-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 17 July 2001 Federalist #01-29.brf To retrieve today's Brief as HTML printer-friendly text, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2001.asp To purchase a book from the Patriot's Library, link to -- http://www.federalist.com/books.asp To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp ______--------********O********--------______ THIS WEEK'S FEATURED SITE Learning For Life and the Exploring program (formerly Exploring BSA) are subsidiaries of the Boy Scouts of America. Over 20,000 schools in the USA are using the Learning For Life program to instill core values in young people and in other ways prepare them to make ethical choices throughout their lives so they can achieve their full potential. Visit -- http://www.learning-for-life.org/ CONTENTS: The Founders Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis The Gipper Government On the Left Political Futures For the Record Policy Pages Reader Comments The Last Word ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "Government, in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without a government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." --Thomas Paine ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "My friends, we are not the sum of our possessions. They are not the measure of our lives. In our hearts we know what matters. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it." --George Bush(41) ______--------********O********--------______ GOOD NEWS "He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." (2 Samuel 23:3) ++ "God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers. How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked? Vindicate the weak and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked." (Psalm 82:1-4) ++ "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." (1 Peter 5:6-7) ______--------********O********--------______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "For us, murder is once for all forbidden.... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed." --Tertullian (c. 160-230) ______--------********O********--------______ FAMILY "This is not the first time the president has been called upon to protect embryos. In 1972, Congress passed and the president signed legislation incorporated in 16 U.S.C. 668. That law says it is a crime punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment up to one year to 'take, possess, sell, purchase, barter, offer to sell, purchase or barter, transport, export or import, at any time in any manner, any bald eagle, alive or dead, or any part, nest, or egg thereof.' Today we read news reports of the sale of human eggs for fertilization in a Virginia laboratory and the destruction of these embryonic humans for experimental purposes. Can anyone imagine the cries of the environmentalists if President Bush proposed not to enforce any one of these stringent protections the law gives to bald eagles? Yet here we are, debating whether the laws already passed to protect embryonic human life should be enforced. When will clarity of thought replace our national schizophrenia?" --Ken Connor ______--------********O********--------______ CULTURE "In a free society, there will never be a clear distinction between the expression of religious and civil values; they overlap. We can't and shouldn't ghettoize religion, and ban it from the public square. But neither do we want to fill the public square with all kinds of religious bric-a-brac, from gold-plated Buddhas to Christs-of-the-Ozarks to electrified menorahs, all erected and blessed by the state, with space reserved for other multicultural icons as they come into fashion with our changing demographics." --Paul Greenberg ______--------********O********--------______ LIBERTY "Every problem in America, every need and every threat, whether real or conjured, is used as an excuse for the confiscation of private wealth, the suppression of individual freedom and the expansion of an overbearing government bureaucracy. An imperial government is taking charge of our lives in the name of what's good for us, telling us what to eat, how to raise our children, what cars to drive, when to buckle up, where to set our thermostats, who can play professional golf, how often to flush the toilet, what to believe and what to think. Where will Nanny Government look next? Will it be toward those responsible for second-hand exhaust fumes from oversized autos and trucks? Will it be toward parents who smoke in homes where children are present? And how about those filthy meat packers, greedy pharmaceutical houses and evil liquor barons? How about Ronald McDonald as a target?" --Linda Bowles ______--------********O********--------______ OPINION IN BRIEF "In his 1996 essay, 'Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,' novelist Tom Wolfe said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was right in his prediction that humanity would muddle through the 20th century, living off the 'mere pittance' of the morality it had inherited from Christianity. But that inheritance is now overdrawn, spent." --Chuck Colson ______--------********O********--------______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "The hyperbolic attacks on the Bush plan by environmentalists (as an attempt to poison the air and kill the caribou) shouldn't trick conservatives into an exaggerated sense of its merit. The basic thrust of the administration's thinking on energy is sound: a growing economy requires more energy, which in turn entails more production. But the Bush plan itself is a political document, meant to placate corporate interests, environmentalists, and everyone in between, and so is festooned with an embarrassment of subsidies and incentives that will, at best, prove an irrelevance. ...The phantom energy crisis is already healing itself. Power plants are being built at a rate that outpaces Dick Cheney's benchmark of one plant a week. Altogether, almost 100,000 new daily megawatts of electricity capacity are scheduled to be available nationwide by next year. This is twice the amount of electricity that California now uses on an average day. While Cheney has been sitting with his advisers around a White House conference table, investors and entrepreneurs have been digging, building, and refining his energy problem into oblivion. By the time all the Bush plan's tax credits have kicked in, there may well be an energy glut." --National Review ______--------********O********--------______ THE GIPPER "In the long post-war years of affluence, perhaps we have forgotten the simple fact that no one gave America the world's highest standard of living. We earned it, by being the most productive and efficient industrial nation in the world." --Ronald Reagan ______--------********O********--------______ GOVERNMENT "God finally won one in the U.S. Supreme Court. He shouldn't have. The Court ruled, 6 to 3, that an upstate New York public school couldn't prohibit the Good News Club, a Christian student group, from meeting on its premises after school. The liberal (that is, illiberal) position was that this would amount to an unconstitutional state endorsement of religion; the conservative view was that the ban 'discriminated' against the group because it was religious. Both were wrong. The liberal minority was wrong because the First Amendment says only that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion'; the states are free to do so. The conservative majority was wrong because the federal government has no authority to forbid religious discrimination by the states." --Joseph Sobran ______--------********O********--------______ ON THE LEFT >From the "Sopranos Plagiarism" Department, United Auto Workers Local 149 of Winchester, Virginia, and the UAW International Union were forced to settle out of court this week over a suit involving the terrorism of non-union employees of a Richmond-area auto parts manufacturer. "The union has finally been forced to pay a price for its involvement in a bloody campaign that left a massive trail of violence and vandalism in its wake," remarked Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. It was reported that "union militants dumped a severed, bloody cow's head on the hood of a worker's car and another in a worker's backyard. In addition to the claims against the union itself, the lawsuits charged several union militants with civil conspiracy and other counts for making death threats, shooting out windows, sending obscene mail, acts of stalking, theft of property, and harassing workers on the job to coerce them into quitting their jobs." ______--------********O********--------______ POLITICAL FUTURES "As long as Republicans allow their political opponents to frame the terms of the debate they'll not only lose the debate, but the battle over policy. It's time the GOP quit acting ashamed of its platform and afraid of its shadow and resurrected its dedication to freedom." --David Limbaugh ______--------********O********--------______ FOR THE RECORD "One in five American teenagers doesn't know the answer to this grade school history question: From what country did America declare its independence? Twenty-two percent of those who responded to the survey commissioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation did not know the answer was England. Fourteen percent thought it was France. 'When you look at these numbers, it means that more than 5 million U.S. teenagers don't understand the true meaning of Independence Day,' said Colin Campbell, president of the foundation that runs Colonial Williamsburg, the restored 18th-century capital. The nationwide telephone survey included 1,020 youngsters ages 12-17." --Associated Press ______--------********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.) The Devastation Of Divorce FRC http://www.frc.org/papers/infocus/index.cfm?get=IF00H2&arc=yes ______--------********O********--------______ SELECT READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "Wesley Pruden is wrong. The art of politics is NOT compromise, as the following great Americans have attested: 'Don't give up your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency.' --Ronald Reagan. 'Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.' -- John Adams." Editor's Reply: But compromise IS the art of politics in today's political context. Few members of Congress are willing to forgo expediency for ideals in today's degraded political context. "With all this hullabaloo about Condit, how did Larry Flynt fail to uncover his considerable extramarital flings when digging up dirt on members of Congress?" Editor's Reply: Flynt's excavation only covered Republican members of Congress! (From one of the tax protesters in Nashville) "As a public service following the vote-down of the proposed income tax bill by Tennessee's legislature, the crowd outside the capitol recited the Pledge of Allegiance quite loudly, so that Rep. Henri Brooks (Memphis Democrat who refuses to stand or say the Pledge, as it is to a 'racist flag') might be reminded of that '...for which it stands'." "It is only too obvious that Julian Bond's comments regarding the President Bush and the 'extreme right wing' were a veiled reference to Nazis. Let us recall what Nazi stands for: the National SOCIALIST Party. The far right in pre-war Germany were SOCIALISTS -- card carrying Leftists like Bond, et al." "In Federalist 01-28, you mention the 'House Un-American Activities Committee' in your comments about Whittaker Chambers -- a Leftmedia misnomer to misrepresent the committee's mission. It was the 'House Committee on Un-American Activities'?" Editor's Reply: Indeed -- our mistake as directly quoted from the Washington Times. ______--------********O********--------______ THE LAST WORD Letterman's Top Dumb Guy Ways To Conserve Energy: Quit drinkin' gas. Keep your television on a low setting, no higher than channel 5. Recycle Top Ten List entries. Recycle Top Ten List entries. Host late-night talk show that causes millions of Americans to turn off their television sets. Instead of motor oil, lubricate your car's engine with Oil of Olay. Turn off the lights at Shea Stadium -- would it really matter? 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