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Posted here for 6-28-04:

"Iran's Mehr News Agency reported it has received an e-mail from the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry pitching the candidate as one who will 'repair the damage done' to international relations by President Bush."
-- "Iranian News Agency Reports Kerry E-Mail," Whistleblower, May 2004, page 22. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"Speaking to an Arab-language newspaper, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., charged President Bush's 'stubborn' policies are endangering the stability of the Middle East. . . . After a December visit to Baghdad during which she sharply criticized the Bush administration, Clinton was accused of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. . . . She . . . criticized President Bush for having been 'obsessed with Saddam Hussein for more than a decade.' Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news channel, broadcast her remarks immediately in arabic translation."
-- "Hillary to Arab Paper: Bush Endangers Mideast," Whistleblower, May 2004, page 26. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"[John Kerry] says he doesn't want to repeat the Vietnam experience, but that's exactly what he is doing -- pulling the rug out from under soldiers doing their duty in the war on terrorism and the liberation of Iraq, soldiers he himself voted to send there."
-- "John Kerry and Me," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, May 2004, page 34. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"In New York, Democratic officials, labor unions and pressure groups are promoting the outlandish notion of allowing legal immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to vote. New York City has 1 million legal immigrants of voting age who are not citizens, more than enough to swing any election." [Guess whom they would vote for.]
-- "Judges Trying to Influence Elections," by Phyllis Schlafly, Middle America News, June 2004, page 19. 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]s pointed out in the September 2001 issue of the American Enterprise magazine, sending a two-megabyte e-mail consumes a pound of coal or eight ounces of oil."
-- When I was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, by G. Gordon Liddy, 2002, page 65. Published by Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-261-0600.


"The . . . director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, a Clinton holdover, has been a disaster. His passion has been not intelligence gathering and analysis but rather 'diversity' within the agency."
-- When I was a Kid, This Was a Free Country, by G. Gordon Liddy, 2002, page 106. Published by Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-261-0600.


"Seventy percent of juvenile offenders come from single-parent homes."
-- Children No More -- How We Lost a Generation, by Brenda Scott, 1995, page 149. Published by Huntington House Publishers, PO Box 53788, Lafayette, Louisiana 70505.




Posted here for 6-21-04:

"[O]ur often-legendary 19-year publishing run has come to an end. We've finally been overwhelmed by the lack of sufficient advertising support."
-- Recent notification from Insight Magazine.


"John Zogby, who in recent years has been more accurate than any other pollster in the business, flat-out predicts that John Kerry will be elected President. . . Zogby believes that we now in reality have two different nations. The blue states, carried by Al Gore, are very different in values and outlook from the red states carried by Bush in 2000. There are only a handful of states which are in play. He believes Kerry has a better chance of snatching a couple of red states and getting them in the blue column than Bush has to convert blue states to the red column."
-- An "update letter" (page 2) from Paul Weyrich, CEO, Free Congress Foundation, 717 Second Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002.


"On judges, you may have read in the paper that President Bush made a deal with Senate Democrats that they would confirm twenty-five of his nominees if he would agree not to make any more recess appointments. What you may not know is that President Bush told me personally that none of his nominees, including those who are being filibustered, wants a recess appointment. So we got twenty-four more good judges without really giving anything up."
-- An "update letter" (page 4) from Paul Weyrich, CEO, Free Congress Foundation, 717 Second Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002.


"According the the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, children snacked much more a generation ago. The study found that the percentage that had five or more snacks in a day went from 30 percent in 1973-74 to 8 percent in 1993-94."
-- "Balance Sheet," Reason Magazine, July 2004, page 13. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"[Bill Clinton] once tried unsuccessfully to get money out of an ATM, exclaiming, 'I know there's a million dollars in there.' He hadn't known he had to enter a PIN."
-- "Publisher Fears Clinton Book All 'Blame and Self-justification'," by Carl Limbacher, Jr., NewsMax.com (the magazine), June 2004, page 6. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"The left-wing pecksniffs who run the University of Iowa last month canceled a baseball game with Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, because of that school's team name, 'The Braves.' In 1994, the UI athletic department adopted a policy that reads, 'In recognition of the UI policy on human rights, the university bans from its athletics facilities any mascot that depicts or represents Native Americans.' Teams named after whites, like 'The Spartans,' 'The Trojans,' 'The Vikings' or others are permitted, however."
-- "A Day in the Life of Multiculturalism," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, June 2004, page 9. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Of the women who identified themselves as lesbians, 80% said they had had sex with men before -- 28% within the previous year, according to The Advocate, a magazine which targets the homosexual community."
-- "Lesbians Getting STDs from Men," American Family Association Journal, June 2004, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.




Posted here for 6-14-04:

"One of the nation's largest mentoring organizations is discovering that some of its chapters are having trouble getting liability insurance because they allow homosexuals to be mentors for kids. According to Family News in Focus, several chapters of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) may be forced to shut down because insurance companies are charging higher premiums or even refusing to write policies because of the 'gay' mentors."
-- "BBSA's Inclusion of Homosexuals Causes Insurance Woes," American Family Association Journal, June 2004, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"[A] draft report commissioned for the U.S. Department of Education . . . states that between 6% and 10% of the nation's school children have been sexually abused or sexually harassed by school employees and teachers. . . . Dr. Charol Shakeshaft, professor of policy studies at Hofstra University . . . said she estimated that roughly 290,000 students were sexually abused by a school employee between 1991 and 2000. She said in her report that 'the physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests."
-- "Media Quiet about Teacher Sex Abuse," American Family Association Journal, June 2004, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"In early March, an ABC News/Washington Post poll put Sen. John Kerry ahead of President Bush by four points and Good Morning America highlighted the finding in two morning news updates. Fast forward six weeks to April 20 and a new ABC News/Washington Post poll found President Bush was ahead of Kerry by five points. Good Morning America reported some of the poll's findings -- news reader Robin Roberts noted that 59% think the U.S. is bogged down in Iraq -- but didn't mention a word about Bush's lead."
-- "Good Morning America Refuses to Report BUsh Lead," News Flash, April/May 2004, page 3. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.


"Nineteen of the 23 officers who served with John Kerry and every one of his commanding officers in Vietnam have signed a letter that says he is not fit to be commander in chief."
-- "Criticized by His Fellow Vietnam Vets," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 10-16, 2004, page 36. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Most Americans view pedophilia as an abomination. But gay activists are now openly advocating it, calling it 'inter-generational intimacy'."
-- "We Can't Keep Silent," Resource Roundup, May 2004, page 6. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"A professor at Alfred State College (New York) suggested a series of topics for his speech students to use in writing a speech and then listed sources that they would not be allowed to reference. Those sources included Jerry Springer, Rikki Lake, the National Enquirer . . . and Fox News. When a student questioned the exclusion of Fox news, the professor suggested that the student drop the course. The professor would not return calls from Fox News."
-- "Institutes of Higher Bias," Resource Roundup, May 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 6-7-04:

"By the judicial fiat of four activist judges, homosexual couples are now allowed to marry in Massachusetts. . . . So far, 12 of Massachusetts' 1,200 judges have resigned in protest."
-- "A 'Marriage' Proposal," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 24-30, 2004, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Now that Massachusetts has legalized same-sex 'marriage,' will major dictionaries expand their definitions of the word 'marriage' itself? The answer is simple: They already have. . . . [T]he American Heritage Dictionary added a 'same sex' clause to its definition of marriage in 2000."
-- "A 'Marriage' Proposal," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 31-June 6, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Homosexual rights activists took over a marriage license bureau in Cook County, Ill. (Chicago) on May 17. The May 18 Chicago Daily Herald said that after a lesbian couple was denied a marriage license, a 'group staged an immediate sit-in, shutting down the Cook County marriage license bureau Monday afternoon. . . . Some occasionally sparred with heterosexual couples who were turned away because of the protest and annoyed by the inconvenience."
-- "Gay Militancy," The Right Ear, Human Events, May 24, 2004, page 17. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Hans Blix, the former Swedish diplomat and U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, has endorsed John Kerry in the U.S. presidential election. . . . 'I think that the whole world should vote on 2 November because so much depends on the outcome of that vote,' [he said]."
-- "A Kerry Backer," Inside Politics by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 31-June 6, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"100 percent of the $37.1 million in soft money cumulatively contributed by the top 18 individual donors went to Democrat 527s."
-- "The One-Sided 527 Shootout," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 31-June 6, 2004, page 36. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"10 weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein's Russian military advisor warned him to ship all the nerve toxins out of the country. . . . As the WMD trail has increasingly pointed to Syria, the regime there ordered the caches shipped into Jordan (Jordanian intelligence foiled the would-be terrorists and seized their WMD, confirming the worst fears of U.S. intellegence: Saddam's biological weapons have been dispersed to outside parties)."
-- The American Sentinel, June 2004, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 5-31-04:

"Foreign central banks, led by China and Japan, now hold roughly $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds and bills -- about a quarter of publicly held U.S. debt. . . China's financial influence over our future grows. It's not unreasonable to fear that someday, rather than merely praying for China, our government will put us in a position in which we will be forced to kneel to China."
-- "Beholden to Beijing," The New American, May 31, 2004, 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.


"Admitting that Social Security is near collapse, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan advised Congress either to reduce benefits or raise taxes. . . . Caring for the elderly was once a family responsibility. Social Security not only usurped that function, it has set generations against each other. . . Today's young adults bear a far greater financial burden to maintain Social Security than their parents and grandparents did -- and they almost certainly will never collect any of the benefits when they retire."
-- "The Truth about Social Security," by John F. McManus, The New American, May 31, 2004, pages 11-13. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Newsweek reports that more than $28,000 in illegal contributions was funneled into the campaigns of Bill Clinton and John Kerry, and that 'the contributions came out of $300,000 in overseas wire transfers sent on orders from the chief of Chinese military intelligence -- and routed through a Hong Kong bank account . . ."
-- "Of Note," Judicial Watch Verdict, May 2004, page 7. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"[T]he Brandeis University College Republicans found that the only flag flying at that school belongs to the Gay-Straight Alliance. When the Brandeis CRs tried to diversify the campus landscape by flying Old Glory during their Conservative Coming Out Week, club officers were warned that they did so at their own risk."
-- "College Conservatives Come Out of the Closet," CampusReport, April 2004, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"The Wall Street Journal rightly points out that it is hard to fault the Saudis for not having a pro-U.S. oil policy when the U.S. government itself does not have one."
-- "How Environmentalists Cause High Gas Prices," The American Sentinel, May 2004, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 5-24-04:

"If elected, Massachusetts senator John Kerry would be the third richest President in United States history. George Washington and John F. Kennedy were the two wealthiest."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2004, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"[John] Kerry's unpleasant personality and his fellow senators' dislike of him are widely known by reporters in Washington -- but so far not written about."
-- "Kerry the Un-Electable," by Grover Norquist, The American Enterprise, June 2004, page 49. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"The violinists of Germany's Beethoven Orchestra are suing for a pay increase on the grounds that they play more notes per concert than their fellow musicians."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2004, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Thanks to immigration and free trade, a college degree no longer will help you find a job. In an economic first for the U.S., there are now more unemployed college graduates than there are unemployed high school dropouts, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Economic Policy Institute."
-- "Jobless Graduates Outnumber Dropouts," Middle America News, May 2004, page 2. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"IBM announced last month it will buy Daksh, India's cheap labor corporation that handles telephone customer support for American companies. . . The purchase by IBM will enable American companies to claim that an IBM company -- rather than a foreign corporation -- handles their customer support operations."
-- "Neat Trick," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, May 2004, page 9. 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 jerk in England who had claimed that DNA proved Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves was forced to admit later that it did no such thing. Jefferson had no male heirs, a necessity for the kind of DNA proof the person was claiming." [Don't expect this to be reported by the mainstream media any time soon.]
-- "Remembering Jefferson," by Charlie Reese, Middle America News, May 2004, 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 for 5-17-04:

"Under the direction of Abu Musab al Zarqawi -- a terrorist chemical-weapons expert who began operating in Iraq well before the U.S. invasion of that country -- al Qaeda planned to launch its first weapons-of-mass-destruction attack last month in Jordan. The U.S. Embassy in Amman was one of the planned targets of the attack."
-- "Jordanians: Working from Iraq, Al Qaeda Planned WMD Attack," Human Events, May 3, 2004, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Eighth-grade boys spend an average of 23 hours per week playing video games, while girls spend 'only' 12 hours."
-- "Did You Know?" Insight on the News, May 11-14, 2004, page 17, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[A] wild brawl . . . broke out at a local [Baltimore] high school during an assembly on anger management. Eleven suspensions and two arrests resulted from the 'melee'."
-- "Mark My Words . . . I Mean What I Say," Insight on the News, May 11-14, 2004, page 17, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"With evidence of Iraq's WMD programs and weapons in hand, why is the U.N. Survey Group obfuscating, and why has the White House not yet blown the whistle?"
-- "Saddam's WMD Have Been Found," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight on the News, May 11-14, 2004, page 24, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"52% of [college] freshmen in 2000 attended church frequently. 29% of those were still going to church frequently as juniors."
-- "Church Attendance and College Students," American Family Association Journal, May 2004, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.




Posted here for 5-10-04:

"There were many more, and more specific, threats of domestic attacks by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network during the Clinton presidency than during the Bush administration prior to September 11, 2001, investigators probing terror attacks said."
-- "Clinton Got More Terror Warnings," by Shaun Waterman, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 26 - May 2, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A classified intelligence report prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service -- Canada's equivalent of the CIA -- acknowledges that our neighbor to the north continues to provide a haven to many of the world's most notorious terrorist groups."
-- "Terrorists Still Flocking to Canada," FAIR Immigration Report, April 2004, page 8. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"[R]eports appeared in the London Financial Times and the Washington Times that the communist regime in North Korea favors Kerry's election this fall." [Is anyone surprised?]
-- "John Kerry's Marxist Bedfellows," by Cliff Kincaid, AIM Report, April-A 2004, page 1. Address: Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.


"Many of Britain's top landowners, celebrities, and children of establishment figures are reportedly disillusioned with Christianity and are converting to Islam. . . . [M]ore than 14,000 mostly elite white Britons have converted."
-- "Elite Betrayal," American Renaissance, May 2004, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"An 'abortion' versus a 'procedure'. A 'baby' versus a 'pregnancy'. 'Dismembered' versus 'disarticulated'. In the three federal courtrooms where a controversial abortion method has been on trial, the gulf between the two sides is so wide that they cannot agree on basic terminology. . . . Congress and opponents of the procedure call it 'partial-birth abortion'. Doctors and activists on the other side of the issue use the medical term 'intack dilation and extraction'."
-- "Abortion Trial Becomes War of Words," by David Kravets, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 26 - May 2, 2004, page 5. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Under the September 11 commission's rules, its general counsel decides whether a member such as Jamie S. Gorelick should recuse herself of be disqualified . . . . Now, those who set up the commission took great pains to ensure its membership was an even split of Republicans and Democrats; and the commission's staff, too, is a studiously bipartisan mix. But, alas, there is only one general counsel, and he is -- surprise! -- a Democrat. . . ."
-- "Conflicts Galore," Inside Politics, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 26 - May 2, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Adjusted for inflation, the real price of gasoline has actually fallen 98 cents a gallon since 1981. Every component of the pump price -- crude oil, manufacturing, distribution, marketing -- has fallen, except one: taxes. The price of a typical gallon of gas now includes 47 cents in both state and federal taxes."
-- "Why Are Gas Prices Climbing?" by William Norman Grigg, The New American, May 3, 2004, 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 for 5-3-04:

"Even the ACLU had to admit last year that there hasn't been a single proven abuse of the Patriot Act."
-- "The Robust State of Conservatism 2004," by Ed Feulner, Human Events, March 22, 2004, page 18. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"A Florida Democratic club has taken out a newspaper advertisement urging the assassination of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and another partisan group is running a national television commercial with an actor impersonating President Bush's voice saying, 'I used 9/11 as an excuse to invade Iraq.'" [Those sweet and compassionate liberals are at it again!]
-- "'Kill Rumsfeld' Ad Outrage," by Charles Hurt, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 19-25, 2004, page 10. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Nevada Democrats have gone overboard, adding the impeachment of President Bush as a plank in their party platform."
-- "Walking the Plank," Capital Briefs, Human Events, April 26, 2004, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 4-26-04:

"[A] classified New Scotland Yard memo warns that in the last five years, al-Qa'ida has purchased as many as 17 sea-worthy vessels of varying sizes from a Greek shipping concern. Those vessels could be used to attack a major port with a radiological or nuclear device."
-- "By Air and by Sea," Resource Roundup, April 2004, page 12. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Duke University is insisting that its local YMCA [Young Men's Christian Association] grant family membership rates to homosexual lovers or the school will cut ties with it."
-- "Conform or Else," The Right Ear, Human Events, April 12, 2004, page 29. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"A coalition of 10 environmental groups is pushing 'Earch Dinner,' billed as a 'new national holiday' and a touchy-feely alternative to the traditional Thanksgiving meal."
-- "Whetting Appetites with 'Earth Dinner'," by Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 12-18, 2004, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A Republican congressman says U.S. arms inspectors need to make the public better aware that Iraqi insurgents are assassinating scientists who could hold the key to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."
-- "Silence on Deaths of Iraqi Scientists Troubles GOP Congressman," by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 12-18, 2004, page 17. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The new Afghan Constitution . . . envisions a president and vice president, a two-house legislature, and judiciary. But the fact is that the new Afghan president must swear 'to obey and safeguard the provisions of Islam . . ." and Supreme Court justices are required to swear allegiance to Allah and implement the document 'in accord with the provisions of the sacred religion of Islam. . ."
-- "Cliff's Notes," AIM Report, November 2003, insert. Address: Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website.


"[P]sychiatrists personally have a higher drug addiction rate than the general population, commit suicide at twice the rate of, and divorce more than other physicians. . . A 1992 study of Medicaid and Medicare insurance fraud in the United States showed psychiatry to have the worst track record of all medical disciplines."
-- "Psychiatric 'Experts': Create Degradation, Not Rehabilitation," Documenting Psychiatry -- A Human Rights Abuse and Global Failure," published by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 6362 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite B, Los Angeles, California 90028, page 44. Phone: 323-467-4242. Fax: 323-467-3720. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 4-19-04:

"Corporate bosses at the [Los Angeles] Times have a strict policy never to let the phrase 'pro-life' appear in the paper because it conveys a positive connotation to people who oppose abortion."
-- Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2004, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Black educators Bill Ware and Robert Moses have figured out that the game of chess is racist because the white player gets to move first, putting the black player on the defensive."
-- Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2004, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"More than a million white Europeans were enslaved by North African slave traders between 1530 and 1780, according to historian Prof. Robert Davis of Ohio State University."
-- Newsbriefs, Middle America News, April 2004, 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.


"International financier George Soros is worth $7 billion -- and he so desperately wants to oust George Bush from the White House he says he would even give away his whole fortune to do so. . . . Could the master currency trader manipulate the financial markets to create a panic, collapsing the stock market or the U.S. dollar on the eve of the November election?"
-- "Is Soros Planning 'October Surprise' for the President?" by Jon E. Dougherty, NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2004, page 24. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Why do the major dailies continue to spike the story of John Kerry's role in the Nov. 12-15, 1971 'assassination summit' in Kansas City at which Kerry participated in the secret discussion and vote by the executive board of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) on whether to murder seven U.S. senators and other leaders who continued to resist New Left demands that Vietnam be turned over to the Viet Cong?"
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, April 13-26, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Kerry has been lying about this one [see above] for years, claiming he left the group two days before the secret meetings at Kansas City. He did resign, but after the assassination summit -- to run for Congress. (He lost.)"
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, April 13-26, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Insiders say that before the war in Iraq the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was provided 50 intelligence reports showing contacts between the regime of Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terrorists."
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, April 13-26, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Washington, D.C. this month welcomed GAMPAC, the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, which claims to represent 30 million atheists, agnostics, secular humanists and 'free thinkers.'"
-- "The furies," Insight on the News, April 13-26, 2004, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Gonzaga University . . . is a Catholic school that will not recognize a campus pro-life group as a legitimate student organization."
-- "Catholic in Name Only," by Malcolm A. Kline, CampusReport, March 2004, page 1. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 4-12-04:

"Researchers at eMarketer find that the Net has surpassed cable TV in household penetration. The Net is used in 68 percent of households; cable reaches 66 percent."
-- "Balance Sheet," Reason, May 2004, page 13. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Blacks have killed 1,600 white farmers in South Africa since black rule began in 1994, making farming in South Africa the most dangerous peacetime occupation in the world."
-- "Racial Heresies for the 21st Century," by Ian Jobling, American Renaissance, April 2004, page 4. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Last fall, for the first time, non-whites outnumbered whites in Florida's public schools. . . Florida is the seventh state to see its public school student body go majority non-white, after Hawaii (80 percent non-white), New Mexico (66 percent), California (65 percent), Texas (59 percent), Mississippi (53 percent), and Louisiana (51 percent). Public schools in the District of Columbia are 95 percent non-white."
-- "O Tempora, O Mores!" American Renaissance, April 2004, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"500,000 engineers now graduate in one year in China . . . compared to our 60,000."
-- "Hedgehog-Fox Redux," by Robert Greer Cohn, (advertisement) The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 22-28, 2004, page 9. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Senator Kerry . . . has voted 350 times in the United States Senate for higher taxes."
-- "Quote of the Week," quoting Vice President Dick Cheney, March 15, 2004, Human Events, March 22, 2004, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The American Legion named Hillary [Clinton] an 'Unsung Hero of the 108th Congress at its 44th Annual Washington Conference."
-- "Hillary Watch," Human Events, March 22, 2004, page 13. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 4-5-04:

"Instead of using 'Jr.', Jon Blake Cusack of Holland, Michigan opted to give the name Jon Blake Cusack 2.0 to his son."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"The Bill Clinton Presidential Library revealed that Clinton only sent two e-mails during his eight years as President. One was a test message to see if he knew how to send e-mail."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, April/May 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Sister Souljah, who advocated 'war' against white people in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, as well as an annual holiday to kill white people, appeared as part of a series of Diversity Lectures at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, courtesy of a $50,000 contribution by Bank One."
-- "'Diversity' College Lecture," Resource Roundup, March 2004, page 5. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Democratic presidential front-runner John F. Kerry pledged that if he becomes president he'll treat terrorist acts against the U.S. as a law enforcement problem rather than as acts of war."
-- "Kerry Pledges Return to Clinton Terrorism Policies," NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2004, page 29. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"New data based on the results of massive condom distribution in Africa indicates that condoms have done little if anything to slow the spread of AIDS on the continent, according to Austin Ruse of the Culture of Life Foundation."
-- "Study: Condoms Failed to Halt AIDS Spread in AFrica," NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2004, page 73. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.




Posted here for 3-29-04:

"The Paris suburb of Evry, home to one of France's largest Muslim colonies, announced it will erect giant video screens in town to enable mobs of local immigrants to watch the slaughter of more than 3,000 sheep in celebration of the Islamic holiday, Eid."
-- "Televised Slaughter for the Masses," Middle America News, March 2004, page 2. 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 Chicago Tribune reports that the number of English daily newspapers in the U.S. has declined by 17 percent since 1970 while the number of Spanish language dailies has more than quadrupled."
-- "George Bush's 'New America' II," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2004, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"[Manny] Miranda [who has handled judicial nominations for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist] told CNS News that on average, abortion clinics make $1,000 for every abortion they perform."
-- "Memos Might Reveal Profit Motive in Senate," Insight on the News, March 16-29, 2004, page 52, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A confidential report prepared by UCB [University of California at Berkeley] and leaked to The Los Angeles Times shows that 641 students with near-perfect SAT scores (above 1500) were denied admission to the university in 2002 while 381 students with SAT scores below 1000 were accepted."
-- "Quotas at Berkeley Even after Voters Said No," by Colleen Honigsberg, Campus Report, January/February 2004, page 5. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"[In] a 2001 'Meet the Press' appearance . . . Mr. [John] Kerry said that he had committed 'atrocities' during his five-month combat tour in Vietnam. Mr. Kerry specifically took 'responsibility for shooting in free-fire zones, search-and-destroy missions, and burning villages.'"
-- "John and Jane," Inside Politics, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 15-21, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Parents are withdrawing their daughters from Girl Scout troops on discovering the organization's association with Planned Parenthood."
-- "Honor in Texas," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 15-21, 2004, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Islam is now the fastest growing religion in the United States."
-- The American Sentinel, March 2004, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 3-22-04:

"During his presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts had missed the Senate's first 22 roll call votes of this year, prior to March 2, and was absent for 292, or 64 percent, of the votes last year, according to a Boston Herald review of Senate records."
-- "At the Trough," Inside Politics, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 8-14, 2004, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration."
-- "Kerry Will Abandon War on Terrorism," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Insight on the News, March 16-29, 2004, page 30, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[John] Kerry claimed American soldiers were rapists, murderers and thugs. He protested with communists and America haters, became a senator, voted against every weapons system that ever came across his desk, gutted our intelligence, and now he wants to surrender American security to the United Nations. You can live a perfect life, but betray your nation once and you are a traitor. Still, if my math is correct, Kerry spent four months as a hero and 35 years as a traitor."
-- "Sen. Kerry Serves a Traitors' Poster Boy," by Tom Adkins, as quoted in Insight on the News, March 16-29, 2004, page 53, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"On Feb. 23, 2004, at the National Governors Association meeting in D.C., United States Secretary of Education Rod Paige called the National Education Association 'a terrorist organization. . . ' Education is not the goal of the NEA -- it is indoctrination, and the NEA will take whatever steps needed to accomplish their goal, including intimidation of teachers, parents and taxpayers who disagree with their agenda and world view."
-- "Education Held Hostage," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 8-14, 2004, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The Central Ohio United Way is threatening to withhold $500,000 from the Simon Kenton Council of Boy Scouts because the scouts won't allow homosexual men to take young boys camping."
-- "They Want Junior," The Right Ear, Human Events, March 8, 2004, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The al Qaeda terrorist group still is planning to attack the White House and Congress -- targets the group missed on September 11."
-- "Al Qaeda to 'Revisit" White House," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 1-7, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Sexually transmitted diseases have become so pervasive among the nation's youth that one out of every two sexually active young people can expect to become infected by age 25, a new report says."
-- "Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates Soar Among Youth," by Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 1-7, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 3-15-04:

"Every day, Zambian newspapers chronicle the rise of child rape, a crime fueled by the belief that sex with a virgin cures AIDS. Particularly shocking were the rape of a 1-1/2-year-old baby by her father, and the death of an 11-year-old girl after she was repeatedly raped by her half-brother. Four hundred cases of child-rape were recorded in Zambia in 2003, and 238 in 2002."
-- "The Wages of Ignorance," American Renaissance, March 2004, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"The Democrats think they have one key to winning the 2004 elections. Get the votes of convicted felons. . . Surveys show that the overwhelming majority would vote Democratic if they could, so felons are a voting bloc the Democrats are itching to harvest." [Hmmm. Felons vote for Democrats. Hmmm.]
-- "Looking at Some 2004 Election Issues," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2004, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"The 2000 census shows that nearly one in five U.S. residents five years old and older speak[s] a language other than English at home. That is an increase of 15 million over the past decade. The number of residents who did not speak English at home more than doubled in six states over the past decade."
-- "Around the Nation," The ProEnglish Advocate, February 2004, page 4. Address: 1601 North Kent Street, Suite 1100, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Phone: 703-816-8821. Fax: 703-816-8824. Website.


"An 'integration' bill introduced in the German parliament would penalize immigrants and resident aliens who fail to learn German by cutting welfare and unemployment benefits."
-- "Around the World," The ProEnglish Advocate, February 2004, page 7. Address: 1601 North Kent Street, Suite 1100, Arlington, Virginia 22209. Phone: 703-816-8821. Fax: 703-816-8824. Website.




Posted here for 3-8-04:

"Islamic leaders in Somalia say they will flog anyone caught using or selling condoms. Sheikh Nur Barud, chairman of the Ulema Council, explains that the use of condoms will increase adultery, and that those promoting adultery deserve to be punished."
-- "Brickbats," Reason, April 2004, page 10. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"The Nutritional Institute of America (NIA) recently announced its research findings that iatrogenic (doctor-induced) disease has replaced heart disease as the #1 killer of Americans. The NIA, founded in 1974 by New York health activist Gary Null, Ph.D., reported October 28, 2003, that the death toll from medical errors in the preceding 12-month period was 783,936. Deaths from heart disease were 669,697 during the same period and cancer came in third at 553,251."
-- "American Medicine Is Now the Leading Cause of Death in U.S.," The Idaho Observer, February 16, 2004, page 1. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website.


"Since the first case of autism was reported in 1943, the rates have steadily increased. In the 70's, one in 20,000 children [was] diagnosed autistic; in the 80's the rates increased to one in 2,500; by the mid-90s one in 250 children [was] autistic and; today the rate is one in 150. In boys, the true rate of autism is one in 100. At the present time, one in eight U.S. school children [is] in special education for learning disabilities. The statistics given do not include dyslexic, hyperactive or sociopathic children. The dramatic rise in neurological and behavioral abnormalities in children began shortly after the 1930 introduction of mercury-based thimerosal in government recommended and approved vaccines."
-- "We Better Hurry Up," The Idaho Observer, February 16, 2004, page 2. Address: PO Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869. Phone: 208-255-2307. Fax: 208-255-2607. E-mail. Website.


"A recent book by an FBI consultant on international terrorism says Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network purchased 20 suitcase nuclear weapons from former KGB agents in 1998 for $30 million."
-- "Does Al-Qaida Have 20 Suitcase Nukes?" Whistleblower, February 2004, page 39. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network plotted to detonate a dirty nuke bomb floated into London on one of its armada of mystery ships, but the plan was foiled by security forces. The device was to be delivered on a cargo ship and moored at a dock ready to be detonated when the wind was right, according to reports last month in British newspapers."
-- "Al-Qaida's Plan to Nuke London," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, February 2004, page 40. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 3-1-04:

"If you happen to travel down Interstate 80 in Orland Park, Ill., you might want to keep an eye out for a series of Berma Shave-style signs touting the right to keep and bear arms. Read in succession, the signs say: 'Dialed 9-1-1 / And I'm on hold / Sure wish I had / That gun I sold.' The final sign advertises the Champaign County Rifle Associations web site."
-- "Sign of the (Pro-Gun) Times," America's First Freedom, January 2004, page 18. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"A deaf, suburban Washington, D.C., lesbian couple said they did 'everything possible' to make sure their newborn son was deaf by seeking a sperm donor for artificial insemination from a family with a long history of deafness." [Are these people "parents" or egotists?]
-- "The End of Marriage?" by Alan Sears and Craig Osten, Whistleblower, September 2003, page 32. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"The Da Vinci Code, [a] best-selling novel [that has sold 6.1 million copies and has topped the New York TImes best-seller list for 45 weeks] asserts as fact that Jesus Christ had a daughter as well as a wife."
-- "'Da Vinci' Novel Spurs Debunkers of all Denominations," by Julia Duin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 23-29, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"To reach the American people with the truth, [in spite of the McCain-Feingold legislation, the National Rifle Association is] forming the NRA Television & Radio Broadcasting Network."
-- "Standing Guard," by Wayne LaPierre, America's First Freedom, March 2004, page 10. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.




Posted here for 2-23-04:

"In September the First International Dry Toilet Conference was held in Finland, according to its sponsors, to avoid the 'environmental disaster' posed by flush toilets. The group's objective is to eliminate flush toilets worldwide."
-- "For the People," Insight on the News, February 17 - March 1, 2004, page 8, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia has introduced legislation that would cut congressional pay in years when Congress fails to balance the federal budget. Members would take a pay cut of 5% in the first year of deficit spending, and up to 10% in subsequent years." [And the chance of passage: Absolutely zero!]
-- "Capital Briefs," Human Events, February 9, 2004, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The Blackhawk High School recycling club in Beaver County, PA wanted to 'save the earth.' So they galloped off to the local nature preserve, and cleaned up hundreds of illegally dumped tires -- some, no doubt, from SUVs. The nature preserve was restored to its glorious pristine state. Then the Beaver County Public Works Department surfaced. Members of the Services Employees International Union [SEIU] claimed they had a contract with the county to clean the preserve. Though they didn't lift one itty-bitty unionized finger, they're now demanding payment for cleaning the park."
From "Eager Beavers," The Limbaugh Letter, September 2003, 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.


"Since shortly after President Bush announced his plan for a de facto amnesty for illegal aliens, the Border Patrol has seen an increased number of illegal aliens streaming across our Southern border." [And this comes as a surprise?]
From "Illegal Immigration Has Increased Since Bush Revealed Amnesty Plan," by Joseph A. D'Agostino, Human Events, February 16, 2004, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[San Diego] Border Patrol officials report a 15 percent increase in the use of fraudulent documents at the world's busiest land border crossing."
From "The Amnesty Rush Is On," The New American, February 23, 2004, 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 for 2-16-04:

"In 1996 Sen. John Kerry received $8,000 from Red China bag man Johnny Chung, then took another $10,000 in exchange for which Kerry arranged a high-level meeting between Communist Chinese Intelligence operative Lt. Col. Liu Chao-ying, the afore-said Chung and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about setting up fronts on the American stock exchanges capable of transferring U.S. technologies and hardware to Red China. . ."
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, February 17 - March 1, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[T]hose three (3) Purple Hearts that the preppie Kerry boasts of cost him a total of two (2) days out of action."
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, February 17 - March 1, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Turkey reports that the suicide killer who drove a car bomb into a British bank in Istanbul, killing 27 and wounding 400, was motivated by a false report by a left-wing Beverly Hills sex therapist that American troops had raped hundreds of women in Baghdad."
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, February 17 - March 1, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Seems that the Select Board of the small ski town of Killington, Vermont, is seriously considering secession from Vermont and becoming part of neighboring New Hampshire (which has no sales or income tax)."
-- The American Sentinel, February 2004, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 2-9-04:

"Post World War II chancellor Konrad Adenauer was voted the 'best German' of all time in a poll of over 3 million Germans. Martin Luther came in second, followed by Karl Marx."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Computerized voting machines in Boone County, Indiana counted 144,000 votes in an election with fewer than 19,000 eligible voters."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"In October 2003, researchers at the University of California-Berkeley released a study predicting that as many as 14 million white-collar U.S. jobs could be outsourced to foreign countries in the next 10 years."
-- "Lou Dobbs Lists Outsourcing Giants," The New American, February 2004, 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.


"[T]he recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico . . . marked another step forward in a long-term agenda to abolish national borders and merge the countries of the Western Hemisphere into a regional Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)."
-- "Summit of the Americas Pushes Revolutionary Agenda," The New American, February 2004, 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 for 2-2-04:

"Washington insiders were bowled over that, upon learning he was set to be named Time magazine's Person of the Year, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused the honor in favor of America's volunteer soldiers."
-- "The Insider," Insight on the News, February 3-16, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"According to a recent poll, more than half of all Americans believe having children outside wedlock is morally acceptable, demonstrating that the moral shift under way for the last 40 years is still moving away from traditional beliefs."
-- "Traditional Moral Views Continue to Fade in U.S.," American Family Association Journal, February 2004, page 5. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"A recent study of 90,000 middle school and high school students has found that . . . children who consider themselves both black and white are more likely than black or white children to be depressed, sleep badly, skip school, smoke, drink, and have sex. They are also more likely to suffer from stress-related health problems, get hold of guns, consider suicide, and suffer various aches and pains."
-- "The Tragic Mulatto," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, December 2003, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"In the early 1970s, whites outnumbered Hispanics six to one in the public schools of San Diego County, California. Last year, for the first time, Hispanics, at 39.83 percent of the school population just nosed out whites, at 39.82 percent."
-- "Mexico Creeps North," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, December 2003, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"At the end of 2001, 5.6 million Americans, or one in every 37 adults, either were in or had been in prison. . . The racial breakdown for men was blacks: 17 percent, Hispanics: 7.7 percent, whites: 2.6 percent."
-- "Behind Bars," O Tempora, O Mores!, American Renaissance, December 2003, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Centers for Disease Control, an arm of the federal government, last year issued a report that the press wouldn't report on that said, 'Condoms do not protect against syphilis, gonorrhea, human papilloma virus, herpes, and most of the other sexually-transmitted diseases.'"
-- "Joining the Battle," by Dr. James Dobson, Whistleblower, December 2003, page 38. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 1-26-04:

"[A] study from UCLA . . . declared that the state constitution should be amended to permit California's estimated 4.6 million noncitizens to vote."
-- "Letting Illegals Vote," Resource Roundup, January/February 2004, page 9. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"Yielding to multiculturalist pressures, the national YMCA decided to gut one of its own most popular traditions. It changed the name of its popular 'Indian Guides' program to 'Adventure Guides,' and removed all references to Indians from its guidebooks and activities."
-- "YMCA Guts Tradition," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2004, 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.


"[Dick] Gephardt missed 506 of the first 558 votes last year, or 90% of the total." [No, he wasn't sick or disabled.]
-- "Capital Briefs," Human Events, January 19, 2004, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government."
-- "WMD Could End U.S. Constitution," by John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com (the magazine), January 2004, page 29. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.




Posted here for 1-19-04:

"A state prison near Jacksonville, Fla., has become the nation's first 'faith-based' jailhouse, combining spirituality with hard time." [Expect to hear from the ACLU . . . soon.]
-- "First 'Faith-Based' Jail Leaves Rehabilitation up to God," by Joyce Howard Price, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 5-11, 2004, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Democratic presidential candidate and now-retired four-star general, Wesley Clark, was the Army commander who used U.S. soldiers and military hardware against American civilians in the federal assault against the Branch Davidians which violated the Posse Comitatus Act and resulted in the massacre of nearly ninety lives, including old men, women, and children."
-- "Will Democrats Select the General of the Waco Siege as Their Presidential Nominee?" by Chuck Baldwin, The DeWeese Report, December 2003, page 8, 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.


"The Southern Chinese have bizarre taste in food, and patronize animal markets that sell rats, dogs, goats, cats, snakes, and assorted birds. There is even a delicacy called 'three-screams rat,' in which rats are eaten live. The rat is said to scream once when it is grabbed by chopsticks, the second time when it is dipped in vinegar, and the third time when it is bitten."
-- "'Three-Screams Rat'," American Renaissance, January 2004, page 15. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 1-12-04:

"Ms. [Linda] Tripp recently, and finally, earned a successful resolution to her Privacy Act, and other claims, against the Pentagon. The settlement includes a payment of $595,000 and a retroactive promotion and retroactive pay at a higher salary level for 1998, 1999, and 2000. Pentagon officials were forced to concede they had violated the Privacy Act, despite the repeated denials by the Clinton Administration."
-- "Tripp Wins Settlement for Privacy Act Violations," Judicial Watch Verdict, January 2004, page 11. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"The Science Fiction Book Club is selling copies of Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, January/February 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Sixty-eight percent of vegetarians have levels of vitamin B12 so low as to cause attention, mood, and concentration problems, according to a recent German study."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, January/February 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that it is un-Constitutional to execute the retarded, 10 percent of the nation's death row inmates have filed court papers claiming to be retarded." [I wonder why it's not 100%!]
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, January/February 2004, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"In a marvelous moment of candor, a federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) committee has reported that it cannot find any evidence that gun control laws reduce violent crime."
-- "A Light Goes On at the CDC," by Dr. Timothy Wheeler, America's First Freedom, January 2004, page 72. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"The ACLU is targeting the voluntary lunchtime prayer that has been a tradition at the Naval Academy since its founding." [The ACLU: the Anti-Christian Litigating Union.]
-- "ACLU Targets U.S. Navy," by Terence P. Jeffrey, Human Events, January 5, 2004, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"In the 2002 election, guess who provided the fifth-largest source of dollars for federal candidates? It was none other than little old Hollywood. And as you might expect, 83 percent of Tinseltown's cash went to Democrats. So says Center for Responsive Politics."
-- "The Left Coast Report," by James Hirsen, via e-mail, dated 12-23-03.




Posted here for 1-5-04:

"Americans who attend religious services regularly vote Republican by 2 to 1, and those who don't, vote Democratic by 2 to 1."
-- "The Right Ear," Human Events, December 15, 2003, page 23. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The federal government wants to add 14 more miles of fence to hamper illegal immigration along California's border with Mexico, adding to the 40 miles already there, but environmentalists are having none of it -- even though Pakistani and Arabs have been found crossing the border as well as Mexican economic migrants."
-- "The Right Ear," Human Events, December 15, 2003, page 23. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Measured by GDP, fifty-two of the world's one hundred most powerful economies are corporations, and forty-eight are countries."
-- The Death of the West, by Patrick J. Buchanan, 2002, page 229. Published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010.


"To settle with 542 parishioners sexually molested by its priests, the Archdiocese of Boston has mortgaged the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and St. John's Seminary, sold the building from which its Resource Center operates, raided its retirement funds and sold the 28-acre estate that has housed Boston's cardinals."
-- "the insider," Insight on the News, January 6-19, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"When lefty-liberal actor Tim Robbins told the San Francisco Chronicle the Bush administration is a bunch of 'chicken hawks' he apparently forgot he was in gay heaven, where that particular epithet refers to an older homosexual who pursues male teens. Naturally he has apologized . . . to the homosexuals."
-- "the insider," Insight on the News, January 6-19, 2004, page 6, published by The Washington Times Corporation, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Rep. Jim McDermott of Washington, the Democratic congressman who went to Baghdad last year to say that President Bush would lie to the American people in order to justify war, has now accused the president of timing Saddam Hussein's capture for political ends."
-- "Saddam Capture Staged to Benefit Bush, Democrat Charges," by Bill Sammon, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 22-28, 2003, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[A] 2000 report . . . found that medical errors kill almost 100,000 people and cost some $38 billion yearly."
-- "Doctors' Disorder," Balance Sheet, by Jeff A. Tylor, Reason, February 2004, page 15. Address: 3415 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 400, Los Angeles, California 90034-6064. Website.


"Howard B. Dean, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination . . . said he will start mentioning God and Christ as the campaign moves into the South."
-- "Dean Touts 'Jesus Strategy' in Religion Pitch for South," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.






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