27 August 2004 Federalist Patriot No. 04-34 Friday Digest *Subscriber Services: To change your e-mail address, select editions and formats, view recent archives, send comments or to unsubscribe, Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.com/services.asp
To defeat Kerry-Edwards in '04, Link to -- http://Kerry-04.org/ Visit the Patriot Shop: Link to -- http://PatriotShop.us/ ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams ______----********O********----______ THE PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE Top of the fold -- Kerry's Quagmire... There is a chronic state of superciliousness manifest in some members of Congress who are perennially re-elected by their loyal lemmings -- an unmitigated arrogance called "Potomac Mentation Syndrome" (PMS). Its primary symptom is the angry projection of invincibility by its victim, and John Kerry, who's been occupying a seat in the Senate for the last two decades, appears to have a terminal case. Kerry, a privileged but neglected trust baby, hobnobbed with the rich and infamous Kennedy clan as a youngster and decided that one day, he wanted to follow in the footsteps of the original JFK. Fast forward 40 years, and, under the tutelage of his corpulent mentor, Teddy Kennedy, John F. Kerry is the Democrat presidential nominee. Unfortunately for Kerry, he does not have the advantage of having JFK's old man, Joe, on his team. The elder Kennedy massaged the Navy's official record of Jack's PT-109 debacle and had his version of the story released to the media, creating an instant "hero" and paving the way for JFK's ascension through the House and Senate to the presidency. Kerry, now gravely ill with PMS, thought he could ride high on his updated version of PT-109 and get away with it. But Ted Kennedy is no Joe Kennedy -- and Kerry, who built his whole campaign on a foundation of embellished wartime heroics, is now bogged down in his personal Vietnam quagmire. Indeed, Kerry assumed he was bulletproof, but he's taking far more hits now than he ever did in his abbreviated combat tour. The opening salvo: Last March, Demo National Committee loudmouth Terry McAuliffe (also in the tenacious grip of PMS) estimated that Kerry would have to win the hearts and minds of veterans in order to defeat George W. Bush. So he wrapped Kerry in his embellished war record and, a month later, took a cheap shot at President Bush, proclaiming that he was AWOL during his last year of service as an Air National Guard fighter pilot. Right about now, McAuliffe and Kerry are wishing they'd never fired that shot. Much to their surprise, several Vietnam veterans groups had the audacity to take a gander at Kerry's service record -- both his record of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" by slandering his fellow veterans while they were still fighting or captive in Vietnam, and his contrived record of heroic acts as evidenced by his impressive list of military decorations. By early May, those veterans were firing back at Kerry and his cadre. Initially, Kerry took the defensive: "I think a lot of veterans are going to be very angry at a president who can't account for his own service in the National Guard...criticizing somebody who fought for their country and served." (Oops, another cheap shot at our National Guard and Reserve forces.) Fortunately, President Bush can account for his service. He wanted to fly fighter jets, he earned his wings, and he logged many air defense hours in an F-102 Delta Dagger with the 147th Fighter Group and its subordinate 111th FIS, Texas ANG. Mr. Bush's unit was subject to rotation in Vietnam under the Palace Alert Program. In fact, 15 F-102 pilots were killed in Vietnam, but American involvement in that conflict was de-escalating by 1972, and Bush was honorably discharged from his service with the ANG. Of course, as noted in The Patriot many times before, George Bush's most distinguished military service has been in his role as Commander-in-Chief since the 9/11 attack on our nation -- one of the most difficult and challenging periods for any president since World War II. Implicit in Kerry's warning, however, is the notion that he, himself, volunteered for service in Vietnam. Remember Bill Clinton's repetitive "Send me" paean at the Demo Convention? Try again. Kerry's anti-military sentiments were well known when he was a student at Yale. After graduating, Kerry petitioned his draft board for a student deferment so he could study in -- where else? -- Paris. His deferment denied, Kerry then calculated that he could avoid Vietnam by joining the Naval Reserves, where he'd likely be able to serve stateside even if his unit was activated. Kerry's service record indicates that on 18 February 1966 he enlisted in the USNR under "inactive" status. This puts the lie to any assertion that Kerry "volunteered" for dangerous swift boat duty while George W. Bush somehow slunk off to fly fighter-jets. As fate would have it, Kerry's reserve unit was activated, while the President's ANG unit remained stateside -- yet both circumstances were far beyond the control of these two junior officers. As for Kerry's choice of Swift Boats, he told the Boston Globe last year, "I didn't really want to get involved in the war. When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling...." Four months and a heap of medals: Unable to avoid service in Vietnam, Kerry, infatuated with JFK and his mythical PT-109 heroics, worked his way into an assignment as a swift boat skipper. In under four months in the coastal regions of Vietnam, Kerry managed to collect a Bronze Star with combat "V", a Silver Star and, of course, the requisite three Purple Hearts -- which got him a quick ticket home to launch his political career. But his medals are melting. Regarding his Bronze Star Kerry claimed, at the Demo-confab, that he got the medal for actions on the night of 13 March 1969. It was then, he said, after a mine explosion and while under fire, that five swift boats in the patrol team fled the area while he kept his boat back to rescue Lt. James Rassmann. Kerry's campaign now admits that he fled while the other boats remained on station, and returned later to pull Rassmann out of the water -- the same Rassmann who'd been dumped into the water when Kerry's boat sped off. Regarding his Silver Star (the nation's third-highest decoration after the Medal of Honor and Service Crosses), it was awarded for "gallantry" after Kerry's boat was fired on and his gunner fired back, wounding a young combatant on the shore. Kerry then beached his boat (a reckless dereliction of duty), chased the wounded VC around the corner of a hut, and shot him. Gallantry? Further, Kerry's DD 214 Record of Transfer or Separation (posted on his website), lists a Silver Star with a combat "V" (for valor) -- but, according to the Navy Awards Manual, the "V" Combat Distinguishing Device is never awarded with the Silver Star. Stranger yet, Kerry's Silver Star has not one citation, but three -- each one a revision of the previous, and the last revision made more than 20 years after the first. For an excellent analysis of these altered citations, link to http://kerry-04.org/war/citations.php and read the report by Henry Mark Holzer, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn Law School, and Erika Holzer, a lawyer and co-author, with Professor Holzer, of Fake Warriors: Identifying, Exposing and Punishing Those Who Falsify Their Military Service. (A second edition is forthcoming with a new preface entitled "John Kerry: The Ultimate Fake Warrior.") According to the Holzers, "John Kerry may soon learn that three citations for a single Silver Star is two too many." One burning question yet to be answered is, who prepared the "Personal Award Recommendations" for these two decorations? In all probability, they were authored by Kerry himself -- whose embellishment of the details has now been questioned by credible witnesses. As for those three Purple Hearts, this week, Kerry has backed off of his first medal claim that he was hit by hostile fire, because it was discovered that he wrote in his journal nine days after the incident in question, "We hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky." Indeed, the injury in question (a small abrasion on his arm which was treated with the equivalent of Neosporin and a Band-Aid) was most likely self-inflicted, and Kerry's request for a Purple Heart was flatly rejected by both his treating physician and command -- until he re-applied through an alternate chain of command some weeks later. The circumstances around his second and third Purple Hearts are equally questionable. Portrait of a hero: Remember those heroic images of John Kerry in Vietnam in the introductory preceding his big entry at the Demo-confab? Well, Kerry reenacted those scenes, which his subordinates filmed with his Super-8 hand-held movie camera. The book "Unfit For Command" notes, "Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film. Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he'd recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns." Indeed, a few years back, Kerry's hometown paper, The Boston Globe (far left of The New York Times) noted his Vietnam self-portraits "reveal something indelible about the man who shot them -- the...young man...so focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109." Indeed he had. Thomas Vallely, one of Kerry's closest political advisers, said in an interview last year, "John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely." Seared into memory, or just pan-fried: There is plenty of additional evidence of Kerry's Vietnam fabrications, like his claimed exploits in Cambodia. "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies.... The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which president Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real." Of course, Kerry was, by all accounts, never anywhere near Cambodia, and Nixon wasn't even president in 1968. So much for that "memory that was seared, seared" into him. The Kerry record is replete with examples of such "seared memories." For example, this past MLK Day, Kerry told a captive audience, "I remember well April, 1968 -- I was serving in Vietnam -- a place of violence -- when the news reports [of King's murder] reached me and my shipmates." Kerry wasn't even in Vietnam until November, 1968. Aid and comfort to the enemy: When Kerry returned stateside, he dedicated himself to slandering American military personnel still fighting -- and captive -- in Vietnam. In his 1971 congressional testimony, he claimed, "[American military personnel in Vietnam] personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, [blew] up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to...the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country." After his testimony, he told the media, "There are all kinds of atrocities and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed...." The consequences of Kerry's anti-American actions in 1971 were far-reaching. An upcoming documentary, "Stolen Honor," includes devastating testimony from former POWs about how Kerry's testimony was "thrown in their faces" as they were tortured by their captors. Or, as POW Paul Galanti says in a devastating new Swiftees' ad, "Kerry gave the enemy for free what we...took torture to try to avoid saying." Enter the Swiftvets: In his victory speech after the New Hampshire primary, Kerry said, "I pledge that those who wore the uniform of the United States of America will have a voice and a champion in the Oval Office." (Of course, they do now!) However, Kerry is trying to silence "those who wore the uniform of the United States of America" who are challenging his record. Kerry was able to muster 14 swift boat vets who support him. On the other hand, there are 254 swift boat veterans who say Kerry is a fraud and is "Unfit for Command." Do the math! The pundits think the Swiftees will disappear in September, after the Republican convention. We think they will remain a factor until Kerry sets his military record straight -- which he won't. It should be noted that The Patriot's position on Kerry's account of his service in Vietnam is tempered by the fact that our staff and National Advisory Committee rosters include many military veterans -- some of whom were decorated Vietnam vets and one of whom spent seven years as Ho Chi's guest in the Hanoi Hilton after his F-105 was shot down. He was subjected to all manner of torture while Kerry was busy accusing his "fellow veterans" of war crimes and meeting with VC Communists in Paris. In every case, our colleagues, who came home with Purple Hearts, also brought home injuries that left them, in most cases, badly scarred and mutilated; some will limp to their grave. They don't wear those medals on their lapels and don't ask for privileged parking spaces. They love their nation and served their countrymen with dignity, humility and honor. They are, in short, great American Patriots. John Kerry, on the other hand, is, at best, a phony and fraud. At worst, he is a traitor. Not only is he "Unfit for Command," but he should be prosecuted for "providing aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war" and disqualified for public office. Please join more than 125,000 of your fellow Patriots who have already signed a letter asking that Kerry by held accountable for his actions. The Patriot will release this letter to the media in September, and though there would obviously be no action on this prosecution prior to Kerry's defeat in November (yes, we are confident he will be defeated), we believe he is not fit to serve in the Senate and should be removed. To sign the letter, link to -- http://patriotpetitions.us/kerry/ Quote of the week... "[T]hree Purple Hearts? I mean, the first one whether he ought to have a Purple Heart. He got two in one day -- [Kerry] never bled that I know of. They were all superficial wounds. As far as I know, he never spent one day in the hospital, I don't think he draws any disability pay. He doesn't have any disability. And he's boasting about three Purple Hearts, when you think of some of the people who really got shot up in Vietnam.... Maybe he should apologize to all the other two-and-a-half million veterans who served. He wasn't the only one who was in Vietnam. I think Senator Kerry needs to talk about his Senate record, which is pretty thin. That's probably why he's talking about his war record, which is pretty confused." --Retired Senator Bob Dole, who was severely wounded in action with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy during WW II _________________________________________________ To DEFEND the voice of LIBERTY: Support The Patriot Fund -- http://FederalistPatriot.com/support.asp _________________________________________________ On cross-examination... "I saw some war heroes...John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11. His allegations that people committed war crimes in that unit, and throughout Vietnam, were lies. He knew they were lies when he said them, and they were very damaging lies." --John O'Neill, co-author, "Unfit for Command," who became skipper of John Kerry's Swiftboat after Kerry collected his third Purple Heart in as many months for minor cuts and abrasions, and headed home to run for Congress. "This is not a campaign to elect George Bush. It's a campaign to say John Kerry is unfit for command, period." --Jerome Corsi, co-author, "Unfit for Command" Open query... "Maybe the media could put some of the energy they spend trying to discredit Mr. Kerry's critics into finding out the facts. Or don't they dare risk finding out?" --Thomas Sowell The BIG lie... "For 35 years I have stood up, and fought, and kept faith with my fellow veterans." --John Kerry to the VFW. >From the Bush campaign journal... On Monday, President Bush reiterated his position on IRS 527 organization political advertisements: "I said this kind of unregulated soft money is wrong for the process. And I asked Senator Kerry to join me in getting rid of all that kind of soft money, not only on TV, but used for other purposes, as well." Undeterred by the President's condemnation of 527 political advertising, John Kerry, in full panic mode after pollsters advised him that his marginal veteran support was waning, called out his big gun, former Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam when he picked up a live grenade during a non-combat exercise. In a shamelessly staged media event Wednesday, Cleland took a letter of protest to President Bush's Crawford, Texas, residence, and demanded that Bush specifically condemn the veterans groups hammering Kerry -- noting his "outrage over these advertisements and tactics," and his "pain from seeing these slanderous attacks." (This, by the way, would be the same Max Cleland who was appointed in 2003 by President Bush to show up at occasional board meetings of the Export-Import Bank of the United States and pocket $150,000 a year through 2007 for his effort. We're currently checking into the legality of Ex-I Bank board members acting as campaign lobbyists.) Shortly after being greeted at a security gate, Cleland left and later told the media, "I tried to deliver a letter to the president's home and hand it to either him or one of his aides, but that was unsuccessful" -- which ensured the letter's contents would get plenty of Leftmedia airtime. Of course, like the Kerry war record he's trying to cover, Cleland's claim was greatly embellished. Cleland was, in fact, met at the security gate by another Vietnam veteran, Jerry Patterson, who was asked to formally accept Cleland's letter. "I tried to accept that letter and he would not give it to me," said Patterson. "He would not face me. He kept rolling away from me." Of course, Kerry's braying about the drop-in-the-bucket 527 ads by the Swiftees, and his complaint they have links to the Bush administration, fully affirms our assertion that there is no limit to his hypocrisy. As prevaricators go, Kerry is a match for Bill Clinton. The fact is, Kerry's 527 groups like MoveOn.org, Campaign for America's Future, Joint Victory Campaign and some 30 other Demo fronts (some of which receive legal counsel from Kerry and DNC lawyers) have raised more than $185 million in soft money for Kerry. And talk about connections, America Coming Together's spokesman is former Kerry campaign manager Jim Jordan, and Media Fund is run by Clintonista Harold Ickes. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, 21 of the 22 individuals who have contributed at least $500,000 to 527s have donated a cumulative $56.7 million to Demo-groups -- folks like Peter Lewis ($14 million), George Soros ($12.6 million) and Steven Bing ($8.1 million). By contrast, only one of the major donors has supported 527s with a conservative message -- Carl Lindner ($1.02 million). Did we mention all the union graft flowing into Demo-coffers and all the mileage Kerry as gotten out of crockumentaries like Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11?" Of course, the value of the Leftmedia's biased reporting against Bush is incalculable. Newsweek's Evan Thomas tried to calculate it a few weeks back, however, when he said, "The media, I think, want Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards...as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all, there's going to be this glow about them that...collectively, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points." By comparison, the Swifty vets have raised about $2 million for advertising their opinion about John Kerry's qualifications to be Commander-in-Chief. So has candidate Kerry stepped up to condemn 527 advertising as he was challenged to do by President Bush? Columnist Zev Chafets said it best: "On Monday, Dubya hitched up his jeans, sauntered out to a press conference and allowed as to how he'd be glad to help his worthy opponent...shut down...all 527 groups. Just say the word, Sen. Kerry, and we'll take all the nasty dollars out of politics. But Kerry hasn't said that word. His entire campaign finance structure is predicated on 527 money. Of the top ten soft donors, nine are Kerry supporters. For Bush, soft money is just a dab of Texas perfume; for Kerry, it's oxygen." On Thursday, in an excellent strategic move, President Bush joined forces with John McCain and threatened to sue the FEC over their failure to shut down 527 organizations. While The Patriot did not and does not support so-called campaign-finance reform, clearly what Bush and McCain are doing is setting up Kerry for a fall. As noted above, Kerry has spent the last month howling about 527s (because one of them has cost him significant support). But Kerry's 527s are getting ready to launch millions of dollars in salvos against George Bush next week. By stepping up to the plate with McCain, President Bush has preempted that salvo, and Kerry will now look more like the hypocrite he is unless he aggressively joins Bush in condemning Leftist 527s. >From the JFK DEMO-lition derby... Mark Alexander's column calling on John Kerry to be prosecuted for providing "Aid and comfort to the enemy" [http://kerry-04.org/war/record.php] provides substantial evidence of Kerry's coddling of Vietnamese Communists. The evidence continues to mount. Several Vietnamese-Americans are suing the University of Massachusetts (Boston) for discrimination in denying them fellowships to study the "Vietnamese Diaspora" -- those who fled the Communist government in the years following the Vietnam War. One of the plaintiffs, Bui Diem, is the former Ambassador to the United States from South Vietnam. Another plaintiff, Luyen Huu Nguyen, was a Captain in the South Vietnamese Army and was captured by the Communists in 1966 and tortured in a re-education camp in Vietnam for 21 years. Nguyen was arrested twice more trying to escape the regime and spent two more years in prison before moving to the U.S. Not only did the University exclude many South Vietnamese refugees (the plaintiffs allege) but in fact awarded its fellowships to two Communist scholars from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- scholars whose sympathies lie with the oppressive Communist regime from which the South Vietnamese fled. Many in the refugee community describe it as equivalent to hiring Nazis to study Jewish refugees from Germany after World War II. What does this have to do with John Kerry? He sides with the University, of course, commending them by letter for "[c]hoosing two established and accomplished scholars from Vietnam." While Kerry's embellished military service claims are subject to dispute, there is little question about his record when it comes to coddling Vietnamese Communists. In other news from the Political Front... The Kerry-Edwards campaign again criticized President Bush for "doing nothing" as oil prices rise in response to world events and growing global economies (i.e., the free market). Senator Charles Schumer (who as a congressman once attempted to launch a campaign against exorbitant breakfast-cereal prices), in a weak attempt to be topical and humorous, stated, "If high oil prices were Olympic events, George Bush would win medals. He's fiddling while Rome is burning. ...John Kerry has a plan to lower gas prices and move America towards energy independence." However, neither lowering the federal gas tax nor increasing petroleum supplies by drilling in areas such as the ANWR is in Kerry's energy plan. It is surprising that Kerry would even want lower gas prices as he has promised to "reduce emissions that contribute to global warming" -- meaning CO2, of course. But the only way to reduce CO2 emissions rapidly is to stop burning fossil fuels by making them too expensive to use -- ergo, let's raise gasoline prices! Kerry, doing an amazing imitation of Jimmy Carter 25 years ago, is promising that his administration will "create clean, renewable sources of energy...." But from Senator Ted Kennedy, known to frequent lovely Chappaquiddick, a proposed site for a gigantic wind turbine farm, there as yet is no reported opinion. (NIMBY, anyone?) This week's "Braying Jackass" award: "I called the media...I said, 'If I take some crippled veterans down to the White House and we chain ourselves to the gates, will we get coverage?' 'Oh, yes, we will cover that'." --John Kerry in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 22 April 1971 DEMO-gogue campaign quote... "I think nobody is truly qualified to be president of the United States. I mean, are you qualified to run the world ... not run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is." --Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry, revealing yet another area in which her husband is "Unfit for Command" News from the Swamp... There are things known, and things unknown, and in between you'll find the Dynamic Duo of John Kerry and John Edwards. The Demo presidential and vice-presidential candidates each took a swipe this past week at Bush policies, relying on subterfuge to drive their points home. Touting the results of a Demo-inspired Congressional Budget Office study released last week, Kerry claimed that the tax cuts that went into effect in 2001 have eased the tax burden on the rich at the expense of the middle class, which is being destroyed by the cuts. In reality, the CBO study clearly shows that the tax cuts have reduced the burden across all income brackets, especially the middle class. Of course, when you have as much money as the Kerry-Heinz-Kerry household, it must be hard not to get confused as to what constitutes "middle class." So let's clarify just exactly who does pay, as noted by the Joint Economic Committee: the wealthiest one percent of taxpayers pay 33.89% of all federal income taxes; the top ten percent pay 64.89% and the top 50% of income earners pay 96.03%. The rest -- those making $28,528 a year or less -- pay 3.97% of all federal income taxes. Not to be outdone by his partner in falsehood, VP candidate Edwards took aim at the Labor Department's first major overhaul of the overtime rules in more than 50 years. On Monday, new rules classifying what jobs and responsibilities merit overtime pay took effect. These changes, whose effects are yet to be determined, could make over a million more workers eligible for overtime, and are aimed mostly at white-collar workers. It is hoped that an added benefit will be a reduction in lawsuits against employers. Perhaps that's what got Edwards ruffled. After all, it's just that type of work -- lawsuits against employers -- that helped Edwards leave his own middle-class "burden" behind. On the National Security front... >From the Hill comes a radical new plan by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts to strip down and reorganize the CIA. Roberts' plan would essentially carve the agency into three new, separate agencies, each reporting to a separate assistant intelligence director, who would then report to the overall National Intelligence Director. The concept of adding more bureaucracy to an already convoluted intelligence community did not sit well with Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge: "We don't need more bureaucracy, we need more analysts." Nor with Acting Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin, who called making such a move "a step backward." Nor former DCI George Tenet, who called Roberts' plan "a dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence." On the other hand, Rand Beers, Candidate Kerry's national-security advisor, said Roberts's proposal was in line with what Kerry had in mind for changing the intel community. (Memo to Sen. Roberts: You know you're off-base if John Kerry likes your plan.) >From the warfront with Jihadistan... Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered his followers to lay down their weapons and leave the "holy" city of Najaf and nearby Kufa. This is a significant victory for the Iraqi and U.S. forces after weeks of skirmishes and negotiations. The Islamists had been holed up in the Imam Ali Shrine since the beginning of August. Al-Sadr's decision was brought about by a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani last night, and the Iraqi government is confident that this agreement will not be broken as al-Sadr has been known to do in the past. The U.S. will continue "support" in the city for a time. >From the "Department of Military Correctness"... We are shocked -- SHOCKED -- to report (as we did the week the Leftmedia decided to exploit this story) that, in an effort to soften up terrorists in order to get information to save American military lives, intelligence officials ordered that prisoners at Abu Graib be subjected to some measure of humiliation. Lives saved by actionable intelligence obtained? Oh, that was not in the report. >From the "Non Compos Mentis" Files... Last Saturday, in a touching Olympic moment, NBC aired special coverage focusing on females from Afghanistan and Iraq, participating and competing in the Olympics for the first time, highlighting the liberated Afghani and Iraqi women who carried flags for their nations in the opening ceremonies. Coverage focused on Iraqi's champion soccer-team members, who could now participate without fear of being tortured by Saddam's sadistic sons. It noted the oppression under which all these athletes and their countrymen had suffered prior to the "fall of their governments." As the segment progressed, there was ample opportunity to show video footage of Saddam's statue falling in Baghdad, or of American troops with smiling children in Kabul, but no such images appeared. Apparently those tyrannical dictatorships fell under their own weight. Shame on you, NBC, for your disgraceful failure to give credit where credit is due. >From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File... Administrators at the University of North Carolina have discovered domestic terrorist cells housed on the UNC campus. Responding to reports, UNC officials have frozen PRIVATE funds [read: raised from non-state contributors] of the Alpha Iota Omega Christian Fraternity. The reason? AIO refused to abide by UNC's dictum that they must accept non-Christians as fraternity members. On the flip-side, it's no surprise to learn that UNC is using taxpayer dollars to support a site listing several scurrilous attacks and threats to President Bush, such as the following: "True American blood brother, why don't you, get your guns loaded and kill un-arrested bush and rumsfeld for 9/11 proudly. Then, offer autographs at the preliminary! Or, die a traitor rightly sacrificed as enemy, fighting with the lawless godless enemies of Creation who will ultimately fail to enslave these Universal values." Behold the beauty of tolerance and diversity...UNC must be mighty proud of itself. In business/economic news... Economic good news has continued to roll in over the past two weeks. New housing starts increased in July, and the consumer price index indicates that inflation is not currently a threat to the economy, reflecting the fact that production has been consistently growing faster than consumption. Perhaps most important, July brought substantial increases in industrial output. Indeed, American factories have operated at a capacity unparalleled in the last three years. Irrespective of gains in productivity, the Kerry campaign seized on the Census Bureau's latest report, citing an increase in poverty of 1.3 million Americans from 2002 to 2003. What's important to keep in mind, though, is the poverty rate is a lagging effect of recession and is likely to have hit its peak last year. In 2004, by way of contrast -- and not reported by the Kerry camp -- is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report that more Americans are working now than ever before; another indicator that the 2003 numbers on poverty are way out of date. What is more, by the standards the government sets for "poverty," half the "poor" own their own home, two-thirds have air conditioning, three-quarters own a car, 97% have a color TV and 62% have a satellite dish to go with it! Our standard for "poor" is what most of the world calls "rich"! Back to the good news about productivity, all of this is to say that the incessant and ominous proclamations about changes in employment numbers from the Demos and their Leftmedia minions are irrelevant. The simple truth is that jobs are meaningless apart from the productivity that they represent. Have your leftist friends try this quick thought experiment: What if the government paid every American citizen $100K per year to dig holes in Nebraska? Everyone would have a well-paid job, but of course, everyone would be completely destitute. Obviously, what ultimately matters is productivity. We could follow the Europeans in reducing the number of hours in a work week to create more jobs, but that would simply make everyone poorer -- for nothing additional would be produced. The latest economic data, however, indicate that regardless of the short-term job numbers, the long-term prospects for the American economy are overwhelmingly positive -- and that means more wealth for everybody. The key is to leave the economy free to produce that wealth. Speaking of long-term benefits, we at The Patriot have long argued that anti-outsourcing scare tactics are squarely opposed to sound economic thinking. In a free economy, outsourcing means better productivity, and that in turn helps everyone -- even in the form of long-term job increases. The politicians are keeping it quiet, but a recent study by California's legislature provides numbers that bear this out. Between 1999 and 2001, U.S. companies that expanded offshore employment also increased American jobs by 5.5 million workers. Somehow, "We told you so" just doesn't quite say it. And last... John Kerry's campaign, after slighting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham before the Democrat confab last month, now wants Hillary to lead the Demo "truth squad" at next week's Republican Convention. Could anyone be better qualified? Her years of experience as Slick Willie's accomplice, er, wife, make her a natural. Doubtless, though, she'll be at her "best" watching her political foes. In an effort to be funny (we think), she recently cackled, "We've never had so many Republicans in Manhattan, so I would urge all New Yorkers to come from everywhere, and enjoy the scene. They'll get to see a Republican. Maybe it's the first Republican they've ever seen in their lives." 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