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From: Chris Field [Chris.Field@HumanEventsOnline.com]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 4:28 PM
To: resa@inventky.com
Subject: HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up for May 21, 2004
HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up
May 21, 2004
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In Today's Wrap-Up:
- 1. Two Cents: More Bias -- Big News That Ain't Fit To Print
- 2. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE
- 3. Revive the Conservative Revolution
- 4. Capital Briefs: Gonzales a Goner?
- 5. Jihad Watch: The Jihad in America and the Judeo-Christian-Islamic Way
- 6. Jimmy Carter Unmasked
- 7. Coming Up on Human Events Online
- 8. Political Roundup from Bob Novak and John Gizzi
- 9. From PAGE 3: "I'm not for opening AWNR, period."
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1. Two Cents: More Bias -- Big News That Ain't Fit To Print
If you were paying attention at all, you knew that something really big happened
in the world on Monday.
It was an event that could heavily impact the world's opinion of the United
States. The potential influence it will have on the 2004 Presidential election
is immense. Americans' lives could well be changed forever. We finally have a
defining moment in an issue that has divided our country for several months.
Did this event answer all the questions Americans have on this issue? No.
Are more controversies still to come? Certainly.
And yet the New York Times didn't consider it worthy of front-page coverage.
To what do I refer? Nope, not same-sex marriage.
Here's how the Associated Press reported Monday's biggest story:
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb containing deadly sarin nerve agent exploded
near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. It was believed to
be the first confirmed discovery of any of the banned weapons that the United
States cited in making its case for the Iraq war."
Why wasn't our "first discovery of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction
since the war began" (as the New York Post reported) on the front page of the
"Newspaper of Record"?
It didn't fit their liberal agenda.
Instead they dedicated most of their front page ink to the many same-sex
marriages happening in Massachusetts -- certainly a major story worthy of the
front page and in line with the Times' liberal leanings.
Also, they gave front-page reporting to the use of Gambian giant pouched rats
for sniffing out land mines in Gondola, Mozambique, with a nice color photo of a
cute little rat eating a piece of banana. And they printed on the cover page a
column about doctors who work for professional sports teams. But there was zero
mention of the discovery of WMDs in Iraq.
If the Times is going to continue to deny their liberal bias, then they need to
give equal treatment to a major story that could lead to justifying our move to
war.
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2. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE:
"CONSERVATIVE SPLIT! ACU CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF VICE CHAIRMAN"
In response to Bob Novak's widely publicized, nationally syndicated Thursday
column, David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, sent this
letter to ACU Vice Chairman Don Devine: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3981
And Don Devine responded: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3985
"DID DEMS DELAY CONFIRMATION TO INFLUENCE A FEDERAL COURT CASE?"
The GOP appointees on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights want to investigate
whether Democrats corrupted the judicial confirmation process to please a
special interest group and affect the outcome of one of the most significant
federal civil rights cases in decades. The precise issue is whether Senate
Democrats heeded the request of NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Elaine Jones
to delay the confirmation of a Bush nominee until after the University of
Michigan Law School affirmative action case had been decided.
More of their politics here: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3973
"BUSH CAN COUNT ON THE RIGHT"
Last week, the DNC began distributing several pages of quotes from conservatives
critical of President Bush on a variety of fronts and suggesting to the media
that the fact that we don't agree with the man on everything all of the time is
evidence of real weakness in his base. Some in the media took the bait and asked
if the president can really rely on the strong support he's going to need from
his conservative base.
We have more about Bush's base: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3982
"JUDGE SEEKS TO COMPEL MORE SCHOOL SPENDING"
A recent impasse in Kansas simultaneously demonstrated the growing arrogance of
judges, the serious philosophical divide between conservative and moderate
GOPers, and the ability of conservatives to prevail in intra-party conflicts if
they stand their ground.
Robed legislators are out of control: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3974
"NO VOTE SOON ON MARRIAGE AMENDMENT"
Thanks to a November edict by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,
homosexual "marriages" began taking place in that state May 17. But the U.S.
Congress is still a long way from passing a constitutional amendment to ban such
unions. Although he would not rule out a vote this year, a House leadership
source conceded to HUMAN EVENTS that Republicans have no concrete plans to push
the Federal Marriage Amendment through Congress before the elections.
Will marriage be protected? http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3971
"THE OTHER LAME TIMES"
You don't have to enter the "No Spin Zone" to see the "disconnect," as liberals
love to say, between the L.A. Times' frantic, wild-eyed search for a woman--any
woman, even anonymously--to accuse Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping her at some
point during the previous quarter century, and the Times' equally determined
efforts to discount the many credible accounts of women, all named, who
plausibly accused Bill Clinton of raping, groping or otherwise sexually
assaulting them.
And they're going to preach about ethics? http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3962
"'SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE' DOUBLE STANDARDS"
There has been no cessation of hostility in the secularists' war against
Christianity. The enemies of religious freedom are still operating at full
force, and we must keep our eyes on them. They are not driven by an allegiance
to the goal of separating government and religion, but a manifest hostility
toward Christian religion, the Christian church and the free exercise rights of
Christians, especially in the public square.
Will this fight ever end? http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3956
"FOR ENGLISH, PLEASE PRESS '1'"
Two politicians in Maryland are now in trouble for stating the obvious: People
who work in customer service should speak English. And out-of-control
multiculturalism is to blame for the failure to preserve America's common
language. The professional victims are up in arms as usual.
How to fight multiculturalism "bunk": http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3957
You can read these and many other columns at www.HumanEventsOnline.com
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3. Revive the Conservative Revolution
This summer, the famous Contract With America that swept Republicans into power
in Congress in January 1995 turns ten years old.
The contract was a bold and sweeping agenda to change the way government works
in Washington. It included 10 major provisions, including welfare reform, rules
to force Congress to live under the same laws as the rest of us, term limits,
tax cuts, and, most importantly, budget reduction. In the memorable words of
Newt Gingrich, the Republican revolutionary who inspired and led the Contract
With America Revolution, Republicans were going to make government "smaller and
smarter. We are going to prove that we can get rid of programs, not just start
them."
The tragedy is that today many of those same Republicans who led the Contract
With America siege on Washington have settled into power, have become
overly-comfortable with their perches of authority, and have in some ways become
mirror images of what they replaced. The Republicans are now spending more money
than even the Democrats did when they ran Capitol Hill. Republicans seem to have
forgotten who they are, and why voters put them there.
Time for the next revolution? http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3972
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4. Capital Briefs: Gonzales a Goner?
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales may be a goner as a potential Supreme Court
nominee. Gonzales, it turns out, wrote a memo to President Bush recommending
that the U.S. not apply Geneva Convention standards to al Qaeda and Taliban
prisoners from the Afghan War.
"In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations
on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions,"
Gonzales wrote in a memo unearthed by Newsweek. Many conservatives are not
lamenting the news. They viewed Gonzales as a poor potential Supreme Court
nominee for Bush. That's because, among other things, Gonzales once joined a
Texas Supreme Court opinion sending an affluent teenage girl to get an abortion
in the 15th week of pregnancy without notifying her parents.
Read all of our daily Capital Briefs: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/blog-cb.php
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5. Jihad Watch: The Jihad in America and the Judeo-Christian-Islamic Way
More details of the ongoing jihad in America have come to light. For example, a
large-scale counterterrorism investigation has begun after the arrest last March
of a Pakistani national, Osama Satti. Satti was nabbed during an ATF/FBI sting
operation in Tyler, Texas, while trying to buy weapons, silencers and
explosives. He spoke during the sting of a plot to rob and kill wealthy
non-Muslims -- principally Jews and gays, two groups always high on radical
Muslims' enemies lists.
Investigators are trying to determine whether Satti had links to Lashkar-e-Taiba,
a Pakistani radical Muslim group with direct ties to al Qaeda. Until his arrest
in Texas, Satti lived in the same Virginia neighborhood where members of the
"Virginia Jihad" group, aka the "paintball terrorists," were arrested for
training to join up with Lashkar-e-Taiba and wage jihad against Americans in
Afghanistan. Some officials believe that Lashkar has sent hundreds of jihadists
into the U.S. to form sleeper cells.
While all this was going on, Senator John McCain, among others, was still
riveted on Abu Ghraib. He thundered that what happened in the prison was "not a
Judeo-Christian-Islamic-principled way of treating human beings." McCain, like
most analysts today, assumes that the Islamic faith of terrorists and terrorist
plotters worldwide is of no moment in determining their motives and goals; and
that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are basically identical in their ethical
teachings.
Yet both assumptions are challenged daily by Muslims themselves. People like
McCain no doubt fear that acknowledging that elements of Islam can give rise to
violence and fanaticism would be tantamount to saying that all Muslims are
terrorists.
To read this week's entire Jihad Watch, including more evidence of jihad in
America, click here: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3954
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6. Jimmy Carter Unmasked
"Jimmy Carter's reputation for idealism has been one of the great swindles of
American politics for two decades." -- The New Republic
The Nobel Prize is just the beginning: Jimmy Carter is enjoying a new day in the
sun, with left-wing historians taking a "fresh look" at his disastrous
presidency and trying to bamboozle Americans into thinking that it was actually
successful. This ongoing Saint Jimmy campaign would be laughable if it weren't
part of a larger strategy to whitewash the records of failed Democrats and
justify Carter's outsize influence on today's Democratic party. Although the
voters decisively dispatched Jimmy Carter in 1980, his legacy lives on in potent
form today and is likely to survive his death. But now in "The Real Jimmy
Carter" Steven F. Hayward demolishes the Carter myth once and for all.
Hayward provides a wealth of devastating new information that proves that Carter
was and is one of the worst American leaders in history.
Find out how to get a FREE COPY of this book: https://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/subscribe-direct.php?offer=98
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7. Coming Up on Human Events Online
Check back with Human Events Online daily for items you won't want to miss.
Here's just a small sampling of what's coming up:
--WORLD WAR II VETERANS MEMORIAL PHOTO EXPOSITION: Check out this tribute to the
warriors of the Greatest Generation
--MILLER STAYS NEUTRAL: The GOP's favorite Democrat -- will he choose to get
involved in the race to succeed him?
--WHY THE U.N. ISN'T A SOLUTION: The Oil-For-Food Program has exposed the
rampant financial fraud in the world body.
Bookmark http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com and check back often.
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8. Political Roundup
EVANS & NOVAK: "The ongoing Iraqi prisoner crisis finally brought down the Bush
house of cards, at least temporarily. It is not that President Bush made any
single mistake in the last two weeks. Coming on the heels of the barrage of
anti-Bush kiss-and-tell books and the escalation of the violent insurgency in
Iraq, the abuse of prisoners was just too much. Bush's rapid descent in the
polls shows the volatility of the presidential situation. While Bush clearly
lacks the personal popularity needed to overcome times of troubles, he is not
sufficiently unpopular with enough people to be in the same category that his
father was at this time. GOP strategists are rejoicing that John Kerry has not
pulled far ahead of Bush despite the President's miseries, and Democrats are
more worried about his performance so far than they publicly admit. The
Democratic line is that Kerry is a slow starter and that he will do better as
the country really gets to know him. Kerry insiders privately concede that his
current spurt is almost entirely due to Bush's misfortunes and cannot be
considered permanent. They are delighted, however, that Bush's big television
buy of $70 million in anti-Kerry television has done him no permanent damage."
Read more: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3967
JOHN GIZZI'S POLITICS 2004: Term Limits Dead in Wyoming -- Thirteen state
legislators from both parties in Wyoming almost surely breathed a sigh of relief
last week, as the state supreme court ruled that a 1992 statewide initiative
imposing the limits on lawmakers was unconstitutional. In a unanimous ruling,
the court concluded that state voters lacked the right to use the initiative
process to impose term limits (which were approved with a whopping 77% of the
vote). The court went on to say that the only proper legal avenue toward
achieving term limits was to amend the state constitution--a move that requires
two-thirds of the legislators from both chambers to approve the measure before
it goes to the voters.
Read more: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3970
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9. From PAGE 3: Gas Goes Up, ANWR Stays Down
Crude oil is selling for $40 per barrel, and the average price of regular
gasoline in the United States now exceeds $2.00 per gallon. As our economy
grows, and as our foreign competitors (such as Red China) consume more of the
oil available on the international market, the U.S. will need a growing energy
supply to keep prices down and the economy vibrant.
But in Congress environmentalist ideologues in both parties have prevented
common-sense measures to increase domestic energy supply. One such measure would
be allowing oil exploration and drilling in a minuscule patch of the massive,
remote, frozen and desolate Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). ANWR, where
drilling is now banned, contains an estimated 10.3 billion barrels of oil,
making it one of the largest known untapped reserves in the Western Hemisphere.
Would high gas prices change their minds? We asked.
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HUMAN EVENTS: Out in California, they're paying $3 a gallon at the pump, and oil
is up to $40 a barrel. Would you reconsider your opposition to exploring for oil
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a way to counter these very, very high
prices?
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D.-CALIF.): Well, first of all, it wouldn't counter these
prices. By the time you've got it all in place--it's five, four years, whatever
it is--so that's not the issue. I think there are things we need to do, yes. One
of them is to stop the incredible dependence on petroleum products. And of
course, the largest culprit is the automobile, and the answer is a simple one,
which is the hybrid. So the answer is--and also, I think, easing some of the
permit process for refineries, so that they can expand and refine more fuel.
HUMAN EVENTS: Some people will say, four of five years down the line, we're
going to have the same issues because we continue to use more and more
gasoline--as far as starting something like ANWR now.
FEINSTEIN: I'm not for opening up ANWR. I've never been. I'm not for opening
ANWR, period.
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HUMAN EVENTS: Oil has reached $40 a barrel. Over the weekend I had to pay $2 a
gallon to fill a tank with regular. Would the high price of oil lead you to
reconsider your position on drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
SEN. JIM JEFFORDS (I.-VT.): Well, I think that should be under consideration and
should be ready to be utilized. I'm not sure it's the crisis proportion yet to
make that, but it should be available for that.
HUMAN EVENTS: Is there a certain level--if it got up to $50 or $60 a barrel,
you'd--
JEFFORDS: Well, it's close to that already.
HUMAN EVENTS: So you'd seriously consider supporting that? Because you've always
opposed it in the past.
JEFFORDS: Yes. But this is the worst situation we've been in.
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Read all of the PAGE 3 interviews: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=3976
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