The New American articles from June 2005

The New American archives from June 2005

Fair game.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 13, 2005... For once I am compelled to defend GM. As a former senior manager from a different Big Three firm, I find defending my long-time competitor to be counterintuitive. However, your May 16, 2005 article "Global Motors" requires a rebuttal. The...

Reap what they sow.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 13, 2005... Thomas Eddlem wrote a fine article, "Phony 'Free Trade' Lobby," in the May 16 issue explaining why the so-called free trade lobby is pushing its destructive agenda. Because I was a Boeing employee until last year, I was particularly interested...

Economic problems.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 13, 2005... Mr. John McManus' one page article on "The Evolution of Money" in "The Dwindling Dollar" issue (THE NEW AMERICAN, April 18, 2005) states concisely but accurately all that needs to be said to understand the economic problems faced by the nation...

For failing to protect our borders, we are now less free.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... On May 11, President Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law, which for the first time in U.S. history establishes a national identification card and a corresponding central identification database. Attached to the War Supplemental Spending bill,...

Immigration reformers not "true" republicans?(INSIDER REPORT)
June 13, 2005... During a May 4 Washington, D.C., forum sponsored by the Latino Coalition, Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah), a congressional point man for the Bush administration's illegal immigrant amnesty scheme, suggested that fellow Republican...

CAFTA: an outsourcing and foreign aid pact.(INSIDER REPORT)(Central American Free Trade Agreement)
June 13, 2005... According to a 75-page analysis published by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WATW), an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America union, the six nations of the "CAFTA region" compose "a tiny export market for high-tech...

Britain joins "race to the bottom".(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Leading London economists predict that more than 500,000 jobs "will be slashed in Britain over the next three years," reported the London Telegraph on May 5. According to projections by ABN Amro bank, the British economy "'is set for a dramatic...

Claims of future war escalation.(INSIDER REPORT)
June 13, 2005... On February 18, Scott Ritter, a former Marine and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, stunned an audience in Olympia, Washington, with this announcement: President Bush had already reviewed plans for a massive bombardment of Iran, and the...

Mossad chief: U.S. to be mired in Middle East in perpetuity.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... According to Ephraim Halevy, former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service and current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence in the Middle East...

President overlooks Soviet brutality while commemorating World War II's end.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "It is a moment when the world will recognize the great bravery and sacrifice the Russian people made in the defeat of Nazism. The people of Russia suffered incredible hardship, and yet the Russian spirit never died out." In Moscow on May 8,...

Commencement address by Hillary costs college its Catholic identity.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... "The decision to honor one of Congress's most outspoken and strident advocates of abortion rights was just the last episode in a long history of secularization of Marymount Manhattan College." Responding to New York Cardinal Edward Egan's...

Columnist's comments angered bill.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 13, 2005... "And then there is her husband, a one-man supermarket tabloid.... Absent any evidence, the former President should be considered guilty until proved really guilty." Time magazine's Joe Klein expects that being married to Bill Clinton will...

Alternatives in Iraq are either a pullout or a draft.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 13, 2005... "I'm not advocating an immediate pullout.... The point is that something has to give. We either need a much bigger army--which means a draft--or we need to find a way out of Iraq." Columnist Paul Krugman of the New York Times wants U.S....

Top democrat castigates Republican judicial nominees.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 13, 2005... "When Americans think of a scary person in a black robe, they should be thinking of Darth Vader, not Republican choices for judges." Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada claims that President Bush's choices for federal judicial...

Religious leader protests delay in confirming judges.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 13, 2005... "It took less time for America to defeat both Germany and Japan in World War II than it's taken to have one simple up-or-down vote on the current crop of filibustered nominees." Focus on the Family Chairman James Dobson pointed to the...

Bonuses for Halliburton Irk at least one senator.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 13, 2005... "After we have seen its overcharges, sloppy accounting, and kick-back schemes in Iraq, giving Halliburton a bonus is like giving your worst employee a raise." After the U.S. Army announced an award of $72 million in bonuses to a division...

Remaking America: the flood of legal and illegal immigrants who are not assimilating, and who are being increasingly radicalized, is changing our culture and country.(IMMIGRATION)
June 13, 2005... On Tuesday, May 17, Antonio Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles. When he takes office in July, he will become the first person of Mexican descent to do so in more than 130 years. He will not be the last. Although there were several...

Amnesty encore: the bipartisan fix is in for an amnesty for illegal immigrants as part of a larger scheme to build a North American "security perimeter.".(IMMIGRATION)(Cover Story)
June 13, 2005... The American public endures countless lectures regarding the perils of political "gridlock," which supposedly inhibits government's ability to make our lives better. However, sober political observers quickly realize that while gridlock can be...

The bloody border: escalating violent crime at the U.S.-Mexico border offers a foretaste of the bloody chaos that will ensue if the Power Elite succeeds in merging our two nations.(IMMIGRATION)
June 13, 2005... Mexican President Vicente Fox has made it abundantly clear that any effort by the United States to enforce its immigration laws is an unbearable affront to his nation's dignity. Fox's exquisite sensitivity on that account was on display May 13,...

Hidden immigration agenda: the architects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas are concealing their ultimate goal--to completely erase national borders throughout the Western Hemisphere.(FTAA)
June 13, 2005... America's borders have been a disaster for decades. Our immigration "reforms" have been a series of broken promises and betrayals. We have sown the wind and are reaping the whirlwind: our failure to effect sensible immigration controls now...

A sportsman and a hero.(tennis player, Any Roddick)
June 13, 2005... Andy Roddick is well known to tennis fans. Since 2001, he has compiled a singles record of 271-84, won 17 singles titles, and earned $8.25 million in prize money. In May 2004, while playing in the Italian Open, Roddick showed that his...

A Salt Lake City rescue.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Seven-year-old Sadiq Hammadi and six-year-old Abdidamnan Mbwer are cousins from Salt Lake City. On the afternoon of April 17, while playing in a riverside park, Abdidamnan fell into the icy cold, rapidly flowing waters of the Jordan River. As...

Divine billboards.(Godly messages in billboards)
June 13, 2005... Motorists frequently encounter billboards these days with messages such as these: * "If you must curse, use your own name!--God" * "One nation under me.--God" * "It's a small world, I know... I made it.--God" Curiously, the...

Coaching with conviction: Vince Lombardi's extraordinary success as the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers demonstrates the dramatic difference principle-based leadership can make.(HISTORY--LEADERSHIP)
June 13, 2005... On December 31, 1967, it was 13 degrees below zero with a wind chill of minus 46 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Despite the weather, two football teams prepared to face each other on the frozen expanse of Lambeau Field. The team from Texas, the...

Ample discouragement.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(jewelry salesmen fire at robbers)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... When five men tried to steal precious gems from two jewelry salesmen, they ran into a hail of lead. Outside a jewelry store in Little Rock, Arkansas, brothers Charles and Roy Hirshberg, jewelry salesmen, were accosted by five men intent on...

She walked.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... After being convinced that Tamara Johnson was the victim of repeated physical abuse, a grand jury refused to forward to trial a case of voluntary manslaughter that was levied against her by prosecutors, reported the Knoxville News-Sentinel. ...

Wild ride.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... After engaging in a weekend-long crime spree, a 17-year-old Reno, Nevada, resident got himself shot. The culmination of the unidentified youth's spree happened about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 24, when the young man attempted to steal a...

Afternoon break-in.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... An article in the Memphis Commercial Appeal of April 7 stated that a Memphis, Tennessee, apartment resident had to fend off intruders the previous day. Police spokesman Sergeant Vince Higgins said that the unidentified resident of a...

There's no telling.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(son of a police officer involved in a robbery)(Brief Article)
June 13, 2005... Showing that there's no telling who will opt to commit crimes, the son of a police officer was involved in a robbery on Monday, April 4. According to the Laredo Morning Times, David Rivera, the son of a Laredo, Texas, police spokesman,...

From gun control to bullet control.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(Correction Notice)
June 13, 2005... ITEM: The Los Angeles Times for April 11 commented: "After four years of George W. Bush, the notions that some people might be too dangerous or unstable to trust with a firearm or that assault weapons do not belong in civilized society are...

Yalta betrayal revisited.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(Correction Notice)
June 13, 2005... ITEM: Jacob Heilbrunn wrote in the Los Angeles Times for May 10 (and other papers) about President George Bush's visit to the Baltics. When the president compared "the Yalta accord among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin...

Politically inspired logic.(THE LAST WORD)
June 13, 2005... Cognitive dissonance is defined as the confused mental condition that results from holding incompatible beliefs simultaneously. It strikes me that an epidemic of deadly cognitive dissonance is infecting politicians. On one side of the political...

Global parts.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 27, 2005... Five years ago we decided to treat ourselves to a Cadillac automobile, and it turned out to be one of our best investments ever. At 50-some thousand miles the car looks and performs as though it were still new, so you can understand how...

Understanding money.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 27, 2005... Kudos are in order to Mr. John F. McManus for his articles in THE NEW AMERICAN, April 18 issue, "Government's Attack on the Dollar" and "The Evolution of Money." In the latter he mentions the constitutional grant of power to the Congress...

Nuclear benefits?(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 27, 2005... In Robert J. Pasteure's letter to the editor entitled "Nuclear Benefits," he states: "It is a fairly clean way of producing the energy needed to power our ever-growing energy demands." If this statement were entirely true, why all the...

Social Security questions.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
June 27, 2005... In regard to the articles on Social Security in the February 21 issue, it should be noted that private citizens pay two income taxes, not one. They pay not only the tax on individual earnings, but they also pay the even larger tax on...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 27, 2005... CORRECTION: Regarding our "Insider Report" item "Building Warriors in the Classroom?" (May 30), Michael S. Woodson of Soldiers for The Truth is not a "retired Marine officer" but rather a civilian military affairs expert who shares exactly the...

Bush backers admit: CAFTA not a free trade pact.(INSIDER REPORT)(Free Trade Agreement, 2004, United States-Central America-Dominican Republic)(George W. Bush)
June 27, 2005... In a May 31 White House press conference, President Bush declared that there is a "geopolitical, as well as economic, concern for CAFtA"--specifically, the need to "support young democracies [in the region]. And that's going to be important."...

Blood money on the border.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Mexican drug cartels, which are supported and protected by that nation's extravagantly corrupt government, have lavished bribes on Customs and Border Patrol agents to transform "the Texas-Mexico border into one of the major transport corridors...

"Trade" and foreign aid.(INSIDER REPORT)
June 27, 2005... The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) describes its mission as "advanc[ing] economic development and U.S. commercial interests in developing and middle-income countries" through the "strategic use of foreign assistance funds"--that is,...

"Solving" the recruitment problem.(INSIDER REPORT)
June 27, 2005... At the end of April, reported the Financial Times for May 31, "the Army had attracted only 35,926 soldiers toward its goal of 80,000 for the year ending in October. Figures for reserves were even worse: 7,283 towards the target of 22,175." ...

Who is the enemy?(INSIDER REPORT)(national identification card)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... The REAL ID Act, signed into law by George W. Bush on May 11, created our country's first national identification card. The measure imposes federal standards on state driver's licenses, and creates a huge central identification database--which...

UN as a providential instrument?(INSIDER REPORT)
June 27, 2005... "With the rekindling of his Christian faith, President Bush clearly sees the purpose of the United States and its global mission through the United Nations," commented former State Department official Patrick Mendis in the June 1 Washington...

Dutch rejection of EU Constitution essentially a rejection of the establishment.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... "[The NO vote reveals] a dramatic chasm between the establishment and citizens. Our democracy falls miserably in representing the wishes and cares of the citizen--that is the almost inevitable conclusion." An editorial in the Dutch...

"Star Wars" movie reminds columnist of the support for the Bush administration.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." In the movie, a character named Palpatine rises deceitfully to high office and uses wars to become a dictator. When he announces a reorganization of the government that amounts to...

He sees a majority favoring Hillary for president.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 27, 2005... "Over time, Clinton fatigue has dissipated... and people are looking back on the Clinton years more favorably. This may also reflect that she has been recasting her image as a more moderate person." Pew Research Center director Andrew...

President pokes fun at himself.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 27, 2005... "Someday you will appreciate the grammar and verbal skills you learned here. And if any of you wonder how far a mastery of the English language can take you, just look at what it did for me." President George W. Bush joked about his own...

New cigarette tax severely impacts dealers in Kentucky.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... "It's going to knock my socks off." Bracing for the June I rise in the Kentucky cigarette tax from three to 30 cents per pack, Frank Hinton worries about the future for himself and the 22 employees of his four stores near the Tennessee...

Montana asks Pentagon to return firefighters from Iraq.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... "Why don't you send Montana's Guardsmen home for July and August? We have 49 other states. They can rotate at different times. We'll take up the slack--for example, at Christmas." Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer received a negative...

Kerry foray into the south fails to excite Louisiana democrat.(SNAPSHOTS)(John Kerry )(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... "I'd support him in a heartbeat, but I want someone electable. We haven't had much luck with Northern liberals." After listening for 30 minutes to an attempt by Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) to present himself as a D.C. outsider at a...

Honor roll of history's quotable quotes.(SNAPSHOTS)
June 27, 2005... "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W. Somerset Maugham, Strictly Personal, 1941

Voters reject EU Constitution: the European Union's governing elite are stunned by French and Dutch voters' rejection of the EU Constitution, but refuse to give up their globalist schemes.(EUROPEAN UNION)(Cover Story)
June 27, 2005... First, the French voters shouted a defiant "NON!" Then the Dutch yelled "NEE!" And now the Brits are lined up to roar a resounding "NO !" The ruling classes of the European Union--the politicians, the media commentators and editors, the...

Watergate & the weather underground: former FBI second-in-command Mark Felt, aka Watergate's "Deep Throat," was an opponent of both presidential corruption and domestic terrorism.(POLITICS)
June 27, 2005... According to talk radio ranter Michael Savage, 91-year-old former FBI second-in-command Mark Felt, fleshly revealed as the Watergate whistleblower known as "Deep Throat," should be thrown in prison, along with his daughter Joan. During his June...

Republican presidents more harmful: a Republican president can often enact a more liberal agenda than a Democrat could because many Republicans in Congress are more loyal to party than to principle.(POLITICS)
June 27, 2005... Over the past few generations, congressional Democrats could customarily be relied upon to promote a liberal agenda while their Republican counterparts developed the reputation of being stalwart opponents of our nation's slide into big...

Braddock's inspiring triumph: when Americans had been knocked flat by the Depression, the improbable triumph of underdog heavyweight James J. Braddock, the Cinderella Man, offered our nation hope.(CULTURAL CURRENTS)(Biography)
June 27, 2005... "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau," announced Yale economist Irving Fisher on October 17, 1929. Less than two weeks later, the stock market crashed, wiping out a then-unheard-of $40 billion in wealth. Among the...

Utah bucks "No Child Left Behind": Utah has passed legislation to maintain its constitutional primacy over the federal government in the education of that state's children.(EDUCATION)
June 27, 2005... For more than 50 years, the federal government's control over education in this country has grown by leaps and bounds, virtually unchecked. The passage of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act in 2001 was the most sweeping federal encroachment on...

Geography: don't leave home without it!(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Nathaniel Cornelius)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Nathaniel "Nathan" Cornelius is a seventh grader, but he doesn't leave home to go to school. The 13-year-old from Cottonwood, Minnesota, is home-schooled with guidelines from the Marshall Area Christian Home Educators' Association. ...

Doctors bring hope to Indonesian girl.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
June 27, 2005... Eight-year-old Mawarni Zega, from the village of Hilisebua on Nias Island, Indonesia, is the youngest of 10 children. Mawarni's father is a rubber tree farmer. Mawarni was born with a birth defect called an encephalocele--basically, a hole in...

Man gives life for another.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... Last March, Dennis J. Glanton of rural Shelby, Indiana, pulled his van to the side of the road to help Bobby D. Bryant, whose car had crashed into a utility pole. While Glanton was standing near his own vehicle, calling an emergency...

Their sacred honor: every signer of the Declaration of Independence pledged his life, fortune, and sacred honor. Many sacrificed greatly to fulfill this oath. If their legacy is to live on, we must do the same.(HISTORY--GREATNESS OF THE FOUNDERS)
June 27, 2005... Caesar Rodney was weary when he reached his plantation near Dover on the night of July 1, 1776. An outspoken advocate of American independence. Rodney was exhausted from many months of battling Delaware's Tories while building up and drilling...

Do it yourself.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(theft)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... A man whose car was stolen retrieved it--himself. On April 18, an unidentified Roseburg, Oregon, man left his keys in his car, and it was stolen. The next day he was at the post office when a stranger drove up in his car. An article in the...

Alert for trouble.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(theft)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... After a rash of daytime burglaries, two thieves got their comeuppance. In Everson, Pennsylvania, a series of break-ins in the normally quiet area had residents on alert, and this heightened awareness proved to be the undoing of two...

Same plan.(a case of gun violence)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... An employee of a San Diego, California, pharmacy shot a would-be thief on May 27 when the thief made a threatening movement. When David Robuck, 32, entered the Fed RX Pharmacy at 11:30 a.m., he was wearing "sunglasses, dark clothing and...

Restrained.(a case of harassment)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... According to an article in the Savannah Morning News, a man accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend, an unidentified Cloverdale, Georgia, woman, was shot and killed in yet another stalking incident. On the evening of Monday, May 23, Carey...

Tattooed intruder.(a case of murder)(Brief Article)
June 27, 2005... A criminal got more than he bargained for when he broke into a home late on Sunday, May 29. On that night, Judith Kuntz, a 64-year-old widow from Indiatlantic, Florida, became aware that someone had entered her home, and so she retrieved a...

Full of beans.(biodiesel fuels' cost impact )
June 27, 2005... ITEM: "Suddenly," reported The Olympian (Olympia, Wash.) for May 23, "biodiesel is not only cost competitive, it has a slight edge over regular diesel fuel. This is welcome news on several fronts. Motorists benefit in the pocketbook by cutting...

"Three-fifths of a man".(democratization)
June 27, 2005... ITEM: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's remarks at the Community of Democracies Opening Plenary in Santiago, Chile, were posted by the State Department and carried worldwide. In discussing the "democratization" process Rice said: "For...

From one wolf to another.(James D. Wolfensohn of World Bank replaced by Paul Wolfowitz)
June 27, 2005... James D. Wolfensohn stepped down as president of the World Bank on May 31, after having held that post for 10 years. He has passed the World Bank baton to Paul Wolfowitz, a longtime Washington Insider whose most recent stint has been as deputy...