The New American articles from November 2005

The New American archives from November 2005

Anthologize yourself.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
November 14, 2005... Joe Wolverton's article on George Washington refusing kingship was magnificent ("The Man Who Would Not Be King," October 3 issue). The "republic of virtue" that our Founders had in mind for America needs much greater emphasis today. Someone...

Stop UN reform.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
November 14, 2005... The UN claims to be the world's premier defender of human rights, but its infamous Human Rights Commission is an outrageous assortment of tyrannical dictatorships notorious for terror, torture, and genocide--such as China, Cuba, Libya, Russia,...

No "frivolous lawsuits".(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
November 14, 2005... Although I enjoyed the recent (September 5) issue on healthcare in the United States, I feel compelled to answer what I believe is an unfair and inaccurate attack on the U.S. tort system in general and on medical malpractice claimants and their...

Brazilians reject civilian disarmament.(INSIDE REPORT)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Defying pressure from the socialist government of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and a host of UN-aligned pressure groups, the Brazilian electorate overwhelmingly voted down a proposed ban on the sale of firearms. Brazil, noted an AFP...

Government wrong on new Orleans flooding.(INSIDE REPORT)
November 14, 2005... According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the broken levees that flooded the city of New Orleans failed when the storm surge overtopped the floodwalls and, spilling to their foundations, undermined their structural integrity. This explanation,...

Insider rift over Iraq.(INSIDE REPORT)
November 14, 2005... By any suitable definition of the term, Brent Scowcroft is an Insider. A longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Scowcroft was also a founding member of Kissinger Associates--the high-octane international consulting firm that...

John Bolton on the UN: mend it, don't end it.(INSIDE REPORT)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... In an interview with Human Events, a national conservative weekly published in Washington, U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton "said he believes a properly functioning United Nations can be an effective instrument for advancing U.S. interests...

CFR warns of post-Iraq blowback.(INSIDE REPORT)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... The term "blowback" refers to unintended negative consequences of an intelligence or military operation. The classic case study is offered by Washington's support for the radical Islamists among Afghanistan's Mujahedeen, who battled against the...

Racist abortion is evil--but eugenicist abortion is ok?(INSIDE REPORT)
November 14, 2005... Neo-conservative celebrity William Bennett made a handsome career as a political appointee--first with the National Endowment for the Humanities, then as secretary of education, and finally as the first "Drug Czar." (incidentally, all of those...

Quick quotes.
November 14, 2005... An Establishment Columnist Admits Middle Class Being Eroded "America's working middle class has been eroding for a generation, and it may be about to wash away completely." An admitted "free-trade liberal," New York Times columnist Paul...

Expanding federal power: the real lessons of Hurricane Katrina: new government programs mean expanded federal powers and increased dependence on government.(KATRINA)(Cover Story)
November 14, 2005... Hurricane Katrina was in many ways a disaster of nearly unprecedented proportions for the United States. To be sure, we have suffered disasters before. San Francisco was heavily damaged by an earthquake and a fire in 1906. Chicago succumbed to...

Building the Post-Kyoto future: the new U.S.-Asian pact on global warming has more to do with transferring technology to China than with saving the planet from greenhouse gases.(GLOBAL WARMING)
November 14, 2005... On July 27, the Bush administration unveiled a new pact between the United States and several of the powerhouse nations of the Asian economy, including South Korea, China, Japan, India, and Australia. Representatives of the nations party to the...

Getting burned by bad science: environmental alarmists claim that human activity is causing global warming. But when these claims are put under the magnifying glass of reason, they go up in smoke.(GLOBAL WARMING)
November 14, 2005... The perceived consensus is that global warming is real and is a clear and present danger to human civilization and the planet as a whole. According to environmental alarmists, the planet is warmer now than ever before. The leading theory holds...

Texas: keystone State of the FTAA: because of its location, Texas is integral to the creation of the FTAA and the eventual merger of North and South America under a single regional government like the EU.(FTAA)(Free Trade Area of the Americas)
November 14, 2005... A little more than two years ago, political allies of Texas Governor Rick Perry quietly passed legislation creating the "Trans-Texas Corridor" (TTC). With the connivance of a largely silent press, the most expensive project in the state's...

Opportunity to excel: parental involvement and the chance to work at their own speed enabled these two siblings to enter college as junior-level transfer students at the ages of 13 and 14.(EDUCATION)
November 14, 2005... In this age of falling SAT scores, alarming drop-out rates, and high school graduates ill-equipped for college, Mayumi and Charlie Pierce stand out as admirable exceptions to the rule. Not only are Mayumi, 14, and Charlie, 13, literate and...

The Harsh Truth About Public Schools.(Book Review)
November 14, 2005... The Harsh Truth About Public Schools, by Bruce N. Shortt (Vallecito, California: Chalcedon Foundation, 2004), 466 pages, trade paperback, $22.00. Available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912 (plus shipping...

Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs.(Book Review)
November 14, 2005... Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis and How We Can Reclaim American Jobs, by Ron and Anil Hira (New York: American Management Association, 2005), 236 pages, hardcover, $21.95. Available from American Opinion Book Services,...

Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes.(Book Review)
November 14, 2005... Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes, by Mary Eberstadt (New York: Sentinel, 2005), 218 pages, hardcover, $25.95. Available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton,...

Swimmer raises money.(Johnny Wilson)(Brief article)
November 14, 2005... As a federal penitentiary from 1934-1963, Alcatraz was known as "The Rock." During the prison's 29 years of operation, there were over 14 attempted escapes from the maximum-security prison. It is believed that no one ever succeeded in escaping...

Coach prayerfully resigns.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Marcus Borden of East Brunswick High School)(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... As a football coach at East Brunswick (New Jersey) High School, Marcus Borden had a long and successful career. He accumulated a 116-100-1 career record, and his team won the Central Jersey Group IV championship in 2004. He is also the...

Former NBA star helps out.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Karl Malone's disaster relief )(Brief Article)
November 14, 2005... Karl Malone is a former power forward with the NBA Utah Jazz basketball team. Known as "The Mailman," the 6' 9" Malone played for 18 seasons with the Jazz and a year with the L.A. Lakers. Before that, he played for Louisiana Tech and was also...

Reaping what was sown.(Frank Leist, farmer of Horton Bay, Michigan)(Brief article)
November 14, 2005... Frank Leist was well known to the citizens of Horton Bay, Michigan. He was a farmer, owned a local livestock business, and also worked as an auctioneer. But most of all, he was a good neighbor. When Mr. Leist passed away on August 13,...

Valiant effort.(Kimberly Boyd's fight to save from carjacking)
November 14, 2005... Kimberly Boyd, a Paulding County, Georgia, woman, was carjacked when she was heading to work on September 12. Though she fought her attacker throughout her ordeal, she died as a result of the multiple injuries she sustained. Police have...

Working overtime to stop crime.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
November 14, 2005... Everybody's heard the saying, "He was a one-man crime wave," but a father and son in Birmingham, Alabama, seem to be trying to create a new saying: "They were a two-man wave of justice." Bill Borklund, the father, and Joshua Borklund, the...

Unexpected turn.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(case of an attempted robbery)(Brief article)
November 14, 2005... The case of an attempted robbery of a Las Vegas, Nevada, man held more than one surprise. On October 3, an 82-year-old man named L.G. Von Zehner was washing his car at a car wash at about 10 p.m. when he was approached by an armed man who...

Transcontinental trek: two hundred years ago this month, the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific Ocean, having trekked across what is now the United States.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
November 14, 2005... Early American history was so full of epic events benefiting the American people that most citizens of the new nation thought Providence was guiding their destiny. It seemed impossible that, as colonists, the Americans would defeat the forces...

Another Sham agreement with North Korea.(Correction notice)
November 14, 2005... ITEM: In an early October news release, the Arms Control Association reports: "After mope than two years of stop-and-go efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, six countries agreed Sept. 19 in Beijing on a joint statement of...

Opening the spending floodgates.(Correction notice)
November 14, 2005... ITEM: The Minneapolis Star Tribune for October 2 reports: "So far, Operation Offset has served mainly as a big target for Democratic and Republican leaders trying to protect cherished programs from the chopping block. The White House... is...

Plamegate & the Times-CFR Cabal.(investigation of Saddam Hussain attempt to buy yellowcake uranium )
November 14, 2005... After more than two years of dilly-dallying, lying, and obfuscating, we're coming into the home stretch of the official "investigation" into who in the Bush administration "outed" covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, a felony offense. U.S. Attorney...

Enjoy TNA, but ...(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
November 28, 2005... I really enjoy THE NEW AMERICAN magazine. This is our family's newspaper. We use these articles as references and loan the magazines to a variety of people. This magazine is making quite an impact on people. It is an excellent source for us as...

Propaganda Day.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
November 28, 2005... I just finished reading your article "The Danger of a Federal Curriculum" (October 17 issue) about the congressionally mandated Constitution Day, and it deeply affected me. I have recently had a personal experience with the new...

Paris aflame: preview of America's future?(INSIDER REPORT)(Islamofascism)
November 28, 2005... Radical Islam has engulfed France. Paris is burning. Australian authorities have collared a terror cell. Months ago, bomb attacks hit London. In 2004, it was Madrid. All these events have something in common, and it isn't just a link to...

FTAA stalls at Summit of the Americas.(INSIDER REPORT)(Free Trade Area of the Americas )(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... President Bush and the leaders of 33 nations met for two days at the fourth Summit of the Americas in Argentina, but the conference ended on November 5 without any significant progress toward agreement on the proposed Free Trade Area of the...

An unnecessary war.(Iraq War, 2003)
November 28, 2005... One by one, the rationales put forward by the Bush administration and its allies for the Iraq War have collapsed. Nasty as it was, Saddam's regime never posed a threat to the United States--as the Bush administration admitted in January 2001....

This is the "A" team?(INSIDER REPORT)(Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board appointments)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... Amid the growing public furor over manipulation of prewar intelligence about Iraq, and residual public disgust over the appointment of inept presidential crony Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Bush...

Hissing housing bubble.(INSIDER REPORT)
November 28, 2005... William H. Gross is chief investment officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), the world's largest bond-fund manager, with $513 billion in assets. In an interview published in the October 26 Business Week, Gross observed: "Housing...

Finland as global socialist model?(INSIDER REPORT)
November 28, 2005... Following the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, Finnish militiamen--some of them mounted on skis--fought a heroic and successful "Winter War" to evict the Red Army. Although Finland's government, in large measure owing to geography, was...

Supreme Court nominee's mother no shrinking violet.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "Of course he's against abortion." No sooner had President Bush tapped Judge Samuel Alito for a Supreme Court seat than reporters ran to his 90-year-old mother to seek his views. Standing in the doorway of the New Jersey home where she had...

New choice for Fed chairman promises business as usual.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "[My first priority is] to maintain continuity with the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years." Chosen by President Bush to take control of the Federal Reserve in January 2006, chairman of the White House...

Only days after Katrina, FEMA head urged by staff to pose being busy.(Quick Quotes)(Federal Emergency Management Agency )(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "Please roll up the sleeves of your shirt.... In this crisis and on TV, you need to look more hardworking." An e-mail message sent to Michael Brown by his press secretary, Sharon Worthy, suggested that the then-FEMA director look...

Top U.S. commander sees victory unlikely in Iraq.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "I don't talk in terms of winning. Americans like finality.... That is not the reality of the Middle East. This is like a never-ending rugby game." The top U.S. Marine officer in Iraq's Western Anbar Province, Colonel Stephen W. Davis...

She should have been nominated for the high court.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "Where government advances--and it advances relentlessly--freedom is imperiled, community impoverished, religion marginalized, and civilization itself jeopardized?' Statements such as this issued by veteran California Supreme Court Associate...

He likened Congress to junior high school.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "This place is a much more sophisticated junior high school. There are the nice guys that everybody likes, the jocks, the geeks, the bullies--they're all here. It's a representative democracy." The youngest member of Congress, 30-year-old...

Jimmy Carter criticizes his party for favoring abortion.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... "I think for the Democrats to get identified as being completely pro-choice, with no attention given to the rights of the fetus, is a very self-defeating policy. It's a mistake to wed the Democratic Party to freedom of choice and abortion. And...

The truth will out: an attorney's decade-long search for justice in his brother's murder finally yields fruit--and breaks through a mass of lies and coverup the OKC bombing.(OKC BOMBING)(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... On the grounds of Oklahoma City's Will Rogers International Airport stands an imposing high-security prison facility known as the Federal Transfer Center (FTC). On the morning of August 21, 1995, Kenneth Michael Trentadue died there in cell...

Terror, lies & memos: recently uncovered FBI documents expose official lies and complicity in one of our nation's most deadly terror attacks.(Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kenny Trentadue's murder)(Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995)(Cover Story)
November 28, 2005... Several months after his brother's death, Jesse Trentadue received an anonymous telephone call. The caller claimed to work in the federal prison facility in Oklahoma City where Trentadue's brother, Kenny Trentadue, had died under very troubling...

From debt to dispossession: after abetting an unprecedented growth in both government and consumer debt, the Federal Reserve may be preparing to reduce the middle class to utter serfdom.(ECONOMY)
November 28, 2005... They came before dawn on Friday morning, gathering in cities and towns across the nation in lines that snaked down city blocks. These anxious people weren't queueing up for tickets to see Coldplay or Big & Rich; instead, they were seeking to...

Protecting gun makers from lawsuits: although the new legislation signed by President Bush to protect gun makers from frivolous lawsuits was well-intended, it was poorly implemented.(SECOND AMENDMENT)
November 28, 2005... Last month, President Bush signed into law legislation that protects gun manufacturers from frivolous product liability lawsuits, usually filed by victims of crime or by their families. The law is designed to circumvent suits that are filed...

Homogenizing homosexuality: using techniques that allow a tiny minority to gain power over a complacent majority, homosexual activists are leading Massachusetts (and America) down into a moral abyss.(CULTURE WAR)
November 28, 2005... The homosexual lobby once argued that state anti-sodomy laws across the nation should be repealed, on the basis that the state should not interfere "in the privacy of the bedroom." But since their 2003 Lawrence v. Texas victory striking down...

Alito and the imperial presidency: the new Supreme Court nominee, Judge Samuel Alito, has supporters and detractors on both sides of the political divide because his judicial track record is mixed.(JUDICIARY)
November 28, 2005... President Bush's October 31 nomination of appellate court Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court was regarded well by Washington, D.C., beltway conservatives, skeptically by constitutionalists,...

Firefighters help burned kids.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Neenah-Menasha (Wisconsin) Fire Rescue team)(Interview)
November 28, 2005... Anthony Leiton and Jim Peglow are members of the Neenah-Menasha (Wisconsin) Fire Rescue team. Though firefighting and prevention have their own rewards, one of the most satisfying activities the two have participated in has been serving as...

Shortstop makes outstanding "catch".(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(rescue work)
November 28, 2005... Nomar Garciaparra is known to the fans in Wrigley Field as the Chicago Cubs shortstop who wears number 5. He has a lifetime batting average of .320 and like most Major League Baseball players is well paid, earning $8,250,000 in 2005. From 1996...

Shopping for victims.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)
November 28, 2005... One criminal tried to make a Wal-Mart store into a one-stop crime central. On October 14 in Statesboro, Georgia, a man attacked a woman and her granddaughter in the bathroom of a Wal-Mart. At 6:22 p.m. in a bathroom, 25-year-old Stephen...

I know what you're doing.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(S&J Grocery)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... A business owner told some suspicious individuals who were outside his store that he had a gun, likely heading off a robbery before it could begin. On October 4, an employee at S&J Grocery became suspicious of the occupants of a vehicle...

Jilted and vicious.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... Andy Fitts of Bryan, Texas, shot and killed Amos Ybarra after Ybarra stabbed a female friend, reported theeagle.com. Around 6 p.m. on August 25, Phyllis Scott was at Fitts' condo to have dinner with Fitts and his mother when Ybarra, a man...

Wife saves his life.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... The Times and Democrat reported that an elderly Eutawville, South Carolina, couple successfully fought a robber October 17. At approximately noon, Lacey Duncan, the owner of Duncan's Country Store, noticed an armed man enter the store....

Do-it-yourself protection.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(self defence of North Carolina citizens against David Lovett )(Brief Article)
November 28, 2005... After police seemingly abandoned the citizens of a Rowan County, North Carolina, neighborhood to face a vengeful deranged man, the residents organized and agreed to arm themselves and patrol their own neighborhood. A man named David Lovett...

Ordinary man, extraordinary hero: the story of Sergeant William Jasper is a reminder that ordinary men of extraordinary courage can shape history and inspire generations.(HISTORY--AMERICAN SPIRIT)(Biography)
November 28, 2005... The struggle for nationhood and political liberty often produces heroes of legendary status. History records the deeds of major political and military leaders, forever linking a nation's identity with grand figures and personalities. Successive...

The demise of Social Security reform.(Correction, Please!)
November 28, 2005... ITEM: Discussing the collapse of Social Security reform, USA Today commented: "Just one year after Bill Clinton introduced his health care overhaul in 1993, the plan collapsed. It took only eight months for the same to happen to President...

Minimum wage, maximum absurdity.(Correction, Please!)
November 28, 2005... ITEM: The CNN/Money website for October 25 reported: "Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott said he's urging Congress to consider raising the minimum wage so that Wal-Mart customers don't have to struggle paycheck to paycheck. Scott told Wal-Mart directors...

I am the law.(George W, Bush's war powers)
November 28, 2005... "Our country is at war, and our government has the obligation to protect the American people," stated President Bush when asked by reporters in Panama about allegations that the CIA is using KGB facilities in eastern Europe as torture chambers....