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13 October 2003
Federalist No.
03-42
Monday Brief
CONTENTS:
The
Foundation
Insight
ICTUS Imprimis
Family
Culture
Liberty
The Gipper
Opinion in Brief
Government
Re: The Left
Political
Futures
For the Record
Reader Comments
The Last Word
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THE FOUNDATION
"Energy in the executive is a leading character in the
definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the
community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady
administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those
irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary
course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and
assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy." --Alexander Hamilton
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INSIGHT
"We have seen freedom's power in Europe and Asia and
Africa and Latin America, and we will see freedom's power in the Middle East...
Every person in every culture has the inalienable right to life, liberty
and the
pursuit of happiness. America owns the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution, but the ideals they proclaim belong to all mankind." --President
George W. Bush
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ICTUS IMPRIMIS
"Just two days before Columbus sighted land, his men
were on the verge of mutiny. They had sailed the longest voyage ever out of the
sight of land and wanted to turn back. The entry in Columbus' Journal, October
10, 1492, stated: 'Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of
the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out
good
hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to
complain. He had come to the Indies, and so had to continue until he found
them,
with the help of Our Lord'." --Bill Federer
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FAMILY
Parents must be given options and choices. Real
choices.
But don’t expect the public school bureaucracy and the teacher unions to
allow it without a fight. No matter how dangerous the school, academic
choice is
not an option they will consider....True choice enables parents not only to
demand safety, but empowers them -- through the threat of lost revenues -- to
vote with their feet when the school doesn’t change. This is the point
when the apologists for public schools will argue we need 'good kids' and 'good
families' in these dangerous schools so the culture can be improved. They will
say we cannot 'let' these good kids abandon the schools. Sorry, but the life of
my child is more valuable than a social experiment. No child should be left in
failing, dangerous schools to appease anyone’s social conscience."
--Michael Quinn Sullivan
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CULTURE
"In a public school in St. Louis, a teacher spotted the
suspect, fourth-grader Raymond Raines, bowing his head in prayer before lunch.
The teacher stormed to Raymond's table, ordered him to stop immediately and
sent
him to the principal's office. The principal informed the young malefactor that
praying was not allowed in school. When Raymond was again caught praying
before
meals on three separate occasions, he was segregated from other students,
ridiculed in front of his classmates, and finally sentenced to a week's
detention. ... In another display of tolerance at Lynn Lucas Middle School,
school administrators snatched three students' books with covers displaying the
Ten Commandments, ripped the covers off, threw them in the garbage, and
told the
students that the Ten Commandments constituted 'hate speech.' (Also, it would
be insensitive to expose the Ten Commandments to students who had never been
taught to count to 10.)" --Ann Coulter
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LIBERTY
"[T]his battle is a battle of civilizations. One
civilization believes in liberty and one does not. The problem is that the
civilization that has liberty has not produced anywhere the depth of belief in
liberty that the opponents of liberty have produced. That is why most Europeans
(and their supporters in America on the Left) see dying or killing for almost
anything as pointless. When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you
don't really believe in anything. For this reason, European civilization is in
peril. The great question mark is America. America is already in the midst of a
civil war, thankfully still non-violent. It is between those who fervently
believe in America and in Judeo-Christian revelation and those who fervently
believe in neither. If the former win, the Islamic totalitarian threat,
like the
totalitarian threats before it, will be vanquished. If the latter -- as
represented by the Left, many Democratic Party leaders, pacifists, the cultural
elite, and academia -- win, liberty will have been nothing more than an
aberration that lasted a few hundred years." --Dennis Prager
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THE GIPPER
"We've heard a great deal about Republican 'fat cats,'
and how the Republicans are the party of big contributions. I've never been
able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic
contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist.'"
--Ronald Reagan
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OPINION IN BRIEF
"Let me remind you that nowhere in the writings of the
Founding Fathers is there anything about 'managing the economy.' Our Founders
wanted to promote prosperity. So they set about ensuring that government would
be small, frugal, impartial, and moral. We became rich because government, in
Jefferson's words, would not 'take from the mouth of labor the bread it had
earned.' If we abandon the Founders' mores, no economic policy can keep us out
of the poorhouse." --Malcolm Wallp
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GOVERNMENT
"Marriage is a quintessential state issue. The Defense
of Marriage Act goes as far as is necessary in codifying the federal legal
status and parameters of marriage. A constitutional amendment is both
unnecessary and needlessly intrusive and punitive.... Make no mistake, I do not
support same-sex marriages. But I am also a firm believer that the
Constitution
is no place for forcing social policies on states, especially in this case,
where states must have the latitude to do as their citizens see fit....
Restoring stability to (two-parent nuclear) families is a tough problem, and
requires careful, thoughtful and, yes, tough solutions. But homosexual couples
seeking to marry did not cause this problem, and the Federal Marriage Amendment
cannot be the solution." --Friend of The
Federalist Bob Barr
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RE: THE LEFT
"In characteristic fashion, the Democrats are piling on
-- now Lieberman, now Dean and now Clark. The party has lost its birthright,
has no soul, consists only of splintered interest groups and consequently
has no
critical mass. This is a party two-thirds of whose members cannot name a
single
one of the 10 presidential wannabes -- those wannabes, such gravitas do they
have, listing at the Baltimore debate (for instance) their favorite popular
songs. A party of monstrous egos such as Clark's, Clinton's and Teddy
Kennedy's. Yet a party careening left, the remains of whose soul may reside in
precisely the candidate it can neither nominate nor elect -- Joe Lieberman. He
has warned that the party risks being captured by the 'far ideological
left' and
vowed: 'I'm not going to stand back and let this party be taken over by people
who would bring us to the political wilderness again.' Maybe not. But the
operative question remains: Are the likes of Kerry, Dean, Clark, and
(prospectively) Hillary prudent guides for leading the party out of the
wilderness - or in?" --Ross Mackenzie
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POLITICAL FUTURES
"Hospitals are open. Schools are open. Children are
back at school. Iraqis are taking more and more responsibility for their
security. There is a flourishing free press with over 160 Iraqi newspapers
that
have started up since liberation. ... Ninety-five percent of the country is at
peace and returning to normal daily life. ... Iraq is now a central front
in the
war on terror [and serves] as a model for the region.... If we choose to ignore
terrorists in Iraq, we will wind up hearing from them on our own soil. That is
why success in the reconstruction of Iraq is so critical." --Dan Senor, senior
adviser to L. Paul Bremer, U.S. interim Iraqi administrator
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FOR THE RECORD
"The U.S. State Department Web site features a page
linking to 'famous speeches' of American history, including Patrick Henry's
'Give me liberty or give me death,' Washington's Farewell Address and Lincoln's
Gettysburg address. But the choice of more-recent orators is, shall we say,
somewhat limited. It includes...FDR, JFK, LBJ, Carter and Clinton--five of the
seven Democrats who served in the White House during the 20th century--and even
a speech by Hillary Clinton. But there's nothing from Eisenhower, Reagan,
either Bush -- or, for that matter, from any Republican other than Lincoln."
--James Taranto
Editor's Note: Not to worry,
The
Federalist-sponsored site, [
http://www.Reagan2000.com ] has the most
important presidential speeches in the last 50 years, and the rest can be found
on our historic documents page [
http://federalist.com/histdocs/
].
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)"
Federalist No. 03-41
noted in jest that the Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew texts make no direct reference
to pedophilia. However, 1 Corinthians 6:9 uses the effeminate 'malakoi' Which
Strong defines as a 'catamite.' The Oxford shorter defines catamite as: 'A boy
kept for homosexual practices -- the passive partner.' Not that this reference
will stop the Episcopal church from advocating 'consensual' sex with
minors."
"After having
The
Federalist forwarded to me by a colleague for months, I finally
subscribed. Your writers do a great job of clarifying issues. His constant
ranting about the glory [dark] days of the Clinton regime is offset by the
valid
arguments of common sense provided by
The
Federalist. Thanks again for a great publication!"
"Regarding
Federalist No. 03-41 and Clintonista ambassador Joseph Wilson's task in Niger,
as a Nuclear Engineer, I note that any uranium possibly available from Niger in
Africa would be natural uranium (yellow cake in slang terms) not
'weapons-grade'
uranium. Natural uranium is about 0.712% U-235 (the stuff that goes bang).
Natural uranium has to be 'enriched' to a high percentage of purity for it to
actually become weapons grade. Fuel enriched to more than 5% for commercial
light water reactors is not enriched enough to be weapons
grade."
"Thanks
for reminding your readers that we already have a 'Patriot's Day.' It was clear
that our government forgot about it when they chose April 19th for the final
confrontation at Waco, and as if that weren't enough, W goes and declares
September 11 'Patriot's Day.' It's infuriating that our own government leaders
have so little regard for the significance of our national history."
Editor's Reply: Patriot's Day commemorates a revolution -- an option
available to free people which standing governments don't like to advertise --
even our own!
"Is
The Federalist
Democratic or Republican or neither? Conservative or liberal?"
Editor's
Reply: Perhaps you meant "Democrat" because while we are democratic, we
certainly are not Democrat. We are Federalists -- first and foremost,
constitutional constructionists.
"President Bush stated in a speech that
he acted in Iraq because he wasn't going to leave the security of Americans in
the hands of a madman. That's also a good reason to re-elect him."
"It
may give some church leaders pause to remember the political laity who rose up
against the 'bishops' of King George a couple of centuries back when those
pious
toadies refused to consider that the common folk had a firmer grasp of divinely
gifted freedom than they who sought to so meanly rule them. Forget not that,
today, the populous laity can read their own Bibles, thank you very much. Could
it be that the people have a firmer grasp of the divinely inspired Word
than the
bishops may realize?"
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THE LAST WORD
"Hey, get this... The citizenry of California held an
intervention for their fiscally drunk state on Tuesday and threw blandleader
‘Grey’ Davis out on his
perpetually-cocked-in-the-direction-of-special-interests ear. I don’t
want
to say Davis lacks charisma, but his vanity license plate is a random series of
numbers and letters. Double-jointed contortionist dancers at Polynesian resorts
could not limbo under Davis’ approval ratings. The recall was an
amazingly
cathartic process for the electorate of this once-great state and their
repudiation of Davis was comprehensive enough to at least earn him a time-share
on Elba. Davis of course was replaced by what will hopefully be the
Two-Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who brings with him an attitude
more
can-do than an apprentice concierge. Congratulations, Arnold. You have met your
enemies on the field of battle, crushed them beneath your feet and heard the
lamentations of their minions. ... Cruz Bustamante, the Democrat sub-standard
bearer in the run-off election, finished a second more distant than the planet
Pluto. One of my few disappointments during the evening was that
California’s flimsy power grid didn’t blow out in the middle of
Cruz’s concession speech. California Democratic Party head
apparatchik Bob Mulholland said he is considering another recall in 100
days. Wow, the wine Ripple is not made with grapes that sour. Hey, Bobby, bring
it on! I thought the recall was fun. Plus, we were able to keep Gary
Coleman’s AFTRA dental plan active. ... I want to say thank you
to the people of California. Just when I was starting to think that freaky had
become the official coin of the realm; you guys stepped up and exhibited some
good old-fashioned heartland common sense. It’s encouraging that after
seeing things in shades of ‘gray’ for the last five years we were
able to make a simple black and white decision. Salute. Got that?" --Dennis
Miller
Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark
Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. (Please pray on this day, and
every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world
in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe
return.)
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