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Articles by Glenn R. Jackson
Glenn R. Jackson is the founder of the American Reformation Project, Board Member of Hire American Citizens, and Member National Board of Advisors for FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform). Glenn was a founding Board member and first President of the National Association for the Employment of Americans (NAEA), and organizer of American Jobs Coalition (organizations fighting against the American Worker Replacement Program). Glenn is also a former State Chairman for Buchanan 2000 Presidential campaign, and former state Chairman of the Georgia Freedom Party (a Reform Party affiliate). Glenn holds an MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
The Republican
Reformation
- Jobs-
The Republican
Reformation - Globalism
The Republican Reformation - Energy - “Think, Baby, Think” - Nothing fuels Islamic terrorism like the petro-dollar. Without question the vast sums of money the oil sheiks receive from this country and the rest of the world leaks into the terror network. In fact the case for oil and Islamic fanaticism’s co-dependency are well documented for anyone interested in the discovery. Yet we are treated to “Drill, Baby, Drill” as a rally cry. Does spouting such nonsense make you a serious person on energy policy? (11/20/2008)
The Republican Reformation
“Energy Victory” by Robert Zubrin - A book review [PDF] - In “Energy Victory,” Zubrin details not only a plan for energy independence, but demonstrates conclusively the absurdity of our present national energy policy. From pointing out the role of Saudi Arabia in spreading worldwide the fanatic Islamic Wahhabi worldview and that worldviews direct ties to our current “terror war,” to the use of petroleum wealth in buying influence in the corridors of Washington, our national energy policy is seriously missing the mark of American national interest. For anyone still doubting that Islamic terrorism is a grave threat because of the vast wealth of the oil Sheiks being used to finance it, and the influence that their wealth buys in the corridors of power in the world’s remaining “superpower,” Zubrin’s first sixty pages are conclusive for all but those few still awaiting their second cup of Kool-Aid.
Christians: Stop the war, Stop the deceptions…Free yourselves! - How did we come to find our nation embroiled in a bloody and destructive war and occupation of a nation in the middle of one of the most dangerous regions on the planet? September 11th you say? The deaths of three thousand of our fellow countrymen at the hands of barbarians you say? Tragic indeed, and deserving of grave retribution, but unfortunately the tragedy and the retribution we have started are worlds apart. (6/29/06)
Do you consent? Or have you a new sense of urgency? - We have reached a strikingly dark moment in American history. Two arrows have been let fly at the heart of the nation, one domestic and one foreign in origin. (4/15/06)
Immigration, Group Moral Rights…and the Second American Revolution - If this discussion of secession as a group moral right sounds a sour note, then be prepared for that sour note to turn into an air-raid's screaming siren when unchecked mass immigration, as experienced by the United States over the last 40 years, comes into your focus. (4/03/06)
Corporatism…Fascism only a demagogue away -
The 2004 election cycle is well behind us and half of the 2005 legislative year has also gone by the board. I thought it would be worthwhile to dig through the record for a few details to help understand what our political fortunes have wrought. (6/30/05)
Can we save the American Dream – A Book Review by Glenn R. Jackson (1/31/05) [PDF]
Dismantling the American Dream: Globalization, Free Trade, Immigration, Unemployment, Poverty, Debt, Foreign Dependency, and More by Kenneth A. Buchdahl
Stewardship’s Betrayal - Can We Still Save the American Dream? [PDF]-
Stewardship, the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care, is more moral imperative than a managerial role. Stewardship depends on rejecting the immoral mine of the here and now and embracing an entrustment for the future. Stewardship defines the temporal nature of things and foresees the future needs of others. Stewardship applies as well to nations and generations as it does to individuals. (12/06/04)Cheap Money, Cheap Labor…Pop Goes the Economy -
The Bush Administration is putting on quite a show about the indicators of strength in the American economy. And given the economy’s performance being reflective of the President’s re-election chances that should be expected. Yet for all the cheering, a more objective view veritably screams that something is very wrong in our American economy.Bring back the Cricket! And a conscience for Corporate America. [PDF]-
Once upon a time in America our nation’s business leaders were all about creation and innovation, and not just glitz and marketing. Once upon a time in America our nation’s business leaders would shine the light of a community-centered conscience through their business affairs, and carry around them an enthusiasm for this nation’s citizens. Once upon a time in America Walt Disney was such a leader, and in America the Cricket reigned and not the Locus.Sacrificing a nation The opportunity cost of America’s Transnationals -
The true cost of anything is what you are prepared to give up to get it. This not only means the monetary price, but also includes the “shadow price,” i.e. the opportunity cost of doing something. Everything we do will have an opportunity cost built in; the trick is in determining what that opportunity will really cost you.Of Neo-Cons and Stupid–Cons...Hey! What are you “Conserving?” -There is an incredible amount of energy and effort being poured into spinning the dismantling of America’s economic powerhouse as the perfect storm of economic growth. Well, they have the storm part of the story right anyway. Yet, unashamed the Bush Administration and their minions continue to push for policies that will destroy the American economy, and the American middle-class along with it.
Enron-fication of America - What do George W. Bush and Enron’s Ken Lay have in common? What do Tom Daschle and Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling have in common? Or for that matter what does the U.S. Congress and the Enron Board of Directors have in common?
Employment numbers don’t tell the full story - By Glenn R. Jackson - With the October employment report showing an increase of 126,000 jobs and with the GDP’s exceptional 7.2% growth in the 3rd Quarter 2003, sighs of relief were heard from all quarters. The economy finally turning the corner to job creation was received with rising hope by the nations 8.8 million unemployed. And in Washington D.C. none could be happier then the President’s own re-election team.
Good Corporate Citizens… Or how to become the last American generation. - By Glenn R. Jackson - Some call it globalism, but don’t be misled; gloablism is one of the few things still MADE IN THE USA.
Betting the nation on globalization. SARS says we lose.
- War was raging half a world away when this killer, incubated in China, made its way onto the world stage. It first appeared in early spring, and was noted not so much for its seriousness as it was for its highly infectious nature. Many just called it the three-day fever, but it spread like wildfire. Eight million people in one nation alone were infected in a single month. Then, as soon as it had appeared, it vanished without a trace.
Something’s Missing… and It Means Big Trouble -
With war raging, is the U.S. missing something important to our national interest? Don’t you as an interested observer feel that some critical something is missing from the big picture?Crossing the Rubicon…Will we be better off in 2004? -
What we knew for month’s is now in plain view, it is war. Naturally we are all hoping for the best, and praying for our troops during the worst. And while we will never doubt the outcome we are always mindful of the debt we owe to the men and women in our armed forces.Go Home, We’ll Call You If We REALLY Need You. -
I am stunned by some new proposals that are floating around Capitol Hill these days. It is bad enough that the President of the United States continues to advocate a sell-out of Americans with his push to reward illegal aliens with "guest" worker status and Social Security benefits. However, to find that many are willing to accept "guest" workers as a foregone conclusion of American life and are stampeding all over themselves to see who can come up with the newest "guest" worker proposal is too much.The Wealth of a Nation…Squandered! -
What makes up the wealth of a nation? How would you measure wealth? I don’t think that you could go wrong if you considered "wealth" as an accumulation of possessions and articles of value. You could probably quite easily catalogue your own personal or family wealth, but what about the wealth of your country?Let’s Re-Cap…Why Are We Having This War? -
I listened to Secretary of State Colin Powell and watched his presentation for a case for war against Iraq. OK, he didn’t actually say this is a "case for war," but why beat around the bush (oops). With U.S. military power building by the thousands each day, a case for war is what Secretary Powell was making.Who
WAS John Galt? Looting is UN-American -
In his article Dr.
Binswanger confuses business competition with the likes of Japan, France,
Germany, and Britain, true industrial nations, with competition from the looted
factories and plants of U.S. businesses set-up in third world nations. The Made
in – Bangladesh, Mozambique, East Tambour, China, etc. – designations are
indications of a looted American economy and a betrayed American workforce.
Random
Thoughts - It’s Still the Saudis
- Sami al-Mutairi
apparently shot and killed an American worker in Kuwait this week. He was
captured Wednesday trying to cross the border into Saudi Arabia. Kuwaiti
authorities believe that Sami al-Mutairi was not working alone, and that at
least two others were in on the terrorist plot. This is the third “isolated”
terror incident in Kuwait since the start of the Terror war and the U.S. buildup
in the Gulf preparing for the preemptive war with Iraq.
The
Arrogance of American Business... The Looting of America Has Begun
- We are
Americans... Think that through... American! We are 1776, the Alamo, Bull Run
and Gettysburg, the Greatest Generation and First to the Moon, but we are even
more... we are mothers and fathers working the farms, factories, shops and
stores that brought America step by step across the years to this day in our
Founding Father's distant future.
Are
There No Prisons? Are There No Workhouses? -
“Praise be…the tax cuts
are here, the tax cuts are here!” Or some such similar exaltation seems to be
the White House’s expectation of the reaction of Americans to the President’s
announced economic stimulus plan. That we are only talking tax cuts versus real
tax reform, an economic stimulus in 2003 versus the promised stimulus in 2002,
and a Wall Street friendly tax package to help “create” jobs versus a Main
Street friendly elimination of immigration programs that steal American jobs
makes you wonder who is flying this plane?
Awaiting
the Mahdi…Peace at the Eye of the Storm -
Is Islam a religion of peace? President Bush
continues to inflict that view on the American people, but that does not make it
necessarily true. Instead conservative Christian leaders are being set-up by
the Bush Administration as hate mongers and enemies instead of theologians with
more insight into the matters of faith then he might have. I suppose it is
easier for the Bush Administration to go with the flow of anti-Christian
thinking in the media then it is to actually lead for the good of the nation.
“Islam is a peaceful faith” is clearly hopeful pandering. Pandering, in the
sense that it is intended to make political inroads with the Muslim community in
America. Hopeful, in the sense that maybe 60% plus Presidential approval
ratings translate into a two-thirds national attention deficient.
Going Wobbly in the
Terror War…Putin Makes the Point -
It is déjà vu all over
again as the U.S. moves military assets to the Gulf, and President Bush
threatens war with Iraq. How did we get here? The “war” we were fighting was
against a militant Islamic branch that attacked and killed our countrymen. The
“war” we were fighting was against Afghanistan and a Saudi named Osama bin
Laden, who surprisingly seems to be very much alive, well, in command, and
living in …Pakistan.
The Wall Street Journal, Immigration, and the Politics
of Guilt Manipulation -
There is an old
psychology experiment I learned about in Psych 101 done on the effects of
behavior and cheating. Essentially two groups of students were paid to cheat.
One group cheated on their test for $20, while the other group was paid only $1
to cheat. When asked individually to explain their behavior the group that had
been paid $20 readily admitted to cheating and was open with their reasons.
The Players
Have Changed, But the Game Remains the Same -
Any value to society
has been supplanted by the win at any cost “competitive model” of the modern
two-party system. The remaking of the American social order is being driven by
American big business aided by a self-perpetuating U.S. political class.
Enron and the H-1B American Worker Replacement Program:
The Corporate Scandal You Are Not Hearing About
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What do Enron, WorldCom, Qwest, and
Tyco have in common? If you answered, “putting one over on their employees and
shareholders with dishonest accounting practices,” you are only partially
right. Accounting irregularities are only the tip of the iceberg that the
American worker should find objectionable in the brave new corporate world of
Enron and beyond. While the media has reported extensively on the guilt of
these companies in their inflated accounting and corporate valuations, they have
ignored another more long term and destructive practice engaged in by these and
other American corporations.
Once an Eagle…Stricken with a dart -
“Like a duck in a noose,”
was the last cryptic message the “Beltway Snipers” required the police to
deliver to the American media for broadcast. Three hours later the two Islamic
terrorists are captured. You haven’t heard that before? I don’t mean the
message, which has been discussed and broadcast multiple times, but the part
about these men being Islamic terrorist.
No Other Gods...Who Will You Serve -
One of the more interesting aspects of
formulizing and writing about a Christian Political philosophy are the things
you learn about your traditional political compatriots. By that I mean it is
encounters with economic conservatives, and some social conservatives, who have
learned the letter of the conservative “law” without experiencing the spirit of
that conservative law that can be most interesting.
Desperately Seeking George Washington, and Finding
only George Bush - True
American leadership has fallen on hard times. As is the desire of a free and
peace-loving people our nation’s history has always been to turn to our
individual cares, concerns and needs unless our attentions are drawn by attack
or a media induced frenzy.
If The Truth Be Told… Repent Islam! -
Shortly
after the September 11th attack Franklin 0Graham, son and successor
to evangelist Billy Graham, came under intense criticism for calling Islam “a
very evil and wicked religion.” Last week the Associated Press reported remarks
by Franklin Graham that show he still holds some very un-Politically Correct
views.
Outside the Box: A Conservative Voter Paradigm -
It is
another election year and Party primary time is upon us. Going into this year
conservatives need to ask, who do you trust most, Republicans or Democrats, with
your vote? If you said neither then you are on the right track. If you
answered Republicans, let’s talk.
The
Crumbling Pillars of Globalism -
September 11th dealt a stunning blow to the lords of the New World
Order. Not for one second did these purveyors of globalism, the new global
economy and a world without borders believe that the “unpleasantness” of other
parts of the world would visit theirs. Yet it did and the shockwaves are still
working their way through not only the financial markets, but also the corridors
of power in capitals across the world. As those shockwaves move through this
nation’s capital the question “What price freedom?” may be legislated into “What
happened to freedom?”
Dear Bush Apologist…Its About the Republic Not the Republican
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If you are conservative in your political and
societal leanings there seems for you to be a new game in town. This new sport
has one sole purpose, defend the Republican President George Bush. Like a good
offensive line in a game of football conservatives rally around THEIR President
to defend him against the other team, the Democrats and the liberal media.
Glenn Jackson interviewed by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation on his editorial Dear Bush Apologist…Its About the Republic Not the Republican
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Bush Administration Lacks Conservative Core ( 0:24 )
Interview With Glenn R. Jackson
7/30/02 2:46:45 PM
WASHINGTON, DC - Glenn R. Jackson--Chairman of American Reformation Project and
author of the editorial: "Dear Bush Apologist, It's About the Republic not the
Republican,"--states his belief that the Bush administration lacks a real
conservative core to its operation.
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Administration Still Does Not Get It On Immigration ( 0:19 )
Interview With Glenn R. Jackson
7/30/02 2:46:40 PM
WASHINGTON, DC - Glenn R. Jackson--Chairman of American Reformation Project and
author of the editorial: "Dear Bush Apologist, It's About the Republic not the
Republican,"--questions the logic in the Bush Administration's continued push
for amnesty for illegal aliens and what Jackson considers an overall lax
immigration policy.
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Taxes Only Conservative Issue Bush Has Stood Up For ( 0:23 )
Interview With Glenn R. Jackson
7/30/02 2:46:44 PM
WASHINGTON, DC - Glenn R. Jackson--Chairman of American Reformation Project and
author of the editorial: "Dear Bush Apologist, It's About the Republic not the
Republican,"--counters the belief that the Bush administration has gone out of
its way to "placate" conservatives by pointing out the only issue President Bush
has toed a conservative line on is taxes.
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Administration Needs To Apply More Pressure ( 0:30 )
Interview With Glenn R. Jackson
7/30/02 2:46:30 PM
WASHINGTON, DC - Glenn R. Jackson--Chairman of American Reformation Project and
author of the editorial: "Dear Bush Apologist, It's About the Republic not the
Republican,"--says he believes that the Bush Administration has not applied
significant pressure to countries suspected of supporting terrorism.
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Figures Don’t Lie…But Liars Figure -
...in our society today the clean result
of competition between ideas, products, and people have been replaced by
creating a false result…creating “perception” over reality.
I will faithfully execute the
Office of the President of the United States: “Preserve, protect, and defend”
- On June 16th House
conservatives in the Immigration Reform Caucus met to ask President Bush
pointedly to secure America’s borders by using U.S military forces to control
them. Controlling the nation’s borders during wartime is clearly a duty of the
government.
Connecting the Dots...The Bush
Administration Needs to be Reorganized - Democratic Party leaders
and followers, including those in the press, are worrying aloud as to why the
nation’s Federal Intelligence agencies failed to “connect the dots” prior to
September 11th . I will offer a one-word answer – Clinton – and my
new paraphrased law of organizational cause and effect, “absolute corruption at
the highest level of an organization corrupts the organization absolutely”
The Terrorist Profile…Political
Correctness is Deadly -
Lets just say that profiling is patterning,
finding characteristics that create a pattern that leads to a certain predictive
power and a higher probability of finding the truth you seek.
The War Against Political Correctness…and
Other Forms of Terror -
Sometimes the smallest things expose the greatest
truths. Product advertisements for example can tell you a lot about the state
of the culture, if you will only pause and think a bit about what you have
heard. For example there are relatively new advertisements for “home
fingerprinting kits” for parents to document their children’s fingerprints. God
help us, why are they needed?
McSecurity: Flying Blind…The
Devil is in the Details - How is your sense
of outrage? I am talking about that deep sense of outrage that comes from
encountering something that violates your bedrock beliefs. I am talking about
the outrage that comes from uncivil violations of your very person.
The Ceremony of Innocence
- Pedophilia, Priest, Boy Scouts,
and the Slippery Slope - The Catholic
Church in the United States has a problem, but it is not greater than and really
only a mirror of the problem facing American society as a whole.
Is It Miller Time Yet? Or Are We Waiting
For Hell to Freeze Over? - Last week
the Senate Republicans were unable to break the Daschale 60 vote rule in order
to make ANWR drilling a reality. Republicans could not muster enough public
outcry, or enough votes to break America’s foreign oil dependency. This despite
the fact that no reasonable person believed drilling on the “dark side of the
moon” would harm a living thing.
Root Causes, President Bush, and the Art
of War - As
Secretary Powell returns from the Middle East, and the President’s war plans
slip further off course, it is always worth noting the art of war. Two maxims
of war require repeating. Nation’s to succeed in a new war must not be caught
fighting the last war. The second from the writings of Sun Tzu, “appear
unexpectedly at points your enemy must hasten to defend.” It is surprising to
see this administration full of old hands being caught so completely off guard
by both.
A Multitude of Harm: Zig Zagging on
Immigration Reform - Recently
in announcing new student-visa rules, INS Commissioner James Ziglar was quoted
in the Washington Times, "While we recognize the overwhelming majority who come
to us as visitors are honest and law-abiding, the events of September 11th
remind us there will always be those who seek to cause us harm."
Pat Buchanan, Prisoner of War? -
Pat Buchanan’s latest
entry “The
prisoner of Sharon” continues the war of the pundits in the larger context
of the Terror War. In his rush to interdict the Neo-Cons latest salvo to ignite
a war fever among this Republican administration, he has ignored the first
principle for convincing the American people. You must make sense.
“You will have a policy, … and thus
you will prevent war” - The reports of
history’s end have been greatly exaggerated, and just when we thought we could
get along without it. President Bush just this week has demonstrated how much
he needs to understand human history. The President announced that Chairman
Arafat is “not a terrorist”, because Arafat has “worked for peace.” I assume
this means the Nobel Peace prize trumps good sense.
“Work Americans Won’t Do” -
When the open borders/cheap labor
advocates turn the phrase “work Americans won’t do” to support their advocacy of
guest worker programs and blanket “amnesty”, to which “Americans” are they
referring?
The Soulless Bush Agenda -
I admit I am confused, but maybe I am not alone.
I realize it is not a popular thing to criticize an American President during a
time of war. Americans are just not like that. Instead, like no other people,
Americans will drop every pretense and rally to the flag and to their President
when their country is attacked. I’m saying the American people will although
not so surely the politicians, but then that is a different story. And while
President Bush is benefiting from that typical American reaction, we the people
are not getting the full picture.
Guest Commentary: Amnesty Hurts U.S. Taxpayers & Endangers America by Glenn Jackson, Washington Times, Feb. 17, 2002 - Reported in the February 15th Washington Times "Mexican amnesty plan resurfaces", President Bush seems intent on pursuing amnesty for illegal migrants. Once again the proposal for some form of "guest-worker" program is being floated. The hope is to "channel" illegal migrants entering this country into some means for legalizing their status.
Dear Federal Bureau of Investigation:
It’s not Funny - The Washington Times
is reporting that the culprit behind the anthrax letter’s sent to the Senate
offices of Daschle and Leahy, as well as to media outlets in New York and
Florida is suspected by the FBI to be an American citizen and former scientist
at the bio-weapons center at Fort Detrick. The Fox News follow-up report on
this story has the FBI claiming that the Washington Times has “overplayed” the
report, and that the Times report was “laughable”.
The Silence of the Christian Church in
America - Upon reading the ASSIST News
Service story about Islam being taught in the California public schools I
thought it would be worthwhile, in view of the imposed separation of Christian
Church and state, to ask many of the mainline Christian denominations for a
reaction to the story. The reactions could be summed up by “we have no
reaction” until our General Conference, General Assembly, or appropriate
governing body meets. Only the Orthodox Presbyterian Church had a definitive
pronouncement of opposition, the rest did not imagine their governing bodies
would respond to the issue.
Congress’s Blind Eye -
The economy is back on center stage in our
nation’s capital. Washington D.C., and our political class are once again
serving up heaping helpings of concern for our well-being by creating perception
over reality. Investigations by the Democrats into the collapse and bankruptcy
of Enron will soon be followed by the Republicans investigation into the
collapse and bankruptcy of the telecommunications giant Global Crossings.
The American psychosis
- They call him John Walker, the American
Taliban. In his early teens Walker immersed himself so deeply in rap music and
black culture that he actually identified himself as a black American.
The Foundations of Social Order
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At the time of our nation’s youth
early 18th century England was experiencing growing pains of its
own. Elie Halevy, England in 1815, writes “It
(early 18th century England) was a period of general disturbance. A
political was aggravated by an economic crisis. On all sides there were strikes
and riots. Similar conditions a half-century later must have given rise to a
general movement of political and social revolution.”
Hail Caesar! - “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” As events in the war on terror in Afghanistan suddenly advance at lightening speed, the President, Congress and our globalist business elites would do well to take this opportunity to give new thought to their pre-September 11th policies and behaviors. (11/13/01)
Homeland Defense: Whose home is this anyway? - You awaken to discover that there is someone living in your basement. And not just one, but a multitude of strangers are living quite comfortably in the basement of your home. As shocking as that discovery is, it is nothing compared to the realization that another group of people are coming and going freely through your home’s attic entry. What is going on here? (10/30/01)
God, Country, Liberty, and Georgia Governor Roy Barnes - After the horrific events of September 11th many citizens of this nation are thinking anew about what it means to be an American. We all find ourselves sharing feelings of sorrow for the victims of this act of war; filled with pride and concern for our fellow citizens in the Armed Forces of the United States as they take the fight to the enemy; and, thankfully, we have seen that this nation still turns to God in its hours of need. (10/25/01)
Adjourning in the face of the enemy - As the strength and bravery of the American people continues to shine, the failure of our leadership grows more alarming by the day. What is the latest? (10/22/01)
Tommy Thompson must go - The September 11th attack on this country and the response of the New York Fire and Police departments have created a sub-theme to what is written and said about this first war of the Twenty-first century. Peggy Noonan, writing in the Wall Street Journal, was one of the first to point out that “men” by the hundreds gave their lives rushing into burning buildings to save others. And what kind of men were these? (10/26/01)
Made in China - The President has strongly urged all Americans to get back to the business of America. He, among others, has urged us all to demonstrate that we are not intimidated and that we will continue to conduct business as usual. In particular we are urged to stimulate the U.S. economy by spending money and buying things. (10/10/01)
With Friends like these…. - We have all heard the stories, maybe even experienced them ourselves, of a family loss or crisis, a community tragedy, or even, sadly, the aftermath of the attacks on our nation. People no one thought cared, show up to feed the family. A community rallies to provide food, shelter and clothing to those affected. And in the case of the attacks on New York and Washington an outpouring of support within those two communities for their own, as well as a massive outpouring from the nation at large. (10/04/01)
Protect and Defend - In 1997 the U.S. Commission of Immigration Reform presented a detailed study that outlined the means to regain control of U.S. Immigration policy, our national borders, and our national safety. (9/28/01)