The New American articles from September 2006

The New American archives from September 2006

No more DHS.(Letter to the editor)
September 4, 2006... In the May 15 cover story "Abusing Homeland Security" by William Norman Grigg, Leander Pickett said in reference to being handcuffed and threatened by two Department of Homeland Security officials for asking them to stop obstructing a...

Governors oppose radical National Guard plan.(National Governors' Association)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... On August 1, 24 members of the National Governors Association sent a letter of protest to the House Committee on Armed Services. The strongly worded letter was a reaction to a provision of a bill that would allow the president to seize control...

FBI as extortion racket?(Federal Bureau of Investigation)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... In November of last year, 24-year-old Yassine Ouassif, a Moroccan-born legal U.S. resident, was given an ultimatum by the FBI: become a federal informant within his Muslim community in San Francisco, or else. According to the July 11 Wall...

U.S. firms scramble to build Beijing's Big Brother.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "New rules demanding surveillance systems be installed at numerous business and public sector venues across China are prompting a surge of interest by companies involved with 'Big Brother' technologies, with multinationals such as General...

Iraq's Christian population cut by half.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, noted Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Andreos Abouna of Baghdad in a recent address to British charitable groups, about 1.2 million Christians lived in the predominantly Muslim country. Since that...

Ford supports homosexual agenda despite boycott, losses.(INSIDER REPORT)
September 4, 2006... Ford Motor Company announced in July unexpected second quarter losses of $123 million. However, despite these losses and plans to close 14 plants in the United States, Ford has stubbornly refused to back off its financial support for homosexual...

Blacklisting Americans on the quota system.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... There are potentially serious consequences to being enrolled on a federal "watch list." Thus it is, to say the least, unsettling to know that "watch lists" compiled by the federal air marshals service are built on the quota system--meaning that...

Lieberman vs. Lamont: ultra-left vs. ultra-ultra-left.(Edward "Ned" Lamont and Joe Lieberman )
September 4, 2006... Edward "Ned" Lamont's narrow defeat of veteran Senator Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democrat primary on August 8 is a major upset. However, aside from their disagreement over the Iraq War (Lamont opposes it, Lieberman supports it), there...

A tale of two incumbents.(Joe Schwarz, Tim Walberg)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... On August 8, while three-term Connecticut senator and former vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman was defeated in a Democratic primary by Ned Lamont, Republican Congressman Joe Schwarz of Michigan lost a primary to former pastor Tim...

Fourth Amendment protections under attack by "conservatives".(Fox News Network L.L.C.)
September 4, 2006... "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety," observed Benjamin Franklin, "deserve neither liberty nor safety." That sentiment, which animated our Founding Fathers, is almost never expressed today. Just the...

Enviro-Marxists join forces with Latino Marxists.(Earth Day Network )
September 4, 2006... Earth Day Network (EDN), the militant environmental organization headed by Earth Day co-founder Denis Hayes, is joining with radical Hispanic groups to co-host a National Latino Congress on Public Policy and Political Participation, September...

Postal service loves eBay.(revenue rises )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "We, the Postal Service, we love you. We love every buyer, every seller, every power seller. Thank you for shipping with the United States Postal Service." Speaking at a conference attended by 15, 000 eBay regulars, Postmaster General John...

No global warming in South Africa.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "Freezing temperatures are not unusual at higher altitudes during the winter, but heavy snow has fallen in some interior towns that rarely experience such weather." The Associated Press reported from Johannesburg on remarkably cold August...

Columnist believes civil war has arrived in Iraq.(Thomas Friedman )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "It is now obvious that we are not midwifing democracy in Iraq. We are baby-sitting a civil war." Thomas Friedman, the leading columnist for the New York Times, dares to state what few politicians will admit.

Gibson's outburst small compared to lethal assault on Seattle Jews.(Mel Gibson)(Naveed Haq)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "If the Catholic Gibson's nonviolent bigotry is a legitimate subject of media scrutiny, all the more so is the animus that spurs Muslims like [Naveed] Haq and others to jihadist murder." Columnist Jeff Jacoby believes that Haq's deliberate...

Even college graduates aren't measuring up.(educational standards)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "There are disturbing signs that many students who do earn degrees have not actually mastered the reading, writing and thinking skills we expect of college graduates." After a year of effort, the federal Commission on the Future of Higher...

Top U.S. general voices fear of civil war in Iraq.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular, and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move toward civil war." The leader of the U.S. Central Command, General John...

Illegal immigrant bares the plan to take over America.(Martha Teichner)
September 4, 2006... "In 20 years, we are going to run the country. Right now, we are running the cities. So little by little, we're running the show. Little by little." Interviewed on CBS television by a sympathetic Martha Teichner, illegal alien Alex Vega...

Canada laments first female war casualty.(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... "In other areas, our society recognizes the differences between men and women. This is why we have different categories in sports, for example." Captain Nichola Goddard's combat death in Afghanistan prompted comments that women should not...

America for sale: as our government careens toward bankruptcy, Americans are being dispossessed by the outsourcing of industrial jobs and the buyout of our infrastructure by foreign interests.(BUYOUT OF AMERICA)(Cover story)
September 4, 2006... We begin with a parable: Driven to the streets after a run of relentless misfortune, a man took up station on a street corner holding a hand-lettered sign stating: "Will work for food." Most pedestrians and motorists passed the desperate...

High and dry: big government causes big problems, and in Central Asia, Soviet-style big government destroyed the Aral Sea.(ENVIRONMENT)
September 4, 2006... The scene is nothing short of apocalyptic. A fleet of fishing vessels, seven or eight in all, lies immobile in the desert sands of central Asia. Most of the ships are in tight formation, seeming to jockey for position in the center of a curious...

The silent pandemic: while exotic diseases like bird flu and SARS get all the attention, malaria is still killing millions in Africa, despite the fact that DDT remains an effective and affordable solution.(ENVIRONMENT)
September 4, 2006... A worldwide pandemic of staggering proportions is underway, killing many millions of people and sickening millions more. This pandemic is not the dreaded bird flu; it is not the frightful Ebola virus. The epidemic is malaria. According the...

Sound science & common sense: the recent Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference refuted politically driven science and provided commonsense ways to deal with both real and imagined threats.(SCIENCE)
September 4, 2006... The 24th Annual Conference of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) was held August 4-6 in Ed Hiserodt is the author of Under-Exposed: What If Radiation Is Really Good for You? Portland, Oregon, attracting its usual contingent of world-class...

Con-con movement returns: some proponents of a federal constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage are considering calling for a dangerous constitutional convention to accomplish their goal.(CONSTITUTION CORNER)
September 4, 2006... They're baaack--those pesky advocates of a constitutional convention. Following defeat of a federal constitutional amendment in the U.S. Senate to define marriage exclusively as a union of one man and one woman, talk began to circulate favoring...

A tribute to heroes: World Trade Center takes us back to 9/11 to remind us of the bravery and heroism of the police officers, firefighters, and civilians who responded to the attacks that day.
September 4, 2006... Every so often a book is written or a story is told or a film is made that is more than the sum of its parts. These stories carry within them a meaning that is far deeper and more meaningful than fiction alone can convey. They speak to the...

Minutemen answers the call: in Minutemen: The Battle To Secure America's Borders, authors Gilchrist and torsi thoroughly analyze the dangers of uncontrolled immigration and provide workable solutions.(Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders)(Book review)
September 4, 2006... Minutemen: The Battle To Secure America's Borders, by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., Los Angeles: World Ahead Publishing, 2006, 375 pages, hardcover. (For ordering information, see the ad on the inside front cover.) Minutemen is...

Young patron: America's storied general began his fighting career in an Old West shootout with Pancho Villa's riders.(George S. Patton)
September 4, 2006... It was May 14, 1916. A bold 31-year-old second lieutenant, George S. Patton, Jr., was scouting the Mexican countryside for maize for the U.S. Army, which was pursuing Pancho Villa in the Punitive Expedition. He returned from the mission to...

Teenage girl demonstrates courage.(Brittany Thrower)
September 4, 2006... It was a tragic case of an inexperienced teen driving beyond her capabilities. Megan Pevehouse-Sharpe, 16, asked her friend, Brittany Thrower, also 16, if she could drive Brittany's car. She assured Brittany she could drive a stick shift and...

Dad breathes breath of life.(Sharif Pipkin saves his 14-year-old son, Aljuwon, from permanent brain damage due to accident)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Like millions of other American families have done, the Pipkin family from New Jersey went to Orlando, Florida, in July to visit Walt Disney World. But a freak occurrence on July 20 almost turned their dream vacation into a tragedy. Sharif...

Teen starts veterans memorial project.(Simon Sharp's project )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... Simon Sharp, a 14-year-old in the town of Celebration, Florida, thought about a worthwhile activity he could perform as his Eagle Scout project. Showing appreciation to our nation's military veterans, who have given so much of themselves to our...

No more "sleepy ole town".(Florence Tolar robbed )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... One couple, Herb and Florence Tolar, who own Greene's Package Shop in Hardeeville, South Carolina, say that their town has changed. "It's not a sleepy ole town any more. It's scary," Herb told WSAV. com. In just over a month's time, both Tolars...

He claimed insanity.(Elartrice Ingram )(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... A 21-year-old man whom people have described as somewhat reclusive uttered the words, "I'm insane. I wish I was never born," related a witness to the AP alter the man went on a stabbing spree in the Cordova, Tennessee, store where he worked....

Something not quite right.(Derrick Phillips)
September 4, 2006... Authorities arrested Derrick Phillips for attempted first-degree murder when he shot two men in Tucson, Arizona, on April 25 of last year. He was incarcerated for 448 days. During that time, he "spent two birthdays in jail, saw his financial...

Bad day for bad guys.(Kenneth Coley and Devin Williams)(Brief article)
September 4, 2006... In Lancaster, California, on July 21, Kenneth Coley and Devin Williams began a robbery attempt. According to CBS 2 (Los Angeles), while Williams waited by a getaway car "in the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex," Coley was at a local...

Social Security con job.(Correction, Please!)
September 4, 2006... ITEM: "Democrats and their allies launched an ad campaign Thursday to warn voters about any new Republican effort to privatize Social Security," reported the Associated Press on August 3. Beginning in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Ohio, the "ads...

Giant pickles and broken borders.(Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986)
September 4, 2006... "Never follow an animal act or child act," TV legend Johnny Carson famously counseled. That sage advice from the king of late-night variety shows was weighing heavily on this reporter's mind nearly two decades ago as I sat in the "green room"...

Exposing animal ID.(Letter to the editor)
September 18, 2006... I want to thank you for publishing an article opposing the National Animal Identification System ("Need-to-know Info on Animal ID," May 15), but I don't think the article went far enough. For example, although Jodie Gilmore mentions the U.S....

May day.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
September 18, 2006... As your article "Pawns in a Losing Game" (May 29 issue) told, most Americans are concerned about illegal immigration, yet many of our politicians continue to support it. I regrettably voted for King George, but would absolutely never do so...

Libertarian looseness.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
September 18, 2006... While I enjoyed reading William Norman Grigg's articles on filmmaker Aaron Russo (June 12 issue) and look forward to seeing Russo's movie From Freedom to Fascism, I noticed that the word "Libertarian" was mentioned numerous times in the article...

Next stop: conscription.(soldiers return Iraq )
September 18, 2006... In early August, about 300 Alaska-based soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade, shortly after returning from Iraq, were ordered to return to Iraq immediately. Because of a bureaucratic bungle, the unit was not informed while in Iraq that its...

Build 'em up, bomb 'em down.(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "In the heart of Tehran sits one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities, a dome-shaped building where scientists have conducted secret experiments that could help the country build atomic bombs," reported the August 23 Chicago...

FEMA's folly: 10,000 unused mobile homes for Katrina victims.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... It's a trailer park like no other. Row upon row of brand new, empty mobile homes, as far as the eye can see. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mobile home park next to the airport in Hope, Arkansas, features nearly 10,000 fully...

A blow to the imperial presidency.(Anna Diggs Taylor)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... On August 8, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit ruled that the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping program is utterly unconstitutional, and ordered the Bush administration to desist immediately. According to Judge Taylor, "The public...

Homeland security and the Ramsey case.(John Mark Karr)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... The Ramsey case has recently been thrust back into the headlines because of the arrest of John Mark Karr, an American expatriate living in Bangkok, Thailand, who was accused of murdering six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey and then extradited to this...

Afghan opium cultivation booming.(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "It is a significant increase from last year.... Unfortunately, it is a record year." A senior U.S. official based in Kabul spoke only on condition of anonymity as he acknowledged a 40 percent increase in opium cultivation from 2005, even...

Local ordinance combats illegal immigration.(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "It's been incredible. We have literally seen people loading up mattresses and furniture and leaving the city en masse. That was our goal, to have a city of legal immigrants who are all paying taxes." The Hazelton, Pennsylvania, city council...

Chinese harassment of religion grows.(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "The authorities sense a need to prevent the next generation from getting into this. There is an attempt to convince young people that being involved in religion will make things more complicated for them in school and in other ways" ...

Fidel's brother mobilized Cuba's military.(Raul Castro)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "We could not rule out the risk of somebody going crazy, or even crazier, within the U.S. government." After Fidel was hospitalized, his brother Raul Castro took the reins of Cuba's government and immediately prepared the communist nation...

Growth in immigration not just in border States.(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "Essentially, it's a continuation of the Mexicanization of U.S. immigration. You would expect Mexicans to be increasing their share in places like Georgia and North Carolina, but they've also increased their share of the population, and quite...

U.S. auto giants in deep trouble.(General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co.)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "Ford cannot continue much longer without a radical change in its business model. [Both Ford and General Motors] have got to resize, restructure and reinvent themselves." As both companies have cut employee numbers and closed plants, auto...

Venezuelan leader jumps in bed with Iran.(Hugo Chavez after accepting High Medallion of the Islamic Republic of Iran)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... "We stand by Iran at every moment, in any situation." After accepting the golden High Medallion of the Islamic Republic of Iran from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez joined in denunciations of the United States...

Global warming too hot or not? The theory of global warming proposes that man's activities are causing the Earth to heat up, but there is compelling scientific evidence that does not support this conclusion.(GLOBAL WARMING)(Cover story)
September 18, 2006... Very few people have heard of the Larsen B ice shelf. For thousands of years in the Antarctic, the place was a desolate frozen wasteland, crisscrossed by crevasses and swept by powerful ice and snowstorms. Beginning in 2002, satellite imagery...

The sun and global warming: can it be just a coincidence that the Earth's climate appears to be warming as the Sun is getting more active? Clearly there is more to global warming than greenhouse gases.(Cover story)
September 18, 2006... As any homeowner in the northern latitudes knows, there are two ways to keep warmer in the winter. The first is to increase the amount of insulation in one's home. The other is to increase the amount of output from the home's heat source, the...

Are the terrorists winning? The purpose of terrorism is to intimidate targeted populations into surrendering their freedoms. How far advanced is this process in the United States?(TERRORISM)
September 18, 2006... The battle has moved to inside America.... I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people--and the West in general--into an unbearable hell and a choking life. --Osama bin...

Betrayed in the line of duty: while the Bush administration seeks amnesty for illegal aliens and grants immunity to a Mexican drug smuggler, it has thrown the book at two courageous Border Patrol agents.(IMMIGRATION)
September 18, 2006... Fabens, Texas -- The chase was on. The suspected smuggler van turned back toward the Rio Grande and headed for Mexico. Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos was on his tail. Other agents were also converging on the scene. The suspect realized he...

What did or didn't happen at Duke: a look at the case of an alleged rape at Duke University reveals the bias of the major media and the need for moral order to once again be upheld on college campuses.(CULTURAL CURRENTS)
September 18, 2006... What's the difference between an alleged rape at Duke University and an alleged rape at Fresno City College? The Duke case received dozens of stories in the New York Times. The other case didn't. Ditto for the Washington Post. Another...

Hot air: an Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's new documentary about global warming, is intriguing, but fails to convince in the end.(Movie review)
September 18, 2006... Former vice presidents of the United States usually follow one of two paths upon leaving office: run for the office of the presidency and, achieving that post, move on to create their own presidential legacy, or fade into obscurity (also...

Girl sacrifices self to protect her brother.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
September 18, 2006... Many people say they would "give their right arm" to help another, but a girl from California's San Gabriel Valley recently gave her left arm to save her little brother. On July 15, Arianna Masten, a 10-year-old girl from West Covina, a...

Young boy saves mother.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Jawan David )(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... Five-year-old Jawan David of Calumet City, Illinois, found his mother unconscious on July 25, but instead of panicking, he immediately called 911. He described his mother's condition to emergency dispatchers and stayed on the phone until the...

Orlando man rescues plane crash victims.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)
September 18, 2006... On January 11, 2005, Brandon "Bosco" Cashen witnessed the crash of a small, single-engine plane on the Dubsdread Golf Course in Orlando, Florida. The plane's pilot had tried to make an emergency landing on the course's 18th green, but crashed...

A son's agonizing choice: Edmund Randolph chose a path that tragically led him away from his father, but toward becoming a key player in the formation of a new nation.(HISTORY--GREATNESS OF THE FOUNDERS)(Biography)
September 18, 2006... "Brother fighting brother, father fighting son" is a phrase typically associated with the Civil War, but it is equally applicable to the War for Independence. Families were divided and the rift affected every layer of American society, from...

He likes to work.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(even after three robbery attempts James Wilson still works)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... At 81 years old, James Wilson still works in the liquor store that he owns in Louisville, Kentucky. Even after being slugged in the head with a pistol during a robbery attempt on June 6, he was at work on June 7. His being at work on the...

Fool me once.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(theft case)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... Al Brown of Jackson, Mississippi, had a "television, computer and other electronics" stolen in a daylight burglary on his home on June 12, reported WAPT.com. When police investigated the theft, they told Brown that the thief may return....

Hard-earned money.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(robbery case)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... About seven years ago, a father began to teach his then-six-year-old son to use guns because the father kept guns in the house, and he wanted "to take the curiosity away," reported the Greenville News (South Carolina). Recently, the father's...

Family failure.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Ricky Hargrove saves his daughter and himself from drug abused niece)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... According to the Herald and News (Oregon), on August 5 at about 11:30 a.m., 36-year-old Eddie Valdez, Jr. arrived at his great-uncle's house in Klamath Falls, behaving erratically--behavior consistent with that of a whacked-out drug user....

Got him, twice.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(carjacking case)(Brief article)
September 18, 2006... George Newton of Philadelphia was carjacked on August 5, but he was soon back to doing what he loves. The carjacker, William Edney, however, will need time to heal. Edney initiated the robbery by pointing a pistol at Newton's head and...

Callous foreign-aid fraud.(Correction, Please!)
September 18, 2006... ITEM: The Financial Times for August 13 reported: "Rich countries have largely failed to back their voluble lip service to combating global poverty by doing more to help, according to an annual assessment by a leading think-tank. The...

Plan B: the George & Hillary plan.(THE LAST WORD)(George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton)
September 18, 2006... Right-to-life leaders have been expressing shock, outrage, and dismay over President George Bush's August 21 announcement of support for making "Plan B," the morning-after abortion pill, available over the counter, no prescription needed. The...