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From: Chris Field [Chris.Field@HumanEventsOnline.com]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 3:31 PM
To: resa@inventky.com
Subject: HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up for March 19, 2004
HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up
March 19, 2004
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In Today's Wrap-Up:
- 1. Two Cents: Same-Sex Marriage for Kids
- 2. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE
- 3. North Korea -- Building Nukes?
- 4. In case you missed it on the Rush Limbaugh Show: "John Kerry, Bush's
Advisor on Iraq"
- 5. Jihad Watch: Europe -- Trading Blood for Oil for Thirty Years
- 6. Political Roundup from Bob Novak and John Gizzi
- 7. From PAGE 3: "I'm not making up anything at all. . . . I stand by my
statement."
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1. Two Cents: Same-Sex Marriage for Kids
The debate over homosexual marriage has gone on loudly in this nation for a
while now, and the Leftists in the establishment media, specifically those in
the newspaper industry, have made their biases known to the world -- from the
front page to the editorial page. But Wednesday the Washington Post declared a
new frontline in this cultural battle -- KidsPost
KidsPost, as you might be able to discern from the title, is the page in the
Washington Post dedicated to news for kids, providing issues of the day written
in a way that they will understand. For example, Thursday's KidsPost covered
March Madness, Tuesday's KidsPost looked at what's going on at the National Zoo
in D.C., and Monday's KidsPost was about children in Indonesia going to school.
What was the subject of Wednesday's KidsPost? Gay marriage. The page contained
two articles on the subject by Fern Shen: "Defining Marriage" and "What's Best
for Kids?"
"Defining Marriage" offered a look at the life of a 10-year-old boy, Justin
McGuire, who, along with his infant half-sister, is being raised by his mother
and her lesbian partner. In it Shen labels the mother's partner as "Justin's
other mother" and writes that though Justin lives with his "two mothers" he also
sees his father on the weekends. Shen notes that "Justin says it doesn't feel
like a big deal, being in this kind of household."
The author goes on to write that "Justin doesn't understand how come his parents
can't get married. They consider themselves married, but they would like to be
legally married. They'd like to have a wedding. And Justin really wants to be
the ring bearer."
According to Shen, "families like Justin's are not unique. The 2000 Census
counted 15,000 same-sex couples in the Washington area and 600,000 nationwide.
Still, a majority of Americans remain uncomfortable with the idea of same-sex
marriage." KidsPost does not mention whether these "common" families include two
children -- a 10-year-old boy and an infant girl.
Shen goes on to lecture the young readers of KidsPost that "People who are
against [gay marriage] say it would weaken traditional marriages and society as
a whole if same-sex marriage were made legal. Many religions also teach that
marriage is only between a man and a woman."
The author subsequently notes in "What's Best for Kids?" which religions are
offering such teaching: "Roman Catholics, Orthodox Jews, traditional Muslims and
some Protestants." She does not, however, mention any religions that teach
marriage to be between anything other than a man and a woman. Shen mentions that
some ministers and rabbis are performing ceremonies for homosexuals, but fails
to concede that that does not mean that Christianity (which includes both
Catholicism and Protestantism) and Judaism consider gay marriage permissible.
The article also goes on to blame our culture for not allowing homosexual
marriage: "For at least 2,000 years, Western societies have considered lifelong
marriage between one man and one woman to be the ideal arrangement for families
and children." ("Why the reference to the last 2,000 years?" you ask. Well, what
significant religious event happened 2,000 years ago and serves as the basis of
one of the world greatest religions? Hint: see "The Passion." Guess she couldn't
help getting that dig in there.)
As KidsPost criticizes Western Civilization and the United States'
Judeo-Christian heritage in its own ways, it argues (subtlety, of course) for a
change in the law. How? By letting Justin's fellow 10-year-olds know that he
told Maryland lawmakers his feelings about letting his moms get married, and
that he thinks "if his parents and others like them could marry" then "maybe
people would see that his family is like any other."
Interestingly, Fern Shen fails to mention that most Americans not only are
"uncomfortable" with same-sex marriage, but still oppose it by a margin of
almost 2-to-1, as revealed by a recent Gallup report titled "Opposition to
Legalized Same-Sex Marriage Steady."
So, since liberals like those at the Post can't get most adult Americans on
their side by presenting some sort of reasoned debate, they are going after
their kids.
If only they can get the kids to buy into it . . .
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2. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE:
"THE ROBUST STATE OF CONSERVATISM"
This year may be a decisive one for the future of the Conservative Revolution.
Will conservatives be able to govern while remaining true to our principles? Can
we create a federal government that is smaller and less intrusive, one that
protects us from foreign foes while safeguarding our civil liberties, and
promotes the rule of law while allowing the free market to prosper?
The answer is "yes." But it won't happen unless we make it happen. Here's how:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3321
"KERRY VOTES FOR NEW TAX HIKE"
John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, took time out from his busy
campaign schedule on March 10 to return to Washington, D.C., and vote for a new
tax hike.
Senate Democrats pushed 14 different votes on tax hike proposals two weeks ago
as the Senate considered its five-year, $2.36-trillion budget plan for fiscal
2005 and beyond. Kerry was present on March 10 for only one of these 14
tax-hiking amendments--and he voted for it.
More about these Democratic attempts to raise taxes: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3320
"UNION MADE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 POWER GRAB"
President Bush's campaign ads, which featured fleeting images of firemen
removing the remains of victims from the attack on the World Trade Center,
ignited a firestorm of criticism from the union representing New York
firefighters. The president of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF),
Harold Schaitberger, called the ads "disgraceful" and "disgusting," while the
union's executive board passed a resolution accusing the President of "trading
on the heroism of those 343 FDNY members who fell during the terrorist attacks .
. . to win sympathy for his campaign."
The union's complaints should come as no surprise since the IAFF was an early
supporter of Sen. John Kerry. Less well known, however, is the IAFF's own
exploitation of those fallen heroes of September 11 to advance the cause of
forced unionism for all public safety workers: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3322
"THE DEMS' 'FIRST RESPONDERS' FAKE-OUT"
The Bush administration has moved beyond reactively serving terrorists with
their legal papers to proactively busting sleeper cells, detaining enemy
combatants before they set off their bombs, setting up military tribunals, and
deporting Arab and Muslim illegal alien suspects. What is John Kerry's plan?
Buying more walkie-talkies and playing "People's Court" with Islamic mass
murderers.
Here's more on Kerry's plan: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3308
"OHIO LESSON PLAN PLEASES PARENTS, IRKS LIBERALS"
"Why is it important for scientists to critically analyze evolution?" That's the
first question in the "student reflection" portion of an optional new 22-page
section called "Critical Analysis of Evolution," which is part of Ohio's
547-page science curriculum.
How could anybody object to such an innocuous question? Newspapers report a
steady stream of news that scientists are questioning such dogmas as good
cholesterol vs. bad cholesterol, vaccine links to autism, the causes of breast
cancer, even fluoridation for children's teeth. Isn't the nature of science to
question assertions and seek the proof from evidence?
What does the ACLU have to say? Find out: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3305
You can read these and many other columns at www.HumanEventsOnline.com
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3. North Korea -- Building Nukes?
North Korean technicians are much closer to producing nuclear weapons than
allied intelligence has suspected until recently -- in fact, North Korea will
soon be able to strike the American west coast with nuclear weapons. But until
the appearance of this book, you would have had to be privy to top-secret
American intelligence briefings to know the true extent of the North Korean
threat. "Rogue State: How a Nuclear North Korea Threatens America" tears the
cover off the hyper-secretive, massively dysfunctional Pyongyang regime,
revealing a danger from Pyongyang far greater than most Americans -- even those
at the highest levels of government -- have realized.
It's not a pretty picture: "Rogue State" takes you inside a nation ruled by a
belligerent, secretive regime that has already amassed an appalling record of
blood and belligerence. North Korea has threatened America with "preemptive
strikes." It is a nation with a history of arms proliferation that insists it
has the right to sell nukes to anyone . . . a regime that traded long-range
ballistic missiles to Muslim regimes that are up to their eyeballs in terrorism
. . . a nation that boldly and openly cheated on a critical nuclear agreement it
signed with the Clinton administration . . . a nation, in sum, that richly
deserves its membership in the Axis of Evil.
Find out how to order "Rogue State" here: http://www.hebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6463
We also have an excellent review of "Rogue State" posted online titled "The
Definition of 'Imminent Threat'": http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3273
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4. In case you missed it on the Rush Limbaugh Show: "John Kerry, Bush's Advisor
on Iraq"
Here's an excerpt from the article Rush read on his show this week:
Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.) has been all over the map on the topic of the Iraq
War. In October 2002, he voted for the Iraq war resolution. Later, assaulted
from his left on the campaign trail, he changed his mind, declaring that the
U.S. should not have invaded Iraq, even stating that Bush "rushed to war against
our warnings."
When confronted with his vote in favor of the war, Kerry has flip-flopped back,
retreating to this position, which he gave this month to a reporter from Time:
"I might have gone to war but not the way the President did."
Is that so? It sounds reasonable enough. But in fact we don't have to rely on
any such guesswork: we have a way of knowing exactly what Kerry would have done,
had he been president.
Check out the whole thing here:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3290
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5. Jihad Watch: Europe -- Trading Blood for Oil for Thirty Years
Now that Spain has rejected its pro-American government in the wake of the
Madrid bombings and Osama bin Laden has effectively become the Spanish Foreign
Minister, the question is not so much "Why did this happen?" but "What took so
long?" What is really surprising is not Spain's spectacular act of appeasement
but the fact that the anti-terror Aznar government bucked Europe's prevailing
winds in the first place. For over thirty years, Europe -- including Spain --
has been preparing for this moment: doing everything possible to transform
itself into the newest homeland of a resurgent political Islam.
Incoming Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero declared: "We're
aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our alliance will be for peace, against war, no
more deaths for oil." Yet Zapatero and his new government, not the existing
order, represent the Europe that has been giving up her life for oil for thirty
years now. After all, according to United Press International, it was Spain's
European Union colleague, France, that accepted bribes from the Iraqi oil
ministry in exchange for opposition to the American invasion of Iraq.
Zapatero is trying to convince the world to see his election not for what it is
-- the biggest radical Muslim victory since 9/11, or even the Khomeini
revolution in Iran -- but simply as a referendum on Iraq. He has castigated Bush
and Blair for their "lies." However, in the caves and highlands of Afghanistan,
the Al-Qaeda leadership is not interested in the niceties of legality,
disclosure and intelligence that are currently swirling in the West around the
Iraq invasion. They see the war in Iraq as a jihad -- indeed, as one segment of
a global jihad -- and they will not see Spain's withdrawal from Iraq as anything
but a victory for jihad and confirmation that terror works.
You can find this week's entire Jihad Watch right here:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3306
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6. Political Roundup
EVANS & NOVAK: One of the issues Bob Novak covers this week is the GOP's current
sour mood. He writes: "There is a fragrance of the bad old days of '92 when
President Bush's father was defeated, with a distinct loss of confidence in both
the candidate and the people around him. The worst may be campaign workers
counting the days until the election. That is acting like unhappy warriors.
Particularly depressing is the lack of liaison between the White House and the
party's congressional leadership, with Bush and the House leadership seeming to
go in opposite directions for the first time. The buzz on Capitol Hill Monday
was a report that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, under fire from conservatives
for forcing passage of the Medicare bill, is going to present a House agenda
without consulting the White House. The worst word from Capitol Hill is the
increasingly heard musing among Republican members of Congress that it might not
be so bad if Kerry were elected President. Their calculation: They will retain
congressional majorities this year, Kerry as President would be hog-tied by
those GOP majorities and chances of retaining those majorities will be better
off in '06 if Kerry is President because, history says, a sixth year almost
always loses seats in Congress."
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3318
POLITICS 2004: The first round in the rancorous two-year reapportionment bout in
Texas ended when the Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower-court ruling
upholding a plan that should give Republicans 22 of the 32 seats in the Lone
Star State's U.S. House delegation. The second round ended two weeks ago, when
Texas primary voters chose candidates in new districts that Democrats and
Republicans alike agree should raise the odds on Republicans' retaining their
majority in the House this fall. As expected, two different pairs of incumbent
U.S. representatives will square off: In the newly carved 32nd District (Greater
Dallas), conservative Republican four-term Rep. Pete Sessions (lifetime American
Conservative Union rating: 99%) will meet 26-year Rep. Martin Frost (lifetime
ACU rating: 16%), past chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, in a classic left-right confrontation. In the new 19th District
(Lubbock), freshman Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer is taking on "Blue Dog"
Democratic Rep. Charles Stenholm, a 26-year incumbent whose former 17th District
was merged in the 19th. The Republican lawmakers are the early favorites in both
districts. In three other districts, redistricting made three hitherto
untouchable Democratic congressmen now at least even money to go down to
Republican challengers. Read more here:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3319
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7. From PAGE 3:
John Kerry told some whoppers last week worth worthy of Bill Clinton.
It started when the Boston Globe reported that Kerry told donors that he had
"met with foreign leaders" who backed him against Bush. House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay instantly seized on this to note that the only foreign leader known to
support Kerry was North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who hopes a Kerry victory
"would lead to a softening in U.S. policy towards his country's nuclear weapons
."
The Washington Times then revealed that a "review of Mr. Kerry's schedules and
campaign appearances shows that he has not made an official trip abroad since he
announced his candidacy and that he has been in the same city as a foreign
leader only once during that period."
Kerry didn't back down from what the Globe had reported he said. Instead, he
repeated it.
But then the Globe revealed it had made a minor error transcribing Kerry's
original remark, incorrectly citing him as saying "foreign leaders" when he had
actually said "more leaders." Despite Kerry's repeated assertions that he stood
by the remarks the Globe had originally reported, the Kerry campaign claimed on
March 16 that Kerry could have meant "anybody" by the term "more leaders" and
that, had he not been "misquoted," there never would have been a story.
Here's a look at the huge hole Kerry dug for himself:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3325
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And Finally. . .
I'm wondering how many hate emails I'm going to receive for my Two Cents today.
Any time the issue of gay marriage comes up on Human Events Online, my inbox is
flooded with vitriolic messages calling conservatives bigots and other choice
words -- all from folks who want the rest of the world to be tolerant.
Maybe I'll share some of them one day. Of course they would need heavy editing
just to make it past your email filters, but it could prove quite interesting.
For instance, did you know that I'm a BLANKETY-BLANK-BLANK? Or that I need to
BLANK myself -- or that I even could? Oh, and my mother's a BLANKING BLANK --
did you know that?
Have you ever tried just simply disagreeing with those preaching
tolerance-for-everything?
Later,
Chris Field
(You can send your comments, suggestions, ideas, and letters to me at
Chris.Field@HumanEventsOnline.com. I will read every email, but I can't
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