Posted here for 12-22-08

"It is estimated that without the changes that have been made in measuring the rise of inflation, Social Security recipients would be receiving 70 percent more than they currently receive."
-- "No Chiding Charlie," by Kurt Williamsen, The New American November 2008, page 44 . Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"On July 14, 1993, [. . .] Senator [Joe] Biden introduced Senate Joint Resolution 112 urging the new president, Bill Clinton, to initiate discussions to establish a standing United Nations army. Under his proposal, United States bases and facilities would be made available to train UN forces, and the president would not 'be deemed to require the authorization of Congress' to make American troops, facilities, or other assistance 'available to the Security Council on its call.'" [In a month, Joe Biden will be Vice President of the United States. Good-bye sovereignty.]
-- "Behind the Obama Agenda," by John F. McManus, The New American December 8, 2008, page 13. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"By now everyone knows that Congress and the White House approved an enormous $700-plus billion package a short time ago and that the Treasury Department is rapidly burning through that mountainous sum and asking for more. What wasn't known until the past few days is that the Federal Reserve has been 'lending' hundreds of billions of additional dollars to troubled companies and institutions. In fact, the Fed may have already dished out nearly $2 trillion!"
-- "Fed Loaned Nearly $2 Trillion," by William F. Jasper, The New American December 8, 2008, page 44. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"Our Congress has [. . .] proposed more non-binding resolutions (about 2,000 and counting) than any previous Congress, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. Among the stand-outs are resolutions to: Establish August as Heat Stroke Awareness Month, Make July National Watermelon Month, [and] Declare May 5-9 as National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2008, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"[A] little-known Obama-backed bill called the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) [. . .] calls for: Defacto ratification of the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. [S. 2433 also calls for the] banning of small arms and light weapons among United Nations member countries. [And a] U.N. royalty on all fossil fuels extracted from international waters. Legislation similar to S. 2433 has already passed the House. [. . .] [W]e can expect S. 2433 to move forward at lightning speed."
-- The American Sentinel, November 2008, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 12-15-08

"[T]he radical left-wing 'community organization' calling itself ACORN received a much as $31 million in federal grants through 54 different grant programs and federal agencies. That figure does not include tax revenues it may have received from state and local governments for its various 'community projects.'"
-- "Cozy Pals," Your Tax Dollars at Work, Middle America News, December 2008, 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.

"According to a study by the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. can no longer grow fast enough economically to pay off its debts. 'To grow our way out of the current long-term fiscal gap would require sustained economic growth far beyond that experienced in U.S. economic history since World War II,' GAO reported."
-- "Spending into Oblivion," Middle America News, December 2008, 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.

"Earlier this year, India released six members of its Parliament from prison to vote on pending legislation, including two who had been convicted of murder while in office."
-- "It Could BE Worse," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, December 2008, page 12. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson recently summoned the heads of nine mega-banks to his office. He demanded and got each of these healthy financial institutions to accept partial nationalization of their companies -- mandating each bank to create and sell nonvoting preferred stock to the government for the collective cost of $125 billion. In short, the government exercised eminent domain over these private sector companies without the paperwork." [Our free-enterprise system is making a hurried departure.]
-- The American Sentinel, November 2008, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 12-8-08

"A town in Illinois [Cicero, a suburb of Chicago] is so full of immigrants, politicians have decided to fly foreign flags on city property to keep themselves popular with the Third World residents. [. . .] Town president Larry Dominick said the Mexican flag was flying to celebrate 'Hispanic Heritage Month,' and then again to celebrate El Grito, Mexico's independence. [. . .] Town Trustee Maria Punzo-Arias says, 'You've got to understand that Cicero is more than 80 percent Hispanic now . . . We are trying our best to keep all the ethnic groups in town happy."
-- "A Little Piece of Mexico," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2008, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"A man named Benjamin Cone from North Carolina bought land with no trees and allowed the forest to grow back on it. Once the forest returned, a protected woodpecker moved in, prompting the government, under rules of the Endangered Species Act, to prohibit any meaningful use of a large portion of his land -- he was denied the right to any logging, driving the value of his property down from $1.7 million to about $260,000. The new feathered resident and the accompanying plunge in his land's value caused a reasonable response: the owner decided to clear-cut the rest of the forest to avoid losing it to the woodpeckers and their bureaucratic allies."
-- "A Really Convenient Book," by Alex Newman, The New American November 2008, page 31. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

"'It's not based on any particular data point,' a Treasury Department spokeswoman told Forbes.com concerning how the figure of $700 billion was arrived at for the financial bailout package. 'We just wanted to choose a really large number.'" [Why should we believe anything the government says about anything?]
-- "From 'Henny Penny' Morgenthau to Henry Paulson," by William F. Jasper, The New American November 2008, page 35. Address: PO Box 8040, Appleton, Wisconsin, 54912. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. Website.

Posted here for 12-1-08

"Though we have more oil in the shale of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming than combined in the Middle East (800 billion barrels), liberals and environmentalists have made it illegal to touch it."
-- "Congress, Get Off Your Gas, and Drill!" by Chuck Norris, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 6. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"This banning of DDT by the U.S. government's EPA and its amplification by actions of other U.S. agencies, other Western governments and the United Nations has arguably been the greatest single act of genocide and slavery in human history."
-- "The One and Only Solution to America's Energy Problem," by Arthur B. Robinson, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 15. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Coal can be used to make electricity, or, through liquefaction, converted to petroleum. The United States contains 25 percent of the world's coal. Nuclear power plants can provide the heat necessary to liquefy this coal. Should that be done, the United States could produce more oil than Saudi Arabia -- with U.S. reserves lasting more than 200 years."
-- "The One and Only Solution to America's Energy Problem," by Arthur B. Robinson, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 16. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Most Americans do not know that the so-called 'nuclear waste' problem has been created entirely by government regulation. Spent fuel from nuclear plants can be reprocessed to make more new fuel for the plants. The only reason that it is today stored at 100 different locations throughout our country is that our politicians passed laws preventing breeder reactors and nuclear fuel recycling in the United States."
-- "The One and Only Solution to America's Energy Problem," by Arthur B. Robinson, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 18. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Posted here for 11-24-08

"In the last four months, burglars in Worcester, England have raided Bill Malcolm's tool shed and vegetable gardens three times. So he did the logical thing: put a three-foot-high barbed-wire fence around the property. Now he's been told by town officials to take it down; if he refuses, they warn they'll forcibly remove it. Why? It's 'a health and safety hazard' -- to the thieves, who could scratch themselves climbing over it. I kid you not."
-- "Fence Menace," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, November 2008, 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 The [UK] Daily Mail, legal history was made last month when a dog named Scooby 'testified' in a closed suburban Paris court. Really. Tragically, the dog's owner had been found dead; after initially ruling the death a suicide, cops are now investigating the case as a murder. Since Scooby was the only witness, law enforcement actually put the pet on the stand to see how it reacted to a suspect. A court clerk was asked to record the dog's response (according to UPI, the dog 'barked furiously') [. . .]"
-- "Raise Your Right Paw," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, November 2008, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"[T]he U.S. government is pretty much blocking exploration and pumping of oil on most so-called public land. Federal lands throughout the United States are estimated to contain 31 billion barrels of oil and 231 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Some 60 percent of onshore federal lands that have potential as domestic sources of oil and natural gas are officially closed to leasing by the Bureau of Land Management. That translates to 62 percent of our domestic oil reserves being inaccessible for development."
-- "Who's to Blame for Gas Prices?" by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 5. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"[F]ew Americans realize they own the land where drilling could bring gas prices down dramatically, they also have little clue that up to 75 cents of the cost per gallon is the result of local, state and federal taxes - and that number is rising. That's because government profits to the tune of 20 percent of the cost paid at the pump. [. . .] The only party making windfall profits from gas and oil [. . .] is government."
-- "Who's to Blame for Gas Prices?" by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, page 5. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Posted here for 11-17-08

"Two seventh-grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class. Outraged parents called the punishment of the students at Alsager High School near Stroke-on-Trent, UK, for not wanting to take part in the demonstration of how Muslims' worship Allah a breach of their human rights. According to parents, the school's religion teacher made the class wear Muslim headgear and watch a short film. Afterward, she took prayer mats from her cupboard and said, 'We are now going out to pray to Allah,"
-- "Boys Punished with Detention for Refusing to Pray to Allah," by WorldNetDaily, (Article on the Internet).

"The nation's largest known uranium deposit was discovered in the 1980s on a farm in southern Virginia. The owner of that land has recently explored the possibility of mining the approximately $10 billion worth of uranium believed to be on the site. Despite the fact that uranium has been mined safely around the world for decades, including in New Mexico, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming, Virginia bureaucrats have decided to prohibit land owners from even studying the viability of mining. [. . .] [N]atural uranium is about as radioactive as granite."
-- "Uranium Important for America's Energy Future," by Jack Spencer and Nick Loris, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, pages 30-31. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

"Under Saddam Hussein's orders, the security apparatus in Iraq routinely and systematically torture[d] its citizens. Beatings, rape, breaking of limbs and denial of food and water [were] commonplace in Iraqi detention centers. Saddam Hussein's regime has also invented unique and horrific methods of torture including electric shocks to a male's genitals, pulling out fingernails, suspending individuals from rotating ceiling fans, dripping acid on a victim's skin, gouging out eyes, and burning victims with a hot iron or blowtorch. Why didn't more Iraqis complain publicly? I wonder if it could be because of Saddam's decree in 2000 authorizing the government to amputate the tongues of citizens who criticize[d] him or his government. The following were routine in Iraq during Saddam's regime: Medical experimentation, beatings, crucifixion, hammering nails into the fingers and hands, amputating sex organs or breasts with an electric carving knife, spraying insecticides into a victim's eyes, branding with a hot iron, committing rape while the victim's spouse is forced to watch, pouring boiling water into the victim's rectum, nailing the tongue to a wooden board, extracting teeth with pliers, using bees and scorpions to sting naked children in front of their parents."
-- "Why We Liberated Iraq," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, September 2008, pages 34-35. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Posted here for 11-10-08

"Each successive generation since the mid-60s has read less, mastered a smaller body of knowledge, and possessed a more meager vocabulary than its predecessors. What makes the members of the current generation different is that they appear unembarrassed by their ignorance."
-- "Troublemaker," by Deborah Lambert (quoting Fred Siegel in the June 2008 issue of Commentary magazine), CampusReport, September 2008, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.

"[F]ederal bureaucrats have the ability to examine your personal lifestyle so the IRS can compare your stated income to what you own, how you travel and what you do."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2008, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"The EU allows fruits and vegetables to be sold only in prescribed sizes and colors (bureaucratic nincompoops have spawned 35 pages of fine-print regulations governing 250 varieties of apple -- along with 'rules' decreeing cucumbers must be straight and bananas curved). In June, one British fruit distributor was forced to throw away 5,000 perfectly lush kiwis because some imbecilic EU bureaucrat decreed they were 1 millimeter in diameter too small and one-fourth ounce too light. Worse, petty, officious EU employees cited regulations making it a criminal offense to give the 'illegal' kiwi fruit away -- apparently so that higher market prices would not be reduced! Put another way, bureaucrats are more interested in mindless enforcement of petty rules than in consumers paying less in the supermarket."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2008, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 11-3-08

"It was 'unconscionable,' said Rep. Michele Buchamann (R-MN), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, that two radical organizations will be receiving millions of taxpayers' money from the federal bailout of the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgage companies. The groups she cited were the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the National Council of La Raza (The Race)."
-- "Immigration Briefs," by Americans for Immigration Control, Middle America News, October 2008, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently summoned the titans of more than a dozen industrial trade groups to a Capitol Hill meeting, where he delivered a crisp message: 'Get with our program or get demolished.' The Reid meeting was directed exclusively at the CEOs of the normally pro-business trade groups. [. . .] [O]ne participant of the meeting [said] business execs were told: 'We [the Democrats] have a narrow margin right now, and it is tough for us to get anything done. But there will be more of us next year, you'd better get used to it, and you better find a way to work with us.'"
-- The American Sentinel, September 2008, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Earlier this summer, Democrats passed a resolution apologizing for slavery. It hasn't existed in the U.S. as an institution for 143 years, so I think it's safe to assume there's no one living who is in a position to accept their gimmick apology. [. . .] This whole sick exercise in collective guilt is actually a foundation for what's coming when the liberals win enough seats: Reparations."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2008, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"FCC commissioner, Robert McDowell [. . .] told the Business and Media Institute that if reinstated [as planned by Democrats], the Fairness Doctrine could well cover Internet content -- which essentially positions the government to regulate how the Internet can be used to communicate 'political' or 'controversial' messages."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2008, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 10-27-08

"Decades of U.S. politicians following the extremist agenda of environmental nuts, regulatory excesses, and overindulgence of reckless lawsuits has spawned a little understood energy crisis that is going to hit the American middle class like an atom bomb."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2008, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"The U.S. legal and regulatory environment remains too hostile to make construction of new technology and oil refining upgrades anything but a major risk. [. . .] [A]ll it will take is a triggering event to create the mother of all energy crises."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2008, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Former U.S. Comptroller David Walker points out politicians would have to cut entitlements by 40% and raise taxes by 80% just to avert a complete collapse of Social Security and Medicare. In short, given no one in the political system is about to propose 40% funding cuts or 80% tax hikes, the only remaining way to meet all these new government obligations is inflate, inflate, inflate the money supply. This way, much like a Ponzi scheme, debts can be paid with progressively weaker dollars."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2008, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"In 1972, the average reading test score was 530 out of a possible 800. The average for 2008 was 502, about the same as the average score of 499 in 1994. U.S. political elites created the federal Department of Education in 1979 and have spent upwards of $60 billion a year in taxpayer money in an embarrassing failed effort to improve student academic performance."
-- "A Colossal Failure," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2008, 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 10-20-08

"On July 11 the career nutballs at the EPA released a 588-page 'Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,' an instruction manual on how they plan to mandate carbon limits on the U.S. economy. As The Wall Street Journal reveals, we're looking at a monstrous government intrusion: regulations on lawn and garden equipment, on taxiing aircraft, on dirt bikes and snowmobiles, on cows, crops, and farm machinery, and on all office and residential buildings, hotels and stores. The cherry on top: 'We expect that the entire country would be in nonattainment' with the proposed regulations and limits, declares the EPA. Translation: there is no way any of us can comply. Hello, carbon 'fees.' The agency is openly awaiting a friendly (cough, 'Obama,' cough) Administration to give the green light to this Soviet-style spawn."
-- "Carbon Paper," The Limbaugh Letter, October 2008, page 21. 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.

"Thanks to the Nannies running the European Union, Brits soon won't be able to employ a unit of measurement they've used since the 14th century. Come 2010, the acre will officially be banned when registering land, replaced by the 'hectare' -- a word derived, naturally, from the French. (One hectare is just under 2.5 acres.)"
-- "Wiseacres," The Limbaugh Letter, October 2008, page 21. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"A court in France last month postponed a criminal trial of Muslim defendants because it was to take place during Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims. The trial of seven men for robbery was to start on Sept. 16, but the accused requested a delay so they could celebrate by fasting."
-- "The New France," World Watch, Middle America News, October 2008, 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.

"Because the federal government won't protect America's borders, Mexican kidnapping gangs are expanding their trade into the U.S. According to Reuters News Service, 30 Americans have been abducted in southern California and taken across the border to Tijuana since last November and held for ransom. [. . .] Kidnappings are widespread in Mexico because the police are easily bribed to look away."
-- "No Protection for U.S. Citizens," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2008, 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 10-13-08

"With eight down and 456,992 to go, immigration agents called it quits. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday scrapped Operation Scheduled Departure, a program to encourage immigrants with deportation orders and no criminal records to come out of the shadows and self-deport. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the DHS agency managing the program, confirmed that eight people signed up in the 2 1/2 weeks since it was rolled out Aug. 5 -- out of 457.000 eligible candidates across the country and nearly 30,000 in five test cities."
-- "Some Progress on the Illegal Immigration Front," The New American, September 2008, 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.

"The U.S. dollar has lost 95 percent of its value since the 1940s."
-- "The Bailout & the Average American," by John F. McManus, The New American, October 13, 2008, page 44 . Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Former Charles Manson acolyte Susan Atkins, who is suffering from brain cancer, has received more than $1.4 million in medical treatments since March at the expense of California taxpayers. Dr. Joshua Atiba, CEO of the firm that treats California inmates suffering from cancer, states: 'Apart from the president and Congress, the people with the best healthcare in this country are inmates."
-- "Get Well Soon," Shorts, NewsMax (the magazine), October 2008, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Detainees at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, receive more privileges than American citizens receive in U.S. prisons [. . . .] Australian Taliban member David Hicks demanded -- and received -- an $800 Brooks Brothers suit to wear in court. [. . .] Another detainee was offered his freedom but responded by saying, 'No, thanks.' The detainee said the weather was not very nice in his country then, and he'd rather be released in the spring. [. . .] [The International Committee of the Red Cross was] asking for more Skittles for the detainees."
-- "Detainees at the U.S.," Beltway Bits, NewsMax (the magazine), October 2008, page 40. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Posted here for 10-6-08

"[Republican] Rep. Don Young [. . .] reportedly screamed 'this is my money' at a fellow Republican who dared to question his earmarks."
-- The American Sentinel, August 2008, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

"Senator Barack Obama has introduced a dangerous bill and it's on the fast track to Senate passage, probably because of his high profile position as the [] Democrat presidential nominee. [. . .] The bill is the 'Global Poverty Act' (S.2433) and is not just a compassionate bit of fluff that Obama dreamed up to help the poor of the world. This bill is directly tied to the United Nations and serves as little more than a shakedown of American taxpayers in a massive wealth redistribution scheme. In fact, if passed, The Global Poverty Act will provide the United Nations with 0.7% of the United States gross national product. Estimates are that it will add up to at least $845 billion of taxpayer money for welfare to third world countries, in addition to the $300 billion Americans spent for the same thing in 2006."
-- "Barack Obama and the UN's Drive for Global Governance," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, July 2008, page 8, 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.

"[W]hen our nation was founded, the federal government spent about $3 million a year -- about $1 per person. [. . .] By 1929 the federal government was spending $3 billion per year or about $29 per person. Today the federal government spends $6.35 billion every day or more than $8,000 per person per year. Even after we adjust for inflation, total federal taxes have increased about 6000 percent since adoption of the federal income tax."
-- A Deficit of Decency, by Zell Miller, 2005, page 135. Published by Stroud & Hall Publishers, PO Box 27210, Macon, Georgia 31221. Website.

Posted here for 9-29-08

"[T]he Grand Staircase-Escalante still holds an estimated 60 billion tons of the best, most environmentally compatible coal in the world. Unfortunately, it's locked there forever as a monument created by President William Clinton as he campaigned for his second term. Clinton never saw it. In 1996 he made the unprecedented grab of an area the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined -- 1.7 million acres."
-- "Dust Devils," by Tim Findley, Range Magazine, Summer 2008, page 32. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.

"[M]ore than $250,000 per bird has been invested in [the California condor's] reintroduction in the wild." [The bird is an endangered Pleistocene buzzard, a very ugly creature.]
-- "Giving Up Quick, Slick Answers," by Steven H. Rich, Range Magazine, Summer 2008, page 74. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.

"A commission reported in 2002 that building a school in New York City is three times more expensive than the national average due to bureaucratic red tape."
-- "After Milwaukee," by Frederick M. Hess, The American, September/October 2008, page 55. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.

"More than 90 percent of the world's oil and gas reserves are controlled by national oil companies or Russian energy giants heavily influenced by the Kremlin."
-- "The Exception that Proves the Rule," by Robert Bryce, The American, September/October 2008, page 81. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-22-08

"American taxpayers will soon be paying the medical bills for foreigners with AIDS, the deadly sexually-transmitted disease caused by the HIV virus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 Americans. Thanks to a Congress and president who are happy to spend taxpayers' money on non-citizens, language in a bill pledging $48 billion to fight AIDS all over the world repeals a provision of immigration law that bars HIV carriers from entering the U.S."
-- "Aliens with AIDS Welcome," Middle America News, September 2008, 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 efforts by America's ruling commercial and political elites to use mass immigration to turn the United States into a nonwhite, multi-racial society are succeeding. The mostly white America that was born in 1776 will come to an end about 30 years from now. That's when the non-white population will become a majority, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau said America's shift to a non-white country will occur around 2042, which is nearly 10 years sooner than demographers have been predicting."
-- "U.S. Whites to be Minority by 2042," Middle America News, September 2008, 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.

"China is expected to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest producer of manufactured goods next year, according to economic forecasters. Thanks to a massive transfer of technology from Western corporations and U.S. free trade policies allowing more imports, the Communist Chinese have been able to harness the country's vast supply of cheap labor to build an industrial powerhouse larger than any the world has ever seen."
-- "China Set to Overtake U.S. in 2009," Middle America News, September 2008, page 8. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"The Windfall Profits Tax of 1980 reduced domestic oil production by 3 to 6 percent and increased oil imports."
-- "A 'Windfall' of Unintended Consequences," The American, July/August 2008, page 13. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-15-08

"Stimulus checks totaling $150 billion have already been sent to the American people. The money for this program came from one of two sources: printing or borrowing. Printing it is inflation that impacts even more drastically the already sinking value of the dollar. Borrowing it -- largely from China -- puts our nation in two nooses: 1) the need to pay interest and 2) giving China added influence over decision making in our nation. China, to whom we are already heavily indebted, let us recall, has never abandoned its published determination to 'defeat the United States.'"
-- "Deficit Grows Ever Larger," by John F. McManus, The New American, September 2008, page 44. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"Spain has become the first nation to grant nonhumans parliamentary rights. Yes, reports Reuters, Spain's great apes now have the right to 'life and freedom.' That means no experiments, no '[k]eeping apes for circuses, television commercials, or filming,' and no captivity. Unless it's in a zoo (go figure)."
-- "Ape-us Corpus," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, August 2008, 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.

"Last month staff members at a town council in Kent, England were officially forbidden to use a word. [. . .] The word: 'brainstorming.' As The (UK] Telegraph notes, 'council chiefs feared the word . . . might offend mentally ill people and those with epilepsy.'"
-- "Brain Dead," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, August 2008, 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.

"In April, a federal appeals court issued an order prohibiting [East Brunswick High School football coach Marcus] Borden from bowing his head during pre-game prayers initiated and conducted by students on the football team. In his dictate, Judge D. Michael Fisher wrote, 'A reasonable observer would conclude that [Borden] is continuing to endorse religion when he bows his head during the pre-meal grace.'"
-- "Free Country?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2008, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

"A counterfeit ingredient in a blood-thinner widely used in surgery, combined with the Food and Drug Administration's failure to inspect Chinese imports, appears to be responsible for at least 81 deaths in the United States."
-- "Danger from Chinese Drugs," Middle America News, July 2008, page 17. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 9-1-08

"The only education that occurs [in Islam's schools], experts say, is memorization of the Quran. Students as young as 6 spend up to 12 hours a day sitting on pillows on the floor reciting the 6,666 verses of the Quran. They can leave only when they've memorized it -- a process that usually takes seven years. There are five breaks a day for prayer. Children try to sleep on thin mattresses lined up in primitive, crowded dormitories. Then it's up at dawn for more."
-- "Kids Brutalized in Islam's Schools," by Clayton B. Reid, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2008, page 9. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"The cost to build a new death row facility at San Quentin prison has spiraled from $220 million to approximately $400 million."
-- "State of the States," Newsfront, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2008, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Everglades National Park will get a 187,000-acre boost after an agreement was reached by the state to purchase U.S. Sugar, the largest cane grower in the nation. The restoration plan will begin after the company phases itself out of business in six years. The purchase will set the state back $1.75 billion."
-- "State of the States," Newsfront, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2008, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"On your next trip home from a business trip or vacation abroad, don't be surprised if customs agents help themselves to a memento of your trip at the airport -- all the personal data on your laptop, digital camera, and even your cell phone."
-- "Travelers' Computers Targeted by Customs," by Clayton B. Reid, NewsMax (the magazine), September 2008, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Two years ago, [Barbara] Wagner battled lung cancer into remission, but in May, a CT scan showed it had returned. Would she be able to fight it off again? According to the Oregon Health Plan, no. The state Plan would not cover the cancer drug her oncologist prescribed. Instead, the rejection letter offered her the options of hospice, palliative care, of physician assisted suicide. Wagner was insulted. 'To say to someone, we'll pay for you to die, but not pay for you to live, it's cruel,' she told the Eugene, Oregon Register-Guard. 'Who do they think they are?'"
-- "Will the Unthinkable become Unexceptional?" by Mary Faulds, American Family Association Journal, August 2008, page 6. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.

Posted here for 8-25-08

"A young Bolivian medical student, who died of an apparent brain hemorrhage while in Cuba on a government-sponsored scholarship this spring, was returned to her family in Bolivia with all of her organs missing [. . .] 'They took out everything,' said Miss Porco Calle's horrified sister, Sofia. 'Her lungs, kidneys, liver, ovaries down her vagina are gone. They even pulled out her tongue and her teeth,' said Sofia Porco Calle, who accuses the Cuban government of trying to cover up the scandal to conceal its role in organ trafficking."
-- "Cuba's Total Harvesting of Bolivian Student's Organs Angers Family, State," by Martin Arostegui, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 26, 2008, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"[Barack] Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill [. . .] is called the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433). It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7% our our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts, which is at least $30 billion over and above the exorbitant and wasted sums we already give away overseas."
-- The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2008, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"Doudou Diene is a Senegalese lawyer who works as a 'racism' investigator for the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is now in the United States looking for wickedness. As the UN puts it, he will 'gataher first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance' while he visits Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico."
-- "UNbelievable," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, July 2008, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

"[A]lmost 30 percent of legislation passed by law-makers in this 110th Congress has been naming federal buildings."
-- "Driving to Minnie," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 21, 2008, page 8. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-18-08

"Ten states are educational bargains for the many illegal immigrants who want to pursue a college degree. In California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Washington, undocumented students pay significantly lower in-state tuition [compared to out-of-state tuition] to attend public colleges and universities."
-- "Tuition Break for Illegals: Lawsuits Coming," NewsMax (the magazine), August 2008, page 22. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"In 1995, the Federal Government gave $2 million to leftwing professors at UCLA to write National Standards for United States History. The Standards were filled with so many attacks on Western civilization that American Federation of Teachers chairman Al Shanker said this is the first time a government has tried to teach children to 'feel negative about their own country.' The U.S. Senate voted 99 to 1 to repudiate the Standards, but that didn't stop the book from being distributed nationwide and having a profound effect in rewriting American history textbooks to comport with liberal revisionism and feminist ideology."
-- "What's Happened to College History and English?" by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, March 2008, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"Two separate federal courts, one in San Francisco and the other in Los Angeles, just ordered the United States Navy to limit its use of sonar, the underwater radar essential for tracking enemy submarines and detecting the ocean floor. These rulings tie the hands of our Navy and are the latest outrage committed by judicial supremacists."
-- "Don't Let Judges Run the Military," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2008, page 2. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"The WTO just ruled that the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda can freely violate American copyrights and trademarks in order to punish the United States for our laws prohibiting internet gambling. [. . .] The WTO ordered this punishment because it says U.S. laws interfere with free trade in 'recreational services.' [. . .] The WTO has ruled against the United States in 40 out of 47 major cases, and against us in 30 out of 33 trade remedies cases. [. . . The] WTO is a direct attack on our sovereignty because it claims it can force us to change our laws to comply with WTO rulings. Article XVI, paragraph 4, states: 'Each Member shall ensure the conformity of its laws, regulations, and administrative procedures with its obligations.' The WTO has the final say about whether U.S. laws meet WTO requirements."
-- "The Outrageous WTO," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, January 2008, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 8-11-08

"The economy of black-ruled Zimbabwe is nearing collapse. The currency plunged to a new record low in June when it traded at an average 1 billion to the U.S. dollar. [. . .] Zimbabwe's economic production capacity, which was based mostly on agriculture, has plummeted ever since Afro-racist strongman Robert Mugabe took control of the country. [. . .] Mugabe has a degree in economics from London University and has headed the country's government since 1980. That's when the U.S. and Britain forced the country's white minority government to hand over power."
-- "Zimbabwe Crumbling," World Watch, Middle America News, July 2008, 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 Foundation Diversity and Transparency Act would require California foundations to report to the state the ethnicity and sexual orientation of their boards and staffs, as well as the same information about the boards and staffs of charities to which they make grants, and report the extent to which the foundations provide support to non-white entities. The purpose of the reporting is [to] get information leftwing activists can use to accuse foundations of 'racism' if they don't give enough money to left-wingers."
-- "The Growing Tyranny," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2008, 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.

"California's legislature is also considering a bill (Assembly Bill 2064 by Democrat Assemblyman Juan Arambula) to require textbooks to teach all students the history of the Hmong people. It passed the Education Committee by a unanimous 6-0 vote."
-- "Is She American, or Is She Hmong?" Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2008, 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 federal ethanol program is consuming 30% of the nation's corn crop, causing farmers to devote even more acreage to corn and less to wheat and other crops. The result is that grain inventories are at 30-year lows and food prices are skyrocketing."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2008, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.

Posted here for 8-4-08

"Remember AmeriCorps? Started by Bill Clinton in 1993 as a Peace Corps knockoff, the group was supposedly an army of do-gooder volunteers serving communities nationwide. In actuality, it's been replete with waste, fraud, and radical lefty projects, with less than half the members even finishing their stints. (Clinton once boasted that AmeriCorps 'taught millions of children 10 read.' One study later put the true number at: less than a dozen.) [. . .] AmeriCorps' 2008 budget is $828.6 million."
-- "Root Cause," NewsDigest, The Limbaugh Letter, July 2008, 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.

"[In Dallas, Texas,] lawmakers installed cameras at intersections, which snapped pictures of the license plates of cars running red lights. The program was a success; accidents, injuries, and ticketing offenses plummeted. But the city is now dismantling the cameras, because fewer traffic fines means less revenue."
-- "Screwed," by Rush Limbaugh, The Limbaugh Letter, July 2008, page 15. 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 have voted three times against increased oil production in the last year. Their economic policy doesn't accommodate the simple fact that that every increase in gasoline prices equates to a pay cut for every working man and woman. Every American family pays the price in a lower standard of living. [. . .] Before the November election, oil prices will likely top $150/barrel. Gasoline may top $5/gallon, while congressional Democrats block any effort to solve the gas price crisis."
-- "Democrats Blocking Bill that Could Lower Gas Prices," by Jed Babbin, Human Events, July 14, 2008, page 8. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time, according to Rasmussen Reports. This month [July], just 9 percent say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. [. . .] Congress has not received higher than a 15 percent approval rating since the beginning of 2008."
-- "A New Low," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 14, 2008, page 12. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 7-28-08

"Extensive repairs under way at the old, run-down [UN] headquarters are already $25 million over budget." [Looks like the UN can't do anything right.]
-- "United Nations in Jeopardy (The New York City Headquarters, That Is)," by Stewart Stogel, NewsMax (the magazine), July 2008, page 24. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Freedom of speech is in imminent danger. Concerted attacks on it by the jihadist movement are increasing in number here and in countries that share America's dedication to free speech. Mark Steyn, the author of America Alone (Regnery), is on trial in Canada for inciting hatred against Muslims in an article adapted from that book. Pakistan asked the European Union to restrict freedom of expression so as to curb 'offenses to Islam.' Finland gave a blogger 2 and a half years in prison for 'insulting Islam.' When Dutch police arrested cartoonist Gregorious Nekschot, Amsterdam's public prosecutor explained: 'We suspect him of insulting people on the basis of their race or belief, and possibly also of inciting hatred.' Against Muslims, of course."
-- "The Jihad Against Free Speech," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, June 23, 2008, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

"The nation's district attorneys [say there is] a rising number of judges who forbid witnesses and their attorneys from uttering certain words during a trial, such as 'rape,' 'crime scene' and 'victim.' [. . .] [A] victim should be referred to as a 'complaining witness,' according to lawyers who support less-condemning language. A 'crime' could be an 'incident' and a 'homicide' could be a 'fatality.'"
-- "Don't Call It a Crime Scene:Banned Words Anger Prosecutors," by Tom Ramstack, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 30, 2008, page 13. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

"About 50 miles off the coast of Florida, deep sea rigs are now drilling for oil. That makes perfect sense. For decades, the U.S. has banned any new offshore drilling, locking that oil away for a rainy day while we imported (relatively) cheap oil from overseas. Now, with gas more than $4 per gallon, it's time to tap our domestic resources and send fewer petro-dollars overseas. But there's one problem: It's not American oil companies that are drilling. It's Chinese and Canadian companies, drilling on behalf of Cuba's autocratic government."
-- "Time to Get Serious about Energy," by Ed Feulner, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 30, 2008, page 34. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 7-21-08

"[N]annies at the European Union have come up with new workplace noise-restriction rules, fining employers who expose their staff to loud sounds. So encompassing is this new law that it even applies to classical musicians. According to The New York Times, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra had to cancel a world premiere of one composition due to volume, while musicians at the Royal Opera House in London are being told they must wear earplugs while tuning, practicing, and performing so as nor to risk breaking the law."
-- "Shut Up," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2008, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"British citizen Garerh Corkhill [. . .] filled up his garbage bin to the point that . . . the lid was slightly raised. [. . .] [A]uthorities actually 'photographed [Corkhill's] raised lid,' fined him, and then fined him again after his refusal to pay up. Although Corkhill recycles, the town of Whitehaven argues that a raised lid means a resident is not recycling enough."
-- "Garbage In, Garbage Out," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, June 2008, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

"The EU constitution, now called the Treaty of Lisbon, requires all signers to surrender their sovereignty and democracy to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and judges in Strasbourg. The EU constitution takes away England's right to pass its own laws, forces England to surrender more than 60 UK vetoes of EU decisions, and gives the EU bureaucracy and tribunals total control over England's immigration policy. Instead of a self-governing nation whose democratic system was developed over centuries, England is now ruled by what Margaret Thatcher called 'the paper pushers in Brussels.'"
-- "The Many Sides of Globalism," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2008, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"U.S. taxpayers are giving more than $9,000 a year in cash or benefits to each immigrant, a third of whom are illegal aliens. That's $36,000 for each immigrant household of four. Since the U.S. has 37 million immigrants, legal and illegal, the national cost was more than $346 billion last year, which is twice our fiscal deficit."
-- "Globalism's Ripoff of U.S. Taxpayers," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2008, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

Posted here for 7-14-08

"In a surprise attack coordinated by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) on April 3-4, the Rangers and sheriffs removed an initial group of the 468 children at the Yearning for Zion Ranch (YFZ) in Eldorado, Texas. The raid was initiated with a court order -- not a warrant -- authorizing them only to have 'investigatory access' to the particular teenage mother and her child, neither of whom actually existed. Soon thereafter, the rest of the 468 children were removed, with over a thousand government agents participating in the raids at a cost of nearly $2.3 million according to the Associated Press."
-- "Whose Children Are They, Anyway?" by Gregory A. Hession, J.D., The New American, June 23, 2008, page 21. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

"In the eight years before passage of the Gun Control Act of 1998, [the] Massachusetts' murder rate decreased by 55 percent. But as soon as Massachusetts passed its 'worst in the nation' anti-gun laws, the state's murder rate began to rise, even as the U.S. murder rate was falling. Between 1997, the last year before Massachusetts' new gun laws were passed, and 2006, the state's murder rate rose 49 percent, while the U.S. rate dropped 16 percent. [. . .] Between 1999 and 2006, 'assault-related emergency room visits' soared by 331 percent. Between 2001 and 2006, 'assault outpatient observations' skyrocketed by 590 percent."
-- "Mass Murder: How Reducing the Ranks of Gun Owners Increases Crime," by Marshall Lewin, America's First Freedom, July 2008, page 25. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.

"[A] lawsuit filed [a year or two ago] by [California Attorney General] Bill Lockyer [. . .] targeted six major automobile manufacturers, alleging that the CO2 emissions of the vehicles these manufacturers produce constitute a 'public nuisance.' It seeks millions of dollars in damages, which the state would supposedly use to combat global warming."
-- "PLF [Pacific Legal Foundation] Opposes Jerry Brown's Frivolous Global Warming Lawsuit," by M. David Stirling and Timothy Sandefur, Rescuing Liberty, March 2008, page 6. Address: Pacific Legal Foundation, 3900 Lennane Drive, Suite 200, Sacramento, California 95834. Phone: 916-419-7111. Fax: 916-419-7747. Website.

"County officials tell a Washington couple that their home near the coast will have to be allowed to tumble into the ocean. The reason? The erosion that threatens the bungalow is 'perfectly natural.' In Freeport, Texas, city fathers decide to seize a family-owned seafood business because a politically connected developer wants the land for a multimillion-dollar marina and shopping district. In Chesapeake, Virginia, a farmer is charged with multiple violations of the Clean Water Act -- because a nearby construction project was causing water to flow onto his property and he tried to drain it so he could plant his crop."
-- "The Four Greatest Threats to Property Rights in America," Rescuing Liberty, March 2008, page 1. Address: Pacific Legal Foundation, 3900 Lennane Drive, Suite 200, Sacramento, California 95834. Phone: 916-419-7111. Fax: 916-419-7747. Website.