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 "'In the last 11 months of [World War II], 1,000 GIs were tried for capital crimes - mostly crimes against civilians; 443 were condemned to death and 96 were executed. Wartime censorship kept news of the executions from filtering back home,' [Vietnam veteran and author B.G.] Burkett said." [Even though Senator Bob Kerrey apparently committed a war crime (see the evidence in AIM Report 2001, #8), he won't be tried for a capital crime. The privileges of being a Democrat politician are many.]-- Quotation from NewsMax Website. "[A] study finds that most gun violence studies of the past two decades were based on flawed methodology and unduly influenced by political agendas, leading to biased and incorrect conclusions."-- From "Why Gun Control Won't Solve Crime Problem," NewsMax.com, May 2001, page 21. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "CBS will discontinue 'Touched by an Angel' for using the word 'God' in every program. Madeline Murray O'Hare, an atheist, successfully managed to eliminate the use of Bible reading from public schools a few years ago. Now her organization has been granted a Federal Hearing on the same subject by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, DC. Their petition, Number 2493, would ultimately pave the way to stop the reading of the gospel of our Lord and Savior, on the airwaves of America. They got 287,000 signatures to back their stand! If this attempt is successful, all Sunday worship services being broadcast on the radio or by television will be stopped. This group is also campaigning to remove all Christmas programs and Christmas carols from public schools!-- From an e-mail from William A. Hoef, forwarded to me by a friend. Thanks, Marilyn. (6-4-01.) "Information on Your Tax Refund Check: How much will [you] receive? Refund checks will return up to $300 to single filers, up to $500 to heads of households and up to $600 to married filers. If your taxable income is equal to or greater than $6,000 for singles, $10,000 for heads of households, or $12,000 for married couples, than you will receive the maximum refund check for your filing status. Otherwise, your check will equal 5 percent of your taxable income. When will [you] get [your] check? The Treasury will begin mailing out checks in mid July and continue through late September. The order of issuance is based on the last two digits of the taxpayer's Social Security number. The first round of checks will be mailed to taxpayers whose digits range from 00-09, the last round will be mailed to digits ranging from 90-99.-- From an e-mail from Citizens for a Sound Economy. More info. "Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein is offering cash prizes to any air defense missile crewman who shoots down a U.S. or British warplane -- $3,000 for an Iraqi and $10,000 plus a European vacation for a foreign operator and his family, reports the international intelligence agency DEBKAfile."-- From "Saddam's Bounty for Downing U.S. Plane," WorldNet, June 2001, page 30. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "In case you missed it, in 1996, a year after Republicans regained control of Congress after 42 years in the wilderness, they cut -- not just slowed the growth of -- real non-defense domestic spending by $10 billion, according to the Office of Management and Budget. And though they spared the departments of Education, Energy and Commerce from the ax, they did nix almost 200 wasteful programs, including even some corporate welfare, between fiscal 1995 and fiscal 1997."-- From "Federal Feeding Frenzy," by Paul Sperry, WorldNet, June 2001, page 4. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "Households consisting of married couples with their children are now at their lowest level -- falling from 45% of all household in 1960 to just 25.6% last year. . . Allan Carlson of the Howard Center for the Family observes, 'We are moving toward a post-family society.' . . . [B]etween 1960 and 1999, the rate of out-of-wedlock births soared 523%. Due to divorce and other factors, by 1996, 43% of American children spent at least part of their childhood in a single-parent family. . . Margaret LaMontagne, White House domestic policy adviser [was asked how] Bush would respond to these baleful trends. LaMontagne: 'I guess I would respond to say, you know, So what?'"-- From "Meltdown of Nuclear Family Threatens Society," by Don Feder, Human Events, June 4, 2001, page 9. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Prof. Jerry Franklin, an ecologist at the University of Washington, says, 'A lot of environmental messages are simply not accurate. But that's the way we sell messages in this society. We use hype. And we use those pieces of information that sustain our position. I guess all large organizations do that.'"-- From "Liberals Peddle Hysteria about Arsenic," by Larry Elder, Human Events, May 14, 2001, page 19. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "When World War II loomed, Council [of Foreign Relations] publications began clamoring for entry into the war -- not so much as a means to peace, but to world government. . . Unknown to the public, the Council, which coined the term 'United Nations,' formulated the original plans for the UN (which is a framework for world government), the IMF (the foundation for a world issuer of currency), and the Marshall Plan (a would-be cornerstone for a U.S.-European Union)."-- From "Motives Behind the Betrayal," by James Perloff, The New American, June 4, 2001, page 21. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "[Until last year when it changed its policy,] 'Millionaire' was the only televised game show in which contestants were picked solely on merit."-- From Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 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. [Resolution passed by Republicans in 1995:] "And whereas, James M. Jeffords deserves to be horse-whipped and thrown forever out of public office; therefore, be it RESOLVED, that horsewhipping now being illegal, the Republicans of the Town of Kirby will do anything arguably legal or unlikely to be discovered to retire James M. Jeffords from public life."-- From "Whipping Time," Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 26-June 6, 2001, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "From the minutes of the Kirby, Vermont Republican Town Caucus, back on April 24, 1984: '. . . Whereas, if Congressman James M. Jeffords were ever put on trial for telling the straight truth about anything, no jury in Caledonia County would be likely to convict him; therefore be it Resolved by the Kirby Town Caucus, that the true Republicans of this town would cross hell on a rotten rail before they would vote for him again."-- From "Repeat Offender," The American Enterprise, July/August 2001, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "Most Americans . . . already ingest more arsenic from food than drinking water."-- From "Poisoning Public Discourse," The New American, June 18, 2001, page 42. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "Here is just a sampling of Ford Foundation grants: American Civil Liberties Union, $187,500 to promote 'gay rights', Ms. Foundation for Women, $200,000 to stop welfare reform, Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, $900,000 to promote racial preferences, AFL-CIO Center for Working Capital, $250,000 for a study on the 'benefits' of forced unionization."-- From a June 4, 2001 solicitation letter from Peter Flaherty, president, National Legal and Policy Center, George Mason Square, 103 West Broad Street, Suite 620, Falls Church, Virginia 22046. Phone: 703-237-1970. Fax: 703-237-2090.E-mail. Website. "More cab drivers are killed every year in New York City than abortionists have been killed in 30 years. It's more dangerous to be a friend of Bill Clinton's than it is to be an abortionist."-- From "The Abortion Exception to the Flynt Amendment,," by Ann Coulter, Human Events, April 23, 2001, page 7. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Although left-wing homosexual organizations use claims of persecution and oppression to elicit sympathy and advance their political agenda, a recent rating of corporate behavior by gays themselves reveals widespread support for their agenda from the pillars of American society" The top 10 gay-friendly public corporations are: "1-American Express Co., 2-Walt Disney Co., 3-Microsoft Corp., 4-Lucent Technologies Inc., 5-Xerox, 6-International Business Machines, 7-Hewlett-Packard Co., 8-Apple Computer Inc., 9- AMR Corp., and 10-Citigroup Inc."-- From "Corporate America Friendly to Their Agenda, Says gay Activist Group," Middle America News, June 2001, page 5. 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 number of American women who say they've recently had lesbian sex has increased 15-fold between 1988 and 1998, according to data from the National Opinion Research Center. Rates of homosexual activity among men doubled over the same time span."-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "In announcing the abolition of Mother's Day at the [Rodeph Sholom] school, principal Cindi Samson wrote to parents, 'We are a school with many different family make-ups and we need to recognize the emotional well-being of all the children.'"-- From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, May 14, 2001, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. Do you think we spend too much money on politics? Well, we spend 10.7 times more money on bottled water than we do on Democrat and Republican soft money combined. We spend 10.2 times more money on Mercedes-Benzes than we do on Democrat and Republican hard money combined. We spend 6 times more money on Communist Chinese shoes than we do on all party fundraising Democrat plus Republican. We spend 8.2 times more money on Pornography than we do on all party fundraising Democrat plus Republican.-- From "More on Porn than Politics," Human Events, May 14, 2001, page 3. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "[T]he University of Georgia recently became embroiled over a proposed war memorial honoring American soldiers who have fought and died while serving in the U.S. military. . . . The University Council's Executive Committee, a group of faculty and students, rejected the idea [of a memorial on campus to members of the faculty, staff, and alumni who served and died in the war], saying it would be unfairly exclusive. As committee member Laura Chason explained, 'the memorial as originally proposed would have unfairly excluded many minorities, women, and foreign students who were not allowed to serve in the military at one time or another.'"-- From "Remembering Those Who Didn't Serve," The New American, May 7, 2001, 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. "As former Navy Secretary Frank Knox wrote: 'Collectivists of every sort support Mr. [Franklin D.] Roosevelt. That is natural. For at the root of his philosophy lies the view, shared alike by Communists and Fascists, that individual liberty under democracy as hitherto practiced in this country is no longer desirable or feasible.'"-- From "Motives Behind the Betrayal," by James Perloff, The New American, June 4, 2001, page 21. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "Yahoo [said the Los Angeles Times April 11th] "has become the first top-tier Internet company to embrace the porn industry., opening an online store stocked with thousands of hard-core DVDs and video tapes.'" "Within three days, the Times for April 14th would further report that Yahoo had 'cut short its brief romance with the adult-entertainment industry.'"-- From "Porn Purge," The New American, June 4, 2001, page 33. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "Fifty percent of Americans fear the IRS more than God, according to a Discovery Health Channel survey." [Is this question about the IRS or religion?]-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "Stalinworld, modeled after a Soviet gulag, has opened in Lithuania. Visitors pay the equivalent of $1.25 to watch re-enactments of prisoners being abused, tour recreated barracks, and eat food such as gruel and fishhead soup."-- From "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2001, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. "'Amtrak is providing federal drug police in Albuquerque with ticketing information about passengers,' writes Jeff Jones in the April 11 Albuquerque Journal, 'and Amtrak police get 10 percent of any cash seized from suspected drug couriers at the Downtown station.'"-- From "DEA's Crazy Train," by Joel Miller, Free American Newsmagazine, June 2001, page 34. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "American business make hundreds of millions of dollars selling products crafted from donated human bodies, even though it is illegal to profit from cadaver parts, an Orange County Register investigation found. . . Up to 20 bones and tendons are harvested along with 4 square feet of skin and the whole heart. In some cases, eyes, veins, jawbones, ribs and the spine are taken. Bone is replaced with common PVC pipe to keep the body's shape for open-casket funerals. . . . Skin, tendons, heart valves, veins and corneas are listed at about $110,000. Add bone from the same body, and one cadaver can be worth about $220,000."-- From "Why You Are Worth More Dead! Body Doners Fueling a Booming Business," by Mark Katches, William Heisel, and Ronald Campbell, Free American Newsmagazine, June 2001, pages 36-37. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. "In less than nine years, activists have convinced more than one in five Fortune 500 companies to adopt a policy granting benefits to domestic partners of homosexual employees, and more than 20 such corporations have joined the rush this year alone."-- From "Homosexual Activists Winning over Corporate America," American Family Association Journal, June 2001, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "The income of 'black America' would make it the 16th richest country in the world."-- From "On Race Relations, Color Me Confused," by Larry Elder, Human Events, May 28, 2001, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "In California, one in 10 marries interracially. Nationwide, the figure is approximately one in 25."-- From "On Race Relations, Color Me Confused," by Larry Elder, Human Events, May 28, 2001, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "Physical Education prof Neil Williams [Eastern Connecticut State University] . . . list[ed] games that should be removed from schools. Included on the list [is] 'Simon Says'. . . [Why?] According to Prof. Williams . . . 'playing Simon Says eliminates players based on ability.'" [Now we can't have that, can we!]-- From "The Dangers of Dodge Ball," CampusReport, May 2001, page 2. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. "Dr. Peter Singer, Princeton University's much-ballyhooed Professor of Bioethics . . . observed that the primary issues involved when having sex with farm animals should be getting the animal's consent, and not killing it afterward as part of your pleasure." [What are your kids learning in college?]-- From "Animal, Vegetable, or . . .," CampusReport, May 2001, page 2. Address" Accuracy in Academia. 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. "On March 29, Bill Maher, host of ABC's Politically Incorrect, called President George W. Bush: [a] 'lying bag of manure after what he did today with the Kyoto Protocol. . . [W]hat a lying sack of [bleep] he is." [Those kind, compassionate liberals are at it once again.]-- From "MRC's Mini-Bits," News Flash, April/May 2001, page 5. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website. "[E]xplaining the dragon engraved on her school ring, Jennifer Nguyen of Falls Church, Virginia [said] 'Even though I was born here, I'm still Vietnamese.'" [The melting pot just ain't melting, it would seem.]-- From "Ringing the Changes," American Renaissance, June 2001, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "[T]he bloodiest war on African whites is going on in South Africa. . . Although the world press has been remarkably silent about it, blacks have killed nearly 500 white farmers since the beginning of black rule in 1995."-- From "War on African Whites," American Renaissance, May 2001, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "Milwaukee is one of those declining American cities that now have non-white majorities."-- From "Going, Going. . .," American Renaissance, May 2001, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. "In 1999, right-to-carry states had a 24 percent lower violent crime rate, 26 percent lower homicide rate and 39 percent lower robbery rate than non-right-to-carry states and Washington, DC."-- From "NRA H.Q. Bulletin," America's First Freedom, June 2001, page 49. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "A Beverly, Mass., man has been arrested after threatening to shoot his girlfriend with 'a homemade bazooka that shoots potatoes,' the Associated Press reports. Sean McGrath, 30, allegedly told his girlfriend March 13 he would 'put a potato through' her head using the potato launcher."-- From "If You Outlaw Potatoes, Only Outlaws . . . Never Mind," Media Bypass, May 2001, page 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "The airline industry has accepted that there is an association between long-haul air travel and fatal blood clots."-- From "Frequent Flyers take Notice," Media Bypass, May 2001, page 45. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "DDT has been described as the greatest life-saving chemical discovered by man. It was banned in this country after lengthy hearings that found that it was not a carcinogen and that it posed no threat to human health. The decision to ban it was a political decision, not based on the scientific evidence. There is no reason to believe that the ban has saved a single human life. It is estimated to cost a million to 2 million lives a year in India alone."-- From AIM Report, Report #7, insert, 2001. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "DDT successfully battled malaria between the end of World War II and 1970, saving more than 500 million lives, the National Academy of Sciences reports." [We may therefore conclude that the purpose of banning DDT is to eradicate lives, not save them.] -- From AIM Report, Report #7, insert, 2001. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. "A Zogby poll showed that nearly one third of American college students were not proud to be Americans."-- From "A Comanche Patriot Tires to Save the White Man," 9*1*1, May 2001, page 2. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "President Bush celebrated Cinco de Mayo at the White House. . . . Also, President Bush delivered his weekly address in English and Spanish to honor (in his words) the 'glorious heritage' of Mexico and the U.S."-- From "Bush Honors Only Latinos," 9*1*1, May 2001, insert. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. "Before giving birth to their child, Karin [Stanford] was pregnant by Jesse [Jackson] a previous time but had an abortion at his request."-- From "Jesse's Mistress Writing a Tell-All," NewsMax.com, May 2001, page 19. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. "Slavery in West and Central Africa has been expanding since 1995, when plantation owners became more and more desperate for cheap labor. Children are sold into servitude from poor countries, such as Benin, Togo, Mauritania."-- From "The Slaves of Africa," Editorial, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 7-3, 2001, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "[H]uman cloning has been underway in Australia for 2 years. . . . Five species of mammals have been cloned so far, all with serious abnormalities. In fact, only 2% of cloning attempts result in a live birth. . . . With the exception of greatly enlarged 'bellybuttons,' many of the clones appear perfectly normal at birth, and only later begin to display the deformities. Clones tend to age faster than mammals produced normally, as evidenced by Dolly the sheep. Cattle embryos can grow so fast that they tear the muscles in their mothers' belly walls. Some have grotesquely malformed heads. . . ."-- From "Lab Manufactured Humans," by Becky McGlauflin, Discerning the Times, April 2001, page 5. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website. "[O]ver 17,000 scientists confirmed as having degrees in the hard sciences in America have signed a petition saying, 'There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.'" "[T]he Kyoto Protocol is not about stopping global warming. It is designed as a massive social income redistribution scheme that will put control over the US economy in the hands of global social planners. . . ."-- From "Bush Kills Kyoto -- America Wins! (For now)," by Michael Coffman, Discerning the Times, April 2001, page 8. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website. "Homosexuals determined to keep The Walt Disney Company firmly on their side are once again scheduled to descend on the Mouse's famed Orlando theme park for 'Gay Days at Disney.'" "Parents can call Disney World to find out when Gays Days are scheduled. Call 1-818-560-1000."-- From "Disney Welcomes gay days Celebration," American Family Association Journal, May 2001, page 2. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website. "The animal rights wacko group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is complaining that Census 2000 is incomplete. PETA claims that 'there are many individuals left who need to be counted . . . our fellow great apes.' In fact, PETA's 'Great Ape Project,' or GAP Census 2001, has posted a census form [on the Internet]."-- From "Going Ape," The Limbaugh Letter, February 2001, page 4. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "German male soldiers are being commanded not to break wind when alongside female soldiers. They are also directed not to use profanity, or -- and this has got to be a toughie -- to laugh behind women's backs."-- From "Stifle It," The Limbaugh Letter, February 2001, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Website. "Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat reportedly gave Bill and Hillary Clinton gifts 'valued at more than $12,000, including gold and diamond necklaces, bracelets and earrings worth $7,400.' It is illegal for federal employees to keep gifts worth more than $960."-- From "The Right Answers," The New American, May 21, 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. "Nine feet above the water, traveling at twice the speed of sound, with a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead in its nose, the radar-guided Russian-built Sunburn missile can weave its way through smaller ships until it reaches its real target: a U.S. aircraft carrier. At the last instant, it would pop up from the ocean's surface, smash into the side of the carrier and set off a nuclear explosion six-times as powerful as Hiroshima. 'The U.S. Navy has nothing that can stop it,' Prof. June Teuffel told the House Armed Services Committee last July. The missile, like the Sovremenny-class destroyer that carries it, are now part of the naval arsenal of the People's Republic of China (PRC) -- thanks to the Russia government."-- From "Russians Are Arming Red China," by Timothy P. Carney, Human Events, May 7, 2001, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website. "The President's proposed Fiscal 2002 budget ($1.96 trillion) is a boost of $103 billion over this year. That increase translates to an average cost per U.S. household of about $1,000."-- From "More on the Bush Budget," The John Birch Society Bulletin, May 2001, page 11. Address: The John Birch Society, Inc., 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914-6521. Phone: 920-749-3780. E-mail. Website. "[A] member of Norway's parliament [Hallgeir Langeland of the Socialist Left Party] has nominated Castro for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. . . Langeland explains. 'What do people prefer? The right to vote or free access to schools, health care, housing and food, as is the case in Cuba?'"-- From "Leftwingers Still Drool over Fidel," by Don Feder, Middle America News, May 2001, page 18. 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 more time tots spend in child care as babies and toddlers, the more likely they are to become aggressive, cruel and demanding, in other words, bullies by the time they reach kindergarten. That's the word from a government-sponsored study begun in 1991 to tract 1,100 girls and boys -- rich, poor, and in between -- across 10 cities where they have been cared for in a variety of settings. . . ." [Not to worry; the government will "Ritalin" the bullies into submission.]-- From "Startling Discovery: Kids Need Moms," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 30 - May 6, 2001, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. "Dr. Helen Smith, a Knoxville, Tenn., forensic psychologist . . . who has evaluated thousands of disturbed adults and children and who has written a book about her findings, argues that it isn't the weapon, or the Internet or entertainment violence that turns kids into killers, but rather a complex conflict between too little supervision at home, too many rules at school, and a breakdown in the social safeguards that teach kids rules, responsibilities and the consequences of misconduct.'"-- From President's Column, by Charlton Heston, America's First Freedom, May 2001, page 10. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "The ICVS [2000 International Crime Victims Survey] reveals that the dubious distinction of leading the world in violent crime belongs to Australia -- not the United States as Handgun Control, Inc., and others would have Americans believe. In fact, the U.S. finishes behind several countries with extremely restrictive gun control laws, including England, Scotland, France, and even the Netherlands, where you will remember . . . that government bureaucrats are demanding that people turn in baseball bats and anything else that can be used as a weapon.'"-- From "International Crime Victims Survey: Gun Control Benefits the Ciminials," America's First Freedom, May 2001, page 54. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "For the sixth consecutive year, the number of accidental firearms-related deaths has dropped to an all-time low, among both the overall U.S. population and among children in particular.'"-- From "Firearms Accidents at All-Time Low . . . Again," America's First Freedom, May 2001, page 55. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. "[P]roponents of the idea [beginning meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance] for the Chicago City Council were shocked when black members blocked the proposal, citing the nation's history of racial discrimination. Particularly offensive to the black members was the pledge's final phrase, 'liberty and justice for all.'"-- From "Chicago's City Council Refuses to Pledge Allegiance to the United States," The Florida Forum, Winter 2001, page 28. Address: Florida Pro-Family Forum, PO Box 1059, Highland City, Florida 33846-1059. "[S]ince the inception of the UN there have been more wars . . . than at any [other comparable] time in the history of the world.'"-- From "Who Are the Gods of the New World Order and What Is a Spiritual U.N.?" The Florida Forum, Winter 2001, page 21. Address: Florida Pro-Family Forum, PO Box 1059, Highland City, Florida 33846-1059.  Quickies for Apr/99.
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