THE CASE FOR THROWING THE BUMS OUT

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Patriot Vol. 06 No. 44 Digest | 03 November 2006

THE FOUNDATION

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." — Samuel Adams

PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE

The case for throwing the bums out

"The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America's children," said would-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

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recently. "I don't mean to imply my male colleagues will have any less integrity... but I don't know that a man can say that as easily as a woman can."

There you have it—the Democrats' "New Direction for America"

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from the woman who would soon be third in line to the American presidency. This makes us wonder, of course: Did Ms. Pelosi simply botch some sort of joke, or did she really mean that a Democrat-led 110th Congress will be a Congress in the hands of children? If so, doesn't she owe America's adults an apology?

Even more unusual than Pelosi's grandiloquence is the uncommon agreement of many at opposite ends of the political spectrum — liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans — on one crucial point: If President George W. Bush and the GOP lose majorities in Congress, it's because they deserve to. Oddly enough, the critics are correct.

They're correct because our Republican President and Republican majorities in the House and Senate have failed us. They've failed to push for meaningful tax reform, even when Tom Delay's FairTax proposal and Dick Armey's flat-tax legislation appeared as viable options

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They've all but ignored entitlement reform, even when faced with Social Security insolvency

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At the same time, President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress have tap-danced around immigration reform

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, customizing their position to the constituency being addressed. If all that isn't bad enough, this Republican administration and legislature have presided over the most massive expansion of the federal government in living memory. In short, they have squandered their conservative mandate

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Republicans have, however, focused their efforts on a constitutional amendment — that's an amendment to the Constitution — when existing law has already decided the homosexual "marriage" issue smartly. They have touted an under-funded, over-hyped and possibly "virtual" border fence that should do a fine job of keeping dangerous Americans from sneaking into Mexico. Last and quite possibly least, Republicans have banned the export of horsemeat for human consumption, thus eliminating one of our most satisfying exports to France.

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We don't suggest that President Bush and the Republican majorities have done nothing right. The administration's 2001-2003 tax cuts were important for taxpayers and the economy, if not aggressively conservative. In addition, the President's judicial appointments

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, stalwartly defended by Republican senators, have been admirable. This commitment to placing constitutional constructionists on the federal bench may prove the most enduring and important achievement of the Bush administration. Finally, Republican prosecution of America's war against Islamic fascism, including the war in Iraq, has been profound in its scope and implications for U.S. security.

Yet even these fine achievements — and they are fine achievements—do not escape serious qualification. There have been tax cuts, yes, but no talk of comprehensive tax reform, once a staple of the party platform. Judicial appointments have emphasized constructionism, but there has been no accompanying effort to restrain judicial activism. The administration's ad hoc policies of de-Ba'athification and the demobilization of the Iraqi army can also be second-guessed.

Yet were Democrats to gain a majority, what would they have in store for us? Answers to the problems we face as a nation? Hardly.

Last week

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, this column considered the likely tenor of a Democrat majority in Congress, given the populist-heavy and entitlement-ready character of their legislative proposals in the 109th Congress — but that's not the half of it. The first 100 days of a Democrat-majority Congress—the traditional post-election honeymoon period — would have all the charm and grace of John Kerry doing standup at the local VFW.

For starters, Democrats have vowed probes (read: witch hunts) on everything from Hurricane Katrina to Humvee armor; from terrorist surveillance to page assailants. Even the Associated Press described the Democrats' probable kangaroo courts as "made for television" events.

Domestically, Democrats are set to ramp up entitlement spending, increase the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to a small-business-crushing, job-killing $7.25, and effect the beginning of the end of the Bush tax cuts. Internationally, congressional Democrats would "reassess" U.S. security commitments abroad, quickly reaching their foregone conclusion for a speedy and complete troop withdrawal from Iraq, the very debate of which emboldens our jihadist enemy.

The icing on the Demo cake would be to impeach the President and to use the power of subpoena on everyone from Halliburton to the Heritage Foundation, despite assurances from Ms. Pelosi not to do so.

While it's important that conservatives not turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of the Republican leadership, it's far more important that we not turn leadership over to the blind. Tax cuts may not have been tax reform, but they're not new taxes. Liberal judges may not yet face impeachment, but they do face a greater likelihood of reversal by an increasingly conservative Supreme Court. Aspects of our Iraq policy may have been poorly executed, but better to defend America imperfectly than not to defend her at all.

We don't need fewer Republicans; we just need fewer Republicans like the ones we've got. Indeed, Rep. Mike Pence and the Republican Study Committee

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continue to provide the finest example of what Republican leadership can—and must—offer.

Back in February, Rep. Pence outlined the principles he shares with his fellow conservatives in a speech entitled "Another Time for Choosing,"

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which echoed the central theme of Ronald Reagan's famous 1964 speech "A Time for Choosing."

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As Reagan said, "Our task now is not to sell a philosophy, but to make the majority of Americans, who already share that philosophy, see that modern conservatism offers them a political home. We are not a cult; we are members of a majority. Let's act and talk like it. The job is ours and the job must be done. If not by us, who? If not now, when?"

At the time of Pence's speech, we concluded

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with sad accuracy that conservatives' job would be much easier if President Bush would take the lead. When he needed to create a domestic "coalition of the willing," he failed to articulate policies in such a way as to build national consensus. At this critical juncture in our nation's history, it's time to showcase conservative ideology, not bury it.

Put another way, it is the restoration of leadership — of national figures who can carry a message with vision, dignity and articulation — that America needs most. If Republicans have failed to meet this need, a Democrat majority will only make it more urgent.

If tossing them out on their posteriors is precisely what these Republicans deserve, we as citizens can hardly deserve what the Democrats would offer us instead. Think long and hard about this before Tuesday.

Quote of the week

"Conservatives of conscience must focus on the stakes of the upcoming elections... Republican defeat isn't inevitable in 2006 if conservatives realize the costs of surrendering the political battlefield to the irresponsible left." — Michael Medved

On cross-examination

"The Democrats offer no hope. It's that simple. The belief system of the Democratic Party is predicated on the assumption that there is no hope. There is no hope that the poor and aged will ever be able to live financially independent of government aid. There is no hope that we can still create a lasting peaceful democracy in Iraq. There is no hope that we can guard our borders and remain the beacon of light on the hill... It is the Achilles-esque flaw of the Democrats to assume that Americans want everything handed to them. This misguided notion has subsumed their entire ideology and become the platter upon which they would serve us our gilded final meal, a slice of apple pie from the Tree of Knowledge. So on Election Day, remember: the Republicans cannot give you an easy life free from worry and work. But they can offer you hope. And that is more than the Democrats ever could." — Doug Patton

Open query

"If Democrats win, the incoming Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Representative John Conyers, has said he wants to impeach both President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney. I have my differences with President Bush, but do we really want our President dragged through an impeachment process in front of the world when we have a worldwide enemy, Islamofascists, whose devotion is to death? Will the impeachment of our President help us defeat this deadly enemy?" — Paul Weyrich

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

Midterm Showdown

Heading into the final days of the campaign, Republicans maintain that they will be able to finish strong, and Democrats are convinced that the future belongs to them. Money flows freely. The Demo campaign committees have raised more money overall than the GOP committees, and there are three dozen Demo challengers who have raised at least $1 million to unseat Republican incumbents. The recent influx of cash has allowed Democrats to widen the number of toss-up races in the House and has made pivotal Senate races in Tennessee, Missouri and Virginia too close to call. Republicans still hold the advantage, though, spending nearly twice as much money to keep their majority in the House and Senate. The RNC also has more cash on hand, holding a $17-million advantage over the DNC.

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Sadly, Republican campaigners are working hard to turn out their base largely by appealing to voters' worst fears. President Bush has noted that America will clearly be less safe, if Democrats take over, by focusing on their record. Votes cast by the Demo leadership on national-security legislation indicate that they want to retreat from Iraq, repeal the Patriot Act and strip the executive branch of its power to arrest and interrogate terrorist suspects.

Dick Cheney has warned conservatives that Charles Rangel, likely head of the House Ways and Means Committee in the event of a Demo victory, intends to raise taxes. Rangel pretended to be indignant at this comment, but his claim that "everything is on the table" when it comes to tax reform is a not-so-subtle clue to Democrats' intention to engage in class warfare should they win on 7 November.

The media has picked its Election Day winners

The major network news has focused more coverage on this year's midterms than at any other time in history, and that coverage has overwhelmingly favored the Democrats. A report released recently by the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs revealed that 77 percent of news accounts aired between 5 September and 22 October favored Democrat candidates and lawmakers. There were 167 election news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs during this period, compared to 35 such stories during the same period in 2002.

This should come as no surprise. Leftmedia darlings like Katie Couric and Brian Williams have redefined the job of the network-news anchor. This new breed editorializes and speculates on how Republicans have misled and angered the public, followed by spoon-fed interviews with carefully selected liberals to "prove" their point. Fortunately, fewer people are watching these Demo mouthpieces every year.

John Kerry hits the campaign trail... for the GOP

Senator John Kerry

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, that smug limo-leftist, took another cheap shot at uniformed American Patriots in Iraq. Kerry insists, "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." (If you haven't seen it yet, here is the picture

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Kerry was supposed to be stumping for fellow Democrats this week, but candidates in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Iowa promptly cancelled on Mr. Foot-in-Mouth.

When asked by House and Senate leaders to apologize, Kerry said, "I apologize to no one... My statement yesterday was a botched joke."

That was until Senator Clinton, whom Kerry will battle for the Demos' presidential nomination in '08, chastised Kerry's words as "inappropriate." Only that prompted Kerry to offer up a faux apology: "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended."

In the words of VP Dick Cheney, "[Kerry] was for the joke before he was against it."

Kerry, who loathes the military even more than Bill Clinton, has a sordid history of treasonous remarks about uniformed Patriots, beginning with his 1971 congressional testimony

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, when he claimed American troops had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam..." We suppose all that was a botched joke, too.

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If so, Kerry must have been trying for laughs again last year, when he said, "American soldiers [are] going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the—of—the historical customs, religious customs."

If you believe Kerry's comments undermine support for our troops and constitute "conduct unbecoming" for a U.S. senator and Democrat Party leader, please sign the "Petition for Investigation and Indictment John Kerry for acts of treason"

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Kerry won't apologize? He's just the latest.

In a twist of strategy that boggles the mind, Democrats have gone out of their way to disparage the U.S. military

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in advance of next week's elections.

In Arizona, Republican State Representative Jonathon Paton was called up to go to Iraq with his Army Reserve Intelligence Unit while he was campaigning for re-election. Responding to the higher of two duties, the defense of his country, Rep. Paton left for Iraq several weeks ago. Pima County Democratic Party chairwoman Donna Branch-Gilby, working to elect Demo candidate Clarence Boykins, has attacked him for missing scheduled candidate debates and argued that he is not worthy of public office because he will miss much of the 2007 legislative session. Paton's opponents call him "irresponsible" for volunteering for active duty. How on earth do these people sleep at night?

Perhaps we should ask Rep. John Murtha, whose unrepentant, cynical criticism of America's military involvement in Iraq offers much fodder for jihadist propaganda. Last week he called the Iraq war a "failed policy wrapped in an illusion." This week, Murtha came out swinging in defense of John Kerry's "botched" joke. Murtha maintains that he supports the troops, but every time he states that we cannot win in Iraq, he encourages the enemy to hang tough. It is the enemy, not the Bush administration, that is putting American troops in harm's way.

Such fever-pitched disparagement of our troops has become a source of aid and comfort to our enemies, and enough is enough. We are compelled to call these Democrats what they are — traitors

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No hanging chads but potential problems raise concerns

Recent research by independent groups predicts a number of voting problems on 7 November, thanks to the high number of close races, confusion over new voting regulations and the implementation of new voting technology.

The Help America Vote Act, enacted with much fanfare in 2002, sought to provide funds to improve voting equipment. More than $3 billion was spent between 2003 and 2005 to bring states up to speed with the latest voting technology, but 10 states have been flagged as sources of potentially serious problems.

In this year's midterm elections, 40 percent of voters are expected to use some version of electronic voting machines that have touch screens similar to ATMs and automatically tabulate votes. Some states, including Maryland and New Mexico, have reversed decisions to use these machines because studies have demonstrated the software can manipulate voting totals and leave no trace of tampering. Ohio and Pennsylvania, homes to several pivotal House and Senate races, are sticking to the new machines, despite studies that have questioned their accuracy. These studies are dubious, however, because they do not take into account the physical security that will protect the machines themselves from being handled by unauthorized personnel. Also, paper accounting of the machines' activity can serve as a verifier of the votes actually entered.

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The fact is that the new machines will be as open to fraud only as are the people chosen to handle them. In and of themselves, they do not make voting less secure. Actually, they make vote tabulation more reliable and should not be dismissed out of hand because of the extreme unlikelihood that they could provide inaccurate results.

NATIONAL SECURITY

Soothing ruffled Iraqi feathers

U.S. and Iraqi officials tried to ease growing tensions between the two countries after last week's dust-up between U.S Ambassador Khalilzad and Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki. The disagreement involved timetables for Iraqi progress in ending the country's continuing violence and whether the U.S. is meddling in Iraqi internal affairs. President Bush held a 50-minute videoconference on Saturday with al-Maliki, seeking to smooth ruffled feathers. While described as cordial, the meeting, the second between the leaders in twelve days, saw al-Maliki make clear that he wanted to move quickly toward Iraqi command and control over its forces operating in Baghdad and elsewhere.

Later in the week, al-Maliki continued flexing muscle, persuading the U.S. to dismantle roadblocks manned by U.S. troops around Sadr City in Baghdad, stronghold of the Mahdi Army and anti-U.S. Shi'ite Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr. This is a potentially worrisome move since al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, has been criticized for being soft on renegade Shi'ite militias. In a strategic sense, however, it makes sense. Al-Maliki is allowed to look strong in the eyes of the militias, showing his independence from the U.S., while giving the Shi'ites something they want. Strengthening al-Maliki's hand is in everyone's interest.

More worrisome is a newly released congressional report claiming thousands of weapons the U.S. has provided to Iraq cannot be accounted for, including parts and manuals for others. If true, this is unacceptable and must be addressed before those weapons are used against U.S. troops. However, in the week before an election, we're not ready to accept this one at face value just yet.

Pyongyang comes to the table

On Tuesday, North Korea agreed to return to six-party talks on its nuclear weapons program after the U.S. agreed to move discussions of financial sanctions against Pyongyang to the periphery of the multilateral talks. However, the White House insisted that the U.S. and other countries would continue working to implement all of the trade restrictions the UN imposed on the North last month. That North Korea returned to the talks may be an indication that restrictions now in place are already working, since North Korea explained its return as an effort to open its frozen overseas bank accounts, about the only source of hard currency the impoverished communist nation has. With so much now at stake in the region, it is hoped that the countries included in the talks, including Japan, China, Russia and South Korea, will ensure North Korea's compliance with any new agreement. Also critical is ensuring that the North does not again use talks to stall, as happened with the Clinton administration's 1994 Agreed Framework, which ultimately enabled Pyongyang to advance the weapons program it boasts today.

Iran protests with military games

As predicted in last week's Digest, Iran kicked off military maneuvers on Wednesday as the UN Security Council was debating sanctions on Iran's nuclear program. Iranian forces fired half a dozen missiles on Thursday morning, including a Shahab-3 MRBM capable of hitting Israel. Look for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy forces to begin their part of the exercise by this weekend, with missile launches from the shore and from missile boats. As with other recent exercises, we expect Iranian exaggerations about their military capabilities. Remember the submarine-launched-missile claim in August?

In case anyone missed the reason behind the exercise, as if that reason wasn't transparent enough, a Guard Corps press release stated, "...Iran may never give in to sanctions, plots and pressures exerted by the enemies... the Iranian nation is always prepared to defend the country and that it may not give up even an iota of its right of gaining access to peaceful nuclear technology."

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

What are Charlie's plans for taxes?

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) has promised to retire if Democrats don't win the House majority next Tuesday. Rangel has been in Congress since 1971, and he has placed his indelible stamp on Capitol Hill. However, if the Democrats win, he will become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, giving him license to put his hand in your pocket. Despite his feigned displeasure at comments that he will work to raise taxes, Rangel is a skilled class warrior. He praises the Bush tax cuts that have brought relief to lower-tier taxpayers, but he has his eye on raising taxes for the rich and for corporations that in his view make too much money. What is worrisome about Rangel's rhetoric is the flexible definition of "rich," and his and his fellow Democrats' plans for raising corporate taxes. Taxing business will lead to higher consumer prices and fewer jobs, but liberals like Rangel never look that far ahead. They have an ambitious spending agenda, which includes $20 billion more for college loans and grants and $29 billion for health care, not to mention other entitlements. There are two things that can prevent this from happening: Republican victory on 7 November, or, barring that, President Bush's veto of any attempts to chisel away at individual and corporate income.

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School tuition continues to skyrocket

As we have often noted in the past, a rise in federal aid for schools and their students roughly parallels the increase in tuition. If schools know they can get the money from the government, there is no incentive to be frugal or competitive. Over the past 20 years, tuition at four-year private schools has increased 79 percent in real dollars, and public universities 122 percent. During the same period, however, the actual costs paid by students rose only 42 percent for private schools (from $14,204 to $20,254, in real dollars), and actually declined by 21 percent in public ones (from $3,420 to $2,683). So, if tuition price tags are rising faster than what students actually pay, who's footing the bill? The taxpayer, of course.

If that's not bad enough, other factors also contribute to bloated tuition rates. Among them, too many schools causing too much competition for students has resulted in schools inflating their budgets with attractive new programs and degrees. Competition for well-known professors drives up the cost of faculty salaries. Many states have lowered appropriations for education, despite the promises that lotteries bring, leaving schools themselves (and therefore students) with the bill. Demand is up, with more students attending college, meaning more material needs for institutions to accommodate growing student bodies. There are many reasons for the high cost of services rendered, but the number one solution remains phased out federal aid. That should be Economics 101.

GAO stages 'Fiscal Wake-up Tour'

David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General and head of the Government Accountability Office, has begun a Fiscal Wake-up Tour traveling road show of liberal and conservative economists to warn voters they must tell Washington it's time to steer the nation clear of its impending macroeconomic meltdown. What meltdown, you ask? This month's government statistics shows the economy created 92,000 non-farm payroll jobs in October, taking unemployment to a staggeringly low 4.4 percent. Though the Bush tax cuts revitalized the nation's economy, says Mr. Walker, the nation is facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis from unchecked Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid entitlement spending that cries out for reform.

The "demographic tsunami" described by Mr. Walker is the result of irresponsible politicians who recklessly promised entitlement benefits the nation cannot afford, especially when the baby-boom generation begins retiring and drawing upon them. Fiscal 2006 numbers show federal spending will eventually grow faster than federal income, and the growing burden of entitlements will make spending an even bigger problem in the future, one that even the current pro-growth tax policies cannot overcome. Recent tax-revenue gains of 11.8 percent illustrate the pro-growth impact of lower tax rates, but the accompanying 7.4-percent spending increase must be reigned in, as past spending has already created a withering fiscal burden.

If politicians had strictly construed the Constitution in the first place, these unconstitutional entitlements would not now exist to drive the nation over the fiscal cliffs of budgetary annihilation.

CULTURE

Sen. Kennedy and the KGB

In a letter dated 14 May 1983, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov wrote General Secretary of the Communist Party Yuri Andropov regarding our very own Sen. Ted Kennedy's offer to assist Soviet leaders with a counter public-relations strategy to President Ronald Reagan's successful foreign policy. Former U.S. Sen. John Tunney repeatedly traveled to Moscow on Kennedy's behalf hoping to strike up a partnership with Andropov, including arranging some TV spots for the Soviets to propagandize Americans. Fortunately for America, Andropov died before this partnership came to fruition, and, once again, Kennedy was proved ever so wrong.

According to recently released KGB documents, Tunney also traveled to Moscow in March 1980, meeting with KGB agents. Agent Vasiliy Mitrokhin defected to Britain in 1992 and smuggled out copious notes of these meetings. Kennedy, battling Jimmy Carter for the Democrat nomination, thought that Carter was too belligerent with the Soviets and had caused souring relations. Mitrokhin noted that due to Kennedy's disagreement with the Carter White House, the senator took foreign policy in his own hands in order to force Carter to act accordingly. Kennedy couldn't help himself — actually fighting to win a war remains a foreign concept to white flag liberals.

Far worse, Kennedy and Tunney are likely guilty of treason — violating Article three, Section three of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Code and the Logan Act of 1799, barring citizens from giving aid and comfort to the enemy or from engaging in diplomacy with foreign governments in an effort to undermine U.S. policy. The junior senator from Massachusetts, one John F. Kerry, also remains guilty for meeting with the North Vietnamese in 1970.

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Update: "Petition for Investigation and Indictment" of John F. Kerry for treason

In recent months, we have received thousands of inquiries about The Patriot's "Petition for Investigation and Indictment" of John Kerry in reference to his anti-American activities during the Vietnam War. According to legal experts, Kerry's meetings with enemy agents from Communist North Vietnam on multiple occasions between 1970 and 1972 are not covered under Jimmy Carter's amnesty as outlined in EO 4483.

For that reason, on 22 October 2004, we delivered to then U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft a "Petition for Investigation and Indictment" calling on the Department of Justice to determine conclusively whether Kerry's actions, in direct violation of UCMJ (Article 104 part 904), U.S. Code (18 USC Sec. 2381 and 18 USC Sec. 953) and other applicable laws and acts of Congress, constitute treason, and disqualify him from any future campaign for any national office. To read the text of the petitioners' request, link here

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We plan to pursue this issue, as its endorsers have requested, to its resolution. We fully expect an answer from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but the Justice Department has so far refused to take any action on the petition. In reality, given the political sensitivity of this request, we don't expect any action until after the 2006 midterm elections at the earliest. To expedite our request, we are forming alliances with other groups like the Swift boat Vets, Vietnam Vets associations and POW groups, as well as moving forward with this legal challenge.

Nevertheless, the bottom line is we have no way of forcing the Justice Department's hand on this. Any movement to investigate Kerry would be perceived as "purely political," and thus the DoJ likely will not pursue it.

Nonetheless—we are loaded for bear and will make sure this issue is front and center should Kerry campaign for president again.

In the meantime, it's not too late to sign the petition

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We will update the number of signers each time we make official inquiry to determine the status of our request.

Memo to John Kerry: Where are those military service records you promised to release?

Not the title St. Louis wanted

While millions of St. Louis Cardinal fans were still celebrating their World Series victory over the Detroit Tigers last week, another title was given to the Gateway City — the dubious distinction (once again) of being the most dangerous city in America. St. Louis, after spending millions to revitalize the downtown area, including the Cardinals' new ballpark, seems unable to shake the grip of crime. A study by Morgan Quitno Press looks at crime data in several categories (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft) and each crime is measured by level of danger. Cities are then ranked according to national average comparison. The FBI reports that crime rose 5.7 percent in the Midwest in 2005, which was three times higher than any other region.

Ironically, the city coming in as second most dangerous was — you guessed it — Detroit, Michigan. Who knew the World Series would turn out to be nothing more than a rumble? As illegal aliens occupy over 25 percent of U.S. prison cells, one might look at real immigration reform for some relief from crime.

Cloning on the ballot in Missouri

The stem-cell debate in Missouri is heating up with only days until voters decide whether or not to amend their constitution to allow taxpayer funding of what can accurately be called cloning. We're shocked — SHOCKED — to report that supporters of the amendment have been disingenuous about what will actually be allowed. The amendment supposedly prohibits cloning, saying, "...no person may clone or attempt to clone a human being," but reading the fine print shows that it in fact does allow cloning of embryos, all in the name of protecting embryonic-stem-cell research. Cathy Ruse, a spokeswoman for Missourians Against Human Cloning (MAHC), points out that the amendment "gives biotech firms the right to do somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which is the scientific term for cloning." SCNT is the process of placing the nucleus of a living cell into an enucleated egg, thereby creating an embryo — in this case, for the express purpose of being destroyed for research.

The amendment does prohibit fertilizing eggs with sperm in order to create embryos for destruction, as well as SCNT creating embryos to be placed in utero (reproductive cloning). Yet if embryonic stem cells are so promising, why not spend $30 million on the actual research instead of on a campaign to dupe the public? Voters in the "Show Me State" would be wise to stick to their state's motto—"show me" why taxpayers should fund unproven and destructive embryonic-stem-cell research.

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And last...

If John Kerry's "botched" joke this week wasn't a clear enough indication of Democrats' political (and moral) tone deafness, consider the "botched" trick played by Tom Connolly on Halloween. You'll remember Connolly, a former Demo nominee for governor of Maine, as the hatchet man tipping off the media to George Bush's DUI arrest just prior to the 2000 election.

Dressed as Osama bin Laden and armed with a replica rifle, fake dynamite and plastic grenades, Connolly stood atop a berm beside Interstate 295 during Portland's morning rush waving a sign saying, "I love Tabor." Police converged on Connolly and drew their weapons when he didn't respond to commands to lay down his rifle. He was then arrested. "There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up," Connolly later argued. "I don't know how it evaporated with the dawn." When it comes to Democrats and homeland security, we guess this "botched" joke about says it all.

Lex et Libertas—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world, and for their families, especially those of our fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who have died in defense of American liberty while prosecuting the war with Jihadistan.)

(My Note:  The Federalist is an old and respected conservative Christian publication. Their editors are Christians, and they are known for taking moral and Biblical stances. As examples, they are strongly against abortion, same sex marriage, and many other moral issues of today. A strong stance for them has always been GOD and country. If you haven't already noticed, they are always strong supporters of our armed services. Nearly every issue requests prayer and the Faith of our Founders in GOD remains a high priority for today and the future.)