Posts Tagged ‘commentary’
Mandated Ignition Interlocks for DWI — T.F. Stern
BY T.F. STERN The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act being considered in Washington would set aside “$25 million per year to states that require the devices to be installed in vehicles of anyone convicted of driving under the influence”; however the bill also has a provision which would mandate those installations in all 50 states [...]
GAO Gives Commercial Colleges a Failing Grade
EDUCATION, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT The Obama Administration is determined not to cut a penny out of the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into our schools and colleges, even though they can't show any progress toward the designated goals established for the spending of that money. The government has just started to look at some areas of [...]
Feminist Propaganda in College Textbook
FEMINISM, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT A woman walked into my office recently and handed me the textbook her daughter was assigned for her "Women and Gender Studies" Course at the University of Missouri/St. Louis. I was shocked at this textbook and I'm going to share it with you. The title is Women's Voices, Feminist Visions by Susan M. Shaw and [...]
Don’t Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aid
By Phyllis Schlafly Don't Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aidis the provocative title of a book by Marybeth Hicks and published by Regnery. She says that the culture wars are over and parents lost. An entire generation of young socialists has come of age, and few parents have even noticed. Marybeth Hicks tries to remedy this ignorance by telling [...]
Public Schools Import Foreign Teachers
By Phyllis Schlafly There has been a strange recent trend to import teachers from foreign countries to educate American students in our public schools. During 2010, the Department of Labor certified 13,157 foreign workers to teach classes in elementary schools and high schools. These foreign workers come into America on H-1B visas, and they are [...]
Elected Judges End Liberal Censorship
By Phyllis Schlafly Montana’s Supreme Court judges have to race re-election every eight years. This brings accountability to their rulings and is an essential check and balance on judicial activism. A recent decision about religion in the Montana court illustrates the value of judicial elections. At the public high school graduation in [...]
Canadian Court Affirms Traditional Marriage
By Phyllis Schlafly The Canadian courts have legalized same-sex marriage. Will they legalize polygamy, too? After all, if consenting adults should be able to marry anybody they like, then why should same-sex marriage be allowed but not polygamy? Many libertarians now insist that government should get out of the business of marriage, and not [...]
The Master Plan of Agenda 21
By Phyllis Schlafly Agenda 21 is a comprehensive master plan to reshape and control the United States and lock us into the clutches of the United Nations under the innocuous phrase Sustainable Development. Advocates of Agenda 21 talk about the three E's of Sustainable Development: Economy, Equity, and Environment. Equity means replacing our [...]
The Mischief of Agenda 21
By Phyllis Schlafly The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa last month is one of a series of UN meetings working toward the UN goal of moving the United States into global government by environmental regulations and a vast network of taxes. These newly-imposed taxes will give the UN a tremendous stream of money. The [...]
While You Were Fleeing… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Sandra Bullock played a woman in love with a stranger who happened to fall into the path of an oncoming train in the movie, While you were sleeping. Things got out of hand when she told the nurse at the hospital she was his fiancé and the story took off from there. Eventually she had to fess up for her actions; but [...]
How Einstein Ruined Physics
By Phyllis Schlafly Albert Einstein is universally admired as a genius for discovering relativity and for forging a new model for scientific breakthroughs. I recently talked on my Saturday radio program with a mathematician and scientist, Dr. Roger Schlafly, to learn why he believes that most of what you learned about Einstein is wrong and why [...]
Cyber Schools Are Popular
By Phyllis Schlafly In Pennsylvania, online, computer-based education for secondary school has become very popular. Charter “cyber” schools have a right to obtain reimbursement from local public school districts for students in districts that enroll. One cyber school alone has grown to 11,000 students, and is now larger than some public [...]
Left Coast Court Bans U.S. Flag
By Phyllis Schlafly The “Left Coast” is a humorous term to describe liberal news from California, and here we go again with another example. A federal district court in California upheld a ban by a high school principal against students wearing a T-shirt with an image of the American flag. Many offensive liberal phrases are allowed to be [...]
Free Trade and Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly I'm eager to hear our presidential candidates discuss the colossal failure of the doctrine of free trade and how it enables protectionist countries, especially Communist China, to play the U.S. for a sucker while using the tremendous profits China makes on sales to the U.S. to build an awesome and threatening military. For [...]
Let’s Talk About Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly The presidential candidate debates on television have included little or no mention of what is widely conceded to be the number-one issue: jobs. The unemployment figures remain unacceptably high, and the figures for young people are truly shocking. The general unemployment rate has been about 9% for the past couple of years. [...]
The Future of ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U. S. Supreme Court scheduled an extraordinary five and a half hours for oral argument in the legal challenge to ObamaCare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The last time the U.S. Supreme Court granted so much time for oral argument was 35 years ago, and that was for four consolidated [...]
Globalism Is a Dead-End Road
By Phyllis Schlafly Yesterday I told you some facts about Europe's decline from what we thought was the prosperous model of the European Union to a bunch of countries on the brink of financial and cultural collapse. Their plan originally sounded so rational, so much like helping history in a march toward the process of unifying Europe. During [...]
We Don’t Like the Future We See
By Phyllis Schlafly Americans don't need a fortune teller to predict our future. We can see the future right before our eyes: Europe; and we don't like it. Europe, whose economy we so generously subsidized with billions of dollars given by hardworking U.S. taxpayers, and whose freedom we repeatedly defended with the blood of our young men, [...]
Out of an abundance of caution — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Last week Enfamil pulled all their products off the shelves coast to coast out of an abundance of caution after four babies died from Cronobacter bacteria; it MUST have been in the baby formula and the news media ran with the story. The FDA later made the statement, “the bacteria that are found naturally in the [...]
Get Ready for Armageddon
By Phyllis Schlafly If you are hungry for some good news, you won't get it in Mark Steyn's new book called After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. But if you are prepared to hear the truth about America’s decline, Mark Steyn delivers it with style and wit, and even a few chuckles. Mark Steyn notes that the interest payments alone on our [...]
Cape Cod Wind Farms Blown Away
By Phyllis Schlafly "Wind farms” consist of many large wind turbines, or windmills, which try to generate electricity. They are an eyesore and stand motionless on a calm day. They are not as efficient as other energy sources, and are often noisy. But the “green energy” crowd pushes wind power at taxpayer expense, and a massive offshore [...]
How Evil Works: Destructive Forces
By Phyllis Schlafly Today’s sensational news stories describe an America that is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. We find people trying to surgically change into the opposite sex, celebrities treating mental-emotional-spiritual problems with powerful psychotropic drugs. In a new book with the awesome title How Evil Works: [...]
The Thomas Sowell Reader
By Phyllis Schlafly One of our most favorite writers has just published a new book which is a great collection of articles, book excerpts and biographical sketches written by Thomas Sowell over many years. Dr. Sowell taught economics at Cornell and UCLA. His textbook called Basic Economicsis widely used and has been translated into six [...]
How to Raise an American Patriot
By Phyllis Schlafly American schoolchildren used to learn history and patriotism in public school. Now they are more likely to be taught that America conquers and steals from other nations and victimizes and oppresses our own people. Author Marijo Tinlin has written a book that gives parents an antidote to make it "okay for our kids to be proud [...]
Questions Media Should Ask the Candidates
By Phyllis Schlafly I don't know about you, but I'm not satisfied with the questions that the media are asking the Presidential candidates in the televised debates. Here are some additional questions I think would be good to ask the candidates. Will you promise to nominate for the Supreme Court or other federal courts only those who believe [...]
Mental Health Screening in Public Schools
By Phyllis Schlafly More and more public schools are screening their students for mental health. A controversial procedure called TeenScreen is now used at 600 schools in 46 states. The screening consists of a 52-item survey asking questions about social phobia, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. TeenScreen reports that nearly [...]
Candidates Just Don’t Get It
By Phyllis Schlafly Despite the great quantity of press coverage about next year’s presidential election, the polls show that no candidate in either party is reaching 50% public support. Why hasn’t any candidate been able to ride citizen dissatisfaction into majority support? I recommend that every presidential candidate read three books [...]
Will America Survive to 2025?
By Phyllis Schlafly The NBC poll reports that 74% of Americans think our government is taking us in the wrong direction. A new book by Patrick Buchanan called Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?will help readers to understand why. This book explains in depressing detail why grassroots Americans are convinced that our [...]
Anniversary of Washington’s Death
By Phyllis Schlafly Today, December 14, is the anniversary of George Washington's death in 1799. He caught a chill riding horseback for several hours in the snow while inspecting his Mount Vernon farm. The next morning it developed into acute laryngitis and the doctors were called in. The common medical practice in those days was to bleed the [...]
Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids
By Phyllis Schlafly Can parents really raise their kids IQ? Scientists now estimate that the genetic, hard-wired component of IQ is only 50% at most, so parents have a tremendous opportunity to help kids develop their intelligence to its greatest potential. In a new book called Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids, licensed psychologist David Walsh [...]
What’s Wrong With Flat Tax Plans?
By Phyllis Schlafly It was landmark legislation when Congress passed the joint income tax return for husband and wife back in 1948 over President Truman's veto. As originally designed, the joint return recognized a husband and wife as two equal partners, even if the husband earned all the family's income. Each tax bracket, deduction and [...]
Curtains for the Utah Crosses
By Phyllis Schlafly There are thousands of crosses on federal property in Arlington Cemetery honoring our fallen soldiers, and rightly so. But a group of atheists sued to remove 13 privately funded crosses from roadsides in Utah, and a federal appellate court held in favor of the atheists. This case, American Atheists v. Utah Highway Patrol [...]
Pearl Harbor Anniversary
By Phyllis Schlafly Today, December 7th, is the anniversary of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a day that President Roosevelt said "will live in infamy." The lesson we should take away from that event is that we should always be prepared for a surprise attack. After all, we live in a world where a lot of evil countries just don't [...]
Admitting Mexican Trucks Is a Bad Deal
By Phyllis Schlafly The Obama Administration has now admitted Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads. They were kept out by the administrations the first and second George Bush and Bill Clinton, but Obama sent his Secretary of Transportation to sign an agreement in Mexico to let them in. In a previous commentary, I talked about [...]
Welfare Is An Attack on Marriage
By Phyllis Schlafly The institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has been fundamental to America ever since the founding of our nation. The famous French commentator Alexis de Toqueville wrote in the mid-19th century: "There is no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America." Not [...]
Court Looks at Debtors’ Prison
By Phyllis Schlafly Debtors’ prison used to be a fact of life in England and in our country during the colonial period. Supposedly, the United States phased out debtors’ prison along with slavery in the mid-19th century. Well, slavery is indeed gone, but debtors’ prison is back with a vengeance in the form of sending fathers to jail over [...]
Wisconsin Third World Mentality Recall — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Wisconsin voters appear to be headed for yet another round of recall elections; Governor Walker being targeted by the United Wisconsin coalition according to an AP article. The opportunity to alter Wisconsin’s balance of power is in play following last summer’s recall election losses of 2 Republican Senators, considering 4 [...]
Court Bans Jesus from Public Prayer
By Phyllis Schlafly In a stunning ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit prohibited a city council from allowing mention of Jesus during its invocations. The Court interpreted the First Amendment as requiring censorship of references to Jesus in prayers allowed by public officials. The invocation at the Forsyth County Board of [...]
Smaller Classes Are Not Better
By Phyllis Schlafly When the subject comes up of cutting the budget for public schools, we hear whining and moaning about the indignities schools are supposedly forced to endure because of the economic downturn. One of these key themes is what they call the "class-size crisis." Teachers like smaller classes; that's understandable. The [...]
College May Be Dangerous for Men
By Phyllis Schlafly College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules. In another striking proof that the Obama Administration is totally manipulated by feminists, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent out a 19-page Dear [...]
Stealth Tactics of Radical Islamists
By Phyllis Schlafly Every Saturday from 11:00 am central time until noon, I host a one-hour radio talk show called Eagle Forum Live. I interview a guest and then invite questions and comments from listeners. In September, I aired a program that many people found particularly interesting, and it is now archived on my website, [...]
Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty — Again
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the first things Ronald Reagan did when he entered the White House in 1981 was to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which had been laboriously negotiated by our State Department and made ready for the President's signature. Reagan said, No way. He clearly saw that the Treaty was a bad deal for the United [...]
Colleges Want Students to Major in Diversity
By Phyllis Schlafly There's been a lot of news coverage about California's budget crisis. In particular, California's state universities are crying that their appropriations of state funds have been "cut to the bone." However, the prestigious magazine City Journal just published an expose of how one college department at the University of [...]
Reagan Was Not a Free Trader
By Phyllis Schlafly The people who support free trade are forever invoking the name of Ronald Reagan and claiming he was a free trader. But the men who worked with him on trade issues say that is not true. For example, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, who served as Reagan's Deputy U.S. Trade Representative with the rank of Ambassador, said flatly [...]
Questions to Ask Presidential Candidates
By Phyllis Schlafly When will Republican presidential and senatorial candidates address any of the many problems caused by China? Their silence is deafening, and the media are complicit in the silence by failing to ask serious questions about China in several presidential debates. Here are some questions we would like to hear Republican [...]
China Sells Us a Trojan Horse
By Phyllis Schlafly Yesterday, we were talking about the threat from Chinese counterfeit microchips that the Pentagon buys and puts into our planes and military equipment. The fact that the Chinese are deliberately selling us counterfeit chips is really not news to those in the know. It has been known for so many years that it has acquired a [...]
China Sells Us Counterfeit Chips
By Phyllis Schlafly It’s a problem for U.S. retailers when Communist China makes fake designer handbags and illegal copies of our music CDs, but it’s a much bigger problem when the fakes are chips installed in our military weapons. The American people are starting to discover that counterfeit computer components bought from the Chinese are [...]
Foreigners Are Not “The Best and the Brightest”
By Phyllis Schlafly The globalists have been promoting the peculiar notion that we should import foreign students, award them advanced college degrees, and then give them a green card so they can legally remain in the United States and get good engineering jobs. It's a ridiculous idea that our great country of 300 million people must look to [...]
Saving the Bill of Rights
By Phyllis Schlafly Frank Miniter believes the Bill of Rights is under attack. His book, called Saving the Bill of Rights, Exposes the Left's Campaign to Destroy American Exceptionalism. He describes how our liberties expressly identified in the Bill of Rights are being ignored or eroded by leftist politicians, activist judges, and [...]
President Kill-Joy
By Alan Caruba “We have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge,” said President Obama at a recent fundraiser in San Francisco. Didn’t Obama know that the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam to which he also referred were built in the midst of the 1930s Great [...]
