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HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up for January 21, 2005
HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up
January 21, 2005
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In Today's Wrap-Up:
- 1. A Favor to Ask of You
- 2. Two Cents: File under "Isn't That Interesting?"
- 3. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE
- 4. Ann Coulter: It's Our Party, You Can Cry If You Want To
- 5. Capital Briefs: LOST Again
- 6. Jihad Watch: Islamist Group Strong-Arms American Media
- 7. A Different History Book: This One's True
- 8. Political Roundup from Bob Novak and John Gizzi
- 9. From PAGE 3: What Should Bush Make His Top Priority?
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1. A Favor to Ask of You
I have a huge request for you readers of the Weekly Wrap-Up.
We are looking at different ways to improve this weekly email and HUMAN EVENTS
Online, and we figured what better way to find out how to make improvements than
to listen to our readers.
With that in mind, we created a brief, anonymous survey to find out what you
think would make our publication and website even better. It would greatly help
all of us here at HUMAN EVENTS if you could take a moment to tell us what you
think.
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2. Two Cents: File under "Isn't That Interesting?"
Many conservatives, in fact many readers of HUMAN EVENTS, have expressed their
utter fed-up-ness with the hypocrisy of the political and media Left of this
country. It seems that liberals are always getting away with their duplicity and
that the liberal media gets away with not fully reporting news that could harm
the Democratic Party.
So sometimes it's good to point out these instances that might not get as much
national play as they should. Besides, it can be entertaining. With that in
mind, here are a few items that we could file under "Isn't that Interesting?"
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***This week, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice was the subject of
two days worth of confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. On Wednesday, she was approved by the committee by a vote of 16-2,
with Democratic Senators Boxer and Kerry as the two "no" votes.
The plan was for her nomination to then be presented to and voted on by the full
Senate on Thursday. But two Democratic senators held up that plan. Boxer was one
of the two. The other senator holding up the nomination of the first black woman
to head up the State Department was former Ku Klux Klan member Sen. Robert Byrd.
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***A vast majority of our elected officials, on the Left and the Right, believed
that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. President Bush and Congress
received the same intelligence information gathered from around the world and
based their opinions of Saddam as a threat to the U.S. on that information. Now,
the Bill-Clinton-Democrats who both excused Bubba's lies and voted in favor of
invading Iraq are calling Bush a liar.
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***In the morning session of the January 6 nomination hearings for Attorney
General-designate Alberto Gonzales in the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Ted Kennedy,
of Chappaquiddick fame, said the following regarding forms of "torture":
"Now, the Post article states you chaired several meetings at which various
interrogation techniques were discussed. These techniques included the threat of
live burial and water boarding, whereby the detainee is strapped to a board,
forcibly pushed under water, wrapped in a wet towel and made to believe he might
drown."
Then Sen. Kennedy said the following during the afternoon session:
"Well, just as a -- as an attorney, as a human being, I would have thought that
where -- if there were recommendations that were so blatantly and flagrantly
over the line in terms of torture, that you might have recognized them. I mean,
it certainly to me that water boarding, with all its descriptions about drowning
someone to that kind of a point, would come awfully to getting over the border,
and that you'd be able to at least say today there were some that were
recommended or suggested on that. But I certainly wouldn't have had a part of
that, as a human being."
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***For weeks, liberals were harping about the $40-million price tag for
Inauguration festivities, claiming that it was way too expensive -- in spite of
the fact that most of that money came from private donors. The Washington Times
reported yesterday:
"But a review of the cost for past inaugurations shows Mr. Bush's will cost less
than President Clinton's second inauguration in 1997, which cost about $42
million. When the cost is adjusted for inflation, Mr. Clinton's second-term
celebration exceeds Mr. Bush's by about 25 percent.
"According to the Consumer Price Index, $42 million in 1997 is the equivalent of
$49.5 in 2004.
"The significant majority of funding for this year's festivities, including nine
officials balls, are from private donations and tickets for events held by the
Presidential Inaugural Committee, a similar setup to fund raising Mr. Clinton
used to underwrite his inauguration. Mr. Clinton had a record 12 balls in 1997."
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***Liberal "documentary"-maker Michael Moore received a 2003 Oscar for his film
"Bowling for Columbine" in which he criticized our nation's obsession with guns.
Fox News briefly noted yesterday that "Moore's bodyguard was arrested for
carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night."
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Isn't that interesting?
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3. Headlines and Highlights from HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE:
"REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS TIPTOE ON IMMIGRATION ISSUE"
"Last year, I did talk privately with [White House adviser] Karl Rove about the
concerns our party has with illegal immigration," a Republican National
Committee member who requested anonymity told me. "I later had assurances that
the President would address those concerns in his speech in New York City. But
two days before the speech, I learned that the references to illegal immigration
were taken out. The administration apparently felt it was too sensitive for him
to talk about publicly." That pretty much summed up the general attitude about
President Bush and his immigration program among the participants of the RNC
winter meeting at the Ramada Renaissance Hotel in Washington this week.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6368
"PRESIDENT BUSH CELEBRATES LIBERTY"
President Bush stood before the Capitol yesterday, put his hand on the Good Book
many of his liberal critics would like to expunge from our public life, and
swore to defend the United States Constitution. Then he delivered an eloquent
speech celebrating a vision of liberty that is enshrined in our Constitution and
rooted in the truths of the Bible on which he swore.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6359
"KERRY CASTS A SORE-LOSER VOTE AGAINST CONDI"
In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for Secretary of
State-designee Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday, Sen. John Kerry resumed the same
disingenuous critique of President Bush's conduct of the Iraq War that helped
turn voters against him in the November election.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6366
"DEMOCRATS TO AMERICA: YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO INVEST"
Former Democratic vice-presidential contender Geraldine Ferraro inadvertently
revealed the real reason behind Democrats' resistance to the president's
proposal of Social Security partial privatization. " ...f you don't have the
knowledge and the wherewithal to manage your own private funds," said Ferraro,
"well, you know, you're gonna be out of luck." Ferraro's comments parallel the
Americans-are-too-stupid theme embraced by former President Bill Clinton.
Speaking in 1999 about the $70 billion budget surplus, Clinton said, "We could
give it all back to you and hope you spend it right... Do you really want to run
the risk of squandering this surplus?"
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6376
"ROE V. ROE: MCCORVEY REJECTS ABORTION DECISION"
Thirty-two years after her case--Roe v. Wade--legalized abortion in the United
States, the woman known as "Jane Roe" is petitioning the Supreme Court to
reverse its decision. Norma McCorvey's quest to overturn the landmark 1973
Supreme Court ruling began two years ago in Dallas when her lawyers at the
Justice Foundation filed a petition seeking a reversal. After setbacks at a
federal district court in Texas and before a three-judge panel for the 5th
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, McCorvey's petition reached the Supreme Court
last week, just in time for the 32nd anniversary of the Roe decision itself.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6364
"A SHOT ACROSS THE PRESIDENT'S BOW"
Washington lawmakers, bureaucrats and the special interests who live off the
taxpayers are eagerly awaiting President Bush's next budget, which insiders say
will be the toughest he has ever submitted. While the news focus this week was
on Bush's inauguration and his long-term plans for the next four years, the
shorter-term focus is, as always, on money and whose programs will be cut or
frozen in the President's fiscal 2006 spending plan. The battle lines have
already begun to form.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6365
"DEMOCRATS' DEVOTION TO TRIAL LAWYERS PREVENTS SOLVING ASBESTOS CRISIS"
President George W. Bush has targeted abusive litigation for reform. At the top
of the list are asbestos lawsuits, which have ruined companies, left victims
uncompensated, and clogged courts. But is the Republican Senate willing to take
on the trial bar? More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6325
"FEMINISM REVEALS MORE OF ITSELF"
Although it began as a justifiable reaction against real economic and social
injustices, there's ample evidence that the feminist movement -- 21st-century
style -- has become nothing more than a witches' brew of victimization,
insecurity, and resentment. More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6353
"LEFTISTS WANT TO MAKE HERO OF COP-KILLING MARINE: HERE'S THE TRUE STORY"
If you watched the evening news a week ago, you may recall the sensational story
of a distraught Marine who died in a murderous shootout with police. Anti-war
writers and Latino activists have turned the cop-killer, Lance Cpl. Andres Raya,
into a martyr. Don't believe the hype.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6340
"WHO'S LOOKING OUT FOR CAMPUS CONSERVATIVES?"
The dispute as to whether liberal bias on campus exists has become, pardon the
pun, academic. Last year, the Duke Conservative Union crosschecked their
school's faculty listings against voter registration rolls and found the ratio
of Democrats to Republicans was 32-0 in the History department, 11-0 in
Literature, and 18-1 in English. Sadly, these breakdowns are typical of liberal
academia. Campus conservatives know who to watch out for: deans, provosts,
professors...professors who happen to be Democrat congressmen. However, too few
are aware of the growing support network available to abused, conservative
students.
More: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6344
You can read these and many other columns at www.HumanEventsOnline.com
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4. Ann Coulter: It's Our Party, You Can Cry If You Want To
"It has all been so much fun," Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd gushed in The New
York Times in January 1993. It was Bill Clinton's one-week inaugural
celebration. "Is it too much to ask that it go on forever?" (For those who loved
America, the next eight years would only seem to go on forever.)
Rich and Dowd quoted Hollywood agent Karen Russell, saying: "I'm in this fantasy
world. I haven't slept. I'm punch drunk. ... I just feel like I'm in this place
called Clinton-land" -- which, if it were a theme park, could bill itself as
"the sleaziest place on Earth!" Russell, they said, "spoke for everyone."
While dead bodies rotted in the streets of Angola and Somalia, the only "dead
soldiers" in evidence in Clinton-land were the empty Cristal bottles lining the
parade route. The most massive relief efforts that week took place at the rows
of portable toilets circling each site of drunken Clintonista revelry.
Instead of having the usual Inauguration Day in 1993, Clinton had an
"Inauguration Week," with high-tech pageantry, large-screen TVs on the mall,
Hollywood direction and, indeed, half of Hollywood. The amount of money that
would have been saved just by holding the inauguration in Brentwood could have
averted the Rwandan tragedy Clinton ignored just a few years later.
More Ann here: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6350
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5. Capital Briefs: LOST Again
In a tough hearing preceding her certain confirmation, Secretary of
State-designee Condoleezza Rice upset conservatives when she told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee that President Bush wants the Senate to ratify the
Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) this year. "We would certainly like to see it pass
as soon as possible," Rice told Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar (R.-Ind.),
the Senate's leading champion of the treaty.
LOST has remained unratified by the United States since President Ronald Reagan
rejected it in 1982 as an attack on U.S. sovereignty. As Frank Gaffney,
president of the Center for Security Policy, pointed out in testimony before the
House International Relations Committee last April, LOST creates an unelected
global governing agency called the International Seabed Authority that claims
"the exclusive right to regulate what is done, by whom, when and under what
circumstances on and beneath the sea-floor in international waters."
Read all our regular Capital Briefs: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/blog-cb.php
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6. Jihad Watch: Islamist Group Strong-Arms American Media
Bosnian terrorists, German terrorists, South American terrorists, and terrorists
from a shadowy and evil Halliburton-like conglomerate: they've all been featured
on Fox's 24, a gritty drama about terrorism. Any kind, apparently, will do, but
recently 24 has featured Muslim terrorists -- or at least terrorists who look
Middle Eastern. But while no Bosnians, Germans, South Americans, or Halliburton
execs contacted the network to complain about the way they were portrayed on the
show, when Fox ventured into Islamic terror territory, the network immediately
aroused the ire of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Sabiha Khan of CAIR's Anaheim chapter worried that 24's Muslim terrorists would
"contribute to an atmosphere that it's OK to harm and discriminate against
Muslims." Meanwhile, IslamOnline, a popular Muslim news portal run from Qatar,
had its own ideas of who was behind 24's introduction of Muslim terrorists: Fox
Entertainment Group, it said, was "part of Jewish billionaire Rupert Murdoch's
News Corporation." It asserted that 24's new plot direction was "hailed by
Jewish groups and lobbyists as a bid to reveal Muslims' 'true nature,'" and
noted that "Jewish writer Daniel Pipes wrote in the Israeli Jerusalem Post and
the American New York Post hoping Fox would not bow to Muslim objections on the
series."
IslamOnline dropped "Jewish" from in front of "billionaire Rupert Murdoch" when
informed that Murdoch is not, in fact, Jewish, but the implication of the
article is still clear: 24's introduction of Muslim terrorist characters was yet
another in a long line of Jewish conspiracies.
Read the rest of this week's Jihad Watch: http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=6352
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7. A Different History Book: This One's True
One of the first things Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and other totalitarians did was
rewrite the histories of their nations, remaking the past to foster their
control of the present. The American Left has done the same thing in our
country: most American history books -- both for students and adults -- are
riddled with PC nonsense that makes the Founding Fathers over into racist
slaveholders, the settlers of the West into genocidal land-stealers, and the
welfare state into the harbinger of the ultimate triumph of liberalism.
But now at last conservatives and patriotic Americans have an antidote: "The
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" is a handy one-volume guide to
our nation's glorious past that has one key advantage over today's dozens of
dreary PC history books: this one tells you what really happened -- not what
liberals wish had happened.
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8. Political Roundup from Bob Novak and John Gizzi
EVANS & NOVAK: President Bush's recent visit to Madison County, Ill.,
demonstrates that tort reform remains a priority for the administration. Bush
chose Madison County because its courts are famous for huge damage awards in
liability lawsuits and is a favorite venue for trial lawyers with class-action
suits, whether the suits have any relation to the county or not. Medical
malpractice cases there have also driven away area doctors. Congress will take
up asbestos liability reform first, because it is more likely to pass than
medical malpractice reform. A draft of that bill is already in circulation.
Class action reform is next on the agenda. The medical liability reform bill
will face more difficulties in the Senate, even with the new 55-seat GOP
majority. In their three attempts to pass medical malpractice liability reforms
in the 108th Congress, Senate GOP leaders fell 11, 12 and 11 votes short of
cloture, respectively. Republicans were united around the bill, except for
Senators Graham (R.-S.C.) and Richard Shelby (R.-Ala.). In addition to Graham
and Shelby, Sen. Mel Martinez (R.-Fla.) may be the big question mark in the
Senate this year. As President Bush's former Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, he is expected to cooperate with the Bush agenda. But as a former
president of the Florida Trial Lawyers' Association, he may seek to compromise
on the bill's details.
Read the rest of Bob Novak's weekly analysis here: http://members.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6357
JOHN GIZZI'S POLITICS 2004: "Her Fraudulency" is what Republican legislators in
Olympia, Wash., have begun to call Christine Gregoire, who took the oath of
office as governor of the Evergreen State two weeks ago. Days before she was
sworn in, an angry 2,500-person demonstration was held in Olympia to condemn the
way she was declared governor-elect by a microscopic 129 votes out of almost
3-million cast--and how she overtook conservative Republican Dino Rossi only
after the ballots were counted a third time and 575 previously "erroneously
rejected" ballots from Democratic Seattle were declared legal. Many at the
demonstration wore orange, as did supporters of Ukraine's Viktor Yuschenko after
he was initially counted out in an election later judged a fraud. As she made
her inaugural remarks at the state capitol, GOP lawmakers, almost to a person,
sat silently and refused to applaud. Because the Rossi-Gregoire race was one of
the closest for any major office in U.S. history and because it is unlikely they
would be able to prove intentional fraud on the part of Democratic election
officials, many Republicans have called for a revote of the election. Re-running
disputed elections is not unprecedented in the United States. In North Carolina,
for example, an election commission recently ruled that the too-close-to-call
November race for state agriculture commissioner must be revoted. Citing
Washington State law, former state Atty. Gen. and U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton (R.)
told the Wall Street Journal, "A court void any election where the number of
illegal or mistaken votes exceeds the margin of victory, and it has done so in
the past."
Read more political news from Gizzi: http://members.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6361
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9. From PAGE 3: What Should Bush Make His Top Priority?
President Bush used his inaugural address on January 20 to emphasis broad goals
for his second term, including the expansion of freedom across the globe and
promoting an "ownership society" at home. So, we asked Republican senators what
they would like to see Bush tackle as the top policy priority in his second
term.
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HUMAN EVENTS: What would you like to see the President make the top priority in
his second term?
SEN. JON KYL (R.-ARIZ.): Obviously, the top priority is national security, but
beyond that it's a matter of timing. The immediate top priority, I believe, is
to lock down the tax rates so we don't have a massive tax increase with regard
to the tax cuts that were passed in 2003. Following that, closely, is Social
Security reform. I think that could be possible right after the first half of
the year. But the tax cuts to be made permanent or extended would be in the
spring of the year. And then, I presume, when Social Security is finished, he
could take up tax simplification. There are a lot of other ideas in between all
of those, but I think the President's laying those out as big themes.
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HUMAN EVENTS: What do think President Bush's top public policy priority should
be in his second term?
SEN. MEL MARTINEZ (R.-FLA.): Obviously, I think achieving a solution to the
difficult problem in Iraq would be No. 1. And on the domestic front, I believe
that we need to do something with our healthcare and Social Security. Those seem
to be the agenda items that are surfacing to be the most important, and I think
we need to pursue those. And I think something needs to be done to ensure the
viability of Social Security for our children and grandchildren. To say there is
no problem really isn't good enough.
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HUMAN EVENTS: What do you think the President's top policy priority ought to be
in his second term?
SEN. JOHNNY ISAKSON (R.-GA.): I think the President has put forth a solid agenda
in terms of Social Security, continuing to prosecute the war on terror and
bringing liberty to more people, to look at tax simplification and tort reform.
That's a pretty substantial agenda.
Read the rest of our PAGE 3 interviews: http://members.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6375
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And Finally...
For those of you who wonder where the investigation of the UN Oil-For-Food
scandal has gone, I thought I would let you know that the guys over at the
Senate Republican Policy Committee released a new policy paper this week on that
very subject. That paper, titled "Investigating the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program:
Latest Findings and Recommendations," can be found on the RPC website: http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/
Later,
Chris Field
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