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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 20 |
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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 20 |
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If your summer vacation plans included standing at the western-most point in the USA, you'd better check with the US State Department. (You know: the people who can't keep track of where their computers are.) Without even informing Congress, the State Department gave away five islands in the Aleutian Chain to Russia. These islands, key to the fishing industry in the region, have been US territory since the Alaskan Purchase and a part of the United States since Alaskan statehood, but have now been secretly given to the Russians and one of them now houses a Russian military installation.
What happened to the fifty to one hundred US citizens living on the islands? Without consultation or even any notice, they were stripped of their citizenship and they are now subjects of the Supreme Soviet.
Due to the tight secrecy, the public outcry has been limited to a resolution in the Alaskan Legislature to ask the State Department to inform them in the future if more of their state is going to be given away.
I guess it is not surprising that the administration that gave our White House to the Chinese would also give our sovereign lands and citizens to the Russians.
These are not the only islands given away by the Clinton administration however. Several islands that were US territories in the Pacific and at least one in the Caribbean have been given away as well and the inhabitants stripped of citizenship. The Aleutian Islands were the only ones that were actually part of a state.
Where does this federal bureaucracy derive its right to give away pieces of the US? It gets the right from the same place that Clinton gets his dictatorial powers. It simply takes them, knowing that no one in Washington has the backbone to stop it.
[State Department Watch, Lt. Cmdr. Carl Olson, U.S. Navy Retired ]
House Majority Leader Dick Armey's office says the U.S. relies on foreign imports for 56 percent of our crude oil, an increase of 21 percentage points since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, and predicts we will depend on imports for 65 percent of our oil by 2020.
Armey has harsh words about Clinton's energy policy, calling it a "total failure of leadership... a tax and regulatory policy failure... a foreign policy failure... a domestic energy policy failure." The President primarily favors using "quiet diplomacy" to coax OPEC to increase supply, but he also suggested tax incentives to spur conservation and alternative fuels and agreed to modest tax breaks to increase domestic production.
The federal government often has endorsed environmentalist causes over cheap and plentiful energy. The Clinton administration has closed huge areas to oil and gas development. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt supports tearing down hydropower dams. In 1996 Clinton ended mining access to 62 billion tons of environmentally-friendly low-sulfur coal when he secretly established the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
In 1990, the federal government mandated the addition of MTBE to gasoline. MTBE increases gas prices about ten cents and is now known to pose a risk to the water supply. The Clinton Administration signed the Kyoto Protocol, which would require the U.S. to cut energy use so dramatically it could double gas prices.
Armey has proposed that a 4.3 cents per gallon fuel tax passed in 1993 should be repealed to provide some price relief. Here at TCN we think the entire 18.4 cents per gallon we are paying in federal tax should be considered for repeal. During the 1950's and 1960's the vast majority of the Interstate Highway system was built on only 4 cents per gallon. Does it now take 18 cents per gallon to maintain that system? Allowing for inflation it would appear that half of that 18 cents per gallon should be enough to completely replace the system every 10 to 15 years. In fact if just the tax increases since 1990 were repealed that would amount to 9.3 cents per gallon! The gasoline tax increases of 1990 and 1993 were passed in order to balance the federal budget. They tell us there is now a budget surplus. Why should they not both be repealed?
We also suggest that the oil-rich Arctic Alaskan fields be reopened in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This would affect only 2000 of the 19 million acres of the refuge and provide the equivalent of 30 years of OPEC imports with no significant damage to wildlife. This combined with reopening the Utah coal fields and the use of naturally generated hydropower to supplement atomic power plants in use, should enable us to set our own price for energy and end our slavery to USA-hating Arab nations.
"Economist Larry Kudlow and I have devised a tax burden measure we call the average effective federal tax burden on American workers. We take total combined federal income and payroll taxes paid and divide that number by total family income in the economy. This measure of family tax burdens provides a very different tax story than the fictions the media has been spoon-feeding us. The federal family tax burden has risen from 23 percent to 26.5 percent just since Bill Clinton has been president. And this level is not the lowest in 40 years; it is the highest. ...The total taxes collected from federal payroll and income taxes has almost tripled since the start of the Clinton era." --Cato Institute's Stephen Moore
The right-minded Independent Women's Forum, based in Washington, has released a new guide to understanding feminese:
Equal: Proportional outcome, not freedom of opportunity.
Family: Any group of people who call themselves a family.
Economic justice: Redistribution of wealth.
Comparable worth: Government dictation of wages and salaries.
Violence: Suffered by women, not men.
Peacemaking: Appeasement.
Empowerment for women: Political domination by radical feminist agenda.
"The germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body -- working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall render powerless the checks of one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." --Thomas Jefferson
"Let's say you broke your arm and the doctor gave you a cast on the wrong arm. If you broke your leg one week later, would you go back to the same doctor to have your leg set? When I see President Clinton suggesting he is going to protect the privacy rights of Americans I start to feel like the fella in the example just cited. Bill Clinton has been a terrible custodian of the public records with which he has been entrusted. He has allowed secrets to slip into the hands of the communist Chinese, but that is not all. This President has been found in violation of the Privacy Act by a federal court. Moreover, we all know the sad story of 'Filegate,' when the White House improperly obtained private FBI files." --Rep. Ron Paul
A TCN reader in Indianapolis has informed us that the IRS has been put on notice. A militia group has released videotape to WTHR TV in Indianapolis to be aired Tuesday evening. With the tape came the warning that Federal agents should not try to seize the Indianapolis Baptist Temple property on Thursday while church members are in Chicago for the hearing. "Our snipers are already in place," reads the warning. "Any federal agent planning to enter the property should make things right with his family first."
The militias appear to be making good on their promise that the IBT fiasco will not become another Waco. The odds in the congested downtown area of Indianapolis seem to be in favor of the snipers, and from the sound of things there will not be years of debate on who fired first. The militias have no intention of giving the federal storm troopers the first shot. Having been raised in the hills of southern Indiana, I can assure you that most of those farm-boys can shoot real straight.
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