Human Events back issues from December 2007:
America Does Not Need a San Francisco Energy Policy
Dec 03, 2007; ... When Democrats took control of Congress last year, they promised to do something about energy prices. They have delivered on that promise by driving the price of oil to an all-time high of $99 per barrel and forcing families to tighten their budgets. Apparently unfazed by this dramatic increase, ...
Romney Gives Positions on Major Wedge Issues for '08
Dec 03, 2007; ... EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW On November 19, the editors of HUMAN EVENTS had a wide-ranging interview with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. He discussed the war, illegal immigration, Social security, healthcare and many other issues that will decide the ...
The Stunning Reality of Voter Fraud
Dec 03, 2007; ... In what may be the most important voting case since Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court in January will hear a challenge to Indiana's 2006 law requiring a voter ID to vote. If the court rules against the law, 22 state voter ID laws that were designed to prevent voter fraud could be ...
White House Should Tout Counterterrorism Successes
Dec 03, 2007; ... Americans should be grateful the U.S. has suffered no significant terror attack since the September 11 massacre. As the Heritage Foundation's James Carafano recently demonstrated, this is no accident. Since 9/11, Officials have thwarted at least 19 terrorist bids to kill Americans (see ...
Capital Briefs
Dec 03, 2007; ... * HUCKABEE ON TOP IN IOWA: Days before the St. Petersburg, Fla., debate last week, a new survey showed Mike Huckabee for the first time leading among likely participants in the January 3 Iowa Republican caucuses. According to the latest Rasmussen Poll, the former Arkansas governor tops the GOP ...
NY Times: An Undocumented Newspaper
Dec 03, 2007; ... Last week, in an article titled "Walking a Tightrope on Immigration," the New York Times made the fact-defying claim that the illegal immigration issue poses a risk for Republicans who appeal to voters "angry" about illegal immigration. (This is as opposed to voters "angry" that they spent good ...
Democrats Pander to Single Women by Pushing Bigger Government
Dec 03, 2007; ... Had only married women been allowed to vote in the 2006 elections, Republicans might still control the House of Representatives. Fifty percent of married women voting in those elections, the network exit poll revealed, opted for a Republican candidate for the House. Only 48% went for a ...
2nd Amendment Ruling Could Decide '08 Election
Dec 03, 2007; ... Hillary calls them "kitchen table issues"-the political questions Americans take seriously enough to talk about privately, in their homes, among family and friends. Whether she likes it or not, one of those issues js gun control. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court decided to take on the biggest ...
Lott Resignation Roils Mississippi, Leaves Senate GOP Leadership Opening
Dec 03, 2007; ... The rumors that began on political blogs the day after Thanksgiving came true Monday as Senate Republican Whip Trent Lott (Miss.) announced that he will resign his seat by the end of this year to, in his words, "go do something else." In an announcement that left jaws hanging from the ...
For Democrats, the Only Answer Is Higher Taxes
Dec 03, 2007; ... The next President will be judged by the adequacy of his (or her) response to the two overriding challenges facing America today: winning the War on Terror and surmounting the fiscal consequences of the baby-boomer retirements without enormous tax increases. The two fields of candidates ...
Hillary Watch
Dec 03, 2007; ... CELEBRITY SUPPORT. Talk-show icon Oprah Winfrey has endorsed Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, a move that many pundits think will help the Illinois senator win over many female voters. Oprah will be joining Obama on the campaign trail December 8 and 9, shortly ...
A Hezbollah Spy in the FBI and CIA
Dec 03, 2007; ... Jihad Watch An espionage case has come to light in Detroit that has a little of everything. Besides espionage, there's an illegal immigration angle, a Keystone Kops angle and even involvement of major presidential candidates. It would make a great movie-if this kind of thing doesn't kill ...
Gizzi on Politics
Dec 03, 2007; ... Virginian GOPers and Their Conventions Three weeks after they chose a nominee for the race to succeed late Republican Rep. (2000-07) JoAnn Davis and less than two weeks before the December 11 special election to fill her seat, Republicans in Virginia's 1st District (Tidewater) are still ...
Mike Huckabee: A False Conservative
Dec 03, 2007; ... Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the "Club for Greed"? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle. In fact, the rejoinder comes from Mike Huckabee, ...
The Deporter Reveals How the Government Endangers Americans
Dec 03, 2007; ... Criminal Aliens Not Sent Home The Deporter Reveals How the Government Endangers Americans The Deporter: One Agent's Struggle Against the U.S. Government's Refusal to Expel Criminal Aliens By Ames Holbrook Sentinel, 2007 $24.95,256 pp. BY MAC JOHNSON What if you had to choose ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Dec 03, 2007; ... 1. Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott announced last week that he will soon resign from the Senate. When was the last time a senator from Mississippi did not complete his term? 2. Who was the last Democratic senator from Mississippi? 3. Who was the last Republican to lose a ...
New NIE Does Not Merit 'High Confidence'
Dec 10, 2007; ... There's only one problem with the new State Department-generated National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear-weapons program: The people who wrote it don't have enough confidence in it to claim that the 2005 NIE-which this one diametrically opposes-was wrong. Partisan ...
Climate Bill Will Devastate American Families and Jobs
Dec 10, 2007; ... For the first time in history, a fatally flawed global-warming cap-and-trade bill passed out of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. Democrats, led by Chairman Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.), approved the Lieberman-Warner Climate security Act of 2007 (S 2191) by a ...
Republican Debate Fiasco Exposes CNN
Dec 10, 2007; ... Is CNN capable and professional enough to host presidential debates? After last week's CNN/YouTube debate fiasco, even Tim Rutten, a media writer for the left-leaning Los Angeles Times, was giving CNN a big fat "F" for failure: "In fact, this most recent debacle masquerading as a presidential ...
Capital Briefs
Dec 10, 2007; ... * HUCK UP IN IOWA, MITT STILL TOPS N.H: Although many polls nationwide last week showed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee moving to second place as the presidential favorite of Republican voters and to first place among likely attendees of Iowa's GOP caucuses, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt ...
Recent NIE Suggests Iran Is Not Irrational
Dec 10, 2007; ... The most interesting point in the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that reports that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago is not what Iran did or did not do in developing nuclear weapons. It is how Iran makes decisions about such things. The U.S. intelligence ...
Mitt Romney: 'I Do Not Define My Candidacy by My Religion'
Dec 10, 2007; ... Candidate Delivers Long-Awaited Speech on Faith On December 6, at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Tex., Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney delivered a long-awaited speech addressing many voters' concerns about his Mormon ...
Liberals Will Never Forgive McCarthy-or Other Anti-Communists
Dec 10, 2007; ... Ron Radosh Smears Stan Evans' Book Poor Ron Radosh is still hoping liberals will forgive him. He wrote a good book a quarter-century ago with Joyce Milton, The Rosenberg File, that was supposed to exonerate Julius Rosenberg, but instead concluded that Rosenberg was guilty of ...
Celebrities Are Unqualified to Give Political Endorsements
Dec 10, 2007; ... 'Uniquely Unqualified to Tell Someone Else How to Vote' There have been so many debates and interviews and columns and profiles and polls, it's hard to believe the election for President is still about 11 months away. Recently, celebrity endorsements have been making news, with Oprah ...
Democrats Sacrificing FISA for More Bush-Bashing
Dec 10, 2007; ... Reid's Sound-Bite Congress More Interested in Politics Than Intelligence Gathering With three weeks left. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) are setting records for fewest accomplishments and most short TV hits. The history of ...
Hillary Watch
Dec 10, 2007; ... SOUNDS OF SILENCE. After just five months as Hillary's official campaign song, it looks like Celine Dion's "You and I" is hitting the skids. According to ABC News, the tune seems to be replaced by Big Head Todd and the Monsters' "Blue Sky" on the campaign trail. It may be recalled that back in ...
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Global-Warming Scam
Dec 10, 2007; ... Another global-warming skeptic has dared speak up. Meteorologist John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, calls global warming "the greatest scam in history." "Environmental extremists, notable politicians among them ... create this wild 'scientific' scenario of the civilization ...
Teddy Bear Reveals Islamist Absurdity
Dec 10, 2007; ... Jihad Watch Mothers, cover your children's eyes: Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old British schoolteacher working in Sudan, allowed the children in her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. The Sudanese government's reaction teaches us a lesson about the weapon we most neglect in the ...
Gizzi on Politics
Dec 10, 2007; ... Hero of the'Bloody Eighth' Passes When I ran into Steve Nix and Larry Halloran. two former members of the National Republican Congressional Committee staff, at the recent International Republican Institute Freedom Luncheon here, they shocked me with the news that Rick Mclntyre had died ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Dec 10, 2007; ... 1. Much attention in the press now is on the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the first two major-party contests among the presidential candidates. When did New Hampshire become the first-in-the-nation primary? 2. When was the first time a winner of the Republican primary in ...
Short Takes
Dec 10, 2007; ... CLEANING UP SAXTON STUDY: Following our recent article on Rep. Jim Saxton (R.-N.J.) and his decision to retire from Congress after 23 years, Saxton communications director Jeff Sagnip Hollendonner wrote me to make some key points. "You had it wrong," he wrote, "Jim voted to sustain the ...
Henry Hyde: A 'Man of the House'
Dec 10, 2007; ... Remembering a Conservative Stalwart May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn 't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping. That was, ...
Breakthrough Research Vindicates Bush's Stem-Cell Stance
Dec 10, 2007; ... Pro-Abortion Left Now Doubting 'Almighty Science' In 1798, Thomas R. Malthus published the highly influential An Essay on the Principle of Population. The book's premise was that population, if allowed to grow unchecked, would double every 25" years while food supplies would increase ...
UF Refuses to See Threat From Radical Islam
Dec 10, 2007; ... OnNovember 13, several student groups at the University of Florida (UF) held a viewing and a panel discussion of the documentary Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. Fliers advertising the event (which had been repeatedly torn down by free-speech-loving liberals) contained the phrase ...
New Children's Book Explains Life Behind Iron Curtain
Dec 10, 2007; ... New Children's Book Explains Life Behind Iron Curtain The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain By Peter Sis Frances Foster Books, 2007 $18.00, 56 pp. Not long ago, my wife and I were in the children's section of a Barnes and Noble bookstore when she found a fascinating ...
Conservative Forum
Dec 10, 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 ...
NIE on Iran: A Bureaucratic Coup D'état
Dec 17, 2007; ... In creating the recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, a handful of highly partisan State Department bureaucrats wrote a document that is so professionally unworthy, so intellectually indefensible and so fundamentally misleading that it is damaging to our national ...
CIA Was Right to Destroy Tough Interrogation Tapes
Dec 17, 2007; ... Interrogating terrorists is a tough business that requires tough measures. But how tough should they be? The latest controversythis time over the CIA's destruction of videotapes of two such interrogations-revives the problem that Congress hasn't wanted to face since early 2005: Just what ...
Immigration, Taxes Fuel Latta's Big Win in Ohio
Dec 17, 2007; ... GOP Two for Two in Special Elections There turned out to be nothing to all the press speculation that Democrats were going to win at least one of the two special U.S. House races last week. Republican state legislators Bob Latta of Ohio and Robert Wittman of Virginia, both considered ...
Conservatives React to Romney's Faith Speech
Dec 17, 2007; ...(ProQuest: ... denotes text stops here in original.) Romney Is No Kennedy BY ROBERT D. NOVAK In delivering his long anticipated "Mormon Speech," Mitt Romney seemed ill at ease negotiating the treacherous minefields of religion and politics. He succeeded in avoiding a ...
Capital Briefs
Dec 17, 2007; ... * THE LAST STOP IS COBURN: That's what colleagues are increasingly saying about staunchly conservative Sen. Tom Cobum (R.-Okla.), who now has holds on 95 different pieces of legislation for different reasons-a record for holds in the history of the institution, according to Associate Senate ...
How CIA Water-boarding Saved Lives
Dec 17, 2007; ... Water-boarding Abu Zubaydah as a last resort to find out whai: he knew about pending terrorist plots was a justifiable act of self-defense. Two weeks before the Sept. 11,2001, attacks, according to the 9/11 Commission, a foreign intelligence service issued a report on the following ...
Looking Again at Radosh's Vicious Attack on McCarthy Book
Dec 17, 2007; ... Blacklisted By History By M. Stanton Evans Crown Forum, 2007 $29.95, 663 pp. Available at HEBookService.com The October 2007 Vanity Fair had a long, gaseous article explaining how the pro-Bush bias of the mainstream media cost Al Gore the 2000 presidential election. (For you kids ...
Huckabee, Giuliani, McCain All Terrible on Illegal Immigration
Dec 17, 2007; ... Every Democrat running for President thinks anti-illegal immigration activists are all racists and xenophobes. Do we really need a Republican nominee who thinks the same way? GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, the soft-on-border-control former governor of Arkansas, recently scored a ...
Top 10 Christmas Gifts We Don't Want
Dec 17, 2007; ... By the editors of Human Events 1 Have Your Wife Fight Your Battles for You: The John Edwards Military Strategy Handbook 2 The 2008 National Organization of Women Swimsuit Calendar 3 "Hillary Clinton's Dramatic Readings of the 10 Greatest Speeches in American History" ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Dec 17, 2007; ... 1. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R.) has been gaining considerable press attention running for President. Excluding Huckabee, how many former governors of Arkansas are living? 2. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R.) is also a formidable candidate. Excluding Romney, how many ...
MLB Steroid Scandal: Say It Ain't So
Dec 17, 2007; ... Shoeless Joe Jackson was the only man to bat .382 in his last season in the major leagues. After that he was banned for life for his role in the "Black Sox scandal," the deliberate throwing of the 1919 World Series. It was to Jackson that a youngster was supposed to have said, "Say it ain't so, ...
Lives Saved by Having a Gun at Church
Dec 17, 2007; ... I have been waiting for this to happen. For years we have witnessed the carnage when innocents were mowed down at schools, colleges, shopping malls and post offices. The unarmed (disarmed?) were easy targets for crazed gunmen armed with grievances, weapons and ammunition. Now someone has ...
Stan Evans Answers Radosh's Plagiarism Charge
Dec 17, 2007; ... As suggested by Ann Coulter's column this week (See page 6.), conservatives are buzzing about a recent onslaught against Stan Evans's book on Joe McCarthy launched in the pages of National Review by historian Ron Radosh. Among other things, Radosh accused Evans of defending supposedly ...
Short Takes
Dec 17, 2007; ... THE RENEGADE: That's one of the nicer things Republicans in Florida are calling State Sen. Burt Saunders, who last week announced he would challenge Republican Rep. Connie Mack next year. But Collier County lawyer Saunders saved his "zinger" for the close of his announcement by revealing ...
Hillary Watch
Dec 17, 2007; ... HILLARY'S HELPER. Hillary's best asset-her husband-is now coming to her rescue, as her position in the polls fluctuates and she is experiencing problems with media coverage. A top Democratic operative and Hillary supporter told the New York Daily News that "she's in big trouble and he knows it." ...
Gizzi on Politics
Dec 17, 2007; ... McCrery Makes 18 October 31: "I think you have to include Jim McCrery on the list-and that's going to set off a fight for ranking on Ways and Means." So said the Republican U.S. House member I was dining with at Washington's D.C. Coast Restaurant, as we engaged what has increasingly ...
Leave Subprime 'Crisis' Alone
Dec 17, 2007; ... Our catastrophe-obsessed traditional media call it the subprime mortgage "crisis" or "meltdown." Here's what happened: Borrowers with shaky creditworthiness received low-interest "teaser" rates. No problem, as long as housing prices continue to rise. But with house prices stagnating, if ...
Budgetary Showdown: Conservatives Should Trust but Verify
Dec 17, 2007; ... The budgetary showdown between President Bush and the Democratic Congress has entered its final, chaotic week. News reports suggest that the President, reveling in his highest job approval rating since April, has scored a momentous political victory. The headlines are unequivocal: ...
CAIR Seeks To Silence Critics
Dec 17, 2007; ... Dolt Our Way Jihad Watch In its continuing effort to impede freedom of the press in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a new media guide -available only to "media professionals"-mat purports to "educate the media and disabuse ...
Fred Eckert Works to Put Reagan on Rushmore
Dec 17, 2007; ... Honoring Gipper's Greatness In the 1970s, few conservative activists did more to advance Ronald Reagan's presidential candidacy than New York State Sen. Fred J. Eckert. When President Gerald Ford brought Eckert to the White House to seek his vote at the 1976 Kansas City GOP ...
Cleverly Firing Back at Atheism
Dec 17, 2007; ... Cleverly Firing Back at Atheism The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible By Robert J. Hutchinson Regnery, 2007 $19.95, 262 pp. Available at HEBookService.com For centuries, atheism has been the rake lurking around the edges of the Christmas party, but now it's slurping from ...
U.S. Military Coming Home, Iraqis Taking Their Place
Dec 24, 2007; ... Good News From Iraq HILLAH, Iraq-The slogan "de oppresso liber" is Latin for "free the oppressed." It's the motto of the U.S. Special Forces, but it also has been adopted by several of the Iraqi military and police units our Fox News "War Stories" team has been covering here in the land ...
Congress Cuts Union Watchdog's Budget
Dec 24, 2007; ... Democrats' Christmas Gift to Big Labor The federal government's union watchdog agency will have to get by on less next year. The mammoth omnibus spending bill passed last week hacks nearly $3 million from the Office of Labor Management Standards-a gift for Big Labor just in time for ...
Is Romney's Healthcare Plan Conservative?
Dec 24, 2007; ... On Sunday, December 16, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romny told NBC's "Meet the Press " host Tim Russert, "The plan we put together in Massachusetts I think is working in Massachusetts ....I happen to like what we did. I think it's a good model for other states." Merrill Matthews here offers a ...
California Electoral Vote Change Should Make November Ballot
Dec 24, 2007; ... Although there is still a chance that the Republican-backed plan to tally California's electoral votes by congressional district rather than statewide could make the Golden State primary ballot in June, organizers told us last week that the proposed initiative will, in all likelihood, be on the ...
Capital Briefs
Dec 24, 2007; ... * HUCK UP IN IOWA, BUT ...: With two weeks to go before the Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, a just-completed Diageo/Hotline poll showed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with a handsome lead of 36% to 23% over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among likely caucus attendees. All the ...
Huckabee Is the Evangelical Liberals Like
Dec 24, 2007; ... Despite the overwhelming popular demand for another column on Ron Radosh's review of Stan Evans' book, this week's column will address the urgent matter of evangelical Christians' getting blamed for Mike Huckabee. To paraphrase the Jews, this is "bad for the evangelicals." As far ...
GOP Should Return to Strong-But-Humble Foreign Policy
Dec 24, 2007; ... Former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee is taking heat for saying in an article in Foreign Affairs magazine that the "Bush Administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad." Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of Huckabee's rivals for ...
The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence
Dec 24, 2007; ... Do you know the story of the Incredible Disappearing Border Fence? It's an object lesson in gesture politics and homeland insecurity and a tale of hollow rhetoric, meaningless legislation and bipartisan betrayal. In the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, it's a helpful learning tool as you assess the ...