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: 12 September 2000 Federalist #00-37.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp [PUBLISHER'S NOTE: We remind our readers that you can use the link above to obtain a printer-friendly version of today's Brief and PDFs for the last five weekly Digest issues. The printer-friendly version is much easier to read and is there for your convenience.] To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE Clinton/Gore have been notorious for using the strong arm of the IRS against their most articulate dissenters. For the past 4 years, the Clintonistas have been auditing our friends at the Heritage Foundation, the nation's premier conservative think tank, in an effort to cripple the organization by burdening Heritage with the enormous cost of defending itself against the government's baseless accusations. Read all about the case and what you can do to help. The Federalist Editorial Board supports Heritage, and we encourage our readers to do the same. Visit -- https://secure.heritage.org/dev/thstoptheirs.cfm?opalrt821 CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News Faith Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Two Cents ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." -- Thomas Jefferson ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "[T]he main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average can not be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher." --Theodore Roosevelt ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "The wise of heart is called a man of discernment." (Proverbs 16:21) "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:10) "Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses." (Hosea 8:14) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH "So what does it mean when a Jewish politician tells Christian voters that 'we' need to reaffirm 'our' faith? The message, apparently, is that any faith will do, provided it keeps people out of trouble. But anyone who values religion because it promotes morality must value morality on nonreligious grounds. Hence this argument does not tell us why we should be religious. It tells us why other people should." --Jacob Sullum "Only a worldview that affirms the existence of moral absolutes can create the cultural climate our neighbors say they want. And that's, of course, what Christians believe in and are trying to bring back. Not because we want to impose our values on people, but because we love our neighbors, and want what's best for everyone." --Charles Colson ______--------********O********--------______ FAMILY "To use a human being, even a newly conceived one, as a commodity is never morally acceptable. Each person must be treated as an end in himself, not as a means to improve someone else's life. It is difficult to think of an embryo as a person. As one news story put it, they are no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence -- at the start. But that is part of the miracle of life. And a society that stops thinking so is not likely to be very humane. " --Mona Charen "...[I]t is no coincidence that a society which undermines parental authority, which marginalizes religion, and which steeps its children in a violent and sexually obsessed popular culture produces children who are unruly, undisciplined, nihilistic, and in some cases infatuated with murder and quite prepared to act on these infatuations." --Rep. J.C. Watts Jr. ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "We live in an age dominated by information and, in particular, the battle of ideas. These ideas come in the form of words. The battle over abortion is as much a battle over words as it is a battle over human life itself. Those who support legalized abortion speak of their position as 'pro-choice' or simply 'choice.' This is the sort of damnable euphemism employed by Hitler's genocidal political machine from 1933-1945. In today's world of information warfare and media saturation, the easiest way to get away with doing evil things is to describe them in pleasant, even seductive, language. Dope addiction becomes 'chemical dependency.' State stealing becomes 'compassion for the poor.' Adultery becomes 'an affair.' Sodomy becomes 'an alternative lifestyle.' Sexual intercourse with a young female intern becomes 'an inappropriate relationship.' This debasement of language is an indicator of a decaying, putrid culture. ... The left wing, in collusion with a largely liberal media, has employed its euphemisms to desensitize the American public." --Andrew Sandlin ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "This is the glory of the Founders -- despite having the power and opportunity to replicate in America the despotisms of Europe, they instead embraced and proclaimed a new understanding of politics. That understanding acknowledged in human nature itself, formed by God in a decision beyond the reach of human power or rejection, the basis for a universal claim to dignity and rights." --Alan Keyes "...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today -- subtle logicians like you -- can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister." --Joseph Sobran ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "The lies being spewed by the radical Left cannot continue to be tolerated because it's based on lies and deceit and it's creating not only division within our nation, but classes of citizens based on sex and color. This nation cannot afford to continue along the path of division and maintain the strength of its moral fabric. We cannot excuse or condemn based on a person's race or beliefs. I know that I probably sound like a liberal saying that but that's actually the point. Liberals have been using that same line for years as a cliche or a smoke screen to further their agenda that is directly opposed to those words and have been astonishingly successful at it. They have created an Alice in Wonderland society where whatever seems to be true, is actually a lie and vice versa." --Lisa S. Dean ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "While we have long found much to admire in Gov. Bush's program, we have always questioned the wisdom of making 'compassionate conservatism' the theme of his campaign. Its chief defect is that it does not provide a compelling reason for voters to make him president. His campaign has instead proceeded as though voters already wanted him to be president and its task were to prevent them from changing their minds. ... Whether he likes it or not, the strongest arguments against Gore are not based on Bush's superior character or style; they are conservative arguments against Gore's program." --National Review ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "Communism and socialism is seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff -- watch out!" --Walter Williams ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "[Affluence] is changing the nation's political sensibility, reducing to the vanishing point the once-sturdy concern for limited government. .. Congress is complicit in all this because Congress could stop it. Until it does, we will have more of what [Christopher DeMuth of the American Enterprise Institute] calls 'strip mall socialism,' sprawling government, ubiquitous and undistinguished, with 'no theme or theory, just momentum'." --George Will ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "What exactly, are students learning these days? A group of 33 New York students apparently have learned that our government schools are actually run by the judicial system, as they filed suit alleging that New York state discriminates against upstate schools with high minority enrollment. Federal Judge Lawrence M. McKenna ruled that the suit may proceed under civil rights law, under the private right of action claiming disparate impact from allegedly substandard upstate New York schools." (NFRA Newsletter) ______--------********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.) Virtue in Democracy HENRY HYDE http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl673.html Courting Disaster -- Judicial Activism FRC http://www.ieteen.org ______--------********O********--------______ TWO CENTS This Week's "Two Cents" issue: "Liberal is easy!" That is the topic of an upcoming Second Opinion feature. For example, it is much easier for liberals to promise government handouts than it is to promote personal responsibility. It is much easier for liberals to blame guns than it is to address America's "culture of violence." 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