Human Events back issues from June 2007:
Amnesty Foe Wins Big in Pennsylvania
Jun 04, 2007; ... The mayor of Hazleton, Pa., whose hard-nosed response to illegal immigration has drawn national headlines, last week called for the defeat of the immigration bill now before the Senate. "Simply put. this bill is a case of amnesty first, border security second," said Lou Barletta. the ...
Border Fence: If We Build It, They Won't Come
Jun 04, 2007; ... It's much tougher than it should be to secure America's borders. While the technology and manpower are all within reach, what seems beyond our grasp is the ability to act. Take last year's legislation calling for construction of 854 miles of fence on our Southern border. Despite this ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 04, 2007; ... * THOMPSON IN RACE: To no one's surprise, Fred Thompson strongly signaled last week that before long he would make his unannounced bid for the Republican presidential nomination official, with a formal announcement likely to come on July 4. Grass-roots conservatives and elected officials such as ...
Salute Our Heroes of Afghanistan
Jun 04, 2007; ... U.S. Military Deserves Enormous Thanks Five years ago, eight months after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. forces were concluding Operation Enduring Freedom, the effort to drive the brutal Taliban government from power in Afghanistan and defeat the al Qaeda jihadist militants controlled by Osama ...
Amnesty Debate Heats up on the Right
Jun 04, 2007; ... Pro-Illegal-Immigrant Crowd Gets Nasty The immigration bill currently being debated on the floor of the U.S. Senate and in the national media has caused a rift among conservatives and Republicans. The Senate bill would provide immediate legal status for the 12 to 20 million ...
Surge Results Will Bring Consensus on Iraq
Jun 04, 2007; ... "By September, when Gen. Petraeus is to make his report, I think mosl people in Congress believe, unless something extraordinary occurs, that we should be on a move to draw that surge number down," the senator said on CBS's "Face the Nation" last Sunday. "I don't think we need to be an ...
Serious Ideas for Border Security
Jun 04, 2007; ... If we can't control the flow of people across our borders, no "reform"of our immigration laws will really fix anything. Illegal aliens will still come across, terrorists will gel in and bring with them all manner of weapons. While Congress whiles away its hours talking about complicated amnesty ...
Hillary Watch
Jun 04, 2007; ... VOTING AGAINST OUR TROOPS. When Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold recently offered an amendment to cut off funding for our troops in Iraq by March 31, 2008, the bill went down in flames, losing a cloture vote 29 to 67. But Hillary voted for the measure, even though she has long been on the ...
A Green Card in Every Pot
Jun 04, 2007; ... Americans-at least really foolish Americans such as George Bush-believe the natural state of the world is to have individual self-determination, human rights, the rule of law and a robust democratic economy. On this view, most of the existing world and almost all of world history is a freakish ...
Trust the Market
Jun 04, 2007; ... Trust the Market This summer, vacationers have more to worry about than long lines at our nation's amusement parks. With gasoline priced at more than $3 per gallon, it'll cost families more than ever before just to get there. Such high prices have led many customers to think they're ...
Doing the Booing Americans Won't Do
Jun 04, 2007; ... The U.S. government is on the verge of approving a mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens-a plan pushed aggressively by meddling Mexican officials who reap billions of dollars in remittances (illegal aliens' earnings sent back to Mexico) without having to lift a finger to clean up their own ...
300,000 U.S. Muslims Approve Suicide Attacks
Jun 04, 2007; ... Jihad Watch Some of the results of the recent Pew Research Center poll of Muslims in America were startling: 26% of Muslims between the ages of 18 and 29 affirmed mat there could be justification in some (unspecified) circumstances for suicide bombing, and 5% of all the Muslims surveyed ...
Make the Immigration Bill Another 'Miers Moment'
Jun 04, 2007; ... Stop President Bush's Push for Amnesty Conservatives need to make the new immigration/amnesty bill another "Miers Moment" for President George W. Bush. Just as we did to stop the risible Supreme Court nomination of Harriett Miers, conservatives must band together to stop the new Senate ...
Amnesty's Heavy Fiscal Impact
Jun 04, 2007; ... The debate over the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill has forced lawmakers to grapple with another contentious issue, namely: What exactly are the fiscal consequences of granting citizenship to the 12 to 15 million illegal immigrants living within our borders and the millions more ...
Demythologizing 'Skyrocketing' Gas Prices
Jun 04, 2007; ... What to do about "spiraling," "skyrocketing," "out-of-contro!" gas prices? Well, we could try a little perspective. In 1981, Americans spent 5% of their household budget on gas and oil. Last year, despite "skyrocketing" gas prices, Americans spent 3.8%. A national morning show ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jun 04, 2007; ... 1. Newt Gingrich is holding the door open to seeking the Republican nomination for President in '08. Who was the last speaker of the House to run for a majorparty nomination for President? 2. Who was the last speaker to be on a national party ticket? 3. Excluding Jimmy Carter, ...
HumanEvents.com Top 10 Hits
Jun 04, 2007; ... 1. Rightometer: Cindy Sheehan Leaves Democratic Party & Anti-War Movement 2. Ron Paul, Why Are You a Republican? 3. But at Least Al Qaeda Doesn't Put Panties on Their Victim's (Severed) Heads 4. Sign the Amnesty Petition Now! 5. Conservative Says Anti-Illegal ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jun 04, 2007; ... Carter Blast a Reminder of His '70 'Dark Campaign' "I think as far as the adverse impact on our nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in historv." So said Jimmy Carter about the Bush Administration in his recent, celebrated interview with the Arkansas ...
Top 10 Worst Amnesty Provisions of the Senate Immigration Bill
Jun 04, 2007; ... The most controversial component of the Senate's Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is Title VI, euphemistically titled "Non-immigrants in the United States Previously in Unlawful Status." It would create a new "Z" visa exclusively for illegal aliens. This ...
Conservative Forum
Jun 04, 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 ...
Media Ignore Al Qaeda Torture Manual
Jun 04, 2007; ... Liberals Decide Real Mistreatment Isn't Worth Reporting Torture. The word has been constantly thrown about by the world press in harsh and constant critiques of U.S. conduct in !he War on Terror. Such never-ending harping and sniping, it is claimed, is motivated solely by the press's ...
An 'Infidel' Reveals Islam's Internal Fight
Jun 04, 2007; ... An 'Infidel' Reveals Islam's Internal Fight Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror By Nonie Darwish Sentinel, 2007 $23.95, 272 pp. Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the ...
McCain Campaign in Deep Trouble
Jun 18, 2007; ... The Fred Thompson boom continues, and it is hurting the Republican presidential candidacy of Arizona Sen. John McCain. While McCain claims that everything is "fine" in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, events strongly suggest otherwise. The former frontrunner is now in ...
House Democrats Allow Secret Slush Funds and Earmarks
Jun 18, 2007; ... That the authors of our nation's governing document gave the House of Representatives exclusive authority to bring forth legislation related to revenue was no accident. The House, after all, was designed to be the more responsive, more accountable of the two chambers-especially when it comes to ...
Huckabee Spells Out Stands on Variety of Issues
Jun 18, 2007; ... EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Former Arkansas Gov. and candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination Mike Huckabee recently sat with the editors of HUMAN EVENTS in our Washington, D.C., offices for an exclusive, wide-ranging interview. Gov. Huckabee addressed issues important to ...
Pyongyang Continues to Threaten South Korea
Jun 18, 2007; ... Seoul, South Korea-Shortly before we arrived here, the Republic of Korea launched its first Aegis-class destroyer, the King Sejong. A few hours after we landed in this booming metropolis, the North Korean People's Army "test-fired" several Silkworm anti-shipping missiles into the East Sea ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 18, 2007; ... * HELP FOR LIBBY? Now that the judge in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby case has ruled that Libby must go jail while awaiting a decision on his appeal, the pressure on President Bush from Republican officeholders, contributors and activists to give some relief to Libby, who appears to be the victim ...
Clash of Civilizations Is Also a Clash of Faith
Jun 18, 2007; ... Western leaders searching for a long-term strategy to defend our civilization from fundamentalist Islam ought to reread the speech President Reagan delivered at the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. It was neither democracy nor capitalism Reagan foresaw bringing down the wall. It was ...
'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!'
Jun 18, 2007; ... President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all three million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven't broken any U.S. laws. Bush keeps claiming ...
Remembering Communism's Millions of Victims
Jun 18, 2007; ... On Tuesday, June 12, President Bush spoke at the dedication ceremony for the Victims of Communism Memorial. Below are excerpts from that speech: Here in the company of men and women who resisted evil and helped bring down an empire, I proudly accept the Victims of Communism Memorial on ...
Republican Senators Cast Key Immigration Votes
Jun 18, 2007; ... During the debate over the Senate amnesty bill, Republicans senators revealed where they stood on the serious, national security issue of immigration and border enforcement. Many votes were cast on amendments to and motions on the bill. Here are six rollcalls that reveal where GOP ...
Conservatives Made Amnesty a 'Miers Moment'
Jun 18, 2007; ... We did what we set out to do: The Senate immigration "compromise" bill became another "Miers Moment" for President Bush (see my column, "Make the Immigration BUl Another 'Miers Moment,'" in the June 4 HUMAN EVENTS). Conservative political power was asserted more strongly than it had been since ...
Amnesty Debate Has Heavy Impact on Polls
Jun 18, 2007; ... During a speech last month to Georgia law enforcement officials, President Bush said that opponents of the stalled immigration reform bill "don't want to do what's right for America." If they only understood the bill's provisions, he implied, they would see the light. But alas, they hadn't "read ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jun 18, 2007; ... 1. Rep. William Jefferson (D.-La.) has just been indicted on corruption charges. Who was the last sitting member of the House to be indicted while in office? 2. Sen. Craig Thomas (R.-Wyo.) died two weeks ago at age 74, six months after winning his third term. Whom did Thomas succeed in ...
Keeping Jihadists Out
Jun 18, 2007; ... Jihad Watch In the debates over the immigration amnesty bill, race played too large a part, and national security too small a part. Now Lebanese authorities are contemplating taking a step that American immigration authorities would do well also to consider. In an attempt to prevent ...
The Making of a Memorial
Jun 18, 2007; ... In January 1990, two months after the Berlin Wall fell, I was discussing world politics over brunch with my wife, Anne, and daughter, Elizabeth. We were unpleasantly surprised that, despite the end of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and the prospects for freedom in the Soviet Union, few ...
Why Repeat Errors of Simpson-Mazzoli?
Jun 11, 2007; ... Whatever the merits or demerits of the immigration measure now before the Senate, it is inarguable that the Simpson-Mazzoli bill passed in 1986, which so many conservatives warned President Reagan was toothless and would lead to a new flood of illegal aliens, did just that-almost precisely the ...
Bush's Amnesty Bill Will Not Secure Our Borders
Jun 11, 2007; ... The Senate's immigration reform proposal would not improve border security and could actually worsen the problem of illegal immigration. The most dramatic impact of the legislation would be to allow millions of immigrants who are unlawfully present in the United States to remain, critically ...
White House Set to Subsidize China's Nuke Industry
Jun 11, 2007; ... A Japanese-owned company is building nuclear power plants for Communist China, and the Bush Administration is ready to use U.S. taxpayer dollars to subsidize the deal to the tune of $5 billion. Although China's government-owned nuclear industry has a long record of illegal nuclear deals with ...
Memorable Lines From the Latest Debates
Jun 11, 2007; ... Democrats and Republicans Face off Again The 2008 presidential candidates took the stage at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire last week for the second Democratic and the third Republican presidential debates hosted by CNN, WMUR-TV and the New Hampshire Union Leader. For many ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 11, 2007; ... * AMNESTY FOR CRIMINALS: On June 6, the Senate rejected an amendment to the immigration bill pushed by Sen. John Comyn (R.-Tex.) that would have barred a path to citizenship for alien absconders-illegal aliens who are defying a court order to be deported.The Senate rejected the proposal on a ...
Yes, Immigration Is About Culture
Jun 11, 2007; ... The editors of the editorial page of the Watt Street Journal were sitting around an over-sized table in an office high above Manhattan talking with one another in those tones of mutual approbation that members of the wise-and-knowing class reserve for one another when they are talking about the ...
Bush's America: Roach Motel
Jun 11, 2007; ... Republicans' defense of President Bush's immigration bill is more enraging than their defense of Harriet Miers. Back then, Bush's conservative base was accused of being sexist for opposing an unqualified woman's nomination to the highest court in the land. Now we're racists for not wanting to ...
Third GOP Debate Shows Which Party Is Serious on Security
Jun 11, 2007; ... Republican Candidates Go Nuclear It's a pity that the polling on the two parties' candidates will only reflect American voters. I'd bet the ranch that more accurate reactions could be obtained by polls among the denizens of the halls of government in Tehran and whichever cave the al ...
Flawed Immigration 'Reform' Will Permanently Change U.S.
Jun 11, 2007; ... Ten Myths Used to Sell Amnesty to Americans Some of you out there think amnesty is a four-letter word. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke for you when he warned, "The announcement ... that the White House and a group of senators have reached an agreement on 'comprehensive ...
Americans Cool to Amnesty Bill After Conservatives Reveal Its Flaws
Jun 11, 2007; ... Legislative Lowdown Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill The role the Senate plays in our legislative process was best described by George Washington. "We pour legislation into the senatorial saucer," he told a skeptical Thomas Jefferson, "to cool it." Indeed, after two ...
Hillary Watch
Jun 11, 2007; ... HILLARY FIT TO BE TIED. A new USA Today/Gallup Poll has Hillary virtually tied with Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, which is the first time that she hasn't been in the lead. If the poll includes former Vice President Al Gore, Obama actually ends ...
Liberal Compassion Versus Reality
Jun 11, 2007; ... Duping the Public With Clever Words Dr. Thomas Sowell, a distinguished economist and longtime friend and colleague, recently wrote a series of columns under the title "A War of Words." He pointed out that liberals succeed in duping the public because they are so clever with words that ...
Jihad at JFK
Jun 11, 2007; ... Jihad Watch In August 2006, Russell Mohammed Defreitas, a retired employee of New York's JFK Airport, confided to an acquaintance his "vision" for a jihad terror attack that, he said, would make the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center seem small. The plot involved placing bombs in jet ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jun 11, 2007; ... 'Troublesome' Young Men-and Women-at GOP Helm Columbia, S.C.-In her fascinating new book, Troublesome Young Men, historian Lynne Olson writes of Britain's maverick Conservative members of Parliament who risked political extinction by defying Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jun 11, 2007; ... 1. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao is now the only member of George W. Bush's original Cabinet still serving. Who was the last original Bush Cabinet member to leave or resign from office? 2. Who was the longest-serving secretary of Labor? 3. Who was the last secretary of Labor to ...
Gore, America's Sorest Loser
Jun 11, 2007; ... Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason, has definitively established one fact: Al Gore is still the sorest loser in American politics. Even liberal book reviewers are wincing at the tone of his jeremiad against the Bush Administration. The book should have been titled They Should Have Elected ...
Devastating Refutation of Conventional Wisdom on Vietnam
Jun 11, 2007; ... The War Didn't Have to be a Tragedy Devastating Refutation of Conventional Wisdom on Vietnam Most books on the Vietnam War focus on the period 1965-1975, covering the massive U.S. buildup, the Tet Offensive, the growing loss of support for the war on the home front, ...
Business Joins Labor in Push for Government-Run Health Care
Jun 11, 2007; ... Plan to Shift Much of Cost to Taxpayers In early 2006, then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law a bill to reform the state's health care system. Romney touted the law as an ambitious reform that assigns responsibility to the individual and uses marketplace incentives to ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jun 18, 2007; ... After Thomas As Wyoming prepared to mourn Sen. Craig Thomas (R.-Wyo.), who died two weeks ago at 74, the state's unique succession process was quietly beginning. Under an 11-yearold state law, when a Senate vacancy occurs, the governor must appoint a successor from the same party ...
Of Course, America Has Right to Limit Immigration
Jun 18, 2007; ... What the Immigration Debate Is Really About Despite all the hype raging in Washington about the need for "immigration reform" in response to the illegal alien flood, the simple fact is that we do not have a broken immigration system. What we actually have is a broken immigration ...
Hillary Watch
Jun 18, 2007; ... BRINGING HOME BACON. The ma newspaper reports that Hillary "has secured more earmarks in the fiscal 2008 Defense authorization bill than any other Democrat, except for panel Chairman [Michigan] Sen. Carl Levin." In other words, she has garnered more "pork" than nearly everybody else. The bill ...
Anti-Israel, Anti-American Activists March on Capitol
Jun 18, 2007; ... 'Down With (Some of) the Oppressors!' The anti-Israel protestors who marched in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 10, were probably hoping for a better turnout than the roughly 2,500 people who appeared on the National Mall, but the event's organizers will surely pronounce the march a ...
NBC's 'Today' Visits Cuba, Totally Ignores Political Prisoners
Jun 18, 2007; ... Matt Lauer and Andrea Mitchell Shill for Castro Three weeks ago, Cuba's Stalinist regime held a "tourism fair" in Havana to kick off an ambitious plan to boost the Cuban military's tourist booty. To entice and swindle foreign investors, Cuba's propaganda ministry publishes a magazine ...
What If Candidates Skip Iowa and New Hampshire?
Jun 25, 2007; ... Rapidly Changing '08 Primary Picture What if Iowa and New Hampshire both had parties, and nobody came? With no offense to my friends in those two states, I'm compelled to report that some Republican presidential candidates are toying with the idea of skipping the historic first ...
House Conservatives Holding Fast to Principle
Jun 25, 2007; ... Exclusive Interview With RSC Chairman Jeb Hensarling House Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) last week visited the Washington, D.C., offices of HUMAN EVENTS for an interview with the editors. Chairman Hensarling addressed many topics important to conservatives and ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 25, 2007; ... * WYOMING UPDATE: All three of the Republicans whose names Wyoming party leaders last week submitted to Democratrc Gov. Dave Freudenthal for possible appointment to the Senate to replace late Sen. Craig Thomas (R.-Wyo.)-State Sen. John Barrasso, former Assistant U.S. Atty. Gen. Tom Sansonetti, ...
Duke and Marmaduke
Jun 25, 2007; ... There is nothing so dangerous as a Southern liberal hoping Io he invited to a Graydon Carter party. As is now well-known. Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong falsely accused three white Duke lacrosse players of gang-raping a stripper, even as evidence piled up proving k never happened ....
Remove Secrecy About Who's Stealing Social Security Numbers
Jun 25, 2007; ... He would need to have been the hardestworking boy in America, for-according to documents that employers filed with the Internal Revenue Service (1RS) and the Social security Administration (SSA)-his efforts were not merely Herculean, they were miraculous. He was bom in September 1991, ...
We Need to Listen to Our Enemies' Words
Jun 25, 2007; ... Churchill wrote and spoke much about World War 11, but one conclusion he reached about that war should be on every American's mind today: "There never was a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action." None of us is his equal, but we all must try to understand the lessons he taught ...