8/7/98 Bruce Bartlett National Center for Policy Analysis "As Bill Clinton fights the various scandals he has become embroiled in, he is looking more and more like Richard Nixon every day. On the surface he seems secure, but it is all superficial; underneath, termites are destroying the foundation of Clinton's viability. .Also in 1973, Congress became alarmed over Nixon's use of executive orders to implement policies it refused to legislate. A series of articles in the New York Times in March 1973 detailed the growth of what came to be called the "imperial presidency." Among the charges: Nixon declined to spend appropriated funds as Congress directed; in foreign affairs, he refused to send treaties to the Senate for ratification, as the Constitution requires, implementing them instead through executive agreements. And as we well remember, Nixon took an expansive view of "executive privilege" in order to hinder investigations into Watergate. Turning to today, we see ominous parallels. Although Clinton's poll ratings are still high, around 63 percent, the public has yet to be fully informed about the extent of his efforts to coverup wrongdoing in the Monica Lewinsky case. .What is holding up the polls is the belief that economic conditions are still robust. But here also, there are warning signs. The stock market has fallen sharply in the last two weeks and real GDP growth has dropped from a torrid 5.5 percent rise in the first quarter of 1998 to an anemic 1.4 percent in the second. Although Clinton's economists, like Nixon's, see this as a temporary falloff, increasing numbers of private economists are starting to use the "R" word: recession. Finally, like Nixon, Clinton has greatly expanded presidential power through the use of executive orders that infringe on the Congress's legislative power. Historian James MacGregor Burns calls it the greatest expansion of presidential power in history. It is too soon to say if Clinton will be driven from office like Nixon. But the parallels are becoming too similar to ignore."

New York Post 8/11/98 Dick Morris "THE tobacco bill is dead. Clinton's education reform proposals are destroyed. The president's call to expand Medicare and child care is forgotten. Abroad, India tests its nuclear weapons with impunity and Netanyahu feels no pressure to talk peace. In Kosovo, Serbian armies advance unrestrained and once again the West is helpless. These political development reflect the reality that President Clinton's moral authority - finally vested in him by a shaken country in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City tragedy - has been revoked, sharply and suddenly, by the American people.."

Chicago Tribune 9/6/98 Stephen Chapman " .Clinton's likely legacy is the enduring diminution of the office he holds. There is no doubt that his personal moral authority has been squandered: No one could listen to him lecturing Russians on the need for self-discipline and sacrifice without wondering why he doesn't practice such virtues instead of merely preaching them. Until he came along, we assumed presidents would sometimes lie to us. Now, we wonder if the president ever tells the truth, even under oath, and the distrust will outlive this administration.."

New York Times 1/27/99 Alessandra Stanley ".Ignoring the moral lapses of President Clinton, Pope John Paul II flew into in St. Louis on Tuesday and addressed the broader moral failings of the nation. In a crowded airport hangar, the Pope referred to the infamous 1857 Dred Scott case affirming slavery, which was heard in St. Louis, and called it a "time of testing," which the United States failed. "America faces a similar time of trial today," the Pope said. "Today the conflict is between a culture that affirms, cherishes and celebrates the gift of life and a culture that seeks to declare entire groups of human beings -- the unborn, the terminally ill, the handicapped, and others considered 'unuseful' -- to be outside the boundaries of legal protection." ."

Washington Post 2/8/99 Joan Biskupic Freeper tellw ".In courthouses across the country, an unprecedented level of juror activism is taking hold, ignited by a movement of people who are turning their back on the evidence they hear at trial and instead using the jury box as a bold form of civil protest. Whether they are African Americans who believe the system is stacked against them, libertarians who abhor the overbearing hand of government or someone else altogether, these jurors are choosing to ignore a judge's instructions to punish those who break the law because they don't like what it says or how it is being applied to a particular defendant.. In all of these cases, the jury box turned into a venue for registering dissent, more powerful than one vote at the polls and more effective at producing tangible, satisfying results.."

Manchester Union Leader 2/15/99 Richard Lessner ".So this malignancy in our body politic is not to be removed. It will be left to fester and poison our politics, our morals and our values. We will endure the toxic shock of this corrupting influence in our classrooms, courtrooms, state houses and town halls for years to come. We agree with values czar Bill Bennett: William Jefferson Clinton is a malignant presence in American politics and culture. He appeals to all that is mean and base in us. His manifest corruption gives us all an excuse to lower our standards. In excusing the President's misdeeds, we excuse ourselves. Refusing to hold the President accountable, we have failed to hold ourselves responsible as a free and self-governing people. Bill Clinton is a demoralizing influence. He survived impeachment because, before he ever reached this crisis point in his Presidency, he already had so demeaned the standards of his office that the American people retained no higher expectations of him. The most discouraging aspect of this whole squalid affair is not that Americans were tricked or fooled about Bill Clinton's character; it is, rather, that they decided character does not count. Bill Clinton made the trains run on time and the rest does not matter.."

Boston Herald 2/17/99 Beverly Beckham ".``So how do you feel about what happened to President Clinton?'' I asked Xena, who is 12. ``Did anything happen to him, Beverly? I thought nothing did. He's still president, right?'' ``He's still president,'' I said. ``Well, I think he should have been punished, not just embarrassed. I feel sorry for his daughter. I'm glad I'm not her.'' Imagine. Not wanting to be the president's daughter... No wonder we have Bill Clinton in the White House, now nominated for a Nobel Prize, God help us, and Marv Albert about to make his return to sports broadcasting and Stephen Fagan, the lying schemer who stole his daughters from his wife 20 years ago, still walking around, and those daughters, adults now but raised by wrong incarnate, refusing to see their own mother. Woody Allen is admired and Johnnie Cochran is about to appear on a soap opera. (Isn't life just a soap opera?) And Jerry Springer is knocking Oprah off the charts because her shows have turned too goody-goody. The golden rule has been replaced by the golden calf. Never mind conscience and reputation, those things our parents and teachers taught us were paramount. What did they know? The world has changed. Everyone is guilty of something, so no one is guilty of anything.. Too bad there is only one sin in America these days. Light up and the world coughs. Lie to the world, beat up a woman, make a joke of all women, steal your kids, have sex with your kid, defend the indefensible, make a sport of everyone's troubles, and there's not even any throat clearing as the people say, it's not for us to judge.."

Michigan Journalism Fellows and Univ of Michigan Law School 2/23/99 Freeper Hillary's Lovely Legs "...Yesterday I attended the Conference on " Covering Assisted Death 'the Press, The Law and Public Policy". The conference dealt with the showing of the Jack Kevorkian video tape on 60 Minutes, but turned it to a free-for-all of death and hate. I would like to share with you some quotes from the event. From Faye Girsh, Exec Director of the Hemlock Society: " What we need is to show more real death on TV. To bring it into people's homes. We need to force the issue". On the topic of anti doctor suicide commercials " Anti Commercials should not be allowed, because the anti crowd has more money and missinforms the public" The main tone of the 12 member panel was we need to kill as many people as possible. Comfort care and pain relief are no longer an option, people need to ask their doctor to kill them without fear that it is wrong. Death is a beautiful thing and should be celebrated with your friends and family, much like a wedding. ( I am not making this up ) ... Mike Wallace was heckled by a group of disabled people in wheelchairs called " Not Dead Yet". He refered to them as YOU PEOPLE. They didn't take kindly to this term. Mr Wallace suddenly broke into a rage at ' YOU PEOPLE" and said " YOU PEOPLE ARE THE PROPBLEM!!!" Mr 60 Minutes also layed into one of the Trustees of the American Medical association, who does not support doctors killing patients, and said " Doctors are leaving your association in droves because of your backward thinking." It was mentioned more than once that Assisted Death would be popular in the future because the boomers will be sucking the medical resources dry. Considering this conference was 90% pro, and 10% against, I think that I was lucky to get out of there without a slow drip of death being shoved into my veins...."

The Toronto Sun 2/23/99 Michael Harris "...Power protects power, no matter what. Whenever this happens, any living, breathing notion of justice dies a hard death. The Bill Clinton story is about privilege and cowardice. That's why he was able to lie his way out of felonies. That's why he was permitted to bomb aspirin factories and rain missiles on Iraq under the pretense of national security, when the real issue was personal security. And it's why he almost managed to rape a woman in Arkansas without anyone being the wiser -- at least in polite media circles. Whatever small lustre attached to this profession comes from the giant-killer factor. A journalist, a victim and the truth occasionally prevail against the corrupt might of the establishment to the benefit of everyone. For anyone who has actually done it, it is the glory of the business; having the means, the colleagues and the courage to stand up and tell the story when no one in authority wants to hear it. NBC had the means but not the courage in the Juanita Broaddrick affair....Raising the bar for Bill is turning into a favourite American pastime. Despite the felonies for which Clinton was impeached, Democratic senators insisted that they didn't rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanours. It was their conduct that didn't rise to the level of integrity intended in their oath to dispense impartial justice. They let a popular president go for partisan reasons. They pretended that the subject matter of the Lewinsky scandal was too sleazy to even be heard on the Senate floor..... "

Fow Newswire 2/23/99 Jim Fitzgerald (AP) "...Three Roman Catholic families are suing a school district, claiming fourth-grade vocabulary words such as "ghoul,'' Earth Day celebrations and drug counseling violate their religious and privacy rights. The families also object to the study of a Hindu god, a field trip to a cemetery and a card game with satanic references. "There are two standards,'' said James Bendell, the families' attorney. "Any trace of Christianity must be banished, but teachers are free to smuggle in Eastern religions and any other forms (of belief).'' Bendell made the remarks during opening statements Monday in the federal court trial. Satanism, occultism and New Age religions were being fostered, he said...."

Investor's Business Daily 2/25/99 John Berlau Freeper heyduke "...When asked about President Clinton's acquittal, the leaders of some of America's top-performing companies voice opinions that are a photographic negative of the general public's. While polls show about two-thirds of the American people agreed with the Senate's verdict, 67.9% of chief executives and chief financial officers in a recent Investor's Business Daily poll strongly or somewhat disagreed. An even higher share, 89.6%, said they would not tolerate behavior similar to Clinton's - a senior executive having an affair with an intern - in their workplaces..."

WorldNetDaily 9/7/98 Joseph Farah "If you read between the lines of what Bill Clinton is saying, these days, he has already come to grips with losing power. "Do you have any idea how much time I spend every day signing my name? I'm going to feel utterly useless if I can't do that anymore," he said in Ireland last week in little noticed comments. "You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions," he said last week. "You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything." .I submit to you that Clinton has been given the word that he's through. I don't mean by the Congress or Kenneth Starr. I think he's been told he's finished by someone in that invisible ruling elite that empowered him to reign in the first place. The handwriting is on the wall. He may pretend to be president for awhile longer, but the coup is under way. As my friend, Missy Kelly, an extraordinary researcher and political analyst, who connects the dots better than anyone I know put it: "Bill's job was to pretend -- pretend he was the leader, pretend he was in charge -- maintain the facade as a virtual president in a virtual democracy where a virtual rule of law exists. In fact, the levers of power were already controlled -- controlled so precisely, in fact, as to make the president irrelevant, controlled by people who have never been elected to office, and whose names we do not even know." ."

Jewish World Review 9/7/98 Larry Elder "."Guilty or not, we love you, O.J." The sign -- held by a black woman outside of the O.J. Simpson criminal courtroom -- still chills. During a ceremony honoring Martin Luther King, a black speaker told a scandal-weary President Clinton that blacks stand by him "through thick and thin." They do. The president's job approval rating among blacks? Eighty-five percent! Blacks feel that Clinton "feels our pain." Good thing, because here are 15 ways he increased it. 9. Treatment of black "friends." The president, it appears, did not tell close friend Vernon Jordan about the significance of Monica Lewinsky as Jordan sought job offers for her. Secretary Betty Currie, perhaps illegally, retrieved the president's gifts to Monica Lewinsky. For their loyalty, Jordan and Currie appeared before a grand jury, incurring legal bills. With friends like President Clinton ... 15. War on cigarettes. A higher percentage of lower-income people smoke. Smokers bear the brunt of tax increases to fight teen smoking or whatever "problem" government wishes to attack with cigarette tax revenues. Some cities use "sin taxes" to build sports stadiums for rich owners and players. And the "sinners" who help build the stadiums can't even smoke there! ."

AP Ron Fournier 9/11/98 "On couches and chairs in President Clinton's private quarters, his Cabinet sat and listened to the boss apologize, request forgiveness, refer to scripture and pledge to improve as a person. Then it was his turn to listen to them. ``To say it is one thing,'' Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala told Clinton, ``to demonstrate it is another.'' He must have a change of heart, a commitment to self-improvement, she said. ``You have to make it right.'' ``You're right,'' the president replied. .Those four - Shalala, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Education Secretary Richard Riley and Commerce Secretary William Daley - have the most reason to be upset with Clinton. All four avoided TV cameras after Thursday's meeting. Daley, said by administration officials to be the angriest Cabinet member, kept a previously scheduled engagement instead of attending the session..Clinton made several comments that suggested he believes his policies are more important than his personal behavior. ``Is that what you are saying?'' Shalala asked. ``Surely, both are important.'' The president replied that if personal behavior was more important, Richard Nixon would have defeated John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. The participants said Clinton's remark was an observation, not a rebuke, and his Cabinet was not sure what to make of it; the subject moved abruptly to talk about the scripture. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was equally blunt with Clinton, taking issue with his behavior. Riley also seemed upset at Clinton, participants said.."

RAGE Limbaugh Letter 9/98 ".And it is there, my friends, that the root of the rage exists. This man, Bill Clinton, has lied to people and about people from the moment he came on the national scene. The lie is his best friend. The lie is who he goes to bed with at night. The lie is who he wakes up with in the morning. It is his security blanket. The lie has gotten him where he is. The lie has propelled him to the highest office in the land. Why should he stop relying on it now? I don't think that he will. I've never seen someone to whom the truth is a bigger enemy. And he has yet to pay a price for it. That is the fundamental explanation for the rage. It gets far more detailed and, and complex, but that's the basic root..It's been seven years of deception -- and there is never any accountability. This Administration is a lie. This President's objectives and goals are lies. There are people who know this, and they are beyond frustrated that there are people who are willing to withstand that and accept that, simply because of the party he belongs to. None of this is understood by the people who cover the President..The people in this country, the 30 percent who are angry and can't wait to vote, are the people who believe in God and they're told they're extremists because they believe in God. These are people who look at the Constitution and they see an Amendment there, the Second Amendment, and when they say so they're told they're extremist murderers. They're told the reason the country is on its last legs is because they believe in an Amendment to the Constitution. Because they believe in God. These people have been defamed, they have been lied about, they have been mischaracterized, and nobody has stood up to defend them. And they can't defend themselves; they are individuals living and working and making the country work. People they elected didn't defend themselves when they were summarily charged, and they, in effect, didn't defend their voters. That's why the outrage is out there. And it's building. And that's why these people can't wait to get to the polls and do whatever it is they can to throw the people out who are responsible for the depths below the gutter to which the people who are running the country are sinking.."

American Family Association (AFA.net) 3/2/99 "…The battle in this country between those holding to traditional morality and those espousing hedonism has reached a fever pitch, manifested in no clearer terms that the ideological conflict over homosexuality…. There may be no area of debate that causes blood pressures to escalate more rapidly than the question of whether public schools should teach children about homosexuality. Now the homosexual community has thrown down the gauntlet by unveiling a video entitled It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School, and as its title implies, the video is aimed at the educational establishment. The video is produced by Helen Cohen and Debra Chasnoff, the latter an Academy Award-winning documentary producer. In 1992 Chasnoff became the first woman to openly declare her lesbianism at the Oscars. The producers went into six elementary and middle schools where teachers and principals are already force-feeding children with pro-gay grist. The narrator says the educators allowed the filming "in the hope of inspiring other educators and parents to take the next step in their own school communities to teach children respect for all." …When It’s Elementary is not pointing the finger at bigoted parents in general, it zeroes in on Christians in particular: the Christian view of homosexuality is highlighted as an example of outrageous bigotry. In one sequence of clips from TV talks shows, two apparent Christians present the view of their faith. One says, "God hates fags." The other: "The Bible that I read says homosexuals should be put to death." …"

The Baltimore Press 6/28/99 Les Kinsolving "...John Berry, President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of the Interior, surely has an astonishing sense of historical proportion. The Washington Times reports that Secretary Berry, during a speech in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, announced that the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence and the Battle of Gettysburg are comparable to (Are you sitting down?), the riot at a homosexual bar! Secretary Berry was on hand for the Clinton Administration's adding the Stonewall Bar to the National Register of Historic Places. And he declared: "The last week of June and the first week of July (of 1969) are hallowed (meaning holy or sacred) days for our country's history. It was the heat of the summer's night here at Stonewall that led to the creation of a new civil rights movement for America."....In actuality, the Stonewall Bar was moved upon by the New York Police Department because they were breaking the law, in selling liquor without a license. A mob of militant homosexuals, who far outnumbered the police, furiously pelted the cops with rocks, bottles and garbage can lids. (Picketer's Charge?)..."

Rutherford Institute John Whitehead 8/13/98 "As the clock ticks inexorably toward the end of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigations and the pace of startling allegations and revelations seems to gain speed, we come to a realization about the role of the presidency in our lives: where once we looked to the President to elevate our image of ourselves as Americans, we are faced instead with one who mirrors our culture and reminds us of our very human weaknesses and flaws. ."

Dee Dee Myers Time 8/31/98 ".The President's relationship with Monica Lewinsky was so reckless as to seem pathological. He knew the consequences of getting caught, but he went ahead. For 18 months. In the West Wing of the White House. When he was caught, he put all his chips on the same kind of artfully worded, misleading denials that had snatched him from the brink of disaster before. And for seven months he put his family, his friends, his staff and his supporters through hell.."

Washington Times Jerry Seper 8/25/98 "Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report to Congress contains "a mountain of evidence" that President Clinton perjured himself about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and obstructed justice by trying to cover it up.."Prosecutors have put together a mountain of evidence in this case, much of which has not been reported, and I would bet it will surprise and shock a lot of people," said one lawyer familiar with the investigation. "This is an eight-month investigation that has left no stone unturned.". "

Morality In Media newsletter 12/98 ".Justice Department data obtained recently by Morality in Media show that U.S. Attorneys in fiscal 1997 began only six prosecutions in which Federal obscenity violations were the lead charge, down from 42 in 1992, a drop of 86% in the first five years of the Clinton Administration. Not surprisingly, a leading porn video distributor told TV Guide this year that "Prsident Clinton is a total supporter of the industry." MIM President Robert W. Peters said in a nationally distributed news release October 19, "The single most important reason that pornography is boomiing today is the scandalously poor record of Federal obscenity law enforcement. ... This is the Clinton failure that hurts America far more than the Monica Lewinsky affair." Justice Department data show that the 93 U.S. Attorneys around the country initiated 223 lead-charge obscenity prosecutions during President Bush's four- year term but only 105 such prosecutions in the first five years of the Clinton administration as enforcement declined sharply. ."

Washington Post AP 9/3/98 David Espo " In a somber speech on the Senate floor, Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Thursday that President Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky was ``immoral and it is harmful'' and Clinton deserves public rebuke. ``In this case, the president apparently had extramarital relations with an employee half his age and did so in the workplace in the vicinity of the Oval Office,'' Lieberman said. Such behavior, he said, ``is harmful for it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the American public.'' .Democratic leaders had hoped he would avoid speaking, but within moments after he concluded, two fellow Democrats rose to praise him for it. Lieberman said that Clinton ``had by his disgraceful behavior jeopardized his administration's historic record of accomplishment.'' His speech were laced with remarks about the morality of Clinton's behavior. ``The president's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky not only contradicted the values he has publicly embraced over the last six years,'' Lieberman said. ``It has, I fear, compromised his moral authority.'' "

Scripps Howard News Service Lance Gay 9/4/98 "By taking to the Senate floor and talking about immorality rather than narrow legal issues like subornation of perjury, President Clinton's longtime political ally Sen. Joseph Lieberman dealt the White House a lethal blow..The powerful message Lieberman sent was that in the political arena, where impeachment issues are decided, it will be Clinton's moral fitness to be president that will be decisive if the issue comes to the Senate floor.."

USA Journal 12/20/98 Jon E. Dougherty ".Two high-ranking officials - President Clinton and House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston - fell from grace and power as admissions of extramarital sex reared their ugly heads, forcing - yes, forcing - members of Congress to `do the right thing.' One other event was societal. In Stow, Ohio, city fathers may have to remove a picture of a Christian cross and an open Bible from the city seal because the meddling American Civil Liberties Union sued to have it removed. The tragedies of these two events ought to be obvious, but unfortunately they are not to many Americans who still believe in the very mortal elites who position themselves high above us all in Ivory Towers. However, because there is a debate at all about these events proves that the country has not completely lost its soul. Anguishing over whether or not to stand for old-fashioned morality, the majority of House Republicans accepted Livingston's resignation then turned to the business of impeaching the liar Clinton. Though tens of millions of Americans have criticized House members who indeed were agonizing over what to do about these two men, it occurred to me that we should be grateful that they were tormented at all. If the kind of morality supported by Bill Clinton, socialist Democrats and the American Civil Liberties Union were the norm instead of the exception, then House Republicans would have had nothing to "anguish" over and would have likely decided to let Clinton slide. They had already decided to do so for Livingston, who admitted just a day earlier that he was a serial adulterer. But alas, the pressure on them - and on Livingston - to repent was just too great. That's a plus for the moral majority.."

Roll Call 1/16/99 Mort Kondracke ".Just what is the state of the Union? Economically, it's strong. Socially, it's improving. But culturally? If Larry Flynt is a force in politics and the President is popular while on trial for perjury, the country is in some kind of trouble. The culture can't be healthy if Jerry Springer's program is TV's most-watched talk show and if radio trash-mouth Don Imus is lionized by Newsweek as a major power in American media. Things aren't great if news broadcasts are loaded with talk about oral sex, semen and cigars; if full-frontal nudity, graphic violence and the f-word are staples of the movies; if music videos advocate rape and mutilation; if attack ads are the currency of politics; and if ordinary citizens routinely yell and give each other the finger on the roadways. And yet, there is considerable reason for people to think that things are on the right track. In fact, the new conventional wisdom is that things are hunky-dory in America..."

Salon Freeper blackbag reports 7/20/99 "…According to a porn star quoted in Salon Magazine (paraphrased) Clinton's leadership by example and open sexuality has paved the way for white collar guys to enter the porn industry…"

The Weekly Standard 7/26/99 Adam Wolfson "...In 1981, a small book [After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre] appeared from a university press that looked at the modern world and saw nothing but disarray. Indeed, in the author's view, morality as such had nearly vanished, and the collapse of intelligible moral discourse marked a serious "degeneration" and "cultural loss." Arguing that a "new dark ages" had fallen upon us, he claimed we are under the governance of "barbarians." And, in an odd little concluding chapter in which he pointed out a curious parallel in the thought of St. Benedict and Leon Trotsky, he suggested that the only solution is quarantine, a breaking up of the world into small local communities in which civility might be preserved. Only a new St. Benedict-or a new Trotsky-can possibly save us..."

Insight Magazine 7/16/99 Stephen Goode "...For the generation that came of age during the Depression and won World War II, the traditional values of duty, honor, patriotism and sacrifice were second nature......No wonder that in 1945, at the war's end, British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill declared: "The United States stands at this moment at the summit of the world." And no wonder, too, that in a recent book, The Greatest Generation, NBC Nightly News anchorman Tom Brokaw called the men and women who came of age during the Depression and went on to fight World War II in the next decade "the greatest generation" this nation had ever seen . . . It was "a generation of towering achievement and modest demeanor," Brokaw declared, a generation for which sacrifice was a key word, unquestioned and serious sacrifice of time and effort, of limb and sometimes even of life itself for virtues such as patriotism, honor, duty and responsibility. Nearly 292,000 Americans lost their lives in battle. There was a total of 1.7 million injuries. ..."

CNSNews.com 7/22/99 William Lind "...America today is increasingly a conquered nation. What has conquered us? An ideology --specifically, the hideous ideology known as Political Correctness, which is really Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms....Here is where the difficulty arises. In science, when reality and theory clash, the theory is revised. But in politics, such revision is considered heresy by the ideologues (In Marxism, "revisionist" was a nasty insult). In their view, the theory is incapable of error. Therefore, reality must be denied, and suppressed. Anyone who recognizes it must be silenced, and punished. The result, as we have seen in Germany, in Russia and elsewhere, is the end of freedom and the growth of tyranny. In terms of the clash between theory and reality, Political Correctness is an extreme ideology, because it is an ideology of total inversion. Beliefs and social relationships are not merely changed, but turned upside down. The old sins, such as sex outside marriage, become virtues, while the old virtues, such as disapproval of homosexuality, become sins. Women are elevated over men, some (not all) racial minorities over whites, the sexually deviant over the sexually normal, the young over the old. Art is intended alienate, not to beautify. Paganism is preferred over Christianity. The more violently an ideology conflicts with reality, the more tyrannical it must become. The tyranny of Political Correctness is already seen on many a college campus, where any professor or student who dares question, finds himself in serious trouble. Any public figure who contradicts its dictates must offer a groveling apology or be cast into outer darkness, exiled from the public square. ...."

World Net Daily 7/21/99 Jerome Zeifman "...There are some who look forward to economic superiority through the establishment of a world order led by NATO and the United Nations. They would do well to heed a warning given by Edmund Burke in the 18th century. Although supporting the ascendancy of a British empire on which the sun would never set, he argued that the people of Ireland, the American colonies, and India had God-given rights that neither King George nor Parliament could destroy. As the founder of modern conservatism, Burke warned English mercantilists that economic control of the colonies could not be maintained "by the might of armies, but by the majesty of the law."..... The grandeur of justice is being replaced by the glamour of the main stream media -- with moral judgments determined by public opinion polls...."

Chicago Tribune 7/29/99 Eric Reeves "...The ongoing catastrophe in Sudan stands as the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world today... A carefully assembled set of data for the U.S. Committee for Refugees makes evident that almost 2 million people have perished in the most recent phase of Sudan's ongoing civil war. As many as 5 million refugees have been created, making the refugee problem the greatest of its kind in the world. And at the height of last summer's famine, more than 2 million more people, mainly children, were at risk of starvation. And the catastrophe continues: famine, epidemic disease, human enslavement and scorched earth warfare remain defining features of the landscape in the south, where the civil war has been so devastatingly concentrated And yet Americans remain painfully unaware of the catastrophe. How can this be?.... it bears the curse of being in Africa, where any policy success is almost surely destined to be overshadowed by Clinton's abysmal moral failure in the Rwandan genocide. Africa can contribute nothing to the "Clinton legacy" that is being cobbled together, and so--despite its vast geographic, political and cultural variability--a continent has been relegated to the extreme periphery of White House attention....And the news media--television most egregiously, but newspapers as well--have made the marginalizing of Sudan almost effortless. Not one major American newspaper, for example, reported on a resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 15 declaring the Khartoum regime's conduct of civil war in the south of Sudan to be "genocidal." Could this have been declared at any time during the past 50 years of any European or Western government without explosive news coverage? Why is Sudan's death struggle so entirely unworthy of national attention? ..."

Long Island Newsday 7/29/99 Mark Simon "...MORALITY? As I have read over the last few weeks of NATO's "moral victory" over Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, I've reflected on the almost simultaneous, allegedly CIA-aided capture, subsequent conviction and death sentence in Turkey of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and the moral imperative in U.S. foreign policy. The United States and NATO took nine long years to confront Milosevic over Kosovo, nine years in which the Kosovo Albanians mounted a truly remarkable, nonviolent campaign against Serbian apartheid, aggression and the beginnings of ethnic cleansing-that is, routine harassment, beatings, torture and murder. The Kurds in Turkey, by contrast, don't even have the dubious benefit of a NATO military intervention. Striving for a measure of autonomy, they are up against the Turkish military, with the second largest army in NATO-and the worst human rights record. Why does the West turn a proverbial blind eye? The answer has little to do with morality..... "

U.S. News Online 8/9/99 John Leo "... Traditional values lower the self-esteem of women who believe they are fat, according to studies by University of Michigan psychologists Jennifer Crocker and Diane Quinn. They found that belief in the Protestant work ethic or a conservative ideology-or just being exposed to these values-has a harmful effect. Good news, though: Traditional-value damage may be temporary..... "

Worldnet Daily 8/3/99 David Limbaugh "... It is very telling that Clinton's friends have deified John Dean for ratting on President Nixon -- despite Dean's undeniable criminal complicity -- while demonizing Tripp for ratting on Lewinsky (who was acting as Clinton's dupe to suborn Tripp's perjury). Despite their phony protests, it is not the "betrayal" that bothers these liberals; it's who was being betrayed. It's sublime to betray their nemesis, Nixon, but unspeakably evil to betray their savior, Clinton. Linda Tripp is not a criminal, nor a betrayer of a friend. Friends don't pressure friends to commit felonies, especially on behalf of the President of the United States. Tripp did exactly what any of us would have done if the most powerful man in the world were trying to frame us and his lawyer had falsely accused us of lying on national TV. Can we even comprehend the horror she must have felt? Where is our outrage? Bill Clinton's politics of personal destruction must end. If it hadn't been for Linda Tripp, Clinton would never have been impeached. For that alone, this nation owes Linda Tripp a medal, not an indictment. ..."

The American Enterprise, a National Magazine of Politics, Business, and Culture 9/10 1999 "...Ithaca, New York is a typical college town. A hotbed, in other words, of left-wing Big Brotherism. At Ithaca's Boynton public middle school, all students were recently indoctrinated in a day-long "celebration" of homosexuality. For four school periods there were videos, lectures, and panels featuring gay teachers, parents, and students. "I did not know that I was a lesbian in the seventh grade, but I have since learned to like 'doing it' with a girl," explained one student panelist. "Now that I have 'done it' with both boys and girls I find I like both." At one point, all students were asked to stand in solidarity with homosexuals. When roughly one-third of the 11- and 12-year-olds did so, parents in attendance observed adults and student peers putting pressure on the rest to conform. After lunch, all students returned to their rooms for the remainder of the day for small group discussions led by teachers who organized the presentations. When a number of aprents registered concerns about the all-day seminar with Ithaca School Board President Steve Shiffrin (who is a Cornell law school professor in his day job), he told them that if they didn't like the district's "multicultural" policy they should put their children in private schools. The same school district has just proposed banning the Boy Scouts (and other single-sex groups) from distributing any literature on school property, on the grounds that they are intolerant organizations...."

Heritage Foundation 8/6/99 The Honorable Rick Santorum US Senate "...Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville, foreign observers have consistently noted that the United States is one of the most religious countries on the face of the planet. Year after year, Gallup polls reveal that nearly 90 percent of all Americans consider religion either "very important" or "fairly important"--and even those who don't regard themselves as conventionally religious generally profess to believe in a Supreme Being. On any given Sunday, more Americans are to be found in church than the total number of people who attend professional sports events over the course of an entire year. Although Friedrich Nietzsche famously argued, a century ago, that "God is dead," here in the United States He appears to be alive and thriving. Yet, at the same time that Americans confound secularist predictions about God's imminent demise, we are increasingly reluctant to make critical moral distinctions, when necessary. Whether things are true or false, right or wrong, good or evil doesn't seem to concern us very much any more--so long as we are all pleasant to each another and do nothing to call into question our collective self-esteem. Social critic Michael Novak writes, "I don't know if `judgmentaphobic' is a word, but it ought to be. Where conscience used to raise an eyebrow at our slips and falls, sunny non-judgmentalism winks and slaps us on the In my remarks to you this afternoon, I will examine the paradox of a people that strives to be both religious and non-judgmental. How is it possible, I wonder, to believe in the existence of God yet refuse to express outrage when His moral code is flouted? To have faith in God, but to reject moral absolutes? How is it possible that there exists so little space in the public square for expressions of "faith" and the standards that follow from belief in a transcendent God? How is it possible to be a theist and a relativist, a traditionalist and a post-modernist, a believer and a "judgmentaphobe"--all at the same time? How is it possible to mantain liberty while banishing from the public square any reference to a transcendent moral code? My answer to these questions is that it simply is not possible...."

Heritage Foundation 8/6/99 The Honorable Rick Santorum "...To prevent the new United States from being similarly corrupted over time, its institutions had to be founded on the solid rock of "self-evident truths." Consider the famous words of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident": "Truths"--not "opinions," not "premises," not "assumptions," not "collective myths," not "accepted rules of procedure," not "value-judgments," not "working hypotheses"--but "truths." And what made them truths was that they accorded with what the Declaration calls the "laws of nature and of nature's God." To the Founders, these God-given truths--that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights"--are no more open to discussion or debate than the laws of gravity. They are simply there, part of the created order. And because they are divinely sanctioned, it followed that even if a wicked and depraved majority tried to subvert them in the name of "democracy," the moral minority would be obliged to resist the majority's wishes in the name of moral truth...."

Jewish World Review 8/11/99 Cal Thomas "...THE NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT'S ruling that the Boy Scouts must admit homosexuals because scouting is a public entity, like police and fire departments, is flawed on legal and moral grounds. Chief Justice Deborah Poritz dismissed assertions by the Boy Scouts that words in the Scout Oath which speak of "morally straight'' and "clean'' constitute a statement against homosexuality and allow the organization to keep homosexuals out. Poritz said she doubts that young boys "ascribe any meaning to these terms other than a commitment to be good.'' The concept of what is good has undergone a transformation. Some years ago, then-New York Gov. Mario Cuomo spoke of a state supreme court judge friend of his as a "good man'' after the judge was convicted and sent to prison for threatening to kidnap his ex-lover's daughter. In the past few days, Hillary Rodham Clinton has described her philandering husband as a "good husband and father.'' Luciana Morad, the mother of rock singer Mick Jagger's latest illegitimate child, told Europe's Hello magazine that, even though Jagger has yet to meet his 4-month-old son, he is "a very loving father.'' ........ "

WorldNetDaily 8/11/99 Llewellyn Rockwell "...The New Jersey Supreme Court says the Boy Scouts must accept gays as leaders or else. The theory is that gays should have the same opportunity to join the organization as any one else. But this theory is at odds with the free society. The word liberty conjures up a vision of endless opportunity and choice. But liberty also means the right to exclude because property owners decide questions of access. There is no right to crash a private dinner party, for example. The owners of the house have the right to invite or not invite on any grounds. Similarly, there is no right to invade a private organization. Yet the right to exclude has been under attack in American law for decades. The New Jersey Supreme Court defined the Boy Scouts as a "public accommodation," and thus subject to New Jersey anti-discrimination law, which specially protects gays. Note that there is nothing the Boy Scouts could have done to avoid this special designation, apart from going out of business. But the designation means that government decides who can and cannot be excluded from entry, which is no different from a homeowner being forced to invite Kosovo refugees or some other politically favored group to dinner The courts might respond that the Boy Scouts serve the "public" whereas a homeowner serves himself. But there is no such thing as the "public" as such. Hotels and restaurants do not offer service indiscriminately. They turn people away when they are full, for example, or exclude people because of their dress or drunkenness...."

WorldNetDaily 8/11/99 Llewellyn Rockwell "...Here in a nutshell is the basis on which liberty and property are undermined in America every day. Victimization: if a group can plead supposed bourgeois prejudice, it can gain special privileges granted by government. Equality: a notion more applicable to arithmetic than human beings, now so expansively applied that it overrules every other consideration of life. Discrimination: a word that once meant good judgement, now distorted into a sin. What if the Boy Scouts had decided to exclude, say, racists as Scout masters. Would the courts have intervened on behalf of, for example, a Klan member's right to join? Not on your life. This is not an equal application of the law, but one that favors interest groups approved by government. For that reason, the temptation is to defend the religious grounds on which the Boy Scouts exclude gays....."

APB online 8/12/99 James Gordon Meek "...Incidents of misconduct among FBI employees shot up by nearly half last year, according to a report issued by the bureau. From Oct. 1, 1997, to Sept. 30, 1998, 615 investigations ended in disciplinary action against 301 workers, up from 212 the year before, according to a report issued by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). The infractions ranged from downloading pornography on bureau computers to a road rage incident in which an agent pulled a weapon on a deputy sheriff during a traffic altercation, the report said. All told, 32 employees, including 11 special agents, were dismissed, and two dozen were allowed to resign or retire, according to the report, which was distributed to approximately 27,800 FBI employees. The report left unclear why the special agents were fired and does not link specific misconduct allegations to the punishments cited....."

Washington Times National Weekly Edition 8/9-15/99 Matthew Rarey "...When Somerville, N.J., obstetrician Dr. James Delahunty met Deborah Campano in 1993, she was 21 weeks pregnant-with a problem. There was a thickening of skin around the neck of her unborn son, a possible sign of Down syndrome. He says he offered her an amniocentesis. She says he did not. Five years and $1.85 million later, the doctor was on the losing side of a "wrongful-birth" lawsuit, one of a growing number of such cases around the country. "Some women want to kill their children because they are handicapped," said Dr. Delahunty, founder of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "If genetic tests give them the wrong results, they blame the doctor. I was blamed." A mounting number of obstetrician/gynecologists are being sued by patients who say they would have had abortions if prenatal tests had detected fetal abnormalities. "This is directly contrary to our national and state policies promoting the lives and livelihoods of people with disabilities" said Clark Forsythe, president of Chicago-based Americans United for Life. "What we're dealing with here is the promotion of eugenics as a birth policy whereby doctors are sued for not weeding out the 'unfit.'"...."

Chuck Baldwin Live 8/25/99 "…According to Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, there is a massive amount of evidentiary material that is still sealed in the Gerald Ford Building which incriminates Bill Clinton to a variety of criminal conduct. It is material that the Republican leadership has no desire to let the American people see, however. And, that's the way many people apparently want it. It appears that we have reached a point in our nation when many, if not most, of us would rather believe a lie than deal with the truth…..Those things don't bother us today. In fact, not much of anything bothers us today. That's the problem. We place little value on character and integrity. Instead, we esteem wealth and power. We don't teach our children to be somebody. We teach them to do something. Who they are is not near as important to us as what they do…."

The Washington Times - National Weekly Edition 12/7-13/98 Linda Bowles "…Most Americans grew up anchored in place by certain ideas and values. They organized their lives around them. There was consensus about right and wrong, and good and bad. They knew what the rules were, and moral guideposts clearly pointed in the direction they should go. But somewhere along the way, somehow, somebody changed the rules and tore down the guide-posts. Those institutions - marriage, family, religion, schools - which historically have preserved our social learning curves, and served as bulwarks against moral degeneration, are under broad attack and crumbling. Alas, the American family is in tatters, the church is in denial, our schools have been infiltrated, and our nation has a leader with the political principles of Marx and the ethics of Nero. It's relatively easy to maintain values and inculcate them in one's children if these values are supported and buttressed by popular heroes, media icons, political leaders and educators. It is another matter to keep the faith when there are fears that the moral center is not holding, when others around you are retreating and sounding the alarm that merciless, heathen hordes have won the day and are advancing…."

CNSNews.com 8/24/99 L Brent Bozell "…When I was growing up, it was a rite of passage for parents to sit down with their children to explain "the facts of life." In today's Sodom-and-Gomorrah culture, your twelve-year-old probably knows more about sex than you do. The TV show "Entertainment Tonight" visited the set of the upcoming Fox series "Manchester Prep" and observed a scene in which one teenage girl straddles a standing horse while another gives her, ahem, a riding lesson. As the first girl repeatedly thrusts her pelvis toward, then away from, the horse's back, the second girl commands, "Up and down, back and forth, faster, faster...This time I want you to really grind into the saddle." The first girl, we are to understand, climaxes and a bit later, lying on the grass, remarks blissfully, "Now I know why girls like horses." "Manchester Prep" will air at 8 p.m., at the start of the "family hour." The broadcast of the "ET" report, complete with video footage of the horseback scene, triggered an outburst by enraged parents. Fox quickly announced that the scene would not air on "Manchester Prep." I suppose that's good news, but I'm not feeling especially grateful, simply because of the near-certainty that a great deal of material as visually or verbally graphic as that will air on Fox and the other networks this season. If you doubt me, just consider that in another "Manchester Prep" scene, reportedly there's a teenage girl admiring her stepbrother's manhood as he showers. Seemingly a day doesn't go by without a new study showing the terrible effects this Hollywood sewage is having on impressionable youngsters. The politicians are up in arms. Parents are screaming their anger. Public-policy groups are demanding changes. And yet...it's getting worse than ever. Why? The stars like it. "ET" asked several prime time luminaries about the growing sexual frankness of television, and each thought it was perfectly fine. ….I don't want to hear anyone who receives a paycheck from a TV network to ever criticize pornography on the Internet again. Folks, your industry is only one half-step behind…."

Original Sources 8/25/99 Mary Mostert "…On my website there is a petition, The Call to Preserve the Natural Family. It will be presented in November at the World Congress of Families II in Geneva, Switzerland. While many people are beginning to realize that the disintegration of the family is a major cause of many of the serious social ills, crime and misery afflicting all parts of the world, including the scourge of AIDs, few understand that there is a well organized effort going on internationally to stop the creation of families altogether. One of the few people who have seen the rapid growth of the anti-family movement is Susan Roylance. I met Susan soon after she got back from attending the UN Beijing Women's Conference in 1995. She has been at UN conferences at key points in the past four years, representing the traditional family and the importance of the mother in the traditional family. I received the following e-mail from her yesterday, explaining the extraordinary, and rapid growth, of a movement intended to reduce population by trying to convince women that they do not want to be mothers and encouraging "other forms" of sexual gratification besides normal heterosexual relations within the bonds of matrimony. This has led to the determined effort on the part of some to teach acceptance of bizarre new definitions of, and acceptance of abnormal sex that does not produce offspring as not only "normal" but superior to heterosexual relations which produce babies……"

Chattanooga Free Press 9/6/99 "…San Francisco is a city with one of the most beautiful natural settings in the world. But it has regrettable problems because of the moral decline to which many of its leaders have surrendered, and even championed. With California looking toward a vote on upholding conventional marriage or accepting homosexual "marriage," San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno has chosen to attack the Church of Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons. What has aroused Supervisor Leno against the Mormons? They are quite understandably supporting California's "Defense of Marriage Initiative," which says that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid." So Supervisor Leno has called upon California's attorney general to investigate whether the Mormons are violating their tax-exempt church status because of their moral view. Don't most churches support marriage only between men and women? Don't most churches advocate conventional moral standards? Should that be punished? …."

CNSNews.com 8/31/99 "…Children watching prime time television during the so-called 'family hour' are being exposed to more sex, violence and profanity than ever before, according to a new study by a television advocacy group. The Parents Television Council Tuesday released its report of network television programming and found that the "combined per-hour average of objectionable content" between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. ET increased 75% from February 1998, with an average of nearly seven references per hour that pertained to sex, violence or profane language….."

The New York Times 9/15/99 Maria Newman "....When the Miss America Pageant began allowing contestants to wear sandals a couple of years ago, few eyebrows were raised. When it allowed two-piece bathing suits last year with bottoms that could be no more than one and a half inches below the navel, many people thought it was about time. But when the board of the Miss America Organization adopted new rules last month that would clear the way for a divorced woman or one who had had an abortion to compete for the crown, many supporters and participants in the pageant said they would be ruining the essence of a contest they hold sacrosanct. The outcry grew so loud that pageant organizers said today that they were reconsidering. "There's a purity and an integrity and a morality that would be violated if you let in women who are divorced and had an abortion," said Kathrine Baumann, the Miss America first runner-up from 1970, whose niece, Tiffany Baumann, is competing in this year's pageant as Miss Ohio. "People get divorced. But if that happens, then let them compete in the Mrs. America pageant." ...."

AP Wire 9/13/99 "....In a stunning departure from tradition, the Miss America Pageant has lifted its ban on women who are divorced or have had an abortion, The Associated Press has learned. The board of the Miss America Organization voted last month to drop the 49-year-old rule. The change takes effect next year. Fear of violating New Jersey's discrimination laws spurred the change, according to court documents obtained Monday...... The state pageants are expected to continue fighting it. .... Contestants in this year's pageant had reservations. Miss West Virginia Lucy Ours said the number of women seeking the crown would probably drop off as a result. ``The most important thing Miss America does is she's a role model. If she's been married and divorced by age 24, people might not look at her as a very good role model,'' Ms. Ours said. Miss Delaware Kama Boland said she also opposed the move. ``The word `Miss' stands for something,'' she said. ``It would be a shame if they allow it. It would change the image of Miss America, and not necessarily for the better.'' ....."

Jewish World Review 9/13/99 Don Feder "….ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, the Party of Clinton has a values problem. The Democratic Leadership Council is conducting regular seminars to, as the Times explains it, "combat a party vulnerability: doubts among voters that the Democrats embrace mainstream family values." A "vulnerability"? "Doubts"? This is like saying that the public doubts the Chinese politburo's commitment to democracy, or Sen. John McCain is vulnerable on his shifting abortion stand. In a recent survey, voters chose Republicans over Democrats as the party that better upholds the virtue of personal responsibility by 44 percent to 22 percent. On ethics and honesty, the public picks the GOP over Democrats by 39 percent to 20 percent. This ain't no gap, but a yawning values chasm. ….Clinton committed gross immorality in the White House, and they knew it. He lied, repeatedly, to the American people, and they knew it. He made a travesty of our justice system, by lying under oath, and they knew it. In the House, no more than five Democrats (out of 205) voted to impeach the president on any of four articles. In the Senate, not a single Democratic senator voted to remove Clinton. Now, 44 percent of the American people think the House did the right thing in voting to impeach, compared to 35 percent last December. That number is destined to rise over the next 14 months….."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com 9/17/99 Tony Snow "....THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY, that seven-year orgy of cupidity and exhibitionism, has become such a bore that Americans are starting to complain en masse about "Clinton fatigue." We wish he would disappear, but he won't. We pray he will mend his ways, but he can't. We have waited in vain for a change, and now our moral antibodies are striking back. There is general agreement that The Man from Hope lacks something we consider essential in ourselves and our country -- a conscience -- and that his disability is not a lovable foible, but a menace. Review the record. The president acts as if a 60 percent approval rating trumps the Ten Commandments and victory at the polls expiates private misbehavior. No sooner did he dodge conviction in Congress, for example, than he boasted to Dan Rather that by saving his presidency, he defended the Constitution. The fellow obviously doesn't grasp the difference between preserving the majesty of his office and covering the .... expanse of his rump. He seems to believe, like a backwoods Napoleon, that "le presidency, c'est moi." .....One looks for even a hint of shame from the first couple -- even an acknowledgment of the conflicts involved in the deal -- but one gets defiant self-righteousness instead. Clinton has said, in effect, "Catch me if you can!" -- and rubbed our noses in our own willingness to forgive. We may be gullible as a people, but we're beginning to figure it all out. The president's most memorable lines are lies and his most memorable traits are weaknesses. And he doesn't care. ...."

L.A. Times 9/18/99 Josh Getlin ".....A church. A high school. A day-care center. A hospital. A stock brokerage office. If there is any thread linking the recent wave of mass shootings in America, it is that they have taken place in public spaces, areas long thought to be immune from the violence that typically erupts behind closed doors, or at least out of public view. The most recent horror, this week's shooting of seven people at a Baptist prayer service for teenagers in Fort Worth, illuminated once again the dark side of a culture that has spawned such violations of public space. Ideally, the common areas in which Americans come and go are the physical embodiment of an open society. But the sense of security that millions take for granted has been compromised by a wave of senseless shootings, one seemingly more horrific than the next. "It's become a hideous intrusion, gunman in the Fort Worth church shootingsa violation of the most fundamental guarantee we have in a democracy," said Jean Bethke Elshtain, a professor of ethics at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. "You think you've heard the worst possible story, and then another shooting happens. Finally, all you can do is shake your head and ask yourself: Why?" ..... "There's been an alarming decline in courtesy, especially how we behave in public, and I tell my congregation the real test of moral character is not how they deal with their boss in the office but how they deal with a parking attendant," said Rabbi David Volpe of Sinai Temple in West Los Angeles. "They laugh, but then they see that I'm serious. And while I realize this is a long way from going into a church and shooting people, our public spaces have become less sacred." ..... "

Reuters, via News Plus 9/20/99 Eric Auchard "...The executive who oversees Walt Disney Co.'s Go Network of Internet sites was arrested after soliciting sex online from an FBI agent posing as a 13-year-old girl, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said Sunday. Patrick Naughton, 34, of Seattle, was arrested Thursday on the Santa Monica Pier, an entertainment area near Los Angeles, after he met a female officer who had arranged to meet him there, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. He was charged with interstate travel with the intention of having sex with a minor, the spokesman said. Naughton was arraigned Friday and released after posting a $100,000 appearance bond....."

Education Reporter Dennis Cuddy 9/99 "... Television commentator Ted Koppel, on a recent Nightline segment, noted President Clinton's high job approval ratings, and then said: "But ask about his honesty, moral and ethical standards or the president as a role model for young people and Mr. Clinton's approval ratings are down around 20 percent." Koppel then asked several U.S. senators, "What does this say about our country and our values? What's the bottom line? Show me the money? If you're making money for me, what kind of a human being you are is sort of irrelevant?" Translated, this means as long as the situation (a good economy) is acceptable, you won't be held accountable for misbehavior. This is classic "situation ethics," which has become the new national morality. But from where did this come? In the 1960s, when God was removed from public schools, values continued to be taught. The student became the new authority for determining what is right and wrong - the autonomous moral decisionmaker - and decisions were made based upon particular situations. ...... In the 1980s, there was a conservative backlash against this humanistic moral relativism, but a co-founder of a four-million member humanist and ethical group, H.J. Blackham, wrote that if schools teach dependence (e.g., morals) upon one's self, they are "more revolutionary than any conspiracy to overthrow the government." He was right! "If it feels good, do it" was the philosophy of many young people when it came to illicit sex and illegal drugs. ....... The problem with situation ethics is that nearly all our laws are based on the imposition of a particular morality (e.g., the biblical admonition "Thou shalt not bear false witness . . .") with which some will disagree on occasion. For example, because some people want to lie under oath about sexual matters, society has "imposed its morality" against perjury in those situations. That is why some people in government positions have been impeached or even jailed for having committed perjury. Concerning allegations of perjury against Clinton, there should not be one law for the powerful and another for the poor. If courts cannot compel witnesses to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, then our government will have been "overthrown," as Blackham was quoted above. We can already see what situation ethics is doing to our teenagers today. According to a recent national poll of more than 20,000 middle and high school students conducted by the Josephson Institute of Ethics: 70% of high school students admitted cheated on an exam at least once in the last year, 78% said they had lied two or more times, and an amazing 47% acknowledged having stolen something from a store in the last 12 months. ...."

New York Post 9/22/99 Rod Dreher "....REMEMBER the bad old days, when girls who got pregnant outside of marriage were either forcibly married to the guy who got them pregnant, or sent away to have the baby and give it up for adoption? Turns out folks back then, harsh as they sound to us today, were on to something important. So says "The Age of Unwed Mothers," a startling new report from the Institute for American Values, a think tank. It's a comprehensive review of recent studies into the causes and effects of teen pregnancy, one that questions our fundamental assumptions about the issue. Its eye-opening conclusion? The crisis of illegitimate births is not chiefly a problem of undereducated teenagers having unprotected sex. The root cause is a society-wide loss of belief in marriage as necessary to child-rearing. And we won't stem the tide of fatherless children until we regain that faith. The report, written by Maggie Gallagher, notes that: *Three-fifths of births to unwed mothers are to women in their 20s. And a majority of out-of-wedlock births to teenagers are to 18- and 19-year-old moms - in other words, adults. *More sex education and greater access to contraceptives doesn't slow the pregnancy rate. *Fewer pregnant teens are getting married. From the 1940s through the mid-1970s, just under half of single pregnant women got married before their baby was born. By the early 1990s, that figure was down to 16 percent. *Far fewer unmarried women are putting their babies up for adoption, even though studies show the outcome is better in the long term for both mother and child...."

CNSNews.com 9/22/99 Thomas Jipping "...Why has this cultural jihad occurred all of a sudden? According to the Associated Press, officials of the pageant organization, which is headquartered in New Jersey, are afraid of violating the state's anti-discrimination law. What judges did to the Boy Scouts they could do to Miss America.... If you think that judges' decisions don't matter, just read the papers and look around your neighborhood. Judges told the people they cannot protect preborn children. Judges told the people they must tolerate pornography flowing through their communities, across their television screens, and even sold on military bases. Judges told school children they could not even look at the Ten Commandments, could not participate in prayer even if they wanted to, could not hear a passage from the Bible, and could not have God's blessing when they graduated. Judges have now told school children they may not pray before football game and told their parents they may not pray before school board meetings. Judges told the people they may not encourage citizen legislatures with term limits and must use their tax dollars for welfare for illegal aliens. Judges told people who do not want to discriminate by race that they must do so. Judges told the people that the only explanation about human origins that may be taught is Darwinian evolution. Judges told the people that men and women are the same and that any other view is an impermissible stereotype. Judges told the people that any moral objection to homosexuality is nothing but hate. And judges are telling the people that the last vestiges of morality, propriety, and tradition are simply exercises in discrimination and have to go as well. Folks, the most damaging cultural, social, economic, and political developments of the last two generations have come not from the statehouse but from the courthouse. Judges are twiddling while our culture is burning. I hope it's not too late....."

Associated Press (Nando Media) 9/20/99 Matthew Pennington "....Commercial sexual exploitation of children is growing, despite promises from more than 120 countries to halt abuse, pornography and sex tourism, according to children's rights workers gathered in Bangkok on Monday. While there has been progress in recent years, there is still a lack of political will and concrete action, said activist Carol Smolenski. "The problem is getting worse as the world is shrinking," said Smolenski, of the U.S. arm of ECPAT, a global non-governmental organization fighting child pornography, prostitution and trafficking. The children's rights activists said the easy availability of sex on the Internet - including pedophile chat lines and advertisements from companies that organize sex holidays - is among the key reasons why sexual exploitation of children is a bigger global problem than ever before. ...."

9/15/99 Dr Laura Schlesinger "....And, one thing I have discovered is that the very nature of pornography, itself, allows it to fly under the radar screen of mainstream media. Because broadcast television and community newspapers are bound by common decency standards (hard as that may be to believe), they are not able to show or tell us in any detail how unbelievably disgusting this stuff really is! What I'm particularly upset about today is pornography passing as "innocent fun" aimed at our children in a magazine called Big Brother Skateboarder. Some of you have communicated your outrage about this magazine, a barely disguised effort to recruit kids who love to skateboard to the real hard core pornography published by the same publisher who brings us Big Brother Skateboarder-none other than Larry Flynt. In the spring, Guy Kemp, a talk show host on National Public Radio, talked about how horrendous this so-called "kids magazine" was. He reported that the editor, Dave Carney, boasted about the fact that they were duping parents into thinking this was an innocent sports magazine. Kemp said to him, "Now, be honest, is the cover marketed so that parents won't know what's inside the magazine? " Carney said, "Yes, definitely, it's definitely what we're doing. The kids that are reading our magazine are 14 and 15, even as young as 12, and they're gonna learn this stuff anyway. I don't care what people think" Kemp's interview with Carney was printed in the American Family Journal and carried in World net Daily, which is where I saw it, and took up the subject of the publication on air May 13. Imagine my surprise when, a few months later, I actually saw a copy of the magazine. I mentioned this experience on the air--about how shocked I was as a parent, shopping with my son, to see that magazine in such a nice local store in a very upscale shopping center. But that experience demonstrated for me how deeply this stealth pornography has permeated our society-right into the heart of family-oriented, politically conservative Orange County, California! ...... Big Brother Skateboarder is a magazine whose idea of humor is to suggest that the way to respond to a girl who says something you don't like is to tie her up, assault her sexually, and punch her in the face a couple of times. Actually, that's pretty mild compared to some of the magazine's other content. Among other things, recent issues have contained: Articles that ask young boys to think about having sex with their mothers or to compare their genitals to their fathers'. Articles that encourage young boys to masturbate. Articles that suggest to young girls that a cool way to "steal the show" at a party is to take off their clothes and have sex with whomever happens to be around, even with animals. Photos of young women simulating performing oral sex on young men and having objects inserted into their backsides....."

WORLD Magazine 10/2/99 Bob Jones "…..Premier Week in Hollywood. Network executives congratulate themselves for their "edgy" new programming. Critics dust off their favorite September adjectives, like "stale" and "derivative." Parents fumble hurriedly for the mute button as new obscenities are introduced into prime time…But for all the breath holding and hand wringing going on in Hollywood, the most anticipated premier of the season will likely come from a very different source-Washington, D.C. Within the next few weeks, it is likely that a newly created Senate committee should debut, charged with figuring out who's responsible for the trashing of American culture. This fall's Premier Week could well be introduced as Exhibit A. The committee would look at broad cultural indicators, such as divorce and the breakdown of the family, and try to determine a reliable way of quantifying the problem. It would examine the role of the entertainment industry, which produces violent movies and sexually explicit song lyrics. And it would seek out examples of successful programs for reducing teen pregnancies, teen suicide, and other social problems. ……"In the midst of unprecedented prosperity," wrote Sen. Brownback in a memo to his colleagues, "there is a widespread belief that we live in a 'mean society' where families are breaking down, parents are distracted, entertainment is vulgar (or worse), schools are failing, and children are more prone to crime, alienation, premature sexual activity, drug use, and cynicism." Surprisingly enough, Mr. Brownback says he received few objections to his gloomy depiction of America's cultural decline. "There's a growing awareness of the critical nature of this topic," he told WORLD. "Polls show that people are deeply concerned about the culture. There's a strong majority of the population that thinks we have a serious problem here."…."

Conservative News Service 10/14/99 Lawrence Morahan ".....Violent video games and hours of exposure to violence on television anesthetizes children to violence and makes them more likely to kill, a retired lieutenant colonel who taught psychology at West Point told CNSNews.com. The result of depicting violence as entertainment "is a phenomenon that functions much like AIDS, which I call AVIDS - Acquired Violence Immune Deficiency Syndrome," said retired Lt. Col. David Grossman, who is visiting Washington to promote the week of October 18 through 22 as "Turn Off the Violence - Open a Book Week." "AIDS has never killed anybody. It destroys your immune system, and then other diseases that shouldn't kill you become fatal. Television violence by itself does not kill you. It destroys your violence immune system and conditions you to derive pleasure from violence," said Grossman. "And once you are at close range with another human being, and it's time for you to pull that trigger, Acquired Violence Immune Deficiency Syndrome can destroy your midbrain resistance," said Grossman, who acted as lead trainer for counselors after two boys shot dead four students and a teacher at a local middle school in his hometown of Jonesboro, Ark., in March. "The real radical extremists in the U.S. aren't in the National Rifle Association," he said. "The NRA doesn't claim that the Second Amendment gives them the right to market guns to kids. "No, the real sickos in America are the people who will fight to the death, in the name of the First Amendment, to defend the right of kids to practice blowing off people's heads in the local video arcade," Grossman said. ...."

Associated Press 10/18/99 David Briscoe "....High-ranking military officers identifying themselves as Republicans outnumbered Democrats 8-1 in an academic survey. They also were far more conservative than mainstream American society. A majority of "elite'' officers questioned said the country would be more moral if it adopted "more of the military's values and behavior'' - a view that finds strong disagreement among their counterparts in civilian life and Americans in general in the same survey. The survey and accompanying studies released Monday by a group of scholars finds a big gap on several issues between military leaders and civilians, although it also documents strong respect for the military and broad acceptance of civilian control......"

NewsMax.com 10/20/99 Carl Limbacher "....The Exotic Erotic Ball will soon come to you from the sexiest city in the world, San Francisco, to your own world class city! The Exotic Erotic Ball began over 20 years ago in San Francisco, founded by sixties "Love King" and perennial nudist candidate for President, Louis Abolafia and song writer Perry Mann. What was once the function of the year for those on San Francisco's wild side, is now a festival of freedom attracting a professional, upscale crowd that travels from around the world to attend. Though the Exotic Erotic Ball was originally a celebration of sexuality, it has also become an event focusing on entertainment....."

CNSNews.com 10/20/99 Lawrence Morahan "....A major new study that suggests the nation's leading military officers are overwhelmingly conservative does not surprise some leading military analysts, who told CNSNews.com the armed forces' leadership philosophy merely reflects classic thought. "Because the culture is going in the opposite direction, the chasm between the military and civilians continues to grow. But it's not the military that's departing from traditional values," said Robert Maginnis, director for national security and foreign affairs at the Family Research Center, in an interview with CNSNews.com...."

Boston Globe/AP 10/20/99 Dirk Beveridge ".....Saying free speech rights don't extend to desecrating the Chinese or Hong Kong flags, the government told the territory's highest court Wednesday that a ban on flag burning is needed to preserve public order. "If you offer an indignity to the national flag, you offer an indignity to the state," a lawyer for the government, Gerard McCoy, told Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal.... "I have 5,000 years of civilization on my side. The American constitution is 200 years old," McCoy said....."

The Weekly Standard 10/25/99 David Frum ".....To Clinton's defenders, something more important than the rule of law was at stake. IF An Affair of State, Judge Richard Posner's new book about the impeachment of Bill Clinton, is indeed as definitive as its admirers insist, my place in history is secure: While the book's index offers only three references to Trent Lott and four to Henry Hyde, it has six to me! (True, Hillary Clinton edges me out with eight, but, I feel compelled to note, four of hers are footnotes.) And all of this thanks to a single sentence published in this magazine in February 1998. Here it is, as edited by Posner. "For David Frum, moralistic conservative, 'what's at stake in the Lewinsky scandal... [is] the central dogma of the baby boomers: the belief that sex, so long as it's consensual, ought never to be subject to moral scrutiny at all.'" According to Posner, the thinking exemplified by my sentence explains how Bill Clinton managed to survive the scandal, and even why he might fairly be thought to have deserved to survive: "[I]f the core of the opposition to Clinton is not that he is a liar or even a criminal (for the Right displayed little indignation over the crimes committed by the participants in the Iran-Contra affair), but that his personal conduct and attitudes are revolting, then the claim of his defenders to be warding off a puritan assault on sexual liberty cannot be dismissed as sheer demagoguery." ......"

The Weekly Standard 10/25/99 David Frum ".....The judge wants it to be understood that he himself should not be counted among Clinton's defenders. The bulk of his book is devoted to exposing and scourging the deceitfulness of the case for the president in each and every particular, from its bogus claims of executive privilege at the beginning of the scandal to the two-faced arguments in the Senate trial at its end (see David Tell's review in the September 20 WEEKLY STANDARD). Posner concludes that the president obstructed justice and reckons that a private citizen guilty of offenses comparable to Clinton's would face a prison sentence of between 30 and 37 months. He goes further still. Posner agrees with the House impeachment managers that Clinton's lying subverted the rule of law.....He agrees with William Bennett (whom he criticizes at some length) that Clinton's actions disgraced the American system of government...... Posner even follows Robert Bork in regarding Clinton's lies as an assault on the fundamental principles of constitutional self-government....... Nevertheless, and despite all that, Posner isn't really sorry that Clinton beat the rap. For as important as constitutional self-government may be, it turns out to be not quite as important as beating back the ever-present threat of sexual puritanism....."

New York Times 10/31/99 David Barstow "....Far more than has been previously disclosed, the "Sensation" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art has been financed by companies and individuals with a direct commercial interest in the works of the young British artists in the show, according to court documents and interviews with people involved in the exhibition. Faced with rising costs and the unwillingness of major corporations to support the show -- whose works have provoked furious protests in London and more recently in New York -- Arnold L. Lehman, the museum's director, embarked this summer on an aggressive campaign to finance "Sensation" by other means. He and his assistants raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from those who stood to profit most from the exhibition of contemporary art, a practice that other museum executives say was practically unheard of and ethically problematic........ Lehman and his assistants solicited donations of at least $10,000 from dealers who represented many of the artists whose works are on display. They offered Christie's special access to the museum to entertain clients in the market for contemporary art. They secured a pledge of $160,000 from Saatchi and then they attempted to conceal his financial support from the public...... The dispute has highlighted the hidden conflicts confronted by museum executives who struggle to finance exhibitions with donations from corporations, foundations and wealthy individuals. At stake is nothing less than the museum's independence and integrity, experts in museum ethics say. Museums have a public trust to display art on the basis of merit, and they are sure to suffer if they are viewed as instruments for private financial gain, those experts say. ......."

World Magazine online 10/30/99 Joel Belz "….It used to be that while we all did at least a little bit of lying, we all also hated being lied to. But things have changed. Deliberate lying has become an acceptable practice. Supposedly honorable people shamelessly defend it. You can see the change at work in the case of Edmund Morris, the fellow who wrote the celebrated and now much-discussed Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan……..Yet amazingly, perhaps an even greater number of critics seemed to appreciate Mr. Morris's prevaricating. Some even placed the blame for the lying on Mr. Reagan himself. According to those reality-twisters, the former president was so dull that an unembellished account would have held no one's interest. So Mr. Morris was compelled to invent three fictional characters who throughout the book speak and act as if they were part of the historical record….."

World Magazine 10/29/99 Dr Gene Veith "…..The latest game show from Fox is called Greed. It will feature family members betraying each other for money. If it becomes a hit, maybe we can see sequels based on the other Deadly Sins: Anger (but we already have WWF histrionics); Gluttony (but we already have the Food Channel); Envy (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous reruns?); Lust (Ally McBeal every night?); Pride (the elections are coming up); Sloth (what are we watching TV for, anyway?). Actually, today's TV aesthetic is already largely based on the concept of sin as entertainment……. The point of these shows seems to be to reward those who most display the effects of the Fall. In a sense, all dramatic literature is about sin--what else would we expect in any honest depiction of human nature? The key is, what's the attitude portrayed about the sin? Does it make us want to do it, or make us want to avoid it? When Chaucer wrote about greed in The Pardoner's Tale, he showed how the lust for gold turns friends against each other-and breeds hypocrisy in the indulgence-peddling preacher, who preaches against greed so that people will give him their money. The novelist Frank Norris, a century ago, depicted a man so greedy that he died in the desert rather than let go of the gold that was weighing him down. This new game show will also show what people will do for money, but at the expense of real people who are being morally degraded….."

Associated Press 10/27/99 John Hughes "….The House approved legislation today that would authorize drug enforcement agents to crack down on physicians who intentionally use federally controlled drugs to help patients die. The House voted 271-156 for a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde that would penalize physicians who aid in a suicide, but the measure also says controlled substances are medically legitimate for treating pain. The bill also authorizes $5 million for more training and education to improve end-of-life care. The measure is a major setback for Oregon, the only state that has legalized physician-assisted suicide for terminal patients with fewer than six months to live. All 15 patients who died under the law during its first full year in 1998 used controlled substances to take their lives. ``Suicide is the ultimate act of despair and facilitating the intentional killing of a human life is the opposite of healing,'' said Hyde, R-Ill. …."

Florida Times-Union 10/27/99 "....Few would disagree with the American Civil Liberties Union's position in a Colorado case that the Constitution forbids censoring speech. But the First Amendment was written to protect open and vigorous debate of legitimate public policy issues. It doesn't seem to apply to the ACLU's client, who uses offensive speech purely for the sake of being controversial. The man has a favorite four-letter word, with a sexual connotation. He uses the word in about every sentence, according to news reports. It is tattooed twice on the top of his bald head. He named both of his dogs after the word. Until recently, he had 29 signs, all containing the word, in his bar......"

Christian Science Monitor 12/99 Daniel Wood ".....In just one generation, attitudes toward marriage and family have shifted so dramatically that the very fabric of society has been inexorably altered - leaving pundits and ordinary Americans alike struggling to ascertain whether the changes are progressive or destructive. To be sure, marriage retains a high regard among Americans: More than 90 percent say it is a highly desirable goal. But with more people delaying matrimony, divorcing, or avoiding wedlock altogether, its standing as "the norm" has slipped. The change holds major implications, especially for the composition of American families. Only 1 in 4 households now contain married couples with children, down from 45 percent in 1972 - a transformation that affects everything from child-rearing to government policies aimed at families. ....."

Judicial Watch 12/4/99 "....Today Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin and author of America's Real War, Nat Hentoff, libertarian syndicated columnist of The Washington Post & The Village Voice, and Internet trail blazer Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com appeared on Judicial Watch's radio show and all agreed that the left - in an unethical defense of the corrupt Clinton Administration - has abandoned basic Judeo-Christian and equivalent values. Rabbi Lapin writes in his book on page 12, "[Liberal] Organizations and individuals, many of whom claim to speak in the name of Judaism, are inflicting enormous harm on Americans by promoting policies that traditional Judaism finds abhorrent." Nat Hentoff added that the press argues that the left runs interference for an administration which has repeatedly violated human and civil rights, such as subverting the habeas corpus statutes, in his article in Editors and Publishers Magazine, November 27, 1999, "How the Press Saved the Clinton Presidency." Joseph Farah remarks upon today's New York Times hit piece of Frank Rich smearing Matt Drudge, "The Strange Legacy of Matt Drudge," explaining how the Internet is the wave of the future for honest and open journalism - countering leftist propaganda of the elite establishment media. Rich and other leftist journalists obviously fear the competition....."

Jewish World Review 11/23/99 Kathleen Parker "….The nice thing about pendulums is that they eventually swing back. Several unrelated events in recent weeks prove the rule and suggest that Americans are fed up with 20th-century victimology and its illegitimate offspring, the government self-esteem worker. A state Supreme Court, for example, rules that children may be spanked without parents' fear of being charged with abuse; a local school board says violent hoodlums won't be tolerated regardless of how many celebrities and television cameras show up; a state board of education resolves that children should be disciplined rather than drugged into appropriate behavior. Bless my stars and stripes, but common sense seems to be making a comeback…"

The Boston Herald 12/15/99 Don Feder "….In the tapes (one made just days before the Columbine High School massacre) covered in the current issue of Time magazine, Klebold said he hoped to take the lives of hundreds of his classmates in a nihilistic act that would settle the score for every slight he had ever suffered. After each school shooting - Littleton, Jonesboro, Ark., West Paducah, Ky. - calls for more gun control go forth from the president and other ritualistic liberals. President Clinton is aiding a class-action suit against gunmakers by local public-housing authorities…… I'm old enough to recall what the world was like before students came to school armed and dangerous. What's changed since then? When I was in high school in the early 1960s, there was no shortage of firearms. There are more today, but the percentage of households with guns has actually declined from 48 percent in 1960 to 42 percent in 1997. Access to guns was much easier 40 years ago. You could buy them through the mail, and there were no federal regulations on sales or transfers to minors. Most of our gun-control laws were a response to the assassinations and urban riots of the late '60s. There were lots of guns then; there are lots of guns now. What's changed - dramatically, for the worse - is the culture. We live in a society awash in drugs, where violence is extolled and kids are habituated to homicide…… The American Medical Association says the ``link between media violence and real-life violence has been proven by science time and again.'' Of the 657 major motion pictures released last year, two-thirds got an ``R'' or ``NC-17'' rating for violence, sexual content or both. Youth are the major consumers of Hollywood's savagery. Americans aged 12 to 24 make up 20 percent of the population but constitute 37 percent of moviegoers…… On one tape, the Columbine killers muse that Quentin Tarantino may direct a movie about their lives. ``Directors will be fighting over this story,'' Klebold boasts……. Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson is particularly popular. Kip Kinkel, who murdered his parents in Springfield, Ore., absorbed Manson's message (``I'm dying; I hope you're dying too''). Luke Woodham, who killed his parents and classmates in Pearl, Miss., was another Manson fan. ……. In one survey of fourth- to eighth-graders, half said their favorite games feature violence. ``Doom,'' ``Mortal Kombat'' and ``Duke Nukem'' teach the joys of annihilation. …… David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and the Family, notes that Eric Harris (who refers to ``Doom'' twice in one tape) had customized his favorite shoot-'em-up game to serve as a dress rehearsal for the Columbine killings. A gun is an instrument, no more. It doesn't shape thoughts or incite emotions. A killer has murder in his heart long before he takes a gun into his hand. In school shootings, the culture is the smoking gun. ….."

CNSNews.com 12/10/99 Susan Jones "…..Public schools in Davis, California have slammed the door on the Boy Scouts of America, after parents complained that the organization discriminates by excluding homosexuals and atheists. According to reports, the superintendent of the Davis Joint Unified School District says the Boy Scouts will no longer be allowed to use school bulletin boards, PTA newsletters, or student folders to send notes or other information home with students. Superintendent David Murphy said communicating with parents through the schools is a privilege that very few groups enjoy, and therefore, he said it can be legally rescinded without violating the Boy Scouts' free speech rights. A spokesman for the Boy Scouts says the group will continue to emphasize its traditional family values - and simply find another mode of recruitment. …."

Original Sources 1/7/00 Mary Mostert "…..It was only 306 words long, but it said volumes. It was first published by Agence France-Press, perhaps the world's oldest news organizations, with over a century and a half of experience - more than any other international press agency which prides itself on "a strong and proven commitment to accuracy, speed and reliability." The German daily Frankfurter Rundschau printed it and from there it was posted on http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com and one of my readers, George Hodgson, e-mailed it to me - all within apparent hours of it being first published by Agence France-Press (AFP) …. Throughout Bill Clinton's impeachment we were deluged daily with "news" items which said things like: "All people lie" and "lying about sex is just nobody's business" and, earlier during the campaigns, "Character doesn't matter." So, it isn't news in the eyes of the networks and the dominant print media when those making the news lie through their teeth. Evidently, since they lie, they think everyone else in the world lies….Lying rulers can get their way only as long as the public believes what they are saying. Americans knew Clinton lied about sex, but they thought, for some reason, he would tell the truth about Kosovo. Of course he didn't. Now even Clinton supporters are at a loss to figure out how they can continue their highly successful political spin and propaganda when the public clearly no longer believes or even wants to hear what he, and other politicians, are saying…… "

Original sources 1/5/00 Chuck Baldwin "….Whatever else our president might possess, he most certainly should be a man of honesty and wisdom. Then again, before for such a man can be selected to this position, it is first required that the people selecting him should possess these virtues. Only honest and wise people can choose an honest and wise leader. The dishonesty and lack of wisdom by the current occupant of the White House is well documented. Yet, by in large, the people of this country accept Bill Clinton, corruption and all. The question is what has this done to the standard bar of presidential qualification? Do the American people desire honest and wise men? The question remains in doubt….."

AP 1/6/00 "….Authorities are searching for a city councilman and former sex abuse investigator who has been charged with numerous counts of child molestation. Kevin Carney, a city councilman from Palmdale and a former sheriff's sergeant, had not been located as of early today. An arrest warrant for Carney was issued Wednesday after he was charged with 17 felony counts of child molestation and one misdemeanor charge of possessing child pornography. Voters in Palmdale, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, elected Carney to a council seat in November shortly after he was arrested for investigation of lewd conduct with a 14-year-old girl. He was freed on bail and denied the charges, calling them part of a dirty smear campaign from his opponents….."

The New York Observer 1/10/00 "….New Yorkers who miss the days when Times Square was a pornographer's paradise of X-rated peep shows, drug dealers and prostitutes have a friend up in Albany. Seven friends, to be exact, the seven judges who sit on the state's Court of Appeals, who have ruled that the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had been too aggressive in enforcing the city law against X-rated businesses, specifically a pornographic video store on the Upper West Side. The pornographers also owe a big thank you to Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and his so-called "civil libertarian" colleagues, who have been defending the rights of porn peddlers over the rights of average New Yorkers. It's hard to choose which group is more obscene, the pornographers who seek to return the city to the dark ages of the 1970's, or Mr. Siegel and his dimwit pals, who itch to file lawsuits on their behalf. The ruling is a setback for the city, especially at a time when lower crime rates, a strong economy and social optimism have opened New York's shores anew to the international community. The simple truth is that New Yorkers have a right to live without pornography in their backyards and along the streets where their children walk to school….."

Daily Oklahoman 1/23/2000 Patrick McGuigan "…..SEVEN years ago, William Jefferson Clinton -- the man from Hot Springs, Hope and wherever else advances his ambitions -- took the presidential oath of office. What a long, wild ride it has been. Those concerned about cultural decline, moral drift and controlling legal authorities are told to be silent, if not for self- preservation then because "it's the economy, stupid." ……. Now, though, few can say they don't know more than enough. For everyone still paying attention, in Year of the Rat: How the Clinton Administration Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash, (Regnery, 1998) Edward Timberlake and William C. Triplett took us into Clinton's world of special breaks to favored businesses, the collapse of rational limits on commerce with China and other nations with ill intentions, the Red Chinese Army's illegal campaign donations to Clinton-Gore '96, and much more. The book hit the New York Times best-seller list. In their new book, Red Dragon Rising: Communist China's Military Threat to America (Regnery, 1999), Timberlake and Triplett document mainland China's cruel intentions. Some reviewers marginalize them as commie bashers or Cold War leftovers, but the authors were recently commended by the Dalai Lama for highlighting "the situation in China and in Tibet" while supporting just aspirations in both lands. These authors are not alone in scrutinizing Clinton's links to the world's most expansion- minded regime. Bill Gertz, who covers national security issues for the Washington Times, continues almost daily to build the record first laid out in his own book, Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security (Regnery, 1999). In last week's national edition of the Times, Gertz documented China's broken promise to keep nuclear materials away from North Korea. In these and other studies, we are reminded that Clinton specifically promised to be tougher on Red China than his predecessor. Clinton's ability to "triangulate" and obfuscate his intentions and actions is, quite simply, without peer……"

National Review 1/24/2000 Charles Murray "….We, Homo sapiens, are about to learn how to alter human nature at roughly the same time that we finally learn for sure what that nature is. Our ignorance about the underlying truth of human nature has not been for want of trying. Philosophers took up the question as one of the very first that human beings systematically asked about themselves... Since the late 1900s, behavioral and social scientists too have tried to understand human nature. But while they have illuminated many useful bits and pieces, they have failed as system-builders.. . How can we have expended so much of our collective genius on understanding human nature and still know so little for certain? Because up until now, we have been able to observe only behavior. People can hold very different views of human nature-man is by nature altruistic or by nature selfish; by nature amoral or by nature endowed with a moral sense-because we observe in the human animal, in abundance, every sort of behavior. Or to put it statistically, human nature does not consist of universal human characteristics but of distributions... Just as geologists know a lot about the probability of finding oil based on rock formations on the surface, psychologists have learned to infer a lot about the heritability of observed traits. But in both cases, the observer is dealing with outcroppings and probabilities, while the exact, inarguable truth lies hidden…."

National Review 1/24/2000 Charles Murray "….This situation is about to change. No one can tell how rapidly and how completely the story will unfold. A few brave souls-brave indeed to buck the consistent lesson of the last five hundred years of science-still argue that the mysteries of the human mind will forever be mysteries. But E. O. Wilson's reading of the situation in his 1998 book, Consilience, seems much more plausible. The neuroscientists, increasingly understanding how the brain works, and the molecular biologists, increasingly understanding which genes do what, are about to link up with the social sciences, according to Wilson, in a "webwork of causal explanation" that brings human behavior within the realm of rigorous investigation previously reserved for physical phenomena. And not just individual behavior. "The explanatory network now touches on the edge of culture itself," in Wilson's words-or to put it another way, we are on the edge of understanding how human nature in individuals produces social and political institutions……The practical importance of these impending discoveries lies in this: The great conflicts of the last two centuries have in large part been the story of differing views of human nature translated into political codes….To put it in terms of Left versus Right, however, understates the magnitude of what is likely to happen. Of all the casualties of our growing knowledge of human nature, the most politically far-reaching will be the 20th century's curious attachment to literal human equality……. The only political implication of group differences is that we must work hard to ensure that our society is in fact free and that people are in fact treated as individuals. And yet I can tell you from personal experience that "So what?" is not a response that many others share. Today, to suggest that genetically based group differences are even probable provokes a reaction that resembles hysteria.. ….More broadly, our ability to affect the physical aspect of the human animal may run ahead of our ability to accommodate those changes to the ways in which the human psyche achieves happiness….."

World Net Daily 1/27/2000 Andrew Sandlin "…. We hear a great deal about the "culture wars" these days. This expression obscures an important fact. What is termed "culture wars" really constitutes religious wars fought on cultural battlegrounds. We are in the midst of a conflict of religious visions. The battle for a culture is always and inescapably a battle between rival religions…… Christians today are often at the forefront of the debate about culture wars -- the great public dispute (usually between right and left, conservatives and liberals) over what our society and its culture should look like. They generally recognize that any semblance of Christianity has dropped out of today's culture. They lament the appalling loss of Christian morality and simultaneous rise of a rapacious secularism. They clearly deplore the pervasiveness of abortion, pornography, pre- and extra-marital sex, homosexuality, drug use, materialism, postmodernism, occultism, radical feminism, environmentalism, socialism, the assault on the Christian family and church, and the statist redistribution of wealth that now characterize much of our culture……... Christians, in fact, are not winning today's culture wars, because they have never fought them. They are not fighting them because they no longer have any aptitude for cultural leadership. They have no aptitude for cultural leadership because they have no interest in it. They have no interest in cultural leadership because they do not see culture as a religious calling. For the vast majority of Christians, culture is simply beyond the sphere of their concern. It is a grave mistake to assume that today's cultural secularization is the effect of men's abandonment of Christianity. To the contrary, there are perhaps proportionately more professed Christians in the West today than ever before, but this increase in Christian population has not impeded the rush to a secular society. In fact, in many ways it has hastened that secularization. By abandoning the cultural dimension of Christianity, Christians have opened the way to an untrammeled secular agenda. Christians' lack of interest in culture and cultural leadership has created a vacuum that secularism has eagerly rushed in to fill……"

World Net Daily 1/27/2000 Andrew Sandlin "…. Christians, they firmly believe, are not cultural leaders, and they should not be cultural leaders. To capture a culture for Jesus Christ is just not what Christianity is all about; it simply is not a legitimate Christian calling. An element of religious masochism often lurks behind this conviction; cultural defeat and degradation are identified with "spirituality." In other words, "Our lack of cultural leadership verifies our godliness." The incongruous result is that, while they often complain about the evils of the present secular cultural leadership, they are routinely uninterested in any attempts to restore Christian cultural leadership. …… "

Enter Stage Right 1/31/2000 Steve Martinovich "….By the time the Super Bowl rolled into Atlanta last week, the Kurt Warner story was told a thousand times, each time a little more mythic. Even if you resort to sticking to the facts, Warner's story is the prototype of the American dream inspiration for us all. Several years ago, Warner was stocking shelves in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for not much more than minimum wage, his professional football career over before it even began. A tryout with the Green Bay Packers -- complete with taunting from the team's current golden Bay Brett Favre -- ended as a failure…… A tryout in the Canadian Football League never materialized and Warner ended up playing for three seasons in the virtually unknown Arena Football League for the Iowa Barnstormers. He then played for Amsterdam of the World League, where as a devout Christian he passed by the red light district on his way to church, something that Warner will tell you tested and strengthened his faith. Life dealt him another blow when a tryout with the Chicago Bears was cancelled because of a freak injury. ……. But luck like a ray of sun light struck Warner because the deal he signed with Amsterdam also got him a deal with the St. Louis Rams, although along the way he was nearly released by the team and then exposed in the expansion draft to the Cleveland Browns….. Not only was Warner not supposed to start at quarterback this season after only attempting 11 passes in one game last season, he wasn't even the team's backup quarterback. It was only injury to Trent Green that gave Warner yet another chance…… The rest is history. Warner guided the Rams to a 13-3 record and threw for 41 touchdowns, third highest in NFL history. From a lowly stock boy only a few years ago, Warner ended the season as the league's most valuable player and created the myth in the process……Sports -- and specifically Kurt Warner -- gives us a chance to celebrate humanity. He and the sport he plays allow us to laud skill, intelligence and ultimately achievement. It gives us, as writer Thomas Bowden put it recently, a "spiritual fuel" that flows to us from another person's achievement. It inspires and gives us the moral courage to fight our own battles every day. Kurt Warner may only be a quarterback, and not someone deemed important to society such as a doctor or teacher, but he reminds us that anything can be had with old-fashioned hard work and principles. For that, Kurt Warner -- along with being the Super Bowl MVP -- is life's most valuable player and a true example of humanity……"

National Post 1/31/2000 Susan Martinuk "….. A new sexual revolution is brewing among young lovers in France. Parents are mystified, sociologists are searching for explanations and sex educators are reaching for the panic button. Why? Because French teens are saying "no" to the liberal sexual attitudes that have long been a part of their culture. They have been raised by sexually liberated parents in a land notorious for carefree attitudes toward sex, but they are refusing to indulge in the sexual smorgasbord set before them. Suddenly, sexual conservatism is "in" and sexual promiscuity is "tacky."….. This shift in sexual behaviour is newsworthy in itself. But even more revealing is the response to this trend by sex educators and AIDS groups. Rather than applauding it, they are labelling it as evidence of gross ignorance about the "virtues" of safe sex. Sadly, they are determined to fix this ignorance and have convinced the government to launch a new nationwide sex education program, ostensibly so teens can get back to the "norm" of sexual promiscuity.....,,:

I National Post 1/31/2000 Susan Martinuk "….. In North America, we have already witnessed the results of this commitment to teaching ideology rather than sexual restraint. Our teens have more knowledge about sexuality and greater access to birth control than ever before. Yet teen pregnancies are still rising, STDs are reaching epidemic proportions and teens are increasingly having sex at a younger age……. We expect teens to adhere to rules in other areas of life, yet we hand them the keys to enter the adult world of sexuality without any expectations of responsibility other than to wear a condom. Apparently, discussions about rules don't fit well with the doctrine of sexual freedom and are all-too-easily dismissed as "judgmental" and rooted in traditional morality. But without a context of love, commitment and rules, the basic premise for sex education is that teens will have sex. Therefore, sex educators simply provide them with condoms and tell them how to express various kinds of sexuality. As a result, teens are bombarded with detailed instructions on how to masturbate, have oral sex and participate in homosexual acts such as "fisting" (inserting a fist into the anus). They are asked to place condoms on models of erect penises and to insert fingers into models of vaginas. They are given pamphlets detailing so-called "safe" sadomasochistic activities. Such information can be overwhelmingly enticing, especially when combined with the desensitizing impact of blatant sexual messages. Our society is saturated with sex through movies, TV, advertising and music videos. Through the media, most teens have witnessed hundreds of sexual acts where sex is separated from love and limited to biological function; where every moral restraint is removed; and where every kind of sex is legitimized and rationalized. The mystery of sex has been deadened. No wonder it has been reduced to a game with a scorecard.......:

Boston Globe 1/24/2000 Jeff Jacoby "…. In its long opinion in Baker v. State, the same-sex marriage case, the Vermont Supreme Court tries very hard to stay on legal ground. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy begins by insisting that ''the issue before the Court ... does not turn on the religious or moral debate over intimate same-sex relationships.''…... Or, as a much-quoted line in the opinion puts it: Stretching the Vermont Constitution so it gives gay couples ''legal protection and security for their avowed commitment to an intimate and lasting human relationship is simply, when all is said and done, a recognition of our common humanity.'' …… Among those quoting that passage is The New Republic, which in its Jan. 10 edition vigorously endorses the opinion in Baker - with none of the court's reluctance to cast the issue in explicitly moral terms. ''A ban on same-sex marriage ... violates civil equality itself,'' TNR's full-page editorial asserts. It is ''a moral anomaly that dehumanizes and excludes a significant portion of the human race.'' The ''ultimate moral ... answer'' is to legalize full marriage for homosexuals, so good people must ''keep marshaling the moral, religious, civic, and human reasons why it is an eminently important and noble thing to do.'' ……. If something is morally wrong, it is morally wrong always. That a society may tolerate - or embrace - an indecent practice does not make it less indecent. Chattel slavery was and is an abomination, no matter how many 19th-century Americans (or 20th-century Sudanese) thought otherwise. Suttee - the Hindu custom of cremating a deceased man together with his living widow - was evil, no matter how many Hindus believed it honorable. Apartheid was immoral, no matter how many South Africans approved of it. Similarly, if barring men from marrying men is an affront to ''our common humanity,'' as the Vermont justices write - if it is an ugly ''moral anomaly,'' as The New Republic says - than it has always been so……"

Boston Globe 1/24/2000 Jeff Jacoby "…. But where are the humanitarians and the great souls who said that limiting marriage to a man and a woman is wrong? Did Francis of Assisi plead for same-sex unions? Did the Buddha? Did Sojourner Truth? Did the Prophet Micah, who yearned for justice and kindness, yearn also for male-male and female-female weddings? Did Martin Luther King, who devoted his life to ''our common humanity?'' Did Raoul Wallenberg, who risked all to thwart evil? Is there anyone - any foe of intolerance, any living saint - who decried even once the laws that kept homosexuals from marrying each other? This is not an argument against same-sex marriage. (That's a different column). It is an argument against the pretense that same-sex marriage is required as a matter of decency. There is no valid moral claim absent moral authority, and there is no moral authority for the claim that restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples is unjust. …."

CBS/UPI via Drudge 2/7/00 UPI "….A University of Michigan study indicates living together without benefit of marriage is now the norm in the United States.. …"

Reuters 2/20/00 "……Historians Monday dealt a blow to President Clinton's hopes for an illustrious legacy, ranking his presidency average and his moral authority the lowest among U.S presidents, just behind Richard Nixon's. A survey of 58 historians, carried out by public affairs cable channel C-SPAN and timed for release on President's Day, produced few surprises in its ranking of the best and worst of the 41 men who have served as president……. Clinton ranked 21st, behind George Bush (20), the one-term Republican he ousted from the White House, and ahead of Jimmy Carter (22), another one-term president who was the last Democrat to hold the office before Clinton won it in 1992. Scholars rated presidents in 10 areas: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision/setting an agenda, pursuit of equal justice for all and performance within the context of their times……… "Bill Clinton probably won't appreciate the Jekyll and Hyde verdict on his presidency, fifth in economic management, 41st in moral authority," said Richard Norton Smith of the Gerald R. Ford Library, who took part in the survey. "Apparently, where historians are concerned, it's not the economy, stupid." ……."

New Australian, The No. 145, 21-27 2/00 Robert J. Grady, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret) "…..What a frivolous group we are... still, the beloved President shares our pain.... I was embarrassed to read that President Clinton and his advisors have said: "The older generation must learn to sacrifice as other generations have done." …….My generation is old, and Bill says that 'we', "...the older generation, should repent..." but repent for what? Surviving the depression and rebuilding America? Fighting and winning World War II? Coming home and creating this America? An America filled with more opportunity, knowledge, security, wealth and prosperity than any age or place in all of human history. "We" invented, designed and built; we created this world with our bare hands. ...a world in which 6 plus billion people are alive because of American technology [our technology]... the very America which you, your henchmen, and your Ministry of Propaganda stooges and toadies disparage, at every opportunity, in your attempts to belittle, demean, and destroy 'the' American success story. Yes, Mr. Clinton, little accomplished - moral degenerate that you are - man who produced nothing ...enriched only through empty lessons you learned at the feet of your socialist betters. As you know, from Hillary's book, all "it takes" is "a village" to reduce a society to being forever mired in the grinding poverty and squalor of the socialist/tribal state. 'We' hear you. 'We' recognize your self-serving, bankrupt, degenerate, immoral sermonizing. ……"

Charlie Reese 2/16/00 "…..If the people in this world are looking to the so-called Western democracies for secular salvation, I'm afraid they've gone to the hen house looking for wool. The latest bit of insane and cruel claptrap from these co-called enlightened democracies is the decision to let the children and old people in Yugoslavia freeze if their local politicians happen to be in Slobodan Milosevic's party. Yes, dearly beloved, the mighty North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries are offering fuel oil only to those cities whose politicians are in opposition to Milosevic. Now that's stupid as well as cruel and arrogant. For all these brilliant NATO leaders know, more than half the people in a town may support Milosevic even though their local politicians don't. And conversely, people NATO says can freeze may in fact be anti-Milosevic even though their local pols support him. Apparently, however, it is now Western policy to make war on civilians and to impose cruel economic sanctions on them if our pols don't like their pols. ….."

World Net Daily 2/16/00 Jon Dougherty "….I don't know about you, but to me it is getting more than just a little irritating listening to the various establishment political figures and presidential candidates in this country prattle on about how they're going to "reform" this or "clean up" that or "change the direction" the country is headed. Worse, it is becoming apparent that -- thanks to the absolute criminality of the Clinton administration and the GOP congressional majority's permissive attitude towards it -- fewer Americans seem to care one way or the other who ends up in the White House. That's because most people know that regardless of who it is, we the people are likely to get the shaft anyway; politics in our country has devolved into a gutter war between elitists and arrogant powermongers who are little more than self-gratifying, hypocritical leeches and who see their lot in life as a self-serving means to an end. Politics, to them, has morphed from a position of public trust, integrity, service and duty into a vile game of survival of the fittest. Americans are paid lip service to these noble ideals of leadership but little more. There almost has not been one day that has passed in decades that some government official, president or lawmaker has not been caught doing something illegal or "improper." Yet, looking back on the number of obvious violations versus the number of known prosecutions for said violations, one will notice a strange hypocrisy: If any prosecutions occurred, they usually consisted of jailing some low-ladder, mid-level flunky rather than the powerful elite masters he or she was working for. ……"

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 2/14/00 Nat Hentoff "…. While there is an increasing distaste for the president across the land, most of it has to do with his Monica Lewinsky trysts rather than the impeachment proceedings. Mr. Clinton's constitutional violations have largely receded in many peoples' memories. And Mr. Clinton himself continues to proclaim, as he did on PBS's Jim Lehrer News Hour Jan. 26, that "I believe I defended the Constitution and the presidency against a serious threat." He invokes, as does his sometime resident defense attorney, Mrs. Clinton, "a right-wing conspiracy." Mr. Lehrer failed to ask this most shameless of all our presidents to respond to the fact that he is the first American in history to be held in contempt by a federal district judge. Judge Susan Webber Wright from Arkansas said that Mr. Clinton's unabashed lying in his deposition in the Paula Jones case violated "this court's orders by giving false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process . . . He has engaged in . . . conduct that undermines the integrity of the judicial system."….."Clinton engaged in a pattern of criminal behavior and obsessive public lying, the tendency of which was to disparage, undermine, and even subvert the judicial system of the United States, the American ideology of the rule of law, and the role and office of the President." Mr. Posner also cites Mr. Clinton's "obstruction of justice . . . . which includes perjury, when committed in either a civil or criminal proceeding." Do you remember all those legal experts on cable television - and of course, the president's then-White House counsel Charles Ruff - who assured us that the president had been truthful in his grand jury testimony?….."

The Houston Chronicle/Viewpoints F W Lang "….. I have lived almost 80 years in America, a veteran of World War II. I remember America with pride. Fine young men I have known have died, hopefully to make it a better place to live. But I'm not aware that this has been accomplished. For years we have witnessed excessive violence in the media and, in our schools, the loss of parental authority, vile language, pornography, sexual perversion (to the level of our White House), binge drinking in the highest educational institutions and the dumbing down of education at all levels. There is more: A growing and consuming greed and self-interest exhibited in increased addictions to gambling and to a drug culture that is costing us billions annually. Last but not least, we now have a society that provides the highest monetary rewards for the least valuable services. If these immoral depredations continue to thrive, our flag will be more representative if we replace the stars with dollar signs. And perhaps we'll have to change the color of the flag's stripes to reflect the diversity of which we are so proud, but which can also cause us to lose sight of the goals of our Founders: a United States of America….."

Brockton (MA) Enterprise 2/26/00 Paul Salters "…….... I'm becoming less optimistic about the inherent wisdom of the American people. I'm beginning to agree with the historian John Lukacs that we may be heading for a new dark age. Barbarism is on the rise. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the stuff the entertainment industry is serving up. Hollywood, however, is probably following, not leading, the people. The real corrupters are the intellectuals. These people, with their own unaided intellect, are always beaching themselves on Fantasy Island, far from the civilizing influence of reason and common sense. Their nihilism is filtering down to the masses of people, insulating them from higher truths and self restraint. Society is far coarser today than it was only 30 years ago......."

ABC Raw News 2/25/00 AP "……The Utah House on Friday approved legislation that would limit sex education to the teaching of abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward. The measure, approved 40-27, bans any discussion of birth control in public schools. The House also passed an amendment that would require students to be taught that "any sexual relations outside of marriage constitutes criminal conduct." The bill now goes to the Senate. ……. "

Uexpress 2/23/00 Joseph Sobrasn "……Two years ago the conservative publishing house Regnery released the biggest-selling book in its history, "Unlimited Access" by Gary Aldrich. Aldrich, a veteran FBI agent, had been assigned to do security checks in the Clinton White House. Not only did he find the Clinton people rude, arrogant, e