The New American articles from May 2005

The New American archives from May 2005

A fitting salute.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
May 2, 2005... Growing up during the Great Depression, I learned a lot from the pulp magazines. I was fond of Doc Savage, The Shadow, and stories about the West. Zane Grey, Max Brand and Luke Short wrote of the West. Then, later, along came Louis...

South Africa's gun control.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
May 2, 2005... In respect to your article "No Gun? Use a Spear" (April 18, 2005), I think some clarity may be in order. South Africans (and apparently the rest of the world) have been given to believe that the new gun laws in South Africa are to control guns....

Spiking oil prices.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
May 2, 2005... The spike in oil prices is a classic result of a cartel-dominated market (THE NEW AMERICAN, "Energy's Future," April 4, 2005). The oil producers can confidently slow down their exploration and production activities --and make even higher...

Coverage of Pope's passing highlights religion's relevance.(INSIDER REPORT)
May 2, 2005... Pope John Paul II, the leader of the world's Roman Catholics, died on April 2 at the age of 84. His passing apparently shook the news media out of their usual religious apathy and set in motion a wave of articles, commentary, and live coverage....

Not quite tax freedom day.(INSIDER REPORT)
May 2, 2005... The Tax Foundation pronounced that this year's Tax Freedom Day falls on April 17. Tax Freedom Day is the day on which the average American, if he were required to pay off all of his taxes before collecting any income himself, would finally be...

Russia poised to capitalize on outsourcing.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... At the Eighth Annual Russian Economic Forum in London, Russia's Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (MITC) inaugurated a campaign to become "the next global leader in outsourcing." "Our vision is for Russia to become a...

Recruitment down, chance of draft revival up.(INSIDER REPORT)
May 2, 2005... "Faced with wilting recruitment and ongoing violence in Iraq, Army and Marine Corps recruiters are turning their attention to those most likely to oppose them: parents," reported USA Today for April 5. "The two branches are shifting from a...

Patriot Act for pranksters?(INSIDER REPORT)
May 2, 2005... John W. Pompeii, a 16-year-old student at upstate New York's Colonie Central High School, had a stupid idea: he was going to rig up a dummy bomb and hide it in a school restroom. Not only was Pompeii stupid enough to follow through on his...

Students locked down, parents locked out.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... During the Colonie Central High stink-bomb scare (see above), students were locked down for two hours while police examined John Pompeii's crudely constructed device. Patriot Act-inspired emergency protocols in place at many schools provide for...

Southern California resident summarizes the costs of the Mexican invasion.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "Americans are rapidly being dislodged and replaced; the social fabric, rent; the tax base, destroyed; institutions, corrupted; and our sovereignty, compromised. All the while, El Presidente Jorge Bush does nothing--except proffer amnesty to...

Afghanistan's opium production soaring.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "[Afghanistan is] on the verge of becoming a narcotics state [and] represents an enormous threat to world stability. Dangerous security conditions make implementing counternarcotics programs difficult." On March 4, a Presidential Report...

Only a few fight the war in Iraq.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "According to President Bush, winning the global war on terror means that the United States must exert itself to spread the blessings of liberty around the world. If so, then those who enjoy a disproportionate share of freedom's blessings here...

C-SPAN leader speaks out about politicians who duck real issues.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "The thing that gets under my skin more than anything else is that politicians have learned to never answer a question. They've learned to hide." Brian Lamb, founder and C.E.O. of C-SPAN, gets annoyed when guests on his cable network dance...

Writer suggests that Americans wake up.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "We're an 'empire.' Ain't we. Sure we are. An empire without a manufacturing base. An empire that must borrow $2 billion a day from its competitors to function. Yet the delusion is ineradicable." Questioning the impression that America is "No....

Businessman points to burden of doing business in America.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "Here in the United States [doing business] includes paid holidays and vacations, OSHA and EPA regulations, worker compensation and unemployment, state-mandated insurances, hefty business, personal and property taxes, 14.5% social security tax,...

Supreme Court Justice defends use of foreign law, favors evolving constitution.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... "The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its...

9-11 conspiracy fact & fiction: an abundance of sensational and irrational conjecture about the September 11 terrorist attacks is being used to discredit any consideration of conspiracy in general.(CONSPIRACY THEORIES)(Cover Story)
May 2, 2005... "The truth is out there." So went the tagline of the popular TV sci-fi series, The X-Files. Sometimes it can seem that the truth is way "out there," as one tries to sift through the confusion of conflicting statements of government officials,...

The rumor mill: conspiracies are real. But for every real conspiracy there are many unsubstantiated rumors and conspiracy theories. Here are a few from recent years.(CONSPIRACY THEORIES)
May 2, 2005... On October 30, 1938, listeners to CBS Radio who tuned in shortly after 8:00 p.m., heard the announcer proclaim: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. From the Meridian Room in the Park Plaza Hotel in New York City, we bring you the music of...

Agents provocateurs: governments around the world have been caught using undercover operatives to provoke national incidents and sway public opinion.(CONSPIRACY THEORIES)
May 2, 2005... Virtually all governments use undercover agents and informants in their police and intelligence agencies. As a society, we recognize that this often is necessary in order to combat organized crime, foreign espionage, drug cartels, subversion,...

VonKleist: reporter or provocateur?(CONSPIRACY THEORIES)
May 2, 2005... In the summer of 2001, the farmers and ranchers of Oregon's Klamath Basin were desperate. They had been wrangling for several years with federal authorities who had been cutting off their water in the peak of growing season. Many were faced...

Distinguishing fact from fiction: when faced with an overload of misinformation being peddled through the media and Internet, the application of common-sense principles can help sort fact from fiction.(CONSPIRACY THEORIES)
May 2, 2005... With rumors and urban legends circulating more frequently and reaching greater numbers of people, it is more important than ever to learn to tell the difference between fact and fiction and truth and falsehood. In doing so, consider the...

Who had the right to rule? Accusations about the abuses of constitutional authority in the Terri Schiavo case get cleared up.(Constitution Corner)
May 2, 2005... "We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the President." House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas announced after the U.S. Courts failed to intervene on behalf of Terri...

Quick thinking saves lives.(THE GOODNES OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Salvador Agustin was driving across California's Hayward-San Mateo Bridge last September when he noticed a group of people near the bridge's edge, staring into the waters of San Francisco Bay. A damaged Mercury Villager minivan sat on the...

Silver stars long overdue.(Vietnam veterans' heroism recognized long after)
May 2, 2005... It was November 29, 1967, near the peak of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War. Jim C. Pittman was one of two "point men" (the lead position) in an Army patrol making its way through the dense Vietnamese jungle. Along the Dong Nai River bank,...

Many "guardian angels".(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
May 2, 2005... On the morning of March 12, a violent, head-on automobile crash in West Manhelm Township, Pennsylvania, trapped three people in a burning car. A large number of individuals arrived at the scene before professional rescue crews arrived, and...

Standing bear: American: after his people were unjustly evicted from their homeland in Nebraska, Chief Standing Bear--aided by one of the Army's most renowned Indian fighters--mounted a legal challenge to prove what should have been obvious: Indians were people under the law.(Biography)
May 2, 2005... In the murky pre-dawn hours of October 30, 1879, Lieutenant Stanton Mason and a detachment of 12 soldiers arrived at the Ponca reservation in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. After concealing their horses behind a small general store, the troops...

Half-naked nuisance.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Cheryl Pettaway of Wilmington, Delaware, confronted a half-naked home intruder on the morning of March 18. On that morning, Pettaway said, she heard someone ringing her doorbell, and she called out, asking who was there. When she didn't...

Going but not gone.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... After hearing the sound of coins hitting the floor coming from the convenience store next to his house, store owner Robert Poage investigated and interrupted a thief in action. In the store, Poage saw a man, who was wearing a ski mask and...

Age didn't affect his aim.(an elderly man defends himself from two robbers)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... The Evening Times of Arkansas reported on December 28 that the previous night an 80-year-old man defended himself from two robbers even after being shot himself. The man, Clarence Cochran of Crawfordsville, was in his store, called The...

"Snitch".(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(homeowner shoots his attacker)(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... After being confronted by a group of over a dozen angry young men and women in his front yard on February 18 and being physically attacked, a North Oakland, California, homeowner shot his attacker. Patrick McCullough, the homeowner, was...

Coming in droves.(self defense )(Brief Article)
May 2, 2005... Over the course of several days, George Shandy of San Antonio, Texas, had several run-ins with burglars at a vacant house that he owns, teaching a couple of them that crime doesn't pay. During the first incident on the morning of Saturday,...

Slanting the Schiavo case.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(Correction Notice)
May 2, 2005... ITEM: The Associated Press reported on the Terri Schiavo case on March 21, prior to her death: "About seven in 10 Americans say Congress inappropriately intervened in the case of a brain-damaged woman whose relatives disagree over whether she...

Latest spin on UN scandal.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(United Nations)(Correction Notice)
May 2, 2005... ITEM: One headline in the Washington Post on March 30 read, "Kofi Annan Cleared in Corruption Probe." The accompanying article then stetted. "A U.N. appointed panel investigating abuse in the Iraq oil-for-food program said there is no evidence...

Disposable children.(warriors, violence in youth)
May 2, 2005... Writing a little more than a decade ago in Parameters, the journal of the U.S. Army War College, Major Ralph Peters warned of the emergence of a global "warrior class" of "erratic primitives of shifting allegiances, habituated to violence, with...

Money mayhem.(Letter to the Editor)
May 16, 2005... Thank you for the excellent articles in your April 18 issue about money and the U.S. currency holdings of major foreign banks and how such holdings have dampened price inflation in the United States (temporarily). When foreign countries...

A friend in need is a friend in deed.(Letter to the Editor)
May 16, 2005... William Jasper's "Last Word" from the April 4 issue would do Chicken Little proud. I thought you folks believed in freedom. He assails Communist China for the dastardly perfidy to sell Americans so many billions of textiles now that import...

Nuclear benefits.(Letter to the Editor)
May 16, 2005... Dennis Behreandt's April 4 cover story ("Energy's Future") was very informative, well researched, and enlightening. Nuclear power definitely has a future, and our country should at least double our capacity. Our country should not wait until...

The Bolton angle.(John Bolton's remarks on the role of United Nations)
May 16, 2005... Prior to Senate hearings into his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the UN, John Bolton was portrayed by both allies and critics as the bane enemy of the world body. Yet in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee last...

Bush administration favors a "strong" China!(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "The United States seeks a strong, prosperous and transforming China, and we support strong economic and political ties between the EU and China," stated Peter Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, during an...

What has $300 billion bought?(defense spending )
May 16, 2005... On April 21, the Senate approved an emergency spending measure allotting $81 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A total of four emergency war appropriations have now been passed, bringing the overall costs of the "war on terrorism"...

Kofi Annan's "new world compact".
May 16, 2005... Even when measured by the dismal standards that apply to UN bureaucrats, the career of Kofi Annan is remarkably cluttered with scandal and utterly barren of worthwhile achievements. As head of the UN's peacekeeping department 11 years ago,...

What, exactly, is a WMD?(Weapons of mass destruction)
May 16, 2005... The ominous expression "weapons of mass destruction" conjures up images of mushroom clouds. Other dire possibilities include lethal gases or genetically engineered infectious agents. Pre-war administration rhetoric was designed to give the...

Enforcing Petro-socialism in Iraq.
May 16, 2005... In an April 20 dispatch from Qayyarah, Iraq, the Washington Times reported: "U.S. forces are cracking down on an unexpected problem in this oil-rich country--gasoline bootlegging." Thanks to deeply embedded corruption, a lack of refining...

Elian Gonzalez: five years later, Castro's propaganda war continues.
May 16, 2005... Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who became the center of an international custody and propaganda war five years ago, was trotted out on April 22 by Fidel Castro to mark the fifth anniversary of his return to the Communist dictatorship. ...

The "real" terrorist enemy.
May 16, 2005... On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, ABC News reported that a secret FBI report "identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations." "The Aryan Nations, and...

Report to the president points to flawed intelligence source.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "Worse than having no human sources is being seduced by a human source who is telling lies." Even though German intelligence specialists warned a key CIA official not to trust the man known as "Curveball," his claim that Saddam Hussein was...

President tells unvarnished truth about social security.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "You see, a lot of people in America think there's a trust, in this sense: that we take your money through payroll taxes and then we hold it for you, and then when you retire, we give it back to you. But that's not the way it works. There is no...

Steel manufacturer looks to new markets for sagging industry.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "If every house is framed in steel in the United States, that would be a 14 million-ton-market per year. The steel industry hasn't had a new opportunity like that since the invention of the automobile." General manager Don Moody of...

Judge denies Martha Stewart's plea for leniency.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "Home detention is imposed as an alternative to imprisonment. It is designed to be confining. I see no reason to modify the sentence." Stewart served five months in prison but her sentence also included five more months of house arrest....

India and China form an alliance.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "India and China can together reshape the world order." On April 11, after signing a pact that created diplomatic and economic ties with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed delight at the...

Same-sex "marriages" canceled in Oregon.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "Today, marriage in Oregon--an institution once limited to opposite-sex couples only by statute--now is limited by the state constitution as well." When the Oregon Supreme Court ruled on April 14 that 3,000 same-sex "marriages" of the past...

He worked at the original McDonald's but didn't invest in the company.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... "That's one thing I regret. Ray [Kroc] offered to let me into the business when they were building up their corporate offices in Oak Brook [Illinois] but I had a sports scholarship for college. None of us had any idea what McDonald's would...

Global Motors: decades of corrupt collusion with the foreign-aid industry have left General Motors, once the colossus of the auto industry, facing extinction.(BUSINESS)
May 16, 2005... General Motors is not merely the world's largest car manufacturer; it is an institutional icon of American capitalism, a pillar of our manufacturing economy, and for decades has been among the bluest of blue-chip investments. As the industry...

The phony "free trade" lobby: why the so-called "free trade" lobby is pushing a trade agenda that actually reduces free trade and American independence.(TRADE)(Business Roundtable)
May 16, 2005... Mention "free trade" in any public discourse today, and one is likely to come up with such topics as NAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and...

Central planning doesn't work: going against economic truisms, the city of Detroit is trying to control the local business environment and "give" prosperity to a select portion of its citizens.(ECONOMICS)(plans to build AfricaTown, the blacks-only business district)
May 16, 2005... Free-market economist F. A. Hayek, in his book The Fatal Conceit, makes the basic argument for capitalism and free markets, and against the "fatal conceit" of socialism's central planners. "To understand our civilization, one must...

Defying the death culture: after a paralyzing stroke, Kate Adamson-Klugman nearly suffered the fate of Terry Schiavo. Following a miraculous recovery, she has become a passionate opponent of euthanasia.(Interview)
May 16, 2005... New Zealand-born Kate Adamson-Klugman experienced a double brainstem stroke in 1995 at the age of 33. She was helpless and completely paralyzed, suffering from "locked-in syndrome." Kate thought she was clear in her own mind about what she...

Second amendment solidified: the Department of Justice issued an extensive report that very clearly and definitely shows that the Second Amendment was intended to protect an individual right.(CONSTITUTION CORNER)
May 16, 2005... The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel of the United States was charged by the attorney general with addressing "the question whether the fight secured by the Second Amendment belongs only to the states, only to persons...

Scouts' good stewardship.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Back in 1988, several wildfires in the Pine Ridge forest near Fort Robinson, Nebraska, devastated thousands of acres of land. Starting in 1989, groups of local and out-of-state Boy Scouts, along with their parents and other volunteers, have...

Teenager saves toddler.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Rene Almanza is a 16-year-old member of the track team at South San West High School in San Antonio, Texas. The young man is also a member of the ROTC, where he learned to perform the Heimlich maneuver. The training proved to be a true...

Florida foursome rescues woman from canal.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Martha Hernandez was driving along a parkway in Miramar, Florida, on January 14 when her car left the road and went into a canal. Four people, Evelio Abreu, Robin Samayoa, Harold Jacobs, and Troy Baker, witnessed the accident and ran to the...

Child sounds fire alert.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(house on fire)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Four-year-old Bailey Couturier of Mira Mesa, California, was riding his bicycle around his neighborhood when he noticed smoke coming out of a nearby house. Bailey found the local mail carrier and told him about the fire. He told the carrier:...

A delight to diogenes.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Larry Hoffman's ethical behavior in returning the shirt he sold along with the money he found in its pockets)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Diogenes is said to have wandered throughout ancient Greece carrying a lantern and searching for an honest man. Too bad he never made his way to Wisconsin. Larry Hoffman, a 69-year-old retired sales engineer from West Bend, Wisconsin, often...

Lafayette's odyssey: the Marquis de Lafayette's dogged determination to fight for the cause of liberty enabled him to surmount many difficulties in leaving France and coming to America.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
May 16, 2005... The hooded figure kept his face turned away from the rest of the inn's inhabitants, standing off to one side. But the postmaster's daughter, on one of her trips to the kitchen, passed close by the inconspicuous man. To her amazement, she...

In the drive-through.(case of robbery)(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... According to the April 8 Telegraph of Macon, Georgia, in the early evening of the previous night two men armed with shotguns robbed Big Daddy's Liquor store. When the robbers began to flee with the loot, the clerk who had been robbed...

Gun shop gunfight.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... In Macclenny, Florida, a man tried to rob the Duval Gun and Pawn shop, but the gun shop owner, Bruce Sales, was also a gun user. At about 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 23, Bruce Sales says that a man came into his pawnshop ostensibly to...

Daughter in danger.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... An Atlanta, Georgia, man named Amos Evans shot an intruder to protect his daughter on Tuesday, April 5. Evans said that as his seven-year-old daughter was taking a bath, he heard a crash. Thinking that his daughter had fallen, Evans raced...

Out of retirement.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(alertness of retired police officer John Thomas )(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... John Thomas may be 93 years old and may have retired from the police force almost 40 years ago, but the cop in him isn't dead yet. According to an Oakland Tribune article, Thomas was in his house in Oakland, California, on March 1 reading...

Just desserts.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(unidentified Arkansas man attacked by five young men )(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... An unidentified Arkansas man was attacked by five young men in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, early on the morning of Sunday, April 3, and was forced to shoot one of his attackers, killing him. The dead man, Kendell Moss of Racine, Wisconsin, and...

Borderline madness.(immigration)
May 16, 2005... ITEM: In his syndicated column appearing in the Decatur (Indiana) Daily Democrat for April 11, Morton Kondracke commented that President Bush "has been gratifyingly and even eloquently pro-immigration in his public statements." The executive...

Not fond of Hanoi Jane.(CORRECTION, PLEASE!)(Correction Notice)
May 16, 2005... ITEM: In the San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun for April 9, John Weeks commented: "In a stunning development..., actress Jane Fonda has apologized for her antiwar actions during the Vietnam era. In interviews to promote sales of her new...

Gambling and globalism.(THE LAST WORD)
May 16, 2005... Gambling is illegal in Utah, Hawaii, and a number of other states. Whether this policy is wise or whimsical, it indisputably falls within what James Madison described as the "numerous and indefinite" powers reserved to the states under the...

Inexcusable error.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
May 30, 2005... In publishing your "Conspiracy Theories" issue (THE NEW AMERICAN, May 2, 2005) endorsing the official account of 9/11, you . made an inexcusable error. On page 16 you quoted an engineer: "As soon as fire hits steel, it loses strength fast...

More on the Schiavo case.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
May 30, 2005... Regarding your article "Who Had the Right to Rule" in the May 2, 2005 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN magazine, be advised that: 1. All actions taken to save the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo were fully in accord with the Constitution of the...

Initiative in energy.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
May 30, 2005... In regard to your article in the April 4 issue, entitled, "Energy's Future," I think this is noteworthy: Denton, Texas, has the first bio-diesel plant in operation in the U.S. The ribbon cutting was April 2, 2005. It combines the methane gas...

Building warriors in the classroom?(INSIDER REPORT)(army recruitment)
May 30, 2005... In April, the U.S. armed forces missed recruiting targets for the third consecutive month. The combination of growing shortfalls and expanding overseas commitments has prompted many observers to conclude that a return to the draft may be...

EU police to be above the law?(INSIDER REPORT)(European Union)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... The history of Anglo-Saxon common law, to which America's concept of liberty under law is heir, describes a long, painful struggle to rein in the unaccountable powers of government and its agents. The European Union, by way of contrast,...

Good enough for government work.(INSIDER REPORT)
May 30, 2005... The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is doing its part to keep criminals off the streets--by hiring them. During its short lifetime, the DHS's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) acquired a well-earned reputation for hiring petty...

Parents versus pop culture.(INSIDER REPORT)
May 30, 2005... A recent survey of over 2,000 demographically diverse mothers shows that parents are declaring war on the violence, hypersexuality, and obscenity so prevalent on TV, the Internet, the big screen, video games and in music, books, and...

An anti-FTAA victory.(INSIDER REPORT)
May 30, 2005... Members of Arizona's Senate and House affirmed their dissatisfaction with phony "free trade" agreements by, voting to for-really request rejection at the federal level of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a pact that would...

Bush recalls Yalta betrayal--but calls it a mistake.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... "The agreement at Yalta followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.... We will not repeat the mistakes of other generations--appeasing or excusing tyranny, and sacrificing freedom in the vain pursuit of...

Oppression for many didn't end at Nazi Germany's defeat.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... "On that day, we traded Hitler for Stalin and we should not celebrate it." While others marked the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus looked back to May 8, 1945 when Soviet forces...

Spanish house approves gay marriage.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... "It's unfair to be a second-class citizen because of love. Spain joins the vanguard of those defending full equality for gays and lesbians." Socialist legislator Carmen Monton celebrated the 183 to 136 vote favoring homosexual marriage in...

China plans to market autos in America.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... "Japan and Korea have given us a lot of ideas. Right now there are Chinese products, like agricultural goods and textiles, that are selling well in the United States. We think the Chinese auto industry also is developing products that will...

One of few, he understands the U.S. Constitution.(SNAPSHOTS)(Brief Article)
May 30, 2005... "The Constitution of the United States established a government "to provide for me common defense,' not to bring freedom to the world." Chronicles Editor Thomas Fleming doesn't like the current assignment given to our armed forces.