The man who happily accepted the label “godfather of neoconservatism” is Irving Kristol. In his 1995 book Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, he wrote that the “small but talented group” of which he was a part “accepted the New Deal in principle and had little affection for the kind of isolationism that then permeated American conservatism.” There you have a definition of neoconservatism. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal is socialism, the very antithesis of Americanism as defined by the U.S. Constitution. And their dislike for “isolationism” means enthusiastic support for employing America’s military might in undeclared wars to police the world and spread “democracy.”

In his book, Kristol praised the idea of a “conservative welfare state” that included social security, medicare, food stamps, even a cash allowance for unwed mothers. Neoconservative Charles Krauthammer once urged the “conscious depreciation not only of American sovereignty but of sovereignty in general.” The late columnist Sam Francis, an ardent foe of neoconservatism, correctly indicted “their almost universal support for NAFTA, the World Trade Organization, and United Nations peacekeeping missions.”

Kristol proudly identified the hero of neoconservatism when he stated, “I regard myself as lucky to have been a young Trotskyite and I have not a single bitter memory.”

Better known and more current neocons include Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Gates, and such media luminaries as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who consistently defend the indefensible while persuading the unwary that current U.S. policies are constitutional and beneficial.

Neoconservatism means socialistic big government and internationalism. As an ideological force, it dislikes national independence and favors world government under the United Nations. It urges the use of U.S. military might in UN peacekeeping missions and undeclared wars. It champions amultiplicity of entangling alliances including the new drive to create a North American Union. And it has substantial control of the George W. Bush administration. Neocons regularly use such terms as democracy, globalism, and compassion.

Understanding who they are and what they stand for is essential.....

Thanks to John McManus

The Mars Hill (NC) News-Record and Sentinel reports below that a Gaston County (NC) detention officer has been arrested for replacing the Union headstone on his ancestor's grave with a Confederate headstone. Richard Hill was apparently (and understandably) distraught that his ancestor deserted the Confederacy.

From a Fulton County (Atlanta) Daily Report story on a speech by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

During her post-lecture comments, Ginsburg was asked whether, given her fears expressed in her partial-birth abortion dissent, she thought Roe v. Wade would be overturned.

She said she did not anticipate such a ruling, but "even assuming the worst case that Roe v. Wade would be overruled, the United States will never go back to the way it was" because there will be a number of states that would allow access to abortion.

Under those circumstances, she said, women with money would be able to travel to abortion-legal states to get the procedure. But such a ruling, she said, "will have a devastating effect on poor women."

So if you're a fetus, you'd better hope Mom's a pauper.

Ginsburg also spoke of her difficulties as a newly minted lawyer:

The day before, Justice Clarence Thomas addressed the Atlanta Press Club, during which he said that although he wasn't able to get a job in Atlanta after graduating from Yale Law School, it started him on a different career path that ultimately led to the high court.

Ginsburg, too, observed that being Jewish, a woman and a mother of a toddler in 1959 made it impossible for her to work for a Wall Street firm after she graduated at the top of her class at Columbia University.

Had she been hired, she said with a smile, all she would be now was "a retired partner" instead of a member of the Supreme Court.

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Amber Dauge was expelled from South Carolina's Goose Creek High for bringing a knife to school. But it wasn't a switchblade, a cleaver or even a Ginsu, Charleston's WCSC-TV reports:

"I got the knife out to butter the toast and I noticed that I was late for the bus so I went out and locked the door behind me, and ran to the bus, and didn't notice I had the knife with me until I already locked the door and I was out," said Amber Dauge.

Amber says she put the knife in a her bag and got on the bus. Then she shoved the knife in her locker at Goose Creek High School. School administrators found out when it fell out.

In Amber's student handbook it says students can face expulsion for bringing knives on campus, but she says the butter knife she brought from home can hardly be used as a weapon. . . .

"It was just a butter knife. I had no intent to hurt anyone. I'm not like that. So I don't think that i [sic] should be expelled for it," said Amber.

House Concurrent Resolution 22 expresses “the sense of Congress that the President should provide notice of withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).” Urge your representative and senators to support H. Con. Res. 22, to withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA.

President Bush endorsed LOST in May and has since urged the Senate to ratify it. The treaty must receive a two-thirds majority in the Senate in order to be ratified, so even with combined support from Democratic leaders and the president, LOST can be stopped. Urge your senators to reject this takeover of the world’s oceans and undersea resources by the UN. See http://capwiz.com/jbs/home/.

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