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: 11 July 2000 Federalist #00-28.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML 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 Policy Review, the preeminent conservative monthly for serious thought about social and political issues of our age, has redesigned its Web site! The Federalist editors never miss an edition of this outstanding publication and recommend it highly to all our readers. Visit -- http://www.policyreview.com/ ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, on King George ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH & FAMILY "This latest decision [by the Supreme Court] banning God from the public square can evoke many emotions in Christians, but surprise shouldn't be one of them. Making students unwilling agents of the secular state started back in 1962, when the Court banned God from the classroom. If God is not allowed there -- at the epicenter of intellectual life -- then surely He doesn't belong at other school events." --Chuck Colson "Some cases are lost. But memory is not lost. Hope is not lost. And as long as people hold on to such things, freedom is not lost. As long as Elian is remembered, neither he nor all the other tempest-tossed are lost. This is not the end of the drama, but only of the second act, as night falls. Some of us still believe in third acts, and morning. Some of us think of freedom as essential to human development, not as one more legal consideration to be weighed against others, like the over-arching claim of a bureaucracy. And certainly not as a bargaining chip in international relations. We think this case is about certain unalienable rights, rather than, as the court in Atlanta put it, 'the President's conduct of our nation's international affairs.' We think, we believe, that no president, no court, no bureaucracy can forever ignore those rights. That is the great advantage those of us who believe in freedom have over those who just want to get this case over with. We remember. We will remember Elian, and all the other Elians. We won't give up on this captive boy anymore than we gave up on the captive nations. And one day The Wall will fall again." --Paul Greenberg ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "By the standards applied to everyone, Mr. Clinton deserves disbarment. His dishonesty has been chronic and egregious. But the fact Mr. Clinton is no ordinary lawyer only enhances the argument for disbarment. This is what mothers call a teachable moment. Bill Clinton is now the most famous liar and perjurer in the whole world -- maybe the most famous liar in history. Through disbarment, the Arkansas courts can demonstrate that some people and institutions still uphold ordinary virtues like probity." --Mona Charen ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "The idea behind popular government (whether a democracy or a republic) is that the political process, mainly but not solely the electoral process, is the way government gets its marching orders. The people, by electing representatives, lobbying, marching, demonstrating, writing letters and in a thousand other ways, try to tell the government what they want done. The process may be indirect and diffused, but the idea is that the people are the bosses, the government apparatus the servants. If you believe any version of this theory, there's just no excuse for placing limitations (beyond those that involve actual harm or fraud, which can be handled through fairly simple, already existing laws) on this necessarily unruly and often messy process. If you want to place tight limitations on the political process, to be enforced by bureaucrats who cannot be removed from office because they weren't put there by the electoral process in the first place, then you obviously don't believe in popular government. Instead, you believe in some kind of facade of free elections, but one that is tightly controlled by those who already hold power. You believe in removing the connection between office holders and legitimate economic interests among the citizenry, instead making office holders beholden to and controlled by the permanent government." --Alan W. Bock ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "This is what has become of latter-day liberalism. The political left has abandoned traditional standards on grounds that they're 'intolerant' and 'harsh.' Votaries of political correctness have replaced customary norms with a code of etiquette that punishes wayward speech savagely, while trying to ease the penalties assessed to such crimes as murder." --Tony Snow ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "Here's what the 1936 government pamphlet on Social Security said: 'After the first 3 years you will pay, and your employer will pay, 1.5 cents for each dollar you earn, up to $3,000 a year'." --Walter Williams ______--------********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.) Making Sure the Surplus Revenue is Used to Reduce the National Debt FEDERAL BUDGET http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1378.html Lessons From Tennessee's Failed Health Care Reform HERITAGE http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1357es.html Court Delivers Blow to Religious Liberty CLAREMONT INSTITUTE http://www.claremont.org/publications/munoz000622.cfm A Real Patriot's Banner CLAREMONT INSTITUTE http://www.claremont.org/publications/robinson000622a.cfm ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD "Speaking of legal defenses: A fascinating one is ... a police report .. saying that a motorist who had been stopped on suspicion of drunken driving 'attempted to thwart the arresting officer by covering his ears and saying, "I cannot hear you, la la la la la".' Incredibly, this legal defense did not work, even though it is almost identical to the one used successfully by President Clinton during his impeachment trial on charges of extreme mentoring." --Dave Barry ______--------********O********--------______ TWO CENTS This Week's "Two Cents" issue: Recently, Independent Women's Forum President Anita Blair translated a few words from "feminese," the vernacular of liberal feminists: Equal: proportional outcome, not freedom of opportunity. Family: any group of people who call themselves a family. Economic justice: redistribution of wealth. Comparable worth: government dictation of wages and salaries. Violence: suffered by women, not men. Peacemaking: appeasement. Empowerment for women: political domination by radical feminist agenda. This Week's "Two Cents" Question: What are your favorite feminese translations? 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