-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Internet's Conservative Journal of Record http://www.Federalist.com Date: 22 February 2000 Federalist #00-08.brf To retrieve today's Brief as printer-friendly text, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/PDFdigest99-10.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURE Americans for Tax Reform Since 1986, ATR has sponsored the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a written promise by legislators and candidates for office that commits them to oppose any effort to increase the federal income taxes on individuals and businesses. At present, 209 U.S. Representatives and 41 U.S. Senators have signed the pledge. Visit -- http://www.atr.org/main.htm ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT Today, Daniel P. Moynihan is scheduled to read George Washington's Farewell address on the floor of the Senate. Perhaps he will emphasize this portion of that address! "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the law, all combinations and associations under whatever plausible character with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps." (Proverbs 14:15) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH IN BRIEF "The problem is that in this modern age we've embraced a false worldview. We've jettisoned the doctrine of original sin and fallen for the lie that people are basically good. In truth, the only disorder responsible for bad behavior is the one we call sin. People don't do bad things because they're sick -- they do them because they are sinners." --Charles Colson ______--------********O********--------______ FAMILY IN BRIEF Julie and Alex Armas, parents of little Samuel, who was photographed grasping the hand of his surgeon during in utero surgery for spina bifida 14 weeks before his birth, is doing well! His Mom says, "He's a typical little baby, keeping us up at night." In a letter to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Samuel's parents explained why they decided to permit publication of the photograph: "We wanted people to know that there is an educated, professional couple out there who love and value their child even though he is 'defective' by society's definition. ... No matter what Samuel's outcome is, we know that God has allowed him to impact others with a photograph of his tiny, unborn hand." Michael Clancy, who photographed the operation, said, "It has made a pro-lifer out of me." See: Images SAMUEL ARMAS http://www.federalist.com/imagodei.html ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "The flap over the Confederate flag is not quite as simple as the nation's race experts make it. They want us to believe the flag is a symbol of racism. Yes, racists have used the Confederate flag, but racists have also used the Bible and the U.S. flag. Should we get rid of the Bible and lower the U.S. flag? Black civil rights activists and their white liberal supporters who are attacking the Confederate flag have committed a deep, despicable dishonor to our patriotic black ancestors who marched, fought and died to protect their homeland from what they saw as Northern aggression. They don't deserve the dishonor." --Walter Williams ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "(The McCain rise) is all so surprising and fascinating. And God bless him, only Bill Clinton could have brought us to this pass. It is yet another example of Clinton-shock. The effect of Mr. Clinton on Republicans, as much as it has been talked about, is still not fully appreciated. But the sheer concussive effect of having a president who Republicans think is a bad man, not a patriot, a truly harmful presence in American life -- the effect of Bill Clinton on on-the-ground Republicans has been so utterly jarring, that it has left them abandoning the logic that has long guided them, and supporting in droves a man they don't especially agree with, for the simple reason that they feel sure he is not Bill Clinton." --Peggy Noonan ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD It is one President's Day, but.... "Students attending the top 55 colleges and universities in the country know more about rapper Snoop Dogg and cartoon characters Beavis and Butthead than about President George Washington, according to a survey conducted by the Roper Organization at the University of Connecticut. The survey found that 100 percent of those students polled (college seniors) knew about the rapper and animated characters, but only 34 percent could acknowledge General Washington's feats such as the battle of Yorktown. He was a general, wasn't he? Questions in the survey came from a high school achievement test, but the college seniors couldn't even recognize basic principles of the U.S. Constitution nor the significance of Valley Forge. Where did the Roper Center find the "top 55 colleges and universities in the country"? They were ranked as top research institutions and liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report." (From CNS) ______--------********O********--------______ POLICY MATTERS "The relative shrinking of government [is] necessary for societies to reach their full economic, social and personal potential. Studies of the relationship between economic growth and government spending have found negative correlations for most countries for most time periods-- that is, big government impedes strong economic growth." --Dr. Richard W. Rahn, Chairman of Novecon Financial and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD The Rules of Bureaucracy -- From "Comedy on Tap" 1. Preserve thyself. 2. It is easier to fix the blame than to fix the problem. 3. A penny saved is an oversight. 4. Information deteriorates upward. 5. The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time; the last 10% takes the other 90%. 6. Experience is what you get just after you need it. 7. For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand, expensive problem, there exists at least one short, simple, easy, cheap wrong answer. 8. Anything that can be changed will be, until time runs out. 9. To err is human; to shrug is civil service. 10. 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