Some in the ultraliberal national media have been labeling her as politically moderate. Our question is: Moderate as per whom, Karl Marx?

Hillary's voting record is so consistently liberal that the National Taxpayers Union -- whose voting indexes are based on some 200 roll-call votes -- gave her a 3% score for 2001. Fact is, that's the sorriest score NTU has given a freshman senator since 1977. Her voting record was not any better for 2002, either.

Worse, like Slick Willie, Hillary's history reeks with wrongdoing. The well reported untimely demise of two of Hillary's friends, Jim McDougall and Vince Foster, instantly comes to mind.

There is also a little unresolved matter of millions of dollars in unreported "gifts" and all sorts of goodies she removed from the White House. Unfortunately, the current Justice Department refuses to confront her with these matters.

And, speaking of justice, how much perjury did Hillary commit? We may soon learn -- after the statute of limitations runs out, though. Hillary collected more than eight million bucks to recall what happened during those eight years in the White House. She could remember nothing for nearly a decade, as she testified under oath. Now we are supposed to believe that she will have enough interesting things to say about those years for a book? Sure.

Maybe we can give her a hint for some interesting book material. About the time Slick Willie was fooling with Monica Lewinsky, and others, he also brought his kissing cousin, Catherine Cornelius, in for work and pleasure. Turns out, Hillary got all upset. Not because Slick was playing kissy-face with a cousin. Because one of the White House Presidential Protective Detail Secret Service agents was, too. Whoops!

Nowadays, Hillary is quick to criticize the Bush administration's war on terrorism. But, when asked about Slick's obvious neglect of the matter, she becomes a regular little excuse factory. In one instance, she told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that she did not think Slick's Monica Lewinsky affair and impeachment interfered at all with the administration's pursuit of Osama bin Laden: "I don't think it's fair. I don't think it's an accurate rendering of what did happen," Hillary said. "I don't know all the details. But what has already been reported in many other sources demonstrates clearly -- and I know from personal experience -- how absolutely focused the president was on this and the kind of action that was taken."

Obviously, Hillary is not very good at reading the news. There have been reports from government officials and security experts from around the world clearly stating they would have delivered bin Laden to the U.S. government if we wanted him. The Clinton administration refused the offer.

Slick and Hillary Clinton have become rather wealthy since leaving the White House. Yet, they are still stiffing their lawyers, as a few publications reported. The Washington, D.C. lawfirm Williams & Connolly even stopped trying to collect on the estimated $9 million of outstanding legal debt the Clintons have owed since 1994.

Williams & Connolly "long ago wrote off 80 percent of what President Bill Clinton owed," Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams wrote in The New York Post, adding, "The lawfirm has already written off the majority of its $11 million outstanding."

Apparently, the Clintons had paid just $2 million of the amount owed. Which means, Hillary again ripped off yet another high-dollar, tax-free gift.

We should also not forget all the campaign finance irregularities, just in Hillary's Senate campaign. For instance, Paul Adler, a major Hillary fund-raiser, was sentenced to 19 months in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. "Mr. Adler failed to do an honest, principled job" as party leader, federal Judge Charles Brieant said, and his crime will discourage "idealistic men and women from going into local politics."

"Prosecutors have found a witness who says the senator was present during discussions of [buying]clemency [from Bill Clinton] before the election," reported the New York Daily News, citing "sources familiar with the investigation."

But, unfortunately, the Justice Department did not charge Hillary.

Hillary likes to play with the rich contributors. Already, she runs at least two large Political Action Committees and has accepted big bucks from otherwise ineligible contributors to launder into the campaign chests of Democratic candidates who will be in position to help her later. At last report, Hillary's PACs paid out about $600,000 to buy favors from 73 Democratic candidates across the country.

Perjury, theft & corruption. There's Hillary.

In last week's State of the Union address, President Bush spelled out a whole list of weapons violations by Saddam Hussein.

"Twelve years ago, Saddam Hussein faced the prospect of being the last casualty in a war he had started and lost. To spare himself, he agreed to disarm of all weapons of mass destruction," President Bush reported to the American people. "For the next 12 years, he systematically violated that agreement. He pursued chemical, biological and nuclear weapons even while inspectors were in his country."

Quite true. That useless paper tiger we call the United Nations knew of Hussein's many violations. Yet, UN officials continually looked the other way.

Last Monday, U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix reported that Iraq had not accepted its obligation to disarm. Blix told the UN Security Council that Iraq had not yet reached "a genuine acceptance" of disarmament, nor had it answered the many questions about known stocks of missiles and chemical and biological weapons. Blix reported that 6,500 bombs containing 1,000 tons of chemical agents, several thousand medium-range guided missiles and large quantities of biological weapons material were missing from Saddam's audited arsenal.

President Bush seems to agree with Blix's report, limited as it was. However, Dubya had a list of his own. And the Bush List is far more inclusive.

Below are the elements of the Bush List, slightly edited, as reported in the State of the Union address. We should remember, too, that there is a very good case made here that both the Clinton Administration and the United Nations were very remiss in their duty of supervising Hussein's disarmament.

It is up to Iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons, lay those weapons out for the world to see and destroy them as directed. Nothing like this has happened. The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons materials sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax; enough doses to kill several million people. He hasn't accounted for that material. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin; enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He hasn't accounted for that material. He's given no evidence that he has destroyed it.

The 108 U.N. inspectors were sent to conduct -- were not sent to conduct a scavenger hunt for hidden materials across a country the size of California. The job of the inspectors is to verify that Iraq's regime is disarming.

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents could also kill untold thousands. He's not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them. U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents. Inspectors recently turned up 16 of them, despite Iraq's recent declaration denying their existence. Saddam Hussein has not accounted for the remaining 29,984 of these prohibited munitions. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

From three Iraqi defectors we know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs. These are designed to produce germ warfare agents and can be moved from place to a place to evade inspectors. Saddam Hussein has not disclosed these facilities. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. . . .

From intelligence sources, we know, for instance, that thousands of Iraqi security personnel are at work hiding documents and materials from the U.N. inspectors, sanitizing inspection sites and monitoring the inspectors themselves.

Iraqi officials accompany the inspectors in order to intimidate witnesses. Iraq is blocking U-2 surveillance flights requested by the United Nations.

Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed to interview. Real scientists have been coached by Iraqi officials on what to say.

Intelligence sources indicate that Saddam Hussein has ordered that scientists who cooperate with U.N. inspectors in disarming Iraq will be killed, along with their families.

Year after year, Saddam Hussein has gone to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums, taken great risks to build and keep weapons of mass destruction. But why? The only possible explanation, the only possible use he could have for those weapons, is to dominate, intimidate or attack.

With nuclear arms or a full arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, Saddam Hussein could resume his ambitions of conquest in the Middle East and create deadly havoc in that region.

And this Congress and the American people must recognize another threat. Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaida. Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his hidden weapons to terrorists, or help them develop their own.

Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. . . .

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option.

So, kudos to the President on this matter. According to President Bush, Saddam Hussein has enough weapons to kill many in neighboring countries and still have plenty to send over here to cause pain and suffering.

Conclusion: War is justified.

Today, over 68% of public land -- land belonging to the people of the United States -- the land in our National Parks, Preserves and Monuments, is designated as a United Nations World Heritage Site, Biosphere Reserve or both. Worse yet, United Nations' land designations, such as UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and World Heritage Sites, currently take place without the approval of Congress and with no Congressional oversight. Nor are State and local officials, or even private landowners, usually consulted.

By allowing these international land designations, the U.S. is indirectly agreeing to terms of international treaties, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, to which the U.S. is not a party or which the U.S. Senate has refused to ratify. That is, by agreeing to form UNESCO biospheres in the United States, federal bureaucrats allow a group of foreigners to make land-use regulations for our property and the federal bureaucracy uses the guns of the federal government to force the American people to obey the foreign regulations.

So, although the United Nations has no direct enforcement of land management -- they have no police here yet -- decisions in the use and operation of Biosphere Reserves or World Heritage Sites are set in accordance with UNESCO rules and regulations. There is no treaty or agreement. Some federal bureaucrats(1) took this power upon themselves. Which means, they unlawfully gave the international community an open invitation to interfere in U.S. domestic land use decisions -- decisions which often limit the use of privately owned property, and thereby negatively impact on its value.

For instance, the actions of the World Heritage Committee in condemning a proposed mining development on privately-owned land outside the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, a World Heritage Site, provides an example of the havoc these foreign programs can create. A member of the World Heritage Committee, Adul Wichiencharoen from Thailand (of all places), requested that a 12 million acre (18,750 square mile) buffer zone be created around the 2 million acre Yellowstone National Park. Federal bureaucrats are attempting to work that foolishness in, but the pesky people living in the area won't cooperate. One bureaucratic suggestion is that the people be removed so the weeds, bugs and wild animals can live in peace.

According to the U.S. National Committee MAB, as adopted on July 26, 1995: "The mission of the United States MAB Program is to explore, demonstrate, promote, and encourage harmonious relationships between people and their environments building on the MAB network of Biosphere Reserves and interdisciplinary research. The long-term goal of the U.S. MAB Program is to contribute to achieving a sustainable society early in the 21st Century. The MAB mission and long term goal will be implemented, in the United States and internationally, through public-private partnerships and linkages that sponsor and promote cooperative interdisciplinary research, experimentation, education and information exchange on options by which societies can achieve sustainability."(2)

Another mission statement is available by the Department of State.(3) Their Environmental and Scientific Affairs office also posted a page of informative links.(4)

Back in the Carter Administration there was an international agreement which many countries signed onto. The United States agreed, in part. And, as always, the American taxpayer got stuck paying big bucks for something that had zero benefit for the American public. The key word there was "agreement." It was not an international treaty. President Carter agreed to participate only in part, and implemented that part of the agreement through an executive memoranda. The administration then secured minimal program funding from Congress.

President Reagan saw the fallacy in the program and canceled the whole thing. However, federal bureaucrats did not conform and continued making more biospheres.

On April 24, 1997, Rep. Coburn offered an amendment to the National Science Foundation budget stating that: "No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be used for the United States Man and Biosphere Program, or related projects." Coburn spelled out the law for the House:

"It is important that the people recognize that the Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage sites are under the guidance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization also known as UNESCO. The United States withdrew from that Organization in 1984 because of gross financial mismanagement.

"Over 68 percent of our national parks, preserves, and monuments have been designated as United Nations World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves or both. There are currently 47 of those sites [97 actually] in the United States, covering an area the size of Colorado. Under the relative agreements, the United States is promising to manage lands in accordance with international guidelines.

"Many times local governments, [and] private property [owners] are never consulted in these management plans. This is a clear violation of private property rights. The biosphere programs, including the United States Man and Biosphere Program, have never been authorized by any Congress, never been authorized, but still received [funds] this past year and this year will receive over $700,000 of taxpayers' money. The National Science Foundation distributed more than $400,000 in grants to this unauthorized program despite the fact that the program has never had a consideration or vote in Congress and has never been approved by a body of the Congress."

That amendment easily passed, as did a number of subsequent amendments to various budget bills specifically defunding the biosphere project -- even though the project never had authorization. Yet, the biosphere reserves are still with us and third-world foreigners from UNESCO are still wandering our nation with the intent of directing our land usage.

Still today, the U.S. and UNESCO Man and Biosphere Program (MAB) seems to be chugging along like the Little Engine that Could. No matter what, it will not quit.(5)

Legally, the Man and the Biosphere program does not exist. Yet, an American citizen can still get arrested for entering one of their many restricted zones. Congress never funded the program, and even stated in a number of bills that no money may be spent on it. Yet, the program is still in full operation.

For more on exactly what a biosphere is, as per UNESCO, and what they have planned for the American People, see the Biospheres in a Nutshell FAQ.(6)

Clearly, this is a gross misappropriation of funds. Stealing of taxpayer money, in other words. That being so, a few dozen bureaucrats should be fitted up with some prison uniforms. That's the only way this nonsense will ever be stopped.

1. <http://www.euromab.org/general_information/nat_comm.html>

2.<http://www.euromab.org/home2.html>

3. <http://www.state.gov/www/global/oes/fs_mab.html>

4. <http://www.state.gov/www/global/oes/mab.html>

5. <http://refuges.fws.gov/> (see map)

6. <http://www.unesco.org/mab/nutshell.htm>

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