Human Events back issues from January 2007:
Mitt Romney Defends His Record
Jan 08, 2007; ... Former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, a leading likely contender tor the Republican presidential nomination for 2008, took a break from his family Christmas vacation in Utah to talk exclusively to HUMAN EVENTS Online Editor Robert Bluey about the War on Terror and his political ...
Reform Entitlement Spending Without Tax Hikes
Jan 08, 2007; ... Conservatives Must Continue Fight for Smaller Government America is at a fundamental crossroads in regard to domestic economic policy. At stake is the root of the American Dream and our nation's historic prosperity, our very capitalist economic system itself. Also at stake are the ...
Base Environmental Policies on Liberty, Not Socialism
Jan 08, 2007; ... This is the eigth in an occasional series of exclusive articles in which leading conservatives who served in the Reagan Administration explain how they believe the principles of Reagan conservatism ought to be applied today and in the coming years. This week, Becky Norton Dunlop, who served as ...
Speaker Pelosi Offers Big Liberal Promises
Jan 08, 2007; ... The Democrats' First 100 Hours Democrats, led by newly elected Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have made big promises about their first 100 legislative hours in the House of Representatives, so let's look at what they're planning. The exiting Republican Congress failed to pass 10 ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 08, 2007; ... * WILL BUSH LEARN FROM FORD? Even though many Republicans often disagreed with President Gerald Ford because of his animosity toward cultural conservatism and some of his appointments such as that of John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court, conservatives on Capitol Hill nonetheless recalled that ...
Questions for a New Iraq Strategy
Jan 08, 2007; ... On Christmas Eve 2003. three U.S. soldiers died near Saniarra on Iraq's Highway One when their Humvee hit an improvised explosive device (IED). Three years later, on Christmas Day 2006, three more U.S. soldiers died in Baghdad when an IED detonated near their vehicle. Read the ...
The Democratic Party: A Vast Sleeper Cell
Jan 08, 2007; ... Fortunately tor liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so h didn't seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half staff. Also, Saddam's death made it less of a snub when Harry Reid skipped Ford's funeral. The passing of Gerald ...
Requiem for an Accidental President
Jan 08, 2007; ... Gerald Ford was not ready to be President on Aug. 9. 1974. hut that is precisely what history forced upon him. In fact, only four days earlier, when the now infamous "smoking gun" lape of Richard Nixon's orchestrating a cover-up of the Watergate break-in was made public, did it dawn on Ford that ...
A Reluctant Vote for Gerald Ford
Jan 08, 2007; ... In 1976, following a hard-fought GOP primary in which Ronald Reagan narrowly lost the Republican nomination, HUMAN EVENTS begrudgingly endorsed President Gerald Ford for re-election in his campaign against Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter. What follows are excerpts from the Oct. 30, 1976, ...
TOP 10
Jan 08, 2007; ... The National Conservative Weekly^sub ®^ * Est. 1944 www.HumanEvents.com Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times in 2006 Ranked by Times Watch, a project of the Media Research Center 1 The Times Cripples Another Terrorist Surveillance Program In June, the ...
Time for an Alternative Education Plan
Jan 08, 2007; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill January 8 marks the fifth anniversary of President Bush's signature education reform initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Soon, the new Democratic-controlled Congress will embark on the ninth federal foray into the world of ...
Hillary Watch
Jan 08, 2007; ... A TENUOUS LEAD. The American Research Group, Inc., a polling firm based in New Hampshire, recently polled registered Democrats in four important primary states on their views on potential Democratic presidential candidates. Hillary leads in all four states (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina ...
Sharia in Minneapolis
Jan 08, 2007; ... Jihad Watch The Somali jihad is over for now, but it still has supporters worldwide-including within the United States. The Southern Somali city of Kismayo has fallen to a combined force of Ethiopian and Somali troops. The Somali Supreme Islamic Courts Council regime ruled ...
The Best Notable Quotables of 2006
Jan 08, 2007; ... The 19th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting Here are excerpts from the Media Research Center's annual awards tor the year's worst reporting, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2006 (December 2005 through November 2006). To determine this ...
Why Illegal Immigration Is About to Get Worse
Jan 08, 2007; ... A voter trying to affect the course of government is a little like a pilot trying to affect the course of hand-to-hand combat with a 500pound bomb. Just as there is simply no place in the battle that the pilot can strike without inflicting casualties on his own side, there is no candidate in a ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 08, 2007; ... Ari's Out "I don't want my children to grow up to be Redskins funs!" With his signature humor, former White House Press secretary Ari Fleischer used that quip to explain why-contrary to mounting rumors in Washington and his home turf of Westchester County-he will not run for ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jan 08, 2007; ... 1. President Ford's state funeral was held last week. Who was the last former President to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol? 2. When Ford became Vice President in 1973, who succeeded him as Republican leader of the House? 3. George H.W. Bush, who delivered one of the eulogies for ...
Raising Taxes Would Doom GOP in 2008
Jan 15, 2007; ... There are many mistakes the Democrats might make in the next two years to lose control of the House and Senate. There is one big mistake the Republicans can make that would keep the Democrats in charge of the Congress and hand them the White House: Raise taxes. The next two years ...
Dems Aim to Block Troop Funds
Jan 15, 2007; ... Micromanagement Endangers Forces Dead set against President Bush's plan to inject a surge of American forces into Baghdad to quell increased sectarian violence. Democrats are crafting a way starve the mission of funding without appearing unsupportive of U.S. forces. Led by Sen ....
Give Reagan Democrats Cause to Vote Republican Again
Jan 15, 2007; ... This is the ninth in an occasional series of exclusive articles in which leading conservatives who worked for Ronald Reagan explain how they believe the principles of Reagan conservalism ought to be applied today and in the coming years. This week. David Keene, who served as Southern regional ...
Obama's Voting Record Belies Moderate Image
Jan 15, 2007; ... In his televised response to President Bush's Iraq speech last Wednesday. Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) told Larry King he would be making his decision on a run for the White House "fairly soon." If he does announce a bid for the Democratic ticket, because of his thin legislative two-year record ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 15, 2007; ... * WELCOME DRILLING: Conservatives were very pleased by the news last week that President Bush had lifted a ban on gas and oil drilling in Alaska's Bristol Bay. The President's decision allows the Department of the Interior to open 5.6 million acres (2.24 million hectares) in the waters ...
Problems With McCain-Maliki Plan
Jan 15, 2007; ... Everybody who is not a part of the let's-leave-Iraq-now-and-to-hell-with-the consequences crowd seems to agree that the key to stabilizing Iraq, so we can prudently bring our troops home, is forging a political reconciliation between Iraq's Shiite-dominated government and its Sunni ...
Reaganite Tax Policy Creates Jobs
Jan 15, 2007; ... A common accusation hurled at the Republican majority leading up Io the 2006 elections was that it had abandoned the principles it used to get there. This wasn't the party of Reagan any more, we were told. Leaving the issues of foreign policy aside for the moment, however, we can clearly see ...
Stripper Lied, White Boys Fried
Jan 15, 2007; ... About a month after members of the Duke lacrosse team were falsely accused of raping a stripper last year. 88 members of the Duke faculty fanned the flames of hysteria by signing a letter announcing that they were "listening" to students "who know themselves to be objects of racism and ...
Gun-Control Activists Resurrect Agenda
Jan 15, 2007; ... In recent years, America's 80 million law-abiding firearm owners effectively countered certain political and legislative attempts to undermine and perhaps eviscerate the individual 2nd Amendment civil right of citizens to keep and bear arms. Acting through a number of national, state and ...
Nancy vs. Newt Exposes Media Bias
Jan 15, 2007; ... Anyone remembering the ascent of Newt Gingrich to House speaker in 1995 surely noticed a difference between media coverage of that historic event and Nancy Pelosi's taking the gavel back for the Democrats in 2007. One had all the joy of a child's funeral. The other was "New Year's Rockin' ...
Ethics Reform Bill Exempts Most Earmarks
Jan 15, 2007; ... Congress is poised to pass a sweeping ethics reform bill that supposedly will end the "culture of corruption" epitomized by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but Senate Republicans say it's a toothless hill because the new restrictions would not apply to the large majority of pet projects ...
Top 10 Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses
Jan 15, 2007; ... Ranked by Young America's Foundation (www.yaf.org) College costs average more than $31,000 a year. This list highlights the most troubling instances of leftist activism's supplanting traditional scholarship in our nation's colleges and universities. The growth of these courses gobbles up ...
Democratic Agenda Running on Empty
Jan 15, 2007; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Several weeks ago, I addressed the shrinking Democratic policy agenda ("Legislative Lowdown," Dec. 4, 2006, page 10). Two developments last week reinforce the growing sense that the vaunted "100 hour" legislative freight train is running on ...
Hillary Watch
Jan 15, 2007; ... WE FEEL THE SAME WAY. Newsday reports that when Vice President Dick Cheney swore in Hillary, he looked downright sick: "Cheney, whom both Clintons have portrayed as a threat to representative democracy, seemed to contort his body as far as possible from the Clintons as photographers snapped ...
Pakistan Bans the Truth
Jan 15, 2007; ... The government of Pakistan has banned my book The Truth About Muhammad, confiscating all copies and translations. Why? Because it contains "objectionable material" about Muhammad. Said Shahid Ahmed, counselor of community affairs at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington: "The book is very, very ...
The Mess at State
Jan 15, 2007; ... Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Republicans and Democrats alike, were alarmed last week that John Negroponte was leaving as Director of National Intelligence (DNl) after less than two years to become deputy secretary of State. By way of explanation, he informed one Republican ...
Leftists in Search of a Permanent Democratic Majority
Jan 15, 2007; ... George Soros's Democracy Alliance Despondent after George W. Bush won re-election, a small group of billionaire Democrats met in San Francisco in December 2004 to reflect on John Kerry's failure to capture the White House. George Soros, Progressive Insurance Chairman Peter B. Lewis, and ...
'Virtual' Laws Won't Stop Illegals
Jan 15, 2007; ... December was a bad month for the advocates of amnesty and guest workers. On Tuesday. December 12, the Bush Administration finally cracked down, 20 years late, on a few thousand of the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who are illegally employed in the United States. This crackdown ...
HOUSE ROLL CALL
Jan 15, 2007; ... House Agrees to Democrats' PAYGO Spending Rule On January 1, by a vote of 280 to 152, the House voted to approve rules that include a Democratic version of the "Pay-as-You-Go" (PAYGO) approach to spending. Forty-eight Republicans crossed party lines to vote with the Democrat majority to ...
New Book Details Militant Islam in America
Jan 15, 2007; ... Steven Emerson Reveals Network in U.S. New Book Details Militant Islam in America Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the U.S. By Steven Emerson Prometheus Books, October 2006 $28.00, 535 pp. Are you aware of the al Qaeda plot to assassinate President Bush that was uncovered ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 15, 2007; ... Wadhams to Take Chair Less than two months after the last candidate whose campaign he managed lost one of the two closest Senate races in the country, Dick Wadhams is proof that a prophet can he honored in his home: The 51-year-old Wadhams. who has managed nearly all the winning ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jan 15, 2007; ... 1. Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California has just become speaker of" the House. Who was the last Democratic speaker? 2. Whom did Pelosi succeed as House Democratic leader? 3. Pelosi's two immediate predecessors in her House district were a husband and wife. Can you name ...
Short Takes
Jan 15, 2007; ... Update on O'Brien: Last week, I reported the dramatic election of Philadelphia-area Republican State Rep. Dennis O'Brien as the new speaker of the state house of representatives by a "party line" vote of 105 to 97. But "party line" was an inaccurate way to characterize the victory. O'Brien ...
Conservative Forum
Jan 15, 2007; ... All correspondence for this feature should be addressed to Conservative Forum, HUMAM EVENTS, One Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 (e-mail: editors@HumanEvents.com). Letters to the editor intended for publication must be concise (300 words or less) and preferably limited to one ...
HumanEvents.com Top 10 Hits
Jan 15, 2007; ... 1. Rangel Kicks Cheney Outof Office 2. Pelosi Pride: First Woman Speaker Pats Self on Back-Repeatedly 3. Democrats Find It's Not Easy to Lead 4. Blinding NBC With Junk Science 5. Democrats' PAYGO Proposal Paves Way to Higher Taxes, More Spending 6 ....
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: John Bolton: UN Reform Remains Vital but Unlikely
Jan 22, 2007; ... Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton faced several uphill battles in his efforts to reform the UN into a fiscally accountable organization that responds fairly to American concerns. He had to fight a crusade against his first nomination, waged by liberal Democratic Senators ...
Bush Must Challenge Congress to Ensure Prosperity and Security
Jan 22, 2007; ... Cut Spending, Lower Taxes, Protect Defense Budget President Bush should focus his State of the Union speech on the two policy challenges that will define his legacy and the legacies of those now serving in Congress: winning the War on Terror and meeting the fiscal challenge posed by the ...
Hillary's 'Plan' to Cap and Cut Troops in Iraq
Jan 22, 2007; ... Clearly looking toward 2008, Hillary Clinton countered President Bush's decision to insert a surge of U.S. troops into Iraq with a plan instead to add troops to Afghanistan and cap the number of American troops stationed in Iraq before beginning a phased withdrawal. But she admitted that ...
Conservatives Demand No Tax Hike as Part of Entitlement Reform
Jan 22, 2007; ... In his State of the Union Address, President Bush is expected to pledge to balance the federal budget by 2012. a vow that conservatives believe means he could be tempted to make a compromise with congressional Democrats in which, like his father in 1990, he would break his campaign promise not ...
Capital Briefs
Jan 22, 2007; ... * DOBSON DOWN ON MCCAIN: After making nice with the Rev. Jerry Fa I well and speaking at the Liberty University commencement ceremony last May, GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.ï would like the support of conservative Christian leader James Dobson, but it seems the senator ...
Socializing Sexual Risk
Jan 22, 2007; ... A movement has started in this country that ought to permanently dispel the myth that liberals embrace a right to privacy. Here is the issue: Can the government compel a pre-teen girl to undergo an invasive procedure she does not want and may not need, whose long-term adverse affects ...
ArnoldCare: Anatomy of a Broken Promise
Jan 22, 2007; ... Schwarzenegger's Plan to Tax Business, Hospitals, and Doctors Gov. Schwarzenegger (R.-Calif.) has unveiled his long-awaited universal health care plan. A centerpiece of that plan is a new 4% payroll tax on any business with 10 or more employees, as well as a 4% tax on hospitals and a 2% ...
The Stripper Has No Clothes
Jan 22, 2007; ... Stuart Taylor, Jr., the liberal but brilliant legal reporter for National Journal, described the New York Times' coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape case as "worse, perhaps, than the other recent Times embarrassments." For a newspaper that carries Maureen Dowd's column, that's saying ...
Defending Those Who Defend Us
Jan 22, 2007; ... AG Gonzalez Should Back Border Agents On Feb. 17. 2005. Border Patrol Agents lgnacio Ramos and Jose Compean were doing what they do everyday: patrolling our Southwest border. Little did they know that by doing their jobs to the best of their ability, their lives would dramatically change ...
Secular Left Pushes a New Bigotry
Jan 22, 2007; ... Liberals Attack Romney's Religion On Feb. 12, 2002, Denver Post columnist Woody Paige unleashed one of the most controversial columns in the history of his paper. His article blasted the Winter Olympics then underway as a "massive Mormon marketing scheme" and went on to lampoon the ...
Top 10 Labor Corruption Stories of 2006
Jan 22, 2007; ... The HUMAN EVENTS. TOP 10 The National Conservative Weekly® * Est. 1944 www.HumanEvents.com 1 Mexican Standoff To protest pending border-security legislation, Mexican ethnic politicians organized huge demonstrations early this spring in major U.S. cities ....
Despite Protests, RNC Accepts Martinez as General Chairman
Jan 22, 2007; ... For the third time in 36 years, the Republican National Committee will accept a shared leadership arrangement with a U.S. senator as party general chairman and an RNC member as the full-time chairman. Meeting at the Renaissance hotel in Washington D.C.. the 167-member RNC last Friday was to make ...
What's Worse Than Open Borders?
Jan 22, 2007; ... Look around you. When the U.S. is trespassed upon at will by 15 to 30 million illegal aliens, our border troops are under orders to flee from their posts if attacked, and the only thing upon which President Bush and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) agree is the need for amnesty for ...
Hillary Watch
Jan 22, 2007; ... HILLARY DOES THE MIDDLE EAST. Hillary just visited Iraq and Afghanistan, making her third trip to the region since the war began in early 2003. She called the situation there "heartbreaking" and told ABC News: "I don't know that the American people or the Congress at this point believe this ...
The Push to Outlaw Profiling
Jan 22, 2007; ... Jihad Watch Rep. Keith Ellison (D.-Minn.) has been named to the House Judiciary Committee. Ellison said: "I look forward to pursuing a progressive agenda in the committee, including the restoration of American citizens' civil liberties that have come under increasing attack over the past ...
Conservative Movement Needs New Leaders
Jan 22, 2007; ... Conservatism in America is in need of leaders who demonstrate fidelity to principle. The Republican Party, the conservative movement's partisan home, received a stern repudiation in the 2006 midterm elections. Many Republican elected officials were thrown out of office or denied advancement ....
Pataki's Presidential Bid Deserves Cement Shoes
Jan 22, 2007; ... As Governor, Gave New York Wild Spending, Corruption, Political Favoritism, Neglect This column is designed to drive the final railroad spike into the coffin of George Elmer Palaki's presidential ambitions. The Empire State's drowsy Republican governor drifted off January 1 after ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jan 22, 2007; ... Allard's Out As Republicans are beginning to cope with their minority status in the U.S. Senate, one of their 21 senators scheduled to face the voters in '08 last week was the first to announce that he will not run after all. As predicted in "Capital Briefs" last week, two-term ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jan 22, 2007; ... 1. It was recently reported that President Bush has spent a total of one year out of his six years as President at the presidential retreat known as Camp David. What was Camp David known as before receiving its present name? 2. What President renamed the retreat Camp David? 3 ....
Short Takes
Jan 22, 2007; ... A LITTLE TOO COINCIDENTAL In his brief challenge to Michigan Slate Republican Chairman Saul Anuzis last year, 3rd District GOP Chairman Dave Dishaw repeatedly insisted his insurgent race had nothing to do with John McCain's presidential efforts in the Water Wonderland. When I spoke to ...
Conservative Forum
Jan 22, 2007; ... All correspondence for this feature should be addressed to Conservative Forum, human events, One Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 (e-mail: editors@HumanEvents.com). Letters Io the editor intended for publication must be concise (300 words or less) and preferably limited to one ...
Democrats Remain Clueless on Energy Security
Jan 29, 2007; ... HUMAN EVENTS EXCLUSIVE The President was correct in the State of the Union Address last week: The U.S. is too dependent on foreign sources of energy, a necessary and vital component of national security. Government policies should do more to promote domestic energy production in all its ...
Bush Embraces Status Quo
Jan 29, 2007; ... State of the Union Address Offered Little to Conservatives Taking the editor's chair at HUMAN EVENTS last Monday, I looked forward to the State of the Union Address. Surely the President would come out strongly, proving that he and the Republicans had learned lessons from their 2006 ...