The New American articles from December 2004

The New American archives from December 2004

Totalitarian medicine.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
December 13, 2004... You are to be highly congratulated for your excellent articles "Psychiatry and the State" and its companion "Planned Therapeutic Nanny State" (THE NEW AMERICAN, November 15 issue). Few publications exhibit your insight into the threat to...

Spreading the word.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
December 13, 2004... My compliments go to THE NEW AMERICAN for the September 6 "Erasing America" special issue. Time and time again this issue has proven its worth in communicating the serious threat to our national sovereignty posed by the planned Free Trade Area...

Peterson verdict is big step in recognizing rights of unborn.(Insider Report)(Scott Peterson)
December 13, 2004... On November 12, a jury in Redwood City, California, convicted Scott Peterson of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, 23-year-old Laci, and second-degree murder in the death of his 8-month-old unborn son, whom the couple were planning...

Draft registration for 15-year-olds?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... "There may be no 'plans' for a national military draft, but that hasn't kept Louisiana from registering teenagers too young to serve in case conditions change," reported the Town Talk of Alexandria, Louisiana, on November 13. Local resident...

Pastors cite divorce as biggest threat to American families.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... According to a recent survey of Protestant clergy, the greatest threats to families are divorce, negative influences from the media, and materialism. The survey, conducted by Ellison Research of Phoenix, Arizona, asked a representative sample...

Purges and new powers at the CIA.(Insider Report)(Central Intelligence Agency)
December 13, 2004... "The CIA has assigned dozens of case officers and analysts to work with FBI agents throughout the USA in the most extensive deployment of intelligence officers on domestic soil in the spy agency's history," reported USA Today for November 11....

Did terrorist leader Yasir Arafat succumb to AIDS?(Insider Report)(acquired immuno deficiency syndrome)
December 13, 2004... While world leaders were tripping over each other to offer eulogies casting PLO terrorist chief Yasir Arafat as a statesman and peacemaker, the November 12 New York Times publicly floated a question that many observers of Arafat's mysterious...

"Tagging" U.S. schoolchildren.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Houston's Spring Independent School District "is equipping 28,000 students with ID badges containing computer chips that are read when the students get on and off school buses," reported the November 17 New York Times. "The information is fed...

Beware Alberto Gonzalez.(Insider Report)
December 13, 2004... David Henderson is both a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and an instructor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In August 2002, before the invasion of Iraq, he hosted White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez...

Homeland Security's culture of secrecy.(Insider Report)
December 13, 2004... "The Department of Homeland Security is requiring thousands of employees and contractors to sign nondisclosure agreements prohibiting them from sharing sensitive but unclassified information with the public," reported the November 16 Washington...

U.S.-Mexico merger accelerates.(Insider Report)
December 13, 2004... "There is no other country in the world that I go to where I take five or six cabinet officers with me," observed outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell as he opened the 21st U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission (BNC) in Mexico City on November...

Bush administration betrays Iraq war POWs.(Insider Report)(prisoners of war)(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... "During the [1991] Persian Gulf War, Iraq brutally tortured U.S. prisoners of war," recounted attorney John Morton Moore in a November 10 Washington Post column. "Saddam Hussein's secret police broke bones; shattered skulls and eardrums; and...

European "tolerance" in action.(Inside Report)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... In early November, Belgium's supreme court outlawed Vlaams Blok (VB), the nation's largest political party. According to Agence France-Presse, the court "upheld a verdict by a lower court in April that found the party to be guilty of 'permanent...

Freedom's frontier: from the ocean's depths to outer space, private entrepreneurs have pioneered world-changing technologies. What more could be done if government got out of the way?(Technology)
December 13, 2004... The S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamship carrying nearly 600 people, was seven days out of Panama when it was overtaken by a hurricane on September 10, 1857. Two days later it would be at the bottom of the Atlantic, along with the...

Specter ignites flap over abortion: considering that he is in line to head the Senate Judiciary Committee, which examines judicial nominees for federal courts, Senator Specter's pro-abortion stance is troubling.(Abortion)(Arlen Specter)
December 13, 2004... Barring any unforeseen and truly startling developments, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) will serve as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for at least the next six years. He won re-election in November, and because Senate rules now bar...

Lithuania's EU dilemma: fear of Russia led Lithuania to be the first to approve the new European constitution. But there is a rising tide of opposition throughout Europe to further EU merger.(Europe)(European Union)
December 13, 2004... The year 2004 has been a very eventful and exciting one for Europeans. In addition to the expansion of the European Union (EU) by 10 new members from so-called Central Europe, NATO expanded and accepted seven new members. Included in both those...

Bush amnesty/nonamnesty proposal still a priority.(Ahead Of The Curve)(George W. Bush)
December 13, 2004... ITEM: "Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Tom Ridge, the secretary of homeland security, assured Mexican officials on Tuesday [November 9] that President Bush would pursue a temporary worker program that could free millions of migrants...

Powell on Mexican "migration" to U.S.: speaking in Mexico last month, Secretary of State Colin Powell made clear that now that 9/11 is "behind us" and President Bush has been re-elected, the administration hopes to move forward on "migration"--including Mr. Bush's proposed temporary worker program.(Snapshots)(Colin Powell)(George W. Bush)
December 13, 2004... The President has made clear to me, and he has certainly shared his view with [Mexican] President [Vicente] Fox, that we want to see progress on migration. We didn't see the kind of progress we hoped for in his first four years because of 9/11,...

Kinsey's hidden child abuse: though lauded in the media as an exemplary man of science, Alfred Kinsey instigated, perpetuated, and covered up the molestation of children in the name of research.(Culture War)
December 13, 2004... If you and your family are hooked into the Mainstream Managed Media, you, no doubt, already have noticed the enormous campaign underway to promote Kinsey, the new movie about the world's most famous "sex scientist." Led by the New York Times...

Students are what they eat.(The Goodness Of America)
December 13, 2004... We hear much these days about "hyperactive" kids suffering from attention deficit disorder (A.D.D.) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.). In too many cases, overzealous school administrators pressure parents to treat fidgety...

Student helps paint bright future for African village.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Christina Morin of Fredericksburg, Virginia, developed two passionate desires as a teenager--to study anthropology and to help the less fortunate people of the world. While still a junior in high school, Christina had the opportunity to travel...

New York City homeless support their local police.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... In a twist on the traditional plea of the homeless man, "Buddy, can you spare a dime?" a group of homeless New York City people and friends spared enough loose change to help out the family of an NYPD officer who had been penalized for his act...

Cicero, Catiline, and Conspiracy: vying for control, Lucius Catiline conspired to become Rome's monarch, while Cicero worked to expose and thwart his plans and keep Rome's Republic alive.(History--Rome)
December 13, 2004... This is the sixth installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. Sometime in the year 75 B.C., a boat sailed from Italy bound for the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean. The boat's most important...

Crazed attacker goes on rampage.(Exercising The Right)
December 13, 2004... On Wednesday, November 3 at 1:30 a.m., David Oeser of Eliot, Maine, was listening to the election results when he heard someone pounding loudly on his locked front screen door. Thinking that it might be his son, Oeser opened the interior house...

Straight-shooting Judge.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... Shortly after 11 p.m. on the night of October 8, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Municipal Judge Calvin Shields, a former chief of police, let his dogs out in the backyard and saw a man, later identified as Michael Tinervia, looking in a window. The...

Man refuses to share house with bear.(Exercising The Right)
December 13, 2004... At about l0 p.m. on August 31, John Tietbohl of Bachelor Gulch, Colorado, walked his fiancee to his vehicle parked in front of his house. After he shut her door, he began to walk to the driver's door and came face-to-face with a 150-pound black...

Truth melts down.(Between The Lines)
December 13, 2004... ITEM: A release from the United Nations on November 8 reported." "The Arctic climate is warming rapidly, much larger changes are in store due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases from human activity and the global impact such as...

Courting foreign opinion.(Between The Lines)
December 13, 2004... ITEM: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor "extolled the growing role of international law in U.S. courts, saying judges would be negligent if they disregarded its importance in a post-Sept. 11 world of heightened tensions," said a wire...

"Oil-for-food" coverup.(The Last Word)
December 13, 2004... Here's a little pop quiz you can use on your neighbors or the water cooler gang at the office. First question: Have you seen the latest CSI: New York episode? Second question: Have you seen the latest PSI: New York episode? PSI: New...

An eye-opener!(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
December 27, 2004... To the staff of this magazine--Thank You! You probably don't know how much this magazine is appreciated! You have helped my wife and me open our eyes. You have also helped open the eyes of our children, who take the magazine and share certain...

Reaching liberals and conservatives alike.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
December 27, 2004... Your "'Oil-for-Food' Coverup" article is amazing (THE NEW AMERICAN, December 13). I am analyzing the article for my debate assignment on radical thinking. One of the main things we are looking for is practical application to introduce radical...

Corruption in government.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
December 27, 2004... I just read the in-depth reporting in my new issue ("Steel: America's Industrial Backbone," November 29). The story is well written and has all of its facts straight. We have got to throw out all of the politicians funding our steel...

Robert W. Lee, R.I.P.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
December 27, 2004... It was with sorrow that I read of the death of Robert W. Lee in your November 29, 2004 edition. I have been a reader of THE NEW AMERICAN for many years and have always enjoyed Robert's writings. Your fine publication has a staff, including...

Correction.(Letters To The Editor)(Correction Notice)
December 27, 2004... In the attribution for a quote in "Snapshots" in the November 29 issue of TNA, we misidentified Phil Bredesen as governor of Kentucky; he is governor of Tennessee.

Pro-life stem-cell therapy.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spinal cord using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood," reported the French AFP wire service on November 28. The woman,...

Bush administration allies with abortion industry.(George W. Bush)
December 27, 2004... Ten years ago, with eager support from the Clinton administration, Congress enacted the so-called Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) act. That measure created a federally enforced "no-protest" zone around abortion "clinics." Under...

Kerik to replace Ridge.(Insider Report)(Tom Ridge)(Bernard Kerik)
December 27, 2004... On November 30, after spending more than a year pelting the American public with dire predictions of impending terrorist attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced his resignation, insisting that America is safer because of his...

George W. Bush: champion of "gay rights".(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "By supporting civil unions for gay couples--which, practically speaking, is the cutting-edge issue in the battle for equality--President Bush has become a leading advocate for gay rights," insisted Bush administration official Abner Mason in...

What is "terrorism"?(Insider Report)
December 27, 2004... Under the "Homeland Security" regime being erected to fight the open-ended "war on terror," practically any crime--and many uncouth but nonviolent pranks--can fall under the definition of terrorism if the target is somehow connected to the...

"Liberated" Fallujah as a "model city".(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been...

Sandinistas surge back in Nicaragua.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) won 87 of Nicaragua's 152 mayoral posts in November elections, including Managua, the nation's capital. With help from Communist Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration, the...

China's economic clout grows in south America.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... In the company of an entourage of 200 businessmen and government officials, Communist Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Argentina on November 11. His Latin American tour included a visit to Cuba and a two-day Asia-Pacific Economic...

Beijing's trade war strategy.(Insider Report)
December 27, 2004... Shortly before Thanksgiving, the Financial Times of London published an interview with Li Ruogu, deputy governor of the Chinese central bank. Noting that the U.S. trade deficit was expected to top $600 billion in 2004, Li insisted that the...

Man's upward reach: secularists consider religion a barbaric habit of the unenlightened. Religious faith, however, has been the mainspring of human growth and progress.(Religion)
December 27, 2004... Religion, said Bertrand Russell, is "a disease born of fear and a source of untold misery to the human race." Russell's opinion has gained wide currency as the perception that Western Civilization is passing into a post-Christian phase gains...

Judges getting creative: much to the dismay of some liberal activists, more and more judges are devising creative punishments for criminals as alternatives to sentences which send violators to prison.(Law Enforcement)
December 27, 2004... Municipal Judge Michael A. Cicconetti of Painesville, Ohio, handed down a sentence on a defendant found guilty of sending false fire alarms. As punishment, instead of going to jail, the defendant was required to go to each fire department in...

Ukraine's quest for freedom: an eyewitness of Ukraine's recent presidential election gives an overview of the ballot tampering, vote fraud, and other injustices which took place.(Europe)(Interview)
December 27, 2004... Askold S. Lozynskyj was born in New York City on February 8, 1952, to Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1951. He is a graduate of Fordham College (1973, with a BA in Greek and Latin classical studies) and Fordham...

"War on terror" depletes "domestic army".(Ahead Of The Curve)
December 27, 2004... ITEM: Police and firefighters "are part of the 'domestic army'... who will be called upon to respond to the next terrorist attack," noted USA Today for November 29. However, "At least two-thirds of the nation's fire departments are...

Matthew Shepard murder.(Ahead Of The Curve)
December 27, 2004... ITEM: In a November 26 feature entitled "Secrets of a Murder," ABC's 20/20 newsmagazine examined "startling new revelations about the Matthew Shepard story." The 21-year-old college student was savagely beaten, tied to a fence post, and left...

Federal panel ignores sex abuse: a 20-agency annual report on the well-being of children has been manipulated by the "researchers" who created it so that traditional families and values are undermined.(Culture War)
December 27, 2004... Months before Hollywood and the liberal media launched their massive love-fest for Kinsey, the movie, your federal tax dollars were at work promoting a dreadful annual report that would have made the infamous sexologist Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey...

American Legion leader blasts Pentagon.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "How is it the government can fund chapels on military bases, and Chaplains in the military, but not accommodate Scouting? Why is it that the rank of Eagle Scout is an attribute highly sought in candidates for military academies, but will soon...

War against Iraq boosts insurgency.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "Estimated number of insurgents in April 2003: 2,500. Estimated number of insurgents in October 2004: 20,000." Brookings Institution senior research assistant Adriana Lins de Albuquerque and senior fellow Michael O'Hanlon.

Egad, they're trying to ban soft drinks!(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "They are a refreshment. They taste good. We've never claimed they were nutritional. I think a sedentary lifestyle is to blame [for weight gain]. Kids drive cars. People don't walk to work anymore." Faced with threats from federal health and...

The man doesn't like religion.(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "I think it's all nonsense." CBS Commentator Andy Rooney issued this opinion during a mid-November speech at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Mr. Bush defers to the WTO.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "We've worked hard to comply with the WTO. It's important that all nations comply with WTO rulings." President Bush's response to the WTO's November 26 penalties totaling $150 million per year if Congress refuses to void a 2000 law it...

WTO membership impacts sovereignty.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "Our agreement says very clearly that after any ruling by the WTO, the Congress is obligated to change the law. This is the interpretation and this is what we signed.... There has been a gradual erosion of the concept of national sovereignty."...

Sex crimes of UN peacekeepers acknowledged.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... "I am afraid there is clear evidence that acts of gross misconduct have taken place. This is a shameful thing for the United Nations to have to say, and I am absolutely outraged by it." UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitting in mid-November...

Fighter takes down armed robber.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... Benji Radach of Longview, Washington, is an electrician by profession. However, he is better known as "The Razor" in the world of "extreme" sports or mixed martial arts (MMA). His style of fighting--Pankration--is a combination of kickboxing,...

Rescue unites families.(The Goodness Of America)
December 27, 2004... This story originally appeared in the Tomah, Wisconsin, Journal. Last June, Bernie and Colleen Healy, 44, took their two children (eight and 12 years old) from their home in suburban Chicago to the Jellystone Park & Camp Resort in Warrens,...

Two victims; three heroes.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... The night of November 17 saw a terrible accident occur in the village of Briarcliff Manor in Westchester County, New York. A tanker truck driven by Henry Tulloch carrying 4,700 gallons of gasoline collided with a car driven by Stacy...

Great-grandmother eager to serve in Iraq.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... Seventy-two-year-old Lena Haddix, a great-grandmother, has worked for the post exchange (PX) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for 27 years. But on November 28, she departed Oklahoma for a week of training and medical checkups at Fort Bliss in El Paso,...

The truce of God: ninety years ago, Christian soldiers separated by war reached out to each other to celebrate their Lord's birth.(History--Faith In Action)
December 27, 2004... In August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium, seeking to checkmate France quickly before Russia could mobilize, thereby averting the...

The sword is mightier.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... The October 20 Pahrump Valley Times reported that one of its columnists, Dan Simmons, shot and wounded a home intruder, David Patillo, Jr., on October 19. According to Simmons' account of the incident, Patillo had apparently targeted...

Store owner fights back.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... An October 5 report on Cincinnati's station WCPO channel 9 (ABC) highlighted the frustration that led one store owner to take crime-fighting into his own hands. After one of his stores was robbed twice in a one-week time span two weeks...

Warning shots.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... Arturo Robles, Jr., of Bethlehem, New Jersey, was stabbed in the back early on the morning of Sunday, November 7, outside a city nightclub, reported The ExpressTimes on November 9. The incident began after Robles and his wife Candy argued,...

Bum rush.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... On Wednesday, November 10, at 4 a.m., Steven Brown, the owner of Western Lights Mobil Mart in Syracuse, New York, had to use a shotgun to defend himself from a would-be robber, according to The Post-Standard of November 11. Mr. Brown,...

A jeweled response.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
December 27, 2004... The News and Observer of November 14 reported that Larry Dickerson, a retired police officer and owner of Walls Jewelers, needed to shoot at two men who attempted to rob his store. Raleigh police spokesman Lieutenant Hil Miller said that...

Queering history: Alexander.
December 27, 2004... ITEM: Entertainment Weekly's lavish cover story for November 19 claims that Oliver Stone's new movie, Alexander, about Alexander the Great, is "an honest, fairly explicit treatment of Alexander's famous bisexuality." "It wasn't like Stone had...

Chavez: an avowed marxist. (Correction, Please!(Correction Notice)
December 27, 2004... ITEM: The Miami Herald reported on November 4, 2004 that President Bush "is likely to be tested in his second term by Venezuela's feisty President Hugo Chavez." ITEM: The Financial Times on December 7, 2004 referred to Jorge Giordani as...

ACLU war on Boy Scouts.(Correction Notice)
December 27, 2004... ITEM: The Pentagon, said a Newsday article on November 16, "has agreed to warn military bases worldwide not to directly sponsor Boy Scout troops, partially resolving claims that the government has engaged in religious discrimination by...

Socialism isn't Christianity.(The Last Word)
December 27, 2004... On November 2, the American people overwhelmingly voted down the overtly anti-Christian far-left agenda adopted by the Democratic Party leadership. Now the Democrats have laid out a scheme to win back morality voters by subverting Christian...