WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Internet's Conservative Journal of Record http://www.Federalist.com Date: 05 May 2000 Federalist #00-18dgst To retrieve today's Digest as printer-friendly text or PDF, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-2.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDATION "The genius of republican liberty seems to demand that...those entrusted with [power] should be kept in dependence on the people by a short duration of their appointments...." --James Madison ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE (A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: This edition is dedicated to the memory of William Thomas Coleman, father of one of our Editorial Board's most astute contributors. We respectfully ask our readers to take a moment and pray for our colleague, his daughter, who grieves in her father's absence.) In the news this week, as if Americans of Cuban origin have not been sufficiently demoralized, the CIA announced that the U.S. government was aware that the Soviet Union had at least a week's advance notice of the date for the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, but Kennedy went ahead with the operation anyway -- apparently a practice run for how to manage the Vietnam War. You may recall that in an effort to oust Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, on April 17, 1961, the 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles were sent to overthrow Castro -- with American air cover to follow. Kennedy cancelled the air support before the freedom fighters had even landed on Cuban shores. Castro's Communists dispatched with the exiles in less than 72 hours, killing 200 and capturing 1,197 others and subjecting them to all manner of torture. It was almost as if the Reds knew the freedom fighters were coming! Fast forward.... This week, the U.S. Customs Service announced that its agents seized tranquilizers (diazepam and phenobarbital) from Dr. Caridad Ponce de Leon as she entered the country. Ponce de Leon was sent here by Castro, with the State Department's approval, to give any necessary "treatment" to little Elian Gonzalez in preparation for his return to his island prison. Open Query... "The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?" --Don Feder The BIG lie... "If you give me the chance, I will be a law-and-order president." --Al Gore >From "The most ethical administration"... We are shocked -- SHOCKED! -- to report that Jane Weaver, former assistant general counsel in the Office of Administration in the White House, has filed an affidavit regarding the AWOL White House e-mails charging John Podesta, the current White House chief of staff, with purposely misleading the courts in a separate matter (Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President) which also involves e-mail. Weaver states, "I vividly remember one Clinton White House meeting (I believe it was in the West Wing), which included then-Deputy Chief of Staff John Podesta, lawyers from the White House Counsel's Office, and the Department of Justice where the Armstrong case and related affidavits were discussed. Over my objections, it was decided by Podesta and others at the meeting to pursue a course of action I felt was misleading and legally inconsistent with prior sworn declarations to the court. There was definite pressure on me from the Clinton White House and Counsel's Office to obtain misleading affidavits." Though White House officials knew in February 1999 that e-mail messages subpoenaed by a federal grand jury and three congressional committees had not been turned over, ostensibly, because of a computer glitch, they failed to mention this to any of the investigators. New records also indicate that three months earlier, at the pinnacle of the impeachment inquiry, a large volume of e-mail for White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was intentionally deleted from his personal computer. C'mon, folks, even the Nixon plumbers weren't this brazen. News from the Swamp... In the House of Commons, the vote on permanent normal trading relations for China is scheduled for the week of May 22nd. If the measure passes, the Reds, who persecute Christians, force abortions, suppress dissidents, and conduct a significant volume of arms trade with terrorist states like Iran and Libya, will become one of our largest trade partners. We are reminded that Communist dictator V.I. Lenin was once asked by a fellow Bolshevik, Martov: "How will you hang the capitalists, Ilyich? We don't even have enough rope." Lenin responded to the question's premise about the scarcities created by Communism saying, "When I get ready to hang the capitalists, they'll sell me the rope -- on credit!" In the House of Lords, apparently those calling for an inquiry into the Justice Department's handling of the Elian Gonzalez raid have been subjected to cold showers. "I'm not sure where this inquiry is going to take us, until we get all the documents," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch. "Once we get them, I think we can make an intelligent appraisal as to whether the hearings should be held or not, whether we should go forth or whether we shouldn't." Translation: That will give us time to determine which direction the wind is blowing. Regarding your IRS overpayment... Did you feel a burden lifted from your shoulders this week? Based on the total of all taxes paid to federal, state and local governments, the Tax Foundation declared Wednesday "Tax Freedom Day," meaning that all income the average American earned from January 1 through May 2 went to taxes. Everything you earn from May 3 through December 31 is yours to keep. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department estimates it will pay down a record $216 billion of our national debt this year, based on "excess revenues." And what about all the rest? The Wall Street Journal notes: "Clinton budget chief Jack Lew gave a speech [Tuesday], railing at Congress for being unwilling to spend it all and threatening presidential vetoes. Mr. Lew's to-spend list includes: schools, conservation, foreign aid, veterans health care, debt reduction, even a patients 'bill of rights' (a spending bill for lawyers). He said Congress believes 'tax cuts are more important that any of the other choices that might be made.' Good to know what would constitute 'choices' in a Democratic Congress or Gore presidency." The intruders... >From the "Trust Me" Department, Bill Clinton is concerned about your privacy. "Every time you wire a check, use an ATM, make a purchase with a credit or debit card, there's a record -- a record that technology can record and track -- that makes it easier for others to mine that information for their own profit," he says. "No one should have to worry that the results of their latest physical exam could deny them a home mortgage or a credit card." This from the central government Commissar, who promoted nationalizing health care, national ID cards and a plethora of other intrusive registration -- not the least of which would be his ultimate objective to implement a full registration for gun owners. Beware of pathological liars saying, "Trust me!" While The Federalist certainly supports measures to protect personal information from both government and private sector "mining," we are a bit skeptical about foxes advocating more security for hen houses! >From the department of military readiness... A recent capability assessment finds that U.S. Air Force readiness is at its lowest level in 15 years. In addition to 40% downsizing by Clinton/Gore, only 65% of the combat air units left are now considered operational, meaning 115 of the Air Force's 329 combat units were not fully capable of performing their mission. In related news, the Pentagon has started surveying its most skilled exiting war fighters, particularly graduates of the three service academies, to find our why they are not staying in the military. Surely morale has nothing to do with those exits! Speaking of morale, the Pentagon's civilian advisory committee on military women has recommended the Navy put female officers on ballistic missile submarines. Apparently the committee members have never been under water for three months in close quarters. Can they spell "fraternization"? In other readiness news, sources tell The Federalist that a missing U.S. State Department laptop computer contained a large quantity of highly classified information about "sources and methods." Have they checked under the front seat of Ms. Albright's Yugo? In the Supreme halls of justice... "I'm not sure why the Constitution of the United States ... should be affected in any way by what foreign courts have to say about their constitutions." --Former federal judge Robert Bork, on an opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer in a death-row case in which Mr. Breyer suggested that the United States should take its constitutional guidance from decisions by the Privy Council of Jamaica, the Supreme Courts of India, and the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. Memo to Mr. Breyer: May we suggest you consider the example of the Pakistani bench, where Judge Allah Baksh Ranja sentenced 42-year-old Javed Iqbal to be executed in the same method he dispatched more than 100 of his young victims. Iqbal is to be strangled with an iron chain, hacked into 100 pieces and dissolved in a vat of acid. >From the states... While the Supreme Court considers the legality of state laws against partial birth abortion, Florida is about to join the growing list of those states. In other good news, creating a firewall to protect its state from the movement to give homosexual couples the same legal benefits as heterosexual married couples, Mississippi joined Florida and Utah by banning homosexual couples from adopting children. In other developments from Mississippi, the state's Supreme Court ruled the state flag, which incorporates the Confederate battle flag, does not violate the constitutional rights of black people. Presiding Justice Ed Pittman wrote, "In this case, the NAACP failed to offer any proof that the flying of the state flag deprived any citizen of a constitutionally protected right." He added, "The free-speech, the due-process, and the equal-protection arguments espoused by the NAACP would logically apply to the state-supported flying of a Confederate Battle flag." Around the world... "Every tax acts against our freedom," proclaimed Andrei Illarionov, economic advisor to Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin. (That would be a good line for George Bush!) Culture comment... This month's "Homo Liberalus Americanus" Award goes to the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) for their efforts to gain "equality under the law" for chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and other Democrat wannabes. Says ALDF's executive director Joyce Tischler, "The way that lawyers work is to try to draw analogies to similar situations. During the period when black people were slaves, some slave owners chose to give their slaves their freedom through various common-law methods.... We are exploring those sorts of common-law methods by which human beings who were in a status of property...were granted full rights." On the frontiers of junk science... If you are reading this, you may fairly assume that the alignment of the sun, Earth, moon, and five planets this morning at 4:08EST did not result in the apocalypse so many disenfranchised Villagers predicted. They theorized that the combined gravitational pull of that queue of galactic bodies would prompt earthquakes, tsunamis and, well, the end of life on Earth. But even the most nescient of Village physicists knows that distance between these bodies is a more important factor than their size. Their patron saint, Carl Sagan, noted that the force exerted on the Earth by a cosmic body is inversely proportional to the cube of its distance from Earth. Got that! And last, from the "Stranger Than Fiction" Department, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo's chief bodyguard has, on more than one occasion, left his .38-caliber revolver behind at meeting sites. The 68-year-old retired Metropolitan Police officer most recently left his loaded pistol in HUD's cafeteria, according to a Washington Times source. What more can you expect from a GS-13, Step 10 security specialist earning $79,155 a year...? Now one must ask, isn't HUD suing gun manufacturers in an effort to extort them out of business? Hasn't Cuomo declared that all of us lowly citizens are too irresponsible to be trusted with firearms? A chip off the old block, indeed! ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "Hope ... means ... a continual looking forward to the eternal world. ..It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. ...It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither." --C.S. Lewis ++ "Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." --William Shakespeare ++ "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." --General George Patton ++ "That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet." --Emily Dickinson ++ "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." --William James ++ "Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride and fear." --Horace Mann ______--------********O********--------______ THE GOOD NEWS "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:1-2) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Our friend, Cardinal John O'Connor, one of the nation's most passionate advocates for the unborn, and a spiritual leader to more than 2.4 million Roman Catholics in the New York Archdiocese, died Wednesday. He was a strong voice for moral and theological orthodoxy in the Catholic Church, and his leadership will be missed.) ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "[Thursday is our] National Day of Prayer -- unless some idiot judge decides it constitutes an establishment of religion, tends to promote a particular faith and/or is offensive to the hypersensitive." --Don Feder {} "Just as the federal government can't deny the benefit of taxpayer funds on the basis of race, it should not single out groups or individuals for discrimination based on their religion." --Tom DeLay {} "Instead of debating how much more money taxpayers should funnel into the Department of Education, or what combination of carrots and sticks might tempt government schools out of their lethargy, Congress should simply end federal involvement in education and return the department's budget to the American people in the form of a tax cut. ... [T]he department of education was born crying, lived complaining, and has been nothing if not disappointing. Congress should lay it to rest." --Darcy A. Olsen, noting this week's 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Education. {} "I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others." --Sen. John McCain, revisiting Hanoi. {} "Life by polling is a recipe for decay and decline." --Cal Thomas {} "...[W]hat do we do with those sorry politicians who spend whole careers pandering to the media elite?" --Pat Buchanan {} "Facts are beautiful only to those with little to fear from them. For law-breakers and tyrants, they are unpleasant and irksome, a nuisance to be quashed at any price." --Chris Weinkopf {} "Trigger locks are the crime-policy opiate of the elite. Republicans should be clearing the smoke, not inhaling it." --Michelle Malkin {} "People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money." --Sheldon Richman {} "A lot of folks would like the Elian Gonzalez case to go away, but it's not likely to anytime soon. What started out as an issue of one boy's fate has become a serious test case for the rule of law in America. ++ "They told us that 'it takes a village to raise a child.' ...What they didn't tell us is that they also believe it takes heavily-armed U.S. government SWAT teams to administer child services." --Oliver North ++ "It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners." --David Horowitz ++ "We should ask ourselves what kind of world view, what kind of governing philosophy, allows educated adults to deny an innocent boy freedom and call it justice. Elian Gonzalez deserves much better." --Rep. Tom DeLay ++ "When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses." --Lyn Nofziger ++ "Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream." --Joseph Sobran ++ "Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor." --George Will **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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