QUICKIES for March 2000
Mercifully short tidbits of news and/or analysis and/or comment.
"YDS" below refers to the book You Don't Say







"The Vice President [said] 'I would look for justices to the Supreme Court who understand that our Constitution is a living and breathing document, that it was intended by our founders to be interpreted in the light of the constantly evolving experience of the American people. . .' [T]he claim that the Constitution is a 'living and breathing document' . . . does more than merely provide a rationale for corruption. It is an attack on law itself."
-- From "Al Gore's Higher Law," by Terence P. Jerrfey, Human Events, March 17, 2000, page 6. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 3-27-00.


"Bill Clinton appointed more millionaires to Cabinet posts than any other President. . . ."
-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2000, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-27-00.


"If Al Gore gets elected president in November, he may appoint Bill Clinton to the Supreme Court, suggests Barbara Olson."
-- From "Inside Politics," compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 13-19, 2000, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-27-00.


"[A] young woman . . . said simply -- pointing to the [Ku Klux] Klan members -- 'This is America! They have a right to speak!' Instantly she was engulfed by this mob of antibigots. They spat at her, kicked her, and beat her over the head with American flags. . . ."
-- From "Farewell, Freedom of Speech," The New American, March 27, 2000, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-27-00.


"Ireland's efforts to keep its greenhouse-gas emissions within Kyoto Protocol limits are being seriously threatened by the quantity of flatulence its cows are producing."
-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2000, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-27-00.


"Polls of imprisoned felons show that criminals' greatest fear is encountering an armed victim."
-- From "Scan," The American Enterprise, April/May 2000, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-27-00.


"We recently had a 'Global Diversity Day' at my place of employment. . . We were asked to bring in a food item representing a dish our family would eat at home. Paper flags were hung for all the different cultures. . . Unfortunately, the only flag that could be found for the Southern fried chicken and collared greens brought in by one person was the Confederate flag. Everything went well until one employee noticed the Rebel flag and became quite upset, yelling 'Who put that @#&*#@% thing up there?' She then proceeded to tear it down, wad it up and throw it in the trash bin. . . . [S]o much for 'Diversity Day.'"
-- From "Letters to the Editor," by Leslie L. Lane,, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 13-19, 2000, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-27-00.


"Christian whites are far more underrepresented at Harvard, relative to their numbers in the general population, than even blacks and Hispanics. . . ."
-- From "Scan," The American Enterprise, April/May 2000, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-27-00.




"[C]able television in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon, broadcast a do-it-yourself video program on suicide. In the video, suicide advocate Derek Humphry, author of "Final Exit," lists the top three lethal drugs, in order of potency, and gives tips to help people acquire them without a doctor's prescription. . . ."
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, March 2000, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-20-00.


"The Democrat National Committee posted its assessment of the January 6 GOP presidential debate on the Internet, and declared George W. Bush the loser. This determination was all the more remarkable for being made available on the afternoon of January 6 -- hours before the debate took place."
-- From "White House Whispers," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, March 2000, page 16. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-20-00.


"Jesse Jackson, perhaps the most racially divisive individual in American public life . . . now wants to force states to let convicted criminals vote -- because a disproportionately large number of left-wing Democrat voters are in prison. . . ."
-- From "White House Whispers," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, March 2000, page 16. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-20-00.


"According to the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, U.S. immigration law is unfair to homosexuals. Heterosexual immigrants can sponsor their spouses but homosexuals cannot bring 'partners' into the country. . . ."
-- From "The Tie that Binds," American Renaissance, April 2000, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-20-00.


"In Los Angeles there is something called the Black Inventions Museum. It recently took out a full-page ad in the black newspaper, Pasadena/San Gabriel Valley Journal, to publicize the achievement of black creativity. The ad listed no fewer than 120 products along with their black inventors [including among others:] Bottle Caps, Door Knob, Guided Missile, Guitar, Helicopter, Ice Cream, Internal Combustion Engine, Refrigerator, Rocket Catapult, Roller Coaster, Shoe, Traffic Signal, and Wrench."
-- From "Science on the March," American Renaissance, April 2000, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-20-00.


"The U.S. Army has constructed about 300 semipermanent military buildings in Kosovo, a sign that American peacekeepers plan to stay in the troubled Serbian province for years to come. . . . [The cost?] [A]n average of $175,000 each."
-- From "Army Puts Down Roots in Kosovo," by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 6-12, 2000, page 20. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-20-00.


"Researchers Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and Daniel Amundson looked at 573 music videos, films, and television shows, including all 248 dramas and comedies that premiered on the six broadcast networks, cable, and syndication during the 1998-99 season. They examined 189 music videos that played on MTV, the 50 highest-rated TV movies, and the 50 top-grossing films. They found 8,350 violent scenes -- an average of a violent scene every four minutes. Over half the time, the violence involved serious or life-threateneing acts: murder, kidnapping, rape, or assault with a weapon."
-- From "Hollywood Proves Its Pull," The American Enterprise, March 2000, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-20-00.


"[T]he Center for Disease Control could only identify 21 children under age 15 dying from accidental handgun deaths in 1996. But [while there are signs warning of guns, there are] no signs warning parents about 5-gallon water buckets, in which 40 children under the age of 5 drown every year, or about bathtubs, which claim 80 lives. . . ."
-- From "Creating Hysteria Over Guns," by John Lott, Jr., Free American Newsmagazine, March 2000, page 47. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-20-00.


"[T]he New Jersey Supreme Court last year . . . decided that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) could not exclude homosexuals from scoutmaster positions. . . . 'Should the NAACP be forced to accept as a member a Ku Klux Klansman?' asks the Pacific Legal Foundation about the case."
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, March 10, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 3-20-00.




"A study of Michigan kids on Medicaid found that more than 1% of preschoolers were already on Ritalin or some generic equivalent - and that Ritalin prescriptions among Michigan kids on Medicaid had tripled just between 1991 and 1995, and that was just among kids age two to four.
-- From the Alamance Independent Website. Home Page. Posted here 3-13-00.


"A University of Maryland study found sharp increases in the number of children age 2 to 4 being put on drugs to control their behavior, from Ritalin to Prozac, even though most of these drugs have never been tested on young children."
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, March 3, 2000, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 3-13-00.


"[T]he Bible is the most-quoted reference of the Founding Fathers, second only to works by Baron Montesquieu, a French philosopher who based his political ideas on the Bible as well! Of course, through the years, as our government has passed into the hands of men and women who no longer respect biblical principles, the Constitution has been reinterpreted to fit their unbiblical philosophies. It should be no surprise that it had coincided with America's decline, both as an international power and as an ordered and prosperous society. . . ."
-- From "Separation of Church and State," by William Federer, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church Communicator, June/July 1998, page 1. Address: 5555 North Federal Highway, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33308. Posted here 3-13-00.


"Since the U.S. military led the 'restoration' of democracy in 1994, American taxpayers have spent $2.2 billion on Haiti. Things have only gotten worse. The per capita annual income is $225, down from $260 in 1994. . . ."
-- From American Renaissance, May 1999, page 11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-13-00.


"Adjusted for inflation, the per capita federal tax burden grew from $5,438 to $7,026 during the Clinton years."
-- From "McCain: Apostate Republican," by Don Feder, Human Events, March 3, 2000, page 10. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 3-13-00.


"An estimated 11,100,000 black slaves were brought to the Americas. Their destinations were: Brazil - 4,000,000; Spanish Empire - 2,500,000; British West Indies - 2,000,000; French West Indies - 1,600,000; Dutch West Indies - 500,000; North America and the U.S. - 500,000."
-- From American Renaissance, September 1999, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-13-00.


"There is persuasive but inconclusive evidence that whites were the original inhabitants of North America. Homicide in Kennewick, released in 1998 by the English television station Channel Four, describes the discovery of a skeleton known as Kennewick Man. . . . [C]arbon-dating tests . . . showed the bones to be over 9,000 years old."
-- From "Our Wandering Ancestors," by James P. Lubinskas, American Renaissance, March 2000, pages 10-11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-13-00.




"Hundreds of servicemen (including dozens of pilots) have resigned rather than submit to the anthrax vaccine because they have observed or heard about adverse reactions in many of their peers. Dozens of military personnel have been prosecuted and punished for refusing to be inoculated, and more than 1,000 are now awaiting trial."
-- The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2000, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-6-00.


""We [Al Gore and John Warnecke] smoked [Marijuana, hash] more than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot. We smoked in his car, in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house. . . we smoked on weekends. We smoked a lot. . . "
-- Quoting John Warnecke as reported on "This Week Online Special Report," January 23, 2000. Website. Posted here: 3-6-00.


"[John] Warnecke, who had worked with [Al] Gore as a reporter on the Nashville Tennessean, said he had supplied Gore with pot, free of charge, and had smoked it with him hundreds of times, often on a daily basis, over a six-year period."
-- AIM Report, February-A 2000, insert, page 1. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-6-00.


"This fall [1999] marked a change in the way already 'gay'-friendly AT&T promotes the homosexual agenda. For the first time, the communications giant was directly targeting school children with the message that 'gay is O.K.' According to the company's website, AT&T Broadband & Internet services (BIS) partnered with the National Middle School Association (NMSA), the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, and liberal groups like the Anti-Defamation League to distribute a diversity program to middle schools nationwide."
-- "AT&T Targets Middle Schools with Pro-Homosexual Message," American Family Association Journal, March 2000, page 1. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Posted here 3-6-00.


"'Multicultural education demands the removal of the American system. . . . If we want power, we're going to have to take it. . . . Multiculturalism is about creating a revolution. . . . Our kids [students] will be changing it [America] from the bottom while we are changing it from the top, politically, and through the media.'"
-- An unidentified multiculturalist professor speaking at National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) conference, as reported in a February 22, 2000 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. Posted here 3-6-00.


"Libraries in Cobb County, Ga., have decided not to carry a recent New York Times bestseller which is critical of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Drudge Report has learned. Hell to Pay by Barbara Olson will not be carried in the County's Public Library System. . . [WHY?] 'This book has gotten bad reviews,' [a] librarian explained." [But librarians will fight to their dying days to allow kids access to unlimited smut and pornography on the Internet. Apparently the First Amendment applies only where they decide.]
-- "Our Life & Times," Media Bypass, March 2000, page 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 3-6-00.


"[T]here is abundant evidence indicating that Elian's father wanted his son to come to America, wants him to remain here still, and probably hopes someday to be able to defect himself."
-- "From the Editor," by Gary Benoit, The New American, March 13, 2000, page 3. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-6-00.


"The problem back then, you'll remember, is that documents were destroyed, tapes were missing. The White House was not cooperating. I think the contrast is so dramatic!"
-- Hillary Clinton, during an NPR interview in which she compared Whitewater to Watergate, as reported on the Common Sense Politics website. Posted here 3-6-00.


"[I]t may take the destruction of western civilization to allow the rest of the world to really emerge as a free and brotherly society. . . ."
-- Quoting (from 1970) Andrew Young, the new president of the National Council of Churches, as reported in "The Gospel According to Marx," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, March 13, 2000, page 26. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-6-00.


"In 1997, the British government strengthened its already tight gun laws. Crime rates didn't drop -- indeed, they grew. Serious crime . . . 'rose 10% in 1998. . .'"
-- "The Right Answers," by William P. Hoar, The New American, March 13, 2000, page 48. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-6-00.


"[M]ore people were killed by their own government in the last century than by war. . . ."
-- "What the World Needs Now Is Freedom, Sweet Freedom," by Donald Devine, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 7-13, 2000, page 30. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 3-6-00.






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