"[F]ive times more kids under five years old die each year from the misuse of [cigarette] lighters than from gun accidents." -- Quoting Carl T. Rowan, Jr., from "Famous Son Says Marchers 'Don't Know Guns from Grapefruit'," America's First Freedom, August 2000, page 20. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. Posted here: 8-28-00. "Concealed handgun laws reduce murder by 8.5 percent, rape by 5 percent and severe assault by 7 percent." -- From "Texas Concealed Handgun Carriers Are Law-Abiding Public Benefactors," America's First Freedom, August 2000, page 70. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. Posted here: 8-28-00. "The chance of serious injury from an attack is 2-1/2 times greater for women offering no resistance than for those resisting with a gun.." -- From "When It Comes to Firearms, Do as I Say, Not as I Do," America's First Freedom, August 2000, page 72. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website. Posted here: 8-28-00. "During a classroom discussion about school safety, Derek [Loutzenhiser of Holland, Michigan] said that he 'would feel safer if some of the adults at the school were trained and allowed to carry firearms,' reported the NRA's June issue of American's First Freedom. Alarmed by Derek's views, school authorities placed him on a list of students deemed 'at risk' for violence. . . ." -- From "Putting America's Kids Under Surveillance: How Student Surveys Can Be Used Against Your Children," Middle America News, August 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: 8-28-00. "[T]he average prison time actually served by a convicted murderer is five years, 11 months." -- From "Let's Bring Back Public Hangings," by Charley Reese, Middle America News, August 2000, page 16. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 8-28-00. "There must be no letup in the war against religion because as long as religion exists, communism cannot prevail. We must intensify the obliteration of all religions wherever they are being practiced or taught." -- Mikhail Gorbachev in a statement to a group of Communist Party officials December 15, 1987, in Uzbekistan, as quoted in "Supreme Court Is Wrong on Student Prayer," by Charley Reese, Middle America News, August 2000, page 16. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 8-28-00. "[D]elegates to the Democratic convention are being provided a 'Directory of Minority, Woman, and Disabled-Owned Business' in the Los Angeles area, with the encouragement to shop there instead of at places run by the hated heterosexual white male." -- From "White House Whispers," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, August 2000, 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. Posted here: 8-28-00. "[I]t should be noted that the first candidate of Jewish ethnicity to appear on a major-party ticket was Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee. Mr. Goldwater's father, Baron, was raised and died in the Jewish faith. His ancestors were Polish jews named Wasserman -- the name was changed by Barry Goldwater's grandfather, the first to arrive on these shores." -- From "Inside Politics," by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 14-20, 2000, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-28-00. "[T]he Clinton administration's smash-and-grab kidnaping of Elian on Lenin's birthday (April 22nd) has apparently emboldened Castro to ask for similar raids against other Cuban children who have made the perilous crossing from Cuba to the United States. The July 15th Miami Herald reported that 'the Cuban government has formally asked the Clinton administration for the names of Cubans who have landed on U.S. shores in recent days, with particular emphasis on some two dozen minors . . . The presumption, one State Department official said, is that some of the . . . minors may have parents or guardians back in Cuba willing to demand their return.'" -- From "More 'Elians' in the Future?" The New American, August 28, 2000, page 8. 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 8-28-00. "The National Education Association supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for children from birth through age eight." [Yes, it wants your kids from birth! So, how many parents will freely let the NEA instill "proper" government attitudes, values, and beliefs in their progeny? Are parents becoming merely sleep-over facilitaters?] Also: "The National Education Association believes that every child should have direct and confidential access to comprehensive health, social, and psychological programs and services." [We certainly don't want parents bothered by their son's and daughter's health, social, or psychological needs, do we.] -- From resolutions passed at the 2000 NEA convention, as reported in "NEA Fights the Maintain School Monopoly," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, August 2000, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-21-00. "Prof. Arthur Waldron, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute . . . testified to the Armed Services Committee that a prolonged military crisis has begun between China and the United States." -- From "The Anxious Hegemon," by J. R. Nyquist, WorldNet, August 2000, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, california 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 8-21-00. "Well before the collapse of the Soviet Union, [former KGB agent Anatoliy] Golitsyn published 'New Lies for Old,' a book that foretold with stunning precision the 'fall of communism.' This book informed the reader about a grand strategy of deception meant to beguile the West into a sense of false security, ultimately resulting in a resurgent, and triumphant, form of communism. Victory for communism, said Golitsyn, would result from Western complacency and the West's inability to detect evidence of such a strategy." -- From "The Proteus Deception," by I. J. Toby Westerman, WorldNet, August 2000, page 27. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, california 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 8-21-00. "New Russian President Vladimir Putin was well on his way last week to replacing Russia's complicated and progressive tax system with a flat tax of 13%." [Russia may soon tax its citizens more equitably than the U.S. government taxes us.] -- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, August 11, 2000, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 8-21-00. "No one in corporate America believes that the Justice Department would have gone after Microsoft had it simply paid big bucks to the DNC, or otherwise rendered tribute at the foot of Caesar. No one." -- From "Microsoft's True Crime: It Didn't Play the Washington Game," The American Sentinel, August 2000, page 8. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 8-21-00. "In 1990 consumers paid 27-cents per gallon tax [on gasolene] as compared to 42-cents today." -- From "More Ammo on Who Has Caused gas Prices to Skyrocket," The American Sentinel, August 2000, page 9. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 8-21-00. "The rate of AIDS infection among homosexuals in San Francisco tripled in the last two years, according to the city's Department of Public Health." -- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, August 2000, 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. Posted here: 8-21-00. "The FBI is warning law enforcement that motorists whose cars display bumper stickers in support of the 2nd Amendment may be extremists." -- From "FBI Warns of Pro-Gun Bumper Stickers," Middle America News, August 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: 8-21-00. "[Peter Singer, Princeton University professor] believes that middle class families in the United States should pay a tax of at least 33 percent of the first $30,000 they make to help disadvantaged people around the globe. After that the tax should be 100 percent." -- From "Hillsdale and America," by Larry P. Arnn, president-elect, Hillsdale College, Imprimis, June 2000, page 2. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Posted here: 8-21-00. "According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report only 35 percent of the nation's immigrants have become U.S. citizens, the lowest percentage in over 100 years. The trend strongly suggests that immigrants do not feel they need to assimilate into American culture." -- From "Fewer Immigrants Becoming Citizens," English Language Advocate, Summer 2000, page 4. Address: PO Box 96481, Washington, DC 20077-7260. Posted here: 8-14-00. "OBE [Outcome Based Education] is not an educational system or a new teaching method. It is a behavior modification process designed and implemented by psychologists. OBE evaluates each child's attitudes, values and beliefs and stes out to eliminate and replace them. The whole purpose is to change the way the child thinks. 'Outcome-based' means the outcome is pre-determined. They know what they want the child to think and believe. The process is then set in motion to make that happen. . . . Has your child suddenly announced [he is a] vegetarian?" [OBE is now "taught" in schools all across the U.S.] -- From "Restructuring Education for the Global Village," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, May 2000, page 10, 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: 8-14-00. "Washington Post reporter Serge Kovaleski told [FBI investigation leader James] Kallstrom, 'It had to be a missile [that brought down TWA 800].' And she insists that Kallstrom responded, 'You're right, but if you quote me, I'll deny it.'" -- From "TWA Flight 800 Disaster -- Four Years Later the Evidence Mounts," The New American, August 14, 2000, page 5. 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 8-14-00. "[D]ata from the New York Cancer Registry show no evidence for higher cancer rates associated with residents near the Love Canal toxic waste burial site in comparison with the entire state outside of New York City." -- From the June 19, 1981 issue of Science as reported "Al Gore's Love Canal Legacy," The New American, August 14, 2000, page 9. 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 8-14-00. "A majority of the schools in Halifax have some kind of policy barring fragrances -- as do most of the city's public establishments and many private institutions. Some of the regulations include bans on hairspray, deodorant, or even aromatic mouthwash." -- From "MCS [Multiple Chemical Sensitivity] Reeks of B.S. (Bad Science)," by Peyton Knight, The DeWeese Report, May 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: 8-14-00. "Boys . . . are 5 times more likely than girls to commit suicide and 4 to 9 times more likely to be drugged with Ritalin." -- From "Save the Males," by John Leo, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 24-30, 2000, page 32. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-14-00. "No sooner did our item [see Washington Times item, posted 7-24-00, below] appear and Hillary Rodham Clinton's spokeswoman, Lissa Muscatine, called to say that Chelsea not only didn't inhale, she didn't puff. 'She wants no part of smoking, she doesn't smoke, she hates smoking,' Ms. Muscatine says, saying reports to the contrary are unfair and 'totally wrong.' 'This is something she [Chelsea] feels very strongly about,' the spokeswoman says of the first daughter." -- From "Inside the Beltway," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 24-30, 2000, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 8-14-00. "Doctors who care for children need to know that vaccinating sick children, vaccinating children with previous vaccine reactions and giving children so many vaccines on the same day is killing and crippling children all over this country -- and many of them are ending up autistic." -- From a June 2000 letter from Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president, National Vaccine Information Center, 512 West Maple Avenue, #206, Vienna, Virginia 22180. Phone: 703-938-0342. Fax: 703-938-5768. Website. Posted here 7-31-00. "Forty languages are spoken by Salt Lake City students -- ten more than last year. Within five years, 50% of the school system's students will speak English as their second language." -- From "Forty Languages Spoken in salt Lake City Schools," English First Members' Report, July 24, 2000, page 7. Address: 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Phone: 703-321-8818. Fax: 703-321-8408. Website. Posted here 7-31-00. "[T]hree Mexicans living in the United States are running for seats in Mexico's Congress. All three had promised to remain in the United States and represent expatriate Mexicans in the Mexican Congress." -- From "U.S.-Mexico Convergence," The New American, July 31, 2000, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-31-00. "[H]omeschoolers score an average of 67 points above the national average score, despite being from families whose incomes were below average." -- From "The Right Answers," The New American, July 31, 2000, page 6. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-31-00. The Seattle Times reports that while riding a bus on a rainy Friday evening, Michelle Shocks was 'kicked off' before she reached her destination. What horrible thing had she done to warrant such treatment? She was talking with a fellow passenger about religion. -- From a July 6, 2000 letter from John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute, PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906-7482. Posted here 7-31-00. "Johnny Chung . . . remains the only witness to offer full cooperation in the White House's Chinagate scandal, implicating top PRC military officials in attempts to bankroll Clinton's 1996 campaign. . . [T]here have been three attempts on his life." -- From "Juanita's Audit and America's Pravda Press," Internet Vortex, July 2000, page 5. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 7-31-00. "[A] child is now ten times more likely to be abused or molested in foster care than in the general public." "Instead of empowering parents, government programs and policies seem bent on destroying the family completely." -- From Children No More, by Brenda Scott, 1995, page 161. Published by Huntington House Publishers, PO box 53788, Lafayette, Louisiana 70505. Posted here 7-24-00. Those who have bought into the Clinton/Gore campaign that smoking is about the worst thing any American can do, might be interested to learn that First Daughter Chelsea was "spotted smoking up a storm at the popular coffee shop [Zando's, Washington, DC] over the Fourth of July weekend." -- From "Inside the Beltway," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 17-23, 2000, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-24-00. ADDED 8-14-00: Notice the denial of this item posted 8-14 in the "Quickie" above. "The vice president logged more than 375 flight hours for continuous coast-to-coast political travel in the White House jet since April 1999, at a cost of about $10 million to the Pentagon budget . . . . Clinton administration bookkeepers had billed Mr. Gore's campaign just $831,103 for use of the aircraft up to the end of May . . . ." -- From "Gore Campaigns as Frequent Flier on Air Force Two," by George Archibald, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 17-23, 2000, page 22. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-24-00. "On June 17th, Granma,the daily newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party, published a Father's Day greeting, purportedly from Elian Gonzalez, to Communist dictator Fidel Castro. . . 'On this Father's Day, we want to send an affectionate greeting, and a well-deserved kiss, to all of you, especially to one father whom we love dearly for his unrivaled teachings and his infinite love for us, our Commander-in-Chief.'" -- From "Elian's Father's Day Card to Fidel," The New American, July 17, 2000, page 12. 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 7-17-00. During Clinton's recent trip to Russia, a woman shouted at our president in a hallway: "Bill, drop your trousers and show us what a sex boss you are!'" -- From "Clinton's Lack of Respect Abroad," The American Sentinel, July 2000, page 11. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charlotte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 7-17-00. "Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader now living in Rhode Island and preparing to become an American citizen [said]: 'I will not vote for Democrats, it's too dangerous for the country.'" -- From "Amazing facts & Quotes," Range, Fall 1999, page 17. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-17-00. "There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there is the Federal Government." -- From J. Orlin Grabbe's website. Posted here 7-10-00. "What they are not telling you on CNN and the networks, is that over 44 mainland Chinese are employed full time at our super secret national atomic lab. This in itself should be enough to set off the alarm bells in security but it is with full Presidential knowledge that such hiring took place." -- From "Government Set Fires Provide the Cover for the Theft of Nuclear Secrets at Los Alamos," Free American Newsmagazine, July 2000, page 34. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 7-10-00. "Congressman Chris Cannon of Utah has recently testified before Congress that in his own state, no less than 45 percent of all homicides in Salt Lake County involved illegal aliens. He also reported that 80 percent of suspects arrested for felonies involving narcotics were illegal aliens as well." -- From a June 27, 2000 solicitation letter from Edith Hakola, executive president, The Center for American Unity, 29 South Chestnut Street, PO Box 910, Warrenton, Virginia 20188. Phone: 703-978-2537. Fax: 703-323-1274. Posted here 7-10-00. "Most Americans would find it hard to believe that the Menominee Public Library has a more sophisticated tracking system for Winnie the Pooh than Los Alamos has for highly classified nuclear weapons data." [Perhaps we might conclude that our leaders have more interest in the security of Winnie the Pooh than they have for America's top secrets.] -- Quoting Representative Bart Stupak (D.-MI) on CNBC's "Upfront Tonight," June 13, 2000, as reported in Human Events, June 30, 2000, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 7-3-00. The Amazon rain forest is "the least-threatened, most intact forest on the globe," according to Marc Morano, correspondent for the syndicated "American Investigator" TV show. The myth of the "endangered" Amazon rain forest is "the biggest environmental con of the past two decades" based on "a whole litany of false science," said Mr. Morano to Inside Politics on June 20th. -- From "Tree-Hugger Fury," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 26-July 2, 2000, page 15. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 7-3-00. "[H]omosexuals are severely repressed in Communist Cuba. . . Men would be arrested in the street solely for the way they walked or for wearing tight pants or for powdering their faces." -- From "Child Abuse, Castro Style," Internet Vortex, June 2000, page 28. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 7-3-00.  Quickies for Apr/99.
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