-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: 16 January 2001 Federalist #01-03.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 ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE The 28th Annual CPAC conference will be 15-17 February at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA. Expected to speak are George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Charlton Heston, Edwin Feulner, Jesse Helms, Bob Novak, Kay Coles James, Bob Barr, JC Watts, and many, many others. For information or registration call 1-800-752-4391. Visit -- http://www.cpac.org/ 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 Last Word ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. all delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either." --Thomas Paine ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." -- Georg Willheim Friederich Hegel ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?" (Isaiah 2:22) "The truly righteous man attains life, but he who pursues evil goes to his death." (Proverbs 11:19) "Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!" (Zechariah 11:17) ______--------********O********--------______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks.... Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly." --Albert Einstein ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH & FAMILY "Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents." --Murray Rothbard "Abortion is pure destruction. It destroys the precious human beings whose lives are snuffed out in utero. It is destructive of the interests of women who are so very often, and in so many respects, truly abortion's 'secondary victims.' Abortion's record is one of taint and damage to everything it touches, not least, fundamental American constitutional principles. Free speech and religious liberty are only its most recent victims." --Charles Colson ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "The enemies of moral truth have an impoverished understanding of reality, of human dignity and the human drama. They declare (implicitly or explicitly) that there is nothing worthy to which we should give allegiance; nothing deserving of our reverence; nothing elevating for which to live; and nothing -- not family, country, faith, honor, or truth -- for which to sacrifice or even die. Theirs is a world that cannot celebrate human excellence or heroism, for it is a world where everything is equally good, equally bad, equally meaningless. The real stuff of life -- its vividness and grandeur, its joy, majesty, and beauty -- is thought to be illusory." --William Bennett ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, 'Fixing the wire, Sir.' I asked, 'Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?' He answered, 'Yes, Sir, but the...wire has to be fixed.' I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?' And he answered, 'No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!' " --George S. Patton (Publishers Note: Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of Desert Storm -- the air assault on targets in Iraq and Kuwait followed by an overwhelming ground assault. We salute our fellow veterans who left the comfort of their families and communities to serve in the desert.) ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "A [black] beret for all [Army] ranks won't fix...the low pay, ghetto-like housing and back-to-back deployments in running sores like Bosnia and Kosovo. Nor will it return the ideals of Duty, Honor, Country that are now just words because slick ticket-punching managers have replaced stand-up-and-be-counted leaders. Only leadership can fix the Army's problems. I hear [Gen. Eric] Shinseki is a good man. A smart general knows when to defend and when to retreat. He should cut his losses on the beret. This might upset a few Ranger-hating staff pukes and a factory in Arkansas that's gearing up to make a million black berets. It might even annoy Bill Clinton, who might be into the irony of an Army that his policies have demolished wearing Monica-esque black berets. Spiking the berets-for-everyone order would send a message that Shinseki reads the signposts loud and clear and is smart enough to change course when he's headed in the wrong direction." --David Hackworth ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "More than nine years after Operation Desert Storm, U.S. aircraft continue to patrol the skies over Iraq, carrying out regular air strikes against targets within the northern and southern no-fly zones. ..A huge amount of the region's oil is on the western shore of the Persian Gulf. ...The U.S. did not intend that Iraq dominate the western shore of the Persian Gulf. ...[T]he U.S. instituted a policy that was designed to preserve the Iraqi nation-state and simultaneously bring down Saddam [Hussein]. It succeeded in the first and failed in the second....There is a lesson in the U.S. Iraq strategy: do not personalize strategic interests. The U.S. must drive strategy in Iraq according to its interests on the western shore of the Persian Gulf. These interests should not be held hostage by the survival of a particular personality. The constant identification of U.S. enemies as the reincarnation of Hitler's absolute evil may help solidify public opinion during war, but it makes the conduct of foreign policy in the post-war world extremely difficult when the personality in question refuses to go quietly. This is a lesson for U.S. dealings.... Demonizing the enemy is fine, if you can crush him. If not, you are left negotiating with the devil, which is not only politically embarrassing but reveals underlying strategic weaknesses for all to see." --Stratfor.com ______--------********O********--------______ THE GIPPER "The dustbin of history is littered with the remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget...in the final analysis...that is it our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger." --Ronald Reagan (To send a message to Nancy Reagan wishing President Reagan well after his recent surgery, link to http://www.reagan2000.com/ and scroll to the bottom of the page.) ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "The free market requires men and women whose word can be trusted and who have formed personal traits of self-discipline, prudence, and self-denial or the deferment of gratifications. Smaller government requires many of the same qualities so that individuals will not constantly turn to a powerful state to offer them complete security and a cornucopia of favors bought with other people's money." --Robert Bork ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "Hillary will be moving into a new house off Massachusetts Avenue, just as soon as her check clears the bank. Bill's mother-in-law has agreed to rent Bill the spare room in Little Rock until his new digs, in his presidential library, are completed in '04. This may say something about Hillary, that life with his mother-in-law in an oversized efficiency in Arkansas sounds better to Bill than life with Hillary in a house with seven bedrooms and bathrooms that seat five." --Wes Pruden ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "George W. Bush would have gained six votes more than Al Gore if all the dimples and hanging chads on 10,600 previously uncounted ballots in Miami-Dade County had been included in the totals, according to a review by The Palm Beach Post. That result would have been a hard blow to Al Gore's hopes of claiming the presidency in a recount. Before the vice president conceded last month, the Gore camp had expected to pick up as many as 600votes from a Miami-Dade recount -- barely enough to overtake Bush's razor-thin Florida lead. Instead, The Post's review indicates Gore would have lost ground. If everything were counted -- from the faintest dimple to chads barely hanging on ballots -- 251 additional votes would have gone to Bush and 245 more would have gone to Gore, The Post review showed." --Palm Beach Post ______--------********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.) John Ashcroft, Attorney General-Designate Judicial Despotism http://www.heritage.org/library/categories/govern/hl580.html An Economic Plan for the Next American Century http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl625.html Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary-Designate Military Modernization on the March http://www.heritage.org/views/2001/ed010301.html The growing ballistic missile threat http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl632.html ______--------********O********--------______ READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "Is The Federalist conservative, or what? For the most part, you're right on the money but you have been too influenced by mainstream misinformation about MLK. He was an adulterous man, and a proven plagiarist." Editor's Reply: We wrote: "Martin Luther King was a controversial man. 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However, why does The Federalist lay into the administration when Ms Chavez committed a serious error, but had the loyalty to admit it and get out of the way." Editor's Reply: Clearly, our position is, and remains, that Mr. Bush should have fought for Chavez. As we noted, it is not like she failed to mention an old DUI or something! We are not a "me-too" chorus for Mr. Bush. Where he stands for conservatives, we will praise him -- but where he displays cowardice and a lack of loyalty, we will note it. "The scurrilous and false attacks on Linda Chavez brings to mind a retort whereby I would say 'screw the democrats and liberals.' I would indeed say, that; however, nature seems to have anticipated me." "Your insertion of the word "ADD" for "ad" regarding to the D.C. public school system advertisement was, indeed, very clever!" Editor's Reply: Apparently, too clever! It was a reference to "Attention Deficit Disorder." 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