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"A confluence of influences helps sell global warming as an imminent disaster. But upon scrutiny, 'global warming' doesn't warrant the attention it has been receiving."Consider Russia's recent ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Even the Russian Academy of Sciences concluded there was no scientific basis for the agreement. President Vladimir Putin admitted it was 'scientifically flawed.' So why ratify? Well, Putin went along with the game after the leaders of the European Union promised to support Moscow's entry into the World Trade Organization, the BBC reported. When the treaty takes effect, Moscow will be able to start selling its 'emission credits' to Europe, raking in perhaps $5 billion annually. As Dr. Fred Singer of the Science & Environmental Policy Project has noted, that income transfer will come from European taxpayers, 'households and industries that consume electricity.' [. . .] "Valid scientific objections to global warming theories, of which there are many, have been covered less often by the media than pro-global-warming theories by a six-to-one ratio, and the huge costs of the protocol were only mentioned in passing in two stories." -- Excerpts from "Truth Melts Down," by William P. Hoar, The New American, December 13, 2004, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"The proponents of embryonic stem-cell research would have one believe that it is sheerest folly not to spend loads of federal money on embryonic stem-cell research, even though the research on the adult stem cells is where the most major medical advances have occurred. To date, adult stem cells have been successfully used in bone-marrow transplants and in a treatment for leukemia as well as in other diseases. They are also being used in human tests for conditions including diabetes, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and 'Lou Gehrig's disease'. On the other hand, research being done on embryonic stem cells has not yet resulted in any usable treatments."-- Excerpts from "Lame Claims for Embryonic Stem-cell Research," by William P. Hoar, The New American, November 15, 2004, page 43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"Suppose the courts had appointed scientists to determine the result of the Florida recount in November 2000. Theoretically, the case seems perfect for a scientific answer, as what was being sought was a simple set of two numbers. However, different disciplines would have gotten involved, from technologists, to neuroscientists (ballot design and perception problems), to psychologists, and each of these could have produced different answers to the question."It is ["How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse," (Environmental Science and Policy, October 2004) author Daniel] Sarewitz's contention that similar problems apply to other scientific issues, particularly in the environmental sphere. 'Each level of analysis,' he says of the conflicting analyses regarding global warming, 'is not only associated with its own competing bodies of contestable knowledge and facts, but is also dependent on how one views the other levels of analysis.' "Sarewitz therefore constructs a model of science wherein the higher the political stakes, and the more scientific and institutional players involved, the higher the level of scientific uncertainty. He concludes that 'progress in addressing environmental controversies will need to come primarily from advances in political process, rather than scientific research.'" -- Excerpts from "Science and Environment," edited by Iain Murray, The American Enterprise, December 2004, page 58. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"On Nov. 7, 1801, the Baptists of Danbury, Conn., wrote [Thomas] Jefferson concerned that the guarantee of the 'free exercise of religion' appeared in the First Amendment. To them, this suggested that the right to religious exercise was a government-granted rather than a God-granted right, thus implying that someday the government might try to regulate religious expression. . . ."In his response, [Jefferson] assured them that the free exercise of religion was indeed an unalienable right and would not be meddled with by the government. Jefferson pointed out to them that there was a 'wall of separation between church and state' to ensure that the government would never interfere with religious activities. "Today, all that is heard of Jefferson's letter is the phrase, 'a wall of separation between church and state,' without either the context or the explanation given in the letter, or its application by earlier courts. "The clear understanding of the First Amendment for a century-and-a-half was that it prohibited the establishment of a single national denomination. National policies and rulings in that century-and-a-half always reflected that interpretation. "For example, in 1853, a group petitioned Congress to separate Christian principles from government. They desired a so-called 'separation of church and state' with chaplains being turned out of the Congress, the military, and other parts of government. Their petition was referred to the House and the Senate Judiciary Committees, which investigated for almost a year to see if it would be possible to separate Christian principles from government. . . . "[T]he House report delivered on March 27, 1854 [said]: "Had the (the Funding Fathers), during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, the Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle. At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one sect (denomination). . . . In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. . . . That was the religion of the [F]ounders of the [R]epublic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants."Two months later, the Judiciary Committee made this strong declaration: "The great, vital, and conservative element in our system (the thing that holds the American system together) is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ."-- Excerpts from "How Courts Invented Church-State 'Wall of Separation'," by David Barton, Whistleblower, November 2003, pages 5, 8. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"When freedoms are lost by defeat, that's war. But when freedoms are surrendered out of fear, that's terrorism."Today we witness a daily barrage of brazen agenda journalism designed to selectively bludgeon anything not on that agenda, with arrogant indifference to the consequences for liberties at home or lives abroad. "Like a steady drip-drip-drip of toxins into the IV of America's bloodstream, far too many in the media poison our culture with fear, shame and hopelessness. . . . "We have been witness to the media's concerted collective undermining of our freedoms, our resolve, our leaders, our military, our Constitution, our global reputation, and our historically religious foundations. . . . "With every single American core value under subtle siege by the media elite, we are at a perilous crossroads. The painless path is a downhill stroll into a strange and lesser nation twisted into existence by the media elite. "That's why this isn't a topic for heady debate and equally valid viewpoints. It's a battle for what America means, pure and simple. "It's a struggle we must fight and win. If we don't, our nation will fall because of terrorism from the 'blame America crowd' within -- long before the acts of those outside our shores." -- Excerpts from "The Media Terrorism Within," by Wayne LaPierre, America's First Freedom, July 2004, pages 37, 39. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.
"Do you know why the 'Big Lie' is much more believable than the small lie, as Hitler so correctly observed? Because the 'Big Lie' is shocking. And shock does something to people -- it disturbs their normal logical processes. It emotionalizes them, which Hitler recognized was the key to controlling people. The 'Big Lie' is both upsetting and strangely exciting. It plays on people's doubts and hidden resentments -- and thus, it mysteriously feeds their ego, imparting a sense of growth. . . ."If a bit of doubt can worm its way into your mind, that doubt will make you emotional. And once you're upset and emotionally off-balance, you're suggestible. And that means you're ripe to start believing things you wouldn't and couldn't have believed five minutes before. "Who would want to believe . . . an extraordinarily evil interpretation of reality, especially without evidence? Well, people who are extremely angry at the government. "For such people, it's emotionally exciting to believe President Bush consciously and intentionally ordered the 9-11 terror attacks. It's like a drug-induced high -- you are one of the few Americans who actually possess the secret truth about 9-11 that the masses don't have. "Furthermore, when you're high on the idea that the president consciously and intentionally ordered the 9-11 terror attacks, your mind is aglow with self-righteous judgement. Whatever dim consciousness, guilt or anxiety you might have had previously regarding your own very real faults, is long gone. You are a 'true believer.' You see yourself as a righteous patriot, and the president and his consorts as evil incarnate -- and that makes for a pretty powerful ego trip on your part. "This delusion, like the other matrix-induced beliefs, affects the way you see everything else in life. If Bush was behind the 9-11 attacks, then all the other people close to him also knew, and therefore are all supremely evil and equally guilty. By the same token, people who support the president are stupid fools, and the government is worthy of violent overthrow at any cost. People who disagree with you are somnambulistic idiots, and those who agree with you are patriots and brothers. "You're totally swept up in the matrix, while believing you're plugged into hard-core truth." -- Excerpts from "The Media Matrix," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, October 2004, page 29. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"It has to do with core values. One party has them, and the other doesn't. The Democratic Party's leaders may look like traditional Americans. They may say they support Israel. They may 'stand with our troops' in Iraq. They may go to church and take communion. They may even sing, 'God Bless America' on the Capitol steps -- but increasingly their inner thought life is not what it seems to be."Inside they seethe at 'red state' America. We watch the weird, angry behavior of prominent Democrats like Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean or even John Kerry and we scratch our heads in wonder. Who are these people? What are they thinking? What caused all this anger, and why is it directed at fellow Americans? The furious fringe is taking over the party. They are solidified in their sense of victimhood. They aren't looking for compromise, but for total victory -- revenge almost -- in fulfilling their vision for a new America, one that has nothing to do with biblical Christianity or Judaism, the pumping heart of true Americanism. . . . "Everyone is talking about the growing red state/blue state divide in America. The words 'parallel universe' have even been used to describe the two ethics that dominate our political scene. To put it simply, the red side believes in 'one nation, under God,' and the blue side doesn't. We think rights come from our Creator -- they think rights come from our government. We think there are moral absolutes. They think everything is relative, including the Constitution." -- Excerpts from "My Un-American Democratic Party," by Bob Just, Whistleblower, May 2004, pages 40-41. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law. . . ."The United States was the first moral society in history. "All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary co-existence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man's life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man's life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights." [Does one political party seem at odds with this view of our country? --FG] -- Excerpts from "The Virtue of Selfishness," by Ayn Rand, as quoted in The Ayn Rand Sampler, An Introduction to the Works of Ayn Rand, published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Incorporated, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, 2002, pages 66-67.
"Right now, the world's only superpower is engaged in not one, but two wars -- each of them to the death -- though most Americans appear oblivious to both."One is a war against an external enemy, while the other rages within our own borders and among our own people. "The outside war is with radical Islam. Yes, it's a clash of civilizations. Yes, the militant strain of Islam metastasizing around the world today is an evil, murderous, mind-control cult -- the successor to communism as the latest totalitarian movement bent on world domination. And yes, this isn't a result of the Iraq war. Remember, demon-possessed jihadists gleefully flew jumbo jets full of innocent people into large buildings filled with many more innocent people, dooming thousands to a fiery death, long before we invaded Iraq. . . . "[W]hat's the second war? America's new civil war, ultimately even more dangerous than the war on terror, is a death-struggle over the very soul and identity of the country. On one side of the battlefield are arrayed those who hold sacred everything upon which America's greatness and prosperity were founded. On the other side are those who reject thousands of years of proven Judeo-Christian principles. They seek to expunge every vestige of God from America law and culture, while laboring to re-define man, marriage and morality to reflect their own selfish fantasies and addictions, their desire for power, and their alien worldview. . . . "Thanks to the powerful Matrix-like conditioning of the modern media culture in which we all grow up -- it's the 'water' we 'fish' swim in -- tens of millions of Americans are living in a trance state of some sort. That is, they see evil and think it's good; they see good and think it's evil. "They listen to a good leader and cynically conclude he's either stupid, insincere or dangerous. This, by the way, is precisely how the establishment press regarded Ronald Reagan while he was president." -- Excerpts from "Voting Your Conscience This November," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, September 2004, pages 32-33. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"[T]he proprietor of one [parking lot] in Framingham, Massachusetts, was sued after a thief broke into the lot. stole a car, drove off at high speed and crashed. Indeed, the family of the thief sued the lot owner for negligently making it too easy to steal a car from the lot. . . ."A California man who passed out drunk on the railroad tracks sued the Union Pacific railroad because its engineer and conductor did not sound the train's horn after seeing him -- they were too busy trying to engage its emergency brakes. . . . "In almost every country but the U.S., legal systems incorporate a 'loser pays' principle. If you sue someone and lose, you can't just walk away. You have to contribute something to making the victim of the lawsuit whole for what he has paid. We had that same principle in our legal system throughout much of American history, but it gradually died out. We also had procedural rules discouraging ill-conceived litigation. And we had rules of legal ethics prohibiting lawyers from stirring up litigation for their own benefit. But something changed around the 1960s and 1970s. It started in the world o ideas -- in the universities and the law schools. Litigation came to be seen not as a necessary evil, but as a positive good. This view can be identified with the career of Ralph Nader, and with many of the professors who began to dominate elite law schools during that period. . . . "Given this new view of litigation, rules discouraging lawsuits ceased to make sense. This is why, starting in the 1960s and 1970s, we began changing the rules to make it easier to sue. We liberalized the rules of discovery -- the rules governing how a person can demand information from his opponent. We opened the door to the 'fishing expedition': 'I don't know for sure whether you have done me any legal wrong, but please hand over the contents of your filing cabinets so that I can find out.' We made it much easier to organize class actions, by which most Americans are periodically dragged into lawsuits as plaintiffs without even knowing it. We dropped many of the rules against lawyers stirring up litigation. And we weakened traditional legal principles like 'assumption of risk.' Here's what that means: If you go to a baseball game and get conked on the head by a foul ball, the old courts would have said that you have no grounds to sue because everyone knows that foul balls happen at baseball games. This no longer makes sense, however, if the point of lawsuits is to encourage ball clubs to be careful about where they let their players send their foul balls -- and to redistribute wealth. So out it went, at least in many courts." -- Excerpts from "The Threat from Lawyers Is No Joke," by Walter Olson, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, March 2004, pages 2-3. Imprimis Archive. Subscription to Imprimis is free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Hillsdale College Website.
"To the Left, legality matters most, while to the Right, legality matters far less than morality. To the Right and to the religious, the law, when it is doing its job, is only a vehicle to morality, never a moral end in itself. . . ."[I]nstead of moral absolutes, the Left holds legal absolutes. . . The religious have a belief in God-based moral law, and the Left believes in man-made law as the moral law. . . . "Laws are the Left's vehicles to earthly salvation. . . . Some men harass women? Pass laws banning virtually every flirtatious action a man might engage in vis-a-vis a woman. Flood legislatures with laws preventing the creation of a 'hostile work environment.' Whereas the religious world has always worked to teach men how to act toward women, the secular world, lacking these religious values, passes laws to control men. . . . "[S]ince it lacks the self-control apparatus that is a major part of religion, the Left passes more and more laws to control people. That is why there is a direct link between the decline in Judeo-Christian religion and the increase in governmental laws controlling human behavior. . . . "All of this helps to explain the Left's preoccupation with controlling courts; passing laws; producing, enriching and empowering lawyers; filing lawsuits; and naming judges. Laws and the makers of laws will produce heaven on earth. "And that's one reason the Left hates the America represented by George W. Bush. This country under this president says morality is higher than man-made law. To the Left, that, not Saddam Hussein's torture and rape rooms, must be fought." -- Excerpts from "The Left Thinks Legally, the Right Thinks Morally," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 27 - October 3, 2004, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.
"Campuses across the country are in the grip of something called political correctness. A main feature of political correctness is something called cultural relativism or diversity. Since we do not know what is right or wrong, we show our sophistication by patronizing indifferently the different concepts of right and wrong as they manifest themselves in different cultures or different ways of life. Unfortunately, some cultures celebrate (among other horrors too numerous to mention) human sacrifice, suttee, cannibalism and slavery. So political correctness arbitrarily rules out those cultures it does not like, and morality becomes a matter of what you like. Since reason is held to be impotent, it is replaced by passionate commitment, as it was in the Third Reich. Theoretical indifference thus mutates into blind partisanship."We see the effects of this all around us. Perhaps it is most conspicuous in heterosexual and homosexual promiscuity and, in general, in the disintegration of the monogamous family. We see it as well in the rise of an environmental movement, which, like communism, claims the authority of spurious science as a means to despotic control of our lives. . . . "The struggle over the Constitution today is between those who believe in a 'living Constitution' and those who profess their allegiance to a jurisprudence of original intent. The former think the original Constitution to be a mere legacy of a reactionary past, featuring slavery, the subjection of women, capital punishment, and economic and social inequality. Their constitution is one in which a wise Supreme Court can order wise constitutional remedies for an endless list of alleged wrongs. Since there is no limit to what may be alleged to be wrong, there is no limit to what may be a constitutional remedy. This is unlimited government by a judicial oligarchy, a virtual negation of everything the Founders believed. In substance, the jurists of this 'living Constitution' have seceded from the Union of the Founders, as completely as did the slave states that formed the Confederacy in 1861. . . . "Today, nearly every good thing that we enjoy, and nearly every good thing that the world enjoys because of us, we owe to the principles enshrined in our founding. It is shameful that, at the very moment in which the work of our Founders is displaying its greatest success, we witness the abandonment of their principles." -- Excerpts from "Our Embattled Constitution," by Harry V. Jaffa, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, June 2004, pages 5-7. Imprimis Archive. Subscription to Imprimis is free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Hillsdale College Website.
"Oh, you haven't heard about 'bug-chasing'?"'[B]ug chasers' are people for whom getting infected with the AIDS virus is the ultimate sexual experience. You heard it right: The main focus of their lives is to actively seek out sexual encounters that will infect them with HIV. "Reporter Gregory A. Freeman explained the phenomenon, focusing . . . on a 'bug-chaser' named Carlos [not his real name]: . . . "Carlos has been chasing the bug for more than a year in a topsy-turvy world in which every convention about HIV is turned upside down. The virus isn't horrible and fearsome, it's beautiful and sexy -- and delivered in the way that is most likely to result in infection. In this world, the men with HIV are the most desired [those willing to infect others are called 'gift givers'], and the bug chasers will do anything to get the virus -- to 'get knocked up,' to be 'bred' or 'initiated into the brotherhood.' . . . "Deliberately infecting themselves, explains Freeman, 'is the ultimate taboo, the most extreme sex act left on the planet, and that has a strong erotic appeal for some men who have tried everything else.'" -- Excerpts from "The Marketing of Evil," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower, December 2003, pages 13-14. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"You say we're protected by the U.S. and state constitutions. Really? Today we can't know what the law is by reading the Constitution or studying law books. We must read the newspaper to find the latest court ruling. 'Law' that is unpredictable, arbitrary, and changed by whim isn't law at all, but a dictatorial decree. It loses any moral claim."If this continues, we will have no real Constitution at all. We will be ruled by emperors in black robes. What will you do when your favorite right disappears? "Of course, by then it will be too late. You've already agreed that the Constitution is a 'living document' to be changed and enforced by members of the judicial branch, even when they blatantly ignore the separation of powers on which your democracy and freedoms rest. "What is decided in the gay-marriage case will affect the future of the family. Who decides will affect the future of the country." -- Excerpts from "Outlaws on the Bench," by David Stolinsky, a California writer and physician, The American Enterprise, April/May 2004, pages 8-9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"There were white slaves still being sold in Egypt two decades after blacks were freed in the United States. . . ."What makes the current reparations movement a fraud . . . is the attempt to depict slavery as something uniquely done to blacks by whites. Reparations advocates are doing this for the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks: That's where the money is. "No one expects Qaddafi to pay reparations to the descendants of Europeans whom his ancestors captured on the Mediterranean coast or Western Europeans to pay reparations to Slavs who were enslaved on such a scale that the very word slave derived from their name. "Still less does anyone expect Africans to pay reparations to black Americans whose ancestors they sold to white men who took them across the Atlantic. Only in America can guilt be turned into cash." -- Excerpts from "Rattling the Chains," by Thomas Sowell, Human Events, March 29, 2004, page 14. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.
"I write as . . . one who knows what is probably the most disreputable scientific secret of the past century: There is no plausible scientific theory of the origin of species! Darwin himself was not sure he had produced one, and for many decades every competent evolutionary biologist has known that he did not. . . ."The battle over evolution is not an example of how heroic scientists have withstood the relentless persecution of religious fanatics. Rather, from the very start it primarily has been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science. . . . "After many years spent searching for an adequate explanation of the origin of species, in the end Darwin fell back on natural selection, claiming that it could create new creatures too, if given immense periods of time. . . . "Darwin fully recognized that a major weakness of this account of the origin of species involved what he and others referred to as the principle of 'gradualism in nature.' The fossil record was utterly inconsistent with gradualism. As Darwin acknowledged: '. . . why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?'. . . . "Darwin dealt with this problem by blaming 'the extreme imperfection of the geological record.' 'Only a small portion of the surface of the earth has been geologically explored, and no part with sufficient care.' But, just wait, Darwin promised, the missing transitions will be found in the expected proportion when more research has been done. . . . "Today, the fossil record is enormous compared to what it was in Darwin's day, but the facts are unchanged. The links are still missing; species appear suddenly and then remain relatively unchanged. As Steven Stanley reported: 'The known fossil record . . . offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid." -- Excerpts from "Fact or Fable?" by Rodney Stark, The American Enterprise, September 2004, pages 40-41. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.
"America is in a war of world views between the principles of freedom laid down by John Locke (1632-1704) in his Two Treatises on Government (1689) and Jean Jacques Rousseau in his Social Contract (1762) and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754). . . ."The government's purpose . . . according to Locke, is to join with others to 'unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estate, which I call by the general name, property.' According to Locke, the primary reason for government 'is the preservation of their property.' This fundamental principle became the cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution because the King of England was usurping these rights from the colonialists. "Rousseau attacked Lock's model, arguing that individuality and property rights divide man by focusing on self-interest and greed rather than the good of society. He claims that property rights bind the poor thereby giving 'new powers to the rich' that destroys 'natural liberty' and equality and converts 'usurpation into unalterable right.' He argues for the creation of the common good as embodied through an abstract, public will he called the 'general will'. In his model, the enlightened state determines the general will of the people through the force of law, including how they use property. "Rousseau's model of forced compliance has formed the basis of social and environmental laws in America since the 1970s -- especially the ESA [Endangered Species Act]. This is causing a hemorrhage in individual liberties once taken for granted by all Americans, especially property rights. Without private property, individuals are powerless to oppose the government's attempt to infringe on their rights or control the fruit of their labor. The old Soviet Union, where all property belonged to the state, provides the clearest example of this principle. No one could speak out against the government for fear of their family's eviction or their job taken away by the local communist commissar." -- Excerpts from The Problems with the Endangered Species Act, by Michael S. Coffman, Ph.D., 2003, pages 5-6. Address: American Land Foundation, PO Box 1033, Taylor, Texas 76574.
"The organizers of the 'peace movement' have little interest in peace. The irony is that they exploit war to press their long-standing goal of radical political change. Liberal groups will deny it, but the ideological base of the peace movement can fairly be labeled 'neo-Communist' because its leaders belong to remnants of the old Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA). CPUSA splinter groups have survived the post-Cold War period by transforming themselves into a labyrinth of issue-oriented 'action committees' and 'campaigns,' where they continue to recite anti-capitalist, anti-democratic rhetoric. ANSWER is the largest of these umbrella groups, and it plays a key role in attempting to coordinate the activities of other disparate groups like Not In Our Name, the Green Party USA, and Code Pink. Radical think tanks such as the well-known Institute for Policy Studies provide a measure of intellectual polish to the 'street activists' organized by ANSWER and other Groups."ANSWER was set up after the events of September 11, 2001 to serve as the anti-war movement's chief means of organizing anti-U.S. protest activity. The ANSWER steering committee includes major Marxist and anti-American groups, of which the most prominent is Ramsey Clark and his International Action Center (IAC). The IAC was formed in 1992 by Clark and other fellow-travelers, 'to end racism, sexism and poverty in the United States, with opposition to U.S. militarism and exploitative domination around the world.' "IAC, however, is actually a front group for the World Worker's Party (WWP), a Stalinist organization with a long and dishonorable history. In 1959 the WWP was formed by breakaway members of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party (SWP) after the SWP decided to condemn the Soviet invasion of Hungary. WWP supported the Soviet invasion. Clark, U.S. Attorney General during the Johnson Administration, began to associate with WWP leaders around 1990. The son of former Truman Attorney General and U.S. Supreme Court justice Tom Clark, Ramsey Clark moved crazily leftward in the 1980s. He met with the likes of Libya's Moammar Quadafy, attended conferences sponsored by Lyndon LaRouche, and accepted WWP's invitation to join its National Coalition to Stop US Intervention in the Middle East. Unlike other left-wing groups, WWP refused to condemn Saddam Hussein or Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Clark has been involved with WWP ever since." -- Excerpts from "The Anti-War Movement in 2004," by John J. Tierney, CRC Organization Trends, April 2004, page 2. Address: Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.
"In Missouri and adjacent States, if you do not eradicate fescue, a species of grass, you are subject to arrest. It has been banned thanks to former President Bill Clinton's Executive Order 13112 on 'Invasive Species.' Like so many other chickens coming home to roost from his eight years of assaulting this nation, this Executive Order was intended to fulfill a United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity; one whose ratification was rejected by the U.S. Senate."There is a need for weed control. Anyone battling a lawn full of dandelions knows that, but EO 13112 goes well beyond weed control. It makes illegal the ownership or production of dogs, cats, cattle, wheat, barley, fescue, and every other plant or animal that is not 'native.' Anything that came here from somewhere else can be classified as an invasive alien species. It is the law of the land and it is a dagger aimed at farming, ranching, and the ownership of all private property. As always, the environment is used as a weapon to attack the economy and fundamental Consitutional rights." -- Excerpts from "Losing Our Freedom, Our Property & Our Nation," (May 2002), Warning Signs, by Alan Caruba, Merril Press, PO Box 1682, Bellevue, Washington, 98009, 2003, page 118.
"[A]fter World War II, the Democratic Party suffered a form of what France had succumbed to after World War I. The entire party had lost its nerve for sacrifice, heroism and bravery. Beginning in the '50s, there was a real battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. By the late '60s, the battle was over. The anti-communist Democrats had lost."In 1972, George McGovern, darling of left-wing radicals, was the Democratic presidential candidate. Tom Hayden, leader of Students for a Democratic Society and an instigator of the Chicago riots, became a Democratic state senator in California. . . Black Panther Bobby Rush would go on to become a Democratic congressman. Todd Gitlin, a former president of SDS, would soon be a frequent op-ed columnist for the New York Times. By the time of the 1991 Gulf War, only 10 Senate Democrats voted with President Bush to use troops against Saddam Hussein. If the old Democratic Party was merely obtuse, the new Democratic Party was a beachhead of domestic anti-Americanism. This was the new Democratic Party." -- Excerpts from "I Dare Call It Treason," by Ann Coulter, Whistleblower, May 2004, page 39. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"The United States was once the world leader in the production of useful energy. Had that American leadership continued, our country and our world would be very different. Technological miracles that are only dreams today would have already taken place. Moreover, very large portions of the world's poor and underdeveloped people would have been able to lift themselves from poverty -- provided they had a laboratory of liberty in which to do so -- and to escape the horrible conditions in which they lead lives of desperation, constantly at the edge of death. . . ."During the past several decades, mankind should have been making a transition from hydrocarbon power to breeder-reactor-fueled nuclear power. . . . "Progress stalled because of another force at work in our body politic. This force is led by influential people who understand very well the benefits of abundant usable energy and seek to keep mankind from realizing those benefits -- not because they want to save the planet, but because they seek global control. Through the major media and the environmental lobby, the latter heavily funded by huge tax-exempt foundations, they have beguiled millions into believing that too many people and too much technology will cause environmental devastation. Thirty years ago, they demonized nuclear power with false claims about its safety. As a result, nuclear power development in the United States stopped. At that time, America was the world technological leader and therefore the largest user of energy. At present, American leadership is being challenged by Asian nations, which are building nuclear power plants at a rapidly increasing rate." -- Excerpts from "Science, Politics and Death," by Arthur B. Robinson and Jane M. Orient, The New American, June 14, 2004, pages 18-19. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"According to New York Times bestselling author Richard Poe, there's a real chance that this fall George W. Bush may well be facing, not Kerry, but Hillary Clinton. . . ."Poe warned of the seemingly impossible: "As we all know, Hillary means to regain the White House, at any cost. I believe she will make her play this year, in 2004. John Kerry is imploding as we speak. He is unelectable. Kerry has too much baggage, too many skeletons in his closet.-- Excerpts from "What about Hillary?" by WorldNetDaily.com, Whistleblower, May 2004, page 11. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.  Must-Read items for March-May 1999. June-August 1999. September-December 1999. Must-Read items for January-April 2000. May-August 2000. September-December 2000. Must-Read items for January-June 2001. July-December 2001. Must-Read items for January-June 2002. July-December 2002. Must-Read items for January-June 2003. July-December 2003. Must-Read items for January-June 2004.The way back home. |
