-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom." --Ronald Reagan {} "Good counselors lack no clients." --William Shakespeare {} "Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with." --Peter Marshall {} "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers." --William Penn {} "Salvation is free...but discipleship will cost you your life." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer {} "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want them to achieve, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." --George Patton {} "I have learned that money is not the measure of a man, but it is often the means of finding out how small he is." --Oswald J. Smith {} "In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." --Margaret Thatcher {} "Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one." --John Maynard Keynes {} "Diligence is the mother of good fortune." --Miguel de Cervantes {} "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." --George Washington Carver {} "...The said Constitution be never construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "Advocates of socialist central planning in Washington may claim to have the solutions to energy shortages, but in truth market forces cannot be ignored any more than the laws of physics. Americans who want to continue to enjoy uninterrupted energy supplies should oppose any federal regulation of energy markets." --Ron Paul ++ "It will be difficult to develop a rational national energy policy so long as we pretend the myth [of global warming] is reality." --Steven Milloy ++ "...[T]he greatest hoax of our times, global warming." --Alan Caruba {} "The West has become a playground for the rich, a religious experience for the greens, and a resource for the feds. A pox on them all." --Diane Alden {} "In America today, there is no business that the government considers none of its business." --Linda Bowles {} "This isn't to say that the behavior of believers is always moral, only that it is a threat to the totalitarian aspirations of modern government." --Fred Reed {} "American law schools should terminate their constitutional law courses, as the subject no longer exists. Judicial law has replaced constitutional law." --Paul Craig Roberts {} "It is a mistake to think Mrs. Clinton has achieved her ambitions, just as it is a mistake to think Mr. Clinton has." --Peggy Noonan {} "A benevolent dictator is still a dictator." --Thomas L. Jipping ++ "If we continue our current path, future generations will curse us for squandering unprecedented liberty." --Walter E. Williams {} "I consider myself a recovering feminist. I saw a lessening of femininity, a loss of motherhood." --Dr. Laura Schlessinger {} "Home-schooling may be the biggest educational trend of them all: a quasi-return to the style of colonial times, before anyone saw education as the rightful function of government." --Bill Murchison {} "In public schools we strain out the gnat of graduation prayers and swallow the camel of quasi-secular religion in the curriculum." --Ralph Gillman {} "You can't stop Americans from standing up and praying any more than you can stop them from cheering the home team." --Charles Colson ++ "The American Civil Liberties Union is on a mission -- but not from God. Its goal: to obliterate evidence of America's religious heritage." --Don Feder ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Beware of Kennedys bearing gifts of bipartisanship. To most Americans the senior Senator from Massachusetts would probably be an odd choice of ally for a Republican President eager to burnish his education credentials. But to a President even more eager to demonstrate bipartisan support, Teddy Kennedy was his man. And once Mr. Kennedy saw by nudge and wink that President Bush would not allow a school choice provision to stand in the way of a bipartisan bill, he proved so amenable he even introduced the President's bill himself. That was 1991, of course, not 2001. For the President Bush we speak of here is not Dubya but his father. And therein lies a cautionary tale. In the end the people who initially praised Mr. Bush's bipartisanship ultimately sunk any chance he had to be the 'education President.' Of the many advantages George W. Bush brings to the White House, arguably the most invaluable is his understanding how the Washington consensus that first flattered his father's Presidency ended up proving fatal to it. But those hard-learned lessons seem to have been set aside when it comes to education. The result is the Beltway back-slapping over an education package now going to conference. It gives the politicos on Capitol Hill everything they want and the kids in rotten public schools nothing they really need. ... The point is that when it comes to legislation, either you leave no child behind or you leave Teddy Kennedy behind." --Wall Street Journal ______--------********O********--------______ SECOND OPINION God and the BSA v. The Sodomites "Americans have confused tolerance and relativism; often, they assume that tolerance means not merely respecting people's right to their opinions but refusing to make any reasoned judgments about those opinions." --William Bennett The drifting paradigm of sexual morality has beached on the shores of the Boy Scouts of America, and the BSA has, unwillingly, become the frontline of the Left's campaign to normalize the abnormal. Though fewer than 3% of Americans are afflicted with homosexual pathology (according to research from the Centers for Disease Control), they are a very vocal 3% and are waging a very real assault on American youth. When visiting the Web site of "Scouting for All," the organization featured prominently in the latest PBS homosexual advocacy propaganda film "Scout's Honor" (which aired this week), Federalist editors were greeted by this 1945 quote from Martin Niemoller about Hitler's National Socialist Party: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." One might fairly conclude that when radical Leftist homosexuals equate the BSA's rejection of their ilk with the Holocaust and wholesale slaughter innocents -- such an assertion exposes SFA's gross lack of perspective and moral authority. Given a big promo by PBS (thanks to your tax dollars), "Scouting for All" is endeavoring to extort the Boy Scouts of America into accepting homosexual mentors for young boys (and opening its ranks to other gender morphs and atheists) by coercing religious institutions, United Way chapters and corporations to defund the BSA. Thus far, many Unitarian and some Episcopalian congregations, about 40 United Way chapters, and a handful of national corporations (Levi Strauss, J.P. Morgan, American Airlines, Textron and Fleet Bank) have pulled their support of the BSA. The unchallenged and oft repeated premises of the film "Scout's Honor" are that homosexuality is "normal" (based on the thoroughly debunked theory of a homosexual gene), and that excluding homosexuals is tantamount to a civil rights violation -- a shameful affront to those legitimate civil rights issues for which so many have sacrificed so much. It is the height of arrogance to make such a ludicrous comparison. The BSA is, at its foundation, an organization which encourages morality as stipulated by God's law. The Scout Oath and Laws state in part: "A Scout...keeps his body and mind fit and clean. He goes around with those who believe in living by these same ideas. ... A Scout is reverent. A Scout is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties." Prior to any meaningful discussion about what God has to say about homosexuality, it is necessary to dispel a false dichotomy. Homosexual advocates and groups like "Scouting for All" rebut dissenters by claiming they are pharisaical, intolerant and "mean-spirited." But correctly viewing homosexuality as a violation of God's law and nature has no correlation with one's capacity to love or have compassion for others. Nor is dissent related to judgment, which is God's alone. Rather, it is about discernment between right and wrong, and obedience to objective truth rather than the cult of subjective relativism popularly justified under the contemporary aegis of "tolerance" and "diversity." The teachings of both the Old and New Testaments tell us homosexuality is wrong. Among the various references, we find in Leviticus that it is "an abomination." In the New Testament, Romans 1:24-32, Paul says, "...they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator.... Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up unnatural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another.... Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who would practice them." In 1st Corinthians 6:9, Paul adds, "Do not be deceived, neither the immoral...nor sexual perverts...will inherit the Kingdom of God." Paul uses the Greek word "arsenokoitai" in these texts, which means "sodomites." In Matthew 19, Jesus Christ speaks to us about marriage and sexuality: "Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning made them male and female, man and woman, and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh'. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."* Relativists in the modern church endeavor to bury Scriptural understanding with "reason." However, God's universal plan and its inherent truths are thoroughly revealed in science and the study of natural order. Within that order, we are entrusted with the sexual design and relationship between "male and female, man and woman." This design is as clear in reason as in Scripture. The objective truth concerning homosexuality has long been revealed through Scripture and reason, and should not be violated. Romans 12:21 teaches, "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." While discerning right from wrong, the BSA has not predicated love for others on their obedience to God's moral truth. Nor have they equated unconditional love with subjective relativism. To do either violates God's word, and design. As for religious congregations who have been led astray by errant teachings of clergy, Jesus said in Matthew 7:15 -- "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." Amid the heated religious and social campaigns to "normalize" homosexuality, it takes real courage to do as God has commanded all of us as sinners -- stand firm in our love for those who are afflicted with homosexuality, while refusing to embrace their sin. Embracing sin under the aegis of "tolerance" and "diversity" only serves to abandon homosexuals in their sin. *(Matthew 19:10, Jesus also says: "Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth...." Homosexual advocates in the church often incorrectly invoke this passage as justification for accepting homosexual norming. In the Greek text, one finds the word "eunouxoi," meaning one with a congenital defect or castrated, and without the ability to consummate marriage. The reference is distinctly different from the Greek word for homosexuals or sodomites as referenced by Paul.) ______--------********O********--------______ DEZINFORMATSIA "The New York Times ran eight sentences on the arrest of 17-year-old Albert Gore III on page 18; The Washington Post, eight sentences on Page 6; the Los Angeles Times, nine sentences on Page 10; and USA Today, a three-sentence item in a roundup column." --Washington Post media commentator Howard Kurtz, on the amount of coverage the Leftmedia gave the arrest of Albert Gore's son last Summer for driving 100mph versus the space allocated to the Bush daughters' consumption of beer. ++ "The New York Times doesn't want to cover the culture war; it wants to fight it." --Stanley Kurtz ++ "Literally three-quarters of the people deciding what's on the front page of the New York Times are not-so-closeted homosexuals." --Jonah Goldberg ______--------********O********--------______ LEFTOVERS "He came racing up on our yard and we ran and ran. Thank goodness nobody was home to beef to. Both my folks worked." --Bill Clinton on how he got away with throwing rocks at cars when he was a child. {} "I calculated that for every dollar I made on a book, I'd have to spend $2 on therapy for just reliving it, so I'm not writing a book." --Joe Lockhart, former Clinton spokesman, scuttling talk of writing a tell-all book {} "I listen to Rush Limbaugh every now and then, just because I want to be reminded how ignorant he is." --NAACP president Kweisi Mfume {} "The only comment I have is Chuck Schumer would like to change his hair." --The Chuckster himself, responding when told his hair came up during a discussion of HILLARY!'s latest "do." ______--------********O********--------______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Village Glitterati" Award: In one of the most expensive residential property deals in California history, Ms. Okra Winfrey is buying a Santa Barbara estate for $50 million. Now she can really feel our pain! {} This week's "Tyranny of the Few" Award: "The AOL service around the world has been geared as a communications and lifestyle service, respecting the cultures and the different regulations in each country in which AOL operates,'' AOL Time Warner chief executive Gerald Levin, announcing a joint venture to provide Internet service to Red China, while assisting with the Reds' censorship of content. **That explains the Federalist blackout! {} This week's "Dumbing Down" Award: "It's time we started acting intelligently or we aren't even going to be here in 100 years. ...We should be worrying about global warming and environmental degradation, not North Korea." --AOL executive Ted Turner {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: "This is what public education is all about. It's all about inclusion. It's all about tolerance for everyone." --Westchester County, N.Y., school superintendent Robert Siebert on Eastchester High School's art teacher, who will be returning in the fall as a sexually reassigned "female." **What did your kids learn today? ______--------********O********--------______ SHORT CUTS "Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." --George W. Bush at a news conference during his European tour. {} "If Bush turns the other cheek anymore, his head will fall off." --Deroy Murdock {} "It was the noisiest thing I ever heard. I turned my hearing aids all the way down and kept my hands over my ears much of the time." --Sen. Jesse Helms at a news conference on his attendance of a U2 tour concert. {} "[Trent] Lott never scheduled [Senate] votes on Tuesday when he has a standing appointment at his veterinarian to be groomed." --Norman Liebmann {} "Just as New York became famous for Woodstock, Vermont has become famous for Laughingstock." --Norman Liebmann {} "That singing senators quartet has a big problem now that Jim Jeffords has left it. Where will they find another soprano?" --Lyn Nofziger {} "If they pull this off [HarperCollins removing the Christian content from the C.S. Lewis series 'The Chronicles of Narnia'], we can only guess what's next: Dante's Inferno without hell? Paradise Misplaced? How about Pilgrim Goes Nowhere in Particular?" --Charles Colson {} "This is such a thrill. This was my dream. I always wanted to get them in Cooperstown." --Karen Shemonsky, who paid $8,000 for Ty Cobb's dentures, and donated them to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Night Lines: Leno.... Timothy McVeigh was voted off the planet! McVeigh refused to meet with his lawyer on the day of his execution. I guess he knew he'd be meeting enough of them later on. .... Good news. NBC is reporting that Timothy McVeigh is still dead! That is good news. .... Congress is about to pass an education bill. The president is expected to sign it. The bill is interesting -- it calls for not letting marginal students slip through the cracks and go on to become, you know, president. .... Former president Clinton has been at the Belmont Stakes, the NBA Finals and the French Open in the past week. This is all part of his "anything to stay away from Hillary" tour! .... Bozo the Clown has retired after 41 years. He said he retired now because he didn't want to go on any longer and look ridiculous. .... Did you see the NBA Finals game four last night? The Lakers were so far ahead they put in the white guy! .... Some sad news from Hollywood. First, Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche split up. Now it turns out that Melissa Etheridge and her companion have broken up. I think it's Los Angeles. Even women can't commit in this town. How are men supposed to? .... The gay pride parade in West Hollywood was the other day. Do you suppose that was confusing for Anne Heche? What did she do? Walk halfway through the parade and then turn around? Letterman.... George W. Bush is back from Europe. He says when he was meeting with Russian president Vladmir Putin that he could see his soul through his eyes. Isn't this an old Clinton pick-up line? .... Letterman's Top Pieces Of Fatherly Advice From George W. Bush: "You're coming to me for advice? Okay, that's mistake number one." "Do as I saying, not as I doing did." "At school, sit next to one of Dick Cheney's kids and copy off them." "You can't go through life getting arrested and making an [@$$] out of yourself...just kidding." "Watch what you eat or you'll bloat up like Al Gore." "If you ever get in a jam, call my dad -- it's always worked for me." "Your mother is tired of your idiotic behavior and says you're a disgrace to this family...no, wait, that's what she said about me." "Remember the motto of my predecessor: it's only a crime if you get caught." "Never use a fake ID to buy hooch -- that's what secret service guys are for." "Keep up the good work, girls -- at this rate you'll be president some day." (**) Denotes Editor's Comment -- 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? 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