The New American articles from July 2004

The New American archives from July 2004

Security and liberty.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 12, 2004... I would like to comment on William F. Jasper's Last Word column "Security for Whom & Against What?" (May 3 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN). No security system in the world will prevent bad guys from getting weapons onto planes. Why not let ordinary...

On our own soil?(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 12, 2004... Regarding the article "Perverted 'Peacemakers'" (June 28 issue), I shudder to think what would happen if America were disarmed under the United Nations. I have often thought what it would be like if UN APCs patrolled our streets here. Now I...

Asinine abortion argument.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 12, 2004... In the article "March Against Babies' Lives" (May 31 issue), Rep. Maxine Waters was reported as saying: "I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion." Just think: She could have been spared of all the stresses and tribulation...

Whom do we vote for?(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 12, 2004... I really don't understand THE NEW AMERICAN. Just whom are we supposed to vote for? I agree Bush has a lousy record on looking out for the U.S.A. (which I think comes first). If other countries won't try to help themselves or fight for...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
July 12, 2004... In our May 31 cover story "The Truth About Social Security," we misstated the year FDR assumed office: The correct year was 1933. Additionally, in our June 14 Insider Report story "MALDEF Buddy Faces Primary," we mistakenly identified Matt...

No child left un-medicated?(Insider Report)
July 12, 2004... "A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W. Bush in July," reported the British Medical Journal on June 19. The administration's "New Freedom Initiative" envisions "comprehensive mental health screening for...

Eurocrats vs. freedom of the press.(Insider Report)
July 12, 2004... Last March, investigative journalist Hans-Martin Tillack was awakened by the proverbial "midnight knock" on the door of his Brussels borne. Belgian police, acting on the orders of the European Commission's anti-fraud unit (known by its French...

GOP's "Sanders index".(Insider Report)
July 12, 2004... Bernie Sanders, Vermont's sole congressman, is also the only admitted socialist in the House of Representatives. The registered Independent scored 47 percent for the three Conservative Indexes published for the current Congress. One hundred and...

Rush and Gorby.(Insider Report)
July 12, 2004... For nearly four years, Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the murderous Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which resulted in the death of millions of Afghans. Tens of thousands of children were left maimed by Soviet anti-personnel mines disguised...

Bush/bin Laden symbiosis?(Insider Report)
July 12, 2004... In Imperial Hubris, a book due out in July, a senior intelligence official describes the Bush administration's Iraq campaign as "an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat," and argues that it has...

The costs of "homeland security".(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... "Corporate America has suffered $30.7 billion in lost revenue and other costs over the past two years as a result of delays in visas for foreign business travelers," reported British business affairs analyst Edward Alden on June 2. Complains...

Praying for globalization at Reagan commemoration.(Insider Report)
July 12, 2004... "As members of Congress and the Reagan family gathered in the Capitol Rotunda around the flag-draped casket of Ronald Reagan, House chaplain Father Daniel P. Coughlin began the three-day official commemorative services for the 40th U.S....

Christians flee "liberated" Iraq.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Understandably concerned over the fact that the new Iraqi constitution designates Islam the "official religion of the state," Iraqi Christians are "voting with their feet" by preparing the leave their native country, reported Insight on May 28....

Whom do we elect? Constitutionalist Americans who want to fix the nation's ills through the presidency are fighting on the wrong battlefront. The proper place is in our own congressional districts.(Elections)(Cover Story)
July 12, 2004... On June 14, George W. Bush recalled the accomplishments of a former president of the United States. "As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in need, and the forward-looking...

Rogues' gallery of EU founders: the emerging European superstate, now moving forward under the EU, is the result of a deliberate scheme put into motion many years ago by powerful planners and plotters.(European Union)
July 12, 2004... Few Americans realize how closely linked are the onrushing developments transforming Europe into a regional superstate and the campaign underway here to create a similar hemispheric entity for the Western Hemisphere. Europeans have only...

Communicating with Congress: Americans who care about their country should apply informed pressure on their congressmen. These tips will help make the communications more effective.(Congress)
July 12, 2004... Through Congress, Americans have been given all the tools necessary to roll back the gains the enemies of liberty have made over the years. Congress is responsive to the will of the people. However, without a grass-roots movement among the...

The Conservative Index: our third look at the 108th Congress shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, including the budget, gun ownership and abortion.(Congress)
July 12, 2004... House Vote Descriptions 21 Extended Unemployment Benefits. This amendment to H.R. 3030 (Community Service Block Grants) would authorize a six-month federal program to provide an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits for people who...

Honesty can still be found.(The Goodness Of America)
July 12, 2004... For several weeks earlier this year, Tennessee painter Tom McAnally worked on a number of large jobs in the area of Elk City, Oklahoma. One day in early May, after completing a number of projects without making a bank deposit, McAnally stopped...

Grandmother graduates at age 90.(The Goodness Of America)
July 12, 2004... On May 25, high school drop-out Uceba Babson of West Palm Beach, Florida, received her high school equivalency diploma after completing course work in the General Education Development program at her school district's Adult Education Center....

Update.(The Goodness Of America)
July 12, 2004... In THE NEW AMERICAN for May 19, 2003, we reported the story of Ukiah, California, Police Sergeant Marcus Young. Young was shot five times by a male assailant while attempting to take a female shoplifter into custody at a Ukiah Wal-Mart on March...

One man against the mob: a legend in the mold of Davy Crockett, Sheriff Buford Pusser reclaimed Tennessee's McNairy County from the murderous "State Line Mob.".(History --Courage In Adversity)
July 12, 2004... Striding into the White Iris Club with his best friend Webb Pierce, 16-year-old Buford Pusser knew he shouldn't have come. For weeks, Webb and other classmates had been pestering Buford to join them on an excursion to the notorious gambling...

Close encounter.(Exercising The Right)
July 12, 2004... At around 11 p.m. on May 17, Pizza Hut employee Ronald Honeycutt of Carmel, Indiana, was climbing into his van after delivering a pizza to an apartment on the far east side of Indianapolis when he heard someone call out to him. Turning, he saw...

Homeowner cleared.(Exercising The Right)
July 12, 2004... Shortly before noon on May 16, a neighbor alerted Adam Greenberg of East Memphis, Tennessee, that thieves appeared to be stealing yard equipment from a shed near his mother's home. After arming himself, Greenberg went to investigate and...

Ax versus gun.(Exercising The Right)
July 12, 2004... A few minutes before midnight on March 7, a man apparently looking for money broke into an apartment in Anderson, South Carolina. The intruder, Earnest Miles, found an ax among some tools belonging to apartment resident Lance Myers, then...

Lion turns on owner.(Exercising The Right)
July 12, 2004... On May 30, the Ohio News Network reported that Lisa Peters of Ross County, Ohio, was playing with one of her family's pet lions on the evening of May 28 when it suddenly bit down on one of her forearms and would not let go until her father,...

Global food cops.(Between The Lines)
July 12, 2004... ITEM: In a June 7 special issue, "Overcoming Obesity in America," Time magazine asked: "How would the Federal Government fund a national campaign for healthier eating? Once again, the obesity warriors want to steal a leaf from the tobacco wars:...

Poor reasoning.(Between The Lines)
July 12, 2004... ITEM: In its May 31 cover story "Working and Poor" Business Week reported: "Today more than 28 million people, about a quarter of the workforce between the ages of 18 and 64, earn less than $9.04 an hour, which translates into a full-time...

Private crime vs. public policy.(The Last Word)
July 12, 2004... Restaurant owner Stephen Metzler of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested on June 15 during a raid conducted by local police and federal agents. Metzler was accused of providing false identities, including stolen Social Security numbers, to...

Roots of "pay equity".(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 26, 2004... Regarding Brian T. Farmer's "Politicizing the Pay Gap" article (June 28 issue), there are historical sources for this syndrome of government-imposed gender pay equity. In the instructions found in the personal papers of Illuminist Baron...

Let the states handle marriage.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 26, 2004... Thank you for your warnings about letting the federal government get its hands on marriage (see January 12, March 22, April 5, and April 19 issues). Marriage has always been a state issue, and most of the 50 states have passed marriage...

The more things change ...(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
July 26, 2004... Regarding the article "Iraq-Nam" by Warren Mass (June 28 issue), I have a suggestion. Should we consider resurrecting our "When are we going to win in Viet Nam and why not?" bumper and envelope stickers and just change them from Nam to Iraq?...

Endangered elections?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
July 26, 2004... According to Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, chairman of a new federal voting commission, "the government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again," reported the Associated...

First signs of draft renewal?(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... "The U.S. Army is planning an involuntary mobilization of thousands of reserve troops to maintain adequate force levels in Iraq and Afghanistan," reported Reuters on June 28. Drawing on the seldom used Individual Ready Reserve (IRR),...

Supreme Court destroying habeas corpus.(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... Writing on behalf of the 8-1 Supreme Court majority in the case Hamdi vs. Rumsfeld, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor upheld the power of the president to detain citizens, under "very limited circumstances," as "unlawful combatants." However,...

Cross stricken from Los Angeles seal.(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... The American Civil Liberties Union has struck again, this time joining forces with left-wing county supervisors to eradicate a tiny cross from the Los Angeles County seal. On June 1, the board of supervisors voted 3-2 to side with the ACLU's...

EU constitution omits reference to Christianity.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
July 26, 2004... After two years of heated controversy over the omission of any mention of Christianity in the proposed new constitution for the European Union, the final text adopted in Brussels on June 18 was the secularized version. Since the text was...

Pouring taxpayer dollars into the "gap".(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... On several occasions THE NEW AMERICAN has discussed Pentagon "futurist" Thomas P.M. Barnett and his strategic concept of dividing the world into the "functioning core" and the "non-integrating gap." "Core" nations are those plugged into the...

Bipartisan border betrayal.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
July 26, 2004... Addressing the National Council of La Raza's annual conference in Phoenix, presumptive Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry called for a comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens--thereby staking out a position similar to his Republican...

Buckley's totalitarian "conservatism".(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... Nearing the end of his eighth decade, William F. Buckley Jr. has relinquished control over National Review, the fortnightly journal commonly called the "flagship" publication of the conservative movement. When Buckley founded the magazine...

GOP's fuhrerprinzip.(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... William F. Buckley's version of totalitarian "conservatism" (see "Buckley's Totalitarian 'Conservatism,'" facing page) is certainly in vogue with the contemporary Republican Party leadership. Recent essays published by the national Republican...

Herod's heirs.(Insider Report)
July 26, 2004... "Leading doctors today called for a major overhaul to avoid babies being born alive after abortions," reported the London Evening Standard on June 22. "Pregnancy expert Stuart Campbell has demanded [that] rules... be tightened after it was...

Censoring America: an attempt to squelch ads for a controversial new film illustrates how "campaign finance reform" has created a new corps of federal speech police.(Freedom Of Speech)(Cover Story)
July 26, 2004... On March 27, 2002, with a studious lack of fanfare, President Bush signed into law the "Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act" (or BCFRA), a measure supposedly intended to relieve politics of the corrupting influence of corporate money. Rather...

A fair look at Fahrenheit 9/11: leftist Michael Moore's controversial documentary has weaknesses and omissions, yet it also gives an incomplete glimpse of the truth. And that's where we come in!(Freedom Of Speech)(Cover Story)
July 26, 2004... Michael Moore is an unabashed leftist. A former editor of the radical journal Mother Jones, Moore has made a handsome fortune peddling pseudo-populism of a distinctively socialist flavor. His previous work includes the execrable Bowling for...

Al-Qaeda's 0KC-9/11 ties: al-Qaeda ties to the OKC bombing were not mentioned in the state trial of Terry Nichols, yet evidence used by federal prosecutors in recent cases makes the ties obvious.(Terrorism)
July 26, 2004... Zacarias Moussaoui, dubbed the "20th hijacker" by federal prosecutors, would have been released from federal custody before the 9-11 attacks if not for the heroic persistence of field agents in the FBI's Minneapolis office. Agent Coleen Rowley...

OKC: justice denied--again: although the state trial of Terry Nichols offered some hope of finally exposing the massive cover-up concerning the 1995 terror attack, there were no breakthroughs.(Terrorism)
July 26, 2004... A trail of death and terror stretching around the world and covering more than a decade led to the county courthouse in McAlester, a quiet town in southeast Oklahoma. Terry Nichols, convicted in federal court in 1997 as a conspirator with...

ICC threat grows.(Ahead Of The Curve)
July 26, 2004... ITEM: On June 23, the United States announced that it would not continue its effort to claim immunity for its military personnel from prosecution by the UN's International Criminal Court (ICC). Claiming that U.S. forces in Iraq will not be...

Resistance to EU rising.(Ahead Of The Curve)
July 26, 2004... ITEM: England's Independent newspaper reported on June 8 that "withdrawing from the EU has made the United Kingdom Independence Party a natural vehicle for Euroskeptics and voters wishing to lodge a protest vote...." Citing the UKIP's own...

Warsaw uprising of 1944.(Ahead Of The Curve)(Brief Article)
July 26, 2004... ITEM: Writing in the Washington Post for June 2, Anne Applebaum supplied correct details about the 1944 betrayal of Poland's "greatest generation" by Stalin's Red Army that enabled the Nazi invaders to slaughter 200,000. She cited the findings...

Snapshots.
July 26, 2004... NAFTA's Effect on Jobs in Maine "It's killing us. Something's got to be done."--Congressman Michael Michaud (D-Me.) discussing NAFTA's effect on the paper industry in Bucksport, Maine Boston Globe, March 28, 2004 Trojan Horse NAFTA...

Penman of the Revolution: as the author of many of our nation's most fundamental documents, including the Articles of Confederation, John Dickinson was one of America's greatest Founding Fathers.(History--Greatness Of The Founders)
July 26, 2004... On Wednesday, August 15, 1787, I the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began debating what would become Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution. James Madison (a man whose service before, during, and after the...

Becca's legacy.(The Goodness Of America)
July 26, 2004... After 16-year-old Rebecca Kirtman of Davie, Florida, read a magazine article about girls at an elite boarding school who were donating their old dresses to a less-affluent school, she was motivated to help girls less fortunate than herself....

Change of heart?(The Goodness Of America)
July 26, 2004... On June 6, the day after Bob and Ann Cummings of Peculiar, Missouri, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at St. Sabina Catholic Church in Belton, Mrs. Cummings learned about an extraordinary, anonymous gift that someone had left during...

Close call.(The Goodness Of America)
July 26, 2004... On January 27, 2003, a pickup truck driven by Joshua Boyett of Tallahassee, Florida, left the road, struck a tree and caught fire. Boyett was knocked unconscious. From his nearby home, telephone repair technician Scott McGuire heard the...

Home invasion thwarted.(Exercising The Right)
July 26, 2004... At around 10 p.m. on May 10, Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Evans were asleep in their New Orleans, Louisiana, home when two armed men forced their way into the house. The invaders, Kendall Jackson and an unidentified accomplice, roused the couple and...

Shootout.(Exercising The Right)
July 26, 2004... At around 9:30 p.m. on April 14, a man entered the F&D Food Market in Shreveport, Louisiana, pointed a gun at store owner Mohammad Zeidan, and demanded money. Zeidan grabbed for the gun and the two began wrestling for control. During the...

Homeless, not defenseless.(Exercising The Right)
July 26, 2004... For quite some time, Fay Ralston, 80, had paid $70 a month to rent a 5-by-10-foot concrete unit at University Self Storage in Lubbock, Texas, where she often stayed with her dog. She had been homeless off-and-on for over a decade. Shortly...

Teen turns tables.(Exercising The Right)
July 26, 2004... At around 8 a.m. on June 5, two men barged into a home in Akron, Ohio, and began pistol-whipping 17-year-old Keon Williams while demanding, "Where's your money?" The youth fell to the floor during the beating, but was able to reach a hand-gun...

Bumbling bandits.(Exercising The Right)
July 26, 2004... The robbery plan seemed simple enough. While Christopher Drews remained outside in the getaway car, Anthonial Brock Jr. would go into Sadler's Food Mart in P.O. Mesquite, Texas, brandish his handgun, and demand money from a frightened,...

Whistling past the Social Security graveyard.(Between The Lines)
July 26, 2004... ITEM: The Chicago Tribune for June 15 reported: "The Congressional Budget Office issued a rosier outlook for Social Security's finances Monday than the system's trustees had projected adding fuel to an election-year debate over President...

Mandating unemployment.(Between The Lines)
July 26, 2004... ITEM: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, reported the Chicago SunTimes for June 20, "proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $7 an hour by 2007, arguing that such an increase could boost the wages o['more than 15 million...

UN investigation charade.(The Last Word)
July 26, 2004... As the world's attention is focused on the transfer of "sovereignty" to the Iraqis, and the bodies of U.S. service members continue to be flown home from the region, there are rumblings concerning another disturbing Iraqi-related matter. We...