J.D. Crouch, New Deputy National Security Advisor

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This is one scary guy. Wants to further militarize the country, and loves SDI, the old Star Wars defense shield.

"Crouch has published widely on a number of issues, including both domestic and foreign policy. An example of his trenchant commentary: In a 1999 letter to the Washington Times, Crouch blamed the Columbine High School massacre on "30 years of liberal social policy that has put our children in day care, taken God out of the schools, taken Mom out of the house and banished Dad as an authority figure from the family altogether." (3)

"Crouch offered a succinct account of his political views in a 1995 commentary on the 1994 "Republican Revolution" in Congress for the journal On Principle, published by the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashbrook University, another bastion of conservative academics.

"With Republicans in control of the congressional agenda, Crouch said they should push an ambitious policy program that, in his words, includes the following agenda items:

• "True welfare reform that prevents people from spending lives and generations on the dole and that does not tear apart the family of its recipients, sending thousands of its progeny into the crime culture.
• "A balanced budget amendment and a line item veto.
• "A slashing of taxes and a revamping of the tax code to eliminate 'progressive' taxation that consumes the incentive to create wealth.
• "A restoration of the strength of and the pride in our armed forces by increasing defense spending, and taking care of the most pressing threats to U.S. national security, in particular the building of an SDI defense of the American homeland.
• "Repealing the trash in the crime bill, especially the limits on the rights of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, and passing measures that promote strong local law enforcement and the individual's role in preventing crime.
• "Abolishing unneeded agencies and departments of government that are the domain of individuals or local government, such as the Departments of Energy and Education.
• "Above all passing a federal term limits act that forever eliminates the career politician and reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy, including reducing the size of congressional staffs." (7)

From Right Web--and not sure where before that--sorry.