QUICKIES for June 2000

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








"[T]he people who teach in our public schools are drawn overwhelmingly from the bottom half of college students. . . Martin Gross says the bottom third . . . ."
-- From "A Reply to Complaining Teachers," by Thomas Sowell, Human Events, June 23, 2000, page 9. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 6-26-00.


"Stockport College in England has banned 40 words and terms from use on its campus, in a fine example of the thought control that political correctness has brought to the Western world. They include 'lady' and 'gentleman' because they have 'unwanted class implications' and 'history' because it's 'sexist.' 'Crazy,' 'mad,' and 'manic' are gone because they may be offensive to the mentally disturbed. . . ."
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, June 23, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 6-26-00.


"Loudon County, Va., public school officials have suspended an 8th grade boy for taking a knife away from a suicidal classmate. . . ." [My, my, we don't want to interfere with any suicides, do we.]
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, June 23, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 6-26-00.




"The President has done 350 fundraising events in the past three years. That's once every three days he's raising money from somebody." [Is this the "people's business" he keeps talking about?]
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, June 16, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 6-19-00.


"Government-mandated air-bags kill more children than school shootings." [The obvious question: should air-bags be registered?]
-- From The American Sentinel, June 2000, page 1. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 6-19-00.


"[T]he Clinton Administration has unveiled its plot to grant citizenship to 500,000 illegal Hispanic immigrants before election day 2000."
-- From "Gore Bribes Illegals for Their Votes in Key Battleground States," The American Sentinel, June 2000, page 9. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charoltte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 6-19-00.


"Leftist black Rep. Charlie Rangel ([D]-NY) . . . a top spokesman for the White House in the Elian case, vacations every year in Castro's Communist Cuba, as do many of his leftist cohorts."
-- From The American Sentinel, May 2000, 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: 6-19-00.


"[T]o reserve a fall campaign Internet site with his vice presidential choice's name, the Bush campaign must start securing domain names now. A review of domain names with Veep choices reserved for the Bush campaign is not heartening. They include BUSH-WHITMAN 2000, BUSH-RIDGE 2000, and BUSH-PATAKI 2000."
-- From The American Sentinel, May 2000, page 7. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 6-19-00.


"In Montgomery County, Maryland, a wealthy suburb of Washington, DC, tuberculosis is making a comeback. In 1999, all but three of the 78 people who were diagnosed with TB were immigrants or refugees."
-- From Border Alert, June 20, 2000, page 1. Address: U.S. Border Control, 8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1070, McLean, Virginia 22102. Website. Posted here: 6-19-00.


"There are an estimated 76 million cases of food poisoning in the U.S. annually, and total deaths from food-borne illnesses average 9,000 per year." [Any day now we can expect the media to demand that all food be registered . . . to protect the children.]
-- From The American Enterprise, July/August 2000, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-19-00.


"President Clinton on June 2 proclaimed June 'gay and Lesbian Pride Month,' . . . .The president said that 'more openly gay and lesbian individuals serve in senior posts throughout the federal government than during any other administration. . .'"
-- From "Clinton's Gay Proclamation Draws Fire," by Robert Stacy McCain, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 12-18, 2000, page 15. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 6-19-00.




"When the Washington Post asked readers to recommend federal buildings that should be named after Bill Clinton, the most common suggestion was the Blue Plains Sewage Treatment Plant in D.C."
-- From "White House Whispers," Middle America News, June 2000, 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. Posted here: 6-5-00.


"So far, Clinton has appointed 44% of the nation's active federal judges."
-- From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, June 9, 2000, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 6-12-00.


"In truth, the number of fatal gun accidents is at its lowest level since 1903, when statistics started being kept. That's right: Not only is the per capita accident rate at a record low, so is the actual number of accidents -- even though the number of people and the number of guns are both much larger than in 1903."
-- From "An Army of Gun Lies -- How the Other Side Plays," by Dave Kopel, Free American Newsmagazine, Jume 2000, page 24. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-12-00.


"The average life span of an American male is 74 years, but the average life span of the homosexual male is 41 years. The typical homosexual interviewed in a 1982 study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control had 500+ sexual partners. . . ."
-- From "Population Control," by Al Duncan, Midnight Messenger, May-June 2000, page 10. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-12-00.


"Elements of the German air force -- better known as the Lufwaffe -- operating out of U.S. Air Force bases and conducting training over American soil may be illegal, according to a government watchdog organization based in New Mexico, where Luftwaffe planes are stationed."
-- From "Luftwaffe Flying in U.S. Illegally?" by Jon E. Dougherty, Free American Newsmagazine, Jume 2000, page 42. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. See also article from the Air Force News. Posted here: 6-12-00.


"In what appears to be a staple of the current Administration, outspoken Clinton critic and talk show host, Larry Nichols, was beaten with a baseball bat by unknown assailants at his home in Conway, Arkansas. . . . The absence of fire arms lead to the speculation that Clinton had sent some of his kinder, gentler anti gun folk to do his dirty work. . . ."
-- From "Larry Nichols Beaten," Free American Newsmagazine, June 2000, page 48. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-12-00.




Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton is the second.
-- From an e-mail. Thanks, Sherry. Posted here 6-5-00.


"Four of every 10 journalists admit they deliberately avoid certain news stories or purposely soften the tone of the to benefit the interests of news organizations. . . ." [Now let's add in those who do it but won't admit it.]
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, June 2000, 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. Posted here: 6-5-00.


"The badly decomposed body of Carlos Ghigliotti, 42, was found in his office . . . after he had been reported mysteriously missing. Chigliotti was the thermal imaging analyst hired by the House Government Reform Committee to examine the FBI videotape of its April 1993 attack on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. . . "
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, June 2000, 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. Posted here: 6-5-00.


"[P]oliticians say they hope that the threat of bankruptcy from nationwide legal bills will force the manufacturers to hand over a portion of sales revenue for anti-gun education projects and impose restrictions on the sale of guns to private citizens. . . ." [There's more than one way to scuttle the Second Amendment.]
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, June 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: 6-5-00.


"Doctors, we now know, kill three times as many Americans annually from mistakes than firearms kill counting homicides, suicides and accidents."
-- From "Why Do They Keep Pushing for More Gun Control?," by Charley Reese, Middle America News, June 2000, page 17. 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: 6-5-00.


The lead and last sentence in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news story, April 6, 2000: "The forest fire season in Canada has begun much earlier than usual this year, which experts say may be related to global warming." "A problem is that many lakes that provide water for fighting forest fires remain frozen at this time of year."
-- From "Frozen-Over lakes: A Sign of Some Serious Global Warming," The New American, June 5, 2000, page 23. 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 6-5-00.


"Over 17,000 verified scientists in the U.S. have signed a petition saying that there is insufficient evidence of global warming. . . ."
-- From "Kofi Annan Issues UN Millennium Summit Report," Discerning the Times, April 2000, page 2. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 6-5-00.


"Rather than spend their nearly 200 million dollars in annual revenue on medical care and research, the March of Dimes has begun focusing their efforts on lobbying the federal government to expand public health care programs."
-- From "The March of Dime-Store Medical Coverage," by Peyton Knight, The DeWeese Report, June 2000, page 12, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-5-00.


Massachusetts has a program to teach children how to have homosexual sex. So, what's new? What's new is that the program was secretly tape recorded and now citizens are beginning to hear about it. Gosh, homosexual sex classes and that sort of thing are supposed to go on in the government schools without the parents' knowledge.
-- From 'Gay' Sex Gag Order Amended," by Julie Foster, NewsMax.com. Posted here 6-5-00.


"The same Chinese company that recently took operational control of the Panama Canal is currently completing construction of the largest container port in the world in Freeport, Bahamas -- just 60 miles from Florida. Several U.S. military experts say [the port facilities] pose a significant risk to U.S. national security."
-- From "Chinese Company Completes World's Largest Port in Bahamas," by Christopher Ruddy and Stephan Archer, Free American Newsmagazine, May 2000, page 36. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-5-00.


"Russia still has almost 6,000 nuclear warheads deployed on strategic ballistic missiles, has 10 of its most sophisticated ICBMs on 'combat alert,' continues to modernize its arsenal, and exports missile technologies to countries hostile to the United States. China has 300 nuclear warheads already deployed on ballistic missiles and has 13 ICBMs targeted on U.S. cities." "Nevertheless, the official policy of the Clinton Administration, which candidate Gore fully supports, is to keep Americans like sitting ducks in the face of this danger."
-- From "National Issues Candidates Should Address," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2000, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 6-5-00.


"The questions in the census basically provide our government with the information which is required in order for them to determine the 'family dependency ratio' formula which basically is looking to determine how much of the earth's resources the average family is using and whether of not they are adding back to the earth's resources."
-- From "Census = Sustainable Development," by Joan Veon, Free American Newsmagazine, May 2000, page 47. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 6-5-00.






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