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THE FEDERALIST(r) CHRONICLE The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 9 January 2002 Federalist Edition #02-02 Wednesday Chronicle *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Chronicle as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______----********O********----______ PUBLISHER'S NOTE For the second time in as many weeks, the Editorial Board and staff of The Federalist extend our condolences to, and prayers for, the family of a noted conservative. David W. Miller, 35, and three others died in a collision Sunday night when an oncoming vehicle crossed into their lane. David was a journalist with the Chronicle of Higher Education and former managing editor of Policy Review. He was not only an exceptional writer but "He was an outstanding husband and father," said friend and former Heritage V.P. Adam Meyerson. David is survived by his wife and two young sons. ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." --Patrick Henry ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." -George W. Bush {} "Firmness based on strong defense capability is not provocative. Weakness can be provocative simply because it is tempting to a nation whose imperialist ambitions extend to the ends of the earth." --Ronald Reagan {} "It is the coward who fawns on those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so." --Junius {} "No man is free who is not master of himself." --Epictetus {} "The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." --Amiel {} "Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart." --Chamfort {} "Hell is but the collected ruins of the moral world, and sin is the principle that has made them." --Marlowe {} "Ill blows the wind that profits nobody." --William Shakespeare {} "Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." --Antisthenes {} "The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God." --C.S. Lewis {} "It is never too late to be what you might have been." --George Eliot ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "Historians like to give names to various eras, the Age of Faith or the Age of Reason. Ours can only be called the Age of Terrorism, for we are no longer dealing with the isolated acts of bandits or deranged killers; those we have always had. What we are living through is a revolt against all ordered society, a war on civilization itself." --Vermont Royster ++ "The harsh reality is this: Until Islam works to root out the tyranny of imposed belief in the world of Islam, it limits its ability to persuade the American mind, which reveres moral agency as a gift from God, to believe that Islam is anything less than tyranny masquerading as true religion." --Steve Farrell & Steve Montgomery ++ "For the Palestinian strongman [Yasser Arafat], terrorism is diplomacy by other means. ... If Arafat were sincere about fighting terrorism, he'd have to arrest himself." --Don Feder {} "The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. And as such, it assumes certain things to be true about human nature...." --Charles Colson {} "We seem not to have learned a basic lesson of history: Capitalism harnesses human self interest; socialism exhausts itself trying to kill it." --Linda Bowles {} "Americans as donors and taxpayers have been far too generous with the higher education establishment. It's about time we stop paying for campus anti-Americanism and academic dishonesty. Nothing opens the closed minds of college administrators more than the sounds of pocketbooks snapping shut." --Walter Williams {} "Americans, the most practical people almost anywhere, prefer doers to thinkers, the earthy to the esoteric, hard heads to soft IQs and plain thinking to squishy sophistication." --Suzanne Fields ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "All of Washington is debating whether Saddam Hussein was behind the World Trade Center attack. But we keep going back to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's recent remark that 'we didn't need 11 September to tell us that he is a threat to our interests.' She's right. ...It all begins in 1979, when Saddam Hussein, a leading power in the Baath Party for 10 years, becomes President of Iraq and commander of the armed forces. He immediately executes hundreds of other Baath leaders for 'disloyalty.' That same year the Shah of Iran falls, and after border tension and subversion on both sides, Iraq invades Iran in September 1980. In 1981, Israel bombs the Osirak nuclear reactor. Saddam had called the deal with France to build the reactor 'the first concrete step toward the production of the Arab atomic weapon.' As the Iraq-Iran war rolls on through the 1980s, perhaps 1.5 million people die on both sides. Saddam himself uses chemical weapons without provocation. The countries agree to a cease-fire in 1988. But that same year Saddam uses nerve gas to attack Kurds in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja. Nearly 5,000 men, women and children are killed. In 1990, laden with war debt, Saddam seizes the oil fields of Kuwait. Iraq confiscates billions of dollars worth of Kuwaiti property and kills or takes prisoner thousands of Kuwaitis. Several hundred are still missing. Before his army is expelled by Operation Desert Storm, his troops set fire to 500 Kuwaiti oil wells, causing an environmental debacle. He also fires 39 Scud missiles into Israel. After surrendering before his Republican Guard could be destroyed, Saddam agrees to disarm but the U.S. makes a historic blunder and allows him to keep his helicopters. When Shiites in the south and Kurds in the north rise up against Saddam, he uses those helicopters to slaughter them. In 1993, Saddam sends assassins to kill former President Bush during a visit to Kuwait. The plot fails. That same year a truck bomb explodes in the basement of the World Trade Center in New York. Prosecutors pin the blame on a band of Islamic fanatics. But in her book, 'Study of Revenge,' Laurie Mylroie makes a compelling case that convicted bomber Ramzi Yousef isn't who he says he is, but is an Iraqi agent given a new identity during the post-Gulf War confusion. In 1996, the opposition Iraqi National Congress succeeds in unifying feuding Kurdish factions and controls much of northern Iraq. But Saddam sends in tanks to crush them, and the Clinton Administration responds by bombing empty buildings in the south. ...Amid all of this, Iraq is forced to admit to a frightening stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.... All in all, this is a legacy worthy of Stalin or Idi Amin. And Saddam has managed all of this destruction without yet obtaining the most horrific weapon of all, a nuclear bomb. But that may not be all that far away. His former chief nuclear scientist, Khidir Hamza, believes Saddam needs only fissile material to produce a bomb. And the New York Times reported .. that another recent Iraqi defector says he visited at least 20 different sites associated with all three classes of mass terror weapons -- nuclear, chemical and biological. President Bush has said he'll take the war to any country that harbors terrorists. But Saddam Hussein doesn't merely harbor them. He is the terrorist. The question now is whether the Bush Administration allows his reign of terror to continue, or saves the world from it once and for all." --Wall Street Journal ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA This week's "Media Buster" Award: "Americans stand in jeopardy of remembering Geraldo Rivera, Christiane Amanapour or Ashleigh Banfield as the heroes of the Afghan War. Relentlessly narcissistic and buoyed by cloying network anchors at home, reporters such as these have used dramatic license to heighten the sense of personal danger to themselves and thus tacitly direct their reporting towards the inevitable conclusion -- 'ain't I a hero?'" --Decorated Gulf War combat veteran John Hillen {} Fox News missed another opportunity to redeem its standing with conservatives.... Friend of The Federalist Alan Keyes, former Presidential Candidate and U.S. Ambassador at the United Nations under Ronald Reagan, has joined MSNBC as host of a new one-hour commentary show, "Alan Keyes Is Making Sense," which will air weeknights at 10pm (ET). Erik Sorenson, president and general manager, MSNBC, noted, "We're excited that Alan is bringing his highly-regarded grasp of global issues and his larger-than-life personality to MSNBC." **Federalist programming note: That's head-to-head with Lefty Greta van Susteren on -- you guessed it -- Fox! {} "Where can you find a morning news anchor who's provocative, super-smart (and) oh, yeah, just a little sexy? CNN, yeah, CNN." --Text of a 15-second on-air promotion of anchorwoman Paula Zahn's morning show which aired repeatedly last Saturday and Sunday. The ad featured the sound effect of a zipper. **CNN has withdrawn the ad but we found it suitable for the Clinton News Network. {} "We were talking about fiscal discipline and the country. There were large deficits. We finally brought our budget into surplus and now we're back into deficits. Are those deficits acceptable in order to help fund the Bush tax cut?" --NBC's Tim Russert suggesting tax cuts are the only negotiable part of the budget ______----********O********----______ SOCIOCRATS "I know something about the culture of obfuscation." --Former Clinton legal advisor Lanny Davis on the Enron debacle. {} "The incentives are all for fudging the numbers and lying like hell.... That means the administration has one hell of an advantage on this." --Rep. David Obey (D-Wisconsin), ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, on "bipartisan" governmental budget processes {} "North America's diminishing biological diversity has profound consequences. Because the loss is irreversible -- species that are lost are lost forever -- the potential impact on the human condition, on the fabric of the continent's living systems, and on the process of evolution is immense." --Report from NAFTA offshoot Commission for Environmental Co-operation of North America warning of a "widespread crisis not confined to any one country or region," and which commission director Janine Ferretti referred to as an analysis of "the ecological interconnectedness of our three countries." The report also deplores the high level of car use in the U.S. and Canada as "unsustainable," criticizes the water use levels of Americans and Canadians as higher than those in Mexico, and warns of global warming threats and "perverse subsidies" encouraging consumption. **We guess these folks must hate tax cuts, too! {} "...I wish Al Gore were president. Why? Quite simply because instead of showing resolve, imagination, leadership and creativity on the domestic front, Bush has done just the opposite. He has tried to use the tremendous upsurge in patriotism, bipartisanship and volunteerism triggered by the tragedy of Sept. 11 to drive a narrow, right-wing agenda from Sept. 10 into a Sept. 12 world." --Thomas Friedman ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS "If you look to our societies, we are already registered from birth until death. Our governments know who we are and what we are. ... It's a basic rule of management that if you want to manage something, you measure it. It's the same with human beings and migration. But instead of measuring it, you have to register them." --Belgium's Pascal Smet at a UN meeting to discuss the need to fingerprint and register everyone in the world under a universal identification scheme. ++ "Fear of an intrusive government can be addressed by setting criteria for any official who demands to see the card. Even without a national card, people are always being asked to show identification. The existence of a national card need not change the rules about when ID can properly be demanded." --Harvard Law Professor and pop Communist (redundant perhaps) Alan Dershowitz {} "I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution [to society].... I'd like to trade O'Reilly for bin Laden. ... There's a long history of people who capitalize on the lowest common denominator of people's impulses, Adolf Hitler being one of them. ... These guys -- Joe McCarthy, Bill O'Reilly -- die like everyone else. And when they do, their legacy is one of damaging the spirit of good things, and they become rather broken, pathetic figures. And that is going to happen to him." --Hollyweird actor and former Mr. Madonna, Sean Penn, likening Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly to Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, and Joe McCarthy all at once. {} "While I would not dream of using arguments to diminish the horror of the September 11 attack for thousands of people, I would also suggest that the people who died in the attack did not suffer more terrible deaths than animals in slaughterhouses suffer every day." --Karen Davis, president United Poultry Concerns, perhaps discussing Osama bin Tyson ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging. Fortunately it's my portrait." --President George W. Bush at the Texas Capitol unveiling of his official gubernatorial portrait {} "The embargo on red whine has been lifted." --Ron Marr on recent Leftist attacks on economic and faith-based conservatism {} "If mutual ignorance were the font of war, Mexico would be at war with Moldova and Alec Baldwin would be running around hacking to death everyone with an IQ over 80." --Jonah Goldberg {} "Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living." --P.J. O'Rourke {} "A friend notes that Monica Lewinsky is 28 this week. And it seems like only yesterday she was crawling around on the floor of the Oval Office." --Lyn Nofziger {} "Europe's new, all-inclusive currency, the euro, looks like Monopoly money. It has bland colors, bland artwork and no distinctive nationality. If a carrier pigeon were instructed to take a euro home, the bird would not know where to go." --Cal Thomas {} "Mike Tyson -- who was just visiting Cuba, causing a ruckus in a Havana hotel -- had had Che Guevara tattooed on his abdomen. ...'Iron Mike' has long had a tattoo of Mao Tse-tung on his bicep. Given the boxer's bulk, I would say he still has room for Castro, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler -- with maybe a Kim Il Sung on his backside." --Jay Nordlinger Jay Leno.... It's cold out East -- so cold that Al Gore said he is now in favor of global warming! .... Security is still tight in places. In fact, next year at the Rose Bowl security will be so tight that they won't let in teams that aren't supposed to be there. .... Argentina now has its fifth president in two weeks -- and Florida isn't involved. Amazing. Regis Philbin will now be hosting a new television game show -- "Who Wants to Be President of Argentina?" ... India and Pakistan are on the verge of war. You know what this means -- the price of a Slurpee is going to go through the roof! Buy your Big Gulps now! David Letterman.... It snowed! You can tell New York City is still jumpy, because when people saw the white powder falling they started taking Cipro. .... Mayor Bloomberg has announced that he thinks the city should cut the pay of the firefighters and police department. This guy is a public relations genius! .... We are now sending Taliban POWs to Cuba. We really know how to punish these terrorists. Let them spend the winter on a Caribbean island. Argus Hamilton.... Hustler publisher Larry Flynt took the Pentagon to court on Friday. He wants his magazine to be allowed to cover the war in Afghanistan. If the Arab world is going to accuse us of naked aggression, we might as well get our money's worth. .... Don Rumsfeld said the Navy is building a high security jail in Guantanamo Bay for al Qaeda detainees. It has four guard towers and barbed wire. Cuba's building codes require that the facility look like all the other buildings in the neighborhood. .... President Bush flew to California to campaign for his economic stimulus plan. To try to get it passed, he changed its name to the Economic Security Plan. If you like that, you're going to love next week's National Security Estate Tax Repeal. .... President Bush said Saturday that taxes will be raised over his dead body. Now it's about protecting the president. >From now on, every time Ted Kennedy has lunch with Hillary Clinton, the Secret Service will be there with guns drawn. .... The FBI said the white powder in an envelope mailed to Tom Daschle last week was only talcum powder. The letter writer was just trying to be helpful. The Democrats have been chafing like mad since President Bush's approval rating hit 90 percent. (**) Denotes Editor's Comment -- PUBLIUS -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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