Let's see now.... -Gordan kahl -Ruby Ridge -Waco -Vince Foster -Oaklahoma City -The Clinton Adminstration _The IRS -The Facist Controlled News Media (AKA Brainwashing on a mass scale) -Miami april 22,2000 and I suspect I could go on and I suspect you too could What do you think that this adds up to? does it spell POLICE STATE?????? visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:28:23 -0700 From: schuetzen - RKBA! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SNET: (fwd) 00-17 FEDERALIST Digest -> SNETNEWS Mailing List On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:02:48 -0500 (CDT), The Federalist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Internet's Conservative Journal of Record http://www.Federalist.com Date: 28 April 2000 Federalist #00-17.dgst To retrieve today's Digest as printer-friendly text or PDF, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-2.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDATION "Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right...when the governor...makes not the law, but his will, the rule." --John Locke ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, the tenor of outrage over the INS raid to seize Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez continues to escalate -- and with good reason. Only 48 hours before the raid last Saturday, a federal Court of Appeals declined Janet Reno's request for a change of custody. The INS actions exemplify the Clinton administration's now-familiar contempt for the much-ballyhooed "rule of law." Alan Dershowitz, that Clintonista stalwart at Harvard Law School, protested that the administration acted "lawlessly," and "it's a dangerous day for all Americans." Rep. Ron Paul notes, "The rule of law and the Constitution have been completely ignored and a police-state mentality dictated the actions by the Administration and carried out by Janet Reno. ... Custody cases are properly handled in a family court, with contesting sides present. After hearing the case a judge rules with the loser having the right to appeal." In December, The Federalist Editorial Board took the position that Elian should remain with his Miami family until the Florida family courts had a chance to rule for custody in the case. (We publicly offered to pay the transportation costs to bring his entire Cuban family to Miami for that case.) We took this position for several reasons, not the least of which was that we federalists uphold the sovereignty of states to decide such legitimate matters of custody, while the federal courts have responsibility for immigration appeals. Our position in this case was not predicated solely on the fact that Cuba is run by a ruthless Communist dictator, who does not acknowledge the notion of "parental rights," but instead views all Cuban children as "property of the state." Several members of your Editorial Board have worked extensively with the Russian government promoting democratic reforms. We know that under the old Soviet system, some parents were able to successfully rear their children apart from the Communists' designs upon their destiny -- though we never met any loving parents who would not have willingly broken that bond in order to win freedom for their children. Our position was certainly influenced by the fact that his mother had custody of Elian and gave up her life attempting to win him freedom on our shores. And it was heavily influenced by the fact that, from all indications, Juan Miguel Gonzalez had (and has) little interest in the child other than his value as a political football for Fidel Castro. National Review's Kate O'Beirne echoes the basis for this assessment: "A loving father, who claims to be free from Castro's control, would have been in Florida with his son months ago. Once he finally arrived, he would have walked across broken glass to see his son for an hour. .. Elian's Miami relatives are losing in the court of public opinion, but they have passed Solomon's test with flying colors." Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, the university president who was selected as the neutral party to host the meeting between Elian and his grandmothers, reversed her support for Elian's return to Cuba for much the same reason: "What, if not for fear, could keep a person from making a 30-minute trip to reclaim his son?" And then it would follow, if fear, why would a loving father not want his son to remain free with relatives in Miami? The principle here is not genetics, but what is best for this child. The Federalist has always advocated parental rights and responsibilities, be those parents natural or adoptive, but in the abject absence of responsibility, we do believe the state family courts have a legitimate interest in considering a change of custody. Regarding the media's coverage of this event, the talkingheads have shown great contempt for Americans who escaped Castro's Communist island prison. The media were critical of family pictures showing a smiling Elian with his Miami relatives, but now are eager to promote pictures of a smiling Elian with his biological father and his Cuban handlers. And a final note about that federal agent whose MP-5 was pointed in Elian's direction during the raid, Janet Reno claims, "If you look carefully [the agent's] finger was not on the trigger and the safety was engaged." One might infer from her comment that guns, even when pointed at 6-year-olds, are safe in the hands of responsible users. But we have been told by Clinton/Gore -- ad nauseum -- that America has a "gun problem." Maybe it is, as we have argued all along, a "user problem," ergo, primarily the culture of disenfranchised sociopathic criminals spawned by years of liberal social policies. Speaking of Sociocratic spawn, at the National Zoo's eighth annual African-American family celebration, a black sixteen-year-old shot up a group of black children. Less than an hour after that tragedy, Al "I-Don't-Use-Tragedies-To-Promote-My-Political-Agenda" Gore announced the shootings at a star-studded Democratic fund-raiser in New York City: "We really have to have mandatory child safety trigger locks," Gore told the crowd. "Trigger locks"? Washington, D.C., has the strictest "gun control" laws in the nation, which apparently failed to prevent this shooting. What difference, exactly, would child safety locks have made? (The Village glitterati anted up $2 million for Gore's campaign.) "Tragedies like this aren't about gun control -- they're about a breakdown in society," says Rep. J.C. Watts. "This culture we live in, where kids are killing other kids, is about children who need guidance, supervision and leadership. I hope Democrats and the vice president will quit the gun-control rhetoric and focus on the real problem. We need leaders who will serve as role models -- not opportunistic politicians. Al Gore and his Democrat friends who grew up in Washington should know the gun laws where they were raised. Handguns have been illegal in Washington, D.C., since 1977. And children aren't allowed to own guns anywhere. What kind of increased gun control could he possibly have in mind that...would have stopped this [or any such crime] from occurring?" Last month, Bill "I-Don't-Use-Tragedies-To-Promote-My-Political-Agenda" Clinton called for new gun legislation, citing an elementary school shooting by a child who took a gun from his guardian's crack house. Crack addicts, of course, are fine law-abiding citizens. And on the topic of the Clinton/Gore efforts to use the courts as a club to mandate "gun control," seven leading firearms manufacturers have filed a counter-lawsuit against federal, state and local agencies and officials, alleging "an illegal conspiracy in restraint of trade and in violation of the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution." Tit for tat! In other news, did you miss the 30th birthday of Earth Day 2000 amid all the storm trooping last Saturday? If so, you probably didn't notice that, by no coincidence, the Earth Day birthday is also V.I. Lenin's birthday. Open Query... "After emerging from the Bush-Quayle deficits and recessions, should we really risk a George W. Bush deficit and a George W. Bush recession?" --Al "I-Invented-The-Economy" Gore. Memo to Al: You have already acknowledged, as a matter of record, as have the nation's leading economists, that the current economic expansion began during the last year of the Bush administration. But hey, in the world of political soundbites, who cares! The BIG lie... "Once again, the gun lobby and its allies in the leadership of Congress are standing in the way of real progress. We battle not just for the safety of our families, but for the soundness of our democracy." --Bill Clinton, who needs to read up on a little history about the relationship between the right to bear arms and the preservation of "democracy." >From "The most ethical administration"... Clinton hosted the White House "Egg Roll" on Monday. The Chinese People's Liberation Army sent a few arms dealers with attaches full of cash to the highly publicized event, thinking it was a fundraiser for Al Gore. Regarding your IRS overpayment... "The federal income-tax return leaves out the burden of property taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, state income taxes, death taxes, sin taxes, the Gore tax on your phone bill and the billions of business taxes hidden in the costs of goods and services we buy each day. And Social Security taxes cost most Americans even more than the income tax. Government will take one-third of everything we earn this year. Our founding fathers fled Europe to escape taxation levels lower than this." --Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist >From the department of military history... Old wounds.... Sunday, April 30, is the 25th anniversary of the fall of Vietnam, marking the end of fifteen years of American military service in southeast Asia. It is with reverence that we salute our fellow veterans of Vietnam for performing your duty in a hostile theater while many of your peers were burning the American flag back home. God bless you! >From the department of military readiness... Bobby Kennedy Jr. joined Earth Day protesters at the Vieques Island bombing range in Puerto Rico last week, and announced plans to sue the U.S. Navy for endangering sea and bird life in the region. "We've got to get the Navy out of here," he said. As this edition is going to press, 1,000 Marines will provide cover for hundreds of federal agents preparing to remove the Vieques protesters. Of course, they could just implement the "Reno Plan" -- start the bombing again and watch the protesters "scatter." Not a bad plan, in this case! Memo to little Bobby: The only reason that media provides you a moment's air time is that your uncle Jack was once president. Ironically, one reason for his appeal as a presidential candidate was his record as a Navy "hero." Regarding how he became a hero, JFK once said, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat." And now, little Bobby is trying to sink the whole Navy in pursuit of status as an environmental "hero." In the Supreme halls of justice... Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on partial birth abortion, the first major abortion case the high court has considered in eight years. The case before the court involves a 1997 Nebraska law banning partial birth abortions. Nebraska law defines the procedure as "partially delivering vaginally a living unborn child before killing the unborn child and completing the delivery." Similar laws are on the books in 30 other states, though lower courts have blocked enforcement of most of them. "What is at stake...is whether the court will extend the right to abortion outside the womb to encompass the killing of children who are partially delivered," said James Bopp, general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee. On the left side of the bench, Janet Benshoof of the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy said, "The Supreme Court will determine whether states have the right to force a woman to sacrifice her life and health to promote an extremist political agenda to outlaw abortion outright." Most of our readers know this subject horrifyingly well. But if you are among the undecided, who aren't sure that partial birth abortion is infanticide, please read the following paragraph carefully. It is court testimony by Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse, of her firsthand account of a partial birth abortion committed by Dr. Martin Haskell, the man credited with developing the "procedure." "Dr. Haskell went in with the forceps and grabbed the baby's legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby's body and arms -- everything but the head... The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby went completely limp. I was really completely unprepared for what I was seeing." Bill Clinton, Al Gore at his side, has twice vetoed congressional measures banning this barbarism. Hearing arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia asked, "Why can't a state have an interest in not rendering a society callous to infanticide...and to the horror of seeing a live human creature outside the womb dismembered?" Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the swing-vote in this case, added, "[Abortion and partial birth abortion] are both rather gruesome procedures, yet one may be very similar to the other." Wednesday, the High Court heard arguments in the Boy Scouts of America v. Dale case on appeal from the New Jersey Supreme Court, which concluded last year that the BSA was a "public accommodation" subject to that state's anti-discrimination laws and, thus, must admit homosexual scout leaders. Judge Rehnquist noted: "At some point the state's interest [in enforcing anti-discrimination laws] is greatly dissipated." This would certainly qualify as that point! And a final note on the Supremes: The next president will likely appoint three new judges to the High Court. In other legal news, this month's "Court Jester" Award goes to the Ohio federal appeals court, which ruled 2-1 that Ohio's state motto -- "With God, all things are possible" -- is unconstitutional because it expresses "a uniquely Christian thought." Don't they open with "God save this honorable court" and require witnesses to swear to tell the truth, "so help me God"? Apparently two of the federal judges are paid in some currency other than U.S. legal tender, which states: "In God we trust." Note to the federal bench: The 1st Amendment of the Bill of Rights says simply: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That's "Congress" -- not "Ohio." >From the states... In the People's Republic of Vermont, Demo-Governor Howard Dean says he will sign legislation granting same-sex couples the same legal rights enjoyed by heterosexual married couples. "I think the powerful message is that in Vermont, we tend to value people for who they are, not what they are." Au contraire! It seems you just recognized homosexuals for precisely "what they are." Robert Knight, FRC's Cultural Studies director, says, "Marriage is the foundation for families, communities and civilizations. It is about much more than the relationship between two people. Liberal legislators are trying hard to ignore the Word of God, the law of Nature, and the experience of thousands of years of human history. But it will eventually catch up with them." Around the world... Still searching for a legacy that does not involve cigars, on June 4, Bill Clinton will go to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin and try to preempt any plan for a ballistic missile defense system by initiating a "Grand Compromise" arms agreement. Former diplomat and Clinton administration official Thomas Graham concludes, "The Clinton administration does not want to be the first in several decades not to have signed a significant arms control agreement with Moscow." Fortunately, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms has vowed to stand in front of this one! "This administration's time for grand treaty initiatives is at an end," Mr. Helms warned. And last, at a fund-raiser for HILLARY! this week featuring singer Tony Bennett, Mr. Clinton said, "The theme song of this election year ought to be the first song Tony Bennett sang tonight, 'The Best is Yet to Come'." We can think of a few other Bennett tunes that might be more appropriate, such as, "Have You Met Miss Jones?", "Change Partners," "Forget the Woman," "Call Me Irresponsible," and the unforgettable, "If I Ruled the World." ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "The act of cowardice is all that matters; the emotion of fear is, in itself, no sin." --C.S. Lewis {} "Whatever claims reverence risks ridicule." --C.S. Lewis {} "Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical.... Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just." --Blaise Pascal {} "Liberty of thought is the life of the soul." --Voltaire {} "Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth." --Daniel Webster {} "There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life." --Arthur Schopenhauer {} "It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire." --Horace {} "If every person has the right to defend -- even by force -- his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly." --Frederick Bastiat {} "When you ask God to send you trials, you may be sure your prayer will be granted." --Léon Bloy {} "Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news." --William Shakespeare {} "There is no legitimate religion apart from truth." --John Calvin ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid." (Proverbs 12:1) ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "When the Soviet Empire crumbled, it appeared that even liberals finally realized that Reagan's view of Communism was shared by everyone who had lived under Communism. It shouldn't have taken the destruction of the Wall to prove that; the Wall itself was sufficient testimony. Communism is a system that has to lock people in, threatening them with death if they try to escape from its 'utopia'." --Joseph Sobran ++ "Liberalism has always had a dark psychosis whereby guilt drives evil and evil drives guilt -- a morality of sadism which aborts innocent babies but spares murderers from execution, which frees violent criminals but disarms law-abiding citizens, which bombs a peaceful democratic nation on the other side of the world but dutifully returns runaway child-slaves to the terrorist despotism in our own backyard." --Joe Schembrie ++ "A great nation, to be great, is required to do great things, not small, grubby things such as breaking down the doors of private homes and snatching up six year olds at the point of a gun. Americans are collectively diminished by the Holy Saturday Raid. So is our president -- but by this time, that won't astound very many Americans." --William Murchison ++ "If you were looking for a way to galvanize conservative opinion in this country...you wouldn't even dare hope that the incumbent Democratic administration would be so stupid as to send in machine gun-toting federal agents to snatch a six-year-old shipwreck survivor in order to send him back to Cuba." --Tod Lindberg ++ "The Justice Department's night raid on the Miami home of Elian Gonzalez was an unconscionable exercise of police power, made all the worse by its exercise at the very moment a settlement was being reached. ... This is a shameful episode in this nation's history." --Roger Pilon ++ "What happened Saturday is very symbolic of what always happens when ultimate power is corrupted. It's also what happens when good men do nothing." --Gary Aldrich ++ "We have the photographic equivalent of the stained dress." --Cal Thomas ++ "The docility and gullibility of so many Americans is a delight for government overlords." --Linda Bowles ++ "The raid was ... a denigration of the rule of law and an elevation of the rule of terror.... The winner in all this, of course, is Fidel Castro, who has...displayed to the world that the U.S. government behaves just like his." --Jacob G. Hornberger ++ "Contrary to Justice Department claims that the Florida relatives defied the law, the highest federal court to hear the case last Wednesday roundly rejected Attorney General Janet Reno's arguments." --Robert Novak ++ "How we have let down those patriots gone before us who fought for freedom in countless wars." --Paul M. Weyrich ++ "It is one thing to be a coward with one's own life, but it is entirely immoral to run in fear when it comes to defending the constitutional rights we are sworn to uphold." --Rep. Ron Paul ++ "Clinton has finally convinced me of the case for gun control to this extent: While he and Reno are in charge, no federal agent should be allowed to carry firearms." --Don Feder ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Lost in all this is any conception that America has a role of moral leadership to play, and that this has been an excellent opportunity to play it. How one longs for someone -- anyone -- in our public life to stand up and say those things that the Clintons and Renos will never say, because they are not even capable of thinking them. That this nation loves liberty. That we detest Communism. That we will, on every possible occasion, strive to vex and humiliate Communist dictators and all others who boast themselves our enemies, to frustrate their designs, to diminish them in the eyes of their own people, to hasten their downfall by any means our laws and ethics permit." --National Review ______--------********O********--------______ DEZINFORMATSIA "Communism Still Looms as Evil to Miami Cubans." --New York Times Headline ++ "Some suggested over the weekend that it's wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami." --NBC's Katie Couric **Those pesky anti-Communists! ++ "Miami is a community with very little tolerance for those who might disagree." --ABC's John Quinones **More pesky anti-Communists! ++ "To be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami and I'm not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously." --Newsweek's Eleanor Clift ++ "Altogether, in wages, tips and bonuses, he [Elian's father] earns more than 10 times Cuba's $15 average monthly salary - enough to afford to buy Elian imported Power Ranger toys and birthday pinatas fat with Italian hard candy and German chocolates." --Time Senior Editor Nancy Gibbs **And all on $150 a month! ++ "[G]rown-ups near and far cooked his simple, tragic story into a thick stew of politics, legalities, ideology and raw emotion." --CBS talkinghead Dan Rather **Of course, CBS avoided the story for fear it might enhance viewers and advertising revenue! ______--------********O********--------______ SOCIOCRATS "I feel absolutely comfortable putting the future of my daughter, and the grandchildren I hope she'll give us, in [Gore's] hands." --Mr. Clinton **Yeah, but would Gore say that about Clinton? {} "In Washington...you make a judgement and then you try to get the information." --White House Mouth Joe Lockhart, condemning Republicans who have been critical of the commando raid in Little Havana. **Wouldn't that criticism be better leveled at the Sociocrats in the White House? Lockhart went on to say, "There's a difference between Sen. Graham and some of the Republican leaders who have come out [against the administration]. I have no doubt that he [Graham] firmly opposes this -- as the Senator from Florida, he has every right to do that." **And thus, we assume, Mr. Lockhart implies that this could only have happened in Florida? {} "When discussing dictators, we will never again say, 'He's an s.o.b., but he's our s.o.b'." --Senior State Department official Lino Gutierrez on the importance of building democracy in Latin America. **Except in Cuba! ______--------********O********--------______ VILLAGE IDIOTS "Ellen DeGeneres is a comedic gem best known for her work on the groundbreaking television series 'Ellen,' which DeGeneres created, produced and starred. The actress made history in April 1997 when her on-screen personification, 'Ellen Morgan,' became the first gay leading character in television." --Kennedy Center promotion for its upcoming "An Evening with Ellen DeGeneres." **The Kennedy Center promotion did not mention that DeGeneres also made history when she became the first gay leading character to have a TV hit cancelled shortly after she began using it as a platform to promote the homosexual agenda. {} "Have a happy Easter. Have a really happy Easter." --Rudy Giuliani, when asked to comment on his wife, Donna Hanover's starring role in "The Vagina Monologues," a racy off-Broadway play written by a Hillary Clinton supporter. {} The Southern Nevada chapter of Planned Parenthood -- AKA "Panned Parenthood" -- is sponsoring "An Evening with Jane Fonda" May 11 at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas. **She's back! {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: "I figured it was going to be a white guy between 25 and 55 because they're the root of most evil." --University of Iowa Vice President Ann Rhodes commenting on racist e-mails and a recent bomb threat at the school. Subsequently, the suspect apprehended in the case was a black female student at the university. The university will take no action against Ms. Rhodes. "We're just not going to talk anymore about it," said University spokesman Steve Parrott. Fortunately she is just a high-level government employee in an institution of higher learning and not, say, a baseball player. ______--------********O********--------______ SHORT CUTS "The raid on the two-bedroom house was almost worth it if only to watch Jesse Jackson, on Tony Snow's Sunday show, defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the U.S. government on a minority household." --Rich Galen ++ "The solution to the Elian problem is to trade Castro the Democratic Party, Janet Reno and the liberal media for Elian. We could go even further and trade Castro all our Northeastern and West Coast liberals for the Cuban population. That way, everyone would be happy." --Paul Craig Roberts {} "A lot of people tell me ..., 'Clinton has really created a wonderful economy.' I say, no, he should not get the credit. I give the credit to Monica Lewinsky, because she kept him so busy that he was not able to mess up our economy." --Walter Williams {} "Wouldn't it be nice to live in the safest town in America?" --Ignatius Piazza, founder of Front Sight, Nev., the nation's first "gun-resort" community. {} "This whole controversy over whether or not Bill Clinton should be disbarred has got me wondering what it means when a society sets a lower standard for being president than it does for being a lawyer!" --Bruce Tinsley's cartoon character, Mallard Fillmore. {} "Being gay is being Donna Reed." --Washington Post Night Lines: "Ling-Ling, the panda from China, died about a year ago. Some of the public wanted to stuff and mount Ling-Ling, but the people at the Smithsonian did not give in to pressure, and said no. They said that if people want to see a semi-lifelike gift from China to America, they're going to have to vote for Al Gore." --Bill Maher {} "On this day in history, Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone. He had invented it several years earlier but had to wait until his wife was done using it." --Craig Kilborn {} From Conan O'Brien: Everyone is putting in their two cents about the Elian Gonzalez situation. Journalists aren't supposed to do that. But in a brand new interview, Nightline host Ted Koppell said that he should go back to Cuba with his father. Not only that, Koppell offered to let them use his hair as a raft. .... Today was "Take Your Daughter to Work" day or as they call it in the White House, "Back Off Bill, She's Only 16" day. -- Leno.... Last night, in Washington, George W. Bush set a new all time political fundraising record. He raised 21.3 million dollars at one dinner. ... And just to rub it in to Al Gore, you know what they ate? Spotted Owl. .... Did you watch the Annual White House Easter Egg Roll? Hundreds of children rolling eggs along the lawn with spoons. Nice to see the government is doing something for children other than psychologically scarring them for life. .... Janet Reno said today, "I have no regrets." Well, except for not wrestling professionally. ... They are saying that Al Gore is losing his hair. I hope not. That's the only part that moves now. .... George W. Bush was asked if he thought Al Gore would give Bill Clinton a presidential pardon. But said that Clinton would not seek a pardon and Bush takes Clinton at his word. Is that ironic? The only person left in the country that still believes Clinton and it's the Republican candidate. Even Hillary is saying, "Hey what are you smoking?" .... The government said if you are worried about being audited, you are 5 times more likely to be murdered than you are to be audited. I feel so much better knowing that I can be murdered instead. .... Castro is getting mad now. He says that if Elian doesn't come back to Cuba soon, he will lose his job at the Nike factory. .... The big story here in California, officials announce this week, they plan on turning toilet water into drinking water. They plan on calling it "Toilet to Tap." You know what the water department's new slogan is? "We put the #2 in H20." Letterman.... Do I look haggard, do I look exhausted, do I look frenzied to you? Well, I'll tell you what happened this morning. 5-o'clock this morning BANG, my front door was kicked in. Immigration agents come in, rough me up. .... Elian Gonzalez in now with his father in the Washington, D.C., area and I'm thinking what a year this kid has had. When he gets back to Cuba he's going to be behind. He will have missed a lot. For example, he will have missed an entire semester of Commie brainwashing. He'll have to make that up somehow. ... I read that President Clinton is getting a refund on his taxes. This guy was cited for contempt of court, he was impeached, this guy lied to the American public. WE should be getting a refund. .... George W. Bush met with gay Republicans. The gay Republican. That's a complicated person. They hate Hillary Clinton but they love what she has done with her hair. (**) Denotes Editor's Comment -- PUBLIUS -- Visit the most comprehensive tribute to Ronald Reagan on the Internet at: http://www.Reagan2000.com/ "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." --9th Amendment to the United States Constitution. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." --10th Amendment to the United States Constitution. "Fruit from the Tree of Liberty" The Federalist is protected speech pursuant to the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. 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