03 December 2004 Federalist Patriot No. 04-48 Friday Digest Restore the legacy! Support The Federalist Patriot -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/support.asp
*Manage Subscription: To change your e-mail address, select editions and formats, view recent archives, send comments or to unsubscribe, Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/services.asp Visit the Patriot Shop: Link to -- http://PatriotShop.us/ ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves." --George Washington ______----********O********----______ THE PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE On the Right Track -- The Conservative Mandate In the wake of President George W. Bush's re-election and nationwide victories for down-ballot conservatives, this column, for the record, reaffirms the principles upon which they were elected: constitutionally limited government, a strong national defense, the prospect of restoring fiscal discipline to government, and an unwavering commitment to the traditional moral stakes of our Republic. President Bush's brief post-election comments have been unifying, especially in contrast to the largely divisive words of his vanquished opponents. The President outlined an agenda supported by the vast majority of Americans: reforming our outdated tax code, strengthening Social Security, improving public schools, upholding our deepest values of family and faith, and holding the front lines with Jihadistan -- not only by taking the fight directly to the terrorists, but also by establishing democracies in Middle East countries. Despite insistence from the Left that President Bush must "govern from the center," it's clear that the President's first-term efforts to mollify the Left produced only vitriol and knee-jerk obstructionism. Consequently, such efforts shouldn't be a strategic centerpiece of the President's second term. Clearly, John Kerry's rhetoric during the past year -- and that of his many surrogates, from Al Gore to Al Sharpton to Al Franken -- has sharply divided the nation. Thus, in order for President Bush to make good use of his conservative mandate, he'll have to take his case over the heads of the Leftelite on Capitol Hill and directly to the American people -- just as Ronald Reagan did back in 1981. In recent weeks, as anticipated, President Bush has begun to restructure his cabinet. Such a restructuring is common at the onset of a second term, and we expect these appointments will largely reflect the administration's commitment to the comprehensive conservative (federalist) policies outlined below. National Security and Homeland Defense: First and foremost, continue to allocate all resources necessary to advance the campaign against Jihadi terrorists. It cannot be said too often: We choose to fight the war abroad so we don't have to fight it here at home. Continue reorganizing the Department of Defense into a leaner, more agile and lethal military machine, maximally capable of addressing the asymmetric threats of the post-Cold War world. Continue to develop and strengthen alliances to fight the war on terrorism and address other issues vital to our national security: Nuclear proliferation, stability in the Middle East, and viable solutions to illegal immigration and border control, particularly in the Southwestern U.S. On the subject of immigration, we believe the Bush administration's chief shortcoming has been its failure to enforce existing immigration law. The administration's immigration-reform plan, shelved since the events of September 11, 2001, does not represent an "amnesty" plan for illegal immigrants, as many have suggested, but attempts to deal with border control by addressing economic issues first. However, in the context of our war against Jihadistan (Islamic terrorists), we contend that border control must come first; only then can economic and labor concerns be responsibly addressed. (Next week, Patriot Digest 04-49 will address the issue of immigration head on -- and our position may surprise you.) Promote greater internal political stability (democracy) and economic integration throughout Eastern Europe and Asia. Continue the development and deployment of strategic missile-defense. Here, the initial deployment of Aegis-class destroyers off the coast of North Korea is an encouraging first step. More aggressively pursue a greater degree of national energy independence. This should include responsibly drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, increasing our oil-refining capacity to better absorb instability in the international market, and -- perhaps most important -- encouraging the forces of the free market to develop alternative energy sources. Legislative Agenda: Reform the national tax system by eliminating the current U.S. tax code and replacing it with a flat tax (as proposed by Dick Armey and Dennis Hastert) or a national sales tax. The first priority must be to dispose of a tax system that has stifled competitiveness and growth since its advent, and commence earnest debate of the alternatives. (In two weeks, Patriot Digest 04-50 will address the ways, means, and virtues of scrapping the current tax system and evaluate the options for a new code.) Reform Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs; more than all discretionary spending combined, these programs contribute to the national deficit, place a drag on economic growth, and loom as potential fiscal crises over our nation's economy. Reverse the exponential growth of the federal bureaucracy and return government to the role envisioned by our nation's federalist Founders. Secure a line-item veto for budgetary legislation, thereby allowing the President to combat Congress's irrepressible urge to waste your hard-earned tax dollars on its pork-barrel pet projects. Institute far-reaching tort reform, thereby reducing the frivolous lawsuits that stymie business growth and competitiveness and make medical insurance unaffordable. Aggressively defend the traditional values of our Republic: Reaffirming the right to life and fostering a reverence for it in every area of our society; and reaffirming the institution of marriage, while supporting the traditional family as the fundamental unit of American life. Judges, Judges, Judges: RINO (Republican in Name Only) Senator Arlen Specter is poised to assume the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This means that this powerful seat will not be in the hands of a constitutional constructionist who will aggressively advance the President's judicial nominees. Yet Specter is well aware that he owes his political life to this President, who came to Pennsylvania earlier this year to rescue him from a down-to-the-wire primary challenge by conservative Congressman Pat Toomey. Given this and the enormous grassroots pressure put to bear on Specter since his ill-advised post-election comments about pro-life judicial nominees, we believe he'll fall in line. And he'd better. Specter has a 42-percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union -- exactly HALF the average for Republican senators. Specter's specific transgressions include "borking" Ronald Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork in 1987; helping kill Reagan's judicial nomination of now-Alabama Senator and Judiciary Committee colleague Jeff Sessions; voting for the largest tax increase in history under Bill Clinton; and sponsoring the "Freedom of Choice Act," which would have forced religious hospitals to perform abortions. Needless to say, our patience with Senator Specter is wearing thin. Regardless, the President and Senate Republicans should press with all possible force for up-or-down floor votes on all his judicial nominees, and the President should relentlessly continue nominating conservative constructionists for the now back-logged federal courts. In the regretful event of ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist's departure from the Supreme Court, we urge the President to nominate one of that court's two most reliably constructionist members, Justice Antonin Scalia or Justice Clarence Thomas, as its new Chief. Conclusion: Granted, while President Bush enjoys strong support in the House, his 55-45 Senate majority includes a few RINOs who are likely to continue obstructing the constitutional constructionist (read: conservative) agenda. To be sure, there are a few DINOs on the other side of the aisle. And the Patriot Southeast, once dominated by Democrats, now counts just four Demos among its 24 senators. These four, as well as every red-state Demo senator (especially those up for re-election in 2006), are sure to feel pressure to work with President Bush -- or, at the very least, not to categorically obstruct him. Likewise, Sen. Harry Reid, who is most likely to succeed deposed Demo leader Tom Daschle, is from Nevada, which, as you may recall, is also a red state. We encourage you to register your support by signing "Keep America on the Right Track: The Conservative Mandate." Please link to http://patriotpetitions.us/right/ Quote of the week... "We will continue our economic progress. We'll reform our outdated tax code. We'll strengthen the Social Security for the next generation. We'll make public schools all they can be. And we will uphold our deepest values of family and faith." --President George W. Bush On cross-examination... "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." --Sen. Barry Goldwater, the great intellectual forerunner of the Reagan Revolution ______----********O********----______ Cal Thomas reads The Patriot... 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TO SUPPORT THE 2004 PATRIOT FUND ONLINE: Link to our Secure Commerce Page at -- http://FederalistPatriot.com/support.asp TO SUPPORT THE PATRIOT FUND BY MAIL: Recommended Operation Support Levels: Family Defender: $26 (50c/week) Frontline Patriot: $39 (75c/week) Company Command: $52 ($1/week) Recommended Mission Support Levels: Battalion Command: $100 Regiment Command: $250 Division Command: $500 Corps Command: $1000 Send your contribution to: The Patriot Annual Fund P.O. Box 507 Chattanooga, TN 37401-0507 (Please make your check payable to "The Patriot Annual Fund", and please note your e-mail address on the memo line so we can credit your contribution to your subscriber account, and so our publisher can thank you. Include a self-addressed, stamped #10 [10" business] envelope with your donation, and we will send you our trademark slogans "Veritas vos Liberabit" [the Truth will set you free], "Annoy a Liberal," "Red States" and other great stickers.) Open query... "President Bush traveled to Canada this week. Canadians are not, we are told, happy with the President because of the whole Iraq thing. Memo to Canada: Americans don't much care what you think because we know that Canada's biggest asset is sharing a billion-mile border with us. ... Nearly 87% of everything Canada exports, it exports to the U.S. of A., which works out to about a billion dollars per working day. How about if we close the border to Canadian imports every, say, Tuesday. For a year. ... Canada's principal import from the US has been draft dodgers. ... Here's a good idea: Canada sends us its physicists and mathematicians, we send Canada...Michael Moore. ... A Canadian commentator on NPR earlier this week said Canadians were waiting to see what olive branch the President would be bringing. Canadians have so little contact with reality they believed President Bush was coming up there to apologize. For what?" --Rich Galen (With apologies to our many conservative readers in Canada!) President Bush was gracious to his Canadian hosts, and quipped, "I, frankly, felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable, and I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers." The BIG lie... "Despite the words of cooperation and moderate-sounding promises, this administration is planning a right wing assault on values and ideals we hold most deeply. Healthy debate and diverse opinion are being eliminated from the State Department and CIA, and the cabinet is being remade to rubber-stamp policies that will undermine Social Security, balloon the deficit, avoid real reforms in health care and education, weaken homeland security, and walk away from critical allies around the world." --John F. Something-or-other, in a characteristic display of post-election dignity and grace This week's "Braying Jackass" award: "Regardless of the outcome of this election, once all the votes are counted -- and they will be counted -- we will continue to challenge this administration. This is not a time for Democrats to retreat and accommodate extremists on critical principles -- it is a time to stand firm. ... I will fight for a national standard for federal elections that has both transparency and accountability in our voting system. It's unacceptable in the United States that people still don't have full confidence in the integrity of the voting process." --John Kerry, ever the magnanimous loser, lending credence to the Hard Left's cockamamie claim that George W. Bush stole the election. In news from the Left... In a fever of denial we'll call the "Ukraine Syndrome," the Kerry-Edwards campaign, joined by the Green Party, Libertarian Party and Je$$e Jack$on, filed a lawsuit in an Ohio court this week to demand a recount of the state's Election Day vote. Even after counting the many provisional ballots -- most of which would not stand in a general recount -- President Bush still won by 130,000 votes in Ohio, compared to Kerry's win by 130,000 in Pennsylvania, 11,000 in Wisconsin, and only 10,000 in New Hampshire! Even as Kerry remains a thorn in the side of Republicans, Ohioans, and probably Ukrainians as well, he has also taken up the task of annoying his Democrat comrades. Kerry had been lobbying hard for Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to replace Terry McAuliffe as chairman of the Democrat National Committee. The idea behind the maneuver was probably to place someone in Kerry's debt into the top spot at the DNC and thus help pave his way toward the nomination in 2008. Vilsack turned the offer down, but that hasn't stopped the junior Senator from Massachusetts from weighing in on the several names floating around for the job, which include Howard Dean, former Clintonite Harold Ickes, and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. News from the Swamp... President Bush has stepped into the legislative fray in an attempt to save intelligence-reform legislation before the 108th Congress adjourns for good in a few days. President Bush hopes that House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will be able to rally Republican support. The bill, which closely follows the recommendations set forth by the 9/11 Commission, is meant to reform the nation's intelligence apparatus. After months of debate over the role of an intended National Intelligence Director and budget issues, the final version hit a serious snag in the House early last week, stalling over concerns that it lacks key immigration and border-security controls and weakens military-intelligence capabilities. The Patriot supports intelligence reform where needed, but we do not support rushing through a bill that may be fatally flawed in matters vital to national security. Instead, we urge lawmakers of the 109th Congress to hit the ground running with meaningful reform that addresses issues essential to our security, immigration reform among them. But if President Bush, the majority in the Senate and the liberal half of the 9/11 victims' families want a bill called "9/11 Reform" to be passed posthaste, no matter how empty, cooler heads may not be able to save the day. In other news from the White House, President Bush named Carlos Gutierrez as his pick for Commerce Secretary. Gutierrez, who would replace longtime Bush supporter Donald Evans, is chief executive of Kellogg's, a company he, as a corporate heavyweight, helped recreate. Gutierrez's nomination signals a new direction for Bush's economic team, which will focus on his ambitious, and welcome, plan to reform the tax code. To tackle this Herculean task, the President will need people in position who can work with Congress and the markets. We look forward to seeing how all this will shape up in the coming months. Meanwhile, Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales has come under fire from civil rights organizations urging examination of his role in setting administration policy over prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This is a predictable lefty move, since the Gitmo prisoners have become a rallying cry for the ACLU and other like-minded groups. Still, it's unlikely to have any effect on Gonzales' confirmation. On the National Security Front... When the mainstream media hears about someone riling a hornet's nest in Washington, they take the side of the hornets. For example, if liberal Democrats raise a ruckus about conservative judge nominations, then the media insists there must be a problem with the judges. So it goes, when senior officials are dropping their cloaks and leaving the CIA and senators are clamoring for intelligence reform that's more symbolic than substantive. Apparently, someone is bothering innocent hornets in their nests. The new director of intelligence, Porter Goss, was a mid-level CIA official before he entered politics and earned elective office. That means one of two things: He really knows the CIA inside and out, or he's a brain dead bureaucrat who flat-lined in a desk job. If Goss' stick is stirring up senior vested hornets from the organization that promised the President himself 'slam dunk' guarantees on WMD in Iraq, then he may actually have a reason for wanting to remove a dangerous hornet's nest. Listen carefully to the criticisms that emerge. If he's changing organizational structure, process, and people, then he's probably doing a good job. Most Americans know that a buzzing hornet's nest is a good thing -- because the hornets are about to be destroyed. We shall see. On the Homeland Security front... As anticipated, Tom Ridge announced his resignation as Homeland Security secretary this week. Ridge, a former two-term governor of Pennsylvania, helped orchestrate the largest government reorganization in over 50 years. After September 11, the Homeland Security Department absorbed 22 separate government agencies and their 180,000 employees in an effort to streamline operations and eliminate redundancies in order to better defend the country against further terrorist attacks. While President Bush is set to nominate former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to replace Ridge, Mr. Kerik is not a typical cabinet-level nominee. He dropped out of high school to enlist in the Army and later worked for the New York City Police Department as an undercover narcotics officer. After only 15 years with NYPD, Kerik was appointed to the position of Police Commissioner in 2000 by New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Granted Kerik didn't have the benefit of the No Child Left Behind Act, but shouldn't a GED be a prerequisite qualification for appointment to the Homeland Security post? Of course, Albert Einstein didn't finish high school either. Though his academic vita lacks distinction, Kerik, who most recently oversaw the training of the post-Saddam Iraqi police force, is a dead-end kid turned street-savvy crime-fighter. As such, he has a keen understanding of the needs of first-responders. We believe he will prove a capable HomSec leader. He will be tasked with further refinements to the Homeland Security Department, which, in its present form, is an unmanageable bulwark of bureaucracy. As we noted back in 2001, we believe President Bush's consolidation of agencies under HomSec is part of a strategy to eliminate redundancies and reduce the size of government. Most of the growth in government in the last four years, including HomSec, has been contract labor, not internal growth. We foresee the appointment of a commission to recommend downsizing the Department of Homeland Security. >From the warfront with Jihadistan... More "war in our time"? Fellow Patriots, take note: You are witnessing a critical point in history. When the IAEA last week agreed to take Iran's word that it was not pursuing nuclear weapons, a future war between the United States and the Islamic Republic became a virtual certainty. The only remaining variable is whether Iran will have nukes when the United States executes the option of last resort -- the military option. The Europeans, proving beyond question that history repeats itself as farce, gave Iran everything short of Czechoslovakia in exchange for -- for what? For the solemn word of its mad mullahs that Iran does not want nukes, and nothing more. The historical parallel to Neville Chamberlain and the 1938 Munich Agreement with Hitler could not be clearer, and the results may well be equally tragic. When it can no longer be ignored or hidden that Iran is pursuing nukes, war will follow. Indeed, it must follow, and on our terms, before it's too late. A nuclear-armed Iran is not acceptable, and preventive war will be required to stop it. The coming war may well be the world's first between enemies each armed with nuclear weapons. And it may drag in fellow nuclear powers Israel, Pakistan and India. Ironically, it may threaten the destruction of the very European nations who produced the conditions necessary for it to happen. All this and more because Mr. Kerry's "Europeans," blinded by desire to counter American hard power with their soft power, have willfully ignored the lessons of 1938, and chosen appeasement over action. Stay tuned, and say your prayers. Judicial Benchmarks... The Alliance Defense Fund this week filed a lawsuit, Stephen J. Williams v. Cupertino Union School District, et al., seeking a restoration of constitutional liberties. Williams, a teacher at the Stevens Creek School in the Cupertino district, has been singled out for scrutiny of his lesson plans and supplemental classroom handouts, because he is a Christian in his religious beliefs and he is providing students with American history documents mentioning God favorably. Patricia Vidmar, principal at the school, has barred Williams from giving students texts including the Declaration of Independence, the diaries of George Washington and John Adams, and (one of our favorites) "The Rights of the Colonists" by Samuel Adams. Williams designed the curriculum in answer to student questions about why Congress inserted the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, as acknowledgment of U.S. beliefs about government. Note the manifold manifestations of hypocrisy and discrimination at the root of this case. The content subjected to hyper-scrutiny is factual, not doctrinaire, and historical (and thus germane to the classroom curriculum); moreover, the material was collected for the class in response to student questions about current events and forms only a minimal portion of materials given as supplements to students. Where is the ACLU? >From the "Global Commissars" File... Murphy's Law is the ageless observation that, "Anything that can go wrong, will, at the worst possible time." And the first corollary to Murphy's Law is, "The efficiency or effectiveness of any committee is inversely related to the number of its members." The United Nations is considering a proposal by its staff (i.e., bureaucracy) to expand the membership on the Security Council from 15 to 24, an increase of 60%. The common thread between this proposal and so many other risible ideas advanced by our public institutions is diversity. This proposal, to make the Security Council more reflective of the general membership, has nothing to do with the original mission of the UN to mediate conflicts and avoid hostilities. It is consistent with the primary objectives that have developed over the last 30 years, however -- namely, to provide a country club atmosphere in lower Manhattan to petty bureaucrats along with a venue for the most blatant forms of nepotism that the world has ever witnessed. The UN suffers from two fallacies. First, it considers all governments valid, legitimate, and equal. Consequently we find such human-rights revolutionaries as Libya, Iraq and Syria on the Human Rights Commission. No doubt, if the United States had left Iraq to the devices of Saddam Hussein, we could expect the arrival of Ambassador Uday to accept his seat at the UNHRC in 2008. Secondly, it is slavishly devoted to Article 51 of its Charter, restricting the use of force to countries that have been attacked. This is elementary-school playground logic that assumes an adult will intervene before somebody is seriously hurt. But don't look to the UN to be that adult, for it has shown an inability to make consistent decisions that will be exacerbated as a result of this further dilution of authority. The argument for a just war or pre-emptive action to save lives invariably falls on deaf ears at One UN Plaza. All the while, the tentacles of corruption in the UN's Oil-for-Food scam are creeping ever closer to the top. Last Friday, the UN confirmed that Kojo Annan, son of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, had received payments from the Swiss-based company Cotecna up until February of this year. Cotecna was involved in the Oil-for-Food program and has been linked to some of the program's rampant corruption. On Monday, Kofi Annan told reporters that he had no idea that his son was the recipient of as much as $150,000 from the company, and he expressed his disappointment and surprise, explaining such payments caused a "perception of conflict of interests and wrongdoing," which is something of an understatement. It will be interesting to monitor Kofi's 'disappointment and surprise' should the Oil-for-Food investigations lead to his office door! The UN is in desperate need of an overhaul, but relying on an entrenched bureaucracy to solve its systemic deficiencies is akin to placing a vampire in charge of a blood bank. Their private interest will always take precedence over their fiduciary responsibilities. >From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File... A federal-appeals court ruled in favor of schools that choose to ban military recruiters from campus, preventing the federal government from withholding education funds as punishment. A number of law schools, including Harvard's (no surprise here), have taken exception to the 1996 law out of spite for the so-called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on homosexuals in the military. Regardless of the perspective from which you take exception to this ruling, this case is a red herring. We in our editorial shop have been scratching our heads and feverishly flipping through the Constitution, but we've yet to finger the particular article which gives the federal government authority to fund education from the get-go. We're still searching.... Around the nation... >From the states, Pennsylvania's Judge Leonard Zito released 27 illegal aliens without so much as a slap on the wrist after local prosecutors filed suit against them for, well, being illegal. Fourteen of these folks were proven to have stolen social-security numbers of Americans in attempts to pass themselves as legal. Zito based the release on the supposition that the aliens should never have been arrested in the first place because they were simply seeking work. Huh? On the culture front... Kweisi Mfume, President of the NAACP, is resigning. Don't care? That's the point. Mfume took the organization out of deep debt, but it's hard to see how this money will benefit anyone. In the most recent edition of the NAACP magazine, it is lamented that "Every day millions of African Americans are locked out of a health-care system that treats patients based on skin color..." The proof, of course, is that blacks die of strokes 40% more often than whites but are treated for hypertension at slightly higher rates. No, it makes no sense to us either. If the NAACP is busy engaging in such faulty polemics, it is hardly surprising that the organization has descended from being an advocate of constitutionally guaranteed rights to its present role as a self-absorbed mouthpiece for the social and political Left. Family and faith matters... At least a bit of shock this week from the mainstream United Methodist Church, which convicted the Rev. Irene Stroud for living in an openly homosexual relationship, contrary to Scripture and church law. After the 12-1 peer-jury ruling, Stroud was defrocked. Though UMC law bans "self-avowed, practicing homosexuals" from ministry, a church court in Washington state acquitted the Rev. Karen Dammann under similar circumstances last March, citing the law's "ambiguity." Stroud's conviction represents the UMC's first since 1987. Around the world... While electoral turmoil continued to rock Ukraine and threatened to tear the country apart, there were signs of hope that the crisis could yet end peacefully. On Wednesday, the Ukrainian parliament dismissed the government of Prime Minister -- and self-proclaimed election winner -- Viktor Yanukovych by passing a no-confidence measure, while outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, originally a Yanukovych supporter, called for a new election. Meanwhile, followers of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who are pressing for a new vote after widespread allegations of voter fraud and abuse, agreed to lift their blockade of the parliament building after the no-confidence vote. Meantime, the regional legislature in Yanukovych's home area in eastern Ukraine agreed to hold a referendum on 9 January, seeking some autonomy for the region from the central government, possibly leading to an eventual breakup. The unfolding situation in this important country bears watching. And last... In lieu of bowl games... Beijing hosted this week a critical event in the progression of world diplomacy toward a more unified global society. The World Toilet Summit sponsored by the World Toilet Organization boasted the attendance of "movers and shakers" in the world toilet community. The summit featured important topics like "Toilets as Tourism Attractions" and "Toilets as Marketing Tools." (Of course, one of the most popular items on display was our very own "Flush the Johns" bumper sticker!) The summit could not be held in the U.S. because back in 1992, George H.W. Bush found a clause in our nation's constitution giving the central government the authority to decree that American toilets can only use 1.6 gallons of water. (Yes, Bush(41) signed this "Earth in the Balance" legislation into law.) Thus, most U.S. toilets don't work -- unless, of course, they are flushed several times. Consequently, the black-market for foreign toilets is booming! Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. 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