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James Meredith | October 31, 2006
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I WAS PRIVILEGED TO KNOW JAMES MEREDITH, WHO BECAME A
STRONG CONSERVATIVE
"The University of Mississippi yesterday dedicated a
statue of James Meredith, the first black student to attend the school, with
the civil-rights pioneer and conservative activist in attendance.
"The life-size bronze statue was dedicated on the 44th
anniversary of Mr. Meredith’s bravery in deadly riots to break the color
barrier at the school.
"A civil-rights memorial at the university also has
7-foot-tall limestone portal, brick benches and historical markers, and
stands about 100 yards from a Confederate soldier statue, separated by the
Lyceum building that still bears bullet marks from the 1962 integration
fight.
"As part of the weekend celebrations, the university
released more than a dozen previously unpublished photographs of Mr.
Meredith by Ed Meek, a student at the time. Mr. Meredith went on to a long
career as an active Republican, including several years as a domestic
adviser on the staff of Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican."
(The Washington Times (10/2/06))
PRINCE BANDAR WAS A FRIEND OF PRESIDENTS — SOMETIMES TO
OUR NATION’S DETRIMENT
There is a new book out entitled "The Prince", about the
life of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the
United States.
In the promotional advertising what is not mentioned is
that, as a favor to President Jimmy Carter, Prince Bandar persuaded then
South Dakota Democrat Senator James Abourezk, a fellow Arab, to cast his
vote in favor of the American surrender of the Panama Canal.
In part because of the vote he cast, Abourezk went down to
defeat in the next election.
To advance Saudi interests, Bandar always tried to be of
assistance to the incumbent President — very often to the detriment of the
United States.
I knew Prince Bandar very slightly by virtue of the fact
that one of my daughters attended Green Hedges School in Vienna, Virginia,
along with Prince Bandar’s eldest daughter, Princess Lula.
From time to time, the young Saudi Princess visited our
home, along with a full crew, which included her nanny and a few British
bodyguards. My daughter also had the opportunity to spend some time at
Prince Bandar’s palatial residence in McLean, Virginia.
GOP HARBORS HOMOS IN THE HOUSE
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media correctly observes that
pandering to perverts by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives
is the real reason for the Foley scandal. Here is what Kincaid had to say in
a recent article:
“[George] Soros and the Democrats did not put Foley in the
position of House Deputy Majority Whip. What’s more, Soros and the Democrats
did not establish or maintain what the New York Times describes in an
explosive Sunday article as a secret network of Republican homosexuals on
Capitol Hill.
“The Times story by Mark Leibovich reports that ‘The
presence of homosexuals, particularly gay men, in crucial staff positions
has been an enduring if largely hidden staple of Republican life for
decades, and particularly in recent years. They have played decisive roles
in passing legislation, running campaigns and advancing careers.’
“In another dramatic revelation, The Los Angeles Times
reports that one former page was seduced into having sex with Foley, and
that Foley used the page program to physically assess male teenagers in
order to cultivate them as sex targets.
“…House leaders permitted homosexuals to infiltrate and
manipulate the party apparatus while they publicly postured as friends of
family values and traditional marriage. …
“In the case of Foley, a 52-year-old man, what cannot be
disputed is that House leaders knew that he was a homosexual but permitted
him to remain in Congress despite the emergence of emails he sent to a
16-year-old former page asking for a photo and other personal information.
The boy called the messages ‘sick,’ and he was right.
“The matter had been brought to the attention of Congress in
the fall of 2005 by the parents of the targeted page, who didn’t want his
name known but wanted the sexual harassment stopped. House leaders say they
warned Foley to stop.
“That’s wasn’t good enough, however. They knew about Foley’s
homosexuality and should have seen the emails as the mark of a predator and
pedophile. Instead, they waited until more explicit messages were uncovered
and publicized to act. That was the critical failure that led some
conservatives to call for House Speaker Dennis Hastert to resign.
“On the Fox News Sunday program, conservative Republican
Rep. Jack Kingston continued to insist, in a shameful display of partisan
spin, that the messages to the 16-year-old were just ‘friendly’ and that
House leaders handled the matter properly. The fact remains that House
leaders conducted no investigation into the Foley matter and didn’t inform
the Democratic member of the House committee overseeing the pages as to what
Foley was up to.
“Now, in a major conflict of interest that makes the
Republican response look even more questionable, it turns out that two top
Republican congressional staffers aware of the problem early on were
themselves homosexual. They were Kirk Fordham, Foley’s former chief of staff
who resigned as an aide to Representative Thomas M. Reynolds, and Jeff
Trandahl, the former clerk of the House of Representatives who had oversight
of the page program. Fordham and Trandahl ‘did not hide their homosexuality,
and they were well known in Washington’s gay community,’ according to the
New York Times article. But this will come as big news to many conservatives
in the Republican Party.
“…it still means that at least one top Republican
congressional staffer knew about Foley’s conduct three years ago. …
“During a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson
show, radical gay activist Michael Rogers declared that ‘the greatest kept
secret for the GOP for the past six or seven years has been the
extraordinary number of closeted men who have been helping to facilitate
that anti-gay agenda. And I know that there are a lot of my friends on the
Republican side who are fed up and have been feeding me information on
people like Mark Foley for well over a year.’ Rogers has a blog identifying
secret GOP homosexuals.
“What Rogers is saying is that secret Republican homosexuals
are working behind-the-scenes to sabotage a conservative pro-family agenda
in the Congress. They are acting more like Democrats than Republicans, if
indeed they are Republicans. Whatever their actual party affiliation, these
operatives are using the liberal media, homosexual publications, and radical
bloggers like Rogers to accomplish their objectives.
“In fact, this modus operandi was already employed in the
case of Rep. Jim Kolbe, the only openly homosexual Republican member of
Congress who came out of the closet after he was threatened with being
‘outed’ for voting for the pro-family Defense of Marriage Act. Kurt Wolfe,
the reporter behind that outing, said that, as a result of the campaign,
‘Jim Kolbe did the right thing and his voting record changed.’
“Despite Kolbe’s living a lie and changing his position on
legislation in response to homosexual pressure, Hastert and Vice President
Dick Cheney hailed his congressional career in video tributes delivered at
the 2006 convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, the homosexual activist
group. Kolbe is retiring from Congress.”
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News Conference | October 25, 2006
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NEWS RELEASE
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For Immediate Release
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For further information: Charles Orndorff
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COALITION OPPOSES MERGING OF THE UNITED STATES WITH MEXICO AND CANADA
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Members of a new nationwide coalition, led by Howard
Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus (TCC), Dr. Jerome Corsi of the
Coalition to Block the North American Union (NAU) and Phyllis Schlafly,
President of Eagle Forum, announced their strong opposition to the proposed
“North American Union” and the “NAFTA Superhighway” at a news conference on
October 25 in Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club.
Documents recently obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act reveal details of the plan to merge the U.S. with Mexico and
Canada, creating a “North American Union” which would erase our borders,
replace the dollar with the “Amero”, lead to unlimited immigration, and
render the Constitution of the United States meaningless.
The Coalition endorsed House Concurrent Resolution 487, the
Congressional resolution opposing such a national merger, introduced by U.S.
Representatives Virgil Goode (Va.), Walter Jones (N.C.), Ron Paul (Tex.),
and Tom Tancredo (Colo.). The resolution stipulates that:
(1) the United States should not engage in the construction
of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System;
(2) the United States should not enter into a North American
Union with Mexico and Canada; and
(3) the President should indicate strong opposition to these
or any other proposals that threaten the sovereignty of the United States.
The Conservative Caucus is a public policy action
organization founded in 1974 which opposes the surrender of U.S. liberty and
independence to any supranational entity.
Photos, links to documents, and press kit contents are
available at
www.conservativeusa.org/news.
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information: Charles Orndorff
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PRESS ADVISORY, 10/23/06
At a News Conference on Wednesday, October 25, at 9:30 AM at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC, the Coalition to Block
the North American Union (NAU), headed by Howard Phillips, Chairman of The
Conservative Caucus (TCC), Dr. Jerome Corsi, and Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly, will
announce plans to support H. Con. Res. 487, introduced by U.S.
Representatives Virgil Goode (R-Va.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Ron Paul
(R-Tex.), and Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.).
Members of the Coalition will also call for a Congressional
investigation of the Bush administration’s agenda to push a NAFTA
Superhighway and other matters related to the so-called Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP) which would eliminate borders between the
United States and Mexico, as well as the United States and Canada.
Additional
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Helen Chenoweth-Hage | October 23, 2006
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HELEN CHENOWETH-HAGE IS PREMATURELY DEAD
I join with many thousands of her other friends in mourning
the death of Helen Chenoweth-Hage.
Helen was an outstanding member of Congress, and a wife of
the highly regarded Wayne Hage, who died just four months ago.
As reported by the Associated Press, “Helen Chenoweth-Hage,
a conservative firebrand who served three terms as an Idaho congresswomen,
was killed Monday when thrown from a car that overturned on an isolated
central Nevada highway.
“A daughter, Meg Chenoweth Keenan, said her mother was a
passenger in the SUV-type vehicle that flipped just before noon Monday on
State Route 376, the main route between her Pine Creek Rand, in Monitor
Valley, and Tonopah.
“The Nevada Highway Patrol said Chenoweth-Hage, 68, was
pronounced dead at the scene. Though other family members were in the car
–including the driver, daughter-in-law Yelena Hage, 24, and 5-month-old
grandson-in-law Bryan Hage – no one else were seriously injured.
“Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Rock Gonzalez said Chenoweth-Hage
was holding the baby and wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. He added both Chenoweth-Hage
and the baby were thrown from the car but the child “miraculously” had only
minor injuries.
“Gonzalez said the SUV, traveling toward Tonopah, drifted
off the road to the right, swerved back to the left and then flipped as the
driver overcorrected in steering to the right in efforts to stay on the
road.
“Chenoweth-Hage was killed four months after the death of
her husband, Nevada rancher Wayne Hage, who battled the federal government
for decades over public lands and private property rights and came to
epitomize the Sagebrush Rebellion in the West. Hage had been ill and died in
his sleep at age 69.
“A Republican, Chenoweth-Hage was elected to Congress from
Idaho in 1994 and served three two-year terms. The outspoken advocate of
smaller government and property rights chose not to run in 2000. …
She became a well-known politician name in the sate when she
moved to Boise in the 1970s, serving as the executive director of the Idaho
Republican Party and becoming U.S. Rep. Steven Symms’ chief of staff.”
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Congratulations to Sen. Brownback | October 20, 2006
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BROWNBACK BLOCKS BUSH’S NOMINATION OF A PRO-HOMO JUDGE
Congratulations to Kansas GOP Senator Sam Brownback for blocking George
Bush’s appointment of pro-homosexual Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Janet
Neff to the U.S. District Court.
As reported in The Washington Times (10/706, p. A3), “A
Republican senator is stalling a Michigan judge’s nomination to the federal
bench because she reportedly helped lead a commitment ceremony for a lesbian
couple four years ago. …
“He also said he wants to question Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Janet
T. Neff about her views on homosexual ‘marriage’ and how her actions may
shape her judicial philosophy.
“ ‘It seems to speak about her view of judicial activism,’ Mr. Brownback
said. ‘That’s something I want to inquire of her further.’
“The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved Judge Neff’s
nomination for a seat on the U.S. District Court in Michigan’s Western
District. Her nomination is now pending before the full Senate.
“A single senator can block a nomination from moving forward by placing a
hold on it.
“Mr. Brownback said Republican activists in Michigan expressed concerns
about Judge Neff after seeing her name in a September 2002 New York Times
‘Wedding/Celebrations’ announcement. It said Judge Neff led the commitment
ceremony for Karen Adelman and Mary Curtin with the Rev. Kelly A. Gallagher,
a minister of the United Church of Christ. …
“Judge Neff, 61, has served on the Michigan Court of Appeals since 1989.
She was nominated by President Bush in June.”
JOHNNY
APPLE WAS ONE OF A KIND
It
was my privilege, on several occasions, to enjoy the company of R. W. Apple,
Jr., generally known as Johnny.
He was truly an extraordinary
person and his death was widely mourned when he passed earlier this month.
Here are some excerpts from The New York Times (10/5/06, p. B8)
obituary:
"R. W. Apple,
Jr., who in more than 40 years as a correspondent and editor at The New York
Times wrote from more than 100 countries about war and revolution, politics
and government, food and drink, and the revenge of living well, died
yesterday in Washington. He was 71. …
“With his Dickensian
byline, Churchillian brio and Falstaffian appetites, Mr. Apple, who was
known as Johnny, was a singular presence at The Times almost from the moment
he joined the metropolitan staff in 1963. He remained a colorful figure as
new generations of journalists around him grew more pallid, and his
encyclopedic knowledge, grace of expression — and above all his expense
account — were the envy of his competitors, imitators and peers.
“Mr. Apple enjoyed a career
like no other in the modern era of The Times. He was the paper’s bureau
chief in Albany, Lagos, Nairobi, Saigon, Moscow, London and Washington. He
covered 10 presidential elections and more than 20 national nominating
conventions. He led The Times coverage of the Vietnam War for two and a
half years in the 1960’s and of the Persian Gulf war a generation later. …
“For a generation, The
Times turned to Mr. Apple to write front-page “News Analysis” articles,
putting great events of the day into longer-term perspective. His best were
1,200-word tapestries of history, erudition and style. …
“In his days as Washington
Bureau chief, in the mid-1990’s, his editing might involve bursting out of
his corner office to declare that one reporter had ‘misspelled fettuccine
Alfredo!’ …
“Drama, and a lot dash,
followed Mr. Apple as night follows day. He was the pool reported sent to
the deck of the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967 when a fiery accident nearly killed
one of the ship’s pilots, Lt. Cmdr. John S. McCain 3d. From that incident
he formed a lifelong friendship with the pilot, who went on to become a
United States senator.
“It was Mr. Apple, or so
the legend goes, who told Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 that the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. had been shot. It was Mr. Apple whose relentless
questioning elicited from Ronald L. Ziegler, Richard M. Nixon’s press
secretary, the admission that his previous explanations about the Watergate
affair were ‘inoperative.’
“Mr. Apple’s dinner guests
— at his Georgetown house, his farm near Gettysburg, Pa., or his English
cottage in the Cotswolds — were apt to include not only leading politicians
but also prominent figures in architecture, cuisine and the arts. He
thought nothing of beginning a sentence by saying, ‘The first time I made
lunch for Julia Child. . . .’
“Mr. Apple was always the hero of his own life, especially in his younger
days. His colleagues swapped so many outraged stories about his
bumptious behavior that they eventually began charging each other for the
privilege, with the proceeds going to a kitty for their bar tabs. In
‘The Boys on the Bus,’ his 1973 book about the 1972 presidential campaign.
Timothy Crouse painted a portrait of Mr. Apple that was at once flattering
about his talents and unsparing about his flaws. …
“He continued his
journalistic training in college, on The Daily Princetonian at Princeton.
Twice expelled for neglecting his studies at Princeton, he eventually earned
a B.A. in history — magna cum laude — from the Columbia University School of
General Studies in 1961.
“By then, he had already
become a working journalist, first at The Wall Street Journal, then at The
Newport News Daily Press, where he moonlighted while stationed at Fort
Monroe, Va., during a two-year hitch as an Army speechwriter. In 1961, he
was hired as a writer on the overnight shift at NBC News in New York. He
eventually became a writer and correspondent for the NBC nightly newscast.
‘The Huntley-Brinkley Report,’ covering civil rights and other stories, and
winning an Emmy Award in 1963.
“But all that was pale
prologue to his career at The Times, where he rose rapidly and never looked
back. He soon became Albany bureau chief and covered Robert Kennedy’s 1964
Senate campaign in New York. By 1966, he was bureau chief in Saigon as the
Vietnam War escalated. He mastered the art of hitching rides to battle
zones on military transport and dictating his dispatches over balky field
telephones, and he brought a keen truth-detector to the daily America
military briefings known as the Five O’Clock Follies.
“In his 1991 memoir,
‘Deadline,’ James B. Reston, the longtime Times columnist and editor,
recalled that Mr. Apple ‘didn’t invent the war but taught a whole generation
how to cover it.’ In 1968, he won George Polk and Overseas Press Club
awards for his coverage before plunging into the war-fueled turmoil of the
1968 presidential campaign at home.
“Mr. Apple would cover
other wars and conflicts with distinction and panache, but it was as a
political reporter that he cemented his reputation. He was in constant
touch with scores of county chairmen, governors and mayors when they still
dominated politics, and he was almost unrivaled at counting noses,
canvassing convention delegates and predicting election results.”
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Illegal Aliens
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2006
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BUSH STILL FAVORS U.S.
CITIZENSHIP FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
George
Bush cannot keep a secret. His desire to provide amnesty to illegal aliens
and have open borders with Mexico is reflected in his latest statement as
reported by The Washington Times (10/7/06, p. A3):
“On the heels of
signing a bill to boost border security funding, President Bush yesterday
said immigration reform requires granting citizenship to current illegal
aliens.
“ ‘You
can’t kick 12 million people out of your country,’ Mr. Bush said at the
White House celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. …
“Mexican
officials sent a diplomatic protest to the Bush administration this week and
have said they doubt the fence will ever be built. A report in The
Washington Post yesterday seemed to concur, stating that the wording of the
fence and spending measures gives the Bush administration so much leeway
that it is unlikely the 700 miles will be completed.
“But Rep.
Duncan Hunter, California Republican, who wrote the fence provisions that
passed last year as part of the House’s enforcement-only bill, said
yesterday that building the fence is not optional.
“He held a
press conference yesterday on the U.S.-Mexico border to address the report
and said the language in the bill means the administration ‘shall’ build it.”
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Constitution Day CDs Available
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7-Eleven Banishes Chavez's Citgo
Gas
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7-ELEVEN MERITS PRAISE FOR BANISHING HUGO CHAVEZ’S
CITGO
Congratulations to 7-Eleven, Inc. for kicking Hugo Chavez’s
Citgo gas stations off the premises of 7-Eleven’s 2,100 locations.
Citgo is a Houston-based subsidiary of Hugo Chavez’s
state-owned oil company. Chavez is a vicious, anti-American demagogue and,
according to some who know him, a certified lunatic.
When will the Citgo sign be removed from Boston’s Kenmore
Square, overlooking Fenway Park and the Red Sox?
GOP SHOULD LOCK THE DOOR ON CLOSETED HOMOSEXUAL POLITICIANS
It was well known that Florida Republican Congressman Mark
Foley was a near lifelong practicing homosexual. Yet, the Republican Party
accepted him into the ranks of party leadership, making him a Deputy Whip
and enabling him to present himself as a defender of exploited, under-age
males in his role as Co-Chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited
Children Caucus.
There are other homosexual Republicans in Congress, and it
is time for the Republican leadership to expose them and expel them before
additional discredit is placed on our Republic’s legislative body, that
element of our Federal government which is placed first in responsibility
under Article I of the Constitution.
The Foley matter is another example of how Republican
leaders in Congress have exploited, preyed upon, and disrespected the
"values voters" on whose support they have been able to depend through so
many recent elections.
The problem of cozying up to practicing homosexuals is
nothing new. This was standard practice during the Speakership of Newt
Gingrich who was a defender and promoter of Wisconsin GOP homosexual
Congressman Steve Gunderson.
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The "Voice of Virtue"
| October 3,
2006
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THE "VOICE OF VIRTUE" IS NO CONSERVATIVE
A "Letter to the Editor" in the Friday, September 29,
Washington Post observes that former U.S. Education Secretaries William
J. Bennett and Rod Paige "stated in their Sept. 21 op-ed column, ‘Why We
Need a National School Test,’ that a federally mandated education exam
should be formulated and adopted."
This is another example of how Bill Bennett has departed
from the principles he asserted in his campaign to become Secretary of
Education during the Reagan administration.
President Reagan’s first Education Secretary, Terrell Bell,
was a big liberal.
The Conservative Caucus Foundation monitored Bells’ use of
Education Department grants and contracts and discovered that he was
assigning Federal dollars to the National Education Association and other
Left-wing entities.
Shortly after I brought this to the attention of President
Reagan’s close associate, Ed Meese, Bell was fired.
I was then asked to propose a replacement. I contacted a
great many people to ascertain their possible interest --- these included
Marva Collins, Tom Sowell, and Walter Williams, none of whom wished to be
considered.
Finally, the selection boiled down to two top contenders ---
John Silber, the President of Boston University, and Bill Bennett who was,
at that point, running the National Endowment for the Humanities.
I had a high regard for both men, but Bennett persuaded me
that, were he to be chosen, he would keep Federal education spending to a
minimum. He pointed out correctly that he could not terminate the Department
unless the President determined to do so by vetoing further authorizations
and appropriations for its continuation.
But Bennett emphasized to me that he would resist expanding
the Education Department’s budget.
At that point, I rallied other conservative organizations to
embrace Bennett’s candidacy for Education Secretary and President Reagan
named him to the post.
Some months thereafter, the front page of The Washington
Post reported that Secretary Bennett was requesting record levels of
spending for the Federal Department of Education. I was shocked, surprised,
and disappointed, and immediately placed a call to Secretary Bennett who
kindly took the call.
I said, "Bill, this is not what I thought you had promised
me". He said, in effect, "Howard, where you stand depends on where you sit
and you can’t be taken seriously as the head of a major Cabinet department
unless you seek more funding for its operations".
That was the last word on the subject that I heard from "the
voice of virtue".
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