-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 03 October 2000 Federalist #00-40.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp (Publisher's Note: Consistent with our efforts to provide you with the highest quality e-mail format of The Federalist, we are testing a process, which sends The Federalist as both e-mail text and HTML, giving you the option of deciding which format you prefer. We expect to have identifiable problems with this protocol worked out by next Tuesday's deadline, at which time we will launch the new HTML e-mail format.) ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE As the Gore-Lieberman show tours the country claiming they invented the economy, America is in a severe recession -- an education recession. As Gore-Lieberman rake in millions from one of their most loyal constituencies -- teacher unions -- American kids continue to rank last in the world in their performance on math and physics exams. Most fourth graders in American cities can't read, but their families have no choice but to send their children to government schools. Visit -- http://www.educationblueprint.com/ CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News Faith Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and...their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice.... These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government." --Thomas Jefferson ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.... If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces." --James Garfield in 1877 ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises." (Psalm 10:2) "Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment." (Proverbs 12:19) "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?" (Luke 9:25) "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" (Matthew 6:27) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games to say a prayer and play the National Anthem to honor God and Country. Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual perversion and call it an alternate lifestyle, and if someone is offended, that's OK. I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity by dispensing condoms and calling it safe sex. If someone is offended, that's OK. I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing an unborn baby as a viable means of birth control. If someone is offended, no problem. "I can designate a school day as earth day and involve students in activities to religiously worship and praise the goddess, mother earth, and call it ecology. I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that depict people with strong, traditional, Christian convictions as simple minded and ignorant and call it enlightenment. "However, if anyone uses this facility to honor God and ask Him to bless this event with safety and good sportsmanship, Federal Case Law is violated. "This appears to be at best, inconsistent and at worst, diabolical. Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone except God and His Commandments. "Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and students to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to do otherwise would be at best, inconsistent and at worst, hypocritical. I suffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression. "For this reason, I shall, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and refrain from praying at this time. However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank God, and ask Him in the name of Jesus to bless this event, please feel free to do so. As far as I know, that's not against the law...yet." A public address by Roane County High School Principal, Jody McLoud, before a football game last month. RCHS is in Kingston, Tennessee, ostensibly the home state of Albert Gore. Memo to Mr. McLoud: You may want to post this quote from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (Article III) on bulletin boards around RCHS for "historical" information. "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." ______--------********O********--------______ FAMILY "Now, I'm willing to grant that honoring our parents includes concern for their health care -- and one could argue that this principle carries over into our political concerns. But the leap to federal funding of programs to confer drug benefits is a matter of political philosophy, not theology -- and a philosophy much more indebted to nineteenth-century utopianism than Judeo-Christian ethics. That utopianism is rooted in the belief that humanity's problems can be solved by creating a perfectly just society -- the problem isn't man, they say, it's government. But utopian myths like these deny individual responsibility and foster ever greater dependence on the state. ... In short, the Judeo-Christian tradition requires us to care for our own families, and not foist off our obligations onto the state." --Charles Colson ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "The people we remember and revere are those who believed in the things that matter most: the things of the spirit, such as honor, selflessness, humility, service to others, self-control, fidelity, and virtue.... Such notions used to be so basic they were rarely discussed.... They were considered 'self-evident truths'." --Cal Thomas ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "...[A]n immutable law that bears repeating even in the Cyber Age: Human knowledge is the scarcest resource of all. Beware of the politicos with grand, sweeping, new ideas for their sweet-smelling, scientific planned society. To be remembered while we listen to the presidential debates: As the power of the state increases, the liberty of the citizen decreases." --Arnold Beichman ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF THE DEBATE BAIT The first of three presidential debates will get underway tonight at the John F. Kennedy presidential library in Boston. The next debates are October 11 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem and October 17 at Washington University in St. Louis. The debates are all scheduled to start at 9:00 EDT and will last about 90 minutes, or until either candidate is laughed off the stage. In preparation, we asked our readers, "What questions or one-line zingers would you like to hear George Bush pin on Albert Gore?" We received thousands of suggestions, and here is a selection of the most popular.... 1. "This is a 90-minute debate, Mr. Vice President. I hope you didn't drink too much iced tea." 2. "Albert, you have had eight years to fix all the things you say are wrong with our nation. You haven't. Additionally, the moral deficit Joe Lieberman used to talk about has flourished under you and the man you call 'one of our greatest presidents.' Please explain...." 3. "Albert, please show me where in the Constitution it says (fill in the blank)." Repeat often! (Variants on this theme: "Albert, do you plan to enforce the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution?" "When you read the phrase, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' how does that affect prayer at a high school football game?" "When you read the phrase, '[T]he right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,' where does it say 'except for the 30,000 gun laws now on the books'?" At some point in the debate, walk over to Gore and ask him to sign a pledge to uphold the United States Constitution -- to its letter.) 4. "Albert, you claim that tax cuts exploded the deficit. But most Americans know that government deficits are the result of spending, not taxing. That is the same 'algorithmetic' that created all those deficits when you were a member of the Democrat controlled Congress. Do you balance your own checkbook?" 5. "Speaking of tax cuts, please identify the 'right people' watching tonight so everybody else can turn their TV off." 6. "Now that we have a projected $2 trillion budget surplus over the next decade, you want to spend all $4 trillion of it. You're spending money that American workers haven't even earned yet! You can invent the Internet, but can't find a cure for the common tax!" 7. "Earlier in your political career you stated that you believed that abortion was 'arguably the taking of a human life.' What new information have you come across that was significant enough to alter that belief?" 8. "Why do you think it is that the media cares so much about the word 'RAT' appearing in a broken advertisement frame, but seems to overlook your acceptance of $800,000 from a lawyer to veto tort reform?" 9. "What provisions would your proposed campaign finance reforms include to ensure that foreign entities -- say Red China -- will not be able to unduly influence the U.S. electoral process?" 10. At the JFK Library debate: "Al, you have promised everything to everybody and have spent all the surplus and more.... JFK said 'ask not what your country can do for you' but your theme is 'ask what your country can do for you'." 11. "It seems like one rule for you, Albert, another rule for working families. Your kids go to private school, middle class kids have to go to public school; you can manage the investment of part of your government pension, working families can't manage the investment of part of their Social Security; you have armed guards to protect you, regular folks can't carry a gun...... Albert, if it's good enough for you and your family, why don't you want it for those good people listening to us tonight? Or, are they just not 'the right people'?" 12. "Who are 'the rich' you keep talking about? The median household income is about $40,000, and the median two-earner household now brings in about $55,000. All taxpayers benefit equally from the tax breaks I am proposing. While you claim to 'fight for the people, not the powerful,' I propose to let working families keep their hard-earned money so they will be the powerful." 13. "Albert, government will never -- ever -- solve a problem that will put itself out of business." 14. "Interesting you bring up Big Oil and the price of fuel. Have you read your book 'Earth in the Balance'? Long before gas hit $2.00 / gallon, you proposed a $.50/gallon tax increase on fuel to force the development of alternate energy and force the use of mass transportation." 15. "Albert, you said you'd give Hollywood a set time then get tough, but if you are genuinely appalled by Hollywood's cynical attempt to target our children to sell violent, depraved entertainment, do you support a class action lawsuit against Hollywood, the way you supported such a suit against 'big tobacco' or gun manufacturers?" 16. "Do you really expect Americans to believe that you will 'clean up Hollywood' when the purveyors of entertainment smut are among your most loyal supporters and have you groveling at their feet for table scraps?" 17. "Folks, are you sure you want the central government bureaucracy to be your HMO? And are you sure you want this man (pointing at Albert) to be in charge of your HMO? Are you sure about that?" 18. "You identify yourself as a Christian. In what the media call a 'certain late-term abortion procedure,' the baby is partly delivered, the doctor pierces the back of the child's skull and evacuates the baby's brain, and then the dead child is 'fully delivered.' If Jesus was presented with a bill to stop partial birth abortion, What Would Jesus Do?" 19. "Albert, some very fine Eagle Scouts, serving as the Honor Guard, were booed by your delegates during the Democratic National Convention. Was that an appropriate way to treat Boy Scouts in America? And will you now apologize to those Scouts on behalf of the Democrat Party?" 20. "Albert, I resent your calling me anti-choice; I am for choice in education, and you're not. I am for choice in health care, I am for choice in how to fund retirement, I am for choice in how Americans can spend more of their hard-earned money. Albert is pro-choice only when the choice is his!" BUSH WHACK ALBERT WITH THESE ZINGERS 1. "There you go again...claiming you invented the (fill in the blank)." Repeat often! 2. "What makes your kids more deserving of a first rate education at an elite private school than the kids of 'working families'?" 3. Every time Albert proposes a new solution for some "problem," ask, "Where have you been for the last eight years?" 4. "Albert, Bill Bradley asked, 'If we can't trust you to tell the truth as a candidate, how can we trust you as president?' I didn't hear your answer...." 5. "Please explain just what 'no controlling legal authority' means...." 6. "With all the 'Big Rhetoric' about 'Big Oil,' 'Big HMOs,' and 'Big Business,' you have said surprisingly little about 'Big Government' and 'Big Brother' -- Big Albert!" 7. "Albert, you are a risky scheme! What wouldn't you do or promise to get elected?" 8. "You spend a lot of time campaigning on 'women's issues;' did Juanita Broaddrick tell the truth?" 9. "Why does money in the American workers' pocket constitute a greater risk than when their money is in the government's pocket?" 10. (After Gore cites some out-in-left-field statistics): "Al, did you just invent that number?" 11. "Speaking of 'working families,' would you veto a measure to end the unfair marriage tax penalty?" 12. "Speaking of prescription drugs, how is your mother-in-law's dog?" 13. "America doesn't want to swap its core values for Gore values!" 14. "Why don't you think all Americans should be treated the same?" 15. "Does that depend on what the meaning of 'is' is?" 16. Answer one of Albert's quips in Spanish! 17. "Why do you expect Americans to have confidence in you as a president and commander-in-chief when you can't even fix the plumbing in your tenant slum?" 18. "Albert Gore's next book 'Credibility in the Balance'." 19. "How is it that a guy who only gives $353 dollars to charity as Vice President of the United States, is so generous with all the taxes paid by hard-working Americans?" 20. "Albert, you are a major-league Adam Clymer!" ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "Today the federal government constantly alters the Constitution, making it what Thomas Jefferson feared: 'a blank paper by construction [interpretation].' ...Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the federal government the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to." --Joseph Sobran ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "Funding the left wing's wish list of federal priorities is no way to persuade American workers that Republicans deserve to retain their jobs this November. When Republicans have won their most resounding victories -- the 1980 and 1994 elections come to mind -- the party ran on an unflinching anti-nanny state platform. It's true that after years of prosperity and rising incomes Americans have grown more ambivalent about big government. But ambivalence should not be confused with support. Right now congressional Republicans are behaving as if they will accept a budget deal with Bill Clinton at any price. But be warned: That cost may be an Al Gore White House and a Dick Gephardt speakership. That's far too high a price to pay." --Stephen Moore ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "I would caution that you not put too much confidence in those polls. Since I was first elected to the Senate in 1972, I have run for re-election four times. Each time, the pollsters have confidently predicted my defeat. Each time, I am happy to confide, they have been wrong. I am pleased that, thus far, I have never won a poll or lost an election." --Sen. Jesse Helms ______--------********O********--------______ POLICY PAGES & POINTS OF INTEREST (NOTE: For our subscribers with WWW access, if the URL line breaks, please select, copy and paste the entire link address into your browser's target address field.) Social Security: Ready to Retire? HERITAGE http://www.heritage.org/commentary/99/ed081299.html Social Security And The American Voter CATO http://www.cato.org/events/990909chb.html Social Security Trust Fund Fraud HERITAGE http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1256es.html (T-35 days until the election. T-109 days until eviction of the Clintonistas -- and delousing!) -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! ****************************************************************************** ******************* A vote for Bush or Gore is a vote to continue Clinton policies! A vote for Buchanan is a vote to continue America! Therefore a vote for Gore or Bush is a wasted vote for America! Don't waste your vote! Vote for Patrick Buchanan! Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey... Patrick Buchanan <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
