Disposing of Human Beings
Posted here for 12-22-08

"Perhaps half a million [human] embryos lie frozen in U.S. clinics, and many are likely to continue to do so because fertility patients feel they don't have satisfactory options for dealing with embryos left over from their treatment, research suggests today. [. . .]

"[M]ore than half of the respondents said they were 'very unlikely' to donate extra embryos to another couple trying to have a baby. [. . .]

"The most popular option was donating the embryos for research, the survey found. Among patients who reported they didn't want a baby, four out of 10 said they'd be 'very likely' to donate their leftover embryos for research. [. . .] The problem [. . .] is that a ban on federal money for research involving embryos prevents most fertility patients from choosing that option. [. . .]

"Fewer than one in 10 said they were very likely to pick the other options, which included holding a ceremony while thawing and disposing of the embryos. One in seven said they were likely to freeze their embryos 'forever.' Clinics typically charge 'a few hundred dollars' annually to store frozen embryos [but] some clinics raise the price over time as an incentive for couples to get them out of storage."

-- "Fertility Patients Unsure What to Do with Leftover Embryos," by Rita Rubin, USA Today, December 4, 2008, page 10D,

Mainstream Media: Good Source for Slanted News
Posted here for 12-15-08

"[This year] 2008 is already becoming known as 'the year the media died,' because of its astonishingly biased treatment of the two major presidential candidates. Network anchor groupies tag along with Obama on his European campaign trip, with coverage of McCain paling into insignificance. The New York Times runs Obama's op-ed on Iraq, but then refuses to run McCain's a week later -- a low-level editor lecturing the GOP presidential candidate about how he needs to rework his column to bring it up to the Time's standards. We're talking about bias so outrageous, so transparent, so indefensible that it gives one shivers. [. . .]

"While things were going terribly and it looked like we were losing [the war in Iraq], coverage was constant and unrelentingly negative. Every IED attack, every political setback, every accusation of atrocities on the part of U.S. soldiers, every statement by Democrat leaders condemning the 'failed' Iraq war -- these led the evening news night after night.

"But recently, we don't hear much about Iraq. And the reason is: We're winning, and the big media are very uncomfortable with that. It doesn't fit into their paradigm dictating the direction America needs to go. [. . .]

"Let's take a look at what has been going on in Iraq. Miracles have been taking place there. [. . .] [E]yewitness descriptions of the sacrifices and hardships of our troops, the trust they've established with the Iraqi people, and the sheer brilliance and persistence of their problem-solving efforts are awe-inspiring. [But the mainstream media won't let a word of the brilliant and stunning successes reach the American public.]

"[T]here is no institution in America that is more responsible for making evil look good and good look evil than the news media."

-- "How the Media Bury Victory," by David Kupelian, Whistleblower magazine, September 2008, pages 5, 14. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

A President Obsessed with Race
Posted here for 12-8-08

"[R]ead [Barack Obama's] autobiography, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. His dreams are obsessed with race and race conflict. [. . .]

"Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is 'a record of a personal, interior journey' to establish himself as 'a black American.'

"With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a 'smaller and smaller coil of rage.' He lives with a 'nightmare vision' of black powerlessness.

"Obama says that the hate doesn't go away. 'It formed a counter-narrative buried deep within each person and at the center of which stood white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.'

"Obama's worldview sees U.S. history as a consistent tale of oppressors and oppressed. He objects to the public schools because black kids are learning 'someone else's history. Someone else's culture.'

"He even criticizes his white grandparents, who worked hard to give him a privileged life. Their motives are a mystery to Obama because they came from the 'landlocked center' of the United States, which, he asserts, is full of 'suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty.' [. . .]

"Although his mixed race was not a handicap in Hawaii, he whined that 'we were always playing on the white man's court . . . by the white man's rules.' [. . .]

"Obama immersed himself in the writings of radical blacks: Richard Wright, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. Obama's favorite became Malcolm X. [. . .]

"Obama described his happiness in going to Kenya: 'For the first time in my life, I felt the comfort, the firmness of identity that a name might provide.' He felt he 'belonged' and had come home. Apparently, the only other place he felt at home was in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church in Chicago. [. . .]

"There is absolutely nothing in this book that expresses pride in or love of or appreciation of America. In 442 pages of introspection extending over his life as a teen, undergraduate and law student at prestigious institutions, community organizer and working adult, he doesn't say anything positive about American government, culture, society, freedom or opportunity."

-- "The Audacity of Obama's Hatred," by Phyllis Schlafly, Middle America News, November 2008, pages 20-21. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Posted here for 12-1-08

"We have just elected our first partly non-white President, Barack Hussein Obama, part white, part Arab, part black African, and all politician. [. . .]

"He's an 'empty suit,' as a black friend who is a police officer says. He has accomplished exactly zero in his life that was not handed to him largely as an affirmative action gift and has never done a thing to promote anyone except himself. [. . .]

"I have no hope at all that Barack Obama has a clue as to how to deal with the collapsing American family. Because he's the tool of the teachers unions, I know he has no glimmer of hope of reforming America's pitiful schools. I don't think anyone can undo the mischief that Henry Paulson has done for many years, and I don't think Mr. Obama has an inkling of what his happened. And as for catching Osama bin Laden, well, I think Osama has a lot more chance of capturing Obama than Obama has of catching Osama."

-- "In Obama, a Shining Thread," by Ben Stein, NewsMax (the magazine), December 2008, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

A Different View of Slavery
Posted here for 11-24-08

"Have we ever stopped to consider where we black people, especially those of us in the West, would be right now if it weren't for the Atlantic Slave Trade? . . . Do you think that we would have been better off without slavery? I don't think so!

"When the Europeans went to Africa to buy slaves, what did they find? They found a society and people vastly inferior to theirs. While the Europeans had emerged from their feudal practices, our ancestors in Africa, for the most part, had not developed for many centuries. . . . Science and technology (and innovations in these areas) were non-existent in black Africa of the 15th and 16th centuries. . . . In many respects, we were uncivilized. . . .

"Our relatively stable societies today, especially in the West, are testaments to the benefits of slavery. While it is true that black Africa has, for the most part, squandered the opportunities that slavery offered in the past, the positive influence of European civilization cannot be denied. The black nation states of Africa and the Caribbean have given black people a sense of nation, a sense of identity, a sense of order and a sense of purpose -- things we never had before. . . .

"We blacks were changed, for the better, I might add, on account of slavery. We are a better race today because our ancestors went through slavery. The millions of lives lost were not lost in vain. The Europeans proclaimed the need for us to be civilized through slavery and though this may be hard to understand, they were right. Indeed, based on what is happening in black Africa today -- slavery for us in the West was, in many respects, our salvation."

-- "Slavery as Salvation," from an article titled "Slavery Was Good for the Black Man," by Michael Dingwall, in the Jamaica Observer, as quoted in American Renaissance, November 2008, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

Orchestrating Our Demise
Posted here for 11-17-08

"[F]or more than 30 years, the American left -- the Democratic Party, the environmental zealots, and their media fellow travelers -- have been at war with energy producers in America. They have taken for granted the freedom that energy provides, and they have waged a war on those who make it possible.

"The left has agitated and the Democrats have regulated and with the aid of the media they have spread environmental panic -- and won. They have ensured that for 20 years no large petroleum refineries have been built in America. They have launched alarmist attacks on the nuclear power industry and virtually throttled it at birth. They have encouraged unwarranted fears about magnetic fields and made construction of new power lines almost impossible. They have inspired junk-science hysterics and limited the building of pipelines that deliver natural gas. In the name of a slip of arctic wasteland the size of the Dallas airport (in a state that is twice the size of Texas) they have blocked the development of Alaskan oil, which would provide consumers with the equivalent of 20 years of imports from Saudi Arabia. For 30 years, the Democrats and the American left have choked off America's energy, and with it a significant slice of Americans' freedom."

-- "Energy Is Freedom," by David Kupelian, quoting David Horowitz, Whistleblower magazine, August 2008, pages 3, 44. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.

Who's Happy, Who's Peaceful, Who's Angry, Who's Hard Working?
Posted here for 11-10-08

"Liberals are almost twice as angry as conservatives, with 27 percent of libs saying they have felt anger towards someone within the last week, compared to only 14 percent of conservatives, according to the General Social Survey.

"Fully half of liberals say they've used profanity in public in the last month, reports the General Social Survey, compared to only 27 percent of conservatives.

"A whopping 77 percent of conservatives say they feel 'peaceful' all or most of the time, according to the General Social Survey, with only 53 percent of liberals claiming the same.

"40 percent of conservatives say they're 'very happy,' with only 27 percent [of liberals] echoing the sentiment, reports the Pew Research Center. The happiness gap grows when measured by Party label -- 45 percent of Republicans to 30 percent of Democrats. [. . .]

"Harris Interactive and Eurobaromerer asked citizens of several countries if they agreed with the statement, 'On the whole, I am very satisfied with the life I lead.' Americans led the pack with 58 percent agreeing -- 33 percent of Brits and 16 percent of Italians concurred; only 18 percent of the French said 'oui.' When the International Social Survey Program asked for a reaction to the statement, 'My country is a good place to start a new business' a whopping 60 percent of Americans said yes; United Kingdom, 31 percent; France, 27 percent; Italy, 15 percent. [. . .]

"As Hoover Institution research fellow Peter Schweizer noted to National Review: 'When Pew asked Americans, can you get ahead in America by working hard? Four out of five Republicans said yes you can; amazingly, only 14 percent of Democrats agreed.' [. . .]

"Schweizer [. . .] continued: 'There are a dozen studies in academic journals (not done by conservative think tanks) that show conservatives tend to have a better work work ethic than liberals. Conservatives are less likely to call in sick, and more interested in assuming responsibilities on the job . . . [C]onservatives tend to want a job that offers them the opportunity to advance. Liberals tend to desire high pay and lots of vacation time."

-- "Rx for Mental Health: Conservatism," by Rush Limbaugh, The Limbaugh Letter, October 2008, page 26-27. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

Left/Right Divide
Posted here for 11-3-08

"[The] right and the left do not want the same America.

"The left wants America to look as much like Western European countries as possible. The left wants Europe's quasi-pacifism, cradle-to-grave socialism, egalitarianism and secularism in America. The right wants none of those values to dominate America.

"The left wants America not only to have a secular government, but to have a secular society. [. . .] The right wants America to continue to be what it has always been -- a Judeo-Christian society with a largely secular government (that is not indifferent to religion). [. . .]

"The left prefers to identify as citizens of the world. [. . .] [T]he right identifies first as citizens of America.

"The left therefore regards the notion of American exceptionalism as chauvinism; the United Nations and world opinion are regarded as better arbiters of what is good than is America. The right has a low opinion of the U.N.'s moral compass and of world opinion [. . . .]

"The left is ambivalent about and often hostile to overt displays of American patriotism. [. . .]

The left subscribes to the French Revolution, whose guiding principles were 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.' The right subscribes to the American formula, 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.' [. . .]

"The left envisions an egalitarian society. The right does not. The left values equality above other values because it yearns for an America in which all people have similar amounts of material possessions. [. . .] The right values equality in opportunity and strongly believes that all people are created equal, but the right values liberty, a man-woman based family and other values above equality. [. . .]

"The left wants to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples for the first time in history. The right wants gays to have equal rights, but to keep marriage defined as man-woman. [. . .]

"[C]alls for a unity among Americans that transcends left and right are either naive or disingenuous. America will be united only when one of them prevails over the other. The left know this. Most on the right do not."

-- "No Reconciling the Two Americas," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 20, 2008, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Where Was Barack Obama Born?
Posted here for 10-27-08

Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of "qualifications" to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he is immediately appealing the dismissal of his case to the United States Supreme Court. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.

Berg said,

"I am totally disappointed by Judge Surrick's decision and, for all citizens of the United States, I am immediately appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution. [The case was dismissed because Berg was ruled to have no "standing" to bring the suit.] If I don't have standing, if you don't have standing, if your neighbor doesn't have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be President of the United States -- the Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the world -- then who does?

"So, anyone can just claim to be eligible for congress or the presidency without having their legal status, age or citizenship questioned.

"According to Judge Surrick, we the people have no right to police the eligibility requirements under the U.S. Constitution.

"What happened to ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people,’ Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address 1863.

"We must legally prevent Obama, the unqualified candidate, from taking the Office of the Presidency of the United States," Berg said.

Our website Obamacrimes.com now has 71.8 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website -- and forward to your local newspapers and radio and TV stations.

Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, "we" the people, are heading to a "Constitutional Crisis" if this case is not resolved forthwith.

-- "Philip J. Berg is Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court as Obama is 'NOT' qualified to be President of the United States Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed from Philadelphia Federal Court," October 25, 2008, on the ObamaCrimes.com website.

Undeniable Bias
Posted here for 10-20-08

"The coverage given to leftist Democrat Barack Obama's presidential run proves that the liberal media are 'in the tank' for him and will do almost anything to help get him into the White House. [. . .]

"A perfect case in point was Obama's eight-day trip to the Middle East and Europe in late July to shore-up his lack of foreign policy bona fides. [. . .]

"Analyzing the news of those eight days, the Media Research Center produced a report that showed the networks -- ABC, CBS, and NBC, which reach more than 40 million Americans daily -- gave a total of 92 minutes of coverage to Obama. Yet when Republican John McCain made a similar trip abroad in March, the media elite gave him only 8.5 minutes of coverage. [. . .]

"As the MRC documented, the CBS Evening News was the most obviously tilted, with more than 34 minutes of Obama coverage during the July 20-27 trip. McCain's seven-day trip garnered a piddling 10 seconds from CBS, a ridiculously lopsided 200-to-1 disparity. [. . .]

"On the July 25 Early Show, CBS's Mark Phillips swooned over the Berlin speech. '[. . . If] the intent of this trip was to raise Barack Obama's foreign profile, it could hardly have been raised any higher. . . . The stage could not have been bigger. The 200,OOO-plus crowd confirmed his rock star status, and his more cooperative sounding rhetoric was what the crowd wanted to hear.' Phillips -- no surprise -- did not report that free beer and live rock music were offered prior to the speech to bring in that big crowd."

-- "Liberal Media Are Nearly Worshipping Obama," by Brent Bozell, Watchdog, September 2008, pages 1-2. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

"Overall, so far, federal records show journalists have given $225,453 to Democrats and only $16,298 to Republicans. Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to republicans -- a margin greater than 10-to-1. An even greater disparity, 20-to-1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain."

-- "Bits & Pieces," Watchdog, September 2008, page 5. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

"More than 63 percent of the people who watch ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC plan to vote for liberal Democrat Barack Obama for president, according to an Aug. 6 Rasmussen Reports survey. [. . .] For contrast, the survey found that 87 percent of Fox News Channel viewers 'say they are likely to vote for John McCain' with only 9 percent of Fox watchers backing Obama."

-- "Bits & Pieces," Watchdog, September 2008, page 4. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.

Dumbing Down by Design
Posted here for 10-13-08

"Those of us who were witnesses to the past and have spent our lives monitoring the decline of American education know what happened. It all started at the turn of the last century when the Progressives took control of the education system and gradually imposed their collectivist philosophy on the curriculum.

"The most destructive thing they did was reform the teaching of reading by throwing out the true and tried phonics method and imposing a whole-word method that would teach children to read our alphabetic English as if it were a pictographic language like Chinese, which would ultimately lead to the general decline of literacy in our country.

"Why were these crucial changes made? They were made so that the Progressive could shape future generations of American children to become collectivists instead of individuals. [Progressives] believed that evil was caused by ignorance, poverty, and social injustice, and that a collectivist society could eliminate all of that. [. . .]

"For [Anthony G.] Oettinger [CFR member and Harvard University professor of Information Resources Policy] and his fellow elitists, the ideal society is one in which the vast majority of people are minimally educated to a sub-literate comic-book level; a collectivized social order of unthinking docile workers who are dependent on an intellectual clerisy (Oettinger and company) for informational sustenance. [. . .]

"And what's the solution for parents? If they want to get their children out of Professor Oettinger's clutches, they'll have to home-school them or enroll them in private or parochial schools where literacy is not a burden, but a liberating force for good."

-- "Pavlov's Dogs and American Education," by Samuel L. Blumenfeld, The New American, September 29, 2008, pages 36, 38. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Marxism in the Schools
Posted here for 10-6-08

"In 1920, [Ivan Petrovich] Pavlov and his colleagues embarked on a long-term experimental investigation. The aim of the experiments was to learn how to artificially create human disorganization for the purpose of controlling and reorienting human behavior. [. . .]

"Why would [] Soviet psychologists spend so much time and effort trying to find out how to deliberately drive people crazy? The answer is simple. The Soviet Union believed itself to be the leader in a world revolution to convert everyone to communism, which required the conquest of all its capitalist enemies. And this was to be done not by military invasion but by psychological warfare under the guise of objective science. [. . .]

"Pavlov [as a result of his experiments with dogs] obtained very definite affective 'breaks,' an acute disorganization of behavior, each time that the conditioned reflexes collided, when the animal was unable to react to two mutually exclusive tendencies, or was incapable of adequately responding to any imperative problem.

"In short, the methodology [] is exactly the way our schools teach children to read. The child is taught to look at printed text as a string of little pictures, whole configurations, memorized in sight-vocabulary exercises. As a result he develops a whole-word conditioned reflex. At the same time he is taught something about the letters standing for sounds, a phonetic way of looking at words, which is very difficult to do if you are looking at the words as little pictures. For many children it is simply impossible; they cannot react to two 'mutually exclusive tendencies,' and thus become reading disabled, or dyslexic. On the other hand, if the child is taught exclusively by the look-say method. he is unlikely to be able to master reading our alphabetic writing system and is very likely to become functionally illiterate. [. . .]

"Pavlov's laboratory was used by the Soviet State to devise scientific methods of waging psychological warfare in a manner that would enlist behavioral scientists worldwide. Of course, if you were a dedicated Marxist, you considered this scientific activity to be to the ultimate benefit of mankind.

"They also experimented on creating another form of behavioral disorganization, which today we recognize as Attention Deficit Disorder."

-- "Pavlov's Dogs and American Education," by Samuel L. Blumenfeld, The New American, September 29, 2008, pages 34-35. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

Going Green: Short Cut to World Government
Posted here for 9-29-08

"Going green (its real name is sustainable development) has led to Orwellian regulations resulting in the destruction of American businesses and the jobs that go with them, including manufacturing and industry; the locking away of American natural resources like oil, timber and minerals, forcing expensive imports; the near abolishment of private property, the bedrock of any economy's source of wealth; and massive invasion of the farming industry to assure it is 'sustainable,' including the mandated use of corn for the making of ethanol, leading to food shortages and higher prices. [. . .]

"[T]he American people, buried under an avalanche of environmentally-correct propaganda, have blindly accepted the go-green mantra, missing its connection to their economic woes. [. . .]

"[T]he Sustainable Development lobby [led] by massively wealthy and powerful special interests like the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, the National Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice [. . .] are forcing Congress to implement the policies outlined in the UN's Agenda 21 soft law document. It pretends to be environmental policy, but is really a complete transformation of our society and economy to a top-down control, leading toward global governance. The environment is just the excuse to convince unaware Americans to give up their liberties 'to save the earth.' [. . .]

"Going green = sustainable development = a coming dark ages for all of mankind. Americans have only just begun to experience it and they are already feeling loss and a sense of hopelessness."

-- "Going Green = $4 Per Gallon," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, July 2008, 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.

The UN Flexes Its Muscles [And by the way, a Barack Obama bill (S. 2433) gives added strength to the UN]
Posted here for 9-22-08

"[The Millennium Development Goal] refers to the Declaration adopted by the United Nations Millennium Assembly and Summit in 2000 (blessed by President Bill Clinton) which called for the 'eradication of poverty' by 'redistribution [of] wealth and land,' cancellation of 'the debts of developing countries,' and 'a fair distribution of the earth's resources' (from the United States to the rest of the world, of course). [. . .] By adopting the Millennium Goals in 2000, the UN escalated its demands for the UN to impose international taxes. Specifically, the Millennium called for a 'currency transfer tax,' a 'tax on the rental value of land and natural resources,' 'royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection -- oil, natural gas, coal,' 'fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.' [. . .]

"There is much more to the Millennium Goals than merely extorting more money from U.S. taxpayers. The Goals [. . .] include a 'standing Peace Force' (i. e., a UN standing army), a 'UN Arms register' of all small arms and light weapons, 'peace education' covering 'all levels from pre-school through university,' and 'political control of the global economy.' The Goals call for implementing all the UN treaties that the United States has never ratified, all of which set up UN monitoring committees to invade our sovereignty. [. . .]

[T]he plan calls for 'strengthening the United Nations for the 21st Century' by 'eliminating' the veto and permanent [U.S.] membership in the Security Council. The goal is to reduce U.S. influence to l out of 192 nations, so we would have merely the same vote as Cuba."

-- "Reject All Plans for UN Taxes," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2008, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

Making the Energy Problem Worse
Posted here for 9-15-08

"Beneath federal lands and coastal waters, according to federal government estimates, there are about 116.4 billion barrels of crude oil. As noted by the American Petroleum Institute (API), these areas have enough oil to power 'more than 65 million cars for 60 years, but the bulk of these resources [has] been placed off-limits to development.'

"Similarly, more than 85 percent of U.S. coastal waters off the lower 48 states are off-limits to oil and natural-gas exploration. There is, says API, 'enough natural gas in those waters to heat 60 million homes for another 160 years.'

"Rather than encouraging production, Congress has been more inclined to punish the producers with more taxes on their 'windfall.' When demagogic lawmakers did this before, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service, the windfall-profits tax between 1980 and 1988 'reduced domestic oil production from between 3 and 6 percent, and increased oil imports from between 8 and 16 percent.' [. . .]

"[T]he United States has gone from producing almost 60 percent of our petroleum needs domestically to today's situation, where it has been driven down to about 25 percent. [. . .]

"According to official filings of this year's earnings by industry, the oil and natural-gas industry earned 7.4 cents for every dollar of sales. This compares to 7.6 cents for all U.S. manufacturing, and 8.6 cents for all manufacturing, less the suffering auto industry. The comparable figure for the beverage and tobacco-product sector is 17.8 cents. Strangely, we don't hear much about the robber barons of Big Soda Pop.

"How much does government skim off the top from those who actually produce energy? According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, American oil and natural-gas companies have tax expenses of 40.7 percent (as a share of their net income before income taxes), compared to 22.1 percent for American manufacturing industries. [. . .]

"[I]n the United States, one out of every three ears of corn is stuffed into a gas lank (by way of ethanol), causing not just food shortages abroad and high prices at home but intensive increases in farming, with all of the attendant environmental problems (soil erosion, insecticide pollution, water consumption, etc.). "

-- "Correction Please," by William P. Hoar, The New American, September 2008, 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.

The Homosexual Agenda
Posted here for 9-1-08

"The advocates of same-sex marriage do not seek tolerance for homosexuals. They have already accomplished this. Sodomy laws have been struck down. Gays and lesbians are free to engage in sexual activity in the privacy of their bedrooms.

"What they now seek is something different: The legitimization of their lifestyle. By pushing for gay marriage, they are demanding that society give its stamp of approval to homosexuality. The homosexual agenda therefore is not about 'civil rights.' Rather, it is about taking the sexual revolution to its logical dystopian conclusion -- the creation of a new social order based on moral relativism, hedonism and individual gratification.

"Ultimately, however, the purpose of marriage -- and of sex -- is not to be 'happy,' 'satisfied' or 'fulfilled.' It is to sustain our civilization by reproducing. A society of homosexuals cannot perpetuate itself; it is doomed to extinction.

"Hence, same-sex marriage is an oxymoron. Marriage is about having children and reproducing -- one generation is transmitted to the next. The crisis of our age is that we no longer understand this -- or care to. Most European countries do not have birthrates necessary to maintain their populations. They are gradually dying. America's birthrate is slightly higher but has been trending downward for decades."

-- "Marriage Madness and Why It Could Destroy America," by Jeffrey T. Kuhner, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 30, 2008, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

The West's Death Wish
Posted here for 8-25-08

"The problem lies [. . .] mainly in what is known as feminism. It is this, I believe, that mainly explains collapsing white birthrates. For several decades, white women have been reared in an unprecedented manner: They have been encouraged to do almost anything but marry and have children. It is extremely difficult for any society to make its young women unattractive to its own young men, but the West now appears close to succeeding. [. . .]

"Experts report that in cases involving child custody, women initiate divorce almost every time. Courts routinely award them custody and generous child support payments regardless of whether the man is at fault. [. . .] The ordinary white man [. . .] will be more encouraged to marry a white woman and start a family as his ancestors did only if the effects of feminism can be undone. [. . .]

"We are practicing both low fertility and low parental investment. It is uncanny how many of the 'progressive' causes being pushed among us involve thwarting procreation: female careerism, unrestricted abortion, so-called safe sex, and special political protections for homosexuality. A society that makes these things its priorities can only have a death wish."

-- "The 'Reafricanization' of the West," by F. Roger Devlin, American Renaissance, June 2008, pages 3, 5. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.

Gender War
Posted here for 8-18-08

"Thanks to radical feminism, and the virulent stream of male-bashing this bunch is successfully promoting, the men vs. women war is going through a really nasty patch just now. [. . .]

"[M]en and masculinity have been under siege for the last few decades. Guys have been described in the most unsavory terms -- lazy, violent, deceitful, maniacally over-sexed, pathologically unfair, none too bright (when was the last time you saw a man in a television commercial who wasn't either a lout or a helpless doofus?) -- and are deemed to be the proximate cause of all bad things in the world, especially responsible for every unhappiness suffered by any woman. If you don't think this is so, read just about any description of any university course in women's studies, a fairly new 'discipline' whose main purpose for being is to drill into college students that men are awful, masculinity is passe at best, dangerous at worst, and that women are victims, saints, martyrs, and all around superior human beings. [. . .]

"[T]he geek-branch of feminism has demeaned and diminished the importance of fatherhood, as well as the traditionally male roles of protector and provider. They've almost succeeded in criminalizing normal masculine behavior for both men and boys. In the name of sexual equality, they have compromised the effectiveness of the military and put both male and female soldiers' lives at risk.

"They've created a thoroughly confusing atmosphere surrounding sex between men and women that simultaneously creates a puritanical code under which a man who so much as looks at a woman in the wrong tone of voice runs the risk of being hauled up on charges of sexual harassment, and at the same time has also unleashed promiscuity through a 'hooking up' culture that has led to an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, trivialized man-woman relationships, and uncountable regretful mornings after. [. . .]

"Many of the programs and sentiments of the more radical feminists are now both law and etiquette to be enforced by the PC police."

-- "Calling for a Truce in War of the Sexes," by Larry Thornberry, a review of the book Save the Males; Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care, by Kathleen Parker, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 28, 2008, page 29. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Who Empowered Mugabe?
Posted here for 8-11-08

"Robert Mugabe [Zimbabwe's prime minister] is only partly to blame for the suffering of his countrymen. The people and entities -- such as Time and the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] -- who aided Mugabe's ascension to power in place of a law-abiding, limited government must take their share of the blame. [. . .]

"Back during the Carter administration, the recently independent, free, and prosperous nation of Rhodesia was led by Prime Minister Ian Smith who, since 1972, had presided over Rhodesia's struggle against a guerrilla army of brutal Marxist thugs led by Robert Mugabe and his soon-to-be-estranged comrade in arms, Joshua Nkomo.

"Citing convenient abstractions like the 'right of self-determination,' the Carter administration, including Council on Foreign Relations stalwarts like then-Secretary of State Cyrus Vance as well as President Carter himself, made it clear that it was supporting the Marxist insurgency. [. . .]

"In 1980, Smith bowed to U.S.-led international political, economic, and military pressure and surrendered the government of Rhodesia to Mugabe and his murderous followers. [. . .]

"Once firmly in command, Mugabe turned on rival black factions that had joined his coalition and carried out a year-long bloodbath that claimed many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of lives, and literally wiped out most of the remaining opposition."

[Presumably Carter's action was to empower blacks in Africa and to pander to U.S. blacks. Unless his objective was to expand Marxism.]

-- "Moral Behind Mugabe," Correction Please, by Charles Scaliger, The New American, August 4, 2008, 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.

Values and Feelings
Posted here for 8-4-08

"One [. . .] leftist value is multiculturalism. Since the 1960s, a major goal of the left has been to weaken American national identity and replace it with other cultural, national, racial and ethnic identities (in effect, changing the motto of the United states from 'From Many, One' to 'From One, Many'). It has pursued this goal through bilingual education, election ballots in multiple languages, history textbooks concerning the percentage of space allotted to given minorities, opposition to declaring English America's national language, and rendering the term 'flag waving' a pejorative that implies quasi-fascists sentiments. [. . .]

"The left has successfully taught millions of Americans to honor other national identities while either fearing or disparaging American nationalism. [. . .]

"[T]he elevation of one's feelings above other consideratIons is generally viewed as a form of narcissism. And while narcissism is as old as humanity, until the 1960s it was generally regarded as a character flaw. Since the 196Os, however, it was more often heralded as a virtue. From recreational drug use to recreational sex, acting on one's feelings, actions of self-centered narcissism, has been glorified."

-- "Politically Correct Lying as an Art Form," by Dennis Prager, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 14, 2008, page 34. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.

Drugging the Kids
Posted here for 7-28-08

"All psychiatric treatments exert their primary or intended effect by disabling brain functions, says Peter Breggin, M.D., author of Toxic Psychiatry and other books critical of the use of psychiatric drugs. Dr. Breggin maintains that no existing psychiatric treatment corrects or improves existing brain dysfunction, such as a biochemical imbalance, which he argues is the major misunderstanding about psychiatry that the profession prefers to hide, and which places it outside the realm of proper treatment for disorders.

"Yet courts, state child protective services agencies, and schools are now working in tandem, backed by the power of the law, to mandate that children as young as three years old take multiple psychotropic drugs despite the lack of a provable scientific basis for such treatments. [. . .]

"Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., a pediatric neurologist and author of The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes Patients of Normal Children, and an outspoken foe of the use of these drugs, has stated, 'The medication typically prescribed for ADHD and learning disorders is a hazardous and addictive amphetamine-like drug.' Its side effects are intense and often permanent: stunted growth, depression, tics, rashes, spasms, psychosis, and ironically, 'attentional disturbances' and hyperactivity when the drug is taken for a long period."

-- "Behavior Worth Medicating?" by Gregory A. Hession, J.D., The New American, September 17, 2007, pages 13, 15. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.

More on Cholesterol
Posted here for 7-21-08

"The cholesterol myth represents the greatest swindle in the history of nutrition. If you read the paper or watch television, you probably believe the following:

1. Cholesterol is some kind of fat.
2. You get all the cholesterol from the food you eat.
3. Cholesterol causes heart attacks.
4. A healthy diet contains no cholesterol.

"The truth is that:

1. Cholesterol is not a fat. It is a solid alcohol.
2. Each day you manufacture 3 times as much cholesterol as you can possibly consume in your diet.
3. About 80 percent of patients with heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels.
4. Cholesterol is an essential part of human metabolism. If you don't include it in your diet, your body will manufacture it for you."

-- The Cholesterol Hoax; 101 + Lies," by Sheldon Zerden, Emissary Publications, 1997, page 88. Address: PMB 1776, 9205 SE Clackamas Road, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail.

The Cholesterol Scare Is a Hoax
Posted here for 7-14-08

"The American Heart Association is a nationwide, publicly funded organization. In the early 1950's, it ordered a study of the whole diet-cholesterol-CHD [coronary heart disease] question. In 1957, the results of the study were disclosed. It revealed that there was overwhelming evidence that diet had no effect on blood (serum) cholesterol levels. What did the American Heart Association do? Nothing . . . for four years. It sat on the report and waited. Is it too much for the public, which funds the studies the AHA does, to expect the organization to demonstrate its honesty and integrity? The AHA had two choices. It could reveal the truth about the results of the study or it could do additional studies to confirm or reject the results. It did neither.

"In 1961, the American Heart Association jumped on the diet-cholesterol-CHD bandwagon. This stand completely disregarded the study which had just been completed. The new diet recommendation was for a low-fat, low-cholesterol regimen which allowed only three eggs a week. This diet ostensibly would lead to a lower cholesterol level and prevent the development of CHD. Not only did the AHA know better, but it was playing with the lives of millions of Americans who are urged to avoid the most nutritious foods such as eggs, whole milk, beef, butter among others.

"Thirty-five years and billions of dollars of research after the abandonment of integrity, the AHA continues to hew to the diet-cholesterol-CHD line. It ignores the vast accumulation of studies which betray the diet theory. Indeed, the mother of all heart studies which is now 49 years old, 'The Framingham Heart Study,' which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, has proved overwhelmingly that diet is not involved in the development of CHD.

"In its 1970 study titled, 'Diet and the Regulation of Serum Cholesterol,' the Framingham researchers proclaim very clearly that dietary cholesterol does not increase blood (serum) cholesterol. They also stated that saturated fats did not increase blood cholesterol. It is troubling to see that these important findings, which are funded by public tax money have been carefully hidden from view . . ."

-- The Cholesterol Hoax; 101 + Lies," by Sheldon Zerden, Emissary Publications, 1997, pages 105-106. Address: PMB 1776, 9205 SE Clackamas Road, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail.