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

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Posted here for 12-19-05:

"Last year when thousands of volunteer border observers (the Minutemen) kept vigil at the Arizona-Mexico border, Mexican troops interdicted would-be crossers, loaded them into trucks, and moved them to crossing points beyond the eyes and ears of the Minutemen. Illegal aliens are some of the most violent criminals in the United States today, accounting for 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide in border states."
From The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Thanks to a congressional earmark, an open-borders advocacy group [The National Council of La Raza] that pushes for driver's licenses, free in-state tuition and healthcare for illegal aliens and bilingual requirements for state agencies and ballots, is slated to get $4 million in new taxpayer money to add to the more than $30 million it has received from various federal agencies since 1996."
From "Congress Earmarks $4 Million for La Raza," by Amanda Carpenter, Human Events, December 5, 2005, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"In a Mishawaka, Indiana high school, l5-year-old Chelsea Rhoades was given a TeenScreen exam [a series of questions administered in public schools to screen young people for mental illness], after which she was told she was suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder. This was based on her responses that she liked to help clean the house and she didn't like to 'party' very much."
From "Judges Protect Mental Screening," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, December 2005, page 2. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on November 2, 2005 that parents' fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children 'does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door,' and that a public school has the right to provide its students with 'whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise. [. . .] The Ninth Circuit court said that since the government has put limits on parents' rights by requiring school attendance, therefore, the school can tell the students whatever it wants about sex, guns, the military, gay marriage, and the origins of life. [. . .] The three liberal judges based their decision on 'our evolving understanding of the nature of our Constitution'."
From "Judicial Supremacists Lash Out at Parents," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, December 2005, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 12-12-05:

"The prayers of Christian chaplains in our Armed Forces are being censored! [. . .] Christian chaplains [. . .] are being told not to pray in the name of Jesus! Some chaplains have been criticized and even reprimanded for using Bible verses and invoking the name of Jesus in memorial services."
From a solicitation letter dated 11-3-05 from Jay Alan Sekulo, chief counsel, American Center for Law & Justice, PO Box 90555, Washington, DC 20090-0555.


"Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer is a strong critic of the legalistic mentality afflicting U. S. spy operations. 'The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, the lawyers were more concerned with his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in. . . They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. Lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community."
From "Here's a Threat Assessment Washington Wants to Keep under Wraps," The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The Senate has voted to increase immigration by an estimated 350,0OO a year, as part of the Deficit Reduction Omnibus Bill Reconciliation Act. The bill passed the Senate on November 3 by a margin of 52 to 47, and raises the cap on Hl-B visas, which are given to highly skilled workers, from 65.000 to 95,000. [. . .] The House, which is much less favorable to mass immigration than the Senate, seems to be ready for a fight. [. . .] There are now 450,000 H1-B holders working as programmers. One hundred thousand American programmers are out of work."
From "The Sneaky Senate," American Renaissance, December 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"The federal government now has an estimated $50 trillion in unfunded liability that will sooner or later have to come out of taxpayers' hides. [. . .] Total federal unfunded liabilities are equal to $473.000 for each U.S. family."
From "Federal Financial Ponzi Scheme Threatens Millions of Retirements," The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 12-5-05:

"[W]hole suburbs of Paris have been put to the torch, with threats of further riots in Germany and Belgium. The European response? They apologize. [. . .] Because Muslims have demanded changes in the law, Europeans risk jail for criticizing Islam. [. . .] Christianity in France, in particular the Catholic Church is nearly dead, having been attacked by the culture of death: widespread contraception, abortion, pornography, and free sex. Now, radical Islam threatens Europe with final extinction. A similar fate may await the United States as efforts proceed to build a Western Hemisphere analogous to the European Union. The same recipe that led to the European intifada is being followed by our own policymaking elite: open borders, plus welfare subsidies, plus official recognition of, and deference to, demands made by self-appointed 'leaders' of unassimilated ethnic communities. Thus we may be seeing a preview of America's future."
From "Paris Aflame: Preview of America's Future?" by Insider Report, The New American, November 28, 2005, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"In the initial harried days following Hurricane Katrina, contracts were rushed through for three ships from Carnival Cruise Lines. [. . .] The current government head count shows: 625 are living aboard the Ecstasy, with a capacity for 2,544 passengers, 820 are living aboard the Sensation, with room for 2,579, 342 souls are on the Holiday, with room for 1,486. [. . .] With the cruise ships less than a third full, the cost per passenger each week is north of $3,500. [. . .] Or, to look at it another way, it would be cheaper for the government to house evacuees in suites at the Waldorf."
From "$236 Million Cruise Ship Blunder," by Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com (the magazine), November 2005, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Religious persecution in China has reached the point that distributing Bibles is earning a three-year prison sentence."
From "Handing out Bibles in China Can Get One a 3-Year Sentence," by Julila Duin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 14-20, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"What do you do if you're a state politician and one of every six young students in your state is deemed English-deficient? If you're Florida state Sen. Lesley Miller, the chamber's minority leader, you introduce legislation requiring those who understand English to learn Spanish, with proposed mandatory instruction to begin in 2007. 'It is unfortunate that some of our legislators need to be reminded that we are an English-speaking nation,' notes Mauro E. Mujica, the Hispanic chairman of Washington, D.C.-based U.S. English Inc."
From "Spanish Mandate," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 21-27, 2005, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 11-28-05:

"School officials at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley. California voted to rename their school ..Sequoia Elementary" after three Sequoia trees on the school's grounds. Teachers, administrators, and parents were offended that the school was named after a slave owner."
From "Education Bias, Corruption, . . . and Stupidity," Libertas, Summer 2005, page 34. Address: Young America's Foundation, FM Kirby Freedom Center, 110 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170. Phone: 703-318-9608, or 800-USA-1776. Fax: 703-318-9122. Website.


"A sober assessment of the available evidence makes it very difficult to avoid this very disturbing conclusion: high officials of the Clinton Justice Department and FBI committed murder (possibly several murders) to hide details of the OKC bombing from the American public. They also committed perjury, falsified and hid documents, and kept the guilty from being punished. [. . .] The succeeding Bush administration has not only continued the Clinton coverup but has promoted many of the guilty. [. . .] Resolving the Oklahoma City bombing is vitally important not only in order to obtain justice for the victims of that decade-old terrorist attack. but to safeguard our national security in the war on terror. As we have noted in previous articles, the three major terrorist attacks on U.S. soil -- the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 0KC bombing, and the 2001 9/11 attacks -- are all directly connected, both in terms of the terrorist perpetrators involved and the government officials who have 'fumbled' intelligence and informants alerting them to the attacks beforehand. And in each case they have allowed perpetrators to escape and have covered up evidence of government duplicity and/or complicity."
From "Terror, Lies & Memos," by William F. Jasper, The New American, November 28, 2005, 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.


"Just after securing the 2012 Olympic Games for London, British politicians are discovering that three of the pistol shooting events are outlawed under legislation passed in 1997. Since that time, it has been illegal for British marksmen to train on their home soil."
From "British Politicians Discover that Olympic Shooting Events Are Illegal," America's First Freedom, November 2005, page 61. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.



Posted here for 11-21-05:

"The Phoenix fire Department's Search and Rescue team was kicked out of federal rescue operations by President Bush's FEMA because the group included armed police officers for protection. [. . .] The team was credited with rescuing more than 400 survivors of Hurricane Katrina from rooftops and freeway overpasses in flooded areas of the city. FEMA officials suspended the Phoenix crew after members were seen embarking on a helicopter while carrying shotguns during rescue operations following Hurricane Rita."
From "Anti-Gun Feds," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2005, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"In 2003, two black congressmen, Charles Rangel of New York and John Conyers of Michigan, introduced a bill in the House to reinstitute the draft so as to remove, as Rep. Conyers put it, 'the long-held stigma that people of color and persons from low-income backgrounds are disproportionately killed and injured I while serving.' [. . .] 1n late September, the Defense Department produced a racial breakdown of the 1,841 Americans killed through May 28, 2005. Whites, who make up 67 percent of the armed forces, accounted for 71 percent of the fatalities. Blacks, 17 percent of military personnel, made up just nine percent. Hispanics were nine percent of the overall force and suffered ten percent of the fatalities, while the fatality rate for Asians, Pacific Islanders and Indians exactly matched their proportion in the military: four percent. [. . .] In Korea, 80 percent of fatalities were white, in Vietnam 86 percent, and during the Persian Gulf War, it was 76 percent."
From "Thin White Line," American Renaissance, November 2005, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 11-14-05:

"A new report by the Government Accountability Office confirms airport security procedures are no more effective than before 9-11."
From The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"When a team of volunteer firefighters from Indiana rushed down to aid flooded New Orleans, bureaucratic ninnies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency assigned them to handing out brochures and then required them to sit through a multi-hour course on sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity."
From The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Federal spending now matches the equivalent of $22.000 per U.S. household."
From The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"A Tufts University study shows the super cautious, over controlling FDA bureaucracy now takes an average of 15.2 years to approve the testing and development of new medicines (up from 8.1 years in the 1960s, pre-FDA)."
From The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"[T]he United Nation's World Health Organization (WHO) has said it will enforce newly-adoped European Union (EU) restrictions against over-the-counter vitamin supplements in all member countries. (The United States is a signatory to the WHO, which means vitamin supplements on which so many Americans depend may soon start disappearing from store shelves)."
From The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 11-7-05:

"The children of illegal immigrants are likely to be labeled with behavioral 'disabilities' and get government money aid."
From "Not Giving Up on Immigration Control," by Kurt Williamsen, The New American, October 31, 2005, 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.


"[B]y 1999 American infants who received every vaccine recommended by the CDC by age six months were being injected with levels of ethylmercury 187 times greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin."
From "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Takes a Stand," The Vaccine Hotline, Fall 2005, page 7. Address: National Vaccine Information Center, 421-E Church Street, Vienna, Virginia 22180. Phone: 703-938-0342. Fax: 703-938-5768. Website.


"According to the U.S. Government, Mercury in Small Amounts Is Toxic Everywhere on Earth . . . Except in the Bodies of American Children."
From an ad sponsored by Unlocking Autism and the National Vaccine Information Center, as reported in "NVIC and UA Launch National Ad Campaign," The Vaccine Hotline, Fall 2005, page 4. Address: National Vaccine Information Center, 421-E Church Street, Vienna, Virginia 22180. Phone: 703-938-0342. Fax: 703-938-5768. Website.


"Unvaccinated Children Have Less Asthma, Hay Fever."
From "NVIC Participates in Asthma/Vaccine Study," The Vaccine Hotline, Fall 2005, page 9. Address: National Vaccine Information Center, 421-E Church Street, Vienna, Virginia 22180. Phone: 703-938-0342. Fax: 703-938-5768. Website.


"The federal government spent $73,000 on jet fuel, pilot salaries, and plane maintenance to fly 44 members of Congress to Florida for a front row seat to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on July 14. But the launch was delayed due to a faulty sensor, so everyone went home."
From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, October 2005, page 6. 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 10-24-05:

"The leaders of Mexico, the United States, and Canada are moving forward with the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership,' which would effectively end the borders between the respective countries. This explains why President Bush is adamant about an amnesty for illegal aliens."
From "Mexicaid," Insider Report, The New American, October 17, 2005, 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.


"The Bush administration has helped build a fledgling UN military and police force, increasing the likelihood that the U.S. will eventually subordinate itself to UN authority."
From "Here Come the UN Army & Police," by Thomas R. Eddlem, The New American, October 17, 2005, page 28. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Commas, periods and question marks are the latest targets of the PC police, a fact that at least one New York City junior high school teacher discovered recently when she received a formal reprimand for teaching punctuation. Teacher/journalist Ron Isaac reported in EducationNews.org that her mistake was not in teaching it incorrectly, but that she covered it in the first place. The same school punished another teacher for telling her class that spelling counts. 'The supervisor was upheld in her ruling that because spelling is not in the curriculum, it has no place in the classroom among the criterion (sic) for evaluation.' [. . .] Throughout New York, elementary schools are 'tossing out brand-new dictionaries with the trash for garbage collectors or scavengers. Dictionaries are associated with the tyranny of tradition.' Under the new cult of 'progressivism,' asking students to memorize multiplication tables, 'find nations on a globe, or identify New York's tunnels and bridges and the places they connect, have all been treated as serious offenses by school administrators.'"
From "PC Zealots Ban Punctuation," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, August 2005, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"In order to promote gender-neutral attire, a junior high school in Northern Ireland has recently banned skirts for girls, and mandated all students to wear pants when they return to school this fall. According to head teacher Marilyn Warden at Broadstonc Middle School, 'forcing girls out of skirts and into pants will eliminate discrimination based on gender,' and 'enhance all of our pupils' educational experience.'"
From "Skirts Banned for Gender Discrimination," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, August 2005, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"In a July 5 decision, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ruled against some two dozen U.S. citizens who are being denied the same in-state tuition benefits the state of Kansas provides to illegal aliens."
From "Lower Court Judge Rules Against U.S. Citizens; In Favor of Illegal Aliens in Kansas Tuition Suit," FAIR Immigration Report, July/August 2005, page 1. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 10-17-05:

"A group of teachers in the U.K. has proposed banning the use of the word 'failure' in classrooms and replacing it with the term 'deferred success'."
From "Squeaky Chalk," by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, September 2005, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"Between 1991 and 1995, more than 45 New Orleans police officers were charged with crimes, including murder, rape, bank robbery, racketeering, drug trafficking, bribery, auto theft and aggravated battery."
From "Voodoo, Violence, and Victimology," American Renaissance, October 2005, page 8. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"[Although] polygamy has been illegal in France since 1993, [. . .] there are between 8,000 and 15,000 polygamous households in France, and each has an average of 10 children. [. . .] The government encourages extra wives to divorce their husbands, but this is not mandatory. So far, only 24 wives from polygamous families have divorced. It is illegal to bring more than one wife into France, but the French do not enforce the law for fear of accusations of racism."
From "Pampering Polygamists," American Renaissance, October 2005, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"The federal government's plan to resettle thousands of primitive Somali Bantu bush people into various communities around 21st century America [. . .] isn't going so well [. . .] The Bantu do not speak English, and many have never seen a light switch or a door knob before their arrival."
From "Clumsy Do-Gooders at Work," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2005, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"The government of Mexico is creating staging areas for illegals as they gather to prepare to cross the border into the U.S. Many of the sites along the border with New Mexico are marked with high-flying bright blue flags and pennants to signal to illegal crossers that water and shelter are available."
From "A Helping Hand," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2005, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 10-10-05:

"Back in 1996, the school board in Oakland, Calif., declared that Ebonies, the urban dialect spoken by US blacks. as a separate language. Now the school Board in San Bernadino plans to 'affirm' and 'recognize' Ebonies through a supplemental reading program to improve black self-esteem and school performance."
From "Ebonics Returns," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, September 2005, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"North Korea's government is producing high-quality counterfeit $100 bills and is working with criminal groups in China to sell the fake U.S. money internationally, U.S. officials say." [That's our "friends", the Chinese.]
From "N. Korea Tied to Counterfeit $100 Bills," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 26-October 2, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Ignoring overwhelming community opposition and the recommendation of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Planning Commission to a publicly financed hiring center for illegal alien day laborers, the town of Herndon approved construction and operation of the site in a 5 to 2 vote on August 17. Herndon is now slated to spend $400,000 of the public's money to construct the job center." [For illegal aliens!]
From "Illegal Alien Day Labor Hiring Sites Become National Issue," FAIR Immigration Report, September 2005, page 1. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"The Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Mortgage Guarantee Insurance Corporation now facilitate banks that lend money to illegal aliens looking to buy homes in this country." [Remember when "illegal" was illegal?]
From "Uncle Sam Wants You to Help an Illegal Alien Buy a Home," FAIR Immigration Report, September 2005, page 3. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"U.N. control and destruction of privately owned guns -- yours and mine [. . .] includes the following steps: Prohibit civilian ownership of certain weapons (read, handguns and semiautomatics); Prevent the build-up of private arsenals (read, ban gun collecting); License all legal users, register all small arms, and implement safe storage requirements (read, U.N. imposed site Inspections of your home with power to take our guns); Limit the carrying of guns (read, the end of Right to Carry); Restrict ammunition sales to license holders only [and] effectively enforce these restrictions (read, enforcement aided by groups like the Violence Policy Center and Brady Campaign); Make gun laws uniform within national borders (read, U.N.-mandated federal gun bans)."
From "Standing Guard," by Wayne LaPierre, America's First Freedom, October 2005, page 10. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.



Posted here for 10-3-05:

"Spending is approaching $10,000 per pupil [in the government schools] -- double what it was three decades ago, adjusting for inflation. [. . .] "Many people believe that teachers are horribly underpaid. In fact, the average elementary-school teacher makes $30.75 per hour, more than architects ($26.64), mechanical engineers ($29.46), and chemists ($30.68)."
From "School Myths," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 19-25, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"German TV reporters tested the bathrooms of the European Parliament for signs of cocaine, and found that 90 percent of them had residue of the drug."
From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, October-December 2005, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 9-26-05:

"[A]n unprecedented school board vote in Dallas County, Texas [. . .] requires school administrators to learn Spanish or else lose their jobs."
From "Se Habla Espanol?" Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 5-11, 2005, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[T]ests taken by 1.2 million high school graduates [. . .] found that only 51 percent achieved an acceptable level in reading, 41 percent in math. and 26 percent in science."
From "College Readiness Examiners See Trouble Ahead," The New American, September 19, 2005, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Fully sixty percent of the test items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are about attitudes! And you thought the government was testing to see if they had learned anything about history, literature, geography or science? Too late! What they have learned and what they are being tested for are the attitudes the government wants them to have. Not yours."
From Warning Signs, by Alan Caruba, 2003, page 49. Published by Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington 98009.


"The army test allows women three minutes more than men to do a two-mile run; men must do forty push-ups, women only sixteen. The navy test allows women three minutes more than men to do a l.5-mile run; men must do twenty-nine push-ups, women only eleven. The Marine Corps requires men to do three pull-ups but doesn't require women to do any at -- just a sixteen-second flexed arm hang."
From Feminist Fantasies, by Phyllis Schlafly, 2003, pages 176-177. Published by Spence Publishing Company, 111 Cole Street, Dallas, Texas 75207.


"[I]n 1972, the U.S. signed the UN World Heritage Treaty. It created 'World Heritage Sites' and 'Biosphere Reserves.' Selected for their cultural, historical or natural significance, national governments are obligated to protect these landmarks. Since 1972, 68 percent of all U.S. national parks, monuments and preserves have been designated World Heritage Sites. Among those that fall under the ultimate control of the United Nations are the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello, the Washington Monument, the Brooklyn Bridge, Yellowstone National Park, the Florida Everglades, and the Grand Canyon."
From Warning Signs, by Alan Caruba, 2003, pages 32-33. Published by Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington 98009.



Posted here for 9-19-05:

"The U.S. Northern Command and the North Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs have banned the word 'warrior' from military exercises. NORAD spokesman Air Force Master Sgt. John Tomassi told the Washington Times that 'warrior' and other words were changed to soothe Indian sensibilities."
From "Sensitive Military," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, September 2005, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials."
From "U.S. Sees Taiwan Crisis in 2 Years," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 4-10, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"China's communist leaders view the United States as their main enemy and are working in Asia and around the world to undermine U.S. alliances, said a former Chinese diplomat."
From "Defector: China's 'Enemy" Is U.S.," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 4-10, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[R]eports of systematic human rights violations continue to emerge from China, with one of the latest cases involving 34-year old Jiang Zongxiu, who was arrested and then beaten to death by Communist police for passing out Bibles and Christian literature. Reports out of China clearly indicate that the regime is increasing its persecution and torture of Christians."
From "Time to Recognize the China Threat," AIM Report, March-1 2005, page 5. Address: Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 9-12-05:

"France has a secret pact with the Muslims: if the Muslims do not terrorize the French, France will accommodate the Muslims. European intelligence operatives claim that the British government had a similar agreement with the Muslims and were blindsided by the deadly terrorist bombings that started on July 7."
From "Profile of a Terrorist," by Robert H. Goldborough, Middle America News, September 2005, 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.


"Imported foods like Guatemalan raspberries, which have in the past been contaminated with cyclospora, are increasingly unlikely to be banned when contaminated. This is because trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA allow other countries to sue the U.S. when we interrupt the import of foods for any reason."
From "Federal and State Fumbling of Responsibilities," The New American, September 5, 2005, page 16. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Medicaid and Medicare, America's version of socialized medicine, squander many billions of dollars per year through increased paperwork and administrative costs and through payments for fraudulent charges (about $20 billion in fraud annually)."
From "The Best Healthcare in the World," by Dennis Behreandt, The New American, September 5, 2005, page 23. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"In Canada, which has a single-payer universal healthcare system, when people need body scans to check for disease, they go on a waiting list or come to the United States; however, if their pets need a scan, they can get [one immediately]."
From "The Best Healthcare in the World," by Dennis Behreandt, The New American, September 5, 2005, 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.


"NICHD, a subdivision of the National Institutes of Health, has provided $1,178,450 to a 'fisheries and wildlife' professor for research focusing, at least in part, on 'giant panda habitats' in China's Wolong Nature Reserve."
From "Two Federal Agencies Give $2.6 Million to Panda Scholar," by Terence P. Jeffrey, Human Events, August 29, 2005, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.



Posted here for 9-5-05:

"[T]he Clarke County (Virginia) Planning Commission tried to force a draconian land use plan on local residents [. . .] The Plan [. . .] would have required property owners to leave 65% of their land undeveloped and would have ensured it remain so by demanding the owners place it in conservation easements."
From Liberty Matters, as quoted in Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Canada is the only nation other than Cuba or North Korea which bans private health insurance, according to the San Francisco Pacific Research Institute. Canadians consequently wait an average of 17.5 weeks for surgery and other therapeutic treatments."
From The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski [has a plan] to impose a mileage tax on fuel-efficient cars. Kulongoski's scheme involves placing a tracking device on all cars, which records and documents the miles driven. Each gas station would be equipped with a computer to download this information every time a driver stops for fuel. The system would charge [a] tax based on how much and where the driver has gone between fuel stops."
From The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Some of the US military's most important training bases are in the desert along the Mexican border, which means illegal aliens wander onto firing ranges. Colonel James J. Cooney, commanding officer of the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona [. . .] says he's had to close the range more than 500 times since last July. Col. Cooney's men intercepted 1,500 illegals last year and 1,100 during the first three months of 2005. [. . .] Closing the range to chase illegals has meant a loss of 1,100 hours of training hours. [. . .] An Air Force spokesman says it had to suspend bomb-drop training on a range near Gila Band 55 times last year because of illegals, for a loss of 122 combat training hours."
From "Illegal Targets," American Renaissance, July 2005, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"California is the first state to ban weeding by hand on most farms, saying the work is too back-breaking for laborers. Under a rule approved last week by the California Occupational Safety and Health Division, farmworkers, in most cases, will not have to stoop to pull weeds, but will instead be given long-handled tools that will allow them to work without bending over."
From "Amazing Facts & Quotes," compiled by Gail Brooks, Carrie Depaoli & Barbara Wies, Range, Magazine, Winter 2005, page 9. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 8-29-05:

"Let's assume that you and your family are on your way home from church. You have a gun in the glove compartment that is there for self-protection. After driving within 1,000 feet of a school (which is almost unavoidable), you stop by the grocery store to pick up a few items for lunch. As you are exiting your car, you are approached by a gang of teenagers, armed with long screwdrivers and wrenches. Realizing that you are about to be mugged, you brandish your firearm in order to scare them off -- although this act on your part is a violation of state law which requires that you first retreat, rather than defend yourself. Congratulations. Under legislation that recently passed the House, all the members of your family are now subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison -- and up to life imprisonment. The judge would have no discretion to release you before the end of the ten-year period -- but an anti-gun judge could sentence you and your family to life imprisonment."
From "Congress Passes Extreme Penalties for Some Who Use Guns in Self-Defense," by Mike Hammond, Gun Owners, August 15, 2005, page 1. Address: Gun Owners of America, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8585. Website.


"Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) supports government background checks on gun buyers, but not [on] illegal aliens."
From "Extreme Hypocrisy: Politicians Want Gun Buyers Checked, Not Illegal Aliens," by Jeff Johnson, Gun Owners, August 15, 2005, page 3. Address: Gun Owners of America, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8585. Website.


"Hours after the [Kelo] Supreme Court decision, Freeport, Texas filed papers to seize two family-owned seafood businesses to make way for a boat marina. Sunset Hills, Missouri voted to condemn 85 homes and businesses for a shopping mall. [. . .] Faced with overwhelming public sentiment, more than half the states are taking initiatives to limit Kelo v. New London. In every instance, Republicans are leading the charge. Meanwhile, Democrats are tagging along reluctantly -- or looking for a place to hide."
From "An Eminent Public Issue," Scan, The American Enterprise, September 2005, page 8. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Tinmath, Colorado, a town of 223, banned smoking in bars and restaurants. Tinmath has no bars or restaurants."
From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, September 2005, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Creating one gallon of 'green' ethanol from corn -- which the U.S. government now subsidizes to the tune of $3 billion per year -- takes 1.3 gallons of fossil fuel energy. It'd be more energy efficient to just not try."
From "Fool's-Gold Fuel," The American Enterprise, September 2005, page 13. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.



Posted here for 8-22-05:

"Do you know why the U.S. Social Security Administration is planning a new building -- in Mexico City? Because State Department bureaucrats are about to sign a deal sending your Social Security check south of the border. And they'll need this new building for the five million Mexicans who are expected to get this new welfare giveaway."
From a solicitation letter from Congressman Ron Paul, The Liberty Committee, PO Box 98121, Washington DC 20090.


"U.S. elites have embarked on a plan to merge the U.S. with Canada and Mexico over the next five years, according to documents published by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)."
From "U.S. Elites Plan to Merge America with Mexico and Canada by 2010," Middle America News, August 2005, 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.


"When the Border Patrol catches a Mexican illegal crossing the border, he can be back in Mexico in hours. Things are different for non-Mexican border-crossers. International law prevents the Border Patrol from returning them to Mexico; the US has to buy them tickets to their home countries. It takes weeks or even months to arrange travel. [. . .] It is to the advantage of a non-Mexican illegal to be caught by the Border Patrol. [. . .] [H]e gets free food and board for the night, and often a ride to the bus station the next morning. Non-Mexican illegals have figured out that the Border Patrol is a welcome wagon; it is common to see them flagging down agents."
From "Welcome Wagon," American Renaissance, July 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"The transportation bill is packed with $11 billion in special spending projects to enrich contractors in Congressional districts. It contains 5,000+ special pork spending items. . ."
From The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Until 2001, not once in more than 200 years had a judicial nominee been denied appointment to the court by Senate filibuster."
From The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.



Posted here for 8-15-05:

"Should people who apply for driver's licenses be able to read and understand the English language? [. . .] All our highway warning and hazard signs are in English. So it's easy to understand the danger posed by drivers who cannot read English. However, officials in states across America are caving in to pressure from 'immigrants' rights' groups to make driver's license exams and manuals available not only in Spanish but in many other languages."
From "Foreign Language Driver's Tests Threaten Safety," by K.C. McAlpin, Human Events, August 1, 2005, page 18. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[I]n January, President Bush floated [the] idea of a temporary guest worker program. The Bush Administration then commissioned a Border Patrol survey to go find out how many more illegal immigrants were coming across the border as a result of the Bush policy. As soon as the numbers did not turn out the way they wanted, the Bush administration ordered the survey shut down and ordered all the Border Patrol officers not to discuss it in any way."
From "Chris Farrell on 'The Jerry Doyle Show,' Wednesday, May 25, 2005," Judicial Watch Verdict, August 2005, page 16. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"[W]e [Judicial Watch] fought for four years in court to get a hold of the Clinton pardon documents. We won at the district court level; we won again at the appeals court level, but the Department of Justice has defied the appellate court in the sense that they produced the documents we asked for, but they were completely redacted (or blacked out). So they gave us 915 pages of blacked out documents, technically cooperating with what the appellate court order[ed], but obviously defying the appellate court in how they carried out the demands."
From "Battling Government Secrecy Through the Open Records Process," Judicial Watch Verdict, August 2005, page 12. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"Since World War II, the United States has spent $1.2 trillion on foreign aid to 70 countries -- and all are worse off than they were in 1980, according to the United Nations. [. . .] In Africa [. . .] most countries are 'undemocratic, corrupt, lawless and lacking in property rights,' says IBD [Investor's Business Daily]. 'Aid is simply wasted -- swallowed whole by corrupt bureaucrats and African warlords.'"
From "Africa 'Marshall Plan' Doomed, Experts Say," NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2005, page 68. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"It was fitting that the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to permit government to bulldoze private homes and businesses arbitrarily and capriciously the same week Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was bulldozing hundreds of thousands of homes in what he called 'an urban renewal program.' What's the difference? It can only be a matter of degree."
From "Call It 'the Mugabe Court'," by Joseph Farah, The DeWeese Report, July 2005, page 7, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.


"The U.S. Delegation to Codex has just issued a formal written statement to the Codex Alimentarius Commission that the United States, during the July 4-9, 2005, meeting in Rome, will support compulsory rules created by this international organization directly overruling U.S. law regarding access to vitamins."
From "US Codex Delegation Poised to Betray the Will of the American People," by Dr. Carolyn Dean, The DeWeese Report, July 2005, 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.



Posted here for 8-8-05:

"Secret testimony offered by Reagan National Security Advisor Richard Allen [disclosed] that Hanoi had offered in 1981 to return 50+ U.S. POWS in exchange for $4 billion."
From The American Sentinel, September 2004, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"On May 12, U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon struck down a constitutional amendment overwhelmingly passed by Nebraska voters in 2000. The amendment defined marriage as being between a man and a woman." [There's always a leftist judge available to thwart the will of the people.]
From "Same-Sex Marriage Drive Gets Boost," American Family Association Journal, June 2005, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"Elected public servants in the Washington State Legislature have introduced a bill that will require an individual to obtain a permit to collect rainwater on their own property for their own use, according to NewsWithViews.com."
From "Taxing the Rain in Washington," Bits & Spurs, Range, Magazine, Summer 2005, page 26. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.


"At a briefing for Western reporters in China last week, Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu of the People's Liberation Army warned that China would launch a nuclear strike on U.S. civilians if the U.S. interfered in a conflict between the PRC [People's Republic of China] and Taiwan."
From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, July 18, 2005, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.



Posted here for 8-1-05:

"Eighteen-year-old Carl Murphy suffered injuries when he fell through a skylight while attempting to break into a warehouse near Liverpool, England. He was awarded 567,000 pounds (about $1.1 million) in a liability suit. 'It annoys me that people think I don't deserve this money after all I've been through,' Murphy told a local newspaper."
From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, July/August 2005, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Communist ruler Robert Mugabe [of Zimbabwe has made] significant progress toward [. . .] reducing -- through famine, murder, and the flight of terrorized citizens -- Zimbabwe's population from 13 million just a few years ago to 10 million today. By the end of this year [. . .] Mugabe may be well on his way to halving his population."
From "Democide in Zimbabwe," The New American, July 25, 2005, 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.


"The WTO can actually require that a country change its laws, regulations and precedents -- not simply national laws, but often state and local laws." [Remember when the U.S. was a sovereign nation?]
From a quotation in Newsweek International, April 25, 2005, as quoted in "Membership in the WTO Attacks Sovereignty," compiled by John F. McManus, The New American, July 25, 2005, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"We are working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world."
From historian Arnold Toynbee in 1931, as quoted in "Condemnable Quotes," compiled by John F. McManus, The New American, July 11, 2005, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Regional arrangements such as the EU and the proposed FTAA supposedly promote free trade, but their real purpose is to gradually merge nations into a world government."
From "The World Government Two-Step," by Thomas R. Eddlem, The New American, July 11, 2005, 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.



Posted here for 7-25-05:

"Since it was created in 2002, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has confiscated more than 18 million items from travelers. Deadly scissors, baleful pen knives, evil sewing needles -- all these and more have been seized from potential terrorists of all ages, then sold in government warehouses. [. . .] Several states are now auctioning off the TSA's loot on eBay."
From "TSA on eBay," by Jesse Walker, Reason Magazine, August 2005, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Overall, 11 percent of Norway's corporate board members are women. The government says all companies must have boards of directors that are at least 40 percent women by 2007. Those that don't meet the quota will be forcibly liquidated."
From "Brickbats," Reason Magazine, August 2005, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Audits by the state comptroller in New York discovered that scores of convicted rapists and other sex offenders have been getting doses of Viagra paid for by the federal Medicaid program. Comptroller Alan Hevesi's office said that between January 2000 and March 2005, 198 sex offenders in New York received Medicaid-funded prescriptions for Viagra after their convictions."
From "Our Helpful GOvernment," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2005, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"The number of cases of leprosy in the U.S. have more than doubled since 2000, according to a report cited by Worldnetdaily.com. 'It's creeping into the U.S.,' said Dr. William Levis, head of the New York Hansen's Disease Clinic. 'This is a real phenomenon. It's a public health threat.' The source? Immigration."
From "Leprosy's Comeback," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2005, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Back in 1999, the U.N.'s Human Development Report actually proposed a 'bit tax' on information sent via the Internet. Under the plan, a person sending 100 emails a day, each containing a 10 kilobyte document, would pay a tax of 1 cent. The U.N.'s policy wonks speculated that had the tax been in effect in 1996, collected revenues would have amounted to $70 billion."
From "Global Tax Idea Still Alive," Your Tax Dollars at Work, Middle America News, July 2005, page 6. 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 7-18-05:

"Lobbied by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush agreed last week to write off $40 billion in debt owed by the regimes of 18 third world nations. [. . .] Taxpayers in the U.S. and other G-8 member nations will make up the losses. The multinational loan agencies will then be free to loan more money to the defaulting countries." [It's called: wealth redistribution.]
From "Farewell $40 Billion," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 20, 2005, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hounding cranberry farmer, Charles Johnson, for building cranberry bogs on fifty acres of his property without seeking permission. [. . .] Mr. Johnson has spent over $700,000 fighting the agency that he says has no authority to regulate his business. EPA has fined Johnson $75,000 and has ordered him to spend $1.1 million to restore 25 acres of the wetlands." [Who says private property is private?]
From "Cranberry Farmer Fights Feds," from Liberty Matters, as quoted in Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Adding up all of Medicare's unfunded costs yields a total of $68.1 trillion -- six times the unfunded liability of Social Security."
From "Reform Social Security Now," from Federalist, as quoted in Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"You can search the Constitution looking for a clause that gives Congress the discretion to create a[n] Education Department, and you will have no more luck finding it than you would finding the clause that mandates a federal prescription drug benefit."
From "Strictly Speaking," from Chuck Muth, as quoted in Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"The Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon are the only jurisdictions in the world where laws specifically permit euthanasia or assisted suicide. The Netherlands and Belgium permit both euthanasia and assisted suicide. Oregon permits assisted suicide."
From "Assisted Suicide and 'Death with Dignity'," by Rita Marker, Whistleblower, May 2005, page 32. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.





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