The New American articles from August 2003

The New American archives from August 2003

"Free trade" simply stated.(Letter to the Editor)
August 11, 2003... (Letters to the Editor) Your articles on free trade are exhaustive and exhausting. Make it simple. Free trade has lost our income from tariffs; we must make that up in our income taxes. Free trade, without the protection of...

Illegal invasion.(Letter to the Editor)
August 11, 2003... (Letters to the Editor) I appreciate articles such as "Trading Away America" (June 30th issue) that expose the problems of Free Trade agreements like NAFTA and GATS. What I would like to read more of are articles not just on the corporate...

Standing apart.(Letter to the Editor)
August 11, 2003... (Letters to the Editor) In his article "Reining In the Court" (July 28th issue), William Norman Grigg has once again delivered a clear, concise, and correct perspective on the issue of legislative usurpation by the federal court system....

Our overextended military.(Insider Report)(return from duty in Iraq delayed)
August 11, 2003... "U.S. Army wives were in revolt yesterday after a promised withdrawal from Iraq for thousands of soldiers was postponed for a third time," reported the July 16th London Independent. At Fort Stewart, Georgia, home to the Third Infantry Division,...

Court rules against Scouts.(Insider Report)(Boy Scouts of America kept out of charitable campaign)
August 11, 2003... The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City ruled on July 10th against the Boy Scouts and in favor of a Connecticut homosexual rights law. According to the decision, Connecticut can keep the Boy Scouts off its list of charities...

UN to the rescue?(Insider Report)(rebuilding Iraq)
August 11, 2003... Item: On July 10th, the Senate "voted unanimously... to encourage President Bush to reach out to NATO and the United Nations for help in peacekeeping and rebuilding in Iraq," reported a Reuters dispatch. Item: "With the costs of...

Tax increase foisted on Nevada.(Insider Report)
August 11, 2003... On July 21st, the Nevada state legislature approved "a record $836 million tax increase that hits businesses, casinos and others to fund schools and the state's biannual budget" reported the AP. Each house of the state legislature passed the...

Global gun grab update.(Insider Report)(gun control)
August 11, 2003... In early July, the UN convened the first (take a deep breath) Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its...

Bush praises African Communists.(Insider Report)(George W. Bush speech)
August 11, 2003... In his July 8th speech at Goree Island, Senegal, President George W. Bush made this incredible statement: "African peoples are now writing your own story of liberty..Africans have overcome the arrogance of colonial powers, overturned the...

Historic UN votes in House.(Insider Report)(United Nations funding bills defeated)
August 11, 2003... Two votes in the House of Representatives on July 15th reflected the growing disgust and anger Americans feel toward the United Nations. During consideration of H.R. 1950, an authorization bill for various foreign giveaway programs, Rep. Ron...

When child-snatchers attack: the best way to keep children safe and to prevent the Total State from abolishing the family is to de-federalize child protection.(The Family)(removal of children from family by child protection agencies)(Cover Story)
August 11, 2003... (Cover Story) In the early 1990's, the National Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse circulated a bumper sticker claiming that child abuse is "An American Tradition"--not an occasional tragedy, or a persistent problem, mind you, but a...

Victims of the fury: the tragic story of Wenatchee, Washington, is but one example of child protection services run amok.(The family)(child abuse scandal)
August 11, 2003... (Cover Story) Wenatchee, Washington, a quiet, orchard-strewn community of 28,000, is by all appearances unexceptional. For several years in the mid-1990s, however, Wenatchee was the scene of what has become the nation's most notorious...

Marching to Liberia: President Bush's plan to send U.S. troops on a UN mission into Liberia's sinkhole is worse than foolish.(Liberia)
August 11, 2003... George W. Bush's scorn for the United Nations, and particularly his scorn for President Bill Clinton's kowtowing to the UN, won him a lot of votes in 2000. More recently, President Bush's public contempt for UN opposition to the U.S. invasion...

Challenging Beijing's iron fist: Hong Kong residents stage continuing massive protests against Red China's planned clampdown on freedom.(At A Glance)
August 11, 2003... On July 1st, an estimated half-million demonstrators poured into the streets of Hong Kong's central business district for a mass protest outside the Legislative Council. The demonstrations have continued, protesting against government plans to...

Bremer rules in Iraq: the same Insider network that first built up Saddam Hussein, and then used U.S. military power to topple his regime, has put one of its own in charge of rebuilding Iraq.(Iraq)(L. Paul Bremer III)
August 11, 2003... On June 29th, the guest on the BBC Sunday morning news program Breakfast With Frost could not have been more blunt: We are going to fight them and impose our will on them and we will capture or, if necessary, kill them until ...

Good sport.(The Goodness Of America)(handicapped child enjoys sports)
August 11, 2003... Nine-year-old Ryan Nelson of Sandy, Utah, pitches and plays infield for the Holladay Baseball League's Devil Rays (Sandy and Holladay are suburbs of Salt Lake City). His participation would be unremarkable, were it not that Ryan was born with...

Windfall.(The Goodness Of America)(returning lost money)
August 11, 2003... On March 19th, Clyde and Kathy Wilson of Chiloquin, Oregon, decided to run some errands after work. He is a high school music teacher; she owns and manages an Internet and computer-games club. At around 7:30 p.m., as they headed home in...

Freeing the market: by abandoning the regulations of mercantilism, England became an economic powerhouse. Both the industrialists and the great masses benefited.(History--Struggle For Freedom)
August 11, 2003... Mercantilism was the economic system that dominated Western Europe from around 1500 to the time of the Industrial Revolution. It was a system of state control and national economic rivalry, which sought to accumulate precious bullion for the...

Family night becomes family nightmare.(Exercising The Right)(home invasion)
August 11, 2003... On the evening of June 15th, five family members gathered together at Edward Hudson's mobile home in Franklin County, Virginia. They included Hudson, his nephew Billy Davis, Davis' girlfriend Cynthia Kirby, and two of Davis' nephews, ages seven...

Dixon case update.(Exercising The Right)(Ronald Dixon unregistered handgun case)
August 11, 2003... As reported in our January 27th column, when Canarsie, New York, resident Ronald Dixon was awakened by a noise shortly before 8 a.m. on December 14, 2002, he glanced at a bedroom mirror and saw the reflection of an intruder near the room where...

Surrendering sovereignty.(Between The Lines)(drafting the European Union consitution)
August 11, 2003... ITEM: "After 16 months of arduous negotiations, framers of the European Union's first constitution finalized their draft charter... but failed to settle differences over how much power national governments would cede to Brussels," read an...

Statistical class warfare.(Between The Lines)(tax burden of rich versus poor)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... ITEM: "The 400 wealthiest taxpayers accounted for more than 1 percent of all the income in the United States in 2000, more than double their share just eight years earlier, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service," reported the...

War under false pretense.(The Last Word)
August 11, 2003... Bush administration officials were recently forced to admit that the president never should have spoken the following 16 words in his January 28th State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently...

Potter-mania's bright side.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
August 25, 2003... "Potter-mania's Dark Side" (THE NEW AMERICAN, July 28th issue) is just an opinion not based on any facts. I am 78 years of age and have read all the other Harry Potter books and I am now reading the latest. J.K. Rowling is incredible in her...

Dan Smoot: rest in peace.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 25, 2003... Dan Smoot, 89, passed away on July 24th in east Texas. Mr. Smoot, a former FBI agent, became a successful independent broadcaster whose "Dan Smoot Report," in TV and radio formats, eventually reached 20 million people weekly. His pro-America,...

Congressional war power.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
August 25, 2003... I couldn't agree more with the sentiments expressed in your July 14th cover story by Dennis Behreandt ("Is Congress AWOL?") that the resolution passed by Congress last October "authorizing" the president to use military force against Iraq is...

Grand Canyon safe for atheists?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... If the ever-vigilant American Civil Liberties Union has its way, atheists visiting the Grand Canyon will be spared the supposed trauma of being reminded of God's handiwork in the park's glorious natural setting. National Park officials...

Lawrence's immoral consequences.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... In his dissenting opinion in the Lawrence v. Texas decision overturning a Texas anti-sodomy law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia presciently warned that the reasoning applied in that decision imperils all state laws against obscenity,...

Congress approves Singapore and Chile Free Trade Agreements.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... In his June 30th article, "Trading Away Jobs and Liberty," this magazine's William F. Jasper warned that the Singapore and Chile Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are only the first in a series of FTAs being negotiated by the Bush administration....

U.S. on permanent war footing?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... Speaking on the August 3rd edition of NBC's Meet the Press, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge put the matter quite plainly: "I guess one of the challenges we have to understand is that our job is, first of all, to reduce risk.... [T]he...

Federal budget deficits explode.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... A recent update from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) projects a fiscal year 2003 deficit of $455 billion, followed by a $475 billion gap in 2004. These projected deficits would far surpass the previous record of $290 billion in 1992....

Globalizing the Court.(Insider Report)
August 25, 2003... In late July and early August, Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas met "with European judges to discuss the new European Constitution," reported the Legal Times. "And most of those...

Ends and means.(Insider Report)
August 25, 2003... Last March, before the fall of Saddam Hussein's despotic regime, Iraqi military officials paraded five captured U.S. soldiers in front of television cameras. This indignity was immediately denounced by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who...

Truman as Ike's running mate?(Insider Report)
August 25, 2003... A newly discovered 1947 Truman diary reveals that Harry S. Truman, who was president at the time, offered to become Dwight Eisenhower's running mate in 1948, as opposed to running for the top spot himself, on the Democratic Party ticket. He...

Stumbling blocks for big brother: the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program, under sustained attack for the past year, has suffered several recent setbacks.(Insider Report)
August 25, 2003... Score a few points for freedom fighters in the ongoing battle against the total surveillance state. The Defense Department's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, under sustained attack for the past year, has suffered several recent...

A true hero.(Insider Report)
August 25, 2003... In late July, Private Jessica Lynch returned to her home in Elizabeth, West Virginia. Arriving in a Black Hawk helicopter, Private Lynch was greeted by a large and enthusiastic crowd, which included Governor Bob Wise. Lynch, declared Governor...

Birch society member honored.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... Our January 13, 2003 issue contained an interview of a remarkable Lithuanian-American. After living through the horror of World War II, Villus Brazenas and his small family came to America in 1949. In 1960, he joined the John Birch Society...

Drugging our kids: despite the dangers posed by drugs such as Ritalin, some schools are threatening parents with child abuse charges if they refuse to drug their children.(Education)
August 25, 2003... Shaina Dunkle was a bright, energetic 10-year-old girl when she died in a pediatrician's office in Bradford, Pennsylvania, in February 2001. A little more than a half-hour earlier, she had collapsed in the school library. Shaina had a of asthma...

Totalitarian medicine. The invention of the ADHD epidemic and the forced drugging of schoolchildren summon memories of the Soviet Union.(Education)
August 25, 2003... Whatever the rationale, forcing people, particularly children, to take dangerous psychotropic drugs is a totalitarian practice. The use of state-imposed psychiatric treatment--including the forcible administration of mind-altering drugs--was...

Ending the nightmare.(Education)
August 25, 2003... How can the nightmare described by Dr. Baughman be ended? The most obvious remedy is to deprive schools of the ability to force parents to drug their children. In recent years, the states of Connecticut, Minnesota, Virginia, Illinois, Colorado,...

War on the Constitution: the Continuity of Government Commission is pushing a scam to subvert constitutional government and concentrate power in the hands of an unelected, unaccountable elite.(Constitution)
August 25, 2003... It's September 11, 2001, and passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 have learned that their Boeing 757 has been hijacked. They also have learned, from desperate cell phone conversations With loved ones, about the terrorist crashing of...

Who's attacking the Constitution? Citing the threat of terrorism, a cabal of influential saboteurs is proposing assorted amendments that would destroy our constitutional checks and balances.(Constitution)
August 25, 2003... The Continuity of Government Commission (COG) has burst onto the scene with great fanfare. Virtually unknown a year ago, its reports and press conferences now command headlines and the rapt attention of major news networks. In record time, it...

Harboring the enemy: while federal officials focus security measures on al-Qaeda and American citizens, Communist Chinese assets have free run of our ports, universities, and defense facilities.
August 25, 2003... China's Trojan Horses: Red Chinese Soldiers, Sailors, Students, Scientists and Spies Openly Occupy America's Homeland, by Dr. Roger Canfield, Sacramento, California: Military Magazine, 2002, 207 pages, paperback. Available for $15.00 plus...

Defending the cross.(Making A Difference)
August 25, 2003... State law prohibits Pennsylvania's government school teachers and certain other professional school employees from wearing religious garb in the classroom. The policy is also incorporated in the state's school code. Brenda Nichol of Glen...

Pro-lifers prevail.(Making A Difference)
August 25, 2003... During the summer of 2002, the Waco-McLennan County Public Library System in Texas signed a "memorandum of understanding" with Planned Parenthood of Central Texas (PPCT) authorizing the pro-abortion organization to use the library's cataloging...

Brother Jonathan: Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull Sr. held nothing back in supporting the War for independence. George Washington ranked him "among the first of patriots".(History--Struggle For Freedom)
August 25, 2003... After the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts' pro-British military Governor Thomas Gage wrote to Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull seeking assistance against the patriots. But Gates did not get the desired answer. Trumbull...

Intruder subdued.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... Shortly after midnight on June 25th, Juergen Jungbauer heard someone banging on the doors and windows of his home in Indianapolis, Indiana. The intruder yelled that his children were inside the house (they were not), then broke a kitchen window...

Cat burglar's lives run out.(Exercising The Right)
August 25, 2003... In 1997, David Washington was convicted for a series of aggravated burglaries in Memphis, Tennessee, and sentenced to 20 years in state prison. Washington was, however, released last February. He soon returned to his life of crime. On...

And not a shot was fired.(Exercising The Right)
August 25, 2003... Syracuse, New York, resident Richard Resch hopes to become a police officer some day. Presently, he is a licensed security guard. At about 5 a.m. on July 4th, Resch was about to dress for work when he made a routine visual safety check of...

Homeowner cleared.(Exercising the right)
August 25, 2003... From the Metro section of the July 11th Memphis Commercial Appeal: "A 71-year-old man who fatally shot a man trying to force his way into a... home will not face criminal charges, police said Thursday. "William Ronnie Payne, 45, was...

Social insecurity looms.(Between The Lines)(Brief Article)
August 25, 2003... ITEM: According to the Scripps Howard News Service on July 16th, White House Budget Director Joshua Bolten "indicated the president is anxious to act and didn't rule out the possibility that the administration will seek to 'strengthen' the...

UN target practice.(Between The Lines)
August 25, 2003... ITEM: "Some 639 million guns are floating around the world despite a UN crackdown on illegal arms deals and a campaign to destroy weapons in former war zones, according to a new report," reported Reuters in the New Zealand Herald for July 9th....

Government toxicity.(Between The Lines)
August 25, 2003... ITEM: New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution regulations are going into effect next spring, reported the Kentucky Post for July 18th. Regulators won't know what action to take in some cases until December, said the Post, "when the...

Commissar Wolfowitz.(The Last Word)
August 25, 2003... Most Americans care little what label is used to describe the guerrillas responsible for daily attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. For Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, however, this detail is far from trivial. Visiting Baghdad in late July,...