The New American articles from October 2005

The New American archives from October 2005

Enemy combatants.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... I can empathize with William Norman Grigg's concerns in "Casting Aside Justice" (August 8 issue) about presidents giving themselves unlimited power to designate an "enemy combatant" as such and deny these individuals constitutional safeguards....

Congressional response.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... Your June 13 edition on the alien invasion of our country was a great treatment of the topic of illegal immigration. The only thing I found that warrants a response other than accolades was your characterization of the Mujahaddin Kalq (MEK) as...

Global warming.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... Thank you for such a great magazine--topped only by the Bible in its truth and accuracy. Many years ago, the eastern United States was covered by an ice sheet that gouged out lakes and rivers--then it melted and receded. California and...

Cowardly Congress.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... The war the United States government is currently fighting (August 22, "Aligning with the 'Axis of Evil'") is creating more terrorists than are being killed, hundreds of times as many. This foolishness makes us less safe; when you kill a...

Iraqi Constitution.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 3, 2005... Thomas Eddlem did an excellent job exposing the fraudulent "free and democratic" nature of the ongoing quagmire in Iraq (August 22 issue). The media continues to characterize any opposition to our unconstitutional occupation of Iraq as...

UN hurricane aid: are UN "peacekeepers" far behind?(INSIDER REPORT)
October 3, 2005... "For the first time in history, the United Nations has joined a disaster relief effort in the United States," reported Little Rock, Arkansas' KATV in a September 10 broadcast on the UN relief operation, which is based at Little Rock Air Force...

The "Roberts Court": a CFR connection?(John G. Roberts Jr., Council on Foreign Relations)(Brief article)
October 3, 2005... Shortly after John Roberts was chosen to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Newsweek published a profile containing passing mention of the appointee's enthusiasm for "a new book by Richard Haass, a friend who runs the...

White House corporate friends cash in on Katrina.(Halliburton Co. and Bechtel Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Halliburton Co., Bechtel Corp., and Shaw Group, Inc., all firms with deep connections to the Bush administration, have been among the first in line to receive big reconstruction contracts in the wake of havoc wrought by Hurricane Katrina....

FEMA deploys first responders--for PR.(Federal Emergency Management Agency, public relations)
October 3, 2005... "As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters--his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week--a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference...

Chavez oils Marxist influence in Caribbean.(INSIDER REPORT)(Hugo Chavez's Petro-Caribe Initiative)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2005... Hugo Chavez, Marxist president of Venezuela, is using his country's oil assets to draw cash-strapped, oil-hungry Caribbean nations into his orbit. Thirteen countries have signed on to his Petro-Caribe Initiative, which offers low-cost fuel,...

QuickQuotes.
October 3, 2005... Praise Given for a Courageous Vote Against the Hurricane Aid Bill "Some will criticize [North Carolina] Fifth District U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx for her vote against the hurricane aid package, but hers was one lone voice for fiscal sanity....

Katrina exposes fatal flaws; Hurricane Katrina did more than destroy the Gulf Coast. It laid bare the failure of government at all levels.(Cover story)
October 3, 2005... Hurricane Katrina is the worst natural disaster to hit the United States. The storm carved a swath of destruction across the Gulf Coast that encompasses an area approximately the size of the United Kingdom. The storm's howling winds and massive...

Taking personal safety in hand.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)
October 3, 2005... In areas hard hit by Hurricane Katrina, lawlessness was rampant. Looters were unabashedly robbing businesses and houses, taking advantage of the fact that most police, the ones who hadn't quit the job altogether, were busy helping with rescue...

Americans help Katrina victims.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
October 3, 2005... During the first dismal days after Hurricane Katrina devastated large parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, Americans watched their TVs in disbelief Scenes from the city of New Orleans, in particular, reminded viewers that catastrophic...

Abolishing the USA: the "Security and Prosperity Partnership" proposed by CFR elites and now adopted by the Bush administration would do precisely that.(Council on Foreign Relations, George W. Bush)
October 3, 2005... The United States of America is being abolished. Piecemeal. Before our very eyes. By our own elected officials--under the guidance and direction of unelected elites. Incredible? Certainly. But, unfortunately, true nonetheless. For decades,...

CAFTA accountability: politicians who barter away U.S. sovereignty and American jobs and industry for a new world order must be made to pay a political price.(CAFTA)
October 3, 2005... "I am flat-out, completely, horizontally opposed to CAFTA." So declared Rep. Robin Hayes on July 25 (as quoted by The Charlotte Observer), in what appeared to be a set-in-concrete reconfirmation of his unalterable opposition to the...

A posse of pretenders: have America's political leaders contracted a case of common sense regarding immigration--or is something else at work?(IMMIGRATION)
October 3, 2005... In late summer, it suddenly seemed as if our political class had been ravaged by an epidemic of sanity concerning border enforcement. Liberal Democrat governors in New Mexico and Arizona declared statewide emergencies to deal with illegal...

The man who would not be king: at the end of the War for Independence, George Washington foiled a military junta's plan to establish a dictatorship in the United States.(HISTORY--GREATNESS OF THE FOUNDERS)(Newburgh Conspiracy)
October 3, 2005... It was the end of 1782 and the War for Independence was all but over, but the details of the official peace treaty had not yet been hammered out between the American delegation (John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams) and their British...

After Katrina come the global warming blowhards.(Hurricane Katrina)
October 3, 2005... ITEM: The online version of Time magazine for August 29 headlined its immediate post-hurricane article, "Is Global Warming Fueling Katrina?" The highlighted subhead indicates its slant: "Warm ocean temperatures are a key ingredient for monster...

Imprisonment without trial.(THE LAST WORD)
October 3, 2005... The three-judge panel making up the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously agreed on September 9 that American citizens no longer have the right to trial by jury. Led by J. Michael Luttig, the unanimous appellate court ruled that...

Felt, Nixon, Vietnam. (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR).(Letter to the Editor)
October 17, 2005... William Norman Grigg's quasi-puff piece about "Deep Throat" was disappointing (June 27 issue). Not only does Mr. Grigg misunderstand the nature of Watergate, but THE NEW AMERICAN'S usually intrepid insistence on supported arguments was so...

Exposing deceit.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 17, 2005... William Jasper's article "Vote-buying and Arm-twisting" (August 22 issue) really got my blood boiling. This is a perfect example of a government out of control and with the mind-set that we answer to them, not them to us. I would like to...

Clinton's big globalist bash.(INSIDER REPORT)(Clinton Global Initiative)(Bill Clinton)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... More than a thousand people--including current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan--attended the Clinton Global Initiative, a confab organized by impeached former President Bill Clinton to coincide with the...

Militarizing law enforcement?(INSIDER REPORT)
October 17, 2005... In 1878, Congress enacted the Posse Comitatus law, which bans the use of American military personnel in domestic law enforcement. The inspiration for that law was the abusive behavior of military personnel used to enforce Reconstruction...

Carter's drug doctor still shills for Castro.(INSIDER REPORT)(Fidel Castro)(Jimmy Carter)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Dr. Peter Bourne was back in the news in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, criticizing the U.S. rejection of Fidel Castro's offer to send 1,500 Cuban doctors to aid in the hurricane relief. "Since they are just an hour away, it is a shame that...

Communist China's Hu Jintao cozies up to Mexico.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Hu Jintao, the Communist Party-appointed "president" of Communist China, made a swing through Mexico City on his way to the UN World Summit in New York City. On September 11, Hu and Mexico's President Vicente Fox signed seven bilateral trade...

China and Russia as allies.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... At the end of "Peace Mission 2005," an unprecedented week-long Chinese-Russian joint military training exercise, Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan "called for new areas of cooperation between the Chinese and Russian military during talks...

Mexicaid.(INSIDER REPORT)
October 17, 2005... "White House political strategist Karl Rove is offering lawmakers new details of an administration-backed guest worker program that would temporarily legalize the status of millions of illegal workers, according to Republicans who have attended...

Latin America as Baby Boomer retirement home.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... As the Baby Boomers prepare for retirement, the prospective costs to be exacted of the Social Security and Medicare programs may leave Americans feeling "like doing what the old urban myth says the Inuit do: Ship the old folks out on the ice...

Katrina's cost will impact every taxpayer.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "It's going to cost whatever it costs." President George Bush seems totally unconcerned about deficit spending even though Alan Hubbard, his economic adviser, admitted, "The money... is going to come from the federal taxpayer."

One senator balks at the administration's open checkbook policy.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending." Oklahoma Republican Senator Torn Coburn is virtually alone in calling for cuts in some federal spending...

Understanding of the U.S. Constitution abysmal.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "There's such a broad ignorance or contempt for constitutional principles among the American people that any politician who bore true faith and allegiance to the Constitution would commit political suicide." While asserting that hurricane...

Secretary of State delighted to be working with Annan.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "I've never had a better relationship with anyone than I've had with Kofi Annan." Even after the Volcker Report noted that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was aware of the oil-for-food scandal and did nothing, and as sentiment against...

Atheists now have a lobbyist in Washington.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person." Announcing as her goals keeping religion out of government and winning respect for atheists, lawyer Lori Lipman Brown will represent...

Victim in Supreme Court eminent domain case takes her plea to Congress.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "I sincerely hope that Congress will do what judges and local legislators so far have refused to do for me and for thousands of people like me across the nation: protect our homes." Addressing the Senate Judiciary Committee, Suzette Kelo...

A Bible course for public schools?(Quick Quotes)(Bible Literacy Project)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "[This book] is a triumph of scholarship and a major publishing event." When the Virginia-based Bible Literacy Project issued The Bible and Its Influence, a textbook aimed at teaching public high school students about the most famous book ever...

Airline passengers pay tribute to fallen soldier.(Quick Quotes)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... "We have a hero on this flight and sadly, he isn't with us, but his mother is escorting his remains [along with] a sergeant from the Army." As Delta Airlines Flight 1880 landed in Boston, its unnamed captain asked the passengers to allow...

The new fuel crisis: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have exposed our nation's vulnerability to disruptions in fuel supply. Weaknesses in the system are due to unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy.(OIL)(Cover story)
October 17, 2005... In the wake of the unprecedented destruction unleashed on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, Americans across the nation were treated to the similarly unprecedented spectacle of gasoline prices pushing beyond $3.00 per gallon. The...

The high cost of heat: often described in the recent past as an inexpensive fuel option, natural gas is seeing its costs shoot up as supply is temporarily strained.(OIL)(Cover story)
October 17, 2005... For those living in the northern states, the cost of heating this year is expected to be considerably higher than in previous years. For users of natural gas, the most commonly used fuel for heat, the extra burden will be excessive. The Energy...

Race for fuel: China's growing thirst for fuel has led the Communist country to search aggressively for oil outside its borders. That search may sow the seeds of conflict with the West.(OIL)(Cover story)
October 17, 2005... Just a few years ago, China was a nation of bicycles. Its 1.3 billion people suffered in abject poverty while being reflexively oppressed by their Communist rulers. Despite its predilection for oppression, the Communist Party of China has...

Free market vs. price controls: as gas prices hit record highs, calls are inevitable for government to remedy the "problem" through price controls--though that solution hasn't worked in the past.(OIL)(Cover story)
October 17, 2005... It wasn't hard this semester to get my freshmen students in Principles of Macro-economics interested in supply and demand. With headlines warning that gas could hit $5 per gallon, they had no shortage of questions, and answers. "That'll be...

Bush's foreign aid fanaticism: the Bush administration is overseeing huge infusions of money to the massively corrupt UN in the name of morally required foreign aid.(UNITED NATIONS)
October 17, 2005... Pop Singer Billy Joel once wrote about a "New York State of Mind." As George Bush entered the Big Apple on September 14 to attend the special United Nations summit of world leaders, he was in a decidedly "Marxist state of mind." He had come to...

Here come the UN army & police: the Bush administration has helped build a fledgling UN military and police force, increasing the likelihood that the U.S. will eventually subordinate itself to UN authority.(UNITED NATIONS)
October 17, 2005... The liberal media have long portrayed the Bush administration as hostile to the United Nations. Yet, Bush's State Department signed a document on September 15 that would result in an unprecedented militarization of the United Nations. The...

The danger of a federal curriculum: concealed within a Trojan horse of civic education, the federal government is well on its way to establishing a federal curriculum in our public schools.(EDUCATION)
October 17, 2005... What red-blooded American wouldn't want their child to learn about the U.S. Constitution? What responsible citizen of this great country wouldn't want students to learn about civics and government? It is on this sort of rhetoric that the...

Police officer saves baby.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Jason Morrow, a police officer in Sandown, New Hampshire, was driving through Massachusetts on a personal trip one night last summer when he noticed a woman two cars in front of him jump from her car. Morrow said that the woman was screaming,...

Dad fights bear.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Johan Otter and his 18-year-old daughter, Jenna, from Escondido, California, went hiking in Glacier National Park in Montana on August 25, hoping to see some of the park's wildlife. But an encounter with a very large grizzly bear gave them a...

Another "Katrina" story.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... A group of nine friends in South Florida could not sit on the sidelines when Katrina plowed into New Orleans. They rushed to the stricken city to offer what assistance they could--and brought their boats with them. "Last year when all...

Proactive teenager.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... School bus drivers have a responsibility to ensure the safety of their younger passengers. But a driver in Aurora, Missouri, recently failed miserably in his duty. Fortunately, one of his teenaged passengers demonstrated "the right stuff." ...

The big easy, the big prize: for centuries, New Orleans has been a strategically critical city coveted by European imperial powers and visionary American statesmen.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
October 17, 2005... "I shall eat my Christmas dinner in New Orleans," boasted British Admiral Alexander Cochrane as soldiers under his command disembarked on the lower Mississippi on December 12, 1814. As the British troops, many of them hardened veterans of...

Confederates.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... In yet another case of a clever plan gone awry, three criminals who tried to rob a pawn store in Croyden, Pennsylvania, on August 24 got nabbed. The robbery was supposed to happen like this: Vitaly Liberman would enter the pawn shop posing...

Something out of place.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(theft prevented)
October 17, 2005... Dale Rowin, a co-owner of Tom's Tree Place of Lubbock, Texas, first suspected no-good when he saw a length of hose over a fence at the company's maintenance garage. Upon doing some investigating, he noticed some suspicious tire tracks in the...

Also on guard.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Sherwood Liquor Fair of Ewing)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... After a series of liquor store robberies in the area, the owner of Sherwood Liquor Fair of Ewing, Pennsylvania, decided to sleep in his store to guard it. Mr. Baran, the storeowner, said that he was sleeping behind the counter at about...

Not a good head.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... In August, David Dominguez tried to burglarize his neighbor's Arlington, Virginia, house and got himself shot, reported the Arlington Sun-Gazette. At about 5:30 a.m., Dominguez was burglarizing his neighbor's house when the armed homeowner...

Deli drama.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(stabbing at Wal-Mart)(Brief Article)
October 17, 2005... Due Moore, 72, an unpaid volunteer with the Albuquerque, New Mexico, police department, got more than cold cuts when he was at the deli in his local Wal-Mart, reported the August 22 Albuquerque Tribune. While Moore was in the store, another...

Discounting fetal pain.(Correction notice)
October 17, 2005... ITEM: A widely published Associated Press story reported on August 23: "A review of medical evidence by a group of researchers in California concludes that fetuses likely don't feel pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge...

Putdown for Helms, pass for M.L. King, Jr.(Correction notice)
October 17, 2005... ITEM: A new book by former Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), entitled Here's Where I Stand, was reviewed in an Associated Press news story that appeared in the Washington Post for August 30. In the piece, Helms was referred to as the "Senate's...

Able danger coverup.(THE LAST WORD)(investigations)
October 17, 2005... This past summer news began to break out about a super-secret Pentagon "data mining" operation that had identified the lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta as a terrorist threat long before the deadly attacks of September 11, 2001. The operation,...

In praise of DDT.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 31, 2005... I found your article on malaria of great interest ("Taming Mankind's Ancient Foes," September 5 issue), and it would have done my father's heart good, especially the section on DDT. In 1948, he was invited to Guatemala to a plantation,...

Technology does not equal good healthcare.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 31, 2005... In the September 5 cover story, "The Best Healthcare in the World," Mr. Dennis Behreandt defends the American fee-for-service system, showing it to be far better than the socialized healthcare systems of other countries. With this I would...

Response to Congressman.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
October 31, 2005... I read with interest Congressman Tancredo's letter to the editor in the October 3 issue in which he defends his support for Mujahadin al-Kalq, MEK, a group dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian government. While I recognize and appreciate Rep....

Bush's first veto?(INSIDER REPORT)(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... President Bush has been notoriously averse to wielding his veto pen, but the $440.2 billion defense bill pending in the Senate may be the first measure to receive that presidential inscription. The bill "provides $7 billion less than President...

Dutch set to expand euthanasia to include infanticide.(INSIDER REPORT)
October 31, 2005... "The Dutch government intends to expand its current euthanasia policy, setting guidelines for when doctors may end the lives of terminally ill newborns with the parents' consent," the Associated Press reported on September 29. Dutch Health...

Reconstruction and reconquista.(INSIDER REPORTDavis-Bacon Act)(Davis-Bacon Act)
October 31, 2005... Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush issued an executive order suspending the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act as it applies to reconstruction efforts in the Gulf Coast region. This permits federal contractors in Alabama, Florida,...

Illegal immigrants as neo-conservative cannon fodder.(INSIDER REPORT)
October 31, 2005... In a syndicated column published last February, Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Max Boot, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, urged the creation of a mercenary army called the "Freedom Legion" in order to offset...

Drug cartels and regional integration.(INSIDER REPORT)
October 31, 2005... Turf battles between Mexico's drug cartels have claimed more than 1,000 lives during the past year. The Gulf Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel are battling for control over the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, located across the border from the Texas...

Guns: lifesaver, or public health menace?(INSIDER REPORT)
October 31, 2005... A September 5 article in the Washington Times entitled "How Many Do Guns Defend?" said: "Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates 2.5 million Americans use guns for...

Mississippi legislator explains why he broke the chamber's dress code.(QuickQuotes)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "The fact is, I don't own a suit and I don't own a coat and I don't own a tie and I don't own a home. I am no different than 90 percent of my constituents and my neighbors." Republican state representative Jim Simpson, Jr. told colleagues...

ACLU lawyer attacks teaching of "intelligent design".(QuickQuotes)(American Civil Liberties Union )(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "This clever repackaging of creationism does not merit consideration. [It is] a 21st century version of creationism." Telling a U.S. District judge that the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board should be stopped from requiring high school biology...

Mr. Bush's war against Iraq has always been dishonest.(QuickQuotes)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "His argument that we must persevere because Iraq has become 'a central front in the war on terrorism' sounds like the man who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court for being an orphan." Cato Institute senior...

Basketball star skirts bureaucracy to help hurricane victims.(QuickQuotes)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "There was a lot of red tape, and I ain't got time for that. I found out that if you're going to do something good, just go ahead and do it. FEMA didn't approve, but we did it for the people." Future NBA hall-of-famer Karl Malone brought...

CFR leader perfectly willing to see sovereignty disappear.(QuickQuotes)(Council on Foreign Relations)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "Sovereignty--the notion that governments are free to do what they want within their own territory--... will fall victim to the powerful and accelerating flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, e-mails, and...

Business groups urge changes in Patriot Act.(QuickQuotes)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "Confidential files--records about customers or our employees, as well as our trade secrets and other proprietary information--can too easily be obtained and disseminated under investigative powers expanded by the Patriot Act." Among the...

Governors tell Bush disaster response is not the job of the military.(QuickQuotes)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... "People in Washington, D.C., can yap all they want but they're not going to undermine the constitution of the state of Montana." After President Bush suggested that the Pentagon should take the lead in dealing with natural disasters,...

"Able Danger" & 9/11 foreknowledge: the ongoing coverup concerning the secret Able Danger operation provides further evidence that the "war on terror" is a farce.(TERRORISM)(Cover Story)
October 31, 2005... There was nothing in outward appearance to draw attention to the four-bedroom apartment at 54 Marienstrasse. Nonetheless, the attention of the intelligence services of Germany, the U.S., Israel, and other Middle Eastern and European countries...

Terrorists in mid-America: the October 1 suicide bombing outside the University of Oklahoma football stadium may have been the work of a terrorist cell, not simply the act of a disturbed student.(TERRORISM)(Cover Story)
October 31, 2005... Many of the 85,000 football fans at the Oklahoma University-Kansas State game on Saturday, October 1 thought they were hearing thunder. Others thought fireworks or a game cannon had been set off. But some in the packed Oklahoma Memorial Stadium...

Trouble with DeLay: while the indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay may be a partisan "witch hunt," the former House Majority Leader has a lot to answer for.(CONGRESS)
October 31, 2005... "Behind every great fortune is a crime," wrote French novelist Honore de Balzac in words that could have been penned by Karl Marx. That invidious assessment is in need of a crucial clarification: every political fortune is built on...

Empowering the executive branch: an issue that must not be overlooked regarding Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers is her staunch support for the Bush agenda of executive branch empowerment.(SUPREME COURT)
October 31, 2005... The talking heads on television keep yammering on and on about the same questions regarding President Bush's nomination of Harriet E. Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court: Is Miers a conservative or liberal? A constitutionalist or activist? Will...

Not giving up on immigration control: when it comes to immigration reforms and tight immigration controls, many say it can't be done. But they are wrong.(IMMIGRATION)
October 31, 2005... The assertion that we can't curtail exploding illegal immigration is based on the false notions that our government is already doing the best it can to control the problem, that our borders are too long to be effectively controlled, and that...

A bold remedy to a grave threat: because the 14th Amendment's original intent has been ignored and the amendment has been used to grant citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, Congress needs to clarify the meaning of the amendment's language.(CONSTITUTION CORNER)
October 31, 2005... Drafters of constitutional texts, be they members of the constitutional convention in 1787 or members of Congress who craft a constitutional amendment, cannot always foresee all of the nuances of governmental mismanagement and malfeasance that...

Heroic girl saves family.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... Last May, 11-year-old Breanne Gaines of Anchorage, Alaska, did what many pre-teen girls like to do--she stayed overnight with a friend. Breanne and her friend, Kimberlee Dresnek, spent the night in a tent pitched on the porch of the Dresneks'...

Teen swims to the rescue.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... Chloe Grenga, a 14-year-old sophomore at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, Rhode Island, went swimming with her softball team last July at Spring Lake in nearby Burrillville. Suddenly, she heard a young boy's voice coming from deep water between...

Pro wrestler supports wounded troops.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
October 31, 2005... Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Mick Foley, known as "The Hardcore Legend," "Mankind," and "Cactus Jack," held the WWE world title belt on three separate occasions. Though he still makes occasional appearances on WWE programs,...

Good Luck finding the truth here: George Clooney's new movie Good Night and Good Luck continues the smear campaign against Senator Joseph McCarthy and lionizes leftist reporter Edward R. Murrow.(CULTURE WAR)(Good Night and Good Luck)
October 31, 2005... Give George Clooney credit; he knows the core market for his new movie Good Night and Good Luck. The former television actor from the popular show ER opened his movie on the struggle between anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy and television...

Tyranny and Posse Comitatus: enacted as part of a political bargain in 1878, the Posse Comitatus Act brought down the curtain on a shameful era of military dictatorship in the southern United States.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
October 31, 2005... General Robert E. Lee knew the South had lost the war. He was also vividly aware that many, perhaps even most, of his troops were willing to continue the fight with vengeance, not victory, as the primary objective. Southern military...