 "Federal fuel economy mandates have already forced automakers to produce smaller, lighter, less crash-resistant cars. The result? An additional 2,000-4,000 highway deaths per year, according to John Graham of the Harvard School of Public Health."-- From "Precautionary Foolishness," by Marlo Lewis, Jr., eco-logic, Summer 2000, page 23. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has earned another failing grade from the House Government Reform subcommittee on Government Management for the way the agency manages taxpayers' money. Subcommittee chairman Stephen Horn, R-Calif., is said to be furious that HUD's most recent financial report shows the agency is unable to balance its checkbook and cannot account for $59 billion."-- From "$59 Billion Missing from HUD," The Oil Patch, December 2000, page 14. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "For the first time in the history of our country, Congress voted to change our domestic laws because an international body told us to do so. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has begun to dictate American laws."-- From "U.S. Congress Bows to World Trade Organization Mandate Our National Sovereignty Is Violated," by Congressman Ron Paul, The Oil Patch, December 2000, page 14. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "Designed as a half-day preschool program for poor children between ages three and five, Head Start's long-run effectiveness has been widely debated, though its funding [about $5.2 billion currently] has not been seriously threatened by Congress. A 1985 Health and Human Services analysis examined the results of 210 previous studies of Head Start. The finding, noted Investor's Business Daily, was that 'intellectual gains made by students in Head Start were lost a few years after kindergarten.'"-- From "The Right Answers,"The New American, December 18, 2000, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "A six-foot 'Mr. Potato Head' statue, one of dozens dotting Rhode Island as part of a tourism campaign, will be taken down 'because of complaints that the grinning, brown-skinned figure appears racist.'"-- From "From Far and Wide," Midnight Messenger, December 2000, page 2. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. "'What do we need to do to shut down uncooperative Christian churches and groups and put them out of business forever?' This was the question that high-level Clinton Administration bureaucrats posed at a super-secret conclave at the White House in late October 1998." "The assembled plotters at the secret White House meeting were briefed on their mission. They were told that, so successful was the onward march of Socialism, only a very few Christian churches and patriotic nationalist groups now stood to prevent the final victory of The Great Work [i.e. Socialism and/or Communism]."-- From "Uncooperative Churches and Groups Targeted by Feds," by Texe Marrs, Midnight Messenger, December 2000, page 5. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. "The speaker of California's assembly has called on the state to issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens. And Democrats are moving at flank speed to turn illegals into voters. President Clinton, whose INS created 800,000 new citizens just in time to vote in 1996, is talking about another amnesty for all illegal aliens."-- From "Was with Mexico Emerging -- Trouble in the Neighborhood," by Patrick J. Buchanan, Midnight Messenger, December 2000, page 11. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. "Christmas is under attack all over the country as multiculturalism triumphs over good will to men. The Lawrence, Kansas, school board voted 5-2 in November to prohibit even non-religious Christmas celebrations anywhere in the school district. . . . In St. Petersburg, Florida, police banned all workplace holiday displays after a lone Jewish officer complained to the local EEOC about decorations that reminded him of Christianity."-- From "Christmas Under Attack (Again)," Middle America News, December 2000, 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. "Britain, said the [C]ommission [on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain] must 'revise, rethink or jettison' its history because much of it might hurt the feelings of non-white immigrants. Even the very concept of being British, the commission warned, has 'racist connotations.'"-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 2000, 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. "[A] Florida high school student . . . was suspended from school in 1995 for showing his friends a four-inch by four inch Confederate battle flag during lunch period. Wayne Denno, a student at Pine Ridge High School in Volusia County, was told by the principal that the flag was a 'racist symbol' and that he had no First Amendment right to reveal the flag to anyone on school grounds. A federal judge and an appeals court agreed." [So the lesson, children, is that it doesn't matter what the First Amendment says; you don't have the right to free speech.]-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 2000, 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. "A federal judge recently sentenced a convicted perjurer to just one year in prison -- not the five called for by federal sentencing guidelines -- citing as the reason Bill Clinton's request for leniency under the same circumstances."-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, December 2000, page 11. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "[A] Cato Institute study shows the Postal Service loses 500,000 to one million pieces of mail each year. . . [F]irst class mail delivery takes longer today than it did in 1969 and the Post Office is still bleeding red ink."-- From "Dead Letter Office, Inc.," Media Bypass, December 2000, page 46 . Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Declassified documents show our own military has released viruses over U.S. populations to see what the impact would be. Unfortunately, history also shows our government doesn't own up to its transgressions for at least 40 to 50 years after the harm is done."-- From "Healing from the Horror," by Annie McKenna, Media Bypass, December 2000, page 23 . Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "The presidential recount isn't the only voting controversy in Broward County, Fla. On Nov. 16, the Broward County school board voted unanimously to ban the Boy Scouts from its schools and buses because the organization bars homosexual leaders."-- From "Florida School Board Boots Scouts Over Homosexual Ban," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 27-December 3, 2000, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "In its death throes, the outgoing Clinton administration has issued new workplace 'ergonomics' requirements through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that will cost American business at least $4.5 billion -- by OSHA's own estimation. Business groups, however, estimate the eventual cost could top $90 billion annually."-- From "Ergonomics, Schmergonomics" (editorial), The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 20-26, 2000, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "British courts decided to take the role of God by ruling Siamese twins should receive experimental medical treatment which has caused the death of the weaker twin. The surgery, completed early on Nov. 7, left the stronger twin in critical condition and the weaker one dead. Through the Roman Catholic parents had wanted God to decide the fate of their children, the courts ruled that Mary, the weaker twin, didn't have the same right to live as her sister Jodie."-- From "When Doctors Play God" (editorial), The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 20-26, 2000, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Strangers entered two different elementary schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma on two separate occasions. They forcibly removed the clothes from numerous children between the ages of 3 and 5 -- over their cries of fear and desperate attempts to resist -- and proceeded to probe the genitals of the now nude children. The strangers were LPN nurses on behalf of the Head Start program. Ostensibly, the nurses were looking for signs of child abuse or other health problems among the youngsters. . . Their parents did not know that the exams were scheduled and had not given their consent."-- From the Ashville Tribune, 8-3-00, as quoted in 9*1*1, October 2000, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "A pandemic of money laundering, prostitution, immigration fraud, murder, arson, arms dealing and other criminal activities by the Russian mob -- which has invaded 29 countries and 17 U.S. cities -- would probably never have occurred on such a frightening scale without the tacit approval of high-ranking U.S. officials, including President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, according to congressional and law enforcement sources."-- From "Gore Condoned Russian Mafia?" (posting), WorldNet, November 2000, page 30. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "California has become the first state in the nation to give homosexual parents the same tax benefits as heterosexual mothers and fathers."-- From "Homosexuals Get Parental Tax Status in California," by Lynda Gledhill, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 13-19, 2000, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "[R]eported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on November 6: over 15,000 dead people are on the voter registration rolls in Georgia. At least 5,412 votes have been cast by dead people in Georgia over the last 20 years. And, reported the newspaper, the number of the registered dead has been growing."-- From "Voting Irregularities," (Capital Briefs), Human Events, November 17, 2000, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. "[The] BATF has mailed letters to FFLs [federal firearms licensees] nationwide, demanding they submit the names, addresses and other private information, such as model and serial number, on the sale or purchase of all second-hand, or used, firearms for 1999. Other dealers have received letters demanding the same type of data for all transactions for new and used guns going back three years . . . .It is, in fact, de facto gun registration."-- From "Clinton=Gore Legacy: Abuse and Corruption," by James Jay Baker, America's First Freedom, November/December 2000, pages 34-35 . Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "For the first time in the history of our country, Congress voted to change our domestic laws because an international body told us to do so. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has begun to dictate American laws. More specifically, Congress voted to change our tax laws relating to Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs), solely because the WTO appellate panel deemed that our FSC tax rules constituted a "subsidy". . . . - the EU contingent in the WTO had brought a complaint to the panel. Our FSC rules simply allow U.S. corporations to exempt a small portion of income earned abroad from taxes. No "subsidy" is involved; no tax dollars are given to FSCs. Moreover, most EU countries do not tax their corporations on any income earned abroad. Still, the appellate panel agreed with the EU and gave the U.S. an October 1st deadline to change our tax laws."-- From Source. "A decision by an Alabama high school to start doing drug tests on student athletes to detect cigarette smoking . . . shows that mandatory drug testing has gotten out of hand . . . ."-- From "The War on Privacy," Media Bypass, November 2000, page 46. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Cheryl M. Mewborn, 42, has been suspended from her teaching duties at Bryant Elementary School in Cobb County, Georgia. Miss Mewborn, who is white, gave her mostly black students a little lecture about how they shouldn't call each other 'nigger' and in so doing pronounced the forbidden syllables herself. Black parents raised an outcry, and Miss Mewborn will be out of the classroom until school authorities complete an investigation."-- From "Wicked Whites," American Renaissance, November 2000, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "I recently completed my annual two-week military reserve training and lo and behold, the entire reserve complement which consisted of Army, Navy, Canadian Navy and U.S. Coast Guard personnel (about 30 different reserve units) were ultimately put under United Nations Command authority. . . ."-- From a letter to the editor in The American Sentinel, November 2000, page 10. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. "The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new increases in the amount it will pay to subsidize rent for welfare recipients. In Hawaii, taxpayers will fork out up to $1,680 a month to house a 'poor' family . . . [in] San Jose, CA, $2,518. . . Since the Clintonistas took over HUD, such spending has doubled, to $15 billion a year."-- From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, November 2000, 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. "Congress agreed to fund at least $1.5 billion of the $2 billion needed for a new bridge linking Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The cost is unusually high because it must be a drawbridge to allow the all-powerful Washington Post shipping access to its inland newsprint warehouse."-- From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, November 2000, 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. "The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it's okay to exclude white contractors from getting contracts with local governments."-- From "News Briefs," Middle America News, November 2000, 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. "In a back-room deal without consumers or taxpayers present, the Clinton-Gore environmentalists conspired with industry to mandate the manufacture of only front-loading, instead of top-loading, washing machines . . . . [T]he regulations will actually add $240 to the price of a clothes washer. . . . The reason for these mandates is that the Gore-style environmentalists want to reduce the amount of water and electricity Americans use in order to comply with United Nations treaties about energy, even if the United States hasn't ratified them. . . ."-- From "Clinton-Gore Administration Outlaws Your Washing Machine," by Phyllis Schlafly, Human Events, November 3, 2000, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. "Just before Air Force One took him to address the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, President Clinton unilaterally ordered all federal agencies, state governments, and private companies that receive federal funding to make their services available in foreign languages - trampling the Separation of Powers and abusing his authority! As a result, all federal, state, and local governments must now offer drivers' license exams, election ballots, food stamps, welfare application, and scores of other services in every one of the more than 300 languages spoken in the United States."-- From an October 24, 2000 solicitation letter from K.C. McAlpin, executive director, ProEnglish (formerly English Language Advocates). Address: U.S., Inc., PO Box 96481, Washington, DC 20077-7260. "A proposed international treaty to control crimes committed with computers will allow governments to monitor Internet traffic and read citizens' private e-mails. . . ."-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, November 10, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. "[A]ccording to the hate-crime legislation that is now being considered in Congress, a Christian would be breaking the law if he called a homosexual a sinner or attempted to share the gospel with one, and would receive a severe punishment. . . ."-- From "Scouting Under Siege by Homosexuals," Discerning the Times, September 30, 2000, page 6. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. "Now that EO [Clinton Executive Order] 13166 is the law of the land, common sense has flown straight out the window. Under a July settlement between the Portland, Maine Medical Center (MMC) and the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Main Medical Center must post an 'Interpreter Availability Sign' which must be 'printed at least in English, Farsi, Khmer, Russian, Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic and Roman alphabets), Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.' Note that now, thanks to the government, the Maine Medical Center has nine official languages. The United Nations has but six. Hospital personnel must be 'inform[ed] that MMC's policy of providing in-person and telephone interpreter services to LEP [Limited English Proficient] persons is not limited to languages in which [the Interpreter Availability Sign] and other documents are printed.' In other words, anyone who arrives at the front desk claiming to speak any language in the world has an unlimited right to translation services."-- From "EO 13166 Requires Maine Hospital to Have More Official Tongues than the UN," English First Members' Report, October 31, 2000, page 2. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "The EEOC recently forced Watlow Batavia, inc., to pay $192,500 to eight Hispanic former employees simply because the company required that English be spoken on the job."-- From "EO 13166 Potentially Effects Every Business in America," English First Members' Report, October 31, 2000, page 2. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website. "The Clinton administration is forcing an unproven, experimental anthrax vaccine on the military, risking our soldiers' health, destroying their morale, and damaging military preparedness. . . There are hundreds (or, possibly thousands) 0f dedicated, talented armed services personnel who are exiting the military over the anthrax vaccine issue. . . ."-- From "Vexing Vaccine," The New American, November 20, 2000, page 12. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. "There are . . . published estimates that 2,100 pilots from the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserves are expected to quit if the White House doesn't back off from its universal inoculation program."-- From "Anthrax Vaccination Mandate Thins Ranks of Reservists," The American Sentinel, November 2000, page 9. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. "WorldNetDaily reported that, according to national security advisers on Capitol Hill, oil ministers from OPEC nations had quietly confided to them that oil production cutbacks -- and resulting price increases -- had been implemented at the request of the Clinton administration on behalf of Russia, Indonesia, Mexico and Iran. The idea was that higher oil prices would help Russia, a major oil exporter, to generate funds to get out of massive dubt and rebuild the Russian economy."-- From "Black Gold Blues," by David M. Bresnahan, Media Bypass, November 2000, page 37. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "In Loudoun County, the famous horse county 40 miles from Washington . . . [a]nyone who wants to enter a pie in a contest, or sell homemade cookies at a bake sale must take a food safety course and submit to an inspection of their 'facilities' (home kitchens)."-- From "Pie Police," Media Bypass, November 2000, page 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "A third-grader at Helen Keller Elementary School in Green Bay, Wis., bought a key chain from a restaurant vending machine. The bauble on the end of the key chain was in the shape of a gun and measured about an inch and a half in length. . . . While he was showing the key chain to his friends, a few students brought it to the attention of this teacher. The student was then hauled to the principal's office, where he was handed a one-day suspension for having a replica of a gun. . . ."-- From "America in 2000," by Neal Boortz, Internet Vortex, November 2000, page 37. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "On March 25, 2000, 13 heavily armed Boston police wearing fatigue outfits smashed into the apartment of a 75-year-old retired minister, the Reverend Accelynne Williams, Williams ran into his bedroom when the raid began, but police smashed down the bedroom door, shoved Williams to the floor and handcuffed him. Williams may have had up to a dozen guns pointed at his head during the scuffle. Minutes later, Williams died of a heart attack. No drugs or guns were found in Williams' apartment. The police had carried out the raid based on a tip from an unidentified informant who said that there were guns and drugs in the buinding but did not give a specific apartment number. . . ."-- From "The Body Count Continues," Free American Newsmagazine, November 2000, page 18. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "Judge [Will Garwood]: "Are you saying the Second Amendment is consistent with a position that you can take guns away from the public? You can prevent ownership of rifles, pistols and shotguns from all the people? Is that the position of the United States?"U.S. Attorney [William Mateja]: "Yes." -- From "Gore's Gun-Ban Government Exposed," by Wayne LaPierre and James Jay Baker, America's First Freedom, November/December 2000, page 31. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "[The] counsel for the United States in United States v. Emerson, Assistant United States Attorney William Mateja, did indeed take the position that the Second Amendment does not extend an individual right to keep and bear arms. . . . In light of the constitutional history, it must be considered as settled that there is no personal constitution right, under the Second Amendment, to own or to use a gun."-- From a letter from Seth P. Waxman, Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, responding to an inquiry asking if the government could "take guns away from the public," and "restrict ownership of rifles, pistols and shotguns from all people," as reported in "Al Gore's America -- No Rights, No Guns," America's First Freedom, November/December 2000, page 76. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "Australian citizen Kerri Dickinson writes . . . 'I'm not even allowed to use the hair spray in my bag as self defense -- I might damage the poor bugger's eyes if I do! My dog isn't even allowed to attack a burglar in my own house! I found this out when I was burgled . . . and the [guy] sued me because my dog took a chunk out of his leg while he was in my yard. I had to pay his medical expenses!'"-- From "When Good Countries Go Bad," America's First Freedom, November/December 2000, page 41. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "The U.S. Army in Europe will not allow traditional Catholics to use a base chapel, although the military has opened similar facilities around the world for witchcraft and pagan rituals."-- From "U.S. Army Denies Use of Chapel by Catholic Soldiers," by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 16-22, 2000, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "According to the September 11th issue of Canada's The Report magazine, 'Calgary Court of Queen's Bench Justice Blair Mason ruled on June 1st that pro-lifers demonstrating near the city's Kensington abortion facility may no longer hold signs that use words like killing.' Despite the fact that 'killing' incontestably takes place in the abortuary, the judge forbade the use of such terms because 'a passerby might conclude that an illegality was being performed inside.'"-- From "Speak No Ill of Baby-Killers," The New American, November 6, 2000, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. "[The] Albuquerque, N.M. . . . city council has recently passed a law that lets the city seize your home if it is used for underage drinking. . . . Confiscation is permitted regardless of whether the owner participated in illegal drug activity or was aware that others had brought drugs to his property. Moreover, no proof is needed. . . . People have lost homes, cars, boats, airplanes, motels, rental property, cash, land and other assets simply because police had 'probably cause' to believe that a third party smoked a joint on leased, borrowed, visited or rented property. . . ."-- From "Law and Order Tyranny," by Paul Craig Roberts, The DeWeese Report, November 2000, 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. "[T]he NEA [National Education Association] . . . is a union that has special privileges no other labor guild has ever enjoyed -- including non-profit status for an organization that actively promotes, endorses and funds the candidacies of partisan political campaigns."-- From "The Government Education Monopoly," by Joseph Farah, The DeWeese Report, November 2000, page 12, 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. "Chairman [Congressman John] Mica said . . .'By the end of 1999, the United States had abandoned the Panama Canal, and the 360,000 acre canal zone, as well as military property consisting of 70,000 acres and 5,600 buildings worth an estimated $10-$13 billion.'"-- From "Member's Message," newsletter of the Conservative Caucus, September 2000, page 1. Address: 450 Maple Avenue East, Vienna, Virginia 22180. Phone: 703-938-9626. "On October 12, a jury decided to give a girl $2 million in punitive damages because she was cut from the Duke football team. The female place-kicker, the jury decided, lost her place on the team solely because of her sex. . . During the trial, Duke coaches and most of the place-kickers who tried out with her testified that Mercer was not good enough to kick for a Division I football program."-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, October 27, 2000, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. "As of Jan. 1, 2001, all firearms in a person's possession [in Canada] must be accounted for by a registration certificate. So far, however, considerably fewer than a third of all Canadian rifles and shotguns have been registered. . . ."-- From "Canadian Courage," by Dave Kopel, Dr. Paul Gallant, Dr. Joanne Eisen, Media Bypass, October 2000, page 14. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Senator Jack Reed, D-R.I., introduced the Handgun Safety and Registration Act, or S.2099 . . . If the bill passes, all handgun owners in the United States would be required to obtain a BATF registration form and FBI fingerprint form DF-258. . . . Under the bill, a $50 tax would also be imposed on the making of all handguns. . . ."-- From "Senator Proposes National handgun Registration," by Stephan Archer, Media Bypass, October 2000, page 15. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "A new Ohio law will require anyone buying five or more kegs of beer to fill out a form with the Ohio Department of Public Safety, and then wait five days before picking up the beer."-- From "But Will They Still Sell It on Sunday?," Media Bypass, October 2000, page 43. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "A transsexual high school teacher in Antelope, California, a suburb of Sacramento, who was dismissed for discussing his sex-change operation and other 'sex identity' issues with students, sued and received a $150,000 settlement from the school district."-- From "The ABCs of Perversion," by William F. Jasper, The New American, October 23, 2000, page 22. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. "President William Clinton recently issued an Executive Order that considers the inability to speak English an aspect of 'national origin' and therefore a potential cause of illegal discrimination. . . . Executive Order 13166 also requires recipients of federal money to meet the same language standards. . . Would a theater have to provide simultaneous interpretation of its productions? In how many languages? Would a library have to stock books in all languages? Jim Boulet, executive director of English First, says the new order effectively makes non-English-speakers a protected class like blacks or Hispanics. . . ."-- From American Renaissance, October 2000, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "[In New Zealand] children as young as four are being required to apply for 'licenses' to carry toy guns. . . ."-- From "Licensing Toy Guns in New Zealand," The New American, October 23, 2000, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. "Rev. Albert Hitchcock of Wiser Lake Chapel in Lynden, WA was livid after he received sermons he was supposed to give to his congregation -- from the Census Bureau. that's right: U.S. Government-Issue sermons. The package, sent Federal Express, also contained more than 100 pamphlets to be passed out to parishioners. Folders titled 'Census 2000 information for congregations' contained messages (in English and Spanish) to be printed in church bulletins and announced during worship services over six weeks. . . ."-- From "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, May 2000, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "Katherine Furley, a senior at Aledo High School (Aledo, Texas) in 1999, had been chosen by classmates to give the invocation at the school's graduation. Principal Lynn McKinney told Furley she first had to submit her planned prayer in writing. McKinney explained that school district policy forbids student prayer unless it has been first reviewed and approved by school officials." "Kelly Shackelford, Chief Cousel for Liberty Legal Foundation, which represents Furley, said, 'The government now has been told it has the right to review and edit the prayers of its citizens. . . ."--From "Federal Court Declines to Hear Schoo Prayer Lawsuit," American Family Association Journal, September 2000, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "Using her children as models, Linda Strong captured all the joy of being young when creating [for a Santa Fe, New Mexico city park] the fountain sculpture, which depicted a young girl squirting a hose at a young boy, who is gleefully squirting her with a water pistol. At a cost of nearly $2000, the boy's arm was recently broken off and replaced with another arm -- this one holding a water hose instead of a water pistol, according to reports from the Associated Press. It seems that some residents . . . believe the sculpture promotes gun violence among today's youth."-- From "City Officials Disarm Fountain," America's First Freedom, October 2000, page 15. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "Brenda Working bought a gun for the occasion, lured Mr. Working to the isolated scene late at night by saying her car broke down and emptied the gun at him through the window of his Ford Bronco. She wounded him in his arm, shoulder and back and reloaded the .38-caliber revolver as she pursued him through the woods. She shot him again in the chest and then beat him in the face with the weapon while they struggled for it." [Recommended prison term for attempted murder: seven to nine years. What sentence did U.S. District Judge Jack E. Tanner impose? One day.]-- From "Judge Sparks Outrage After Sentencing Wife Who Shot Husband to 1 Day," by Frank J. Murray, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 25-October 1, 2000, page 19. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Recently the State of California enacted sweeping retroactive gun laws that criminalize the ownership of previous legally purchased and registered firearms."-- From "Is It Treason or an Act of War?" by Duncan McRae, Free American Newsmagazine, October 2000, page 26. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "When Mr. and Mrs. Carroll decided that it would be in the best interest of their son, Kyle, to stop using the drug [Ritalin], an official from the school district attended by the boy filed a complaint with [New York's] Albany County's Department of Social Services. In July, a family court judge ruled that the parents must continue the medication as a condition of having child abuse charges dropped. . . . On August 8th, USA Today reported that 'some public schools are accusing parents of child abuse when they balk at giving their kids drugs such as Ritalin, and as judges begin to agree, some parents are medicating their children for fear of having them hauled away.'"-- From "More Ritalin Madness," The New American, September 11, 2000, 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. "On August 15th, at the U.S. law enforcement training center in Glynco, Georgia, the Immigration and naturalization Service (INS) honored 114 agents responsible for seizing Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home. . . ."-- From "Redefining Honor," The New American, September 11, 2000, page 10. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "A federal appeals court in San Francisco ordered the U.S. government to grant asylum to a gay Mexican transvestite because he is a member of a persecuted 'social group.' The three-judge panel of the far left-wing 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said 'gay men with female sexual identities in Mexico constitute a particular social group protected by U.S. immigration law." [The borders are thus wide open for all gay Mexican transvestites.]-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, October 2000, 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. "On September 19, a federal judge gave 13 Hispanic employees a total of $700,000 because their long-distance phone company required them to speak in English when talking to English-speaking customers. . . The Hispanic employees brought the suit, alleging discrimination due to national origin, even though they are bilingual.'"-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, October 6, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. "Now comes the report that Clinton may have ordered U.S. Navy officials to change a two-hundred-year-old regulation that says no flag will fly higher than the American flag on a Navy vessel.. Clinton, in making preparations to visit Communist China and Communist Vietnam, apparently has agreed to make the American flag subservient to the communist flags. . . . Col. David Hackworth, America's most decorated living war veteran, said, 'What's new? Clinton has done everything else to dishonor the flag, why not make it number two.'"-- From "Bill Clinton Hates the American Flag," The DeWeese Report, October 2000, 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. "Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our [year] 2000 1040 federal tax form all guns we have or own. It may also require fingerprints and a tax of $50.00 per gun."-- From an e-mail. Thanks, Marilyn. Has anyone heard about this bill and its status? Is it really true? Please let me know. Thanks. "[T]ens of millions of dollars worth of American military equipment was left behind when the U.S. left Panama [and those stationed there] were ordered out of the country by the U.S. ambassador before they could complete their work."-- From "Congressmen: Drugs, China, Terrorism Replace U.S. in Panama," Internet Vortex, September 2000, page 19. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "When the Canadian general who commanded the United Nations troops in Rwanda sought permission to try to prevent the mass murders [genocide] before they began, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. representative at the U.N., was instrumental in turning him down. . . [Why?] [T]he White House feared political repercussions in the congressional elections."-- From "Diamonds and Death," by John Corry, The American Spectator, October 2000, page 50. Address: 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website. "The Clinton administration has handed out $180 million in bonuses to top Justice Department executives since 1993."-- From "Justice Officials Got Big Bonuses Despite Questionable Roles," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 25-October 1, 2000, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "For more than two years, Janet Reno has ordered her Justice Department to collect biographical and political data on pro-life and religious leaders who they consider to be domestic terrorists. Among the 'dangerous' individuals on the Administration's enemies list . . . the National Council of Catholic Bishops, the late Cardinal John O'Connor and . . . Jerry Falwell." [So much for freedom of religion.]-- From "JW, Pro-Life Leaders Fight Back," Judicial Watch, July/August 2000, page 5. Address: 501 School Street, SW, Suite 725, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website. "[I]n Manistee, Michigan, one August day two years ago, a local housewife named Janice Barton was overheard referring to several Spanish-speaking customers as 'spics.' . . . Mrs. Barton was charged with disturbing the peace; she was arraigned several weeks later for 'insulting conduct in a public place.' . . . The presiding judge at Mrs. Barton's trial described her uncouth remark as 'fighting words'; a jury agreed; and she was sentenced to 45 days in jail." [So much for freedom of speech!]-- From "Imprisoned for 'Hate Speech'," The New American, September 2000, 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. "President Bill Clinton recently announced that the government will continue offering federal money for local gun 'guy-back' programs, despite the fact that current federal law doesn't allow it." [So much for law and order.]-- From "Clinton Buying Guns with Drug Money!," America's First Freedom, October 2000, page 19. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "On August 5, the Lynchburg, Va., police department provided a four-hour amnesty for felons and drug dealers to surrender their guns with no threat of prosecution under the state's Virginia Exile law . . . The four hours passed without a single criminal showing up." [So much for common sense.]-- From "Clinton Buying Guns with Drug Money!," America's First Freedom, October 2000, page 19. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "Australia disarmed their citizens. Now their House of Representatives has passed a bill giving their Army the power to shoot citizens during times of civil unrest." [The pattern is so predictable and inescapable.]-- From "Australia Will Shoot Citizens," 9*1*1, September 2000, page 3. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "Welfare has been a cornerstone of the Democratic Party since the 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson proposed his War on Poverty. Over the next 30 years, this federal program took $5.4 trillion in tax dollars -- about $54,000 for each American household today -- and spent all of it on welfare. . . . The results were catastrophic: illegitimacy increased by 500 percent, divorce increased by 250 percent, violent crime rose 600 percent, and the number of families without fathers increased from 17 percent to 38 percent (up to 90 percent in inner cities)."-- From Al Gore, America in the Balance, by Kerri Houston and Patricia Fava, American Conservative Union, 2000, page 63. Address: ACU, 1007 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-426-1357. Fax: 815-434-7907. Website. E-mail. "[W]hile the Justice Department's budget rose by 54 percent, gun prosecutions dropped by a whopping 46 percent. Here are the figures: In 1992, under the Bush Administration, there were 7,048 prosecutions of federal firearms violations. In 1998, there were only 3,807 such prosecutions."-- From Al Gore, America in the Balance, by Kerri Houston and Patricia Fava, American Conservative Union, 2000, page 76. Address: ACU, 1007 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-426-1357. Fax: 815-434-7907. Website. E-mail. "An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration actually considered whether to change federal regulations to allow homosexual and bisexual men to donate blood to blood banks, even though homosexual and bisexual men make up the majority of Americans infected with HIV. . . . Sanity prevailed on the committee, but only by a single vote."-- From "Playing Politics with the Blood Supply," by Wesley Pruden, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 18-24, 2000, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The Admiral in charge of Pacific fleet aviation wants the Navy to remove urinals from aircraft carriers and replace them with 'gender neutral water closets.'"-- From "Admiral Calls for 'Gender Neutral' Toilets," by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 18-24, 2000, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "The Netherlands, long among the homosexual-rights vanguard, enacted a bill converting the country's 'registered same-sex partnerships' into full-fledged 'marriages,' complete with divorce guidelines and wider adoption rights for homosexuals.'"-- From "Netherlands' homosexuals Get Right to 'Marry' Legally," by Anthony Deutsch, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 18-24, 2000, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.  Government Run Amuck items for the First Half of 1999. Second Half of 1999. First Quarter of 2000. Second Quarter of 2000. 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