Human Events back issues from June 2008:
Purple Haze in Iowa as GOP Heads to State Convention
Jun 09, 2008; ... Recent past elections have clearly established Iowa as neither a red nor blue state, but rather somewhere in the middle, truly a purple state. In 2000 Al Gore narrowly carried the Hawkeye State, but in 2004 it was one of only two states nationally to switch from blue to red, with Bush carrying ...
How Long Can Obama Keep Up Unifier Charade?
Jun 09, 2008; ... The $64 million question is how long Barack Obama can carry forward this ruse that he is a uniter, when he has placed himself in a climate that is, at the very least, quite accommodating to an anti-white racist perspective, vulgarity and anti-Americanism. How many more shoes can drop without ...
Global Warming Bill Could Mean Biggest U.S. Tax Hike Ever
Jun 09, 2008; ... Whenever a crisis develops, Congress always over-reacts. When the Enron bankruptcy became news in 2001, Congress gave us Sarbanes-Oxley, the most expensive securities legislation in history. The recent subprime lending scandal has encouraged Congress to propose a plethora of new costly ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 09, 2008; ... * AFTER THE BATTLE: With Barack Obama's wrapping up the Democratic nomination last week, a just-completed Gallup Poll showed the general election a virtual tie - Obama at 45.6% and John McCain 45.4%. The same survey showed that Obama has a strong lead (59% to 36%) among voters aged 18-to-29, but ...
Obama Was Selected, Not Elected
Jun 09, 2008; ... Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then get indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago. When Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 election by half ...
Victory Ahead for Texas GOP
Jun 09, 2008; ... Democrats, the media and even some Republicans have already written our political obituary in Harris County and across the state of Texas. The last time I checked, however, every statewide office was held by a Republican, both U.S. senators from Texas were Republicans, we had a Republican ...
McClellan Book Wrong on Plame Leak
Jun 09, 2008; ... In Scott McClellan's purported tell-all memoir of his trials as President George W. Bush's press secretary, he virtually ignores Deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage's role leaking to me Valerie Flame's identity as a CIA employee. That fits the partisan Democratic version of the Plame ...
Hillary Still Muscling Obama
Jun 09, 2008; ... Last Tuesday should have been the best day yet in Barack Obama's life. Almost certain to lock up the Democratic presidential nomination that night, June 3 should have been a day for Obama to congratulate self and staff and deliver a stem-winder of a speech to launch the national ...
U.S. Is an Oil Power, If Only We Drill For It
Jun 09, 2008; ... Contemplate this the next time you spend $60 or more filling up your tinny little car with gasoline made from imported oil: The U.S. government knows where it can get its hands on more untapped petroleum than exists in the proven reserves of Iran or Iraq, which have 136 billion barrels and 115 ...
McCain's Veepstakes: Haley Barbour
Jun 09, 2008; ... Ninth in a series "Farley seems to have dedicated his life to keeping in touch," political columnist Joseph Alsop wrote of Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley in the late 1930s. Alsop was referring to the ability of Parley, then the top political trouble-shooter for ...
Hillary Watch
Jun 09, 2008; ... ITS OVER Nearly 24 hours after Sen. Barack Obama announced he had 2,187 pledged delegates, exceeding the total of 2,118 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination, word leaked from Hillary's camp that she would be suspending her campaign and endorsing Obama within a few days. The final ...
War On Terror Ends?
Jun 09, 2008; ... Jihad Watch Good news: The war on terror is over! Charles Alien, the Department of Homeland Security's senior intelligence official, said last week that American officials should stop calling the conflict a "war on terror." Why? Because it offends Muslims. When they hear ...
Carter Again Shows Contempt for Israel and Security
Jun 09, 2008; ... On May 26, ex-President Jimmy Carter demonstrated his disdain for Israel and disregard for state secrets when he announced that Israel "has 150 or more" atomic weapons. His statement likely breaks federal law, compromises the trust of a key ally and could help fuel Middle East nuclear ...
Will Senate OK Akaka's Hawaii Race Test?
Jun 09, 2008; ... The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has company in the Aloha State. Barack Obama's former pastor has proclaimed that America is really two peoples, one black, one white. Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka (D.) is pushing a bill that would divide his state's residents into two groups: Native Hawaiian and non-Native ....
Legislative Lowdown
Jun 09, 2008; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Liberals Play Games with Troop Funding, Judicial Appointments, Fingerprints May was a successful month in Iraq on many levels: Attacks in Iraq hit a four-year low, U.S. troop deaths are at their lowest level (down 85% from last May), oil ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jun 09, 2008; ... The Other Primaries As has been the case on other major primary evenings, press attention on the contests June 3rd for Senate and House nominations in several states was dwarfed by that given to the final Democratic presidential nomination battles. But, at least to conservatives, there ...
Katie Couric Plays Up Teens and Victimhood
Jun 09, 2008; ... Feminist Indoctrination's Central Role If you want to understand the negative impact of feminism on women (and men) and, by extension, the destructive effects of liberal teachers. Democratic politics and liberal news media on African-Americans, here is Katie Couric last week on the CBS ...
Phillips Foundation Announces Fellowship Winners
Jun 09, 2008; ... The Phillips Foundation announced eight winners of its 15th annual journalism fellowship awards at a gala dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 13. Winners of four $50,000 full-time fellowships are: David Donadio, 27, op-ed editor and manager of editorial services ...
Terror-Free Investing Growing Strongly
Jun 16, 2008; ... In state capitals all across America, the movement to divest public funds from shares of companies that choose to do business with state sponsors of terrorism continues to make major headway. State legislators have taken the lead in informing the public about the benefits of divesting ...
Can Webb and McCain Agree on New GI Bill?
Jun 16, 2008; ... Since World War II, the "GI Bill" has enabled hundreds of thousands of veterans (and some active duty personnel) to get the college degree they needed to get ahead in life. Now, the GI Bill is going to be revised and updated. But the several different proposals to do that have become a partisan ...
Obama's Foreign Policy Team Tacks Left
Jun 16, 2008; ... It isn't too early to project what an Obaraa Administration might look like, at least in terms of its foreign/national security policy. He has a track record in the Senate and now statements on the campaign trail, but most important is a constellation of advisors who point to an identifiable ...
RACES of the WEEK
Jun 16, 2008; ... Florida 's 22nd District West vs. Klein There are two reasons Republicans and conservatives in general throughout Florida's 22nd District are passionate about defeating one-term Democratic Rep. Ron Klein. The first is that, but for freakish circumstances in 2006, clay Shaw would ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 16, 2008; ... * BLACK VOTERS BACK OBAMA-CUNTON (SORT OF): For all the charges of a racially-insensitive campaign by Hillary Clinton (and especially by husband Bill) before her exit from the race last week, a justcompleted Rasmussen Poll shows that a plurality of black voters nationwide want her as Barack ...
Bush's America: 100% Al Qaeda-Free Since 2001
Jun 16, 2008; ... In a conversation recently, I mentioned as an aside what a great President George Bush has been and my friend was surprised. I was surprised that he was surprised. I generally don't write columns about the manifestly obvious, but, yes, the man responsible for keeping Americans safe from ...
Blame McCain's Aides For His Speech
Jun 16, 2008; ... What's going on inside the McCain campaign? Maybe I've read too much Conan Doyle and Le Carre. Maybe too much of my young professional life was spent in the company of people who built satellites to detect faint electronic signals in enemy lands. Nevertheless, there are too many faint signals ...
Every New College Student Should Read This Book
Jun 16, 2008; ... Every New College Student Should Read This Book 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help By Benjamin Wiker Regnery, 2008 $24.95,338 pp. Available at HEBoohSenrice.com What a wonderful idea: Take the most influential books that have "screwed up the world" ...
Liberals Want to Force Us Out of Cars
Jun 16, 2008; ... Recent evidence that automobile use is declining in America and that some Americans are making significant-and in some cases not readily reversible-changes in their lives because of escalating gas prices should be worrisome signs for those who love liberty. No device is more in keeping ...
The Stealth Jihad in Turkey
Jun 16, 2008; ... Jihad Watch Anyone opposed to the global jihad should be watching recent developments in Turkey-not just for what they reveal about the direction in which that country is headed but also to understand the new direction of the jihad movement. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...
Obama is No Joshua
Jun 16, 2008; ... Obama Watch Barack Obama's presidential campaign plans to strike at the heart of the Republican base by attempting to woo Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics to his side. The Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody first broke the story on his blog 'The Brody File." ...
McCain-Lieberman: Then and Now
Jun 16, 2008; ... Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Four and a half years ago, the U.S. Senate rejected a global-warming bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain and Sen. Joseph lieberman (I.-Conn.) by a decisive 43-to-55 vote. After the vote, McCain said, "We've lost a battle today, but we'll win over time ...
McCain's Veepstakes: Kay Bailey Hutchison
Jun 16, 2008; ... Tenth in a Series (This is the tenth Veepstakes article. Already profiled have been Alaska Gov. Sarah Polin, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Ohio Rep.RobPortman, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, fanner Maryland Gov. Michael Steele, Indiana Gov. Much ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jun 16, 2008; ... Posey Post Weldon Even more stunning than the surprise retirement announcement earlier this year by Rep. Dave Weldon (R.-Fla.) at age 54, is the way that a fellow conservative Republican, State Sen. Bill Posey, wrapped up the all-important Republican nomination in Florida's 15th ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jun 16, 2008; ... 1. Three Presidents of the United States have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Can you name them? 2. One U.S. President was a Pulitzer Prize winner before he was elected. Can you name him? 3. Four Republican U.S. House members who lost their seats in '06 are making comeback attempts ...
Short Takes
Jun 16, 2008; ... What's Going On In Stolen Island?-In an unexpected move, Republicans in New York's 13th U.S. House District (Staten Island) gave their blessings to a wealthy-bat-obscure candidate for the seat of retiring Republican Rep. Vlto Fossella. After weeks of talk about Staten Island District Attorney ...
Greatest Current Danger: Climate Alarmism
Jun 16, 2008; ... Abusing Freedom in Name of the Planet (The following article is excerpted from remarks delivered by Mr. Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, before the National Press Club on May 27,2008, as transcribed by Federal News Service.) My thinking today is fundamentally influenced by ...
We Badly Need Good Fathers
Jun 16, 2008; ... As we continue to show honor and gratitude to the man in our lives that was responsible for bringing us into being, we must remember that fatherhood continues to have a lifetime impact in our lives, and should be revered and approached with a sincere passion. America has awakened to the ...
Wounded Warrior Dinners
Jun 16, 2008; ... The American Veterans Center is sponsoring a series of Friday dinners for wounded soldiers and Marines from Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospitals. The dinners are held at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. on Friday evenings for the wounded servicemen and their families. They ...
Congress Still Ignores Entitlement Monster
Jun 16, 2008; ... Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about "entitlements"? That's the government's ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn't. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to ...
UN Looking at U.S. 'Racism'
Jun 16, 2008; ... When the mainstream media don't want you to know something they simply spike the story-meaning they don't cover it. That's what's happened to the good news from Iraq. American heroes in flak jackets and helmets and their Iraqi counterparts are asserting rule of law for millions of grateful Iraqi ...
Decision Will Cause More Americans to Be Killed
Jun 23, 2008; ... Last week's majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, said that prisoners detained by the U.S. military and held at Guantanamo Bay have constitutional habeas corpus rights. Dissenting from his finding were Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices ...
How Congress Can Keep Us Safe from Court
Jun 23, 2008; ... Boumediene Jurisdiction Correction Act The Taliban is celebrating in the mountains of Afghanistan. Not because of a military victory or successful terrorist attack in the name of Jihad, but because of a decision by the United States Supreme Court. Last week, the court decided that habeas ...
Boxer's High-Tax Climate Bill Killed for This Year
Jun 23, 2008; ... What a difference three years makes. In 2005,1 led the charge against a massive global-warming cap-and-trade bill. It was a lonely battle with few GOP members willing to join me on the Senate floor to publicly oppose it. Fast forward to June 2008. Not only was I joined by dozens of GOP ...
John McCain's Veepstakes: Jim DeMint
Jun 23, 2008; ... Eleventh in a series (This is the 11th Veepstakes article. Already profiled have heen Alaska Gov. Sarah Pal in. South Carolina Gov: Mark Sanford, Minnesota Gov. Tom Pawlenty, fanner Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, Indiana Gov. M ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 23, 2008; ... * BOEING WINS TANKER PROTEST: The Government Accountability Office last week sustained Boeing's protest against the controversial U.S. Air Force award of the new air refueling tanker contract to Northrop Grumman/EADS. The GAO agreed with Boeing that the Air Force had violated government contract ...
Kennedy's Opinion Will Allow Detainees to Kill Again
Jun 23, 2008; ... After reading Justice Anthony Kennedy's recent majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, I feel like I need to install a "1984"-style Big Brother camera in my home so Justice Kennedy can keep an eye on everything I do. Until last week, the law had been that there were some places in the ...
New York Times Reinvents War Profiteering
Jun 23, 2008; ... With the long-awaited compromise on the Foreign intelligence Surveillance Act at hand, the Aunt Pittypats of the New York Times editorial page are suffering a severe case of the vapors. In an editorial last Wednesday, the Times gasped out that the compromise was a false one and accused ...
It's Always Halloween at the Border
Jun 23, 2008; ... It was as frightening as a Halloween trick can be: It happened in broad daylight. It was caught on camera. The government says it really happened. On Oct. 31, 2006, a covert agent of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) pulled to the side of a Canadian highway that runs along the ...
GOP Must Show Courage on Earmark Reform
Jun 23, 2008; ... Morale is low among House Republicans. After three special election losses in traditionally Republican congressional districts, the reality is beginning to sink in with many of my colleagues that our time in the political wilderness may last longer than one election cycle, It's difficult ...
Despite Pledges to Cut, Earmarks Still on the Rise
Jun 23, 2008; ... When control of Congress switched hands in 2006 the new majority promised to end the "culture of corruption" surrounding earmarks and lobbying. Voters soon learned, however, that the goal of the vast majority of members in both parties was to pass just enough reform to calm angry voters while ...
Congressman Flake's Top Ten Egregious Earmarks of 2008
Jun 23, 2008; ... 1. $147,000 to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens in Atlanta, Ga for construction of a canopy walk. -"Weed be better off if earmarks like this weren't planted in spending bills," said Flake. 2. $245,000 for the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Ill. -"This is not a fiscally ...
Will Congress Revisit DOMA?
Jun 23, 2008; ... Legislative Lowdown Last week, gay and lesbian couples in California began receiving marriage licenses in the wake of the state supreme court's May 15 ruling that California's law limiting marriage to one man and one woman was unconstitutional. California's redefinition of ...
RACES of the WEEK
Jun 23, 2008; ... Colorado's U.S. Senate Race Schaffer vs. Udall Every election cycle, it seems, there is a U.S. Senate race that is a classic philosophical clash between a committed conservative and a passionate liberal. Certainly, most of the election battles of former Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Jun 23, 2008; ... 1. There are two present U.S. senators elected as independents. Can you name them? 2. Of the 35 Senate races in the country this year, which two are special elections to fill the remainder of unexpired terms? 3. What is the only Senate race in which the major party candidates are ...
Conservative Forum
Jun 23, 2008; ... All correspondence for this feature should be addressed to Conservative Forum, HUMAN EVEMTS, 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 ...
Gizzi on Politics
Jun 23, 2008; ... Anyone for Ohio AG? Next to" the contest for its 20 electoral votes, Ohio's most critical race this fall will be a special election to fill the office of state attorney general, which is now vacant after the recent resignation of Democratic incumbent Marc Dann following sensational ...
Getting to Know YOU
Jun 23, 2008; ... Despite all the fancy demographic tools and studies the media can use, the best is the most old-fashioned and simple: interview the readers. This article is the first in an irregular series in which HUMAN EVENTS talks directly to you. Winner of the coveted spot of our very first ...
The Jihad Against Free Speech
Jun 23, 2008; ... Jihad Watch Freedom of speech is in imminent danger. Concerted attacks on it by the jihadist movement are increasing in number here and in countries that share America's dedication to free speech. Mark Steyn, the author of America Alone (Regnery), is on trial in Canada for ...
D.C. Gun Ban Blown Away
Jun 30, 2008; ... As I swab down one of my hundreds of privately owned, individually possessed firearms again this fine morning, I snicker and shake my head in disbelief that there are four "justices" on the "supreme" court thai do not believe Americans have individual rights. Sure, I am somewhat pleased that we ...
Democrats Blocking Vote on Energy Production Bill
Jun 30, 2008; ... 'No More Excuses' Act Despite fuel costs at levels previously only seen in Europe, the Democratic leadership in this Congress refuses even to allow a vote on increasing American energy production. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and leading House Democrats are trying to hike taxes on ...
Will His ACORN Connection Haunt Obama?
Jun 30, 2008; ... If you don't know what ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is all about, you should bone up. This left-wing group takes in 40% of its revenues from American taxpayers - you and me - and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to fund ...
Barack Obama's Veepstakes: A List of Possibles
Jun 30, 2008; ... 1. Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.) Bayh was the 13th most conservative Democratic senator in 2007, with a composite liberal score of 62.2, according to National Journal. Choosing a more conservative running mate may be what Obama needs to even out his track record. Obama's own composite liberal ...
You Can't Fuel All of the People All of the Time
Jun 30, 2008; ... Liberals dismiss studies that show a link between abortion and breast cancer, claiming the studies are biased because the people promoting them are "anti-choice." For the same reason, no one should believe the Democrats' "energy" policies. Democrats couldn't care less about high ...
Capital Briefs
Jun 30, 2008; ... * CANNON FIRED: In a stunning result that caught many of the most seasoned national political reporters by surprise. Rep. Chris Cannon (R.-Utah) was defeated for renomination last week. Jason Chaffetz, top aide to GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman. Jr., ran to the right of Cannon and trounced the 14-year ...
How to Buy the Tanker
Jun 30, 2008; ... Twice in the past six years the Air Force has tried to buy replacements for its fleet of dangerously old KC-135 air-refueling tankers. And twice it has failed. The first failure came because an Air Force official cooked the books for her own financial gain. The second - the now-overturned ...
Obama Proposes Government-Run Childhood
Jun 30, 2008; ... One of the most dramatic changes in American life in the years since World War II involves the way we raise our children. We used to do it ourselves. Now, convinced we have better things to do, many of us leave the job to others. Encouraging this flight from parenthood. Sen ....