THE FOUNDATION

“There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.” –George Washington

INSIGHT

“All warfare is based on deception.” –Sun Tzu

“We make war that we may live in peace.” –Aristotle

“Peace is liberty in tranquility; servitude the last of all evils, one to be repelled, not only by war but even by death.” –Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In case of defence ‘tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.” –Shakespeare

“A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.” –Sir Francis Bacon

“The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.” –Henry Ward Beecher

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.” –Aesop

“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.” –Joseph Conrad

“We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.” –Ronald Reagan

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” –Sir Winston S. Churchill

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Truth is on the march; nothing can stop it now.” –Emile Zola

“I don’t pretend to understand the universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am…. People ought to be modester.” –Thomas Carlyle

“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.” –Socrates

“He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.” –Johann K. Lavater

UPRIGHT

Publisher’s Note: We humbly request that our readers join with us in continuing prayers for strength and healing for Warren Bowles, husband-hero of Linda Bowles, a longtime dear friend of The Federalist. Warren was recently diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, and Linda is taking leave from column writing to care for the man she calls “the wisest, smartest and most noble man in the United States, probably the known world, and possibly the entire mortal universe.”

“…[D]espite the cruel and evil death experienced by [Daniel] Pearl, despite the deaths of other journalists, and the beatings and the jailings, his colleagues will continue to take risks to find and tell you the truth, or as much of it as they can manage. Danny’s murder was pointless. His life was not.” –Terry Anderson

“This brutal and arbitrary murder is a horrifying blow to the country, to Pearl’s pregnant wife and to foreign correspondents everywhere that regularly burrow through danger in quest of the truth.” –Armstrong Williams

“Mr. Pearl wrote his stories in ink, but unfortunately ran afoul of a movement that writes its stories in blood. The good man is gone; the bad men are left to deal with.” –Dave Shiflett

“We’ve already lost enough Americans; we’re not going to lose any more by hesitating.” –Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz

“If we understand our foes a bit better, we should be in an improved position to defeat them. This isn’t, of course, to say the struggle against fanatic Islamism is child’s play.” –Rabbi Daniel Lapin

“Poverty doesn’t cause crime; people do. To commit acts as heinous as those of September 11th requires a profound depravity and utter lack of conscience.” –Joel Mowbray

“I know what I think, and I assume it’s what I said.” –Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

“Even in the crucible of war, we have discovered that our worst critics love us in the concrete as much as they hate us in the abstract.” –Victor Davis Hanson

“There is no disdain quite as sour as guilt-driven disdain.” –R. James Woolsey

“The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.” –Joseph Sobran

“Politics is the art of the possible and compromise is often necessary. But compromise is not the same as surrender.” –W. James Antle III

“Never underestimate the ability of unelected bureaucrats to overturn the expressed will of the people if it threatens their power.” –Linda Chavez

“Because liberals are determinists who deny free will and the existence of evil, everything is reduced to economics.” –Don Feder

“Tax cuts aren’t something you pay for. It’s less money for the government to spend.” –Ann Coulter

“Optimism will soon gain the upper hand. Indeed, optimism always defeats pessimism. Hold that thought, America.” –Larry Kudlow

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Human rights are about universal moral standards, not someone’s narrow political agenda.” –Wall Street Journal

DEZINFORMATSIA

From the “Department of Corrections”, an exchange from the McLaughlin Group: “The GAO will finally issue its report on the White House, the vandalizing of the White House in between the Clinton and Gore administrations. …Clinton and Bush administrations. …Well, it should have been the Gore administration.” –Eleanor Clift.

“It’s going to be a whitewash?” –John McLaughlin. “Neither side is going to be completely happy.” –Clift

This week’s “Sociocrat Media Sychophant” Award: “He [Ted Kennedy] is the last of the liberal lions, roaring on behalf of the voiceless.” –CNN’s Candy Crowley commenting on “Inside Politics” about Kennedy’s reaching three score and 10 years. **We think “The Lyin’ King” is a more apt lionization for Teddy!

This week’s “News Nonsensica” Award: “Three media-related factors are converging to produce the gap-toothed smile of self-satisfaction we now see on the screen. First, the ratings climb of Fox News, a blatantly biased, conservative news service that is challenging the long-time supremacy of the more balanced news networks. Fox News is gaining viewers and, consequently, ground in the all-important revenue race. That’s not because there is a larger conservative audience. It is because Fox is more passionate, less inhibited and deliberately more dissident, especially to the mainstream press. The Fox formula provokes, engages – entertains, if you will. It’s not a signal to imitation or a press pass to the Right, as some less imaginative media executives appear to think. It’s more an incentive for other news outlets to find the missing voices and fresher formulas, without betraying their bedrock journalistic principles.” –Joan Konner, professor and dean emerita at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

This week’s “Leftmedia Buster” Award: According to a Media Research Center report, since January 30, of the 37 network news stories on the “axis of evil,” only 14% actually focused on Iran, Iraq, and North Korea themselves while a full 73% were focused on negative reactions to Bush’s proclamation in his State of the Union Address. Of the 19 “talkingheads” invited onto the news programs, at least 16 of them condemned Bush.

SOCIOCRATS

This week’s “Periplaneta Americana” Award: “We have to build a world with more partners and fewer terrorists.” –Our former national embarrassment, former President Bill Clinton at a Perth, Australia, speech during a weekend stint in which he raked in over $700,000

From the Left Coast: “I am a liberal…. Some of us, maybe foolishly, gave this president the authority to go after the terrorists. We didn’t know that he too was gonna go crazy with it. …The only person who should be celebrated and honored and revered is [California Democrat] Barbara Lee.” –Los Angeles-area Demo Rep. Maxine Waters addressing a University of Southern California rally, on how “crazy” President Bush has gone in prosecuting the war Jihadistan opened against us.

From the “Diplo-Babblers” Files: “North Korea is run by a dictator, the people are starving, but I don’t think we get from here to there by making it a larger bogeyman than it is…. [B]y injecting hyperbole it makes the situation more dangerous.” –Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

From the “SociocRATS” Files: “Forget the bills. The bills, I know, are important. I don’t mean to forget them. But none of that would ever have become law if it hadn’t been for the passion that he brought to the commitments and those issues over the years, and sustains it year in and year out.” –Sen. Chris Dodd, Teddy Kennedy’s other carousing half of a “waitress sandwich,” on the “passion” Teddy brought.

This week’s “Purveyor of Classism” Award: “I grew up in a very Republican home – child of 1950s and ‘60s suburbs. I have a rock-solid belief in individual responsibility and hard work. But I also believe in community. I reject the idea that there is no such thing as society.” –Sen. Ms. Hillary (Mrs. Bill Clinton) Rodham-Clinton on how “individual responsibility” is the antithesis of “community.”

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts: “There are too many choices. You go to the supermarket and there are 80 different kinds of cereal when you’re just looking for oats. Or you make a call and you end up talking to a machine when you’re looking for a person. Your health plan covers some drugs, but not others; in Cuba, it’s all free.” –Harvard visiting professor of architecture and card-carrying Cuban Communist Mario Coyula-Cowley. **Yeah, it’s all “free” – except the Cuban people.

This week’s “Homo Leftus Americanus” Award: “We cannot rest until Congress adopts federal hate-crime legislation that includes sexual orientation. Period.” –Former Vice Lady Tipper Gore addressing the North Carolina Human Rights Campaign – and proving she’s a real “Village Matriarch Wannabe”!

This week’s “Village Success Story”: “I’m getting worried about the economy…. I was the first one laid off last year.” –Former Vice President Algore remembering the crucial distinction: a recession exists when your neighbor loses a job; a depression occurs when you lose yours.

From the “Garbage In – Garbage Out” Department: “A few more votes in Florida, and we could have had the best environmental president we ever had. Now we’ve got an oilman. He [President Bush] is like another Julius Caesar. Just what we need.” –Ted Turner

From the “Village Academic Curriculum” Files: “I think it’s a pretty clear signal that the organization recognizes there are some pretty serious needs for gay and lesbian children in school – and employees.” –Ms. Penny Kotterman, chair of the NEA’s Task Force on Sexual Orientation, announcing that the National Education Association approved a measure to “encourage” schools to incorporate “HomoPromo” materials in classroom discussions of homosexuality.

SHORT CUTS

“…[L]aughter might soon be malum prohibitum when writing about politics.” –R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

“We’ve never actually seen 'The West Wing,’ but we understand it’s about a liberal Democratic president who’s both honest and effective. Talk about fiction!” –OpinionJournal.com

“Say what you like about those wacky Islamofascists but at least they revile America as the Great Satan. By contrast, to Europe, America is now and forever the Great Moron.” –Mark Steyn

“Every once in a while in the morning as I get up about five o'clock and get ready to take a shower and head for the office, she [my wife Joyce] says, ‘Don, where is he?’ I tell her that if I want to bring up Osama bin Laden, I’ll wake her up and bring it up myself. …If he’s alive, he’s very busy hiding.” –Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

“In the Senate the fellows are bickering/ About naming a judge named Pickering./ Dems say he’s a dork/ The same as Bob Bork./ Now Pickering’s hopes are flickering.” –Lyn Nofziger

“For the line-jumpers and elbow-jabbers in power, ‘public service’ means never having to say you’re sorry for behaving like a royal pain in the … buttinski.” –Michelle Malkin

“In the game of life, I keep meeting goalies.” –Bob Thanes in the comic strip “Frank & Ernest”

“Even though the [Mormon] Church pretty much runs Utah, it’s trying to keep a low profile during the Olympics. This is kind of like Godzilla trying to keep a low profile in Tokyo, but I’m not going to argue.” –Dave Barry

Jay Leno…. After being denied in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson might be able to box in Washington, D.C. It’s nice to see that Vegas has higher moral standards than D.C. You know what D.C. stands for – Denied Charges! …. Some people in D.C. feel Tyson shouldn’t be allowed to box there because he’s a sex offender. Oh, come on – you let Clinton be president. …. At Disney World at the Hall of Presidents there is now a Bush robot. You know, at the Hall of Presidents they have all these robots of the presidents and they speak. There’s now a Bush one – well, the Bush robot came out and choked on a lug nut. …. How does that make Al Gore feel? To have a robot of Bush – you’ve been beat at your own game! …. President Bush [was] in China. He’s trying to persuade the Chinese not to sell nuclear secrets to other countries. The Chinese have said, “No, we worked hard to steal those from you, we can do whatever we want with those secrets!” …. In speed skating, South Korea is considering a lawsuit because of the race with Apolo Anton Ono. It sure didn’t take them long to figure out how things work in America! …. On “Access Hollywood” the other night I saw this. The latest way of keeping fit in Hollywood is lifting heavy objects. In the rest of the country that’s called a job! …. A new study says that women who have between one and 14 drinks per week are more likely to get pregnant – well, duh!

David Letterman…. Top Good Things About Being Stationed in Kandahar: “When I go for a ride in my armored Humvee, everyone is really friendly to me”; “All the fabulous new goat recipes”; “I’ve gotten the autographs of over a dozen Mullahs”; “You don’t really have time to dwell on that figure skating controversy”; “All-you-can-eat sand”; “Did you say ‘Kandahar’? They told me this was Canada”; “Aren’t many better ways of getting out of jury duty”; “There’s a great duty-free shop in what’s left of the Kandahar airport”; “I haven’t seen ‘The Late Show’ in six months”; “Of all the ‘stan’ countries, this is the place to be.”

Argus Hamilton… The Washington Monument reopened Friday on the 270th anniversary of George Washington’s birth. His first inaugural address in 1789 lasted only two minutes. Apparently if a politician cannot tell a lie, there’s not much left to say. …. Louisville Airport passengers had to be re-screened by the thousands … after they walked through the checkpoint while the screener was sound asleep. He was napping on the job. It was an unmistakable sign that airport security is now in government hands. …. Enron executives are being grilled by Congress this week over their bonuses and stock cash-outs last year. It’s about principle. If executives aren’t allowed to loot dying companies, corporations will never be able to attract the best people. …. Monica Lewinsky’s HBO special, Monica in Black and White, premieres Sunday. Is this show necessary? The last thing we need in this time of corporate scrutiny and air safety complaints is the emergence of yet another government whistle blower. …. Chinese President Jiang Zemin is angry with President Bush’s description of North Korea, Iraq and Iran as the axis of evil. China crashed our spy plane and held the crew hostage, fired missiles over Taiwan, and sold nuclear technology to shady regimes. For crying out loud, what does a country have to do to medal in this event? …. Jimmy Carter criticized President Bush’s use of the phrase axis of evil for Iraq, Iran and North Korea. This is his field. Jimmy Carter was so adept at U.S.-Iranian relations that the Postal Service put his picture on the Hostage Due stamp.