Conservative Forum — Week of January 19

Applause for Roy Moore As Man of the Year Choice

Ann Coulter’s piece in the December 22 issue ["Man of the Year"] designating Roy Moore as Man of the Year is the most brilliant journalism I have read in a while. Coulter rose to the occasion in justifying Human Event’s choice of Moore, her prose crackling with the razor sharp wit she is noted for. I especially loved her aside: "Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa becoming way too commercialized?"

At the same time Human Events picked the right person for its Man of the Year award, and Coulter rightly points out that HE is the only newspaper that will call Moore a brave man for defying a court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama state courthouse.

There’s no doubt about it, Roy Moore is a modern day Braveheart, a hero for Christians, who have so few these days.

Religious Symbol Sightings Across Upper Northwest

Regarding your photo-essay, ["God in the Temples of Government II"] we have found nearly 5,000 totem poles and other Native American symbols on display at state, city and county parks and buildings in Washington, Oregon, California and Idaho.

These are primarily religious-cultural or purely religious displays-no different in tone or significance than the Ten Commandments, cross, Menorah, or Star of David.

Bike Paths, Religion and Presidential Leadership

How comforting to know that God’s concern for American leadership is that they lay down their life for bike paths, ["Howard Dean Discovers Jesus Thing"]. Amazing grace!

Joseph McCarthy American Patriot

Regarding Ann Coulter’s defense of Joe McCarthy ["What Kind of Argument is That?"] as a great American patriot, I watched the proceedings live when I was young and could never understand why the world was suddenly so upset with a man who was doing so much good. Later on in life the Boogieman story got bigger about him and I still thought he deserved a medal.

I am so glad someone now agrees with me.

Paying the Price For Importing Poverty

It seems President Bush and congressional Democrats are having a little yard sale. As with the passage of the unpopular North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by President Clinton and congressional Republicans in 1993, Americans are about to be shish kabobed through the paycheck.

Each one of the last forty months has cost Americans over 75,000 manufacturing jobs as a result of our elected official’s trade policies. The NAFTA is a colossal failure but the politicians, who must have been eating hamburger meat cut from the spinal area, point to stock averages instead of wage loses during reelection campaigns.

The approaching relaxation of our immigration laws ["Plan For Immigration Reform Dismays Many Conservatives"] will mean, of course, that Americans will lose, not only more jobs, but more of our incomes to the social programs needed to support the millions of squatters hitching rides to the United Welfare States of America.

As we import the impoverished we will, because of a media-driven guilt, convince ourselves that we should treat foreigners the way we treat Americans who are not fond of work; we will pay them to eat.

We never expected much from Democrats in the first place because they have traditionally been the champions of bigger government and fewer liberties. Republicans, always critical of the big-spending Democrats, have revealed a personality quirk since taking over the government we never saw coming. Turns out, they are the champions of the biggest government of all-internationalism. They hold an almost religious belief in a world without nationhood. Former President Bush called it the "New World Order."

President Ronald Reagan once said, "A country that cannot control its borders isn’t really a country any more." Since his party has now thrown in with the party of Bill Clinton, I think it is imperative that Americans reject the media’s advice to choose the lesser of two evils at election time. We need to dust off the ideas of American conservatives and start a real political party for real Americans.