WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." --John Milton {} "At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities...." --Lord Acton {} "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." --Frederic Bastiat. {} "I say: Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to be defeated in every battle." --Sun Tzu {} "Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons." --Thomas Hardy {} "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim." --George Santayana {} "There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore." --Mark Twain {} "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." --Samuel Johnson {} "Men desire to have some share of the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them." --Adam Smith "A comprehended god is no god." --St. John Chrysostom ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right." (Psalm 106:3) ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible." -- J.C. Watts ++ "[The Supreme Court] disregards the intention of the framers of the Establishment Clause, which was to ensure government neutrality between religious factions, not between religion and irreligion." --George Will. ++ "Allowing students to speak about their faith in public in their own words does not create a government endorsement of religion. The Court has made a high school student an agent of the state and then censored her prayer." --Jan LaRue {} "This is a very, very, very, very, very -- in case you hadn't heard so a thousand times already -- diverse society. ... The culture of 'tolerance' isn't making us happier, it's making us more fractious. ... The apostles of 'tolerance' seem not to know what it is to tolerate what they disagree with or fail to understand." --William Murchison ++ "Decades of liberal assaults on traditional values and institutions are bearing fruit. It appears that we will ignore the wisdom of the centuries and find out the hard way whether our society can survive a perverted redefinition of marriage and the disintegration of the basic family." --Linda Bowles {} "The news business frets a lot about its sins. But it doesn't fret much about class attitudes and the homogenization of opinion in the newsroom. It should." --John Leo {} "Conservatives are typically the Rodney Dangerfields of the culture. They don't get no respect. At their best they're elitists. At their worst they're stodgy, stiff and humorless." --Suzanne Fields {} "Conservatives must judge issues by prudence and principle, not by the shadows cast by our opponents." --National Review {} "Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth." --Llewellyn H. Rockwell {} "Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government...." --Bruce Fein {} "Relativists believe they've discovered the ultimate weapon against the sense of right and wrong -- a hydrogen bomb for the culture war and a doomsday machine against conscience. What is it? The accusation of 'intolerance'." --Chuck Colson {} "The tragedy of communism is precisely that it systematically and fanatically interposes the impersonal and malignant power of the state between every authentic human relationship so that, finally, parents and children and even spouses cannot be truly together even in their own homes." --Alan Keyes {} "There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?" --Thomas Sowell {} "Truth has become as elusive as a bat on a foggy night. It's enough to keep a fellow from a good night's sleep." --Charley Reese {} "...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty." --Walter E. Williams {} "...[H]istory is one of the most rewarding of studies. If nothing else, it can teach us about the abiding tendencies of men and rulers. If you know something of the Roman emperors, the Clintons won't take you by surprise." --Joseph Sobran {} "The path of desire is littered with victims." --J.R. Nyquist ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Good thing George Patton didn't have the U.S. Supreme Court with him in 1944 at Bastogne. That December Patton's troops found themselves bogged down in the Saar with bad weather, which allowed German panzers to attack without fear of Allied air support. Patton responded by calling in the army's padre. Not only did he order up a prayer for good weather, he had 3,200 copies of Training Letter No. 5 distributed to commanders throughout his army, emphasizing the importance of getting the men not to confine their prayers to church and services. Though released under the signature of the Third Army chaplain, there was no mistaking whence the order had come. 'Be assured that this message on prayer has the approval, the encouragement, and the enthusiastic support of the Third United States Army Commander'." --Wall Street Journal ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICS On the political front... Democrat Lyndon LaRouche is suing to get the delegates he won when garnering 22% of the presidential primary votes in Arkansas. The Arkansas State Democratic Party is refusing to seat LaRouche's seven delegates at the national convention. Somehow it is fitting that Arkansas Demos, who gave us such fine talent as Bill and Hill, now have given a nut like LaRouche more support than he got from any other state. >From the Bush campaign journal... Bush campaign spokesman Ari Fleischer says, "The '96 platform was reflective of a different era. It reflected a lot of contention between the executive and the legislature. The tone of the 2000 platform will be much more optimistic, positive, inclusive." For example, Fleischer noting that the 1996 plank called for closure of the Department of Education, he said, "That will be removed. The governor does not want that department abolished." After all, the feds have done such a stellar job managing the nation's government schools! On the other hand, Andy Card, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention, notes, "This is not a top-down driven document. It's one that bubbles up from the grass roots in the Republican Party. ... It's really not directed by the candidate from Austin." We will let you know if any of those "bubbles" make it to the surface. BushBits: "To renew hope in the American dream, to lift the spirit of our great country, to meet the challenges of this new century, we must change the tone of Washington, D.C." Observation Points: "Bush's present ambiguity ... leaves voters interested in these [conservative cultural position] issues cold and despairing, pleasing only the liberal ethnic pressure groups that will always support the Democrats in the end." --John O'Sullivan {} "Bush believes that he has to take the chance that conservatives are hungry enough to tolerate this [move to the center]. And if he's wrong, he'll lose and he knows it." --UVA's Larry Sabato >From Bore2000 -- The Vice Prevaricator... Gorebabble: "Any state that has that kind of horrible record ought to have a moratorium." --A fine example of Gorespeak, the strategy of straddling an issue, in this case, advocating a moratorium on executions in some states and not others, thus being "for and against" the death penalty simultaneously. {} "I remember the system, the computer system, breaking down and losing three days of e-mail. I remember asking them, 'What in the world happened?' and it was in the nature of saying, 'Please don't let that happen again'." --Al "Inventor of the Internet" Gore on the "glitch" that disposed of 15 months of his e-mail sought by congressional investigators. {} "For far too long some politicians have been willing to play with the issue of choice for their own personal political ambition." --From the man who has used the issue in virtually every speech, though he still refuses to say "choice" of what. Observation Points: "I don't know if Gore is going to win. If I knew how to beat Dubya, I would have done it myself." --Former Democratic Texas Governor Ann Richards {} "If Gore were an American Indian of yore, his name would be 'Al Finger-In-The-Wind.'" --One of the Washington Post card-carrying leftists, Richard Cohen {} "If you listen to Mr. Gore, (Texas) is a hotbed of Third World conditions. He's assailed Texas air, Texas water, Texas health and a whole host of other things in our great state. Come to think of it, if you listen to him long enough, you'll come to think we were living in one of the vice president's rental properties." --Texas Lt. Gov. Rick Perry HILLARY! The Rodham-Clintonista... HILLARITIES!: HILLARY! urged Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, "to send a strong message that gender-based attacks will not be tolerated." We suppose Ms. Juanita Broaddrick would suggest HILLARY! start by locking up her husband. Observation Points: "Despite the departure of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from the closely watched U.S. Senate race in New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been unable to open up a gap over the Republican opposition, according to three independent polls." --CNN {} "Mr. Lazio is a four-term congressman. Four times he stood before the good people of his Long Island district and asked them to vote him up or down. That's four more times than Mrs. Clinton has run for Congress, or for anything." --Richard Brookhiser ______--------********O********--------______ DEZINFORMATSIA "I think public opinion is based on what they know at the time." --Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle on how the "dezinformatsia machine" keeps Sociocrats in office. ++ On breaking the media's stronghold on public opinion: "For the embattled denizens of the mainstream media, there's no delicate way to put it: The Internet is eating their lunch." --Washington Post's Howard Kurtz ++ "If there's any hand-wringing, it's about the loss of the national square that newspapers and the networks once provided." --Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, on how other news sources like The Federalist are doing an end run around the major print and broadcast opinion shapers. ______--------********O********--------______ SOCIOCRATS "And for those of you who don't know, basically, Abraham Lincoln, in what is now the Lincoln Bedroom, signed the Emancipation Proclamation in September of 1862." --Bill Clinton on the history of the Lincoln Bedroom. **Now, the only thing that gets signed in the Lincoln Bedroom are $50,000 checks to the DNC. {} "The Democratic Party is a party by the people and for the people." --DNC National Chair Joe Andrew **Touching! {} "But we are in the busy season of the year, where prices generally go up a bit." --White House Mouth Joe Lockhart explaining why gasoline in some locales is more than $2 a gallon. ______--------********O********--------______ VILLAGE IDIOTS "There is no state that does not have some kind of patriot activity, some very violent, some very extreme." --Dennis Molenaar, a domestic terrorism "expert" on those troublesome "patriots." **Exactly the same sentiment King George III had a few years back! {} "It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It galvanized such hostility. It was just thoughtless. I wasn't thinking." --"Hanoi" Jane Fonda in the second edition of Oprah's 'O' magazine, on her infamous 1972 pose with an anti-aircraft gun in North Vietnam. **No, Jane, it wasn't the pose. It was going to Hanoi and -- while American patriots were being tortured a short distance away after being shot down by anti-aircraft guns -- protesting against your country on enemy soil. {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: The trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., one of the nation's most prestigious college prep schools, are following the lead of other New England prep schools like Concord Academy and Phillips Academy by allowing homosexual couples to serve as "dormitory parents" on campus. ______--------********O********--------______ SHORT CUTS "Vice President Al Gore gave a speech...saying he is concerned about the issue of mental health. He's not alone. After Gore unveiled his sixth new personality in one year, everyone's concerned." --Argus Hamilton {} "When you come home from work, your whole life is flies -- taping up windows, taping up doors, taping up chimneys, fly swatters, pest strips, vacuuming, cleaning counters. You do fly work until you go to bed." --Mr. Ervin Paulsen after damp weather combined with hundreds of tons of chicken manure spread as fertilizer combined to create a "fly problem" in his farming community. **George Bush will be using that line after he moves into the "Clinton White House next year! {} "...Clinton isn't a president -- he just plays one on television." --Noemie Emery {} "For if there's one thing we do know about Bill Clinton, it's that he's earned most of his enemies." --Jonah Goldberg {} "Today university professors specialize in areas so narrow and often so ideologically esoteric that their minds are as useless as gall bladders." --R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. {} "The New York Daily News says Ted Turner's involved with 28-year-old Karen Rosefeld, [who is] younger than all five of Turner's children. Now Larry King's wife finally has someone to play with." --Mark Wheeler {} Bumper Humor: "I wish I lived in New York so I could vote AGAINST Hillary." Night Lines: Leno.... Some sad news. Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco are getting a divorce. Now that it appears that her marriage to a lying, cheating adulterer is over, Mary Jo said that she would take the next logical step...run for Senate in New York. .... Congratulations, Steve Young -- one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time retired. He's the first NFL player to end his career this year without the pleading "not guilty, your honor." .... At NBC, we're going up against this "Survivor" show. We've got our own show. Apparently, a group of people will try to survive for one month living in one of Al Gore's rental properties. Letterman.... 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