-Caveat Lector- 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: 10 October 2000 Federalist #00-41.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp (Publisher's note: Please see the "Two Cents" question at the bottom of this page. We need your feedback about new Federalist e-mail formats.) ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE TaxClarity.org was created to help you decipher what the tax plans by both major presidential candidates mean to you personally. As with all campaign promises, it's very difficult to cut through the rhetoric and REALLY understand what a candidate is promising. To this end, we have created some simple-to-use calculators. The most popular (and most relevant) of these calculators are the ones that help you determine your personal tax savings related to income taxes. Visit -- http://www.TaxClarity.org/ CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News Faith Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis Government Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages The Last Word Two Cents ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "It will be first necessary to define what is meant by a Constitution. It is not sufficient that we adopt the word; we must fix also a standard signification to it. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not an ideal, but a real existence; and wherever it cannot be produced in a visible form, there is none. A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government, and a government is only the creature of a constitution. The constitution of a country is not the act of its government, but of the people constituting a government. It is the body of elements, to which you can refer, and quote article by article; and which contains the principles on which the government shall be established, the manner in which it shall be organized, the powers it shall have, the mode of elections, the duration of parliaments, or by what other name such bodies may be called; the powers which the executive part of the government shall have; and, in fine, everything that relates to the complete organization of a civil government, and the principles on which it shall act, and by which it shall be bound. A constitution, therefore, is to a government, what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution." --Thomas Paine ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "They are slaves who fear to speak, For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose, Hatred, scoffing and abuse; Rather than in silence shrink, >From the truths they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." James Russell Lowell ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "...But even if we had a king, what could he do for us? They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field." (Hosea 10:3-4) "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers." (Psalm 1:1) "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:3) ______--------********O********--------______ FAITH "Virtually the entirety of our population, whatever their faith, acknowledges God. Through history, our schools like our society have done so as well. This common bond has been a transcendent and unifying element in our nation's life. If by tortured logic, we deny this heritage, we are attacking the sense of unity upon which our civil society depends." --William J. Moloney ______--------********O********--------______ FAMILY "If a message is not compatible with an individual's values, he always has the power to reject it. Parents obviously have a role, through implicit and explicit moral instruction, in shaping those values. If they do their job right, their children will learn to be skeptical about what they see and hear -- including alarmist claims about their own vulnerability to bad influences." --Jacob Sullum ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "In America today, are there no national crises, no common dangers, no reasons to sound the alarm? Our prosperity is unprecedented. But while the table is loaded, there is a spiritual hunger in the land. Never before have we been as divided along racial/ethnic lines. Our nation is suffering an identity crisis. Fewer and fewer of us know what America means, understand that we were founded on an ideal and grew to greatness adhering to a vision." --Don Feder ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we been prepared. It is my belief that adequate preparation on our part would have prevented or materially shortened all our other wars beginning with that of 1812. Yet, after each of our wars, there has always been a great hue and cry to the effect that there will be no more wars, that disarmament is the sure road to health, happiness, and peace; and that by removing the fire department, we will remove fires. These ideas spring from wishful thinking and from the erroneous belief that wars result from logical processes. There is no logic in wars. They are produced by madmen. No man can say when future madmen will reappear. I do not say that there will be no more wars; I devoutly hope that there will not, but I do say that the chances of avoiding future wars will be greatly enhanced if we are ready." -- General George Patton ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "He is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like a rotten mackerel by moonlight." --John Randolph of Roanoke speaking of Edward Livingstone (c.1800) Political corruption is certainly nothing new. Almost every age, from that of Medicis to the resurgent "common man" government of Andrew Jackson, has had elements of the payoff and the bribe, the backroom deal and the whispered word. It is disconcerting, however, to see the continual disregard for the rule of law, as well as for common decency, by the Clinton administration. History will record that William Jefferson Clinton was a man utterly without shame, completely lacking in regard for appearances. Several recent examples illustrate the steady drumbeat of ethical perversion that has accompanied the White House journeys of this administration. The president waited like a pickpocket in an alley until the Congress was out of session and used his recess appointment powers to install three new U.S. ambassadors. The installation of ambassadors is in itself nothing unusual, but Clinton waited until the Senate, the voice of the people, could no longer play a hand in the approval or disapproval of his new envoys. All of the appointees are large monetary contributors to the Democratic Party and the campaign of Clinton Vice President Albert Gore. Clinton also took this opportunity to appoint Bill Lann Lee as head of the civil rights division of the Justice Department. Lee would almost assuredly have faced intense Congressional opposition. Appointing ambassadors during a summer political convention when the other party is simply "all out of town" is simply not done-but Clinton certainly doesn't care about that. This action is another example of the type of magisterial unitary rule exercised by Clinton. He talks like a peasant but behaves like a king. This administration has also shown a marked Nixonian tendency to regard individuals who criticize its actions with a vehemence and hatred that often results in extremely execrable reactions. Consider the recent case of Katherine Prudhomme, who became momentarily famous when she publicly queried Mr. Gore as to whether or not he believed that Mr. Clinton was a rapist. Now it appears that the IRS is paying Miss Prudhomme a visit. Just days after her public confrontation with Gore, Prudhomme was notified that an IRS investigation into her daughter's schooling expenses was imminent. "My taxes are far too simple for them to audit me, so they said I owe them $1500 if I don't come up with these forms from my child's school that I sent in two years ago and that they must have lost. It doesn't make sense." Oh, yes, it does. Previous targets of IRS audits under Clinton/Gore have included the NRA and other conservative organizations that have crossed swords with the president. Various individuals who have come out against Clinton have also been IRS victims, including Juanita Broaddrick, who accused the president of raping her when he was a state official in Arkansas. The Washington Times reported that these audits led to the first congressional inquiries into IRS abuses since the Nixon administration. Far from taking responsibility for any of these abuses or violations of Americans' civil rights, President Clinton continues to argue and believe that somehow he deserves special treatment. His personality is a textbook case of extreme narcissism. Case in point: Clinton and his lawyers claim that disbarment for Clinton's admitted perjury in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit is "too harsh." Clinton doesn't believe that he should be treated like any other lawyer who would have made deliberately false statements during a deposition. Clinton claims that his 1998 perjury is not serious because the underlying Paula Jones lawsuit was "wholly lacking in merit." That's probably why the president and his lawyers made an $850,000 settlement with Miss Jones. There is really no question that Clinton is a corrupt president. The real concern for American voters should be the repeated assurances by Mr. Gore that he is "his own man." Obviously, Gore is a "chip off the old block." Dick Cheney's convention challenge still rings true: "Will we ever be able to look at the one without recalling the other?" No, we won't. ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "We've always been ready, even before the Al-Tipper smooch, to stipulate that a President Gore would not run off with a White House intern. But what has debased our national discourse during the Clinton years is not sex but lies, and here the Vice President clearly digested the lesson that the Clinton ethos works. 'I did not have sex with that woman" is of a piece with 'no controlling legal authority'." --Wall Street Journal ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?" --Neal Boortz ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "Though abortion -- including the killing of viable infants at the verge of birth -- is now a sacrament of the Democratic Party, nobody admits to being 'pro-abortion'; they are 'pro-choice.' This is an obvious lie. The right to choose anything presupposes the right to live. The child, fetus, embryo, or whatever you want to call the entity growing within its mother's womb has no 'choice' about being killed. It will never have a choice about anything. The pro-abortion side is pro-abortion in the same way that advocates of slavery were pro-slavery. 'Oh,' they protest, 'but we don't insist that everyone get an abortion; we only want people' -- that is, mothers -- 'to have a choice!' Then nobody was pro-slavery either, since nobody insisted that every white man own a slave; they were 'pro-choice.' They wanted each white man to be 'free' to decide whether to buy slaves; or they wanted every state to decide whether to permit slavery. Of course they overlooked the obvious fact that the slaves themselves had no choice; in their minds this was irrelevant." --Joseph Sobran ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD After reading our Second Opinion item, "Pollagandizing Public Opinion," many of our readers have inquired, "Just who are the networks polling anyway? We never get called!" Well, according to recent couch-potato statistics, 20% of Weather Channel viewers watch for as long as three hours at a sitting. The Weather Channel calls them "weather-involved." We call them strong candidates for media polls! And consider this item from the New York Times' William Safire: "The word 'respondent' sends shudders through the nose-counting community. The dirty secret of political surveys is this: As recent as 1984, the response rate to pollsters' questioning was 65 percent; that is, two out of three people reached would answer. Pollster friends whisper to me that the response rate is down to 35 percent. (Two out of three pollsters I called went mum or hung up on me, thus validating this reported figure in my mind, which never leaves margin for error.)" ______--------********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.) How the Medicare Bureaucracy Threatens Patient Privacy HERITAGE http://www.heritage.org/library/lecture/hl646.html The Gay Gene: Going, Going ... Gone FRC http://www.frc.org/insight/is00d2hs.cfm Establishment Clause Misunderstood CLAREMONT INSTITUTE http://www.claremont.org/publications/krannawitter000418.cfm The Real Truth Behind the Establishment Clause CLAREMONT INSTITUTE http://www.claremont.org/publications/eastman000327.cfm ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD "Where else in the world could you stand on a corner and have people yell, 'Go Home' in every language? Sixty-seven languages in Queens alone." --HILLARY! making a joke at her own expense. **John Rocker got benched for making a similar remark. For your reading pleasure -- "HILLARY! go home" in a few selected languages.... Idz do rici, Hilari (eastern Slovakia) Ga hjem Hillary (Danish) Uli Walai Hillary (East Malaysia) Hillary, ikka ni kaero (Japanese) Exigis Domus Hillaria (Latin) Idz do domu Hillary (Polish) Va embora Hillary (Portuguese) Di Di Mau, Hillary (Vietnamese) -. -- .... -- - . -.- - .-. ... .-.-.-.-. .-.. .. -. - -- -. (Morse code) ______--------********O********--------______ TWO CENTS This Week's "Two Cents" issue: In our effort to provide The Federalist in the most user-friendly format, we need our readers to answer a few quick questions. Please link to the page below and give us your input on e-mail formats. 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