-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Al Gore has managed to transform an often pathetic Republican Party into a unified fighting force. Not even Bill Clinton managed that feat." --Wall Street Journal ______--------********O********--------______ THE GIPPER "The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle. ... Mr. President [Carter], I want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry on this tradition. By your gracious cooperation in the transition process, you have shown a watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political system which guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other, and I thank you and your people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of our Republic. ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer." --Ronald Reagan (First Inaugural Address, 1981) ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire." --Charley Reese ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "[The current presidential saga] demonstrates that the process -- riddled with graft, rigged counts, and media lies -- does not and cannot bring us heaven on earth. For freedom to thrive, we need a depoliticized society, one in which the fate of civilization does not hinge on who is elected. Far more decisive for our future than any election are the ideas that triumph in our nation's intellectual life. That battle makes the Florida vote count look calm." --Lew Rockwell ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD Al Gore and his supporters have made claim after claim about the essential fraudulence of the Florida results, every single one of which has been rejected by the courts they profess to love so much. REJECTED: Warren Christopher's contention that the "butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach County was "illegal." REJECTED: The insistence that tiny indentations on or near the punch-card chad for Al Gore had to be counted as votes, and that the county canvassing boards did not have the discretion to judge them in every other way. REJECTED: David Boies's repeated argument that Florida law required manual recounts simply because they had been requested. REJECTED: The Gore campaign's assertion that Florida's secretary of state did not have the right or the authority to certify the election until every manual recount had been completed. REJECTED: Boies's novel notion that in filing a contest of the certified results, the remedy sought in such a contest -- the manual recount of disputed ballots -- ought to take place before a judge had even determined that a remedy was warranted under Florida law. REJECTED: The argument that the Nassau County canvassing board did not have the discretion to determine that in the machine recount, more than 200 ballots had been inadvertently left out -- and therefore that the election-night count should stand instead. REJECTED: Laurence Tribe's statement before the U.S. Supreme Court that the statutory deadline for the reporting of results to the secretary of state was "Pickwickian." REJECTED: Boies's assertion that in the "contest" period, the judiciary has unlimited authority to ignore other aspects of Florida election law and consider the Gore camp's claims "de novo." REJECTED: The claim that recounting only a few thousand disputed ballots in the contest period did not create a "two tier" system making the votes in the three Democratic counties chosen by the Gore campaign count for more than the votes in other counties in which there were no recounts. REJECTED: The assertion that the Miami-Dade canvassing board abused its discretion by abandoning its manual recount. REJECTED: The late-entering notions that the supposed hardening of the rubber in the Votamatic devices and the failure to empty them of chads meant that "machine error" was at work. REJECTED: The argument that the secretary of state should accept the results of partial manual recounts. REJECTED: The contention that the evidence unambiguously proved manual recounts were necessary because they might change the outcome of the election. (John Podhoretz) ______--------********O********--------______ POLICY PAGES & POINTS OF INTEREST (NOTE: For our subscribers with WWW access, if the URL line breaks, please select, copy and paste the entire link address into your browser's target address field.) "Never Give In" THE HONORABLE CLARENCE THOMAS http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/default.asp United States Supreme Court http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ ______--------********O********--------______ READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "I've been reading The Federalist for a couple years and really appreciate it as both a source of news our media can't or won't handle, and as an example of a publication unafraid to espouse policy and government guided by conscience informed by faith. Well done, keep up the good work. That said, I'm concerned that your recent bulletin seems a bit over the edge. A constitutional crisis will come when the courts totally overstep and the other branches abdicate. Then it'll be time to return to the Declaration and see to our powder." Editor's Reply: A close reading of 00-49-1 will reveal that our call is to vigilance -- not civil disobedience or armed resistance. The time to be vigilant and prepare for an impending storm is not after it hits! And, while there are definitely clouds on the Republic's horizon (some of which have been there for years), we have repeatedly emphasized, as we did in 00-49-1, "We -- and all Americans -- are obligated to be patient and pursue those courses of action to their full conclusion." "If the Democrats wanted Al Gore to be President so bad, they should have voted to impeach Clinton!" "Why is the guy who invented the Internet afraid of computer counted ballots?" "Bush should withdraw! Take all the counties he won and 'form a more perfect Union'!!!" "Is there any surprise that the party that is imposing outcome-based education on our schools is attempting to impose outcome-based voting?" "Now I understand the feeling of the Southern States when they declared secession from the union. How brother could shoot at brother to preserve the integrity of the Constitution...." "AlGoreithm, n. (al-gor-ith-m): Any method of calculation performed endlessly until a predetermined desired result is produced." "During a period in which many Americans are being subjected to spinsters' tales of Albert's Gorons, The Federalist has become a fixed point in the political universe. It seems when all is spinning awry, another Brief or Digest arrives to set the record right. I have just renewed my support. Keep the faith." "In the latest issue you mentioned 'minutemen/women.' Please tell me where to sign up!" Editor's Reply: No sign up required. 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