WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 01 September 2000 Federalist #00-35.dgst To retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF, http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: The Founders Federalist Perspective Insight The Good News Upright Editorial Exegesis Second Opinion Body Politic Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "The real object of all despotism is revenue." --Thomas Paine ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, while Al Gore and Joe Lieberman were busy courting and collecting from Hollywood's elite glitterati, the Federal Trade Commission released a report which concludes that the entertainment industry is aggressively targeting violent television, music and video games to children. (And we thought only Joe Camel was guilty of poisoning Village children.) The report notes that ads for violent R-rated movies are primarily advertised on television programs being watched by young teens. Perhaps state attorneys general will drop their "gun problem" class action suit against gun industry and pursue a "culture problem" class action suit against the film industry for the culture of violence it promotes and creates. Don't hold your breath.... Quote of the week... "In his convention appearance Gore recalled how hardships demanded self-reliance from his parents and made them an inspiration to him. Gore wowed his convention by vowing to banish forever all the sorts of challenging conditions that made his parents so inspiring." --George Will On cross-examination... "I am pleased that the Republican leadership has finally decided to stop holding up a pay raise for America's working families...." --Demo Dick Gephardt on a plan to raise the minimum wage by $1 over two years. Q: Where does the Constitution say that the central government is in charge of setting the minimum wage? The BIG lie... "We changed things, to help unleash your potential, and innovation and investment in the private sector, the engine that drives the economy." --Albert Gore, taking responsibility for the economy -- despite those "powerful forces." >From "The most ethical administration"... While the Great Prevaricator was busy arguing that he should not lose his standing with the Arkansas bar just because he lied in sworn testimony to protect himself in a sexual harassment suit, Mr. David Schippers, the Democrat who led the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of Clinton and who, incidentally, voted for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, now calls Clinton "a disgrace to the office...a disgrace to the United States. He's made the United States a laughingstock of the world.... I'm still a registered Democrat but from what I've seen on the national scene, I could never vote for a Democrat on the national level again until they clean up their act." News from the Swamp... As expected, Bill Clinton vetoed the Death Tax Elimination Act as a warm-up act for the "class warfare" rhetoric this Labor Day weekend. "I believe that this estate tax bill is part of a series of actions and commitments, that when you add it all up, would take us to the bad old days of deficits, high interest rates and have no money to invest in our common future," Clinton said. "This particular bill is wrong for our families and wrong for our future. It fails the test of the future, both on the grounds of fairness and fiscal responsibility." The House may have the muscle to override the veto. Rep. J.C. Watts said, "Eliminating the death tax will put an end to folks being visited by the undertaker and the IRS agent on the same day. ... Next week, Congress will vote to correct this mistake, to provide death tax relief and strengthen American families. I urge my colleagues to override this veto in the best interests of farmers, small businesses, and the entire nation." For more on the class warfare theme, see this week's Second Opinion, "Class Action." Judicial Benchmarks... In the halls of injustice on the left, a homosexual transvestite claimed he is entitled to asylum in the United States because his sexual proclivities are not acceptable back home in Mexico. A three-judge panel in San Francisco decided in his favor that "gay men with female sexual identities in Mexico constitute a protected 'particular social group' under the asylum statute." The Immigration Service must reverse its decision and approve the Mexican's request for asylum -- meaning Al Gore just picked up another vote from a reversal of INS immigration policy. Regarding your IRS overpayment... According to the Public Service Research Foundation, the Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that the recent resurgence of union membership was "due to an unusually large increase in public employment and that unionism in the private sector of America's economy continued its steady decline." In other words, as the military ranks dwindle, the Clintonistas are adding civil bureaucrats at an unprecedented pace, almost all of whom become union members. >From the department of military readiness... This week, Demo Sen. Carl Levin continued the Gore line of denial, insisting Mr. Bush's claim that the Clinton/Gore military gutting has left the service branches at their lowest readiness level in almost two decades -- is false. Dick Cheney responded, "Military readiness has reached its lowest level in modern times.... Either Al Gore doesn't know what's going on with the military, or he chooses not to tell the truth. ... [Cuts have gone] to far beyond any careful weighing of the national interest." He was joined in his rebuttal by John McCain, who said, "[A]nyone who dismisses our serious readiness problems, our problems with morale and personnel retention, and our serious deficiencies in everything from spare parts to training as non-existent or overstated is either willfully uninformed or untruthful." General Colin Powell added, "[R]eadiness has declined, investment has declined, maintenance has declined." In related news, according to an internal Pentagon assessment of the 20 Army combat and support training centers responsible for field artillery, infantry and aviation training, 12 have received the Pentagon's lowest rating -- C-4. "In the three-year period since the time I was assistant commandant to now, I have never seen a resource picture so bleak," said a report from Maj. Gen. Tony Stricklin, commander of the Army Field Artillery School at Fort Still, Okla. "And as we know, it will get worse...." Maj. Gen. Anthony R. Jones, who heads the Army Aviation Center for pilot training at Fort Rucker, Ala., said, "Shortages in personnel and funding are significantly impacting the scope of active projects." The Commissars... >From the "Bolshoi Bureaucracy" Files, as noted in this journal on many occasions, Bill Clinton has been a prolific issuer of executive orders and proclamations -- now numbering in excess of 450 -- all of which effectively bypass congressional legislative authority. Clinton's domestic policy adviser Bruce Reed says, "The president is determined to get as much as he can done for the American people through executive action, as he has for the last eight years. We work with Congress. But just because they've ground to a halt doesn't mean the executive branch should." To understand the reach of Clinton's executive orders, consider this: The Department of the Interior is engaged in an internal assessment for the Justice Department to ensure compliance with Executive Order 13160, signed by Clinton in June, a few days before the Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Boy Scouts' right to deny homosexuals scoutmaster posts. Pandering to the homosexual voter block, EO 13160 added a provision for nondiscrimination based on "sexual orientation" to all central government practices and programs. The Clintonistas want to apply the same standard to any private group with authorized activities on government property. NPS Bureau Directors have been asked to "Identify and explain in detail all activities, events, or programs that each of your Bureaus has with the Boy Scouts of America." Thus, the Scouts, who hold many events in national parks, and commit tens-of-thousands of volunteer hours helping maintain trails and facilities, may no longer be able to hold functions on government property. Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association, concludes, " It is outrageous for the Clinton-Gore administration to be preparing for a witch hunt against the Boy Scouts...." But typical.... Speaking of that Supreme Court decision, a former Oklahoma Boy Scout troop leader pleaded guilty this week to 61 charges of having sex with five boys under the age of 14, and was sentenced to 200 years in prison (we suppose, meaning he will be eligible for parole next year). He pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape, forcible oral sodomy, lewd acts with children and one count of bestiality. And in California, a homosexual staff administrator at a Scout camp was charged with 33 counts of sexually molesting seven teenage Boy Scouts. The "Dumb and Dumber" Department... >From the "Gross National Nonsense" files, Ms. Robustly Abominable will be sporting bandages for six weeks after wounding herself with a knife. She claims the accident occurred while she was removing a price tag from a fishing rod -- another instrument of death. Sources close to Robustly said that when asked if full registration and a photo ID to own the knife would have prevented the incident, she said, "It was my bodyguard's!" >From the "Bureaucrati Ignoramus" Files, the USDA released a 15-page set of proposed regulations specifying that the holes in Swiss cheese must be reduced from an average of eleven-sixteenths to three-eighths of an inch in diameter if producers want to qualify for a federal Grade A rating. One of our favorite Libertarians, George Gertz, fired back: "These federal bureaucrats who think they should be able to tax, regulate, mandate, subsidize, prohibit, or micromanage every area of our lives -- up to and including the size of the holes in our Swiss cheese. The fact is, the only holes that need to be regulated are the holes in the [their] heads." Around the world... Clinton is back from Africa, where he says the highlight of his trip was a visit to the village of Ushafa in Nigeria. At a ceremony there, the village chief awarded Clinton the title of "Dan Massani of Ushafa," translating roughly, "the most learned person of Ushafa." Indeed, an honor! On the frontiers of science... >From the "Keen Sense of the Obvious" Department, a British proponent of abortion, Dr. Vivette Glover, reported to the Royal Institution of Medicine in London that a "fetus" 17 weeks or older should be anesthetized prior to abortion because of increasing evidence these unborn children experience pain when being dismembered. "One should think about how one is doing it in the most pain-free way," said Glover. And last, though a few local United Way Agencies have, at the urging of homosexual activists, dropped their support for their local Boy Scout troops, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation opened its purse and gave a $44,500 grant to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for its "Youth Leadership Institute," a training school for young "gay," "bisexual," and "transgendered" activists. Of course, what would you expect from an organization funded by cereal products featuring a perky toucan promoting Froot Loops, a dandy, Tony Tiger, promoting Frosted Flakes, and three pixies, Snap, Crackle and Pop, promoting Rice Krispies. Of note, Kelloggs now has a major joint marketing promotion with Pokémon, Japanese for "pocket monster." ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed." --Horace Greeley {} "That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily." --Emerson {} "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." --Aldous Huxley {} "The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error." --William Jennings Bryan {} "He is the most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard." --Publius Syrus {} "Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true." --H.L. Mencken {} "The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." --Woodrow Wilson {} "Man is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts." --Ronald Reagan {} "Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised...." --Macchiavelli {} "No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." --General Douglas MacArthur {} "Perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honor and justice by dollars and cents." --Harriet Beecher Stowe {} "The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand." --Francis Schaeffer ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble." (Proverbs 16:4) ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "America's progressives, liberals, humanitarians, and other self-satisfied poseurs have found a new group to outlaw, the Boy Scouts." --Bob Tyrrell {} "The myth of sincerity is especially potent when it comes to the big questions of life -- questions about God and morality." --Charles Colson {} "In the American tradition, reason and revelation combine to support freedom and morality, which joins freedom and morality together, too." --Larry P. Arnn {} "Political campaigns often seem part circus and part swindle." --Robert J. Samuelson {} "And in politics, a 'negative' influence is nothing more than an opponent, idea or law that a politician dislikes." --Bruce Fein {} "...[T]eachers' unions are going all-out to stop vouchers, because any competition threatens to expose both the public schools' failures and their excuses for failure." --Thomas Sowell {} "George Bush's two major pieces of legislation, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the Americans with Disabilities Act, both had some awful provisions that Republicans should have caught. But fear of appearing mean usually stampedes the party into supporting flawed social legislation." --John Leo {} "Gun-control laws either have no impact or increase violent crime." --John R. Lott Jr. {} "Of course, the problem with the Clintons is not that all conspiracy theories about them are true, just that all conspiracy theories about them are possible." --Jonah Goldberg {} "There are few more potent combinations than lawyers and journalists. Together they can demonize, loot and even bankrupt the largest industry. And do so based on the flimsiest evidence." --Doug Bandow {} "The ferocity of the gnostic -- and of his twin inheritors, the contemporary leftist radical and his liberal ally -- stems from an initial denial of reality, a nourishing of the self on the mere wish that human nature, that the cosmos as a whole, might be transformed by an act of naked will." --Thomas F. Bertonneau {} "The future will depend in large part...as it always has, on the spirit and enterprise and common-sense virtues of the American people." --Paul Greenberg {} "Public corruptions create public cesspools, around which private people must step in their private lives. 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