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CONTENTS:
The
Foundation
Insight
ICTUS
Imprimis
Family
Culture
Liberty
The
Gipper
Opinion in
Brief
Government
Re:
The Left
Political Futures
For the
Record
Reader
Comments
The Last Word
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THE FOUNDATION
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is
more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no
chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men
than
himself." --John Stuart Mill
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INSIGHT
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in
opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth
I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public
provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves,
and of
course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the
more
they did for themselves, and became richer." --Benjamin
Franklin
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ICTUS IMPRIMIS
"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not
how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in
practice he will stake his life on his belief." --T. S. Eliot
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FAMILY
"The presumption in America today -- first for the
poor,
but increasingly for all of us -- is that our children belong to the state. The
state allows those children to remain 'out on loan' to their natural birth
parents only so long as you meet all the government's requirements: Every
vaccination recommended by the major pharmaceutical firms, no matter how
dangerous or statistically useless. No guns in the house; no strange
faith-healing religious beliefs. And you'd better make sure your kid reports to
the local government youth propaganda camp from the age of 6 ... or is it 5
now?
... so the local educrats get their subsidies based on a full complement of
little butts to warm the seats." --Vin Suprynowicz
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CULTURE
"We have failed our children if we have not passed
on to
them a realistic perspective of government. We must insure that they know that
it is not okay to raid people’s paychecks and steal their property, even
if doing so seems to be in the best interest of society. We must not take
it for
granted that our children know the importance of spiritual things and
understand
the foundations of traditional morality. We must insure that they do. Walt
Disney would not know the company he founded only a generation ago. He would
roll over in his grave at what those at the helm of Disney today have made of
his dream. Henry Ford would turn away in disgust at what the Ford Foundation is
doing with his fortune. I am certain that the Founding Fathers would be
distressed at the way we have allowed their carefully constructed, much debated
words...twisted so as to kick God and the Bible out of our schools and to
protect the purveyors of obscenity. They would wonder in disbelief at the
income
taxes we allow to be confiscated from our paychecks today and the property that
is stolen without compensation by means of egregious land use regulations. In
their day, they would have hung the government official who told them that they
could not build a deck on the back of their house without a government
permit or
could not own a gun without the government’s consent.... Today, 'church
going' Walt [Disney] would not even be welcome to sit on the board of directors
of his own company. Today, neither George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John
Adams, nor James Madison could be elected to Congress in any of the states from
which they hailed two centuries ago. That’s what happens when a
generation
or two fails to pass on to their children and those who work under them the
values and traditions that form the very underpinnings of their society.
Precious things slip away, for the price of liberty really is eternal
vigilance." --Bill Sizemore
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LIBERTY
"I can't think of a finer group of folks to have
Thanksgiving dinner with than you all. We're proud of you. Today, Americans are
gathering with their loved ones to give thanks for the many blessings in our
lives. And this year we are especially thankful for the courage and the
sacrifice of those who defend us, the men and women of the United States
military. I bring a message on behalf of America: we thank you for your
service,
we're proud of you, and America stands solidly behind you. Together, you and I
have taken an oath to defend our country. You're honoring that oath. The United
States military is doing a fantastic job. You are defeating the terrorists
here
in Iraq, so that we don't have to face them in our own country. You're
defeating
Saddam's henchmen, so that the people of Iraq can live in peace and
freedom. By
helping the Iraqi people become free, you're helping change a troubled and
violent part of the world. By helping to build a peaceful and democratic
country
in the heart of the Middle East, you are defending the American people from
danger and we are grateful." --Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush in a surprise
visit to our troops in Baghdad Thanksgiving day. (For the complete text of the
President's comments, link to --
http://Federalist.com/news/Bush_thanks.asp
)
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THE GIPPER
"Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than
all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats." --Ronald Reagan
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OPINION IN BRIEF
"For decades, or even a century, we've been hearing a
host of propositions from liberals. Crime and violence are symptoms of
poverty.
The United States must do more than simply drop bombs; it must alleviate the
'root causes' of terrorism, hopelessness, etc. America must be internationally
oriented, looking to engage the world and help the unfortunate. It is in
America's vital interests to come to the aid of the downtrodden. And, most
recently and relevantly, America must get into the business of nation
building.
All of this has been defenestrated by a Democratic [sic] party leadership that
no longer spouts its Clinton-era mantra that partisanship should end at the
water's edge. Instead,...even as we are fighting a guerilla battle where the
enemy defines victory not in military terms but in its ability to weaken
American resolve at home, Democrats are crassly undermining the safety of our
troops, the credibility of our nation and the integrity of their own political
philosophy by giving the terrorists precisely the victories they crave."
--Jonah
Goldberg
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GOVERNMENT
"On Jan. 23, 1996, Bill Clinton told the nation, 'The
era of big government is over.' If so, it sure didn't last very long.
Today, the
era of big government is back with a vengeance, ushered in by a massive new
prescription drug entitlement, a pork-laden energy bill of grotesque
proportions
and a trade war with China. What few people, including myself, ever thought
would happen was that this new era of big government would be implemented by
Republicans controlling both Congress and the White House. It makes me long for
the good old days of gridlock." --Bruce Bartlett
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RE: THE LEFT
"In addition to having a number of family deaths among
them, the Democrats' other big idea -- too nuanced for a bumper sticker -- is
that many of them have Jewish ancestry. There's Joe Lieberman: Always Jewish.
Wesley Clark: Found Out His Father Was Jewish in College. John Kerry: Jewish
Since He Began Presidential Fund-Raising. Howard Dean: Married to a Jew. Al
Sharpton: Circumcised. Even Hillary Clinton claimed to have unearthed some
evidence that she was a Jew -- along with the long lost evidence that she was a
Yankees fan. And that, boys and girls, is how the Jews survived thousands of
years of persecution: by being susceptible to pandering. Clark said that
when he
discovered he was half-Jewish, he remembered growing up in Arkansas and feeling
'a certain kinship' with Jewish families in the dry-goods business. (I, too,
have always felt a certain kinship with Calvin Trillin.) The Democrats' urge to
assert a Jewish heritage is designed to disguise the fact that the Democrats
would allow the state of Israel to perish as Palestinian suicide bombers
slaughter Jewish women and children. Their humble-origins claptrap is designed
to disguise the fact that liberals think ordinary people are racist scum. Their
perverse desire to discuss the deaths and near-deaths of their children is
designed to disguise the fact that they support the killing of more than a
million unborn children every year. (Oh, by the way, what did their milkman and
millworker fathers think about abortion?) If the Democrats start extolling you
-- get a gun." --Ann Coulter
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POLITICAL FUTURES
"How to understand the failure of the conservative
movement in America? And it most certainly is a failure.... We can look at the
symptoms of our defeat: our constitution has been overthrown, our public
schools
are government propaganda centers, our colleges are bastions of political
correctness and no longer teach logical thought processes, we are constantly
waging aggressive war, we have presided over the destruction of the black
community, and the complete degradation of our moral framework. Have we not
failed? What remains? Yeah, those are some pretty scary symptoms all right. So
how are conservatives to blame? Aren't we the ones who believe in truth,
justice
and the American way? Yet here we are, living in a country that murders its own
children and where the morals and beliefs of our fathers have been throw into
the gutter of history. Were we asleep? How did we allow this?" --Michael
Peirce
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FOR THE RECORD
"The just concluded (thankfully) Congress is an
embarrassment to itself and everyone who favors smaller government. This
Republican Congress, in addition to increasing spending on entitlements and
expanding big government - like the Democrats they once criticized - also
dished
out $95 billion in tax breaks and pork-barrel projects. The Heritage
Foundation's Brian M. Riedl says mandatory government spending will reach 11.1
percent of GDP this year, a record high, and non-defense discretionary spending
in 2003 will amount to 3.9 percent of GDP for the first time since 1985. Riedl
also predicts taxes will inevitably have to be raised to pay for it all. What
politician wants to be demagogued about cutting 'essential services'? The
Republican "oath" says, 'I believe that the proper function of government is to
do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done, or
cannot be done as well, by individuals, and that the most effective government
is government closest to the people.' Would some lawyer please sue the
Republican National Committee for violating truth-in-labeling laws?" --Cal
Thomas
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)"Re
DOD Recruiting at Law Schools,
As noted in
Federalist No. 03-42, a recently
filed law
suit is seeking to stop DOD JAG recruiting at law schools -- particularly Yale.
(Based on 'Sexual Preference Discrimination' aka: 'Don't Ask Don't Tell') I
guess the professors filing suit have never read ABA Model Rules 1.8 (j). As a
JAG officer explained to me, 'even the Bar discriminates and regulates who you
can sleep with...why pick on DOD recruiters'."
"From the front:
Security
was tight over the Thanksgiving holiday as first President Bush and then former
First Lady Hillary Clinton visited Iraq. The extra security was deemed
necessary
to protect President Bush from terrorists and Senator Clinton from the
troops."
"Re: LTC West, his division commander should buy him a pair of
Silver Eagles, a box of cigars, and give him command of a brigade."
Editor's
Reply: Join more than 130,000 other patriots supporting Lt. Col. West.
Link
to --
http://PatriotPetitions.US/colwest
"This past weekend two U.S.
soldiers were pulled out of a civilian car in Iraq and murdered. It's time to
let LTC West get back to work. Our soldiers need him!"
"In Novelist
Frederick Forsyth's open letter to George W. Bush, he states that the British
left hates America first, Britain second. Wow. That makes the British Left
more patriotic to their country than the American Left is to ours. The American
Left hates the U.S.A. best of all!"
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THE LAST WORD
"To put blind faith in government is as stupid as
putting blind faith in what a used-car salesman tells you. It is also
un-American. In our great country, sovereignty rests with the people, and the
proper attitude of a citizen toward government at all levels is courteous
skepticism. Elected officials and bureaucrats are your servants, not your
masters." --Charley Reese
Lex et Libertas -- Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark
Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. (Please pray on this day, and
every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world
in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe
return.)
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