We keep hearing that the Chinese took our nuclear secrets throughout the last 17 years. Well, not quite. Except for neutron bomb data, which China obtained during Carter's administration, not one single serious breach of nuclear security came to light before 1993! -- Reported by "Inside Cover," Newsmax.com, 5-31-99 Posted here 5-31-99. I said, "Senator, are you telling me I just watched a hundred senators raise their right hand to God and swear to do equal and impartial justice and that they will ignore that oath too?" And one senator said, "you're darn right they are." -- David P. Schippers, investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the Clinton impeachment, describing a meeting with Republican senators, as reported in the headline article "Schippers Speaks," Human Events, May 28, 1999, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Truth, honor, and justice are apparently on leave during the Clinton Presidency. Posted here 5-30-99. Related material: YDS, pages 139-142. "Gulf War commander General Norman Schwarzkopf gave a speech in Australia before 5000 and denounced U.S. President Bill Clinton, declaring that President Clinton did not have the right character to be a leader. 'Character is the single most important ingredient of leadership. Proper leadership would have prevented the wars in Kosovo and Somalia.'" -- AP Worldstream 5/23; Press Association Newsfile 5/24, as reported on the McLaughlin Group, PBS, May 28, 1999. Website. Posted here 5-30-99. Another compassionate liberal speaks out. Film director Spike Lee discusses violence and guns in America with the New York Post. "We've got to dismantle the NRA," he says. And what should be done with NRA president Charlton Heston? "Shoot him," urges Lee with a laugh. (Don't expect the media to make a big thing of this hate speech. Lee is a liberal; his hate speech is protected.) -- Newsmax.com, Friday, May 28, 1999. Website. Posted here 5-29-99. Related material: YDS, pages 19-22, 101-112. Princeton University has appointed Peter Singer to fill an endowed professorship at its Center for Human Values. Some alumni don't like the appointment because Mr. Singer, a bioethicist, advocates killing certain disabled babies within the first month of their out-of-womb lives. "Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person," Mr. Singer has written. Well, if it's OK to kill a child during its first 31 days after birth, why not 32 days? Or 45 days? Or 365 days? Good questions for a bioethicist. -- "Forbes to ask Princeton not to hire 'Professor Death,'" The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 24-30, 1999, pages 1, 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-28-99. Related material: YDS, page 84. Former New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson sent Ronald Reagan a letter urging the President not to sign the bill for a holiday that honors "the memory of a man [Martin Luther King] of immoral character whose frequent associations with leading agents of communism is well established." Reagan wrote back, ". . .I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. Indeed, to them the perception is reality." -- John F. McManus, in his article "Honoring the King Myth," The New American, January 4, 1999, page 44. 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 5-27-99. Related material: YDS, page 201. See also Jesse Helms' comments about Martin Luther King in the Congressional Record of 10-3-83. "Facing the prospect of removal from office, Bill Clinton has conjured a fascinating defense: He cannot tell a lie, because he cannot tell the difference." -- William Norman Grigg in his article "Lies and Consequences," The New American, January 18, 1999, page 44. 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 5-26-99. Related material: YDS, pages 139-142. We're bombarded with words like "atrocity," "ethnic cleansing," and "genocide" to describe the carnage wrought upon the innocent Kosovo people by Slobodan Milosevic. So, how many people do you suppose died as a result of his carnage during all of 1998? The answer: about 1000. Well, how many people have died at the hand of NATO (read: U.S.) during its bombings from January through May 1999? The answer: about 600. That's equivalent to over 1400 people per year. -- From information in the AIM Report, April-B 1999, page 2 (and other sources). Address: Accuracy in Media, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-24-99. "Watching religious conservatives is like people in the 18th century going to asylums to watch lunatics chew on their own wrists. They are a fringe. . . ." -- Regina Barecca, English professor at the University of Connecticut, in an article in Boston Globe Magazine, as reported in Campus Report, March 1999, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-24-99. Related material: YDS, pages 19-24. Everyone is searching wildly to find someone or something to blame other than the perpetrators of the Columbine High School (Littleton, Colorado) massacre. In their search the mainstream media seem to have overlooked the fact that death education classes are taught there. Said one student: "The things that we learned in the class taught us how to be brave enough to face death." -- Reported in The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, May 1999, page 23. Address: PO Box 84904, Phoenix, Arizona 85071. Phone: 800-528-0559. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-24-99. Related material: YDS, pages 93-100. Liberals react predictably to the Columbine High School tragedy. For example, former Colorado governor Richard Lamm and his wife Dottie: "If the Second Amendment does say that anyone has the right to own a gun for any reason, then it must be changed. In short, repeal the Second Amemdment." -- Reported in The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, May 1999, page 25. Address: PO Box 84904, Phoenix, Arizona 85071. Phone: 800-528-0559. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-24-99. Related material: YDS, pages 101-112. "The multifaceted homosexual campaign to expose impressionable young students to homosexual propaganda demonstrates that parents can no longer assume teachers will guard their children's innocence - even in kindergarten - and even in some of our nations 'finest' private and religiously-based schools." -- Peter LaBarbera in an article titled "Private Schools AQre Promoting Homosexuality to Children," Human Events, May 21, 1999, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 5-21-99. Related material: YDS, pages 133-138. "We urge the U.S. Government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December 19997, and any other similar proposals. . . . There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gasses is causing or will in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and distuption of the Earth's climate. . . ." -- A statement signed by 16,000 scientists, as reported by Dr. Michael Coffman, CEO of Sovereignty International, at a Prophesy Club® meeting. A tape of his presentation, titled World Domination 2000, is available from the Prophesy Club®, PO Box 750234, Topeka, Kansas 66675. Phone: 785-478-1112. Website. Check out the Sovereignty International Website. Posted here 5-18-99. Related material: YDS, pages 118, 153, 163-166, 183-188, 199, 225. "Clinton Administration argues [that] official English is unconstitutional. The Alabama official English case (Sandoval v. Hagan) could decide that all state and federal official English laws are unconstitional. The Clinton Administration has actually intervened in this case to make that argument." -- English First Members' Report, May 25, 1999, page 1. Address: English First, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8408. Website. Posted here 5-15-99. "In 1990, the University of Missouri School of Journalism released a list of words for journalists to avoid, including such terms as gorgeous, lazy, sweetie, and fried chicken." -- Jacob Weisberg," as quoted in English First Members' Report, May 25, 1999, page 7. Address: English First, 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8408. Website. Posted here 5-15-99. "In April 1998, officials at Derby Middle School suspended T.J. [West] after he sketched a Confederate flag on a sheet of paper at the request of a friend. According to the school's zero tolerance policy, the Confederate flag is a prohibited symbol of racial harassment and intimidation. Possession or display of the flag on school grounds warrants an automatic three-day suspension." -- From Action, a publication of The Rutherford Institute, May 1999, page 3. Address: PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906-7482. Phone: 804-978-3888. Fax: 804-978-1789. E-mail. Website. Posted here 5-15-99. "Stop blaming American freedoms for the neglect of individual responsibility. . . . We have come to a place where our freedoms are diminishing daily. Every man, woman and child who lies, cheats, steals or acts out in self-interest plays a role in our downfall." -- Debra Rubenstein in an article titled "Deceit and Greed," Sun-Sentinel, South Florida, May 10, 1999, page 19A. Posted here 5-13-99. Related material: YDS, pages 139-142. "The war in Kosovo is a war against the principle of national sovereignty. . . . The only way America can 'win' in the Kosovo War [that is, to protect the principle of national sovereignty] is to pull out of it immediately -- and then to withdraw our nation from both NATO and the United Nations." -- William Norman Grigg in his article "NATO and the Global Advance," The New American, May 10, 1999, page 18. 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 5-13-99. Related material: YDS, pages 71-76. "If the federal government can make us safer and healthier with seat-belt laws, toilet laws, helmet laws, regulations on airbags, drinking, smoking, and eating, why not laws regarding exposure to dangerous ideas and religious beliefs? That's been the main source of suffering throughout history. Unfortunately, we already have some trying to do this very thing through political correctness, destruction of Western thought in our government-dependent universities, federal control of public education, internet controls, and systemic invasions of our privacy under the guise of fighting a war on drugs, terrorism and tax cheats." -- U.S. Representation Ron Paul in his "Freedom Report" newsletter, March 1999, page 4. The Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, Incorporated, PO Box 1776, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566. Phone: 409-265-3034. Posted here 5-9-99. Related material: YDS, pages 61-70. "In 1998 alone, environmental regulations cost the average household $2000." "There is three times as much forestland in North America today than there was 70 years ago." "The air we breath is 25% cleaner today than it was in 1970." -- From a brochure titled "Think You Know Everything About Environmental Protection?" produced by Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, 1250 H Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005-3908. Posted here 5-9-99. Related material: YDS, pages 153-166, 169-180, 193-196. "By the age of six, the average American child has spent more hours watching the tube than he will spend speaking to his father in his lifetime." -- Michael Medved from his book, Saving Childhood, as reported on page 5 in the September 1998 Imprimis, a monthly publication of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Posted here 5-7-99. "America is a great nation. But she is not great enough to survive the growing rot within. Call it secularism, decadence, or irresponsibility -- it is as deadly as any cancer, and it has invaded the body politic." -- U.S. Representative J.C. Watts, Jr. in his address during the May 1998 commencement at Hillsdale College, as reported on page 6 in the September 1998 Imprimis, a monthly publication of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Posted here 5-7-99. Related material: YDS, pages 61-70. "NATO was formed in April 1949 to protect free Western Europe from attack by the USSR (Warsaw Pact). In 50 years of existence NATO has never had to drop a bomb in defense of its partners. Now that the USSR and Warsaw pact are no longer, under what authority does Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and any of the 19 members of NATO have to invade a sovereign nation?" -- Written by Bo Gritz in his Center for Action newsletter, May 1999, page 4. Posted here 5-6-99. "Part of growing up is learning how to control one's impulses." -- Spoken by Hillary Rodham Clinton at a recent gun-control rally as she introduced the President, as reported in The Washington Times, National Weekly Edition, May 3, 1999, page 17. Posted here 5-5-99. "What was happening to my world? Moral decay came to mind. It was like nobody was out there anymore who cared about honor, duty, character, and love for country, who did things not because they were politically expedient or because they gratified today's whims and desires but instead because they were the right thing to do. Our elected officials were misconstruing elected as meaning anointed. Our people were starting to value security and self-indulgence over freedom." -- Written by Roy Boehm in his book First Seal, Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, 1997, page 307. Posted here 5-5-99. Related material: YDS, pages 41, 55-58, 275. "If we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! . . . We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children! We would kill their families!" -- Spoken by a true liberal, Alec Baldwin, who certainly considers himself caring, compassionate, and kind. Oops, sometimes liberals show their true colors. Quote reported in The Limbaugh Letter, January 1999, page 12. Posted here 5-4-99. Related material: YDS, pages 11-22. "Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people, time and time again, and betrayed their trust. . . ." -- Spoken by Henry Hyde? Rush Limbaugh? Pat Buchanan? No. Those words were spoken by William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations, as reported on the Presidential Quotes website . Posted here 5-1-99. "Hitler and Stalin gave us the model of how tyranny maintains itself. Pass so many laws that everyone is a potential criminal, and then law enforcement can be arbitrary, selective, and very political." -- Phyllis Schlafly, as reported in The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, April 1999, page 11. Posted here 5-1-99. Related material: YDS, pages 209-210, 217-219. Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest-ranking GRU officer ever to defect from Russia, has stated that the Russian General Staff considers nuclear war with America to be inevitable. -- Quoted from an article titled "Russia Mobilizes, America Sleeps," by J.R. Nyquist and Christopher Ruddy, Internet Vortex, April 23, 1999, page 11. Posted here 5-1-99.  Quickies for Apr/99. The way back home. |