Cloudy Thinking
Posted here for 12-31-07

"Tim Garrett, a research meteorologist at the University of Utah, with refreshing candor, has said, 'We really do not know what's going on. There are so many basic unanswered questions on how they (clouds) work.' And that is never mentioned in the great 'global warming' debate, one we are continuously told is 'decided,' and upon which there is a vast scientific 'consensus.' [. . .]

"[C]loud droplets can last for less than a second, while whole clouds can live out their lives in minutes or days. There is no way to integrate such massive, constant change into a computer model that divides the world into boxes up to sixty miles on a side -- so they mostly do not. [. . .]

"[C]omputer models on which 'global warming' claims have been made have actually been tweaked, adjusted, manipulated -- take your choice of terms -- to factor in the mystery of clouds. [. . .]

"In an August 2002 article, 'The Trouble with the Weather,' the European Space Agency noted that, 'Forecasting the weather remains notoriously difficult because the atmosphere is not easy to predict, being affected by such factors as air pressure and temperature, air movements, the distribution of water in its various states (clouds) in the atmosphere, and static electricity stored in the air.' [. . .]

"Neither clouds, nor volcanoes, nor the most important factor, the Sun, is credited as responsible for either the climate or the weather. Instead, we are constantly told that 'human activity' is the single cause."

-- "A Cloudy Mystery," by Alan Caruba, The eco-logic Powerhouse, September 2007, pages 20-21. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 731-986-2299. E-mail. Website.

Pushing Propaganda
Posted here for 12-17-07

"[A] study by the Washington-based Media Research Center this spring disclosed that 'the ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows have been tilted almost completely in favor of promoting [Al] Gore's climate crisis position, with 97% of all global-warming stories excluding contrary viewpoints. [. . .]

"Writes [Daniel] Botkin in the Wall Street Journal for October 17:

Some colleagues who share some of my doubts [about global warming claims] argue that the only way to get our society to change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe, and that therefore it is all right and even necessary for scientists to exaggerate. [. . .] "Wolves deceive their prey, don't they?" one said to me recently. Therefore, biologically, he said, we are justified in exaggerating to get society to change. [. . .]

"[C]limate models show that Kyoto would have postponed the effects of global warming by seven days by the end of the century. [. . .]

"Indeed, the hype and awards showered on Al Gore are much ado about nothing -- leading one to question how Nobel awardees are chosen. Perhaps this fact will give you a clue. When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Jimmy Carter in 2002, the Nobel chairman called the award a 'kick in the leg' for George W. Bush. The high-mindedness among our cocksure betters is breath-taking: they certainly will not be afflicted with illusions of humility."

-- "Al Gore Takes the Prize," by William P. Hoar, The New American, November 26, 2007, pages 42-43. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Mexicanization of the U.S.
Posted here for 12-10-07

"On September 6 at 9 pm. the Bush Administration opened up all U.S. highways and roads to Mexican trucks and drivers. That gave the green light to the first 38 of up to 100 Mexican trucking companies, and nobody knows how many thousands of Mexican trucks will eventually drive on our roads. [. . .]

"We have no way of knowing if Mexican drivers are criminals or terrorists or drug peddlers or accident-prone, since Mexico doesn't have nationwide criminal or driving-record databases. [. . .]

"U.S. drivers are limited to ten consecutive hours of service, but Mexican drivers typically drive up to 20 hours a day. [. . .]

"Only one or two percent of trucks coming across the border are inspected. The smugglers of illegal drugs, products, and people can just consider it a cost of doing business that so few illegal loads will be caught. [. . .]

"The only rational explanation of Bush's stubborn determination to override the wishes of the American people by opening up all our roads to Mexican trucks is that this is an essential part or his plan for the economic integration of the United States into a North American Community. The only rational explanation of Bush's refusal to build the fence [along our border with Mexico] is that he has no intention of stopping the flow of illegal aliens across our Southern border."

-- "Two Dubai-Ports/Harriet Miers Moments Coming," by Phyllis Schlafly, The eco-logic Powerhouse, October 2007, pages 18-19. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 731-986-2299. E-mail. Website.

Multiculturalism -- Inherently Damaging to a Society
Posted here for 12-3-07

"There is now a large body of research that completely undercuts the view that diversity of race, religion, or ethnicity is a strength. Studies on individuals have found unconscious processes deep in the brain that reflect an instinctive suspicion of people unlike ourselves. Studies of groups show that these instincts invariably lead to conflict at the societal level.

"These findings are seldom published, and almost never drawn together into a coherent critique of government polity. However, taken as a whole, they are a devastating indictment of some of the most important choices our country has made over the last 50 years. Virtually every common assumption about race, integration, and the attempt to build a multi-racial society is at complete variance with the findings of modern social science."

-- "What Science Says about Diversity (Part I)," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, November 2007, page 1. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

The Influence of Karl Marx Lives On
Posted here for 11-26-07

"In the 20th century, communism, the bloody system created by [Karl] Marx, killed well over 100 million people.

"Among the most dedicated communist operatives [was] a group called the Frankfurt School. Set up by Marxists, but located in Germany, this group of pseudo scholars fled to the U.S. in 1933 and became very influential.

"Marx had hoped to use the workers as the shock troops to overthrow society. The Frankfurt School gradually abandoned Marx's failed economic ideas and chose, instead, to destroy the pillars of Western society -- merit, individualism, belief in God -- by using race and gender politics. [This has been called Political Correctness, or Cultural Marxism.]

"They spawned many of the disasters that have damaged the U.S. in the past 50 years: the radical 'civil rights' movement, which brought in anti-white 'affinnative action'; radical feminism which has attacked the traditional American family and led to a sky-high divorce rate and a below-replacement birth-rate -- one reason, we're told, we need the massive Third World immigration which is changing America forever from the nation built by our European ancestors. [. . .]

"Political leaders as a whole have kept the American voting public in a state of ignorance about the scheme of the demonic genius, Karl Marx, to promote the disintegration of Western societies into an undifferentiated mass of proletarians by the inversion of the social order. [. . .]

"In The German Ideology of 1844, Karl Marx asserted that the patriarchal family was the first form of slavery since the wife and children were the slaves of the husband. This theme was reflected in Frederick Engels' 1884 book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. The same theme was reflected in Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, which has been commonly recognized as the origin of the modern feminist revolution in America. Friedan had been a communist militant in her youth and had been trained by Frankfurt School operatives. [. . .]

"It has always been the essence of the Marxian revolution to bring about an inversion of the social order. This makes it a social revolution. [. . .]

"The touted candidacies of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama show that the revolution and inversion are almost complete."

-- "Turning America Upside Down," by Raymond V. Raehn, Citizens Informer, July-September 2007, pages 1, 22. Address: PO Box 221683, St. Louis, Missouri 63122. Phone: 225-338-9763. E-mail. Website.

Charity Will Never Solve Poverty
Posted here for 11-19-07

"For more than fifty years governments and charities have been focused on rushing aid to the poor and starving. [. . .]

"Most of the current anti-poverty efforts focus on redistributing funds from wealthier nations to poorer ones, either through mandatory taxation or charitable donations. This system ignores the fact that tomorrow the poor need to be fed again. Taxpayers or the voluntary donor must dig into his own funds yet again to help. [. . .]

"[A]s massive funds are moved in and out of governments, bureaucracies are institutionalized to run the system. More and more money goes to feed the machinery of poverty than gets into the hands of the intended poor. [. . .]

"[T]he laws and practices of most countries in the world make it nearly impossible for average citizens to own property or to prove ownership of property. There are vast obstacles to gaining legal ownership. For example, in Mexico it takes twenty years before a piece of property can be recorded. In Peru it took [a] team of experts 289 days to legally register a new business, even after paying over $1,200 in registration fees. In the Philippines a prospective property owner would first have to organize an association with his neighbors in order to qualify for a state housing finance program. The entire process could take 168 steps, involving 53 public and private agencies and taking 13-25 years. And so it goes in country after country.

"The impact of a fee of $1,200 in a poor nation is enough to forever discourage even the attempt to register property. Such an amount, in many developing countries may equal an entire year's income. It is important to note the impact free markets and private property have on the income of a nation's citizens. The per capita income for Americans is $41,400 per year. For Europeans, where more government control is exercised, the per capita income is $27,400. In the farmer Communist nations of Eastern Europe it is now $3,295. [. . .] As more freedom and greater ability to own property grows, so does the per capita income.

"If ownership of property cannot be properly recorded and able to be traced directly to the owner, then it cannot create equity and cannot be used as collateral for credit. It is not of value to the owner, only an expense. This situation has created, in [one] estimate, over $9.3 trillion in 'dead property.' That is property that cannot be used by anyone to create equity and therefore wealth. [. . .]

"This then is the hidden secret of why the West is so wealthy and the rest of the world is mired in poverty. [. . .]

"Eradication of poverty in the world won't come from endless aid designed for mere existence, nor will it come from simply providing jobs. The answer to poverty in the world will come only from providing the tools needed to create new, independent wealth. That tool is private property ownership." [Yet, many on the left reject the concept of private property.]

-- "The Real Roots of Poverty," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, August 2007, pages 1, 2, 3, 7, 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.

Milking Animals
Posted here for 11-12-07

"Perhaps more than any other public interest group in America, the radical animal 'rights' organizations have two faces. There's the one they present to the public and (more importantly) to potential donors. Then there's the other face, the true one, which encompasses a philosophy that is more anti-human than pro-animal.

"The two largest and best-funded animal 'rights' groups, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), both rely on financial support that often comes from people who have no idea what their real agendas are. In many cases, that support is based on misunderstanding, or even deception.

"HSUS has long benefited from the use of the term 'humane society." Many erroneously believe HSUS operates animal shelters, rescue groups and other animal welfare operations. Well-meaning people give money, thinking they are assisting the operation of these local and regional organizations that do so much to help animals. However, the truth is HSUS has never operated an animal shelter of any kind. Ever. And PETA employees have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted for illegally disposing of animals killed in its 'shelter' operations. [. . .]

"PETA has gone to great lengths to indoctrinate kids and young adults by creating materials, including comic books and videos, that teach its radical agenda, and then getting sympathetic teachers to use those materials in the classroom. One of PETA's comic books proclaims on the cover, 'Your Daddy Kills Animals!' and warns kids to keep the family dog away from him. Why? Because dad is a fisherman.

"PETA's PR machine is relentless. PETA selects a 'vegetarian of the year' from among notable celebrities and presents that person as a rule model for children. Each year it attacks restaurant chains that serve meat, circuses that have animal acts and, of course, any pharmaceutical company that uses animals to develop life-saving medicines."

-- "Two Faces," by Chris W. Cox, America's First Freedom, November 2007, pages 41-42. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.

The Greening of God
Posted here for 11-5-07

"Sometime back in the 1980s, Western societies gave up on the project of rescuing 'traditional values' and morality. From time to time, conservative politicians and moral entrepreneurs have attempted to launch back-to-basics crusades promoting 'family values.' However, their lack of popular appeal has only exposed society's estrangement from these traditions. [. . .]

"Forced onto the defensive and sensitive to the charge of being out of touch with public concerns, Western religions have looked for new ways of rebuilding their authority. [. . .]

"In recent years, some in the church have sought to gain the public's ear through the greening of traditional doctrines, and Christ the Savior is fast becoming Christ the environmental activist. Western society is continually in search of rituals and symbols through which moral probity can be affirmed. It appears that, for many church leaders, the project of saving the planet offers more opportunities for reconstituting rituals and symbols than the saving of souls."

-- "Frank Furedi, in "In Search of Eco-Salvation," September 27, in Spiked-OnLine" as quoted in "Green Gospel," Culture, etc. The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 15, 2007, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Bashing Males
Posted here for 10-29-07

"The gender police have already ruined college sports for many men, forcing the senseless elimination of 171 wrestling teams to reduce the overall proportion of men to women on college athletic teams. Fresh from that attack on masculinity, the new targets are math and science departments.

"Universities know all too well how this game is played and have every reason to fear the worst. Just one feminist lawsuit can have a devastating effect on most universities, both financially and in adverse publicity.

"An internal Title IX regulation invented by Carter and Clinton administration feminists established the 'proportionality' of men and women enrolled in a college as the bean-counting goal for the proportion of men and women on sports teams. If the percentage of men on sports teams is too high, then the college can expect to be sued for gender discrimination, even though men are far more interested in sports than women. If the college loses the lawsuit, it must pay the feminist lawyers' attorney's fees. This encourages lawsuits and has resulted in million-dollar paydays at the expense of schools that rely on donations to stay afloat.

"The Bush Administration is now getting ready to apply this same mindless mentality to math and science departments, which are predominately male because men are more interested in those fields than women and score significantly higher on math and science aptitude tests. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has an ADVANCE program that is already spending $75 million over five years to lure more women into science and engineering. [. . .]

"The feminists want a quota-imposed unisex society regardless of the facts of life, voluntary choice, human nature, common sense, or documented merit. They use the power of government to achieve their goal. [. . .]

"Meanwhile, the Bush Administration ignores the gender disparity that is having a very harmful consequence: the precipitous decline in male schoolteachers. The number of male public school teachers has fallen to only 20%, and at the elementary school level fewer than 10% of teachers are men, giving boys the distinct impression that school is not for them."

-- "Radical Agendas on COllege Campuses," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2006, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

The Culture of Legal Drugs
Posted here for 10-22-07

"The front page of the New York Times just described Stephen, age 15, who takes antidepressants Zaloft and Desyrel, plus anticonvulsant Lamictal to moderate his moods, plus the stimulant Focalin XR to improve concentration. His brother Jacob, age 14, takes Focalin XR for concentration, plus the anticonvulsant Depakote to moderate his moods, plus the antipsychotic Risperdal to reduce anger, plus Catapres to induce sleep.

"Over the last three years, each boy has been prescribed 28 different psychiatric drugs and has seen 11 psychiatrists. Gone are the days when a visit to a psychiatrist meant lying on a couch to recite your troubles. Treatment today means taking prescription drugs, lots of them.

"More than 3 million children are using the most commonly prescribed drug, Ritalin, and it is routinely combined with other drugs. Last year, 1.6 million children and teenagers were given at least two psychiatric drugs in combination, and 500,000 were given at least three.

"The Food and Drug Administration requires manufacturers to prove the safety of each drug. But hardly any studies have examined the safety or effectiveness of drugs used in combination. [. . .]

"There are no studies showing long-term safety of psychiatric drugs used on children or the effect on children's developing brains and bodies. The vast majority of these drugs are not FDA-approved for use in children, but they are prescribed for children nevertheless.

"Two of the three classes of these drugs are under the FDA's stringent warnings for suicide and violence. They also interfere with learning, causing violence, neurological problems, diabetes and heart attacks. [. . .]

"ADHD [has been] classified as a disability and a federal cash incentive program was initiated for low-income families with children who are said to have ADHD. A family could get $450 a month for each child diagnosed with ADHD, with the cost of treatment and medication for low-income children covered by Medicaid. [. . .]

"The U.S. Department of Education classified ADHD as a handicap, and in 1991 schools began receiving education grants of $400 a year for each ADHD child.

"Since labeling kids ADHD brings more money to the schools, it's not surprising that schools often pressure parents to get an ADHD diagnosis and put their child on Ritalin. Schools have also found it useful to deal with behavioral and discipline problems by giving boys a drug to get them to sit down, shut up, and do what they're told. [. . .]

"Instead of dealing with the over-prescription of drug cocktails for children, our government is telling us we have a mental health crisis, and the remedy is universal mental health screening. A major government campaign is now underway, sweetened with federal grants, to subject all children to mental health screening.

"The screening usually means having the child fill out a survey about his own behavior. If his answers don't comport with what the so-called experts want, the kid can be referred for treatment, and treatment usually includes medication."

-- "Drug Cocktails: Playing Russian Roulette with America's Kids," by Phyllis Schlafly, Whistleblower magazine, July 2007, pages 12-13. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

The Spotted Owl: Another Environmental Deception
Posted here for 10-15-07

"Spotted owls, we were told a decade ago, were disappearing because big bad timber companies were cutting down 'old growth' forests. So the environmental movement rushed to the forests, hugged the trees and issued news releases to decry the evils of the logging industry. Save the owl. Save the trees. Kill the timber industry.

"Of course, that was exactly the point. Kill the timber industry. As a result of the hysteria to save the 'endangered' owls, U.S. timber sales were reduced by 80-90%, forcing saw mills to close, loggers to go broke and whole towns which depended on the industry to literally disappear. The federal crackdown on the industry caused a shift in U.S. domestic lumber supplies to foreign soils. In short, American industry suffered in the name of protecting the spotted owl. Turns out [the assertion spotted owls were in danger] wasn't true. [. . .]

"[T]he primary threat to northern spotted owls [was] competition with barred owls. [B]arred owls are less selective about the habitat they use and the prey they feed upon and are out-competing northern spotted owls for habitat and food, causing [northern spotted owl numbers to] decline. [. . .]

"[Actually,] the spotted owl is only a sub-species of Mexican spotted owls, which are not endangered at all. [. . .]

"What was accomplished during the ten-year fight besides the destruction of an entire industry? The establishment of a very radical and dangerous political agenda called the environmental movement. Its power is now so great that no politician dare oppose [it]. Yet, that power, we now know for certain, was built on a lie." [Question: Think there's any parallel with global warming today?]

-- "The Sad Case of the Spotted Owl," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, July 2007, page 4, 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.

The Global Warming Scare
Posted here for 10-8-07

"We asked the important question of whether there is appreciable man-made warming today. We presented evidence that indicates there is not, thereby suggesting that attempts by governments to control greenhouse-gas emissions are pointless and unwise. Nevertheless. we have state governors calling for CO2 emissions limits on cars; we have city mayors calling for mandatory CO2 controls; we have the Supreme Court declaring CO2 a pollutant that may have to be regulated; we have every industrialized nation (with the exception of the U.S. and Australia) signed on to the Kyoto Protocol; and we have ongoing international demands for even more stringent controls when Kyoto expires in 2012. What's going on here? [. . .]

"It is [. . .] worth noting that tens of thousands of interested persons benefit directly from the global warming scare -- at the expense of the ordinary consumer. Environmental organizations globally, such as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund, have raked in billions of dollars. Multi-billion-dollar government subsidies for useless mitigation schemes are large and growing. Emission trading programs will soon reach the $100 billion a year level, with large fees paid to brokers and those who operate the scams. In other words, many people have discovered they can benefit from climate scares and have formed an entrenched interest. [. . .]

"The irony is that a slightly warmer climate with more carbon dioxide is in many ways beneficial rather than damaging. Economic studies have demonstrated that a modest warming and higher CO2 levels will increase GNP and raise standards of living, primarily by improving agriculture and forestry. It's a well-known fact that CO2 is plant food and essential to the growth of crops and trees -- and ultimately to the well-being of animals and humans."

-- "Global Warming: Man-Made or Natural?" by S. Fred Singer, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, August 2007, pages 4-5. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.

Three Choices
Posted here for 10-1-07

"I invite you to embrace Islam," says Osama bin Laden in his latest videotape. Most analysts take this as pious window-dressing, but it is actually the most revealing aspect of bin Laden's statement.

"This is because in traditional Islamic law, the invitation to Islam must precede an attack on non-Muslims. Says Muhammad: 'When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam. If they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. . . . If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya [the poll tax on non-Muslims]. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them' (Sahih Muslim 4294). [. . .]

"As Osama says: 'And our holding firm to this magnificent Book is the secret of our strength and winning of the war against you despite the fewness of our numbers and materiel."

-- "Osama's Ideological Challenge," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, September 17, 2007, page 17. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

Multiculturalism
Posted here for 9-24-07

"America is right now up against one of the most destructive political movements ever to take hold inside our country. If this movement is not stopped, it will destroy America as we know it.

"It's called multiculturalism.

"And it has developed a powerful weapon to enforce its demands, called 'political correctness.'

"Multiculturalists want you to believe that multiculturalism is all about understanding and respecting other people and their cultures.

"Unfortunately, multiculturalism is not just an innocent theory about cultural relativism, it's a genuine political movement with roots in cultural Marxism.

"To a multiculturalist, Western culture -- especially the American variety, with its emphasis on personal freedom and private property -- is an enemy to be destroyed.

"Many people think the problem is confined to our colleges and universities. But, in reality, multiculturalism has deeply infected all of our nation's schools, from the most elite private colleges right down to the most modest public elementary schools, where trusting parents send their children every day. [. . .]

"To undermine Western traditions, multiculturalist educators are changing history and social studies texts to denigrate American and European people as greedy oppressors bent on genocide and exploitation, while glorifying left-wing causes such as radical feminism and Third World nationalism.

"Multiculturalist educators are a driving force behind 'Afrocentrism' and are the ones pushing 'bilingual education' in a transparent effort to isolate immigrant children -- from the English language and from mainstream American society."

-- From a solicitation letter from Sylvia Crutchfield, executive vice president, The Foundation Endowment, 611 Cameron Street, Alexandria, VIrginia 22314. Phone: 703-683-1077. Fax: 703-683-1272. E-mail. Website.

A Tale of Two Countries
Posted here for 9-17-07

"All political factions in Mexico are united in the view that the US-Mexican border is illegitimate, and that Mexicans have the right to cross it any time. Former president Vicente Fox's official view was that any measures the United States took to catch or deport illegal immigrants were a violation of human rights. Felipe Calderon, who succeeded him in 2006, shared that view, adding, 'like many. . . I have cousins, uncles, in-laws who are undocumented and live in the United Stares." [. . .]

"Grupo Bela is a government-funded organization set up in the early 1990s to help illegal border-crossers. It maintains hundreds of staging areas just south of the border, marked with blue pennants to indicate that drinking water is available. Mexicans planning a run for the horder can flag down its bright orange trucks any time for help. [. . .]

"The Mexican state of Peubla has gone even further. In late 2006, it announced an innovative program to keep emigrants from getting lost when they cross the border illegally. Jaime Obregon, the coordinator for the Commission for Migrants, said the state would give handheld satellite navigation devices to anyone who registered as a border-crosser. [. . .]

"Latin American countries, themselves, carefully control their borders, but their governments insist that the United States remain open. [. . .]

"Every Mexican institution nurtures unfavorable views of the United States, and immigrants bring with them the sentiments they learned as children. [. . .]

"According to one poll, 58 percent of Mexicans believe the southwestern United States rightfully belongs to them, and 57 percent believe they have the right to cross the border without US permission. [. . .]

"A 2006 Zogby poll gave the following results: 84 percent of Americans said they had a positive view of Mexicans, but only 36 percent of Mexicans had a positive view of Americans. Eighteen percent of Americans thought Mexicans were racist, while 73 percent of Mexicans thought Americans were racist. Forty-two percent of Americans thought Mexicans were honest, but only 16 percent of Mexicans thought Americans were honest."

-- "Hispanic Racial Consciousness, Part II," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, May 2007, pages 4-7. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

Democrat Politics
Posted here for 9-10-07

"If African Americans come to believe that America is a land of opportunity in which racism has been largely conquered, it would be catastrophic for the Democrats. The day that most black Americans see America in positive terms will be the day Democrats lose any hope of winning a national election. Whatever one believes about the extent of racism in America, one cannot deny that the Democrats need black Americans to feel victimized by racism. Contented black Americans spell disaster for the Democratic Party.

"If women marry, it is bad for the Democratic Party. Single women are an essential component of any Democratic victory. Unmarried women voted for Kerry by a 25-point margin (62 percent to 37 percent), while married women voted for President Bush by an 11-point margin (55 percent to 44 percent). [. . .]

"If immigrants assimilate, it is not good for Democrats. The Democratic Party has invested in Latino separatism. The more that Hispanic immigrants come to feel fully American, the less likely they are to vote Democrat. The liberal notion of multiculturalism helps Democrats, while adoption of the American ideal of e pluribus unum (out of many, one) helps Republicans. That is one reason Democrats support bilingual education -- it hurts Hispanic children, but it keeps them from full assimilation -- and oppose making English America's official language. [. . .]

The Democrats have put themselves in the position of needing failure in Iraq in order to win the next election. [. . .] Even if America is doing better in the war, what matters most for the Democrats are Americans' perceptions of the war. The worse the stories from Iraq, the better for Democrats. [. . .]

"[W]hen pro-American foreign leaders -- such as Nicolas Sarkozy in France -- are elected, even that is not good for the Democrats. The more the Democrats can show that America is hated, the more the Democrats can argue that we need them in order to be loved abroad."

-- "If It's Bad for America, It's Good for Democrats," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 20, 2007, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Uninvited Guests
Posted here for 9-3-07

"The U.S. has always been practically free of leprosy, that fearful disfiguring disease known since Biblical days. Suddenly, 7,000 cases of leprosy have been diagnosed, especially in the northeastern states, brought in by illegal aliens from India, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mexico.

"The Centers for Disease Control has announced that the first American victims of Chagas disease have died. [. . .] Unknown in the United States until recently, the appearance of Chagas in the U.S. was traced to a Central American immigrant. Health officials estimate as many as 100,000 Latin American residents in the U.S. may carry the parasite. [. . .]

"Tuberculosis had virtually disappeared from the United States, thanks to our excellent hygiene and modem medications. A new TB called Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), until recently endemic only to Mexico, is expanding rapidly in our country as each alien infects 10 to 30 others. [. . .]

"Dengue Fever, another very rare disease, recently had a virulent outbreak in a Texas county on our southern border. [. . .]

"West Nile Virus was unheard of in the United States prior to 1998. Brought to our country from Africa, this mosquito-borne disease now infects tens of thousands of people in 21 states, and many have died.

"Malaria had been obliterated from the U.S., but is now reemerging in Texas. Since 1991, the U.S. hasn't had a case of a native-born American getting Polio (except from the oral polio vaccine) but aliens are bringing back polio, too.

"E-coli intestinal parasites are widespread in Latin America and are now coming into the United States. [. . .]

"Over 50% of Hepatitis B cases in the U.S. are found among Asian-Americans. [. . .]

"[A]sk your two Senators and Representatives why they don't protect us from the diseases of illegal aliens."

-- "Alien Diseases Threaten Us All," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, June 2005, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

Changing the Culture
Posted here for 8-27-07

"First, over the last few decades our nation embraced the notion that total sexual freedom, without restriction of any kind, is a right, an entitlement. We've been seduced into blaming moralists as oppressors, and thus separating sexuality from its God-ordained purpose -- the sanctified union between husband and wife within the protective confines of marriage, from which issues the most precious of all things: our children. We have abandoned reason and self-restraint in favor of the self-indulgent fulfillment of our personal desires and lusts. And logically, if sex without consequences is the top priority -- which it has become -- then abortion simply has to be an option, no matter what.

"Second, a huge factor in making abortion acceptable, indeed a 'fundamental American right,' has been the change in American law. Whether in Nazi Germany or in Roe v. Wade America, legalizing something is immensely powerful in persuading people of the moral acceptability of immoral acts. In fact, for a great many people, legal equals moral.

"In America today, the unborn baby is the obvious victim of the abortion holocaust. But there are other victims. Vulnerable young women are deceived by manipulative counselors and unscrupulous 'health professionals' into believing their unborn babies are not human, only to find out too late, in the recovery room or shortly thereafter, that they ended the lives of their own children. What crueler trick could one play on a mother?

"In truth, millions of people who think of themselves as pro-choice are victims of sophisticated marketing campaigns designed to appeal to their deepest feelings about freedom and equality while simultaneously hooking them through powerful appeals to their selfishness."

-- "The Problem: Blood Confessions," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, February 2007, page 16. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Illegal Immigration Policy
Posted here for 8-20-07

"Which side one takes in the great debate over illegal immigration policy is a matter of values.

"Do you treasure a strong, independent United States of America as the beacon of freedom in the world? Are you proud to live in a nation where personal liberty and free choice led to the creation of the highest standard of living and the best medical care in history? Do you believe in the free enterprise system? Do you believe in the rule of law, based on the Constitution, as the only way to protect natural rights? Do you believe that the United States is unique to any other nation or system on earth?

"1£ you hold these ideals as truth, then there is only one solution to illegal immigration: it must be stopped. For none of these tools necessary for a happy, prosperous life can be preserved if the nation erases its borders and ignores its very foundation. [. . .]

"Mexican President [Vicente] Fox has made his position clear. He said all barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico should be removed to allow people to live and work in the country of their choosing. He wants a North American Union like its European counterpart. He wants no borders. He wants one economy. He wants the fruits of our system to bail out the rot of his. To that end, President Fox is deliberately encouraging his own citizens to leave Mexico and illegally pour over our borders to gain the fruits of our free enterprise system. [. . .]

"Much like Castro's infamous Mariel Boat Lift, in which the Cuban dictator sought to purge his nation of undesirables by sending them to the United States in the late 1970's, Mexican President Fox seeks to use American wealth to bail out his nation's troubled economy. For example, Mexican ambulance drivers are instructed to bring those who can't afford Mexican health care directly to U.S. hospitals where our taxpayers will foot the bill. Fox has issued identification cards to aliens in order to help them open American bank accounts and obtain American driver's licenses to help them slink into American society. As a result of his policies, today, fully 10% of his nation now resides illegally in ours.

"The United States signed on to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in large part to help the Mexican economy and to stop the flow of illegal aliens. Neither has happened. Instead Mexico continues to tax its business class to the point of suffocation, thereby killing job growth, while implementing socialist policies. In the ten years since signing on to NAFTA, the Mexican economy has grown by only 1.2%. Mexico has refused to learn the lesson that socialism doesn't work. And it doesn't have to learn the lesson because it has the United States to foot the bill by providing jobs and welfare to its poor. That has been Fox's plan all along. According to Fox, our economy is his economy, and our immigration policy should be dictated by him." [Note this was written in 2004.]

-- "What Part of 'Illegal' Don't Americans Understand?" by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, February 2004, pages 1-2, 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.

What Our Sons and Daughters Are Being Taught
Posted here for 8-13-07

"At Harvard, students can take a course in 'Marxist Concepts of Racism.' Karl Marx didn't say much about racism, but that course is an excuse for a left-wing professor to talk about racism. At John Hopkins, students can take a course in 'Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in Ancient Egypt.' That course offers a slide show of Egyptian women drunk and vomiting. Princeton University students can study 'The Cultural Production of Early Modern Women,' covering prostitution and cross-dressing in 16th and 17th century England, France, Italy and Spain.

"Marxism, homosexuality and racial theory are recurrent themes in college classes. Here is another shocking course title: 'The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie: Race and Popular Culture in the United States' in which students are taught that so-called 'scientific racism' was used to market the Barbie doll. Students at the University of California at Los Angeles can take 'The Psychology of the Lesbian Experience,' a course that includes study of the so-called 'impact of heterosexism/stigma.' Swarthmore College offers a course in 'Lesbian Novels Since World War II.'

"Other courses [. . .] include Amherst College's 'Taking Marx Seriously: Should Marx Be Given Yet Another Chance?', Brown University's 'Black Lavender: A Study of Black, Gay and Lesbian Plays,' and the University of Michigan's course called 'Ancient Greek to Modern Gay Sexuality.' [. . .]

"When asked what's the typical ideological profile of [the] professors in his book [The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, David], Horowitz replied: 'A professor who believes the terrorists are freedom fighters and America is the Great Satan. They all believe in some version of Marxism, though they call it feminism, post-structuralism, post-modernism. They believe private property is evil. War is caused by corporations and American generals. America is an oppressive, racist, homophobic, imperialist society and the reason we are being attacked is because of what we do to other people. Jews are monsters who have turned Palestinians into suicide bombers because Palestinians have no other choice. That's the fundamental creed of the tenured radical.'"

-- "Radical Agendas on College Campuses," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2006, pages 2-3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

America's Transformation
Posted here for 8-6-07

"To fathom what's been happening to America, you must understand that during the 1960s the moral foundation of America came under a full-blown assault. The radicals of the '60s - including, by the way, Bill and Hillary Clinton - have today either taken over or profoundly altered the key institutions they originally wanted to destroy, from government to the news media, from education to religion.

"A generation later, the various 'liberation' movements -- sexual liberation, women's liberation, gay liberation, and so on -- have blossomed into rampant infidelity, divorce and family breakdown, gender confusion, AIDS, abortion, and other mammoth problems. Moreover, the multicultural madness that started in the '60s has infused virtually all of American society with unending confusion.

"Today, in the rarified but toxic air of multiculturalism and political correctness, all cultures and all values are of equal value. The most ignorant, oppressive, suffocating, women-hating kind of culture -- where young people's hands and feet are amputated as punishment for petty offenses -- is now worthy of equal respect to Western culture, which has provided most of the world's knowledge, progress, food, medicine, technology, quality of life, representative government, and liberty. [. . .]

"Even adult-child sex -- euphemistically called 'intergenerational sex' -- is making surprising headway into the mainstream based on today's pervasive climate of moral equivalence among all forms of consensual love. Self-righteous child molesters claim their cause is simply the latest in a long line of civil rights movements and eagerly anticipate the day society will shed its ancient taboos and grant full 'sexual rights' to young children and the adults who 'love' them.

"This world view whereby we declare all human cultures and moral codes, from the fairest to the foulest, to be equal in value is made possible only by the total abandonment of any objective standard of right and wrong."

-- "What's Really Behind America's Immigration Nightmare?" by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, June 2007, pages 22-23. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

North American Union
Posted here for 7-30-07

"[A] little-known plan to create a North American Union [. . .] would combine the U.S. with Mexico and Canada into a single political and economic system modeled after the European Union. The merger would erase U.S. borders and sovereignty, and allow for the free movement of people, products, and capital between the regions by 2010. It would allow unelected bureaucrats and corporate internationalists to 'harmonize' U.S. laws with corrupt Mexico and socialist Canada, according to Daniel Sheehy, author of Fighting Immigration Anarchy: American Patriots Battle to Save the Nation. [. . .]

"Sheehy [says,] 'We are in grave danger of losing our Constitution, national independence, standard of living and common English language and culture.' [. . .]

"'This is a systematic plan designed to serve the economic interests of multinational corporations and globalists, and replace our Constitutional system,' Sheehy explained. 'Since 9/11, our government leaders have told us we are in a war on terror. Yet, they have refused to secure our borders and enforce U.S. immigration laws. We've had more illegal immigration since 2001 than in any other five-year period in our nation's history. Our leaders are pushing hard for massive guest-worker programs and amnesty. Seven-hundred miles of fencing along the Mexican border authorized by Congress last September may never be built.

"'None of this makes any sense, until you realize that open borders, and this massive immigration invasion, are part of a larger plan to discard American sovereignty in favor of a North American Union. There will be no more illegal immigration, since there will be free movement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Our government's immigration and trade policies are being used to destroy America's middle class by lowering wages at the behest of multinational corporations. It's time for Americans to wake up and take back their country, before it's too late.'"

-- "North American Union Would Erase U.S. Borders, Replace U.S. Constitution, Destroy Standard of Living for Americans," The eco-logic Powerhouse, February 2007, pages 18-19. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee 38342. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 731-986-2299. E-mail. Website.

Gaia Be Praised
Posted here for 7-23-07

"The radical left [. . .] fundamentally believes in an atheistic version of original sin: We are all endowed with the evil capacity to consume. For the radical left, the planet is not a bountiful source to be protected and used for human happiness: It is a Higher Power to be protected from humanity's rapaciousness. The planet should not be protected for future generations, they say -- it should be protected for its own same.

"This concept of Mother Earth as feckless deity and Man as apocalyptic destroyer is deeply perverse. Nonetheless, the Democratic Party has been infused with this planet-as-deity cultish fanaticism. The major item of faith for Democratic devotees is religious belief in manmade global warming, which every major Democratic politician has termed the most dramatic threat facing America.

"The Democratic Party has its own religious figures. There's Gore, whom the Democrats have labeled a 'prophet.' There's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.), who religiously dismisses all evidence that global warming is not man made. [. . .] There's Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.), who, during the recent Democratic presidential debate, mentioned only one lesson he's trying to teach his daughters: 'working to install light bulbs that last longer and save energy.' [. . .]

"Democrats will settle for crippling American standards of living in the name of a phantom threat. But it will not be long before Democrats -- like their more radical allies in Europe -- demand more in the name of protecting Gaia."

-- "The Left's Global-Warming Solution: No More Children!" by Ben Shapiro, Human Events, May 14, 2007, page 18. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.

White Guilt
Posted here for 7-16-07

"Dr. [Shelby] Steele begins [his book, White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Right Era) by musing on what the William Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal told us about how moral standards change. He writes that he recalls reading that President Eisenhower used to use the word 'nigger' when he was on the golf course. That posed no threat to his presidency, just as Mr. Clinton's debauching an intern posed no threat to his. However, suggests Dr. Steele, had each man done what the other did, they would have been hounded out of office. 'Race simply replaced sex as the primary focus of America's moral seriousness,' Dr. Steele writes [. . .]

"The central insight of White Guilt is that 'racism' is now America's most despised crime. [It is] the fundamental psychological transformation of our time. This transformation meant that far from being able to face other races with confidence and even a sense of superiority, 'the idea of evil had begun to attach to America and to whites.' Anyone who could be accused of 'racism' immediately lost authority, and not just on social questions. 'Racists' lost all standing as respectable human beings. As Dr. Steele points out, the rigid new structure of taboos thus 'makes the moral authority of whites and legitimacy of American institutions contingent on proving a negative: that they are not racist.' [. . .]

"The army angers its white soldiers and stigmatizes its blacks and browns with racial preferences -- not because this improves the army but because the white officer corps that merit would produce would not meet today's standards for moral authority. [. . .]

"Merit, excellence and ability, writes Dr. Steele, are 'unforgivingly exclusionary.' 'Inclusion' requires that excellence be ignored, that mediocre Third-Worlders be treated like great artists, that black tinkerers be hailed as geniuses, and that every obscure Negro be put on a postage stamp. [. . .]

"Dr. Steele writes that the older generation of civil rights leaders believed their behavior had to be impeccable, that they had to act better than white people if their call for equal treatment was to be taken seriously. Things changed in the 1960s: '[B]lack power would no longer come from being better than whites; it would come from not being better. . . . [. . .] [B]lack power grew in direct proportion to white guilt, and could not have been possible without it. [. . .]

"Once the ancient distinction between black and white was broken down, the 1960s made short work of virtually every other distinction whites had taken for granted: man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual, normal and perverted, diligence and sloth, health and sickness, good and bad. As Dr. Steele points out, the collapse of so many traditions abetted the '60s generation's illusion that it had a mandate to remake the world. [. . .]

"That is why, as Dr. Steele writes, 'baby boomer-counterculture consciousness is now the establishment consciousness, while traditional American values now constitute a kind of counterculture.'"

-- "To the Edge of the Precipice," a review, written by Thomas Jackson, of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Right Era, by Shelby Steele, American Renaissance, May 2007, pages 8-11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.