Posted here for 12-31-07

"[A] father in Pennsylvania [. . .] had been contacted by a teacher's aide, upset that Dad's 6-year-old son was talking about hunting. [The aide said] 'these behaviors are not acceptable at our elementary school' and 'we would like to work together with you in supporting (little Johnny) to make better choices in the future.' [T]his was in response to a child talking about hunting!"
-- "Cam's Corner," by Cam Edwards, America's First Freedom, January 2008, page 20. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.

"Freshman Virginia Senator Jim Webb, who lives only minutes from the Capitol, was tasked by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with the job of opening the Senate for as little as 22 seconds each day while the Senate was in recess. The purpose was to prevent President Bush from making any 'recess' appointments. -- that is, appointing someone to a top government post without the confirmation of the Senate."
-- "Lonely Senator Keeps Senate in Session," Quick Quotes, The New American, December 24, 2007, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"The fall of the dollar in world currency markets that began in 2006 is likely to accelerate in 2008. The U.S. dollar, which began January 2006 at 88.86 on the FOREX international currency index, ended the year at 83.67, a drop of approximately 6 percent. For the year, the dollar fell approximately 11.5 percent versus the euro, 13.6 percent versus the British pound, and by 7.3 percent versus the Swiss franc. [. . .] International markers viewed the Federal Reserve's decision on Sept. 18 to cut the federal funds benchmark rate by 50 basis points (0.50 percent, or half of one percent) -- the first time the Fed lowered rates in four years -- as a sign that the Fed has abandoned the dollar to protect the stock market."
-- "Will the Dollar Collapse in 2008?" by Jerome R. Corsi, Whistleblower magazine, November 2007, page 16. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"In August, China threatened to exercise the 'nuclear option,' a massive dollar sell-off to retaliate against signals the U.S. Congress was contemplating new regulations in response to the recent scandals with China importing to the U.S. poisonous food products and toys tainted with lead paint."
-- "Will the Dollar Collapse in 2008?" by Jerome R. Corsi, Whistleblower magazine, November 2007, page 16. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Posted here for 12-17-07

"In one of the most ominous legal cases in an era of ominous litigation, an Italian judge last year heard arguments on whether or not a parish priest in that nation should stand trial for claiming Jesus of Nazareth actually existed. [. . .] Although [Luigi] Cascioli and his attorney [who filed the complaint] knew their case had little chance of success in the home of the Roman Catholic Church, their strategy was to go through the necessary legal steps that would enable them, ultimately, to bring their anti-Jesus case before the European Court of Human Rights. There, said [Cascioli's attorney Mauro] Fonzo, he would accuse the church of 'religious racism'."
-- "Atheist Sues Priest for Claiming Jesus CHrist Existed," by Joe Kovacs, Whistleblower magazine, September 2007, page 20. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Earlier this year George Washington dollar coins were not only inscribed with the words 'In God We Trust' on their edges, but many excluded them entirely!"
-- "How to Outlaw Christianity," by Chuck Norris, Whistleblower magazine, September 2007, page 23. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Without precedent, the cocky post-World War II [Supreme] court decided government could be separated from the one thing our founders thought was essential to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- faith in the reality of God. Those 1947 justices believed something truly disastrous: that government can be neutral to truth, and that religion is irrelevant to public life. They made one of the worst and most foolish judicial decisions in history based on their own personal, secular assumptions about life, and as a result, America is losing her identity."
-- "Separation of Atheism and State," by Bob Just, Whistleblower magazine, September 2007, page 38. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"[T]he Texas State Library and Archives Commission has, after more than 18 months of intensive research, finally released a 668-page report . . . revealing that there are too many government reports in the state of Texas. According to AP, the Commission concluded that of the state's 1,600 mandated reports, more than 400 'are obsolete, duplicative, or not needed. . .'"
-- "Paper Pushers," The Limbaugh Letter, December 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 12-10-07

"The cabinet ministers who run the government of Afro-racist strongman Robert Mugabe in black-ruled Zimbabwe [. . .] cheerfully handed over $5 billion Zimbabwean dollars to a self-styled spirit medium, Nomatter Tagarira, because she claimed to be able to produce diesel fuel out of rocks by hitting them with her staff, helping to alleviate the country's perpetual fuel shortages. She was also rewarded with a farm that had been seized from its white owner during Mugabe's property expropriations."
-- "Fools Running the Show," World Watch, Middle America News, December 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Fighting global warming as prescribed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could cost as much as $240 billion per year, more than double the yearly cost of the war in Iraq."
-- "The Economics of Climate Change," by Dennis Behreandt, The New American, November 12, 2007, 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.

"Wood chip surfaces installed in school playgrounds to prevent injury discriminate against wheelchair-bound disabled students, a federal district court judge in Oakland, California ruled on May 5. The suit was brought by a group called Disability Rights Advocates, alleging the surfaces prevent children from wheeling themselves to swings and slides."
-- "Playing for Big Money," The DeWeese Report, November 2007, page 5, 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.

"Within four years of the reauthorization of NCLB [No Child Left Behind], states musts develop a comprehensive dossier of every aspect of your child's academic life starting from preschool onward through college or risk losing 25% of their Title I funds."
-- "NCLB Welcomes Children to 1984 and the Village," by Karen R. Effrem, MD, The DeWeese Report, November 2007, 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.

Posted here for 12-3-07

"BATFE [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] has [. . .] been putting [gun] dealers around the country out of business based on paperwork errors that are not spelled out by any written procedures. They put one dealer out of business because he had over 60 'willful violations' where his customers had abbreviated Baltimore (City or County) with 'Blto.' Pretty serious crime, right?"
-- "Gun Owners Foundation Defending Gun Retailers," Gun Owners, October 22, 2007, page 7. Address: Gun Owners of America, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8585. Website.

"Riverside Township, New Jersey [. . .] voted in September to rescind its ordinance that prohibited landlords from renting to illegal aliens. The ordinance was never enforced, and was repealed in a 3 - 1 vote. The reason? The town couldn't afford to pay the legal bills involved in fighting a challenge from the powerful left-wing American Civil Liberties Union."
-- "Who's Got the Power?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Last June, the British Health Department reported that 1 in 8 patients languish for a year or more trying to get critical surgery (shortages and premature deaths result in about 50,000 scheduled operations to be cancelled annually)."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2007, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[T]he U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is under Congressional mandate to release waters out of the 38,000-acre Lake Lanier to protect an obscure 'endangered' mussel which lives in Florida's rivers. One frustrated local resident and trustee of the Lake Lanier Association who tried to reason with the Army Corps of Engineers told the media: 'Does a couple of mussels trump 5 million people [who need water in the Atlanta area]? What I hear from the Corps is the answer to that question is yes.' [. . .] [In October,] the Army Corps of Engineers released 35 times as much water out of Lanier than the lake takes in. More than a billion gallons of water leaves Atlanta's water supply every day due to this insane mandate."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2007, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 11-26-07

"[O]f the 106 bills signed into law this year [in the U.S. House of Representatives], 46 of them deal solely with the naming of post offices, courthouses and roads. Another 44 were 'noncontroversial' measures, while 14 simply extended existing public laws."
-- "Buck Owens, et. al," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 5, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Another Mexican official has called for a union of his country with Canada and the U.S. At a conference in Denver designed to spark construction of a second transnational multi-lane commercial 'corridor' from Mexico through the U.S. and into Canada, Evaristo Lenin Perez, the mayor of the Mexican city of Ciudad Acua, endorsed the creation of the North American Union being pushed by President George Bush, Mexican officials, giant corporations, and the Council on Foreign Relations."
-- "Mexican Mayor Boosts NAU," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The catastrophic failure of the public education system designed and built by America's progressive egalitarian elites would actually be quite amusing were it not for the very great tragedy that the failure represents. Consider: In Detroit, the school system is in such a state of collapse that armed city police must patrol the hallways in an effort to control the daily violence. Undercover city police are also assigned to ride on the buses that take kids to school [. . .] The graduation rate of Detroit's public high schools is only 21.7 percent!"
-- "Catastrophe in Detroit," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Mexico is providing Spanish language DVDs and CDs of Mexican school texts to teach science, math, and even U.S. history in Oregon's public schools. Similar programs are underway in Yakima, Washington, San Diego, California, and Austin, Texas. Patrick Burk, chief policy officer with the Oregon Department of Education, said the purpose is 'minimal disruption for immigrant Latinos.'" [Apparently it's okay to disturb resident Americans.]
-- "A Nation Within a Nation," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2007, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"As the U.S. government transforms America into a multicultural country, Eurpoean-derived customs are being discarded to avoid offending immigrants from the Third World. In Oak Lawn, Illinois, the Ridgeland School District decided last month to drop Christmas and instead celebrate what is called 'winter festival.' The school superintendent said the reason for the change was to appease a Muslim parent who wanted one of the schools to celebrate Ramadan. [. . .] The local CBS TV affiliate reported that 'Muslim children are being allowed to pray during what's being called their own time, that's lunch time, during Ramadan.'" [I guess any prayer but Christian prayer is acceptable.]
-- "Bye, Bye Christmas," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 11-19-07

"According to The [UK] Telegraph, British dentists 'refus[e] to treat patients with poor teeth because they do not get paid enough to carry out the work.' Turns out, UK dentists are paid to reach a 'target' number of patients. Yes, under universal, 'free' health care, there's a bad tooth quota. As one Brit dentist explains, 'If you spend a lot of time treating one patient who needs a lot of work, you are not treating the other patients . . . [and] you miss the Government target for the year and get fined.'"
-- "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, November 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Shortly after Miles Nurse and his girlfriend moved into their $500,000 Vancouver, Canada, condo, they discovered it was infested with bats. [. . .] Why not just call pest control? Because bats are protected under the B.C. [British Columbia] Wildlife Act. Anyone daring to 'disturb' them during their breeding period faces fines of $345 per animal."
-- "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, November 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"According to a June report in The Washington Times, China is supplying the Taliban with advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to be used to kill Americans. [. . .] The Financial Times newspaper quotes U.S. officials as saying Chinese army hackers broke into a Defense Department network in June and removed data."
-- "China Trains 50 Million Kids for Military Duty," NewsMax (the magazine), November 2007, page 48. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Because the left views the purpose of judges as furthering a social agenda that transcends justice in the courtroom, the judicial process has been distorted for decades."
-- "Why the Left Dominates Media, Education and the Courts," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 24, 2007, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 11-12-07

"Average U.S. SAT scores in math and reading dropped this year to their lowest levels since 1999, according to a College Board report." [No Child Left Behind seems to be leaving all children behind.]
-- "SAT Scores on the Decline," Developments, NewsMax (the magazine), November 2007, page 28. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"A secretive [Chinese] program teaches children as young as 9 years old to be ready for war. China says it's nothing more than a social program."
-- "China Trains 50 Million Kids for Military Duty," NewsMax (the magazine), November 2007, page 48. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"The use of 'see-say' reading methods [where children guess at what words mean based on accompanying pictures] in [U.S.] government schools, rather than teaching phonics, has ensured the reading failure of millions of children, many of whom are falsely assumed to have ADHD."
-- "Behavior Worth Medicating?" by Gregory A. Hession, J.D, The New American, September 17, 2007, page 17. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 11-5-07

"Inflating the money supply (diluting the value of your dollars) is Uncle Sam's only alternative to directly collecting the over half a million dollars per U.S. family needed to cover unfunded federal liabilities including Social Security, Medicare and bloated federal pensions. [. . . A] dollar today is worth less than 3% of what it was when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. To suggest, as many still do, that the Fed protects the value of the currency would be like crediting the IRS with ensuring a fair tax system!"
-- The American Sentinel, October 2007, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[O]fficial government inflation statistics are severely understated. (When the Fed's inflation numbers were still reasonably accurate during the 1970s, the Nixon administration coped by formally devaluing the dollar -- today even that vestige of honesty is gone.)"
-- The American Sentinel, October 2007, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"If you add up all the federal supports that would go into a 36-billion-gallon ethanol mandate, the total amounts to $250 billion [about $7 per gallon!], according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. So the true costs of filling up with ethanol would not be reflected in prices. [. . .] David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor, co-wrote a recent report which estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29-percent more fossil energy than the energy ethanol fuel actually contains."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2007, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 10-29-07

"According to a recent Department of Justice memorandum, in Texas, most illegal border jumpers have to be caught at least six times before their cases will even be referred for prosecutors."
-- "De Facto Amnesty," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, October 2007, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"When you go to the home page of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), you will see two things right at the top: an 'Espanol' version of the site and a 'Featured Link' that invites you to 'read about the new driver's license application process for drivers who do not have Social Security Numbers.'"
-- "Illegals to Get New York Driver's Licenses," by Monica Crowley, Human Events, October 1, 2007, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"Recently, there were thousands of [U.S.] coins minted without 'In God We Trust' on them, and now they're talking about putting 'In God We Trust' in an obscure place on coins so that people can't read it, right on the edge of the coin."
-- "Needing God," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 17, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[H]undreds of Mexican students, wearing purple and blue and green and red, or gray [uniforms . . .] cross the border into the United States every day from Mexico to go to school in the United States. At the end of the day, all of these kids, some of them escorted by their parents, cross back over into Juarez, Mexico, to go home."
-- "English Majors," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 17, 2007, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 10-22-07

"Officials who operate Nepal's government airline sacrificed two goats to appease the Hindu sky god after technical problems with a Boeing 757 aircraft forced the suspension of some flights."
-- "Dead Goats to Help Airline," World Watch, Middle America News, October 2007, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Being an illegal alien doesn't make you an illegal alien. That's what a Kansas judge says. [. . .] Judge Patrick McAnany of the Kansas Court of Appeals [. . .] says that being an illegal alien inside the U.S. isn't necessarily a violation of law. [. . .] His opinion, which has the force of law until overruled, came in a case involving convicted drug dealer and illegal alien Nicholas Martinez. He had been ordered to jail after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine even though the prosecutors had recommended probation. The trial judge explained he couldn't be placed on probation because as an illegal alien, Martinez would be in violation of the requirements of probation, which include not violating any laws. So the judge ordered him to jail for a year. But on appeal, sympathetic Judge McAnany ruled that while U.S. law makes it illegal to enter the country without authorization, being illegally in the U.S. is 'not necessarily a crime.'"
-- "American Law at Work," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2007, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Because the state controls healthcare in the U.K., politicians are empowered to make decisions about who gets healthcare and who doesn't. [Politicians] said that people who don't adopt government-approved eating habits and lifestyles should be denied medical care from the National Health Service (NHS). [It was suggested that] certain treatments should be denied to patients who refuse to live 'healthier' lifestyles, as a way to reduce costs and teach them a lesson. Those who do follow government-approved lifestyle recommendations would be rewarded with free gym memberships and coupons for -- get this -- free vegetables." [If Hillary gets her way, we can expect this kind of treatment here in the good old U.S.A.]
-- "Dictatorship of the Medi-cariat," World Watch, Middle America News, October 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, students [at the Hobbton High School in Sampson County, North Carolina] were not allowed to show their patriotism by wearing clothing with representations of the American flag. Under a rule designed to avoid conflicts with immigrant students, they may not wear clothes bearing the flag of any country. [. . .] The rule was later rescinded."
-- "Still Another Sign of the Times," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 10-15-07

"Thanks to four towns in Pennsylvania, ecosystems now have legal rights. The Community Environmental Defense Fund drafted the ordinances, and they are definitely at odds with private property ownership. They advocate that ecosystems have 'an inherent right to exist and flourish.'"
-- "Mother Nature Now Has Rights," Resource Roundup, September 2007, page 14. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.

"After [Lewis-Palmer High School] class valedictorian Erica Corder delivered her graduation speech, a school official told her to issue an apology or risk having her diploma withheld. The problem? Miss Corder told the audience of parents and students about 'someone who loves you more than you could ever imagine," namely, Jesus Christ."
-- "Teen Forced to Apologize for Mentioning Christ in Speech Files Suit," by Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 10, 2007, page 17. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Great news: China has designated English as their 'second language.' Bad news: The U.S. Congress is attempting to do the same thing (by doing nothing on immigration)."
-- "The Joke's on Us," a letter to the editor, by Ronald C. Ross, York, Pennsylvania, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 10, 2007, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 10-8-07

"Accounting projections show U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for about $60 trillion in unfunded liabilities -- that's roughly 4.5 years of America's entire gross domestic product! Or put another way, about $516,348 in credit card debt per U.S. household. [. . .] The comptroller general of the United States, David Walker, is the only prominent federal official to admit that national bankruptcy is virtually inevitable."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In January 2006 the National Climate Data Center said the hottest year in recorded history was 2006. In May 2006 the National Climate Data Center said the hottest year was actually 1998. After independent research by Internet 'bloggers' revealed faulty NASA temperature reporting data, the agency quietly reverted to its original estimate that the hottest year on record was 1934, followed by 1998, 1921, 2006 and 1931."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"The The Chinese government threatened in August to sink the dollar by 'dumping' a trillion U.S. dollars it holds, mainly in the form of Treasury bonds."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 10-1-07

"In Kentucky, a federal court put its stamp of approval on a public school forcing students and staff to watch a one-hour video that included dogmatic claims that homosexuality is immutable and that it is wrong to object to the gay lifestyle. A federal count in Massachusetts ruled against a father, David Parker, who had the temerity to demand that he be notified before his kindergarten son was given a 'Diversity Book Bag' containing a book illustrating and describing same-sex couples. In California, a federal court approved the public schools' requirement that a course in Islam be taught to 7th-graders. The course included giving the students Muslim names, having them recite Muslim prayers and passages from the Koran, wear Arab clothing, and write a 'positivc' essay about Islamic culture. Parents lost their case and the Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal."
-- The Phyllis Schlafly Report, September 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"As if fuel prices aren't high enough, Democrats recently passed a new $16 billion tax on energy producers, by a vote of 221-189. In addition to this irrational move to curb energy supplies, Democrats are pushing a levy on oil and gas produced from deep-water leases in the Gulf of Mexico."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"After losing to Republicans on a vote to deny federal benefits to illegal aliens (packed into an agriculture bill) by a vote of 215-213, the Democrats 'cancelled' the outcome. How? After losing, Pelosi re-opened the vote and pressured three Democrats to reverse their position. So even after losing, the liberals still prevailed in their scheme to serve up more benefits to illegals."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2007, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 9-24-07

"UK taxpayers are paying to light up an abandoned, boarded-up high school in Midlothian, just outside Edinburgh, Scotland, that has been closed since 2004. Why? 'So,' reports The [UK] Daily Mail, 'vandals don't hurt themselves when they break in.'"
-- "Lights On, Nobody Home," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, September 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"The flow of federal dollars to the Golf Coast two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the region already exceeds what the U.S. spent on the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II."
-- "Katrina Relief Effort Tops Marshall Plan for Post-War Europe," by Audrey Hudson and Sean Lengell, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 3, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Sponsored by Ohio Democratic [Representative] Dennis Kucinich (along with more than 60 co-sponsors), House Resolution 808 would authorize a Secretary of Peace to 'establish a Peace Academy,' 'develop a peace education curriculum' for elementary and secondary schools, and provide 'grants for peace studies departments' at campuses around the country."
-- "Peace Studies," Culture, etc., by Bruce Bawer, writing on "The Peace Racket," in the summer issue of City Journal, as quoted in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 3, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"House Democrats recently passed legislation renewing and expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program, ostensibly to help poor children. Yet in many states the plan now often covers more adults than children and would cover families making 400 percent of the official poverty level."
-- "Correction, Please!," The New American, September 3, 2007, page 43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"The [Russian] KGB has long sponsored the Muslim fundamentalist groups that have now become a global terror network carrying out the Marxist-Leninist revolution in Muhammad's name."
-- "The Real Terror Paymasters," by William F. Jasper, The New American, September 3, 2007, 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.

Posted here for 9-17-07

"Democrats recently tried to enact some 32,684 special funding earmarks -- an average of 75 pork-barrel projects per member of Congress!"
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"More than 170,000 deceased persons received farm subsidies over the past seven years . . ."
-- "QuickQuotes," compiled by John F. McManus, The New American, August 20, 2007, page 9. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"If you're a firefighter who can't speak Spanish, you could find yourself laid off. [. . .] Last month, as 24 major wildfires burned across the western U.S., fire officials needed every firefighter they could get. So they hired Hispanic immigrants instead of Americans. When they discovered that the new hires spoke only Spanish, their English-speaking American bosses were laid off because they couldn't communicate with them. [. . .] 'What we do know is 85 percent of the crew makeup is of Hispanic descent,' said Jim Walker, of the Oregon Department of Forestry."
-- "How the New Multicultural America Works," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, September 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"President Robert Mugabe's [Zimbabwe] government warned it will arrest any of the remaining 600 white farmers who resist eviction notices and refuse to hand over their land to blacks. More than 4,000 of the country's white commercial farmers lost their land under Mugabe's often violent Soviet-style property expropriations. During the expropriations, some farmers and their families were tortured and killed by armed gangs of 'veterans' from Mugabe's guerilla war against the country's former white rulers." [Why do you suppose this news hasn't appeared in the mainstream media?]
-- "More Threats from Mugabe," World Watch, Middle America News, September 2007, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-10-07

"The U.S. Border Patrol is asking for volunteers among its agents to help build fences on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as President Bush is withdrawing half the National Guard troops he sent there last year to build fences. A memo circulated two weeks ago to Border Patrol sector chiefs said fence-building efforts on the Southwest border were going to fall short of Mr. Bush's goal of finishing 70 miles in fiscal 2007, which ends Sept. 30, 'so the Border Patrol is now going back into the fence-building business.'"
-- "Border Patrol to Build Own Fences," by Jerry Seper and Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 20, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[New York City] policy [. . .] allows and encourages Muslim, Jewish and secular decorations in public schools during the Christmas season but does not permit Christian symbols. In the past, New York City schools have allowed a Menorah, Islam's Star and Crescent, and an evergreen tree to be displayed. However, officials have said a Nativity scene is not allowed."
-- "NYC Christmas Decor Challenged," American Family Association Journal, September 2007, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.

"A recent Pentagon study provides evidence for a searing indictment not of our soldiers but of Washington's rules of engagement. Iraqis throw Molotov Cocktails (gasoline filled bottles) at your vehicle -- but you are prohibited from responding with force. The study notes that every group of soldiers interviewed reported they felt the existing rules of engagement tied their hands, preventing them from doing what needed to be done to win the war."
-- The American Sentinel, August 2007, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"From 1994 to 2003, the refining industry spent $47.4 billion, not to build new refineries, but to bring existing ones into compliance with ever new and stringent [government] environmental rules. That's where those allegedly excessive profits go."
-- "Gas Gauges and Price Gouging," by William P. Hoar, (quoting Investors Business Daily/EM>), The New American, June 11, 2007, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-3-07

"Even after employees at Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company in China admitted that that company had shipped wheat gluten to the United States, which resulted in numerous dead and sick pets, Chinese officials claimed that 'China has nothing to do with pet poisoning in the United States' and that China 'never' exported wheat gluten to the United States."
-- "The New Chinese Take-Out," by Michael E. Telzrow, The New American, August 20, 2007, 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.

"A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceutical corporations are gearing up for bigger sales of antidepressant and psychostimulant drugs. [. . .] The commission [the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health] wants 'routine and comprehensive' testing and mental health screening of every child in America, including preschoolers. The commission recommends 'linkage' of these mental examinations with 'state-of-the-art treatments' using 'specific medications for specific conditions.' That means prescribing more expensive patented antidepressants and psychostimulant drugs such as Ritalin. Children's mental health data will be entered into state and Federal computer databases and integrated with the child's other health and education records."
-- "No Child Left Unmedicated," by Phyllis Schlafly, Whistleblower magazine, July 2007, pages 10-11. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Russia is using U.S. technology to design and sell billions of dollars worth of jets and missiles to Iran. Russian engineers, for example, have equipped their top-line fighter jets with new radar that was developed with Western assistance after the Clinton administration swept away Cold war export controls on the Soviet Union."
-- "Russia Uses U.S. Tech to Build Iran's Military," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2007, page 52. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Congressional Quarterly notes the House recently passed HR 2669, to create fully nine new entitlement programs, ranging from debt forgiveness for public employees, to race-based "minority" grant programs (i..e, Caucasians and often Asians need not apply)."
-- The American Sentinel, August 2007, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 8-27-07

"On Feb. 23, 2006, [Tammy] Skinner called police from a car dealership before dawn and said a man had shot her in the stomach and pushed her out of a car. [. . .] Later, she changed her story and accused the baby's father of shooting her. [. . .] Finally, after police pieced clues together, she finally confessed that she deliberately shot herself in the stomach to kill her unborn baby -- a full-term girl that was to be delivered that very day. [. . .] Virginia General District Court Judge James A. Moore ruled that because she shot herself, she couldn't be tried even for the lightweight felony charge of producing a miscarriage or abortion. [. . .] Skinner's baby had no legal standing in [the] courtroom -- and since there was no other 'victim,' it was case dismissed. [. . .] But [don't think] Skinner got off scot-free. Oh, no. Not by a long shot. She was convicted of filing a false police report. The judge ordered her to pay [. . .] a $750 fine."
-- "They Shoot Babies, Don't They?" by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower magazine, February 2007, page 3. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"The latest craze in liberal-controlled inner-city schools? 'Mindful awareness' -- punctuated by 'the striking of a Tibetan singing bowl' [A teacher in one California school,] Miss Megan, asks kids to imagine 'loving kindness' on the playground and to focus on 'gentle breaths and still bodies.'"
-- "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, August 2007, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"Democrats are moving to put 71% of all kids on government medical care by disguising this power-grab as a routine extension of a state health care program for poor children known as 'SCHIP.' Teddy Kennedy and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch have introduced legislation to 'pay' for the expanded SCHIP program by slapping an additional 61-cent per pack cigarette tax on smokers."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"If you lived in California and other areas that used reformulated gasoline last summer -- that's the environmentally 'clean' gasoline required for areas with air pollution problems, and that's where most of that ethanol went -- you might have paid up to 60 cents a gallon more for gasoline than you would have otherwise. [. . .] That's because the federal government required oil refineries to use 4 billion gallons of ethanol in 2006 regardless of price, and gasoline pump prices last summer reflected the fact that ethanol was twice as expensive as wholesale conventional gasoline."
-- "Gas Gauges and Price Gouging," by William P. Hoar, The New American, June 11, 2007, page 43. 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 8-20-07

"It appears [Representative John] Conyers, who is now chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, repeatedly violated the law and House ethics rules, forcing his staff to serve as his personal servants, baby sitters, valets and as campaign workers while on the government payroll."
-- "Judicial Watch Calls on Attorney General Gonzales to Investigate Congressman John Conyers," Judicial Watch Verdict, July 2007, page 1. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.

"The diversity-mania of U.S. elites is causing havoc with elections all around the country where local jurisdictions are forced by federal law to print ballots in foreign languages to accommodate immigrants. In Massachusetts, Secretary of State William Galvin has filed a challenge to Justice Department requirements that Boston print its ballots for the 2008 presidential primary election in Chinese. Galvin says printing the ballots in Chinese will create chaos. That's because Chinese employs characters, not letters, that have sounds with several meanings in different dialects. The 'ma' sound in Barack Obama, for example, can mean 'horse,' 'mother,' 'how,' 'what,' or 'scold.' So the name Obama can end up translated as 'Oh Bus Horse' in Cantonese, or 'Oh Intellectual Overcome Profound Oh Gemstone' in Mandarin. Siri Karm Singh Khalsa, president of the Boston Language Institute, told USA Today that Obama's name could mean 'Europe Pulling a Horse.' Hillary Clinton's name could mean 'Upset Stomach' or 'Like Prosperity.'" [It also means "upset stomach' to many who are not Chinese!]
-- "Ballot Chaos," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2007, pages 3-4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Hundreds of illegal aliens are registered to vote in Bexar County, Texas, and many have even cast ballots, according to WAOI Radio in San Antonio. The station said at least 303 illegals successfully registered to vote, and at least 41 of them cast ballots in various elections."
-- "More Illegal Alien Voters," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"[O]n July 12, for the first time in U.S. history, the U.S. Senate opened its proceedings with the recitation of a Hindu prayer. It was read by Rajan Zed, director of public affairs and interfaith relations of the Hindu Temple in Northern Nevada, who was invited to give the prayer by Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, D-NV."
-- "The Coming Decline and Fall," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2007, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-13-07

"[George] Bush has just sent 120 of our best-trained Border Guards to Iraq to help the Iraqis with their border enforcement! With much fanfare last year, Bush sent some National Guard troops to our southern border, but they were not allowed to do anything except observe and are now scheduled to be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan."
-- "Trade Demands a Level Playing Field," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, July 2007, page 2. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"An in-depth Heritage Foundation study by Robert Rector estimates that the average low-skill household in the U.S. receives $30,160 in taxpayer-paid benefits (from all 1evels of government), and pays only $10,573 in taxes at all levels. Each low-skill household, therefore, imposes a net cost on U.S. taxpayers of $19,588 per year, which added up to $564 billion in 2004. In addition to public schools, low-wage illegal aliens would become heavy users of over 60 federal means-tested aid programs, including Medicaid, EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit, a cash handout that averages $1,700 per year per household), food stamps, SSI (Supplemental Security Income), Section 8 housing, public housing, TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), school lunches and breakfasts, WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutrition program, SSBG (Social Services Block Grants), and legal services. Most Americans are unaware of the enormous government transfers from taxpaying Americans to those who pay little or no income taxes. [. . .] The Heritage Foundation estimates that U.S. taxpayers provide about $20,OOO per year of [. . .] benefits to every household headed by a high school dropout. That's even before retirement age enables the high school dropouts and their relatives to cash in on Social Security and Medicare."
-- "Trade Demands a Level Playing Field," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, July 2007, pages 3-4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"One of the mischievous proposals hidden in the crevices of the unlamented Senate amnesty bill was a surreptitious attempt to convert us to a bilingual (or even multilingual) nation. Section 702(b) would have forbidden the government to 'diminish' any existing rights under U.S. 'laws' that concern services or materials provided by the government 'in any language other than English.' Section 702(c) then gave this section extraordinary legal scope by defining the word 'laws' to include 'Presidential Executive Orders.' These deviously written sections would thus have exalted Clinton's Executive Order (EO) 13166 to the status of U.S. law. Clinton's EO requires all recipients of federal funds to provide all information and services in any language requested by any recipient of federal funds . . ."
-- "Trade Demands a Level Playing Field," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, July 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"[Announced in a] June 22, 2006 release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture about the school lunch program: 'Please be advised that we have finalized the process of translating the Free and Reduced Price School Meals Application package into 25 different languages . . . Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese (Mandarin), Farsi, French, Greek, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese."
-- "Trade Demands a Level Playing Field," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, July 2007, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-6-07

"[A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania] child-custody and child-support [court] ruling held that a child can have three 'parents' in the eyes of the law who are liable for child support. [. . .] [The case] concerns two lesbian guardians who are separating, with a deceased sperm-donor father who was a friend of one of the women and was actively involved in the children's lives."
-- "Family Matters," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 23, 2007, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"The present value of the unfunded obligations for Medicare over the next 75 years totals $33.9 trillion, according to the 2007 Medicare trustees' report."
-- "The Medicare Fiscal TIme-Bomb," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 23, 2007, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"In one blocked merger between Whole Foods and a smaller competitor [. . .], strident FTC bureaucrats insisted on Whole Foods producing more than 20 million internal documents!"
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Republicans and Democrats recently snuck into enactment a new law to turn your tax planner into a federal stool pigeon. From here on in, if you discuss tax planning issues which intrude into 'grey areas,' your preparer has a legal obligation to 'turn you in' to Treasury officials via IRS Form 8275. If your tax preparer fails to turn you in, he or she can be fined at the whim of unaccountable federal bureaucrats or even sent to prison."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2007, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 7-30-07

"The City of Chicago was happy to partner with a Spanish-Australian group that paid $1.83 billion for a 99-year lease to operate the Chicago Skyway. The same outfit paid Indiana $3.85 billion to operate the Indiana Tollway for 75 years. The same Spanish company has partnered with a Texas firm to give the state of Texas $7.2 billion to build and operate the first leg of the TransTexas Corridor. And Pennsylvania's Governor Rendell is expecting a bid of between $15-18 billion for the Pennsylvania turnpike. Most states have already enacted, or are considering, legislation to authorize [public-private partnership financing] of public infrastructure."
-- "Who's to Blame for the Sellout?" by Henry Lamb, The DeWeese Report, July 2007, page 1, 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 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is another grand scheme of the United Nations. LOST would give control of roughly 70% of the Earth's surface to the U.N., establishing rules which would govern the use of the world's oceans. LOST is back, and on a fast track for ratification because the Bush Administration is now calling for accession to this convention. [. . .] It's important to remember the United Nations is not a country or government. It is a private organization that tries to tell sovereign nations when to jump, and how high, under threat of military intervention."
-- "Scuttle the Law of the Sea Treaty!" by Kathy Lehman, The DeWeese Report, July 2007, page 6, 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 nation's school boards have virtually abandoned the practice of naming new schools after presidents, heroes and civic leaders in favor of inoffensive or trite references to nature and animals, according to a study released July 2 by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Facts say it all: Of 3,000 public schools in Florida, five are named for George Washington and 11 for manatees, 54 for palm trees, 91 for wooded areas and 155 for lakes."
-- "Manatee Stings Lincoln: Schools Opt for Cuddly over Historic Names," by Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 9, 2007, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 7-23-07

"House Republicans say the dozen appropriation bills crafted by Democrats this year will result in more than $100 billion in new spending that will set off a 'vicious cycle' of higher taxes and will cripple the economy."
-- "House GOP Fears 'Vicious Cycle' of Taxes," by Sean Lengell, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 25, 2007, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Dozens of students at three Sacramento, California area public schools where suspended when they took a stand against a pro-homosexual event -- the 'Day of Silence' -- which was observed nationwide in April. [. . .] 'Unfortunately, California is like many parts of the country,' [Pacific Justice Institute president Brad] Dacus said. 'School districts and administrators are often very dogmatic about their liberal agendas.'"
-- "Students Punished for Resisting Pro-Homosexual Event," American Family Association Journal, July 2007, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.

"For a new drug to be approved [by the FDA], it must meet a 95% 'certainty standard' of effectiveness. As a consequence, the FDA has banned the use of several promising cancer treatments, in one case because it 'only' had an 88% certainty level of effectiveness!"
-- The American Sentinel, June 2007, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In response to the recent Virginia Tech campus massacre, Democrats are pushing for a mental health exemption to the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms. In short, they want to put government in the business of determining who is crazy, and who is not crazy, as a precondition to buying a gun."
-- The American Sentinel, June 2007, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 7-16-07

"During a recent speech at Arizona State University, Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged Democrats would revive so-called 'Dream Act' legislation to give illegal aliens the same college benefits as any other U.S. citizen -- including the right to taxpayer-subsidized, low-cost in-state college tuition."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2007, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Senate Democrats led by Patrick L. Leahy of Vermont are pushing legislation to shower Social Security benefits over illegal aliens once they obtain 'legal status' (i.e. amnesty). This financially crazy plan has the potential to add 20 million people to the already dangerously-overstretched Social Security rolls."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2007, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Thousands of Hutu from Burundi have been living in camps in Tanzania since 1972, when the Tutsi drove them out of the country. [. . .] The US government now plans to invite up to 9,000 of these homeless Hutu to America. The first 3,000 should arrive by the end of September, with another 5,000 in fiscal 2008. [. . .] The Burundians have been living in primitive camps for more than 30 years. Most have no more than a grade school education, and many are illiterate. "
-- "Here They Come!" O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, June 2007, pages 15-16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents to Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran."
-- "China Arming Terrorists," Inside the Ring, by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 18, 2007, page 18. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"Desre'e Watson, a kindergartener in Avon Park, Florida, was recently arrested at her school and charged with a felony and two misdemeanors. [. . .] [T]he six-year-old had apparently disrupted the learning environment by throwing an uncontrollable tantrum. When teachers were unable to calm her down, they called the cops. [. . .] [T]hey handcuffed her, but even that procedure did not go smoothly. It turns out that putting adult handcuffs on kids is hardly a piece of cake. According to Police Chief Frank Mercurio, 'You can't handcuff them on their wrists, because their wrists are so small, so you have to handcuff them up by their biceps.' [. . .] Desre'e was taken in a patrol car to the police station where she went through the fingerprinting process and got a mug shot."
-- "Law and Order?" Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, June 2007, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.