IN THE NEWS - HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTARIES
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GRASSROOT
PERSPECTIVE
26-Member
Coalition Calls For Spending Restraint in Congress
June 6, 2007
Dear Member of
Congress:
Elections have
consequences, and election results have causes. One clear cause
of the November election result was that the Democratic Party
convinced large numbers of Americans that they would be more
fiscally prudent than the Republicans had been. We the
undersigned applaud their new stand, and stand ready to help.
Certainly the Congress
under Republican leadership gave the voters plenty of reason to
be receptive to Democratic overtures on spending. One simple
example -- from 2001 through the 2006 Budget, the Republican-led
Congress shamelessly raised its own spending by an average of
6.3 percent a year, more than twice the rate of inflation.
(To read more, click here.)
Abusing Hawaiian
History: Hawaiians Knew Their History in 1959
by Erica Little and Todd Gaziano
(This piece originally was published by the Heritage
Foundation as WebMemo 1117 on June 8, 2006. One year later, it
is still a relevant and important read.---Dick Rowland)
The Senate is again considering the
creation of a race-based government in Hawaii through passage of
the misnamed “Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of
2005”[1] (S.147[2]). The bill is a terrible idea for many
reasons, not the least of which is that it is flatly
unconstitutional.[3] In addition to ignoring its grave
constitutional defects, the bill’s proponents engage in a
serious abuse of history to justify government-backed racial
discrimination. Hawaiian history, in fact, rejects the idea of
race-based rule. In 1959, Hawaiians voted overwhelmingly to
approve statehood without “native” Hawaiian enclaves, showing by
their numbers and their actions that they were all American
citizens, the same as any other. In other words, regardless of
what really happened in the 18th and 19th centuries, the people
of Hawaii knew their history in 1959 and they did not want
separatist enclaves in their future state. Thus, the creation of
a sovereign, race-based government would contravene this
political understanding.
(To read more, click here.)
FRESH PERSPECTIVE
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