On Ashcroft As Man of the Year
Thank you for choosing him! ["John Ashcroft: Man of the Year," HUMAN EVENTS, Dec. 23, 2002, page 1.]
He has been receiving completely undeserved flak from the left recently. It’s laughable to hear once again from the most anti-American organization in this country, the American Civil Liberties Union, challenging Ashcroft’s policies.
Where were they as Clinton was putting in place executive order after executive order that stripped us of our constitutional rights? I did not hear one squeak from them about the dismantling of our rights as citizens of the U.S. during Clinton’s time.
Thanks again for your recognition of him!
Informative Jeffrey Column On New Senate Leader Frist
Thank you for your most enlightening article ["Frist a Major Share-Holder in Reputed For-Profit Abortion Provider," HUMAN EVENTS, December 23, page 4] on Sen. Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.).
Several years ago I recall reading some disturbing positions Sen. Frist had taken relative to abortion and other issues of interest to conservatives. It troubled me when he emerged as Senate majority leader following the Lott debacle-particularly so when a real conservative, Sen. Don Nickles, (R.-Okla.), was available and willing to take that important post.
Thank you, too, for holding all parties accountable-not just the liberals and Democrats.
Shucks, you should’ve gone ahead and said it in your last line: "Frist Do No Harm."
Readers would be interested in Sen. Frist’s opposition to Bush’s budget cuts in 2001 on the grounds that cuts would endanger the "Community Access Program" that he and Ted Kennedy support. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (of the Clinton Healthcare Task Force fame) gave the program its start.
They’d probably also be surprised at Frist’s position on the board of Alliance for Health Reform, along with Jay Rockefeller, Marian Wright Edelman, John Sweeney, and Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins (League of Women Voters).
If the senator’s investments are at odds with his stated position on abortion, he needs to face them with a public declaration of his stance, and the action to back it up.
On Lott, Democrats Are ‘Historically Challenged’
In the context of recent history, which saw the Democrats get a spanking in the last election, the Trent Lott flap has to be recognized as a desperate attempt at Democrat damage control, enough red herrings to stink up my hard drive ["Maliciously Opportunistic Liberals Attack Lott," HUMAN EVENTS, December 16, page 12].
Let’s face it, the Democrats’ "Northern Strategy" of race-hustling and buying votes from selected victim groups is a wicked failure.
In the big cities throughout the nation, the Democrats have everything their way. So, just what kind of racial justice do we see? Vibrant urban communities have been ethnically cleansed, extended families broken up, schools shut down and churches closed.
The inner cities look like war zones. Slums and blight stain the landscape. Perfectly good real estate is made useless for family dwellings.
Minority kids of whatever colors are left behind in a public school system driven by quotas and fads instead of sound educational curricula. Government subsidized illegitimacy has devastated inner-city families. Single mothers let loose on society bands of unsocialized, idle and angry men.
Yeah! Blame Trent Lott and all those rednecks on the back roads of Mississippi.
What About Ditching Tax on Social Security?
In reference to Jack Kemp’s article on taxes ["Five Easy Pieces of Tax Reform," HUMAN EVENTS, December 9, page 16], what about all of the seniors who pay taxes on their Social Security? That has already been taxed three times! Get rid of it!!!!
