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In a direct sense, President Bush’s ban did not affect mostrngunowners. The guns in question were arcane semiautomaticrnversions of European battle rifles that had, up until the time ofrnthe ban, been gathering dust and losing value on distributors’rnshelves, like Fabrique Nationale FAL’s, Heckler & Koch 91 ‘s,rnand Steyr AUG’s. Guns of this ilk, and their...

with the final step, as the national police authorities will be ablernto encourage voluntary compliance by requiring individual citizensrnto produce specific weapons or face incarceration. Thisrnwill also decrease the likelihood of a significant number ofrnweapons remaining in the hands of citizens, where they mightrnembolden their owners actually to resist future plans for theirrnsafety and welfare.rnThe...

logical lines, which would yield five flaming liberals and threernmoderate conservatives. The commission’s present catalog ofrnpublications currently offers the public over 200 reports andrnpublications. An objective review of the report synopsis, suchrnas “Nativism Rekindled; A Report on the Effort to Make EnglishrnColorado’s Official Language” or “Who Is Guarding thernGuardians? A Report on Police Practices” or...

confidential memo, and membership list in the possession ofrnthe organization. In the case of Enos Schera, they were demandingrn15 years of documents!rnRob Ross, director of FLA-187, was incredulous. He knewrnthe commission had overstepped its legal authority. Furthermore,rnhe was well aware of the history of the California Prop.rn187 petition drive. There, activist leaders routinely receivedrndeath threats,...

A: No.rnQ: What is your reaction to Congressman Canad) ‘srnoversight hearings investigating your commission to bernheld on September 27?rnA: I welcome the hearings. By the way, who do you writernfor?rnShortly after this interview, I was placed under police surveillancernfor the remainder of the hearings. In addition. ChairmanrnBerrv must have reconsidered her final answer, since a...

telligencc reported the Iraqi buildup onrnthe border with Kuwait, the Bush administrationrndiscounted it. Without a coherentrnresponse to the invasion, the administrationrnwas simultaneously pulled inrnseveral directions. Secretary of DefensernCheney wanted to expel the Iraqis fromrnKuwait as soon as possible, while GeneralrnColin Powell had been reluctant tornsend even deterrent forces. The StaternDepartment proved to be as bellicose...

drew no inferences concerning the dispositionrnof the Iraqi army and its lowrnmorale. The plan (if one can call it that)rnadopted by the coalition would, in fact,rnmake it extremely difficult to “close therndoor” on escaping Iraqi forces.rnContrary to the demands of a soundrnstrategy, which would have held as manyrnIraqis in Kuwait as possible, the Marinesrnled the...

(1978) as a hymn of joy for the fact thatrnman has been redeemed through Christ;rnand he affirms the essential “joy of creation”rnthat is completed by “the joy ofrnsalvation.” Commenting on the internationalrnyouth rallies that have been a distinctivernfeature of his pontificate, he seesrna religious significance in the joie de vivrernof the young, because their happiness...

sift meaning from events, extract knowledgernfrom narration. The narrator isrnconvinced that vision is attainable onlyrnthrough revision.rnThrough this leisurely journey intornthe sensibilities of the now retired art historian’srnmusings on his past, his family,rnand his career, Taylor implies that therncreation of art is more a matter of choicernthan fate. Nathan Longfort’s real loss isrnnot the cousin who...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Wacornby Mary Alice CookrnA Visit to Mount CarmelrnWc are headed north on Interstate 35rnfrom Austin to Dallas, on the tail end ofrnan unexpected trip to Texas. The dogrndays of August have not been quite asrnunbearable as wc anticipated but are stillrnstartlingly hot bv our Alaskan standards.rnBeside the interstate, we glimpse manyrnsmall Protestant churches,...

ture of each Davidian killed in the 1993rnfire. A granite monument, ereeted byrnthe Northeast Texas Regular Militia ofrnTexarkana, Texas, reads: “On Februaryrn28, 1993, a church and its membersrnknown as Branch Davidians came underrnattack bv ATF and FBI agents. For fiftyonerndays the Davidians and their leader,rnDavid Koresh, stood proudly. On Aprilrn19,1993, the Davidians and their churchrnwere...

Letter From Alabamarnby Michael HillrnJudge Roy Moore vs. the ACLUrnThe American Civil Liberties Union isrnsuing Roy S. Moore, the Etowah Countyrn(Alabama) Circuit Judge, for having thernTen Commandments on the wall of hisrncourtroom and for beginning each sessionrnwith a prayer, on the usual groundsrnthat a “wall of separation” stands betweenrngovernment and religion. JudgernMoore agrees—up to a...

Socialist Party and its Communist alliesrnhad swept into power, contained no lessrnthan 102 projects which this shortlivedrnmesalliance of left-wing rivalsrnpledged itself to carry out. Even arnsocialist Napoleon could not have carriedrnout anything so outlandishly ambitiousrnin such a short span of time.rnWhen in 1986 a right-wing coalitionrnwon the parliamentary elections andrnJacques Chirac was appointed primernminister for...

to mend the fracture sociale (the “socialrnrift”) which had spht French societyrninto all too fortunate “haves” and all toornnumerous “have-nots.” hideed, so pronouncedrnwas the stress Chirac placed onrnthis point that before the election campaignrnwas over, many observers werernbeginning to wonder if the right-wingrn”bulldozer” hadn’t been mysteriouslyrnmetamorphosed into a left-wing chameleon.rnThere is, of course, nothing particularlyrnnew...

VITAL SIGNSrnFOREIGN AFFAIRSrnGeneral LewisrnMacKenzie on thernBalkans Warrnby Kenneth McDonaldrnEdward Gibbon wrote, “As long asrnthe same passions and interests subsistrnamong mankind, the questions ofrnwar and peace, of justice and pohcy,rnwhich were debated in the councils ofrnantiquity, will frequently present themselvesrnas the subject of modern deliberation.”rnTo a career soldier there is somethingrnincongruous in the business of “peacekeeping.”rnOffensive...

Chapter 6 missions deal with “the pacificrnsettlement of disputes.” In them,rnU.N. soldiers do not use force except inrnself-defense, all parties to the conflictrnconsent to U.N. involvement, and thernU.N. force is completely impartial.rn(When MacKenzie first went to Zagreb,rnhe was welcomed bv a former Torontornresident who was then Croatia’s Ministerrnof Communications and who greetedrnhim with the news...

garded as the guideline for applyingrnthe Fourth Amendment, that probablerncause must exist and a warrant be obtainedrnfor the government to invade ourrnpersons, homes, possessions, and effects.rnThe exclusionary rule says that evidencernobtained in violation of the FourthrnAmendment cannot be used in trial.rnOpponents of the rule, primarily butrnnot exclusively law-and-order, pro-gunrnRepublicans, claim that the exclusionaryrnrule enables guilty...

what he calls the BLM’s “SWAT-teamrnmentality.” “I’ve got a group of BLM officersrncarrying guns, enforcing laws, doingrnwhatever,” he said. “I don’t mindrnthem helping if they’d help, but if myrndeputies treated people the way theyrntreat people, I’d have stomped them in arnmudhole and then wrung their necks.”rnThe Posse Comitatus Act, which wasrnenacted over 100 years ago...

because then I would have had to surrenderrna great deal. The youths may notrnhave had the power they thought theyrnhad, the power to control the situation,rnbut they did have the power to create arnsituation with uncontrollable consequences.rnI’m not afraid of them, but Irndo fear an encounter with the systemrnthat is, in effect, their patron. Unlike...

rant for her arrest on the grounds thatrnMrs. Williams was in violation of thernMichigan Compulsory School AttendancernAct. Burdek insisted that the actrnrequired any parent who schooled hisrnchildren at home to have a bachelor’s degree.rnAlthough she was released on $200rnbail, and the charges against her dismissed,rnBurdek continued to harassrnWilliams, who finally filed a countersuitrnagainst Burdek, a...

cates and social security numbers forrn”monitoring all students between thernages of five and 18.”rnWherever Jones and officials like himrnattempt to overstep their authority, attorneysrnat organizations like the HomernSchool Legal Defense Association try tornkeep them in check. Thirty-four statesrnnow have homeschooling statutes thatrnprevent unwarranted intrusion by governmentrnin what for centuries peoplernconsidered a natural relationship. Thernquestion is...

Foundation. The conference was dedicatedrnto Gil Murray, the CaliforniarnForestry Association president killedrnApril 24 by a package bomb attributed tornthe Luddite “Unabomber,” and Sunday’srnagenda featured Donn Zea, thernassociation’s vice president for industryrnaffairs, and firebrand Idaho RepresentativernHelen Chenoweth, who sits onrncongressional task forces dealing withrnreform of the Endangered Species Actrnand with property rights and term limitsrnadvocacy.rnOne newcomer...

is to say so!).rnCarlson deems “bitch” the “epithet ofrnchoice against uppity women . . . a reminderrnthat women have not come suchrna long way.” She claims that “there is nornequivalent epithet about men. Bastardrnand son of a bitch have less sting, in partrnbecause society expects—and rewards—rntoughness in men.” This same pointrnwas made by Barbara Ehrenreich,...

transactionrnNew and Recent Books on Family and PolicyrnThernSwedishrnExperimentrnin FamilyrnPoliticsrnAllanrnCarlsonrnThe,. .rnpoliticsrnHumanrnNaturernThomas FlemingrnV:^rnReflections on thernAmericaxL Social CrisisrnAllan C. CarlsonrnTHE SWEDISH EXPERIMENT INrnFAMILY POLITICSrnTHE MYRDALS AND THE INTERWAR POPULATION CRISISrnAllan CarlsonrnThis devastating account of tlie work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal portraysrnhow two young scholars used the power of ideas to help engineer a newrndomestic order in Sweden....

INCLUDINC^ ESSAYS BY.rnPETER BRIMELCJWrn{Forbes Magazine)rnALLAN CARLSONrn(Tlie Rockford Institute)rnJEAN BETHKE ELSHTAINrn(Universitv of ChicagornDivinity Sehool)rnRICHARD ESIRADArn(Dallas Morning News)rnTHOMAS FLEMINGrn{Chronicles Magazine)rnSAMUEL FRANCISrn(Nationall’ SyndicatedrnColumnist)rnRAITL GOTTFRIEDrn(Elizabethtown College)rnGARRETT HARDINrn(Professor Emeritus ofrnHuman Ecolog))rnHANS-HERMANN HOPPErn(University of Nevada,rnLas Vegas)rnDONALD L. HUDDLErn(Rice University)rnE. CHRISIIAN KOPEErn(Unixersity ofrnColorado inrnBoulder)rnIMMIGRATIONrn* ANDTHE *rnAMERICAN IDENTITYrnSELECTIONS FROMrnChronicles: A Magazine of American Culture,rn1985-1995rnA publication of The Rockford Institutern232 pp., paperrn$14.95 List Price...

EDITORrnihomas FlemingrnKIANAGING EDl’lORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR. UOOKSrnChilton Williamson, jr.rnEDI rORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDII ORSrnHarold O./. Brou7i, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnE. Christian Kopff, Clyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING Ei:)I TORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rnJohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SeUcrnEDITORIAESECRE’IARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRE,GrGRrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULAI’ION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Instihitc.rnEditorial and Advertising ()Ifiees:rn934 North Main...

Ann Sandhorst Replies:rnriie kindlord/artists of the Soho Alliancernare an embarrassment to the artists ofrnSoho. Sean Sweeney’s letter is factuallyrnincorrect in all of its points. Space considerationsrnallow me to respond to only arnfew.rnPolice officials point directly to Ms.rnFreed and her alliance as the source ofrnpolitical pressure to arrest artists displayingrnon Soho’s streets. Sweeney charactcristicallvrnprojects his own...

But for the most part, not much wasrnheard from him. He was tired, it wasrnsaid, from his Sisyphean labors. ThenrnBill Clinton was elected.rnEver since, Helms has been backrnin the newspapers. Liberated from tliernbonds of loyalty to Republican Presidents,rnHelms has become quite the recidivist,rnopposing President Clinton andrnhis congressional supporters on a varietvrnof fronts. Two of his...

Ozouf, he edited the Critical Dictionaryrnof the French Revolution (1989). A storyrnon Furet in The Economist eharaeterizedrnhim as “a new monarch of French studiesrnof the revolution” who “seeks to establishrna new collective wisdom which avoidsrn. . . the left- or right-wing distortions ofrnthe past.”rnAccording to Thomas Fleming,rn”Frangois Furet has gone to the heart ofrnmodernity—both its...

Principalities & Powersrnby Samuel FrancisrnVictims of Blunt Force TraumarnEven before the end of the trial of LosrnAngeles police officer Mark Fuhrman forrnthe crime of white racism, the percentagernof black Americans who believedrnthat Officer Fuhrman’s most celebratedrnvictim was innocent had risen from 60rnpercent before the trial to a whopping 78rnpercent by the time the prosecution rested.rnIt...

gation, and the vcrv comparison with thernKing case was certain to inflame thernracial passions in which the case was atrnonce submerged.rnNcvers and Budzyn were suspendedrnwithout pay at about the same time, andrnChief Knox was able to forbid a PolicernReview Board investigation of the case, arndecision unprecedented in the city’s history.rnWithin 72 hours of Green’s death,rnDetroit...

PERSPECTIVErnThe Winter of Scottish Discontentrnby Thomas Flemingrn”The miller’s daughter walking byrnWith frozen fingers soldered to her basketrnSeems to be knockingrnUpon a hundred leagues of floorrnWith her light heels, and mocking Percy and Douglas dead.rnAnd Bruce on his burial bed,rnWhere he lies white as mayrnWith wars and leprosy,rnAnd all the kings beforernThis land was kingless.rnAnd all...

ginning to enjov myself, and remarking to my children that thisrnScottish festial is much more entertaining than the local FestarnItaliana, mv daughter suggests that it may be because I’m Scottislirnand not Italian. We wander by the tents set up by variousrnclan societies. Clan Douglas is there, ine itably, but as I am onrnthe point of...

out as the enemy of us all, as subverter of our rights, and shouldrnchoose another King to defend our freedom: for so long as arnhundred of us are left alive, we will yield in no least way to Englishrndomination. We fight not for glory nor for wealth norrnhonours; but only and alone we fight for...

ist austerity without any perceptible lapse into papist saeramcntalism,rnand mv only thought is how to escape the crowds asrnquickly as possible. Reluctantly accepting the Duke of Argyll’srnhospitality (he is the owner of the Great hm at hivcraray, a rundownrntourist hotel with a magnificent view of Loch Fyne), Irnmake mself at home in the bar, which...

to the clans that mark the spots where their men fell. The dignifiedrnand pious stones set up by faithful relatives stand inrnstrong contrast with the ugly modern signs written in an ambiguousrnlanguage calculated neither to offend nor inspire. A fatherrntries to explain to his son how members of the same familyrncould be on different sides,...

physical protection and in return were themselves willing torngive but little tribute in taxes or regular service.rnThe ethos of self-protection that prevailed among the Scotsrnof the Highlands and northeast made them naturally suspiciousrnof unitary government and of the regulated money economyrnthat was overspreading England and the Scottish Lowlands.rnFrom the founding of the Kirk of Scotland...

Moreover, the English negotiators were authorized to providernsome £400,000 to compensate the remainder of the 1,400 Scottishrnshareholders in the Company of Scotland.rnThe terms of the Treaty of Union were kept secret until latern1706. but when Scotsmen learned of this execrable bargainrnthe had no doubt as to its consequences—their country’srncomplete subjugation to England. For one thing,...

from the Treaty of Union. Chiefs and lairds feared that theirrnheritable jurisdietions, upheld through baronial eourts, wouldrnbe swept away by the 1707 treaty, despite assurances to the contrary.rnTraditionally, the lands of each clan were “owned” by thernentire body, the chief serving merely as custodian at the sufferancernof his tacksmen (notables), who could depose him if...

that witnessed inspiring victories against great odds at StirlingrnBridge (1297) and Bannockburn (1314) and the subsequentrnDeclaration of Arbroath (1320). That illustrious document,rnrepresenting the will of the Community of the Realm of Scotland,rnstated unequivocally that “so long as there shall be butrnone hundred of us remain alive we will never give consent tornsubject ourselves to the...

ilization and especially in Britain.rnHume was a lifelong republican, and in the essay “Idea of arnPerfect Commonwealth,” he even sketched out an idealrnrepublic which had a considerable influence on the federalismrnof Madison and Hamilton. But Hume did not think thatrnmonarchy was an illegitimate form of government. The civilizingrnforces of modernity had improved the character of...

moral character. He opposed the ever-increasing centralizationrnand consolidation demanded by the modern state. The commercialrninterests centered in London, which was the base ofrnsupport for Pitt and Wilkes, were the hub of a vast mercantilernempire conducted by war and financed by public debt. Humernopposed big cities, big government, empire, mercantile wars,rnand public credit. His solution was...