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Title: THE FEDERALIST
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12 November 2003
Federalist No.
03-46
Wednesday Chronicle
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The
petition seeking a quick resolution and closure to the misguided criminal
prosecution of Lt. Col. Allen West has received more than 100,000 signatures in
its first week. To support Lt. Col. West
Link to --
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CONTENTS:
The
Foundation
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Dezinformatsia
Sociocrats
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
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THE FOUNDATION
"The constitutions of most of our States assert
that all
power is inherent in the people; ...that it is their right and duty to be
at all
times armed." --Thomas Jefferson
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INSIGHT
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my
neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought
often to ask himself." --Lavater
"Victory at all costs, victory in
spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without
victory there is no survival." --Winston S. Churchill
++ "The moon gives you light, and the
bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
my heart gives you love." --Walt Whitman
"Americanism is a question of
principles, of idealism, of character: it is not a matter of birthplace or
creed
or line of descent." --Theodore
Roosevelt
"The party which, in its drive for unity, discipline and success ever
decides to exclude new ideas, independent conduct or insurgent members, is in
danger." --John F. Kennedy
"You cannot claim both full equality and
special dispensation." --William Raspberry
"To know that you do not
know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease."
--Lao Tzu
"Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the
United States? That's what Congress is for." --Bob Hope
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UPRIGHT
"[I]n the long run, stability cannot be purchased
at the
expense of liberty." --President George W. Bush
"Like the
occupation of
Germany in January 1946, America's work in Iraq is only getting underway. A
huge
amount of effort -- and danger -- still lies ahead. What Americans need now are
leaders who can focus on the great work before them, not sideline snipers
carping prematurely that the occupation has been 'botched.'" --Jeff Jacoby
"There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the [Supreme]
Court to
read into the Constitution views of liberty that have no specific textual
support and would not have occurred to its Framers." --Peter Augustine Lawler
++ "But the truth is that making sure that
the Founders' system of checks and balances applies to the judiciary as much as
the other branches is currently the best way to respect the Constitution
and its
guarantee of real individual rights. It is vital to the project of American
liberty that we restore the Constitution as the law to which judges are bound
rather than a template for their creative license." --W. James Antle III
"I will not be bland in what I write, for I am not blind to what I
see."
--Sen. Zell Miller ++ "We've long been
familiar with RINOs (Republicans in name only). Now Georgia Senator Zell
Miller
has emerged as a DINO, saying that partisanship on the Intelligence
Committee is
'the first cousin of treason,' and that 'Heads ought to roll.'" --Robert L.
Bartley
"By and large, the GOP has
not heeded Reagan's advice that it should hoist a banner of bold colors rather
than pale pastels in communicating its message and defending core principles."
--James Antle
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"Last month's California recall vote blew away not only
Gov. Gray Davis but also a great many givens about American voting habits. The
Republican candidates for Governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom McClintock)
captured 62% of the vote in a state that Al Gore carried by 11 percentage
points. Fifty-seven percent of white women voted for a Republican governor to
replace Davis, and so did 40% of Hispanics and a quarter of blacks. So was it
just screwy California politics, or a real change in voter behavior? In the
introduction to his 2004 Almanac of American Politics scholar Michael Barone
suggests these voting shifts not only are real, but may be only the
beginning.... '[F]or the first two-thirds of the 20th century America was a
growing industrial nation moving towards standardization and centralization, so
Democratic positions on economic issues may have made sense. But the
dawning of
the information age began moving us away from centralization and towards
individual choice. And the Republican Party's advocacy of tax cuts,
individually owned Social Security accounts, parental choice of schools, and
free trade are much more appealing than Democratic loyalty to '30s centralism.
The Democrats appear -- especially to young people -- to be the party of
yesterday, out of step with 'post-industrial, information age America.'"
--Wall Street Journal
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DEZINFORMATSIA
This week's "Leftmedia Machiavellian" Award: "How Dick
Cheney Sold the War." --Newsweek cover
story for the Nov. 17 issue, implying the Vice President is a master of
vice ...
and dark plots to "sell the war" to the gullible.
This week's
"Propagandum Magnum" Award: "Conservative activists have been demanding that
Senate Republicans do more to push through the Bush administration's most
extreme judicial nominees. ... If all the facts came out, the public would see
that the real problems are caused by the Bush administration, Senate
Republicans
and the hard-driving conservative activists...."
--New York Times
This week's
"Ignarus Perpetuus" Award: "Under the bill that has gone to Bush, a doctor
could
face up to two years in prison as well as civil lawsuits for performing a
'partial birth' abortion, defined as intentionally killing a fetus as it is
being delivered. The bill's sponsors say it entails sticking a sharp object
into
the base of the fetal skull." --Washington
Post **Defined as...sponsors say..." as
if this is not precisely what the child is subjected to just before
birth?
This week's
"Hysterical Revisionism" Award: "His [Ronald Reagan's] supporters credit him
with forcing down the Iron Curtain, so it is odd that some of them have helped
create the Soviet-style chill embedded in the idea that we, as a nation, will
not allow critical portrayals of one of our own recent leaders."
--New York Times editorial excerpt posing
that insistence on historical accuracy in portrayals of Ronald Reagan create a
"Soviet-style chill." ++ A runner-up:
"Under pressure from conservative groups, CBS has exiled its highest-profile
sweeps project, 'The Reagans,' to Showtime.... If nothing else, this act of
creative sabotage should put to rest the idea that the media are liberal."
--USA Today TV critic Robert
Bianco
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SOCIOCRATS
This week's "Algor Mortis" Award: "In my opinion, it
makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way
to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion of Iraq as the best way
to get at Osama bin Laden." --Al Gore, registering his objections to the USA
Patriot Act, but neglecting to mention that he had proposed similar measures in
1993 as part of his "Partnership for Reinventing Government."
This
week's "SociocRAT" Award: "If a well is poisoned, it's poisoned by people
stealing a memo of a staffer, which is in a file apparently, and then dropping
it in the well, and then saying, 'Oh my ..., the well is now poisoned'."
--Michigan Demo Sen. Carl Levin, member of the Senate Select Intelligence
Committee, with a flimsy defense of the now-disclosed plot of committee
Demos to
politicize investigation of prewar intelligence regarding Iraq
This
week's "Dumbing Down" Award: "I think all Americans -- and this is a joke! --
all Americans, even if they're from the South and 'stupid,' should be
represented." --Wesley Clark, apparently failing to understand it's not
really a
joke if you have to "telegraph" it. {}
This
week's "Non Compos Mentis" Award: "It seems that the only thing toy guns
accomplish is to make it easier to commit a crime or whet kids' appetite for a
real gun when they get older. They serve no purpose in society and should be
banned." --Demo-Rep. Ed Towns on his proposed ban on "realistic looking" toy
guns. **Memo to Ed: Fortunately, toy guns do " whet
kids' appetite for a real gun when they get older" -- we can think of a few
million such cases in military uniforms protecting your derrière
from bad
guys around the world.
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
From the "$hakedown" Files: "On Veterans Day, President
Bush will celebrate those who have served their country. But on the day
before,
the President found time to go to two more fund-raisers, while he has been
unable or unwilling to attend even one memorial service for the young men and
women who have given their lives in Iraq. The reason is simple: The President
wants to honor the veterans, but hide the war. The President will hail the
veterans of Iraq for their courage in battle, but work to hide the risks they
face and the price they pay. Truth is always the first casualty of war. But
seldom has the selling of a war involved this level of casualties." --Je$$e
Ja¢k$on, parroting that "selling of the war" mantra
From the
"Disorder in the Court" Department: "I suspect that over time we will rely
increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and
foreign
courts in examining domestic issues. ...[This] may not only enrich our own
country's decisions, I think it may create that all important good impression."
-- Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, quoted in the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on
"creating
that all important good impression" -- more important, we guess, than the
judicial oath to the Constitution!
This week's "Gender Disorientation
Disorder" Award: "How dare we in this country spend $87 billion on war when 44
million people have no health insurance? It's up to the church to lead on some
of these moral issues." --Vicky Gene Robinson, newly-consecrated homosexual
ECUSA bishop on "moral issues" **"Bonking? So very
nice." Anagram for "Vicky Gene Robinson" -- just for
fun!
From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: "The fact
that it happened in a classroom while an adult was present is almost
inexcusable." --Dallas school district spokesman Donald Claxton quoted in the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram on news that a
12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy engaged in oral sex in a science class
while a security monitor was present. **Was it
"almost inexcusable"?
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SHORT CUTS
"Former Republican National Chairman Haley Barbour was
elected governor of Mississippi.... He won handily. I'm glad he won but I'd
been hoping he would win narrowly so I could write 'Barbour wins by a whisker'
or 'Barbour has close shave.' Now I reduced to writing that 'Barbour trims
incumbent Democrat'." --Lyn Nofziger
"They should call it
'can't-move-on-dot-org'." --Jonathan Grella, spokesman for House Majority
Leader
Tom DeLay, opining over the Leftist Web site MoveOn.org
"If Hollywood
wants to write about trashy White House behavior, why not a movie about
Bill and
Hillary Clinton?" --John LeBoutillier ++
"Evidently, Clinton wasn't a hypocrite because no one was supposed to take
seriously the notion that he respected women or believed in God." --Ann
Coulter
"If Howard Dean was living back
[when Paul Revere came riding through] he would have yelled out the window,
'Shut up I'm trying to get some sleep in here.' It's a disgrace." --Sen. Zell
Miller
Jay Leno.... And Saudi Arabia
now blaming al-Qa'ida for the suicide car bombing that took place over there
this weekend. Saudi officials said the government is so angry with al-Qa'ida,
they may stop sending them money. .... And
former Vice President Al Gore gave a blistering speech where he accused
President Bush of undermining civil liberties. Well it wasn't really a
blistering speech, he was in his backyard pretending the rake was a microphone.
.... John Hinkley Jr. is supposed to have a
hearing this week as to whether he should be allowed to have unsupervised trips
outside of his mental institution. Hinkley said he wants to get out so he can
go to a screening of the CBS Reagan movie because he heard he comes off better
in it than Reagan did.
David
Letterman.... Top Inaccuracies In The CBS Miniseries "The Regans":
Not enough steamy sex between President and White House interns; It was about
brother and sister accountants Carl and Linda Reagan of Syosset, New York; CBS'
transparent attempt at self-promotion by having Bob Barker play Gorbachev; All
that Matrix-style kung-fu; James Brolin kept breaking character to remind
everyone to get an annual transmission checkup at Aamco; Wasn't "Reagany"
enough; Yeah right, like America could really have a dumb President; Ron and
Nancy's long debate over whether Letterman's too old to have a kid; Pretty sure
the President didn't speak in that Snoop Dogg "Izzle" language; Nancy was never
a Hooters girl.
Argus Hamilton....
The Matrix Revolutions with Keanu Reeves debuted Wednesday in movie theaters
across the nation. In the movie, the hero must enter a warped world where
common sense and natural law do not apply. It's a remake of Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington. .... Hillary Clinton agreed to
emcee the Democrat Party dinner in Iowa.... How the mighty have fallen. Ten
years ago Hillary Clinton was leading a health care revolution and today she is
wondering if she should open with a Monica joke.
.... The New
York
Times hired an editor Tuesday to guard against reporters making up
facts. It has no effect on the opinion page. The thing people like about the
New York Times is that it doesn't clutter
up your mind with opposing points of view.
.... The Democratic candidates debated
Tuesday at Faneuil Hall in Boston where the American Revolution
began. They got
a little nuts. If Paul Revere had seen this debate he would have warned them
that the guys in the little white coats are coming.
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