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"Some of the outrageous changes made to [school] textbooks and tests include: A piece on George Washington Carver, the inventor of peanut butter, was nixed because it might offend children who are allergic to peanuts; A picture of a birthday party was purged because it included an 'unhealthy' birthday cake; The story 'A Perfect Day for Ice Cream' was renamed 'A Perfect Day.' Also cleansed from the tale were the chili burgers and pizza."From "Lifestyle Nazis Burn Children's Textbooks," from Consumerfreedom.com, as quoted in The DeWeese Report, June 2003, page 3, 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.
"Brandon Kivi and his girlfriend, Andra Ferguson, have a lot in common, including using the same type of asthma inhaler. So when Ferguson began having breathing problems and found she'd forgotten her inhaler, Kivi let her use his. Her mother says the boy may have saved Ferguson's life, but officials at Caney Creek High School in Texas say Kivi violated school drug policy. They had him arrested for delivering a dangerous drug, suspended him for three days, and may expel him."From "Brickbats," Reason, January 2004, page 14. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"The bottom 50 percent of taxpayers pay only 3 percent of U.S. income taxes, leaving the top 50 percent to pay the other 97 percent."From "the insider," Insight on the News, December 9-22, 2003, page 7, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[E]vidence has been uncovered showing that the foreign assistance being provided to some countries is being used as leverage to force poor people, mostly children, to have sex with U.N. personnel and aid workers. Investigators found a widespread and 'possibly endemic' culture of sexual exploitation of children in West African refugee camps."From "Foreign Aid Sex Scandal," United Nations' Plan to Tax U.S. Savings Accounts, a special report prepared by "The National Committee Against the U.N. Takeover," a project of America's Survival, Incorporated, by Cliff Kincaid, president, page 9. Address: PO Box 96099, Washington, DC 20090-6090, page 9.
"In a hilarious and surrealistic decision, a federal court ruled in late October that illegal immigrants can flee to the U.S. for refuge if they suffer from spousal abuse in their native country."From "Judges at Work," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 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.
"Sixty percent of adoption agencies nationwide now accept applications from lesbians and gay men, with more than 40 percent of agencies reporting they have already placed children with abnormal couples, according to a survey by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoptive Institute in New York."From "Those Poor Kids," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 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.
"The Senate has approved legislation that would allot $17 million toward construction of an African-American History Museum on the National Mall. Another $15 million would be earmarked for educational programs, teaching visitors about slavery, Reconstruction and the civil rights movement."From "Black Museum," Inside the Beltway by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 1-7, 2003, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"[I]n Britain, a prison officer has just been fired for insulting [Osama bin Laden] -- on the grounds that his remarks may have hurt the feelings of three Muslim visitors to the prison."From "Is Bin Laden a Heretic or Not?" by Robert Spencer, Human Events, December 8, 2003, page 14. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"When you consider that the first common schools in this country were established for the purpose of Christian instruction, the current climate of hostility toward all things Christian in the public school environment is sobering."From "The War on Christianity in Public Schools," by David Limbaugh, Whistleblower, November 2003, page 23. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"In May 1995, Samuel B. Kent, U.S. District judge for the Southern District of Texas, decreed that any student uttering the word 'Jesus' would be arrested and incarcerated for six months. . . [T]he judge expressly avowed his earnestness in his official order. His ruling stated, in part: '. . .Anyone who violates these orders, no kidding, is going to wish that he or she had died as a child when this court get through with it.'"From "The War on Christianity in Public Schools," by David Limbaugh, Whistleblower, November 2003, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"A 'patriotic' stick-figure drawing of a U.S. Marine blowing away a Taliban fighter earned a 14-year-old schoolboy a five-day suspension. Scott Switzer, of Colts Neck, N.J., whose father and stepfather serve in the military, was sent home last week from Tinton Falls Middle School after a teacher saw the image on a computer and described it to the principal, the New York Post reported."From "Stupidity Virus Hits New Jersey," Resource Roundup, November 2003, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"[A letter to AIM said, in part,] 'I am a white male that graduated college in 1990 and sought a federal job with many agencies. I tried FBI, Secret Service, NIS, DEA, U.S. Marshalls . . . etc. I tried for 5 or 6 years and never got so much as an interview with anyone but the FBI. I was told during that interview (by a white male interviewer) I would never be hired because I was a white male.'"From AIM Report, #21, October 20, 2003, page 4. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.
"Fully sixty percent of the test items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) [examination] are about attitudes! And you thought the government was testing to see if they had learned anything about history, literature, geography or science? Too late! What they have learned and what they are being tested for are the attitudes the government wants them to have. Not yours."From "Our National Education System: A $49 Billion Dollar Disaster," by Alan Caruba, The DeWeese Report, November 2003, 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.
"In Minnesota, children have to choose their job/career track in the 8th grade! . . . Your government . . . requires 8th graders to make this choice so it can neatly allocate them into quotas for a Soviet-style workforce. What is the difference between Minnesota and Cuba in this regard? None!"From "Our National Education System: A $49 Billion Dollar Disaster," by Alan Caruba, The DeWeese Report, November 2003, 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.
[T]oday’s parents are often required to put their child on a regimen of Ritalin, a mind-altering drug. We’ve got seven million government-approved drug addicts going to school in drug-free zones!From "The Subversion of Education in America," by Alan Caruba.
"A full 50 percent of real wage labor losses was recently attributed by the Labor Department to the influx of cheap immigrant labor."From "Frank Talk about 'Mexifornia'," by Victor Davis Hanson, Imprimis, November 2003, page 4. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268.
"The U.S.-Mexican extradition treaty allows Mexico not to return suspected murderers unless U.S. prosecutors waive the death penalty. In 2001, the Mexican Supreme Court expanded the treaty, forbidding return of suspects who faced possible life sentences."From "Shut Mexico's Sanctuary for Murderers," by Terence P. Jeffrey, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 17, 2003, page 8. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"A presidential commission proposes that the United States Postal Service embed tracking codes in all first-class mail to verify who receives and sends mail, reports the September issue of Privacy Journal. These so-called 'smart stamps' would create a record of who sends, and who receives, whatever mail goes through the postal system."From The American Sentinel, November 2003, page 6. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"In July, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new program to 'classify' each air passenger based on their level of security risk. The program to implement that goal is called the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS). . . . CAPPS II will enable IRS bureaucrats to verify that your taxes are paid, etc. Bottom line: Very soon it will be quite difficult to travel across state lines without permission from federal bureaucrats."From The American Sentinel, November 2003, pages 6, 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree forbidding the media from revealing details of political candidates' personal lives or analyzing their policies."From "Brickbats," Reason, December 3, 2003, page 16. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Treasury Department investigators posing as taxpayers found that IRS help centers gave correct answers just 57 percent of the time." From "Brickbats," Reason, December 3, 2003, page 16. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.
"Hector Sanchez of New York [applied] for a custom license plate reading, 'PRO NRA.' . . . His request to the New York Custom Plates Div. of the New York Sate Dept. of Motor Vehicles was denied because 'lewd and lascivious' language isn't allowed on vanity plates in the state."From "NY Calls NRA 'Lewd'," America's First Freedom, November 2003, page 17. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"[F]irearms law expert Martin Hood . . . recorded the following reasons why firearms licenses were refused [in South Africa]: 'You are too old.' 'You have a husband who can protect you.' 'The police will protect you.' 'You do not have the right type of house to have a firearm.' 'Your application was insufficiently motivated.' And, possibly the most chilling response: 'You have not been attacked yet.'"From "South Africa Shows Dangers of Gun Owner Licensing Schemes," America's First Freedom, November 2003, page 64. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"[T]he federal government pays 55 reporters, anchors, cameramen, producers, directors and writers to crank out five hours of television news and programming per day for the people of Cuba. . . [W]ith a $100 piece of hardware, Castro's government has jammed the transmission and not a single person in Cuba sees the show[s]. . . 13 years of television shows that no one ever sees have cost American taxpayers a whopping $160 million!"From an enclosure in a solicitation letter from Thomas A. Schatz, president, Citizens Against Government Waste, 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036.
"The TV industry shills who run the Federal Communications Commission ruled that use of the word 'f---ing' on television is not obscene or indecent."From Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2003, 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.
"American taxpayers are paying for sex education classes for children as young as 9 years old that include lessons on masturbation, condoms, and homosexuality. The programs are promoted by the federal Centers for Disease Control [CDC] under its 'Programs That Work' initiative."From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, November 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.
"The new Census Bureau data show that immigrants account for 11.8 percent of the U.S. population. The immigrant population in the U.S. is now larger than the entire population of Canada. . . . Twenty-three counties had foreign-born populations that constituted more than one quarter of their entire population [including] Monterey (California) 30.7%, Santa Clara 36.2%, Los Angeles 36.2%, San Francisco 36.7%, Kings (New York) 38%, Hudson (New Jersey) 39.1%, and Miami-Dade (Florida) 51.4%."From "Immigrant Populations Climbs to 33 Million," FAIR Immigration Report, October 2003, page 6. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.
"Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors and the disabled, is spending $600,000 this year to have a blimp fly at sporting events, including Saturday's Tennessee-Alabama college football game in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The blimp is part of a $30 million advertising campaign in 2003 to make the program better known to its 40 million participants."From the Associated Press, as quoted in an e-mail dated 10-25-03. Thanks, Dave.
"The government paid corn farmers . . . $34.5 billion between 1995 and 2002, making it far and away the most costly crop to U.S. taxpayers."From "Turner, Donaldson, Ebbers Receive Farm Subsidies," NewsMax.com (the magazine), November 2003, page 30. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"As a World Heritage Site, Independence Hall is managed according to the will of the United Nations, not according to the will of Americans like you and me."From a solicitation letter dated October 27, 2003 from David Ridenour, vice president, The National Center for Public Policy Research, 777 North Capitol Street, NE, SUite 803, Washington, DC 20002. Phone: 202-371-1400. Fax: 202-408-7773. E-mail. Website.
"Nearly two years ago, Judith Scruggs of Meriden, Connecticut, suffered a devastating loss when her 12-year-old son Daniel hanged himself in his bedroom closet with a necktie. On October 5, a jury compounded the tragedy by finding Scruggs guilty of 'one felony count of putting her child at risk by creating a home environment that was unhealthy and unsafe,' reported the New York TImes. . . Scruggs faces up to 10 years in prison. Her crime . . . was 'having a messy house.'"From "Felonious Housekeeping," The New American, November 3, 2003, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"More than two years after Black Tuesday, our nation's borders remain terrifyingly insecure, and our anemic economy continues to shed manufacturing jobs. Assessing this grim situation, the Bush administration has focused intently on the task of rebuilding critically wounded economic infrastructure and enhancing border security . . . in Iraq."From "Rewarding Lawlessness," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, November 3, 2003, page 25. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"Nationally [farm] subsidies . . . totaled more than $12 billion -- with Agriculture Department subsidies of $114 billion over the last eight years. . . . Ted Turner, National Basketball Association player Scottie Pipppen and Sam Donaldson, an ABC newsman, continue to get subsidies."From "It Ain't Peanuts!" The New American, November 3, 2003, 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.
"Federal employees and members of Congress will have better drug benefits than those available to the rest of the population under pending Medicare reform legislation."From "Feds Get Better Drug Plan Benefits," Middle America News, October 2003, 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.
"Despite a weak economy and growing federal deficits, members of Congress last month gave themselves another pay raise to bring their salary up to $158,000 a year."From "Your Tax Dollars at Work," Middle America News, October 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.
"Jean Bertrand Aristide, the man installed as president of Haiti by U.S. troops under command of President Bill Clinton, issued a government decree giving official recognition to Voodoo."From "Haitian Democracy = Racial Consciousness," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 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.
"In the biggest scandal in New York City public education in years -- and that's saying a lot -- the New York TImes has exposed the fact that thousands of students are actually being pushed out of high schools because, in this age of high-stakes tests, their scores will reflect badly on their principals and superintendents."From Nat Hentoff at ChuckMuth.com, as quoted in "Another Public Education Scandal," Resource Roundup, October 2003, page 5. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.
"During the 2000 election, in New York City's Flushing community, the Chinese bilingual ballot translated the 'Democratic' label on all state races as 'Republican', while 'Republican' was translated 'Democratic'."From "King Bill Would Block Bilingual Ballot Push; Make English Our Official Language," English First Members' Report, October 20, 2003, page 1. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website.
"This year, the EU's 1,300 translators must convert 1.3 million pages of official documents into various EU languages. By 2006, that number is expected to rise to 2.4 million pages a year. . . Keep in mind that the EU is worried about just 20 tongues. Clinton Executive Order 13166 requires any recipient of federal funds to function in any language anyone speaks at any time -- and there are over 300 languages spoken in the United States!"From "European Union Translation Costs: Twenty Official Languages = $1 BIllion," by Veronika Oleksyn, English First Members' Report, October 20, 2003, page 4. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8404. Website.
"The Cambodian government is asking the citizens of Phnom Penh to eat dogs. Why? Because there are too many of them running wild around the city, and they are causing chaos! Hmmmm . . . Okay, everyone . . . eat more Democrats!"From "A Modest Proposal for Besting Dems," The Furies, Insight on the News, October 14-27, 2003, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Unelected bureaucrats in Brussels have hatched a new scheme to ban smoking in all bars and restaurants located in the 15-nation European Union (EU). . . [T]he EU also spends $1.3 billion each year to subsidize tobacco farmers in Southern Europe."From "European Union Stretches Its Global Reach," The American Sentinel, October 2003, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.
"Only three Muslim groups are involved in developing and selecting Muslim chaplains for the military, the [Washington] Times reported. All three are associated with the radical Wahhabi branch of Islam that is dominant in Saudi Arabia."From "Wahhabi Monopoly," Capital Briefs, Human Events, September 29, 2003, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"Canada's socialist health care system has created waiting lines for care, such that one citizen found it easier to get an MRI by registering himself as a dog at a veterinarian clinic."From "Can 7,700 Doctors Be Wrong about Health Care?" by Charles W. Jarvis and Dr. Merrill Mathews Jr., Human Events, September 29, 2003, page 7. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"American high school students are trailing teens from 14 leading European and Asian countries in reading, math and science, despite U.S. spending of up to three times as much per pupil, a new study said."From "American Students Found Trailing Foreign Teenagers," by George Archibald, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 22-28, 2003, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"So, if the problem with the U.S. public schools is too many kids per classroom and not enough teacher pay, how come the SAT scores have gone into the pits while classroom size has dropped from 22.3 to 16 and adjusted teacher salaries are up $14,000 since 1960?"From "The Insider," Insight on the News, September 30 - October 13, 2003, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"As levels of fluoride added to drinking water were increased in children's diets, the IQ level fell and the rates of mental retardation and borderline intelligence increased." [Reference.]From "Did You Know," Insight on the News, September 30 - October 13, 2003, page 17, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. 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. Third Quarter, 2003.The way back home. |
