The New American articles from September 2003

The New American archives from September 2003

Child-snatchers attack.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
September 8, 2003... William Norman Grigg's article "When Child-snatchers Attack" (THE NEW AMERICAN, August 11th issue) hit home. I had Child Protective Service (CPS) workers come to my home twice. Why? Because a three-time felon (whom I had a restraining order...

Rallying behind Ritalin.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
September 8, 2003... I take extreme exception to your article "Totalitarian Medicine" (August 25th issue). I am a public school teacher, a sufferer of A.D.D., and parent of a child with A.D.D. First of all, A.D.D. was not renamed A.D.H.D. The latter includes...

Biblical morality.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
September 8, 2003... The article "Targeting Scouts, Then Your Church" (July 28th issue) is a timely call to join forces with the current targets of our legal and cultural opponents. As the song goes, "This could happen to you!" Thank you, too, Mr. Jasper, for...

Thirsting for control.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
September 8, 2003... Regarding Thomas R. Eddlem's "War Under False Pretense" (August 11th), the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run through Iraq. They are the only major source of water in the Middle East. He who controls the water controls the Middle East. Is that why...

Socialized power.(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... After the August 15th blackout descended on millions of Americans and Canadians in the northeast, former Clinton Energy Secretary (and current New Mexico Governor) Bill Richardson took to the airwaves to indict the free market for the...

Soviet America?(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... Writing in the August 25th issue of The Weekly Standard, neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol sketched out the basics of what he calls "The Neoconservative Persuasion." Among the central beliefs of that persuasion, Kristol explained, is...

Gulf War profiteering.(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... "One of the main bidders lot the lucrative contract to rebuild the Iraqi oil industry has dropped out of the race, amid concerns that the [bidding] process unfairly favors Halliburton, the company with close ties to the U.S. Vice President,...

Bills to correct visa abuses.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2003... In his March 10th article, "Your Job May Be Next!" this magazine's William F. Jasper wrote: "[C]orporate lobbyists prevailed on Congress and President George Bush (the elder) to pass legislation in 1990 creating the special H-1B visa program...

UN favors homosexual agenda.(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... The United Nations Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual Employees (UNGLOBE) sponsored a meeting of homosexuals at UN headquarters during the first week of August. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeared briefly at the well-attended gathering and Carol...

Leavitt to the EPA.(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... On August 11th, President Bush nominated Michael Leavitt, the liberal Republican three-term Governor of Utah, to head the Environmental Protection Agency. By accepting the nomination, Leavitt followed in the footsteps of Bill Clinton. Like the...

Praying for UN intervention.(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... "The Roman Catholic archbishop, his congregants singing 'Amazing Grace' and 'We Shall Overcome,' called here today for the United Nations to send thousands of additional troops to help save Liberia from those who want to rule it," reported an...

Maurice Strong's new frontman.(Insider Report)
September 8, 2003... Canadian globalist heavyweight Maurice Strong, a key architect of the UN's radical environmental agenda, has been described as the "Michelangelo of networking." He has risen to global prominence largely because of his uncanny ability to...

The sky is falling! Or is it? Modern-day chicken littles would like you to believe that the sky is falling--or, more precisely, that the atmosphere is dangerously overheating. But they are wrong.(Global Warming)
September 8, 2003... The steady stream of scary scenarios about global warming and its supposed cataclysmic consequences hasn't abated. It continues because its purveyors have an agenda that encompasses much more than environmental concerns. Those who insist that...

Duranty's lethal lies: using terror and famine, Josef Stalin murdered millions in the Ukraine. Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the New York Times covered up the massacre.(Media)
September 8, 2003... When it was discovered that New York Times reporter Jayson Blair's work was shot through with plagiarism, fraud, and fabrication, the BBC described the affair as "the biggest scandal in the history of America's most distinguished newspaper." As...

Remembering Larry McDonald: the distinguished congressman and chairman of the John Birch Society was an effective and implacable foe of Communism and international terrorism.(At A Glance)
September 8, 2003... Twenty years ago, on September 1, 1983, U.S. Representative Larry McDonald (D-Ga.) was en route to Seoul, South Korea, to speak at an anti-Communist conference. Unbeknownst to him and the 268 others aboard KAL Flight 007, they were about to...

Keeping homeschooling private: homeschoolers have been vigilant in protecting their rights, rising to the occasion when they discover threats to clamp down on their activities.(Education)
September 8, 2003... "There's no place like home" has become the mantra of successful homeschoolers. By most measures--scholastic, social, economic--the modern homeschooling movement is a triumph. The actual undertaking requires initiative, patience, and, in many...

Young Eagle Scout.(The Goodness Of America)
September 8, 2003... Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has featured a merit badge program to help Scouts develop areas of personal interest and acquire knowledge in a broad array of fields. To qualify for Scouting's highest rank of Eagle,...

Bank robbery replay.(The Goodness Of America)
September 8, 2003... Andrew Green, a landscaper in Fort Pierce, Florida, has been a customer of the Riverside National Bank in nearby Jensen Beach for about seven years. On June 2nd, he was in the bank when a man demanded money from a teller and then fled with a...

Philip Dru's war: in a new book, noted historian Thomas Fleming examines the agenda behind U.S. involvement in World War I--and that war's cost to our nation and the West.(Book Review)
September 8, 2003... The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I, by Thomas Fleming, New York: Basic Books, 2003, 543 pages, hardcover. Available for $30.00 plus shipping and handling from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912; by...

More than his name on the line: by the time John Hancock had signed the Declaration of Independence, he had already put his life and fortune on the line.(History--Greatness Of The Founders)
September 8, 2003... The Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. But John Hancock, who signed the document first and with the largest signature of all, already had his life on the line. Hancock...

Greedy thieves.(Exercising The Right)
September 8, 2003... At about 10:45 p.m. on July 11th, East Memphis, Tennessee, resident Jason Filippelli was withdrawing money from an ATM when two armed men approached and demanded that he give them the money. Filippelli handed over the cash he had withdrawn, but...

Tables turned.(Exercising The Right)
September 8, 2003... Khaled Farah Yousef owns the Frutilandia #2 neighborhood store in Houston, Texas. At around 8:15 p.m. on May 31st, he was working behind the counter when three men entered. Yousef became suspicious when they split up and began looking around as...

Home invasion.(Exercising The Right)
September 8, 2003... At around 2 a.m. on May 31st, three men (at least one of them armed) kicked in the front door of a home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and demanded money from the men inside. When one of the residents, Pascual Gomez, said that he did not have any,...

Robbers routed.(Exercising The Right)
September 8, 2003... On May 11th in Independence Township, Michigan, a homeowner was sitting on a couch watching television at around 11:15 p.m. when he heard a loud banging noise. Grabbing a gun, he went to investigate and found three men coming through the back...

Property owner cleared.(Exercising The Right)
September 8, 2003... A mobile home on property owned by Accomac, Virginia, resident Robert Hall had been vacant for several years. Hall tried to keep it in good condition, but it became a hangout for young people and attracted loiterers and drug dealers. Hall...

Burnishing Castro's myths.(Between The Lines)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2003... ITEM: "The sun is bright, the sky blue, the mountains purple and the children frolic happily under the bullet holes," at Moncada Barracks in Cuba, begins a piece by Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post for July 26th, celebrating the attack...

Bug-loving bureaucrats.(Between The Lines)
September 8, 2003... ITEM: The owner of a small hardware store in Chelsea, Quebec, according to the Ottawa Citizen for August 3rd, "has been fined $12,000 for selling common household products to kill ants, wasps and hornets without a permit" on three occasions in...

New Century Children.(The Last Word)
September 8, 2003... Dr. Sandra Scarr, one of the country's most influential researchers on child care, has described a vision of the "new century's ideal children." Historically, most American children have enjoyed the caring presence of a stay-home mother. New...

Drugging our kids.(Letters to the Editor)
September 22, 2003... My husband's co-worker recently gave me a copy of the August 25th issue of THE NEW AMERICAN so that I could read William Norman Grigg's article "Drugging Our Kids." While I do not currently subscribe to your magazine, I now plan to. I was...

Two sides to Harry Potter.(Letters to the Editor)
September 22, 2003... In response to "Potter-mania's Dark Side" in your July 28th issue, I have to say that THE NEW AMERICAN'S indictment of J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series seems uncharacteristically shortsighted and ill informed. Has the author of the...

Photo-op Patriotism.(Letters to the Editor)
September 22, 2003... William Norman Grigg's article "Photo-op Patriotism" (June 2nd issue) about President Bush's detention of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln immediately came to mind when I got the mail this morning. The 8 "x 10" black and white picture covering the...

Price correction.
September 22, 2003... In our September 8th review of The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I (hardcover, 543 pages), we erroneously overstated the price. The correct price is $20.95 plus shipping and handling when ordered from American Opinion Book Services,...

The globalist Bush administration.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... "In September 2002," writes UN Undersecretary-General for Communications Shashi Tharoor in the September/October Foreign Affairs, "a radical new document declared that 'no nation can build a safer, better world alone.' These words came not from...

The UN's Leninist legacy.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... Speaking in 1970, former UN Secretary-General U Thant praised founding Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin and pointedly claimed that Lenin's ruling philosophy was "in line with the aims of the UN Charter." One of Lenin's most important concepts was...

Merging the Americas.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... President Bush and other leaders of North and South America have agreed to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) patterned after the socialist, sovereignty-destroying European Union. But on August 26th the presidents of Venezuela and...

Racist gubernatorial candidate.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... California Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante is the front-running Democratic candidate to replace incumbent Gray Davis should Davis be recalled. What should concern Californians is that he was a member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan...

Kabul or Beirut?(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... Even as the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq morphs into a bigger, bloodier version of Israel's West Bank morass, Afghanistan threatens to recreate--on a larger scale--the ill-fated Lebanon mission of 1982-1984. "NATO troops garrisoning Kabul...

Clintonites bid for White House?(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... In his August 27th op-ed, syndicated columnist Richard Reeves reported that Hillary Clinton "and her advisers, including her husband the ex-president, her money-men and pollsters, will meet shortly after Labor Day--September 6, I hear--to...

Black eye for Big Brother in Tampa.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... For two years pedestrians in the Ybor City entertainment district of Tampa, Florida, have been under the watchful eye of Big Brother. Police surveillance cameras worked in concert with face-recognition software to scan passersby and compare...

The UN to the rescue--should we be surprised?(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... In our August 11th issue, THE NEW AMERICAN reiterated a prediction made in our June 30th issue regarding future developments in Iraq. At the risk of making ourselves tiresome on this subject, we are restating this prediction here. Our...

Budget deficits keep skyrocketing.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced on August 26th that the fiscal year 2004 federal budget deficit will be an estimated $480 billion, and that deficits could total $5 trillion over the next 10 years. Since March, "the...

U.S. recruiting Saddam's spies.(Insider Report)
September 22, 2003... Having already rehired tens of thousands of Saddam's dreaded military and police officers, judges, and jailers, U.S. authorities in Iraq, reportedly, now also are welcoming members of Saddam's hated spy services. According to an August 24th...

The one-minute patriot.(The Right Perspective)
September 22, 2003... The American patriot understands and upholds These fundamentals of our nation: 1. The fountainhead of American government and society--the most fundamental idea of all--is this: God is the mighty author of our being and the moral authority...

Exporting U.S. jobs: an engineered exodus of manufacturing and hi-tech jobs threatens to abolish the American middle class--the bulwark of a free society.(Middle Class)
September 22, 2003... We were middle class," lamented former textile worker Jimmy Bennett in an interview with the Washington Post, before hastily correcting himself: "We still are." Jimmy and his wife Verleen, residents of Kannapolis, North Carolina, were among the...

"Harmonizing" our decline: our standard of living is being deliberately undermined to merge our nation into a centrally directed global economy.(Middle Class)
September 22, 2003... As part of his September 2001 visit to the U.S., Mexican president Vicente Fox accompanied President Bush to Toledo, Ohio, where they addressed a carefully selected crowd of 8,000 people. Toledo was chosen because of its large and growing...

God's laws and the State: a federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment prohibits a Ten Commandments monument in Alabama's state judicial building. The Founding Fathers would be appalled.(The Law)
September 22, 2003... In 2001, following through on a campaign promise, Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court unveiled a sculpture that is striking both in size and content. Placed in a prominent location inside the rotunda of the state judicial...

Terrorists among us: the parole of convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin was a victory for the aging--but still active--Soviet-aligned 1960s domestic terrorist network.(Terrorism)
September 22, 2003... August 20th was Police Sergeant Edward O'Grady's 55th birthday. Unfortunately, he wasn't on hand to celebrate. Along with Officer Waverly Brown and Peter Paige, a private security guard, Sergeant O'Grady was murdered during a 1981 Brink's truck...

Gorbachev charm offensive: the former Soviet dictator once again brings his ongoing socialist, world government campaign to America's heartland.(Deception)
September 22, 2003... Mikhail Gorbachev is coming to Middle America. To Wisconsin's Fox Cities, to be precise--a group of communities on the Fox River clustered around the city of Appleton. Mr. Gorbachev will be the keynote speaker and main attraction at an October...

Parents win neglect case.(Making A Difference)
September 22, 2003... At about 7 a.m. on September 9, 1999, Mary Ann Stumbo of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, was about to dress her two-year-old daughter, Joani, when the child began chasing the family's new kitten. Moments later, the pet scampered outside, with...

Brochure Brouhaha.(Making A Difference)
September 22, 2003... Scottsdale Unified School District No. 48 (SUSD) in Scottsdale, Arizona, allows the 33 schools it supervises to distribute literature promoting events and activities sponsored by nonprofit organizations, provided that the material is not of a...

Acknowledging black Confederates: despite differing definitions of "soldier" and questions about motivation, the historical record is clear: many black Americans supported the Southern cause.(History--Forgotten Americans)
September 22, 2003... * In 1861, Company H, 14th Georgia Infantry, double-stepped along the road, headed for northern Virginia to meet the Union "invaders." Marching along with the men, drummer Bill Yopp kept up a smart, inspiring beat that lifted the men's hearts...

Fighting back.(Exercising The Right)
September 22, 2003... Shortly before 5:30 a.m. on June 16th, Stephen Heller was chatting with a young woman who had arrived moments earlier at his home in Sanger, Texas, when two masked men dressed in black and wearing gloves suddenly barged into the residence. At...

Return to scene of crime.(Exercising The Right)
September 22, 2003... Shawn Larsen of Clackamas County, Oregon, awoke on August 2nd to find that his bedroom window had been forced open, and that a number of his belongings had been stolen by a stealthy burglar. While searching for clues, he found the pilfered...

Coyote attack.(Exercising The Right)
September 22, 2003... Near sundown on August 4th, three-year-old Sangchul Bae was watching his dad hit practice balls at the Jess Ranch Golf Course in Apple Valley, California, when a coyote suddenly emerged from nearby bushes and lunged at the boy. The aggressive...

Home invasion tragedy.(Exercising The Right)
September 22, 2003... Ray and Annie Friesen had been married for 53 years when, at around 2:30 p.m. on June 30th, someone knocked at the door of their home in the Beaver Valley area of Payson, Arizona. Mrs. Friesen, 73, was resting in a bedroom, so Mr. Friesen, 79,...

Media coverup.(Exercising The Right)
September 22, 2003... From an August 1st Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed by Dr. John R. Lott Jr., resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the newly released The Bias Against Guns: "In 2001 (the last year available), ABC, CBS and NBC ran...

Regulators helped pull plug.(Between The Lines)
September 22, 2003... ITEM: Writing in the New York Times for August 16th. Robert Kuttner claimed: "In the search fop" the source of Thursday's blackout, the underlying cause has been all but ignored: deregulation." Kuttner, co-editor of" The American Prospect,...

Prescribing a deadly cure.(Between The Lines)
September 22, 2003... ITEM: There would be huge savings with national health care, contended a Los Angeles Times report for August 13th. "A national health insurance program would save more than $200 billion a year in administrative, marketing and other...

China's espionage business.(Between The Lines)
September 22, 2003... ITEM: The August 20th Atlanta Journal and Constitution, under a headline, "China's business potential explored," reported that Communist China's role in the "global economy and Georgia's ability to do business with the emerging Asian market...

Dangerous betrayal in Korea.(The Last Word)
September 22, 2003... 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...