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 "Throughout America, an average of 3,000 children a day are stolen from their homes and placed in foster care to fuel a multi-billion dollar money-making machine. . . . The federal government pays the State of Utah at least $25,000 for each child the State can remove from its family and place in foster care. The more children the State can take, the more federal money its child 'welfare' system can rake in."From "Kidnaping for Profit," Media Bypass, March 2002, page 45. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Some lawmakers are coming up with an innovative solution for solving the problem of illegal immigrants driving on America's roads: They want to license them so they are no longer driving illegally. Utah, North Carolina and Tennessee are among a handful of states where lawmakers are proposing to allow nine million illegal immigrants to obtain licenses."From "Illegal Driving," Media Bypass, March 2002, page 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "[I]n the case of Alan Yurko, a 32-year-old Florida man who is in his third year of imprisonment on a life sentence for allegedly killing his infant son by Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), the gathering evidence strongly suggests that it was the child's vaccinations, not shaking, which caused the death. . . [R]esearch has shown that as many as 140 Americans may be in jail for SBS crimes while iatrogyenic medicine -- particularly vaccinations -- may be the real culprit."From "Get Your Free Poison Here," by Pat Shannan, Media Bypass, March 2002, page 56. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "[T]he Center for Civic Education (CCE) . . . is empowered, with the force of federal law and a stream of taxpayers' money, to decide what is taught in our nation's schools about civics and government. CCE produced a 180-page volume called National Standards for Civics and Government . . . [T]he fact that the U.S. Constitution contains a Second Amendment doesn't exist in the book. . . Many pages . . . are devoted to the Bill of Rights but, funny thing, the Second Amendment is completely censored out. . . . One major theme is a put-down of allegiance to national sovereignty . . . The words 'common good' are repeated over and over again in this book, but they are not in our Constitution."From "How Public School Curriculum Has Changed!" The Phyllis Schlafly Report, March 2002, pages 2-3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "California public schools seem to be trying to show us how far they have gone to downgrade Christianity. Some schools are teaching an intensive, three-week course in Islam that is not merely history or a course 'about' religion; it is behavior modification and role-playing. Study handouts include a history of Islam and its founder, Mohammed, 25 Islamic terms, 20 proverbs, Islam's Five Pillars of Faith, and 10 key Islamic prophets and disciples. The students are required to rear a robe during class, adopt a Muslim name, and stage their own jihad or holy war in a dice game."From "How Public School Curriculum Has Changed!" The Phyllis Schlafly Report, March 2002, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "School officials at a public high school in Hampton, Va., have ordered a student Christian club to eliminate 'Easter' from the title of an annual canned food drive because it may offend students of other faiths."From "Christian Students Told Not to Use 'Easter' in Food-Drive Title," by Ellen Sorokin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 18-24, 2002, page 15. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The federal government spent $6.5 billion conducting the 2000 census. That's $56 per American home, and twice what was spent to conduct the 1990 census."From "Checking America's Vital Signs," by Karl Zinsmeister, The American Enterprise, April/May 2002, page 4. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "Forest Service officials knowingly used faulty data of spotted owl habitat to block logging in a California forest, according to court documents obtained by The Washington Times."From "Forest Service Knew Owl Data Was Faulty, Halted Logging Anyway," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 18-24, 2002, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "In the wake of September 11, Great Britain joined with Spain, France, Belgium and Portugal to agree to EU-wide arrest warrants (in short, to gut each country's extradition procedures and other legal safeguards). . . According to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, EU arrest warrants can be issued for 'thought crimes' (such as xenophobia and racism)."From The American Sentinel, March 2002, page 5. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "According to the [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's] own data, its directives to strap children into back seats has created a new problem: A sharp rise in distraction-caused accidents, precipitated by drivers turning around to check on crying infants and small children. At lease 31,000 accidents a year involve 'driver distraction in one form or another,' the NHTSA recently conceded. . . ."From The American Sentinel, March 2002, page 6. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "The price of first-class postage stamps will rise to 37 cents on June 30th."From "Let the B.S. Flow. . .," The DeWeese Report, March 2002, 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. "Rep. [Lois] Capps (D-CA) has secured $50,000 in federal money to fund a tatoo-removal program in her district."From: "Latest from the Department of 'Bad Government,'" The DeWeese Report, March 2002, 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. "In early December, CBS '60 Minutes' host Steve Kroft interviewed [Transportation Secretary Norman] Mineta [and] noted that of 22 people on the most-wanted list right now: '[A]ll but one of them has complexion listed as olive. They all have dark hair and brown eyes. And more than half of them have the name Mohammed.' (they are also all males in their 20s and 30s.) Thus, he asked Mineta if such people should be subjected to a little extra scrutiny. 'No,' Mineta responded, 'not just on that basis alone.' . . . Let the record reflect that among President George Bush's dazzling team of advisors, the only stink-bomb is the one Democratic holdover from the Clinton Administration."From: "Norman Mineta's Screen Test," by Ann Coulter, Human Events, March 4, 2002, page 6. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "[W]hile Lt. Col. Oliver North was being questioned by Congressman Al Gore during the Iran-Contra hearings, Col. North stated that Osama bin Laden was the most dangerous man in the world. This was in 1987! Why did it take our federal government 14 years to learn that truth?"From: "Dilemma," by Jim Thomas, Media Bypass, March 2002, page 8. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Congress leases 100 planes for the low, low price of only $26 billion (five times more than buying them). . . There are laws prohibiting lease arrangements that are more expensive than direct purchases, but Congress waived those rules in appropriating the money for the Boeing 767s."From: "The Boeing Boondoggle," by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Media Bypass, March 2002, page 38. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "A report by the National Academy of Sciences concludes that government scientists did not have enough evidence to issue the biological opinions that cut off irrigation water to Klamath Basin farmers last summer to protect endangered and threatened fish. . . . 'The fisheries services are really trying hard to err on the side of the fish, which is their job,' [said Peter Moyle, professor of fish biology at University of California-Davis]."From: "Biological Blunders," Media Bypass, March 2002, page 42. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are not included in the revised version of the New Jersey Department of Education history standards -- a move some critics view as political correctness at its worst. The Pilgrims and the Mayflower also are excluded, as well as the word 'war,' which has been replaced with 'conflict' in lessons about the early settlers, colonization and expansion."From: "New Jersey Edits Out Founding Fathers, word 'War'," by Ellen Sorokin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 4-10, 2002, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Washington Times Pentagon reporter Bill Gertz . . . reports that Pentagon stockpiles of so-called 'smart weapons,' (laser and satellite-guided bombs) were so low when George W. Bush was sworn in as president that the Navy nearly ran out of the weapons for its low-intensity assault against selected terrorist bases in Afghanistan last October."From The American Sentinel, February 2002, page 8. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "The Chinese government responded to President Bush's call for religious tolerance Friday by promptly editing out his remarks on freedom and faith in its transcript of a speech that Bush delivered on live national television, the Los Angeles Times reports. Before the U.S. leader boarded Air Force One to return to Washington on Friday afternoon, China's state-controlled media put out their version of the morning address, in which Bush spoke to an audience of university students. Almost half the speech -- large chunks extolling American liberty and urging China to relax its political and religious restrictions -- was simply hacked out in the transcript released by the official New China News Agency."From "NewsMax.com Insider Report," distributed by e-mail dated 2-26-02. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "[I]n New Jersey . . . the state's Department of Education decided to erase any reference to the Founders from its proposed new history standards."From a solicitation letter from Sylvia D. Crutchfield, executive vice president, The Foundation Endowment, 611 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 703-683-1077. Fax: 703-683-1272. "Just a few decades ago, English was the unquestioned common language of all Americans. Every immigrant who came here couldn't wait to adopt our language, our customs, our American way of life. Today, our public schools encourage immigrant children to retain their native language. . . Recently, the Congress voted a fourfold increase in funding for bilingual/multicultural programs!"From a solicitation letter from Edward I. Nelson, chairman, United States Border Control, 8180 Greensboro Drive, Sutie 1070, McLean, Virginia 22102. Phone: 703-356-6567. "A California prison inmate serving 14 years for robbery received a heart transplant at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 million. . . Non-criminals are not eligible for tax-funded transplants, however."From "Keeping Thugs Alive," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2002, 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. "Successful Americans own no more of the income that they produce than did medieval serfs and 19th century slaves. The share claimed by the IRS is equal to the share claimed by feudal lords and slave owners. We can be said to be free only by ignoring government's extraordinary claim to our personal incomes."From "Economic Freedom Declining," by Paul Craig Roberts, Middle America News, March 2002, page 17. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "When the Clintons left the White House on Jan. 20, 2001, they took with them 44 pieces of furniture that had been given to the White House or the President as gifts during their residency. Eventually the Clintons were forced to return 25 of these pieces . . . But the [House Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs] concluded that the Clintons retained 'thousands of other gifts valued at less than $259 [each], which were not required to be disclosed.'"From "The Clinton White House Heist," Human Events, February 18, 2002, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "A Finnish business executive was recently given a $103,000 fine for driving 15 miles per hour over the speed limit near Helsinki. In Finland, traffic fines are determined by the violator's income."From "Capital Punishment in Scandinavia," The American Enterprise, March 2002, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "About 10% of city employees at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, one of the nation's busiest airports, have criminal records, including felonies, such as dug dealing, weapons violations and forgery."From "The Right Ear," Human Events, February 25, 2002, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "In Fairbanks, Alaska . . . lawmakers wanted to reduce the urge of loose moose to reproduce. So they made it illegal for moose to mate on city sidewalks. . . . In Merryville, Mo., it's a crime for a woman to wear a corset. (In Norfolk, it's a crime for a woman to appear in public without a corset). In Cleveland, women are banned from wearing patent-leather shoes. In California, it's a crime for a woman to drive a car while wearing a housecoat. In Blythe, Calif., it's a crime for a man to wear cowboy boots unless he owns at least two head of cattle. In Nogales, Ariz., men are banned from wearing suspenders. In Arkansas, it's a crime not to pronounce the state's name Arkan-SAW. (You may be flirting with a noose if you pronounce [it] Ar-KANSAS.) In Joliet, Ill., one faces a $5 fine by pronouncing it Jolly-ETTE instead of the correct Joe-lee-ETTE. Finally, in Iowa, it's a crime for any kiss to last more than five minutes." [Your tax dollars at work.]From "Arkan-SAW," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 25-March 3, 2002, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "[T]he everlasting gap between the achievement of blacks and Hispanics and their white classmates actually closed slightly at the 12th grade level. Alas, this was not because blacks and Hispanics improved, but because whites did worse. As an added embarrassment to the education industry, this entire decline in 12th-grade science achievement took place in public schools. Twelfth-grade scores in private schools rose sharply."From "National Education Assassination," by Linda Bowles, NewsMax.com, February 2002, page 59. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "When Senator James Jeffords of Vermont switched parties on May 24, 2001, he switched control of the U.S. Senate from the Republicans to the Democrats. . . . The effect of that single act was tremendous! Last year -- in 2001 -- the Senate refused even to vote on 50 bills that were passed by the Republican House. And Daschle's Senate also refused to confirm most of President Bush's nominees."From a February 2002 solicitation letter from Phyllis Schlafly, president, Eagle Forum, PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "The recent pay raise that Congress gave itself beginning last month is unconstitutional, but it went into effect anyway. The 28th Amendment rather clearly says, 'No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.'"From "They Do What They Want," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2002, 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 General Accounting Office reports that people who call the IRS for help with preparing their tax returns have to wait 15 percent longer than in 2000 -- an average of four minutes to speak to an IRS worker -- and then they often get inaccurate information. The GAO said callers who ask about tax law get bum information 25 percent of the time."From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, February 2002, 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. "Before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration was pushing a large-scale amnesty and 'guest-worker' programs to benefit illegal aliens from Mexico. In January, Secretary of State Colin Powell [said] these proposals . . . were still a priority for the administration."From "Immigration News Briefs," Middle America News, February 2002, 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. "Following the lead of Mexico's Vicente Fox, Honduras President Ricardo Maduro called for the U.S. to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 Hondurans living in the U.S. illegally."From "Amnesty Bandwagon," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2002, 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. "[T]he Nazi regime [had a] plan to persecute and ultimately abolish Christianity in the Third Reich."From "Nazi Germany's Anti-Christian Plans," The New American, February 11, 2002, 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. "[Examples of] crimes sanctioned and even committed by FBI agents based in Boston over many years . . . are granting a mobster on the FBI payroll immunity for 10 murders he is charged with committing, and knowingly keeping an innocent man in prison for 30 years to protect FBI sources in the Mafia."From "Stretching Executive Privilege Too Far," AIM Report, #1, 2002, January 8th, page 4. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "La Verkin, Utah, America's first 'United Nations-free zone' is no more. On Jan. 16, new members of the La Verkin City Council helped deliver a coup de grace to the law that brought international attention to the town located in the shadow of Zion National Park. The council voted 4-1 to repeal the 6-month-old ordinance, which essentially banned the [U.N.] from conducting work within city limits and made flying a U.N. Flag from City Hall and quartering U.N. troops class C misdemeanors."From "USFS Caught Fudging Numbers," The Idaho Observer, January 4, 2002, page 2. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website. "A Chinese jet flew within 500 feet of a U.S. P-3 patrol aircraft in the closest aerial encounter since the EP-3 incident April 1 near Hainan island. . . . the encounter is raising new concerns in the Pentagon that Chinese air force intercepts are becoming dangerous again. U.S. officials tell us the Chinese interceptors have been coming closer to U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the past several months."From "China Intercepts P-3," Inside the Ring, by Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 21-17, 2002, page 18. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "In New York, the Ithaca City School District is grading elementary school students in the first and second grades on how well they 'respect others of varying cultures, genders, experiences, and abilities.'"From "Brave New World," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2002, 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. "Big shots at the United Nations are toying with the idea of a global identification card for everyone on earth. . . The plan [was] posed . . . at a meeting in December of government ministers from around the world. . . [T]he European Union is already considering a Europe-wide ID system using fingerprints or eye scanning technology."From "Management Tool," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2002, 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. "While President Vicente Fox calls for open borders with the U.S., the Mexican government is beefing up its military and police patrols on the country's southern border in an effort to stop the stream of illegal aliens coming up from Central America."From "Mexico Tightens Southern Border," Middle America News, February 2002, 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 state of Virginia decided to encourage unmarried people to live together by offering them low-interest home loans."From "Business First," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, February 2002, 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. "In [an] apparent attempt to persuade Congress to let them promulgate rules that would reduce the numbers of visitors to national parks, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has admitted that it inflated the figures. Instead of 920 million visitors to parks last year, the actual figure was 209 million -- a figure that might itself be off by 17 percent."From "USFS Caught Fudging Numbers," The Idaho Observer, January 4, 2002, page 2. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website. "Saying that a flag on display could 'compromise our objectivity,' [Boulder, Colorado public] library administrator Marcellee Gralapp advised against hanging Old Glory over one of the entryways 'because it might offend some people.'"From "Flags No, X-Rated Body Parts Yes," CampusReport, December 2001, page 2. Address" Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. "[S]everal states acted [in 2001] to permit illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses. not only does this allow illegal aliens to effectively operate as legal residents, but under the federal Motor-Voter Act, it allows illegal aliens to register to vote at the same time they apply for a license."From "FAIR Tackles Voter Fraud," FAIR Immigration Report, December 2001 - January 2002, page 4. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website. "Federal and state wildlife biologists planted false evidence of a rare cat species in two national forests, officials told The Washington Times. Had the deception not been discovered, the government likely would have banned many forms of recreation and use of natural resources in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest in Washington State."From "Rare Lynx Hairs Found in Forests Are Exposed as a Hoax," by Audrey Hudson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 24-30, 2002, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "So far, the weapons used by terrorists who have attacked the U.S. include box cutters, hijacked airplanes, anthrax powder, and -- in the case of the first assault on the World Trade Center -- bombs. So tough-guy policy experts Sens. John McCain, R-AZ, and Joe Lieberman, D-CT, have swung into action with legislation that would, in effect, ban gun shows."From "Liar at Work," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2002, 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. "Dean Hachem, owner of the Sheik Restaurant chain in Dearborn, Michigan, says his business fell nearly 60 percent after an alleged e-mail was circulated claiming that people in the restaurant cheered the news of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. So the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is investigating -- not the cheering, but the e-mail. It might be an anti-Arab hate crime, you see."From "Waste of Money," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2002, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "In early December the Senate Agriculture Committee voted to expand the federal welfare benefits available to non-citizens in the U.S. The Democrat-controlled committee approved legislation that would immediately make all children of all immigrants eligible for food stamps, costing an estimated $6.2 billion over the next 10 years."From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, January 2002, 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. "The hour was late, the issue radioactive. Under cover of darkness, members of Congress let their third pay increase in four years go through. Their pay will jump $4,900 a year to $150,000."From "Congress Get a Raise: 'Greed Caucus Is Alive and Well'," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 31, 2001 - January 6, 2002, page 22. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Evidence links the OKC bombing to Middle Eastern terrorists, and the failure of officials to examine this evidence in 1995 may have set the stage for the September 11th attacks."From "OKC Bombing: Precursor to 9-11?" by William F. Jasper, The New American, January 28, 2002, 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. "That anti-religion bastion of political correctness, the New York City public school system, has quietly sanctioned prayer in schools -- but only if you're a Muslim who wants to worship during Ramadan."From "NYC OKs Prayer in School -- for Muslims" Carl Limbacher & the NewsMax.com staff, North Florida Advocate, December 2001, page 9. Address: 132 SW Elim Church Road, Fort White, Florida 32038. Phone: 386-497-2523. Fax: 386-497-4987. E-mail. "Former air traffic controller James Bergquist . . . said that abuse of both drugs and alcohol by air traffic controllers has been a problem for many years. He said that errors by air traffic controllers have contributed to several aviation crashes and near misses."From "The War at Home," AIM Report, December 13, 2001, pages 6-7. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "Democrats are proposing a 'radical' National Climate Service (NCS) . . . [While] the NSW [National Weather Service] mostly predicts weather a week or so ahead -- and has a hard enough time of it at that -- the NCS will be looking years and decades into the future, if not centuries."From "Scaremongering?" Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 14-20, 2002, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The U.S. taxpayer, through the generosity of federal agencies, is providing money to fund the conservation projects of 20 major environmental groups. In 2000, $377,000 a day went to organizations whose mission is to wrest control of property from private owners. The biggest winner was The Nature Conservancy, which last year received $37.5 million. . . . Maybe the Bush administration needs to be asked why we are funding organizations that seek to destroy our liberty."From "Funding Our Own Destruction," Freedom Alert, January 2002, page 8. Address: Citizens for Constitutional Property Rights, Incorporated, PO Box 540575, Merritt Island, Florida 32954. Editor: John Earley, PO box 31, Loxahatchee, Florida 33470. Phone: 561-793-7451. Fax: 561-792-1992. E-mail. "The UN has just announced a proposal that would fingerprint every single person in the world and set up an international file on them. Does this terrify you? It should!."From the January 2002 Annual Report of the American Policy Center, by Tom DeWeese, president. Distributed with The DeWeese Report, February 2002, 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. "China's legislature on Jan. 1 adopted the country's first law on population control and family planning, aimed at further promoting the widely criticized one-child policy. . . . The policy restricts the number of children couples can have to one for city residents and two for rural workers, if their first child is a girl. Ethnic minorities are permitted to have two or three children because of their small population and because they live in areas with harsh natural conditions."From "Beijing Codifies 1-Child Policy," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 7-13, 2002, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "That anti-religion bastion of political correctness, the New York City public school system, has quietly sanctioned prayer in schools -- but only if you're a Muslim who wants to worship during Ramadan. . . . After a flood of complaints about the decision, which blatantly violated the Supreme Court's ruling banning school prayer, the plan was abruptly dropped."From "NYC OKs Prayer in School -- for Muslims," NewsMax.com, January 15, 2002, page 6. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "By the year 2000, subsidies to farmers made up 49% of their income -- a record $23 billion. . . Congress has spent triple the sum it originally authorized for subsidies."From "Freedom to Mooch," The Right Ear, Human Events, January 14, 2002, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Due to an all-too-familiar, hysteria-based campaign by environmentalists during the 1965-1972 construction phase of the World Trade Centers, all the floors above the 64th story of the Trade Centers had to be constructed without asbestos-based heat-resistant fireproofing. . . Herbert Levine, an expert in skyscraper safety technology warned: 'If fire breaks out above the 64th floor, the building(s) will fall down.'"From The American Sentinel, January 2002, page 3. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "Clinton's holdover NLRB [National Labor Relations Board] has decreed that nonunion workers can be forced to wear pro-union propaganda as a condition of employment."From The American Sentinel, January 2002, page 6. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "Two middle school students in Rochester, Minn., were disciplined for wearing red and green scarves in a Christmas skit and for ending the skit by saying, 'We hope you all have a merry Christmas.' Two ninth-graders in Plymouth, Mass., were told they could not create Christmas cards that say 'Merry Christmas' or depict a nativity scene. A teacher in Plymouth, Ill., was warned by her principal not to read a book about Christmas to her second-grade students. the book was in the school's library. The superintendent of the Silverton, Ore., school district had students remove all 'religious' holiday decorations from their lockers but allowed secular decorations. The county school board in Covington, Ga., deleted the word 'Christmas' from the school calendar after the American Civil Liberties Union threatened legal action. [P]olicy in New York public schools . . . allows the display of the Jewish menorah and the Muslim star and crescent, but not the Christian nativity."From "Public Schools Deem Christmas Cheer Too 'Religious'," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 17-23, 2001, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Vicente Fox presented Mexico's Congress with a five-year development plan to eliminate the U.S.-Mexican border."From "Security Starts at Our Borders," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, November 2001, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "[A] toxicologist at Stockholm University recently explained at a Cato Institute forum that thanks to environmentalist overreactions, consumers can't buy or use many useful products in his country. Wite-Out, for example, is an illegal product in Sweden. Regulators are in the process of outlawing lead batteries in cars. Homeowners buying paint will find only extremely shoddy products on store shelves. And nearly all pesticides and herbicides is Sweden are either banned or only available through expensive licensed contractors."From "Guilty Until Proven Green," The American Enterprise, January/February 2002, page 13. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "Comparing IRS auditing data from 1991 to 1997, [three business school professors] find that 'The percentage of tax returns audited by the IRS is markedly lower in states that are important to the sitting President's re-election aspirations.'"From "Politics and the IRS," The Digest, The American Enterprise, January/February 2002, page 57. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "According to published reports, the [Madison, Wisconsin school] District Board of Trustees banned the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance because it contained the word 'God.'"From "Pledge of Allegiance Banned," Our Life & Times, Media Bypass, December 2001, page 46. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Under that law [the 1990 Immigration Act, sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA)] merely advocating terrorism, or even belonging to a group that engages in terrorism, could not be used as grounds for denying a U.S. visa. The regulations said: 'Statements approving a specific terrorist act, and asserting that such acts should be repeated, do not render an applicant ineligible.'"From "Security Starts at Our Borders," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, November 2001, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "The United States has been granting 250,000 visas a year to Middle Easterners, including aliens from Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan. Applicants from Saudi Arabia can get 'Multiple Use' two-year visas and, beginning June 25, can take advantage of an express visa service that waives the requirement of personal appearance. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers got their visas in Saudi Arabia."From "Security Starts at Our Borders," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, November 2001, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "[The U.S.] government officially classifies all Middle Eastern people (Arabic, Turkic, Iranian, or Afghan) as white. In other words, according to our government, the terrorists were the same racial and ethnic stock as European Americans. This is part of a government policy of defining whiteness in a way that inflates the number of whites in America and obscures the extent of demographic change."From "Who Is White?" by H.A. Scott Trask, American Renaissance, January 2002, page 1. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "[The census] bureau says 'Hispanic' is not a racial category. . . . As it does with Hispanics, the census bureau lets Middle Easterners choose their own race from among the four options of White, Black, 'Some Other Race,' or a combination of these three. . . If a Middle Easterner chooses 'Some Other Race' . . . the bureau calls that person white. . . . [T]he government can maintain the fiction of a white majority long after it ceased to exist, and thus continue to use the majority/minority terminology that undergirds the racial spoils system that benefits non-whites."From "Who Is White?" by H.A. Scott Trask, American Renaissance, January 2002, pages 3-4. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "[V]accines are cocktails of toxic substances such as formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, alcohol and genetic material from aborted human fetal tissue, chickens, cows, sheep and monkeys. . . . A vaccine may only contain .002 percent of a toxic substance such as formaldehyde. The percentage may seem like an insignificant, or 'safe' amount. However, the percentages, particularly when multiple antigens are injected at one time, often exceed the parts per million safety guidelines established by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency."From "Show Your Doctor What's in Shots," The Idaho Observer, November 28, 2001, page 10. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website. "A French court has ruled that a six-year-old boy named Lionel who has Down's syndrome 'is entitled to damages for having been born,' reported the BBC on November 28th. His parents have already received approximately $100,000 in damages because a medical examination of the pregnant mother failed to reveal the child's condition."From "French Court Upholds 'Right' Not to Be Born," The New American, December 31, 2001, 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. "[A] counter-terrorism pamphlet [Project Megiddo] produced by the Phoenix FBI office in 1999 . . . listed . . . presumably [as] the single greatest danger [are you ready for this?] 'Right Wing Extremists.' . . . [T]he pamphlet entirely ignored the possibility of radical Islamic terrorism."From "Flag-Waving Terrorist?" by William Norman Grigg, The New American, December 31, 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. "The backlog of security clearance investigations stands at 318,000 and could reach 1.2 million cases by 2002. The federalization of security screening at the nation's airports will increase that backlog by an additional 26,000."From "America's Wake-Up Call," AIM Report, 2001, Report #22, page 4. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.  Government Run Amuck items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amuck items for First Quarter, 2000. Second Quarter, 2000. Third Quarter, 2000. Fourth Quarter, 2000. Government Run Amuck items for First Quarter, 2001. Second Quarter, 2001. Third Quarter, 2001. Fourth Quarter, 2001.
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