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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 35 |
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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 35 |
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"An elected despotism is not the government we fought for." --Thomas Jefferson
"We must elect people to these offices who will defend our liberties, defend the integrity of the Constitution, and take on the full responsibilities they are supposed to exercise as the stewards of that Constitution. I believe that both president and Congress, in recent decades, have failed us in this regard. And in doing so they have unleashed a judicial tyranny that is destroying the soundness, moral and otherwise, of our land." --Alan Keyes
"It took...a brain-stopping chain of falsehoods to bring a whole people to the state of Hitler-worship." --Leonard Peikoff
"Saying and Doing have quarreled and parted." --Benjamin Franklin
"To say that this distinct person has no rights is not a liberal position but an elitist one. To rid the world of unwanted people is a totalitarian principle, not a democratic one." --Archbishop Elden F. Curtiss on the Democrats' abortion-on-demand platform.
The Federalist awarded this month's "Demo-Plunder Sweepstakes Award" to -- you guessed it -- Albert Arnold Gore, whose populist plan to distribute government largess, according to the Congressional Budget Office, ads $2.7 trillion in additional spending -- overspending the cumulative projected surplus by $1.9 trillion (not including Social Security taxes, which both Bush and Gore promise to leave in the Social Security "trust fund").
Memo to Al: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson
"The only obvious thing about last night's debate was that Mrs. Clinton has spent 25 years married to Bill Clinton -- and has learned exactly nothing from the master of dissimulation. The debate was a disaster for her." -- John Podhoretz
"Mr. Lazio came across as a smoother, more aggressive performer." --New York Times
"Lazio kicked it out of the park. He had Hillary dumbfounded on several occasions. Walked across the stage, invading her 'personal space' and handed her a petition to disavow all soft money. Dared her to sign it. She didn't, of course. Asked by Russert at the end, if she had a life line call, who would it be? She twinkled and said, 'You, Tim.' Lazio said, very quietly, 'My wife'." --Lucianne Goldberg
Hundreds of elected Democrats across the country have switched to the Republican Party since the election of Clinton-Gore in 1992. However, New York Rep. Mike Forbes is the only Republican member of Congress who switched to the Democrats. Tuesday, Forbes lost in the Democrat primary to Ms. Regina Seltzer, a 71-year-old former librarian, who raised only 3% as much money as his $1.4 million war chest. Poetic justice, indeed.
[The Federalist]
And, about those wealthy Veeps, you have heard all about Mr. Cheney's success in the private sector and the $18 million in stock he sold before joining the Bush ticket. But have you heard about the $48 million estate controlled by Joseph Lieberman, which evicted a female tenant from one of its properties, then re-admitted her when she filed suit against Lieberman for injuries she received on the property?
Perhaps when the suit is settled, she can be evicted again and Mrs. Tracy Mayberry and her disabled husband and children, previously evicted from Gore's tenant slum, can move in. Kinda paints a "slumlord ticket," don't you think?
[The Federalist]
In the news this week, one of the Democrats' four cornerstones of support (unions, Hollywood glitterati, trial lawyers and "victims" of all descriptions) is in trouble. Trial lawyers, long a staple of Democrat coffers, have given more than $7 million to the Demos in recent months in a quid pro quo to ensure Albert Gore will oppose any effort at tort reform. Of course, such quid pro quos are accomplished with winks and nods leaving no paper trails -- until now.
A memo from the last presidential campaign cycle may prove problematic for Gore. In 1995, he was in Houston collecting from trial lawyers but did not connect with pal Walter Umphrey. So Don Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called Umphrey on Gore's behalf, using a prepared memo prompting, "Reason for call is 'Sorry you missed the Vice President; I know (you) will give $100K when the President vetoes tort reform but we really need it now. Please send ASAP if possible'."
Clinton vetoed the Republicans' tort reform bill in May 1996, and Umphrey anted up $100 large. Since then, Umphrey and his firm have given $800,000 to the Democrats, $420,000 in the current campaign. Then Clinton led the charge against tobacco companies, creating a $3.3 billion windfall for trial lawyers after a $17.3 billion settlement. And they, being a grateful sort, have reciprocated by rewarding Demo campaigns across the nation with large "gratuities."
Gore spokesman Jim Kennedy says, "Republicans and [the Justice Department] have had this for more than 1,000 days. No one found it interesting till 1,000 hours before the election." Of course, the Demos have had Janet "Blockade" Reno for more than 2,700 days.
Unfortunately for justice, "the most ethical administration" and its media props have so obscured the line between right and wrong that a majority of couch potatoes no longer care.
Junior Gore did it again yesterday on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" after he first lied that Oprah was his favorite cereal, thinking he had been asked for his favorite serial, to which he replied, "Oprah."
That's a major-league lie in itself, but a bigger one followed.
The daytime talk host responded with a confused look and then told Junior she meant breakfast food. What cereal do you eat for breakfast? He then replied, with a straight face, that he misunderstood the question to mean TV serial. (As if the Oprah show were a serial, which it clearly is not.)
What followed was the moment of truth (or not, considering this is Junior Gore, after all) when he reached really far down for another classic Gore whopper: "My favorite cereal is Wheaties" - which prompted a skeptical Oprah to follow up with an incredulous "I don't know if I believe this one" comment and a direct question:
"When is the last time you had Wheaties for breakfast?"
Junior then admitted his second lie in as many minutes by confessing that he couldn't remember when, because it had been so long since he had them.
And this knucklehead wants to be president!
There is so much wrong with this little exchange that it defies logic to have to dissect it so painstakingly, but this is the legacy of Clinton-Gore, so parse we must.
First, how in the world did Junior think he could say the Oprah show is his favorite TV serial? It's not a serial; it's a daytime talk show. He was giving his usual tell-them-whatever-they-want-to-hear routine (translate: he lied through his teeth.)
This is important because it exposes a fatal character flaw in that a person who would knowingly make such an obviously untrue statement has a serious mental deficiency, one that should preclude his service as president.
Second, what would posses someone to first say Wheaties is his favorite breakfast cereal when he can't remember the last time he ate it? Again, only an individual with a penchant for lying, and in an odd way it demonstrates that he's not even as "clever" as Clinton in the manner in which he lies. (Remember Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerry's comment that Clinton is an "unusually good liar"?)
And all of this against a backdrop of dozens of documented examples of Junior Gore's outrageous, purposeful lies: offer to debate anytime, anywhere, inventing the Internet, being the model for "Love Story," discovering Love Canal, no controlling legal authority, not knowing a fund raiser was on his schedule, the Buddhist temple, too much iced tea, raising tobacco money, plowing fields in Tennessee, Gore Sr. supporting the Civil Rights Act when he led the fight to defeat it, and so on and so on.
The man is unfit to be president, plain and simple.
Whether it's lying about Wheaties or lying about "Oprah" the lies will never cease. And the thought of a President Junior Gore should send chills up and down the spines of all Americans because, inevitably, he'll lie when it could seriously impact the state of the nation. In fact, it could affect our very lives when the question is one of war or peace, and that is precisely what will face our next commander in chief.
[NewsMax]
There are only two basic worldviews: theism and atheism. Many educators and philosophers today would have us believe that only a secularist/atheistic approach to government has any merit or credence. Such was not the position of America's Founding Fathers. If fact, it has only been in the past half-century that America's courts and culture have seen fit to reject the faith of our fathers.
The foundational document of this nation asserts, "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...". America's founders obviously embraced a theistic worldview.
This trenchant principle is fundamental to the American concept of government. If God is the grantor of life, liberty and happiness, it behooves government to protect those rights. The Declaration of Independence categorically states, "That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men..." Therefore, legitimate government protects and defends God-given rights and freedoms, while illegitimate government seeks to destroy and steal these liberties.
It should be obvious to even a casual observer that much (even most) of our current political system today runs diametrically counter to these historic values. When politicians understand government to be the source of men's rights, when they routinely usurp the principles of freedom without compunction or regret, government abandons its reason for existing and becomes illegitimate. At that point, it is the responsibility of freemen to "alter or abolish it."
Examples of this bastardization of government include the attempt to deny men the right of self-protection (gun control), the confiscation of our wealth and property in order to redistribute it to others (welfare and entitlement programs), government-sanctioned killing, denying man's fundamental right to life (abortion), politically-correct coercion that forces men to accept moral perversities, thus denying men their God-given right of conscience, etc. Add to these a host of illegitimate performances by an ever-encroaching, ever-meddling federal government and what one is left with is a not-so-pale form of despotism.
Even the two major party presidential candidates talk only of how to continue illegitimate government. Apparently, neither man has the courage to bring our political system back under the authority of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Neither seems willing to recognize that God, not government, provides freedom and happiness. When political leaders visualize government to be responsible to provide freedom and happiness, instead of simply protecting the individuals' freedom to obtain those blessings from God, they have produced a system that has become "destructive to these Ends."
Such a system stems from a hedonistic culture and atheistic worldview. The only hope for reversing this trend is to reintroduce the fundamental, historic values and principles upon which our nation was built. This should be the goal of each and every one of us. And we should expect nothing less of the leaders we elect.
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