Human Events back issues from February 2008:
Capital Briefs
Feb 04, 2008; ... MCCAIN UP IN SOUTH: Within 48 hours of his victory in the Florida Republican primary, John McCain had overtaken Mike Huckabee in two key Southern states holding primaries on Super Tuesday, February 5. In Georgia, a recently completed Insider Advantage/Majority Opinion poll showed McCain leading ...
McCain Is No Threat to the Left
Feb 04, 2008; ... While the liberal establishment may be conflicted over whether it wants Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee, there's no doubt which Republican it favors. John McCain is the liberal elite's go-to guy in the GOP. They believe he'll be there for them when ...
Super Tuesday Critical to Future of Conservatism
Feb 04, 2008; ... What could be wrong with a presidential candidate who is a longtime Republican senator from a conservative state, a certified war hero with a great smile and a wisecracking sense of humor? Nothing at all, except the last time one ran against a Clinton, he ended up filming Viagra commercials ...
Foreclosure Crisis Brings Political Foolishness
Feb 04, 2008; ... Who says bipartisanship is dead? From President Bush to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, to Mitt Romney and John McCain, virtually everyone in Washington agrees: The government must do something to stop home foreclosures across the country. These leaders agree on the total ...
John McCain: The Non-Republicans' Republican
Feb 04, 2008; ... Examining Exit Polls Arizona Sen. John McCain is now the clear favorite to be the Republican nominee, but the odd thing is that he hasn't been put there by Republican voters. Examining the exit polls from McCain's three primary wins -in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida-reveals ...
Schwarzenegger's Universal Healthcare Suffers Setback
Feb 04, 2008; ... On January 28, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lost a key vote on his way to being the second Republican governor to institute universal health coverage. The bill, ABX1 1, a joint effort between the Republican Schwarzenegger and the Democrat Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, died in the ...
Will Kansas Suit Curb Planned Parenthood Abortions?
Feb 04, 2008; ... Johnson County Kansas District Attorney Phill Kline may become the first prosecutorto bring down a local Planned Parenthood (PP) operation on a host of criminal charges, including failures to report sexual abuse of minors, criminal late-term abortions and forged records. The legal war ...
GOP Is Throwing Away a Chance to Win in '08
Feb 04, 2008; ... The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems-such as, for example, a first-term senator with a 100% rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is "Hussein." But we won't let them. The ...
Top 10 Big-Government Requests in the State of the Union
Feb 04, 2008; ... President Bush's seventh and final State of the Union Address was not as expensive as his others, and conservatives thought it contained some good ideas. However, he still called for bigger government in many areas. Here are the top 10 items that would mean increasing government 1 ...
What Is Clinton Foundation Up To?
Feb 04, 2008; ... Refuses to Reveal Donors but Sells List to Friends Since leaving the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton has used philanthropy to stay in the public eye. His star power attracts widespread public attention and major donor contributions to the William J. Clinton Foundation, which supports ...
A Conservative and Powerful State of the Union Address
Feb 04, 2008; ... Legislative Lowdown Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill His State of the Union Address began with a focus on our government's foremost responsibility-national security. This, the first of many bold policy proposals, would reverse the debilitating effects of the generation-long ...
Questions for the Candidates
Feb 04, 2008; ... Jihad Watch With all the Republican and Democratic debates, I thought it might be a useful public service to provide some questions for the debate. After all, the media have many important things to do, and there are some issues I think it's very likely they'll overlook. So here is a ...
Hillary Watch
Feb 04, 2008; ... AMBIVALENT ABOUT CRUSHING UNIONS. ABC News reports that during Hillary's six years on the Wal-Mart board of directors (1986-92), she kept mum as the nemesis of liberals everywhere "waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers." Over the last couple of years, ...
Congress Should Drop Stimulus Nonsense, Focus on the Long-Term
Feb 04, 2008; ... Some Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are preaching economic doom and gloom, disappearing middle class and failing healthcare industry. What's their solution? The short answer is give them more control over our lives. Baltimore's political satirist, the late H.L. Mencken, ...
Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government
Feb 04, 2008; ... Timmerman Exposes Saboteurs in Our Government Shadow Warriors By Kenneth R. Timmerman Crown Forum, 2007 $25.95,416pp. Kenneth Timmerman's new book, Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, is a potent assault on the enemy within. The late ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Feb 04, 2008; ... 1. There has been talk of the possibility that John McCain, if he wins the Republican nomination for President this year, will tap Independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut as his running mate. Who was the only Republican nominee for President to choose a Democrat as his running ...
Gizzi on Politics
Feb 04, 2008; ... A Kinder Missouri GOP? "I'm just opening up the senate. Yes, I'm in. Don't know about the others. Let me call you later." With those words to me the morning of January 23, Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder summarized the dramatic change in Missouri politics that had occurred the ...
Let's Closely Examine McCain's Record
Feb 04, 2008; ... Following his wins in the South Carolina and Florida Republican primaries, Arizona Sen. John McCain has become the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. He has spent the last year attempting to convince the conservative base of the Republican Party that he is one of them-but his ...
End Earmarks for Those Who Insult Our Troops
Feb 11, 2008; ... When you mention Berkeley, Calif., to most conservatives, they picture a leftist community of graying hippies, radicals and protesters. Activities in the last few weeks have only reinforced this image. 'Unwelcome Intruders' The Berkeley City Council recently voted to ask the U.S ....
Romney Announcement Stuns Conservatives
Feb 11, 2008; ... CPAC Attendees Faced With Prospect of McCain Candidacy Former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney shocked conservatives last Thursday with his declaration that he was suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Reaganite Speech Romney ...
What a Conservative Candidate Should Tell CPAC
Feb 11, 2008; ... Conservatives should stop looking for another Ronald Reagan and start acting like him. We admire my dad, Ronald Reagan, for what he stood for and for what he was. He reached deep into our minds and hearts and put into words and action the things all conservatives know instinctively are ...
Capital Briefs
Feb 11, 2008; ... * WHAT'S WRONG AT NRCC? At a time when 28 Republican House members are stepping down and the National Republican Congressional Committee is just coming out of the red from the '06 midterm election cycle, things don't look promising for the House GOP's campaign arm. The NRCC closed '07 with a ...
Republicans Must Unify an Angry Base
Feb 11, 2008; ... The principal product of this misbegotten presidential primary cycle isn't going to be the best pair of candidates in November: It will be anger-especially among the disparate groups that call themselves conservatives or Republicans. The frustration continues to build as each primary and caucus ...
Nominating McCain Is the Gesture of a Desperate Party
Feb 11, 2008; ... From Goldwater Girl to Hillary Girl Republicans are so shell-shocked and demoralized by the success of the Bush Derangement Syndrome they think they can fool the voters by nominating an open-borders, anti-tax cut, anti-free speech, global-warming hysteric, pro-human experimentation ...
The Strange GOP Nominating Process of '08
Feb 11, 2008; ... John McCain's nomination shows how whimsical history can be. It is the first time in living memory that a Republican presidential nomination went to a candidate who was not merely opposed by a majority of the party but was actively despised by about half its rank-and-file voters across the ...
Democrats Ignore Medicare's Alarm Bells
Feb 11, 2008; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill "Every member in this chamber," President Bush said during last month's State of the Union Address, "knows that spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is growing faster than we can afford." How fast? ...
A Fiscal Catastrophe Is Coming
Feb 11, 2008; ... Were a family to go out and borrow $455,000 on an adjustable interest rate mortgage to buy a big second home with no idea where they were going to get the money to pay it off, they would justifiably be seen as fools. They certainly would not deserve a bailout from hardworking taxpayers ...
The World's Top 10 Freest Economies
Feb 11, 2008; ... For last 14 years, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have documented the march of economic freedom around the world with an informative Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Adam Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and economic freedom to life by ...
McCain Can't Ignore Conservatives
Feb 11, 2008; ... CPAC 2008-Knowing the Electorate Some 6,000 conservative activists began arriving in Washington Wednesday to kick off this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday morning at the Omni Shoreham. It was the 35th such gathering, which began back in 1973, cosponsored ...
Grassroots Will Support a Conservative Nominee
Feb 11, 2008; ... To GOP: Stand Firm on Non-negotiable Principles Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis was scheduled to address the attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference February 7. Here are excerpts from his prepared remarks: When conservatives get elected and get ...
McCain Tells Conservatives He'll Listen-But Will He?
Feb 11, 2008; ... Cheers and Jeers for McCain at CPAC Speaking to a crowd of about 5,000 conservative activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CRAC), Arizona Sen. John McCain attempted to calm conservatives trying to win over skeptics who had only a few hours before heard his principal ...
Conservative Principles Needed More Than Ever
Feb 11, 2008; ... American Culture Is the Source of Our Nation's Strength Former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney delivered the following speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, February 7. We face a new generation of challenges, challenges that threaten our ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Feb 11, 2008; ... 1. Last year, there was talk of secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a Republican presidential candidate in 2008. Who was the last former secretary of State to seek a major party nomination for President? 2. Who was the last secretary of State to go on to be President? 3. Who ...
Gizzi on Politics
Feb 11, 2008; ... The Illinois Story There were three Republican primaries last week to pick nominees in U.S. House districts vacated by GOP incumbents in Illinois. By far, the most closely watched of any was the 14th District, where former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert resigned early, triggering a ...
Critics of McCain's Critics Should Chill
Feb 11, 2008; ... Isn't it ironic that GOP moderates are harshly criticizing GOP conservatives for being harshly critical of GOP presidential frontrunner John McCain? What mortal sins have conservative McCain critics committed? Oh, they've stuck to their conservative principles, fighting for the values ...
Conservatives Must Stay Faithful to Their Values
Feb 11, 2008; ... The Movement Is Not Dead Editor's note: This article is adapted from the introduction of the newly released The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy-The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left This Election Year: 2008 Presidential Election Edition by Mark W ....
The Truth About the Swift Boat Vets and Kerry's Deceit
Feb 11, 2008; ... New Book Sets the Record Staight The Truth About the Swift Boat Vets and Kerry's Deceit To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry By Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler New American Media Publishing, 2008 $25.00, 327pp. BY CHERYL K ....
Candidates Criticized for 'Linking Islam With Terrorism'
Feb 11, 2008; ... Republicans Accused of 'Shameful' Politics to Scare Americans Two weeks ago, a reporter for the Kuwait News Agency accused Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of "linking Islam with terrorism as a tool to scare up support among U.S. voters, an election style ...
Remembering 'Mr. Captive Nations' Lev Dobriansky
Feb 11, 2008; ... The conservative movement lost a giant last week when Ambassador Lev E. Dobriansky passed away in his 90th year. Ambassador Dobriansky was rightly called "Mr. Captive Nations" because he authored the Captive Nations Week Resolution first proclaimed by President D wight D. Eisenhower in 1959 and ...
Chinese Espionage Now at Cold War Scale
Feb 25, 2008; ... The liberal American media haven't been deaf or bund to the case of four suspected Chinese spies' being arrested across the nation last week, but the story hasn't exactly caught fire either. A Google news search last Monday listed only 105 stories on the case and most of those were on small or ...
Pelosi & Co. Endanger U.S. National Security
Feb 25, 2008; ... With great fanfare. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the agenda for her first 100 hours last January. One of the seven things she promised to do was to enact all the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. One year later, with few of those items accomplished, Pelosi is gambling ...
What's Next for Cuba?
Feb 25, 2008; ... "If any Gorbachev raises his head around here," snarled Castro as recently as 2002, "we'll promptly chop it off!" Thus spoke Raul-not Fidel Castro in 2002. Yet this is the man Democrats, the liberal media and the scholarly "Cuba experts" they're trotting out this week assure us will ...
Could GOP Senate Number Drop to the 'Feared 40'?
Feb 25, 2008; ... Few-if any-pundits and not even the most upbeat of Republicans believe that the GOP this year will regain the majority of seats it held in the U.S. Senate from 1994 until 2006. The current Senate line-up is 51 Democrats, 49 Republicans. Because the GOP has to defend more seats than the ...
Capital Briefs
Feb 25, 2008; ... * CLINTON'S LAST STANDS? All indications are that if she doesn't win primaries in Ohio and Texas on March 4 and, her final backup hope, Pennsylvania, April 22, Hillary Clinton will be political toast and Barack Obama the all-but-nominated Democratic candidate for President. But late last week, ...
McCain, Obama and Clinton Backed Social Security for Illegals
Feb 25, 2008; ... One thing Senators Barack Obama (D.Ill.), Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) and John McCain (R.-Ariz.) all have in common is that they voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who committed document fraud. Indeed, McCain voted for it before he was against ...
The 2nd Amendment Has Day in Court
Feb 25, 2008; ... When the city council of the District of Columbia enacted the toughest gun control law in the nation in 1976, the city fathers-according to what they said at the time-believed they were making the Nation's Capital a safer place. In this, the measure failed miserably. Since passage, the murder ...
How to Keep Reagan out of Office
Feb 25, 2008; ... Inasmuch as the current presidential election has come down to a choice among hemlock, self-immolation or the traditional gun in the mouth, now is the time for patriotic Americans to review what went wrong and to start planning for 2012. How did we end up with the mainstream media's ...
The Media Finally Treat John McCain Like a Republican Again
Feb 25, 2008; ... Examining the GOP Maverick's Once-Unexamined Life Last Wednesday, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's decade-long honeymoon as the favorite Republican of the mainstream media came to a crashing halt. In a remarkable coincidence, Wednesday marked approximately one week of McCain's ...
McCain Must Persuade Grassroots, Not Commentators
Feb 25, 2008; ... Political commentators from various points on the right-wing spectrum are still arguing about the McCain presidential candidacy, lecturing and scolding each other-as if their opinions are going to decide the election. They take themselves too seriously. The McCainiacs are warning ...
In Defense of Conservative Talk Radio
Feb 25, 2008; ... Establishment Republicans Parrot Liberal Ad Hominem Rhetoric The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It's disgusting. Author Mark Helprin's grenade in the Wall Street Journal stands out ....
The World's 10 Least Free Economies
Feb 25, 2008; ... For the last 14 years, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have documented the march of economic freedom around the world with an informative Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Adam Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and economic freedom to life ...
Obama's Class Warfare Will Turn on the Voters He Claims to Help
Feb 25, 2008; ... To the denizens of the far left's fever swamps, the rich are the enemy. Their financial achievements always come at the expense of the "struggling" middle class. During normal times, it is safe to ignore the sort of "soak the rich" proposals that inevitably emerge from those rants. Take ...
National Security at the Border
Feb 25, 2008; ... Jihad Watch Three Afghanis were arrested February 13 at an international airport in India's Kerala state for flying with forged Mexican passports. They had just arrived there from Kuwait, where officials examined the passports identifying them as "Antonio Lopez Juan," "Javier Sanchez ...
Hillary Watch
Feb 25, 2008; ... NOT A PRETTY PRIMARY. After getting thrashed by Illinois Sen. Barrack Obama in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucus Tuesday night, Hillary has now lost 10 straight contests since Super Tuesday. Obama has amassed an increasing delegate lead and has all the momentum. He is winning the voter ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Feb 25, 2008; ... 1. There has been talk that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has never held elective office, might be the running mate of Republican John McCain this year. Who was the last Vice President who never previously held elective office? 2. There has also been discussion about former ...
Gizzi on Politics
Feb 25, 2008; ... Divine Right: From Lantos to Speier The death two weeks ago of Rep. Tom Lantos (D.-Calif.) leaves unchanged the succession to his 12th District (San Mateo) seat desired by both the 28-year lawmaker and most Northern California Democrats. When he announced his retirement earlier ...
Exposing the Economic Nonsense of the Stimulus
Feb 25, 2008; ... Government Should Instead Remove Impediments to Production The hottest buzzword of the day is "economic stimulus." Virtually every politician and pundit agrees the government must act quickly to forestall a recession by increasing consumer spending. President Bush and the Democratic ...
Conservative Movement Must Make a Declaration of Independence
Feb 25, 2008; ... Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed a cheering audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday, February 9. Here are portions of his well-received remarks. (To read the entire speech, visit HumanEvents.com.) I want to talk to you this afternoon from having ...
Protecting the Unborn With Science and Philosophy
Feb 25, 2008; ... Protecting the Unborn With Science and Philosophy An Embryonic Journey to Defend Human Life Secularists often employ the false but useful concept of religious faith as warring with science. By labeling a viewpoint as religious in origin, they avoid having to deal with its merits ....