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"[T]he Internal Revenue Service rents taxpayer information to private marketing firms. . . Under federal law, the privacy of tax return information maintained by the IRS is supposed to be absolute."From "IRS Now Rents Lists of Taxpayers to Private Companies," The American Sentinel, September 2003, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Even as the federal government leads a preachy crusade against smoking . . . Washington has been funding tobacco farmers for 70 years, and for decades was the biggest global distributor of cigarettes through military 'PX' stores. . . [T]obacco farmers who donate to Washington politicians are scheduled to receive an additional $13 billion over six years to, as the August 2 edition of Congressional Quarterly says, 'subsidize their losses to foreign competition.'"From "Top Drug Pusher Uncle Sam Continues to Fund Tobacco Interests," The American Sentinel, September 2003, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Illegals are now accounting for 44% of all U.S. population growth."From "Is George W. Bush Becoming a Nixonian Statist?" The American Sentinel, September 2003, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"After reviewing the lyrics to 'He's Always Been Faithful', school officials informed Rachel Honer, a senior at Winneconne High School in Winnebago County, Wisc., that she would not be permitted to perform the song, because the word 'God' appeared three times in the lyrics."From "Freedom Fighters," Rutherford, Fall 2003, page 7. Address: The Rutherford Institute, PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906. Phone: 804-978-3888. Fax: 804-978-1789. E-mail. Website.
"In the spring of 2002, Kaylie Crosby, a third-grader at a Texas elementary school, was prevented from distributing invitations to her classmates encouraging them to come watch her perform a solo in a musical at her church."From "Freedom Fighters," Rutherford, Fall 2003, page 7. Address: The Rutherford Institute, PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906. Phone: 804-978-3888. Fax: 804-978-1789. E-mail. Website.
"There was a case in Britain called The Crown versus Joseph Pierce (1986). Pierce was accused of 'inciting racial hatred.' The case got a lot of attention because the court declared that, when it comes to race hate, 'The truth is no excuse." . . . In France and Germany, a first offense for contradicting any Politically Correct statement about the Holocaust carries a mandatory one year sentence."From "Mandatory Sentencing Is Only for Violations of Political Correctness," Citizens Informer, May-June 2003, page 8. Address: PO Box 221683, St. Louis, Missouri 63122. Phone: 225-338-9763. E-mail. Website.
"The nation's public schools offer students plenty about America's failings but not enough about its values and freedoms, says a report drawing support across the ideological spectrum. Without a change of approach, schools will continue to turn out large numbers of students who are disengaged in society and unappreciative of democracy, the report contends." [Did we need a report to tell us this?]From "Bipartisan Study Urges Schools to Quit Reproaching U.S.," by Ben Feller, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 15-21, 2003, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he federal government may actually allow someone who came to the United States illegally, worked less than the required number of years to quality for Social Security, and then returned to Mexico for the rest of his working years, to collect full U.S. Social Security benefits while living in Mexico."From Ron Paul's Freedom Report, March 2003, page 2. Address: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, Incorporated, PO Box 1776, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566. Phone: 409-265-3034.
"Hard as it may be to believe, the United States Government already provides Social Security benefits to citizens of 17 other countries."From Ron Paul's Freedom Report, March 2003, page 2. Address: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, Incorporated, PO Box 1776, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566. Phone: 409-265-3034.
"Every tax season, a certain number of blacks claim some kind of imaginary tax exemption as reparations for slavery, and 2003 was no exception. This year, Robert Foster of Richmond, Virginia helped people file for bogus refunds of between $8,000 and $500,000 each. The amazing thing is that these scams sometimes work. In 2000, Mr. Foster arranged a $504,490 refund for his daughter Crystal, which the government actually paid."From "Congo Cannibalism," American Renaissance, July 2003, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"John F. Kennedy utilized the IRS as a tool to discredit conservatives and settle political scores."From "JFK Used Audits to Silence His Critics," by John Berlau, Insight on the News, September 16-29, 2003, page 21, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The Massachusetts State Supreme Court is soon expected to legalize homosexual marriage, and the resulting legal struggle across the nation may doom traditional marriage."From "Pro-Family Groups Set 'Marriage Protection Week' for October 12-18," American Family Association Journal, September 2003, page 1. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.
"A recent study, commissioned by the Center for Individual Freedom Foundation, finds that more than 88 percent of the votes for judicial-nomination filibusters, since 1968, come from Democrats." [Surprise, surprise.]From "Democrats' Glass Houses," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 26-31, 2003, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Why did three of our [U.S. Supreme Court] justices [Sondra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer] intentionally fly to Paris to speak with French President Jacques Chirac, at taxpayers' expense, for his point of view on the death penalty and terrorism?" [Perhaps because they choose to ignore their oath to uphold the laws of the United States.]From "U.S. Justices Solicit French Counseling," by Rand Holman, Insight on the News, September 2-15, 2003, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"A judge in San Diego ruled that 'Ladies' Night' half-price drink specials are discriminatory. . . . How long before lawsuits against student discounts or, for that matter, senior discounts? In the name of civil-rights protection, men will now be protected against bars and clubs which attract women through lower prices. What a victory for civil rights!"From "Lawyers Shed a Tear Over Half-Price Beer," by Roger Hedgecock, Insight on the News, September 2-15, 2003, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The author of Clinton's appeasement policy that gave North Korea atomic weapons has been named to run Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department."From "Author of N. Korea Debacle Rewarded," by J. Michael Waller, Insight on the News, September 2-15, 2003, page 32, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[S]ays the conservative Heritage Foundation, $400 billion is the 'low' estimate of what taxpayers are likely to pay over the next 10 years if Congress and President Bush add prescription drugs to Medicare as an entitlement."From "Real Money," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 18-24, 2003, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"The Daily News reports that Jesse Taveras, 19, got a summons last month -- for sitting on a milk crate in front of the Grand Concourse hair salon where he works. Taveras said the cop ticketed him for 'unauthorized use of a milk crate.' . . . 'Don't blame me,' Taveras said the cop told him. 'Blame [Mayor] Bloomberg . . . We have to make our daily quota.'"From "Tacky Tickets," News Digest, The Limbaugh Letter, July 2003, page 4. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website.
"Some 40,000 immigrants from Vietnam, almost all anti-communists, now make their home in Virginia, but Democratic Gov. Mark Warner insists that in public ceremonies they fly not their traditional flag but that of Communist Vietnam." [And why aren't they flying the American flag?]From "The Insider," Insight on the News, August 19 - September 1, 2003, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"After getting approval from GOP Republican Gov. George Pataki, legislators in Albany, New York, recently voted to change the names of certain sex crimes to avoid offending those who commit them. The terms 'sodomy' and 'deviate sexual assault' will be stricken from the state's law books, even though the penalties will remain the same. 'Sodomy' will be replaced with 'criminal sexual act' while 'deviate sexual intercourse' will be changed to 'anal sexual conduct.' According to the New York Post, 'advocates said it is important to expunge archaic language that stigmatizes . . . gay people.' Politicians don't want anyone convicted of sex crimes to feel bad about themselves."From "Elites Rename Sex Crimes," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2003, 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.
"NTU [National Taxpayers Union] says instructions for the 'short form' are 85 pages, more pages than the 'long form' 1040 instruction of just seven years ago."From "Gee Thanks, Congress," Your Tax Dollars at Work, Middle America News, August 2003, 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.
"[Those] so-called 'Matricula Consular' cards [issued for $29 specifically for aliens who cannot get U.S.-issued 'green cards' or other official identification; i.e. illegal aliens] are currently being accepted in the U.S. by: 400 cities and 900 police departments; banks such as Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo; [and] 13 states, for the issuing of driver's licenses. The Matricula Consular scam is such a boon to foreign gate crashers that Guatemala, Poland, Haiti and Nicaragua plan to issue similar I.D.s to their citizens in the U.S. illegally!"From "Bush Administration Sidesteps Illegal Immigration Security Problem," The American Sentinel, August 2003, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
From Page 17: "Ritalin is listed -- along with cocaine -- as a 'Class II substance' for its narcotic properties. In many cities, including Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Chicago, Ritalin is used as an inhalant drug, or combined with other narcotics such as cocaine and heroin. Military recruiters disqualify applicants with a history of Ritalin use. Yet millions of children in our public school system are pressured into taking Ritalin and similar dangerous drugs."From Page 19: "ADHD is a condition unconnected to any definable physical disorder, leading many authorities to conclude it is more of a political artifice than an actual disease." From The New American, August 25, 2003. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"$1,800,000,000.00. That's how much we spend each year in annual dues payments to the United Nations. What's worse, there are also the 'voluntary payments,' which, in some years exceed our dues payments. Between 1992 and 1997, we gave the U.N. an additional $11 BILLION."From "1.8 Billion Tax Dollars," by Tom Schatz, eco-logic Powerhouse, August 2003, page 22. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"The 15-nation European Union (EU) has effectively barred genetically-modified U.S. crops from the Third World since 19989. As a result, widespread starvation remains chronic in many African countries (genetically-modified crops can be designed to grow even in relatively harsh environments). The EU's anti-technology obsession is based on erroneous science, and appears designed to prevent the widespread use of a major U.S. farming innovation that has the potential to permanently eradicate starvation in all Third World countries."From The American Sentinel, August 2003, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"EU bureaucrats are demanding that [Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, the United States, Bermuda, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands] raise their tax rates to match those of Germany and France."From The American Sentinel, August 2003, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"[A]lmost a quarter of the Congress . . . now view the U.N. as a higher authority than the U.S. Constitution."From The American Sentinel, August 2003, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"43% of the U.S.A. is owned by government -- and it wants much more." [Private property rights are under attack.]From "What Happened to the Right to Property?" by Henry Lamb, Whistleblower, July 2003, page 4. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"EPA estimates suggest we are willing to pay between $61 and $113 per pound for fish we don't eat (just to know they are swimming safely)."From "EPA Uses Fishy Numbers to Justify Regulations," by Daniel R. Simmmons and Susan E. Dudley, The Heartlander, August 2003, insert, page 2. Address: The Heartland Institute, 19 South LaSalle Street, Suite 903, Chicago, Illinois 60603. Phone: 312-377-4000. Fax: 312-377-5000. E-mail. Website.
"Alderman Cynthia Carter has introduced legislation in the Annapolis City Council to, not only ban all toy guns, but also to fine parents of any children caught playing with them -- even in their own yards."From "Bang, Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down. . ." The DeWeese Report, August 2003, 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.
"Dismissing the prospective jurors for lunch, Judge Patterson began to lecture [defense attorney Paul] Grant, instructing him . . . 'You are not to mention the [U.S.] Constitution during this proceeding. Do you understand?'" [Since when is the Constitution of the United States out of order in a court of law?]From "You Are Not to Reference the Constitution . . ." by Vin Suprynowicz, The Idaho Observer, July 16, 2003, page 17. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website.
"[T]he Liberian constitution . . . Chapter IV, Article 27b is unambiguous: 'In order to preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values and character, only persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent shall qualify by birth of naturalization to be citizens of Liberia.'"From "Into Africa," American Renaissance, August 2003, page 9. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"Political correctness has so infected the government schools that classroom textbooks are now vetted for bad words and phrases that may upset people. . . 'Anchorman' is a no go. Sorry . . . it's sexist! . . . 'Adam and Eve' . . . should be 'Eve and Adam' to demonstrate males do not take priority over females. 'Abnormal' [is] banned as demeaning to persons with disabilities. . . . Textbooks have been disinfected of such words as 'actress' or 'business man' or 'salesman' or 'founding fathers' or 'brotherhood'."From "Schools Banning Words at 'Alarming Rate'," NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2003, page 34. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"The Center for Immigration Studies found that in the first ten years after the 1986 [immigrant] amnesty, the direct and indirect costs of services and benefits including schooling was more than $78,000,000,000 -- or $26,000 per alien!"From "Crime Pays -- For Illegal Aliens," by Robert H. Goldsborough, Middle America News, July 2003, 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.
"Sometime in 2004, federal authorities are scheduled to begin deploying the Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening system (CAPPS II) for use at all U.S. airports. CAPPS II marks the formal creation of a national passport system. If credit, tax, legal, or other problems having nothing whatsoever to do with 'security' are detected in the course of the automated background check, then passengers may be denied access to air, train or bus travel. Federal officials expect to expand CAPPS II to cover car rentals and most other forms of travel once the 'kinks' have been worked out of the system."From "'Your Papers, Please' Program for Airports," The American Sentinel, July 2003, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Arizona's Geographic and Historic Names Board voted to rename a mountain for the only American servicewoman killed in the Iraq war. The woman, sent into harm's way by a left wing government that thinks it's really cool and modern to assign women to combat zones, didn't do anything more heroic than any other soldiers killed in Iraq for whom no landmarks will be named. She was killed in an ambush when her unit got lost. But Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, for whom a mountain will now be named Piestewa Peak, was a Hopi Indian from northern Arizona, which is multicultural America entitles her to treatment more favorable than any reserved for just ordinary white soldiers."From "Special Treatment," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2003, 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.
"California city and county governments can no longer open meetings with prayers; mention of God's name, even in nondenominational prayer, is banned, thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing decisions in favor of the ban by two lower California courts to stand."From "Supreme Court Allows Ban on Prayer," NewsMax.com (the magazine), July 2003, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, local elites fined Laurie Hanniford $352 for not filing a local tax return, even though she earned only $316 and had paid the $3.16 in local taxes."From "Petty Bureaucrats," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, July 2003, 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.
"To make American money look more like currencies issued by the rest of the world's countries, the Treasury Department will later this year issue $20 bills with a touch of peach, blue, and yellow ink. Designs for newly 'globalized' $50 and $100 bills are slated to appear in 2004 and 2005."From "The New Color of Money," Your Tax Dollars at Work, Middle America News, July 2003, 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.
"Peter Tsimortos's house has stood on a mountain outside Dover, Vermont for 15 years. But the state only learned two years ago that he never got the permit required to build a house above 2,500 feet. So did it impose a big fine? No: It's proposing that Tsimortos be forced to tear down the house, which is valued between $700,000 and $1 million."From "Brickbats," Reason, August 2003, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"To battle obesity, New Zealand's Ministry of Health is thinking of banning minors from eating high-calorie fast food and hamburgers. . . Officials are also mulling a law barring fast food restaurants from operating within 1 kilometer of any school."From "Brickbats," Reason, August 2003, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"When British police told Mark Smith where to pick up his stolen Ford Focus, they left out one little detail. The vehicle was still in the possession of the gang that stole it."From "Brickbats," Reason, August 2003, page 12. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"State wildlife officials in Kentucky destroy[ed] a bald eagle egg because they lack a federal permit to raise bald eagles. A captive pair of wounded, flightless eagles had bred and produced an egg, something that almost never happens."From "Balance Sheet,," by Jeff A. Taylor, Reason, August 2003, page 13. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"There's a law that says members of Congress should not be paid for workdays missed due to campaigning or other unexcused absences. There's also a catch: It hasn't been enforced since 1914. . . . If the statute were applied today, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) might have to pay back thousands of dollars. As The Hill recently reported, Gephardt has missed 85 percent of this year's House votes. . . . Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has missed 34 percent of this year's Senate votes. . . Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) has missed 22 percent of the votes."From "Obscure Statute Could Dock Campaigning Members" (from The Hill, June 4, 2003), as reported in No Uncertain Terms, the Newsletter of the Term Limits Movement, July 2003, page 7. Address: U.S. Term Limits Foundation, 10 G street, NE, Washington, DC 20002. Phone: 800-733-6440. E-mail. Website.
"Twenty Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) recruiters recently took [a trip] to Telluride, Colorado. To hire 61 airport screeners for five small airports in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, the recruiters for the new agency spent eight weeks at a grand luxury resort -- at a cost to taxpayers of $275,000." [That's an average of $245 per day per recruiter.]From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," (from News4Colorado), Resource Roundup, June 2003, page 4. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"Between June 2002 and February 2003, the State Department issued 19,000 visas to citizens of 7 countries that remain on its own list of terrorist havens."From "Terror-state Citizens Still Getting U.S. Visas," The American Sentinel, May 2003, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"The federal register of regulatory directives has grown from 64,431 pages in Bush's first year (2001) to 80,332 pages by the end of 2002 (an increase of 24% in just one year). The federal registry had reached 83,293 pages under Bill Clinton on December 28, 2000, but had been cut back briefly after George W. Bush took power. In the wake of September 11, 2002, all restraints came off and the registry of regulation grew back to Clinton-era levels."From "Regulations Expand under Bush White House," The American Sentinel, May 2003, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Unelected State Department bureaucrats are angling to give away eight small islands off the coast of Alaska, in the Bering Sea. If the transfer of this sovereign U.S. territory moves quietly forward as State Department employees hope, the Russian government will gain thousands of square miles of seabed containing huge oil reserves, millions of tons of fish and other seafood, and more millions of tons of minerals and ores."From "State Dept. Bureaucrats Giving away Huge U.S. Oil Riches," The American Sentinel, May 2003, page 12. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) has introduced legislation (H.R. 1452) which would add a Spanish translation to all U.S. passports. This legislation, if passed, would effectively say to the rest of the world, 'in America, we speak Spanish.'"From "Legislation Introduced to Add Spanish to All U.S. Passports," English First Members' Report, May 26, 2003, page 1. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website.
"Political correctness continues to assert itself within U.S. intelligence. . . . NSA notified its 40,000 employees last week that June is National Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. . . . 'NSA can't build systems, but it sure knows how to promulgate a social agenda,' one source told us."From "Legislation Introduced to Add Spanish to All U.S. Passports," English First Members' Report, May 26, 2003, page 1. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website.
"At LaSalle Middle School in Greeley, CO, three 13-year-old boys were given one-year suspensions because one of the students brought to school a key chain from which dangled a 2-1/2-inch laser pointer. The school called it a 'firearm facsimile' and sent one of the boys (a good student who had never before been in trouble) to an alternative program where he is taking classes with young criminals and juvenile delinquents in 'anger management,' 'conflict resolution' and gangs."From The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2003, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"The family of a man who was electrocuted by a homemade booby trap when he tried to break into a Chicago-area bar after hours was awarded $75,000 in a wrongful-death jury trial. The bar owner installed the anti-theft electronic device around a window after his establishment had been burglarized three times in a month. Warning signs were placed outside the building, including near the booby-trapped window. Jurors were not allowed to be told the victim was drunk and on cocaine, and that he had served time for two previous burglary convictions."From "Crime Pays . . . Sort Of," from the Heartland Institute, as quoted in The DeWeese Report, June 2003, 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.  Government Run Amok items for First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2000. Second Quarter, 2000. Third Quarter, 2000. Fourth Quarter, 2000. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2001. Second Quarter, 2001. Third Quarter, 2001. Fourth Quarter, 2001. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2002. Second Quarter, 2002. Third Quarter, 2002. Fourth Quarter, 2002. Government Run Amok items for First Quarter, 2003. Second Quarter, 2003.The way back home. |
