The New American articles from November 2006

The New American archives from November 2006

Terrorists winning.(Letter to the editor)
November 13, 2006... Yes, the terrorists are winning ("Are the Terrorists Winning?" September 18 issue). President Bush laid out a clear plan for exacting revenge for those responsible for the cowardly attack of September 11. But the bleeding hearts coupled with...

Libertarianism.(Letter to the editor)
November 13, 2006... In a September 18, 2006 letter to the editor, reader Randy Miehls comments that "conservatives" and libertarians agree on the free-market approach to government. Allow me to clarify. Economic freedom has proven itself to be the most...

Global warming.(Letter to the editor)
November 13, 2006... I thoroughly enjoyed and agreed with the articles on global warming (September 18 issue) by Dennis Behreandt, wherein he suggested that solar activity is to blame for the alleged rise in the "earth temperature," a questionable parameter to...

OPEC's cuts mean no oil shortage.(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... On October 20, OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, announced that 10 of its members would "reduce production by an amount of 1.2 million barrels a day, from current production of about 27.5 million barrels a day, to 26.3...

Pleistocene America.(rewilding North America )
November 13, 2006... There are no cheetahs running wild in Arizona. For ecologist C. Josh Donlan of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, that's a problem. Going far, far beyond any previous vision for rewilding North America,...

Hezbollah takes advantage of porous U.S.-Mexican border.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... According to a new report released by the Subcommittee on Investigation of the House Committee on Homeland Security, "There is an ever-present threat of terrorist infiltration over the Southwest border." The report, entitled A Line in the Sand:...

Administration appeals ruling on warrantless surveillance program.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... The U.S. Justice Department on October 13 asked the federal appeals court in Cincinnati to overturn a lower court decision that the National Security Agency's warrantless electronic surveillance program is unconstitutional. The appeals court...

Security clearances revoked for excessive debt.(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... According to Associated Press, thousands of U.S. troops are being disqualified from overseas duty because they are considered security risks. In some cases disqualification is owing to criminal activity, uncertain allegiance, or ill health. An...

Border Patrol agents sentenced to prison.(Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean prisoned )(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were each sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for wounding a drug smuggler. The incident occurred last year when the two agents pursued the smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, who was...

Cheap prescriptions at Wal-Mart.(Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)
November 13, 2006... On October 20, Wal-Mart announced plans to begin selling a wide selection of prescription drugs for just $4 per prescription at stores in 14 states. The decision expands the plan that Wal-Mart first introduced in Florida in September. The...

Bush may ignore new Defense Authorization law.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... As passed by Congress this fall, the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 included a provision (Section 1008) requiring that the president include his funding requests for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan in the annual budgets he...

North American Union working groups quietly on the rise.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... President George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin met in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005 and rolled out plans to create a North American Union (NAU). Although not yet official, newly released...

It's 10:00 p.m., do you know where all your citizens are?(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Paul Brennan, at University College London, is leading work on the EU-funded "Optag" system. This system would "combine high resolution panoramic video imaging with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to enhance airport security, safety...

Russian reformers mourn death of prominent journalist.( Anna Politkovskaya )(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... "The authorities are cowards. Why didn't they come? Are they afraid even of a dead [Anya] Politkovskaya?" As freedom of the press wanes in Russia, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov noted that no ranking government official attended the...

TV newsman becomes the story himself.(Chris Wallace of Fox News Network L.L.C.)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... "This was Bill Clinton unplugged--the good the bad and the ugly." After Bill Clinton launched a vituperative, finger-pointing attack on his interviewer during a "Fox News Sunday" television program, host Chris Wallace issued his own take on the...

Communist China's militarism noted by African diplomat.(QuickQuotes)
November 13, 2006... "It is unfortunate that none other than the People's Republic of China is engaged in threats to international peace and security by expanding its already huge military arsenal in readiness for an invasion of Taiwan." Gambia's Ambassador to...

Texas candidate has a solution for porous border.(Carole Keeton Strayhorn)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... "I want the Texas Rangers in charge." Running as an independent seeking to become governor of Texas, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who likes to be called "Grandma," is one of three challengers to Republican incumbent Rick Perry.

Book claims Bush White House ridiculed Christians.(Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction by David Kuo)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... "National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous,' 'out of control,' and just plain 'goofy.'" In his recently published book Tempting Faith: An Inside...

UN sanctions against North Korea considered mere show.(United Nations)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... "The sanctions are at best kabuki theater. They are not going to have much effect on North Korea's behavior." A Korea expert at Dartmouth University, David C. Kang, likens the UN's punishment of North Korea with highly touted sanctions to...

University publicly deplores speaker disruption.(Columbia University)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... "The freedom to speak, to pursue ideas, and to hear and evaluate viewpoints totally objectionable to our own is an essential value of this university and, indeed, of our civil society." After militant leftists interrupted and caused...

Demopublicans vs. Republicrats: despite the notion that an ideological chasm separates the national Republican and Democratic parties, the record shows that there is little difference between the two.(ELECTIONS)(Cover story)
November 13, 2006... When pundits and politicians give us their expert opinion about the battle between Republicans and Democrats in the November 7 congressional elections, they generally describe the opposing forces as occupying opposite sides of a giant political...

Idaho's elk ranch tragedy: when dozens of elk escaped from his ranch, Rex Rammell thought he faced the task of recovering his herd. Instead, he witnessed the state-sponsored slaughter of his elk.(PROPERTY RIGHTS)
November 13, 2006... The Chief Joseph Idaho ranch in eastern Idaho lies in the shadow of both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks amid the unparalleled natural splendor of the Rocky Mountain West. The ranch, owned and operated until recently by veterinarian...

American liberty at risk: elk rancher Rex Rammell watched Idaho's state government trample his private property rights, and he is issuing a wake-up call to all Americans that their freedoms are imperiled.(PROPERTY RIGTHS)
November 13, 2006... Imagine an America where anything unpopular is against the law. Not necessarily because it is causing harm, but because a group is offended. Someone could start the criticism with lies, wave the rally flag, and ride a wave of emotion to get the...

Determined to win: "we can never win ... unless the promise of what we can build supplies more motivation than the terror of what we must destroy.".(THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Almost 50 years after Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, spoke these words, the organization is recommitting itself to his prophetic statement. In the midst of battling many detractors, a mass of competing organizations has...

The Japanese robot revolution: with an aging population and a looming labor shortage, Japanese scientists are pushing hard to develop advanced androids and integrate them into human society.(TECHNOLOGY)
November 13, 2006... Star Wars was--and remains--a cultural phenomenon for many reasons, but one of its most striking aspects in 1977 was its depiction of a human society permeated by robots. And not just any robots, but humanoid robots. In the original Star Wars...

Can outrage and optimism coexist? Most of us Americans know the importance of voicing our political opinions. But while we harp on the things that bother us, can we balance political discontent with optimism?(CULTURAL CURRENTS)
November 13, 2006... No matter how bleak things may appear, we should always feel optimistic. Those who fought the idea of slavery, both white and black, could see it was the right thing to do. Women who sought the right to vote knew if they fought hard enough and...

Rediscovering America's heroes: a decades-long war on masculinity is reducing the American man to a sniveling shadow of his former greatness. Real Men by R. Cort Kirkwood recovers man's glorious heroic past.(Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire)(Book review)
November 13, 2006... Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire, by R. Cort Kirkwood, Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House Publishing, 2006, 182 pages, paperback. (For ordering information, see the ad on page 6.) Quite unexpectedly, a television...

Young lifesaver.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Viktor Chavira)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Twelve-year-old Tucson, Arizona, resident Viktor Chavira isn't even a teen and already he has helped save two people from drowning, most recently his own father. According to an October 9, 2006 posting on the Tucson Citizen website, this...

Widowed hope.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
November 13, 2006... In Afghanistan, there are nearly one million widows, out of a total population estimated at about 27 million. Many of the women are widows as a result of war. The Christian Science Monitor reported about what it means to be a widow in that...

Betrayal "made in the U.S.A.": fifty years ago, Hungary's people made a brave stand against Soviet tyranny. They failed to win their freedom because they were betrayed by the U.S. government.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
November 13, 2006... Most Americans know little about the nation of Hungary. Few know anything of the heroic 1956 attempt to cast off the tyranny imposed on its people by the Soviet Union. And only a very small handful of contemporary Americans have any...

Gotcha.(Exercising the right)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... After his daughter's house had been burglarized twice in the previous week, Donald Stewart decided to protect her home. So he hid under a blanket in his daughter's Andrews, South Carolina, house after she went out. At about 8 p.m. on...

Protective order.(Exercising the right)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Travis Wigington drove through a locked gate in front of his ex-wife's trailer, broke out several windows, and shot into the trailer with a .22-caliber rifle, even as his ex-wife, Carol Johnson, yelled out that her six-year-old daughter was in...

First-time shooter.(Exercising the right)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... In Pensacola, Florida, on September 22, a husband and wife were working in their grocery store when a man came in with a stocking mask over his face and said, "This is a stickup." The 60-year-old husband, William Deen, thought it was "some kind...

Quick-shooting cabbie.(Exercising the right)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... Alexander Johnson, a would-be armed robber, told police after he had been shot by a cab driver that he and an accomplice, Arthur Joseph, had planned to rob a cab on the night of September 23. In fact, the cab that they held up was the second...

Small woman, big gun.(Exercising the right)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... What do you do if you're a 110-pound woman who is alone and facing down two masked men who want to rob your auto repair shop? You pull out a .357-caliber magnum pistol, of course. On September 22 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Sheri Brown was...

Taking no chances.(Exercising the right)(Brief article)
November 13, 2006... At 12:32 a.m. on September 8, Vincent Llanas of Thornton, Texas, was on the phone with a police dispatcher because he had heard someone trying to break into his house. According to the Cameron Herald, Llanas told the dispatcher "that he was...

The politics of profligacy.(federal deficit reaches lowest point)
November 13, 2006... ITEM: An Associated Press article in USA Today, entitled "Federal Deficit Now Lowest in 4 Years," reported on October 11: "The federal deficit fell to a four-year low in the budget year that just ended, a result President Bush pointed to...

Bad dealings with North Korea.(George W. Bush)(Column)
November 13, 2006... "Like the Clinton administration before it, the Bush administration is setting us up for another negotiated fiasco with North Korea. The recent six-nation summit on Korea hosted by Beijing is preparing the way for another decade of extortion...

"Iran Behind the Veil".(Letter to the editor)
November 27, 2006... Regarding William F. Jasper's article "Iran Behind the Veil" in the October 16 issue, our real problem with the Middle East is a failure by U.S. elites to agree that the Middle East, and Iran, does not belong to us. Neither do the people who...

They'll take a loaner.(Letter to the editor)
November 27, 2006... Having just read your Inside Track story "North Korea Nuke Crisis: Made in the U.S.A." (October 30, 2006), I have to add my opinion. The Korean and Vietnam wars, and subsequent wars in Iraq and elsewhere, have indicated that the president,...

Americans want change! But will they get it?(Inside Track)
November 27, 2006... American voters "spoke for change, and they spoke for a new direction," Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) observed at a Washington news conference the day after the midterm elections. Pelosi, who earned a 31 percent cumulative...

Seven states will define marriage by amending their constitutions.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... This election year eight states had a referendum on the November 7 ballots that would amend the state constitutions to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Seven states (Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,...

Playing on pity.(Inside Track)(stem-cell research )(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... After a barrage of ads containing a decrepit-looking Michael J. Fox in support of the amendment, Missouri passed Amendment 2, which guarantees that any embryonic stem-cell research that is allowed by the federal government will be allowed in...

Landslide ballot wins for property rights in 10 states.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... The U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 ruling to throw Suzette Kelo out of her home in favor of a private developer (Kelo v. New London) provoked outrage nationwide and launched a national reform effort that has resulted in over 30 states enacting laws...

South Dakota rejects abortion ban.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... The statewide abortion ban on the mid-term election ballot in South Dakota failed to pass by a vote of 45-55 percent. If passed, South Dakota would have been the first state to ban most every form of abortion since the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v....

California voters spurn huge oil tax and new energy bureaucracy.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... Oil and gas consumers nationwide can celebrate the defeat of Proposition 87, which proponents billed as a measure to reduce California's dependence on oil and promote energy alternatives. The ballot proposition, which launched the most...

Saddam Hussein convicted, sentenced to death by hanging.(Inside Track)
November 27, 2006... On November 5, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad to hang for crimes against humanity for the 1982 killings of 148 people from the Shiite village of Dujail. Saddam's half...

Rumsfeld goes.(Inside Track)(Donald Rumsfeld)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... The day after the American people sent President Bush a very strong message against "staying the course," the president announced that he has accepted the resignation of his embattled defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and is nominating Robert...

Vice President adds his own criticism of John Kerry's "joke".(QuickQuotes)(Richard Cheney)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "He was for the joke before he was against it." Vice President Richard Cheney obviously recalled Kerry's oft-repeated comment that he was for the war in Iraq before he was against it while referring to the Massachusetts senator's...

Hurricane researchers delighted about extremely quiet season.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "It's been wonderful." With no hurricanes hitting the nation this year, Stephen P. Leatherman of the Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University delightedly added, "We needed a break" after two years of hurricane...

Report claims press freedom eroding in United States.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism.'" In its annual...

Sniper attacks a growing cause of Iraq casualties.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "You're out on the street, and you take one or two rounds at your patrol that's on foot, and you look around and it could come from literally several hundred different windows. That's what makes the sniper threat in an urban terrain so...

Lack of children in Europe reaches critical stage.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "If present fertility rates among ethnic Europeans and Muslim immigrants continue for another decade or so, Europe as we have known it will be gone by mid-century." With Muslim birthrates soaring and non-Muslim rates well below replacement...

Television executive nixes global-warming stories on two stations.(QuickQuotes)(Michael Palmer)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "When Bar Harbor is under water, then we can do global warming stories. Until then, no more." The general manager of a pair of television stations in Bangor, Maine, Michael Palmer, believes the claims issued by Al Gore and others are "far...

More evidence to contradict global-warming claims.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who have recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame." Managing Editor James M. Taylor of Environment & Climate...

ER overload: a survey of the research available shows that uninsured illegal immigrants are an imponderable burden in our nation's hospitals, in particular emergency rooms.(Cover story)
November 27, 2006... Jonathan Narvaez-Pena admitted to drinking 10-15 shots of tequila before getting into his Buick Park Avenue and speeding through the streets of Nashville on the night of October 21, 2006. Narvaez-Pena, an uninsured illegal alien with a prior...

A resurgence of deadly diseases: diseases once thought to be nearly eradicated in America, such as tuberculosis and leprosy, are now rising as illegal immigrants bring their health problems to our country.(IMMIGRATION)(Cover story)
November 27, 2006... Illegal immigrants not only drain American healthcare resources but also present a new threat: diseases once thought nearly erased from the American medical dictionary, as well as new ones never before seen, are emerging across the country. ...

Muslim immigrant riots, part deux: arson attacks escalate on the anniversary of the deadly 2005 riots, while French politicians mimic American politicians with tough-on-immigration rhetoric.
November 27, 2006... Mama Galledou, a 26-year-old Senegalese university student, is clinging to her life, with over 60 percent of her body badly burned. She had no way of knowing that the bus she was stepping on would soon become a target of terrorist thugs. It was...

The promise of synthetic fuel: coal-to-liquid technologies, pioneered almost 80 years ago, have the potential to free America from its dependence on foreign oil.(Rentech Inc.)
November 27, 2006... On September 19, a B-52 bomber lined up for takeoff on Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base. That, in and of itself, was unremarkable. B-52 bombers have been flying missions for the Air Force since 1954. But this time the huge jet would not be...

Flying false flags: Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers is another attempt to rewrite history. It remakes American sacrifice and patriotism during WWII into vulgar excess and ignorance.(Movie review)
November 27, 2006... The beginning of the end was finally in sight. American forces had successfully island-hopped their way across the Pacific to the doorstep of Japan. Despite suicidal resistance by the Japanese, Tarawa had fallen to American forces in November...

Chef "souffles" bank robber.(Alex Garcia )(City National Bank)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... On last July 13, Alex Garcia, a manager-chef at a Newark, New Jersey, restaurant, was in the City National Bank when he saw a man brandishing a pair of broken scissors threatening to rob a woman of a bag of money. The bank customer, Rosemarie...

"Superhero" lifts car off cyclist.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Kyle Holtrust)(Tom Boyle)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... Eighteen-year-old Kyle Holtrust was riding his bicycle along a Tucson, Arizona, highway on July 19 when he was struck by a Chevrolet Camaro and pinned beneath it. Along came Tom Boyle, a six-foot-four-inch, 300-pound worker at a Tucson...

Married couple helps fire victims.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... Lori Kohn of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, typically looks out her window when she arises each morning. Most of the time, there is nothing out of the ordinary to see. On the morning of September 17, however, Lori noticed something different: a bright...

Neighbor saves choking girl.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... Ray Herrera, an employee with Davis Waste Removal, in Davis, California, was chatting with two neighbors in front of an apartment several doors down from his own on the evening of July 20. Their conversation was interrupted suddenly by the...

The crimes of I.G. Farben: during WWII, I.G. Farben, a synthetic-fuels manufacturer for the German war machine, was a major supporter of the Nazi regime and a willing co-conspirator in the Holocaust.
November 27, 2006... March 8, 1943 was the day when the Nazi S.S. came for Norbert Wollheim and his family. With his wife and his three-year-old son, Wollheim was sent to the Grasse Hamburgerstrasse "collecting camp," a way station on the blood-stained path to the...

Adding to the job description.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... We know that two 18-year-old men, Anthony Spates and Everett Jamison, stood in the parking lot outside a credit union in Frayser, Tennessee, with guns drawn on October 13. They were spotted by Roscoe McVay, a man who sold fruit from a stand in...

He followed them home, to his regret.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... It was 11 p.m. on October 16 and Beth Greer, 73, was in the process of retrieving a handgun from her car after being threatened by a masked, armed gunman in the garage of her Saucier, Mississippi, home. The masked robber had momentarily left...

Untied and shooting.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... James Slaughter was a 57-year-old career criminal. His first criminal activity took place in 1967, according to the Caller-Times. In 1984, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a combination of crimes (making him eligible for release in...

Bear for the barbecue.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
November 27, 2006... Good eats! That's likely what a 422-pound black bear was looking for in a Porthill, Idaho, backyard in early October. Greg Johnson, a conservation officer with Idaho Fish and Game, indicated to BonnerCountyDailyBee.com that "a bad berry...

Flunking grades for government schools.(Correction, Please!)
November 27, 2006... ITEM: Fox News reported on October 5 that Education Secretary Margaret Spellings "recently told reporters that that law ['No Child Left Behind'] is 'like Ivory soap: It's 99.9 percent pure or something.' Spellings later said she was referring...

Stop "NAFTA Plus" by repealing NAFTA.(THE LAST WORD)
November 27, 2006... A growing number of Americans have already been alerted about plans to create a North American Union (NAU), merging the United States, Mexico, and Canada. While news of this monstrous betrayal has yet to reach most fellow citizens, widespread...