Posts Tagged ‘Eagle Forum’
Curbing the Courts: Judicial Removal As a Tool in this Effort
Court Watch, Eagle Forum ". . . the best way to prevent 'judicial legislation' is not through structural changes in the federal judicial system, but through the appointment of judges who really believe the Constitution really mean what its Framers intended it to mean." So declared Charles Grassley, longtime U.S. Senator (R-IA) and member of [...]
Video: Ron Paul on the Criminal Federal Reserve Bank
Free Enterprise Zone, Eagle Forum WATCH: Congressman Ron Paul on the Criminal Federal Reserve - Bloomberg December 1, 2010 ___________________________ Used with the permission of Eagle Forum.
Courts: Expel Counseling Students Who Won’t Affirm Gay Life
School Days, Education Reporter Two recent court rulings upheld the dismissal of Christian students from counseling programs because of their moral objections to homosexuality. Students Julea Ward in Michigan and Jennifer Keeton in Georgia were both expelled from master's in counseling programs after expressing their unwillingness to affirm [...]
Ask your U.S. Senators to REJECT the New START treaty
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum What has a good chance of being RATIFIED during the upcoming lame duck Congress, yet poses a tremendous threat to U.S. national security? The New START treaty! The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, was signed by President Obama and the Russian president last April. It was then approved by the [...]
Celebrating America’s Birthday — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly I'm so glad that the Tea Parties are bringing a new appreciation of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution to grassroots America. Federal law now requires public schools to teach something about the Constitution on Constitution Day, September 17, but there is no such law about the Declaration [...]
The Immigration Law Critics Don’t Read — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly A short, ten-page law passed by the Arizona State Legislature kicked up a national firestorm and dominated the national news for weeks. Yet, most of the public officials who criticize it admitted that they have not read it, such as Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Signed into [...]
Training Teachers To Teach “Social Justice” — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The monthly journal called Education Reporter recently published an informative expose by a teacher who attended a conference on training teachers how to teach students what is called "social justice." "Social justice" has become a code word for a specific type of teaching in U.S. public schools that is contrary to traditional [...]
The Cartel: It’s Not About the Kids, It’s About the Money
Liberty Alerts, Education Reporter Are your local schools substandard despite ever-increasing funding? Have you ever wondered why? Give documentary filmmaker Bob Bowdon 90 minutes and he can connect the dots for you. The Cartel is a hard-hitting expos‚ that shows how the union stranglehold on public education is destroying the lives of [...]
Get Your Kids a Real Headstart — Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly When it comes to getting small children ready for school, it's not enough to go shopping for clothes and school supplies. There is something else you can do that will be benefit your kids more than new clothes. Recently, I came across a book that puts new light on the task of getting small children ready for Kindergarten. [...]
Be Ready for Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee! — Dr. Virginia Armstrong
Liberty Alerts, Virginia Armstrong, Eagle Forum U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who just observed his ninetieth birthday (April 29), has announced his intention to retire from the Court at the end of the current Court term early this summer. A far left-wing member of SCOTUS, Stevens is sure to be replaced by a nominee of a far [...]
How To Deal With the Issue of Jobs
by Phyllis Schlafly I wish that our candidates for Congress in this important election year of 2010 would address the issue of Jobs, which is the Number One concern of most Americans. We have lost millions of well-paying jobs to countries overseas. What's the solution? I believe it is essential that our government face up to the discrimination [...]
Pushing Housing as a Human Right
by Phyllis Schlafly Americans are still asking, why are we in this current recession? What caused it? Some smart economists are finally admitting that the meltdown was started and is primarily the result of a liberal left agenda that was pushing the notion that housing is a fundamental human right. The socialist approach to the economy is [...]
The Most Powerful Office is Not the President — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Do you know that the most powerful office in the United States is not the President? Indeed, the most powerful man in the world is the U.S. President, but the presidency is not the most powerful office. Another office is more powerful because it chooses whose names will appear on the ballot for elective office and what [...]
Economic Winners and Losers — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Much has been written about our current high unemployment, but there is a strange reluctance by both liberal and conservative commentators to assess blame for the dramatic loss of well-paying American jobs. The causes are not only the general recession and the collapse of the housing market, but bad decisions by government and [...]
Young People Made a Bad Bargain With Obama — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Young people voted for Barack Obama for President by 66% to 32%, but it's now clear they made a bad bargain. That's because three million young people now have no jobs. According to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, the percentage of young men actually working is the lowest in the 61 [...]
Global Warming Is Frozen Over — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Whether or not the groundhog sees his shadow on February 2, there's no denying that January put into a deep freeze the claims of crisis by global warming alarmists. Frigid temperatures destroyed fruit and coral in Florida, and snow fell on Al Gore's palatial home in normally warmer Tennessee. The 20,000 delegates and [...]
Christmas In School Means Inclusiveness — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly In Waterbury, Connecticut, Walsh Elementary School had a “winter celebration” in December, but no religious or even secular symbols such as Santa Claus or Christmas trees were permitted. The principal banned Christmas parties in classrooms as well as Christmas decorations because he didn’t want to offend some students. [...]
University of Minnesota Plans to Re-Educate Teachers
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, Education Reporter A civil liberties organization and other critics are denouncing the recommendations of the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the University of Minnesota flagship Twin Cities campus for its proposal that race, class and gender form the "overarching framework" of all teacher education [...]
Lessons From the Underwear Bomber — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly President Obama's strange decision to move the trial of the terrorist who masterminded the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers to a civilian court in New York City is vigorously opposed by most Americans. This terrorist ought to be tried in a military court as an "enemy combatant," which he surely is. A trial in New York [...]
The Real Loser In The Massachusetts Election — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Smarting from their surprise loss in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, the Democrats are throwing their candidate, Martha Coakley, under the bus. They blame her for running a poor campaign that made losers out of Barack Obama, the Democrats, their bad health care bill, and even Ted Kennedy in his [...]
Oppose The Military Readiness Enhancement Act
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum WASHINGTON, Eagle Forum, a leading pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, urges Members of Congress and other Americans who support the U.S. military to defend current law which holds that homosexuals are ineligible to serve in the U.S. armed forces. During his first official State of the Union Address [...]
Both Parents Needed — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Debates about same-sex marriage and gay adoptions always include the argument that a child has the right to both a father and a mother. If that is true, why is a child usually deprived of that right when heterosexual couples divorce? It would seem that maintaining a father’s love and authority would be crucial when a [...]
Is Socialization a Problem for Homeschoolers? — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly When the subject of homeschooling comes up, someone usually raises the question of socialization. Critics of homeschooling can't deny that homeschooled students are every bit the academic equal of students who attend regular schools, so they shift to the assertion that education is more than academics, and that proper [...]
Obama Scuttles Ban On Internet Gambling — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly Every now and then, a federal court hand down a good decision, so let me tell you about one good decision -- and then I'll tell you how it was sabotaged. Internet gambling is a huge, billion-dollar business, and Congress passed a law to prohibit internet gambling in states that had already made internet gambling illegal. The [...]
Obama Wants a Longer School Day — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly President Barack Obama declared recently that he is demanding that American children spend "more time in the classroom." He and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are calling for a longer school day and for year-round school, claiming that kids in other countries spend more time in school than American students do. That's not [...]
N.E.A. — 'Read Saul Alinsky' — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The National Education Association (known as the NEA) is the most powerful teachers union in the country. The NEA is a big supporter of Barack Obama and of his trillion-dollar spending programs. The NEA is constantly training its members for political action so they will elect public officials who endorse NEA policies. It is [...]
Will Terror Trial Become Media Circus?
by Phyllis Schlafly The strange decision of President Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, to move the trial of the terrorist who masterminded the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers has many unfortunate and even dangerous consequences. If this terrorist, who is known as KSM, is tried in a non-military court in New York City, he will have to [...]
Don't Forget about Your Local Town Hall Meetings!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Ring in the New Year with some old-fashioned grassroots activism: Attend your local Town Hall meetings over the next two weeks and remind your elected officials what last August was all about! Congress will be recessed for the next two weeks, which means that there will be many Town Hall meetings scheduled to take [...]
More Peculiar Obama Appointees — Schlafly
Liberty Alerts, Phyllis Schlafly Today I'm going to tell you about more of the very strange people President Obama has appointed to high offices in his Administration. Obama's Regulatory Czar, Mr. Cass Sunstein, wrote a book in 2008 in which he declared that the government "owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain [...]
