The New American articles from March 2005

The New American archives from March 2005

Fraud of Social Security.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... Your articles on Social Security in your February 21 issue were very informative, but they left out one very important thing. Policemen, firemen, and teachers are being denied 60 percent of their Social Security benefits. Are you next? What...

Conforming to the WTO.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... I was rereading THE NEW AMERICAN issue "The Crushing Force of the WTO" (January 10, 2005) and listening to the news concerning the Bush budget. I perked up when it was announced that the proposed budget included a planned reduction in farm...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 7, 2005... In the Exercising the Right story "Scrappy Old Soldier" in our January 24 issue, we misidentified the location of the incident. Leonard Gamage is from Macomb, Illinois.

9/11: release of FAA report confirms whistle-blower charges.(Insider Report)(Federal Aviation Administration)(Bogdan Dzakovic)
March 7, 2005... A previously undisclosed report of the 9/11 Commission shows that in the months prior to September 11,2001 terrorist attacks, Federal Aviation Administration officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports concerning Osama bin Laden and...

White House raises prescription drug cost estimate--again.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... On February 9, the Bush administration released estimates that a new federal program to provide prescription drug coverage to Medicare recipients would cost $724 billion over the next 10 years. The administration had lobbied hard for the...

UN-created pederast underground.(Insider Report)(peacekeeping forces charged with sexual abuse and rape in Congo)
March 7, 2005... Didier Bourguet is on trial in his native France for charges of sexual abuse and rape in Congo while working as a UN transport worker. His defense attorney, Claude de Boosere-Lepidi, told the court "that there was a network of UN Personnel who...

The UN's claim to moral authority.(Insider Report)
March 7, 2005... Back in 2001, the United States was voted off the UN's Human Rights Commission for the first time since its inception in 1947. When that happened, a variety of reasons were given as to why such a vote occurred: the U.S. opposed the Kyoto treaty...

Feds scrutinize pastor's sermons.(Insider Report)(Federal Bureau of Investigation)
March 7, 2005... Rev. Randy Steele, senior pastor at Southwest Christian Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois, thought that "somebody in my church might have done something" when he received a phone call from the FBI last November. It wasn't until part way through...

Annan calls for UN-led global security system.(Insider Report)(Kofi Annan)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Speaking on February 13 at a European security conference in Munich, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for Europe and the U.S. "to back a major overhaul of global security measures used to combat terrorism, to keep weapons of mass...

National ID Trojan horse disguised as immigration reform.(Insider Report)(Real ID Act of 2005 (Draft))
March 7, 2005... The U.S. House of Representatives passed a national ID bill on February 10 that the bill's sponsors claim is an important victory for immigration reform and secure borders. However, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, one of eight House Republicans who...

White House reporter's porn background.(Jeff Gannon aka James Guckert)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... For more than a year, Jeff Gannon received daily access to White House press briefings as a correspondent for the Talon News Service. During that time he became notorious for lobbing softball questions at White House press secretary Scott...

Federal aid hasn't made higher education more affordable.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... "For 60 years, the federal government has been shoveling money into programs meant to make college more affordable--yet a college degree today is more unaffordable than ever." Columnist Jeff Jacoby writes what few are willing to say as he...

More scandal at the United Nations.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... "Within half an hour I had found about 25 checks worth about $400,000 that had not gone to where they were supposed to go." Discoveries in 2003 by UN staff accountant Luckson Ngwira at the Geneva-based, UN-affiliated World Meteorological...

A proud and grateful wife.(Snapshots)
March 7, 2005... "Hallmark is never going to top that." Leslie Phipps was ecstatic about a message that her husband left her after he was seriously injured in a railroad accident in California. He wrote messages in his own blood saying, "I love Leslie,"...

Senator addresses his colleagues in Spanish.(Snapshots)(Mel Martinez )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... "[Alberto Gonzalez is] one of us and he represents all our hopes and dreams." In his first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate after being elected last November, Florida Republican Mel Martinez delivered his remarks in both Spanish and...

Would you want to attend a school named "Dummer"?(Snapshots)
March 7, 2005... "William Dummer, in his will, left us this land... and it's not fair to take his name out." Senior student Julie O'Shaughnessy doesn't like the idea of deleting the name of the school's founder and original benefactor, even though it prompts...

Ghanaian has the answer to Africa's poverty.(Snapshots)(economist George B.N. Ayittey,)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... "Africa is poor because she is not free. The problem is socialism, corruption, civil war, and top-down rule that stomps on traditional and viable African economies." Economist George B.N. Ayittey, a native of Ghana, minces no words in his...

World Economic Forum's arrogance.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... "If we didn't exist, someone would need to create us." Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, believes his annual meeting of heads of state, cabinet ministers, and global business leaders in Davos,...

Sink the Law of the Sea Treaty! The Bush administration is pushing for ratification of the UN's Law of the Sea Treaty, which would give control of the oceans and their riches to the world body.(George W. Bush)(Cover Story)
March 7, 2005... Conservative Americans who consider George W. Bush a champion of national sovereignty have been shocked to learn that the president seeks Senate ratification of the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Despite the Senate's...

Democracy and tyranny: using Iraq as a model, the Bush administration intends to export democracy worldwide. But as our founders warned, and Iraq proves, democracy isn't synonymous with freedom.(George W. Bush)
March 7, 2005... Roughly one year ago, U.S. soldiers and Marines deployed to Iraq were caught in an escalating conflict with the Mehdi Army, a guerrilla force led by radical Islamic cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. With battles raging in and around religious sites in...

The perils of democracy: most Americans believe that we live in a democracy, but they are wrong. In fact, the closer America moves toward democracy, the less free we become.(Government)
March 7, 2005... Suppose you confronted your congressman or one of your two senators with the statement, "You are not in office simply to please the majority. You are there to do what's right and what's right for you is to adhere to the law." Unfortunately, in...

Old but able.(Exercising the Right)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... According to the Wednesday, January 19 Herald Tribune of Florida, Julian Scott, a 79-year-old Sarasota man, responded to screams from his 82-year-old sister, Henrietta McCormick, and arrived at her bedroom in time to confront a would-be...

Tools of the trade.(Exercising the Right)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... In mid-January, a manager of a Minneapolis hardware store had to resort to some high-powered "hardware" when an armed robber approached him as he left the store, according to local KMSP-TV Channel 9. The unnamed manager of Camden Hardware...

Two down.(Exercising the Right)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... On Monday, January 24, one of a pair of holdup men shot at Bobby Doster, co-owner with his wife Gloria Turner of Shoats Grocery and Package in Crawford, Georgia. And the husband and wife team grabbed handguns and started blazing away at the...

Don't take that; take this.(Exercising the Right)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... The Courier of Texas reported January 19 that Ricky Otis, a homebuilder from New Caney, surprised two thieves at a construction site, wounding one and scaring the other away. Because he was fed up with repeated thefts at his construction...

Marriage and the law: understood properly, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution actually protects the right of states to refuse to recognize same-sex "marriages" legitimized in other states.(Constitution Corner)
March 7, 2005... In the press, on talk radio, and on television, self-styled conservatives and liberals alike are warning Americans that the forced recognition of homosexual "marriage" is inevitable because of the requirements of the Full Faith and Credit...

"Who shall teach?": a global concern: parents' natural urge to direct the education of their children--and government's urge to nullify that direction--is universal.(Culture War)
March 7, 2005... Although government-controlled education is the norm in the United States, Europe, Japan, and elsewhere, parents usually want to direct their children's education at least to some extent, and are not willing to completely entrust it to...

A friend, indeed.(The Goodness of America)
March 7, 2005... Tom DeWitte and Matthew Vice are two fathers in their 30s who met at their children's school bus stop in Lakeland, Florida. With their daughters involved in many common activities, the two men saw a lot of each other and became close friends....

A living history lesson.(The Goodness of America)
March 7, 2005... On the evening of June 15, 1920, an angry lynch mob estimated at 5,000 to 10,000 people broke into the Duluth, Minnesota, city jail and dragged out three young black circus workers who had been accused of rape. The trio--Elias Clayton, Elmer...

Detroit fireman honored.(The Goodness of America)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... In October 2003 a three-story building in Detroit caught fire, and flames, smoke, and heat trapped people inside. Some people jumped from the building in fear. Among the firefighters who arrived at the scene of the blaze was Gerald Norgren, a...

Washington's spies: General George Washington's intelligence network during the American War for Independence contributed largely to his success.(History--Struggle For Freedom)
March 7, 2005... Double agents. Invisible ink. Clandestine meetings. False identities. Secret signals. Sounds like something right out of a James Bond novel. But long before James Bond made his appearance in spy fiction, General George Washington was busy...

Bloated Bush budget.(Correction, Please!)(Correction Notice)
March 7, 2005... ITEM: White House Press Spokesman Scott McClellan made the following statement on February 7, after the president unveiled his fiscal 2006 budget: "I think if you look at the budget, it shows that we are exercising even greater spending...

Courting a surrender of sovereignty.(Correction, Please!)(Correction Notice)
March 7, 2005... ITEM: A January 30 release from Citizens for Global Solutions applauded Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) for his televised remarks made the previous Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he "declared his support for...

Disarming law-abiding San Franciscans.(Correction, Please!)(Correction Notice)
March 7, 2005... ITEM: The Christian Science Monitor for January 31 reported that San Francisco could become "a pioneer in gun control," saying, "In a city so often intent on making brash political statements, [Board of Supervisors member] Chris Daly's tone is...

Volcker's UN whitewash.(U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's investigation report)
March 7, 2005... The first and most important point to make about the preliminary report on corruption in the United Nations' oil-for-food program is that it is not a whitewash." So declared the Washington Post in a February 5 editorial. The Post was referring,...

Personal savings vs. social security.(Letter to the Editor)
March 21, 2005... I thoroughly enjoyed your recent cover story on the flagrant Social Security dilemma, including the article "Weighing Benefits" by Thomas R. Eddlem (February 21 issue). Your articles, though, failed to emphasize enough the additional tax...

Bush promoting EU constitution.(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "President George W. Bush's newfound enthusiasm for working with a 'strong and united' European Union could help the campaign to ratify the new EU constitution," reported the February 24 Financial Times of London, citing supporters of the...

UN to make internet a global "common heritage"?(Insider Report)
March 21, 2005... This November, the UN will convene a "World Summit on the Information Society" in Tunis. In Tunisia, reported a February 21 Reuters dispatch, "global control of the world wide web may be decided." At present, "the most recognizable...

Beijing's totalitarians adjust cultural policies.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... In a totalitarian society, the state claims the power to manipulate all institutions, including the family and institutions of religious worship. Despite China's much-discussed movement toward "market socialism," Beijing continues to use the...

Congress authorizes group to aid in strengthening the UN.
March 21, 2005... Opponents of the United Nations will be encouraged to know that, because of the rapidly sinking reputation of the world body, a high-level group has been formed to restore its "credibility and relevancy." At the behest of Congressman Frank Wolf...

The WTO has got to go.(Insider Report)
March 21, 2005... "The World Trade Organization, which the United States joined in 1994, has been disastrous for American sovereignty," declared Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, on February 28, in his weekly column. "A tax bill passed last year provides a vivid example...

Conflict in the CFR?(Council on Foreign Relations )
March 21, 2005... "The Council on Foreign Relations is a formidable place filled with formidable people--former Cabinet secretaries and ambassadors, current CEOs and pundits of the media elite--who've fired their reputations over the years in the foreign policy...

George W. Bush: sequestered?(alienated from reality)
March 21, 2005... In a 1970s made-for-television film entitled "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble," John Travolta played a young man who had been born with a defective immune system. Vulnerable to infection if he came into contact with any living thing, the...

Public Broadcasting System under fire.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "They want to create an empire that does not have to answer to the Congress or the people. Conservatives do not want to give more tax dollars to television stations that attack their ideas." In the wake of a flurry of complaints about...

Democrats seen softening traditional pro-abortion stance.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "Just the language that allows for the Democrats to open up and even encourage people to run for office as a pro-life candidate is an enormously positive development for me." After New York's Senator Hillary Clinton and new party chairman...

Sunni Muslims refused to vote in Iraq election.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "I didn't vote, and I'm not going to vote. Saddam was bad. But this situation is worse." Criticizing the presence of American forces and the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Shiite Muslims, Baghdad resident Abdullah Muhammed...

U.S. army showcases robots as future combatants.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes." Pentagon official Gordon Johnson predicts that robots will...

UN refuses help to victims of its rampaging peacekeepers.(Snapshots)
March 21, 2005... "The UN is not able to give me food or money for my grandson. But if the UN hadn't brought this soldier here, my daughter would not have become pregnant. And I would not be going through this suffering." Congolese native Aimee Tsesi was...

Criticism of Chilean savings plan III-founded.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "Private Savings Accounts have made young workers who pay into the system better off, for the simple reason that their investment earns a tidy return, something not possible with a [U.S.-like] system that merely transfers income to seniors from...

Sinking dollar spurs foreigners to buy U.S. firms.(Snapshots)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... "The dollar has fallen 33 percent against the euro over the last three years. What that does is make it vastly cheaper for foreigners to buy our assets." Economist Nicholas S. Perna commenting on the steady rise of sales of businesses to...

Hollywood Babylon: the recent Academy Award celebration of last year's movie fare has made transparently obvious the huge chasm between the cultural elitists and Middle America.(Culture War)(Cover Story)
March 21, 2005... The year 2004 is certain to go down as a defining point in the decades-long war for the heart, mind, and soul of America. The cultural elites who reign over the fields of entertainment, the arts, the news media, and academia are triumphantly...

Wholesome movies, smart money: the outstanding success of morally uplifting and family-friendly movies proves that the public wants good films and is rewarding those who make them.(Culture War)
March 21, 2005... "Sex sells." Who would dare question the unassailable authority of that commonly uttered marketing truism? After all, the Madison Avenue pros routinely harness the carnal impulses to sell products having absolutely nothing to do with sex. And...

Subversion through perversion: the spreading homosexual degeneracy in our culture is not the result of natural moral decay; it is the manifestation of planned revolution by a subversive elite.(Culture War)
March 21, 2005... Maybe you're like this writer and rarely sample the toxic television fare that parades under the false label of "entertainment." Even so, it's impossible to conduct even a brief, occasional audit of the tube without confronting the hard fact...

An Americanist dream come true: with its launch in the fall of 2005, Robert Welch University will begin to realize the dream of its namesake by offering an education that America's Founders would endorse.(Education)
March 21, 2005... While most of us are familiar with the distinguishing traits of the American Founding Fathers--the eloquence of Patrick Henry, the erudition and wisdom of Ben Franklin, and the character and leadership abilities of George Washington, for...

Debunking the Da Vinci Hoax: filled with errors, falsehoods, and blatant, anti-Christian bias, The Da Vinci Code has received phenomenal promotion from the major secular media.(Culture War)
March 21, 2005... Not since the debut of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has a work of fiction had an impact akin to that of Dan Brown's 2003 blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code. The book has spent an astounding 96 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller...

Grass-roots efforts go a long way: in the fight against the so-called Free Trade Area of the Americas, grass-roots activists have scored a significant victory.(FTAA)
March 21, 2005... Cheers! Kudos! Slaps on the back! All are in order for the Utah members of the Stop the FTAA Committees, a campaign sponsored by the local chapters of the John Birch Society, because of their successful efforts to draw attention to all that's...

Fishing to feed the poor.(The Goodness Of America)(Tuck Donnelly)
March 21, 2005... Tuck Donnelly was fishing for pollock on a boat off the coast of Alaska in 1991 when he became upset about the large quantities of fish he was forced to return to the sea. Because of limits imposed by governmental regulations, he was forced to...

Grooming minds.(The Goodness Of America)(Rueben Martinez lover of books)
March 21, 2005... For many years Rueben Martinez worked as a barber and hair stylist in East Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California. But even before he was a barber, Martinez had a love of reading. As a boy in Miami, Arizona, he would sneak over to his neighbors'...

Protecting free speech.(The Goodness Of America)(Christian group freed from hate crime charges)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... On February 14, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe dismissed alleged "hate crimes" charges against four members of a Christian group calling itself "Repent America." The four had been charged with violating a 1982...

Troubadour of the American West: an exemplar of the frontier life he wrote about, author Louis L'Amour celebrated the honorable individualism of the men and women who settled the American West.(History--American Spirit)(Biography)
March 21, 2005... I have walked the high country; I have breathed its air, bedded down under its trees, watched the white clouds drift and the storm clouds gather. Far away I have seen dust-devils do their weird dance and I have heard the pelting rain on the...

Two teens in trouble.(Exercising The Right)(homeowner attacked for robbery)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... A man from Kansas City, Kansas, needed to defend his home when two young men who asked for help turned out to be robbers. On Monday, February 7, the two teens knocked on the homeowner's door at 10:30 p.m. and asked for help. When the...

Lucky seven?(Greg Collins, shot burgler)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... After his tools were stolen a half dozen times in the midst of major renovations on his house, homeowner Greg Collins of Modesto, California, lay in wait for the burglars to strike a seventh time. To stop the theft of materials from his...

Abductor/killer captured.(Johnny Lee Williams)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... The capture of the man who abducted and murdered Megan Holden, a 19-year-old college student from Henderson, Texas, should get credited to an employee at the Mountain View RV Park in Bowie, Arizona. At 6 a.m. on Friday, January 21, Johnny...

Dead end.(armed robbery)(Brief Article)
March 21, 2005... On Thursday, January 20, a man entered the Ayesh Food Market in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pulled a knife, and yelled, "Give me the money or I'll kill you," reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Edward Travis, Jr., the knife-wielding robber,...

Concocting an "austere" $2.6 trillion budget.(federal budget)
March 21, 2005... ITEM: The New York Times for February. 8 reported on President Bush's proposed budget: "By any measure, the new budget is austere. It calls for deep cuts next year in almost every category of domestic spending outside the mandatory entitlement...

The back door to Kyoto.(Correction, Please!)
March 21, 2005... ITEM: The headline in the Tribune de Geneve for February 16 read, "Historic Kyoto treaty to save world from warming takes effect without US." "The Kyoto Protocol," reported Agence France-Presse in that Swiss newspaper, "the landmark treaty...

Remaking Romney.(Mitt Romney)
March 21, 2005... You can always tell when the presidential campaign is beginning, because that's when liberals begin cross-dressing to pose as conservatives. This transformation was even more transparent than usual during Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's...