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were for purposes not within these enumeratedrnpowers. Thus 70 percent of allrntaxes collected for that year are unconstitutional.rnThe suit also debunks the myth thatrnCongress has power under the CommercernClause to tax in order to fundrnprograms not otherwise within the enumeratedrnpowers, such as many of today’srnsocial welfare programs. To the Framers,rn”commerce among the states” meantrntrade among...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnElk CountryrnAs the supernatural world is eternally atrnwork behind events in the natural world,rnso the world of man-in-nature continuesrnto operate behind the synthetic, abstracted,rnand unreal world of man-outside-rnof-nature. For that reason alone, Irnshall always hunt elk. (Though of course,rnI reallv don’t need any reason.)rnOn the afternoon before the start ofrnseason,...

mv shoulders.rnEach year outfitters put a couple ofrncamps iu west of Indian Ridge, at thernhead of South Fork of Fontenellc Creek.rnThe- ecjuip the dudes who want themrnwith horses, and turn the rest loose onrnthe forested slopes to beat the timberrnand kick the elk over the ridgetop andrndown the eastern cliff face, where theyrnfind me lying...

TORTURE AND EXECUTIONrnDEATH &TAXESrnjjjfrn”…Gordon Kahl was the kindrnof American who made thisrncomitry, and his death—and therni media coverage that vilifiedrn’• him—are a national disgrace.rnBuy the film and show it to yourrni^ neighbors.”rn—Thomas Flemuigrn- D e r e k E l l y , V a r i e t y a hard-hiHing reinvestigation…” .De.e. EM„...

The final volumes in the highly acclaimed! seriesrnCOMPLETE ROMAN DRAMArnIN TRANSLATIONrnDavid R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie, Series EditorsrnIn this five-volume series—^featuring lively translations by leading poet-scholars—classic Latin dranna comes alivernfor a nev/ generation of readers.rnSENECA:rnTHE TRAGEDIESrnVolume Irntranslated by David R. SlavittrnTrojan Women • Thyestes • Phaedra •rnMedea • Agamemnonrn$12.95 paperbackrnSENECA:rnTHE TRAGEDIESrnVolume IIrnedited by David R....

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnMANAGING EDITORrnTheodore PappasrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnEDITORIAL ASSISTANTrnMichael WashburnrnART DIRECTORrnAnna Mycek-WodeckirnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnHarold O.j. Brown, Katherine Dalton,rnSamuel Francis, George Garrett,rnChristine Haynes, E. Christian Kopff,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Jacob Neusner,rn]ohn Shelton Reed, Momcilo SelicrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnAllan C. CarlsonrnPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnPRODUCTION SECRETARYrnAnita CandyrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnRochelle FrankrnA publication of The Rockford Institute.rnEditorial and Advertising Offices;rn934 North Main Street,...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnR o s s PEROT has thrown his hat intornthe ring, or at least halfway into the ring,rnsince the billionaire has only promised tornuse his wealth and fundraising abilities tornstart a party which may or may not putrnhim at the head of the ticket. The weekrnbefore, another billionaire, Steve Forbes,rnannounced that he would spend...

and since the weekend of September 8rnwas forecast to be a fine one I decided tornattend the anniversary celebration.rnHCN has been based for about a decadernor so in Paonia, Colorado, but the meetingrnwas scheduled in Lander to honorrnthe paper’s birthplace. It is 150 milesrnfrom Kemmerer to Lander, with a singlerntown—Farson, population 250 or so—rnbetween them...

neo-Nazi or K.K.K. network, thus givingrnan agreeable frisson to the genteel reader.”rnIn Cockburn’s view, leftists havernmade a grave mistake in failing to understandrn—and often misrepresenting—thernnature and aims of the militias. In thernJune 26 Nation, Cockburn wondered,rn”How come people oppressed by economicrncircumstances and governmentrnpredations who take up arms and defyrnthe state in southern Mexico are hailedrnin...

PERSPECTIVErnUnder Western Liesrnby Thomas FlemingrnOne hot evening at the end of August I was walking uprnSouth Michigan Avenue with an Irish-American linguistrnon the way to eat in a German-American restaurant. The newsrnwas filled with reports on the NATO bombing raids against thernBosnian Serbs, but no one on the street seemed to care that anrnAmerican President...

propriety of printing the Unabomber’s declaration, especiallyrnunder pressure from Attorney General Janet Reno. Bradlee wasrnpainfully candid, explaining that there was nothing to be said,rneven supposing there ever had been, in favor of an independentrnpress, adding that all that was really important was to serve thernpublic interest, that is, doing what government officials tell yournto do.rnIt...

the 1972 election when George Bush was chairman of thernRNC. During Bush’s tenure, “The Croatian Ustashi becamernan integral part of the campaign structure of Republican politics,rnalong with several other Fascist organizations.”rnCroatian Americans are not the only source of funds. Rumorrnhas it that rich Muslim states have not been content withrnshipping money to Albania and arms...

scams like NAFTA, GATT, and European Union. The veryrnidea of a people determined to go its own way is the internationalist’srnworst nightmare.rnForget about the Serbs. I like them for personal reasons;rnthere is no reason—apart from national honor—why yournshould care one way or another about these strange peoplesrnwho might just as well live on Rora Tonga...

Foster and Whitewater, while conservatives shed few tears overrnthe horrors of Iran-Contra. If asked about the dirty tricks of thernfederal justice agencies, the right will turn to Waco and RubyrnRidge with the same infallible instinct that draws the left tornCOINTELPRO and alleged CIA drug dealing. Worse, eachrnside mav be unwilling to condemn the atrocities wrought...

As long as they do not target white people, federal agencies canrnpretty much get away with murder; and in a powerful gesturerntoward equal opportunity, open season now appears to havernbeen declared on white supremacists and “cultists,”rnIt would be nice if liberals werernto criticize the investigation ofrnrightist and fundamentalistrnchurches and compounds, just asrnconservatives should have protestedrnthe...

agencies are currently taking to protect us from militias, survivalists,rnand white supremacists; but the CISPES affair gives arnpretty good idea. I assume that at least one person has alreadyrnprovided the information necessary to justify the investigationrnof the far right, including quite legal operations like bookstores,rnpolitical parties, and radio stations. You may trust Reagan andrnEd Meese...

dents (including the children) of sleep, running Bradley FightingrnVehicles at the compound, and bombarding it with hellaeiousrnnoises such as dentists’ drills and rabbits being slaughtered.rnThis had an immediate effect of consolidating thernBranch Davidians and confirming to them Koresh’s prophecyrnthat the government would ultimately kill them all. After thernFBI began the noise bombardment, the exodus of...

weapons and grenades against the children’s home.rnAs the siege wore on, the government abused, at least fromrnthe Branch Davidian viewpoint, all the children who surrendered.rnChildren who came out with their parents were immediatelyrntaken from their parents and placed in state custody,rnwhile the parents were almost always arrested, whether or notrnthere was any evidence against them....

of exposure to CS indoors caused the death of an adult.rnWith regard to the idea that the CS was supposed to drivernthe Branch Davidians out of their house, an Army field manualrnexplains: “Generally, persons reacting to CS are incapable ofrnexecuting organized and concerted actions and excessive exposurernto CS may make them incapable of vacating the...

BATF special agent (whether because he was on the payroll orrnto inspire more cooperation with investigations being unclear).rnHe had also served on BATF’s National Arson Response Team.rnOne of the last structures to fall at the compound was thernflagpole holding the Davidian flag (with its Star of David). Therngovernment promptly mounted the blue “A.T.F.” flag, alongrnwith...

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...