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THE FEDERALIST(r) BRIEF The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 18 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-08 Monday Brief *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 Brief 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. ______----********O********----______ PUBLISHER'S NOTE Help advance the timeless message of liberty by installing a link to The Federalist in your e-mail. Copy and paste the message below to your e-mail signature page. Veritas Vos Liberabit The Federalist Conservative e-Journal of Record It's Right! It's Free by e-mail! http://www.federalist.com/subscribe/ CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Good News ICTUS Imprimis Family Culture Liberty The Gipper Opinion in Brief Editorial Exegesis Government Re: The Left Political Futures For the Record Reader Comments The Last Word ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." --George Washington ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "Ultimately nations, like individuals, cannot depend upon each other, but must depend upon themselves. Each one must work out its own salvation. We have every desire to help.... While we desire always to cooperate and to help, we are equally determined to be independent and free. Right and truth and justice and humanitarian efforts will have the moral support of this country all over the world. But we do not wish to become involved in the political controversies of others." --Calvin Coolidge ______----********O********----______ GOOD NEWS "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday." (Psalm 91:4-6) ++ "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.' Jesus answered, 'It is written: "Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God".' Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 'If you are the Son of God,' he said, 'throw yourself down. For it is written: "He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike you foot against a stone".' Jesus answered him, 'It is also written: "Do not put the Lord your God to the test".' Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 'All this I will give you,' he said, 'if you will bow down and worship me.' Jesus said to him, 'Away from me, Satan! For it is written: "Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only".' Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him." (Matthew: 4:1-11) ______----********O********----______ ICTUS IMPRIMIS "The Founders believed that there was a God who brings down the mighty and lifts up the poor. They relied upon this belief.... As you might expect, this belief shaped their understanding of morality and character, as well. They did not make the distinction between private and public conduct that we do. ...If this seems hard to understand, the problem lies with us, not our Founders. Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew...: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise. And as such, it assumes certain things to be true about human nature and ... about the authority of the God of the Bible. But these beliefs run contrary to our culture's worldviews. And that's why the ordered liberty envisioned by the Founders has degenerated into a demand for personal autonomy that asks nothing of its citizens, not even their virtue. ...[P]rivate virtue, rooted in biblical faith, is essential for the American experiment to work as the Founders intended. And, it's vital that Christians understand this often-ignored 'wing' on which our way of life depends. The wing that teaches us that, without virtue, there can be no greatness." --Charles Colson ______----********O********----______ FAMILY "Medical experts, lawyers and government health officials know there is no practical distinction that one can make between the Latin word 'fetus' and the English word 'baby.' They are one and the same. Abortion providers and their mouthpieces in the feminist movement use the word fetus to confuse us and protect their profits. We use it to hide from the truth and protect our consciences." --Jane Chastain ______----********O********----______ CULTURE "The immigration 'problem' in America today is not a question of numbers, but of our failure effectively to welcome those who do come by educating them in American principles, and evoking their real commitment of heart to the unique American way of life that represents a hope for the destiny of the world. We have largely abandoned the process of educating newcomers in the special principles of the American way of life. This failure, of course, is the natural result of the even deeper problem of our own retreat from these principles -- for how can we demand of newcomers what we scarcely acknowledge in ourselves? Our own schools have retreated from our commitment to that special understanding of principle, of human dignity, of human justice and of free enterprise that constitute our unique identity and represent a universal appeal for the world." --Alan Keyes ______----********O********----______ LIBERTY "The dangers facing America in this new era cannot be overstated. Our national security and our economic well-being have been shaken. The prospects for the future of liberty and prosperity seem uncertain. No one challenges the need to protect American citizens from further terrorist attacks, but we must be very careful before we relinquish more of our personal liberty here at home. We must consider whether our efforts overseas might escalate the crisis and actually precipitate more violence. A growing number of Americans are becoming concerned that the war on terror will have the unintended consequence of permanently damaging our constitutionally protected liberties." --Rep. Ron Paul ______----********O********----______ THE GIPPER "It would be cultural condescension, or worse, to say that any people prefer dictatorship to democracy. Who would voluntarily choose not to have the right to vote, decide to purchase government propaganda handouts instead of independent newspapers, prefer government- to worker-controlled unions, opt for land to be owned by the state instead of those who till it, want government repression of religious liberty, a single political party instead of a free choice, a rigid cultural orthodoxy instead of democratic tolerance and diversity?" --Ronald Reagan ______----********O********----______ OPINION IN BRIEF "Know who you owe. Every American owes the military, and we should pay them a fair wage without grudging editorials. NBC owes everything to the country that birthed and continues to protect it, and it should not have drained the color from its bird just as the world arrived in Salt Lake. And the USOC and its corporate sponsors owed not just the athletes but every American -- each one of whom owns a share in the symbolism of the 9-11 flag -- a duty to stand up and say 'No' to IOC meddlers and spin doctors." --Hugh Hewitt ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Anyone interested in the protection of free speech should pay close attention ... to the machinations in the U.S. House of Representatives. ... debating the Shays-Meehan campaign-finance 'reform' bill, which might be more truthfully characterized as an incumbent-protection device. Evidently, a House re-election rate of 98 percent isn't high enough for this crowd. Now it seems determined to establish even more roadblocks for challengers. The most notable feature of Shays-Meehan is a ban on soft-money contributions to national political party committees by corporations, labor unions and individuals. In addition to financing party-building activities, soft money has become a major source of funding for issue advertising. In the past decade, issue ads have emerged as an important means of communication between political parties and the electorate. During the 1999-2000 election cycle, soft money totaled just about $500 million, which was evenly divided between the two major parties. The bill isn't enough to emasculate the parties, but Shays-Meehan silences certain interest groups by drastically limiting their ability to communicate their political views with their own issue ads precisely when those views matter most -- on the eve of an election. ...Soft money did not corrupt politics and policy. It is not the problem. Nor is the information provided by issue ads. Conversely, as the Clinton-Gore administration demonstrated repeatedly, politicians willing to peddle their power to the highest political bidder -- even if that bidder risks U.S. national security, as Loral Space and Communications Corp. did with its unauthorized transfer of ballistic-missile technology to communist China -- are the most corrupt factors in American politics. Too bad Shays-Meehan, in its misguided attack on the means of broadcasting indispensable political information, ignores the blight of political corruption." --Washington Times ______----********O********----______ GOVERNMENT "The budget Mr. Bush proposed ... deserves kudos for clarity of purpose. It is a serious budget for a serious war -- a just war that must be fought, won and paid for. The feckless and spineless appear to prefer a superficial war. Superficial war was the coin of the last administration. Bill Clinton offered bombast, declaring war against terrorism in 1998. Was that rhetorical excess? A more apt description is words without deeds. September 11 demonstrates that the price for waging a superficial war is stiff." --Austin Bay ______----********O********----______ RE: THE LEFT "And I hope that at the end of the day, we will all do the right thing for the children of America. If we are not going to leave any child behind, then let us demonstrate that we will use this unique moment in history to respect our values and have the vision to secure our children's future and their own unique American dreams. We, as a nation, have worked so hard to get to the point, to have this rendezvous with responsibility. I hope that we will respond to the 'call to leadership' in a way that honors our parents and provides for our children." --Sen. Ms. Hillary Rodham-Clinton Memo to New York: "They have harmed our children by teaching them things through their actions -- that adults triumph through dishonesty and divisiveness. They have damaged America's culture in bringing a new level of indecency to our public discourse, and into our living rooms. They have lowered our country's reputation in the world, so that a Swedish socialist, an Iranian fundamentalist, and an Italian communist alike could look at the myriad Clinton scandals and crow about America's amoral leadership.... And in all this, she has helped him. She was his partner in power; they did it all, together." --Peggy Noonan ______----********O********----______ POLITICAL FUTURES "This tawdry attempt to hang responsibility for the recession and budget deficits on President Bush requires fabrications much more malicious and preposterous than the routine lying we have come to expect from political hacks. One wonders how Democrats can mouth these accusations when history informs us that it is they who are addictively drawn to every expansion of government power, every new tax, every piece of pork, every boondoggle, every new program, every old program and every pay raise and new amenity for themselves, their clients and their cronies...." --Linda Bowles ______----********O********----______ FOR THE RECORD "What is piously called 'campaign finance reform' could more accurately be called the incumbents' protection act. One of the earliest uses of federal restrictions on political advertising -- the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 -- was a 1972 federal attempt to get a court injunction against a group of people who advertised for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. Do we really want to allow bureaucrats and politicians to be able to harass citizens for expressing political opinions? Or create such a snarl of red tape about contributing money to candidates or causes as to make people reluctant to participate in political activity, for fear of being dragged into federal court over a form that wasn't filled out right? Who else gains from campaign finance reform besides incumbents? The mass media. Their political biases gain more influence by the silencing of those who could otherwise counter what they say with differing viewpoints. No one is more in favor of campaign finance reform than the media. What problems are the campaign finance reform zealots trying to solve that are half as bad as the problems they are creating? There is lots of rhetoric but much of it will not stand up under scrutiny." --Thomas Sowell ______----********O********----______ SELECT READER COMMENTS (To submit an editorial comment or read other comments, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/postededs.asp) "We (I include myself since I have materially supported the Federalist) are hypocritical if we quote Oliver North as someone who espouses our ideals. Liberals defined the morality of a corrupt president by the support he gave their agenda. They overlooked his personal and professional failings because he said the things they wanted to hear. We rightly denounced that. Here we have someone who lied under oath, but we implicitly excuse that because he agrees with our conservative views. Ollie knew right from wrong. It was drilled into him as a Midshipman at USNA and as a Marine Officer. He knew he was wrong when he did it, but, hey, he's engaging and says the right words. Is moral relativism not confined to the left?" Editor's Reply: You say, "we implicitly excuse that because he agrees with our conservative views." No, we don't. But, like Charles Colson, whom we also quote regularly, both men followed their consciences in a time when our nation was under attack externally -- and internally. Both men made a decision to lie. Both men have acknowledged that fact. And if we were never to publish a word from anyone guilty of error, we would not publish a word! "C. S. Lewis once said that man's problem isn't low self-esteem. The problem is that he thinks altogether too highly of himself, and is being constantly disappointed with reality." "O'Reilly, oh really? Still not a word from Bill O'Reilly on his soft-spinning Geraldo?" Editor's Reply: Not a word...! "You posted my comment -- but changed it. I was not offended by the change but don't think it is right for you to change my words." Editor's Reply: We get many comments pertaining to the same issue. Sometimes we combine good comments in order to avoid redundancy on our opinion page. "You anit-Clinton people should get a life. Or at least get a women(sic). If you know how?" Editor's Reply: Sometimes we have to include some hate mail, especially when it exemplifies the best our detractors can produce... ______----********O********----______ THE LAST WORD "While I would like to be of assistance to you in this matter, it is a long-standing tradition in the United States Senate that each senator be given the opportunity to serve his own constituents. Accordingly, I am referring your communication to Senator John Warner, in whose state you reside." --Letter from Sen. Phil Gramm, Texas Republican, to a Virginia man who claims he's being ambushed by foreign enemies, courts, a bank and Web hosting company, among other tyrannical outposts "resulting in our demise." **Collegial deference has its purposes! 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