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Daschle also this week warned he will block any legislation allowing oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). He had previously assured a vote on ANWR this month. Demo Fritz Hollings was in charge of advancing the Enron/White House nonsense this week: "There's a culture of government corruption. I've never seen a better example of cash-and-carry government than this Bush Administration and Enron." Fritz did not mention that he also received thousands of dollars from Enron, and more than $1.2 MILLION in business PAC donations since his last election. Other Demo-gogues on Enron's payola roll: Chuck Schumer ($22,000), Tom Daschle ($6,000) and Joe LIEberman ($2,000). Why even the champion of so-called "campaign finance reform," John McCain, collected $9,500! Over in the House, ultra-Leftist Sheila Jackson Lee tucked away $38,000. (Yes, that is the same Sheila Jackson Lee who, though her residence is only a few hundred feet from her office at the Cannon HOB, is, as noted in Weekly Standard, "chauffeured the one short block to work -- in a government car, by a member of her staff, at the taxpayers expense...apparently in violation of House rules.") But hey, don't expect the Leftmedia cartel to make hay of the above mentioned Enron collections -- or the fact that the titular head of their party, DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe, cashed out $17,900,000 on his $100,000 investment in Global Crossing -- prior to its recent collapse. >From the Left... You thought the movie "Dead Man Walking" couldn't have a sequel? Albert Arnold Gore is back, and making presidential campaign noises, starting in his "home" state of Tennessee, which he lost in 2000, costing him the presidency: "It is now clear that our nation's economic policy is simply not working, especially for those who most depend on its success. We need a government that lives within its means, invests in the American people and supports tax cuts that are fair and go to those who need them. What we don't need is a government whose budget is based on inaccurate assumptions, and whose priorities provide special favors for the few over the many." Thanks for that insight, Al! Judicial Benchmarks... In the halls of justice on the right, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a devout Catholic, spoke in Washington about his disagreement with Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty, saying that judges who believe capital punishment to be morally wrong should resign if they cannot bring themselves to hand down death sentences. In the halls of injustice on the left, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler handed a victory to Clintonista Civil Right Commissioner Mary Frances Berry ruling that commissioner Victoria Wilson has a right to fulfill a 6-year commission term, despite being a Clinton appointee to fill a term that expired last year. Mr. Bush, quite rightly, had sent his own appointee for the new term, and the DOJ will appeal the decision. The Commissars... Three members of the Jacobs family of Boca Raton, Florida, have volunteered themselves to Applied Digital Solutions for the world's first human microchip implants including personal information. Derek Jacobs, 14, raved, "I think it's one more step in the evolution of man and technology.... There are endless possibilities for this." Endless indeed.... Regarding the redistribution of your income... If the best use of the IRS would be as a national sales tax administrator dealing with the states, could there be a worse use than turning the agency into an income tax return preparation service? Leslie K. Paige, of Citizens Against Government Waste, argues against the proposal: "The IRS is a grossly mismanaged agency, having proven time and again that it cannot guarantee accuracy, privacy, security or cost savings when it comes to electronic filing. This move would give the federal government new opportunities to snoop into private lives and will be a guaranteed government waste disaster. Permitting the IRS to be both tax collector and tax preparer is a clear conflict of interest and invites all sorts of mischief and abuses. Private accounting and tax preparation firms confidentially advise taxpayers how to legally reduce their tax burdens. Contrarily, it is in the IRS's best interest to maximize tax returns." Hey, if conflict of interest is no problem, why not just hire Arthur Andersen to outsource IRS functions? After all, they are experts! >From the department of military readiness/correctness... A coalition of national security analysts this week urged Mr. Bush to reconsider automatic renewal of the Pentagon's Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS). Established in 1951 to advise the Defense Department on matters related to women in the armed forces, the committee's charter comes up for renewal every two years in February. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness and a former DACOWITS member, is now critical: "DACOWITS constantly promotes policies that would hurt the [anti-terrorism] war effort by taking political correctness to extremes. America can no longer afford politically correct policies that drive up costs, complicate missions and endanger lives. ... [Military women's] interests have not been well served by civilian feminists and their allies whose demands could cost lives in a war that America must win." Well said! >From the states... Whether coastal or inland, most states are now flooded with red ink in the weak economy. Just like the Swampsters, state legislators cannot wean themselves from addiction to spending taxpayer money! A sampler: Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker intends to tap the state's $1 billion rainy day fund, created in 1985, for the second time ever to cover $550 million of an expected $622 million shortfall. New York Gov. George Pataki wants $646 million of his state's $3 billion rainy day fund this year and another $1.7 billion for next year's projected deficit. Michigan Gov. John Engler wants state cash reserves of $284 million to cover the current year's budget deficit, and more in coming years. And to balance Maine's budget, Gov. Angus King wants almost all of the state's $102 million emergency savings account. In business news... Stocks fell sharply following Tom Daschle's midweek announcement that he'll be shelving Bush's stimulus package. Treasury Secretary O'Neill explained that with a stimulus package we can expect as much as a 3.5% growth in the economy...but then again economic recovery wouldn't be in the best interest of Demo re-election bids. The "Non Compos Mentis" Department... Adam Zaretsky, a San Francisco-based "conceptual artist," describes his most recent "artwork" thusly: "I'm actually trying to blur the boundary between what is human culture and what is reality." His project? He is appearing as "Zed, species Homo sapiens," in the Salina, Kansas, "Workhorse Zoo" exhibit, living in an 8-by-8-foot glass zoo exhibition room with albino frogs, mice, microscopic worms and yeast. Zaretsky received a $20,000 grant to stage his weeklong stay as a zoo animal. Culture comment... The International Olympic Committee is apparently a hot bed of anti-American (and anti-traditional) sentiment as the Winter Games open at Salt Lake City. When U.S. athletes expressed wishes to carry at opening ceremonies the flag recovered from New York's "Ground Zero," the IOC initially refused the request, with IOC Director General François Carrard saying, "These games are held in the United States and we have deep respect and sympathy for everything that has happened since September 11. But let's not forget the games is a universal event." Under pressure from outraged Americans, the IOC rescinded that decision. And, for the record, there are more military troops in Utah providing security for the Olympic games than are in Afghanistan hunting down al Qaeda. Faith Matters... Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, President Bush called these days after the 9-11 attacks a "time of testing" for our nation and commended prayer as a guide: " "Millions of Americans have been led to prayer. They have prayed for comfort in time of grief, for understanding in a time of anger, for protection in a time of uncertainty. Many, including me, have been on bended knee. ... Our country has never had an official faith. Yet we have all been witnesses, these past 21 weeks, to the power of faith to see us through the hurt and loss that has come on to the country. ... There will be hardships ahead. And faith will not make our path easy, but it will gives us strength for the journey. ...The promise of faith is not the absence of suffering, it is the presence of grace." On the frontiers of junk science... The American Academy of Pediatrics Monday issued a statement endorsing homosexual adoption, saying, "Children who are born to or adopted by one member of a same-sex couple deserve the security of two legally recognized parents." Although the newly announced policy focuses specifically on extending legal adoption rights to homosexual "co-parents" whose partners have children, it could be expanded to include all adoptions by homosexual couples. A report in last year's American Social Review concluded that researchers have for years intentionally ignored or misrepresented data demonstrating that, compared with children in normal families, children of homosexual parents are usually more confused about their sexuality and more likely to explore homosexual activity. The Federalist has alerted you previously that the worst junk science is undertaken for politicized ends, and we expect this to be the latest salvo in the battle for so-called "gay marriage." Around the world... You may have heard that Mr. Bush will be visiting Red China soon. You probably have not heard that Communist China's military has been secretly buying U.S. commercial satellite photographs of Taiwan most useful for targeting a missile attack. The Reds have used a South Korean company as a "cutout" to buy the photos, despite cross-straits rhetoric suggesting a willingness for diplomacy to supplant possible hostile military offensives. Larry Wortzel, a Heritage Foundation specialist on the Chinese military, worried, quite reasonably: "Despite the talk by China's communist leaders about seeking a peaceful resolution in the Taiwan Strait, the People's Liberation Army is methodically preparing for the use of ballistic missiles and terrain and contour-modeling [tercom] cruise missiles to attack the democratic nation on Taiwan in order to bring it under communist rule." Speaking of the Red Chinese and peaceful solutions, PLO terrorist Yasser Arafat noted this week, "We have very strong relations with the Chinese people. We cannot forget the help from the Chinese people, the government and the party. They help us by all means in all fields." Regarding Arafat's recent assertion in the New York Times that he is really a peace-lovin' guy, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice rebutted: "What Chairman Arafat needs to do is to deal with the terrorists in his midst. He knows what he needs to do. He knows that there are Hamas and Hezbollah elements around him. He knows that the Karine A affair -- the shipment of arms apparently was purchased from Iran and shipped through Hezbollah -- is a violation of the Oslo Accords." And last... >From the "Not Quite Ready for Prime Time" files, Reuters reports: "A man who tried to extinguish the 'eternal flame' burning under the Arc de Triomphe by sitting on it has been treated in hospital for burns to his bottom." 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