-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: 02 January 2001 Federalist #01-01.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp (Publisher's note: Welcome to the New Millennium and the dawn of new a new American era!) ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURE More than 150,000 discriminating conservative men and women are reading this sponsor message. That is why your organization should sponsor an upcoming issue of The Federalist, the nation's most widely read conservative e-journal. For more information, visit http://www.Federalist.com/sponsorship.asp or write <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Faith & Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word Two Cents ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." --George Washington ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society?... The Scriptures tell us 'righteousness exalteth a Nation.' " --Abigail Adams ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment." (Proverbs 12:19) "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." (Romans 12:12) "Teach them [God's commandments] to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." (Deuteronomy 11:19) ______--------********O********--------______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church." --Joy Davidman ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH & FAMILY "America was not born of a single people or a single tradition or a single movement. Rather, our nation was born of a single idea -- one that transcends the mere material attachments of other ethnicities. Our nation was born of the peculiar notion that all men were born to be free. Thus, America is the best expression of the highest aspiration of mankind. Best we safeguard such a sacred trust for all other nations with all the fervor and ardor we can muster. Therein lies the American spirit." --Teddy Roosevelt "Look back in history, and not the new revised history of the public schools, but at human history as it really unfolded; and you will find that when nations began to kill their own children, those nations are doomed. We not only kill our own young, we shout our delight in this dark activity as some sort of new and wonderful act of liberation from the stultifying mores of the past. Since the Scriptures warn us against harming children, this is a very specific way to mock God and scream our defiance at the heavens, fists clenched tightly around a condom, that symbol of the age. And we wonder why our children kill?" --Michael Peirce ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "Today, it is the case that many Americans seem unsure whether violations of oaths to family, to country and Constitution, and to God are serious matters. They aren't sure if character -- if truth-telling -- in our leaders matters." --William Bennett ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." --James Madison in The Federalist ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "What America lacks today is statesmanship. It seems that our present leaders no longer inspire us with confidence, but reading our preferences in various opinion polls, their method is to win election through flattery. In other words, they tell us what we want to hear." --J.R. Nyquist ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "What President Bush will need is an agenda that catches fire without blowing up. Is such a thing possible? Yes, if Bush understands that bipartisanship need not be mush. The most successful feat of bipartisan governance in modern times occurred, after all, during Ronald Reagan's first term. Reagan's agenda did not pass because Tip O'Neill wanted him to succeed. It passed because Reagan's staff identified rank-and-file Democratic members of Congress who supported tax cuts, spending restraint, and the defense buildup." --National Review ______--------********O********--------______ THE GIPPER "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." --Ronald Reagan ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "The role for leadership in a well-founded republic is to lead people back when they constantly stray, as constantly they will, from its heritage. To lead them back to the first principles that sharply limit what leaders are to do. Often, in the case of a republic such as ours, it is the job of leaders to lead people away from the locus of leadership itself, away from government, back into civil society: back, if you will, into de Tocqueville's America." --George Will ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES Conservative Republicans in Congress will be well equipped for the coming days of confusion if they will bear in mind The Federalist definition of "bipartisan" as a policy or program that, once it fails, can be blamed on Republicans. (Editor's note: We extend wishes for blessings and every success to a friend of The Federalist, former California Assemblyman Steve Baldwin, and to his family, as Steve takes on new challenges and opportunities as Executive Director of the Council for National Policy.) ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD Points by which the average SAT score of a home-schooled student exceeds that of other U.S. students : 81 (Harper's Index) ______--------********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.) College Campus Security Statistics USDOJ http://www.ope.ed.gov/security/ Defending The Scouts FRC http://www.frc.org/papers/infocus/index.cfm?get=IF00K1&arc=yes ______--------********O********--------______ READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "Is it safe to assume that the election amounts to a Gore-gone conclusion?" "In Brief 00-51/52, you criticized Al Gore for attributing a quote from Edwin Markham to Al Gore senior. I'm no Al Gore apologist. I know that he has an almost pathological problem with the truth.... But, how many fathers have taken and used the words of great writers and poets in speaking to their sons? If my son later says that his dad often said those words to him, does that make my son a liar and a usurper?" Editor's Reply: It does if you are pathological liar reading from a prepared script, which quotes -- word for word -- a 19th century poet. 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