[IMAGE]  GOPUSA.com Eagle - May 28, 2001 Inside this issue...   A Look at the Headlines State News Briefs Bush Update Star Parker... The Real Threat of the Faith-Based Initiative Doug Patton... Jeffords Was Never a Republican Dorothy Anne Seese... Political Problem or Moral Problem? Rick Erickson... Bruckheimer's Pearl Harbor is an Example of Failed Readiness  -- For conservative news, information, and commentary... subscribe  to The Eagle today!   [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]A LOOK AT THE HEADLINES   The front page of the GOPUSA.com web site is constantly being updated to provide you with the latest news and information.    Here are your Monday morning headlines:    The Washington Times   Hagel criticizes Republicans Virginia town comes to grips with devastating D-Day loss Reno candidacy has Florida abuzz  CNSNews.com   Coalition Seeks Memorial Day Moment of Remembrance Bill Would Declare English Official Language Florida Republican to Resign House Seat  NewsMax.com Today   'A Sense of Awe for the Sacrifice He Made' Senate's New Democrat Leaders Have Sordid Pasts Feds Fuel Anti-Christian Bigotry in Schoolchildren  Fox News   Bush Administration Pressing Ahead With Agenda Despite Losing Senate Bush's First Return to California Involves Some Risk Treasury Department Makes Ready to Send Out Rebates  USA Today   Card: Staff should have served Bush better Former Cabinet members seek governorships Mo. governor says he overspent on inauguration  These headlines and more can be found at http://gopusa.com    [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]STATE NEWS BRIEFS   California - Memorial Day Clebration - or is it?   Steve Miller, GOPUSA.com California Editor   Florida - RENO-BUSH RACE WOULD BE TIGHT   Bill Dillon, GOPUSA.com Florida Editor   Georgia - IN WASHINGTON: Extreme partisanship baffles Georgia's Miller   Bill Garlen, GOPUSA.com Georgia Editor   Illinois - State Senate approves new congressional districts   Dave Diersen, GOPUSA.com Illinois Editor   New York - Gov Urges Badillo to Quit Race   Matt Sciarrino, GOPUSA.com New York Editor   Pennsylvania - Talk of reparations   Tom Diffendal, GOPUSA.com Pennsylvania Editor   Texas - Redistricting remains a draw   Christopher Telschow, GOPUSA.com Texas Editor   [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]BUSH UPDATE   Weekly Radio Address   THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning.  Most Americans are enjoying a three day weekend this Saturday, and I hope you are enjoying yours.  I also hope you'll find the time to share in our nation's observance of Memorial Day, when we pause to reflect on the cost of the free lives we live today.   I will be marking the day with military veterans gathering at the White House, who knew and remember the people who never came back from our nation's wars.  I will then go to Arlington National Cemetery, to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.  It will be a high honor and I will be there on behalf of all the people of the United States.   Later that day, I will join with veterans in Arizona for a commemoration and national moment of remembrance.  Most of us know war veterans; I had the privilege of being raised by one.  Usually, they are reticent about their experiences.  It is often difficult for them to think back on those names and faces, on the ones who never lived to be called veterans.   Read and listen to the complete radio address at http://gopusa.com/bush/radio18.html    [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]THE REAL THREAT OF THE FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE  By Star Parker   The faith-based initiative is our latest proof that politicians are great entrepreneurs in finding ways to expand the scope of government, their own power and control over our lives. This particular initiative should be of concern to all because, in the best scenario, it will only waste money. In the worst case, however, it will be destructive to our nation.   Although for President Bush this initiative is a crusade to reach minorities, welfare programs have already done enough damage in black America. Government dependency has created an environment in which black illegitimacy rates have soared seventy percent. This time the victim of government intervention will be the black church.   However, there is an even deeper concern facing us than this.   Read the complete article at http://gopusa.com/starparker    [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]JEFFORDS WAS NEVER A REPUBLICAN  By Doug Patton   U.S. Sen. James Jeffords of the Peoples' Republic of Vermont has officially changed his party label and gone home pouting, as the catchy question is thrown around Washington, "Who lost Jeffords?"   Who cares? Good riddance.    I know. Jeffords' announcement last week that he would switch his party affiliation from Republican to Independent (read "Socialist"), has sent the Republican leadership into apoplectic fits -- and rightfully so. After all, we're talking about a gigantic shift in control of the United States Senate. The count will now be 50-49-1, thereby putting the Democrats back in the driver's seat for the first time in six years. Control of the Foreign Relations Committee will go from Jesse Helms to Joe Biden. The Judiciary Committee chairmanship will pass from Orrin Hatch to Patrick Leahy (another Vermont lefty). And the thought of Ted Kennedy chairing anything makes my skin crawl as much as the next patriotic American.   Read the complete article at http://gopusa.com/dougpatton    [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]POLITICAL PROBLEM OR MORAL PROBLEM?  By Dorothy Anne Seese   Let me begin this with a quote that is attributed to John Adams, the second president of the United States: "Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure, than they have it now, they may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty."Maybe that explains why this nation has more laws and less liberty, more crime than virtue, more government and less respect for the nation.    We the American people are losing our liberties daily.  Our constitutional guarantees are being judicially overruled and legislated out of existence, all for our own good (so they tell us) or in the alternative, it's "for the children."    Read the complete article at http://gopusa.com/dorothyanneseese    [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]BRUCKHEIMER'S PEARL HARBOR IS AN EXAMPLE OF FAILED READINESS  By Rick Erickson   On Memorial Day, when Touchstone Pictures introduces Jerry Bruckheimer's Pearl Harbor, viewers who remember the shock of Japan's raid on Hawaii will undoubtedly leave the theater unsatisfied with Hollywood's glamorization of an American catastrophe, and the members of Americans for Military Readiness want to set the record straight as to what was left out of the movie -- the glaring example of our unreadiness for war.   As early as February 15, 1941, Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, scoffed at suggestions that Japan would ever provoke a war with the U.S. by executing a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Such a scenario was to the U.S. Command what Gordon Grange described in his, At Dawn We Slept, as "a mouse kicking a cat." According to Grange, U.S. Naval Command at Pearl Harbor focused less on prevention of such an attack and, instead, was blindly steadfast that, should Japan actually carry out such an unlikely invasion, the cat that was the United States would pounce mercilessly upon the mouse regarded as Imperial Japan.   Read the complete article at http://gopusa.com/opinion/re_052501.html    [IMAGE]  [IMAGE] SUBSCRIBE TODAY!  LET THE EAGLE LAND ON YOUR DESKTOP   Was this e-mail forwarded to you?  Would you like to subscribe to it yourself or subscribe a friend?  If so, click on the button to the right or fill out the form below.   Name:   E-mail:    Note: If you do not receive an e-mail confirmation of your subscription after you fill out this form, please click on the "Subscribe Today!" icon or go to http://gopusa.com/eagle/subscribe.html  and subscribe at the web site.   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