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Human Events
Magazine specializing in conservative political topics and events.
Articles from Vol. 56, No. 15, April 21
After $5 Million, the Winner Is
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John Culberson. The seven-term state representative from Greater Houston last week won the hard-fought Republican runoff for the 7th District seat being vacated after 30 years by House Way and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer (R.). The conservative...
Capital Briefs
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* ELIAN'S SHRINKS: For some time the Miami.relatives of Elian Gonzalez have requested that the federal government have Elian evaluated by independent psychologists to ascertain what harm having him forcibly returned to Castro's Cuba would have on the...
Churchill on America
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Winston Loved His Mother's Country The Great Republic: A History of America By Sir Winston Churchill Edited by ws. Churchill Random House; 454 pages, $25.95 ISBN 0375503X,1999 Winston Churchill's mother, Jennie Jerome Churchill, was an American, and...
Clinton and Gore Blast Away at Guns
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The gun-control movement is driven by raw emotion. Facts are irrelevant. Logic is spurned. Utter nonsense is solemnly intoned. It's little wonder that our most emotive President has made gun control his signature domestic issue. According to Democratic...
Conservative Forum
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'Cops Are Pigs' Bias Slants Media Coverage It's nice that you allow rebuttals to your columnists-perhaps you will allow this rebuttal to a rebuttal ["Conservative Forum," HuMAN EvENTS, April 7, 2000, page 24, on Ann Coulter and the New York police]....
Conservative Spotlight: Herman Pirchner Jr
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American Foreign Policy Council Will mainland China annex Taiwan? Chinese President "Jung Zemin based the legitimacy of his rule on reunification with Taiwan," said Herman Pirchner, Jr., president of the American Foreign Policy Council (AFDC) in an interview...
Don't Condemn Elian to Life of Suffering
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It the U.S. government launches an assault on Lazaro Gonzalez's house, it's unlikely to be like Janet Reno's blitzkrieg against the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. But it's still going to be a sorry sight in the land of the free and the brave. Reno...
Evans & Novak
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Presidential 2000 Outlook: The current Gallup poll for CNN and USA Today shows a surprising 9-point lead for Texas Got/. George W. Bush against Vice President Al Gore. . But you would never know it judging from the political atmosphere in Washington:...
House Rejects 10% Cut in Supplemental Spending
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On March 30, by a vote of 126 to 291, the House rejected an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2000 Supplemental Appropriations Act (HR 3908) that would have cut all non-emergency, non-defense discretionary spending by 10%. Later that day, the House passed...
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Castro, Faces Election Challenge
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Anti-U.S. Invective punctuates His Rhetoric Hugo Chavez Friar is fond of saying-- even when not asked-that he is "not a Communist" The flamboyant Venezuelan president probably is not. Still, it must be remarked: He talks like a duck. And he walks like...
Israel Moves Forward with Radar Sale to China
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Congressional Friends of Israel Troubled by Airborne Radar Deal The government of Israel is moving ahead with a deal to sell the People's Republic of China a sophisticated airborne radar system that some analysts believe could alter the balance of power...
Lott Blocks $13-Billion 'Emergency' Spending Bill
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Senate Leader Sides With Conservatives on First Budget Test of 2000 The unstinting opposition of Sen. Majority Leader Trent Loft (R.-Miss.) to a supplemental appropriations bill guarantees that Congress will forgo additional spending for the current...
Metcalf's Seat Up for Grabs
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There was a new twist last week in the contest for the open U.S. House seat that is among those Republicans most fear they will lose this fall and Democrats most covet. In a dramatic, surprising move, retiring Rep. Jack Metcalf (R.) of Washington State's...
Michigan Voucher Initiative Running Strong
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Some Conservatives Join Gou Engler in Opposing School Choice Plan Bay City, Mich.-Along with the upcoming presidential race and Republican Sen. Spence Abraham's stiff reelection battle against Democratic Rep. Debbie Stabenow, the political contest gaining...
Microsoft Ill-Judged
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Poor Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is in over his head. He is on the spot. His decision on the Microsoft monopoly case has sent the high-tech NASDAQ average plunging 600 points. Being a good 19th Century man, he knew Microsoft was big-and, therefore,...
Privatize Social Security
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Flash! Workers no longer have to worry about whether they will have enough money to sustain them in retirement. The problem has been fixed without reducing benefits and without raising taxes. That would be good news if it was about America. Unfortunately,...
Senate Votes Not to Cut Gas Taxes
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On April 6, by a vote of 65 to 35, the Senate passed a non-binding amendment to the Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Resolution (S Con Res 101) that expressed the sense of the Senate that the budget assumes no temporary or permanent reduction of federal gas taxes....
Smith & Wesson's Deal with the Devil
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Threatened with lawsuits based on laughable legal theories, but remembering that the legal theories against tobacco companies were laughable, too, gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson made a deal with the devil. And not only with Clinton, but with various...
The Spy Who Got Away
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Specter Wants to Know Why Nuclear Spy Was Sent to a Halfway House This is the story of a spy who got away. Or, more precisely, it is the story of a man who gave U.S. nuclear secrets to the People's Republic of China and for his crime was sentenced to...
