Posts Tagged ‘commentary’
Death for American Innovation
By Phyllis Schlafly The Senate is itching to create a law that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth. The sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, calls his bill patent reform, but it's not reform; it will kill innovation by litigation. Now that the globalists have spent our country almost [...]
Zero Tolerance Overreaction
By Phyllis Schlafly Zero Tolerance is one of the foolish policies inflicted on public school students. It requires disproportionate punishment for minor and unintended offenses. Even when school policies permit lenience and exceptions, some school personnel insist on taking a hard line for petty violations. In Kansas, a fifth-grade [...]
Mount Soledad Cross Banned by the Court
By Phyllis Schlafly Beginning in 1913, three different crosses have stood on Mount Soledad in southern California. The first two were built by groups of private individuals in 1913 on a spot used as a veterans' memorial park. In 1952, a large concrete cross, known as the Mount Soledad Cross, was erected by the American Legion in memory of [...]
The Fraud of the Century
By Phyllis Schlafly Feminism is back in vogue as a controversial topic. The blogosphere and newspapers all over the country are debating the meaning of feminism – and what it means to be female and powerful. The female left always argues for women to be independent of men, self supporting, sexually uninhibited, and liberated from the [...]
Funny Turnabout on Fluoridation
By Phyllis Schlafly Our government first began urging cities to add fluoride to their municipal water systems in the 1950s. That was highly controversial. Groups of people, much like the Tea Parties of today, organized, wrote letters against this practice, claiming that fluoride is a poisonous substance, and in any event was government [...]
Idle Teachers Still Cost Taxpayers
By Phyllis Schlafly Do you wonder why public schools cost the taxpayers so much money? Well, here's one reason. When a public school teacher is accused of misconduct or incompetence, the disciplinary hearings can drag on for years. During that time, the teachers continue drawing their full salaries and benefits, while they sit idle in what [...]
America’s Solution to Energy Dependence
By Phyllis Schlafly Natural gas has been produced in the United States for over 100 years and is produced in 38 states. It is used primarily to heat homes and buildings. It's also used as a fuel to generate electricity and as fuel for vehicles, including automobiles. In the last three years, large deposits of natural gas have been [...]
Remembering the Super Bowl Hoax
By Phyllis Schlafly A few weeks ago we passed the 18th anniversary of an event that precipitated the passage in 1994 of the Violence Against Women Act (known as VAWA). The event is known as the Super Bowl Hoax, the assertion made on January 28, 1993 in Pasadena, California, with big media coverage, that more women are victims of domestic [...]
Truck Drivers Should Speak English
By Phyllis Schlafly U.S. law requires truck drivers to speak and understand the English language. The Obama Administration plans to admit Mexican trucks to our highways and roads, and says it will "conduct an English Language Proficiency" test of each Mexican driver. However, it does not say the Mexican drivers must speak English or pass [...]
Obama’s Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks
By Phyllis Schlafly It is amazing that, with unemployment so high, the Obama Administration is pushing a plan that will put many American truck drivers out of work and make highway driving for Americans more dangerous and less pleasant. Obama wants to admit Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads. The result would be that [...]
A Mountain of Words — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Declaration of Independence offers a starting point, a glimpse of liberty and all its transient meanings. Our basic structure of government is based on the acceptance; change that, demands the acceptance of a separation between natural rights of individuals and powers granted to their government. “We hold these [...]
How to Replace ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. House fulfilled its promise when it voted to repeal the law called ObamaCare, which grants 2,000 powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. For example, regulators will decide what clinical drugs seniors will be allowed to get. The regulators are empowered to use "comparative effectiveness research" [...]
Cannon Fodder — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Time travel is possible; today the clock went back to when U.S. military personnel were coming home from an unpopular war in Vietnam. Some of you might not remember how our servicemen were the focus of public ridicule from those involved in the anti-war movement. “Baby killer!” Those who wore the uniform and did their [...]
G.E.’s Change of Heart About China
By Phyllis Schlafly A few years ago, General Electric caved into the Chinese government's demand that G.E. build a large wind turbine factory in China. Since G.E. owns a crucial patent for wind turbines, this demand was based on the Chinese anti-free trade policy called indigenous innovation (which is "a blueprint for technology theft"). [...]
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
By Phyllis Schlafly As a resident for more than four decades of the state of Illinois, which proudly calls itself the Land of Lincoln, I’m happy to remind you that tomorrow we will be celebrating Abe Lincoln’s birthday. He was a truly remarkable man for many reasons, and he deserves his special day on our calendar. In Illinois, we honor [...]
ACLU Continues to Target Christmas
By Phyllis Schlafly The American Civil Liberties Union (known as the ACLU) continues to carry on its war against Christmas. The Tennessee branch of the ACLU sent a warning letter to 137 school superintendents in Tennessee warning them about having school Christmas celebrations. The letter suggested that celebrating Christmas while excluding [...]
What’s Wrong With Those New Light Bulbs?
By Phyllis Schlafly Today I'm telling you more about a new law called the Energy Independence and Security Act, which is designed to banthe electric light bulbs we've always been using, and instead force us to buy a new kind of light bulb called a CFL that is made in China. They don't give as much light as the bulbs we have been using, but [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for State Legislators
By Phyllis Schlafly The most important news of 2010 was the election of 680 new members of state legislatures. Here are some New Year's Resolutions for laws I hope they will consider passing. First, health care: Out-of-pocket medical expenses should be tax deductible, and self-paying patients should not be charged more than insurance [...]
The Strange Push for More College Students
By Phyllis Schlafly One of President Obama's fallacious notions for how to reduce unemployment, especially among young adults, is to get more students in college. He claims the United States is "falling behind" other nations in graduation rates, it's down to 12th place in the world, and he says we should regain "leadership" by inducing more [...]
The High Price of College
By Phyllis Schlafly The favorite question liberal newsmen ask incoming Republican members of Congress is: you promised to cut federal spending, so what programs will you cut? A good answer is college student grants and loans because those handouts are probably wasteful and harmful. Since Obama became President he has increased college [...]
Pig Flu Auto Theft Scare — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Remember how we were all going to die from H1N1, Pig Flu, Chinese Bird Flu or some other mass pandemic? Did it happen? The news media had a field day scaring folks into getting face masks, flu shots or even pulling children from school to avoid contact with others who might already be carriers. This past week there’s a similar [...]
Shaking the Money Tree — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, A call from a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury dealership came in the other day to make keys for a 1998 Mercury Mountaineer. Their service department was no longer able to access the key code, it having been dumped, so they needed a locksmith. You have to wonder why the folks who manage their database consider it needful to purge valuable [...]
Feminists Attack High School Sports
By Phyllis Schlafly Now that the radical feminists have succeeded in using the power of the U.S. Department of Education to cancel hundreds of men's college athletic teams, the feminists have announced that they will carry on their anti-male vendetta against boys' sports in high schools. A radical feminist organization called the National [...]
Texas Needs Brown Shoes Fighting EPA — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The EPA is intent on taking over Texas’ permitting authority as the new year brings about significant mandates to power plants and larger industrial complexes according to an article posted on Fuel Fix blog by Matthew Tresaugue. Texas has refused to go along with EPA mandates based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Fuel Fix Logo Evidence of Two Americas — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Houston Chronicle has a regular environmental blog called Fuel Fix, articles intended to inform the masses on topics related to the oil industry and anything else which might impact climate or society in general. Loren Steffy wrote an article, Henhouse Open, Foxes Welcome , letting everyone know the evil GOP planned to look [...]
Sex Survey Upsets Kids and Parents
By Phyllis Schlafly When a mother picked up her 12-year-old son from a Washington, DC middle school this year, the boy said he had taken a "sex test" in health education class. What's that? The 7th grader was bewildered by some of the questions. The test asked whether he was male, female or transgender; if he is straight or heterosexual, [...]
As long as grass is green and the sky is blue… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a line in the movie, Little Big Man , which sums up how government keeps promises. The movie’s message had to do with our Federal government’s treaties with the Indians as spoken by Little Big Man, a white man adopted by the Human Beings, “This land was promised to the Indians for as long as grass grows green and [...]
Rotate Key Every 3000 Miles — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Every now and again you find a customer with a key story worth sharing; like the fellow who drilled a hole in the head of his key to make sure it wouldn’t fall off his key ring, drilled smack dab through the transponder of his key and wondered why his car wouldn’t start. I found another interesting key/story the other [...]
Liberal Supreme Court Strategy
By Phyllis Schlafly Over the years, Republican nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court have ranged from cronyism (like Harriet Miers), to happenstance (like Sandra Day O’Connor), to regrettable mistakes (like William Brennan). Many of the best appointments resulted from luck (like William Rehnquist). Liberals do not leave such an important [...]
Do Teachers Value Feelings Over Knowledge?
By Phyllis Schlafly Has the new ideology called Multiculturalism taken over our education system? One survey reports that nearly half of American history teachers believe it is less important that their students understand the history, ideas, rights and responsibilities that bring our people together as Americans than that kids celebrate the [...]
