HUMAN EVENTS Weekly Wrap-Up
November 11, 2005------------------
In Today's Wrap-Up:
- Pat Buchanan: President Bush Leaves GOP in Crisis
- Headlines and Highlights from this week at Human
Events Online
- Ann Coulter: Danny Ocean Defends the Rather Network
- This Week's Top 10 List: The Top 10 Young
Conservative Activists
- Jihad Watch: It's Jihad, Not Joblessness Causing
French Rioting
- New Card Deck Exposes the 2006 Election's "Most
Dangerous Liberals"
- Capital Briefs: Budget Busted Thanks to GOP
Moderates
- Political Roundup from John Gizzi
- From PAGE 3: What Must GOP Do to Improve Prospects
in 2006?
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Below is just a small portion of what you will find at Human Events
Online. Our site (http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com)
is updated all day, every day.
1. Pat Buchanan: President Bush
Leaves GOP in Crisis
What killed the first Bush presidency and is ruining the second is
the abandonment of Reaganism and his embrace of the twin heresies of
neoconservatism and Big Government Conservatism, as preached by the
resident ideologues at The Weekly Standard and Wall Street Journal.
Under Bush I, taxes were raised, funding for HUD and Education
exploded, and a quota bill was signed under which small businesses,
accused of racial discrimination, were made to prove their innocence, or
be punished, in true Soviet fashion.
Under Bush II, social spending has exploded to levels LBJ might envy,
foreign aid has been doubled, pork-at-every-meal has become the GOP diet
of choice, surpluses have vanished, and the deficit is soaring back
toward 5% of GDP. Bill Clinton is starting to look like Barry Goldwater.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10210
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2. Headlines and Highlights
from this week at HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE
Oliver North: 'Jarhead' Cheapens Vets' Heroism
It's pretty clear that those making movies in Tinsel Town don't know any
real men like Aaron Mankin. They apparently prefer cowardice over
courage; witless whiners to real patriots; gutless wimps and hollow
phonies to men who know the meaning of self-sacrifice and integrity.
That's the only conclusion one can draw after seeing Hollywood's latest
anti-military travesty: "Jarhead."
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10227
New Conservative Paper at Marquette Is Under Attack
Liberals at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., took a culinary
approach to delivering a message to conservative students who started an
alternative newspaper last week: You're not welcome. The business
manager of the publication, The Warrior, woke up last Thursday to egg
and ketchup on his house and profane signage placed on his lawn. This is
the liberal response to conservatives' exercising 1st Amendment rights.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10188
Schwarzenegger Wasted Chance to Reform Calif.
The election results in California are more than a setback for Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger. They represent an entirely unnecessary defeat for
Republicans, and a repudiation of needed public policy reforms that
conservatives enthusiastically favored.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10159
John Gizzi: White House Credits Gov. Warner With Va. Win
In its first comments on last night's Democratic victories in races for
governor of Virginia and New Jersey last night, the White House credited
outgoing Gov. Mark Warner with the victory of fellow Democrat Tim Kaine
to succeed him in the Old Dominion.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=10169
Terence Jeffrey: Major Andre v. Bin Laden's Bodyguard
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether our laws and Constitution
require President Bush to try al Qaeda terrorists in a more permissive
venue than the military tribunals George Washington used for British
spies. The answer is no.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10150
Administration Sends Conflicting Message on Guest Worker Plan
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.), chairman of the House Immigration Reform
Caucus, and eight other congressmen wrote to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
asking her to clarify whether the President's guest worker plan will
offer a "path to citizenship."
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10147
Corporate Social Responsibility: Another Cover for the Leftist
Political Agenda
Representatives from companies such as Disney, the New York Times and
Coca-Cola gathered at a conference dubbed "Business for Social
Responsibility" earlier this month in Washington, D.C., to discuss
corporate social responsibility-a phrase that may sound harmless, but is
actually cleverly disguised rhetoric to promote a leftist political
agenda.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10145
Paris Burning: How Empires End
The Romans conquered the barbarians-and the barbarians conquered Rome.
So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the
history of the empires of the West.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10116
How Do We Know Alito Would Overturn Roe?
Washington's conservative and pro-life activists are almost uniformly
pleased with the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito as the replacement for
retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Alito has a long
record of intelligent, conservative, by-the-text interpretation of the
Constitution and law that promises an excellent Supreme Court justice.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10105
Supreme Bias: Media Label Alito a Right-Wing Extremist
New Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has been a Justice Department
lawyer, a U.S. attorney, and a federal judge. Bill Clinton's first
nominee to the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was a federal judge,
too, but her resume also showed she had been a liberal political
activist, most notably as the director of the Women's Rights Project for
the ACLU.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10110
You can read these and many other columns at
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/
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3. Ann Coulter: Danny Ocean
Defends the Rather Network
The most cosseted, self-indulgent, worthless people in the universe
are worried their suffering has been downgraded.
For 50 years Hollywood drama queens have churned out plays, movies,
TV shows, books, poems, allegories, museum exhibits, personal
testimonials, dioramas, interpretive dances, wood carvings, cave
paintings, needlepoint wall hangings and scatological limericks about
their victimization at the hands of a brute named Joe McCarthy.
Schoolchildren who will learn nothing about George Washington, Thomas
Edison or Paul Revere are forced to read chapter and verse about the
black night of fascism (BNOF) under McCarthy.
But half a century of myth-making later, one little book comes out
and gives the contrary view-and Hollywood thinks it's Treblinka.
Read the full story at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10203
More from Ann here:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=10051
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4. This Week's Top 10 List: The
Top 10 Young Conservative Activists
Young America's Foundation President Ron Robinson offers his take on
the Top 10 Young Conservative Activists. The list features some of the
brightest stars in the conservative moments. Topping the list is a
talented 27-year-old conservative who was recently elected deputy
chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party.
Read the full Top 10 list at:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/lists.php
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5. Jihad Watch: It's Jihad, Not
Joblessness Causing French Rioting
Why have the French riots happened? From many accounts one would
think that the riots have been caused by France's failure to implement
Marxism.
"The unrest," AP explained, "has highlighted the division between
France's big cities and their poor suburbs, with frustration simmering
in the housing projects in areas marked by high unemployment, crime and
poverty." Others have blamed France's failure to integrate Muslims into
French society.
However, this has been a policy on which both Muslims and non-Muslims
in France have agreed.
In her seminal Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, historian Bat Ye'or
details a series of agreements between the European Union and the Arab
League that guaranteed that Muslim immigrants in Europe would not be
compelled in any way to adapt "to the customs of the host countries."
On the contrary, the Euro-Arab Dialogue's Hamburg Symposium of 1983
recommended that non-Muslim Europeans be made "more aware of the
cultural background of migrants, by promoting cultural activities of the
immigrant communities or 'supplying adequate information on the culture
of the migrant communities in the school curricula.'"
More from this week's Jihad Watch:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/article.php?id=10144
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6. New Card Deck Exposes the
2006 Election's "Most Dangerous Liberals"
"52 Most Dangerous Liberals in America" 2006 Election Edition Card
Deck
They're at it again. The Liberals are gearing up for the 2006
elections . . . and they'll say anything to get elected. Now you can
keep track of the liberal politicians, Hollywood "activists," kooky
Leftist organizations, and mainstream media elite who pose the worst
political threats to America this election season.
We have identified which liberals to keep an eye on during the
upcoming elections. Each card in the brand new "52 Most Dangerous
Liberal in America" Card Deck features a "Dangerous Liberal" and a
self-condemning quote to back up why that particular Leftist has made
the cut to be included in this notorious deck.
These liberals share their views on banning guns, promoting abortion,
spending your tax dollars, and of course, their hero: Hillary. One of
our Dangerous Liberals declares the culture of liberalism is "more
tolerant and is not hate filled." But the litany of insults and
name-calling Liberals hurl at the Right proves that this "tolerance" is
yet another Liberal delusion.
From pandering to Hollywood to slandering the Right, Liberals seem to
say the craziest things. Find out more:
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7. Capital Briefs: Budget
Busted Thanks to GOP Moderates
House Republican moderates withheld their votes from a $55 billion
budget-cutting package yesterday forcing the GOP leadership to pull the
measure. To the great dismay of conservatives nationwide, the leaders
had appeased the moderates the day before by stripping from the bill a
provision that would have allowed desperately needed oil drilling in a
small area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But the appeasement
did not work.
In the end, the moderates refused to accept cuts in Medicaid, food
stamps and student loans. When it came to passing the President's
$8-trillion Medicare prescription drug plan-the first new entitlement
since LBJ's Great Society days-the Bush White House brutally twisted
arms of House conservatives. Where is this effort when spending cuts are
the issue?
Check out more of our regular Capital Briefs:
http://www.HumanEventsOnline.com/blog-cb.php
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8. Political Roundup from John
Gizzi
Conservative Republicans should be toasting some of the results from
the Virginia elections, since they won two of the three statewide races
Tuesday.
State Sen. Bill Bolling, one of the most conservative legislators in
the Old Dominion, was elected lieutenant governor. In defeating liberal
former Democratic Rep. Leslie Byrne, Bolling ran on a traditional,
no-holds-barred conservative platform. He opposed any new taxes, took a
strong pro-life stand, and unabashedly defended the 2nd Amendment right
to keep and bear arms.
State Delegate Bob McDonnell, another strongly conservative
Republican, emerged from pre-election attacks intended to portray him as
a Christian-right-wing extremist with a 2,000-vote margin in the state
attorney general race (a result that will probably be
challenged-unsuccessfully-in a recount). In the final week of the
campaign, McDonnell's Democratic foe, State Delegate Creigh Deeds, ran
highly personal television attack ads focusing on the fact that
McDonnell had earned a law degree from Pat Robertson's Regent University
that televangelist Robertson had contributed $36,000 to McDonnell's
campaign.
Gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore was the only Republican loser
in Virginia's three statewide races.
Read more political news from Gizzi:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=10229
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9. From PAGE 3: What Must GOP
Do to Improve Prospects in 2006?
The day after Tuesday's elections, when Republicans lost
gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, HUMAN EVENTS Assistant
Editor Amanda Carpenter asked Republican members of the U.S. House of
Representatives what the party needed to do to improve its prospects in
next year's mid-term elections. At the time, the House was debating a
bill, inspired by the conservative House Republican Study Committee,
that would cut $54 billion from the fiscal 2006 budget.
REP. TOM DAVIS (R.-VA.): I think we need to rein in spending
and I'll just keep it at that. If you keep it simple you don't get in
trouble.
REP. TOM FEENEY (R.-FLA.): Go back to our Reagan principles.
It's more diverse than just one single item. We've got to secure the
border and show we're serious about protecting economic and physical
security on our borders and we've got to show we're serious about
restraining spending. Those are our two biggest disappointments right
now and if we can rectify those issues and show the people a
recommitment to accountability, I think we'll win and we'll do fine. But
if we don't go back to the traditional things that built this party I
think we're going to have real trouble in this off-year election.
REP. TRENT FRANKS (R.-ARIZ.): I think the most important issue
Republicans can do in the short term and the long term regardless of
elections is to maintain the foundational constitutional base of the
country. And that means making sure that we have people on the court
that will read the Constitution as written. And, of course, that should
be reflected in the bills and the oaths that we make here too. It's
probably sort of an esoteric statement, but I truly believe that if we
stick to the foundations of protecting life, liberty and property of the
citizens in this country we will not only serve the people will, but it
will also serve us well politically.
REP. JEFF FLAKE (R.-ARIZ.): Cut spending. Act like Republicans
again. We've been spending like drunken sailors for far too long and
it's going to come back to haunt us.
REP. PATRICK MCHENRY (R.-N.C.): We need a serious reduction in
spending and to get back to our conservative principles.
REP. JOHN LINDER (R.-GA.): Seal the border.
REP. GEORGE RADANOVICH (R.CALIF.): Have a vision, articulate
the vision and have our agenda all under the umbrella of that vision.
REP. TOM TANCREDO (R.-COLO.): Highlight the Democrats. They
are the best thing we have going for us right now, the Democrats, I
mean. I wish I could think of a better issue, but I can't right now. I
just know this: That I take solace in the fact if anybody actually looks
at the Democrats they're going to say, "Oh, my God, we can't do that!"
Read the rest of our PAGE 3 interviews:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10228
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And Finally...
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Richard Miniter in his new book, "Disinformation."
Consider these shocking facts:
- Found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
- Found: 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons
- Found: Roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas
- Found: 1,000 radioactive materials--ideal for radioactive
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- Found: 17 chemical warheads--some containing cyclosarin,
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Cheers,
Robert B. Bluey
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