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Posted here for 6-26-06:

"The Wall Street Journal reports business lobbyists for the first time in years are hedging their bets and giving as much or more to Democrats than they are Republican candidates. [. . .] Republican media magnate (and owner of [the] Fox Network) Rupert Murdoch recently held a fundraiser for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton -- apparently hedging his bets she may be President-elect in January 2009."
-- The American Sentinel, June 2006, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Last month, the Treasury Department finally dropped its legal battle in defense of forcing long distance phone services to collect a 3% Spanish-American War tax. It was only after five different rulings against them in federal court did bureaucrats finally 'agree' they had no right to continue collecting this tax."
-- The American Sentinel, June 2006, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"New York City accounts for 7 percent of the U.S. population, and is home to 23 percent of the nation's psychiatrists."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, July/August 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"The Web address Sex.com recently sold for $12 million, the largest amount ever paid for a domain name."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, July/August 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"19-year-old PETA volunteer Ashley Fruno donned a yellow bikini to protest outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in British Columbia. One passerby got the wrong idea. 'I wouldn't have come in at all but after I saw her, the way she was dressed, I slowed down and came in to check out her breasts and thighs,' said Martin Van der Horst, who left the KFC restaurant with a snack pack of chicken, fries and a salad."
-- "Briefly Noted," Capital Research Center Organization Trends, June 2006, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.


"[O]nly eight percent of Mexican-American citizens consider themselves American, first and foremost, while over three-quarters think of themselves first as Mexican or Hispanic/Latino."
-- "Texas Showdown," by Scott Wilson, American Renaissance, June 2006, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Gore was wrong in 1992 when he wrote that 98 percent of scientists agreed with him on global warming. Now, he is wrong when he argues in his movie that there is a complete consensus on global warming today. As proof Gore cites a 2004 study that looked at 928 climate abstracts and found none that refuted global-warming dogma. That says more about the researcher than the scientific community. There are a number of well-known scientists who don't believe that global warming is human-induced, or who believe that if it is, it is not catastrophic. Hurricane expert William Gary of Colorado State University believes the Earth will start to cool within 10 years. Neil Frank, former director of the National Hurricane Center, told The Washington Post that global warming is 'a hoax'. Climate scientist Robert Lindzen of MIT believes that clouds and water vapor will counteract greenhouse gas emissions."
-- San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Debra Saunders, as quoted in "Not about Science," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 19-25, 2006, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"In the wake of the June 13 announcement that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has informed Mr. Rove that he will not be indicted, we know definitively the indictment scenario was a fantasy -- like virtually every other charge leveled by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration in connection with reports that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium in Niger."
-- "Sorry, Ambassador Wilson," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 19-25, 2006, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 6-19-06:

"In the view of many Capitol Hill veterans, the [Hagel-Martinez immigration] bill is the worst legislation ever considered by the Republican-majority Congress. According to analysis by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, it would allow 66 million new immigrants to enter the U.S. over the next 20 years [. . .] and would lead to the largest increase in welfare in 35 years."
-- "Minority of the Majority," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 5, 2006, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid reeled around like a punch-drunk fighter last week, grasping for an alibi that could explain why he accepted free tickets to three boxing matches from an organization trying to influence boxing legislation Reid was pushing in the Senate." [There's a one-word explanation: "bribe".]
-- "Reeling Reid," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 5, 2006, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The group Public Advocate of the United States said May 30 that it had set set up sobriety checkpoints on Capital Hill over the Memorial Day weekend to protect the public against Sen. Edward M. Kenned, Massachusetts Democrat, and his son, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island Democrat. [. . .] The checkpoints were mobile units comprising two dozen persons alternating positions around the Capital. Volunteers wore bright orange or yellow vests and yellow construction hats and carried traffic cones and traffic directional signs that identified them as the 'Kennedy Sobriety Checkpoint' and with a message that states, 'If your name is Kennedy, Get Out of the Car.'"
-- "On the Lookout," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 5-11, 2006, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research reported that the surge of immigration in the 1980s and 1990s lowered the wages of our own high school dropouts by 8.2%. The surge has accelerated since that report was issued."
-- "Ripoff of American Workers and Taxpayers," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2006, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"The National Research Council reports that an immigrant to the United States without a high-school diploma consumes $89,000 more in government services than he pays in taxes during his lifetime."
-- "Ripoff of American Workers and Taxpayers," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2006, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 6-12-06:

"[A]t its assembly plant in Oklahoma City, GM is actually obliged by its UAW contract to pay 2,300 workers full salary and benefits for doing absolutely nothing. [. . .] [T]he cost of employing a GM factory worker, including wages and fringes, [is] in excess of $72 per hour, [. . .] according to the Post-Crescent newspaper of Appleton, Wisconsin. [. . .] GM [has] healthcare obligations that account for more than $1,600 of the cost of every vehicle it produces."
-- "What Happened to American Cars?" by George Reisman, Free Market, May 2006, pages 1-2. Address: The Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn, Alabama 36832-4528. Phone: 334-321-2101. Fax: 334-321-2119. E-mail. Website.


"According to the GLM [Global Language Monitor, a media tracking and analysis group], an estimated 987,578-plus words currently exist in the English language. To put that into perspective, the French language contains only about 100,000 words."
-- "987,578 Words and Counting," by Melissa Borgerding and Carrie Ann Deters, Erickson Tribune, June 2006, page 4. Address: Erickson Communities, 817 Maiden Choice Lane, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21228. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Bard College chair in social studies [is] named for the communist spy and perjurer Alger Hiss. [. . .] [A]t Phillips Exeter Academy, the annual Edmund E. Perry Award for 'diversity and cultural awareness' honors the memory of Edmund Perry, 'an outstanding black student at Phillips Exeter, who was shot to death in Harlem while trying to mug a plainclothes cop.' [. . .] [T]he Borough of Manhattan Community College announced a new scholarship last year honoring Ho Chi Minh and another for a former Black Panther who murdered a NJ cop. . ." (The two scholarships were withdrawn after protests.)
-- "Delusional Academia," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, May 2006, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"Sweden's new political party called the Feminist Initiative, [has a platform that] calls for abolishing marriage. 'Marriage is not about love and living together,' says FI cofounder Tina Rosenberg. 'It's about ownership. [She says,] 'women who sleep with men are traitors to their gender.'"
-- "Feminism Unfiltered," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, May 2006, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he campus daily newspaper [at Notre Dame] refused to run advertisements sponsored by the pro-life club because they featured words of Pope John Paul II, who was a 'political' and 'controversial' figure, thus violating the impeccable standards of objectivity professed by these amateur student journalists."
-- "Director's Corner," by Mal Kline, CampusReport, May 2006, page 6. 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 6-5-06:

"In one of the largest sums ever donated to charity by a U.S. public official, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, gave away nearly $7 million last year to help the poor and to medical research. [. . .] The Cheneys' charitable generosity stands in marked contrast to that of their predecessors, whose sometimes-stingy donations became a national embarrassment. In 1997, for instance, Al and Tipper Gore contributed just $353 to charity[. . .]"
-- "Dick CHeney Is the $7 Million Man to Charities," NewsMax.com (the magazine), June 2006, page 8. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has the solution [to the oil company 'gouging' problem]: Make consumers pay even more at the pump by levying a $20 billion tax on the oil companies."
-- "Slap a $20 Billion Tax on Bog Oil Companies, Says Hillary," NewsMax.com (the magazine), June 2006, page 50. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Over 70 percent of Americans and Chinese, 66 percent of Britons, and 65 percent of Germans believe that the free market is the best system available, according to polls by GlobeScan. Only 36 percent of the French share that belief."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Americans spent $14.3 billion on dog food in 2004, according to the Washington Post. That is $10 million more than was spent on baby food."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"The newly crowned 2006 Homecoming King at Maryland's Hood College is Jen Jones, a lesbian. She beat out seven men for the title."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, June 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 5-29-06:

"Not long ago the idea former President Bill Clinton would become Secretary General of the United Nations was seen as far-fetched. Yet an increasing number of highly-respected observers such as Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund are noting Clinton seems to be maneuvering to fill Kofi Annan's lofty U.N. perch (which he must vacate in December)."
-- The American Sentinel, May 2006, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The Dark Ages have finally been recognized as a hoax perpetrated by anti-religious and bitterly anti-Catholic, 18th-century intellectuals who were determined to assert their cultural superiority and who boosted their claim by denigrating the Christian past. [. . .] This always should have been obvious since by the end of the so-called Dark Ages, European science and technology had far exceeded that of Rome and Greece, and all the rest of the world, for that matter."
-- "Rodney Stark, author of The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom Capitalism, and Western Success," as quoted in "No Dark Ages," Culture, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 12-18, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"There is not one major American success throughout our history that can be placed at the doorstep of 'diversity.' All that we are as a nation we owe to merit and individual enterprise. A quota system is the antithesis of a meritocracy. [. . .]"
-- "Ward Connerly, writing on "The Q-Word and American Realities," as quoted in "Suffer for Diversity," Culture, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 12-18, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Current liberal thought posits that abortion should be 'safe, legal and rare' in the words of former president Bill Clinton. [. . .] Yet these same politicians refuse to answer just why abortion should remain rare. If abortion is a moral good under any circumstances (as abortion-on-demand advocates declare), why should it remain rare? And if keeping abortion rare is a rational goal, why should state governments be barred from taking steps to discourage abortion? [. . .] The fact is that mainstream pro-choice liberals are lying through their teeth when they mouth the 'safe, legal and rare' mantra. [. . .]"
-- "Benjamin Shapiro, writing on "The Pro-Choice Movement: Safe, Legal, as Often as Possible," as quoted in "Common Choice," Culture, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 12-18, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


""I once had the occasion to go through the headquarters of National Public Radio in Washington [. . .] Cubicle after cubicle was plastered with posters for every left-wing cause imaginable -- farm workers strikes, peace marches, nuclear-disarmament campaigns, liberation armies in obscure African countries. It was if you had taken the most politicized dormitory radical from every university around the country and assembled them all in one place."
-- "William Tucker, writing on "Public Broadcasting's New Clothes," as quoted in "Liberal Subsidy," Culture, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 12-18, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 5-22-06:

"President Bush told a German newspaper that his best moment in office was catching a nice fat perch in a lake on his ranch in Crawford, Texas. [. . .] His worst moment was the September 11 attacks."
-- "The Good and the Bad," Inside Politics, compiled by Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 15-21, 2006, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The Daily Mail of London recently asked its on-line readers: 'Do you still feel protected by the police?' By a margin of 89 percent to 11 percent, disarmed Britons responded 'NO'."
-- "London Newspaper Poll Asks Britons if They Feel Protected," America's First Freedom, June 2006, page 59. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has come up with an outrageous new scheme to rig the 2008 Presidential Ejection and vault herself into the White House. [It's] S. 450 -- legislation she's introduced that could give as many as five million convicted felons the right to vote in federal, state and local elections."
-- From a May 5, 2006 solicitation letter from Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA Institute for Legislative Action, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030. Website.




Posted here for 5-15-06:

"Nineteen pro-family organizations have called for a one-year boycott of Ford Motor Company because of Ford's financial support of homosexual groups which promote same-sex marriage."
-- "Nineteen Family Organizations Join Ford Boycott," American Family Association Journal, May 2006, page 1. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"The Presbyterian Church USA may be on the verge of allowing the ordination of homosexual clergy, despite the wishes of the majority of its members."
-- "Mainline Denominations Mired in Gay Issues," from Theology Matters, as quoted in American Family Association Journal, May 2006, page 4. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"A self-described pro-choice atheist and rationalist set out to prove that abortion does not have any psychological consequences. He found the opposite, and the results were so profound that they cannot be ignored in the scientific field or the political arena."
-- "No Denying, Abortion Harms Women," from Family and Life Site as quoted in American Family Association Journal, May 2006, page 10. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"One key organizer of the nationwide protests in March by illegal aliens against U.S. immigration law is a group linked to the Workers World Party, a Marxist outfit that has supported North Korean Communist dictator Kim Jong-il, according to the Washington Times. The group, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), helped organize the Los Angeles demonstration that drew some 500,000 illegal aliens and their supporters to the streets to protest American immigration law. [. . .] The Workers World Party, a communist group founded in the U.S. in 1959, 'was instrumental in founding ANSWER,' the Times reported."
-- "Protest Group Linked to Marxists," Middle America News, May 2006, 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.


"A Zogby poll, conducted in conjunction with a Mexican research organization, found [. . .] Eighty-four percent of Americans have a positive view of the Mexican people, while only 36 percent of Mexicans have a positive regard for Americans. Only 18 percent of Americans see Mexicans as racist, in contrast to 78 percent of Mexicans who hold that view of Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans see Mexicans as honest, while just 16 percent of Mexicans hold that view of Americans."
-- "Immigration Briefs," Middle America News, May 2006, 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.




Posted here for 5-8-06:

"A world without the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly is a liberal's dream -- so it should come as no surprise that some are working to make that dream a reality. Having failed to create viable liberal alternatives to the conservative talkshow giants, progressives are changing their tactics. What they could not defeat in the marketplace of ideas they may silence by regulation."
-- "New Law Could Silence Rush and O'Reilly," by Jason Barnes, NewsMax.com (the magazine), May 2006, page 45. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"[P]hotos taken at the Los Angeles march [March 25, 2006] feature signs carried by marchers depicting House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R.-Ill.) and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R.-Calif.) in Nazi uniforms. Another photographed sign: 'We are Indigenous! The ONLY owners of this Continent!' Another: 'This Is Our Continent, Not Yours!' An online introduction to the group posted under [Olin] Tezcatlipoca's byline [the group he heads is called Mexica Movement] says: 'This is our land and our continent, this is not property of the Europeans or their descendants. Not one inch of this continent belongs to Europeans, no matter what lies or distortions of ownership they may present. . . . Remember that we have only temporarily (and illegally) been deprived of the rights to our continent and our heritage. This occupation of our continent is not a permanent condition.'"
-- "Brief of the Week," Human Events, April 3, 2006, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"The leaders of the 'anti-war' movement today are leftists who oppose capitalism and believe in socialism. Many are communists. At root, they are anti-American rather than anti-war. Anti-war groups have their own outlets for propaganda, employ sophisticated tactics and exploit modern information technology to give their messages instant and global reach."
-- From an ad for the book The Politics of Peace, by John J. Tierney, quoted from Capital Research Center Organization Trends, April 2006, page 4. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 5-1-06:

""The Religion of Peace website reports that there were more than 2,587 major Islamic terrorist attacks from 9/11/01 to 7/12/05. The number that CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] had condemned was only 6."
-- "Briefly Noted," Capital Research Center Organization Trends, April 2006, page 8. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.


"A coalition of liberal groups is attacking any election officials who try to investigate fraud in voter registration drives. Led by Jesse Jackson, People for the American Way, the NAACP and other groups, the coalition claims that attempts to prevent fraudulent voter registration should be considered 'voter intimidation' and 'suppression'. [. . .] The activities of groups like ACT, ACORN, the NAACP Voter Fund and MoveOn.org show up repeatedly in voter fraud reports."
-- "Voter Turnout or VOter Fraud?" by Jonathan Bechtle, Capital Research Center Organization Trends, April 2006, page 3. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.


"Over half of students graduating from four-year colleges in the U.S. lack the literacy to deal with such 'real-life' tasks as understanding newspaper editorials, comparing credit card offers, or summarizing the results of a survey. Nor do they have the math skills needed to balance their checkbooks, according to a new study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts."
-- "They Could Always Go into Education," by David Schaefer, The American Enterprise, May 2006, page 9. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"A survey of college students found that the ones most likely to cheat were journalism majors."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, May 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"London's Sunday Times reported that heterosexual foreigners are faking homosexuality and entering into phony gay civil unions as a way to gain British citizenship. Homosexual civil partnerships became legal in the U.K. last year."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, May 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 4-24-06:

"An Alabama employment agency that sent 70 laborers and construction workers to job sites in that state in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina says the men were sent home after just two weeks on the job by employers who told them 'the Mexicans had arrived' and were willing to work for less."
-- "Arrival of Aliens Ousts U.S. Workers Cleaning Up after Katrina," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, April 17-23, 2006, page 9. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Illegal aliens in San Diego can purchase a home [thanks to Citibank] at below market interest rates, receive down payment assistance, and not have to take out mortgage insurance like other risky customers do. [. . .] A similar program instituted by Wells Fargo in the Los Angeles area attracted bad publicity, so Citibank is trying to keep quiet the fact that illegal aliens can get better deals on home mortgages than citizens."
-- "Can't Afford to Buy a House in San Diego? Become an Illegal Alien," FAIR Immigration Report, March 2006, page 8. Address: 1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-328-7004. E-mail. Website.


"[I]llegal immigrants are often able to vote, and -- of course -- they almost always vote Democrat."
-- "Hillary Watch," Human Events, April 3, 2006, page 12. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[F]our-and-a-half years after Muhammad Atta and his crew flew a plane into the World Trade Center out of love for Allah, we still don't see any sustained or concerted effort by self-proclaimed peaceful Muslims in the U.S. or anywhere else to disabuse their coreligionists of this jihad ideology and its globalist, supremacist, totalitarian political agenda."
-- "Killing for Allah in North Carolina," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, April 3, 2006, page 14. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 4-17-06:

"On March 9, the day before he died in his UN detention cell in The Hague, former Yugoslav ruler and career communist thug Slobodan Milosevic wrote a six-page letter to a legal aide expressing suspicions that he was being poisoned."
-- "Was Milosevic Poisoned?" The New American, April 3, 2006, 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.


"Iran has more than 45 Shahab missiles aimed at Saudi Arabia and Israel, in case of an attack on its nuclear facilities."
-- "Iran Has War Plans to Block the Strait of Hormuz," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com (the magazine), April 2006, page 74. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Saddam Hussein and Russia's Yevgeny Primakov sent all of Iraq's WMD to Syria. A U.S. official calls it a masterpiece of military deception."
-- "Russia Moved Saddam's WMD, Ex-Official Insists," by Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com (the magazine), April 2006, page 76. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"For the first time since the Great Depression, Americans are spending more than they earn."
-- "Personal Savings Below Zero," NewsMax.com (the magazine), April 2006, page 81. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"There has been a 406% increase in doctor malpractice insurance premiums from 1975 to 2003. In that same period, medical care inflation has jumped by 525% -- medical malpractice related expenses are up by 2,108%. [. . .] The CDC acknowledges some two million Americans contract an infection following a visit to a hospital or medical facility each year. Of that number, about 90,000 die!"
-- The American Sentinel, April 2006, pages 10-11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 4-10-06:

"Last October, the Dudley [England] Metropolitan Borough Council told all workers in its benefits office to cover up any depictions of pigs, lest they offend Muslims. The ban included a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. In September, Burger King withdrew ice-cream cones from restaurants in Britain after a Muslim complained that the design on them looked like the Arabic symbol for Allah."
-- "Abolishing Britain," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, April 2006, page 16. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Afrikaner novelist and commentator Dan Roodt [. . .] reported that 30,000 to 50,000 whites, including 1,600 farmers, have been killed in South Africa since 1994. Some blacks are clearly killing farmers out of pure race hatred -- they torture them to death and steal nothing. There is a persistent rumor that upon Nelson Mandela's death, blacks will slaughter whites in a Rwanda-style genocide."
-- "Among the Living Again," by Ian Jobling, American Renaissance, April 2006, page 3. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Thanks to the transfer of technology and business from America and other Western nations, Communist China's economy is projected to grow fast enough to outstrip all developed nations by 2050. [. . .] [W]hile China's economy is just 76 percent as big as the U.S. economy [today] in terms of its purchasing power parity. it will be as much as 43 percent larger than the U.S. by 2050."
-- "China's Economy to Double," Middle America News, April 2006, 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.


"The U.S. Census Bureau recently projected that the [. . .] population keeps growing because [. . .] a baby in the U.S. is born every eight seconds, a person dies every 14 seconds, and every 12 seconds an immigrant arrives."
-- "Immigration Briefs," Americans for Immigration Control, Middle America News, April 2006, 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.


"Laura [Bush] is a very distant cousin of Senator John McCain. Both are descendants of Allen Valentine, who lived in Virginia in the 1700s and served as a lieutenant colonel with North Carolina troops during the American Revolution."
-- "Things You Didn't Know about the First Lady," by Jim Meyers, NewsMax.com (the magazine), April 2006, page 20. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.




Posted here for 4-3-06:

"For 20 years America endured a nationally-imposed 55 MPH speed limit. And when the newly-installed GOP majority rescinded the law over Bill Clinton's many objections, liberals darkly warned it would unleash mayhem on the highways. We've now had nearly a decade of speed limits 10-15 MPH higher than before. and the outcome is exactly the opposite of what liberals predicted [. . .]"
-- The American Sentinel, March 2006, page 11. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"The American people are truly generous. A few weeks ago the 400 largest charities in the U.S. reported that their total donations rose 12 percent in the latest year. Total charitable giving in this country now exceeds $260 billion annually. That is much higher on a per-capita basis than giving in any other nation. [. . .] [W]hich do you suppose are the most generous states? Surely the bleeding-heart, share-the-wealth homelands like Massachusetts, Oregon, Wisconsin, and California, right? Wrong. [. . .] People in the Red states give away a bigger portion of their income than counterparts in havens of Blue liberalism like California, Maryland, Washington, Vermont, and Oregon."
-- "Watch What They Do, Not What They Say," Scan, The American Enterprise, April 2006, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Many North Koreans are escaping into northern China, and some are coming back. One returned with a backpack containing five Bibles. For this 'crime,' he was beaten to death by North Korean soldiers on the river bank after crossing back from China. The average sentence for a Christian is 15 years in a political prisoner camp. But the average life expectancy inside the camp is only five years."
-- "Christianity Flourishing in World's Most Oppressed Nations," by Todd Nettleton, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 35. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 3-27-06:

"Though blacks and Hispanics make up 15 percent and 18 percent of America's young adult population, respectively, they have each represented less than 11 percent of the fatalities in Iraq. Fully 75 percent of the soldiers killed in Iraq have been whites (who make up 61 percent of our military age population)."
-- "Red State GIs," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 6-12, 2006, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"'Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael Steele . . . are fair because he is a conservative Republican. Such attacks include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him 'Uncle Tom,' and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel."
-- From the Washington Times, as quoted in "Liberals Operate Under a Different Set of Rules," QuickQuotes, The New American, January 23, 2006, page 11. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Users of Black Entertainment Television's website have elected Louis Farrakhan as the 2005 BET.com Person of the Year. They chose Mr. Farrakhan over Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Robert L. Johnson, who started BET, and 'the suffering victims of Hurricane Katrina of New Orleans'."
-- "Hero of Hate," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, March 2006, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"[O]ur nation's highest court [the U.S. Supreme Court] has reversed itself over 200 times."
-- "So Much for 'Super-Duper' Precedents," by Jane Chastain, Whistleblower, February 2006, page 10. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"The February 2005 edition of Consumer Reports reviewed 23 different condoms, and Planned Parenthood's Honeydew condom ranked dead last! The organization's 'Colors' condom ranked second to last!"
-- "Making a Bloody Fortune," by Dr. Kelly Hollowell, Whistleblower, February 2006, page 34. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 3-20-06:

"Mengistu of Ethiopia, who let his people starve while he celebrated ten years of 'revolution,' [. . .] played whites for fools. Once word got out about the famine, whites shipped in tons of food. Mengistu learned that it made no difference what he did with it -- sell it on the black market, dole it out to friendly tribes, deny it to starving enemies -- it kept coming. Gaafar Numeiri of the Sudan learned the same thing. The famine of 1984 did him a lot of good. White people showed up with boatloads of food he could use as a weapon. Whites fed his people while he bought guns and kept killing his enemies."
-- "Will Whites Ever Learn," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, February 2006, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Uproars over criticism of radical Islam almost always follow the same ironic trajectory. First, someone makes an observation about the violent character of Mohammed or Islam. Then what follows? Violent protests and rioting, which serve to illustrate and confirm vividly the criticism that occasioned them. Only radical Muslims would consider rioting a rational rebuttal to descriptions of Islam as violent. What other religious group riots or issues death threats after it is criticized? It is precisely because Christianity is so tame that Western liberals often feel safe to lampoon its history as violent. They wouldn't dare level similarly harsh criticism of Islam."
-- "Validating Critics," Culture, etc., from "'Religion of Peace' or Riots," by George Neumayr, at NationalReview.com as quoted in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 20-26, 2006, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Sandia National Laboratories of Albuquerque, New Mexico, gave homosexuals special rights, but when Christians asked for them, they were denied. [. . .] Even family pictures were forbidden after homosexuals complained that they found it 'offensive' to view photos of traditional families."
-- "The War on Christianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 8. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 3-13-06:

"The Episcopal Diocese of Washington. D.C., voted in January at its annual meeting to nominate deceased leftwing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall for sainthood when the national church holds its general conference in June."
-- Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2006, 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.


"New York City is America's undisputed abortion capital, with 40 out of every 100 women in the Big Apple opting to use the controversial procedure to end their pregnancies."
-- "New York City Declared Abortion Capital of U.S.," NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2006, page 42. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Violent crime is 50 percent higher in Canada than in the U.S. . . . According to the Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb . . . 'Canada's experience has simply demonstrated that no matter what kind of gun-control law a government passes, that law is doomed to failure because . . . the law disarms the wrong people."
-- "Violent Crime Higher in Canada than U.S.," NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2006, page 76. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"The cost of college for a baby born today may go as high as $160,000 per year."
-- "Save Now to Prepare for the Tuition Torrent," NewsMax.com (the magazine), March 2006, page 80. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Environmental activists have prevented the building of a reinforced fence [along the U.S. border with Mexico], claiming it would harm fragile estuary habitat."
-- "We Can Control Our Borders," by William F. Jasper, The New American, January 23, 2006, page 18. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 3-6-06:

"The New York Daily News reports that Chelsea Clinton is quietly, almost secretly, dating a young investment banker named Marc Mezvinsky. [. . .] Marc's father is former Rep. Ed Mezvinsky (D.-Iowa.), who is currently serving a seven-year sentence for defrauding investors out of an estimated $10 million."
-- "Hillary Watch," Human Events, February 27, 2006, page 9. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Democrats have taken more money from lobbyists than Republicans during the past 15 years, according to an independent analysis of campaign contributions."
-- "Lobbyists Have Given More to Democrats," by Charles Hurt, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 20-26, 2006, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked president Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program earlier this month during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies."
-- "Carter Allowed Same Type of Surveillance As 'Disgraceful' Bush," by Charles Hurt, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 20-26, 2006, page 3. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The Barrett Report, an investigation into a cover-up by the Clinton Administration of tax fraud and perjury by their Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros, has finally been released. [. . .] According to one published report, Hillary and Bill's attorneys were allowed to have the report revised 26 times before it was released. Another published report showed Bill and Hillary's attorneys filed 146 motions to delete parts of the report! The results? 120 pages of the report were removed!"
-- "Right Where She Belongs. . ." an ad sponsored by the United States Justice Foundation (Website), as published in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 20-26, 2006, page 7. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"On February 9, the federal government announced that weekly jobless claims hit the lowest average in six years -- a sign of job growth in a strong economy. That night, none of the network newscasts reported the six-year low, and the following day, major newspapers all but ignored the story."
-- "Good News Axed," by Ken Shepherd, from FreeMarketProject, as quoted in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 20-26, 2006, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 2-27-06:

"The last bird flu to hit the United States did so during the height of World War I, [. . .] and it killed far more Americans than did the Kaiser's armies. By the time the epidemic burned itself out in 1919, half a million Americans had died. That flu virus had migrated back with returning troops. [. . .] [T]he 1918-19 global pandemic [. . .] killed an estimated 50 million worldwide [. . .]"
-- The American Sentinel, February 2006, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Women's Resource Center administrators at UNC-Wilmington [. . .] decided to hang cartoon pictures of Condoleezza Rice (featured standing in a cage holding a bunch of bananas) all over the university library. [. . . They] decided to hang cartoon pictures of a woman kicking a man in the face while using obscenities. [And they hired] anonymous feminists [. . . who] dressed as apes and threw bananas at a UNCW audience in 2004."
-- "Squeaky Chalk," by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, November 2005, page 3. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"[T]he Heritage Foundation has released its Index of Economic Freedom, and for the very first time, the United States isn't even in the top ten free nations. We are tied with Switzerland for 12th place. Clearly, American liberty is dying."
-- "Why Freedom21.com?" by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, December 2005, page 4, 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.


"According to a Gallup survey, one out of every five small businesses decides not to introduce a new product or improve an existing one because of fear of litigation. . . . The huge costs of our legal system create an average 'litigation tax' of 2.5% on every product we buy. The tab for our out-of-control legal system comes to about $1,200 per person per year. . . . Asbestos suits alone have already bankrupted more than 60 companies, cost billions of dollars and lost 60,000 jobs. Companies being sued out of business today have nothing to do with the manufacture of asbestos. . . . A 2002 Medical Economics survey of 1,800 physicians found that 58% had been the target of a lawsuit. Nearly 80% of doctors say that they order unnecessary tests and 74% say that they make unnecessary referrals to specialists because of fear of being sued."
-- From a solicitation letter from James R. Copland, director, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York 10017. Phone: 212-599-7000. Fax: 212-599-3494. Website.




Posted here for 2-20-06:

"China is 'cornering the market for an obscure group of minerals that are vital to high-technology industry,' reported the January 22 International Herald Tribune. The Asian behemoth now supplies approximately 95 percent of the world's consumption of 'rare earths,' such as cerium, neodymium, lathanum, yttrium, and dysprosium."
-- "Beijing Cornering Strategic Minerals," The New American, February 20, 2006, 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.


"For most of our nation's history, newcomers were strongly urged to Americanize -- be proud of our country and learn our customs and language -- but nowadays less than 40 percent of immigrants believe they should take on American values."
-- "The Story of Immigration in America," by Michael E. Telzrow, The New American, February 20, 2006, page 33. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Dr. Jerry Falwell's 'Old-Time Gospel Hour' and Dr. James Dobson's 'Focus on the Family' must now edit their Canadian programs to remove anything that might be deemed critical of homosexuality, including Bible verses on the subject and information like the fact that according to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of the cases of AIDS in the U.S. are men who engage in homosexual sex."
-- "The War on CHristianity," by Janet L. Folger, Whistleblower, December 2005, page 8. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"Leftist anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was paid $ 11,000 to give an hour-long speech at State University College in Oneonta, New York. The payment ate up nearly 30 percent of the school's annual lecture budget. Meanwhile, retired Army officer Scott Rutter, a FOX News analyst who fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom, also spoke at the college. He was paid $600."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, March 2006, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"The NEA [National Education Association] gave more than $65 million in 2005 to Amnesty International, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Human Rights Campaign, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the National Women's Law Center, People for the American Way and other groups with minimal ties to education. 'It's well understood that the NEA is an arm of the Democratic National Committee,' write the [Wall Street] Journal's editors.' (Or is it the other way around?)"
-- "NEA Backs Left-Wing Causes, Reports Wall Street Journal," Capital Research Center Labor Watch, February 2006, page 6. Published by Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1480. Phone: 202-483-6900 or 800-459-3950. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 2-13-06:

"Michele White, an assistant communications prof at Tulane University [. . .] noted that 'pointer icons, depicted as pointing hands on most computer programs, are almost always white'. 'Such iconography presents a view of the Internet that assumes that users are white,' said the professor, adding that this 'reinforces notions that white hands are the ones in control.'"
-- "Original Research," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, February 2006, page 2. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"Abortion destroys the psychological health of teenage girls. This is the finding of a large new study that has statistics on this point so dramatic that even pro-lifers may have trouble believing them. The pro-abortion lead author of the study, Prof. David Fergusson of Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Christchurch, New Zealand, told Australia's ABC news, in summary. that abortion causes mental health problems, not the other way around, and women's backgrounds had nothing to do with it."
-- "Abortion Causes Massive Mental Health Problems," by Joseph A. D'Agostino, Human Events, January 30, 2006, page 21. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"According to the November 1992 issue of Science, termites annually generate more than twice as much carbon dioxide as mankind does burning fossil fuels. [. . .] Humans contribute only 5% of atmospheric carbon dioxide; nature does the rest. Political satirist H.L. Mencken warned, 'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.' The environmentalist agenda is more sinister. While the Soviet Union has collapsed, communism is not dead. It has [been] repackaged under a new name: environmentalism. Communism is about extensive government regulation and control by elites, and so is environmentalism."
-- "Environmental Radicals' Agenda Red, Not Green," by Walter E. Williams, Human Events, December 5, 1997, page 11. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"[A] pair of researchers [Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton found] that '57% of Catholic youth maybe or definitely believe in reincarnation, 46% in astrology, 48% in communicating with the dead, and 32% in psychics and fortunetellers. . . . On the other hand, 33% of conservative Protestant youth maybe or definitely believe in reincarnation, 33% in astrology, 31% in communicating with the dead, and 21% in psychics and fortune tellers.' [. . .] [I]n the U.S., 63% of self-professed Christian teens do not believe that Jesus is the Son of the one true God, and 58% believe all faiths teach equally-valued truths."
-- "Face It!" by Ed Vitagliano, American Family Association Journal, February 2006, page 20. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"On Jan. 5, 2005. a drug runner named Noel Exinia, who was engaged in transporting more than 500 pounds of cocaine from Mexico to New York City, revealed in a telephone conversation that he was interested in other kinds of cargo as well. He spoke about 20 Iraqis who would pay $8,000 to get into the United States. According to Exinia, they were 'Osama's people.' What's more, they were 'dangerous . . . really bad people.' Exinia admitted he was afraid of them. No one would have known any of this had it not been for the fact that Exinia's call was recorded. The recording was permissible under the Patriot Act. [. . .] The FBI has declined all comment on the Exinia case. No one will even say whether 'Osama's people' made it into the U.S. or were headed off."
-- "Preserving the Constitution While Saving Civilization," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, January 23, 2006, page 15. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 2-6-06:

"Fifty percent of the regular NEA [National Education Association] members identified themselves in [a recent] survey as either 'conservative' or 'tend conservative,' and only 40% identified themselves as 'liberal' or 'tend liberal.' However, 82% of the presidents of the larger local NEA affiliates identified themselves as liberal, while only 14% identified as conservative."
-- "Liberal Leadership Entrenched in NEA," American Family Association Journal, November/December 2005, page 7. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"John Kerry offered to make John McCain his running mate on at least seven separate occasions. He even proposed to 'expand the role of Vice President to include Secretary of Defense and the overall control of foreign policy,' reported Newsweek. McCain told Kerry he was 'out of his mind.'"
-- "Democrats' War Contributions," Scan, The American Enterprise, January 2005/February 2006, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"At present, 33 billionaires live in Moscow, versus 31 in New York City."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, January 2005/February 2006, page 17. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"A hospital in West Yorkshire, England banned visitors from cooing at newborn babies over fears that the infants' human rights were being violated."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, January 2005/February 2006, page 17. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"After years of haranguing the U.S. for refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, E.U. leaders admit they will miss their own Kyoto guidelines, and have actually increased greenhouse emissions by 1.1 percent."
-- "A 2005 Rollick," by James Lileks, The American Enterprise, January 200 5/February 2006, page 34. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 1-30-06:

"Drug smugglers armed with automatic weapons, global-positioning units and night-vision scopes have become increasingly aggressive in protecting their illicit cargoes, and attacks on Border Patrol agents have risen fivefold in the past year. Mexican drug cartels are even running illegal marijuana farms in our national parks, protected by booby traps and guards carrying AK-47s."
-- "Guest-Worker/Amnesty Is Immoral," The Phyllis Schlafly Report, January 2006, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"New information is starting to come out the Iraqi government had direct ties to Al Qaeda and the Taliban based in terrorist-controlled Afghanistan."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2006, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Gun Owners of America has made a running tally of how many U.S. troops in Iraq have died in combat as a percent of their total force. It turns out this war zone has a death rate among U.S. soldiers of about 60 per 100,000 over a 22-month period. The death by firearms rate in Washington DC (where guns are illegal) is about 80.6 firearms deaths per 100,000 residents. It boils down to this: You are 25% more likely to die from a gunshot wound in the nation's capital, where gun laws are nearly absolutist, than you do in war-torn Iraq."
-- The American Sentinel, January 2006, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"In the 1990s, immigrants and their children were responsible for 100 percent of the population growth of California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts, and over half the population growth of Florida, Texas, Michigan, and Maryland."
-- The Death of the West, by Patrick J. Buchanan, 2002, page 141. Published by St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010.




Posted here for 1-23-06:

"Teenagers are taking more mind-alering drugs -- but under doctor's orders. Drug prescriptions meant to counter depression, anxiety and mood or attention disorders in teens increased by 250 percent between 1994 and 2001, according to a Brandeis University study released on Jan. 3."
-- "Doctors Prescribing More Mind-Altering Drugs for Teens," by Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 9-15, 2006, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


""If we told you that an organization gave away more than $65 million last year to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Amnesty International, AIDS Walk Washington and dozens of other such advocacy groups, you'd probably assume we were describing a liberal philanthropy. In fact, those expenditures have all turned up on the financial disclosure report of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union:' according to a Wall Street Journal editorial."
-- "Teacher Donations," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 9-15, 2006, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"We lead the world in fatherless families -- 40 percent of children fall asleep without a resident father regularly within reach."
-- "You've Got Male," by Lionel Tiger, in the December 18th Opinion Journal, as quoted in "Emasculation," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 9-15, 2006, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The New York Sun recently reported that a campaign fund-raising group for Sen. Clinton, "New York Senate 2000," has agreed to pay a $35,000 civil penalty and to admit that reports it made to the federal government understated by $721,895 donations to a lavish, star-studded Hollywood fundraiser held on her behalf."
-- "Hill Gets Caught," Hillary Watch, Human Events, January 16, 2006, page 36. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 1-16-06:

"A stunning report recently issued by the National Center for Health Statistics, a department within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed that more than half of teenagers 15-19 had participated in oral sex." [The Clinton legacy lives!]
-- "Chickens Coming Home to Roost," American Family Association Journal, January 2006, page 4. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"It may only be in its beginning stages, but the 'polyamorist movement' may be grabbing onto the coat tails of the increasingly effective homosexual movement. 'Polyamorists' are individuals who maintain more than one emotional-sexual relationship simultaneously, believing that monogamy is unnatural. Relationships can be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual."
-- "Coming Soon: 'Polyamorist Rights'?" American Family Association Journal, January 2006, page 8. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Website.


"Will-Mart. Ford Motor Co., AT&T, and Fannie Mae are among the major U.S. corporations whose foundations fund the liberal groups now waging war against Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation."
-- "Corporate Foundations Fund Anti-Alito Coalition," by Timothy P. Carney, Human Events, December 19, 2005, page 1. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"During their reign in the White House, the Clintons targeted conservative organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, Concerned Women for America, Citizens Against Government Waste, The National Review, The National Rifle Association, and Citizens for Honest Government with IRS audits. Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick -- who were sexually assaulted by President Clinton -- were also subjected to IRS audits."
-- "Of Note," Judicial Watch Verdict, January 2006, page 5. Address: 501 School Street, SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. Website.


"Iraqi soldiers [. . .] now suffer twice the battlefield casualties of their U.S. counterparts. And despite attacks targeted at them, Iraqi police and army recruitments remain at an all-time high."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 1-9-06:

"Bin Laden says he's counting on the U.S. media for victory. [. . .] [H]e said, [. . .] '[W]hat the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media are doing.'"
-- The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Politically-correct French officials and the Western news media resist pointing out that the massive riots in 300+ French cities were mostly incited and organized by young Muslim men [. . .] A leftist German newspaper quotes one of the young rioters as text-messaging another: 'We aren't going to let up. The French won't do anything and soon we will be the majority.'"
-- The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-PA, has called for doubling annual legal immigration to the U.S."
-- "GOP Honcho Wants More Immigration," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, January 2005, pages 3-4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Although [Oswaldo] Martinez, 34, has been arrested and charged with capital murder, rape, and sodomy, it is likely that his disabilities may save his life. Defense lawyers claim that Martinez is a deaf mute. [. . .] Since Martinez is hearing impaired and speaks no English and little Spanish, his defenders assert he is not competent to stand trial. They also claim that he has suffered many disadvantages, by growing up in a large, poor family in El-Salvador."
-- "Another Girl Murdered," Middle America News, January 2005, page 10. 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 Chinese company has begun marketing kidneys, livers and other organs from executed prisoners to sick Britons in need of transplants."
-- "Chinese Inmates' Organs Available for Sale to Britons," by Richard Spencer, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 26, 2005 - January 1, 2006, page 24. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Many advocates of clemency for Stanley 'Tookie' Williams note that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in literature for his anti-gang work, which includes writing children's books. [. . .] Past [Nobel Peace Prize] nominees have included Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Fidel Castro."
-- "Who Doesn't Have a Nobel Nomination?" by Eugene Volokh, in the December 4 Los Angeles Times, as quoted in "Ignoble Nominees," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 26, 2005 - January 1, 2006, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.






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