The Conservative Newsletter

Dr. David Marlett, Editor

June 15, 2003

Vol. IV - No. 5

"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice." --Dwight D. Eisenhower

"On Sunday, Hamas, along with Islamic Jihad, launched another attack on the Israelis... …(T)he Israelis retaliated.(and)...the White House lashed out - at the Israelis. ...When American citizens are slaughtered by terrorists at home and we dispatch troops around the world to eliminate those responsible, that's justice. When American soldiers are gunned down in Afghanistan and Iraq and we respond by hunting down the killers, that's justice. But when Israeli civilians and soldiers are slaughtered on their own soil and Israel responds by acting in self-defense - that's inconvenient and unhelpful." -- Columnist Clifford May

"It's just a huge, huge, huge new entitlement program in my view, and that's not what we as Republicans should be doing," --Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake speaking of the new entitlement to prescription drugs which is only part of the $400 billion, 10-year overhaul of Medicare supported by most Republicans in both the House and Senate

"The spending problem is deeply rooted in Washington bureaucratic culture, and no administration is immune. ...When neither Congress nor the administration is capable of fiscal self-control, the taxpayer is always the loser." --Ron Paul

"What Mrs. Clinton leaves out (in her book 'Living History') is more telling than what she leaves in. Maybe we should call the book 'Avoiding History' instead." - Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch

"Sir: We do not need a constitutional amendment regarding flag burning. Let them burn all the flags they want. It's their right. What we need is a federal law granting immunity from civil or criminal prosecution for anyone who takes an axe handle to someone who burns a flag in front of them and is offended by that act." - News & Views reader Ed Grantham (USMC 1964-1967, Viet Nam 1966-1967)

"Ward Connerly has an idea. It is simple yet revolutionary. And it needs to be debated seriously. It is this: The government has no business asking individuals to report their race or ethnicity on official forms. . . . The only way to prevent the government from using racial preferences, he figures, is to prevent the state from recording the race of the people with whom it deals. This idea has the added lure of fulfilling an original dream of the civil rights movement, to create a color-blind society, or at least a color-blind government.

"...But this idea runs counter to a major tenet of the Democratic Party, which has divided itself into ethnic caucuses and promoted an ethno-centrist view of the world. It's also a threat to a civil rights establishment that, ironically, has a vested interest in society's focus on racial and ethnic differences rather than the elimination of those distinctions.

"Those powerful forces are now aligning against Connerly's initiative, and rather than debating it on its merits, they are beginning a campaign to mislead Californians about its provisions. Several of the state's highest Democratic officeholders gathered at the Capitol last week to condemn the measure, suggesting that it would wreak death and destruction across the land." - Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub

"We have legal custody of the children and we will do with them as we see fit…. They are minors and they do what we tell them to do." -- Waltham, Mass. DSS worker, Susan Etscovitz, to George and Kim Bryant who refuse to submit to the government's standardized testing of their homeschooled children.

"A true conservative is one who observes the governmental philosophy of the founders and the forgotten document called the "Constitution." The philosophy of self, limited government - a constitutional republic - goes hand in hand with morality, based on God's guidelines. That is what a conservative is, at its root.

"This is in contrast to a definition of liberalism. It is easy to define conservatism because it basically conserves the freedom-loving ways of America's heritage, but liberalism is a completely different word that does not attach itself to anything tangible. However, those who claim to be liberal tend to support bigger government, more taxes, abortion and socialist ideas - all mixed with a lack of morality." -- Kyle Williams, 14 years old homeschooled columnist.

"Around the world we've seen how government can be perverted into an instrument of kleptocracy. ... 'Kleptocracy' is not too strong a word if you believe our tort system should be a means of compensating the truly wronged and not a means of transferring large amounts of wealth to those who are adept at manipulating the levers. ... We've reached the point where the Democrat Party's captivity [to the trial lawyers] has become an embarrassment and threat to the nation." --Wall Street Journal

"It's not beyond the realm of possibility that she would become not only the first First Lady to be elected Senator, but also the first First Lady to become President. And that raises an intriguing prospect: Bill Clinton as the first President to become a First Man or First Spouse or whatever. So much has happened to this couple that it seems anything could happen. ... I can barely remember a week went by when one of you wasn't being criticized and investigated.... I don't think people realize how strong your faith is...." --Barbara Walters

TCN Comment: Faith??? In what? How gullible their liberal voter base is??? Only Barbara Walters, or maybe Walter Cronkite, could work the word "faith" into a discussion of the Clinton scandals.

"The Constitution is to give rights…" --Texas Demo Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, on the anti-flag desecration amendment

"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, that among these are. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

The government formed and empowered by our US Constitution is not the source of our rights and has no authority to remove our rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" endowed to us by God. In fact if the government assumes a position that it has that right, we have a right to "alter or abolish it".

Again the Declaration of Independence:

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

Removal of elected officials that have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, but don't have even a basic understanding of it contents or purpose and cannot therefore be even remotely sincere in their oath of office, should be the first step in "altering or abolishing". - Ed.

"...[P]ersonally, I feel you'd be safer trusting a rabbit to deliver a carrot than to trust the new Republican Party to stand by the Constitution." --Gary Nolan

"In the book that came out today, Hillary [Clinton] says she compared her decision to forgive Bill with Nelson Mandela's decision to forgive his jailers. Of course, the big difference is Mandela was innocent." -- Jay Leno

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