The New American articles from March 2002

The New American archives from March 2002

Socialist "Saint" defended. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
March 11, 2002... As a relative newcomer to THE NEW AMERICAN, I must share my feelings about articles such as the one on Martin Luther King ("Socialist Saint" by William Norman Grigg) in the February 11th issue. I was appalled to find an article that would so...

Rings and Christianity. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
March 11, 2002... I find it highly disconcerting that you insist on placing so much emphasis in stating that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is profoundly Christian in its symbolism ("Tolkien's Tale Bears Ring of Truth," January 28th). It contains, rather, many...

Powell, "Safe Sex," and Condoms. (Insider Report).(Colin Powell, cabinet member, on health issues concerning unprotected sex)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... "Forget about taboos," Secretary of State Colin Powell told a worldwide MTV audience while endorsing condoms as a good "safe sex" strategy. Immediately drawing fire from conservative and pro-family activists, Powell's statement came during a...

Bush's environmental valentine. (Insider Report).(President George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... So you thought the global warming hysteria ended with the Clinton administration? Think again. The Bush administration is steadily amassing a record of environmental alarmist policies that's, well, Clintonesque. The infamous Kyoto Treaty, for...

Holocaust profiteering. (Insider Report).(some groups taking the money that belong to somebody else)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Michael Kleiner, a member of the Israeli Knesset (legislature), has condemned several prominent Jewish organizations for "rak[ing] into their coffers" an estimated $1 billion in unclaimed Holocaust compensation funds set aside by Swiss banks,...

Germany's Neo-Nazi provocateurs. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Germany's National Democratic Party (NPD), that country's leading neo-Nazi front, was "led by government agents," reported the February 12th London Daily Telegraph. The government of former Communist Gerhard Schroeder had requested that the...

Milosevic Chummy with Clinton. (Insider Report).(Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Yugoslavia)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Shortly before the opening of the UN's "war crimes" trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the Croatian magazine Globus published transcripts of phone conversations between the former Serbian dictator and former President Bill Clinton. According to...

ICC ratifications on the rise. (Insider Report).(International Criminal Court )(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... A flurry of ratifications since the beginning of this year has increased the total number of nations ratifying the 1998 Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court to 52. That means the internationalists are but eight ratifications short...

"Our Man" in Kabul. (Insider Report).(Hamid Karzai, leader of the interim government; Afghanistan)(Interview)
March 11, 2002... "As far as some in Washington are concerned, Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai, not George W. Bush, was the real star of the President's State of the Union Address," reported a January 31st dispatch in the cyberzine The Idler. Decked out in an Uzbek...

Bob Bennett: Gold Medal Parker. (Insider Report).(Porker of the Month)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Just in time for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Republican Senator Robert Bennett was named "Porker of the Month" by Citizens Against Public Waste (CAPW). The dubious distinction was conferred upon Utah's junior senator for his role...

GOP for national service program. (Insider Report).(Republican Party and the USA Freedom Corps)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... A handy way of predicting the future agenda of the Republican Party may well be to take the present platform of the Democrats and pencil in a date three to five years hence. The reliability of that test is illustrated by the GOP's eagerness to...

Bush aids mob cover-up. (Insider Report).(President George W. Bush and organized crime)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... In early December, President Bush invoked executive privilege to nullify a congressional subpoena "exploring abuses in the Boston FBI office," reported the December 14th Boston Globe. The House Government Reform Committee was investigating the...

Did we know what was coming?: The September 11th terrorist attacks required extensive planning. Our intelligence services knew enough to have responded better. (Cover Story: Terrorism).(Cover Story)
March 11, 2002... John Philip Walker Lindh, better known as the "American Taliban," is accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network to kill American citizens. According to the federal criminal complaint, Lindh's role in the terrorist conspiracy...

True face of Iran: Once considered a sponsor of terrorism, Iran was initially designated an ally in the war against terrorism. But no amount of verbal cosmetics will change the true face of this evil regime. (Iran).
March 11, 2002... "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world." The speaker, of course, was President George Bush. The venue: his January 29th State of the Union address. The targeted...

Minding our own business: American foreign policy has moved away from the prudent non-interventionism of the founders to the present policy of global police action and empire building. (Isolationism).
March 11, 2002... If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, the arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless, as men are powerless against delusions. William Graham Sumner ...

Fallacies of isolationism exposed: Internationalists claim that "isolationism" causes incidents like Black Tuesday, but their faulty logic -- and the value of minding one's own business -- is easily demonstrated. (Isolationism).
March 11, 2002... While political circumstances change, arguments against "isolationism" never do. Following are some common fallacies promoted by the internationalist cartel. Q: With advances in military technology, our geography no longer isolates us from...

Term limits tide recedes: Support for term limits has steadily declined as voters learn about the danger this deception poses to the Constitution. (Term Limits).
March 11, 2002... Nothing appears more plausible at first sight, nor more ill-founded upon closer inspection... --Alexander Hamilton on term limits, The Federalist, No. 72 On January 24th, the Idaho House of Representatives voted 50 to 20 to scuttle a...

"Straight Pride". (Making a Difference).(high school student's shirt causes controversy)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... On the afternoon of January 16, 2001, 16-year-old Elliott Corbett, then a sophomore, currently a junior, at Woodbury High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, was told by an assistant principal that a female student had registered a complaint against...

Valentine Victory. (Making a Difference).(grade school case involving religious Valentines)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Eight-year-old Morgan Nyman was in the second grade at Cushing Elementary School in Delafield, Wisconsin, last year when she sought to distribute homemade Valentine's Day cards to classmates. The cards carried religious messages such as "Jesus...

Good Scouts. (Making a Difference).(donation given to Florida Scouts)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Until last year, the South Florida Council of Boy Scouts of America, serving some 21,000 Cub and Boy Scouts in Monroe, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties, typically received between $128,000 to $175,000 from the Broward County United Way. But in...

A lesson in limited government. (In Light of the Past).('The Life of Davy Crockett')(Excerpt)
March 11, 2002... While the legendary American hero Davy Crockett was serving in Congress, an informed voter, Horatio Bunce, taught him the importance of strict obedience to the Constitution. In the following, excerpted from the book The Life of Colonel...

Exercising the right.(instances of guns in self-defense)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Justifiable Self-Defense Bobby T. Davis of Homing, Oklahoma, was staying at the Regency Inn & Suites in Topeka, Kansas, on January 20th when he heard a knock on the door at around 8 p.m. Armed with a handgun, he opened the door with the...

Correction, Please!(criticism of education spending)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... Little Learned at Great Cost ITEM: On February 4th, Deputy Education Secretary William Hansen announced the 2003 budget request for the Department of Education, proposing $50.3 billion in discretionary appropriations. Commented Mr. Hansen:...

Through the Olympic looking glass. (The Last Word).(Salt Lake Olympics post-mortem)(Brief Article)
March 11, 2002... One of the perplexing spectacles that greeted Alice after passing through the looking glass was the "caucus-race," in which competitors "began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race...

Guns, governments, and terror. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
March 25, 2002... The February 11th ("Gun Grab Revival") issue of THE NEW AMERICAN contains several well-done articles on the issue of gun ownership by free citizens. As reported, the antigun mob is exploiting the threat of terrorism and the fact that some...

More on Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. (Letters to Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
March 25, 2002... I enjoyed your film review of The Fellowship of the Ring ("Rings Runs Circles Around Rowling" by Steve Bonta, January 28th issue). After seven or eight readings, I am convinced that The Lord of the Rings is the finest work of fantasy in...

Afghan mission creep begins. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice (now the president's national security advisor) suggested that it was time to withdraw U.S. forces from peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo. More than a year into...

Bosnia: Hub of terrorist axis? (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... In a series of reports beginning in 1996, THE NEW AMERICAN warned that Bosnia, the UN-administered former Yugoslav province, had become a staging area for Muslim terrorist groups. Following the Black Tuesday attacks, we reviewed those prior...

Kowtowing to Beijing on terrorism. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... On February 2 1st, speaking in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing at the conclusion of summit talks with Chinese ruler Jiang Zemin, President Bush declared: "We recognize that terrorism is a threat to both our countries, and I welcome...

Toward a UN "Terrorism Court". (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... Writing in the February-March 2002 issue of Policy Review, the Heritage Foundation's flagship journal, legal scholars Abraham D. Soafer and Paul D. Williams argue that special terrorism courts of some sort are indispensable in the ongoing "war...

Afghan leader thanks Iran. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... On February 25th, new Afghan leader Hamid Karzai effusively thanked and praised his kind allies who have saved Afghanistan from ruin. The United States? The European Community? Well, no. Karzai's words, delivered in Iran's Majlis, or...

Child sex abuse by UN workers. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... A shocking report jointly issued on February 26th by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save The Children detailed evidence of widespread sexual exploitation of children at refugee camps in West Africa. According to the report,...

NATO proposes its own "Rapid Reaction Corps". (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a regional affiliate of the United Nations, "would like to be able to put more than 100,000 men into a campaign, and envisages a total force in excess of 250,000, capable of combat in three...

Klamath falls reprieve. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... In late February, beleaguered farmers in the Klamath River Basin on the Oregon-California border received some welcome news: The Federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that it would release irrigation water in time for the 2002 planting...

Abolishing Our Southern Border. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... With each new expansion of federal authority in the name of homeland security, Americans are reminded that "everything changed" on September 11th. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Bush administration's commitment to abolish our...

Bush against arming pilots. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... Owing much of its political base to gun rights supporters, the Bush administration is now reluctantly beginning to show its true colors. Beginning very soon after September 11th, the Bush administration has been dropping hints that it won't...

U.S. forces headed for Georgia. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... If you're dismayed at the deepening Afghan quagmire, wait 'til we've become bogged down in Georgia (the bandit state in the Caucasus, that is, not the Peach State). Georgia, the newest hot spot in the war against terrorism, gained nominal...

Swiss Neutrality ends with Pro-UN vote. (The Right Perspective).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... In 1986, three out of four voters in Switzerland said "no" in a referendum designed to have their nation join the United Nations. But on March 3rd, with pressure coming from within and without the country, the Swiss people allowed themselves to...

Vindicating our veterans: After decades of defamation, caricature, and disregard, we were Soldiers pays homage to America's Vietnam warriors for their heroism and sacrifice. (Cover Story: Vietnam).
March 25, 2002... It was known as the Valley of Death: the Ia Drang Valley, in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. On November 14, 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Air Cavalry Regiment rode into that valley -- and into one of the bloodiest...

The real Hal Moore: Lt. General Harold G. Moore, the real-life protagonist portrayed by Mel Gibson in We Were Soldiers, talks with The New American about the movie, his book, and Vietnam. (Cover Story: Vietnam).(Interview)
March 25, 2002... Lt. General Harold G. Moore (Ret.) graduated from West Point in 1945, commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War, was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam, and later commanded the 7th Infantry Division in Korea. A master...

Seven myths about the Vietnam War: Three decades after pulling out of Southeast Asia, America remains hostage to a relentless barrage of distortion, myths, and outright lies about the Vietnam War. (Cover Story: Vietnam).
March 25, 2002... Napoleon is reputed to have cynically remarked that "history is a fraud agreed upon." A similarly cynical attitude is more than justified when it comes to the usual "history" of the Vietnam War, as presented by the prevailing liberal-left...

The John Birch Society on Vietnam. (Worth Repeating).
March 25, 2002... During the Vietnam War era, Americans were presented two choices regarding the conduct of the war: Maintain the status quo, which meant fighting a long, protracted, costly conflict with victory an elusive goal; or cut and run. There was,...

Long shot in self-defense. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... Leroy and Anne Long own and operate Long's Fishing Center, a bait shop in Anderson, South Carolina. On the morning of February 5th, two men entered the shop and asked for directions to the Palmetto State's historic Table Rock region. ...

Big game. (Exercising the Right).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... On December 22nd of last year, semi-retired tire store operator David Coiner of Hickory Grove, South Carolina, started out in his all-terrain vehicle to hunt deer as he often does on weekend afternoons. In less than 30 minutes, however, he...

"Don't try that here". (Exercising the Right).(store clerk Gary William Cannon shoots, kills assailant during robbery)(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... It was hot in Gastonia, North Carolina, on November 28, 2001, so late in the day someone at the West Main Newsstand Book Nook propped the back door open to cool the establishment. Shortly before 10 p.m., six persons remained in the store,...

Carjacking thwarted. (Exercising the Right).(off-duty police officer shoots, kills assailant during automobile theft)(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... At around 10:25 p.m. on January 30th, an off-duty San Francisco police officer stopped at a Mobil station in Pico Rivera, California. While pumping gas into his truck, he was approached by two men allegedly bent on carjacking the vehicle. The...

Quotable. (Exercising the Right).(book The Cherokee Trail)(Excerpt)
March 25, 2002... From American author Louis L'Amour's novel The Cherokee Trail (snippet of a conversation between the book's heroine, Mary Breydon, and her maid and cook, Matty Maginnis): ... [Mary] suddenly thought of something. "Matty? At first, you...

Prescription for tyranny: Under the guise of dealing with health emergencies, proposed legislation would grant states totalitarian powers while actually hurting state sovereignty. (Health Care).
March 25, 2002... A dangerous new epidemic is incubating in Washington and in state legislatures nationwide, courtesy of the war on terrorism. No, it isn't anthrax or smallpox or bubonic plague or some other deadly germ brewed by bioterrorists. It's a new push,...

Token of gratitude for patriotism. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... Robert Setaro, 29, of Worcester, Massachusetts, enlisted in the Air Force in 1999. Two years earlier, his younger brother, Ryan, had enlisted, and five years before that another brother, Richard, had been killed when his Air Force helicopter...

Honesty pays. (The Goodness of America).(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... Joe Csira, 16, is a sophomore at Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. On December 21, 2001, while Christmas shopping with his mother at a strip mall in New Britain Borough, he found six crisp, new $100 bills. He could...

Fuelish politics. (Correction, Please!).(Corporate Average Fuel Economy)(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... ITEM: Consumer Reports is calling for more federal regulation of fuel economy. Jim Guest, president of CR, writes in the March issue that using oil from Alaska is not the answer. "A much more practical move is to urge consumers to drive...

Protecting incumbents. (Correction, Please!).(campaign finance)(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... ITEM: During the last three decades, editorialized the February 15th Denver Post, "special interests" have found "new ways to manipulate the system and block further, needed reforms" in political campaigns. "That changed... when the U.S. House...

A martial plan? (Correction, Please!).(defense spending by United States)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 25, 2002... ITEM: In an article subheaded "Is America too powerful for its own good?" London's Observer for February 10th reported that President Bush had announced "an increase in US military spending of 15 percent, the biggest in 20 years, more than...

The CFR political cartel. (The Last Word).(Council on Foreign Relations)(Brief Article)
March 25, 2002... It's good to be back at the Council on Foreign 3 Relations," declared Vice President Dick Cheney during a February 15th address to the group. "I've been a member for a long time, and was actually a director for some period of time. I never...