Human Events back issues from October 2008:
If Facts Matter, Obama Will Lose
Oct 13, 2008; ... Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on ...
California GOP Legislators Stop Billions in New Taxes
Oct 13, 2008; ... California's massive $104 billion general fund budget was signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on September 23, a record 85 days into the new fiscal year. The standoff was long because the stakes were great: Would Californians be saddled with a rapidly growing government and higher ...
Democrats Behind CRA Cover-Up
Oct 13, 2008; ... As always, it's the cover-up that sinks people. Liberals are working overtime to cover up their role in the mortgage meltdown. Not only did they block attempts to reform Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before they could drag down our economy, but ...
Looking Back at Classic Political Debates
Oct 13, 2008; ... With only one more debate to go before Election Day, Human Events offers a look at some highlights (and lowlights) of previous campaign debates. 1858: Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas They weren't running for President, but the Lincoln-Douglas debates set the standard for a ...
Capital Briefs
Oct 13, 2008; ... * PALIN DISSENTS: One Republican who clearly disagreed with the McCain campaign's stunning decision to abandon Michigan last week was its vice presidential candidate. The morning after the announcement of the Michigan exit and the day after her own televised debate with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin ...
Pull the Hair Plug on this Guy
Oct 13, 2008; ... If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in the vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?") These weren't ...
'Town-Hall' Debate Turned Into Bidding Contest
Oct 13, 2008; ... Last week's town-hall-style presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville was supposed to suit John McCain. Barack Obama wasn't supposed to be comfortable - unable to achieve any rhetorical comfort - without his constant companion, the teleprompter. But both did better - and worse - ...
Americans Should Know Obama's Abortion Survivor Views
Oct 13, 2008; ... The most telling debate Barack Obama ever had was not with John McCain but Patrick O'Malley, who served with Obama in the Illinois Senate and engaged Obama in a colloquy every American should read. The Obama-O'Malley debate was a defining moment for Obama because it dealt with such a ...
Why Didn't Michelle Didn't Stand Up to Ayers?
Oct 13, 2008; ... Last week the indispensable Sweetness & Light blog dug up a 1997 article in the Uni- versity of Chicago Chronicle on a conference on juvenile justice organized by Michelle Obama. Speaking at the conference was William Ayers, cofounder of the radical left- ist "Weather Underground" terrorist ...
Media Ignore Obama Lies About ACORN Connection
Oct 13, 2008; ... Last week the Las Vegas ACORN office was searched by state law enforcement officials for evidence of voter fraud. As Americans become more educated about the illegal actions of ACORN, Obama continues to deny his long relationship with the organization. However, in a 2003 article for ...
Big Obama Constituency: Non-taxpayers
Oct 13, 2008; ... Brad O'Leary, author of The Audacity of Deceit: Obama 's War on American Values, recently wrote in Investor's Business Daily that he came across some interesting statistics while writing his book. According to a poll he commissioned from Zogby America, 30% of American voters don't pay any ...
Obama goes to war against freedom of speech
Oct 13, 2008; ... Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt issued a statement on the Obama campaign's "abusive use of Missouri law enforcement" What was striking about the allegations Blunt made was the eerie parallel between the Obama camp's activity and the Organization of the Islamic Conference's efforts to stifle all ...
Jordan vs. Moore
Oct 13, 2008; ... Kansas's 3rd District Since he first won Kansas' 3rd District seat by unseating an incumbent Republican back in 1996, Democrat Dennis Moore (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 20%) has always faced spirited opposition. Although the GOP has frequently made an effort to retake ...
Gilhooley vs. Holden
Oct 13, 2008; ... Pennsylvania's 17th District "Mom, I saw Barry Goldwater today and I'm in love with him!" Then 17-year-old Antoinette D'Agostino scandalized her mother with those words ("Don't you dare say that! We're Democrats!") and had undergone a political baptism on that day in 1964 when ...
Wicker vs. Musgrave
Oct 13, 2008; ... Mississippi's U.S. Senate Race Ronnie Musgrove is living proof that there are indeed second acts in politics and resurrection is never an impossibility. Five years after he was beaten for reelection as governor of Mississippi amid the Magnolia State's worst-in-memory fiscal ...
Will Obama Heed Gen. Petraeus?
Oct 13, 2008; ... If you asked Sen. Barack Obama two years ago for a strategy for Iraq, he would have recommended withdrawing all troops. The New York Times and other liberal news outlets would have said that Iraq was on the verge of an inevitable civil war and a stunning U.S. defeat. Yet President Bush went with ...
Conservatives Have New History of American Left
Oct 13, 2008; ... Conservatives Have New History of American Left A Conservative History of the American Left By Daniel J. Flynn 464 pages. Crown Forum $27.50 There are a number of fine books by conservatives about the history of the conservative movement, including Lee Edwards' The Conservative ...
Gotcha Questions for Katie Couric (and Her Colleagues)
Oct 13, 2008; ... Just as Charlie Gibson did in bis interview with Sarah Palin, Katie Couric set out to humiliate the Republican vice-presidential candidate with a series of "gotcha" questions. This tactic - rarely employed with major liberal candidates - could be used equally effectively against Couric, ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Oct 13, 2008; ... 1. John McCain's campaign made headlines recently when operatives said it was pulling out of Michigan. When was the last time a Republican candidate for President carried Michigan? 2. Who was the last Michigan Republican to be on a national ticket? 3. Who was the last Michigan ...
Gizzi on Politics
Oct 13, 2008; ... Fallout in Michigan When John McCain's campaign stunned pundits and pols with the word it was giving up on Michigan and did so on the eve of Sarah Palin's debate with vice presidential rival Joe Biden - the move sent shock waves throughout the Water Wonderland. Not only did the apparent ...
Taiwan Tries Sunshine Policy
Oct 13, 2008; ... Island Nation Imitates South Korea's failed initiative Coaxing China into adopting a friendly policy toward Taiwan, which China's Communist government for decades has regarded as a rogue Chinese province, would be a tall order for anyone. But that's the unenviable task that Taiwan's own ...
Conservative Forum
Oct 13, 2008; ... 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 ...
Universities Urged to Lift ROTC Ban
Oct 13, 2008; ... The trustees of seven universities that refuse to allow ROTC programs on their campuses received letters from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni urging them to change their policy. "At a time when there is broad support for public service, continued refusal to permit students to ...
McCain Promises No Compromise on Supreme Court
Oct 20, 2008; ... Exclusive Human Events Interview Straight Talk Air (Somewhere Between New York and Miami) - Sen. John McCain would "absolutely" continue to nominate strict constructionist judges and would not compromise on that issue even if any of his Supreme Court nominations were defeated by a ...
Barack Obama Talks On and On
Oct 20, 2008; ... With the presidential election only weeks away, here for our readers is a collection of interesting, troubling, outrageous remarks by Sen. Barack Obama, gathered both from his campaign speeches and from his books. (Thanks to our friends at www.rightwingnews.com and www.conservativegrapevine.com ...
Capital Briefs
Oct 20, 2008; ... * HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER: As some usually pro-McCain pundits, including Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, began to unload last week on how poorly the Arizonan's presidential campaign is being run, the campaign came under sharp criticism from an most unexpected source: Joe McCain, John's younger ...
Obama Hides Links to ACORN
Oct 20, 2008; ... NEW YORK - With ACORN facing vote-fraud investigations in at least 13 states, it is no surprise that Barack Obama wants to distance himself from this band of scandal-plagued community organizers. However, the degree to which Obama's campaign has concealed his links to ACORN raises troubling ...
Concerns Grow About ACORN
Oct 20, 2008; ... Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R.) told Human Events he is 'very concerned' about Barack Obama's ties to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which is being investigated for fraudulent voter registrations in several states. ACORN has so far helped register 1 3 million ...
Eighty-Four Percent Say They'd Never Lie to a Pollster
Oct 20, 2008; ... With an African-American running for President this year, there has been a lot of chatter about the "Bradley effect." allowing the media to wail about institutional racism in America. Named after Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who lost his election for California governor in 1982 despite ...
Why Liberal Media Want to Destroy Palin
Oct 20, 2008; ... Conservatives know by now that the dominant liberal media are not just out to criticize Gov. Sarah Palin. They are on a drive to destroy her. But conservatives are missing the reason. It's not really about defeating John McCain. Running mates do not decide a presidential election. The ...
How Much More Will Paulson Want to Spend?
Oct 20, 2008; ... Panic on Wall Street - and in every foreign financial market - was supposed to be calmed by the Bush/Paulson $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. Confidence among investors and bankers would be restored, we were told, if only a huge chunk of our free market were ...
Jihadists Still an Obama Muslim-Outreach Problem
Oct 20, 2008; ... * Jihad Watch Fox News - one of the few media outlets that aren't entirely in the Obama camp - revealed that yet another Muslim-outreach adviser for the Obama campaign has questionable tics to jihadist groups. Minna Husaini replaced Mazen Asbahi as the Obama campaign's Muslim ...
Media Come to Obama's Defense
Oct 20, 2008; ... Obama Watch Dean Reynolds of CBS News reported on the pool reporters' experience on both the Obama and McCain campaigns. Reynolds said: "The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, ...
Blowhard Krugman Actually Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Oct 20, 2008; ... Who said this? "Economists don't know how to make a poor country rich, or bring back the magic of economic growth when it seems to have gone away." And this: "Social Security as it is currently constituted is very efficient. We're talking about a system that really works quite ...
Austria vs. Neuhardt
Oct 20, 2008; ... Ohio's 7th District When Clarence Brown. Sr. was first elected to Congress from Ohio's 7th District in 1938. the pattern was set for the next 70 years, during which conservative Republicans would hold the House seat. The fourth GOP congressman since '38 to represent the 7th. Dave ...
Feeney vs. Kosmas
Oct 20, 2008; ... Florida's 24th District Whenever a lawmaker wears his conservatism like an Olympic Gold Medal, he or she is bound to have tough re-election challenges. It doesn't matter how safe the district appears on paper or what the voter registration is. When you're conservative and make no bones ...
Tinsley vs. Teague
Oct 20, 2008; ... New Mexico's 2nd District The modern history of New Mexico's 2nd District (Roswell-Las Cruces) is unusual. It has been in the hands of two Republican congressmen for the past 28 years. However, during those years whenever it was an open district with no incumbent, there was a huge battle ...
No End to Government Economic Intervention?
Oct 20, 2008; ... There was instructive value even in the language that the Washington Post and the New York Times used to describe the meeting last Monday at which nine large banks agreed to surrender part ownership to the government. In describing how it came about, the Post said, The government ordered ...
Stone's Bush Film is Offensive
Oct 20, 2008; ... Stone's Bush Film is Offensive Oliver Stone's most recent film - W is about as deeply offensive a portrait of a leader of the free world that may ever have been put on the screen. Now it's one thing to read in a book about President Lyndon B. Johnson's carrying on conversations while ...
Traditional Marriage Trifecta in the Making?
Oct 20, 2008; ... On Friday October 10, the Connecticut Supreme Court, by a narrow 4-to-3 majority once again struck down that state's marriage laws. The most exceptional part of this Connecticut court's judicial activism has been the least reported: The judges ruled that "sexual orientation" (which the ...
U.S. Shouldn't Be Supporting ICC
Oct 20, 2008; ... This past summer, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it would seek an indictment against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for his involvement in crimes committed in Darfur. The announcement placed the Bush Administration in a tough spot. It has long been an ardent ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Oct 20, 2008; ... 1. Sarah Palin and Joe Biden wen campaigning hard in Ohio last week. Because eight Presidents have come from Ohio, many call the state the "mother of Presidents." How many of the eight can you name? 2. Who was the last Ohio Republican to be on a national-party ticket? 3. Who was ...
Gizzi on Politics
Oct 20, 2008; ... Will 'Accidental Congressman' Get Axed? For two years, Florida Republicans have referred to Democrat Tim Mahoney as the "accidental congressman." because of the unusual circumstances of his election: When Republican Rep. Mark Foley became embroiled in scandal and quickly resigned from ...
Conservative Forum
Oct 20, 2008; ... 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 ...
Obama Would Fail Security Clearance
Oct 27, 2008; ... With Colin Powell now repeating the lie that Barack Obama has "always been a Christian," despite new information further confirming Obama's Muslim childhood (such as the Indonesian school registration listing him as Muslim - see a copy at danielpipes.org), one watches with dismay as the ...
'Sanctuary Cities' Protect Murderous Illegal Aliens
Oct 27, 2008; ... "Sanctuary cities" are replicating like a disease throughout the country. These make-shift communities serve as safe-havens for illegal immigrants, with sometimes tragic results. Just ask Jamiel Shaw, a 17-year-old Los Angeles resident, who was recklessly gunned down by a 19-year-old ...
McCain's Tax Plan Would Create Many More Jobs Than Obama's
Oct 27, 2008; ... State-byState Analysis A recent Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis report describes the economic outcomes that can be expected from the presidential candidates' proposed tax plans. The outcomes include the effects of these proposed policies on gross domestic product, disposable ...
Obama Tax Hikes Disaster for Economy
Oct 27, 2008; ... Wants Redistribution of Wealth Joe the Plumber is on to something: If a President McCain had his way, Americans could expect to keep their tax cuts. They'd also see their household income grow more, along with jobs and the economy, than would be the case under a President ...
Capital Briefs
Oct 27, 2008; ... * CONGRESS BACK NOVEMBER 17? That's what lawmakers and Capitol Hill staffers are increasingly betting on, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi expected to make a stimulus package the top priority of a lame-duck session of Congress. (See "Legislative Lowdown," page 16.) "That's the scariest thing I ever ...
Ayers: Radical Loon When Obama Was Only 47
Oct 27, 2008; ... The media are acting as if they completely and fully vetted Obama during the Democratic primaries and that's why they are entitled to send teams of researchers into Alaska to analyze Sarah Palin's every expense report. In fact, the mainstream media did no vetting. They seem to have all ...
Black Dog Republicans Need to Quit Whining
Oct 27, 2008; ... We've had Yellow Dog Democrats and Blue Dog Democrats. And now we have Black Dog Republicans. Their constant companions are depression and melancholy, the moods that often descended on Winston Churchill. He labeled them his "black dog." There are two reasons the Black Dog ...
Obama Wants National Same-Sex Marriage Rights
Oct 27, 2008; ... Appearing on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Joe Biden made the most high-profile statement yet of the Obama-Biden position on same-sex marriage. DeGeneres asked Biden where he stands on California's Proposition 8, a 14-word proposal on the ballot this year that says, "Only marriage between ...
Veteran SDS Radical Mark Rudd Working for Obama
Oct 27, 2008; ... Obama Watch By now most Americans have heard of William Ayers, a member of the 1960s terrorist Weather Underground. However, Ayers isn't the only Weather Underground member to help Obama's political career. Aaron Klein of World Net Daily report that Mark Rudd, a cofounder of the Weather ...
Phony Anti-Muslim Hate-Crimes Racket Continues
Oct 27, 2008; ... Jihad Watch Students at Illinois's Elmhurst College can rest easy: An arrest was finally made in the alarming case of Sana Jilani, a Muslim Elmhurst student who told police two weeks ago that a masked man hit her on the head with a gun in a campus restroom and that on the mirror were ...
Graves vs. Barnes
Oct 27, 2008; ... MISSOURI'S 6TH DISTRICT Since he wrested Missouri's 6th U.S. House District (Kansas City) from Democratic control back in 2000, conservative Republican Sam Graves has voted his conservative conscience (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 92%) and not had much trouble at the ...
Paulsen vs. Madia
Oct 27, 2008; ... MINNESOTA'S 3RD DISTRICT As trusted a former staffer and good a friend to Rep. Jim Ramstad (R.-Minn.) as he has been, Erik Paulsen thinks conservatives would certainly agree that he will be a philosophical "upgrade" over the retiring 18-year House member. "I'm more conservative ...
White vs. Heinrich
Oct 27, 2008; ... NEW MEXICO'S 1ST DISTRICT Although the television series "The Man and The City" lasted for only the 1971-72 season, it was widely praised for its portrayal of a Southwestern city that was most surely Albuquerque, N. M., and for Anthony Quinn's role as the earthy, street-wise and ...
FDR's Policies Prolonged Depression by Seven Years, UCLA Economists Calculate
Oct 27, 2008; ... Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E ....
TOP 10
Oct 27, 2008; ... The National Conservative Weakly® * Est 1944 www.HumanEvents.com Top 10 ACORN Voter Registration Abuses 1 Mickey Mouse registered to vote by ACORN in Florida. 2 Tony Romo and the entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys registered to vote by ACORN in Nevada ...
Interviewing Sen. John McCain on the 'Straight Talk America' Campaign Plane
Oct 27, 2008; ... "You're kidding!" exclaimed Todd Giilman of the Dallas Morning News on Friday morning October 17 as we boarded the press bus for a John McCain motorcade from Manhattan to Newark Airport. My colleague Giilman, whom I know from covering the Bush White House, just learned that, although I ...
Lame-Duck Session of Congress to Consider New Stimulus Package
Oct 27, 2008; ... President Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have signaled support for a stimulus package to be considered in the lame-duck session of Congress after the November elections. Questions remain, such as how many more of your tax dollars can lawmakers waste before year's end and what ...
Obama Seizes a Key Advantage
Oct 27, 2008; ... The 2008 Campaign's Funding Fathers Barack Obama's campaign benefitted from a record haul in September, taking in more than $150 million. Obama has raised more than $600 million in his presidential quest. His fundraising machine is allowing him to outspend his rival in television ads by ...
Conservative Forum
Oct 27, 2008; ... Alt correspondence for this feature should be addressed to Conservative Forum, HUMAN EVENTS, One Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 (e-maH: editors@HumaiiEveirts.com). Letters to the editor . Intended for publication must be concise (300 words or less) and preferably limited to one ...
HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?
Oct 27, 2008; ... 1. Barack Obama's ailing grandmother has been in the news lately. Who was the only President to have had his grandmother see him elected to the nation's highest office? 2. The speculation has begun about who the next President will have in his Cabinet. Who was the longest-serving Cabinet ...
Gizzi on Politics
Oct 27, 2008; ... The Other Races With days to go before the November 4 election, political eyes are, of course, heavily focused on the races for President as well as for the House and Senate. But there are other contests barely on the political screen that, nonetheless, have political ...