The New American articles from June 2003

The New American archives from June 2003

More immigrants needed? (Letters to the Editor).
June 2, 2003... I must respond to your March 10th cover story entitled "Your Job May Be Next!" The article was followed by a subsection entitled "Fighting for Our Jobs," in which the writer urged the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Border Patrol to...

President or Ruler? (Letters to the Editor).
June 2, 2003... Mr. William Norman Grigg's article "President or Ruler?" in the March 24th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN should be must-reading for everyone in America who says he's a conservative and still supports President George W. Bush. Mr. Grigg's research,...

UNESCO correction and call to action.
June 2, 2003... Our May 19th articles on UNESCO, "The Global School Board" and "UNESCO's Rotten Track Record,". mistakenly stated that tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have already begun flowing into UNESCO. Although the U.S. House voted in 2001 to...

EU to monitor pro-life groups? (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... The European Commission, the ruling body for the European Union, has proposed creating a special political intelligence unit to monitor pro-life organizations. The initiative appears to be the work of EU Development Commissioner Paul Nielson. A...

Bush supports semi-auto gun ban. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... Many of President George W. Bush's strongest Republican supporters are stunned. So are many of his Democrat opponents. Neither expected him to flip-flop on a core issue like gun control. Yet, on April 12th, the Washington Post reported that...

Cuba reseated on UN Human Rights Commission. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... On April 29th, little more than two weeks after unleashing a brutal wave of repression across Cuba, Fidel Castro's Communist regime was re-elected without opposition to a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The UN move,...

UN "reform" measure proposed. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... Congressman David Dreier (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Rules Committee, and Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) are cosponsors of H.R. 1590, the "United States International Leadership Act of 2003." As summarized by the Council on Foreign...

UN dignitaries go on rampage. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... "We sure don't want these guys around if the power goes off," a native New Yorker told THE NEW AMERICAN. "They'd strip the town!" The New York City resident was referring to the cabal of privileged, pampered, and perfumed reprobates who...

Toward a Leninist world order. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... Vladimir Lenin, founder of the totalitarian Soviet Union, defined his ruling philosophy as follows: "Power without limit, resting directly upon force, restrained by no laws, absolutely unrestrained by rules." In 1970, then-UN Secretary-General...

Bush, Senate back NATO expansion. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... President Bush used the 58th anniversary of the Allies' World War II victory over Germany, on May 8th, to hail the addition of seven "former" Communist nations as new members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. With White House backing,...

Saddam's vanishing arsenal. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... "The Bush administration has admitted that Saddam Hussein probably had no weapons of mass destruction," reported the London Sunday Herald on May 4th. "Senior administration officials have admitted that they would be 'amazed' if weapons of mass...

Strip-mining the U.S. economy. (Insider Report).
June 2, 2003... Major Wall Street investment firms such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup "are mulling the benefits of shipping research jobs to countries like India, where salaries for business graduates are as little as 10 percent of those in...

The restorationist rebellion. (The Right Perspective).
June 2, 2003... Evil does not shock anyone anymore. The world does not gasp in dismay as Britney Spears discards another article of clothing. People do not recoil in shocked disbelief as an Eminem song pollutes the airwaves. Polite society does not cross to...

Morality meltdown: The culture war waged by America's liberal elite has taken our society far down the road to perdition. But it is not too late to turn back. (Cover Story: Culture War).
June 2, 2003... The battle for the soul of America has reached a pivotal point. The tattered shreds of what remains of Christian civilization are under assault as never before, yet who is willing to stand in the breach against the attacking barbarian hordes?...

Global AIDS con game: President Bush's new global AIDS initiative will provide a massive infusion of funds to UN affiliates that may be responsible for spreading the AIDS epidemic. (Culture War).
June 2, 2003... Hundreds of lawmakers, cabinet officials, foreign dignitaries, and news correspondents packed into the East Room of the White House on April 29th. They had come to witness the launch of another global crusade against another momentous crisis....

Wagering on vice: with government's eager help, gambling has grown from a marginal vice to a major social malady -- and government, not surprisingly, is the main beneficiary. (Culture War).
June 2, 2003... Disclosure that self-appointed "virtue czar" William J. Bennett has a large and expensive gambling habit triggered the predictable wave of "gotcha!" stories in the press. The June issue of The Washington Monthly described how Bennett has rolled...

The Porn revolution: America's thriving pornography industry uses the marketplace to advance an agenda of subversion and social control. (Culture War).
June 2, 2003... [T]he foremost of the laws Nature decrees to me is to enjoy myself no matter at whose expense. -- The Marquis de Sade from his political novel Juliette "For more than five centuries," writes Atlantic Monthly investigative reporter Eric...

Triumphs born of tragedy. (Making A Difference).
June 2, 2003... October 16th will mark the 12th anniversary of the massacre at Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, during which George Hennard methodically murdered 23 persons and wounded more than 20 others. It was then the worst single-event mass killing in...

Ten Commandments project. (Making A Difference).
June 2, 2003... Retired Nashville, Tennessee, flower shop owner George Kelley and his wife, Marion, had long been concerned about our nation's increasing cultural, religious, and moral decline. In early 1997, after serial killer Paul Dennis Reid murdered seven...

Photo-op patriotism: President Bush's artfully choreographed speech aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was a brazen propaganda stunt worthy of Bill Clinton. (Executive Branch).
June 2, 2003... Robert "Buzz" Patterson, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, served in the Clinton White House as the military aide in charge of the nuclear "football"--a briefcase containing the launch codes for our nation's nuclear arsenal....

Enterprise of Henry Ford: the auto magnate demonstrated the power of free enterprise as a force for good. He not only made himself rich but put America on wheels and raised the lot of workers. (History--American Ingenuity).
June 2, 2003... This June, the Ford Motor Company commemorates the 100th anniversary of its founding.--Editor In 1903 there was little indication that the first sales of a buggy-like Ford two-seater would lead to anything significant. The capital raised...

Correction, please!
June 2, 2003... Spending Trumps Tax Cuts ITEM: Allan Sloan of Newsweek chided President Bush for using "phallic" imagery by demanding a "robust" tax cut instead of a "little bitty" one. "Call me naive," Sloan wrote in the May 5th issue, "but it seems to...

Arsonist shot. (Exercising the Right).
June 2, 2003... Shortly after 6 a.m. on April 19th, noises coming from their garage awakened Mr. and Mrs. Linn Stordahl of South Salem, Oregon. Mr. Stordahl armed himself with a .22-caliber handgun and went to investigate. Stordahl entered the garage and...

Deputy defends home. (Exercising the Right).
June 2, 2003... Daniel T. Kendzierski of Cleveland, Ohio, was paroled on March 5th of this year after serving 10 years of a 5-to-25-year sentence for felonious assault and aggravated burglary. In the early 1990s, he had broken into a home and fired shots at...

Carjacker foiled. (Exercising the Right).
June 2, 2003... At around 8:45 p.m. on April 22nd, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, stopped at a gas station to purchase a lottery ticket. When he returned to his van and climbed behind the wheel, a youth in the back seat pointed a gun at his head. According...

Robber retreats. (Exercising the Right).
June 2, 2003... The following incident in Baltimore County, Maryland, is taken from a sampling of police crime reports published in the April 17th Baltimore Sun: "Robbery try: A gunman forced his way into a house... on Tuesday [April 15th] and tried to rob...

Almost constitutional? (The Last Word).
June 2, 2003... A panel of three circuit judges recently struck down as unconstitutional parts of the McCain-Feingold "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act." That's bad news for McCain-Feingold supporters, right? Not according to Rep. Christopher Shays...

Regarding former Vermont Governor Dean.
June 2, 2003... Our article "The Santorum Controversy" (May 19th issue) misstated Mr. Dean's first name. His first name is Howard.

Wal-Mart Listens. (Culture War).
June 2, 2003... With U.S. smut consumption reaching all-time highs, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. made a refreshing decision recently when it announced that it would no longer carry such racy men's magazines as Maxim, Stuff, FHM, and Sports Illustrated's swimsuit...

Photo-op aircraft landing. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
June 16, 2003... I disagree with you about President Bush's photo-op landing on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln ("Photo-op Patriotism" by William Norman Grigg; June 2nd issue of TNA). Yes, it was staged, but no mare so than MacArthur's return to the...

Not Left or Right. (Letters to the Editors).(Letter to the Editor)
June 16, 2003... I love your magazine. Your cover story about Henry Kissinger ("Kissinger: Cover-up King," December 30, 2002 issue) is awesome -- and frightening too. Why don't more conservatives see that he, the CFR, and others are leading America into the...

Mass graves, Washington's perfidy. (Insider Report).(Iraq)
June 16, 2003... Some apologists for the Bush administration's needless, illegal, and counterproductive invasion of Iraq have ghoulishly delighted in the discovery of mass graves containing the remains of an estimated 15,000 Iraqis. Little attention has been...

Washington's new warsaw pact. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... In the run-up to its invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration disdainfully referred to France and Germany, which opposed the war, as representing "old Europe." At the same time, noted foreign affairs columnist Eric Margolis, "The threadbare...

U.S. backs UN anti-tobacco pact. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... "Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson stunned global health advocates yesterday by announcing that the United States was dropping its objections to a global anti-tobacco treaty and would support the pact," reported the May 19th...

War on terror or political purge? (Insider Report).
June 16, 2003... Jimmy Wynn, self-described commanding officer of the self-styled Militia of Georgia, is by all accounts a law-abiding citizen. However, his political beliefs brought him to the attention of Georgia's state-level Department of Homeland Security...

Draft EU constitution. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... Unveiled in Brussels on May 26th, the proposed constitution for the European Union (EU) was drawn up by the Convention on the Future of Europe (CFE), a 105-member committee chaired by former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Among the...

More times scandal. (Insider Report).(New York Times)(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... The recent twin scandals at the New York Times concerning reporters Jayson Blair and Rick Bragg are small potatoes compared to the big brouhaha brewing over Walter Duranty, the Times' long-dead-and-buried celebrity embarrassment. THE NEW...

Informant nation.
June 16, 2003... In East Germany, they were called spitzels; in Soviet Russia, stukachi; in Communist Cuba, chivatos. Every unfortunate society saddled with a police state has scornfully labeled the citizen informants who play the most important role in...

Terror war's southern front. (Insider Report).(Brazil)
June 16, 2003... "Richard Nixon famously remarked, 'As goes Brazil, so goes Latin America,"' recalled Brazilian political activist Gerald Brant in the May issue of Brazzil. Under the reign of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -- commonly called "Lula" --...

Iraq war a boon to al-Qaeda. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... In our May 19th analysis of the victory in Iraq, THE NEW AMERICAN posed the following rhetorical question: "Given that the military conquest of Iraq increased the terrorist danger to Americans, how can it be viewed as a victory in the 'war on...

Downplaying debt limit increase. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... President Bush on May 27th signed into law important legislation supposedly needed to prevent an unprecedented federal default. But he signed the bill without any public ceremony or fanfare. Instead, the White House issued a simple,...

Civilian disarmament in Iraq. (Insider Report).
June 16, 2003... In our May 19th issue (see the cover story, "What Did We Win?"), THE NEW AMERICAN pointed out that coalition forces occupying Iraq had "begun initial efforts to disarm the civilian population." The May 21st New York Times confirmed that "Iraqi...

McCarthy targeted--again. (Cover Story: History).(Cover Story)
June 16, 2003... Media spin aside, newly released transcripts from Senator Joseph McCarthy's closed committee hearings validate his efforts to expose subversive forces in our government. It was a dark and shameful period in our nation's history....

McCarthy's "witches". (Cover Story: History).(Cover Story)
June 16, 2003... "I was a representative of the Young Communist League and the Communist party of the United States [at] the meetings of the executive committee of the Communist International, Young Communist International, Moscow," pronounced Paul Crouch...

FDR's patriot purge. (Cover Story History).(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
June 16, 2003... In its efforts to suppress patriotic dissent, the pro-soviet FDR administration used many of the tactics falsely attributed to Senator McCarthy. In an Oval Office conversation that took place in 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

McCarthy and his colleagues. (Worth Repeating).(Joseph McCarthy)
June 16, 2003... Many Americans have been led to believe that Senator Joseph McCarthy was a loathsome bully who misused the power of his office to unleash a reign of terror against innocent individuals. But many of McCarthy's Senate colleagues -- like millions...

Hope in Hollywood? (Culture War).
June 16, 2003... With the entertainment industry bent on subverting Christian values, a few celebrities are breaking ranks -- to varying degrees -- by speaking out on faith, family, and morality. Is America's entertainment industry, as epitomized by...

About Gods and Generals.(Ron Maxwell)(Interview)
June 16, 2003... Interview of Ron Maxwell by William F. Jasper Film maker Ron Maxwell is a distinguished screenplay writer, director, and producer. His credits include Antony and Cleopatra, The Guest, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Parent Trap...

Mainstreaming homosexuality: the annual "gay pride" parade in Northampton, Mass., exemplifies how those seeking to homosexualize Middle America are marching right along. (Culture War).
June 16, 2003... In 1909, Calvin Coolidge, a devout Protestant and a fiscally prudent Yankee, was elected mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts. Nearly a hundred years later, Clare Higgins, famous for being badly dressed and openly lesbian, is the mayor of this...

Incorruptible cabbie. (The Goodness of America).
June 16, 2003... Mike Brundage drives a cab on weekends in Boulder, Colorado, and averages about $150 per shift. Passengers occasionally leave valuable items -- ranging from cellphones and cameras to computers and cash -- in his cab. When it happens, he turns...

Gradual graduate. (The Goodness of America).(Don Flickinger)
June 16, 2003... During the May 10th commencement at the University of Toledo in Ohio, Don Flickinger received his associate's degree in technical studies. This accomplishment would be unremarkable were it not that Flickinger, who compiled a 3.5 gradepoint...

River rescue. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... On April 4th of this year, Phillip Estes was knocked unconscious when the pickup truck he was driving veered off a road and plunged into the runoff-swollen Yakima River near Richland, Washington. The swift current began carrying the vehicle...

The truth about the Blair affair. (From the Ministry of Truth).(Jayson Blair)
June 16, 2003... When the New York Times discovered one of its reporters was falsifying stories, it immediately dismissed the reporter and set the record straight -- right? Not exactly, at least not in the case of Jayson Blair. The Times published a...

Wrong campaign. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... At around 1 a.m. on April 29th, former police officer Jose Vazquez of East Chicago, Indiana, was watching television alone at the campaign headquarters of his favored mayoral candidate when someone knocked at the back door. When he opened it,...

Domestic dispute. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... Jeffrey Fugate was under orders to stay away from his estranged wife Amanda, pending a domestic assault charge against him. On November 29th of last year, Mrs. Fugate, who told sheriff's deputies that she feared for her safety because her...

Store manager stops heist. (Exercising the Right).
June 16, 2003... Earl Dixon Jr. manages Beyond Wireless, a cell phone distribution store in Indianapolis, Indiana. Shortly after noon on April 23rd, two armed, masked men entered the store and demanded cash. Dixon dropped to the floor, grabbed a 9mm handgun...

Equalizer for the elderly. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
June 16, 2003... At about 10:30 p.m. on November 30th of last year, Odam Workman, 90, was staying with his son Randall, 65, at a home in Buffalo, West Virginia, when a stranger broke through a door and forced his way into the residence. According to the...

Correction, please!
June 16, 2003... Profiting from AIDS Funding ITEM: Former President Bill Clinton "applauded the Bush administration's proposal for a five-year $15 billion program to fight the global AIDS crisis...." But, said Clinton, as reported in Newsday for May 12th,...

Trilateral tentacles extend reach. (The Last Word).
June 16, 2003... The Trilateral Commission is on the move, broadening its influence. The elitist group that seeks world union initially drew its membership from North America, Western Europe, and Japan. But beginning in 2000 the TC dramatically widened its...

Why we have Borders. (Letters to the Editor).
June 30, 2003... The June 2, 2003 edition of THE NEW AMERICAN contained a letter to the editor ("More Immigrants Needed?") criticizing what the writer called the "counterproductive" immigration laws. He refers to aliens as "harmless foreigners." As an agent...

"Free" trade? (Letters to the Editor).
June 30, 2003... Kudos to Mr. William F. Jasper for his "free trade" article ("Your Job May Be Next," March 10th issue), and his response to a letter to the editor in the May 5th issue. The letter writer drags out the same old worn-out mantra we heard when...

Vice and violence. (Letters to the Editor).
June 30, 2003... I just finished "The Last Word" article from Warren Mass in the May 19,2003 issue ("The Santorum Controversy"). I am truly glad that there are still men with backbone to stand against the "politically correct" and express their opinions. I do...

American Heritage Girls. (Letters to the Editor).
June 30, 2003... I noted with interest the picture of the Girl Scouts selling cookies at a Gay Pride Parade ("Mainstreaming Homosexuality" by Isabel Lyman, June 16th issue of TNA). When I became a Girl Scout leader seven years ago, I knew something was wrong...

Correction.
June 30, 2003... In our June 2nd cover story, "Morality Meltdown," we erroneously attributed to CNN's Meriah Doty quotes that glowingly promoted the vulgar new movie The Real Cancun. Apologies are in order to CNN and Meriah Doty. The quotes were actually from a...

Emptying the Cradle of Liberty. (The Right Perspective).
June 30, 2003... A few weeks ago, I was ignoring a stream of e-mails from Scouting for All, a left-wing activist group attempting to force change in the Boy Scouts' policy on homosexuals and God. These emails were announcing a demonstration that was to take...

Abortuary bombings kill innocents. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... Miznor Chadwick of Birmingham, Alabama, a pro-life sidewalk counselor, stands vigil outside the New Woman All Women abortion mill every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. For 15 years, the 62-year-old retiree has pleaded with the...

Military tribunals on the horizon. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... The June 2nd Los Angeles Times reported that military authorities at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "have begun renovating several old office buildings to serve as courtrooms" for military tribunals. "Officials in Cuba also are...

Buckle up: market plunge ahead. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... Speaking to a gathering of central bankers in Berlin on June 3rd, Federal Reserve commissar Alan Greenspan declared that he saw indications of a "fairly marked turnaround" in the U.S. economy. Greenspan's remarks sent stocks surging. On...

Were they even looking? (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised," stated President Bush in a televised March 17th address. Those weapons,...

9-11 report suppressed. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... The Soviet Union under Josef Stalin was once described as a place where yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. That the public at large had experienced yesterday's weather, and would know that the revised official account of...

Bush painting the GOP Lavender. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... On May 31st, 200 members of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual pressure group, met with "senior administration officials in the Old Executive Office Building," reported the New York Times. The visit, according to the Times, ''symbolized...

Raines falls from Times. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... Howell Raines and Gerald M. Boyd, top editors at The New York Times, resigned on June 5th following a string of high-profile scandals involving plagiarism and bogus reporting by prominent Times reporters. The most notorious of those...

Beijing tightens grip on Hong Kong. (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... "A top Beijing official said Hong Kong must outlaw subversion and other crimes against the state to truly be part of China," reported Newsday on June 6th. "State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, a former foreign minister who now leads Beijing's policy...

Miami -- or Beijing? (Insider Report).
June 30, 2003... On orders from Probate Judge Arthur Rothenberg, medical personnel at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital aborted an unborn child who came to be known as "Baby Doe." The child, killed on May 29th at 24 weeks gestational age, was apparently...

Trading away jobs and Liberty: though billed as a boon to the U.S., the General Agreement on Trade in Services will, in reality, wreak havoc on our economy, sovereignty, and way of life. (Cover Story: Business).
June 30, 2003... "Outsourcing," "offshoring," "human resource realignment," "training your replacement." These are words that send chills through millions of workers in IT ("information technology") and other hi-tech industries. They also send waves of anger...

Another chance at OKC justice? The upcoming state trial of convicted OKC bomber Terry Nichols offers another chance to expose any co-conspirators -- and any officials who have covered up crucial evidence. (Terrorism).
June 30, 2003... On May 30th, Oklahoma State District Judge Steven Taylor scheduled a state murder trial for convicted Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols. The long-awaited trial is set to begin March 1, 2004. Nichols, age 48, could face the...

Weapons of mass delusion. (Worth Repeating).
June 30, 2003... Why did we go to war against Iraq? The official reason was not to defend the United States against an attack like the September 11th atrocities. It was to enforce UN Security Council Resolutions to disarm Iraq. -- Editor "America will...

Deflating the deflation myth: Fed chief Alan Greenspan is claiming that the specter of deflation is upon us. The truth, however, is that Fed-created inflation, not deflation, is threatening American prosperity. (Economics).
June 30, 2003... Alan Greenspan is spinning us a new tale of monetary deception. His old tale, in which he cast himself as a financial wizard saving us from the ravages of inflation, has suddenly taken a bizarre twist. No longer are we to tremble at the thought...

Spelling success. (Making a Difference).
June 30, 2003... Private and home schoolers took first and second place in the annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel in the nation's capital on May 28th and 29th. The new champ (and 76th winner of the event) is...

Pro-gun flyer flap. (Making a Difference).
June 30, 2003... In June 2000, the Montclair, New Jersey, Board of Education had students take home a flyer announcing a rally, sponsored by a gun control group known as Ceasefire New Jersey, urging the state assembly to approve a then-pending gun control...

Christmas controversy. (Making the Difference).
June 30, 2003... Prior to Christmas 2001, students in a class at Northwest Elementary School in Leominster, Massachusetts, were assigned to bring books about their Christmas traditions and share the details with classmates. Second-grader Laura Greska opted...

Home schooling is the place to bee: home-schooled 14-year-old James Williams captures the coveted top spot in the 2003 National Geographic Bee. (Education).
June 30, 2003... Madagascar, Mumbai, Myanmar, Martinique... sound like the itinerary of an exotic round-the-world trip? Not exactly. But it is a sample of the correct answers to questions posed in the National Geographic Bee finals, held in Washington, D.C.,...

The man who lit up the world: Thomas Edison changed the world through his ability, persistence -- and hard work. "Genius," he said, "is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration". (History: American Ingenuity).
June 30, 2003... Thomas Alva Edison put it plainly: "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." And the man who lit up the world was indeed a worker. With little formal education, he was...

Heroic crime fighter. (Exercising the Right).
June 30, 2003... Douglas Click is co-owner of Arizona Hi-Lift, a construction equipment firm in Phoenix. He is also the son of a former Phoenix assistant police chief. On March 21, 2002, a man stole a 13-ton dump truck and, during a 45-minute police chase,...