-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record 29 June 2001 Federalist #01-26.dgst Retrieve today's Digest as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF -- it's much easier reading than e-mail text! Link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp To purchase a book from the Patriot's Library, link to -- http://www.federalist.com/books.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: The Founders Federalist Perspective Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Dezinformatsia Leftovers Village Idiots Short Cuts ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "A republic ... if you can keep it." --Benjamin Franklin ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE The BIG news this week, Reagan Republicanism comes roaring back! (Quisling RINOs, beware!) In a stunning demonstration that even the Garden State of New Jersey is not a lost cause for The Federalist's brand of principled constitutional conservatism, Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler won Tuesday's Republican gubernatorial primary there, besting the GOP establishment's handpicked and heavily protected candidate, former U.S. congressman Bob Franks. Schundler, an outspoken social and fiscal conservative, collected 57% of the vote -- AKA "landslide." In 1996, Mr. Schundler became Jersey City's first GOP mayor in 75 years and has been re-elected twice, even though only 6% of Jersey City voters are registered Republicans and 68% of registered voters are racial minorities. In the 2000 election, Mr. Schundler won 64% in the city's most Hispanic voting district and 45% in the district with most black voters. He won those elections on conservative themes, the same ideas he expressed in his victory speech Tuesday night: "We have a moral responsibility to get taxes down ... to give you the tax relief you deserve. We need to do better for our children across the state. Every human life has dignity. Every human life has value....We will fight the special interests. And we will win!" Schundler will next face Democratic nominee Jim McGreevey for the November election. Of that challenge the Wall Street Journal notes: "In 1966, Democrats in California desperately wanted a 55-year-old actor named Ronald Reagan to win the GOP primary for governor. They got their wish, but Mr. Reagan connected with voters and the rest is history. Mr. Schundler has already won over Jersey City voters three times. He is running as a reform conservative, and his big victory shows the voters are interested. Don't be surprised if he confounds the experts yet again." McGreevey wasted no time launching his campaign: "Carrying a concealed weapon is not a new idea, it's a bad idea. Taking money from public schools is not a new idea, it's a bad idea. Preventing abortions...is not a new idea, it's a bad idea." Quote of the week... "President Bush, the Congress and state legislators handing over more money to the education establishment will do nothing to end America's education rot. More money will simply spread it. As to teacher training, what's needed is for teachers to have degrees in the subject they teach and maybe a class or two in pedagogy. For this, schools of education are surely not needed." --Walter Williams On cross-examination... "Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage. ...Why, then, doesn't the same logic apply to guns?" --Michelle Malkin Open query... "Do the Communist Chinese have to murder American personnel or attack the United States or our allies with their missiles before those who blithesomely pontificate about the civilizing benefits of building the Chinese economy will admit that China for a decade has been going in the opposite direction than predicted by the so-called 'free traders'." --Rep. Dana Rohrabacher News from the swamp... In the Executive Branch, world-renowned climatologist Dr. Fred Singer praised President George Bush's decision to reject the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, despite protests from some Europeans and environmental groups. "It is a victory for the American people arrived at after a considerable amount of debate within the Bush cabinet," said Singer. In the House of Lords, as predicted, the Senate Judiciary Committee, now in the hands of Sociocrats Charles Schumer and Leahy, Kennedy, Feinstein, and Durbin, convened a hearing to discuss the question, "Does Ideology Matter?" Schumer says that the Senate is justified in opposing Bush nominees "whose views fall outside the mainstream." In other words, Schumer wants his Senate committee to have the authority to exclude any nominee who does not share his worldview from a vote in the full Senate. As legal scholar Thomas Jipping says, "Demanding to know how a judge will rule on issues is demanding that he violate his judicial oath before even taking it...." In other news from the Left, Demo Sen. Zell "Zig-Zag" Miller told his colleagues what they must do to win elections in the "New South." "Unlike our GOP opponents," says Miller, "we have to prove that we will not raise taxes, let all of the crooks out of prison, pour the public's money down a variety of rat holes, double everybody's welfare check, condone the burning of the American flag, let serial ax-murderers escape the electric chair, confiscate everybody's guns and take down the Christmas tree at city hall." Memo to Zell: You just wrote off the entire Demo platform. In the people's legislature, the House voted 242 to 173 to ban new leases for gas, oil and coal extraction on public lands with "national monument" status. Making matters worse, they then voted 247 to 164 to block the Interior Department from signing leases for oil and gas exploration in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Both House and Senate Republicans continue to complain about certain aspects of pending education and health care legislation. Only a handful of them have mentioned that nowhere does our Constitution authorize any of this folly. Of course, the U.S. Constitution -- the same one so many of those Beltway stuffed shirts and empty suits are sworn to uphold -- does not authorize 80% of the central government's current activities -- except as the Leftjudiciary has interpreted such authority. But then, the Founders explicitly refuted any authority for the judiciary to "interpret" the Constitution. (Is anyone paying attention out there?) Memo to all concerned: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State." --James Madison, author of our Constitution, in Federalist Paper No. 45 Speaking of "health care," here is a quote from Teddy Kennedy on HMOs in March of 1978: "As the author of the first HMO bill to ever pass the Senate, I find this spreading support for HMOs truly gratifying." Here is what Uncle Teddy had to say about HMOs last month: "It is time to end the abuses of managed care that victimize thousands of patients each day. It is time for doctors and nurses and patients to make medical decisions again, not insurance company accountants." And, speaking of victims, Teddy has a new Portuguese water dog. He named it "Splash." Apparently "Chappaquiddick" was too hard to say after the Kennedy cocktail hour. The Sociocrats... Just in time for the 4th, Sen. Jim Jeffords has a new book entitled, "My Declaration of Independence." His publisher, David Rosenthal, declares, "Senator Jeffords's decision [to defect] constitutes one of the great acts of courage in political history." Memo to Jim: We think the original Declaration of Independence is sufficient, and the acts of its signers a bit more courageous! Judicial Benchmarks... In the halls of justice on the right, a federal appeals court unanimously reversed U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's order that Microsoft be divvied up, saying Jackson was guilty of "serious judicial misconduct" while hearing the antitrust case. House Majority Leader Dick Armey commented: "I applaud today's ruling because it's good for American competitiveness. It sends the message that innovation in America will be rewarded, not punished. ..Government needs to get off the back of our innovators so that high tech America can prosper." >From the Supremes, a ruling that the state of New Jersey may prohibit elementary schoolchild Zachary Hood from reading a "favorite story" to his class from "The Beginner's Bible." In this case, the Supremes had the authority to rule, as the child's constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights were infringed. Unfortunately, they denied his right to the same expression of free speech assured to his classmates. "If [Zachary's selection] had been about, say, Bruce and Ralph, it would have aroused no objections," notes George Will. In other news from the Supremes, almost three decades after the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in all states, the original plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey, is asking a federal court to rehear her case. "My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation," said Ms. McCorvey, AKA "Jane Roe." McCorvey and Sandra Cano (of the Roe companion case Doe v. Bolton) have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the federal 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in connection with a class action lawsuit against abortion providers. In an open letter, Ms. McCorvey says: "I owe you an apology. I said I was gang raped. And I wasn't. I said I didn't know who the father of my baby was. And I did. I said I wanted someone to kill my baby. And what I really wanted was someone to help me. It was a nasty, bald-faced lie. And I knew it. For years abortion was my life. But the day-to-day stress of helping kill babies was eating away at my soul." Columnist Kathleen Parker responds: "There's something irresistible about truth and saying: We're sorry. We were wrong. ... We are all responsible [for abortion] inasmuch as we -- our society, culture, nation, our courts -- have said that abortion is OK." The Commissars... Getting it right! Last week, we commented on the highly political findings of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights regarding Florida voting irregularities in Bush v. Gore. Two commissioners, Abigail Thernstrom and Russell G. Redenbaugh (Thernstrom the only Republican on the commission), released their 57 page rebuttal to the original USCCR report. It can be summarized in two sentences: "The Commission has written a dangerous and divisive document. It certainly provides no basis upon which to reform the electoral process in Florida or anywhere else." >From the department of military readiness... Now that Mr. Bush has shelved his "help is on the way" promise to restore our military might, Citizens Against Government Waste notes that since our 1991 victory in the Persian Gulf, there are a few glaring examples of decay in our military force readiness. The Army's force has been cut in half, and only 40% of its helicopter fleet are mission ready. Last year, the Navy had a recruiting shortfall of more than 18,000. The Air Force is projecting it will be 2,000 pilots short by next year. And nearly 12,000 military personnel are on food stamps. >From the states... Utah's Department of Human Services ruled that Mr. Ryan King cannot become a foster parent because he has a concealed-weapon permit. According to the Salt Lake Tribune: "Administrative hearing officer Mary Rudolph wrote in her January decision that King 'argues he has a constitutional right to carry a concealed weapon and be a foster parent.' To be licensed to be a foster parent is a privilege. Even if [King] now were to agree to comply with the rule [to give up his firearm], he would not be credible because of his insistence." >From the state of Missouri, the Benetton clothing company, which ran an ad campaign sympathizing with death row murderers, settled a lawsuit filed by the state and agreed to apologize and donate $50,000 to the Missouri Crime Victims Compensation Fund. Apparently Benetton operatives posed as officials from the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and convinced Missouri correctional officials to allow them to interview death row inmates. Benetton then posted those interviews on their Web site. The company pulled the same con in Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Oregon, all of which are considering similar charges against Benetton. And of interest to, well, surely somebody, the Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce is backing a proposal to drop "North" from the state's name. The Associated Press reports, "Supporters insist the plan would help alter the state's image as a frigid, treeless prairie." National Review Online responds, "If that doesn't work, maybe they can try "Equatorial Dakota." Hey, aren't all "Dakotans" like those guys in the movie "Fargo"? Our editor out there certainly meets that description. The "Dumb and Dumber" Department... >From the "Constitutional Scholar -- NOT!" Department, Mr. Dennis Henigan of Handgun Control, Inc., needs some very elementary assistance in understanding our nation's guiding document. Recently, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, "Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms." To which, Mr. Henigan replied, "It is astonishing that our nation's chief law enforcement officer would have such a grossly misinformed position on a fundamental constitutional issue." Gun control commissars are furious that Mr. Ashcroft has proposed that the FBI dispose of guns purchase records within 24 hours of a sale rather than maintaining that data for 180 days. Of course, if gun registration information passes through central government computers for a nanosecond, only the most nescient gun owner would assume it is not permanently stored in some black hole. Memo to Mr. Henigan: As we approach Independence Day, perhaps we should check in with Thomas Jefferson, the author of that old Declaration, on the subject of the Second Amendment. He stated clearly, "No free man shall ever be debarred from the use of arms." Still having trouble with the concept, Mr. Henigan? James Madison, the author of that old Constitution, appointed Justice Joseph Story to his Supreme Court. Justice Story said of the Second Amendment, "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the Republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers...." But then, perhaps Jefferson, Madison and Story were just "grossly misinformed." Court Jesters... >From the "Department of Injustice," Columbus, Ohio, police have arrested Charles Spignola and Thomas Meyer, and charged them with "open burning, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail," according to the Columbus Dispatch. The perpetrators burned a "gay-pride" flag in protest against the Columbus Pride Parade last weekend. "It's legal to burn the American flag," complained Spignola's wife. "We thought it's OK to burn the queer flag." Memo to Ms. Spignola: The First Amendment, as interpreted by the courts, only guarantees "PC" speech -- not "free" speech. In economic news... 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