The New American articles from February 2004

The New American archives from February 2004

Nothing "Made in U.S.A.".(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 2004... William Norman Grigg's article "Banishing Businesses" in THE NEW AMERICAN for January 12 illustrated my experience of buying shoes a few days ago for two of my girls. First, I was talked into going to Wal-Mart, then to a local shoe store, and...

Happy reader.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 2004... The fine job you do in keeping your readers informed is commendable and very much appreciated. Keep up the good work and may God bless you. DAVID THOMPSON Kinston, North Carolina

Warning from Canada.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 2004... Thank you for the news item "Remembering a Legend" on the Calgary, Alberta, drugstore owner, which appeared in your excellent magazine in the "Exercising the Right" section (November 17, 2003 issue). It is ironic that this news item should...

Depressive job trend.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 2004... A corollary depressive trend in the U.S. job market has not been reported in your recent articles on the subject. As a "frequent flyer" in the "help wanted" section I have noticed a large increase in the percentage of ads which demand an...

Ultimate entanglement.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 9, 2004... John McManus, in "UN Reform Isn't the Answer," describes what is wrong with the United Nations (January 26 issue). George Washington said it best when he warned against entangling alliances, and the UN is the ultimate foreign entanglement. ...

Illegal alien crime wave.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... Although all illegal aliens are, by definition, criminals--they have violated our immigration laws--most do not come here with the intention of engaging in a life of street crime. Many violent foreign criminals, however, come to America...

Perils of electronic voting.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... Recent cases of computer hacking and electronic voting error should give pause to the push to change from paper ballots to electronic voting machines. First, as reported on December 29 by various news services, a computer hacker succeeded in...

Courting conservatives.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... "Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage," stated President Bush in his January 20 State of the Union address. Criticizing "activist judges" who "have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for the will of the people...

State of the electorate.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... Evenly Divided and Increasingly Polarized, a study recently published by the liberal Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, is intended to assess "the public's political values" in this presidential election year. Based on 80,000...

Airlines provide passenger data.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... Northwest Airlines provided information on millions of passengers for a secret U.S. government security project after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America, the Washington Post reported on January 17. The airline says it gave the data to the...

Enforcing UN decrees equals conservatism?(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... The evidence shows that Bush's reasons for going to war against Iraq were fully rooted, as he has said all along, in successive UN resolutions issued since... 1990.... Within weeks after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations...

Putin's Muslim strategy.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... With the possible exception of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, no government has been responsible for more Muslim deaths over the past quarter-century than Moscow's. Between 1979 and 1988, over a million Afghans were mowed down by the invading...

Lou Dobbs lists outsourcing giants.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight has been one of the very few network programs that have challenged the reigning wisdom on trade and immigration policies, with Dobbs' regular reports on the social and economic impact of illegal immigration and his...

The ever-declining dollar.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war," observed Ernest Hemingway. "Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic...

Boy Scouts under attack.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... The Boy Scouts are under attack by the militant homosexual lobby in San Diego, California, as they are in dozens of other communities. On January 8, the City of San Diego agreed to set tie a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union over...

Summit of the Americas pushes revolutionary agenda.(Insider Report)
February 9, 2004... You'd never guess it from the ho-hum reportage of the Establishment press, but the recently concluded Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico, was a revolutionary event of major magnitude. The two-day summit (January 12-13) attended by...

Amnesty and betrayal: president Bush's proposed immigration reform package is a shocking betrayal of our nation's sovereignty, culture and economy. It must not be allowed to pass.(Immigration)(Cover Story)
February 9, 2004... Bill Clinton uttered countless deceptive words during his eight-year occupancy of the White House, but perhaps none captured the essence of his slippery dishonesty better than these: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." In...

Open door to terror: Bush's amnesty plan will compound the dangers our nation already faces from international terrorists and their allies.(Immigration)(Cover Story)
February 9, 2004... Two Iraqis meet in southern Texas. One starts to greet the other in the native language, Arabic. The other Iraqi waves him away contemptuously and snaps, "We're in America now. Speak Spanish!" Popular humor often lays bare crucial truths...

Bush amnesty plan angers GOP faithful.(Ahead Of The Curve)
February 9, 2004... ITEM: A headline for the January 12, 2004 edition of Human Events Online announced: "Plan for Immigration Reform Dismays Many Conservatives." Among those quoted in the article were syndicated columnist Don Feder, who said, "It's nauseating, to...

Backtracking on al-Qaeda ties: Colin Powell's admission that the Bush administration had no "concrete evidence" of an Iraq-al-Qaeda terrorist connection is a full reversal of his earlier statement to the UN.(Iraq)
February 9, 2004... We know that Iraq and al Queda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and...

Another CFR-UN war: Paul O'Neill's revelations in Ron Suskind's book The Price of Loyalty do not tell the whole story of why the Bush administration planned to attack Iraq before 9-11.(Iraq)
February 9, 2004... Paul O'Neill served as secretary of the treasury for the first 23 months of the Bush administration. Forced out because he was perceived as less than a "team player," he took all his papers with him. About a year ago, O'Neill delivered a speech...

Rescuers arrested, then vindicated.(The Goodness Of America)
February 9, 2004... In September of last year, a bizarre combination of cultural stereotyping, language barriers and flawed eyewitness testimony led to the jailing of three Seattle, Washington, teenagers who had sought to render assistance to a mugging victim. ...

Life savers.(The Goodness Of America)
February 9, 2004... During 2003, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission honored 98 individuals--four posthumously, who died during their heroic efforts--with bronze Carnegie Medals and $3500 cash awards for risking their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving,...

Icebound: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition of 1914-16 stands as an example of inspired leadership and displays the utter necessity, in times of crisis, of god's providence.(History--Faith In Action)
February 9, 2004... Frank Worsley, his muscles tensed and his face etched in grim determination, tossed uncomfortably in his sleep. In his mind surreal images tormented him. Giant blocks of ice jostled and bucked their way down a flooded Burlington Street. The...

Friend in need.(Exercising The Right)
February 9, 2004... At around 9 p.m. on November 30, 2003, George Lowe, age 63, heard loud noises outside his home in St. Petersburg, Florida. When he went to investigate, he found four boisterous young men shouting and pounding on cars. One of them, James Moore,...

Good Neighbor.(Exercising The Right)
February 9, 2004... Shortly alter sunset on November 12, 2003, Josh Lenoue of Olympia, Washington, heard noises coming from the woods near a neighbor's property. Investigating, he noticed lights flickering from the trees and decided to return home for a flashlight...

Fighting back.(Exercising The Right)
February 9, 2004... A few minutes before midnight on November 29, 2003, a man knocked on the door of a residence in Madison County, Mississippi, and asked the homeowner if her fiance was there. When she said he was not, and that only she and her daughter were in...

Endangered homo sapiens.(Between The Lines)
February 9, 2004... ITEM: The Endangered Species Act, maintains The Olympian (Wash.)for January 6, "has strong public support. In a Lou Harris & Associates poll commissioned by The Olympian several years ago, 71 percent of the adults surveyed called the act some...

Too hot for life?(Between The Lines)
February 9, 2004... ITEM: President Bush's plans to combat the supposed threat of global warming "without mandatory controls" have changed little in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, complained the January 1 Washington Post. A panel of the National Academy of...

Final frontier for private enterprise.(The Last Word)
February 9, 2004... If the excitement over NASA's Spirit rover on Mars is any indication, many Americans seem to accept that federal taxpayer dollars and government oversight are indispensable to scientific progress. But once upon a time, America's most successful...

Little-known history.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 23, 2004... Although the article "Col. Clark and His 'Long Knives'" (December 1, 2003 issue) is interesting and informative, author Thomas Eddlem repeatedly refers to "Kentucky riflemen." The term is misleading: Clark was an officer of the Virginia...

Anecdote on Carver.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 23, 2004... I enjoyed the article about George W. Carver (January 26 issue) as I've always had such admiration for him. My favorite story is when he found himself in the company of a wealthy white Southern lady. She said, "Boy, carry this wood in for me,"...

Deliberate destruction.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 23, 2004... I'm glad to see the recent articles on the loss of businesses in this country. At the beginning of the 1960s I had just become interested in economics, and subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, which I read daily. I began to get a picture of...

The amnesty rush is on!(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... "It has been nearly three weeks since President Bush proposed 'temporary' legal status for millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States," commented a San Diego Union-Tribune editorial on January 27. "Already, San Diego is...

This is polarization?(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... To judge from the tone of much of the commentary in the establishment press, the Bush administration and the Republican congressional leadership are a claque of right-wing ideologues, whose stridency and militancy have left American politics...

The U.S.-UN "marriage".(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... "Like a longtime married couple that has undergone a trial separation, the U.S. and the UN are finding they cannot do without each other," argues former assistant secretary-general John Hughes in a January 28 Christian Science Monitor op-ed...

Iraq a preview of U.S. future?(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... In occupied Iraq, reported the January 26 Washington Times, "U.S. led coalition authorities have barred the media from promoting any kind of violence, but there is a hot market in the bazaars of central Iraq for cassettes by singers calling for...

President or pontiff?(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... "When President Bush went to Atlanta to lay a wreath on the grave of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 75th anniversary of his birth, he was greeted by protesters shouting, 'Bush go home' and 'Peace, not war,'" complained National Review in a...

Bush supports UN classroom indoctrination.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... "The Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become a 'universal curriculum' for teaching global citizenship, peace studies and equality of world cultures," reported the...

Into the Matrix.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... Before resigning as Utah governor to become head of the Environmental Protection Agency, liberal Republican Michael Leavitt signed up Utah's 2.4 million residents for a pilot program called MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information...

UN-sponsored civilian disarmament in Brazil.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... "On December 22, 2003, time leftist president of Brazil, Mr. Lula da Silva, signed into law the Disarmament Statute--a law that makes acquisition and possession of firearms in Brazil extremely difficult, almost impossible," reports the...

Utah House passes resolution to get the U.S. out of the UN.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... The Utah House of Representatives passed a joint resolution on February 2 urging Congress to consider withdrawing U.S. membership from the United Nations. The passage of H.J.R. 3 by a vote of 42 to 33 was a personal victory for the resolution's...

Convergence and corporatism in the cosmos.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... President Bush's call for a renewal of the all-but-moribund space program received a less than enthusiastic response from the public at large. As deficits mount and households tighten their belts, relatively few Americans are eager to be...

Staggering hidden costs of Medicare prescriptions.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... The Bush administration dramatically underestimated the true costs of adding prescription drug benefits to Medicare when it was twisting congressional arms last November to win support for the program. The administration's estimated price tag...

NAS calls for socialized health care.(Insider Report)
February 23, 2004... Claiming 18,000 people die every year because they lack health insurance, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on January 14 calling on the federal government to come up with universal health coverage by 2010. "The benefits of universal...

No WMDs in Iraq? Why it matters: the Bush administration insisted that we must go to war because Iraq's weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat. Surprise! It was really a war to strengthen the UN.(Iraq War)(Cover Story)
February 23, 2004... David Kay's disclosures touched off a firestorm. After retiring on January 23 as the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, Dr. Kay reported that not only did his teams fail to discover any weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) but that he now...

The redefined WMD threat.(Worth Repeating)
February 23, 2004... Prior to going to war against Iraq, President Bush and other administration officials charged not only that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction but that the threat was immense. "In one place--in one regime--we find all...

The disappearing WMDs.(Worth Repeating)
February 23, 2004... Going into Iraq, the administration supposedly knew where the WMDs were. But not only were the WMDs not found, the), didn't exist when the war began, according to Dr. David Kay. Though something could still be found, it has become obvious that...

The meaning of "imminent".(Worth Repeating)
February 23, 2004... If David Kay is right in saying that there were no WMDs in Iraq last year, then the Iraqi threat could not have been imminent. Ah, but President Bush never claimed the threat was imminent, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan! ...

The implied 9-11-Iraq connection.(Worth Repeating)
February 23, 2004... In their public statements, President Bush and other administration officials repeatedly juxtaposed references to the September 11 terrorist attacks to those of Saddam Hussein, thereby planting the idea of u September 11-Iraq link without...

Powell's flip-flops on WMDs.(Worth Repeating)
February 23, 2004... Soon after becoming secretary of state, Colin Powell said that Iraq did not directly threaten the U.S. He later claimed Saddam's arsenals were bulging with WMDs that threatened the U.S. Now, after Dr. David Kay's recent disclosures, he has...

The real objective: empowering the UN.(Worth Repeating)(quotes of George W. Bush speaking about the UN)
February 23, 2004... President Bush sent American troops into Iraq for the stated purpose of enforcing UN Security Council resolutions to disarm Iraq of its reputed WMDs. His intent was to strengthen the UN by making sure its words had meaning. "All the world...

War party's ministry of truth: the Woodrow Wilson administration pioneered using the media to cultivate uncritical loyalty, a technique being emulated by "conservative" media organs under President Bush.(Irag War)
February 23, 2004... One-party totalitarian states are typically built on a cult of personality woven around the Dear Leader. This benevolent ruler is depicted in official iconography as a pillar of rectitude--a selfless, determined figure whose leadership is all...

Iraq war empowers the United Nations.(Ahead Of The Curve)
February 23, 2004... ITEM: In his January 20 State of the Union address, President Bush candidly described the Iraq War as a mission to bolster the United Nations: "Since we last met in this chamber, combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia,...

"The nation-state is finished": Robert Bartley, a closet one-worlder at the WSJ, used his newspaper's "conservative" clout to seduce American business leaders into sacrificing U.S. sovereignty for trade.(Sovereignty)
February 23, 2004... "What in blazes can President Bush be thinking?" That has been the general response--on talk radio and in media surveys, Internet postings and letters-to-the-editor--of many current and former Bush supporters angered and confused by the...

Brave scout.(The Goodness Of America)
February 23, 2004... Shortly after midnight on December 30, 2003, a fire ignited in Joni Wedekamm's two-story Parkersburg, West Virginia, residence. Mrs. Wedekamm and two of her three daughters (ages 11 and one) were asleep upstairs, and the oldest daughter, age...

Doing his duty.(The Goodness Of America)
February 23, 2004... On September 5, 2002, Rodger Parker was on the way home after his day's work as a letter carrier in suburban Memphis, Tennessee, when he became stuck in late-afternoon traffic. Glancing in the rearview mirror, he noticed a pickup truck...

Christmas miracle?(The Goodness Of America)
February 23, 2004... Shortly before Christmas last year, Linda Exler of Idaho Falls, Idaho, accidentally threw away an envelope containing $200 in cash. She called the Idaho Falls Sanitation Department, hoping the money could be found. It was unlikely, since the...

Hero on horseback: modern cynics downplay Paul Revere's accomplishments, but he deserves ample credit for his famous midnight ride and his many other contributions to the cause of liberty.(struggle for freedom)
February 23, 2004... Shortly after passing the Charlestown neck, the narrow base of a peninsula jutting out into Boston harbor, the 40 year-old messenger on horseback spotted two mounted men through the darkness. They were hiding under a tree just up the road. As...

Hard lesson.(Exercising The Right)(homeowner shoots intruder in Clifton Springs New York)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... Shortly after 2 a.m. on January 3, David Hayes heard glass break in his Clifton Springs, New York, home. Hayes then noticed that someone with a flashlight was outside the house. The homeowner first armed himself with a .22-caliber rifle, then...

Boyfriend acquitted.(Exercising The Right)(protects girlfriend from ex-husband with gun)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... On January 16, 2003, Michael Henry went to the home of his former wife, Susanna Crowe, in Louisville, Kentucky, and began screaming and banging on the front door. A few months earlier, Crowe had filed for an emergency protection order against...

Dog triggers deadly dispute.(Exercising The Right)
February 23, 2004... In Ault, Colorado, on November 2, 2003, a feud between neighbors about a barking dog turned deadly. It began when someone used a pellet gun to shoot and seriously wound Mojo, a miniature pinscher owned by Richard and Diane Hammock. Because a...

Truck theft thwarted.(Exercising The Right)(San Antonio Texas truck owner shoots at thieves)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... At around 3 a.m. on November 12, 2003, Jason Pena of San Antonio, Texas, was awakened by the alarm in his pickup truck. Grabbing a handgun, he ran from his home and confronted two men who had pried open a door of the vehicle with a screwdriver....

Preventive medicine.(Exercising The Right)(pharmacy robbery stopped by gunshots)(Brief Article)
February 23, 2004... The October 22, 2003 Detroit Free Press reported that Jackie Martin Jr., accused of attempting to rob a Detroit pharmacy, was scheduled for a court appearance that day. According to police, Martin tried to rob the drugstore, but an "employee...

Judges & double standards.(Between The Lines)
February 23, 2004... ITEM: Peter Jennings, on ABC's "World News Tonight on January 16, said, "President Bush has unilaterally appointed a controversial judge to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats are very angry that Mr. Bush installed Charles Pickering....

Gas taxes fuel spending.(Between The Lines)
February 23, 2004... ITEM: The Asbury Park Press (N.J.) for January 12 reported that there was a push for more gas taxes, saying, "Road conditions are so bad that Congress is considering raising the 18.4-cent federal gasoline tax by 8 cents." The article also...

A mockery of Black Heritage.(The Last Word)(Biography)
February 23, 2004... On January 20, the Postal Service issued the latest stamp in its Black Heritage series. The new stamp honors identified Communist Party member Paul Robeson. Americans of African ancestry, like all Americans, should be outraged by this insulting...