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 "Howard Lyon . . . in Erie, Pennsylvania, was flipping through his daughter's science textbook, Prentice-Hall's widely used Exploring Physical Science, when he started noticing errors. Then, according to the Boston Globe, 'he kept looking until eventually he had compiled a list of errors that grew to 45 single-spaced pages . . .'"From "Junk Science in the Classroom," The New American, March 26, 2001, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "[A]bout 25,000 fugitives from state and federal felony charges . . . have improperly collected Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, checks from the Social Security Administration since 1996." [What do you bet they voted Democrat?]From "Crime Pays," by David Pace, The Associated Press, as published in Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 35. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "National Park Service bureaucrats have begun systematically making it harder for people to visit Yosemite. The most blatant and arrogant example was their forcing the filling station in Yosemite Valley to close down, making the nearest source of gasoline 20 miles away."From "Greed Ugliness in Yosemite," by Thomas Sowell, Human Events, March 19, 2001, page 11. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The U.S. Army is running out of bullets. . . So critical is the shortage that the Army has been forced to cancel marksmanship training except for police and soldiers about to deploy overseas. . ."From "Army Is Running Out of Bullets," by Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com,, March 2001, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "[In the] Tahananui Kindergarten in Nelson, New Zealand, . . . the head teacher instituted a program requiring her 4-year-old students to apply to the school for a permit before they can use their fingers as imaginary guns and 'shoot' them in the playground."From "Hypocrites & Wackos Top NRA Rosie Awards," NewsMax.com,, March 2001, page 14. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "Some international body of 'tolerance' [actually a U.N. commission] just passed a manifesto declaring that any European nation not wishing to see its Christian heritage obliterated by immigrants is 'intolerant' and suffering from 'Islamophobia' [i.e. fear of Islam immigrants]!"From "Christophobia: U.N.s War on Christianity," by Michael Savage, NewsMax.com,, March 2001, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "[T]oday's education system . . . is designed to de-emphasize academic knowledge; establish the one-world agenda with the United Nations as its center; replace individual achievement with collectivist groupthink ideology and invade the family with an 'It takes a village' mind-set. [This] outline for education is the root of why today's children aren't learning. These ideas permeate every federal program, every national standard, every text book and every moment of your child's school day."From "Will George W. Bush Fix Education?" by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, March 2001, page 10, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. "John Ghobrial, Egyptian illegal alien, sobbed as he told of his 'persecution' and was granted asylum with no proof his tale was true! He then sexually molested 12-year old Juan Delgado, dissected him with a butcher knofe and encased his remains in several concrete blocks. Had INS made one call to Cairo, they would have learned he fled Egypt to avoid prosecution for molesting and stabbing his own cousin. Asylum was also granted to those responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six and injured over 1,000. . . . INS says they do not do background checks with asylum seekers' country of origin as 'that query could put that person in jeopardy'!"From "Blood of U.S. Citizens In on Feds hands" from the Los Angeles Times (3-12-01), as reported in 9*1*1, March 2001, page 1. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "[T]he Miami Herald launched a big investigation of the 62,000 'undervoted' ballots in Florida within days after Bush was declared the winner. . . . In Broward County the machine [re]recount found 43 more votes for Gore and 44 more for Bush. That can be explained by partially punched chads being dislodged when the ballots were run through the machine a second time. Those 77 chads were very nonpartisan. Next door, in Palm Beach County, they picked up 751 additional votes for Gore and only 108 for Bush. Dislodged chads cannot explain the quantity or the disparity between the two candidates. It smells of fraud. In Pinellas County it was almost worse. They picked up 417 more votes for Gore and took away 61 votes from Bush. They have ver partisan chads in those two counties."-- From a letter dated December 28, 2000 from Reed Irvine, chairman of the board, Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "On New Year's Eve, while most Americans were celebrating the advent of a New Year, William Jefferson Clinton picked up the phone at Camp David and launched the effort that would result in the United States signing the UN International Criminal Court treaty. After President Clinton made the phone call, a State Department official raced to the United Nations headquarters in New York and beat the midnight deadline for signing the treaty. It will not surprise you that this came after many months of the Clinton White House repeatedly stating that the U.S. would not become a signer to the Treaty.."-- From an undated solicitation letter from Oliver L. North, founder and honorary chairman, Freedom Alliance, 22570 Markey Court, Suite 240, Dulles, Virginia 20166. Phones: 703-444-7940 or 800-475-6620. Fax: 703-444-9893. Website. "U.N. honcho Kofi Anan's recently published 64-page instruction booklet on how to cure the world's poverty includes the recommendation that . . . creditor nations must forgive debts owed to them and give 0.7 percent of their gross national product to the poorest countries . . . ." [Communism is alive and well at the United Nations.]-- From "Global War on Poverty," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2001, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "Over the last 14 years, the federal government spent $15 million to propagandize school children against smoking. Follow-up surveys of the children find that they smoke in about the same proportion as those who were not subjected to the anti-smoking lessons. 'It simply didn't work,' admits the project's director. . . ."-- From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, March 2001, page 8. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "Openly homosexual Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has filed legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that defines marriage as a 'legal union between one man and one woman.'"-- From "Capitol Offenses," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, March 2001, page 14. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "As of January 1, 2001, all toy guns bought, sold, or manufactured in California must be painted bright orange and/or bright green. Violators may be fined up to $10,000 . . . Several weeks after the California law took effect, Disneyland was still selling illegal toy guns.'"-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "The U.S. Treasury expects to tax over 48,000 estates in 2001, a 78 percent increase over the 1991 figure, the Wall Street Journal reports.'"-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "In response to a 'women in history' program, a girl wanted to come [to school] dressed as sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The teacher told her toy guns were forbidden. Her parents suggested a broom, but this too was forbidden. . . Elsewhere, children were disciplined for bringing in books or papers dealing with guns. . . . A student wanted to write a paper on the Marine Corps but could find no references in the high school library. The librarian told him 'violent' books were not allowed." "L.A. no longer schedules Independence Day observances. The Los Angeles Board of Education banned high school ROTC cadets from drilling with nonfunctional dummy rifles."-- From "Zero Tolerance, Zero Sense," The American Enterprise, April/May 2001, pages 11-12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "190 counties throughout the U.S. as well as the entire state of Maine have more registered voters than adult residents. . . . Alaska's voter lists are so bad that 108 percent of the state's population is registered to vote."-- From "Study Shows U.S. Voter Lists Corrupted," Middle America News, March 2001, 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. "The National Taxpayer's Union says taxes have gone up 175,000% in the last 83 years."-- From The Oil Patch, March 2001, page 12. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "The author of Georgia's guidelines written to help teachers implement the state's character education law was fired after posters were distributed to schools that displayed the national motto, 'In God We Trust.'"-- From "Aid Fired Over 'Respect for Creator'," Middle America News, March 2001, 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. "The Denver City Council agreed to pay a teenager burglar $1.2 million for the paralysis he suffered from a gunshot fired by a city cop. Officer Keith Cowgill said he shot in self-defense when 12 year-old DeShawn Hollis pointed a gun at him as he approached the home Hollis was burglarizing."-- From "Burglar Wins Big," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2001, page 7. 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 city of Baytown, Texas, needs six more firefighters, but a federal court won't let the fire chief hire the only two candidates who passed the fire department's civil service exam. The reason? They're white guys. . . ."-- From "Equal Justice," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2001, page 11. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "Canada's political leaders promised their gun registration scheme would never lead to the confiscation of privately owned firearms. They lied. Are American politicians who call for gun registration and gun owner licensing any different?"-- From "Canada: Where Registration Equals Confiscation," by NRA Institute for Legislative Action Staff, America's First Freedom, March 2001, page 50. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "[A]t a Pacoima, Calif., elementary school . . . a nine-year-old named Vincent was threatened with suspension when a substitute teacher found some snapshots in the boy's bookbag. The photos were of Vincent and his brother shooting at a range while under the supervision of their aunt, a certified police firearms instructor. Vincent's family says a school official told the boy's mother that he had 'extremely disturbing and offensive photographs.' The official threatened to call the police to question the boy and said htat he would face suspension. . . ."-- From "Making a Mockery of 'Zero-Tolerance'," in FrontPage Magazine, as reported in America's First Freedom, March 2001, page 57. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "A narcotics detective suspected of molesting a 16-year-old boy won't be charged with any sex crimes by prosecutors, who said such action would be 'discriminatory toward homosexuals.'" "'[T]he sexual offenses,' said Clark County District Attorney Stewart Bell . . . 'discriminates against a class of people, and that's not allowed under the equal protection clause of the Constitution.'"-- From "Changing Morality," by Joseph Farah, WorldNet, February 2001, page 2. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "In recent years . . . Europeans have given up an essential liberty: freedom of speech. . . . In some countries courts have ruled that the facts are irrelevant, and that certain things must not be said whether they are true or false. In others, a defendant in court who tires to explain or defend a forbidden view will be charged on the spot with a fresh offense. Even his lawyer can be fined or go to jail for trying to mount a defense. In one case a judge ordered that a bookseller's entire stock -- innocent as well as offending titles -- be burned!"-- From "Return to the Dark Ages," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, March 2001, page 1. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "While the rest of the nation seems to be laying off workers, Congress has provided the Internal Revenue Service the authority to hire an additional 2,036 full-time employees this year."-- From "Uh Oh," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 26 - March 4, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Saying the move recognizes the rights of animals, the West Hollywood City Council voted to change all references in city ordinances from 'pet owner' to 'pet guardian.'" "West Hollywood becomes the first municipality in California to decide that people don't own pets, they just watch over them, joining Boulder, Colo., as the only other city in the nation to officially codify the change.."-- From "Beautiful Day in the Creaturehood? Dog 'Ownership' Out in West Hollywood," by Joseph Giordono, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 26 - March 4, 2001, page 10. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "In May 1998, 'family planning' officials in Communist China's Hunan province were seeking Jiang Lianhui, who was suspected of being pregnant without official permission. Stymied in their efforts to find the 28-year-old woman, the population control officials tried to extract the information from her husband, 30-year-old farmer Zhou Jiangxiong, through torture. According to a new report from Amnesty International excerpted in the February 13th Sydney Morning Herald, the population commissars 'hung Zhou upside down, repeatedly whipped and beat him with wooden clubs, burned him with cigarette butts, branded him with soldering irons, and ripped his genitals off.' Zhou died from the torture after spending nearly two weeks in detention."-- From "Torture in Communist China," The New American, March 12, 2001, 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. "High school honor student Gerry Palecek and a friend became separated from a group of riders returning home from an ATV rally only to find themselves lost at night in Northern Wisconsin's vast Chequamegon National Forest. Forest Service Rangers discovered the lost boys, threatened to confiscate their ATVs, and issued each a $200 fine -- all without helping the boys find their way home."-- From "Misfortune in the Forest," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, March 12, 2001, page 17. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "In the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster, the ship's skipper, Joseph Hazlewood, was tried on charges of being intoxicated while on duty. Though acquitted, Exxon, to avoid similar problems in the future, ordered that employees with a history of drug or alcohol abuse be barred from holding any of the estimated 1,500 jobs that were especially sensitive to safety. In 1997, the EEOC filed suit against Exxon, claiming that this corporate policy violated the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act]."-- From "To Disability -- And Beyond," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, March 12, 2001, 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 1985 . . . [John Hopkins psychologist John] Money convinced [a] set of parents in Atlanta to raise a boy as a girl after a circumcision accident . . . Money was banished to an off-campus basement owned by Johns Hopkins in 1986 and found in 'serious non-compliance' with his federal grants in 1990, but . . . Money nevertheless continues to receive federal funding through a National Institutes for Health grant." [Your tax dollars at work.]-- From "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was raised As a Girl," Books in Brief The New American, March 12, 2001, page 27. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "With the new year came a major change in Germany's military: Women will now be allowed to serve in combat positions . . . . The change was ordered a year ago, not by the German government, but by a European Union court." [So long, sovereignty.]-- From "The Right Answers," by William P. Hoar, The New American, March 12, 2001, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "Police stopped 49-year-old Ethel Hylton at Houston's Hobby Airport and told her she was under arrest because a drug dog had scratched at her luggage. Agents searched her bags and strip-searched her, but they found no drugs. They did find $39,110 in cash, money she had received from an insurance settlement and her life savings; accumulated through over 20 years of work as a hotel housekeeper and hospital janitor. Ethel Hylton completely documented where she got the money and was never charged with a crime. But the police kept her money anyway. Nearly four years later, she is still trying to get her money back."-- From "The Looting of America," by Jarret Wollstein, Free American Newsmagazine, February 2001, page 41. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "The [U.S. Census] Bureau's decision to count overseas military and government personnel but not religious workers meant that Utah, which had some 14,000 Mormon missionaries living abroad, fell short of a fourth House seat by a scant 856 persons."-- From "Utah Loses House Seat over Census Rule," by Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 26 - March 4, 2001, page 13. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "A color photo of a nude woman with outstretched arms in the traditional place of Jesus Christ at the Last Supper went on display on Feb. 16 at the popular institution [Brooklyn Museum] -- the very one that last year set off a furor with a dung-dappled painting of the Virgin Mary."-- From "Brooklyn Museum Exhibit Puts Nude at Last Supper," by Liz Trotta, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 19-25, 2001, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "[I]n Brazil . . . a national education panel ruled in December that home schooling in the South American nation was illegal."-- From "U.S. Group Outraged by Brazil Ban on Home Schools," by Andrea Billups, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 19-25, 2001, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "[The Mel Reynolds saga] is a first in American politics. An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate."-- From "Decline and Fall of Jesse Jackson," by Deroy Murdock, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 19-25, 2001, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Consider the 2000 election. In New York City's Flushing community, the Chinese bilingual ballot translated the 'Democratic' label on all state races as 'Republican,' while 'Republican' was translated as 'Democratic.'" "The English directions for voting in the race for state Supreme Court justice read 'Vote for any THREE.' The Chinese ballot first told people to 'Vote for any FIVE' and then to 'Vote for any THREE.'" "Perhaps the most famous error was a referendum in which the English word 'yes' was translated as the Chinese for 'no.'"-- From "Bilingual Ballot Blunders," by Jim Boulet, Jr., English First Members' Report, February 21, 2001, page 7. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "[I]n Portland, Main . . . the Maine Medical Center was ordered to provide services in at least ten languages! (The United Nations has only six official tongues.)"-- From an undated solicitation letter by Jim Boulet, Jr., executive director, English First. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "[T]he Agriculture Department . . . maintains offices in most counties across the country (almost 2,500) in compliance with an absurdly out-of-date rule requiring that such bureaus are never to be located 'more than one day's horse ride away. . .'"-- From "Government's Accomplishments: Fact vs Fiction," The American Sentinel, February 2001, page 9. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "Former Attica prison inmate Frank Smith is getting $250,000 from the State of New York in its settlement of a lawsuit brought by convicts over the police response to a bloody riot at the jail in 1971. The convicts charged that police were mean while trying to subdue them."-- From "Fat Deal for Accused Rioter," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2001, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "The conservative National Review reports that the last days of the lame-duck Clinton administration added enough new regulations to fill 29,000 pages of the Federal Register. If obeyed, the new regs will cost the economy an estimated $200 billion per year, the magazine said."-- From "More New Rules," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2001, page 7. 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 conviction of a black murderer-kidnaper in Louisiana was overturned by a federal court because -- get this -- the grand jury that indicted him had only one black on it. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means the issue isn't guilt or innocence, but whether the grand jury was properly diverse."-- From "Justice in America," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2001, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "Our Senators, Congressmen, and Presidents do not pay into Social Security, and, therefore they do not collect from it . . . . For all practical purposes the political retirement plan [for them] works like this: When they retire, no matter how long they have been in office, they continue to draw their same pay until they die, except when it may be increased from time to time by the cost of living adjustments. . . ."-- From "Outrageously Un-Constitutional!" The Oil Patch, February 2001, page 6. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "Al Gore and Bill Clinton are in line to collect what is believed to be the two largest potential lifetime pension pay-outs in federal government history, amounting to more than $13 million."-- From "Transition Leads to Presidential Pension Payout Record" provided by John Ray, The Oil Patch, February 2001, page 11. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "Recycled paper is of poorer quality and higher cost than unrecycled paper. But most of us are being forced to use it, since the Clinton Administration declared that all government agencies must use it exclusively. . . ."-- From "Creative Destruction," Access to Energy, August 2000, as reprinted in The American Spectator, February 2001, page 39. Address: 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website. "While Christians seem to have to scratch and claw to get any semblance of religious freedom in public schools, the New York City public school system has bent over backwards to allow Muslim school children the right to pray. . . One school in Brooklyn, the [New York] Post said, even allowed Muslim kids to be 15 minutes late for class after returning from praying -- in a school auditorium that had been turned into a makeshift mosque. Prayer rooms were provided by other schools in New York City as well."-- From "Religion in America," by Rita Cline, American Family Association Journal, February 2001, page 11. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "[T]ax mongers want to . . . restrict who a think tank is allowed to 'link to' on their website."-- From "IRS to Target Conservative Non-Profits and Regulate the Internet," The DeWeese Report, February 2001, 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. "A federal judge last month upheld the use of anti-white bias by the University of Michigan in its admissions policy, establishing 'diversity' as the new federal principle that can be used to discriminate against whites."-- From "Race Bias Okay, Says Federal Judge," Middle America News, February 2001, 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. "After 25 years of sex education classes in the public schools and the dispensing of free birth control devices to school kids, the federal Centers for Disease Control reports that the U.S. has the highest known rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the industrialized world. . . ."-- From "The Beat Goes On," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2001, 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. "The university [of Michigan] grades applicants on a 150-point scale, and they get 20 points right off the bat if they are black, Hispanic, or American Indian. Being Asian is no help, since Asians are not 'under-represented.'"-- From "Preferences For Ever," American Renaissance, February 2001, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "The Chinese government decided to usher in the Christmas season by dynamiting hundreds of churches and temples. 'The illegal activities in these illegal buildings do harm to the people,' a government spokesman explained. . . . At least 200 churches were blown up, and another 200 were shut down, mostly in southeast China . . . .'"-- From "Communist China Trashes Its Catholics," by Mark Tooley, Heterodoxy, November/December 2000, page 14. Address: PO Box 67398, Los Angeles, California 90067. E-mail. Website. "In many states -- notably, Arizona, Arkansas and Nebraska -- there are stiffer penalties for starving and dehydrating an animal than there are for doing the same thing to a human being."-- From "If You Can't heal Them, Kill Them," by Mary Walsh, Human Events, January 29, 2001, page 16. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The upper chamber of the German Parliament, the Bundesrat, has approved a limited form of so-called homosexual marriage. In Finland, meanwhile, officials plan to legalize homosexual unions as other Nordic countries have already done, officials. say."-- From "Germany, Europe Move Toward Gay Marriage," by Zenit.org, as reported in NewsMax.com, formerly Internet Vortex, January 2001, page 26. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "The Dutch Senate gave final approval on December 19, 2000 to legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children."-- From "Netherlands OKs Homosexual Marriages," The New American, January 29, 2001, 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. "In line with the ever more radical inversion of good and evil pursued by the left, New York City Schools Chancellor Harold Levy has decided to eliminate any official school connection with, or assistance to, local Boy Scouts of America troops."-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, January 12, 2001, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Two years after California banned smoking in all restaurants and bars, there is a movement afoot to regulate smoking in private homes. . . There are efforts to implement such a law in Santa Monica and San Francisco, where high-risk sex in bathhouses continues, but smoking at home may soon be ended."-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, January 12, 2001, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Although federal agents halted several Mexican trucks bringing millions of dollars of Columbian cocaine (stashed among the produce) into south Texas by a Mexican drug cartel, the Dallas Morning News (12/1/00) reported the NAFTA panel ordered the U.S. to allow Mexican trucks full access into our country. At the Texas checkpoints, it was found that 75% of the trucks . . . inspected had safety problems. The Dept. of Transportation reports that 3.5 million Mexican trucks came into the U.S. in 2000 but only 17,332 were inspected. The N.C. Times (12/31) reports that is how the Mexican fruit fly was imported into the U.S. causing many American growers to lose entire crops and some forced into bankruptcy."-- From "NAFTA Orders Mexican Trucks into U.S.," 9*1*1, January 2001, insert. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "A U.S. District judge determined in August that the Dallas suburb of Sunnyvale, Texas discriminated against minorities and the poor because the community had a one-acre minimum requirement for home sites and a ban since 1971 on apartment buildings."-- From "Federal Judge Overturns Zoning Laws and Devalues Property," Freedom Alert, January 2001, page 6. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 757, Crestview, Florida 32536. Phone: 850-682-6156. "Smoking outdoors will soon be outlawed in a small corner of Maryland, except on private property, if the local Village Council gets its way. In Friendship Heights, a neighborhood of about 5,000 residents in Chevy Chase, just outside Washington, the Council is seeking county approval for a ban on smoking in all public spaces that are maintained by the village. Under the ban, smoking on sidewalks, streets, patches of grass or any other area owned by the village would be punished with a $100 fine. . . ."-- From "Maryland Village Endorses a Ban on Outdoor Smoking," by The New York Times, as reported in Free American Newsmagazine, January 2001, page 39. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "The Federal Reserve Bank and the IRS collection agency are both privately owned and operated under private statutes. The IRS operates under public policy, not Constitutional Law, and in the interest of our nation's foreign creditors. . . . The IRS is not allowed to state that they collect taxes for the United States Treasury. They only refer to 'The Treasury.'" "The IRS is . . . an agency/member of a 169 nation pact called the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, found at 22 USCA 263a. . . ."-- From "Meet the IRS -- America's Enemy Within," by D. J. Logan, Free American Newsmagazine, January 2001, page 28. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "Ms. [Katherine] Prudhomme challenged Vice President Gore for his insensitivity to the rape of Juanita Broaddrick and the abuse of other Clinton women. She also protested then Senate-candidate Hillary Clinton's similar lack of concern. In retaliation, shortly thereafter, Ms. Prudhomme received word from the IRS that she was under investigation."-- From "Victory for Prudhomme, JW," Judicial Watch, November 2000, page 3. Address: 501 School Street, SW, Suite 725, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website. "From now on, Virginian moms who want to enter contests or bake sales in Loudoun [County] must take a county food safety course -- and get their kitchens inspected. That is, if they wish to sell their homemade goodies legally."-- From "Pie Holes," The Limbaugh Letter, November 2000, page 4. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "In July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released 15 pages laying out a proposed new regulation. . . The USDA is actually setting guidelines on the size of the holes on Swiss cheese.."-- From "Holey Moley," The Limbaugh Letter, October 2000, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "[F]ederal guideline 24 CFR [Code of Federal Regulations], part 5, subpart C [is] entitled 'Pet Ownership for the Elderly or Persons with Disabilities.' Section S-5.350 (b)(2) concerns itself with mandatory sanitary standards for cat-box filler; 'In the case of cats and other pets using litter boxes, the pet rules require the pet owner to change the litter (but not more than twice each week), may require pet owners to separate pet waste from litter (but not more than once each day), and may prescribe methods for the disposal of pet waste and used litter.'"-- From "Poop Bregade," The Limbaugh Letter, October 2000, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "In April 1992, by an unrecorded vote, a handful of senators ratified the UN's Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a document which mandates UN intervention in our nation's internal affairs at potentially lethal expense to our Bill of Rights. On October 18, 2000, the Senate ratified, in similarly stealthy fashion, a package of 34 treaties, including the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, through which the UN may claim the power to regulate the use of both private and public lands in this country."-- From "A 'Stealth Ratification' in the Senate," The New American, January 15, 2001, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "[T]he Coast Guard has once again given the go-ahead to remove the phrase, 'In the Year of our Lord,' from all official documents and certificates. . . . [O]ne Coast Guard admiral in attendance is said to have remarked: 'We removed the phrase from some documents already and no one objected, so apparently no one cares.'"-- From "Sinking the Lord," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 1-7, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Within the US the Tobin Tax [a UN world tax] has been slow to catch on, but it is starting to make some political headway. Congressmen Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) announced a resolution this last April urging the US government to take a leadership role in enacting the global levy." [Dig out the "Taxation Without Representation" signs.]-- From "Tax Proposals for the Global Economy," by Carl Teichrib, Discerning the Times, November 2000, page 4. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website. (More information.) "The Chicago City Council was just considering a proposal to require the panel to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before every session. . . . [B]lack members blocked the proposal, citing the nation's history of racial discrimination. Particularly offensive to the black members was the pledge's final phrase, 'liberty and justice for all.'"-- From "Chicago's City Council Refuses to Pledge Allegiance to the United States," The DeWeese Report, January 2001, 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. "Germany's supreme court ruled last week that its 'hate crimes' laws apply to any Internet sites accessible from within Germany, no matter where the website is based. So a man in Australia who runs a website featuring what he considers evidence that the Holocaust never happened is legally liable under German law, though no extradition has yet been requested. In Germany, which like the rest of Western Europe has no 1st Amendment-style free-speech guarantees, it is illegal to question the holocaust."-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, December 29, 2001, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The U.S. Census Bureau says it intends t count illegal aliens as part of its official tally."-- From "E.T. Phone Home -- for Federal Aid," Media Bypass, January 2001, page 42. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Washington claims the federal debt could be paid off in 10 years with the budget surplus. Baloney! The so-called federal surplus is just a lot of political doubletalk. It doesn't exist. . . . How do the budget technocrats make a deficit look like a surplus? The shocking truth: By raiding -- virtually stealing from -- federal trust funds such as Social Security, the Federal Employee Pension Trust and the Federal Disability Trust Fund. Last year, the government siphoned off some $228 billion from these trust funds . . . of which $130 billion was used to pay down debt the government owes through its T-bonds and T-bills . . . ."-- From "Raiding Federal Trust Funds," Media Bypass, January 2001, pages 42-43. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. [During the terrible forest fires this fall,] "At Clear Creek [Idaho] . . . US Forest Service shut down the entire fire fighting effort for up to two days while environmentalists within and without the service argued whether fire fighting techniques might harm the environment. . . . Forest Service policy led to decisions to stop pumping water from streams to fight the fire because 'too much water' is being taken and the trout may be harmed."-- From "Western Fires Fueled by Emerging Earth Religion," Discerning the Times, September 30, 2000, page 7. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. "Andrew Phillips . . . was an English teacher at Covina High School in Covina, California. Recently his class was studying Edgar Allan Poe's classic 'The Pit and the Pendulum.' As a related assignment, Phillips instructed his class to choose a victim from outside Covina High School to assassinate, detail why they made the choice and how to keep it a secret. . . Today's classroom curriculum encourages such behavior. Text books are filled with questions relating to situation ethics concerning how children should face life or death situations . . . [F]ederal education programs which promote behavior modification techniques over basic academics are the root of the problem."-- From "The Roots of School Violence?" The DeWeese Report, December 2000, 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. "[M]embers of U.S. Navy aboard ships supporting the USS Cole . . . have either not received ballots or won't get them in time because of current deployment circumstances, Pentagon officials said yesterday."-- From "Military Missing Absentee Ballots," WorldNet, December 2000, page 30. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Reference. "President Clinton's Executive Order 13166 . . . declared the United States to be officially multilinqual and multicultural . . . ."-- From "Election 2000: EF Sees Challenges and Opportunities," by Jim Boulet, Jr., English First Members' Report, December 31, 2000, page 1. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8408. Website. "Sources inside the INS revealed that, in preparation for the 2000 elections, INS agents in district offices were directed to relax the testing for English, complete every interview within 20 minutes and ensure that all applicants pass the Civics test by continuing to ask questions until an applicant got enough right. Sometimes it was necessary to ask 20-25 questions before four or five were answered correctly."-- From "Clinton-Gore Relax Language Laws for New Citizens -- Again," English First Members' Report, December 31, 2000, page 8. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8408. Website. "[T]he FBI has been quietly laboring to develop new and improved spying capabilities by updating the current Carnivore 1.3.4. to versions 2.0 and 3.0." "Carnivore, along with its predecessor, Omnivore, is part of an undercover FBI surveillance triad known as the 'DragonWare Suite.'-- From "You Can Run, But You Can't Hide," by Michael Coffman, Discerning the Times, October 2000, page 5. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.  Government Run Amuck items for the First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amuck items for the First Quarter of 2000. Second Quarter of 2000. Third Quarter of 2000. Fourth Quarter of 2000. The way back home. |