‘Eagle Forum’ Archives
A Matter of Priorities?—Obama Gives Jobs to Foreigners
ECONOMY, EAGLE FORUM In this video, Barack Obama is asked why we are importing foreign labor while Americans are out of work: Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth asked why the government continues "to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?" She was persistent and at one point broke in on the [...]
Senators Shamefully Pressure Komen Foundation
CULTURE, EAGLE FORUM Last week, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the nation's largest breast cancer research and prevention fund wisely decided to do what the Senate has refused to do, de-fund Planned Parenthood. In an outrageous move, 26 liberal Senators signed a letter chastising Komen, a private foundation, calling their action "troubling," [...]
Vermont Court Pierces Sovereign Immunity
COURTS, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT Our U.S. legal system came to us from medieval England, where no one could ever sue the King. The American Revolution replaced the King with representative government, but the doctrine of “sovereign immunity” still exists. Government is immune from claims against it, except where authorized by special laws. [...]
How Google Punishes Santorum
CAMPAIGN TRAIL, EAGLE FORUM NPR Radio has a story on Santorum's Google problem: SYDELL: Savage created the website and blog where people can put updates about Santorum's political career, which faltered after he lost his re-election bid in 2007. But with his strong showing in Iowa, people are looking for information about Santorum. When they [...]
America’s Culture War and How to Fight It: Curbing the Courts, VIII
Eagle Forum, Court Watch, Virginia Armstrong Does our Constitution REALLY still begin with the words, "We, the People of the United States . . ."? It DOES, as we declared in our last Briefing; yet we see federal courts now entertaining cases attacking the fundamental institution of marriage (the attacks on DOMA) and cases restructuring a [...]
UN Elitists Hold Delegates Hostage at Climate Change Conference
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming by Pat Carlson The 17th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 17) held in Durban, South Africa ended at 5 a.m. on December 11th, running two days pass the scheduled conclusion, making it the longest climate conference in UN history (16 days). COP 17 [...]
You Saved Our Light Bulbs!
Eagle Forum, Action Alert Thank you to everyone who wrote, called and signed our petition to save the incandescent light bulb. Great news: You did it! Leadership in the House of Representatives, including House Appropriations Chair, Hal Rogers (R-KY), worked hard to keep language in the Omnibus Appropriations bill that defunds the plan to [...]
Light Bulb Ban at Center of Budget Debate
Eagle Forum Action Alert Our sources on Capitol Hill tell us that efforts to overturn the ban on the incandescent light bulb are among the final sticking points in the negotiations over the Omnibus Appropriations bill going on right now. Republicans are fighting to repeal the ban on lightbulbs. If you haven't already signed our petition, [...]
Climate Change Can Kicked Down the Road
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming By Cathie Adams The United Nations finally concluded its Climate Change meeting in Durban, South Africa at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, a day and a half late. Delegates did not create a new treaty to legally bind nations to limit greenhouse gas emissions to replace the 1997 Kyoto [...]
BlueGreen Alliance: Labor Unions and Greens Unite
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming By Cathie Adams President Obama and his Democratic party's radical environmental agenda are killing American jobs and the economy. Robust economies require bountiful and dependable energy to run industries and to create jobs, but regulatory abuses by the Environmental Protection [...]
Stoking the Climate Change Fires
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming by Pat Carlson Global warming or climate change as it is now referred to due to no warming since 1997, is a non-issue to the majority of Americans as the U.S. experiences the worst economic times since the Great Depression. It has been put on the back burner and left to simmer in [...]
ICLEI: Linking Local Governments to the UN Agenda
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming By Cathie Adams National governments will probably not adopt a new United Nations legally binding greenhouse gas emissions treaty in Durban, South Africa, but that does not protect Americans from the UN's tentacles. The globocrats are employing its non-governmental organizations [...]
Get the Government out of Your Linen Closet!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum We easily advanced from kerosene lamps to Edison's light bulbs, from horse and carriage to automobiles, and from cassettes to CDs and DVDs, without any laws to mandate those changes.” — Phyllis Schlafly We're all tired of the federal government encroaching on our personal freedoms through high taxes, [...]
Only Fools Believe Money Can Prevent the Breezes of Hell
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming By Cathie Adams Contrivances are already being proposed to spend the $100 billion annual United Nations tax scheme called the Green Climate Fund before it is even approved at the Climate Change meeting in Durban, South Africa. While the GCF is supposed to be used to fund green [...]
Americas Culture War and How to Fight It: Curbing the Courts
Eagle Forum, Court Watch The last time I read the U.S. Constitution (which was quite recently), the document still began with the words, "We, the People of the United States . . . ." If this declaration means anything today, it means that the American people have a right to know — necessity of knowing — the basic philosophical and [...]
Fossils and Zulu Beehive Huts at the United Nations
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming By Cathie Adams South African leader Nelson Mandela said that, "It always seems impossible, until it is done." Mandela rightly envisioned the statement to mean freedom regardless of race, an ideal entirely supported by Americans, but the United Nations' use of the statement during [...]
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in South Africa
Eagle Forum Exclusive Report, United Nations/Global Warming By Cathie Adams "We're all going to die in five years" unless a legally binding framework to cut greenhouse gas emissions is accepted by the 192 parties attending the United Nations' confab in Durban, South Africa. That is how a question was couched to a group of environmental [...]
Sign the Petition to Save Our Lightbulbs!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Time is running out to save the Edison light bulb! Unless Congress takes action to repeal the so-called "efficiency standards" enacted under a liberal Congress, as of January 1, 2012, it will be illegal to sell the 100-watt incandescent light bulb. Click here to sign the petition urging Congress to repeal the ban [...]
Express Your Outrage at the Attack on Marriage!
Eagle Forum, Action Alert! As you might have heard, the liberal Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill shamefully misnamed the "Respect for Marriage Act" (H.R. 1116, S. 598), which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), today by a straight party line vote. All 10 Democrats voted Yes and all 8 Republicans voted No. DOMA, passed on [...]
Stop Obama’s Unconstitutional Power Grabbing!
Eagle Forum, Action Alert President Obama is continuing to flout the Constitution and “work his way around Congress” as he bragged he would do earlier this fall. He is forcing on the American people aspects of his agenda that are so radical, even the liberal Pelosi/Reid Congress could not pass them! Instead of passing these policies [...]
Tell Congress: Repeal the Light Bulb Ban!
Action Alert, Eagle Forum Time is running out to save the Edison light bulb! Unless Congress takes action to repeal the so-called “efficiency standards” enacted under a liberal Congress, as of January 1, 2012, it will be illegal to sell the 100-watt incandescent light bulb. We need you to call your Senators and Members of Congress and [...]
Stop Jobs-Killing Trade Deal with South Korea
Eagle Forum Action Alert President Obama and his liberal allies in Congress are desperate to prove that they are working to create jobs. Instead of taking action that would immediately spark job growth and lower energy costs, like repealing ObamaCare and the ban on domestic oil production, they are moving to pass a series of so-called “free [...]
U.S. Citizenship Should Not Be for Sale
By Phyllis Schlafly Outsourcing is not the only way we are losing American jobs to Communist China. The Chinese have figured out how to capture jobs inside the U.S. by using our EB-5 visas (employment-based, fifth priority). Most Americans have never heard of this visa, but the Chinese are now planning to use it to build and run a casino [...]
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 [...]
Unconstitutional Special Interest Payoff Bill Awaiting Senate’s Return
Eagle Forum, Take Action! While your Senators are home for the August recess, we need you to contact them at their district offices, and tell them to vote NO on Cloture for H.R. 1249, the jobs-killing, special interest patent bill. When the Senate returns to Washington, they are scheduled to immediately consider H.R. 1249, the “Smith-Leahy [...]
Special Interest Payoff Bill Awaiting Senate’s Return
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum While your Senators are home for the August recess, we need you to contact them at their district offices, and tell them to vote NO on Cloture for H.R. 1249, the jobs-killing, special interest patent bill. When the Senate returns to Washington, they are scheduled to immediately consider H.R. 1249, the [...]
Unconstitutional Special Interest Payoff Bill Awaiting Senate’s Return
Eagle Forum, Action Alert While your Senators are home for the August recess, we need you to contact them at their district offices, and tell them to vote NO on Cloture for H.R. 1249, the jobs-killing, special interest patent bill. When the Senate returns to Washington, they are scheduled to immediately consider H.R. 1249, the “Smith-Leahy [...]
Sustainable SNAKES, Reinvented TOILETS and the Pursuit of HAPPINESS!
Eagle Forum, Exclusive Report The United Nations' sustainable development agenda would be laughable if it was not so destructive. In just one month, it deemed the snake trade and flush toilets unsustainable and determined that our standard of living should be measured by its undefined "pursuit of happiness" because using only the GDP (the [...]
Scandals in the Classroom
By Phyllis Schlafly A national scandal hit the news when Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past ten years on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job and the kids were [...]
The United Nations Bans Opposition to Its Global Tax Design Meeting
Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced his plan "to fundamentally transform the global economy — based on low-carbon, clean energy resources," few realized he was calling for a new global tax to be designed without public scrutiny, but that is exactly what he meant. To thwart it, the UN's flawed [...]
Save the Edison Light Bulb!
Eagle Forum, Take Action! Liberals in the last Congress enacted "efficiency" standards, scheduled to take effect in 2012, that will diminish Americans’ standard of living and dictate the types of light bulbs we can and can’t buy. These environmental "standards" will start eliminating 276 versions of the Thomas Edison incandescent light [...]
Protect DOMA: Support the Foxx-Burton Amendment!
Eagle Forum, Take Action! Our friends at the Center for Military Readiness just informed us that one of our favorite Members of Congress, Virginia Foxx (R-NC), has proposed an amendment to ensure that defense dollars are not used to violate the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Please urge your Congressman to support this effort. In a hasty [...]
The Insanity of Sustainable Development
Liberty Alerts, Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum Physicist Albert Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is exactly what the United Nations is doing with "sustainable development," which insists that economic, environmental and social equity or "justice" will produce health, [...]
Stop the Obamacare Approach to Patent Reform
Eagle Forum, Take Action! Congress is scheduled to consider H.R. 1249, the so-called "America Invents Act" as early as this Wednesday. This is an unconstitutional bill that will kill jobs and innovation and poses a threat to American security. This is the first time since the new, largely conservative Congress was sworn in, that Members [...]
Stop the job-killing Patent Bill!
Eagle Forum, Take Action! Next Wednesday, Congress is scheduled to consider H.R. 1249, the so-called “America Invents Act.” This is an unconstitutional bill that will kill jobs and innovation and poses a threat to American security. This bill is not getting much attention, because certain Congressmen want to reward big [...]
Stop Confirmation of Radical Berkeley Professor!
Eagle Forum, Take Action! As America once again spent past our debt limit and families are struggling with high gas prices and job losses, the liberal Senate is wasting time moving to confirm a judicial nominee who has been called Obama’s most controversial nominee yet. The Ninth Circuit Court U.S. of Appeals, headquartered in San [...]
Globalcrats Aim to Lower Your Standard of Living
Liberty Alerts, Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum What is so important to the United Nations that its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon repeated it seven times in a half-page letter to a UN bureaucracy? Climate Change! The UN is using it to agitate class warfare among nations with the goal of creating a scheme to redistribute wealth from rich to [...]
U.N.’s Earth Dogma Abuses Children
Liberty Alerts, Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum New York. Have you wondered why your children lecture you about the environment and where they get their misinformation? The answer is critical to fulfilling your parental responsibility to rightly educate your children and to protect them from a cruel scheme. You need look no further than the [...]
United Nations Green Climate Fund Fundamentally Transforms the Global Economy
Liberty Alerts, Cathie Adams, Eagle Forum Mexico City, Mexico. The design of a new $100 billion a year Green Climate Fund (GCF) to "enable developing countries to address climate change" is a facet of last December's Cancun Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a treaty signed by President George H.W. Bush [...]
Stop pro-abortion liberal crony from taking the federal bench!
Eagle Forum, Take Action! Tell Your Senators: Jack McConnell is Unfit for Federal Bench! Last night, Harry Reid filed cloture on Jack McConnell, a highly controversial, pro-choice, anti-business, pro-judicial activism nominee for a lifetime judicial appointment to the Federal District Court for the District of Rhode [...]
Designing a new Green Climate Fund
By Cathie Adams The plan to design a new Green Climate Fund (GCF) was an outcome of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that met in Cancún, Mexico, last December. The design team, called the Transitional Committee (TC) for the new GCF, is holding its first two-day meeting on April 28 & 29 in Mexico City. [...]
URGENT- House Bill Will Kill Innovation
Eagle Forum, Take Action! Dear Friends, You are receiving this alert, because your Congressman serves on the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives. This Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up the “America Invents Act,” H.R. 1249. This is a terrible bill that will kill jobs and kill [...]
Stop Back Door Cap and Tax!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Thanks to activists like you, President Obama does not have the votes, even in the liberal controlled Senate, to impose “Cap and Trade,” a national energy tax, on American families. But, as Phyllis Schlafly explained in a recent column, Obama is determined to do through regulation what he can’t do [...]
Keep Your Calls Coming! Stop the Death to Innovation Bill!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum While Americans are focused on a possible government shutdown and heated budget standoffs in the states, the U.S. Senate is considering legislation that isn’t getting much attention, but is even more important because it threatens to destroy one of the greatest aspects of American exceptionalism – [...]
Stop the Death of American Innovation
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum While Americans are focused on a possible government shutdown and heated budget standoffs in the states, the U.S. Senate is considering legislation that isn’t getting much attention, but is even more important because it threatens to destroy one of the greatest aspects of American exceptionalism – innovation. Did [...]
Stop the Death of American Innovation!
Eagle Forum, Take Action! While Americans are focused on a possible government shutdown and heated budget standoffs in the states, the U.S. Senate is considering legislation that isn’t getting much attention, but is even more important because it threatens to destroy one of the greatest aspects of American exceptionalism – [...]
Ask Your U.S. Senators to REJECT the New START Treaty
Eagle Forum, Take Action! 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, START, was signed by President Obama and the Russian president last April. It was then approved by the Senate [...]
America’s Culture War and How to Fight It
Facing the Facts in 2011 Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum As America enters the year of 2011, new government officials are taking their seats all over the nations, at all levels of government. If our nation is to survive and thrive (neither of which has been happening in recent years), we must all face certain fundamental facts and act accordingly. [...]
White House Stirs Gay Marriage Debate
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum, STLToday.com Many social conservatives, such as Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly of Ladue, refuse to believe that a majority of Americans would support gay marriage. Obama's shifting position, she said, "is the story of politics: An aggressive well-funded pressure group can achieve goals contrary to what the [...]
COP16 Final Report in Cancún, Mexico
United National Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 16 Cathie Adams from Cancún, Mexico Exclusive by Pat Carlson, Environment Chairman for Eagle Forum COP16 came to a conclusion in the wee hours of Saturday morning as the summit president, Patricia Espinosa, banged her gavel declaring the text approved. The 190+ [...]
