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Vol. 25, No. 24 November 23, 2009

Cover Story
Politics
10 Constitutional Candidates

Design by Joseph W. Kelly

by Thomas R. Eddlem — The Ron Paul presidential campaign last
year has inspired dozens of new congressional candidates.

15 “Chick” Heileson vs. Mike Simpson

by Thomas R. Eddlem — Chick Heileson didn’t get involved in
politics because of Ron Paul, but he believes the time is now.
15 17

Features
Interview
17 Mayhem, Money, & Morality
Interview of Allen Rutledge by Kelly Taylor Holt.

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21 Constitutional Healthcare
by Jack Kenny — Is the federal government’s intervention into
healthcare justified?

25 Obamacare and the Demise of Federalism

by Joe Wolverton II, J.D. — The federal government has
responsibilities and limitations. Where do we stand?

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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Cause of Terrorism
Editor I must respond to a letter to the editor
Gary Benoit printed in the October 26 issue of The New
Senior Editor
American, from George Eadeh, where he
William F. Jasper
said, “The terrorist phenomenon of the
Middle East did not occur in a vacuum. The
Associate Editor cause and effect can be placed squarely on
Kurt Williamsen the creation and policies of the state of Is-
rael.”
Contributors
Dennis J. Behreandt
First, one must define the fact that today’s
Christopher S. Bentley
terrorists are Arabs. One must ask, “Why
Steven J. DuBord are Arabs attacking?” One explanation that
Selwyn Duke could very well explain the “cause” driv-
Jodie Gilmore ing the Arabs comes from the Bible. The
Gregory A. Hession, J.D. Bible passage in Genesis recounts God
Ed Hiserodt telling Abraham that he has been given the
William P. Hoar land now known as the State of Israel and
R. Cort Kirkwood that progeny of Abraham would inherit that
Warren Mass same land. Understand that the Arabs could
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. claim Ishmael, the first-born son of Abra-
Alan Scholl ham, as the rightful recipient of that land.
Ann Shibler But Abraham, wanting his son from Sarah,
Liana Stanley his wife, to be the rightful heir, sent Ishmael
Michael E. Telzrow and Hagar away.
Joe Wolverton II, J.D. God told Hagar that a great nation would
Art Director be made from the seed of Ishmael, but did
Joseph W. Kelly not say that Ishmael would take the land
promised Abraham.
Research Today’s Arabs are attempting to claim
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that Muslims are instructed to kill all non-be-
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Julie DuFrane obey their holy book. So the terrorists’ plans
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beas corpus and why, because the South had
already been guilty of treason and rebellion
and invasion, as specified in the Constitu-
tion, he had to deal with enemies as he did.
Please go to www.libertyparkusafd.org
and study some articles out of the Lincoln
section, for example, “The Speech That
Changed the World” by Harry V. Jaffa or
“Lincoln:  America’s Greatest President”
by Charles A. Morse. You will see that, as
Lincoln said, he faced a crisis greater than
George Washington had, namely from se-
cret groups — conspiracies — both in the
South (KGC) and in the North (Copper-
heads). (I presume you are not criticizing
Washington!) Lincoln also faced both Eng-
land and France, which were poised on our
borders with troops.
An editorial from the London Times also
shows that international bankers were hys-
terical about Lincoln’s refusal to borrow
from them, instead planning to finance the
war at home.
It is now politically correct to “dis” on
Lincoln, as it has been on Jefferson, but I
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private and political life, Lincoln was a per-
son of such personal meekness, charity, and
dependence upon God that even his worst
enemies (among whom was Secretary of
War Stanton, whose words you mocked)
later extolled his virtues and gave him cred-
it for saving our Union, which, despite your
maligning, was his only “grand agenda.”
A comparison of Lincoln’s photos in that
traumatic four-year period tells of his suf-
fering. J. Reuben Clark, former Under Sec-
retary of State and Ambassador, widely ac-
claimed as our single greatest constitutional
scholar, after much writing about Abraham
Lincoln, defined him as our single great-
est American. J. Reuben Clark, by the way,
was almost single-handedly responsible for
convincing the Senate to reject the League
of Nations, so he was no dummy. Stick to
your criticism of socialist, “progressive”
Presidents and those who had ties to the
elite of the conspiracies and leave this great
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 Inside Track
Hoffman Loses Plurality to Democrat Owens in NY Congressional Race
While the Conservative Party nominee Hoffman was hardly
a traditional conservative noninterventionist on foreign policy
issues, he had campaigned on a platform that pushed social con-
Doug
servatism and small-government economics. As such, he drew
Hoffman the support of former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Sarah
Palin, and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
Though the election was nominally a defeat for the Republican
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Party and the conservatives in it, some conservatives drew com-

Democrats narrowly won a plurality in New York’s 23rd Con-
gressional District Tuesday, a District that hadn’t been held by a
Democrat in more than 100 years.
Democrat Bill Owens narrowly defeated Conservative Party
nominee Doug Hoffman by a 49-45 percent plurality, where Re-
publican nominee Dede Scozzafava had withdrawn from the race
and endorsed Democrat Owens days before the election.
The District had become a national lightning rod for conserva-
tive unhappiness with the national Republican leadership for its
persistence in picking liberal nominees that lose elections. Several
nationally known Republicans had campaigned for Conservative
Party nominee Doug Hoffman after Scozzafava’s positions in favor
of abortion, same-sex marriage, and fiscal liberalism became more
widely known. Scozzafava had also been endorsed by ACORN’s
Working Families Party, the ultra-leftist founder of the DailyKos.
com blog, NARAL, and the leftist teachers’ union NYSUT.
fort from the election. Red State.com’s Erick Erickson explained
on his blog that the election means “the GOP now must recog-
nize it will either lose without conservatives or will win with
conservatives.... In 2008, many conservatives sat home instead
of voting for John McCain. Now, in NY-23, conservatives rallied
and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose.”
For its part, the national GOP leaders have charged to the head
of the parade and are claiming to be leading it. “It sends a clear
signal that voters have had enough of the president’s liberal agen-
da,” GOP National Chairman Michael Steele told the press after
a Republican emerged as the gubernatorial victor in Virginia. But
Steele had been sent a similar message about his own party just
a week earlier with Scozzafava. Despite Steele’s protest on CNN
on the eve of the election that “this was a local decision.… I don’t
pick candidates,” Erickson noted that “despite the Beltway spin,
we know for certain based on statements from the local Republi-
can parties, that they chose Scozzafava based on advice from the
Washington crowd.”

Obama Signs Defense Bill With Hate-crimes Extension

President Barack Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Autho- the irony in America’s first black President supporting this legis-
rization Act on October 28, simultaneously approving the attached lation: “A society in which all life is not valued the same, where
extension of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed murder of one citizen is not the same as murder of another citizen,
because of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. is a horror which black Americans have known too well. So it is a
In total, the Defense bill carries a $680 billion price tag. It particular irony that this major expansion of the politicization of
authorizes $550 billion for the budgets of the Defense and En- our law has been signed by our first black president.”
ergy Departments, including a 3.4 percent increase in pay for “What could it possibly mean that the penalty for the same
uniformed military personnel. It also devotes $130 billion to the act of violence — for murder — may be different depending on
war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. what might be deemed to be the motivation?” Parker asks. “Can
The hate-crimes provision is known as the Matthew Shepard you imagine a football game where the penalty for roughing the
Act, named for the homosexual Wyoming college student mur- passer is 20 yards rather than 15 if the referee concludes that
dered over 10 years ago. Democrats had attached this act and the violence perpetrated was motivated because the quarterback
the Military Commissions Act to the defense bill over the pro- was homosexual?”
test of Republicans who saw the attachment ploy
as an unfair way to avoid dealing with the acts
separately.
Hate-crimes legislation does not provide equal
justice for all, but rather treats some people as being
more worthy of protection than others. Star Parker,
the founder and president of the Coalition for Urban
Renewal and Education, also known as CURE,
wrote a commentary about this that was published
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Parker happens to be a black woman who sees Obama signing the National Defense Authorization Act

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 Inside Track
Holdout Vaclav Klaus Signs Lisbon Treaty Creating EU Super-state
Under intense pressure from Eu-
ropean Union leaders, other gov-
ernments, and factions within his
own country, Czech President Va-
clav Klaus caved in on November
3 and signed the so-called Lisbon
Treaty, a slightly altered version
of the EU Constitution that was
rejected by French and Dutch
Vaclav voters in 2005. The agreement,
Klaus having cleared its final hurdle, is
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The Czech Republic became the last of 27 countries to ratify
the treaty, following months of delays and sharp criticism from
Klaus.
The Czech President, known for being a “Euro-skeptic,” has
been a fierce opponent and perhaps the most prominent critic
of the European super-state currently taking shape. He regu-
larly compares it to the Soviet Union, and he has also blasted
global-warming alarmism and other leftist and globalist politi-
cal movements. But he recently conceded that it would likely be
impossible to beat back the Lisbon Treaty, so observers were not
surprised by the announcement.

expected to go into force in De-
cember or January.
The signature came after a rul-
ing from the Czech Republic’s Constitutional Court earlier in
the day that concluded the agreement was indeed constitutional,
though Klaus did not concur. The signing was announced at a
brief press conference, where the President expressed strong
disagreement with the Court’s decision and claimed the ruling
improperly forced him to sign the treaty “without delay.”
There was talk of allowing the English to vote on the treaty
if Gordon Brown’s government is defeated at the next election,
as is widely expected. But it appears that with Klaus’ signature,
it is now too late. “What has happened today means that it is
no longer possible to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty,”
said the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs spokesman William
Hague. He said the treaty would now become law, calling it a
bad day for democracy since the British people were not even
consulted.

House Subcommittee Guts Ron Paul’s Bill to Audit the Fed

The Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 1207), Congress- while ensuring Fed accountability in the longer run. Congress-
man Ron Paul’s landmark bill to audit the Federal Reserve, has man Paul, however, is opposed to any such dilution of the bill’s
been gutted in a House subcommittee as it works its way toward language, believing that any mandated delays in holding the Fed
a vote in the full House. The bill, which has garnered an astonish- accountable would allow the central bank too much room to
ing 308 cosponsors from both parties, has attracted the scalpel of evade responsibility.
North Carolina Democrat Mel Watt (whose district happens to Congressman Paul is still optimistic that the bill will pass in
include Charlotte, the home of Bank of America, America’s larg- some form, given the magnitude of support it has received. He
est commercial bank). According to Congressman Paul, whose noted that the Federal Reserve and the interests that defend its
Campaign for Liberty posted a video on the bill at the end of so-called “independence” (read: “secrecy”) are very entrenched
October, Watt has cut out “just about everything” in prepping the and unlikely to yield without a fight. n
bill for a full committee vote.
The bill in its original form required audits of Fed transactions
with foreign banks, of its deliberations on monetary policy, and
of the activities of the Open Market Committee, and disclosure of
communications between the Federal Reserve Board and reserve
banks. All of these provisions, according to Congressman Paul,
have been removed. “There’s nothing left,” Paul told Bloomberg
News in a telephone interview. “This is not a partisan issue. Peo-
ple all over the country want to know what the Fed is up to, and Ron
this legislation was supposed to help them do that.” Paul
Congressman Paul intends to try to reinstate the bill’s original
language and provisions in full committee deliberations, and is
hopeful that many of the bill’s hundreds of cosponsors will exert
appropriate pressure on the committee to bring the bill in its pris-
tinity to a full House vote sooner rather than later.
One of the bill’s most powerful sponsors, Congressman Barney
Frank (chair of the House Financial Services Committee), intends
that the bill in its final form require a lapse of time between Fed
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actions and their disclosure to auditors and Congressional over-

seers. Frank believes that a delay would “lessen market impact”

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 QuickQuotes

Focus on the Family Leader Resigns

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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.

Blocking of Oil Drilling Continues

“This troubling trend means less revenue to federal, state and local governments at a time when our
nation is running a record deficit.”
Commenting on a Department of Interior decision to curtail exploitation of known oil and gas resources,
American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard expressed frustration at this latest federal road-
block placed in the way of domestic energy production.

Ponzi Schemer Points to Laxity in Discovering His Crime

“It would have been easy for them to see [if they were doing their job]. I wish they caught me six years
ago, eight years ago.”
Expressing amazement that his $65 billion crime wasn’t discovered earlier by federal regulators, jailed Ber-
nard Madoff pointed to six separate bungled examinations by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

UN Climate Chief Worried About Failure at Copenhagen Conference

“Time is running out. We do not have another year to sit on our hands. The Yvo de
Boer
deal must be done in Copenhagen.”
The Secretary-General of the UN climate-change secretariat, Yvo de
Boer, hopes at least for agreement on some political essentials that will
lead to an eventual treaty to limit greenhouse-gas emissions.

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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.

Opposition to Illegal Immigration Labeled Terrorism

“[Lou Dobbs and Sheriff Joe Arpaio] are the two most dangerous men to our community and because
of them, our communities are being terrorized in a real way.”
During an anti-Dobbs protest in Tucson that she organized, civil rights attorney Isabel Garcia didn’t
couch her words while expressing her venom toward the CNN newsman and the Maricopa County
(Arizona) sheriff.

An Opponent of More U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Speaks Out

“The picture is clear: the more Western troops we have sent to Afghanistan, the more the local residents
have viewed themselves as under foreign occupation, leading to a rise in suicide bombings and other
terrorist attacks.”
University of Chicago professor of political science Robert Pape has also authored the book Dying To
Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.

In Russia, Journalists and

Human Rights Activists Are Prime Targets
“The authorities are incapable of solving such crimes. Even the most honest
investigator cannot solve the crimes because the government won’t let him.”
At a rally in Moscow marking the third anniversary of the killing of journal-
ist Anna Politkovskaya, Mikhail Kasyanov, a former Prime Minister and
current leader of the opposition, pointed his finger at the government led
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 Politics
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
A
s recently as two years ago, Con-
gressman Ron Paul introduced a
bill to audit the Federal Reserve
Bank that headed to oblivion. Year after
year — beginning in 1983 — the bill never
even won a committee hearing. Dr. Paul
was ignored in Washington, and was a
lonely voice for freedom back in his Texas
congressional district.
Times have changed. Ron Paul is on a
political roll. The bill Dr. Paul introduced
in the current Congress to audit the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank (H.R. 1207) has more
than 300 cosponsors — including every
House Republican and more than 100
Democrats — and the backing of House
Financial Services Committee Chairman
Barney Frank. Frank has promised a com-
mittee vote, and it has a better-than-aver-
age chance of House passage this year.
Dr. Paul’s new book End the Fed sailed
Thomas R. Eddlem, a freelance writer, served as the
John Birch Society’s director of research from 1991-
2000.
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into the top twenty of Amazon.com’s sales
figures more than a month before it was
available. It debuted on both Amazon.com
and New York Times bestseller lists, and
sales remain strong even today. His old
presidential campaign has rolled over into
a “Campaign for Liberty” that has raised
more than $4 million since its founding in
February of this year.
More importantly, his presidential cam-
paign evidently inspired dozens of candi-
dates for congressional office across the na-
tion who seek to reform Congress from a
constitutionalist perspective. And several of
them are both well funded and being taken
seriously by the political establishment.
Rand Paul
Prime among these constitutionalist “Ron
Paul” candidates is the Congressman’s
third child, Dr. Rand Paul. While the elder
Dr. Paul was an obstetrician by trade before
being elected to Congress, Dr. Rand Paul
is an eye surgeon (ophthalmologist). The
46-year-old Dr. Rand Paul announced his
candidacy for the open U.S. Senate seat in
Kentucky in August. Days before Dr. Paul’s
announcement, incumbent Republican Jim
Bunning had bowed out of a reelection
contest after Kentucky’s establishment Re-
publican Senator Mitch McConnell (who
is also the Senate Minority Leader) had
made fundraising in Washington difficult
for Bunning. “Over the past year,” Bunning
said, “some of the leaders of the Republican
Party in the Senate have done everything in
their power to dry up my fundraising. The
simple fact is that I have not raised the funds
necessary to run an effective campaign for
the U.S. Senate.” Time magazine on July
29 explained that the “some leaders” Bun-
ning was talking about was his fellow Ken-
tucky Republican Mitch McConnell: “He
quietly signaled to Republican moneymen
that they ought to wait Bunning out. Party
leaders in Washington met with a potential
primary opponent.... McConnell’s strategy
ultimately worked.”
Dr. Rand Paul is the founder of the
conservative Kentucky Taxpayers United
and has also campaigned for his father,
so he isn’t a stranger to politics. But he
hasn’t seen McConnell open the monetary
floodgates from Washington on his behalf
THE NEW AMERICAN  •  November 23, 2009

either. Politico.com has noted that “the
GOP establishment has lined up behind
Secretary of State Trey Grayson.” Perhaps
Grayson is favored by the Washington Re-
publican establishment because Grayson’s
campaign website is bereft of mention of
bringing the federal government back
within the bounds of the U.S. Constitu-
tion. By way of contrast, Rand Paul has
made the Constitution a centerpiece of his
campaign. “The Federal Government must
return to its constitutionally enumerated
powers and restore our inalienable rights,”
the younger Dr. Paul says on his campaign
website, in an echo of his father’s princi-
ples. “America can prosper, preserve per-
sonal liberty, and repel national security
threats without intruding into the personal
lives of its citizens.”
The fact that the establishment isn’t be-
hind him hasn’t hurt Rand Paul in the cru-
cial fundraising part of the race; he raised
more than $1.1 million by the end of the
third quarter of this year. Grayson’s Wash-
ington fundraising, which included a $500
per plate fundraiser hosted by McConnell
on September 23, has been matched by Dr.
Paul’s vibrant Internet strategy dollar-for-
dollar thus far. “We actually outraised both
Democrats and our primary opponents
this past quarter,” Dr. Paul told The New
American.
Rand Paul is quick to say that his
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Rand
Paul
Financial footsteps: Following Congressman
first problem was “name recognition,” Ron Paul’s lead, other constitutionalist
though he told The New American “we candidates for office, including Ron’s son Rand
are now probably very close to being on (shown), are employing “money bombs” and
a par with our primary opponent now.” other creative fundraising techniques to fund
Of the two, Grayson has been far better their campaigns in lieu of GOP aid.
known in Kentucky; he’s been the Sec-
retary of State for five years. Therefore, posing unnecessary wars and assaults on
even though Grayson’s polling numbers civil liberties under the guise of the “war
were stronger back in August, 40 percent on terror.” Dr. Paul told The New Ameri-
to Dr. Paul’s 25 percent according to an can that he maintains a bipartisan appeal
August poll, Rand Paul is being given a that criticizes both parties when they are
good chance of prevailing by professional at fault, “On the stump I promise that I
political observers. Dr. Paul has numbers will vote against any budget that is not
to back up his statement that he’s pulled balanced, either Republican or Democrat.”
up to a par with Grayson. An October The crossover phenomenon may even im-
Rasmussen poll put Paul’s and Gray- pact the primaries, as many have changed
son’s “favorability” percentages within from independents or Democratic registra-
the poll’s margin of error, and a Novem- tion to vote for him in the primary. “We re-
ber WHAS11/Survey USA poll put Paul register people a lot of the time, and there
ahead at 35 to 32 percent. is a lot of crossover.”
If the younger Dr. Paul
survives the Republican pri-
mary, he has a better-than- Dr. Paul told The New American that
even chance of winning the
GOP-leaning Kentucky gen-
he maintains a bipartisan appeal that
eral election. Democrats who criticizes both parties when they are
face a Republican candidacy
of Rand Paul would not only
at fault, “On the stump I promise that
face a united conservative I will vote against any budget that is
base but also significant
not balanced, either Republican or
crossover from some tradi-
tionally Democratic voting Democrat.”
groups, especially those op-
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Peter Schiff
Another well-funded Ron Paul presiden-
tial campaign supporter is Connecticut-
based Peter Schiff, who had been an
economic adviser to the Ron Paul presi-
dential campaign. Schiff has become an
Internet sensation on his own as president
of Euro-Pacific Capital, largely because
he accurately predicted the current eco-
Peter
Schiff
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nomic recession with astonishing preci-
sion on a variety of financial television
talk shows. He not only predicted the cur-
rent recession in 2006 and 2007, he also
explained why it would happen to pun-
dits who often laughed at him for predict-
ing the housing boom would go bust. In
2008, some of his friends put together a
montage of his television clips called
“Peter Schiff Was Right” and posted
it on YouTube. The clips received
several million views and dramati-
cally increased demand for Schiff’s
guest appearances on national tele-
vision shows.
Schiff is an acolyte of the free-
market “Austrian School” of eco-
nomics, is for ending America’s
military interventions abroad, and is
emphatic about returning the federal
government to the limits of the U.S.
Constitution’s delegated powers.
Schiff announced in Septem-
ber that he would run for the U.S.
Senate in Connecticut against
longtime incumbent Christopher
Dodd. Dodd would ordinarily be consid-
ered a safe incumbent. On paper, Dodd is
an entrenched Democrat in a Democratic-
leaning state, but the 28-year incumbent
is considered highly vulnerable this time
around. As chairman of the Senate Bank-
ing, Housing and Urban Affairs Commit-
tee, he was the Senator who could have
— and should have — raised the alarm
about the housing bubble. But instead,
Dodd built a cozy relationship with sub-
prime lender Countrywide. Although
technically cleared of ethics violations in
a recent investigation concluded August
7, the Senate inquiry criticized Dodd’s
efforts as less than cautious. “The com-
mittee does believe that you should have
exercised more vigilance in your dealings
with Countrywide in order to avoid the
appearance that you were receiving pref-
erential treatment based on your status as
a senator,” the Senate Ethics Committee
concluded. Dodd also has personal health
issues to deal with this time around. Last
summer he was diagnosed with prostate
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.
THE NEW AMERICAN  •  November 23, 2009

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.
Adam Kokesh
Adam Kokesh is best known as an Iraq
War veteran who returned opposed to
the war and was a keynote speaker at
Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” that
competed with the Republican National
Convention in the summer of 2008. He
volunteered for service in Iraq, where he
witnessed the bureaucracy, waste, and
corruption in the U.S. reconstruction of
that country. According to his campaign
website, he emerged from the military a
strict noninterventionist in foreign policy
and defender of Congress’ constitutional
authority to declare war:
Inherent with the right to self-defense
is the right to collective self-defense,
and in the world that we live in, this
is the most important function of the
federal government. To ensure that
this power is used responsibly, Con-
gress, as the best representation of
the people, was given the exclusive
power to declare war.... The executive
branch has set a dangerous precedent
by taking powers that are supposed
to be vested in the Congress. By not
abiding by the Constitution and using
the collective wisdom of the Con-
gress to ensure judicious use of force,
we find ourselves spending hundreds
of billions more than is necessary for
legitimate defense.
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Adam
Kokesh
New Mexico is that “if you want to play
and you want to win, you’re going to run
Kokesh has echoed Rep. Paul’s position as a Democrat.” Yet, the state has elected
on the Federal Reserve Bank, called for conservative Republicans occasionally
a smaller government role in the manage- because “a lot of those people would
ment of healthcare, and pronounced a nu- be Republicans anywhere else.” Kokesh
anced view about the immigration issue. notes that the local Democratic Party still
Kokesh has an uphill battle as a Re- postures as pro-gun and as socially con-
publican in New Mexico’s heavily Dem- servative, and he sees a “great potential
ocratic Third District against freshman for a crossover vote, just because of those
Democrat Ben R. Luján. Luján hasn’t Democratic voters that have been sucked
had much time to dig in as an incum- into the machine.”
bent, but his northern New Mexico dis- And Kokesh’s anti-war, noninterven-
trict hasn’t been won by a Republican tionist foreign policy, and pro-civil liber-
since 1996. Kokesh, in his favor, was ties positions just may have the decisive
able to tell The New American that he bipartisan appeal he’ll need. “People
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
“What was shocking for me was that for in the primary” for him, he told The New
the third quarter we actually beat Luján,” American. But if people can see through
he told The New American. That goes to the principles of the Constitution, the
a long way toward making up for the liberal media is still seeing things in
$100,000 Washington, D.C., fundraiser terms of the phony left-right spectrum.
Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer The local weekly news magazine Santa
hosted earlier this year for Luján. Neither Fe Reporter published an article on con-
candidate is even close to
the $1 million or so they’ll
have to raise to wage win- Kokesh has echoed Rep. Paul’s position
ning a House campaign, but on the Federal Reserve Bank, called
Kokesh’s early fundraising
numbers suggest that he for a smaller government role in
won’t be at a financial dis- the management of healthcare, and
advantage on this front.
Kokesh told T he N ew pronounced a nuanced view about the
A merican that the tradi- immigration issue.
tional political wisdom in
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“How can we Republicans demand to
replace the Democrat bailout voters
without doing anything about our own?
If we don’t clean our own house, we can
expect the Democrats to do it for us.”
­— R.J. Harris
gressional candidates called “The Early
Birds” on July 29, labeling Kokesh a
right-winger. “They gave me a 4.2 out
of 5 for being true conservative,” Kokesh
said, “then two or three months later, they
wrote about how I had all of these liberal
ideologies.” The Marine Corps veteran
says, “To me … one of the biggest frus-
trations and also one of the most reward-
ing things about this race is taking on the
left-right spectrum.”
Also in Kokesh’s favor is the expecta-
tion that most analysts believe 2010 will
be a Republican year, just as 1994 and
1996 were. Count Kokesh as an under-
dog, but he may have a shot.
Other Candidates
These are only three of the better known
among more than a dozen candidates
nationwide who have been inspired by
Ron Paul’s 2008 candidacy to run for the
House or Senate. It has almost taken on
the form of a slate in some quarters, as
Internet fundraisers
R.J.
Harris
14
like ThisNovember5th.com
are seeking to raise funds
for more than a dozen candi-
dates on the same day as Ron
Paul’s 2007 “money bomb”
when he raised a then-record
$4 million in a single day.
The idea of Internet “money
bombs” has proliferated
among the constitutional-
ist movement, often result-
ing in more frequent but smaller one-day
fundraising numbers for candidates. This
year’s money bomblets have netted from
tens of thousands to several hundred
thousand dollars on a single day for the
better-known candidates. And while this
article will be at press on November 5,
tens of thousand dollars were pledged two
weeks in advance of the day. But This-
November5th.com is only one of many
independent efforts to raise funds for con-
stitutionalist candidates and enable them
to become independent of the Washing-
ton, D.C., fundraisers and not beholden to
power-brokers in the same quarters.
Among the ThisNovember5th.com can-
didates is Marine Corps veteran David W.
Hedrick, who is running against five-term
liberal Democratic Congressman Brian
Baird of Washington’s Third Congressio-
nal District. Before announcing his can-
didacy, Hedrick confronted Baird at an
August 18 town hall, telling him: “I also
heard you say that you were going to let
us keep our health insurance. Well thank
you! It’s not your right to decide whether
I keep my current plan or not. That’s my
decision.” But that’s not all. Directly con-
fronting the claim made by some leading
Democrats that attempts to “disrupt” town
hall meetings display a fascist tendency,
he also told Baird:
A little history lesson. The Nazis
were the National Socialist Party.
They were leftists. They took over fi-
nance. They took over the car indus-
try. They took over the health care in
that country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to
find a swastika, maybe the first place
she should look is the sleeve of her
own arm.
Meanwhile, R.J. Harris is opposing three-
term incumbent Republican Tom Cole in
Oklahoma’s Fourth Congressional Dis-
trict. A veteran commentator on Judge
Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch In-
ternet show on Fox News’ website, Harris
encapsulates his decision to run against a
fellow Republican in a video advertise-
ment: “How can we Republicans demand
to replace the Democrat bailout voters
without doing anything about our own?
If we don’t clean our own house, we can
expect the Democrats to do it for us.”
Cole voted for the Bush bailout bill, the
TARP legislation. Harris calls himself a
“constitutional conservative Republican”
and says, “I will never vote for bailouts,
R.J.
Harris
with
wife and
children
THE NEW AMERICAN  •  November 23, 2009

Jake
Towne
required servitude,
taxation without representation or
give your money to foreign gov-
ernments. However, Tom Cole has
voted for all of these things.”
Jake Towne of Pennsylvania’s
15th District will also try to make
Republicans honest by running
against liberal Republican incum-
bent Charlie Dent (The New Amer-
ican’s Freedom Index rating: 40
percent).
Minuteman founder Chris Sim-
cox, though not a newcomer to poli-
tics as a result of the Ron Paul 2008
presidential bid, has announced a
challenge against John McCain’s
Senate seat in Arizona and has been
put on the ThisNovember5th.com
fundraising list.
Dr. Mike Vasovski in South Caro-
lina’s Third District will run in a
crowded Republican primary for an
open congression­al seat.
Other House of Representatives
candidates ThisNovemer5th.com
will be raising funds for include
John Dennis (California), Jaynee
Germond (Oregon), David Ratow-
itz (Illinois), Bob Parker (Missouri),
and both Collins Baily and Robert
Broadus of Maryland.
***
Ron Paul and his dedicated fol-
lowers were the tail of the GOP dog
during the 2008 campaign, but a pro-
liferation of “Paulite” constitutional
candidates in 2010 may find the tail
wagging the dog. n
www.TheNewAmerican.com
Politics
“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
E
ven his parents never called him
Marvin. To all but his mother
and a few other close rela-
tives, he is “Chick.” (His parents called
him “Chuck,” after his middle name Marvin
“Chick”
Charles.) Chick Heileson is one of a Heileson
growing number of Constitution-orient-
ed citizens who have not only decided
to run for Congress, but are also being
taken seriously by political pundits.
Heileson is running against the liberal
Republican Mike Simpson of Idaho’s
Second Congressional District. Simp-
son is serving his fifth term and is fac-
ing a serious challenge from within his
own party.
“The biggest thing that everyone is
very upset about is that he voted for
the first bailout under Bush,” Heileson
told The New American. Simpson voted year, before news of Simpson’s vote for
for the initial Bush TARP bailout pack- the TARP bailout made its way through
age, a serious repudiation of free-market the district.
principles that has undercut Simpson’s Although Idaho is one of the most Re-
reelection chances. Simpson, who earned publican states in the nation, last fall Dem-
a meager 50 percent on The New Ameri- ocrats were able to unseat Bill Sali, Ida-
can’s “Freedom Index” earlier this year, ho’s other congressional Republican who
also voted to triple spending on national had strong political and financial backing
service, for $1.8 billion in federal aid to from the Bush administration. Sali had
(i.e., control over) local police through the garnered several hundred thousand dollars
COPS program, and for the supplemental in donations from Washington’s political
“emergency” appropriations bill that allo- establishment, to no avail.
cated an additional $96.7 billion for the The political lesson being slowly
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. learned in congressional districts across
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
erally liked across the district and even Republicans who are mere echoes of
by his opponent, Boise Democrat Debbie the Democrats, and conservative voters
Holmes. Holmes often agrees with Simp- are sniffing out the phonies and sending
son’s point of view, despite her conten- them down to defeat. The principle was
tion that ‘he is part of the problem’ in perhaps best summarized by Massachu-
Washington, D.C.” But that was last setts Republican State Senator Robert
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Hedlund, who told a local magazine in

2003, “When voters are given a choice
between a socialist and someone who
comes off as a cheap imitation, they will
choose the real thing every time.” In po-
litical parlance, the Republican National
Committee has found conservative votes
“non-transferable” to its cheap imitations
through two consecutive congressional
election cycles.
As a result, Democrats may soon smell
political blood in the water with Simpson
after his TARP bailout vote. “It was one
of the toughest votes I have ever cast,”
Simpson explained to the press after fol-
lowing the Bush administration’s lead.
Simpson said after voting for a bill that
he hadn’t read (and was rushed through
with virtually no debate), “I voted yes
on the bill because I sincerely believe
the greater risk for taxpayers is in not
acting.” He added: “No one is happy
about this legislation, but I am con-
vinced that action is a necessary evil in
order to keep small businesses afloat,
keep retirees from losing their life sav-
ings and help end the growing credit
crisis we now face.” Idaho and I’ve raised $50,000,”
But Simpson’s willingness to engage in Heileson said of his three-month-old can- more name recognition.
socialist bailouts is apparently determined didacy. According to the Federal Election Heileson entered the race after serving
by the party proposing them in Washing- Commission, more than three-quarters of as a John Birch Society coordinator in
ton. He was okay with the Republican bail- Simpson’s donations have come from out- the district for 15 years. The John Birch
out, but has balked at Obama’s bailouts, of-state political action committees. Thus, Society is a non-partisan educational or-
saying in February of this year regarding it’s not surprising that the liberal Boise ganization focusing upon the Constitution
the economic stimulus package: “While I Weekly has noted Simpson is spending and the principles of limited government.
support a number of programs and ideas most of his campaign time in Washington, “Working for the Birch Society for the last
that are reflected in the package we voted D.C., with “28 party invites on file. He ap- 15 years has been quite an advantage,” he
on today, I can not support the astronomi- pears to have fortnightly fundraisers at the told The New American. As a coordina-
cal amount of money that is being thrown ‘refined and elegant’ Capitol Hill Club, a tor, he met thousands of Simpson’s con-
at this problem with very little thought and Republican gentleman’s club two blocks stituents and forged many friendships.
no debate.” from Capitol Hill.” He also became comfortable with public
“There’s no such word as conservative Meanwhile, Heileson told The New speaking, and has an affable, personal
anymore,” is how Heileson responds to American he has more “cottage” and manner. “The constitutionalist movement
self-described “conservative” Simpson’s “town hall” meeting invitations than he is what inspired me to do it,” Heileson
explanation of his TARP vote. As a result, can attend in the district. “About 160 says of his candidacy. While not directly
Heileson has been raking in political dona- people want to hold them,” he says, which inspired to run as a result of Ron Paul’s
tions from within the district. “I’ve raised would keep him busy until the May 25 pri- 2008 presidential race, Heileson stresses
more in my first quarter than anyone who mary. “You kind of get scared when things that “what he’s done is inspiring.” n
has ever run against him, and almost as are going so well,”
much as he himself has raised.” Simpson the Vietnam vet-
raised $53,805 in the third quarter, while
Heileson’s FEC filing noted third quarter
eran says. “All I’ve
been speaking to is EXTRA COPIES AVAILABLE
donations of $40,705. the choir. Even the ➧ Additional copies of this issue of The
More importantly, Heileson is getting press has been good New American are available at quantity-
almost all of his donations from inside his to me.” But he notes discount prices. To place your order, visit
Idaho district. “I think he raised $67,000 that he still has some www.shopjbs.org or see the card between
total in his last go around inside the state of work to do to win pages 34-35.

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Mayhem, Money,
& Morality
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
by Kelly Taylor Holt
A
nyone trying to figure out what in
the world is going on in today’s
economy might remember Ag-
atha Christie’s classic, Murder on the Ori-
ent Express. When master sleuth Hercule
Poirot boarded that train, he’d no idea that
before the night ended he’d face the most
perplexing murder case ever. A carful of
passengers, all of whom had motive and
opportunity, maneuvered around so skill-
fully that even Christie’s brilliant Belgian
couldn’t figure out whodunit. The best he
could do was point a perfectly manicured
finger at the most likely culprits — in the
end, everybody walked away, except the
luckless victim.
When considering the train wreck of
our economy, Poirot would have the same
problem. Allen Rutledge (Capital Plan-
ning and Investments, Atlanta-based) has
plenty to say about the collection of fiends
who have all but murdered our individual
portfolios.
Kelly Taylor Holt is an Austin-based writer and film-
maker, and the producer of a politically based TV
talk show.
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The New American: You’ve said that
rules the government has been imposing
on the financial sector have actually been
hindering our country’s economic recov-
ery, not helping it. Could you explain that?
Allen Rutledge: When you play tennis,
and a serve lands inside the line, but it is
called out of bounds, you’d ask why.
In today’s market, financiers get pe-
nalized like in our tennis example — for
following the rules. If you ask why you
were penalized in today’s market, the an-
swer you get might be, “Oh, we changed
the boundary line yesterday. What... you
didn’t get the memo?”
Every government intervention distorts
the market, and those distortions represent
changes in the rules. There’s little predict-
ability in the market because you don’t
know when the next government interven-
tion is going to happen. Even seasoned
investors are afraid to play. Two questions
we have are, “How come we don’t know
the rules?” and “What do we do about it?”
FASB Rule 157, part of the Sarbanes-
Oxley Act, changed the way banks value
assets, forcing them to assign current liq-
uid values to illiquid assets. Next thing
you know, bank after bank found itself in-
solvent. One minute everything is hunky
Interview
Allen
Rutledge
dory, the next moment a rule change makes
everything appear insolvent. President Bill
Clinton’s team instituted more rule chang-
es. Larry Summers, then-Clinton adviser
and now adviser to Obama, responded to
pressure from the banking lobby, which
reportedly spent $5 billion to implement
these changes. The result was that a small
number of banks controlled the issuance
of derivatives. Summers also was involved
in the Commodity Futures Moderniza-
tion Act of 2000, which freed derivatives
of government regulation and oversight.
While as free-market advocates we oppose
unconstitutional regulation, those running
our government don’t mind its selective
reintroduction with the understanding that
the taxpayers are “on the hook” after the
wild ride is over.
Concurrently, the SEC changed the net
capitalization rule to allow broker deal-
ers with over $5 billion to expand their
debt equity ratio from 12 to 30 times to
look more like the European model. That
means they could now have 30 times as
much debt as equity. An even bigger ques-
tion arises, “Why do we need to emulate
the European model?” Financial firms
now took on more risk with higher degrees
of leverage.
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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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lender’s judgment of cred-
itworthiness. That’s how to
break the free market.
Fingers should be point-
ed at the Fed and govern-
ment intervention in hous-
ing. The government is
responsible, but blame has
been focused on the private
sector, like the criminal
behavior of Madoff — it
has deflected attention
away from the government,
which is guilty of the same
behavior through Social Se-
curity! Madoff ran a Ponzi
scheme taking “late inves-
tors’” money to pay the
“early investors.” Social
Security takes the younger
generation’s money to pay
the older generation of re-
tirees. Madoff stole an esti-
mated $55 billion, but Social Security may
be in the red as much as $55 trillion.
By keeping interest rates artificially
low, the Fed created a gigantic expansion
of credit, regardless of ability to pay. Low-
interest credit was given to those who were
very likely to default on their loans. High-
risk loans are supposed to be charged high
interest rates so that banks have enough
money not to fail if the loans default. But
this became a political decision, not an
economic one.
TNA: So what are Americans to do?
Rutledge: We no longer have truly free
markets. Our whole philosophy must be
rethought. For instance, if we believe that
intervention is bad in the marketplace,
why have we allowed bailouts, corporate
takeovers, and the defrauding of people’s
property rights (such as what recently hap-
pened to GM bondholders)? Would we
have had this meltdown if we had gold-
backed currency, thus restricting what the
Fed can do to our credit system?
How do we correct what’s happened?
It looks impossible. The ultimate way to
recapitalize America, individually and col-
lectively, is through savings. Lack of per-
sonal savings leads to decapitalization by
dependence on government. The ultimate
protection is savings, hard assets, and mo-
rality. The only way to recover is for peo-
ple to return to individual responsibility.
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Allen Rutledge with
Kelly Taylor Holt
Government growth resulted from lowered
responsibility! Start with your own house.
Even this thought is biblical.
In fixing your own house, start with
living within your means, be responsible
for those who depend on you. If you have
to borrow, do it prudently, for short peri-
ods of time. True capital formation comes
only from savings. One failure is that of
a true philosophical understanding of our
responsibilities, and that is religion gov-
erns morality, which governs responsibil-
ity, which governs behavior and political
choices. The two things we’re told never to
discuss, religion and politics, are the only
things that matter.
Do a good inventory of assets and of
your value system, governed by your phi-
losophy of responsibility and morality.
If we’re going on a debt diet, we need to
get on the scales every day. The circula-
tory system of your economy is cash flow.
Your balance sheet is a measure of your
height and weight. Take your assessment
to a financial adviser; in seeking one, ask,
“Will he respond to my needs?” Find one
you can trust. Practice caveat emptor —
without it, the consumer is less responsible
and more vulnerable with an adviser. Ask,
“Where do I not want to be?” Interview
your adviser. Build integrity and unify mo-
rality to all aspects of your life.
Once your personal house is in order,
demand as far as possible that your neigh-
bor does the same by not depending on
government interference to fix problems.
We live today under a tyranny of tolerance.
We should demand less of government,
wean off the system one step at a time.
It’s simple: Less individual responsibil-
ity means more rules. If people are self-
governing, with law written in their hearts,
we need fewer rules. Order starts with
God, then in the family. The task at hand is
just being good people. To the extent that
we all ignore God in our own moral codes,
we’re inviting government intervention.
While doing our own housecleaning, we
should demand that government return to
its constitutional jurisdiction and put it on
a fiscal diet with strict curtailment of its
present unauthorized functions. Abolish-
ing the Fed would be a great place to start
so that we can have integrity behind our
money. n
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intended as and should not be used to provide
investment advice, and does not address or ac-
count for individual investor circumstances. In-
vestment decisions should always be made based
on the client’s specific financial needs and ob-
jectives, goals, time horizon, and risk tolerance.
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suitable for all investors. Past performance is no
guarantee of future results. No forecast should
be considered a guarantee. Consult your financial
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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
T
he Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
was apparently dumbfounded recently when a re-
porter asked about the constitutional authority for
requiring people to buy health insurance, as mandated in
the healthcare reform bills before Congress.
As reported on CNSNews.com, the exchange between
the reporter and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was as
follows:
“Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitu-
tion grant Congress the authority to enact an individual
health insurance mandate?”
“Are you serious? Are you serious?” came the Speaker’s
inscrutable reply.
“Yes, yes I am,” the CNSNews.com reporter answered.
Pelosi then simply shook her head and took a question
from another reporter. Pelosi’s press secretary, Nadeam
Elshami, later said that asking the Speaker where the Con-
stitution authorized the mandate in the health bills was not
“a serious question.”
“You can put this on the record,” the news organization
quotes Elshami as saying. “That is not a serious question.
Nancy
Pelosi
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That is not a serious question.” The spokesperson later re-
sponded to written follow-up questions, CNSNews.com re-
ported, with an e-mailed press release on the “Constitution-
ality of Health Insurance Reform,” claiming congressional
authority for the mandate may be found in its constitutional
power to regulate interstate commerce.
A “Health Insurance Reform Daily Mythbuster” press
release, originally issued from Pelosi’s office on Septem-
ber 16, claims one of the “myths” about the House bill
called “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act” is what
Pelosi called “the nonsensical claim that the federal gov-
ernment has no constitutionally valid role in reforming our
health care system — apparently ignoring the validity of
Medicare and other popular federal health care reforms.”
The Speaker acknowledged that under the House bill “in-
dividuals must either purchase coverage (and non-exempt
employers must purchase coverage for their workers) — or
pay a modest penalty for not doing so. The bill uses the tax
code to provide a strong incentive for Americans to have
insurance coverage and not pass their emergency health
care costs onto other Americans — but it allows them to
pay their way out of that obligation. There is no constitu-
tional problem with these provisions,” she concluded.
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Parrying Pelosi
Pelosi categorized as “myth” the argument that the health-insur-
ance legislation violates the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment,
which reserves to the states or to the people those powers not
delegated to the national government. “But the Constitution
gives Congress broad power to regulate activities that have an
effect on interstate commerce,” Pelosi argued. “Congress has
used this authority to regulate many aspects of American life,
from labor relations to education to health care to agricultural
production. Since virtually every aspect of the health care sys-
tem has an effect on interstate commerce, the power of Congress
to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.”
Pelosi cited a pair of Supreme Court decisions that upheld
the power of Congress under the commerce clause to ban racial
discrimination (Katzenbach v. McClung) and to forbid the grow-
ing and sale of marijuana for medical use where state laws allow
it (Gonzales v. Raich).
But a 1994 Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bud-
getary impact of healthcare legislation then before Congress
included a finding that an act of Congress requiring individu-
als and employers to purchase health insurance or pay a fine
would be unprecedented. In the words of the CBO memo: “The
imposition of an individual mandate, or a combination of an in-
dividual and an employer mandate, would be an unprecedented
form of federal action. The appropriate budgetary treatment of
such a policy therefore has not been addressed.”
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The healthcare reform efforts of the early nineties were never
enacted by Congress, and popular resentment of what was seen as
excessively intrusive regulation, promoted by the Clinton admin-
istration, contributed to a Republican landslide and takeover of
Congress in the 1994 elections. But the breadth of the regulatory
authority given Congress under the commerce clause has been the
subject of debate and litigation from the early days of the republic.
Under the first national charter produced by the former colo-
nies, the Articles of Confederation, Congress had no authority to
regulate commerce among the states or with other nations. As a
result, states attempted to shield businesses within their respective
borders from outside competition by erecting tolls and tariffs on
products of other states, as well as imports from foreign lands.
To eliminate such barriers and promote the growth of commerce
across state lines, the framers of the Constitution gave Congress
power to establish laws governing the free trade of goods and
services. Article I, Section 8 delegates to Congress the power “to
regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and among the several
States and with the Indian Tribes.” As Pelosi noted, that power
has often been broadly interpreted to mean regulation not only of
commerce itself, but anything that may, as the Speaker says, “have
an effect on interstate commerce.” And since virtually everything
may in some way, shape, or form “have an effect on interstate
commerce,” the regulatory power of Congress under such a broad
construction is, as Pelosi says, “essentially unlimited.”
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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Franklin D. Roosevelt viewed the commerce clause, as written,
as a relic of the “horse and buggy age” and proclaimed that since
that time, “we have developed an entirely different philosophy.”
The nation as a whole had become more interdependent, he said.
“It has been our hope that under the interstate commerce clause
we could recognize by legislation and by judicial decision that
a harmful practice in one section of the country could be pre-
vented on the theory that it was doing harm to another section of
the country. That was why the Congress for a good many years,
and most lawyers, have had the thought that in drafting legisla-
tion we could depend on an interpretation that would enlarge
the constitutional meaning of interstate commerce to include
not only matters of direct interstate commerce, but also those
matters that indirectly affect interstate commerce.”
In other words, an improved, 20th-century “interpretation”
of the commerce clause would empower the federal govern-
ment to regulate not only commerce among the states, but all
manner of things that are neither interstate nor commerce. Ma-
jorities in Congress readily enacted the regulatory schemes of
the popular President, but the Supreme Court for several years
refused to go along with the revised understanding of interstate
commerce that Roosevelt divined from the “entirely different
philosophy” he had discovered in the Congress and among
“most lawyers.” The justices chose instead to honor their oath
to uphold the Constitution as written. But eventually, with his
public relations campaign against the “horse and buggy” court,
his effort, though unsuccessful, to “pack the court” with addi-
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Thomas Jefferson wrote that the commerce
clause “does not extend to the internal
regulation of the commerce of a State (that is
to say, of the commerce between citizen and
citizen) … but to its external commerce only,
that is to say, its commerce with another State,
or with foreign nations or with Indian tribes.”
tional justices, and his opportunities to replace retiring judges,
Roosevelt was able to prevail upon the Supreme Court to join
the President and the Congress in expanding the power of the
federal government to manage and even micromanage eco-
nomic activity within, as well as commerce among, the several
states.
The most famous case, still frequently cited in legal debate
over the commerce clause, is the 1942 decision of the U.S. Su-
preme Court in Wickard v. Filburn. The case arose from the
New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act, an effort to maintain
artificially high prices of agricultural products by limiting pro-
duction and supply. Under a Department of Agriculture direc-
tive establishing production quotas, Roscoe Filburn, a farmer
in southern Ohio, was given a wheat acreage allotment of 11.1
acres. When it was discovered that he planted and harvested
wheat on 23 acres, nearly 12 acres over his allotment, Filburn
was ordered to destroy the excess crop and pay a fine for ex-
ceeding his quota. Filburn sued in U.S. District Court, naming
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard as the principal de-
fendant. The district court issued a permanent injunction against
Wickard, and the U.S. government appealed the ruling to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Filburn’s suit contended that the wheat grown on the extra
acreage was used to feed livestock on his own farm and thus
never entered interstate commerce. The penalty assessed against
him, therefore, was a penalty on the production, not on the inter-
state sale of the wheat, and thus exceeded the regulatory power
of Congress under the Constitution. But in the opinion of the
Supreme Court, Filburn, by growing the additional wheat and
consuming it on his own farm, was “affecting” prices in the
interstate market.
“But if we assume that (the wheat) is never marketed, it sup-
plies a need of the man who grew it which would otherwise
be reflected by purchases in the open market,” wrote Justice
Robert Jackson, a Roosevelt appointee. “Home grown wheat
in this sense competes with wheat in commerce.” In language
that brings to mind the nearly $800 billion “economic stimulus”
bill passed by Congress early this year, Justice Jackson wrote:
“The stimulation of commerce is a use of the regulatory func-
tion quite as definitely as prohibitions or restrictions thereon.
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This record leaves no doubt that Congress may properly have
considered wheat consumed on the farm where grown, if wholly
outside the scheme of regulation, would have a substantial effect
defeating and obstructing its purpose to stimulate trade therein
at increased prices.”
In his 1960 bestseller The Conscience of a Conservative, U.S.
Senator Barry M. Goldwater wrote that the Wickard ruling left
the government’s regulatory powers under the commerce clause
as “wide as the world,” since virtually any activity may be said
to have “a substantial effect” on interstate commerce. It is worth
remembering that the wording in the Constitution gives Con-
gress the power to regulate “commerce,” not anything that might
affect commerce.
In Katzenbach v. McClung, one of the Supreme Court rul-
ings cited in Pelosi’s “Mythbuster” press release, the High Court
held unanimously that racial discrimination in restaurants posed
significant burdens on “the interstate flow of food and upon the
movement of products generally.” One may find segregation in
restaurants and other public accommodations morally repugnant
and still wonder how it affects the “interstate flow of food” and
other products.
Under Speaker Pelosi’s reasoning, we may
be hard pressed to posit any commodity that
Congress may not require citizens to purchase.
Political justification: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims that
the interstate commerce clause gives Congress the right to control
healthcare, but for that to be true, the interstate commerce clause
must apply to every transaction made in the USA.
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Conscience on the Court
More recently, the Rehnquist Court found some assertions by
Congress of its regulatory power to be unconstitutional. In a
1995 case, United States v. Lopez, the High Court held that Con-
gress exceeded its authority by passing a law forbidding the
possession of a firearm in an area designated as a school zone.
Lawyers for the government argued both that guns contribute
to violent crime, which has a harmful effect on interstate com-
merce, and that guns in a school zone pose a threat to the learn-
ing environment, resulting in a less productive citizenry. Writing
the opinion of the court in the 5-4 decision, Chief Justice Wil-
liam Rehnquist observed that under the government’s reasoning:
Congress could regulate not only all violent crime, but all
activities that might lead to violent crime, regardless of
how tenuously they relate to interstate commerce.... Under
the theories that the Government presents in support of (the
Act), it is difficult to perceive any limitation on federal
power, even in areas such as criminal law enforcement or
education where States historically have been sovereign.
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.
Indeed, under Speaker Pelosi’s reasoning, we may be hard
pressed to posit any commodity that Congress may not require
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-
ers” program to turn in our old cars and
buy new ones? Why not simply pass a law
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
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role for the federal government. The same
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has been said of the power given Con-

gress in Article I, Section 8 to “pro-
Obamacare and the
vide for the common Defense and
general Welfare of the United States”
and the power to “make all Laws that
Demise of Federalism
shall be necessary and proper for The Constitution and the 10th Amendment
carrying into Execution the forego-
ing, and all other Powers vested by delineate the responsibilities and limitations of
this Constitution in the Government the federal government. Where do we stand?
of the United States, or in any De-
partment or Officer thereof.” But
those general phrases sum up and
reference specific powers “vested by
this Constitution in the Government,”
not whatever powers the President or
Congress may divine or devise at any
given time. Otherwise, there would
have been no point in enumerating
and delegating those powers of the
federal government, which, Madison
insisted, are “few and defined.”
Madison, known as the “Father of
the Constitution” for the leading role
he played in the writing and passage
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of the document, said of the general

Welfare clause: “If Congress can do
whatever in their discretion can be
done by money and will promote the
General Welfare, the Government is
no longer a limited one, possessing
enumerated powers, but an indefinite
one, subject to particular exceptions.”
In his first term as President (1801-
1805), Jefferson warned that “our
peculiar security is in the possession
of a written Constitution. Let us not
make it a blank paper by Construc-
tion.” Yet those whom we have el-
evated to high office have made and
continue to make it “a blank paper
by construction,” speaking and act-
ing as though, with a few “particular
exceptions,” the Constitution they
have sworn to uphold consists of but
a single sentence of their own imag-
ining: “Congress shall have Power
to do Whatever seemeth Good to the
Congress to do.”
No doubt to Speaker Pelosi, Sen-
ate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and
a majority of their colleagues, that
sounds about right. n
No worries: To try to show overwhelming support for his version of healthcare
reform, President Obama invited doctors to the Rose Garden for a speech. But
even if Obama had the support of a majority of doctors and constituents — or
even all doctors and constituents — his plan has no legal basis.
by Joe Wolverton II, J.D.
B y the time of the founding, the definition of federalism was
already so firmly settled and so deeply imbedded in the Ameri-
can understanding of good government that James Madison, in
his defense of the proposed constitution, felt it necessary to assuage
worries of some Americans that the state would surrender sovereignty
under the new federal system. “Each State, in ratifying the Constitu-
tion, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and
only to be bound by its own voluntary act,” he wrote in The Federalist,
No. 39.
If one values the written words of the framers of our Constitution,
then, he believes that there are few principles of good government
as inviolable and fundamental to the preservation and protection of
republican government as that of federalism. In the United States this
division is additionally enhanced by the fact that the states are not
mere confederate subordinates to the central authority. They are his-
torically, perpetually, and unalterably self-governing and empowered
specifically to promulgate and execute laws according to their own
wisdom and volition. It is no exaggeration to say that federalism is the

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Under Obamacare, really just a catch-all term for the versions of
healthcare reform that Democrats are floating as of now, states would be
forced to cover 30 to 50 percent more people under Medicaid. Tennessee
Governor Phil Bredesen estimates the cost to his state at over $3 billion.
sine qua non of the stability and balance that infuse American
liberty with the vitality and flexibility that have made it the envy
and example of freedom to the world for over 200 years.
The uniquely American expression of federalism is crystal-
lized in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: “The powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor pro-
hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.”
And to understand that principle, one must read it in tandem
with Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that delegates to the
Congress its specific powers. When placed side by side as com-
plementary lenses through which all bills and other proposals of
the national government must be viewed, these two sections of
the Constitution clarify whether or not acts of the Congress con-
form to the powers delegated to it by our founding document.
The Obamacratic Oath
In the reasoned evaluation of President Obama’s healthcare
proposals or any other “federal” scheme potentially to be ham-
fistedly foisted onto the states, the first and most important
consideration is that if we are to be governed by the Constitu-
tion as written in 1787 then we must steadfastly adhere to its
four corners, whether it be in the granting or the restricting of
power. In the present case, the primary concern must be with the
systematic, bipartisan, and unrepentant disdain and disregard
for that sacred document manifested daily by those elected to
represent us in Congress. We, the people, have the duty to pro-
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tect the states from constant encroachment from Washington,
D.C. Fortunately, there are those state legislatures that are aware
of the assault and are prone to fight back. Heroically, several
states recently have stiffened themselves against the attack from
the national government: Alabama, Tennessee, South Dakota,
North Dakota, and Louisiana, for example. Specifically, Ala-
bama’s legislature has passed legislation declaring that it will
not enforce any federal scheme to foist upon the states a “cap
and trade” global-warming tax. Additionally, Arizona, Florida,
and Texas are among the states safeguarding their sovereignty
by informing Congress that categorically and without exception
they will refuse to implement any federal healthcare scheme.
The New Deal, the Great Society, and the War on Poverty
were all euphemisms for the planned and purposeful demolition
of the barricades erected by our Founders for the defense of the
constitutional boundaries of state sovereignty. The healthcare
“crisis” and the “necessary” reforms proposed to address it are
but the latest attempt to weaken the states and make them depen-
dent on the largesse of the national government. The members
of the band may change, but the tune remains the same. There
are some groups and individuals, however, that have recognized
this power play and have called attention to it.
Gutting State Authority
The Heritage Foundation, in a Fact Sheet released October 16,
2009, identified several ways in which “Obamacare” and all
its attendant dictates, requirements, and regimes will burden
states to the point of absolute and irretrievable annihilation of
the critical bright-line borders of the distinct spheres of state
and national influence and jurisdiction. The report specifically
cataloged three broad arenas of attack on the principles of fed-
eralism: “More Medicaid”; “Gutting State Authority”; and “A
Better Approach to Health Care Reform.” Under each of these
large points are smaller, related subheadings all chronicling the
dismantling of their constitutional prerogative to govern their
citizens according to their will as manifested by the republican
election of representatives.
Every bill under the noxious rubric of “Obamacare” would
oblige the states to encompass a greater percentage (ranging
from an additional 30 to 50 percent) of their populations within
their respective Medicaid coverage areas. This would overbur-
den 50 systems whose bureaucratic budgets are already strained
in terms of both fiscal and human resources.
With regard to the costs associated with this realignment, the
Heritage Foundation’s analysis reports that all additional fund-
ing needed to sustain a nationalized healthcare system would
come from state coffers, regardless of hollow promises of reim-
bursement and economic incentives and stimuli made by Presi-
dent Obama and leaders in Congress. In fact, Governor Phil
Bredesen of Tennessee worries that the cost to his state alone
would top $3 billion!
Furthermore, apart from forcing states to enroll and treat
thousands of additional Medicaid recipients, the bills now under
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consideration by Congress would impede the states by restrict-
ing their power to administer and regulate their own schemes.
Without exception, all of the currently proposed healthcare
“fixes” disregard our Constitution’s explicit federal scheme of
separated and sovereign powers, and they improvidently rele-
gate the statehouses to the role of mere far-flung outposts of the
centralized national government. This is precisely the arrange-
ment our Founding Fathers sought to obviate in their framing
of our Constitution.
These unconstitutional healthcare bills would empower the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to enact and execute
rules and regulations to be followed by local administrators. The
White House and the Congress would sponsor this usurpation,
and given that support, it seems unlikely any state would be
powerful enough to resist. This sort of centrifugal assumption
of power will put another bullet in the gun the national govern-
ment has aimed right at the heart of federalism and the Tenth
Amendment. If one shot misses the mark, there’s always another
in the chamber.
In what is perhaps the ultimate act of disrespect, the enactment
of any of the proposed bills would put the states in their place
and serve as a resounding estimation of the states’ ability to de-
velop and institute their own solutions to problems of uninsured
citizens (assuming they even accept the premise). States will be
commanded and reprimanded as a child by a stern nanny. There
will be no accommodations allowed for the unique political and
social differences that exist from one state to the next. Congress
will insist that one size fits all, and if it happens not to, then his-
tory indicates that without delay or precision it will amputate any
part of the local body politic not covered by the federal blanket.
These unconstitutional healthcare bills would
empower the Secretary of Health and Human Services
to enact and execute rules and regulations to be
followed by local administrators.
above, it is up to the citizens of the several states as manifested
through their elected representatives to decide whether or not
there is a healthcare challenge. That is to say, a healthcare crisis
in New York or California should not be transformed through
some sort of socialist alchemy into a crisis in Texas or Maine.
The states do not need to be permitted by the national govern-
ment to address or ignore any situation that falls outside of the
explicitly and narrowly defined realm of national interests. Fur-
thermore, each state has its own healthcare program that must
pass state-constitutional muster.
The second solution proposed by the Heritage Foundation
suffers from the same malady as the first. In this point, the au-
thor of the report suggests that the federal government allow
the states “greater flexibility” in the management of healthcare
programs such as Medicaid. As stated above, first, the national
government is nowhere authorized by the Constitution to create
a healthcare system, neither for the states nor for the country as
a whole. Second, the state governments do not need permission
or “flexibility” granted to them by the national government in
order to handle their own local affairs. The Tenth Amendment is
clear, and when read together with Article I, it is clear that this
proposal is a solution to a problem that does not legally exist.

A Better Approach to Healthcare Reform

In addressing the foregoing issues, the Heritage
Foundation proffers three solutions to the problem
of the national government’s destruction of states’
sovereignty through the implementation of a national
healthcare scheme.
First, they suggest that the national government
“embrace the principles of federalism and allow states
to develop innovative ways to address their unique
challenges to health care reform.” There are several
red flags in that statement. To start off with, the na-
tional government is not constitutionally placed in a
position to “allow” the states to do anything or forbid
them from it. The states are sovereign and with the
exception of a few enumerated areas of national ju-
risdiction, the federal government is not empowered
to meddle in state or local affairs. Second, as stated

Czarina: Under proposed healthcare plans, the Secretary of

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Health and Human Relations, presently Kathleen Sebelius,

would be empowered to enact healthcare rules and
regulations.

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As the plan of the convention aims only at a partial
union or consolidation, the State governments would
clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which
they before had, and which were not, by that act,
exclusively delegated to the United States.
— Alexander Hamilton
The final piece of advice offered by the Heritage Founda-
tion in its report is to “reform Medicaid.” The only reformation
valid according to the Constitution is the complete dismantling
of any federal mandates regarding healthcare for citizens of the
states. If one or more of the individual states decide to address
healthcare issues of its citizens, then the debate will center on
the legitimacy of such a plan according to the respective state
constitution. There is no delegation of authority in such an arena
to the federal government in the Constitution, and that is the
standard, finally, by which all such proposals must be measured.
All of these offers of compromise must be put away, and consti-
tutionalists must remember that arguments over a “public option”
or any other such considerations are but misdirection by profes-
sional magicians determined to make our constitutional republic
disappear. We must not allow ourselves to be distracted by these
red herrings. The only salient issue in this debate is whether or
not the national government is empowered to create a healthcare
system. To put a finer point on it, we will either steadfastly guard
the metes and bounds of the Constitution or we will continue
to dance a jig of compromise and complacency to a tune being
played by those who, for their own narrow self-interest and the
equally repugnant interest of globalism, prefer to see the Constitu-
tion once and for all disposed of on the rubbish heap of history.
The Alternative
If Americans and the several states do not oppose this unpar-
alleled assumption of power and diminution of states’ rights,
then we will become, as Alexis de Tocqueville warned, mere
“minions of an omnipotent government.” This is not the federal
system established by our Founding Fathers. Those men were
wise and well schooled in the lessons of history specifically
in the rise and fall of so many republics, and they sought to
inoculate our new experiment from contracting the fatal disease
of too weak or too strong a national government by wisely di-
viding political power between the central government and the
state governments. In the words of Alexander Hamilton in The
Federalist, No. 32:
I affirm that (with the sole exception of duties on imports
and exports) they [the states] would, under the plan of the
convention, retain that authority in the most absolute and
unqualified sense; and that an attempt on the part of the
28
Alexander
Hamilton
national government to abridge them in the exercise of it,
would be a violent assumption of power, unwarranted by
any article or clause of its Constitution. An entire consoli-
dation of the States into one complete national sovereignty
would imply an entire subordination of the parts; and what-
ever powers might remain in them, would be altogether
dependent on the general will. But as the plan of the con-
vention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the
State governments would clearly retain all the rights of
sovereignty which they before had, and which were not,
by that act, exclusively delegated to the United States.
The entirety of this letter written by Hamilton in defense of the
Constitution is a condemnation of the attempts being made pres-
ently to subordinate the states to the will of the national govern-
ment. This time the vehicle carrying the banner of consolidation
is healthcare reform, but it is the same strategy that has been in
place since the New Deal.
This article is meant to re-illuminate a part of the Constitu-
tion that is growing darker and darker under the imposing and
ever-lengthening penumbra of the national government. The
time has come for We, the people, to reassert our sovereignty
in this mighty republic and ride to its defense armed with the
double-edged sword of the sacred Constitution in our hands. We
need to cut through all the superfluous flank debates designed to
distract us from the frontal charge on our liberties. One edge of
the sword is Article I that enumerates congressional power, and
we will use this weapon to disarm the legislative power grab;
the other edge of the sword is the Tenth Amendment, which we
will use in defense of the inviolable rights of states to handle
all matters of government that are not specifically granted to
Congress by Article I. n
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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?

by Patrick Krey conservatives

also have a
Race & Liberty in America: The Essen- lot in common
tial Reader, edited by Jonathan Bean, Lex- with classical
ington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky, liberals. Bean ex-
2009, 331 pages, paperback. plains that the book
is an effort to draw

F
or far too long, those who op-
pose big-government solutions
to racism have been slandered as
racists. Though this slander is entirely
inaccurate, it has been effective in si-
lencing dissent on the subject of race
and government. So when it comes to the
average history books that deal with the
controversial subject in America, readers
are typically led to believe that the only
voices interested in combating govern-
ment-sponsored racism were liberals or
progressives and their even bigger gov-
ernment solutions. Not so, says Jonathan
Bean, Research Fellow at the Indepen-
dent Institute and professor of history at
Southern Illinois University.
In Race & Liberty in America: The Es-
sential Reader, Bean argues that it was
classical liberals who were at the forefront
of fighting for equal rights for America’s
oppressed minorities, and he backs it up
by featuring some very compelling writ-
ings and speeches from prominent histori-
cal figures.
An Intellectual Journey
So, what is a classical liberal? Bean
writes, “Classical liberals espoused val-
ues shared by many other Americans:
‘unalienable rights from God,’ individual
freedom from government control, the
Constitution as a guarantor of freedom,
color-blind law, and capitalism.” Many
modern-day libertarians and traditional
attention to “the invis-
ible men and women
of the long civil rights
movement” who “rejected
government meddling in
race relations.”
Bean takes the reader on a
historical journey from the time
of our nation’s founding period up
to present day by exploring origi-
nal writings from important liberty-
minded individuals. By writing a brief
introduction to each document, Bean
explains the historical setting as well as
where the piece fits within the overall con-
text of the book.
The featured writings also delve into
America’s foreign policy. Such writings
are incredibly timely considering mod-
ern U.S. foreign policy. William Graham
Sumner, a leading advocate of laissez-faire
economics and fervent opponent of social-
ism, warned Americans to avoid Empire-
building in 1899 after our war with Spain.
His writings could very well speak to what
the Obama administration is currently
doing in Afghanistan and the greater Is-
lamic world:
We assume that what we like and
practice, and what we think better
must come as a welcome blessing to
Spanish-Americans and Philippinos.
This is grossly and obviously untrue.
They hate our ways. They are hostile
to our ideas. Our
religion, language, in-
stitutions and manners offend
them. They like their own ways,
and if we appear amongst them as
rulers, then there will be social dis-
cord.… The reason why liberty, of
which Americans talk so much, is
a good thing, is that it means leav-
ing people to live out their own lives
in their own ways, while we do the
same…. I submit that it is a strange
incongruity to utter grand platitudes
about the blessings of liberty, etc.,
etc. which we are going to impart to
these people, and to begin by refus-
ing to extend the Constitution over
them, and still more, by throwing
the Constitution into the gutter here
at home. If you take away the Con-
stitution, what is American liberty
and all the rest? Nothing but a lot
of phrases.

www.TheNewAmerican.com 31
 Book Review
Laissez Faire as a Solution to Racism
Race & Liberty also includes inspiring
writings from prominent black figures
throughout history who touted effective
methods to combat racism that didn’t re-
quire the accumulation of more power in
the state. These giants among men advo-
cated a two-pronged approach involving
self-help and a color-blind application of
the law. Men like Frederick Douglas and
Booker T. Washington “promoted the no-
tion that markets were color-blind and
capitalism was their best hope.”
Race & Liberty directly attacks the ar-
gument that capitalism is inherently racist.
Highlighting how businesses opposed state-
mandated segregation policies on economic
grounds, Bean features a letter from the
owner of a streetcar company to a local mu-
nicipality complaining that their racial seg-
regation laws were bad for business because
it resulted in them having disproportion-
ately filled street cars, increased wait times,
and congestion. Indeed, Bean argues that
the free market often worked in the favor
of blacks. To back up his contention, Bean
includes writings and interviews with S.B.
Fuller, a self-made African-American entre-
preneur, who explained that discrimination
is a universal trait not expressly limited to
white people, but that it is forgotten when
it becomes unprofitable. Fuller’s advice to
minorities seeking equal rights was through
achieving economic independence: “If he
wants integration, he must hire white people
just as he wants white people to hire him.”
Race & Liberty also passionately makes
the case that big-government “solutions”
to racism such as mandated quotas like
affirmative action and urban renewal are
not only contrary to the classical liberal
principles of color-blind law and limited
government, but also detrimental toward
truly helping minorities. Again, Bean uti-
lizes writings and speeches from African-
American intellectuals who go against the
grain. Black economist Walter Williams is
quoted as saying that “the immorality of
numbers-based privileges and benefits is
readily realized when we recognize that
government cannot give a special advan-
tage to one person without simultaneously
giving a special disadvantage to another.”
Another quote, from Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, cuts right
through the heart of the diversity-at-all-
costs goal of affirmative action:
32
The Law School is not looking for to migration while dismissing opposing
those students who, despite a lower viewpoints as immigration-restrictionist
LSAT score or undergraduate grade and/or nativist. While such notions sound
point average, will succeed in the good on paper or worked when govern-
study of law. The Law School seeks ment was much smaller, current events in
only a façade — it is sufficient that both America and Western Europe show the
the class looks right, even if it does perils of open borders combined with mas-
not perform right. sive government entitlement programs and
group-identity politics. An open-borders ar-
Two Faults: Centralizing gument made sense in the late 1800s when
“Constitutionalism” and Open Borders America was truly the land of opportunity,
The only two areas where this reviewer but today such a position will only acceler-
could find fault with the book are its ques- ate America’s decline. Today’s immigrants
tionable constitutionalism and its pro-im- flooding into our nation consistently advo-
migration stance. In the book’s defense, cate for more government intervention at
Bean does acknowledge the opposing both the federal and state level.
viewpoints on these issues and defends his
decision to include the perspectives he did. Ahead of Their Time
In the first area, the book includes writ- Overall, Race & Liberty is an enlightening
ings of Lysander Spooner, who dabbled in read that will leave the reader feeling both
some dubious constitutional arguments, inspired and optimistic about the future.
which coincidentally made whatever he Many of today’s proponents of individual
liked constitutional and whatever he dis- rights and freedom find themselves scorned
liked unconstitutional. Spooner, while a and mocked as fringe fanatics by “main-
brilliant mind and staunch advocate for stream” voices. The writers featured in this
liberty, incorrectly argued that the Con- book faced similar ridicule in their time for
stitution itself prohibited slavery years stating opinions not favored by the politi-
before the ratification of the 13th Amend- cal elite, but now are widely recognized as
ment. Such a conclusion would surely enlightened visionaries. If those who are so
have been a shock to both the drafters and active in today’s freedom movement con-
ratifiers of the Founding period. Spooner, tinue to passionately advocate for liberty,
along with other great minds, espoused perhaps they will also someday be remem-
the libertarian interpretation of a living, bered as being ahead of their time. n
breathing Constitution, which ignores any
originalist constitutional understanding.
It also rests on the dangerous no-
tion that the central gov-
ernment has much
more power than
what was authorized
at the ratification. As
history has borne out,
empowering the federal
government with more
power than it constitution-
ally has is detrimental to
individual freedom over the
long term. Instead, the book
could have explored the writ-
ings of constitutionalists who
used proper means to resist and
fight slavery. For starters, many
antislavery states nullified the
Fugitive Slave Act that compelled
the return of runaway slaves.
Secondly, the book repeatedly trumpets
the classical liberal belief in a natural right
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Hope Restored
When Michelle Lewis ran out of gas on
October 15, it wasn’t a major crisis. She
wasn’t stranded in the middle of nowhere,
and she had a cellphone with which to call
someone for help. However, she had had a
“rough couple of weeks” and this was just
the icing on the cake.
While she was on her phone trying to
locate a friend who could come and help
her, a man pulled up behind her and of-
fered to help. She accepted his assistance
to push the car off the road into a parking
lot, but told him that was all she needed
as she had a friend who could bring her
some gas. She sincerely thanked him and
he went on his way.
Shortly thereafter, as she was waiting
for her friend, the man once again pulled
up behind her — this time with a gas can.
He emptied the gas into her tank, told her
to keep the gas can, and offered her $20.
With tears of thankfulness, she refused the
cash, expressing her gratitude for what
the stranger had already done for her. He
insisted, though, pushed the $20 up her
sleeve, and drove off.
In a letter in the October 24, 2009 To-
peka Capital-Journal, Lewis was able to
publicly thank her anonymous benefac-
tor. “We are all blessed for having a man
like you in the world,” she wrote. “I don’t
know if he realizes just how much I need-
ed some kindness.... He showed me that
there are wonderful, goodhearted people
and restored my hope for men.”
The Marathon Man
Four countries. Thirty cities. More than
60,000 miles. Almost 50 different flights.
Around the world — from Chicago to Chi-
cago — in just 30 days. It was a whirl-
wind flying marathon for 39-year-old
Greg Krause, as he trotted the globe from
September 8 through October 8 to raise
awareness and funds for a mission school
for orphans in Zambia.
The Macha Innovative Community
School, started by Krause’s parents four
years ago, houses and educates 75 or-
phaned and abandoned children. It is
completely supported by donations, and
does not take any government handouts.
www.TheNewAmerican.com
THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA
Thoroughly dedicated to this worthy
cause, Greg has been involved for years
with creative fundraising from his home in
the United States while attending medical
school. In 2008, he auctioned himself off
to run the New York Marathon in “adver-
tising” pajamas; California-based Green
Pharmaceuticals, maker of SnoreStop,
placed the winning bid of $9,000, all of
which went directly to the school.
After graduating this year, Krause was
looking for a new way to help before be-
ginning his family-practice residency. “I
was just looking for something different,
something no one else has done before,”
he told MSNBC in September. That’s
when JetBlue’s “All You Can Jet Pass”
caught his eye.
The pass was the airline’s promotion-
al offer of 30 days of unlimited flights
for $599. Orphan’s Promise, part of the
Christian Broadcasting Network, offered
to sponsor Krause on his jet-setting mis-
sion, and Greg was off and flying. He did
all the work on his own, frequently able
to spend only a few hours at each desti-
nation, walking the streets and handing
out informational flyers, explaining the
mission, and pointing people to his blog,
http://30daysonjetblue.com/, or to the Or-
phan’s Promise website, http://my.cbn.
com/gregsgreatrace, if they wished to get
involved.
Krause returned from his exhausting
30-day tour on October 8, ready for a long
rest ... right? Wrong! He continued his
fundraising efforts by running the Chica-
go Marathon for donations just three days
later. As of October 29, the total raised by
the Chicago race and world tour stood at
a little over $13,000. Not bad, Marathon
Man!
Good People Are Out There
Wilma Black, of Marianna, Florida, had
been shopping at a local grocery store on
October 23 when she inadvertently left her
purse in the grocery cart. She didn’t real-
ize she had done so until she was com-
pletely across town. She rushed back to the
store, hoping but not really believing that
her purse would still be there.
What little hope she had rapidly dwin-
dled as she looked in the cart-holding
area and questioned all the employees she
could find. The purse contained personal
items, two checkbooks, credit cards,
Black’s driver’s license — and almost
$400 in cash. When she had exhausted
her investigative capabilities, she went
to the local police department to report
the loss.
After explaining the incident, Black
could barely believe her ears when the
police receptionist informed her that a
woman had just turned in the purse a
few minutes earlier. Black checked the
contents, and everything was there; noth-
ing had been taken. Though Black would
have been happy to reward the finder, the
woman who turned in the bag obviously
had no such expectations, as she refused
to leave her name. It just goes to show
that people are still willing to do the right
thing, simply for the sake of doing the
right thing. “What a blessing,” Black told
the Jackson County Times for October 25.
“It is wonderful to know good people are
out there.”
Disqualified?
While running in a cross-country race in
early October, 17-year-old Dominique
Lincoln collapsed due to dehydration.
With less than a mile to go, most of the
runners raced past her toward the finish
line. However, when competitor Helena
Page saw Lincoln fall, she raced to help.
The Philadelphia Daily News reported
on October 21 that Page, a high-school
senior already licensed as an EMT and
training to be a firefighter, quickly evalu-
ated Lincoln’s condition. She then elevat-
ed her feet, protected her from the cold,
and constantly questioned her to keep her
conscious as much as possible until help
arrived.
Page doesn’t believe her actions were
extraordinary or heroic. “I didn’t think it
was a big deal. I saw her in distress and I
wanted to help. I was trained to do this,”
she told the Daily News. Although Page
was disqualified for not finishing the race,
Lincoln and others present that day insist
she was qualified — as a hero. n
— Liana Stanley
35
 HISTORY— Past and Perspective

Faith in the Face of Poor Wayfaring Strangers

The congregation of pious Christians
known to history as Pilgrims was in

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

Although the Pilgrims found a wel-

The Pilgrims, the Indians, and the Truth
About the First Thanksgiving
by Joe Wolverton II, J.D. orienting swirl of attacks on our faith, our
families, and our country. While there is
coming harbor in Holland, it proved to be
a brief respite, as political situations al-
tered as crucial peace treaties with Spain
and France expired, leaving Holland po-
litically unallied and therefore exposed
to the avarice of other less-progressive
states. As the climate in Holland became

B
etsy Ross didn’t sew the first flag.
Jesus wasn’t really born on Decem-
ber 25. Columbus didn’t discover
America. We hear these statements all
the time, for we live in an era where the
foundational stories that define our na-
tional identity and bind us together as a
people are being constantly deconstructed.
We are told that the heroic stories of the
founding of Christianity and the founding
of our great republic are mere myths, fac-
tually inaccurate, and no more important
or meaningful than the fanciful fairy tales
told to amuse children.
We live in a skeptical age. Even the
most optimistic and far-sighted among us
must at times trudge blindly through a dis-
no sure tonic to ease the nauseous vertigo
that often accompanies this struggle, there
is a salve to be found in the tales we have
been taught and in the truth and moral en-
richment to be found therein. Whether for
our own retrenchment or for that of our
children, we can, we must, turn again to
the record of our noble and brave ances-
tors to remind ourselves of the otherwise
insurmountable odds they overcame to
bequeath us with such a rich legacy of lib-
erty. One of the most impressive stories
from our history is that of the small band
of brethren who fled their homes seeking
a place where they could worship freely.
This courageous congregation is known as
the Pilgrims.
decreasingly hospitable, the Pilgrims
met to formulate a new plan and consider
the options open to them. It was decided
that, despite the possible implications,
they would return to England, and they
immediately set about acquiring inves-
tors to fund their ultimate journey: to
America. The Pilgrim pastors believed
unwaveringly that God’s will was mani-
fest in their wanderings and privations,
just as it had been with the Children of
Israel in Egypt. After 40 years, the Isra-
elites crossed over the Jordan and entered
into the Holy Land, a land promised to
them by their God and his prophets. Like
the chosen people of the Old Testament,
the Pilgrims had faith that they would be

36 THE NEW AMERICAN  •  November 23, 2009

led to a land of milk and honey on the
western shore of their own River Jordan
— the Atlantic Ocean.
Plymouth Rock
The Pilgrims passed through trials of tur-
bulent seas, uncharted courses, scurvy, and
vile sickness that decimated their already
small community, as well as intrigue, trea-
son, and treachery. As a reward God de-
livered His faithful flock to the promised
land, a land where they would at last be
absolutely free from religious persecution
and would live under laws framed and ex-
ecuted fairly and justly.
Upon reaching the shores of their new
home, the Pilgrims dropped to their knees
with an outpouring of gratitude toward
the Almighty. Rising from their knees, the
Pilgrims would have noticed an enormous
rock. Yes, Plymouth Rock. We’ll never
know whether or not any of our Pilgrim
Fathers stepped foot on it or climbed over
it before going farther inland. What is
known is that this small band of believ-
ers, bound together by sacred covenant
and civil compact, overcame insuperable
odds that would scuttle most other, less
devout and determined settlers. These Pil-
grims, for so they were, were a stout albeit
peripatetic lot that had nowhere left to go
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and therefore carved, liter-
ally, a new home, a New The Pilgrims passed through trials of
England, for themselves.
Separated by thousands of turbulent seas, uncharted courses, scurvy,
miles from the religious in- and vile sickness that decimated their
tolerance and oppression of
King James, these Separat- already small community, as well as intrigue,
ists were now free to wor- treason, and treachery.
ship as they chose. The Pil-
grims, looking up at a rock
that history would call Plymouth Rock in half of the passengers on board the May-
their honor, recalled that their Lord com- flower were not Pilgrims). Before leav-
manded them to build upon such a strong ing Holland, one of the Pilgrims’ pastors
immovable foundation, and thus they were who was to stay behind and prepare the
wanderers no more. second wave of travelers, John Robinson,
instructed his followers to form a secular
Mayflower Compact civil government, so to begin the colony in
Before being allowed to debark, the lead- the manner in which they intended to go
ers of the Pilgrim colony required all male on, that is to say, in an orderly and tolerant
members to enter into an agreement set- fashion. As he rightly reckoned, making
ting out the metes and bounds of rights a secular compact with the nonbelievers
and responsibilities in the new world. Nor- demonstrated good faith and sound reason
mally, these sorts of issues would be pre- on the part of those whom many believe
determined within the patent granted by to be overzealous religious reactionaries.
the crown. In the Pilgrims’ case, however, The document signed by 41 of the 50
they had dropped anchor in a land outside male adults on board the Mayflower (the
the region assigned them in the patent. other nine were either too ill or were
They were essentially operating outside headed straight back to England) has been
of the law, so they needed new guidelines described as an example of “crystalline
to direct both the Pilgrims and the others brevity.” The text is worthy of repetition
who accompanied them to America (over in its entirety.
The Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock
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37
HISTORY— Past and Perspective
tan pragmatism. These men indeed, but the soil was strange and suc-
and women, faced with a cessful horticulture was a conundrum.
It is true, as we all remember from lessons silent coast with nothing Enter the Indians.
that were once taught in school, that the to anticipate but hardship It is true, as we all remember from
and fresh despair, bound lessons that were once taught in school,
Pilgrims and the Indians sat down together themselves together into that the Pilgrims and the Indians sat
and partook of the fruits of their labors, a community of far-flung down together and partook of the fruits
Englishmen committed to of their labors, ate turkey and venison,
ate turkey and venison, and benefited from prospering and preserving and benefited from mutual instruction
mutual instruction and genuine fellowship. their natural-born right of and genuine fellowship. This assembly
self-determination. was remarkable for many reasons; chief
among them, perhaps, was the sensation-
We whose names are underwrit- The First Thanksgiving al account of Indian atrocities told to the
ten, the loyal subjects of our dread Now for the part of the story familiar to Pilgrims while they tarried in Holland.
sovereign Lord, King James, by second graders with paper belted hats The Indians, they were told, “delight to
the grace of God, of Great Britain, and multi-colored feather headbands and torment men in the most bloody manner
France and Ireland king, defender of all those who have attended the annual that may be; flaying some alive with the
the faith, ect., having undertaken, for plays acted out in gyms and cultural halls shells of fishes, cutting off the members
the Glory of God and advancement throughout the country. The Pilgrims had and joints of others by piecemeal and
of the Christian Faith and Honour much to be thankful for and they knew broiling on the coals.” With this image
of our King and Country, a Voy- it. The steadying Hand of Providence led seared into the front of their minds, as
age to plant the First Colony in the them safely across the ocean, and they had soon as they arrived in America the Pil-
Northern Parts of Virginia, do by been blessed with strength to build hous- grims were quick to erect barricades and
these presents solemnly and mutu- es and common buildings (the first was post sentries to protect them from the
ally in the presence of God and one erected on Christmas Day, 1620). Next, natives they believed to be bloodthirsty
of another, Covenant and Combine they had to plant crops so that they might savages.
ourselves together into a Civil Body fulfill the measure of their divine commis- In truth, in the beginning the Pilgrims
Politic, for our better ordering and sion and perpetuate their colony here in and Indians did clash, sometimes vio-
preservation and furtherance of the the New Canaan. This forested land with lently. The fault, however, was never one-
ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof abundant flora and fauna was promised, sided and the peace was always quickly re-
to enact, constitute and
frame such just and equal
Signing of the Mayflower Compact
Laws, Ordinances, Acts,
Constitutions and Offices,
from time to time, as shall
be thought most meet and
convenient for the general
good of the Colony, unto
which we promise all due
submission and obedience.
In witness whereof we
have hereunder subscribed
our names at Cape Cod,
the 11th of November, in
the year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord King
James, of England, France
and Ireland the eighteenth,
and of Scotland the fifty-
fourth. Anno Domini 1620.

Although in many ways

unremarkable and certainly
Library of Congress

not revolutionary, this brief

contract is one of our repub-
lic’s foundational documents
and was an example of Puri-

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The first Thanksgiving
stored. By the time of the harvest of 1620,
several peaceful months had passed since
the Pilgrims had any scrapes with the na-
tive inhabitants of the land, and they were
feeling safe and secure and had redirected
their minds and efforts toward harvesting
their crops and building all the necessary
infrastructure to support the thriving colo-
ny they designed and were determined to
establish.
It was in this atmosphere of progress,
peace, and planned prosperity that made
possible one of the momentous greet-
ings in American history. One Friday
afternoon, a Pokanoket Indian calling
himself Samoset walked up to a Pilgrim
and announced, “Welcome, Englishmen!”
Hardly the senseless savagery described
in such vivid, gory detail by teachers in
Dutch schools. As a matter of fact, the In-
dians genuinely welcomed the newcomers
and demonstrated their goodwill by teach-
ing the eager though ignorant European
farmers a little something about American
­agriculture.
Samoset taught the Pilgrims that be-
cause of the unique chemical composi-
tion of the local Massachusetts soil, it
was essential that the ground be fertil-
ized to balance the soil and make it more
nourishing to the corn and other crops
planted by the Pilgrims. The fertilizer
preferred by the Indians after years of
experimenting was dead herring. The Pil-
grims trusted the advice of Samoset, and
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the autumn of 1620 saw a bumper crop of
corn, squash, beans, barley, and peas. It
was a harvest worthy of giving thanks —
thanks to God and thanks to the Indians
who shared valuable information.
The precise date was not recorded, but
sometime in late October or early Novem-
ber, about 100 Indians walked into the Pil-
grim settlement (now occupied by several
common buildings and log homes) carry-
ing deer hunted specially for this harvest
feast. The Pilgrims, about 50 in number,
provided turkey (turkey from the New
World was being eaten in England for
about 40 years and was already a staple
of English Christmas dinner), other fowl,
deer, and beer. The meat was cooked on
spits over open fires. The weather that
season was crisp, but not cold, and the
Pilgrims no doubt were fascinated by the
bright fall foliage, a palette of colors not
seen in England because of the perpetual
dampness and lack of sunlight.
The congregation, Indians and Pil-
grims, sat down in small groups on the
ground and around small round tables
and ate their dinner. The scene would not
seem so foreign to us, their descendants,
except for the fact that there were no
forks (not in use in Massachusetts for an-
other 70 years), no cranberry sauce, and
no pumpkin pie. The food that was eaten
was washed down with beer, the beverage
of choice for saint and sinner in England
because of the notoriously contaminated
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water available throughout the country.
Thankfully, the bountiful barley crop in
their new home made brewing easy.
Lessons Our Fathers Learned
As the foregoing demonstrates, there is
much truth in the stories we have been
taught regarding our Pilgrim Fathers and
the First Thanksgiving they celebrated
with the Indians that shared that small
plot of earth with them. The fact that the
Pilgrims succeeded where so many other
erstwhile colonists had failed was due in
large measure to the kindness, generosity,
and trust shown to the Pilgrims by Mas-
sasoit and his small tribe. These men and
women, believed to be savages but proven
to be “very trustworthy, quick with ap-
prehension, ripe witted, and just,” reached
out to their neighbors and extended a hand
of fellowship. So often, this hand was
slapped away by frightened Europeans.
The Pilgrims, themselves frequent vic-
tims of treachery and sabotage, took the
hand of the Indians and shook it. They sat
together, ate together, and grew together.
Even in light of the timely and invalu-
able aid proffered by the Indians, more
than any other consideration it was the
tireless and firm faith of our Pilgrim Fa-
thers that kept them alive and animated
their steadfast resolve to bloom where the
Hand of the Almighty God had planted
them, no matter how rocky, unknown, and
hostile the soil. n
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 “... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
A Baggie for Burglars
KLTV out of East Texas reports that on
October 19 a senior citizen who had been
retired for 23 years sent an alleged burglar
to the emergency room with one shot. The
19-year-old assailant broke in to the se-
nior’s screened-in porch. The homeowner,
who has been burglarized before, says he
is always prepared for such a scenario. He
has every window nailed shut and keeps a
“baggie full of ammo for his 4-10 single-
shot shotgun” nearby.
The 78-year-old homeowner explained
what happened: “Just ... put the gun up to
the window, and he was standing there and
I pulled the trigger…. Everything I worked
hard for all my life ... no one’s just going
to come in here and take it if I can help
it…. I’m sorry that it happened, but he
shouldn’t be trying to break in and trying
to steal other people’s property…. Protect
what’s mine, you know?” Authorities say
the alleged home invader was found across
the street, inside his brother’s car with a
gunshot wound to the left shoulder.
God and Guns
Pastor Ken Pagano gained national media
attention by hosting an open-carry cele-
bration at his New Bethel Church in Lou-
isville, Kentucky, earlier this year. Pagano
told ABCNews.com, “As a Christian pas-
tor I believe that without a deep-seeded be-
lief in God and firearms that this country
would not be here…. I’m not ashamed of
that fact. I’m proud of it…. We’re promot-
ing responsible and safe gun ownership.”
The event raised Pagano’s profile
among both admirers and detractors, but
now the pastor who has spent nearly 30
years in the ministry is resigning to focus
on gun-rights and church-security is-
sues. Pagano told the Washington Times,
“Thirty years was a good, long run, but
it’s time for a change…. If I can write my
own ticket, I want to get involved more in
Second Amendment issues as they affect
the church, and I can do more from outside
the pulpit than from behind it.”
Pagano explains that he was thinking
about moving in this direction long be-
fore he hosted his successful open-carry
event, but the “ripple effect” from all the
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attention led him to meet Rabbi Gary Mos-
kowitz of New York. Rabbi Moskowitz has
spent many years working to protect syna-
gogues from terrorist threats. Pagano and
Moskowitz have now joined together to
form the International Security Coalition
of Clergy, an organization dedicated to
“making the vulnerable less vulnerable.”
Pagano’s beliefs about our nation’s
founding are shared by many in this coun-
try, including actor Chuck Norris. Norris,
in his regular column for World Net Daily,
wrote: “God and guns are what our coun-
try was founded upon. Any new student
of the Revolutionary period quickly learns
that. They are what keep us strong, or what
should keep us strong. They are there for
our defense. God and guns were so impor-
tant to our founders that they established
our protection to exercise them in the first
two amendments to our Constitution —
the uninhibited and unrestricted freedom
to choose our own religion and bear our
own firearms.”
Alert and Armed
The ABC affiliate from Polk County, Flor-
ida, reports that on October 12 a diligent
gun owner aborted an attempted robbery
and even shot one of the shotgun-wielding
attackers. Johnny Preston was in the front
yard of his home getting his van ready for
work when he observed two men driving
by slowly and staring at him. The strange
behavior of the passersby alarmed Pres-
ton, and he immediately retrieved his .38
caliber revolver from inside the van. He
also recorded the license-plate number
of the vehicle. Within moments, Preston
looked up to see two men, wearing t-
shirts over their faces, pointing a shotgun
at him. The would-be robbers demanded
his wallet. Without hesitation, Preston re-
sponded by pushing the barrel of the shot-
gun away with one hand while simultane-
ously firing his handgun with the other.
His shot found its target, hitting the thug
in the torso. Terrified, the injured criminal
ran back to his car and drove to the nearest
hospital where he was treated and arrest-
ed. The other assailant fled on foot, only
to be found a short distance away hiding
under a parked car.
EXERCISING THE RIGHT
Old Sure-shot?
The Columbus Dispatch out of Central
Ohio reports that on October 21 a 70-year-
old woman used her .357 magnum pistol
to stop an armed robber. This took place at
the Continent Inn motel where the armed
criminal barged in on a family staying on
the first floor. The family consisted of the
great-grandmother, her son, and the son’s
wife, daughter, son-in-law, and friend.
The family had kept the door to the room
slightly open so they could keep tabs on
their young friends staying nearby when
the door suddenly flew open around 9 p.m.
The thug burst into the room and waved
a black handgun at them, saying, “Every-
body here knows what the game is.”
The attacker demanded all six people
inside get down on the floor. The robber
would soon regret that decision because
by ordering the great-grandmother to the
floor, he actually put her closer to her
handgun. She reached into her purse on
the floor, pulled out her magnum pistol,
and fired one shot at the robber. The shot
would prove to be fatal. The alleged robber
Wayne Winston, 25, lumbered away, only
to collapse in the parking lot and die.
Winston, a native of St. Louis, had a
criminal record, according to stltoday.
com, and was a parolee wanted on an arrest
warrant. According to Jacqueline Lapine,
a spokeswoman for the Missouri Depart-
ment of Corrections, Winston’s probation
came after a December 2008 arrest for
first-degree tampering with a vehicle after
being released from prison three months
before. Lapine also stated that Winston
served seven years for crimes that “includ-
ed burglary, stealing a firearm and three
counts of stealing a motor vehicle.”
The heroic great-grandmother’s son was
bewildered by her deadly accurate aim. “It’s
a wonder she didn’t shoot us all,” her son
told the news. “She’s the worst shot in the
world…. She said to me, ‘God was with me
tonight. You know I couldn’t have done that
myself.’” The son also told the news that his
mother has a permit to carry a concealed
gun and carries the gun she inherited from
her late husband. When asked by the media
to describe his mother, the son said, “Reli-
gious. She’s always been my hero.” n
— Patrick Krey
41
Having Never Heard of
Global Warming
Item: Honolulu (KHNL), October 25,
2009 — “Protestors staged a worldwide
rally against climate change, and Hawaii
joined in on the call for action to stop
global warming. It’s an effort to literally
draw the line on climate change. Thou-
sands of Hawaii students across the state,
including a group at Stadium Park in Ho-
nolulu, took part in the ‘Blue Line Proj-
ect’ on Saturday. Its purpose is to indicate
the risk of flooding if the sea level rises
one meter. The project also tries to high-
light Hawaii’s and other island nations’
vulnerability to climate change, while
countries negotiate a new international
agreement.”
Item: Aberdeen News columnist Alan
Guebert, October 25, 2009 — “For its
part, the Pentagon, in two reports (one
issued in April, 2007, the other this past every hurricane, dead polar bear, discol- tures fell drastically. Instead of growing
May), calls climate change ‘a threat mul- ored coral reef, or thirsty sequoia tree are grapes, the English were having Ice Fairs
tiplier for instability in some of the world’s all due to humans attempting to live com- on the Thames, and as late as 1814, there
most volatile regions, worsening terrorism fortable and productive lives. Really? was ice some 11 inches thick supporting
and likely dragging the United States into But how about analyzing the global- wagons, tents, and even an elephant. In
conflicts over water and other critical re- warming situation from a fresh perspec- Greenland, once-cultivated fields became
source shortages.’” Guebert continues, tive? Specifically, how would one react if bound by permafrost.
“‘Not only will global warming disrupt he had never even heard of global warm- In America one could walk a frozen
the environment,’ testified Vice Admiral ing, let alone been subjected to many years harbor from Manhattan to Staten Island.
Dennis McGinn, USN (Ret.) to the U.S. of environmental alarmism? Recognizing Even in the South as late as the Civil War,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee July the difficulty of finding such an untainted the Arkansas River at Little Rock would
21, ‘but its effects will shift the world’s observer on our own planet Earth, imag- freeze over for weeks at a time allowing
balance of power and money.’” ine, if you will, a visiting spaceman from both foot and wagon traffic. No one alive
Item: The Canadian Press, October 25, Alpha Centauri. So here we go: today has seen this occur.
2009 — “Thousands of people in cities Mr. Centauri, what would you like to Since then we have observed the av-
across Canada and around the world took know in order to help us analyze our situ- erage global temperature rise about 1oC
part in a global day of action yesterday ation here on Earth? (1.8oF) during the 20th century, setting
to encourage world leaders to help stop First, I need to know if the planet Earth record-high temperatures. Most of this in-
climate change.” The article continues, is warming. crease (0.6oC) occurred before 1940, with
“The events are organized by 350.org, a Well, sir, yes and no. It depends en- the decade of the 1930s being the hottest
group dedicated to reducing the amount tirely on your frame of reference. We’ve recorded in the United States. In 1940, a
of carbon dioxide in air to 350 parts per warmed greatly since our last Ice Age, but sharp decline occurred and scientists —
million. The events kicked off in Australia, that was 12,000 years ago. More recently including many of those now at the fore-
where thousands of people formed a large — about 1,000 years ago — there was front of global-warming alarmism — were
‘350’ number with their bodies in front of a period known as the Medieval Warm warning of a coming Ice Age. In the early
the famous Sydney opera house and dis- Period when wine grapes were commer- ’80s, the temperature again warmed until
played placards with the number on the cially grown in Northern England and 1998, when it peaked.
hotspot Bondi Beach.” the island of Greenland was cultivated By the way, since 1979 temperatures
Correction: Oh, Global Warming, the by Vikings. Unfortunately, this respite have been available from satellite mea-
things that are done in thy name. Every from generally colder weather ended surements with a great degree of accuracy
actual or potential disaster, every drought, about 500 years ago when the tempera- (+/- 0.01oC). They cover the entire lower

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AP Images
A global-warming alarmism group that recently garnered much international press — 350.org
— wants the upper limit for carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to be 350 parts per
million. That’s much less than the approximate 387 parts per million now in the atmosphere.
troposphere over both land and oceans.
Temperature data from thermometers in
populated areas have been found to suffer
from the “urban heat island” effect. (We
Earthlings know it is much hotter standing
in a parking lot rather than a field, and cities
are meteorologically just big parking lots.)
In summary, the Earth has been gener-
ally warming, with intermittent pauses and
regressions, since the mid 1800s.
I see. And what evidence do the “alarm-
ists,” as you call them, have to show that
CO2 is causing the temperature increase?
The only evidence they have is a weak
correlation (correlation strength = 0.43)
between the increase in atmospheric CO2
and the rise in global temperatures. The rest
of their “evidence” consists of 22 computer
models. Most of the persuasion they wield
rests on examples (many fictitious) of the
catastrophic effects that result from global
warming. For example, polar bears are por-
trayed as a starving, threatened species —
usually pictured sitting in a forlorn-looking
pose, floating on a chunk of ice — devas-
tated from hunger brought about by limited
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hunting opportunities that are the result of
thin and reduced Arctic ice, when in reality
polar bear numbers are increasing, and may
in fact be at record levels.
Are the alarmists’ computer models
compelling?
Skeptics of human-caused warming
would first point out that the rapid rise in
CO2 didn’t occur until after 1940, after
most of the increase in global temperature
had occurred. Ironically, in that very year,
the temperature began to decline rapidly.
Second, we note that the Intergovern-
mental Panel on Climate Change uses 22
different computer models in what seems
to be a way to always have one that is cor-
rect. (If the science is settled, shouldn’t
there be only one computer model?) Out of
the 22, none of these models predicted the
decrease that has taken place over the last
decade in the Earth’s temperature — which
is now at the same level as when satellite
measurements began in 1979. Now alarm-
ists are having to come up with excuses as
to why their data are off track. So far the
best they can do is to blame their problem
on “climate variability.” Gee, that’s what
we skeptics have been saying all along.
One aspect of the computer models that
is agreed upon by skeptics and alarmists
alike is a method developed by the alarm-
ist camp to verify whether increases in
CO2 cause the Earth to warm, known as
the “fingerprint method.” This method
compares the pattern of warming that is
observed to the pattern of warming that
is calculated. Every computer model pre-
dicts an increase in the Earth’s warming
trend that is maximized in the tropical
zone between 30N and 30S at an altitude
of about 10 kilometers (6 miles). Again,
all 22 models used predict a hot spot. This
is to be the fingerprint of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere. No hot spot, no effect
by greenhouse gases. Yet thousands of
measurements, both satellite and radio-
sondes (balloons), have never found even
a trace of such a hot spot anywhere in the
troposphere.
But there is more evidence in a recently
released report by MIT meteorologist Rich-
ard Lindzen based on a 20-year experiment
in measuring the outgoing radiation from
the Earth by a satellite specifically designed
for that purpose. All computer models as-
sume that as the Earth becomes hotter,
owing to an increased concentration of
CO2, more thermal energy that otherwise
would escape into space would be blocked
by the CO2, making the Earth hotter still —
a condition known as positive feedback. But
the satellite shows otherwise. The warmer
the Earth, the more radiation escapes into
space. Warming from greenhouse gases is
not happening. No reason to throttle CO2,
no increase in the rate of sea-level rise, no
need to saddle the American economy with
huge taxes and bureaucracies, no reason to
send jobs overseas.
Do you mean that Earthlings are will-
ing to give up their standard of living, pay
more taxes, and have energy come under
government control with no real evidence
of a problem existing?
Yes sir, I’m afraid that’s the case.
Well, I think I’ll hang around for a
while. You see, I have some great beach-
front property on Neptune for sale.… n
— Ed Hiserodt
43
 THE LAST WORD
by William
From Rio to Copenhagen
S
eventeen and a half
years ago, in May-
June 1992, this cor-
respondent was jammed
cheek to jowl with 30,000
greenies in a global mosh
pit known as the United
Nations Earth Summit.
From that initial event in
Rio de Janeiro — and its
successors — has flowed
a deluge of treaties, con-
ventions, and proposed
regimes to regulate (i.e.,
to control) all human life
and activity on our planet.
Mikhail Gorbachev
was there, celebrated as
a rock star. The New York Times had praised his call for a
“global code of environmental conduct” because it “would
have an aspect of world government” and lead to “global po-
licing” and “international law,” which, according to the Times’
perspective, is obviously a good thing. Fidel Castro was there,
perhaps the only celebrity to receive a wilder, more enthu-
siastic reception than Gorbachev. A wooden, young Senator
from Tennessee was also there. Al Gore, basking in the glow
of media acclaim for his new book, Earth in the Balance, a
Malthusian end-of-the-world lamentation, led a U.S. Senate
delegation that pushed for greater UN controls over all things
and a “Global Marshall Plan” for the environment — to be paid
for largely by U.S. taxpayers.
No remembrance of Rio should leave unmentioned one of
its prime movers and shakers, Maurice Strong, the Canadian
billionaire “environmentalist” who served as Secretary-General
of the Rio Earth Summit. The jet-setting Strong harshly con-
demned Americans as “clearly the greatest risk” to planet Earth,
and declared “the United States is committing environmental
aggression against the rest of the world.” “It is clear,” Strong
wrote, “that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the
affluent middle-class … are not sustainable.”
Now, all these years later, following nearly two decades of
intense media fright-peddling and an endless stream of UN
conferences and propaganda, comes Copenhagen. The UN Cli-
mate Change Conference to be held there December 7-18 could
change your world — permanently. The treaty to be presented
there will have no effect whatsoever on the Earth’s weather or
climate cycles, but it will represent an attempt to foist one of
the most far-reaching and revolutionary political, social, and
economic arrangements on the entire planet. Lord Christopher
Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, made these scathing comments about the
upcoming UN confab in an October 14 speech:
44
F. Jasper
At Copenhagen this De-
cember, weeks away, a
treaty will be signed. Your
President will sign it.
Most of the Third World
countries will sign it, be-
cause they think they’re
going to get money out of
it. Most of the left-wing
regime from the Euro-
pean Union will rubber
stamp it. Virtually nobody
won’t sign it.
I read that treaty. And
what it says is this, that
a world government is
going to be created. The
word “government” actu-
ally appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.
The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the coun-
tries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of
what is called, coyly, “climate debt” — because we’ve been
burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the
climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new
entity, this government, is enforcement.
Monckton says the communists “piled out of the Berlin Wall
and into the environmental movement.” “They are about to im-
pose a communist world government on the world. You have
a President who has very strong sympathies with that point of
view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel
Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.”
However, the U.S. Senate is going to be hard pressed, espe-
cially in our current economic decline, to justify ratification of
this scheme. They are already well aware that they face huge op-
position from voters to the House (Waxman-Markey H.R. 2454)
and the Senate (Kerry-Boxer, S.1733) cap-and-trade climate
bills. Even the die-hard supporters of Copenhagen in the Senate
know that the fake “scientific consensus” on global warming
has been melting faster than the proverbial snowball in Hades.
The BBC has been notorious for retailing climate-alarmist drivel
masquerading as science. Nevertheless, BBC climate correspon-
dent Paul Hudson, in an October 9 report entitled “What hap-
pened to global warming?” reported that many people would be
surprised to learn “the warmest year recorded globally was not
in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.”
More than 31,000 U.S. scientists have signed a petition chal-
lenging the climate alarmists’ claims (www.petitionproject.org)
and more than 700 distinguished international scientists from
dozens of countries (http://epw.senate.gov) have issued state-
ments contesting major theses of the climate alarmists. Now
your Senators need to hear from you. n
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$0-10.99 $4.95 $9.95 Standard: 4-14
$11.00-19.99 $7.75 $12.75 business days. Make checks payable to: ShopJBS ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

$20.00-49.99 $9.95 $14.95 Rush: 3-7 business

$50.00-99.99 $13.75 $18.75 days, no P.O. Boxes, # _________________________________________ Exp. Date ________________
$100.00-149.99 $15.95 $20.95 HI/AK add $10.00
$150.00+ call call 091123
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Consultants and Administrators

Specializing in Tax Deductions for Dental Practices • Post Office Box 7007 • Porter Ranch, CA 91327