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The Conservative e-Journal of Record
Date: 11 July 2000
Federalist #00-28.brf
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INSIGHT
"A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may
define
a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." --Thomas
Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, on King George
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THE GOOD NEWS
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock
and
the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives;
he
who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be
opened."
(Matthew 7:7-8)
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FAITH & FAMILY
"This latest decision [by the Supreme Court] banning God from
the
public square can evoke many emotions in Christians, but
surprise
shouldn't be one of them. Making students unwilling agents of
the
secular state started back in 1962, when the Court banned God
from the
classroom. If God is not allowed there -- at the epicenter of
intellectual life -- then surely He doesn't belong at other
school
events." --Chuck Colson
"Some cases are lost. But memory is not lost. Hope is not lost.
And as
long as people hold on to such things, freedom is not lost. As
long as
Elian is remembered, neither he nor all the other tempest-tossed
are
lost. This is not the end of the drama, but only of the second
act, as
night falls. Some of us still believe in third acts, and
morning. Some
of us think of freedom as essential to human development, not as
one
more legal consideration to be weighed against others, like the
over-arching claim of a bureaucracy. And certainly not as a
bargaining
chip in international relations. We think this case is about
certain
unalienable rights, rather than, as the court in Atlanta put it,
'the
President's conduct of our nation's international affairs.' We
think,
we believe, that no president, no court, no bureaucracy can
forever
ignore those rights. That is the great advantage those of us who
believe in freedom have over those who just want to get this
case over
with. We remember. We will remember Elian, and all the other
Elians.
We won't give up on this captive boy anymore than we gave up on
the
captive nations. And one day The Wall will fall again." --Paul
Greenberg
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OPINION IN BRIEF
"By the standards applied to everyone, Mr. Clinton deserves
disbarment. His dishonesty has been chronic and egregious. But
the
fact Mr. Clinton is no ordinary lawyer only enhances the
argument for
disbarment. This is what mothers call a teachable moment. Bill
Clinton is now the most famous liar and perjurer in the whole
world --
maybe the most famous liar in history. Through disbarment, the
Arkansas courts can demonstrate that some people and
institutions
still uphold ordinary virtues like probity." --Mona Charen
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GOVERNMENT
"The idea behind popular government (whether a democracy or a
republic) is that the political process, mainly but not solely
the
electoral process, is the way government gets its marching
orders. The
people, by electing representatives, lobbying, marching,
demonstrating, writing letters and in a thousand other ways, try
to
tell the government what they want done. The process may be
indirect
and diffused, but the idea is that the people are the bosses,
the
government apparatus the servants. If you believe any version of
this
theory, there's just no excuse for placing limitations (beyond
those
that involve actual harm or fraud, which can be handled through
fairly
simple, already existing laws) on this necessarily unruly and
often
messy process. If you want to place tight limitations on the
political
process, to be enforced by bureaucrats who cannot be removed
from
office because they weren't put there by the electoral process
in the
first place, then you obviously don't believe in popular
government.
Instead, you believe in some kind of facade of free elections,
but one
that is tightly controlled by those who already hold power. You
believe in removing the connection between office holders and
legitimate economic interests among the citizenry, instead
making
office holders beholden to and controlled by the permanent
government." --Alan W. Bock
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POLITICAL FUTURES
"This is what has become of latter-day liberalism. The political
left
has abandoned traditional standards on grounds that they're
'intolerant' and 'harsh.' Votaries of political correctness have
replaced customary norms with a code of etiquette that punishes
wayward speech savagely, while trying to ease the penalties
assessed
to such crimes as murder." --Tony Snow
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FOR THE RECORD
"Here's what the 1936 government pamphlet on Social Security
said:
'After the first 3 years you will pay, and your employer will
pay, 1.5
cents for each dollar you earn, up to $3,000 a year'." --Walter
Williams
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Making Sure the Surplus Revenue is Used to Reduce the National
Debt
FEDERAL BUDGET
http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1378.html
Lessons From Tennessee's Failed Health Care Reform
HERITAGE
http://www.heritage.org/library/backgrounder/bg1357es.html
Court Delivers Blow to Religious Liberty
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE
http://www.claremont.org/publications/munoz000622.cfm
A Real Patriot's Banner
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE
http://www.claremont.org/publications/robinson000622a.cfm
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THE LAST WORD
"Speaking of legal defenses: A fascinating one is ... a police
report
.. saying that a motorist who had been stopped on suspicion of
drunken driving 'attempted to thwart the arresting officer by
covering
his ears and saying, "I cannot hear you, la la la la la".'
Incredibly,
this legal defense did not work, even though it is almost
identical to
the one used successfully by President Clinton during his
impeachment
trial on charges of extreme mentoring." --Dave Barry
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TWO CENTS
This Week's "Two Cents" issue:
Recently, Independent Women's Forum President Anita Blair
translated a
few words from "feminese," the vernacular of liberal feminists:
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.
This Week's "Two Cents" Question:
What are your favorite feminese translations?
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