QUICKIES
for MARCH & APRIL 2001

Mercifully short tidbits of news and/or analysis and/or comment.


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Posted here for 4-30-01:

"Mississippi now has the fastest growing immigrant population in the United States. It's up by 476% since 1990 -- from less than 1% of its population then to nearly 4.3% now."
-- From "Mississippi, Too?", Border Alert, March 30, 2001, page 4. Address: U.S. Border Control, 8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1070, McLean, Virginia 22102. Website.


"The ethnic mix of Miami-Dade . . . now is 21 percent white, 21 percent black, 56 percent Hispanic and 2 percent others."
-- From an e-mail. Thanks, Mike.


"Chief House Pardongate prober Dan Burton was getting death threats as he began his investigation into Bill and Hillary Clinton's role in the pardons-for-cash scandal. . . Burton is the latest in a long line of investigators and witnesses who were subject to death threats and various other forms of intimidation after speaking out against the Clintons."
-- From "Pardongate Bombshell: Burton Death Threats," by NewsMax.com staff, NewsMax.com, April 2001, page 4. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Denise Rich visited Bill Clinton so frequently she actually had her own key to the White House. That's the latest Pardongate tidbit going around in Washington, according to Post columnist Juan Williams. . . 'She was there, we have been told, up to a hundred times" [said Dan Burton]. 'I think that was over the last year or two. . . .'"
-- From "Did Denisse Have a Key?", by NewsMax.com staff, NewsMax.com, April 2001, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"In 1994, sex accuser Sally Perdue claimed Clinton would sometimes serenade her with the [saxophone] while he wore her black negligee."
-- From "The Joys of Sax," NewsMax.com, April 2001, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse, 7 have been arrested for fraud, 19 have been accused of writing bad checks, 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two businesses, 3 have done time for assault, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit, 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges, 8 have been arrested for shoplifting, 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits, and 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year. Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line."
-- From an e-mail. Thanks, Marilyn.


"A record 1.3 million babies were born out of wedlock in 1999, marking the first time that a full one-third of all U.S. births were to unwed mothers, the federal government said on April 17."
-- From "Unwed Mothers Had One-Third of All births in 1999," by Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 23-29, 2001, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Three activists crouched in a chicken coop set up on the main street of Nairobi, Kenya, to call on Kenyans -- 4.4 million of whom are at risk of starvation -- to become vegetarians. Not a sick joke, insist PETA's 'vegetarian activists,' but an appeal for Kenyans to take cholesterol off the menu and give chickens a better life. . . . 'Chicken is not an endangered species,' said one bystander."
-- From "Playing Chicken," Inside Politics, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 16-22, 2001, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"'I am 11 years old and . . . I go to public school in D.C., [said Sam Munson] and to a lifelong conservative, that is hell. My schoolmates are a bunch of feminist, liberal, PC, vegetarian multiculturalists. . . ."
-- From "Sam's Loss," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 16-22, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Jill Stanek, a registered nurse in the labor delivery department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., . . . testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution [last July 20] that she had witnessed babies being left to die after they had been born alive in the process of an abortion."
-- From "Hospital Left 'Aborted' Babies to Die -- After Birth," by Joseph A. D'Agostino, Human Events, April 23, 2001, page 5. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 4-16-01:

"State Rep. Miguel P. Garcia has introduced a joint resolution to amend the constitution of New Mexico to change the state's name to Nuevo Mexico."
-- From "Jumping the Gun?", Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2001, page 11. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"The central issue of reparations is not whether reparations are justly due to blacks or justly owed by whites. The central issue is one of racial power . . . The central issue is that one race (blacks) seeks to assert power over another (whites). In the black view, what is good for black power is good; what thwarts or threatens it -- including liberal values like free speech -- is bad. . . ."
-- From "The Real Reasons for Reparations," by Samuel Francis, Middle America News, April 2001, page 23. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"[In] Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) . . . under [prime minister] Ian Smith, blacks had jobs and were protected by 'the rights of Englishmen,' but blacks were considered to be oppressed. Under [now-prime minister Robert] Mugabe, blacks have no jobs and no rights, but they are considered to be liberated and free."
-- From "Another Leftist Turns to Murder," by Paul Craig Roberts, Middle America News, April 2001, page 23. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Many high school shootings have been linked to prescribed mind-altering drugs. Oregon high school killer Kip Kinkel had been given Ritalin and Prozac, Columbine killer Eric Harris had taken another psychotropic drug, Georgia high school student T.J. Solomon had been on Ritalin prior to his alleged shooting spree, and Oklahoma middle school student Seth Trickey was on two drugs described to have psychotic effects when he allegedly shot at four students." "Matthew Smith began taking Ritalin at age six. In March 2000 at age 14, he was still on Ritalin when he suddenly collapsed while skateboarding and died that same evening. Oakland County (MI) Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic determined the cause of death to be Ritalin."
-- From "Drugging Children in School," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, March 2001, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"The January 28, 2001 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports . . . 1) A majority of students, 56%, believe taxes should be raised on the 'wealthy.' 2) Over 82% believe the government should control firearms. 3) Over 62% believe in limiting free speech on campus. 4) Over 52% believe in racial quotas in college admissions. 5) And 45% believe in government regulating free speech."
-- From an April 4, 2001 solicitation letter by Congressman Ron Paul (page 3), on behalf of the World Youth Crusade, 694 Pine Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170.


[What are your kids learning in college? Here are a few course subjects:] "'Marxian Economics' at Bucknell, 'Marxian Economic Theory' at Stanford, 'Marxist Theory' at Syracuse, 'Black Marxism' at the University of California, and 'Marxist Economics' at the University of Texas."
-- From an April 4, 2001 solicitation letter by Congressman Ron Paul (page 3), on behalf of the World Youth Crusade, 694 Pine Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170.


"A shocking report revealed how the Sierra Club told the California electrical producers in 1982 that it planned to shut California down (and eventually the US) by keeping any new electrical power production plants from being built."
-- From Discerning the Times -- News in a Nutshell, April 2001, page 2. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 4-9-01:

"Concerned that children might not be able to view pornography at school, the American Library Association and its allies sued March 20 to halt the implementation of a federal law that is supposed to take effect on April 20. The Children's Internet Protection Act would prohibit federal technology grants from going to schools and libraries that do not install filters that prevent minors from seeing obscene material."
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, April 2, 2001, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Roughly 70 percent of all U.S. currency has sufficient cocaine or other narcotics residue to trigger a positive alert from a drug-sniffing dog, according to numerous federal court cases."
-- From "An End to Federal Plundering?", by James Bovard, The American Spectator, April 2001, page 12. Address: 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 750, Arlington, Virginia 22201. Website.


"The latest figures from the 2000 Census reveal that minorities and Third World peoples arriving in the U.S. accounted for fully two-thirds of America's entire population growth in the last 10 years."
-- From "Middle Americans Losing Ground in 21st Century Demographic Trends," Middle America News, April 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"[A]uthor Claud Anderson (of the book Black Labor, White Wealth), calculates that a landmass equal to Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and perhaps Alabama are now due to the descendants of slaves. Another scheme floated at the [National Reparations] conference envisions a tax-free million dollar payment to each black American, as well as free education, legal aid and medical care."
-- From "Racial Reparations Movement Spells Out Its Specific Demands from 'White America'," The American Sentinel, April 2001, page 5. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.


"80%+ of all U.S. banks . . . follow the 'defeated' Know Your Customer guidelines to some degree."
-- From "Banks Continue to Spy on Their Customers for the IRS," The American Sentinel, April 2001, page 6. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.


"[A] pregnant teenager [went to a crisis pregnancy] center for help because she did not want to abort her baby. Despite her clear desire to give birth to her child, social workers insisted that she abort the baby, and told her that if she did not, they would arrest the child's father. They also threatened to seize the child upon birth and remove him from her custody."
-- From an undated solicitation memo from Stephen Crampton, American Family Association Center for Law and Policy.


"Average number of words in the written vocabulary of a 6- to 14-year-old American child in 1945: 25,000. Average number today: 10,000."
-- From Free American Newsmagazine, April 2001, page 27. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"Despite their 'successes' at blocking construction of nuclear power plants so desperately needed in California, not a single environmental or anti-nuclear group has ever spoken out against the rickety, Soviet-made reactors in Cienfuegos, Cuba (based on the dangerous Chernobyl design . . .)"
-- From "Republican Ninnies Miss the Point," The American Sentinel, March 2001, page 4. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.




Posted here for 4-2-01:

"Sadly, only 13 percent of doctors today will take the [Hippocratic] oath."
-- From "Bioethics -- Disposable Humans," Discerning the Times, March 2001, page 1. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"Peter Singer, a 'moral philosopher' and bioethicist who teaches at Princeton, is in favor of 'retroactive abortions' by letting parents kill their children up to one year after birth!"
-- From "Bioethics -- Disposable Humans," Discerning the Times, March 2001, page 1. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"The [February 2001] US/British attack on Iraq wasn't a 'routine' strike on radar installations as announced by the Bush Administration on February 16. Instead, it was a part of an overall strategy to preempt Saddam from launching the real attack against Israel that had been in preparation for over a month. . . 'The allies had intended to preempt Saddam Hussein, following intelligence of his decision to launch missile attacks on Israel, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait,' said [an] intelligence report. . . . [I]t is also highly likely that an attack will really happen one day very soon."
-- From "Botched Air Strickes into Iraq an Attempt to Stop Mideast War," Discerning the Times, March 2001, page 4. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"The GSA [Girl Scouts of America] has dropped 'loyalty' from its oath, added sex education and dropped 'God' from the Girl Scout Promise. [National Review writer Kathryn Jean] Lopez calls the GSA 'one of the most politically correct organizations in the country' with all the worst implications of that term. For example, it is estimated that one-third of all paid professional staff are lesbians. . . . [T]he book, On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience, is full of stories about gay encounters in the GSA. See the essay All I Really Need to Know about Being a Lesbian I Learned at Girl Scout Camp . . . ."
-- From "Voices Roundup," Voices of the Florida Taxpayer, Winter 2001, page 6. Address: 316 North Country Club Drive, Atlantis, Florida 33462. E-mail. Website.


"[S]tudies show that twice as many football players (18) died during the most recent school year ending in June 2000 -- from hits to the head, heat stroke, etc. -- as compared with the nine students who were shot by firearms."
-- From "Easy Access to Another Unregulated Weapon," Media Bypass, April 2001, page 57. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.


"75 U.S. oil refineries have been mothballed or destroyed since 1982. Not a single new one has been built in over 25 years."
-- From "Wave of Mutilation," Media Bypass, April 2001, page 43. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.


"[W]hen wolves from the Canadian wilderness were reintroduced into Yellowstone in 1995 and 1996, the local coyote population was cut in half within two years. The wolves hunted and killed their smaller rivals."
-- From "Wolves Really Can't Go Home Again," Media Bypass, April 2001, page 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website.


"Recent government safety tests have found that most gun locks don't work as advertised. All but one of 32 models of gun locks tested by the Consumer Product Safety Commission could be opened without a key, just by using a paperclip or tweezers."
-- From "When Gun Locks Go Bad," America's First Freedom, April 2001, page 22. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"If you are baffled as to why the liberals pursue the dogmatic teaching of evolution, a clue might be found in the recent election. Of the 13 states that allow dissent over evolution, George W. Bush won all but one and, of the 10 states that impose the strictest pro-evolution requirements, Al Gore won all but three. States that have been imposing stricter pro-evolution requirements are quickly moving to the left politically. The traditionally conservative states of North Carolina, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri, which have been aggressively pushing evolution, recently elected liberal Senators."
-- From "Dumbing Down and Developing Diversity," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, March 2001, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"Even after eight years in office, former President Bill Clinton will only have three quotes in the 17th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations . . . 'I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried it again.' (March 1992), 'I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.' (January 1998), and 'It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.' (August 1998)"
-- From "Bubba's Gems," Inside Politics, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 26-April 1, 2001, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"'Now that his moment in the national spotlight has receded, Joe Lieberman wants everyone to know that he really didn't mean all those wild-eyed things he was forced to say as Al Gore's running mate,' New York Post columnist Eric Fettmann writes."
-- From "Which Lieberman?" Inside Politics, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 26-April 1, 2001, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Richard Blackwood is a popular black comedian in Britain. Last October, on a television program, he complained that Queen Elizabeth looks bored on British banknotes and referred to her as a 'bitch.' Complaints poured in to the Broadcasting Standards Commission, which has now ruled that the term is not offensive when used by blacks. 'Richard Blackwood was using the term as it is used in rap music, to mean 'woman', and not as a term of abuse,' explained the BBC."
-- From "Dissing the Queen," American Renaissance, April 2001, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"[O]n February 8 . . . the House of Representatives voted 410-0 to extend birthday greetings to former President Ronald Reagan. Seven Democrats voter 'Present,' rather than endorse the simple birthday greeting. Five 'present' votes came from the CA delegations, as well as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.."
-- From "Outrage! -- Left-Wing Lawmakers Refuse to Wish Ronald Reagan a Happy 90th Birthday," The American Sentinel, March 2001, page 5. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail.




Posted here for 3-26-01:

"During 2000, according to U.S. Navy statistics, there were more than 11,000 civilians involved in some 238 trips on ships in the Pacific Fleet." [Looks like the Navy is turning into a cruise ship business.]
-- From "The Right Answers," by William P. Hoar, The New American, March 26, 2001, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"[A Virgin, Utah] ordinance states: 'In order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the town and its inhabitants, every household residing in the Virgin Town limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition therefor.' . . . [The ordinance] exempts felons, residents bound by restraining orders, those with physical and mental disabilities and anyone who refuses to own a gun for religious and philosophical reasons. . . ."
-- From "Virgin, Utah: Where Every Household Must Have a Gun," by Susan Greene, Denver Post national writer, as reported in Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 33. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack . . . recently proposed a bill to register non-gunowners and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun. . . . Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least restrictive laws of any state -- it's currently the only state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation."
-- From "Vermont: Pay for Privilege of Not Owning Firearm," Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 48. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"It is well documented that most anti-cancer drugs [for humans] cause cancer in animals."
-- From "To Health With You!" by Jeffrey Bennett, Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 41. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"In discussing the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dan Rather . . . told his viewers that the [famous Zapruder] film showed JFK falling forward -- confirming the official view that Kennedy had been shot from behind. However, the film clearly showed Kennedy lurching violently backwards, evidence of a frontal shot. To add to the confusion, the Warren Commission report printed two frames of the film in reverse -- again implying a rear shot -- an accident the FBI typified as a 'printing error.' Meanwhile, still pictures lifted from the Zapruder film were also published by Life magazine. Remarkably, they too were published in reverse order . . . ."
-- From "Subverting the Media" by David Guyatt, Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 44. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 3-19-01:

"The University of California-Berkeley conceded in February that the school gave passing grades to two varsity football players for classes that they never attended and for which they did no work."
-- From "Berkeley Prof Promoted after Student-Athlete Fraud Scandal," CampusReport, March 2001, page 1. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"Only three months after approving the use of nearly $10,000 of student activity money for CuntFest [a November forum], the University Park Allocation Committee of Penn State has announced that it has run out of money."
-- From "Feminists at Penn State Hold 'Sex Faire'," by Sara Russo, CampusReport, March 2001, page 3. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"KING 5 TV (Seattle) reported Nov. 20, 2000, that thousands of tons of sewage sludge (processed human waste) that has been renamed 'biosolids' are being spread on farms across the state and other states throughout the country."
-- From "Medical Armageddon Being Paved with Human Feces in the Food Chain," by The Idaho Observer, Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 20. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"An independent film crew from Nashville will begin filming this Friday of new author, Boyd E. Graves' book, State Origin: The Evidence of the Laboratory Birth of AIDS."
-- From "AIDS Flowchart Discoverer Featured in Documentary," Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 21. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"During the past two decades, at least six internationally known authorities advanced theories that the AIDS virus (HIV-I) was developed by biological weapons researchers, and either accidentally or intentionally transmitted it with the help of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) and the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO). A 1969 US military appropriations document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act called for $10 million for the development of AIDS-like viruses by 1975. . . . Dr. Robert Gallo -- the notorious alleged co-discoverer of the AIDS virus . . . was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 1994 for several counts of misconduct and scientific fraud."
-- From "BioApocalypse: How Secret Experiments May Have Unleashed Cancer Causing Viruses," by Leonard Horowitz, Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 26. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"This year, both the Archives of General Psychiatry and the National Institutes of Health have conducted studies that cast extreme doubt on the idea that Ritalin is effective for anything except making children stay in their chairs and keep quiet. . . ."
-- From "Drug Evasion, Now a Crime. Swallow This!", by Samuel Walker, The Detrooit News, January 8, 2001, as reprinted in Free American Newsmagazine, March 2001, page 31. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website.


"Over half of Japanese men smoke, twice the U.S. number. . . Japan ranked first in a WHO [World Health Organization] study of longest healthy life expectancy; the U.S. ranked twenty-forth."
-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Before the 2000 election, several celebrities -- director Robert Altman, singers Eddie Vedder and Barbra Streisand, actors Alec Balddwin, Martin Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Tim Robbins, and Susan Sarandon -- vowed to leave the country if Bush were elected. So far the only well-known personage actually to flee is JFK White House press secretary and former ABC News correspondent Pierre Salinger." [So much for honesty.]
-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 3-12-01:

"In some places, whites are standing up for themselves. Officer Ronnie Williams of the Denver, Colorado Police Department recently announced he's forming a White Police Association. He said the reason is that 'white officers have issues,' like when they are passed over for promotions that go to minority candidates. The department currently has organizations for gay, black, and Hispanic police."
-- From "Equal Representation," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2001, page 11. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"[I]n the Electronic Telegraph on January 18, anti-hunting activists from the RSPCA, the League Against Cruel Sports and the International Fund for Animal Welfare predicted that a total ban on hunting would become a reality within two years in the United Kingdom."
-- From "Taking Aim at the Second Amendment," Discerning the Times, January-February 2001, page 10. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website.


"Concerning Holland's new euthanasia laws, Park Dong Min, the Korean evangelist, claimed that 'more than one in five assisted suicides in Holland is done without the consent of the patient.' The Korean man's wife, So Young, claimed that in the near future, computers would be making cost-effectiveness decisions regarding which elderly and sick patients would live or die and that suicide for teenagers and, in fact, people of all ages would be made legal in Holland. 'There is abortion at the beginning of life, now euthanasia at the end. Soon, the elites will begin to squeeze everyone in the middle of the life cycle -- just as the Nazis did. I have no doubt that Christians in the 21st Century will be hunted and exterminated like the Jews were in the 20th Century,' said Mrs. Park."
-- From "In Search of Mary Magdalene," by Anthony C. LoBaido, WorldNet, February 2001, page 9. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"The Wall Street Journal reports that with recent cuts in taxes on income and capital gains, Canada's economy surged 4.8 percent in the third quarter, double the U.S. pace."
-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2001, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 3-5-01:

"Bosses of a New York publishing firm are trying to figure out why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for five days before anyone asked if he was feeling okay. George Turklebaum, 51, who had been employed as a proofreader for 30 years, had a heart attack in the open-plan office he shared with 23 other workers. He quietly passed away on Monday, but nobody noticed until Saturday morning when an office cleaner asked why he was still working during the weekend. His boss Elliot Wachiaski said 'George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn't say anything. He was always absorbed in his work and kept much to himself.' A post mortem examination revealed that he had been dead for five days after suffering a coronary. Ironically, George was proofreading manuscripts of medical textbooks when he died."
-- From Birmingham (UK) Sunday Mercury, 7 Jan 2001 (and several international newspapers). (Thanks, Sherry.)


"CNN showed George W. leaving HM-1 (Note: Marine Helicopter). The Marine at the front step saluted, GW returned it, and as he walked away, the Marine executed a right face to stand facing GW's back...something that was missing in eight years of the Clinton presidency. The traditional Marine Corps mark of respect was rendered to the new president. That one goes back to the days in the rigging, when the Marine orderly to the ship's captain always faced him, no matter his direction of movement, to be ready to receive an order. Who says that enlisted men can't hold back when they don't respect someone? ...And for eight years, they did."
-- From an e-mail from Dick H. via Betty H. (Thanks, Betty.)


"White cops have become so gun-shy about being charged with racism, and thereby losing jobs or promotions, that many have stopped enforcing the law when blacks are involved."
-- From "Interracial Policing Breeds Resentment from Both Sides," by Fred Reed, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 26 - March 4, 2001, page 13. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The destruction of the doctor-patient relationship and erosion of the Hippocratic oath are direct consequences of do-gooders who think they can help people by having government subsidize medical care. The unintended consequence is euthanasia."
-- From "Killing Us with Alleged Kindness," by Paul Craig Roberts, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 26 - March 4, 2001, page 33. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"California police last week arrested Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's half-brother, on three misdemeanor charges, including driving under the influence and involvement in a scuffle outside a bar. . . The arrest came one month and one day after Clinton was pardoned by his brother for drug-related felonies."
-- From "Clinton Indicted," Capital Briefs, Human Events, February 26, 2001, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"In a move fully worthy of his days in power, former President Clinton has informed the House Government Reform Committee that he will not cooperate in handing over information it has subpoenaed as part of its investigation of the last-minute pardons and commutations Clinton handed out on Inauguration Day."
-- From "Clinton Stiffs Congress, Again," Human Events, February 26, 2001, page 8. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"No fewer than 62 percent of the workers at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are black compared to a figure of 6.4 percent for comparable jobs in the private sector." [Equal opportunity for whom?]
-- From "No Shortage of Blacks," American Renaissance, March 2001, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"TB had been essentially eradicated here but Third-World immigrants are bringing in new strains that resist the usual antibiotics. . . Immigrants coming legally to America are supposed to produce chest X-rays that show they are healthy, but there is a brisk overseas trade in phony X-rays. Needless to say, the million or so illegals who come in every year don't even bother with phonies."
-- From "Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You," American Renaissance, March 2001, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Michael Hagerty, . . . a professor at University of California at Davis and an ardent student of happiness . . . has analyzed decades of happiness research to find out where the happy people live. In a comparison of 20 countries he found that far and away the happiest were the Danes, followed by the Dutch, the Norwegians, and the Luxembourgers. Prof. Hagerty explains,: 'For the most part, the top-rated countries are small and homogeneous.' As for Denmark, he says: 'People there have a similar world view and a similar religion, so that it's easier for them to communicate and to understand each other's motives. They don't have race problems, they don't have crime problems, and they have political freedom."
-- From "Who's Happy?" American Renaissance, March 2001, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.






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