WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 6 June 2000 Federalist #00-23.brf To retrieve today's Brief as printer-friendly text, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-2.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURE The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is an educational organization whose purpose is to convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free society. Visit -- http://www.isi.org/ ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted." --Ludwig von Mises ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "The highway of the upright avoids evil; he who guards his way guards his life." (Proverbs 16:17) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH & FAMILY "When we move beyond talk about good and evil, when the language of virtue and vice is 'transcended,' we are left with the thin gruel of values-talk. How very democratic values-talk is: Unlike virtues, everyone has lots of values, as many as they choose. Hitler had scads of values. George Washington had virtues. Who among those who knew him would have spoken of Washington's 'values'? Values-talk comes naturally to a nonjudgmental age -- an age judgmental primarily about the cardinal sin of being judgmental. It is considered broad-minded to say, 'One person's values are as good as another's.' It is nonsense to say, 'One person's virtues are as good as another's.' Values are an equal-opportunity business: They are mere choices. Virtues are habits, difficult to develop and therefore not equally accessible to all. Speaking of virtues rather than values is elitist, offensive to democracy's egalitarian, leveling ethos. Which is why talk of virtues should be revived. ...[D]emocracy requires the cultivation of certain preventative virtues that counter certain tendencies of democracy." --George Will "Are we still raising young people who will be emboldened by the truth of human equality to fight for their liberty? Will they resist the temptation to give in to the cowardly behavior that allows tyrants to reign? Will they have the courage to resist tyranny -- particularly when it offers the kind of comfortable servitude that our era of material abundance makes possible?" --Alan Keyes ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "Today the old-fashioned liberal pretension of equality is dead. Replacing it is naked power and the use of government to protect and expand the privileged status of the Democratic Party and its courtiers and constituents. Liberals have become reactionaries, behaving as kings did centuries ago by robbing their opponents to reward their vassals. Liberals now believe that the main purpose of government is to play favorites, to bring down their foes and give privileges to their friends." --Lowell Ponte ______--------********O********--------______ POLICY MATTERS "In 1995, a Newsweek poll found that 48% of blacks and 47% of whites preferred that the Census stop collecting information on race and ethnicity. Five years hence, that sentiment is stronger. A Zogby poll conducted last month asked a sampling of voters: 'Do you feel the government should require you to disclose your race?'' Better than three out of four respondents (77%) answered 'no' -- 71% of the Democrats, 79% of Republicans, 64% of blacks and 81% of Asians." --Wall Street Journal Worth Repeating... >From the "Bolshoi Bureaucracy" Files: If you were thinking about writing the Census Bureau to complain about the collection of race and ethnicity questions for the purpose of dispensing government program largess, let us save you the trouble by reprinting herein the text of the response you will receive. May 2000 Mr. Citizen Anywhere USA Dear Mr. Citizen: Thank you for your letter expressing your concerns regarding the race and ethnicity questions on the Census 2000 questionnaire. Data on race and Hispanic origin are necessary for the implementation of many federal programs, and they are critical for the basic research behind numerous policy decisions. States require these data to meet legislative redistricting requirements. They also are needed to monitor compliance with the Voting Rights Act by local jurisdictions, and they are required by federal programs that promote equal employment opportunity and assess racial disparities in health and environmental risks. The Census Bureau has included a question on race since the first census in 1790. In deciding which racial categories to include in the question on race, the U.S. Census Bureau is guided by the standards provided by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In October 1997, OMB revised the standards by which all federal agencies are to collect and tabulate data on race. In these revised standards, five race groups are identified: American Indian and Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and White. In addition, with OMB's approval, the census questionnaire includes a category of "Some other race" for individuals who do not identify with the race groups listed. The Census Bureau also includes more detailed racial categories for the Asian and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander populations to meet policy and programmatic needs. Examples of these categories are Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Native Hawaiian, and Samoan. In Census 2000, the individual responding on the questionnaire decides what his or her racial identity is. For the first time ever, those that answer the census will be able to select more than one racial category. The Census questionnaire also includes a question about Hispanic origin. People of Hispanic origin may be of any race and should answer the question on race by marking one or more of the race categories. Hispanics should indicate their origin in the Hispanic origin question, not in the question on race, because in the federal statistical system ethnicity is considered a separate concept from race. Thank you again for contacting the U.S. Census Bureau. Sincerely, Chief Bolshoi Bureaucrat Decennial Management Division U. S. CENSUS BUREAU ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "After the 1994 election, there was a lot of talk about getting rid of the Department of Education, which had a budget of $24.4 billion at the time. Roughly five years later, the department is still kicking, and a budget of $35.6 billion has just been approved. ... In 1993, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole was asked about judicial activists while on a radio call-in show. 'If you give us a majority and we don't produce, then you ought to throw us out,' he responded. Well, it's been five years. Isn't it time to start producing?" --Free Congress Foundation's John Nowacki ______--------********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.) School Vouchers: The New Mexico Story HERITAGE http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl660.html The State, and Future of, American Education WILLIAM J. BENNETT http://www.heritage.org/leadership/lectures/bennett.html Among all of Bill Clinton's assault victims, perhaps Jane Doe #6 will be his legacy's most memorable. See her at: http://www.lektrik.com/classics/janedoe6.htm ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD Last week we asked members what else the acronym "PETA" could stand for? Here is a representative selection of responses: Pernicious Egocentric Twits of America Provocateurs Envisioning Tasteless America Politicos Eager to Appease People for the Elitist Treatment of Animals Pifflicated Emptyheads Trashing America Petulant Ecological Terroristic Asinines Parakeets for the Ethical Treatment of Anacondas People Engaged in Total Absurdity People for the Edible Treatment of Animals People Eager for Tons of Attention Public Education's Thoughtless Alumni People Enamored of Total Absurdity Polar bears for Especially Tasty Activists People Emancipating Thick-Witted Apes People of the Enraged Triumvirate of Atheists People Exempt from Thoughtful Analysis People with Extra Terrestrial Addresses Pinheads Espousing Total Asininity Phreaks Endlessly Touting Absurdities And finally for PETA foes: Populace for the Extermination of Terminal Airheads Suggest a future "Two Cents" topic or question at -- http://www.federalist.com/suggesttopic.asp This Week's Clintoons: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/garner.htm http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/welcome.asp (T- 227 days until eviction and delousing!) -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. 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