Conservation Law Foundation Seeks to Help Local Farmers

The Conservation Law Foundation is leading the fight to prevent urban sprawl by helping the state’s dairy farmers. It seeks to continue the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact which pays local farmers the difference between the federally-set milk price and the higher average cost of dairy farming in New England. It says that dairy farmers in the state tend 109,000 acres. 

It also seeks to promote all types of farming in the state which keep 600,000 acres of land as open space. It says that the “tenuous economic position [of farmers] poses a significant threat to our rural landscape and fresh, local food supply.” More information is available at www.clf.org

Mt. Holyoke Professor Also Lied About Jefferson and Slave

You’ve heard about the famous Mount Holyoke professor, Joseph Ellis, who lied about being a paratrooper in Vietnam, etc.

But you probably haven’t heard that he was also the person who lied about Thomas Jefferson being the father of a child born to a slave at Monticello.

You’re not going to hear about it because the media in Massachusetts doesn’t want you to know. They were very happy to talk about Ellis just weeks before the impeachment report on Bill Clinton. He was the  famous Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a biography about Jefferson who had just written a report titled, “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child.” He was saying that Clinton was not alone in his sordid acts. He claimed that the new testing proved “beyond any reasonable doubt that Jefferson had a long-term sexual relationship with his mulatto slave.”

When it was later reported that there were 25 Jefferson men who could have been the father, did anyone read that in the Massachusetts media? But we shouldn’t feel too bad because columnist Ann Coulter reports that only eight newspapers in the entire country bothered to report the correction and only four admitted the whole truth about Jefferson.

Do you remember Ellen Goodman’s column slamming Jefferson and the founders of our country?

It’s amazing but true that Ellis would still be a respected professor at Holyoke if the academics outside the state hadn’t weighed in. The president of Mt. Holyoke, Joanne V. Creighton, was happy to accept an “apology.” After all, Ellis said he accepted full responsibility for what he did. That’s the standard line since the Bill Clinton days. But what does it mean?

World War II Vet Reflects on Year 2001

With everyone talking about what a wonderful, virtuous generation they were, this WWII Vet thought it appropriate to reflect on the present generation.

• If your daughter gets pregnant by the football captain, you blame the school for poor sex education.

• If your neighbor crashes into a tree while driving home drunk, you blame the bartender.

• If your cousin gets AIDS because the needle he used to shoot up with heroin was dirty, you blame the government for not providing clean ones.

• If you smoke three packs a day for 40 years and die of lung cancer, your family blames the tobacco company.

• If your grandchildren are brats without manners, you blame television.

• If your friend is shot by a deranged madman, you blame the gun manufacturer.

• If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap while driving, she blames the restaurant.

• If your teen-age son kills himself, you blame the rock ‘n’ roll music or musician he liked.

• And if a crazed person breaks into the cockpit, tries to kill the pilots at 35,000 feet, and the passengers kill him instead, the mother of the deceased blames the airline.

• I must have lived too long to understand the world as it is anymore. So if I die while my old, wrinkled butt is parked in front of this computer, I want you to blame Bill Gates. OK?

Globe Continues Attack on Marriage

The Globe continued its attacks against the “Protection of Marriage Act” in a Sunday edition. Even though a majority of citizens support the Act, the Globe gave three times more space to letters against it than it did to those in favor, making it appear as though the vast majority of citizens are against it. The new law would continue the definition of marriage which has always been acknowledged in the state but has never been written down as one man and one woman. The feminists at the Globe (particularly the Opinion editor, Renee Loth who used to be political editor at the Phoenix) want the Massachusetts Supreme Court to change the definition to include everyone’s “partner.”

Concern About Single Mothers in Hartford

Just when we were given the “good news” (according to the Globe) that the traditional two-parent family is less than 25% of American households and happily on its way to extinction, we were re-informed by the Globe last month that Hartford is in a crisis because it now has the highest number of “single-mother homes” in the country at 20%. It said that, “Hartford is not proud” of the title because it’s a “problem for everybody.” Just when we thought we should all cheer because we don’t need traditional families anymore, the Globe finally agrees that single-mother homes are bad for everyone. Maybe they’ll support the Protection of Marriage Act after all, or maybe they’ll fire the reporter who wrote the Hartford story.

Teens Not Majority of Unwed Moms

The majority of unwed mothers are not teenagers. They were responsible for 29% of unwed births in 1999, but 36% of the unwed moms were 20-24 years old and 34% were over 24, reports Reuters Health.

Robert Bradley Helps Start University on Internet

A new Internet University, which went online on June 11 to teach college level courses for credit, is dedicated to the study of Western law, philosophy and the history of Western civilization. One of the Directors of the new school is Robert Bradley, Wellesley. The school says that the subjects it will teach have fallen into disuse on most campuses today. It says the school is aimed at “young and old students disappointed by the absence of courses in these subjects at conventional colleges and universities.” The school is at www.yorktownuniversity.com. Bradley is President of Bradley, Foster & Sargent, an investment management firm.

Globe: No Worse Sin than being a Pro-Life Candidate

On Thursday, June 21, the Globe wrote on the front page of “City & Region” this headline, “Gay activists mobilizing against Lynch US House bid.”

On Friday, June 22, it wrote as its third most important story of the day, “Tax records show Lynch had long debt.” It was front-page news that Stephen Lynch had lost money on some rental properties he bought during the boom years and had trouble paying $2000 in taxes to the state and $4000 to the federal government.

On Saturday, June 23, it reported, “Lynch defaulted on student loan.” Further down in the story, it reported that Lynch paid back all of the $26,000 in loans he got in the 1980s to attend Wentworth Institute and he paid back about $11,000 of a $26,000 loan he had to attend night school in the 1990s. He didn’t default until May 2000 and hasn’t made any payments since August. He donated a part of his liver to his brother-in-law this March. Any collection lawyer will tell you, a man with this history will pay the balance of his debt.

But the reporter, Yvonne Abraham, even compared him to City Councilor Peggy Davis-Mullen who failed to file state tax returns and failed to report some of her income on her U.S. returns.

In its Saturday story, the paper began by saying that Lynch “had failed to pay thousands of dollars in overdue federal and state income taxes.” We can only guess that that refers to the $2000 and $4000.

Abraham reported that Lynch even marches in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston.

This is known at the Globe as the “total annihilation” of any candidate who dares to be pro-life. 

Why Is This Cartoonist So Angry?

Columnist Alex Beam tells about Ted Rall, a famous cartoonist who can’t get a job because he’s angry. He even published a cartoon titled “12 Ways to Kill Your Parents” and one boy followed his instructions. He has advocated eliminating Father’s Day and wrote one column, “Give Hate a Chance.”

Why is he angry? Beam says, “Rall’s father abandoned him and his mother when Ted was 3, and Rall has neither forgiven nor forgotten.”

Beam has obvious empathy for this poor man who grew up without his father. How would he feel if Rall had conquered his anger and substituted love instead? But only a religious “nut” would do that.

Maybe this means Beam will even support the Protection of Marriage Act. But he’d probably respond that it wouldn’t have stopped Rall’s father from leaving. But Alex is too young to remember when marriage was important in our society and maybe even Rall’s father might have stayed around. Can’t guarantee it, but one never knows. It was a lot better for kids than it is now. 

Chester Darling Defends African from Racial Profiling

A jury in Lowell found a man from Cameroon, Africa, not guilty of charges last month that resulted from his earlier arrest for not coming to a complete stop at a blinking red light.

Darling believes it may sound unusual that someone would be arrested for a civil infraction.

Two disorderly conduct complaints were submitted to the Court by the Chelmsford Police Department. The defendant, Richard Fruforminduh, a student who was never arrested before, was bewildered by flashing high beams and shouted commands from a patrolman pointing a flashlight in his vehicle. He was arrested for not reacting quickly enough to the patrolman’s commands.

The second disorderly conduct charge was made due to Fruforminduh’s reluctance to leave the police station after being bailed out. He was not advised as to the whereabouts of his vehicle and he was reluctant to walk in the sub-zero weather at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Atty. Darling, President of Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights, Inc., is pleased with the verdict but concerned about the motives and hostility that still exist in the Commonwealth. He says that while some may ask if it is unusual for the same non-profit law firm that brought an end to 25 years of busing in Boston to represent Fruforminduh, he believes this case is completely consistent with the mission of fighting discrimination whatever the race of the victim.