.


"To comply with this monstrosity [IRS tax preparation] costs the American public approximately $500 billion each year. [. . .] Someone figured out it involved 5.8 billion hours per year, which represents a workforce of over 2,774,000 people. That is more than employment in the auto, the computer, the airline and the steel industry combined."
-- A Deficit of Decency, by Zell Miller, 2005, page 136. Published by Stroud & Hall Publishers, PO Box 27210, Macon, Georgia 31221. Website.



Posted here for 4-10-06:

"Sen. Arlen Specter helped direct almost $50 million in Pentagon spending during the past four years to clients of the husband of one of his top aides, records show."
-- "Husband of Specter Aide Benefits from Earmarks," Judicial Watch Verdict, April 2006, page 7. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"[O]nly 51 percent of American high school students are proficient enough in literacy to handle the reading requirements of a first year in college."
-- Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2006, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"In 2002, the [Eritrea] government called in all of the evangelical church leaders in [the country] and made a simple announcement: Your churches are now closed. Muslims, Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran churches were still allowed to operate, but all others were asked to redo their paperwork seeking official government recognition and to suspend services until it was granted. Since that day, not a single church group has been recognized by the government."
-- "Islam and Human Rights," by Christine Schirrmacher, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 37. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"To see a [medical] specialist in Canada, on average, requires a wait of about eight and a half weeks. Once that specialist decides that a treatment is required, the average wait is nine and a half weeks. This makes a total waiting time of nearly 18 weeks. Canadians must also line up and wait their turn for diagnostic services: five weeks for a CT scan, three weeks for an ultrasound, or a whopping 12-and-a-half weeks for an MRI."
-- "The High Cost of 'Free" Care," Correction, Please, The New American, April 3, 2006, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 4-3-06:

"Today, 322 languages are spoken in America. In fact, according to the most recent Census, 21.3 million Americans can barely speak English -- a disturbing 52-percent increase in only 10 years! [. . .] [T]he government is actually using your tax dollars to discourage immigrants from learning the language of America -- English."
-- From a solicitation letter from U.S. English, Incorporated, 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20006. Website.


"The 1982 highway bill contained only 10 earmarked pork projects. [. . .] There were 1,400 earmarks in the 1998 highway bill -- that number mushroomed to 6,500 in 2005! There are now a total of 15,000+ earmarks in the federal budget each year."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2006, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Congress has already spent twice as much money [on Katrina] as on any natural disaster. According to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal, Congress has already spent the equivalent of $250,000 for each family that lost its home to Hurricane Katrina."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2006, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The Republican Congress still fully funds its mortal enemies, including the Legal Services Corporation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Even the vehemently anti-Republican, anti-reform American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) still receives $83 million a year in taxpayer subsidies!"
-- The American Sentinel, March 2006, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Oxford student Sam Brown [. . .] and his pals were doing a bit of carousing to wind down from a tough exam schedule [when they] ran into a mounted policeman [. . .] Brown looked up and asked: 'Excuse me, do you realize your horse is gay?' [. . .] [M]oments later, two squad cars pulled up and arrested Brown under Section 5 of the Public Order Act for making homophobic remarks. [. . .] Brown spent the night in jail, and was fined 80 pounds [. . .]"
-- "How You Can Tell When a Horse is Gay?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, March 2006, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 3-27-06:

"Now here's a story you aren't going to read in many of our nation's top newspapers. And why not? Because it makes our New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin to be a complete idiot, that's why not. Here's the story, fresh from [the] Special Report with Brit Hume. Read this and you will know why Democrats and liberals just flat-out don't like Brit Hume or Fox News Channel. [A] Texas based car-crushing company offered to remove all abandoned and flooded vehicles from New Orleans and dispose of them. K&L Auto Crushers said it would take 15 weeks to finish the job. This offer was made last October. K&L also offered to pay the city of New Orleans $100 for each car that they removed. How many cars needed removing, you ask? About 50,000. At $100 each, that adds up to a payment to the city of $5 million. Not bad. So . . . did Ray Nagin take the deal? Nope. Instead of taking the offer from K&L, Ray Nagin is pursing a car removal plan that will take six months to complete, not 15 weeks, and will cost the city of New Orleans -- make that the taxpayers of New Orleans -- $23 million. Nagin balked at the K&L offer because he wasn't sure that the city had the legal right to accept the offer although there was a clear city ordinance that allowed just such a thing. So, add it up. Take the $5 million New Orleans could have had from K&L Auto Crushers and add it to the $23 million the city will spend to get rid of the cars, and you have a total cost to the taxpayers of $28 million. [. . .] Hume also reminded us that Ray Nagin failed to order a full mandatory evacuation of New Orleans as Katrina was bearing down because he feared that the hospitality industry would sue the city if the people all left and the hurricane didn't hit. If there is one certainty in life is is that if Ray Nagin were a Republican mayor, the media in this country would be clamoring for his head. Nagin gets a relative pass. There will be no 60 Minutes documentary profiling his incompetence. By the way, Ray Nagin thinks he should be reelected."
-- From an e-mail dated 3-21-06. Thanks, Jay.


"Dianne Haskert, the mayor of London, Ontario, Canada, was fined $10,000 for refusing to proclaim a 'Gay Pride Weekend.' After she lost her case in Canada's courts, she resigned as mayor rather than be forced to proclaim the event."
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"The dirty little secret of our high federal income taxes is that at least a third of the American people don't pay any federal income taxes at all."
-- "Tax-Cut Dollars and Dogmas," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2001, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"One of Bill Clinton's last acts as President was to finalize new energy regulations designed to phase out the washing machine models that most Americans have been buying and to induce us to switch to more expensive models. [. . .] The 37,504-word regulation, which was posted in the Federal Register on October 5, 2000, sets 'standards' or limits on the amount of electricity and water that can be used by home washing machines, standards that only front-loading washing machines currently meet. [. . .] [W]hichever washer you 'choose' will cost at least $200 more. The New York Times estimated the increase at $240 and reported that the cost of a low-end washing machine will be doubled."
-- "Big Brother in Our Washington Machines," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2001, pages 3-4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 3-20-06:

"For those wanting proof that traditional marriage in Canada may one day die an inglorious death, a new study for that country's federal Justice Department has recommended that polygamy be legalized."
-- "Canadian Study Says Legalize Polygamy," from TheGlobeandMail.com, 1/12/06, as quoted in American Family Association Journal, March 2006, page 6. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"The multiculturalist paradise created in the Netherlands by left-wingers and big business elites isn't working out so well for the country's native born whites. They continue to flee the country in record numbers. Statistics Netherlands reported that 121,000 citizens fled the country last year, a new record high, which is 11,000 more people than left the year before. The country of 16 million saw a total 188,000 births in 2005, 6,000 fewer than in 2004."
-- "Chased Away," World Watch, Middle America News, March 2006, 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 Feds in the Bush administration have decided that the police department 'discrimmates' because the math section of the National Police Officer Selection Test used to screen and select entry-levels officers is too hard for blacks to pass. The crack investigators at DOJ discovered that between 2002 and 2003, 85 percent of white applicants passed the test while only 66 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks passed. The sharp-eyed lawyers at DOJ figure there must be white racism at work. You just can't trust those sneaky racist math tests."
-- "Racist Math Test," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2006, 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 3-13-06:

"Nearly all of [Trinidad's] 1.3 million inhabitants speak English, cricket is a national sport, and the main business district is called Scarborough. In 2004, however, the government decided that Spanish -- spoken by just 1,500 residents, but by most of Trinidad's trading partners -- was the language of the future, and began making plans to make it the official language by 2020."
-- "Adios, English," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, January 2006, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"The deputy mayor of Draveil in Essone Province [France] announced he was going to cut back on some of the more lavish subsides for families whose children have been convicted of rioting. Georges Tron said he would stop paying phone bills, electric bills, and water bills, and cut off subsidies for children's vacations (yes, they get that, too), only to be met with howls of indignation from anti-racial groups."
-- "France at the Crossroads," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, January 2006, page 9. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Siding with radical environmentalists and the United Nations, President Bush signed on to the UN Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (known as the POP Treaty) in 2001. This has been a global death warrant for millions of people at risk from malaria and other tropical diseases, since it, in effect, outlaws DDT and other pesticides that have proven to be safe and effective in eradicating or controlling the vectors that transmit these diseases. In Africa alone, over 1 million people die each year from malaria, while millions more suffer significant debilitation from the disease. This tragic toll could be dramatically reduced with proper application of DDT."
-- "USAID Shuns Use of Lifesaving DDT to COntrol Malaria," The New American, December 26, 2005, page 10. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Despite harboring the multi-billion dollar Oil-for-Food scandal, ongoing sexual abuse scandals within its peacekeeping forces, utter failure to prevent, or even slow the genocide in Rwanda, or the Darfur region of the Sudan, the United Nations continues to exert its influence and tighten its global governance grip on the world. For the most part, Americans are either unaware, or unconcerned, that the United States is becoming inextricably enmeshed in the global governance web."
-- "International Influence on Domestic Policy," by Henry Lamb, eco-logic Powerhouse, February 2006, page 6. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.


"The U.N. is a closed system, unaccountable to any higher authority. In this regard, the U.N. system is similar to any other dictatorial system, where the powers that be may do virtually whatever they wish without fear of retribution."
-- "International Influence on Domestic Policy," by Henry Lamb, eco-logic Powerhouse, February 2006, page 14. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 3-6-06:

"Despite current investigations into his brother, his son, his son's best friend, his predecessor's Cousin, his former chief of staff, his procurement officer and the executive director of the UN's biggest ever program, the Secretary-General insists he remains committed to staying on and tackling the important work of 'reforming' the UN. Unfortunately, his Executive Coordinator for United Nations Reform has also had to resign."
-- "America and the United Nations," by Mark Steyn, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, February 2006, page 4. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.


"When the tsunami hit last year, hundreds of thousands of people died within minutes. The Australians and Americans arrived within hours. The UN was unable to get to Banda Aceh for weeks. Instead, the humanitarian fat cats were back in New York and Geneva holding press conferences warning about post-tsunami health consequences -- dysentery, cholera, BSE from water-logged cattle, etc. -- that, its spokesmen assured us, would kill as many people as the original disaster. But this never happened. . . ."
-- "America and the United Nations," by Mark Steyn, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, February 2006, page 5. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.


"A first-grade teacher with 24 years experience in Sacramento Co., Calif., said she was ordered by her principal not to utter the word 'Christmas' at school. [. . .] The long-standing policy of New Jersey's South Orange/Maplewood School District banning Christmas songs with religious references came under scrutiny after officials clarified that it even prohibited the performance of instrumental numbers without lyrics. [. . .] The principal of Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, Wash., canceled a dramatic performance of Charles Dicken's classic "A Christmas Carol," partly because he feared it would raise questions about the place of religion in public c schools. [. . .] The Plano Independent School District in Texas banned the colors red and green from its Christmas Party -- er, that is, 'Winter Break Party' as they called it -- and required that parents bring only white plates and white napkins."
-- "Combat over Christmas," by WorldNetDaily, Whistleblower, December 2005, pages 30-31. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.



Posted here for 2-27-06:

"According to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (a.k.a. the Ethics Committee), over 70 members of Congress have been investigated for serious (jailable) offenses over the past 30 years. Only 15 of those 70 members were Republicans -- the remaining 55 were Democrats."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2006, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Pork barrel special-interest funding items known as 'earmarks' in the federal budget have grown by an astonishing 873% under Republican control."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2006, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The public high school in Berkeley, California recently informed students and parents of a new campus club [. . .] the Condom Club, which recruits members as follows: 'Having sex? Thinking of having sex? Sign up for Condom Club now. Bring your lunch and come to classroom G 103. . . . Receive 12 free condoms a week. Free food."
-- "Go Knock Yourself Out," Scan, The American Enterprise, March 2006, page 8. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"New Hampshire's Amherst Regional High School banned the term 'freshman' in favor of the gender-neutral 'ninth grader.' Assistant principal Marta Guevara hopes the new terminology will raise student awareness of 'misogynistic, oppressive, or non-inclusive language.'"
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Since independence, the continent [of Africa] has swallowed more than $300 billion in Western aid with [. . .] little discernible result. Corruption eats up an estimated one quarter of the continent's gross domestic product. Although sub-Saharan Africa has ten percent of the world population, it has 70 percent of the AIDS Cases, and accounts for only 1.3 percent of world GDP. By the end of the 1980s, per capita GDP was lower than in 1960 when many countries became independent."
-- "Will Whites Ever Learn," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, February 2006, page 11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 2-20-06:

"The underlying goal of the drive for so-called free-trade agreements has always been control of national sovereignty. When the world-government advocates couldn't entice nations to give complete control of their governments to the United Nations via some single act, they aimed to achieve this goal through incremental power grabs by such UN subsidiary groups as the World Trade Organization (WTO)."
-- "'Free Trade' Impacts Sovereignty," by John F. McManus, The New American, February 20, 2006, 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 an attempt] to stifle a lawsuit that seeks to make 'Choose Life' license plates available, New York Assistant Solicitor General Jennifer Grace Miller told the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that the statement 'Choose Life' could lead to road rage."
-- "Pro-life License Plates Could Cause 'Road Rage'?" The New American, January 23, 2006, page 10. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"French political leaders responded to Muslim arson attacks by apologizing to Muslims and offering them more welfare -- such as housing projects, job training, and, of all things, leisure facilities."
-- "The Gathering Storm," by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American, January 23, 2006, page 28. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Mexican government has now begun running radio advertisements instructing workers, including those breaking the law, on how to sue for their presumed 'rights' in the United States."
-- "Bordering on Inanity," The New American, January 23, 2006, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Germany's minister for women's affairs declared her country's national anthem 'sexist'. Maria Rauch-Kallat suggested new words for 'Deutschland Uber Alles' -- changing 'fatherland' to 'homeland,' and 'brotherly choruses' to 'joyful choruses'."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 2-13-06:

"[A]n Italian court will soon decide once and for all if Jesus of Nazareth ever even really existed or whether He was a collective figment of early Christians' imagination. [. . .] The very fact that the court has taken up the case [. . .] tells us in advance what the decision is likely to be."
-- "The Days of Our Lord," by Patrick Hynes, January 13, 2006 in the American Spectator Online, as quoted in Faith and Fiction," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 23-29, 2006, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Officials in Provincetown, Mass., voted to remove a large painting that depicts the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact. [. . . It was] removed from display on the grounds that no women are depicted and the sole Indian is shown holding a tomahawk, not a ballot. The fact that no women or Indians participated in the Mayflower vote did not seem to matter to the three selectmen (out of four) who voted in favor of the motion."
-- "Politically Correct Pilgrims," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, February 2006, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"If you're a white guy in Canada looking for a job, don't waste your time applying at the Federal Department of Public Works. The multiculturalists who run the place have decided to hire only women and minorities." [Multicultural racism.]
-- "World Watch," Middle America News, February 2006, 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.


"Recently unsealed court documents reveal that federal law enforcement officials were indeed aware of threats to blow up federal buildings before the Oklahoma City bombing that killed more than 200 people."
-- "BATF's Foreknowledge," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2006, 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.


"North Korea is printing counterfeit U.S. $100 bills and passing them to banking centers abroad, a senior U.S. Treasury official recently charged. The counterfeit bills are of such good quality that they've come to be called 'super notes,' says Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence."
-- "U.S.: North Korea Prints Bogus $100 Bills," by the KRT Information Services, NewsMax.com (the magazine), December 2005, page 76. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.



Posted here for 2-6-06:

"In China, government agents can beat, imprison, or kill you for the crime of being a Christian. Christians in Sudan are being sold into slavery or killed. Muslims have wiped our entire villages in Indonesia and gunned down Christians in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt -- just to name a few. In 2004, missionaries were burned alive by a Hindu mob in India. And that's only the beginning. According to Freedom House, which tracks persecution worldwide, about 160,OO0 Christians are killed every year for their faith."
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 6. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"A Swedish court sentenced a pastor belonging to the Pentecostal movement in Sweden, Ake Green, to a month in prison, under a law against incitement, after he was found guilty of having offended homosexuals in a sermon. [. . .] Sweden's law bans 'all speech and materials opposing homosexual behavior and other alternative lifestyles' and calls for up to four years in jail for violating it."
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 7. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"The Anglican Bishop of Chester, England, Reverend Dr. Peter Forster, was under police investigation for saying, 'Some people who are primarily homosexual can re-oriente themselves. I would encourage them to consider that as an option.'"
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 7. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"In Dublin, priests and bishops are being warned that if they distribute the Vatican's statement on homosexual marriage, they could be looking at the inside of a prison cell."
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"Canadian Pastor Mark Harding doesn't believe the Muslim religion is one of peace. So when his local high school started handing out copies of the Koran and announced a policy of setting aside a room for Muslim students to pray in during school hours, Pastor Harding protested. Didn't think it was a good idea -- especially since Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist kids weren't afforded the same opportunity. After losing an appeal to Canada's Supreme Court on October 17,2002, Mark Harding was said to have 'willfully promoted hatred' in violation of Canadian law that had passed just six months earlier. He was then forced to undergo two years probation and 340 hours of "community service" at the Islamic Society of North America. [. . .] Upon entering court for his trial, Harding required police protection from a large crowd of Muslims who were chanting, 'Infidels, you will burn in hell.' Of course, that speech is loving." [And obviously protected.]
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 13. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.



Posted here for 1-30-06:

"A revolutionary improvement to Third World farming is being stymied by the EU -- which has blocked sales of U.S.-created genetically-modified crops capable of growing in water-deprived, insect-heavy environments. The EU has curtailed the spread of Microsoft technology in member countries, is pressing to limit by treaty the availability of over-the-counter vitamin supplements in the U.S. and agitates to 'harmonize' our tax rates to match destructive EU levels of taxation."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2006, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"A new Treasury Department inspector general report concedes the agency had incorrectly calculated penalties for 11,000 individual taxpayers between 2003-4."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2006, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"On November 28, 2000, the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament voted 104 to 40 to legalize assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia [. . .] The parliament was rushing to catch up with the Dutch doctors, who have been doing euthanasia for decades. In 1991, a government-backed study found that 'the majority of all euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands are involuntary.' Under the new law, children ages twelve to fifteen will need a parent's consent to commit suicide or have a doctor help them kill themselves. But, after sixteen, parental consent will no longer be needed."
-- The Death of the West, by Patrick J. Buchanan, 2002, page 110. Published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010.



Posted here for 1-23-06:

"[T]he corrupt United Nations oil-for-food program [. . .] was so badly managed that more than half of the 4,500 companies doing business with Iraq paid Saddam Hussein illegal surcharges and kickbacks and the U.N. did nothing to stop the dictator's exploitation of the $64-billion program. [. . .] Only one U.N. official, Joseph Stephanides, was disciplined or fired for his involvement in the fiasco. But [. . .] Stephanides was recently reinstated because the U.N.'s Joint Disciplinary committee concluded that the punishment was too harsh. The committee, an internal U.N. appeals board, said the U.N. needs to issue a written apology and pay Stephanides about $200,000 for emotional suffering and damage to his reputation."
-- "Discipline, United Nations Style," Judicial Watch Verdict, January 2006, page 9. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"The agency in charge of protecting our country's borders, the United States Border Patrol. hires an illegal alien who ends up smuggling illegal aliens in his Border Patrol vehicle for hundreds of dollars a pop. "
-- "Illegal Alien Smuggles His Own into U.S.," Judicial Watch Verdict, January 2006, page 9. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"Although polygamy is illegal in France, immigrants could get visas for multiple wives until 1993. Many wives have continued to enter illegally. and there are an estimated 10,000-20,000 polygamous families in France. A family with three or four wives and a score of children collects huge welfare payments."
-- "France at the Crossroads," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, January 2006, page 7. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Over the past five years, New Mexico authorities have recovered more than 100 bodies along the Mexican border. The authorities must take the bodies to a morgue, and pay for autopsies that cost $2,500 each. In Arizona, officials have so far this year recovered 224 bodies in just two desert sectors, Yuma and Tucson. Since most of the corpses lack identification, the state scans fingerprints, checks dental records, and notifies the Mexican consulate to try to locate relatives. The state buries or cremates unclaimed bodies and then presents the $3,000 bill [each] to the county in which [they were] found."
-- "Illegal Death Tax," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, January 2006, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 1-16-06:

"New Hampshire property owners are rebelling at government efforts to tax them for their views of neighboring land. [. . .] Technically, there is no such thing as a 'view tax.' It is actually called a 'view factor,' and it has always been a part of property assessments. [. . .] David Bischoff [. . .] owns a one-room cabin with no electricity, no running water, no phone service and no driveway. In his case, the 'view factor' led to a property valuation of more than $200,000 by state property assessors. He will likely be billed $4,000 a year for property taxes on a cabin that cost only $9,000 to build."
-- "New Hampshire: Let's Tax Beautiful Views," NewsMax.com (the magazine), January 2006, page 46. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"The labels inside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection uniforms have been making many federal agents uneasy. It's not the fit or feel of the olive-green shirts and pants that bothers them, but the labels that read: 'Made in Mexico'."
-- "U.S. Border Patrol Uniforms 'Made in Mexico'," NewsMax.com (the magazine), January 2006, page 53. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"France spends 30 percent of its budget on social services, and the billions it has poured into immigrant suburbs means an illiterate African can live on the dole and not work a day in his life."
-- "France at the Crossroads," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, January 2006, page 7. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 1-9-06:

"Because of the failure of U.S. political elites to secure America's borders even after the 9/11 terror attacks, more immigrants -- legal and illegal -- have come [into] the U.S. in the last five years than in any other five-year period in American history, according to newly released data."
-- "Immigration Hits New Record High," Middle America News, January 2005, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Justice delayed is justice denied. And so the failure of California to execute Stanley 'Tookie' Williams for more than 24 years -- [almost] a quarter century! -- after his conviction in 1981 for murdering four people, was not only an inexcusable cruelty inflicted on the relatives of his victims by the state; it was also a severe diminution of the sting of the penalty."
-- "Unjust Justice System," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 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.


"North Carolina [. . .] has one of the country's fastest-growing Hispanic populations, partly due to the state government's reckless policy of issuing driver's licenses to virtually anyone who shows up at the DMV and asks for one, including illegal aliens. Even though every single road sign in the entire state is in English, legal and illegal immigrants are politely offered the motor vehicle license exam in Spanish."
-- "Killers on the Road," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 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.


"In an appalling extension of the nanny state, New York is slated to become the first city to monitor diabetics' blood-sugar levels. It plans to register them like HIV or tuberculosis sufferers and nag them when their levels aren't healthy enough."
-- "The Sugar Police," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 26, 2005 - January 1, 2006, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.







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