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Cover Story
Politics
10 Constitutional Candidates
Features
Interview
17 Mayhem, Money, & Morality
Interview of Allen Rutledge by Kelly Taylor Holt.
CONSTITUTION CORNER 21
21 Constitutional Healthcare
by Jack Kenny — Is the federal government’s intervention into
healthcare justified?
Book Review
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31 Erasing Racism
by Patrick Krey — The federal government tries to promote racial
justice, but are its measures just and effective?
25 31
History — Past and Perspective
36 Faith in the Face of Skepticism
by Joe Wolverton II, J.D. — The Pilgrims, the Indians, and the Truth
About the First Thanksgiving.
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Departments
5 Letters to the Editor 35 The Goodness of America
7 Inside Track 41 Exercising the Right
9 QuickQuotes 42 Correction, Please! COVER Design by Joseph W. Kelly
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Publisher
John F. McManus
Cause of Terrorism beas corpus and why, because the South had
Editor I must respond to a letter to the editor already been guilty of treason and rebellion
Gary Benoit printed in the October 26 issue of The New and invasion, as specified in the Constitu-
Senior Editor
American, from George Eadeh, where he tion, he had to deal with enemies as he did.
William F. Jasper
said, “The terrorist phenomenon of the Please go to www.libertyparkusafd.org
Middle East did not occur in a vacuum. The and study some articles out of the Lincoln
Associate Editor cause and effect can be placed squarely on section, for example, “The Speech That
Kurt Williamsen the creation and policies of the state of Is- Changed the World” by Harry V. Jaffa or
rael.” “Lincoln: America’s Greatest President”
Contributors
Dennis J. Behreandt
First, one must define the fact that today’s by Charles A. Morse. You will see that, as
Christopher S. Bentley
terrorists are Arabs. One must ask, “Why Lincoln said, he faced a crisis greater than
Steven J. DuBord are Arabs attacking?” One explanation that George Washington had, namely from se-
Selwyn Duke could very well explain the “cause” driv- cret groups — conspiracies — both in the
Jodie Gilmore ing the Arabs comes from the Bible. The South (KGC) and in the North (Copper-
Gregory A. Hession, J.D. Bible passage in Genesis recounts God heads). (I presume you are not criticizing
Ed Hiserodt telling Abraham that he has been given the Washington!) Lincoln also faced both Eng-
William P. Hoar land now known as the State of Israel and land and France, which were poised on our
R. Cort Kirkwood that progeny of Abraham would inherit that borders with troops.
Warren Mass same land. Understand that the Arabs could An editorial from the London Times also
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. claim Ishmael, the first-born son of Abra- shows that international bankers were hys-
Alan Scholl ham, as the rightful recipient of that land. terical about Lincoln’s refusal to borrow
Ann Shibler But Abraham, wanting his son from Sarah, from them, instead planning to finance the
Liana Stanley his wife, to be the rightful heir, sent Ishmael war at home.
Michael E. Telzrow and Hagar away. It is now politically correct to “dis” on
Joe Wolverton II, J.D. God told Hagar that a great nation would Lincoln, as it has been on Jefferson, but I
Art Director be made from the seed of Ishmael, but did don’t understand you guys doing it. In his
Joseph W. Kelly not say that Ishmael would take the land private and political life, Lincoln was a per-
promised Abraham. son of such personal meekness, charity, and
Research Today’s Arabs are attempting to claim dependence upon God that even his worst
Bonnie M. Gillis ownership of this land and are willing to de- enemies (among whom was Secretary of
Marketing stroy all who do not agree with their desire. War Stanton, whose words you mocked)
Larry Greenley In addition, a reading of the Quran shows later extolled his virtues and gave him cred-
that Muslims are instructed to kill all non-be- it for saving our Union, which, despite your
Public Relations lievers. These “infidels” include Christians, maligning, was his only “grand agenda.”
Bill Hahn Jews, and all adherents of other religions, as A comparison of Lincoln’s photos in that
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well as those Arabs who do not completely traumatic four-year period tells of his suf-
Julie DuFrane obey their holy book. So the terrorists’ plans fering. J. Reuben Clark, former Under Sec-
for destruction do not just include Israel, but retary of State and Ambassador, widely ac-
everyone else on the planet who does not fol- claimed as our single greatest constitutional
low the message in the Quran. scholar, after much writing about Abraham
Add to this desire of the Arabs the desire Lincoln, defined him as our single great-
of Communist Russia and China to rule the est American. J. Reuben Clark, by the way,
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editorial@thenewamerican.com
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Inside Track
Holdout Vaclav Klaus Signs Lisbon Treaty Creating EU Super-state
Under intense pressure from Eu- The Czech Republic became the last of 27 countries to ratify
ropean Union leaders, other gov- the treaty, following months of delays and sharp criticism from
ernments, and factions within his Klaus.
own country, Czech President Va- The Czech President, known for being a “Euro-skeptic,” has
clav Klaus caved in on November been a fierce opponent and perhaps the most prominent critic
3 and signed the so-called Lisbon of the European super-state currently taking shape. He regu-
Treaty, a slightly altered version larly compares it to the Soviet Union, and he has also blasted
of the EU Constitution that was global-warming alarmism and other leftist and globalist politi-
rejected by French and Dutch cal movements. But he recently conceded that it would likely be
Vaclav voters in 2005. The agreement, impossible to beat back the Lisbon Treaty, so observers were not
Klaus having cleared its final hurdle, is surprised by the announcement.
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expected to go into force in De- There was talk of allowing the English to vote on the treaty
cember or January. if Gordon Brown’s government is defeated at the next election,
The signature came after a rul- as is widely expected. But it appears that with Klaus’ signature,
ing from the Czech Republic’s Constitutional Court earlier in it is now too late. “What has happened today means that it is
the day that concluded the agreement was indeed constitutional, no longer possible to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty,”
though Klaus did not concur. The signing was announced at a said the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs spokesman William
brief press conference, where the President expressed strong Hague. He said the treaty would now become law, calling it a
disagreement with the Court’s decision and claimed the ruling bad day for democracy since the British people were not even
improperly forced him to sign the treaty “without delay.” consulted.
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“One of the common errors of founder-presidents is to hold the reins of James
leadership too long. Though letting go is difficult after three decades of Dobson
intensive labor, it is the wise thing to do.”
Having earlier stepped away as president, Dr. James Dobson resigned as chairman of the Colorado
Springs-based conservative Christian group after 30 years at its helm.
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Another Product From China Found to Be Flawed
“I simply don’t think the investigation is happening fast enough.”
After finding elevated sulfur emissions in imported Chinese drywall that is linked to complaints from
1,900 homeowners who suffered headaches, asthma, and nose bleeds, Florida Senator Bill Nelson
faulted the Consumer Product Safety Commission for not indicting the Chinese firms for their danger-
ous material.
The Ron Paul presidential campaign last year has inspired dozens of new congressional
candidates, some of whom are well funded and are being taken seriously by political analysts.
by Thomas R. Eddlem into the top twenty of Amazon.com’s sales announcement, incumbent Republican Jim
figures more than a month before it was Bunning had bowed out of a reelection
A
s recently as two years ago, Con- available. It debuted on both Amazon.com contest after Kentucky’s establishment Re-
gressman Ron Paul introduced a and New York Times bestseller lists, and publican Senator Mitch McConnell (who
bill to audit the Federal Reserve sales remain strong even today. His old is also the Senate Minority Leader) had
Bank that headed to oblivion. Year after presidential campaign has rolled over into made fundraising in Washington difficult
year — beginning in 1983 — the bill never a “Campaign for Liberty” that has raised for Bunning. “Over the past year,” Bunning
even won a committee hearing. Dr. Paul more than $4 million since its founding in said, “some of the leaders of the Republican
was ignored in Washington, and was a February of this year. Party in the Senate have done everything in
lonely voice for freedom back in his Texas More importantly, his presidential cam- their power to dry up my fundraising. The
congressional district. paign evidently inspired dozens of candi- simple fact is that I have not raised the funds
Times have changed. Ron Paul is on a dates for congressional office across the na- necessary to run an effective campaign for
political roll. The bill Dr. Paul introduced tion who seek to reform Congress from a the U.S. Senate.” Time magazine on July
in the current Congress to audit the Fed- constitutionalist perspective. And several of 29 explained that the “some leaders” Bun-
eral Reserve Bank (H.R. 1207) has more them are both well funded and being taken ning was talking about was his fellow Ken-
than 300 cosponsors — including every seriously by the political establishment. tucky Republican Mitch McConnell: “He
House Republican and more than 100 quietly signaled to Republican moneymen
Democrats — and the backing of House Rand Paul that they ought to wait Bunning out. Party
Financial Services Committee Chairman Prime among these constitutionalist “Ron leaders in Washington met with a potential
Barney Frank. Frank has promised a com- Paul” candidates is the Congressman’s primary opponent.... McConnell’s strategy
mittee vote, and it has a better-than-aver- third child, Dr. Rand Paul. While the elder ultimately worked.”
age chance of House passage this year. Dr. Paul was an obstetrician by trade before Dr. Rand Paul is the founder of the
Dr. Paul’s new book End the Fed sailed being elected to Congress, Dr. Rand Paul conservative Kentucky Taxpayers United
is an eye surgeon (ophthalmologist). The and has also campaigned for his father,
Thomas R. Eddlem, a freelance writer, served as the 46-year-old Dr. Rand Paul announced his so he isn’t a stranger to politics. But he
John Birch Society’s director of research from 1991- candidacy for the open U.S. Senate seat in hasn’t seen McConnell open the monetary
2000. Kentucky in August. Days before Dr. Paul’s floodgates from Washington on his behalf
www.TheNewAmerican.com 11
Politics
Peter Schiff nomic recession with astonishing preci- Dodd. Dodd would ordinarily be consid-
Another well-funded Ron Paul presiden- sion on a variety of financial television ered a safe incumbent. On paper, Dodd is
tial campaign supporter is Connecticut- talk shows. He not only predicted the cur- an entrenched Democrat in a Democratic-
based Peter Schiff, who had been an rent recession in 2006 and 2007, he also leaning state, but the 28-year incumbent
economic adviser to the Ron Paul presi- explained why it would happen to pun- is considered highly vulnerable this time
dential campaign. Schiff has become an dits who often laughed at him for predict- around. As chairman of the Senate Bank-
Internet sensation on his own as president ing the housing boom would go bust. In ing, Housing and Urban Affairs Commit-
of Euro-Pacific Capital, largely because 2008, some of his friends put together a tee, he was the Senator who could have
he accurately predicted the current eco- montage of his television clips called — and should have — raised the alarm
“Peter Schiff Was Right” and posted about the housing bubble. But instead,
it on YouTube. The clips received Dodd built a cozy relationship with sub-
several million views and dramati- prime lender Countrywide. Although
cally increased demand for Schiff’s technically cleared of ethics violations in
guest appearances on national tele- a recent investigation concluded August
vision shows. 7, the Senate inquiry criticized Dodd’s
Schiff is an acolyte of the free- efforts as less than cautious. “The com-
market “Austrian School” of eco- mittee does believe that you should have
Peter nomics, is for ending America’s exercised more vigilance in your dealings
Schiff military interventions abroad, and is with Countrywide in order to avoid the
emphatic about returning the federal appearance that you were receiving pref-
government to the limits of the U.S. erential treatment based on your status as
Constitution’s delegated powers. a senator,” the Senate Ethics Committee
Schiff announced in Septem- concluded. Dodd also has personal health
ber that he would run for the U.S. issues to deal with this time around. Last
Senate in Connecticut against summer he was diagnosed with prostate
longtime incumbent Christopher cancer, so he may not be able to wage as
vigorous a campaign as in the past.
As a result of Dodd’s recent missteps,
Schiff will have to get in line to have a
crack at him. The Republican Party smells
blood, and a number of other Republicans
have declared their candidacies as well.
Among the better known are World Wres-
tling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon
and former Congressman Rob Simmons,
who appears to be the early front-runner.
Schiff’s greatest challenge may be win-
ning the Republican primary. With his
financial background and his accurate
economic predictions, he’s the perfect
constitutionalist foil for the leftist Dodd
in a general election. But despite already
having raised more than $1.1 million in In-
ternet donations for his campaign, he bare-
ly registers in polling data. That’s perhaps
expected, since he’s a political novice in
the Republican Party and outside his co-
terie of YouTube followers he’s virtually
unknown in Connecticut.
Schiff will definitely need that impres-
sive $1.1 million he’s already raised, and
more, in order to introduce himself to
more Connecticut primary voters if he
wants to win. He’ll also have to mobilize
a local army of volunteers in Connecticut.
If he can do that, Schiff could become the
next Senator from Connecticut.
Winning hearts and minds: In the battle to rein in out-of-control government, Adam Kokesh
(right) speaks to Congressmen, such as North Carolina’s Representative Walter Jones, about Ron
Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act. New Mexico is that “if you want to play
and you want to win, you’re going to run
Adam Kokesh Kokesh has echoed Rep. Paul’s position as a Democrat.” Yet, the state has elected
Adam Kokesh is best known as an Iraq on the Federal Reserve Bank, called for conservative Republicans occasionally
War veteran who returned opposed to a smaller government role in the manage- because “a lot of those people would
the war and was a keynote speaker at ment of healthcare, and pronounced a nu- be Republicans anywhere else.” Kokesh
Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” that anced view about the immigration issue. notes that the local Democratic Party still
competed with the Republican National Kokesh has an uphill battle as a Re- postures as pro-gun and as socially con-
Convention in the summer of 2008. He publican in New Mexico’s heavily Dem- servative, and he sees a “great potential
volunteered for service in Iraq, where he ocratic Third District against freshman for a crossover vote, just because of those
witnessed the bureaucracy, waste, and Democrat Ben R. Luján. Luján hasn’t Democratic voters that have been sucked
corruption in the U.S. reconstruction of had much time to dig in as an incum- into the machine.”
that country. According to his campaign bent, but his northern New Mexico dis- And Kokesh’s anti-war, noninterven-
website, he emerged from the military a trict hasn’t been won by a Republican tionist foreign policy, and pro-civil liber-
strict noninterventionist in foreign policy since 1996. Kokesh, in his favor, was ties positions just may have the decisive
and defender of Congress’ constitutional able to tell The New American that he bipartisan appeal he’ll need. “People
authority to declare war: has raised over $100,000 in donations [are] calling to say they are changing
in the first few months of his candidacy. their party registration so they can vote
Inherent with the right to self-defense “What was shocking for me was that for in the primary” for him, he told The New
is the right to collective self-defense, the third quarter we actually beat Luján,” American. But if people can see through
and in the world that we live in, this he told The New American. That goes to the principles of the Constitution, the
is the most important function of the a long way toward making up for the liberal media is still seeing things in
federal government. To ensure that $100,000 Washington, D.C., fundraiser terms of the phony left-right spectrum.
this power is used responsibly, Con- Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer The local weekly news magazine Santa
gress, as the best representation of hosted earlier this year for Luján. Neither Fe Reporter published an article on con-
the people, was given the exclusive candidate is even close to
power to declare war.... The executive the $1 million or so they’ll
branch has set a dangerous precedent have to raise to wage win- Kokesh has echoed Rep. Paul’s position
by taking powers that are supposed ning a House campaign, but on the Federal Reserve Bank, called
to be vested in the Congress. By not Kokesh’s early fundraising
abiding by the Constitution and using numbers suggest that he for a smaller government role in
the collective wisdom of the Con- won’t be at a financial dis- the management of healthcare, and
gress to ensure judicious use of force, advantage on this front.
we find ourselves spending hundreds Kokesh told T he N ew pronounced a nuanced view about the
of billions more than is necessary for A merican that the tradi- immigration issue.
legitimate defense. tional political wisdom in
R.J.
Harris
with
wife and
children
R.J.
Harris
“Chick” Heileson
vs. Mike Simpson
Chick Heileson didn’t get involved in politics because of
Ron Paul, but he believes the time is now to mount a
congressional campaign on a constitutional foundation.
by Thomas R. Eddlem
Jake
Towne
E
ven his parents never called him
Marvin. To all but his mother
required servitude, and a few other close rela-
taxation without representation or tives, he is “Chick.” (His parents called
give your money to foreign gov- him “Chuck,” after his middle name Marvin
“Chick”
ernments. However, Tom Cole has Charles.) Chick Heileson is one of a Heileson
voted for all of these things.” growing number of Constitution-orient-
Jake Towne of Pennsylvania’s ed citizens who have not only decided
15th District will also try to make to run for Congress, but are also being
Republicans honest by running taken seriously by political pundits.
against liberal Republican incum- Heileson is running against the liberal
bent Charlie Dent (The New Amer- Republican Mike Simpson of Idaho’s
ican’s Freedom Index rating: 40 Second Congressional District. Simp-
percent). son is serving his fifth term and is fac-
Minuteman founder Chris Sim- ing a serious challenge from within his
cox, though not a newcomer to poli- own party.
tics as a result of the Ron Paul 2008 “The biggest thing that everyone is
presidential bid, has announced a very upset about is that he voted for
challenge against John McCain’s the first bailout under Bush,” Heileson
Senate seat in Arizona and has been told The New American. Simpson voted year, before news of Simpson’s vote for
put on the ThisNovember5th.com for the initial Bush TARP bailout pack- the TARP bailout made its way through
fundraising list. age, a serious repudiation of free-market the district.
Dr. Mike Vasovski in South Caro- principles that has undercut Simpson’s Although Idaho is one of the most Re-
lina’s Third District will run in a reelection chances. Simpson, who earned publican states in the nation, last fall Dem-
crowded Republican primary for an a meager 50 percent on The New Ameri- ocrats were able to unseat Bill Sali, Ida-
open congressional seat. can’s “Freedom Index” earlier this year, ho’s other congressional Republican who
Other House of Representatives also voted to triple spending on national had strong political and financial backing
candidates ThisNovemer5th.com service, for $1.8 billion in federal aid to from the Bush administration. Sali had
will be raising funds for include (i.e., control over) local police through the garnered several hundred thousand dollars
John Dennis (California), Jaynee COPS program, and for the supplemental in donations from Washington’s political
Germond (Oregon), David Ratow- “emergency” appropriations bill that allo- establishment, to no avail.
itz (Illinois), Bob Parker (Missouri), cated an additional $96.7 billion for the The political lesson being slowly
and both Collins Baily and Robert wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. learned in congressional districts across
Broadus of Maryland. The liberal Boise Weekly noted back in the country is that the Washington GOP
*** October 22, 2008 that Simpson “is gen- establishment has been backing liberal
Ron Paul and his dedicated fol- erally liked across the district and even Republicans who are mere echoes of
lowers were the tail of the GOP dog by his opponent, Boise Democrat Debbie the Democrats, and conservative voters
during the 2008 campaign, but a pro- Holmes. Holmes often agrees with Simp- are sniffing out the phonies and sending
liferation of “Paulite” constitutional son’s point of view, despite her conten- them down to defeat. The principle was
candidates in 2010 may find the tail tion that ‘he is part of the problem’ in perhaps best summarized by Massachu-
wagging the dog. n Washington, D.C.” But that was last setts Republican State Senator Robert
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Politics
Mayhem, Money,
& Morality
Allen
Rutledge
The near collapse of our financial system has been many years in the making, yet few
people correctly diagnose the reasons behind the failure.
Interview of Allen Rutledge The New American: You’ve said that dory, the next moment a rule change makes
by Kelly Taylor Holt rules the government has been imposing everything appear insolvent. President Bill
on the financial sector have actually been Clinton’s team instituted more rule chang-
A
nyone trying to figure out what in hindering our country’s economic recov- es. Larry Summers, then-Clinton adviser
the world is going on in today’s ery, not helping it. Could you explain that? and now adviser to Obama, responded to
economy might remember Ag- Allen Rutledge: When you play tennis, pressure from the banking lobby, which
atha Christie’s classic, Murder on the Ori- and a serve lands inside the line, but it is reportedly spent $5 billion to implement
ent Express. When master sleuth Hercule called out of bounds, you’d ask why. these changes. The result was that a small
Poirot boarded that train, he’d no idea that In today’s market, financiers get pe- number of banks controlled the issuance
before the night ended he’d face the most nalized like in our tennis example — for of derivatives. Summers also was involved
perplexing murder case ever. A carful of following the rules. If you ask why you in the Commodity Futures Moderniza-
passengers, all of whom had motive and were penalized in today’s market, the an- tion Act of 2000, which freed derivatives
opportunity, maneuvered around so skill- swer you get might be, “Oh, we changed of government regulation and oversight.
fully that even Christie’s brilliant Belgian the boundary line yesterday. What... you While as free-market advocates we oppose
couldn’t figure out whodunit. The best he didn’t get the memo?” unconstitutional regulation, those running
could do was point a perfectly manicured Every government intervention distorts our government don’t mind its selective
finger at the most likely culprits — in the the market, and those distortions represent reintroduction with the understanding that
end, everybody walked away, except the changes in the rules. There’s little predict- the taxpayers are “on the hook” after the
luckless victim. ability in the market because you don’t wild ride is over.
When considering the train wreck of know when the next government interven- Concurrently, the SEC changed the net
our economy, Poirot would have the same tion is going to happen. Even seasoned capitalization rule to allow broker deal-
problem. Allen Rutledge (Capital Plan- investors are afraid to play. Two questions ers with over $5 billion to expand their
ning and Investments, Atlanta-based) has we have are, “How come we don’t know debt equity ratio from 12 to 30 times to
plenty to say about the collection of fiends the rules?” and “What do we do about it?” look more like the European model. That
who have all but murdered our individual FASB Rule 157, part of the Sarbanes- means they could now have 30 times as
portfolios. Oxley Act, changed the way banks value much debt as equity. An even bigger ques-
assets, forcing them to assign current liq- tion arises, “Why do we need to emulate
Kelly Taylor Holt is an Austin-based writer and film- uid values to illiquid assets. Next thing the European model?” Financial firms
maker, and the producer of a politically based TV you know, bank after bank found itself in- now took on more risk with higher degrees
talk show. solvent. One minute everything is hunky of leverage.
things that are happening, The government should take a meat axe
and how we make sound to the budget. With Keynesian policy,
None of this economic calamity would have decisions. credit expansion by a central bank, such
been possible without the government lead. as our Federal Reserve, becomes a game
TNA: I know you have of musical chairs. What I mean is that with
said you see a basic lack each credit expansion there is an implied
We also have the problem of govern- of understanding about how a free-enter- contraction due to the collective “malin-
ment intervention from the past that causes prise system should work. Is that where the vestments” made by entrepreneurs. When
problems, such as the repeal of the Glass- questions on the economy should lead? the contractions occur people lose money
Steagall Act of 1933. This Depression-era Rutledge: The real issue in understand- because of the bad judgment in investing
law was designed to separate commercial ing the economy is understanding philos- when the demands for goods were mis-
and investment banks. ophy and morality. And that’s where the read. The answer according to the Fed is
It was monetary intervention combined answers lie, too! Our traditional morality not to stop causing malinvestment by ma-
with regulation and re-regulation, in my presumes each person to be responsible for nipulating credit, but is to keep the music
opinion, that led to the massive confu- their decisions. The freedom we want to going. I’m a student of the Austrian [free-
sion that rules the marketplace today. You enjoy must be coupled with self-restraint market] school of economics; it’s sound
can’t plan when you don’t know what the (like subjecting ourselves to the Ten Com- and conservative, recognizes hard assets
rules are. mandments of God). It implies the return and holding no debt.
Now that we’ve addressed some rule to caveat emptor (let the buyer beware)
changes and their effects, we see Presi- for both businessmen and consumers. In- TNA: So are you saying that all the you’re-
dent Obama asking we repeal them yet stead, most decision makers today practice to-blame finger-pointing is directed at the
again, and add to another credit expan- Keynesian [socialist] economics, which wrong targets: the greedy private-sector
sion. Just look at his recent initiative to has a flawed premise — that government hedge-fund managers, mortgage bro-
revamp the lending criteria that was just should intervene in, and control, markets kers, bad loans, homeowners, the greedy
corrected. We have gone from 125 per- and protect us from ourselves. It presumes Madoffs of this world, etc.?
cent loan to value, back to 80 percent, the legitimacy of central banking and asks, Rutledge: No one questions the govern-
then back to 125 percent. There is no sta- “How can we tweak the economy to make ment’s role in the process, which is where
bility. Here we go again. it better?” they should be looking. For example, Fan-
Keynes proposed “spending our way nie Mae and Freddie Mac have been in the
TNA: You credit your association with to prosperity,” a belief system that will marketplace as government-sponsored is-
Representative Larry McDonald (Geor- never work! Individuals cannot make suers of loans. Why should they determine
gia’s 7th Congressional District) as the their budgets work by incurring debt, and who gets loans and who doesn’t? It results
beginning of your real education. How did a government shouldn’t be able to do col- in a distortion of the market by allowing
McDonald change your outlook? lectively what we cannot do individually. “political correctness” to override the
Rutledge: I used to be a liberal — then
one night I met Larry in my parents’
home, and he challenged me in a way that
made me mad! But I got a book, then an-
other, then another, and began to under-
stand that something is really wrong in
our country. Larry had a way of reducing
economic lessons to terms even an aver-
age Joe could understand, and I learned
that from him.
In short, I came to believe that govern-
ment has been the happy conductor of a
concert that induced greedy profit-takers
to take monetary risks to benefit from
the Federal Reserve’s credit expansionist
policies. None of this economic calamity
would have been possible without the gov-
ernment lead. If business owners are left
alone in making decisions, the risk capi-
tal is their own — they quit doing stupid
things if they want to stay in business.
Our dismal economy leads to legitimate
questions about the unpredictability of the
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Constitutional Healthcare
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has claimed that the federal government’s
intervention into healthcare is justified by the interstate commerce clause.
by Jack Kenny That is not a serious question.” The spokesperson later re-
sponded to written follow-up questions, CNSNews.com re-
T
he Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ported, with an e-mailed press release on the “Constitution-
was apparently dumbfounded recently when a re- ality of Health Insurance Reform,” claiming congressional
porter asked about the constitutional authority for authority for the mandate may be found in its constitutional
requiring people to buy health insurance, as mandated in power to regulate interstate commerce.
the healthcare reform bills before Congress. A “Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster” press
As reported on CNSNews.com, the exchange between release, originally issued from Pelosi’s office on Septem-
the reporter and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was as ber 16, claims one of the “myths” about the House bill
follows: called “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act” is what
“Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitu- Pelosi called “the nonsensical claim that the federal gov-
tion grant Congress the authority to enact an individual ernment has no constitutionally valid role in reforming our
health insurance mandate?” health care system — apparently ignoring the validity of
“Are you serious? Are you serious?” came the Speaker’s Medicare and other popular federal health care reforms.”
inscrutable reply. The Speaker acknowledged that under the House bill “in-
“Yes, yes I am,” the CNSNews.com reporter answered. dividuals must either purchase coverage (and non-exempt
Pelosi then simply shook her head and took a question employers must purchase coverage for their workers) — or
from another reporter. Pelosi’s press secretary, Nadeam pay a modest penalty for not doing so. The bill uses the tax
Elshami, later said that asking the Speaker where the Con- code to provide a strong incentive for Americans to have
stitution authorized the mandate in the health bills was not insurance coverage and not pass their emergency health
“a serious question.” care costs onto other Americans — but it allows them to
“You can put this on the record,” the news organization pay their way out of that obligation. There is no constitu-
quotes Elshami as saying. “That is not a serious question. tional problem with these provisions,” she concluded.
Nancy
Pelosi
AP Images
Parrying Pelosi The healthcare reform efforts of the early nineties were never
Pelosi categorized as “myth” the argument that the health-insur- enacted by Congress, and popular resentment of what was seen as
ance legislation violates the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment, excessively intrusive regulation, promoted by the Clinton admin-
which reserves to the states or to the people those powers not istration, contributed to a Republican landslide and takeover of
delegated to the national government. “But the Constitution Congress in the 1994 elections. But the breadth of the regulatory
gives Congress broad power to regulate activities that have an authority given Congress under the commerce clause has been the
effect on interstate commerce,” Pelosi argued. “Congress has subject of debate and litigation from the early days of the republic.
used this authority to regulate many aspects of American life, Under the first national charter produced by the former colo-
from labor relations to education to health care to agricultural nies, the Articles of Confederation, Congress had no authority to
production. Since virtually every aspect of the health care sys- regulate commerce among the states or with other nations. As a
tem has an effect on interstate commerce, the power of Congress result, states attempted to shield businesses within their respective
to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.” borders from outside competition by erecting tolls and tariffs on
Pelosi cited a pair of Supreme Court decisions that upheld products of other states, as well as imports from foreign lands.
the power of Congress under the commerce clause to ban racial To eliminate such barriers and promote the growth of commerce
discrimination (Katzenbach v. McClung) and to forbid the grow- across state lines, the framers of the Constitution gave Congress
ing and sale of marijuana for medical use where state laws allow power to establish laws governing the free trade of goods and
it (Gonzales v. Raich). services. Article I, Section 8 delegates to Congress the power “to
But a 1994 Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bud- regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and among the several
getary impact of healthcare legislation then before Congress States and with the Indian Tribes.” As Pelosi noted, that power
included a finding that an act of Congress requiring individu- has often been broadly interpreted to mean regulation not only of
als and employers to purchase health insurance or pay a fine commerce itself, but anything that may, as the Speaker says, “have
would be unprecedented. In the words of the CBO memo: “The an effect on interstate commerce.” And since virtually everything
imposition of an individual mandate, or a combination of an in- may in some way, shape, or form “have an effect on interstate
dividual and an employer mandate, would be an unprecedented commerce,” the regulatory power of Congress under such a broad
form of federal action. The appropriate budgetary treatment of construction is, as Pelosi says, “essentially unlimited.”
such a policy therefore has not been addressed.” Yet the Constitution is in its entirety a charter of limited,
delegated powers. Even before the Tenth or any
of the other amendments were drafted, James
Madison in The Federalist, No. 45, assured his
countrymen: “The powers delegated by the pro-
posed Constitution to the federal government are
few and defined. Those which are to remain in
the State governments are numerous and indefi-
nite.” Later he wrote that the commerce clause
“grew out of the abuse of power by the import-
ing States in taxing the non-importing and was
intended as a negative and preventive provision
against injustice among the States themselves,
rather than as a power to be used for the positive
purposes of the General Government.” Thomas
Jefferson likewise wrote in 1791 that the com-
merce clause “does not extend to the internal
regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to
say, of the commerce between citizen and citi-
zen) … but to its external commerce only, that is
to say, its commerce with another State, or with
foreign nations or with Indian tribes.”
“New”Commerce Clause
In the heyday of the New Deal, however, a to-
tally different view prevailed in the executive
branch of the federal government. President
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This record leaves no doubt that Congress may properly have Conscience on the Court
considered wheat consumed on the farm where grown, if wholly More recently, the Rehnquist Court found some assertions by
outside the scheme of regulation, would have a substantial effect Congress of its regulatory power to be unconstitutional. In a
defeating and obstructing its purpose to stimulate trade therein 1995 case, United States v. Lopez, the High Court held that Con-
at increased prices.” gress exceeded its authority by passing a law forbidding the
In his 1960 bestseller The Conscience of a Conservative, U.S. possession of a firearm in an area designated as a school zone.
Senator Barry M. Goldwater wrote that the Wickard ruling left Lawyers for the government argued both that guns contribute
the government’s regulatory powers under the commerce clause to violent crime, which has a harmful effect on interstate com-
as “wide as the world,” since virtually any activity may be said merce, and that guns in a school zone pose a threat to the learn-
to have “a substantial effect” on interstate commerce. It is worth ing environment, resulting in a less productive citizenry. Writing
remembering that the wording in the Constitution gives Con- the opinion of the court in the 5-4 decision, Chief Justice Wil-
gress the power to regulate “commerce,” not anything that might liam Rehnquist observed that under the government’s reasoning:
affect commerce.
In Katzenbach v. McClung, one of the Supreme Court rul- Congress could regulate not only all violent crime, but all
ings cited in Pelosi’s “Mythbuster” press release, the High Court activities that might lead to violent crime, regardless of
held unanimously that racial discrimination in restaurants posed how tenuously they relate to interstate commerce.... Under
significant burdens on “the interstate flow of food and upon the the theories that the Government presents in support of (the
movement of products generally.” One may find segregation in Act), it is difficult to perceive any limitation on federal
restaurants and other public accommodations morally repugnant power, even in areas such as criminal law enforcement or
and still wonder how it affects the “interstate flow of food” and education where States historically have been sovereign.
other products. Thus, if we were to accept the Government’s arguments,
we are hard pressed to posit any activity by an individual
that Congress is without power to regulate.
Under Speaker Pelosi’s reasoning, we may
Indeed, under Speaker Pelosi’s reasoning, we may be hard
be hard pressed to posit any commodity that pressed to posit any commodity that Congress may not require
Congress may not require citizens to purchase. citizens to purchase. If Congress has power under the com-
merce clause to compel us to purchase health insurance or pay
a penalty for not doing so, then why need
it even have bothered to bribe us with a
cash rebate under the “Cash for Clunk-
Political justification: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims that
the interstate commerce clause gives Congress the right to control ers” program to turn in our old cars and
healthcare, but for that to be true, the interstate commerce clause buy new ones? Why not simply pass a law
must apply to every transaction made in the USA. requiring every motorist to buy a new car
every few years or pay a fine for noncom-
pliance? That would “stimulate” interstate
commerce.
And it is, to say the least, disingenu-
ous of the Speaker to suggest that a law
requiring a fine of anyone who fails to
buy a certain product is offering people
a choice — that, in her words, “it allows
them to pay their way out of that obliga-
tion.” In organized crime an offer of that
kind is commonly referred to as “selling
protection.”
By now generations of school children
have been taught that the interstate com-
merce clause is one of the “elastic claus-
es” in the Constitution, capable of being
AP Images
of the band may change, but the tune remains the same. There
are some groups and individuals, however, that have recognized
Under Obamacare, really just a catch-all term for the versions of this power play and have called attention to it.
healthcare reform that Democrats are floating as of now, states would be
forced to cover 30 to 50 percent more people under Medicaid. Tennessee Gutting State Authority
Governor Phil Bredesen estimates the cost to his state at over $3 billion. The Heritage Foundation, in a Fact Sheet released October 16,
2009, identified several ways in which “Obamacare” and all
sine qua non of the stability and balance that infuse American its attendant dictates, requirements, and regimes will burden
liberty with the vitality and flexibility that have made it the envy states to the point of absolute and irretrievable annihilation of
and example of freedom to the world for over 200 years. the critical bright-line borders of the distinct spheres of state
The uniquely American expression of federalism is crystal- and national influence and jurisdiction. The report specifically
lized in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: “The powers cataloged three broad arenas of attack on the principles of fed-
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor pro- eralism: “More Medicaid”; “Gutting State Authority”; and “A
hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, Better Approach to Health Care Reform.” Under each of these
or to the people.” large points are smaller, related subheadings all chronicling the
And to understand that principle, one must read it in tandem dismantling of their constitutional prerogative to govern their
with Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that delegates to the citizens according to their will as manifested by the republican
Congress its specific powers. When placed side by side as com- election of representatives.
plementary lenses through which all bills and other proposals of Every bill under the noxious rubric of “Obamacare” would
the national government must be viewed, these two sections of oblige the states to encompass a greater percentage (ranging
the Constitution clarify whether or not acts of the Congress con- from an additional 30 to 50 percent) of their populations within
form to the powers delegated to it by our founding document. their respective Medicaid coverage areas. This would overbur-
den 50 systems whose bureaucratic budgets are already strained
The Obamacratic Oath in terms of both fiscal and human resources.
In the reasoned evaluation of President Obama’s healthcare With regard to the costs associated with this realignment, the
proposals or any other “federal” scheme potentially to be ham- Heritage Foundation’s analysis reports that all additional fund-
fistedly foisted onto the states, the first and most important ing needed to sustain a nationalized healthcare system would
consideration is that if we are to be governed by the Constitu- come from state coffers, regardless of hollow promises of reim-
tion as written in 1787 then we must steadfastly adhere to its bursement and economic incentives and stimuli made by Presi-
four corners, whether it be in the granting or the restricting of dent Obama and leaders in Congress. In fact, Governor Phil
power. In the present case, the primary concern must be with the Bredesen of Tennessee worries that the cost to his state alone
systematic, bipartisan, and unrepentant disdain and disregard would top $3 billion!
for that sacred document manifested daily by those elected to Furthermore, apart from forcing states to enroll and treat
represent us in Congress. We, the people, have the duty to pro- thousands of additional Medicaid recipients, the bills now under
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Book Review
Erasing Racism
The federal government made schools integrate
and it passed affirmative-action laws to promote
racial justice, but are such measures just
and effective?
F
or far too long, those who op- attention to “the invis-
pose big-government solutions ible men and women
to racism have been slandered as of the long civil rights
racists. Though this slander is entirely movement” who “rejected
inaccurate, it has been effective in si- government meddling in
lencing dissent on the subject of race race relations.”
and government. So when it comes to the Bean takes the reader on a
average history books that deal with the historical journey from the time
controversial subject in America, readers of our nation’s founding period up
are typically led to believe that the only to present day by exploring origi-
voices interested in combating govern- nal writings from important liberty-
ment-sponsored racism were liberals or minded individuals. By writing a brief
progressives and their even bigger gov- introduction to each document, Bean to our ideas. Our
ernment solutions. Not so, says Jonathan explains the historical setting as well as religion, language, in-
Bean, Research Fellow at the Indepen- where the piece fits within the overall con- stitutions and manners offend
dent Institute and professor of history at text of the book. them. They like their own ways,
Southern Illinois University. The featured writings also delve into and if we appear amongst them as
In Race & Liberty in America: The Es- America’s foreign policy. Such writings rulers, then there will be social dis-
sential Reader, Bean argues that it was are incredibly timely considering mod- cord.… The reason why liberty, of
classical liberals who were at the forefront ern U.S. foreign policy. William Graham which Americans talk so much, is
of fighting for equal rights for America’s Sumner, a leading advocate of laissez-faire a good thing, is that it means leav-
oppressed minorities, and he backs it up economics and fervent opponent of social- ing people to live out their own lives
by featuring some very compelling writ- ism, warned Americans to avoid Empire- in their own ways, while we do the
ings and speeches from prominent histori- building in 1899 after our war with Spain. same…. I submit that it is a strange
cal figures. His writings could very well speak to what incongruity to utter grand platitudes
the Obama administration is currently about the blessings of liberty, etc.,
An Intellectual Journey doing in Afghanistan and the greater Is- etc. which we are going to impart to
So, what is a classical liberal? Bean lamic world: these people, and to begin by refus-
writes, “Classical liberals espoused val- ing to extend the Constitution over
ues shared by many other Americans: We assume that what we like and them, and still more, by throwing
‘unalienable rights from God,’ individual practice, and what we think better the Constitution into the gutter here
freedom from government control, the must come as a welcome blessing to at home. If you take away the Con-
Constitution as a guarantor of freedom, Spanish-Americans and Philippinos. stitution, what is American liberty
color-blind law, and capitalism.” Many This is grossly and obviously untrue. and all the rest? Nothing but a lot
modern-day libertarians and traditional They hate our ways. They are hostile of phrases.
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Laissez Faire as a Solution to Racism The Law School is not looking for to migration while dismissing opposing
Race & Liberty also includes inspiring those students who, despite a lower viewpoints as immigration-restrictionist
writings from prominent black figures LSAT score or undergraduate grade and/or nativist. While such notions sound
throughout history who touted effective point average, will succeed in the good on paper or worked when govern-
methods to combat racism that didn’t re- study of law. The Law School seeks ment was much smaller, current events in
quire the accumulation of more power in only a façade — it is sufficient that both America and Western Europe show the
the state. These giants among men advo- the class looks right, even if it does perils of open borders combined with mas-
cated a two-pronged approach involving not perform right. sive government entitlement programs and
self-help and a color-blind application of group-identity politics. An open-borders ar-
the law. Men like Frederick Douglas and Two Faults: Centralizing gument made sense in the late 1800s when
Booker T. Washington “promoted the no- “Constitutionalism” and Open Borders America was truly the land of opportunity,
tion that markets were color-blind and The only two areas where this reviewer but today such a position will only acceler-
capitalism was their best hope.” could find fault with the book are its ques- ate America’s decline. Today’s immigrants
Race & Liberty directly attacks the ar- tionable constitutionalism and its pro-im- flooding into our nation consistently advo-
gument that capitalism is inherently racist. migration stance. In the book’s defense, cate for more government intervention at
Highlighting how businesses opposed state- Bean does acknowledge the opposing both the federal and state level.
mandated segregation policies on economic viewpoints on these issues and defends his
grounds, Bean features a letter from the decision to include the perspectives he did. Ahead of Their Time
owner of a streetcar company to a local mu- In the first area, the book includes writ- Overall, Race & Liberty is an enlightening
nicipality complaining that their racial seg- ings of Lysander Spooner, who dabbled in read that will leave the reader feeling both
regation laws were bad for business because some dubious constitutional arguments, inspired and optimistic about the future.
it resulted in them having disproportion- which coincidentally made whatever he Many of today’s proponents of individual
ately filled street cars, increased wait times, liked constitutional and whatever he dis- rights and freedom find themselves scorned
and congestion. Indeed, Bean argues that liked unconstitutional. Spooner, while a and mocked as fringe fanatics by “main-
the free market often worked in the favor brilliant mind and staunch advocate for stream” voices. The writers featured in this
of blacks. To back up his contention, Bean liberty, incorrectly argued that the Con- book faced similar ridicule in their time for
includes writings and interviews with S.B. stitution itself prohibited slavery years stating opinions not favored by the politi-
Fuller, a self-made African-American entre- before the ratification of the 13th Amend- cal elite, but now are widely recognized as
preneur, who explained that discrimination ment. Such a conclusion would surely enlightened visionaries. If those who are so
is a universal trait not expressly limited to have been a shock to both the drafters and active in today’s freedom movement con-
white people, but that it is forgotten when ratifiers of the Founding period. Spooner, tinue to passionately advocate for liberty,
it becomes unprofitable. Fuller’s advice to along with other great minds, espoused perhaps they will also someday be remem-
minorities seeking equal rights was through the libertarian interpretation of a living, bered as being ahead of their time. n
achieving economic independence: “If he breathing Constitution, which ignores any
wants integration, he must hire white people originalist constitutional understanding.
just as he wants white people to hire him.” It also rests on the dangerous no-
Race & Liberty also passionately makes tion that the central gov-
the case that big-government “solutions” ernment has much
to racism such as mandated quotas like more power than
affirmative action and urban renewal are what was authorized
not only contrary to the classical liberal at the ratification. As
principles of color-blind law and limited history has borne out,
government, but also detrimental toward empowering the federal
truly helping minorities. Again, Bean uti- government with more
lizes writings and speeches from African- power than it constitution-
American intellectuals who go against the ally has is detrimental to
grain. Black economist Walter Williams is individual freedom over the
quoted as saying that “the immorality of long term. Instead, the book
numbers-based privileges and benefits is could have explored the writ-
readily realized when we recognize that ings of constitutionalists who
government cannot give a special advan- used proper means to resist and
tage to one person without simultaneously fight slavery. For starters, many
giving a special disadvantage to another.” antislavery states nullified the
Another quote, from Supreme Court Fugitive Slave Act that compelled
Justice Clarence Thomas, cuts right the return of runaway slaves.
through the heart of the diversity-at-all- Secondly, the book repeatedly trumpets
costs goal of affirmative action: the classical liberal belief in a natural right
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as she had a friend who could bring her something no one else has done before,” contents, and everything was there; noth-
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peka Capital-Journal, Lewis was able to mission, and pointing people to his blog, Disqualified?
publicly thank her anonymous benefac- http://30daysonjetblue.com/, or to the Or- While running in a cross-country race in
tor. “We are all blessed for having a man phan’s Promise website, http://my.cbn. early October, 17-year-old Dominique
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know if he realizes just how much I need- involved. With less than a mile to go, most of the
ed some kindness.... He showed me that Krause returned from his exhausting runners raced past her toward the finish
there are wonderful, goodhearted people 30-day tour on October 8, ready for a long line. However, when competitor Helena
and restored my hope for men.” rest ... right? Wrong! He continued his Page saw Lincoln fall, she raced to help.
fundraising efforts by running the Chica- The Philadelphia Daily News reported
go Marathon for donations just three days on October 21 that Page, a high-school
The Marathon Man later. As of October 29, the total raised by senior already licensed as an EMT and
Four countries. Thirty cities. More than the Chicago race and world tour stood at training to be a firefighter, quickly evalu-
60,000 miles. Almost 50 different flights. a little over $13,000. Not bad, Marathon ated Lincoln’s condition. She then elevat-
Around the world — from Chicago to Chi- Man! ed her feet, protected her from the cold,
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Greg Krause, as he trotted the globe from Good People Are Out There arrived.
September 8 through October 8 to raise Wilma Black, of Marianna, Florida, had Page doesn’t believe her actions were
awareness and funds for a mission school been shopping at a local grocery store on extraordinary or heroic. “I didn’t think it
for orphans in Zambia. October 23 when she inadvertently left her was a big deal. I saw her in distress and I
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years ago, houses and educates 75 or- pletely across town. She rushed back to the was disqualified for not finishing the race,
phaned and abandoned children. It is store, hoping but not really believing that Lincoln and others present that day insist
completely supported by donations, and her purse would still be there. she was qualified — as a hero. n
does not take any government handouts. What little hope she had rapidly dwin- — Liana Stanley
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HISTORY— Past and Perspective
Skepticism
their own time called Separatists for
their schism with the greater Church of
England. Dissension from the Church of
England was illegal during the reign of
King James the First, and the King was
determined to brook no effrontery to his
royal highness. He would sooner purge
his country of disloyal subjects than
allow those subjects to effect a purge of
the state religion of which the king was
the titular head. To enforce his egotisti-
cal and tyrannical will, James sent agents
far and wide into the country to round up
those Separatists reportedly meeting in
secret in small groups to avoid detection
by the king’s sycophantic spies.
Fearing imprisonment or worse at the
hands of the royal agents, 400 English
Separatists fled their beloved England.
They sailed surreptitiously to Holland
(leaving England without permission was
a crime), where the atmosphere was more
accommodating to those given to alterna-
tive (read: unofficial) interpretations of the
The Mayflower word of God. The Dutch were historically
more tolerant of religious dissidents and
would permit, within limits, pilgrims of
many religious creeds to assemble without
fear of reprisal or persecution.
Library of Congress
B
etsy Ross didn’t sew the first flag. no sure tonic to ease the nauseous vertigo decreasingly hospitable, the Pilgrims
Jesus wasn’t really born on Decem- that often accompanies this struggle, there met to formulate a new plan and consider
ber 25. Columbus didn’t discover is a salve to be found in the tales we have the options open to them. It was decided
America. We hear these statements all been taught and in the truth and moral en- that, despite the possible implications,
the time, for we live in an era where the richment to be found therein. Whether for they would return to England, and they
foundational stories that define our na- our own retrenchment or for that of our immediately set about acquiring inves-
tional identity and bind us together as a children, we can, we must, turn again to tors to fund their ultimate journey: to
people are being constantly deconstructed. the record of our noble and brave ances- America. The Pilgrim pastors believed
We are told that the heroic stories of the tors to remind ourselves of the otherwise unwaveringly that God’s will was mani-
founding of Christianity and the founding insurmountable odds they overcame to fest in their wanderings and privations,
of our great republic are mere myths, fac- bequeath us with such a rich legacy of lib- just as it had been with the Children of
tually inaccurate, and no more important erty. One of the most impressive stories Israel in Egypt. After 40 years, the Isra-
or meaningful than the fanciful fairy tales from our history is that of the small band elites crossed over the Jordan and entered
told to amuse children. of brethren who fled their homes seeking into the Holy Land, a land promised to
We live in a skeptical age. Even the a place where they could worship freely. them by their God and his prophets. Like
most optimistic and far-sighted among us This courageous congregation is known as the chosen people of the Old Testament,
must at times trudge blindly through a dis- the Pilgrims. the Pilgrims had faith that they would be
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stored. By the time of the harvest of 1620, the autumn of 1620 saw a bumper crop of water available throughout the country.
several peaceful months had passed since corn, squash, beans, barley, and peas. It Thankfully, the bountiful barley crop in
the Pilgrims had any scrapes with the na- was a harvest worthy of giving thanks — their new home made brewing easy.
tive inhabitants of the land, and they were thanks to God and thanks to the Indians
feeling safe and secure and had redirected who shared valuable information. Lessons Our Fathers Learned
their minds and efforts toward harvesting The precise date was not recorded, but As the foregoing demonstrates, there is
their crops and building all the necessary sometime in late October or early Novem- much truth in the stories we have been
infrastructure to support the thriving colo- ber, about 100 Indians walked into the Pil- taught regarding our Pilgrim Fathers and
ny they designed and were determined to grim settlement (now occupied by several the First Thanksgiving they celebrated
establish. common buildings and log homes) carry- with the Indians that shared that small
It was in this atmosphere of progress, ing deer hunted specially for this harvest plot of earth with them. The fact that the
peace, and planned prosperity that made feast. The Pilgrims, about 50 in number, Pilgrims succeeded where so many other
possible one of the momentous greet- provided turkey (turkey from the New erstwhile colonists had failed was due in
ings in American history. One Friday World was being eaten in England for large measure to the kindness, generosity,
afternoon, a Pokanoket Indian calling about 40 years and was already a staple and trust shown to the Pilgrims by Mas-
himself Samoset walked up to a Pilgrim of English Christmas dinner), other fowl, sasoit and his small tribe. These men and
and announced, “Welcome, Englishmen!” deer, and beer. The meat was cooked on women, believed to be savages but proven
Hardly the senseless savagery described spits over open fires. The weather that to be “very trustworthy, quick with ap-
in such vivid, gory detail by teachers in season was crisp, but not cold, and the prehension, ripe witted, and just,” reached
Dutch schools. As a matter of fact, the In- Pilgrims no doubt were fascinated by the out to their neighbors and extended a hand
dians genuinely welcomed the newcomers bright fall foliage, a palette of colors not of fellowship. So often, this hand was
and demonstrated their goodwill by teach- seen in England because of the perpetual slapped away by frightened Europeans.
ing the eager though ignorant European dampness and lack of sunlight. The Pilgrims, themselves frequent vic-
farmers a little something about American The congregation, Indians and Pil- tims of treachery and sabotage, took the
agriculture. grims, sat down in small groups on the hand of the Indians and shook it. They sat
Samoset taught the Pilgrims that be- ground and around small round tables together, ate together, and grew together.
cause of the unique chemical composi- and ate their dinner. The scene would not Even in light of the timely and invalu-
tion of the local Massachusetts soil, it seem so foreign to us, their descendants, able aid proffered by the Indians, more
was essential that the ground be fertil- except for the fact that there were no than any other consideration it was the
ized to balance the soil and make it more forks (not in use in Massachusetts for an- tireless and firm faith of our Pilgrim Fa-
nourishing to the corn and other crops other 70 years), no cranberry sauce, and thers that kept them alive and animated
planted by the Pilgrims. The fertilizer no pumpkin pie. The food that was eaten their steadfast resolve to bloom where the
preferred by the Indians after years of was washed down with beer, the beverage Hand of the Almighty God had planted
experimenting was dead herring. The Pil- of choice for saint and sinner in England them, no matter how rocky, unknown, and
grims trusted the advice of Samoset, and because of the notoriously contaminated hostile the soil. n
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A Baggie for Burglars attention led him to meet Rabbi Gary Mos- Old Sure-shot?
KLTV out of East Texas reports that on kowitz of New York. Rabbi Moskowitz has The Columbus Dispatch out of Central
October 19 a senior citizen who had been spent many years working to protect syna- Ohio reports that on October 21 a 70-year-
retired for 23 years sent an alleged burglar gogues from terrorist threats. Pagano and old woman used her .357 magnum pistol
to the emergency room with one shot. The Moskowitz have now joined together to to stop an armed robber. This took place at
19-year-old assailant broke in to the se- form the International Security Coalition the Continent Inn motel where the armed
nior’s screened-in porch. The homeowner, of Clergy, an organization dedicated to criminal barged in on a family staying on
who has been burglarized before, says he “making the vulnerable less vulnerable.” the first floor. The family consisted of the
is always prepared for such a scenario. He Pagano’s beliefs about our nation’s great-grandmother, her son, and the son’s
has every window nailed shut and keeps a founding are shared by many in this coun- wife, daughter, son-in-law, and friend.
“baggie full of ammo for his 4-10 single- try, including actor Chuck Norris. Norris, The family had kept the door to the room
shot shotgun” nearby. in his regular column for World Net Daily, slightly open so they could keep tabs on
The 78-year-old homeowner explained wrote: “God and guns are what our coun- their young friends staying nearby when
what happened: “Just ... put the gun up to try was founded upon. Any new student the door suddenly flew open around 9 p.m.
the window, and he was standing there and of the Revolutionary period quickly learns The thug burst into the room and waved
I pulled the trigger…. Everything I worked that. They are what keep us strong, or what a black handgun at them, saying, “Every-
hard for all my life ... no one’s just going should keep us strong. They are there for body here knows what the game is.”
to come in here and take it if I can help our defense. God and guns were so impor- The attacker demanded all six people
it…. I’m sorry that it happened, but he tant to our founders that they established inside get down on the floor. The robber
shouldn’t be trying to break in and trying our protection to exercise them in the first would soon regret that decision because
to steal other people’s property…. Protect two amendments to our Constitution — by ordering the great-grandmother to the
what’s mine, you know?” Authorities say the uninhibited and unrestricted freedom floor, he actually put her closer to her
the alleged home invader was found across to choose our own religion and bear our handgun. She reached into her purse on
the street, inside his brother’s car with a own firearms.” the floor, pulled out her magnum pistol,
gunshot wound to the left shoulder. and fired one shot at the robber. The shot
would prove to be fatal. The alleged robber
Alert and Armed Wayne Winston, 25, lumbered away, only
God and Guns The ABC affiliate from Polk County, Flor- to collapse in the parking lot and die.
Pastor Ken Pagano gained national media ida, reports that on October 12 a diligent Winston, a native of St. Louis, had a
attention by hosting an open-carry cele- gun owner aborted an attempted robbery criminal record, according to stltoday.
bration at his New Bethel Church in Lou- and even shot one of the shotgun-wielding com, and was a parolee wanted on an arrest
isville, Kentucky, earlier this year. Pagano attackers. Johnny Preston was in the front warrant. According to Jacqueline Lapine,
told ABCNews.com, “As a Christian pas- yard of his home getting his van ready for a spokeswoman for the Missouri Depart-
tor I believe that without a deep-seeded be- work when he observed two men driving ment of Corrections, Winston’s probation
lief in God and firearms that this country by slowly and staring at him. The strange came after a December 2008 arrest for
would not be here…. I’m not ashamed of behavior of the passersby alarmed Pres- first-degree tampering with a vehicle after
that fact. I’m proud of it…. We’re promot- ton, and he immediately retrieved his .38 being released from prison three months
ing responsible and safe gun ownership.” caliber revolver from inside the van. He before. Lapine also stated that Winston
The event raised Pagano’s profile also recorded the license-plate number served seven years for crimes that “includ-
among both admirers and detractors, but of the vehicle. Within moments, Preston ed burglary, stealing a firearm and three
now the pastor who has spent nearly 30 looked up to see two men, wearing t- counts of stealing a motor vehicle.”
years in the ministry is resigning to focus shirts over their faces, pointing a shotgun The heroic great-grandmother’s son was
on gun-rights and church-security is- at him. The would-be robbers demanded bewildered by her deadly accurate aim. “It’s
sues. Pagano told the Washington Times, his wallet. Without hesitation, Preston re- a wonder she didn’t shoot us all,” her son
“Thirty years was a good, long run, but sponded by pushing the barrel of the shot- told the news. “She’s the worst shot in the
it’s time for a change…. If I can write my gun away with one hand while simultane- world…. She said to me, ‘God was with me
own ticket, I want to get involved more in ously firing his handgun with the other. tonight. You know I couldn’t have done that
Second Amendment issues as they affect His shot found its target, hitting the thug myself.’” The son also told the news that his
the church, and I can do more from outside in the torso. Terrified, the injured criminal mother has a permit to carry a concealed
the pulpit than from behind it.” ran back to his car and drove to the nearest gun and carries the gun she inherited from
Pagano explains that he was thinking hospital where he was treated and arrest- her late husband. When asked by the media
about moving in this direction long be- ed. The other assailant fled on foot, only to describe his mother, the son said, “Reli-
fore he hosted his successful open-carry to be found a short distance away hiding gious. She’s always been my hero.” n
event, but the “ripple effect” from all the under a parked car. — Patrick Krey
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