‘News, Liberty Alerts, Election 2012’ Archives
Tell Congress to Stop EPA’s Implementation of the UN’s Agenda 21
LIBERTY ALERTS, JBS FREEDOM CAMPAIGN One of the most successful grassroots campaigns during the past year has been the Stop Agenda 21 movement both at the local level and state level. However, we haven't heard as much about Agenda 21 implementation at the national level.Of course, there were President Bill Clinton's establishment of the [...]
Mexican reporters’ mutilated bodies discovered in Vera Cruz
BY JIM KOURI The dismembered remains of two Mexican photojournalists were discovered in Vera Cruz in Eastern Mexico by federal police (Federales) yesterday, making the total of news people murdered in that nation in the last ten years 70 men and women, according to a U.S. law enforcement official assigned to liaison duty in that war-torn [...]
Latin America a terrorist recruitment bonanza for Iran, Hezbollah, warn Israelis
BY JIM KOURI While President Barack Obama participated in last month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, none of the nations' leaders even hinted about the influx of officials from Iran and their proxy warriors in the terrorist group Hezbollah. However, this week Israeli intelligence analysts are warning the United States government that [...]
Framingham State U. Speech Code Assaults Religious Liberty
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, THE FIRE FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for May 2012: Framingham State University. This public university has a student policy on "Freedom of Expression" which provides that Recognized student clubs or organizations desiring to sponsor a religious display must consider the following: such displays may not [...]
Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Banning ‘All Comers’ Policy
ROBERT SHIBLEY, THE FIRE Vanderbilt's assault on religious liberty on campus looks like it's headed for a crushing, if utterly predictable, defeat. Last night, the Tennessee legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban Tennessee's public universities as well as any private university that gets more than $24 million in funding a year [...]
National Day of Prayer, “One Nation Under God”
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, LIBERTY COUNSEL Washington, DC – Today during the National Day of Prayer, we continue a long tradition of acknowledging the blessings of God, asking for His mercy and forgiveness, and pleading for God’s divine intervention and guidance. George Washington issued a proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and [...]
Proposed Law Would Force Churches to Host Drag Queen Parties
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, LIBERTY COUNSEL Hutchinson, KS – The battle for our religious rights and moral values is now being fought in Hutchinson, Kansas. On May 15, the city council of the small town, just northwest of Wichita, will vote on whether to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the list of other protected classes, [...]
State Dept. Denies Conveying Threats to Blind Chinese Dissident
JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA The State Department says it did not convey threats to blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng by officials in Beijing that they would harm his family, and that Chen left the U.S. Embassy there on his own. "At no time did any US official speak to Chen about physical or legal threats to his wife and [...]
Obama is a Big-Time Law Violator
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Where is the Mainstream Media's coverage of the shocking "Memo" issued by nine State Attorneys General (AG) detailing 21 specific violations of law by the Obama Administration? That's too many violations to list in this column, but here are some of the more outrageous examples of what the AGs call "violations of law" by "an [...]
Bush and Obama, Both Wrong About the Middle East
BY ALAN CARUBA President Obama has managed to match President Bush’s “Mission accomplished” assertion with “The tide has turned” in his recent visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. Predicting the end of armed conflict in the Middle East is a fool’s game because the horizon keeps receding in a region that is more famed for warfare and [...]
Contempt charge against Holder by Congress one step closer today
BY JIM KOURI GOP House of Representatives members who are investigating the Operation Fast and Furious debacle received the nod from their party leadership to seek a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder, a federal law enforcement source told the Law Enforcement Examiner this morning. The House resolution accuses [...]
DOJ’s total disregard of the Constitution blasted by lawmakers
BY JIM KOURI Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) released a biting report this week highlighting the Obama Justice Department’s alleged disregard of the Constitution and the rule of law. Smith and the House Judiciary Committee are leading efforts to oversee Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department. Rather than enforce [...]
Anarchists nabbed in conspiracy to bomb Ohio bridge
BY JIM KOURI In a case that was overshadowed by Tuesday's conviction of al-Qaeda member Adis Medunjanin who plotted with others to bomb the New York City subway system and other targets, five men allegedly connected to the Occupy Movement were arrested and accused of conspiring to use explosives to destroy a bridge near Cleveland, according [...]
Court Rejects “Minority Coalition” Redistricting
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Let me tell you about a rare unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on a controversial redistricting issue. Every ten years we have a national census, as required by the Constitution, and congressional districts must be redrawn to reflect the shifting and growing population. Texas added four million new residents in [...]
Has Your State Passed Voter ID?
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Voter ID was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008, in a case arising from the State of Indiana. A voter ID law requires showing a photo identification, such as a driver’s license, before being allowed to vote. This good law helps reduce voter fraud that is rampant in many areas of the country. Republican [...]
Catholic Group Responds to Obama’s Attempt to “Dismiss” Lawsuit
Religious Freedom, Priests for Life Staten Island, NY -- Priests for Life, a New York-based international pro-life organization of Catholic clergy and laity, today announced that their attorneys have responded to the Obama Administration’s desperate attempt to “shut down” the group’s lawsuit that’s been filed to stop ObamaCare from [...]
GOP Lawmaker Slams Obama Afghan Trip as Campaign Event
JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA GOP Sen. James Inhofe, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, criticized President Obama's surprise trip to Afghanistan on Tuesday, saying it was "clearly" campaign-related. "Clearly this trip is campaign-related," said the Oklahoma Republican. "We’ve seen recently that President Obama has [...]
House Passes Tough Cyber Espionage Legislation
BY JIM KOURI Economic cyber spies may have a more difficult task of stealing U.S. business plans, as well as research and development data, since the U.S. House of Representatives at least took the first step by passing a cybersecurity bill last Friday that will help private sector businesses more effectively protect themselves from [...]
News Corp Boss Rupert Murdoch “Turned A Blind Eye” To Phone Hacking
MEDIA, NEWSROOM AMERICA STAFF A British Parliamentary Select Committee investigating the UK phone hacking scandal has concluded that News Corporation boss, Rupert Murdoch, "is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company." News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) had total assets as of December [...]
Navy Seals Critical of Obama Campaign
JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA A British newspaper reported Tuesday that current and former U.S. Navy SEALs are criticizing the reelection campaign of their commander in chief for politicizing President Obama's decision to kill or capture al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in Pakistan a year ago. A television ad titled, "One Chance," [...]
Federal Appeals Court: Texas Can Defund Planned Parenthood
MATTHEW CLARK, ACLJ The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a federal district court ruling that prevented the State of Texas from defunding Planned Parenthood. Yesterday, the federal district court granted a preliminary injunction to Planned Parenthood preventing the enforcement of a new Texas law that would have defunded Planned [...]
California Vaccine Bill Threatens Parents’ Rights
EDUCATION REPORTER, EAGLE FORUM It may soon become more difficult for some California parents to enroll their children in public schools. California bill AB 2109 would require parents who wish to decline one or more vaccines to obtain a doctor's signature before enrolling their child in school. While the measure may initially sound like a [...]
KFC: Kentucky Foolish Censorship
ADAM KISSEL, THE FIRE "Forget about fraternity rush, spring break, and cramming for exams," FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley writes this week in The Daily Caller. "The students and faculty of Northern Kentucky University (NKU) have brought a disturbing new tradition to campus: justifying the destruction of pro-life displays as 'freedom [...]
Rutgers Will Not Punish Satirical Newspaper
PETER BONILLA, THE FIRE On Friday, I blogged about Rutgers University's bias investigation of the student satire publication The Medium for jokingly attributing a fake article praising Adolf Hitler to another student. As we made clear in the letter we sent Rutgers, punishing the protected expression of The Medium—or even allowing the [...]
Obama Threatens the U.S. Supreme Court
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY President Barack Obama is more and more behaving like a petty dictator who thinks he can say and do anything, regardless of the Constitution. Since he has never let the public see any of his college record, it's becoming hard to believe that he ever taught Constitutional law. Obama's latest assault on the Constitution was [...]
Obama weakens Secure Communities program, says GOP
BY JIM KOURI The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday implemented several changes to weaken their Secure Communities Program, an initiative that keeps American neighborhoods safe by identifying illegal and criminal immigrants in police custody who have been arrested and [...]
Sheriff Arpaio exposing President; SEALs blast Obama
BY JIM KOURI While President Barack Obama took several bows over the weekend and on Monday for allowing U.S. special forces soldiers to surreptitiously enter Pakistan and kill Osama bin Laden, a U.S. law enforcement commander and current as well as former members of the U.S. Navy SEALs slammed Obama over his eligibility to have his [...]
Somali pirate convicted in U.S. for abduction, killing of Americans
BY JIM KOURI A Somali pirate, who acted as the primary negotiator during kidnap-ransom negotiations, was convicted Friday by a federal jury in Norfolk, Virginia, for his involvement in the abduction of Americans onboard a yacht, the S/V Quest. He and his fellow pirates took four U.S. citizens hostage and ultimately killed them before [...]
U.S. continues pursuit of al-Qaeda at home and abroad, say officials
BY JIM KOURI The United States is a safer place since Navy SEALs located and killed al-Qaeda's infamous Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan on May 1, 2011 , according to Pentagon and Justice Department officials on Saturday. Today, nearly a year after bin Laden’s demise, the United States and its allies continue to hunt [...]
Time to Study Courts
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY We are facing what may be the most crucial national election of our times in November. One of the most important powers of the President is the power to nominate judges for the Supreme Court and all the lower federal courts. It is very important for American voters to understand this enormous power and be prepared to oppose [...]
