The New American articles from February 2005

The New American archives from February 2005

Socialism Isn't Christianity.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 7, 2005... Thank you for publishing Thomas R. Eddlem's very eloquent article entitled "Socialism Isn't Christianity" (THE NEW AMERICAN, December 27, 2004). You touched on all the key points that I am aware of as if you read my mind. There is one...

Another view on trade.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 7, 2005... I just opened the January l0 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN and read the letter to the editor" rebutting William F. Jasper's article "Foreign Nations Target U.S. Steel" (November 29, 2004 issue). Jonathan Ingram, the author of the letter, does...

Reliance on foreign courts.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 7, 2005... Regarding "Courting Foreign Opinion" in your December 13 issue: We can forgive U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for splitting the infinitive "to faithfully discharge," but not for her love affair with "International Law" and her...

Alien amnesty dialectic.(Insider Report)
February 7, 2005... One year ago, President Bush instigated a rush on our southern border by announcing an immigration "temporary worker" proposal that is tantamount to amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Within days, Border Patrol agents noted a dramatic...

Medical Marxism: wave of the future?(Insider Report)
February 7, 2005... "Karl Marx may have suffered a second death at the end of the last century, but look for a spirited comeback in this one," predicts Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff in the January/February issue of Foreign Policy. "The next great battle between...

Though snubbed by Hollywood, The Passion is still the People's Choice.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... Despite vicious attacks from media critics and conspicuous snubs from Hollywood insiders, Mel Gibson and his enormously successful film, The Passion of the Christ, received more vindication at the 31st annual People's Choice Awards on January...

Hegemony? Maybe not.(Insider Report)
February 7, 2005... In the mid-1990s, neo-conservative globalists began touting the supposed virtues of a Washington-directed "benevolent global hegemony." The open-ended "war on terror" begun after 9/11 provided a rationale to pursue global dominance in the name...

Hunt for Iraqi WMDs formally ends without success.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... The White House acknowledged on January 12 that the Iraq Survey Group had ended its search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction without finding any--nearly two years after the U.S. had invaded Iraq based on sensationalistic claims that the...

Ending textiles quotas costs more jobs.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... Textile firm WestPoint Stevens announced on January 11 that it would lay off 2,465 employees (21 percent of its total work force) and close five of its 24 plants in the United States. The cutbacks are a direct result of the January 1...

Unwilling defenders of gun rights.(Insider Report)
February 7, 2005... Last December, the National Academy of Sciences, which operates under a congressional charter and describes itself as "Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering, and Medicine," released a 328-page report on gun-control laws entitled...

Snapshots.
February 7, 2005... Too Many Missions for Too Few Troops "The Pentagon is beginning to resemble a desperate farmer who feeds his starving family the seed corn meant for sowing next year's crop." An editorial appearing in the New York Times on January 2,...

Goodbye to independence? Besides driving whole industries and millions of jobs offshore, U.S. trade agreements are threatening our national independence and freedom.(FTAA)(Cover Story)
February 7, 2005... The Jolly Green Giant has been a landmark around Dayton, Washington, for generations. But he does not seem so jolly these days. In fact, the fading outline of the 300-foot tall brand name icon is barely visible now on the hillside above town....

A UN pedigree, under UN power: examining the FTAA's Tripartite Committee and following the money trail back to the United Nations exposes the UN's behind-the-scenes control.(FTAA)(Cover Story)
February 7, 2005... It was clear from the initial Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994 that the FTAA would be completely an instrument to advance the world government agenda of the United Nations on the hemispheric level. The summit produced two documents, a...

10 fallacies and rebuttals: mistaken ideas about the so-called Free Trade Area of the Americas abound. The faulty reasoning behind 10 very common misconceptions is exposed herein.(FTAA)(Cover Story)
February 7, 2005... 1 NAFTA was a raging success; the FTAA will simply be more of a good thing. The facts tell a different story. "NAFTA has displaced American workers and devastated entire towns," noted the Christian Science Monitor in a 10th anniversary...

The goal of world government.(The Inside Truth About the FTAA)
February 7, 2005... Internationalists, especially Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) members, have long sought to transform the United Nations into a world government with the power to force all nations, including the United States, to abide by its dictates. ...

The NAFTA/FTAA process.(The Inside Truth About the FTAA)
February 7, 2005... The subversive intent behind the NAFTA-FTAA process in the Western Hemisphere, like the Common Market-EU process in Europe, is to gradually build regional government on the road to world government. The subversive intent behind the...

The EU deception.(The Inside Truth About the FTAA)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... It has only recently become too obvious to deny that the European Union is a developing supernational government. Years earlier, the "Common Market" precursor to the EU was deceptively sold to the unsuspecting peoples of Europe as a "free...

Swept away: the epic disaster in Southeast Asia has taken many thousands of lives. As failures by the involved governments attest, the relief efforts are best left to the private sector.(Tsunami)
February 7, 2005... On the morning of December 26, 2004, Americans Tong and Mary Vang boarded a speedboat at the pier in Phuket, Thailand, bound for the emerald green waters of the Raya Islands. The islands are known for their unspoiled beaches, waters teeming...

Saving babies: a new outlook abortion "rights" proponents are finding that their position is becoming even more indefensible because of the increased viability of small-sized infants.(Culture War)
February 7, 2005... Proponents of abortion have always maintained that abortion--that is, killing babies--is not murder, but a "termination of fetal tissue." And the legal system has upheld that viewpoint ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, even to the point of...

"Quicke" thinking.(Exercising The Right)
February 7, 2005... According to the December 25 St. Petersburg Times, a home intruder put a gun to the head of John Quicke of Spring Hill, Florida, ransacked his house, and stole his possessions. But Quicke got hold of his pistol and gave the fleeing intruder a...

Nightmare breakup.(Exercising The Right)
February 7, 2005... An AP story indicated that early in the morning on December 9, an unidentified man broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in Sparks, Nevada, and attacked her and another occupant. According to authorities, the ex-boyfriend, who broke up...

Sick of being held hostage.(Exercising The Right)
February 7, 2005... An 84-year-old Sandlick, Virginia, man and his wife were held hostage for over two hours by gun-wielding thieves before the husband was able to get his gun and end the ordeal, stated the December 24 Richmond Times-Dispatch. Clyde Colley...

Unfortunate necessity.(Exercising The Right)
February 7, 2005... According to the December 14 Daily Home of Alabama, an unidentified man was forced to shoot his grandson after the grandson threatened to kill several family members. A preliminary investigation by authorities has revealed that 24-year-old...

Helping troops phone home.(The Goodness Of America)
February 7, 2005... Fourteen-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her twelve-year-old brother Robbie live in Norwell, Massachusetts, a town located 17 miles north of historic Plymouth. These days, however, the two have been taking part in history, rather than just...

Bus driver saves kids.(The Goodness Of America)
February 7, 2005... Janette Murray is a 41-year-old mother herself, and she takes her responsibility of transporting a bus load of schoolchildren safely to and from school very seriously. So last November, when the Milford, Connecticut, driver felt intense heat...

Need help? Call me.(The Goodness Of America)
February 7, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Need help? Call me: Brittany Bergquist, 14, and her brother Robbie, 12, are shown in their Norwell, Massachusetts, home in front of some of the more than $250,000 worth of calling cards that their Cell...

Denver's real-life Santa.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
February 7, 2005... This past Christmas Eve, approximately 250 residents of Denver's Samaritan House shelter got a visit from a bearded, middle-aged man. The visitor pulled out a thick bankroll of hundred-dollar bills and started passing them out to his less...

Rome's dark night of tyranny: when the republic fell, Rome entered the dark decline of empire. Only after centuries of misery under predominantly tyrannical emperors did Rome finally meet its end.(History--Rome)
February 7, 2005... This is the ninth installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. In the fourth century of our era, the Danube River marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. To the north and east of the Danube,...

For the serious student.(History--Rome)
February 7, 2005... Direct documentation of the Roman Empire and its decline is surprisingly sparse. The best sources for the first century A.D., Tacitus and Suetonius, both make grim if informative reading. Tacitus, lauded by many as the best Roman historian for...

Waves of lies.(Correction, Please!)
February 7, 2005... ITEM: A January 13 Reuters news service story reported: "Damage done by Asia's tsunami gives a clearer idea of the danger climate change poses to small islands, which fear rising seas will submerge them as the world warms, U.N....

Compulsory "charity".(Correction, Please!)
February 7, 2005... ITEM: In an editorial entitled, "Are We Stingy? Yes," the December 30 New York Times agreed with the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, who characterized the U.S. as "stingy" in terms of giving foreign aid, specifically...

FTAA plans fit 200-year-old design.(The Last Word)(Editorial)
February 7, 2005... In 1798, British scholar John Robison authored an expos6 of the machinations of a well-organized cabal whose goal was nothing less than ultimate control of the world. His Proofs of a Conspiracy supplied copious evidence about the Order of the...

Freedom and Liberty.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 21, 2005... Thank you for publishing the letter from Mr. John W. White ("Freedom and Liberty," January 24 issue). It resounds with the exact purpose of the United States of America being ordained of God. At no time in history has any nation, other than the...

Young reader.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 21, 2005... I think you are doing a great job in protecting our Constitution. I also know that there are people out there trying to destroy our freedoms and our Constitution. My dad explains to me some of the things you write in THE NEW AMERICAN. May...

Latin America.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 21, 2005... Good issue on South American Communism ("The Red Dragon Devours Latin America," January 24 issue). Good one to distribute. I personally am convinced we are in greater danger from the Communist conspiracy than the Insider conspiracy. I realize...

The Democracy Shibboleth.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
February 21, 2005... While visiting my son recently I started reading the October 4, 2004 issue of your magazine. The article "The Democracy Shibboleth" by William F. Jasper was especially interesting. It never ceases to amaze me just how many people do not seem to...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
February 21, 2005... CORRECTION: In the "Correction, Please!" column in our January 10 issue, the figure we provided for the average daily increase in the national debt was incorrect. The correct amount is $1.6 billion per day, based on the fact that the national...

Who "won" in Iraq's elections?(Insider Report)
February 21, 2005... "Today, the people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East," asserted President Bush in a January 30 speech. Pundits from across the partisan divide were eager to...

Mexican narco-terrorists prey on U.S. citizens.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2005... While tens of thousands of U.S. troops, and billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds, are being used to secure Iraq's borders, U.S. citizens living near the border with Mexico have fallen prey to agents of Mexican drug cartels. The last year...

George W. Bush: U.S. to illuminate the globe.(Insider Report)
February 21, 2005... "Our country has accepted obligations that are difficult to fulfill, and would be dishonorable to abandon," insisted George W. Bush in his second inaugural address. "Yet because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation,...

Building the military-intelligence complex.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2005... During President Bush's second inauguration, "a small group of super-secret commandos stood ready with state-of-the-art weaponry to swing into action to protect the presidency in ways that have never been fully revealed before," noted the...

Spokane to become "gay mecca"?(Insider Report)
February 21, 2005... Homosexual activists in Spokane, Washington, "are planning to create a neighborhood of gay-oriented homes, businesses and nightlife--a development religious conservatives contend would clash with Spokane's family-centered culture," reported AP...

Chirac proposes global tax; gates bets against dollar.(Insider Report)
February 21, 2005... In a speech delivered by video link-up to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, French President Jacques Chirac proposed a global tax on aviation fuel, financial transactions, and "capital flows" for the stated purpose of...

FTAA not flat lining.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2005... Judging from reports out of the World Economic Forum, news of the demise of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, according to Reuters, American and Brazilian trade officials engaged in high-level...

Global warming did not cause the tsunami.(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "This just in: SUVs cause tidal waves.... The gaseous emissions we need to worry about come from the so-called friends of the earth." Editorial in Investors Business Daily reduces to absurdity the claims of Greenpeace UK, Friends of the Earth,...

Stung by defeat, liberals urge equating socialism and morality.(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "It is imperative that Democrats and progressives start a nationwide debate that frames economic justice as a moral issue." Writing in the Nation, Democrats Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele claim such a strategy would "seem to be a winning...

China moves ahead with nuclear power plants.(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "We will certainly build more than one reactor per year." Director Zhou Dadi of China's Energy Research Institute confirms a commitment to nuclear power while, in the U.S., the environmental lobby has brought the nuclear power industry to a...

Federal judge sides with evolutionists in textbook flap.(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "The sticker misleads students regarding the significance and value of evolution in the scientific community." U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ordered the removal of a sticker placed inside the textbooks used in the Cobb County...

Cheney eyes federal role in choice of investments.(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "The answer to this concern, of course, is simply to set guidelines, basic standards of safety and soundness when it comes to investment choices." Striking back at critics of the administration's plan to allow a portion of Social Security...

Is Iran next?(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "You look around the world at potential trouble spots, Iran is right at the top of the list." While President Bush refuses to rule out a future war against Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney gave his opinion during a January 20 radio interview...

Republican lawmaker states the obvious.(Snapshots)
February 21, 2005... "It's hard to square this one with conservative principles. It's an expansion of the federal government's role in education." Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake expressed dismay about President Bush's plan to add to the cost of the No Child...

President Bush outlines his foreign policy doctrine.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2005... "So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." --The doctrine George W. Bush outlined in...

Weighing benefits: would a private retirement fund yield far more benefits for workers than the current Social Security system, even during years when the stock market is down?(Social Security)(Cover Story)
February 21, 2005... President Bush has repeatedly suggested a partial privatization of Social Security that would involve "allowing younger workers, on a voluntary basis, [to] set aside some of their own payroll tax in personal accounts as part of a comprehensive...

Personal savings vs. Social Security: several of the most common arguments for continuing the current Social Security program are easily countered by historical evidence, logic, and common sense.(Social Security)(Cover Story)
February 21, 2005... The arguments for continuing the current Social Security program are so easily dispensed with that it is amazing the program still stands: 1 An investment in Social Security carries the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, while...

Stopping malaria: in the wake of the tsunami, malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases may be the next tragedy to hit Southeast Asia. DDT can prevent this tragedy.(Malaria)
February 21, 2005... The massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Southeast Asia unleashed a terrifying tsunami that has already claimed more than 200,000 lives. But as the rainy season approaches, a new disaster may be in the offing. Standing water left by the tsunami...

The brutal face of "tolerance": San Francisco's radical-left elected officials join hands with violent demonstrators to deny First Amendment protection to pro-life citizens.(Culture War)
February 21, 2005... The contrasts could hardly have been more striking. On one side were families--including many young children in strollers and backpacks, as well as elderly grandparents--marching peacefully, praying, and singing. Facing off against them: a...

Judge points to absolute truth: Judge M. Ashley McKathan tells about his decision to have the Ten Commandments embroidered on his judicial robes.(Interview)(Interview)
February 21, 2005... M. Ashley McKathan is a circuit court judge in Covington County, Alabama, and presides from the bench at the county courthouse in Andalusia. Last December 13, Judge McKathan began wearing a judicial robe in his courtroom upon which he had the...

Correcting the politically correct: the Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is a must-read for those seeking historical facts free of white-washing and revisionism.(Book Review)
February 21, 2005... The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., Washington: Regnery, 2004, 256 pages, paperback, $19.95. Available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, W154912 (plus shipping and...

Five-year-old saves dad.(The Goodness Of America)
February 21, 2005... Crue Farris of Salt Lake City paid close attention when his father taught him what he should do in the event the boy ever was unable to awaken his dad. The preparation was fully warranted, since the boy's father, 30-year-old Aaron Farris, was...

Investing their talents.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2005... Members of St. Bartholomew Parish in Wayzata, Minnesota, got an opportunity to see if they could emulate the good and faithful servants in the biblical parable of the talents found in Matthew 25:14-30 after a fellow parishioner read about a...

Girl fights city hall to help tsunami victims.(The Goodness Of America)
February 21, 2005... Carolyn Lipsick, a 10-year-old Miami Beach fourth grader, wanted to help victims of the terrible tsunami. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Carolyn's philosophy is, "You can't just think of yourself, you have to think of other...

"Privatization" saves commandments.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
February 21, 2005... A Ten Commandments monument on city land in La Crosse, Wisconsin, incurred the all-too-common wrath of organized anti-God militants when the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation and two La Crosse residents sued the city in 2002,...

Lessons of Rome: the rise and fall of the Roman Republic provides lessons that hint at flaws in modern political policies.(History--Rome)
February 21, 2005... This is the 10th (final) installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. From a modern vantage point, Roman history instructs poignantly on both the genius of prudent government and the folly of empire....

No gun? Get one.(Exercising The Right)
February 21, 2005... A December 28 New York Post article described how a man from Queens stopped an armed robbery--and probably much worse--when he wrested a gun away from a criminal and turned it against him. Ottilio Andres Cabreja, a bodega clerk at Nolasco...

No party happening.(Exercising The Right)
February 21, 2005... According to the Wednesday, January 12 Jackson Citizen Patriot of Michigan, a party store owner laid in wait for a burglar and caught him in the act. Griff's Party Store in Horton had been robbed the previous week on the night of a...

He got involved.(Exercising The Right)
February 21, 2005... James Winkleman of Eugene, Oregon, confronted an assailant and ended up shooting him after being told that the man was raping a woman who was screaming for help. According to the January 14 Register-Guard, Winkleman, who carries a gun...

Blown chance.(Exercising The Right)
February 21, 2005... On Wednesday, January 12, three teens tried to rob the Oakland Party Store in Southfield, Michigan, and forced the store's owner to shoot in self-defense. At about 9 p.m., store owner Maurice Gorges and an unnamed customer found themselves...

FDR & social insecurity.(Correction, Please!)
February 21, 2005... ITEM: The Washington Post for January 16 compared Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" and George Bush's "Ownership Society" and said about changing Social Security funding: "This shift--from the New Deal to the Ownership Society--is a sea change...

Cradle-to-grave Medicare.(Correction, Please!)
February 21, 2005... ITEM: Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), reported the North Adams (Mass.) Transcript for January 14, "sought to rally reeling Democrats Wednesday by prescribing a 'progressive vision for America'" The senator "also shed light on the upcoming...

The harm that "good people" do.(The Last Word)(Editorial)
February 21, 2005... Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission," wrote Isabel Patterson in her 1943 essay The Humanitarian With the Guillotine. "It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in,...