Human Events back issues from March 2007:
Hillary's Iraq Plan Would 'Devastate' Troops
Mar 05, 2007; ... As U.S troops become increasingly reliant on Iraqi security forces to take over duties in policing the provinces of Iraq, Hillary Rodham Clinton has introduced an aggressive plan to cut funding from our Iraqi allies. In a February 7 speech on the Senate floor, Clinton said that her plan ...
Leftist Greens Push Anti-Human Agenda
Mar 05, 2007; ... Let Them Eat Tofu! Even right-wingers who know that "global warming" is a crock do not seem to grasp what the tree-huggers are demanding. Liberals want mass starvation and human devastation. Forget the lunacy of the people who claim to tell us the precise temperature of planet ...
Should Warner Be Challenged From the Right in '08?
Mar 05, 2007; ... "Warner's always been a problem child," said one conservative Republican state legislator from Northern Virginia after his state's Republican U.S. senator for the past 29 years became one of only seven GOP senators to vote in favor of the Democrats' non-binding resolution opposing President ...
Polygraph Berger: Department of Justice Investigation Incomplete
Mar 05, 2007; ... President Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Berger has pleaded guilty to stealing classified documents from the National Archives, but the case is still not over. In a curt February 16 letter, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed a 60-page report by the Republican staff ...
Capital Briefs
Mar 05, 2007; ... * LARGEST CPAC EVER: In a telling indication of the fervor and resolve of the conservative movement, the largest Conservative Political Action Conference of all time opened last week at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. A record-breaking 6,000 conferees gathered at CPAC '07 to hear ...
Will Court Find for Cop Who Protected Society?
Mar 05, 2007; ... To understand what Timothy Scott did, you must first understand what Victor Harris did not do. At about 10:45 on the night of March 29, 2001, Harris was driving his Cadillac at 73 miles per hour down a two-lane highway where the limit was 55. Coweta County, Georgia, Deputy Sheriff ...
Fight the Left on March 17
Mar 05, 2007; ... A Gathering of Eagles How many times have you sat in front of the television over the last four years watching anti-war activists march on Washington, chase the ROTC off your local college campus, vandalize war memorials, insult the troops and wreak havoc under the surrender ...
Hillary Camp Already Getting Touchy
Mar 05, 2007; ... In a display of courage equal to proclaiming undying support for Mother's Day, the Virginia legislature has voted to apologize for the state's role in slavery. According to one report, "This session will be remembered for a lot of things, but 20 years hence I suspect one of those things will be ...
Top 10 Most Economically Free Countries
Mar 05, 2007; ... Ranked by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal recently released their 13th annual Index of Economic Freedom, which identifies the variables that comprise economic freedom and analyzes the interaction of freedom with ...
States' Addiction to Welfare Corrupts Federalist System
Mar 05, 2007; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill "Welfare." it has been said, "is mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it." This may be true for those who deplore the loss of dignity and the self-destructive behavior that accompanies welfare dependency. But, ...
Democrats Seek to Expose American Workers to Ridicule and Intimidation
Mar 05, 2007; ... Peer Pressure Is Not Just for Teenagers Anymore Peer pressure. If you're like me, this term evokes images of high school and the desire to conform, rebel or just be accepted. Many of us now relate peer pressure to our teenage sons and daughters, an abstract concept with which students ...
Hillary Watch
Mar 05, 2007; ... CHARITABLE MEMORY. The Washington Post reported recently that although Hillary and Bill have operated a family charity since 2001, she has neglected to list it on her annual Senate financial disclosure report-not once, not twice, but five times. The Ethics in Government Act requires members of ...
Gizzi on Politics
Mar 05, 2007; ... Marching Through Georgia-10 The recent death of Georgia Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood, following a long bout with cancer, has set the stage for the first special U.S. House election since the Democrats captured both houses of Congress in November. Last week, Republican Gov. Sonny ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Mar 05, 2007; ... 1. Richard M. Daley was just re-elected mayor of Chicago in a landslide. First elected mayor in 1989, Daley-if he completes his term and serves until 2011-will be his city's longest-serving mayor. Who currently holds the record as longest-serving mayor of Chicago? 2. Who was the last ...
Beware the 'Christianists'?
Mar 05, 2007; ... Jihad Watch A new book climbing the New York Times bestseller list warns Americans of a minority of religious fanatics who are hijacking a great religion and working to destroy the Constitution and set up a theocracy in America. Nonbelievers will be discriminated against or even ...
ACORN: Labor's Ally Is a Bad Seed
Mar 05, 2007; ... One of Big Labor's chief allies in promoting last November's several state ballot initiatives to hike minimum wage rates was the far-left activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The group claims that it "helped more ... than 540,000 low-income and minority ...
Just Say 'No' to Drug Price Controls
Mar 05, 2007; ... The Democrats who now control Congress want to change President Bush's Medicare drug benefit to require government officials to negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies. Under the current program, competing insurance companies cut the deals and offer coverage to the retired and ...
The Crusader Details Reagan's Mission to Defeat Communism
Mar 05, 2007; ... "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Those famous words uttered by President Ronald Reagan in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 12, 1987, would forever change the course of history. It was these words that marked the beginning of the end of communism. Although many have ...
Possible Thompson Candidacy Intrigues GOP
Mar 19, 2007; ... Will Tennessean Get Into the 2008 Race? One of Fred Thompson's oldest political friends from Tennessee said that the former Volunteer State senator and movie and television star is "at this time, a four or five on a scale of 10" to seek the Republican nomination for President next ...
Senate 9/11 Bill Ignores Needed Security Measures
Mar 19, 2007; ... HUMAN EVENTS EXCLUSIVE As our country continues to face the threat of terrorism. Congress's efforts must be focused on protecting our nation from future attacks. For more than two weeks, the Senate debated a bill, the Improving America's security Act, which professes to strengthen our ...
Bush Faces Revolt on No Child Left Behind
Mar 19, 2007; ... Conservatives Offer Alternative to President's Education Plan Conservatives on Capitol Hill have openly rebelled against President Bush's signature education initiative. Last week, they unveiled legislation that would let states opt out of many requirements of No Child Left Behind in ...
Romney Campaign Recruits Supply-Siders
Mar 19, 2007; ... Dedicated Reaganites Dominate Massachusetts Republican's Economic Team In his campaign to win the Republican nomination for President, expect former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to have a strong economic plan and to hit rival candidates hard on taxes. Romney has compiled a team of ...
Capital Briefs
Mar 19, 2007; ... * WILL HAGEL GO? After calling a press conference to reveal his plans, the strange announcement by Nebraska GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel that he hasn't yet decided on a bid for President next year left most people bewildered, but Republicans in his home state believe it was a strong sign that Hagel will ...
In Washington, It's Always the Year of the Rat
Mar 19, 2007; ... Democrats have leapt on reports of mold, rats and bureaucratic hurdles at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as further proof of President George Bush's failed war policies. To the contrary, the problems at Walter Reed are further proof of the Democrats' failed domestic policies-to wit, the ...
Prepping the Media Battlefield: The Democrats' War on Fox News
Mar 19, 2007; ... Convention delegates will choose the 2008 presidential candidates, but the party that dominates the news media will have an enormous advantage in forming public opinion and thus producing votes in the general election. Unsurprisingly, only the Democrats are fighting this battle. Their campaign ...
Hillary Campaigns for Her 'Sacred Values'
Mar 19, 2007; ... Two days before she traveled to Selma, Ala., to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of a civil rights march that focused national attention on the injustice of Alabama blacks' being denied their right to vote, Hillary Clinton gave a little-noticed speech in Washington, D.C., in which she drew ...
Top 10 Least Economically Free Countries
Mar 19, 2007; ... Ranked by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal recently released their 13th annual Index of Economic Freedom, which identifies the variables that comprise economic freedom and analyzes the interaction of freedom with ...
Left vs. Right on Education
Mar 19, 2007; ... In every legislative struggle, ideological boundaries inevitably emerge. Factions of conservative and liberal lawmakers and their allies define the right and left walls of the debate. The forthcoming battle over the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind law (NCLB)-President Bush's ...
Texas Toll Road Plan Stirs Grassroots Protest
Mar 19, 2007; ... 'North American Union' Highway Arouses Conservative Ire The conventional wisdom among conservatives about the benefits of privatizing government programs is being severely tested in a relatively obscure controversy that is now blossoming in America's heartland. When up to several ...
CPAC 2007 Hosts Record Crowd of Enthusiastic Conservatives
Mar 19, 2007; ... Optimistic Participants Undecided About 2008 Hopefuls Breaking the attendance record set just last year, more than 6,300 conservatives gathered for the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference March 1-3 at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Northwest Washington, ...
Federal Court Rediscovers 2nd Amendment
Mar 19, 2007; ... Liberals Fear Other 'Rights'Might Soon Be Found Tragedy struck leftists all across America last week when a federal appeals court, reviewing the District of Columbia's handgun ban, ruled that the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed upon by the District. The ...
CAIR vs. Islamic Reform?
Mar 19, 2007; ... The St. Petersburg Declaration, issued at the Secular Islam Summit in St. Petersburg, Fla., last week, is the most comprehensive and forthright statement of Islamic reform anyone has yet managed to come up with. Confronting directly the elements of Islam' ic Sharia law that are at variance with ...
Defector Could Be Key to Regime Change in Iran
Mar 19, 2007; ... During the Cold War, the occasional Soviet defector-a government official or military officer-excited little interest from us. Some defectors did provide useful intelligence, but most of them told us what we already knew: that there was dissent within the eroding Soviet Union. Since 9/11, we ...
Gizzi on Politics
Mar 19, 2007; ... 'A Moose-Stake' on Rudy's Abortion Stand (Sort Of) "I made a Moose-stake," is what Morris the Moose, beloved hero of five books for children, finally concedes after realizing that a fellow creature he has insisted is also a moose is in fact a cow. So it was with me after ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Mar 19, 2007; ... 1 Rep. Many Meehan (D.-Mass.) has just announced his resignation from Congress to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts (Lowell). How many other vacant seats are there in the House? 2. Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R.-Tenn.) said he is considering a run for President as a ...
Rudy's Gun-Control Agenda
Mar 19, 2007; ... The 2007 version of Rudy Giuliani defends his past support of gun control as a necessary evil to fight crime in a big city. When pressed recently about his views on the 2nd Amendment by Scan Hannity of Fox News, Giuliani attempted to tap dance around his gun-control record without ...
Hillary Watch
Mar 19, 2007; ... GO, GO, GONZALES. Hillary recently appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she joined fellow New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and many of her other Democratic colleagues in calling for the resignation of Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales. "The buck should stop somewhere," Hillary declared, "and the ...
Conservative Forum
Mar 19, 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 to the editor intended for publication must be concise (300 words or less) and preferably limited to one ...
Valerie Plame Distorts Her 'Covert' Status
Mar 26, 2007; ... Waxman, Democrats Playing Games With the Law It's a good thing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald never had to prove whether former CIA agent Valerie Plame was "covert" or not before she outed herself with a full-page photo spread in Vanity Fair. Judging from her testimony on Capitol ...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gilmore Claims Conservative Mantle for '08
Mar 26, 2007; ... Former Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Gilmore last week visited the offices of HUMAN EVENTS and sat with the editors for an exclusive and extensive interview. Gov. Gilmore recently announced that he has formed a presidential exploratory committee and has signaled his plans to seek the 2008 ...
Conservatives Push Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Mar 26, 2007; ... Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense. As Democrats proposed a massive new tax increase in Congress last week, fiscally conservative lawmakers and their allies answered with their own legislation: the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights." At a Capitol Hill press conference and rally ...
Giuliani Campaign Relies Heavily on Party Veterans
Mar 26, 2007; ... Former New York City Mayor Could Have Advantage in California Former New York Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign team doesn't appear especially strong on economic or foreign policy issues, but it could have an advantage because of key endorsements the campaign has ...
Kill the Head Start Reading Test
Mar 26, 2007; ... When I was four. I spent my days in the backyard, digging trenches, chasing lizards and playing with any number of my 10 brothers and sisters. Had someone given me a literacy test. I surely would have failed. I was an unlettered preschooler. No one tried to instruct me in reading ...
Capital Briefs
Mar 26, 2007; ... * D.C. VOTE BILL PULLED: A highly controversial bill to give the District of Columbia a voting member in the U.S. House was abruptly pulled after conservatives countered the unconstitutional measure by trying to add to it a very constitutional proposal: repeal of the existing gun ban in the ...
Hypocrite Gore Pushes for Higher Energy Costs
Mar 26, 2007; ... Former Vice President and full-time environmental alarmist Al Gore was eager to tell members of Congress how they should use their legislative powers to change the way Americans live, but refused to lake a pledge to lower his own family's energy consumption to a level equal to or below that of ...
More Fanatics Push Dogmatic Global-Warming Religion
Mar 26, 2007; ... No matter how much liberals try to dress up their nutty superstitions about global warming as "science" that only six-fingered lunatics could doubt, scratch a global-warming "scientist" and you get a religious fanatic. These days, new religions are barely up and running before they seize ...
Karl Rove in Democrats' Crosshairs-Again
Mar 26, 2007; ... Another 'Casablanca Moment' Senate Democrats are proclaiming themselves shocked-shocked!-that there were political discussions in the White House about removing some or all of the U.S. attorneys shortly after the 2004 elections. It's too had they have to rely on Senators Pat Leahy ...
Vietnam Vets Reclaim Nation's Capital From War Protestors
Mar 26, 2007; ... Power to the People I could tell right away this wasn't going to be your average Washington, D.C., anti-war protest. For months, the anti-war coalition International A.N.S.W.E.R. had been publicizing its plans to hold a major anti-war rally in the Nation's Capital on Saturday, ...
Top 10 Labor Union Power Grabs
Mar 26, 2007; ... The HUMAN EVENTS® The National Conservative Weekly® * Est. 1944 www.HumanEvents.com Top 10 Labor Union Power Grabs Ranked by FreedomWorks, a nonpartisan grassroots organization with nearly 850,000 members nationwide fighting for lower taxes, less government and ...
Fighting a War With 535 Generals
Mar 26, 2007; ... Get ready for the invasion of the armchair generals. With 535 Capitol Hill generals struggling to define every aspect of when and how our troops in Iraq may be deployed, timetables for their withdrawal and specific requirements for how, when and against whom they may strike, the challenge of ...
Hillary Watch
Mar 26, 2007; ... HOUSING TROUBLES. Hillary's getting worried about the housing market. "The fact that the entire home-mortgage market has such a high rate of foreclosures should be an alarm bell," she said recently. "There are other problems, with wages being flat and so many expenses from college costs to ...
Our First Muslim President?
Mar 26, 2007; ... The Los Angeles Times reported recently that Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's campaign seems to be modifying its earlier affirmation that "Sen. Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago." The ...
Obama Offers Wild Revision of His Own History
Mar 26, 2007; ... Tuning in to C-SPAN recently, I found myself listening to a speech by Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Hussein Obama. He was standing at the pulpit of a black church in Sclma, Ala., and as I studied the body language of the dozen or so black ministers standing behind the senator, I couldn't help ...
DeLay's Wrath Unleashed in New Memoir
Mar 26, 2007; ... Newt Gingrich's attempted phoenix-like rise from his own political ashes to a presidential candidacy has run into a harsh assessment by his former House Republican colleague, Tom DeLay (Tex.). The former majority leader's memoir assails Gingrich as an "ineffective" House speaker with a flawed ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Mar 26, 2007; ... 1. Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales has been under fire un Capitol Hill and in the press. How many other attorneys general have served in the Bush Administration? 2. Gonzales is a former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Who was the last former judge to serve as attorney general? 3 ....
Gizzi on Politics
Mar 26, 2007; ... Trouble in Scarborough Country Ever since he resigned from Congress in 2001 to become a popular television commentator on MSNBC, conservative Joe Scarborough has been the subject of speculation about a political comeback. Last year, for example, there was considerable talk that the ...
The Passion of Mitt Romney
Mar 26, 2007; ... The Passion of Mitt Romney A Mormon in the White House? 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney By Hugh Hewitt Regnery, 2007 $27.95,311 pp. Available at HEBookService.com No one has ever found any transcript or video clip of former Massachusetts Republican Gov ....