Posted here for 6-25-07

"[T]he U.S. Supreme Court has denied hearing Michael New's petition to review his case. Daniel New, Michael's father, said it plain and simple: If you are in the military, you have no right to present evidence in your defense in a court-martial. If the judge and the prosecutor don't want the jury to see your evidence, they can deny it. The bottom line on the issue is that no member of the Armed Forces can mount an effective legal defense. They will be denied due process, and the 'standard of review.'"
-- "A Message from Ronnie. . .," by Ronnie Merrit, The eco-logic Powerhouse, June 2007, page 2. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 731-986-2299. E-mail. Website.

"State and local governments arc falling all over themselves to sell off highways, bridges, and all sorts of other revenue-producing infrastructure [. . . .] The Chicago Skyway, for example, brought $1.83 billion from a Spanish-Australian partnership. The 157-mile Indiana tollway, brought $3.85 billion from the same partnership. And the state of Texas has recently concluded a deal to sell a Trans-Texas Corridor for $7.2 billion to the same Spanish company who partnered with a Texas construction company."
-- "National Sellout; National Tragedy," by Henry Lamb, The eco-logic Powerhouse, June 2007, page 18. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 731-986-2299. E-mail. Website.

"At President Bush's behest, plans have been created, and are being implemented, for a 'totalization agreement' with Mexico -- which would give U.S. Social Security benefits to millions of Mexican citizens."
-- "Social Security for Immigrants," by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American, June 11, 2007, page 19. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Australia and the United States have agreed on a particularly stupid way to discourage Third-World refugees from arriving by boat: They will exchange them. Any Haitians who manage to get to the United States will be sent Down Under and any Iraqis who make it to Australia will get to come here."
-- "Swapping Refugees," American Renaissance, June 2007, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"In Malaysia there is so much interest in the supernatural that a museum in the southern state of Negeri Sembilan put on an exhibit of ghosts, ghouls, and creatures from local legends. The display included a vampire carcass and a phoenix, and drew more than 25,000 visitors since opening on March 10, but the state government will now close it down. The reason? It offends Muslims."
-- "Defending the Faith," American Renaissance, June 2007, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 6-18-07

"In 2004, reports Reuters, Canadian Daniel Baines tried to shoplift nearly $100 in razor blades from a suburban Vancouver supermarket, but was foiled by store security guards. These facts are not in dispute. Baines admits he was stealing. He admits the store had a right to arrest him. He admits he struggled with the guards during his capture. But that didn't stop him from suing. His claim: the guards used 'unreasonable force.' [. . .] Well, last month a British Columbia Supreme Court judge awarded Baines 12.000 Canadian dollars."
-- "Blade Runner," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2007, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"On April 11, a white student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where [Muslim] students were eating. [. . .] One student has been suspended. Lewiston police are investigating, and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence is 'working with the school to create a response plan.' The ham-in-a-bag caper is being treated seriously as a possible hate crime."
-- "Ham-Handed," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"[Lawmakers in] the state of New Hampshire approved legislation in late April to create government-sanctioned 'civil unions' for homosexuals who want to pretend they are married like normal people. [. . .] That makes New Hampshire the fifth state in the U.S. to give official legal recognition to the marriage fantasies of homosexual lovers. The other four are New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts."
-- "From Fantasy to Law," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2007, 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.

"Mayor Gavin Newsome of San Francisco declared, 'I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way, shape, or form with [immigration] raids. We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it.' Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) replied, 'Now that Mr. Newsome has made it crystal clear that he intends to flaunt federal law, I would like to know what actions the Justice Department will take to ensure compliance.' [. . .] The law to which Tancredo referred is the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act, Section 642 (a) [which] states, 'Notwithstanding any other provision of federal, state, or local law, a federal, state, or local government entity or official may not prohibit or in any way restrict any government entity or official from sending to or receiving from the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.'"
-- "Immigration Briefs," Middle America News, June 2007, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 6-11-07

"The U.S. is funding the nation's largest perpetrators of child-murder-by-abortion. Planned Parenthood (report murdering over 200,000 unborn children annually by surgical abortion alone), through both Medicaid (Title XIX) and Title X, with over $50 million per year through each program."
-- "How Planned Parenthood Could Lose Its Funding," by Bob Unruh, Whistleblower magazine, February 2007, page 30. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Since the Supreme Court's controversial Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, American doctors have performed well over forty million abortions."
-- "Blood Confessions," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, February 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"In March, according to The [UK] Telegraph, British police asked the public to be on the lookout for 'three convicted burglars.' What did they look like? Who knows? Their pictures, descriptions, and identities were not disclosed -- out of respect the the perps' 'human rights'."
-- "NewsDigest," The Limbaugh Letter, May 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"A few welfare programs are closed to illegal immigrants but Food Stamps are not."
-- "Hispanic Racial COnsciousness, Part II," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, May 2007, page 6. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 6-4-07

"The former head of Cuba's military medical services says the Cuban government is stockpiling biological warfare agents like the plague, botulism, and yellow fever at a secret underground lab near Havana."
-- "Cuba Stockpiling Biological Weapons, Defector Warns," NewsMax (the magazine), June 2007, page 46. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"It is official Mexican government policy to urge Mexicans living in the United States to remain loyal to Mexico. This policy applies broadly to all naturalized and even US-born citizens of Mexican origin, but government spokesmen direct their strongest efforts towards Mexican-Americans who hold elected office. In 1995, for example, then-president of Mexico Emesto Zedillo himself told a group of Mexican-American politicians, 'You're Mexicans -- Mexicans who live north of the border.' Two years later in Chicago, he took the same message to the Hispanic advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza. He 'proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important -- a very important -- part of this."
-- "Hispanic Racial Consciousness, Part II," by Jared taylor, American Renaissance, May 2007, page 3. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"[S]chools around the country have substituted another form of tag for the traditional game. 'Children can play tag, but they can't touch each other. They stomp on each other's shadows instead,' [says Cindy Denton, principal at Thew Elementary School in Tempe, Arizona.]"
-- "Shadow Tag," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, April 2007, 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 Iranian Supreme Court has overturned the convictions of six men found guilty of murder in a ruling that suggests that the Iranian government believes that Muslims may kill in the name of Islam. [. . .] [T]he killings began in earnest after the men watched a video in 2002 in which a cleric argued that it was permitted to murder a morally corrupt person. [. . .] The six accused, all in their early 20s, explained to the court that they had taken their victims outside the city after they had identified them. Then they stoned them to death or drowned them in a pond by sitting on their chests. [. . .] The last victims [. . .] were a young couple engaged to be married who the killers claimed were walking together in public."
-- "Iran Supreme Court: It's OK to Kill the 'Morally Corrupt'," The New American, May 14, 2007, 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 5-28-07

"More than half of all Americans now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis of statistical data about government beneficiaries."
-- "Most Americans Receive Income from Government," Middle America News, May 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"In New York City, where more than 60 percent of the population is foreign-born, sexually-transmitted diseases are so rampant that under the leadership of left-wing Republican billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Hall has given away more than 5 million free condoms in a single month as part of a desperate effort to stem the epidemic. [. . .] Bloomberg announced last month that the city has designed new packages for the free condoms, which now bear the proud name, 'NYC Condom.'"
-- "Diseased New Yorkers," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2007, 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.

"Florida Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, a long-time associate of former Gov. Jeb Bush, last month approved a plan to restore voting rights to convicted felons, a goal long-sought by left-wing groups as a way to boost Democrat election hopes. [. . .] Under Crist's new plan, most of the 628,000 convicted felons released from prison will be eligible to vote, hold office, and serve on juries. [. . .] Felons are disproportionately represented in the state's non-white populations, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat."
-- "That's Why It's Called the Stupid Party," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2007, 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.

"Thanks to open borders, outbreaks of bedbugs have been reported in all 50 states, including a strain that is resistant to pesticides. Bedbugs had been eradicated in the U.S. until policies of mass immigration and free trade were adopted by U.S. elites to impose multiculturalist and globalist ideologies."
-- "More Benefits of Mass Immigration," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2007, 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 5-21-07

"[The] Democrats [plan] to divert 'scarce' intelligence funds to study global warming. [The] Democrat-crafted Intelligence Authorization bill [. . .] includes a provision directing an assessment of the effects that climate change has on national security."
-- "House Republicans Criticize Dems' Shift of Spy Funds to Study Climate," by Christina Bellantoni, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 7, 2007, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"A ten-year-old boy [. . .] was told he could not dress up as Jesus Christ for a school Halloween celebration [at] Willow Hill Elementary School in Glenside, Pennsylvania [. . .] Other students, however, were allowed to dress as witches and devils and demons."
-- "Fighting Back," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2007, 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.

"[R]esidents of swanky Beverly Hills, California, got an eyeful of the continuing de-Americanization of their society when absentee ballots for voters in the municipal elections arrived last month in their mail boxes. [. . . The] ballots had been translated entirely into Farsi, the language of Iran, and into Spanish. [. . .] The multi-lingual ballots reflect the growing presence of Iranian and Spanish-speaking immigrants. Regulations from the Justice Department require ballots to be printed in the language of any significant immigrant minorities."
-- "Fairness in the New Multicultural Era," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2007, 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.

"One of the idiots who rules the state of Florida has introduced legislation to ban use of the term 'illegal alien.' State Sen Frederica Wilson, a Miami Democrat [. . .] introduced a bill (SB 2154) providing that 'A state agency or official may not use the term illegal alien in an official document of the state.' She says the phrase hurts her feelings."
-- "Our Strange Rulers," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2007, 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 5-14-07

"A logger in Maine [has been charged] with clear-cutting 70 acres of his own 210-acre parcel . . . In the logging business for 55 years, [Robert] Sherwood's main crime was failing to have an official harvest plan prepared by a licensed forester."
-- "Maine Problem," Resource Roundup, April 2007, page 5. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"[I]n 2001, Hispanic legislators introduced a bill in the New Mexico legislature that would have officially changed the state's name to Nuevo Mexico. When the bill was defeated in committee, sponsor Miguel Garcia said 'covert racism' may explain the defeat."
-- "Hispanic Consciousness, Part I," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, April 2007, page 10. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the 'gay' agenda taught to Christians who attend a public school in that state, finding that they need the teachings to be 'engaged and productive citizens'."
-- "Judge Orders 'Gay' Agenda Taught to Christian Children," WorldNetDaily Digest, Whistleblower, March 2007, page 46. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [. . .] plans to force banks to contribute a percentage of their profits for social programs. [. . .] Chavez unveiled plans in January to nationalize the electricity and telecommunications industries as part of his drive to achieve what he calls '21st century socialism'."
-- "Philanthropy Notes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, March 2007, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 5-7-07

"The reason the administration has failed to secure the borders is because the administration supports open borders. And the reason the administration supports open borders is because it supports submerging the United States in a new North American Union."
-- "Why Can't We Secure the Border?" by Warren Mass, The New American, April 16, 2007, page 25. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"NAFTA is meant to incrementally shift powers and jurisdiction from our national, state, and local governments to new regional institutions. NAFTA threatens not only our jobs and manufacturing base, but our Constitution, our sovereignty, and our freedom."
-- "From NAFTA to the NAU," by William F. Jasper, The New American, April 16, 2007, page 29. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"The reality is that the European Union is the template internationalists seek to follow in crafting a transnational government for the nations of North America, and NAFTA is the foundational structure for this planned merger."
-- "The European Template," by John F. McManus, The New American, April 16, 2007, page 40. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Taxpayers this year who used any of the 1040 tax forms spent an average of 24.2 hours and $207 completing their returns, up from 23.3 hours and $179 three years ago. All told, Americans spent 6.65 billion hours complying with the tax laws. [. . .] [O]ver the past 10 years [. . .] the ratio of taxpayers using computers or paid preparers rose from seven in 10 to nine in 10."
-- "Can't Win," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 23, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-27-07

"The global war on terrorism exists no more. That's according to the House Armed Services Committee, which has banned the phrase coined by President Bush after the September 11 terrorist attacks from the 2008 Defense Authorization Act."
-- "House Committee Bans the Phrase 'Terror War'," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 9, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Democrats don't think in terms of victory. Many of the same fools who brought about our defeat in Vietnam -- Massachusetts Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, Jane Fonda and many others -- are back to engineer another defeat in Iraq. And former Marine Col. Jack Murtha, now a Pennsylvania Democratic congressman, is working hard at being the architect."
-- "Banish the Ghosts of 1970," by Jed Babbin, Human Events, February 26, 2007, page 7. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"In British schools, young children are learning that the prince doesn't always fall in love with a princess, and not every family includes a Mama Bear and Papa Bear. A new pilot project is using picture books, the arts, drama and other techniques to introduce homosexual themes to schoolchildren ages 4 to 11."
-- "British Schools Promote Same-Sex Family Themes to Kids as Young as 4," by Don Melvin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 26, 2007, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Thanks to open-door immigration policies imposed by U.S. elites, a brain infection caused by a parasite normally not found in the U.S. is now a growing health problem in states bordering Mexico, according to federal health experts. The disease, neurocysticercosis, is caused by a pork tapeworm that is endemic to Mexico."
-- "Thanks for the New Disease," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-18-07

"Heritage Foundation's Brian M. Riedl [. . .] said the Democrats' budget resolution [. . .] will raise taxes by $900 billion over the next five years and a projected $3.3 trillion over the next 10. Reidl said this would translate into a tax increase of $2,641 per household annually over the next decade."
-- "Tax Hikes on Horizon," Capital Briefs, Human Events, March 26, 2007, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"[T]he federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was funding a web site, HealthyDiningFinder.com, that allows diners to search for healthy menu options by ZIP code. [When] the Senate ZIP code (20510) [was entered,] the first restaurant to pop up was fast food -- Burger King. Hooters also made the list. [. . .] Hooters was listed as a 'family' restaurant."
-- "Healthy Hooters," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 2, 2007, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi pledged just last month to stop global warming. Almost immediately after making that pledge, Pelosi said that she needs a personal shuttle -- a private Boeing 757 to be exact -- to go between Washington, D.C. and her plastic surgeon/home in California, which would cost John Q. Taxpayer $300,000 a pop. Oddly enough, one of Pelosi's top contributors is Occidental Petroleum."
-- "Save the Planet, Win a Prize," by Doug Powers, Whistleblower, March 2007, page 35. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Wang Xiaoning [. . .] has been sitting in a Chinese prison since September 2002. He is serving a 10-year sentence for using the Internet to advocate democracy."
-- "Wife Says Yahoo Helped Jail Husband," by Kara Rowland, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 26, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-9-07

"Among the first votes of the Democrat-controlled Congress was the repeal of a Republican rule requiring a three-fifths majority to raise taxes (now it can be done with a simple majority vote)."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2007, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[Nancy] Pelosi's House Democrats have voted to grant voting rights to Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. All told, they are trying to add five new votes to their majority. . . Most of these jurisdictions are far smaller than normal congressional districts, and many of their residents don't even have to pay U.S. taxes. Under this change, these new reps would function as actual members, except for final passage votes. [There's a twist: representation without taxation.]"
-- The American Sentinel, March 2007, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Over 9,000 Michigan residents who've gone out of state to skip the $2-per-pack tobacco tax and 6 percent 'use lax,' are liable for taxes, interest, plus a penalty of 5OO percent; some may even face jail time."
-- "Smoke Signals," The Limbaugh Letter, April 2007, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Despite objections from highway safety activists and American truck drivers, the Bush administration announced that beginning in April the U.S. will allow Mexican cargo trucks into the U.S."
-- "Mexican Trucks Head for U.S. Roads," Middle America News, April 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 4-2-07

"California could ban the common light bulb by 2012. [. . .] Because of [the] increased efficiency, some members of the state's Democratic Assembly want to force use of the new improved [compact fluorescent light] bulbs by banning incandescent bulbs. . . ."
-- "How Many CA Assemblymen DOes It Take . . ." Resource Roundup, March 2007, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"Millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid have been given in the past several years to two Palestinian universities -- one of them controlled by Hamas -- that have participated in the advocacy, support or glorification of terrorism."
-- "School Tied to Hamas Gets U.S. Funding," by Joel Mowbray, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 12, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Lawmakers looking to force pre-teen girls to take Gardasil, a new vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer, are targeting the wrong age group, cancer data shows. Middle-school girls inoculated with the breakthrough vaccine will be no older than 18 when they pass Gardasil's five-year window of proven effectiveness -- more than a decade before the typical cancer patient contracts the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV)."
-- "FOrced Cure Targets Wrong Age Group," by Gregory Lopes and Christopher M. Dolan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 26, 2007, pages 1, 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"The American Medical Association (AMA) was holding its annual conference in recent days at the JW Marriott Hotel in Washington [. . . .] Because there is a crowd of several hundred people, District of Columbia government regulations require that they have a paramedic (which they must pay for) on duty and on the premises. Nevermind that this is a room of over 600 physicians, a paramedic is still required on the scene."
-- "Regulation Run Amok," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 12, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 3-26-07

"First [the Democrat Party] voted overwhelmingly on Jan. 26 to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as the new military commander in Iraq -- and then a scant 21 days later, on Feb. 16, they passed a resolution condemning the very plan Gen. Petraeus championed during his confirmation hearings."
-- "What Democrats Fear Most: VICTORY," The Limbaugh Letter, March 2007, page 3. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he IRS now requires taxpayers to provide receipts for all charitable donations, including gifts to churches. Without the receipts or other proof acceptable to the IRS, deductions for charitable donations will be disallowed."
-- "Philanthropy Notes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, February 2007, page 6. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

"Needham High School in Needham, MA has joined the pc movement to stop rewarding high-achieving students by saying it will no longer publish the list of honor roll students in the local paper. [. . .] Principal Paul Richards [. . .] explained that publishing the honor roll resulted in an 'unhealthy focus on grades' that didn't take into account the other areas where students excelled -- like music, sports and drama."
-- "'Smart Brain' Stress?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, February 2007, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"National Guard units assigned to the U.S. Mexican border are under encouragement by their superiors to abandon their positions when armed incursions of our border from Mexico are mounted. [. . .] Arizona National Guard commander Maj. Gen. David P. Rataczak [. . .] testified the rules of engagement do not allow National Guard units the President ordered to guard the border to stop or engage armed illegals. Rataczak said the National Guard's retreat in the face of the armed border incursion was 'exactly 100 percent' the right decision."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2007, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 3-19-07

"[Senator] Arlen Specter [. . .] the Pennsylvania Republican, launched an effort in the Senate last week to amend Article 2241 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to permit enemy prisoners to sue in U.S. courts."
-- "Al Qaeda in the Courts?" Capital Briefs, Human Events, March 5, 2007, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"[I]n Oregon [. . .] the state's climatologist is facing the axe for expressing the wrong thoughts. George Taylor has held the title of 'state climatologist' since 1991 when the legislature created the position at Oregon State University. Last month Taylor ran afoul of the rules of the game when he disputed whether human activity was responsible for global climate change. 'Most of the climate changes we have seen up until now have been the result of natural variations,' he said in a media interview. So now Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to strip Taylor of his position. [. . .] Kulongoski told KGW-TV that the state 'needs a consistent message.'"
-- "Get the Message?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2007, 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.

"Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice aims at: the alphabet. According the The New York Sun, a Saudi businessman wanted to trademark the English word 'Explorer' for his new company. After studying the issue for a year, the Islamic Commission said no way in hell; because the 'x' in 'Explorer' looks like a cross."
-- "'X' Marks the Fatwa," The Limbaugh Letter, March 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"From lemonade stands on up, virtually every major U.S. business is now considered to be a 'financial institution' by the Treasury Department, subject to federal compliance and reporting standards (i.e. they must spy on and turn in their customers)."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2007, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 3-12-07

"German automobiles cost 16% less in the United States than the same car sold in Germany, and exported U.S. automobiles cost 16% more in Germany than the same car bought in the United States."
-- "Globalism: Enemy of the Middle Class," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2007, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"The Clean Energy Act amounts to a huge tax increase on oil producers working to recover domestic resources. As such it would not reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, but would substantially increase the nation's dependence on the OPEC nations."
-- "Cutting Off Energy," by Dennis Behreandt, The New American, March 5, 2007, page 13. 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 7.5 billion-gallon level for RFS [the Renewable Fuels Standard in the Energy Policy Act of 2005] would require refiners to furnish 825 million gallons of ethanol in California gasoline -- an amount equivalent to the entire U.S. production as late as 1987."
-- "Going Bananas Over Ethanol," by Ed Hiserodt, The New American, March 5, 2007, page 22. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"In Canada, a Christian was fined $6,000 for printing 3 Bible verses against homosexuality. A newspaper was fined $6,000 for accepting his ad. A Christian printer was fined $5,000 for refusing to print stationery for homosexual activists. He was bankrupted after spending $175,000 contesting the charge. A Christian was fined $35,000 for distributing 'hate literature' -- tracts critical of homosexuality. Church school administrators were forced to hire a known homosexual, under threat of prison. A pastor was told it's a 'hate crime' to hand out gospel tracts, punishable by prison."
-- "Anti-Hate Laws Will Make You a Criminal," a pamphlet by the National Prayer Network, PO Box 828, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Website.

Posted here for 3-5-07

"Castro's Cuba has had a higher political execution rate than pre-war Nazi Germany, and a higher political imprisonment rate than Stalin's Russia."
-- "Castor's Crimes," by Paul Crespo, NewsMax (the magazine), March 2007, page 45. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Arlene Elshinnawy, a 75-year-old grandmother of three, and Lynda Beckman, a 70-year-old grandmother of 10 (along with nine others), were arrested for sharing their faith on the public sidewalk in Philadelphia. [. . .] They faced 47 years [. . .] in jail for spreading the Gospel because of a Pennsylvania 'hate crimes' law [. . .] Don't believe hate crimes will silence your freedom of speech and freedom of religion? Think again."
-- Janet Folger, writing on "When Grandmas Go To Jail for Witnessing," February 7, 2007 in the WorldNetDaily, as quoted in "Freedom or 'Hate'?" Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 19, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"You might be surprised to learn that public school teachers are better paid than [architects and economists] and many other professionals. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, 36 percent more than the hourly wage of the average white-colar worker. [. . .] In the popular imagination, however, public school teachers are underpaid."
-- Jay P Greene and Marcus A. Winters, writing on "$34.06 an Hour," in Opinion Journal, as quoted in "Pay Gap," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 19, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"363 tons of Federal Reserve Notes [. . .] were shipped from New York City to Baghdad in 2004. [. . .] [T]he $12 billion in cash, derived from Iraqi oil sales and the Saddam regime's frozen assets, is mostly unaccounted for. Nobody [. . .] seems to be able to explain what happened to the money."
-- "What Happened to 363 Tons of Cash?" The New American, March 5, 2007, 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.

Posted here for 2-26-07

"The contract for a 10-lane tollroad, called the Trans-Texas Corridor [part of the NAFTA Superhighway from Mexico to Kansas City], has already been signed by Texas giving a Spanish company the right to collect tolls for this highway for the next 50 years."
-- "Questions to Ask President Candidates," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, January 2007, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"President Bush's new budget would pay for only about half of the 700 miles of U.S.-Mexico border fence he and Congress four months ago promised to build."
-- "President's '08 Budget Falls Short on Money for Promised Border Fence," by Stephen Dinan and Jerry Seper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 12, 2007, page 8. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In the Ukraine, investigators are exploring the possibility that healthy infants and preborns were killed for stemcell experimentation. It is speculated that the babies' organs were extracted after allegedly being stolen from mothers by staff at Maternity Hospital Number Six in the eastern city of Kharkov. [. . .] Pictures from the autopsies reveal tiny dismembered bodies with missing organs and brains. Since dismemberment of bodies is not a standard post-mortem practice, it is likely the babies were harvested for the high amounts of stem cells in their brains and bone marrow."
-- "Death for Dollars?" by Rebecca Grace, American Family Association Journal, February 2007, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.

"[T]he city of Buffalo, N.Y., is participating in a toy gun 'buy-back.' [. . .] At press time, more than 100 toy guns already have been turned in, ranging from water pistols to soft pellet guns that look real."
-- "Say What?" America's First Freedom, March 2007, page 19. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.

Posted here for 2-19-07

"An audit of immigration arrest data by the Department of Justice reveals that illegal immigrants caught and released inside the U.S. are re-arrested as many as six times."
-- "Illegal Criminals Get Free Ride," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2007, 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.

"Hispanics are a victim category for hate crimes but not a perpetrator category, so that when [a black's] murder [by a Hispanic] is entered into the FBI's annual compilation of hate crimes, it will be recorded as a murder of a black by a white."
-- "'White' Mischief," American Renaissance, February 2007, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"In Wisconsin, if Osama bin Laden properly applied for a driver's license, a license would be issued to him. If a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee called the police on Osama, or on any other foreign (or local) criminal, to report his presence in the United States, the employee could face disciplinary action from his superiors for refusing to comply with DMV policy."
-- "Illegal Immigrants in a State of Disarray," by Kurt Williamsen, The New American, February 19, 2007, page 19. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"In Wisconsin, it is acceptable for illegal immigrants to use foreign birth certificates to prove identity for state IDs and driver's licenses, which means that almost any document may be used as an ID because Department of Motor Vehicle employees are unlikely to be able to read them."
-- "Illegal Immigrants in a State of Disarray," by Kurt Williamsen, The New American, February 19, 2007, page 21. 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 2-12-07

"Legislatures in 16 states have relaxed voting restrictions on felons over the past 10 years. The trend is continuing -- and could have a major impact on political races across the country." [Felons tend to vote Democrat.]
-- "Voting Rights for Felons Alters Political Balance," by Jim Meyers, NewsMax (the magazine), February 2007, page 38. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Worried observers say the EU or United Nations may soon be issuing global regulations for Internet website operators unless the United States government reasserts it as an American-owned and operated service. With this new Congress less inclined to defend U.S. sovereignty or parochial interests, this issue must be watched closely."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2007, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Forbes magazine notes [. . .] the Federal Reserve [. . .] 'has been printing money at an inflationary pace and at a faster clip than the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank.'"
-- The American Sentinel, January 2007, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"An agreement reached between the Bush administration and the government of Mexico would allow illegal aliens who are granted amnesty to claim credit for the time they worked illegally in the U.S. when applying for Social Security benefits, according to an analysis of the agreement by a nationwide senior citizens organization [TREA Senior Citizens League]."
-- "Illegals May Get Pension Benefits," Middle America News, February 2007, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 2-5-07

"[In England] Children's Minister Beverly Hughes [. . .] suggested that parents could be 'forced to attend special classes to learn to sing nursery rhymes to their children,' and might be threatened with government action if they refused to comply."
-- "Nursery Rhyme Cops?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, January 2007, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"[A] British government guide [. . .] tells pet owners to provide private lavatories for their cats -- and mental stimulation to prevent them from getting bored. [The] Daily Telegraph reported that the 'draft code of conduct for cat owners' was recently withdrawn as being 'over the top' and too 'prescriptive.' [. . .] [The guide stated that] in order to be completely immune from prosecution, all cat owners should be responsible for knowing their eat's exact weight."
-- "Fur Flies over Cat Correctness," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, January 2007, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"A reading of the December 15, 2006 report issued by the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget forces the following conclusion: the United States is insolvent and there is no way for the nation's bills to be paid with current levels of taxation and promised benefits."
-- "Comptroller General's Bleak Report Largely Ignored," Inside Track, The New American, January 22, 2007, 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.

"0regon has been told by the U.S Dept. of Education to adjust scores necessary for students to pass standardized tests in math, science, and English to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act."
-- "State of the States," NewsMax (the magazine), February 2007, page 16. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"In what the liberal media are treating as a completely benign and sensible move, the new Congress is expected to make a major press toward slapping price controls on the creation of new drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The action is expected by insiders to take the form of Democrats opening up 'negotiations' with drug companies to lower prices for Medicare."
-- "Left Poised to Move Swiftly on Many Fronts," The American Sentinel, January 200, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 1-29-07

"The county [Fairfax County in Virginia] is barring residents from donating home- or church-prepared food to the poor, unless the county first approves the kitchen in which the food was prepared, the Washington Post reported."
-- "Philanthropy Notes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, January 2007, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.

"In a move some see as an end-run toward same-sex marriages, the New York City Board of Health, with the support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is considering a policy that would permit people born in the city to change the sex recorded on their birth certificates."
-- "Change Your Sex Without Surgery," WorldNetDaily Digest, Whistleblower, December 2006, page 46. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"A Nazi-era law requiring all children to attend public school, to avoid 'the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions' that could be taught by parents at home, apparently is triggering a Nazi-like response from police [in Germany]. "
-- "Achtung! Germany Drags Homeschool Kids to Class," WorldNetDaily Digest, Whistleblower, December 2006, page 47. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has granted official status to three European homosexual organizations [the Danish National Association for Gays and Lesbians, the Gay Federation in Germany, and the International Lesbian and Gay Federation (ILGA)]. After initially objecting to awarding this coveted status to such groups, the Bush administration's representative went along and voted for it."
-- "Bush Administration Approves of UN Status for Homosexual Groups," The New American, January 22, 2007, page 8. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 1-22-07

"Back in March 2006, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution stating that the Catholic Church's opposition to homosexual adoption does 'violence' to children. It further declared that this particular teaching of the church amounts to 'hateful and discriminatory rhetoric'." [Can banning the Catholic Church be far off?]
-- "San Francisco Supervisors Attack Religious Freedom," The New American, January 8, 2007, page 7. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"U.S. elites decided last month that American parents have no 'fundamental right' to control or oversee the sex education of their children. [. . .] [T]he notoriously dictatorial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [made the ruling]."
-- "Federal Courts Say Parents Have No Right to COntrol Sex Ed of Kids," Middle America News, January 2007, 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.

"On Oct. 31, three white women -- two 19- and one 21-year-old -- attended a Halloween block party in Long Beach, California. [. . .] [B]lacks began pelting the women with lemons and small pumpkins. A number of young black women then joined in, egging on the men, and the crowd became more aggressive. People began chanting, 'We hate white people; f**k whites. [. . .] If a big, strong black passerby had not broken up the fight, the women could well have been killed. [. . .] Incredibly, the DA's office was at first reluctant to charge the blacks with hate crimes. Deputy District Attorney Brian Schirn said that a hate crime requires intent from the beginning to target someone because of race. Shouting racial abuse is 'despicable,' he explained, but not necessarily a hate crime. 'I'm not going to be pressured into filing hate crime charges if there is no evidence,' he added."
-- "Real Hate Crime," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, January 2007, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"[In December] New York City banned the use of trans fats in restaurant meals, and an Ohio law passed in November [. . .] bans smoking in virtually all business establishments."
-- "Fat and Freedom," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 25, 2006, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 1-15-07

"The town of Fuenlabrada, [Spain] reports Reuters, 'has vowed to banish sexism from street signage by demanding half of all road signs and traffic lights show female figures with skirts and ponytails.' Said the town council: 'In this way the sexism . . . in traffic signals will be brought to on end.'"
-- "Feminist X-ing," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, January 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"[A] local jurisdiction decreed [in Norway] that boys at the Dvergsnes School in Kristiansand have to sit while urinating, according to the newspaper, Aftenposten. [. . .] School principal Anne Lise Gjul said that while she regrets offending anyone by the decision, it was deemed necessary because 'young boys aren't good enough at aiming, and the point was to have a pleasant toilet' for both boys and girls."
-- "Stand and Deliver?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, December 2006, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"Seventh grader Amber Mangum thought nothing of taking a few minutes to read in the cafeteria during her lunch period -- until a school official told her it was not allowed. At issue was the fact that Amber was reading the Bible, and according to the Vice Principal of Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School in Prince George's County, Maryland, this was a violation of school policy."
-- "Free to Read?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, December 2006, 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.

"Newton Massachusetts actually developed an 'anti-racist, multicultural math' curriculum, which had as its top priority, 'Respect for Human Differences.' [Not the teaching of math?] No wonder American students' math scores have tanked. Before 1989, U.S. students ranked number-one in international math tests. Now they score fifteenth, far behind the scores of most industrialized countries."
-- "It's Official: Fuzzy Math Doesn't Add Up," CampusReport, December 2006, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"Sexual relations between prison inmates is illegal, but that didn't stop the nitwits who run the city of Philadelphia from handing out taxpayer-supplied free condoms to prisoners. Leon King, the commissioner of prisons in Philadelphia, [. . .] says it's a lot cheaper to give the thugs and felons condoms rather than to have to pay for a new case of AIDS. Studies show that prison inmates are three times more likely to be infected with the deadly AIDS virus than the general population."
-- "Prisons of Ill Repute," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2007, 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 1-8-07

"Taxes [on English families] will now be rated based on the following criteria (these are a few of the 287 factors to be considered): How many neighbors wear contact lenses, how many vegetarians live nearby, which sports are watched, which charities they donate to, the size of their phone bills, which pets they have, the number of cars, whether they pay credit card balances in full, whether they invest in trust funds, whether they take vitamins or health supplements, if they own garage door openers, if they are considering switching gas or electric supplier, if they are considering making a will, if they are considering buying a sofa, [and] if they suffer from back pain."
-- "Is England a 'Dead Loss?'," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, December 2006, page 4, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he [UK] government will be able to track every road trip and tax it by the mile. Washing machines to light bulb use will be taxed. VAT taxes will be added to air flights, dooming the possibility of cheap air travel. Local governments will be given the power to snoop in trash cans to penalize those who don't recycle. [. . .] England, once the light of the civilized world, is fast sinking into the human misery of socialism. If not curbed here, the United States is about 5 years behind the same fate."
-- "Is England a 'Dead Loss?'," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, December 2006, page 4, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.

"On September 19th plans were approved to begin the creation of a [United Nations] global tax, mostly through airline tickets to help pay for the treatment of AIDS. [. . .] There are several other tax schemes on the UN wish list, including a carbon tax on CO2 emissions, a currency tax on transactions of foreign currency exchanges, and taxes on the Internet, to name a few."
-- "DeWeese Opening Statement," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, December 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.