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THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 11 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-07 Monday Brief *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. ______----********O********----______ PUBLISHER'S NOTE Only twenty percent of our subscribers have selected the reader- and printer-friendly HTML and PDF formats we offer by e-mail, as an alternative to the harder-to-read e-mail text format. If you want to kick your enjoyment of The Federalist up a notch, use the link below to see how much easier it is to read The Federalist in HTML or PDF. Visit -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp If you like the reader- and printer-friendly HTML and PDF formats, use the following link and select the format you prefer. Visit -- http://www.federalist.com/subscribe/myformat.asp?[EMAIL PROTECTED] CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty The Gipper Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis Government On the Left Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." -- Samuel Adams ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "The means by which enlightened rulers and sagacious generals moved and conquered others, that their achievements surpassed the masses, was advance knowledge. Advance knowledge cannot be gained from ghosts and spirits, inferred from phenomena, or projected from the measures of Heaven, but must be gained from men for it is the knowledge of the enemy's true situation." --Sun-Tzu ______----********O********----______ GOOD NEWS "Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught." (Proverbs 3:25-26) ++ "Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death." (Proverbs 11:4) ++ "A wise man is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool throws off restraint and is careless." (Proverbs 14:16) ++ "He who is of God hears the words of God; the reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God." (John 8:47) ++ "[B]e steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain." (1 Corinthians 15:58) ++ "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another." (Galatians 5:25-26) ______----********O********----______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "Jesus grew up with the callused hands of a carpenter and the very fact that he worked gives dignity to our work. ...Work embraced as a calling expresses the glory of God, and it's part of -- very literally -- following Jesus. Through our work God provides for us and for our families, contributes to the common good, and also gives us a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. He has given us work as the way to fulfill his mandate to us as humans -- to take dominion over the world he has created. As we work, we extend God's reign and influence as his agents or stewards. And the way that we take that dominion, confronting the challenges and difficulties that 'go with the job,' is, in itself, our witness to the reality of God and our faith in Christ." --Charles Colson ______----********O********----______ FAMILY "One thing about being pope: You can call a spade a spade and not lose a wink over your popularity ratings. Thus, Pope John Paul II came right out and uttered the God's-awful truth: Divorce is a plague ripping apart modern society." --Kathleen Parker ______----********O********----______ CULTURE "But actually, 9-11 marked a cultural watershed, not an economic one. Although a case can be made that there has been a gradual return to more traditional and virtuous cultural values over the past several years, certainly a new spirit of patriotism and faith arrived in response to the terrorist war against the United States. Just take a quick inventory: American-flag lapel pins by the thousands; heart-felt renditions of 'God Bless America' at sporting events; a measurable increase in the appreciation of friends, family members and co-workers; people more seriously undertaking their daily responsibilities; a greater attraction to the miraculous heritage of the Founding Fathers; once self-full Americans now giving to charities and volunteering for community service. With these have come the duty of courage and the understanding of the clear differences between right and wrong, and between good and evil. Moral relativism is out the door. There can be no doubt that American culture has changed since 9-11. Predominantly, it is a change for the better." --Larry Kudlow ______----********O********----______ LIBERTY "Let us be convinced that there is not enough hate or anger to silence the cries for liberty or to extinguish the flame of justice and truth. We must have faith that those who now are apathetic, anxious for security at all costs, forgetful of the true spirit of American liberty, and neglectful of the Constitution, will rise to the task and respond accordingly." --Rep. Ron Paul ______----********O********----______ THE GIPPER "We had strayed a great distance from our Founding Fathers' vision of America. They regarded the central government's responsibility as that of providing national security, protecting our democratic freedoms, and limiting the government's intrusion in our lives -- in sum, the protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They never envisioned vast agencies in Washington telling our farmers what to plant, our teachers what to teach, our industries what to build. The Constitution they wrote established sovereign states, not mere administrative districts for the federal government. They believed in keeping government as close as possible to the people." --Ronald Reagan ______----********O********----______ OPINION IN BRIEF "Back in antiquity, when I was a public high-school student in upstate New York, we were really shortchanged in our education. The faculty and administration forced us, against our collective will, to read Chaucer, Shakespeare, 'The Iliad' and 'Paradise Lost.' We had teachers who made us learn algebra, geometry and trigonometry, and memorize Newton's laws and Bernoulli's Principle. We started each school day with the pledge to the flag and a prayer, and were taught that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, et al., were honorable men and the nation's Founding Fathers. And then, after beating all this information into our thick heads, they had the audacity to test us on how much of it we had actually learned! Worse yet, if we didn't know enough, we would, dare I write the word, fail!" --Oliver North ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Randolph Bourne famously said that war is the health of the state. Democrats are discovering to their dismay that he did not say that war is the health of domestic spending. ...[President George W.] Bush's budget proposal does not, alas, cut back domestic spending, ... [but] .. his reasserts the proper priorities of the federal government. He would increase defense spending by $48 billion, while holding domestic spending (excluding entitlements) to 2 percent growth. No conservative can cheer a $2.1 trillion budget, exactly. But the president has done an admirable job given the standards of Washington. The defense increase is the largest in 20 years, and there are more increases to come. They can hardly come quickly enough. Almost half the increase will go to keeping up with inflation, covering military health-care costs, and a modest pay increase. Getting the armed forces more unmanned aircraft, newer fighters and ships, and new weapons systems is worth the additional money." --National Review ______----********O********----______ GOVERNMENT "Well, it's possible that a mildly rapacious state may afford us some protection against a much worse one, just as one neighborhood gang may offer safety against another. But all states are rapacious, almost by definition. What is a state? It is the ruling body in a territory, which claims a monopoly of the legal right to command obedience. It may demand anything -- our earnings, our services, our lives. Once the right to command is conceded, there are no limits on its power. Many people think a state is a natural necessity of social life. They can hardly conceive of society without the state. This would be plausible if the state confined itself to enforcing natural moral obligations -- that is, if it protected us from robbery, murder, and the like, otherwise leaving us alone. But what if the state itself robs and murders, claiming the authority to do so? ...The predatory tendency of the state is inherent and expansive, and nobody has found a way to control it. No control can long withstand the monopolistic 'right' to demand obedience in every area of human activity the state may choose to invade. Systematized force -- which is all the state really is -- follows its own logic." --Joseph Sobran ______----********O********----______ RE: THE LEFT "Television news anchors enjoy using words like 'substance,' mostly because a half-hour newscast...has so little of it...[T]V journalists simply don't know what to think about certain issues until the New York Times and the Washington Post tell them what to think.... [H]ere's one of those dirty little secrets journalists are never supposed to reveal to the regular folks out there in the audience: a reporter can find an expert to say anything the reporter wants -- anything!...The sophisticated media elites don't categorize their beliefs as liberal but as simply the correct way to look at things. They think they're middle of the road -- raging moderates -- while everyone else (the people who live in the 'red states') is on the fringe.... Why is it that when journalists write something tough about other people, it's called 'news,' but when someone writes something tough about news people like Dan Rather, it's called 'intimidation'? ..Ratings are the God that network executives and their acolytes worship...There's an old saying in the newsroom: Don't let the facts stand in the way of a good story!...When the 'proper' victims are involved, we become journalist/social workers. And we live by the journalist/social worker motto: Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.... [N]ever -- never! -- underestimate how low news executives, and TV people in general, will go in the pursuit of higher ratings.... [I]t's not just that so many journalists are so different from mainstream America. It's that some are downright hostile to what many Americans hold sacred... [W]henever you hear an anchorman or reporter use the word 'controversial,' it is usually a signal that the idea that follows is one the media elites do not agree with.... If arrogance were a crime, there wouldn't be enough jail cells in the entire United States to hold all the people in TV news. A network correspondent told me that once, but when he found out I was writing a book he got amnesia. Not only couldn't he remember ever saying such a subversive thing, but if by some insane chance he had -- which he hadn't, of course -- he didn't want any credit for it. No problem." --Bernard Goldberg (from "Bias") ______----********O********----______ POLITICAL FUTURES "The spontaneous response of Americans to the Sept. 11 attacks should serve as a rebuke to critics who fret about an anemic civic spirit. Charities' coffers were filled, blood banks overflowed, and inventories of Old Glory were exhausted. ...But now Washington is getting into the act, with a new program -- the USA Freedom Corps -- to ensure that the federal government will have a role in mobilizing volunteers. ...And all of this volunteering won't come cheap. The president is asking for an additional $560 million to cover next year's costs for his new initiatives, and although Republican eyes are rolling all over Capitol Hill, he's likely to get exactly what he is asking for. One House member who has objected to AmeriCorps in the past says, 'The federal government getting more involved in Bill Clinton's program of national service is the silliest idea I have ever heard of,' before speculating ruefully that 'the president has 350 votes for this.' Americans answered the call on Sept. 11, without waiting for Washington's guidance; and now they're going to pay for that snub." --Kate O'Beirne ______----********O********----______ FOR THE RECORD "Bush's three bad guys -- North Korea, Iran and Iraq -- are ideologically well chosen. All are heirs to the totalitarianisms of the 20th century. (Hence 'axis of evil.' Axis: fascism/Nazism. Evil empire: Soviet Communism.) North Korea is more Stalinist than Stalin. Iran is the Soviet Union in pre-Gorbachevian foment. And Iraq is Hitlerian Germany, a truly mad police state with external ambitions and a menacing arsenal. Thank God for North Korea. Mentioning it is the equivalent of strip-searching an 80-year-old Irish nun at airport security: It is our defense against ethnic profiling." --Charles Krauthammer ______----********O********----______ POLICY PAGES/POINTS OF INTEREST Drug Terrorism: Bin Laden's Weapon of Slow Destruction FRC http://www.frc.org/get/ar01j3.cfm ______----********O********----______ SELECT READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "At first, I lamented FoxNews's hiring of Greta Van Susteren -- I am now starting to think it was a brilliant stroke. Greta has obviously never been directly confronted with conservative ideas and actually tried to retort them. She seems clearly frustrated and exasperated in her new 'fair and balanced' environment." "O'Reilly, oh really? So, did Bill O'Reilly respond to The Federalist's challenge regarding his 'spin' around Geraldo's theatrics in Afghanistan, or has Mr. 'No Spin Zone' become just another media spin-meister himself?" Editor's Reply: Let's just say, we have not heard a word about Geraldo's antics yet...! "According to the Leftmedia, Enron was based in Texas, Bush is from Texas; what further proof is needed to establish his complicity?" "I can't understand why Enron gets all the attention (even from The Federalist) when Global Crossing's huge bankruptcy, the 4th largest in U.S. history, is completely off the media radar screen. The cases are almost identical, even as far as Arthur Andersen being the resident accounting firm in both cases." Editor's Reply: Obviously it gets Leftmedia attention, and our rebuttal, because Global Crossing never sent a policy memo to Dick Cheney. (And we were among the first national media sources to mention Global Crossing's $18,00,000 connection with the DNC's Terry McAuliffe.) "An efficient and well-run market economy needs transparency. A Congressional investigation will do nothing but politicize the whole affair until we are all bored to tears. Far better, is to allow shareholders to pursue Enron's directors and auditors in the courts -- large compensation claims will sharpen industry minds better than Congress ever could. Editor's Reply: Indeed, civil courts are appropriate for uncovering any fraudulence in Enron contracting, and recovering assets for victims of such fraud. However, Enron may also have engaged in "gaming" of interstate commerce under existing regulatory controls -- which is an appropriate matter for congressional investigation." " 'Alan Keyes is making sense' on MSNBC, should be renamed 'Alan Keyes is the only one making sense' on MSNBC!" "We were delighted with the broadside you recently posted regarding the illustrious socialist/statist Governor of California! No apology needed!" ______----********O********----______ THE LAST WORD "The folk with low self-esteem are perfectly good people who can't get dates. (An awful lot of this self-esteem stuff seems to boil down to exactly that.) Or maybe they had unhappy childhoods (who didn't?) or didn't get as far in life as they had hoped to (who does?) At bottom they've got a case of ordinary life, which ain't all collard greens and ham hocks. They don't need low self-esteem. There's nothing wrong with them. Maybe the reason they have low self-esteem is that people think television is real. If you lived in a small town with no TV, you'd know that everybody was tolerably miserable -- the banker was a drunk, the preacher cheated, the mayor and his wife hated each other. But the fantasy box tells you that the world is chiefly populated by glamorous hunks and gorgeous babes. They live like James Bond and don't have problems. Maybe guys watch this stuff and start thinking, 'Geez, I don't have a Maserati, I've never been in a gunfight with international drug lords, and I'm the only man in America who hasn't married Elizabeth Taylor. Oh, how I've failed'." --Fred Reed -- 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? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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