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Posted here for 12-19-05:

"Some immigrants are bringing their own variety of "family values" with them to the U.S., including bestiality. Immigration apologists argue that such vile crimes should not be prosecuted, since the perverse practices are common throughout Latin America and the Middle East." [Such are the fruits of multiculturalism.]
-- "Our Pets Need Protection," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 2005, 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.


"Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh, 49, a 'hard working' cab driver and Middle East native who entered the U.S. years ago on a student visa and never returned home, was sentenced to five years in prison after video surveillance cameras caught him sprinkling his own dried feces on bread and cookies at a Fiesta grocery store in Dallas, Texas. Customers complained that the fresh-baked items smelled and tasted like manure."
-- "Dangerous Alien-Enhanced Pastries," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 2005, 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.


"Thugs and burglars will soon be able to break into homes and assault passersby in San Francisco without fear of being shot. The city's voters last month approved a ballot measure to disarm residents."
-- "Come and Get It," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, December 2005, 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.


"In Indonesia. support for terrorism has fallen from 27% to 15% since 2002; Pakistan from 41% to 25% since 2004. Morocco from 40% support of terrorism to 13% since 2004. Bin Laden's popularity has declined among Muslims generally -- the terror master's support is under 10% in Al Qaeda hotbeds such as Lebanon, for example."
-- The American Sentinel, December 2005, page 3. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"[T]error experts now believe that the next 9-11 -- the long-planned 'American Hiroshima' - will come from the virulent al-Qaida cells in South and Central America."
-- "Al-Qaida in America's Backyard," by Paul L. Williams, Whistleblower, November 2005, page 5. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 8-25-05:

"Fully 31 states allow people to vote without the showing of a photo ID. Yet try to check into a hotel, rent a video or open a bank account without your drivers license."
-- "Note of Amazement," The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"[O]f all the quotations from [the Founding Fathers'] sources of study, 34 percent were directly from the Bible. . ."
-- "Philosophy or Motive?" by E. Ralph Hostetter, eco-logic Powerhouse, September 2005, page 21. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.


"'In 1964, there were 268,000 ROTC students on America's campuses,' Rep. [Chris] Cox [R-Ca.] noted. 'Today, it is down to 50,000, a decline of more than 80 percent.'"
-- "In Search of ROTC," by Malcolm A. Kline, CampusReport, January 2005, page 1. Address: Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website.


"America, responsible for one fifth of global GDP in 1980, produced one third of global GDP in 2003. That is Ronald Reagan's legacy."
-- "Ronald Reagan and the Spirit of Free Enterprise," by George Gilder, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, August 2004, page 2. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.


"From the moment Rosa Parks died at the age of 92, until she was buried nine days later, virtually every politician and organ of the media competed to see who could heap the most praise on a woman invariably referred to as a 'civil rights icon.' She became only the 30th person -- and the first woman -- to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, where President George Bush laid a wreath. Her casket was accompanied by a military honor guard for memorial services in Washington, before she was buried on November 2 in a seven-hour funeral in Detroit. The President ordered that all flags over federal buildings and bases fly at half mast. It was an astonishing tribute to a woman whose lifetime of achievement began and ended in one afternoon. [. . .] Far from being an accidental hero, Parks was carefully groomed for her role. A white integrationist. Virginia Durr, had paid for Parks to attend civil rights strategy seminars at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. The school, known to be rife with Communist sympathizers, was under FBI surveillance. [. . .] Parks's role was strictly limited: keep her seat and hold her tongue. Others swung into action immediately to organize the boycott. [. . .] Surely, never in the history of the world, has so small an act won such praise."
-- "A Curious Madness," by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, December 2005, pages 8-9. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 12-5-05:

"The Centers for Disease Control did an extensive review of various types of gun control: waiting periods, registration and licensing, and bans on certain firearms. It found that the idea that gun control laws have reduced violent crime is simply a myth."
-- "Myths about Gun Control," by John Stossel, America's First Freedom, December 2005, page 72. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.


"The Third World fear of being left hopelessly behind the U.S. is what animates many proponents of the Kyoto Global Warming Accord, designed to greatly restrict the U.S.'s use of energy -- and thus our growth."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"While pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren was busy taking in victims of Hurricane Katrina and arranging for their care by church families, CBS's Harry Smith was worried that the victims might have to actually pray, attend church or -- secularism forbid! -- endure an actual conversation about Christianity. On the Sept. 6 'Early Show,' Smith said to Warren: 'Let me ask you this, though: Is this an opportunity for a church to witness? Or if I'm a family, [. . .] do I need to be concerned that I'm going to go live with a church family, are they going to proselytize me, are they going to say, you better come to church with me or else, I'm, you know, you're not going to get your breakfast this morning?'"
-- "Separation of Church and Hurricane Victims," News Flash, October 2005, page 4. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.




Posted here for 12-5-05:

"Professor Maratin Fiebert of California State University at Long Beach compiled a bibliography of 170 scholarly investigatins, 134 empirical studies and 36 analyllses which demonstrate that women are almost as physically abusive toward their partners as men. Studies by the leading domestic violence researchers found that half of all couple violence is mutual, and when only one partner is physically abusive, it is as likely to be initiated by the woman as the man."
-- "Time to Defund Feminist Pork -- the Hate-Men Law," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, October 2005, page 3. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


"An estimated 40% of our nation's children are now living in homes without their own father. Most social problems are caused by kids who grow up in homes without their own fathers: drug abuse, illicit sexual activity, unwed pregnancies, youth suicide, high school dropouts, runaways, and crime."
-- "Time to Defund Feminist Pork -- the Hate-Men Law," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, October 2005, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.


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Posted here for 11-28-05:

"Ex-president Bill Clinton didn't press Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to help with the FBI's investigation into the June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing because he feared Abdullah would hike oil prices and hurt his re-election chances, according to former Clinton adviser Dick Morris."
-- "Report: Khobar Probe Sacrificed for Oil," Inside Cover, NewsMax.com (the magazine), November 2005, page 12. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"The current wisdom pegs the price tag [for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita] at $200 billion - but that figure apparently applies only to rebuilding New Orleans and the rest of the hurricane damaged areas of Louisiana."
-- "Costly Katrina: The Flood of Red Ink Keeps Rising," by Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com (the magazine), November 2005, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"[A]t the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire [. . .] you can live in a dorm and watch a performance of 'The Vagina Monologues,' but you can't join a Bible Studies group."
-- "The Slow Death of Free Speech," by Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 14-20, 2005, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The Northern coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge contains a mean estimate of lO.4 billion barrels of oil, according to the most recent United States Geological Survey report. This represents a 45 percent increase in total U.S. proven reserves, and could create more than 735,000 U.S. jobs. [. . .] [B]elieve it or not, America is sitting on an oil resource that dwarfs ANWR, and the Middle Eastern countries. Studies estimate we can find 2 trillion barrels of oil, four times Saudi Arabia's resources, in oil shale deposits scattered across the nation. Oil shale is a rock that, when heated, releases a liquid that can be processed into oil. Its production costs are far cheaper than alternative transportation fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel."
-- "Shortage of Resources, or Lack of Political Will?" by Representative Richard Pombo, eco-logic Powerhouse, November 2005, page 22. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 11-21-05:

"While left-wingers spend their time antagonizing normal folks over Indian sports team names, a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution has discovered that the term 'redskin' was first used by Indians to distinguish themselves from white folks."
-- "Red Skin, White Skin," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2005, 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.


"Attorney James Fineberg wants Federal Express to change the test it gives to employees to determine who gets promoted. The reason? Blacks and other 'minorities' fail the test at twice the rate of whites. [. . .] FedEx said its promotions are based on entirely objective factors, not race, and include time of service, a basic skills test, and performance evaluations. Poor FedEx doesn't yet realize that suits based on claims of 'discrimination' have nothing whatever to do with objective reality."
-- "Objective Reality under Scrutiny," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, November 2005, 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.


"Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican. Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an 'Uncle Tom' and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log."
-- "'Party Trumps Race' for Steel Foes," by S. A. Miller, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 7-13, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Albert Shanker, head of the nation's second largest teacher's union, the American Federation of Teachers, [admitted] that 'Ninery-five percent of the kids who go to college in the United States would not be admitted to college anywhere else in the world.'"
-- "A Crisis on Campus," by Jim Nelson Black, Whistleblower, September 2005, page 8. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 11-14-05:

"The September 7 unveiling of the design for the Flight 93 National Memorial prompted outrage: it features a huge red crescent hugging the ground in rural Pennsylvania where Flight 93 went down after passengers rushed their hijackers. Its proposed name: "Crescent of Embrace." Incorporating the symbol of Islam, the religion of the hijackers, expresses at best a squishy ambiguity about the terrorists that the heroes of Flight 93 emphatically rejected; at worst, it glorifies them."
-- "Philanthropy Notes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, October 2005, 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.


"CAIR [Council on American-Islamic Relations] chairman Omar Ahmad reportedly told a crowd of California Muslims, 'Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America."
-- "Organization Trends," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, August 2005, 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.


"Professor Barry Dank of California State University at Long Beach feels that he has the God-given right to sleep with his students. Dank founded a group dedicated to preserving this crucial liberty: Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He calls restrictions on such relationships 'an attack on young women,' and claims that if universities ban student-teacher playtime, young women will lose the "freedom to decide what they want and what they don't want." Dank married one of his former students, twenty years his junior."
-- "Sex in the Classroom," by Ben Shapiro, Whistleblower, September 2005, pages 20, 25. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.


"Texas Tech [. . .] professor, Michael Dini, began outlining his criteria for any student wanting a recommendation to medical school or a graduate science school. Dini said he would only write recommendations for students who had: earned an A in his class, for students he knew fairly well, and for students who would affirm the theory of evolution."
-- "Behind Closed Doors," by Abby Nye, Whistleblower, September 2005, page 26. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.




Posted here for 11-7-05:

"Media Research Center analysts found that more than half of all of this year's war stories (61 percent) focused on pessimistic topics, four times as many as discussed the progress being made by U.S. forces or Iraqi leaders (just 15 percent). The networks made terrorist attacks the centerpiece of their Iraq coverage, while few stories focused on the bravery or accomplishments of U.S. soldiers."
-- "Negative Coverage," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 24-30, 2005, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A rubber company in China has begun marketing condoms under the brand names Clinton and Lewinsky, apparently seeking to exploit the White House affair that led to the impeachment of America's 41st president. [. . . The] Clinton condoms will go on sale in southern China for 29.8 Yuan ($3.72) for a box of 12, while the Lewinsky model will be priced at 18.8 Yuan ($2.35) for the same quantity."
-- "China Names a Condom after Clinton," Inside Cover, with Carl Limbacher, NewsMax.com (the magazine), October 2005, page 11. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"[C]onservatives sleep more soundly than liberals, a dream researcher has found. ]. . .] Liberals have more dreams than conservatives, and their dreams are more 'bizarre.' [. . .] Liberal women remember more of their dreams, have the poorest quality sleep - and report the most dreams about homosexuality. Conservative men, by contrast, have the hardest time remembering their dreams and enjoy the soundest sleep. They a1so report no dreams about homosexuality. [W]hen Bill Clinton was in the White House, conservatives had significantly more nightmares than liberals, according to the Daily News. But since George W. Bush has become president, conservatives have had fewer nightmares - and liberals are having more."
-- "Critics Lose Sleep over Bush, Researcher Says," NewsMax.com (the magazine), October 2005, page 89. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"The Clinton Global Initiative, a project of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, held a conference September 15-17 called 'Escape from Poverty.' Tickets were $15,000 apiece."
-- "Philanthropy Notes," Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, October 2005, 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.


"America Coming Together [ACT], the 527 group formed to unseat President Bush announced in August that it is shuttering its operations. At its peak, it employed 6,000 people in 78 field offices and raised $200 million -- nearly $40 million from George Soros and associate Peter Lewis, who cut off support for the group after the 2004 elections. The Washington Post called ACT a 'great success' by 'all measures but one.' That's one way of putting it."
-- "Briefly Noted," Capital Research Center Foundation Organization Trends, September 2005, 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.




Posted here for 10-24-05:

"[I]n the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, [England . . .], employees were told they were no longer allowed to have any representations of pigs at their desks. Some had little porcelain figurines. Others had toys or calendars of cute little pigs. One had a tissue box depicting Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. All of this had to go, not because of some new anti-kitsch ordinance, but because Muslims might be offended [. . . .]"
-- "Britain's Disappearing Pigs," by Robert Spencer, Human Events, October 10, 2005, page 14. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"In Ireland, the term 'brainstorming,' used by business executives to generate ideas among their staffs, has been deemed politically incorrect by civil servants, because it might be offensive to people with brain disorders, according to Pcblogspot.com. From now on, the staff at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Belfast, will use the tern 'thought showers,' when they gather to discuss new ideas. [. . .] 'Brainstonning" was on its list of banned words, as well as 'nit-picking' and 'manila,' because of their origins in the slave trade."
-- "Brainstorming Banned," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, August 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 Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [. . .] recently distributed an alert, calling for families with "gay children" from the ages of 9 through 15 to be a part of a documentary. Apparently, PFLAG believes that children can not only be gay at age nine, but they should go on camera to talk about it."
-- "PTA Joins NEA in Culture War," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, August 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.


"It took the New York Times 16 days to acknowledge the theft of the personal credit report of Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, Maryland Republican, by a pair of operatives working for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, led by Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York. On Oct. 6, the Times addressed the fraudulent act in an A-section news story -- on page 28 -- headlined 'Democrats are on defensive in Maryland state race.'"
-- "N.Y. Times Held Story for 16 Days," by Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 10-16, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Dr. Paul Williams, author of Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11 and The Al Qaeda Connection, says that Osama has already smuggled seven to ten suitcase nuclear bombs into the U.S. through the Mexican border. In addition, 8,000 illegals from terror-suspect countries such as Yemen, Sudan, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have come across the Mexican border into the U.S. in the past six months. And, most alarming of all, Adnon el-Shukrijumah and Amer el-Maati, Osama's ringleaders of his 'American Hiroshima' Project, where he plans to blow up seven to ten American cities with nukes, have now entered the U.S. through Mexico! The American Hiroshima starts now!"
-- From an ad in The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 10-16, 2005, page 7. The ad referenced this Website.




Posted here for 10-17-05:

"The U.S. Census Bureau reported last month that Texas became the fourth state with a non-white majority Population. The change was driven mostly by massive Mexican and Latin American immigration."
-- "The New America," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2005, 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.


"The anti-white Nation of Islam is calling on violent rival street gangs to stop fighting each other and to join forces in a holy war against the Los Angeles Police Department. [. . .] 'Don't Fight! Unite!,' [a] flyer says. "The only way to stop police brutality is to declare JIHAD on the L.A.P.D."
-- "The Enemy Within," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, October 2005, 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.


"The buzz is afoot former president Bill Clinton may try to wrest control of California's formidable political machinery by challenging Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 9. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Former liberal pundit for CNN Michael Kinsley has publicly said guests brought on to talk about hurricane Katrina were coached to express outrage while on the air (apparently to enflame a public backlash against the Bush Administration)."
-- The American Sentinel, October 2005, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"[S]tate Rep. Tom Stevenson (R-Pa.) [. . .] submitted a bill to the House Transportation Committee in June that would require drivers to keep their dogs' heads inside the vehicle at all times. [. . .] .Stevenson also wants to require drivers to restrain the animals, either with some kind of modified seat belt or in a crate or carrier box."
-- "Pol Push Doggie Seatbelts," Squeaky Chalk, by Deborah Lambert, CampusReport, August 2005, page 2. 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 10-10-05:

"The Associated Press ran stories on Aug.3 about a panda bear who gave birth but whose 'second baby died in the womb,' and a brain-dead woman who was kept alive 'to give her fetus more time to develop ...' Hmm. Bears have babies and women have fetuses? Apparently alerted to its clear bias against human babies, the AP changed both stories in subsequent reports several hours later."
-- "Panda 'Baby,' Human 'Fetus'," News Flash, September 2005, page 4. Address: Media Research Center, 325 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Phone: 800-672-1423. Website.


"On May 14.2003. Jamaican Tyrone Williams picked up a tractor-trailer full of 70 illegal aliens in Harlingen, Texas, and began driving them across the state through the scorching heat. [. . .] In all, 19 died in what authorities claimed was the deadliest human smuggling attempt in US history. [. . .] Lawyers for the families of seven of the dead illegals are suing Great Dane, Inc., the manufacturer of the trailer. They say the company is responsible for the deaths because the trailer had no ventilation system and no escape latches. The suit also faults Great Dane for not putting labels in the trailer saying people shouldn't be hauled in it."
-- "Some Nerve," O Tempora, O Mores! American Renaissance, September 2005, page 14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"A book for ninth-graders called The Teenage Guy's Survival Guide, describes pornography as 'natural and fine'."
-- "Sexual Content in Books Ignites a Feud in Arkansas Schools," by George Archibald, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 26-October 2, 2005, page 10. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"56% of British Muslims polled after the July 7 attacks [in London] said whether or not they sympathized with the bombers, they could 'understand' [the terrorists'] motivations. [. . .] 32% of British Muslims agreed with the statement 'Western society is decadent and immoral and Muslims should seek to bring it to an end.'"
-- The American Sentinel, September 2005, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Middle Eastern men have been spotted probing U.S. flight zones with portable missile launchers. [. . .] The General Accounting Office says hundreds of advanced U.S.-made Stinger portable anti-aircraft missiles have gone missing since 1991."
-- The American Sentinel, September 2005, page 4. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 10-3-05:

"The federal response [to Hurricane Katrina] was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne. [. . .] Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge [. . .] libel as a 'national disgrace' the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history."
-- Pittsburgh Press-Gazette national security writer Jack Kelly, as quoted in "Ignorant Reporters," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 19-25, 2005, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A poll for the Pew Hispanic Center finds that 55 percent of Americans of Mexican descent consider themselves Mexicans first." [The "melting pot" is no longer melting.]
-- "The Menace of Multiculturalism," by Suzanne Fields, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 19-25, 2005, page 29. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"In 1965, Ireland ordained 659 men to the Catholic priesthood. In 2005, the total will be eight. The nation that once sent missionaries around the world now has only one Catholic seminary."
-- "Endangered: Religious Euros," Scan, The American Enterprise, October-December 2005, page 11. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Asked who he wanted to win in the war between Saddam and Western allies, the French foreign minister replied he didn't know. According to polls, a third of his countrymen were rooting for Saddam Hussein."
-- "Europeans Go AWOL in the Terror War," by Richard Chesnoff, The American Enterprise, October-December 2005, page 41. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Roughly 80 percent of prisoners who 'find faith' while in prison convert to Islam."
-- "Foiling Homegrown Terror Plots," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 12-18, 2005, page 37. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 9-26-05:

"Hundreds of recipes prepared for inmates at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are included in 'The Gitmo Cookbook' [which[ will sell for $8.95, and profits will be donated to a military charity."
-- "Gitmo's 'Gourmet Fare': Cookbook Offers More than Bread and Water," by James Langton, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 4-10, 2005, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"In July, New York City police arrested 31-year-old Bernard Marti on charges that he shot a 23-year-old patron in the thigh at Cordato's Restaurant in Greenwich Village. Marti and the patron had reportedly argued over which Spanish-speaking country was superior. What makes the arrest particularly newsworthy is that Bernard Marti is a community affairs officer in the New York Police Department's 25th precinct."
-- "A Matter of Pride," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, September 2005, 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.


"Things got a little confusing for the Rev. Al Sharpton after he left Cindy Sheehan's vigil site on Aug. 28. His driver was arrested by sheriff's deputies for reaching 110 miles per hour on an Ellis County highway, about 40 miles south of Dallas."
-- "Sharpton Mystery," Inside Politics, compiled by Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, September 5-11, 2005, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"More than 90 percent of all new immigrants vote for Democrats."
-- Savage Nation, by Michael Savage, 2002, page 125. Publisher: WND Books, a division of Thomas Nelson, Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee. Website.


"Not only are babies, even at or near birth, being killed every day in America -- this bastion of human rights -- but their organs are also being harvested and sold on the black market. They are being dissected, sometimes while still alive, and sold piece by piece. Ears for $75 a pair; arms and legs, $150; a brain for $999, tax not included."
-- Savage Nation, by Michael Savage, 2002, page 112. Publisher: WND Books, a division of Thomas Nelson, Incorporated, Nashville, Tennessee. Website.


"The United Kingdom's Channel 4 aired a documentary in January 2003 called Beijing Swings, which featured "performance artist" Zhu Yu eating the corpse of a dead baby."
-- The Death of Right and Wrong, by Tammy Bruce, 2003, page 243. Published by Prima Publishing, Roseville, California. Website.




Posted here for 9-19-05:

"Only one-third of scientists polled don't believe in God."
-- "Only One-Third of Scientists Polled Don't Believe in God," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 22-28, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The NCAA's executive committee decided last month to ban the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during post-season tournaments. [. . .] The NCAA did not define the meaning of hostile or abusive in team names, but Indian-referential names, such as the 'Redmen' of St. John's College, the 'Seminoles' of Florida State University, and the 'Fighting Illini' of Illinois State University are banned. However, names that refer to white people, such as Michigan State University's 'Spartans' are allowed. NCAA did not explain why names referring to Indians are 'abusive' while names referring to whites are not."
-- "Double (Nutty" Standard," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, September 2005, 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.


"Nearly one-forth of all births in the U.S. were to foreign-born mothers as of 2002, observed a recent study by the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies. One in ten mothers were illegal aliens. The center noted that the 2002 percentage of foreign-born mothers (23 percent) was the highest in the nation's history. It was 15 percent in 1990; nine percent in 1980; and six percent in 1970."
-- "Immigration Briefs," Middle America News, September 2005, 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.


"Although anti-depressants were the best-selling class of drugs between 1999 and 2001, they are not even 10 percent more effective than placebos; and they increase suicides versus people taking placebos."
-- "Lowering Healthcare Costs," by Kurt Williamsen, The New American, September 5, 2005, page 13. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.


"Dr. John Abramson of Harvard Medical School says that studies have shown that in people [around age 71], there is no correlation between high cholesterol and increased risk of death."
-- "Manipulating Medical Study Data," by Kurt Williamsen, The New American, September 5, 2005, page 29. 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 9-12-05:

"Arizona Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe is a cosponsor of an 'immigration reform' bill that would be tantamount to amnesty for illegal aliens. [. . .] Thus there might be an element of ironic justice in the fact that Kolbe's home in Sonoita, Arizona was burglarized by illegal aliens from Mexico. [. . .] [T]he intruders showered, prepared a meal in the microwave, and helped themselves to a change of the congressman's clothes."
-- "Poetic Justice?" The New American, September 5, 2005, 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.


"Sen. George Allen (R-VA) [. . .] co-sponsored, with Mary Landrieu (D-LA), an idiotic resolution apologizing for the Senate's refusal to pass federal anti-lynching legislation in the 1930s and 1940s (but tactfully not mentioning the primary reason -- filibuster threats by Southern Democrats)."
-- "Capitol Offenses," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, September 2005, page 12. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) office issued an e-mail in early August carping about George W. Bush's 33-day 'working vacation' at his Texas ranch -- never mentioning, of course, that Congress had already started its 36-day 'recess' holiday."
-- "Capitol Offenses," by Elizabeth Howard, Middle America News, September 2005, page 12. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website.


"Single-adult households have displaced two-parent families with children as the most common kind of U.S. household, the Census Bureau reported on Aug. 16."
-- "Nuclear Families Now Second Behind Single-Adult Homes," by Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 22-28, 2005, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Marriage [. . .] has been in an uninterrupted decline since the beginning of the so-called 'sexual revolution.' Between 1960 and 2004, the [annual] number of [weddings] per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15 and older dropped from 73.5 to 39.9."
-- "For Richer," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 22-28, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Pat Robertson caught endless grief last week for suggesting it might not be a bad idea for the U.S. to assassinate anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. [. . .] In the December 1, 1997, issue of Newsweek, [George Stephanopoulos wrote a column headlined, 'Why We Should Kill Saddam'." [There are no repercussions when a liberal suggests murdering a foreign leader; only when a conservative does.]
-- "Capital Briefs," Human Events, August 29, 2005, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 9-5-05:

"[T]he Washington Post pulled its sponsorship last week of a September 11 memorial walk organized by the Department of Defense. The event, dubbed 'Freedom Walk,' will honor victims of 9/11 and salute military veterans. [. . .] [T]he Post is still sponsoring the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association conference scheduled for next month in Chicago. . ."
-- "Liberal Bias," Capital Briefs, Human Events, August 22, 2005, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"There are more minorities in Texas than whites, and one in six U.S. Hispanics calls the state home, according to the latest census data."
-- "Minorities Now Outnumber Whites Living in State of Texas," by Tara Copp, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 15-21, 2005, page 11. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"More than one-third of college students have had sexual intercourse with six or more partners. [. . .] 43 percent of female college students say they have been pregnant. [. . .] 60 percent of sexually active college women are infected with human papillomavirus."
-- "Campus Crisis," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 15-21, 2005, page 23. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"TB is spread by airborne pathogens, and while most Americans believe TB was wiped out, almost 15,000 cases were reported last year -- about 53 percent of victims were illegal aliens (up from 29% in 1993)."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 8. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"Each detainee [in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba] gets [his] own U.S. taxpayer-funded prayer mat, cap and copy of the Koran! U.S. Soldiers may not touch the U.S. supplied Koran, except when wearing gloves. In other words, under current procedures, forgetting to wear a glove when handling the Koran is considered a violation of a prisoner's rights." [Why isn't the ACLU demanding separation of church and state, and suing the government for handing out the Koran?]
-- The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 10. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 8-29-05:

"Historians studying a newly discovered fragment of the oldest existing copy of the New Testament have concluded that the 'mark of the Beast' is more likely 616, not 666."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, September 2005, page 12. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Union longshoremen in Boston are under investigation by a state attorney general for allegedly placing children as young as 2 years old on their payroll. The children did not work and were paid for only a few hours a year, says Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly, but the scheme allowed them to build seniority and earn higher wages when they reach working age. Typically a 21-year-old hired as a longshoreman would be paid $16 an hour, but Reilly said a 21-year-old who had been on the payroll since age 2 would start at $28 an hours because of seniority."
-- "Gives a New Meaning to Child Labor," Labor Notes, Capital Research Center Labor Watch, July 2005, 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.


"On August 11, 2002, an activist (or activists) affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) torched a United States Forest Service research laboratory in Irvine, Pennsylvania, on the outskirts of the Allegheny National Forest. [. . .] [F]or the first time in the group's history, ELF threatened to shoot people who did not heed its call for environmental purity."
-- "Allegheny Armageddon?" by Samuel A. MacDonald, Capital Research Center Organization Trends, June 2005, page 5. 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 study by the non-partisan Bay Area for Voting Research found Detroit to be the most liberal city in America, followed by Gary, Ind., and of cities with populations of more than 100,000, researchers discovered that race was the most predictable indicator of voting trends. [. . .] The top three conservative cities listed are Provo, Utah, Lubbock, Tex., and Abilene, Tex."
-- "Still Not Colorblind," Capital Briefs, Human Events, August 15, 2005, page 4. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"After more than 20 years, embryonic stem cell research has not yielded a single cure. During this same time, adult stem cells have been used to treat people with heart disease, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries and at least 50 other documented conditions."
-- "Stem Cell Research Threatens Women's Health," by Pia de Solenni, Human Events, August 15, 2005, page 12. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.




Posted here for 8-22-05:

"Back in 1971, a group of black students and parents sued to prevent California from giving IQ tests to blacks, claiming they were biased, and resulted in disproportionate numbers of blacks being assigned to remedial classes. In response, California stopped giving IQ tests to blacks in 1986, but still uses them for everyone else. Now, blacks are claiming they can't get into remedial classes because there is no easy way for them to prove their IQs are low enough. Instead, they have to get subjective teacher evaluations, which are not always forthcoming."
-- "O Tempora, O Mores!" American Renaissance, August 2005, page 13. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.


"Attacks on U.S. Border Patrol agents by Mexicans have nearly doubled. Officials of the Tucson border sector reported 195 assaults on agents since Oct 1st, almost as many as the total 233 attacks tracked in the two previous years combined."
-- "More Border Attacks," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, August 2005, 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.


"A renegade band of Mexican military deserters, offering $50,000 bounties for the assassination of U.S. law-enforcement officers, has expanded its base of operations into the United States to protect loads of cocaine and marijuana being brought into America by Mexican smugglers, authorities said."
-- "'Zetas' Protect Drug Routes into U.S.," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 8-14, 2005, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"A nonpartisan group on Aug. 2 released a report that said paid Democratic operatives were far more involved in voter intimidation and suppression activities than were their Republican counterparts during the 2004 presidential election."
-- "Election Fraud," Inside Politics, compiled by Greg Pierce, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 8-14, 2005, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Vows like 'For as long as we continue to love each other,' 'For as long as our live shall last' and 'Until our time together is over' are increasingly replacing the traditional to-the-grave vow -- a switch that some call realistic and others call a recipe for failure." [Those favoring the changes wish marriage to be weakened and trivialized, and the result will be a weakened, trivialized, less-functional family.]
-- From Jennifer D'Angelo's "'Til Death Do Us Part' Is Dying Out," (FoxNews, July 22) as quoted in "'Til . . . Whatever," Culture, etc., The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 8-14, 2005, page 28. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Did you know that people in the wealthy San Francisco suburb of Sausalito, across the bay, own 80,000 acres of land in Kenya? What are they doing with it? They are setting it aside as a nature preserve, in order to keep poor people in Kenya from hunting animals for food on those 80,000 acres."
-- "Amazing Facts & Quotes," Range, Magazine, Winter 2005, page 9. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 8-15-05:

"[T]wo former CBS executives who lost their jobs over the forged Bush National Guard document scandal called 'Rathergate' have been nominated for a major award. [. . .] [T]he two are among the nominees for the 26th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. They were cited for a '60 Minutes II' piece titled 'Life in Baghdad'."
-- "Dan Rather Avoided 'Like the Plague'," NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2005, page 60. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Despite the charges of critics that the tax cuts enacted in 2001, 2003 and 2004 favored the 'rich,' these cuts reduced the tax burden of low- and middle-income taxpayers and shifted the tax burden onto wealthier taxpayers,' states a report by the Tax Foundation [. . .]"
-- "Record Number in U.S. Pay No Taxes," NewsMax.com (the magazine), August 2005, page 74. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"Democrat-controlled states such as Iowa, Nebraska, Rhode Island and New York are at the forefront of a national effort to extend voting rights to convicted felons (there are about 5 million nationwide). The Wall Street Journal's Brendan Miniter notes Democrats are quietly pushing this movement because 'felons tend to be poor and disproportionately black and Hispanic, which makes them likely Democrats.'"
-- The American Sentinel, August 2005, page 5. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"NCC [National Council of Churches] General Secretary Bob Edgar [. . .] mentions that the NCC works closely with the far-left MoveOn.org, which, though unmentioned by Edgar [. . .] also has provided funding to the NCC."
-- "Inside Politics," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 1-7, 2005, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"The president who did the most harm in a short time was Lyndon Johnson. But the most harm overall was done by Bill Clinton. Mr. Clinton's acts may have spelled the doom of mankind. The reasons for his impeachment were far from his most egregious acts. The worst act in the history of the world was his turnover of all our nuclear secrets to the Communist Chinese. As former Rep. Bob Barr said of Mr. Clinton, 'We may not outlive this man.'"
-- Warren L. Brown, in a letter to the editor of The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 1-7, 2005, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 8-8-05:

"More than one-third of young people now sport tattoos and other forms of body art, according to a recent survey by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc."
-- "Tattoos Instead of Ties: Body Art on the Job," by Kate Finneren, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 11-17, 2005, page 4. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"[O]n April 15, 1987, about 7 million American children vanished. No, they weren't spirited away by kidnappers in the night. That was the date on which, for the first time, federal income tax returns had to include the Social Security numbers of dependent children. When the IRS personnel toted up the data after April 15, they discovered that filers had reported 7 million few children. Those children had never existed."
-- "Freakonomics Explores Life's Hidden Incentives," by Peter Hannaford, Human Events, July 25, 2005, page 12. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"Cher may think George Bush is 'stupid,' but she -- not he -- didn't finish high school."
-- "Political 'Intelligence' from the Celebrity Class," by Victor Davis Hanson, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, July 25-31, 2005, page 31. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"America has 749 million acres of forestland, 14 million acres more than in 1920."
-- "Amazing Facts & Quotes," compiled by Gail Brooks, Carrie Depaoli, and Barbara Wies, Range, Magazine, Summer 2005, page 12. Address: Purple Coyote Corporation, 106 East Adams, Suite 201, Carson City, Nevada 89706. Phone: 755-884-2200. Fax: 755-884-2213. E-mail. Website.


"A team of researchers from West Middlesex University Hospital has proposed a ban on long, pointed kitchen knives, which they say are used far too often in violent assaults, not to mention cutting up steak."
From "English Doctors Propose Banning Sharp Kitchen Knives. Scalpels Likely Will Remain Legal," America's First Freedom, August 2005, page 51. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.




Posted here for 8-1-05:

Everyone seems to be complaining about the price of gas. However, in March 2005 when the average price per gallon in the U.S. was $2.24, the price in France was $5.60, in Germany - $5.83, in the U.K. - $5.92, and in Italy - $6.00.
-- "Indicators," The American Enterprise, July/August 2005, page 13. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"China's nuclear weapons can kill 100 million Americans in 30 minutes."
-- "Menges' Last Book Gives Final Warning on China," by Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com (the magazine), July 2005, page 69. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.


"[A] narrowly-averted bio-terror attack on Washington [DC occurred] in 2003. Large aerosol dispensing devices (capable of spraying deadly pathogens) had been deployed along the George Washington Parkway, a busy roadway leading into the nation's capital. Fortunately, they were discovered before the attackers could arm them to spread deadly biological agents by contaminating passing cars. 'The decision not to tell the general public is a political calculation to avoid panic and market turbulence,' [according to a] member of Congress."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 1. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"[I]ntelligence estimates of proliferating bio-labs throughout the globe -- about 20,000 -- [. . .] can now synthesize 6 Catagory A bioterrorism agents: Anthrax, Botulism, Plague, Smallpox, Tularemia and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (including Ebola and Marburg)."
-- The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 2. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.


"In September, former President Bill Clinton will kick off the first 'Clinton Global Initiative' conference. The three-day global summit is expected to attract politicians from scores of countries, an army of U.N. bureaucrats and the mega-wealthy elite. Clinton is telling attendees he expects all participants to make a commitment to promote green environmental regulations and expand welfare to the Third World, among other dubious enterprises. The conference is seen by many as a move by Bill Clinton to eventually be named Secretary General to the United Nations." [Bear in mind that U.S. citizens have no vote in determining who's UN Secretary General.]
-- The American Sentinel, July 2005, page 7. Address: American Lantern Press, Incorporated, 101 Washington Street, Falmouth, Virginia 22405. Phone: 540-371-1807. E-mail.




Posted here for 7-25-05:

"Authorities suspect African boys are being imported to London for human sacrifices in religious rituals performed by immigrants from the Third World."
-- "Child Sacrifices Suspected in London," Middle America News, July 2005, 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.


"[A] myth [. . .] got legs when Glen Stassen, an ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and journalist Gary Krane co-authored an article last October headlined, 'Why abortion rate is up in Bush years. [. . .] [B]ut the facts simply do not support their claims. In fact, abortion has continued to decrease while President Bush has been in office, as demonstrated by an Annenberg Political Fact Check. [. . .] Democrat politicians, including New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Democratic National Committee chairman and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, all now contend that abortions have increased since Mr. Bush took office."
-- "More or Less," Inside the Beltway, by John McCaslin, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 13-19, 2005, page 6. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"On May 22, Mr. [Howard] Dean said, 'You know that abortions have gone up 25 percent since George Bush was president?'"
-- "Howard Dean's Abortion Myth," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 13-19, 2005, page 36. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"What the Minutemen proved to the American people was this: The federal government can do something about illegal immigration other than to raise a white flag and surrender to the invasion on our southern border."
-- "It Can Be Done," quoting Representative J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 11. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"In case you missed it, Wednesday was 'International Respect for Chickens Day.' United Poultry Concerns, the group launching the new 'holiday', says 'International Respect for Chickens Day is a day to celebrate the dignity, beauty, and life of chickens and to protest the bleakness of their lives in farming operations.'"
-- "R-E-S-P-E-C-T . . . Chickens?" found at Federalist.com, Resource Roundup, June 2005, page 15. Address: PO Box 790, Spearfish, South Dakota 57783. Phone: 970-856-6086. E-mail. Website.


"In China, English is learned by over 300 million people -- more than the number of Americans who speak the language."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, July/August 2005, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.




Posted here for 7-18-05:

"A new Pew Research Center poll indicates that the standing of the [U.S. Supreme] court has plummeted. In 1997, 78% said they had a favorable opinion of the court. In 2001, it was 61%. Now, it is 57%."
-- "Unfavored Court," Capital Briefs, Human Events, June 20, 2005, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website.


"At least a dozen Iraqi barbers have been killed by Islamic terrorists this year. Barbers are targeted because they shave beards or cut hair in Western styles."
-- "Sidelights," The American Enterprise, July/August 2005, page 6. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"[M]edia elites gathered on May 16 at New York's Waldorf-Astoria to celebrate themselves, with special honors going to -- of all people -- CBS's Dan Rather and his erstwhile '60 Minutes' producer, Mary Mapes. The duo, best known as engineers of the 'Memogate' scandal that humiliated a network and effectively destroyed their careers, were winners of a Peabody Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in electronic journalism."
-- "Prizes for the Discredited," The American Enterprise, July/August 2005, page 47. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website.


"Canadians believe President Bush is as great a threat to their country as Osama bin Laden, according to the National Post newspaper."
-- "Our Friends up North," The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 20-26, 2005, page 16. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.


"Between 1998 and 2003, PETA put to death over 10,000 dogs, cats and other creatures that the group publicly calls 'companion animals.' Not counting those that PETA held only temporarily -- for spaying or neutering -- the group killed over 85 percent of the animals it took in during 2003. [. . .] In 2003 the Norfolk SPCA found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals. The Virginia Beach SPCA adopted out 66 percent. PETA could only manage 14 percent."
-- "PETA Kills Animals!" America's First Freedom, July 2005, page 21. Address: National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030-9400. Phone: 703-267-1000. Website.






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