-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: 17 October 2000 Federalist #00-42.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: Thanks to all of our readers who responded to our survey concerning HTML. Based on the results of that survey, we are going to stay with the current e-mailed format -- text -- and continue to make the easy to read HTML version available from our site. For our subscribers who read the text version online, or print it for later, we encourage you to visit -- http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp and try us online! Readers tell us that our current edition online formats are much more desirable than e-mail text.) ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE Have you heard about the "humor" on the Late, Late Show: "Snipers Wanted for George Bush"? Have you seen the Jane Doe #5 (AKA Juanita Broaddrick) interview on NBC's Dateline in which a very credible Ms. Broaddrick charges Bill Clinton with rape? You can view these segments and, on the lighter side, 60+ Hilarious Hillary cartoons/photos as well as read the daily news updates on the Hillary/Lazio race. Visit: -- http://www.QueenHillary.com CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News Faith Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages The Last Word ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.... The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." -- Patrick Henry ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the rules in accordance with which decent men have had to shape their lives from the beginning .. fundamental precepts, put forth in the Bible and embodied consciously or unconsciously in the code of morals of every great and successful nation from antiquity to modern times." --Theodore Roosevelt ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one." (Matthew 5:37) "The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight." (Proverbs 4:7) "We ought to obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29) "He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray." (Proverbs 10:17) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH "If religious liberty means anything, it means that government shouldn't be able to outlaw well-established moral views based on religious beliefs. ...[T]rying to protect one set of Americans by trampling the fundamental rights of others is not the American way to do things." --Charles Colson "Public morality, although in decline, is still the most powerful force in our society. ...In the end, laws can only go so far. Society has to enforce standards independent of the courts, the police and the statute books. In a society where increasingly anything goes, it is important for the media, politicians and society as a whole to take firm positions and strongly condemn behaviors that are unacceptable. Coercion in the form of laws has limited application. In the end, people have to want to do the right thing for society to prosper." --Peter Shaw ______--------********O********--------______ FAMILY "The traumatic effect of divorce hits many children decades after their parents separate, hobbling them as they seek to form close family relationships of their own. Our findings challenge the myth that divorce is a transient crisis." --Judith Wallerstein, a senior lecturer emeritus at the University of California-Berkeley and author of "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study." "...[A]ll is not well in feminist ranks. The movement lost credibility for its failure to defend the vulnerable women Bill Clinton used and trashed. There is anguish about that barbaric form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion. There are doubts that grinding away in unglamorous jobs leads to self-fulfillment. There are growing suspicions that the denial of obvious differences between the sexes doesn't make a lot of sense. And there are lingering suspiciouns that the government bureaucracy is a poor substitute for a husband who cherishes you and children who call you 'mama'." --Linda Bowles ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans." --Charley Reese "Abortion. We wince. We grimace. We head for the exits. Quiet! Don't bother me! Such comments betray the depth of the roots that abortion, like slavery, once upon a time, has put down in the culture -- roots that entwine us in almost constant deception. Slavery once was this way: A few more slaves didn't make a difference -- look how many we had already. Suffering? What suffering? Don't look. Don't notice. Mifepristone is the great Don't Notice of the abortion culture -- the medication that shoves all the life-taking out of sight and out of mind, socially speaking. Sure, we can't see in the windows of those abortion clinics, but we know what goes on there. For one thing, anti-abortion demonstrators remind us with their presence and prayers. Just to see the words 'women's clinic' is to know what goes on. What goes on is the extinction of life." --Bill Murchison ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "The laws therefore of tyrants are not laws, but wild acts of will, counseled by rage or folly, and executed by dragoons. And as these laws are evil, all sorts of evil must concur to support them." --John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters "It's a tangled situation, the sort of mess that results when civil rights comes to mean not freedom of association, but the reverse: compulsory association. When we hear the term civil rights nowadays, we instantly know we are in for more, not less, government power over our private lives. Civil rights has become shorthand for state coercion. Homosexuals are rapidly being added to the roster of victim categories who may use state power to force others to accept them. 'Civil rights,' in this baneful sense, trumps all religious, moral, and other personal reservations." --Joseph Sobran ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "A few decades ago, before the gun hating really got started, young people were encouraged to develop self-respect, dignity and a sense of personal responsibility. This was built through their accomplishments, by assuming responsibility, and honoring obligations. This traditional value system gradually changed to one where self-esteem is now paramount. A young person is taught that they are a precious and important member of society regardless of their own efforts or accomplishments. Many observers have noted the way in which this leads to a poor sense of responsibility and a higher risk of criminal involvement.... [O]ur entire approach to fighting crime has changed. Rather than accept the slightest risk to our precious skins, we are taught that we must give in to criminals whenever the basic precautions like locked doors and alarm systems fail to protect us. Almost every American now believes that it is not worth hurting someone, or being hurt, over stolen property. Even potential rape victims are taught not to fight back." --Dr. Michael S. Brown ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Until a last-minute rebellion from Democrats who'd previously supported the bill, the New Jersey state assembly looked set to pass a measure that would have called for the state's schoolchildren to follow their Pledge of Allegiance with the opening passage from the Declaration of Independence: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.' New Jersey's Democrats couldn't choke that down. In the end, none would vote for the measure, the result of a slightly surreal debate in which the Declaration was found to be anti-black, anti-women and too pro-God." --Wall Street Journal ______--------********O********--------______ THE GIPPER "Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease." --Ronald Reagan ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "Scan the Constitution, and you won't find authority for much of what Washington does today. Set speed limits for roads across the country? Decide on the kind of health insurance due fired workers? Transfer taxpayers' earnings to special interests? Congress simply assumes that it can do whatever it wants. What was supposed to be a government of enumerated powers is now an almost unlimited Leviathan state." --Doug Bandow ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "We are just like second-century Rome and Greece. We are declining as a nation because our leadership and our government now use farce to state their cases, and there are too few people who are willing to stand up and challenge that, including the media. Consequently, the very tenets of our liberty are going to be taken away." --Rep. Tom Coburn "It's bad enough when the candidates court voters with promises of bounty from the public coffers. It's something else again when the promises are empty, and we don't care. When we fail to hold our leaders accountable to standards of right and wrong, we will have lost the right to be free." --Charles Colson ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "The confirmation facts speak for themselves. Mr. Clinton has appointed 47% of all the judges in full-time service, and appointed them at a faster rate than President Reagan, who even had a Senate of his own party for six of his eight years in office. More full-time judges today were appointed by Mr. Clinton than by Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush combined. Vacancies averaged 116 when Democrats ran the Senate, but have averaged 71 since Republicans took over. Vacancies have been higher than today in just 22 of the 117 months (or 81% of the time) since Congress last significantly expanded the judiciary. Democrats have long been far more aggressive in promoting the kind of activist, political judiciary that undermines our freedom than Republicans have been in promoting the restrained, balanced judiciary America's founders intended. Democrats have filibustered more nominees, defeated more nominees in the Judiciary Committee, and refused to take final Senate votes on more nominees than Republicans ever have." --Thomas L. Jipping ______--------********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.) The Gay Gene: Going, Going ... Gone (Correction: FRC changed its research URLs) http://www.frc.org/papers/insight/index.cfm?get=IS00D2&arc=yes The Facts About Military Readiness Backgrounder http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1394es.html School Choice 2000: What's Happening in the States http://www.heritage.org/schools/ ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD Worth repeating.... You know you're a liberal if ... excerpts from a column by Don Feder You know you're a liberal if: You think sexual harassment is rampant, date rape pervasive, domestic violence common and Paula Jones is lying. You hate Hillary jokes. You pale at the execution of child killers, but defend the killing of unborn children as an expression of choice. You think trees have feelings, animals can conceptualize and the fetus is a blob of protoplasm. You are convinced that Frank Capra films and Norman Rockwell paintings are lies and distortions but "Platoon," Dances with Wolves" and "Thelma and Louise" are realistic. You thought Walt Disney was saccharine sweet and terminally cutesy-pie -- until it made "Pocahontas." You think a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority, while sex education, condom distribution and multiculturalism are values-neutral. You agonize over threats to the natural environment (acid rain, toxic waste) but are oblivious to threats to the social environment (pornography, promiscuity and family dissolution). You want to legalize cocaine and outlaw handguns. You think cops are pigs and criminals are products of their environment. You believe the National Rifle Associations helps criminals while the American Civil Liberties Union protects the innocent. You think Rush Limbaugh is responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing but are outraged by suggestions that Ted Kaczynski (the suspected Unabomber) and Al Gore have anything in common. Jesse Jackson makes sense to you. Barbra Streisand makes even more sense. You think Herblock cartoons are funny and Janet Reno is totally hot. You believe corporate profits are obscene but government spending is too low and the American people are undertaxed. You think deficits are caused by tax loopholes. You think marriage is obsolete -- except for homosexuals. You believe homosexuality is genetically determined, but fascism and spouse abuse aren't. You think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding. You consider the Catholic bishops noble and idealistic when they oppose capital punishment and welfare cuts but dangerous fanatics trying to legislate their theology when they defend the right to life. You are convinced that proponents of welfare reform hate the poor and opponents of affirmative action hate minorities, but AIDS activists who bash the pope and People for the American Way types who go psycho over Protestant "fundamentalists" are guardians of democracy. You attribute every minority problem to entrenched, institutional racism and the legacies of slavery and segregation. You think the black middle class is a myth created by Newt Gingrich. You view race riots as justifiable expressions of rage over injustice and fail to see the similarities between a black mob burning a Korean store and a white mob in the Jim Crow era lynching a black man. You don't understand all of the whining about affirmative action and are more than willing to sacrifice someone else's employment or education opportunity to assuage your guilt. You marched against American involvement in Vietnam, thought the Gulf War was unnecessary but believe 25,000 U.S. troops in Bosnia are vital to our national interests. You see no correlation between welfare and the rise of illegitimacy, judicial leniency and surging crime rates, or addiction and an entertainment industry that glorifies drug abuse. But you believe Richard Nixon is responsible for everything horrible that's happened in the past quarter-century. You think those child-abusing religious fanatics at Waco had it coming but the illegal immigrants roughed up by California deputies -- after leading them on a high speed chase -- are the victims of the decade. Lastly, you're a liberal if -- you don't get the point of this column. (Editor's Note: A correction for all you tap code junkies, -. -- .... -- - . -.- - .-. ... .-.-.-.-. .-.. .. -. - -- -. was wrong for "Hillary go home!" in MC. Better is: .... .. .-.. .-.. .- .-. -.-- --. --- .... --- -- . ...-.-. Got that!) This Week's Clintoons: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/garner.htm http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/welcome.asp (T-21 days until Election2000. T-95 days until eviction of the Clintonistas -- and delousing!) -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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