The New American articles from June 2002

The New American archives from June 2002

Erasing Our Borders. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 2002... Your May 6th cover story "Erasing Our Borders" is brilliant. Of course, William Norman Grigg is on target. In April, I was fired from my job for speaking up against Spanish language usage at the Wal-Mart Super Center where I worked. I...

The right to Homeschool.(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 2002... Isabel Lyman's excellent article on home schooling ("Answers to Homeschool Questions," May 6th issue) made me wonder how many parents in America realize that educating one's own children is not a privilege granted by the state but a right...

Every day 9-11 in Israel.(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 2002... William Norman Grigg's "Last Word" in the May 6th issue pointed out Ariel Sharon's military exploits 50 years ago as if implying that he still goes overboard today. Quite the contrary. In Israel, almost every day is 9-11. As a response, the...

Integrity at Work.(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 2002... The truth in E. Merrill Root's excellent article "Integrity at Work" (April 22nd issue) reminded me of an aphorism that I am told was a favorite of Admiral Rickover: "The blessing of heaven is rest. The blessing of life is toil!" FRANK...

History Channel profiles John Birch. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Television's History Channel regularly broadcasts a feature known as "This Week in History." During mid-April, the popular cable channel aired a 15-minute review of the famous April 18, 1942 raid over Tokyo led by then-Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle....

Where's the presidential "dignity"? (Insider Report).(George W. Bush's remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Consistently supporting larger and more intrusive government at home and continuing entanglements abroad, George W. Bush has done little to earn the support of conservative Americans. Those determined to defend the president frequently frame...

UN: patron of Palestinian terrorism. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... On April 15th, the UN's Human Rights Commission -- an elevated name for a panel dominated by delegates from Communist and Arab dictatorships -- passed a resolution approving the use of "all available means, including armed struggle" to...

Hatch backs research cloning. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... "It's time to stop calling Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a conservative -- at least on social issues," commented political analyst Lee Davidson of Salt Lake City's Deseret News for May 8th. "The final sign that Hatch has metamorphosed into a...

Homosexual "progress" in Canada. (Insider Report).(Marc Hall goes to the prom with his boyfriend)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... In another triumph for so-called social justice, a Canadian judge ordered a Catholic High School to allow a 17-year-old boy to bring his homosexual boyfriend to the school prom. Marc Hall, a 17-year-old with spiky bright blue hair, "took...

Bush's ICC two-step. (The Right Perspective).(the UN's International Criminal Court treaty)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... By "un-signing" the UN's International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty on May 6th, President Bush heartened his conservative constituency and enraged his leftist critics. But he did nothing of substance to address the fundamental threat that the...

UN takes aim at children: the UN Children's Summit feigned compassion, but its true agenda was to bypass national sovereignty, usurp parental authority, and make all children subject to the state. (Child Grab).(United Nations Special Session on Children)(Cover Story)
June 3, 2002... Hold on to your children: The global child grabbers are back, with a vengeance. From May 8th-11th, representatives from 187 nations -- including 250 child delegates -- met in New York for the United Nations Special Session on Children,...

The "emancipated" child: the UN aims to free children from parental authority and make them wards of the state, a move that will abolish the family and leave children vulnerable to sexual exploitation. (Child Grab).(Cover Story)
June 3, 2002... Parents in every country can testify that trying to restrain the hormonal impulses of teenagers can be like trying to lasso a locomotive. But special challenges confront traditionalist parents in Holland. Graphic pornography is peddled...

Ten anti-death penalty fallacies: the case against capital punishment relies on myth, misinformation, and misplaced emotionalism. (Crime and Punishment).
June 3, 2002... Renewed attacks on the death penalty are likely as the trial of accused Twin Tower bombing accomplice Zacharias Moussaoui proceeds. Federal officials have charged Moussaoui with six crimes, four of which carry a potential death sentence....

Wolves in shepherds' clothing: the revelation that former priest Paul Shanley raped several young boys has been made even more scandalous by evidence that Cardinal Law sheltered him from detection. (Culture War).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... At the time of his death in October 1997, ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley of East Cambridge, Massachusetts, had known his two adult "friends," Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari, for several months. The two adults enticed Jeffrey into a car,...

Worth repeating.(conservatism and family - maxims)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... In a free society, an individual's loyalties are to God, family, and country -- in that order. In a totalitarian society, obedience to the state eclipses all other allegiances. -- William Norman Grigg (1994) The time has come to...

Teens to the rescue. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... At around 9:30 p.m. on April 25th, three 18-year-old high school seniors pulled into the parking lot of a bank in Cooper City, Florida. Oliver Beliard of Cooper City, a front-seat passenger, glanced to the east to check for traffic when he...

Long-lost wallet returned. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... More than a half-century ago, after retiring from the San Francisco Police Department, John Payne Sr. entered the produce business and often traveled up and down the West Coast on buying ventures. One day in 1951, while purchasing produce at a...

Good fortune in garbage. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... On January 16th, Brian Mangum, 31. of Salt Lake City, Utah, was at a local car wash when he noticed something with a silver hue protruding from a nearby garbage can. His interest piqued, he took a closer look and found a small unlocked box...

Big Brother or Big Mommy? In America, collective tyranny is advancing not so much because of Big Brother's heavy boot, but because of the sly, coercive cuddling of Big Mommy. (Opinion Past).
June 3, 2002... There are those among us who believe that Collective Tyranny is new to this century, and a symptom of what is wrong with it. But Collective Tyranny -- now under the guise of "Liberalism" -- is as old as the world and the Devil. It was the...

Verdict: self-defense. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... On April 1, 2001, Ryan Naylor Palmer, 44, drove Janice Waites, a friend, to an apartment complex in Far North Dallas, Texas, to pick up her car. The vehicle, according to Waites, had been taken without her permission by a boyfriend, Jimmy Lee...

Family feud. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... On August 5th of last year in Fresno, California, Ethiopian immigrant Ambare Kidane, 44, became embroiled in an argument with Ardeen Purnell, 29, a brother-in-law of one of his former wives. During the dispute, Purnell (6-foot-2, 310 pounds)...

Confused critic. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Denver Rocky Mountain News columnist and gun critic Bill Johnson recently described his reaction to what he initially believed was a potentially life-threatening situation at a local mini-mart. At around 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning, he and...

How communists negotiate. (Correction, Please!).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... ITEM: "Three months after President Bush branded North Korea a member of an 'axis of evil,' the United States has accepted an offer from North Korean leader Kim Jong II to renew diplomatic contacts suspended last year" reported the Washington...

Anti-gun zealots exploit German school shooting. (Correction, Please!).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... ITEM: A 19-year-old shot and killed 16 people in a high school in Erfurt, Germany, then killed himself Whereupon "Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Greens coalition partner Cem Oezdemir," reported Deutsche Presse-Agentur on April 29th, was among...

Submitting to UN authority. (The Last Word).(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... On May 6, 2002, the Bush administration "unsigned" the treaty establishing an International Criminal Court. Later on May 6th, the Justice Department informed the Supreme Court that the right to keep and bear arms belonged to "individuals" and...

Does buchanan want the U.S. to get out of the UN? (Letters to the Editor).
June 17, 2002... This pertains to one specific aspect of Don Anderson's May 20th "Letter To The Editor." It commented on Larry Greenley's article, "Can America Be Saved?" (which dealt with Pat Buchanan's book, The Death of the West). Mr. Anderson appears to...

The border war. (Insider Report).(cases of corrupt Mexican cops firing upon border patrol officers)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... At least three Mexican soldiers violated the U.S. border near Ajo, Arizona, on May 17th. According to Bill Strassberger, an Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman, the soldiers fired on a Border Patrol agent driving a clearly marked...

Disarmament love fest in Moscow. (Insider Report).(Presidents Vladimir Putin and George Bush sign a nuclear weapons reduction treaty)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Proclaiming a desire "to establish a genuine partnership based on the principles of mutual security, cooperation, trust, openness, and predictability," President George Bush and Vladimir Putin of Russia, on May 24th, signed what Associated...

Bush's Tribute to the new European "Soviet". (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... During a visit to London in March 23, 2000, former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev referred to the emerging European Union (EU) as "the new European Soviet." During his address to the German Bundestag last month, President Bush described the...

Red dragon in space? (Insider Report).(China in space)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... "China is in the final stages of grooming 14 fighter pilots for their debuts as the country's first astronauts," reported Reuters news service on May 2 1st. In April, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft called the Shenzou ("Divine Vessel") III...

KGB defector: Russia behind 1999 al-Qaeda bombings. (Insider Report).(Alexander Litvinenko, former intelligence officer, accuses the Russian government of terrorizing its own people)(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 17, 2002... Living in London as a political refugee, former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko claims to have extensive evidence proving that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB, the renamed KGB) was behind the 1999 apartment bombings that killed more...

Farm subsidies continue FDR's new deal. (Insider Report).(Farm Security and Rural Investment Act signed by President Bush)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... "Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap," observed Thomas Jefferson, "we should soon want bread." Our Founders could not countenance any role for the national government in agriculture and provided no authority for it in...

FTAA progress report. (Insider Report).(Free Trade Area of the Americas )(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... As reported previously, President Bush intends to complete negotiations for the sovereignty-destroying Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by 2005. Accordingly, one of his highest priority legislative goals for the current session of...

The emaciated executive? (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Paul Begala summarized the Clinton administration's operative principle with his notorious maxim: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool." But according to George W. Bush, he inherited from Clinton a sadly diminished office, in power...

United Nations crackdown on "alternative" medicine. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... On May 16th, the World Health Organization (WHO), a UN branch, "took the first step... toward becoming the global watchdog over unconventional medicine," reported the New York Times. The WHO "is looking closely at non-Western treatments,...

Bush supports gun rights -- except for pilots. (Insider Report).(avoiding terrorism)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The aviation security bill passed by Congress in November of last year authorized Undersecretary of Transportation for Security John Magaw to decide if commercial aircraft should carry guns to help thwart terrorist hijackings. On May 21st,...

UN court subpoenas reporter. (Insider Report).(investigations of the Bosnia genocide)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Ominous precedents are piling up even before the UN's International Criminal Court (ICC) goes into official operation. In May, French bailiffs subpoenaed retired Washington Post correspondent Jonathan Randal, living in Paris. Issued by the...

Foreknowledge and failure: what was once unthinkable is now considered obvious: The federal government had advance warning of the September 11th suicide hijack plot and failed to prevent it. (Cover Story: Terrorism).
June 17, 2002... Was it culpable negligence -- or something much worse -- behind the federal government's failure to prevent the Black Tuesday atrocity? This question is now on the minds of millions of Americans following a stream of outrageous disclosures...

Court of injustice: while intoning platitudes about ending impunity and advancing the rule of law, advocates of the UN's new ICC are actually establishing a global kangaroo court.(International Criminal Court)
June 17, 2002... The fuses have been lit and the explosions are all but certain. The question is: Will enough citizens awake in time and compel our elected officials to take the necessary action to protect America from the blast? No, we are not referring to...

Carter-Castro courtship: when the former peanut farmer and president recently visited Castro's island prison, he dutifully lent credibility to the bearded one's supposed reformation.(Jimmy Carter, ex-President in Cuba)
June 17, 2002... Jimmy Carter's May 12th-17th Cuban escapade at the invitation of aging despot Fidel Castro was the first time that an American president, in or out of office, had visited Cuba since Castro's 1959 U.S.-abetted coup. Despite occasional...

Blood feud. (Exercising the Right).(self-defense case)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... James L. Karnes Sr., 51, resides with his family in Cedar Grove, Kentucky. For many years he and a neighbor, Ronald S. Richardson, 52, had been feuding over property lines and rights. Richardson once filed a lawsuit against Karnes about...

Good neighbor. (Exercising the Right).(self-defense right case)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Shortly after noon on April 29th, Yong Do Cho, owner of Joe's Food Market in Houston, Texas, was returning to his store from a bank when three men in a gray Isuzu began following him. When one of the trio, later identified as 18-year-old...

Early bird. (Exercising the Right).(protecting your life a and family)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... At around 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 14th, someone began banging on a door at the residence of Gerald and Audrey Heggstrom in Glendale, Oregon. Mrs. Heggstrom, a millworker who describes herself as a night owl because she works the late shift, had...

Quotable. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... From a May 9th USA Today op-ed piece captioned "Gun laws don't reduce crime," by Dr. John R. Lott Jr., a resident scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute and the author of More Guns, Less Crime: "One would never know...

Teen success begins at home: adolescence is a troubled time, but home education offers benefits for young people when they need it most -- as illustrated by the success stories of four homeschooled teens. (Education).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The teen years often cause parents to utter a collective shudder. The docile little boy, perfectly content playing with toy trucks, has morphed into a moody adolescent demanding a driver's license. The sweet little girl who snuggled with a...

Medal of Honor recipients. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... On May 1st, during an emotional Rose Garden ceremony, President Bush stated that "the United States acknowledges a debt that time has not diminished" as he conferred the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest military commendation, on two...

Lesson in heroism. (The Goodness of America).(bystander uses police officer's gun to apprehend woman who shot officer)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on May 8th, police officer William Chavis made a routine stop of a Mitsubishi jeep near Dickinson High School in Jersey City, New Jersey. Chavis, a 13-year Jersey City Police Department veteran, became suspicious when...

Lighting up. (The Goodness America).(Michael Shanahan donates funds to cover cost of refurbishing light system at Vietnam Veterans Memorial)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Syndicated columnist John McCaslin reported on May 15th that visitors to the 20-year-old Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington had noticed earlier this year that 24 of 68 halogen footlights illuminating the wall were not functioning. The...

The valiant Vendeans: As the forces of revolution ravaged France near the end of the 18th century, the Vendeans heroically rose up to defend their religion, their families, and their way of life. (History-Struggle for Freedom).
June 17, 2002... Late in the evening of April 12, 1793, hundreds of French peasant farmers converged on la Durbeliere, home of the Marquis de la Rochejaquelein. Unlike peasant mobs organized in Paris by the revolutionary government, these humble residents of...

Worth repeating.(quotations on history and heroism)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the...

Another federal porkfest. (Correction, Please!).(harmful effects of federal farm bill)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... ITEM: President Bush, while signing the farm bill, said it "reduces interference in the market, and in farmers' and ranchers' planting decisions." Speaking over Farm Radio on May 13th, he said it would "strengthen the farm economy over the long...

Pumping taxpayers dry. (Correction, Please!).(taxes as factor in gasoline prices)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... ITEM: Gas prices were the subject of hearings led by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, who posted his summary of the 10-month investigation on his website. As the senator complained,...

Carter clears Castro. (Correction, Please!).(biological warfare research in Cuba)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... ITEM: Former President Jimmy Carter, visiting Cuba, denied that Havana was trying to develop or transfer weapons of mass destruction. Carter said MSNBC on May 13th, "also suggested the claim, made by a top State Department official [John...

Crackpot scheme. (Correction, Please!).(costs of mental health insurance parity)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... ITEM: Saying "mental health insurance parity is long overdue," the Tallahassee Times-Democratfor May 2nd accused the insurance industry of perpetuating "second-class treatment for people suffering from mental disorders." Sure, the Florida paper...

From WTC to OKC to 9-11. (The Last Word).(pattern of sabotage and cover-up evident in 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, World Trade Center bombing and Sept. 11 attacks)(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... Were the tragic deaths of the thousands of victims of the 9-11 terrorist strikes preventable? What did federal authorities know about the coming attacks beforehand and when did they know it? More importantly, what did they do or fail to do in...