‘Phyllis Schlafly’ Archives
Time to START Standing Up for America
By Phyllis Schlafly Among the dangers lurking in Congress's fall session and Lame Duck Session will be Obama's demand that the Senate rush to ratify the treaty called New START, which he signed with the Russians in Prague last April. This treaty is not only a bad idea; it's downright dangerous to U.S. national security. For the first [...]
More Unaccountable Obama Czars
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama has appointed another Czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives. He's joining the list of more than 35 Czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending. Everybody laughed when Senator Tom Coburn [...]
Support Worthy Candidates This Year
By Phyllis Schlafly In this vital election year, hundreds of worthy candidates are running for office. Running for office is much like caring for children: it’s based on a lot of tedious, time-consuming, repetitious chores, but in the end you can produce an important and worthwhile result. I urge all my friends to find a candidate you [...]
Obama vs. Majority Public Opinion
By Phyllis Schlafly Americans are being treated to welcome entertainment during the dog days of summer as we watch the Democrats wring their hands over Barack Obama's tone deafness about political reality. Their despair about Obama is so painful that they are even calling on George W. Bush to come back and rescue Obama from his own [...]
Patent Reform Is a Sellout of America
By Phyllis Schlafly Every time I hear the word "reform" I get suspicious. That word is often used to conceal the real purpose of legislation that the public doesn't want. This is certainly true of the current bill in Congress called Patent Reform. It is really a sellout of American rights to placate foreign interests. The United States [...]
The Feminist Left Goes Global on Our Money
By Phyllis Schlafly Just when we thought President Obama had reached the ultimate in seizing extravagant power by appointing a Health Care Czar (Donald Berwick) to exercise life-and-death surveillance over Medicare and Medicaid, Congress is now trying to give him a Czar with global powers. It would be a Czar over women's issues, [...]
More Family Court Injustices to Fathers
By Phyllis Schlafly There seems to be no end to the series of disturbing injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights, such as due process, the right to a fair trial, and the right to confront their accusers. All too [...]
Un-American American History Courses
By Phyllis Schlafly Arizona's new law that requires the police to ask people to show ID, which was just knocked out by a supremacist judge, may not be the most controversial Arizona law about illegal aliens. Governor Jan Brewer signed another law this year that bans schools from teaching classes designed to promote solidarity among students of [...]
Video Games Are Not Free Speech
By Phyllis Schlafly Parents nationwide have tried again and again to get some help from governmental authorities to protect their kids from the violent video games on the market. Several states have passed laws stating that retailers cannot sell violent video games to kids under a certain age unless they show parental consent. Unfortunately, [...]
Trying to Abolish the Electoral College
By Phyllis Schlafly A well financed group of political busybodies is trying to change our United States Constitution by unconstitutional means, that is, without amending the Constitution in the proper way. These people don't like the way the Constitution provides for electing our Presidents by the Electoral College, and they want to [...]
The Hiroshima Bomb Was the Right Decision
By Phyllis Schlafly When I graduated from Washington University/St. Louis many years ago, the Commencement speaker was General George Marshall, a man who was then much admired. That was before we knew about his terrible mistakes. The George Marshall plan for winning World War II was to land our troops on Japan's beaches where they would fight [...]
The NEA’s Latest Shenanigans
By Phyllis Schlafly What does Diversity mean to you? Same-sex marriage? Building a giant mosque on the 9/11 spot in New York? Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court? To the largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), diversity means celebrating the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China by Mao Zedong. The NEA [...]
America’s ‘Unsustainable’ Debt
By Phyllis Schlafly "Unsustainable" is a scary word that recently entered political discourse. It is being used by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, known as the CBO. Unsustainability is now the label for Barack Obama's massive deficit spending, which the Director said "cannot be solved through minor tinkering." The CBO predicts [...]
More Unaccountable Obama Czars
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama has appointed another Czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives, but he's joining the list of more than 35 Czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending. Everybody laughed when Senator Tom [...]
The Gamesmenship of Restraining Orders
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the big problems with family courts is that judges issue restraining orders virtually for the asking, without any evidence of actual domestic violence or even threat of violence. The Illinois Bar Journal explained that women use these restraining orders as a tool for the mother to get child custody and to bar the [...]
Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights
by Phyllis Schlafly Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminist demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated [...]
Will Green Policies Bankrupt America?
By Phyllis Schlafly You may have heard that environmental policies are camouflage for raising taxes and seizing political power. Christopher Horner presents the research to prove this in his new book called Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. Horner provides a relentless series of facts that [...]
Obama Takes Illinois Mistakes Nationwide
By Phyllis Schlafly "Unsustainable" is a scary word that recently entered political discourse, coming authoritatively from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf. Unsustainability is the operative moniker for Barack Obama's massive deficit spending, which Elmendorf said "cannot be solved through minor tinkering." The [...]
Update on China’s Version of Free Trade
By Phyllis Schlafly "Free trade" has become an article of faith and a sort of mantra with many conservatives, but, as the old saying goes, "it takes two to tango," and, indeed, it takes two countries to engage in free trade. Let me give you an update on Communist China's version of Free Trade. Millions of tons of Chinese drywall, or gypsum [...]
China Taking U.S. High-Tech Research
By Phyllis Schlafly For years, many of Communist China's best and brightest engineers and students came to the United States to take high-tech jobs away from Americans. That's why, when I lecture on college campuses, a lot of guys tell me they are switching to accounting from engineering because there aren't many engineering jobs available to [...]
Kagan Must Answer About D.O.M.A. — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly If Elena Kagan is confirmed for the Supreme Court, it will not matter that Martha Coakley failed to win her bid to fill out Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Kagan's 30-plus years as one of nine votes on the Supreme Court is far more important than Scott Brown's three years as one of 100 votes in the Senate. A litigation [...]
Prosecutor Warns About Sex-Ed Law — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly A Wisconsin prosecutor recently sent a letter to five school districts warning that a new sex education law passed by the State Legislature could lead to criminal charges against teachers for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Wisconsin schools aren’t required to offer sex ed courses, but if they do, they must [...]
Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained on Chicago Radio Station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that the Earl Warren Court wasn't "radical" enough because "it didn't break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution" in order to allow "redistribution of wealth." [...]
America’s Great Religious Document — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly Tea Parties and other spontaneous groups of activists are bringing a new appreciation of the United States Constitution to grassroots America, so this Fourth of July would be a good occasion to make sure that they also appreciate our other essential founding document, the Declaration of Independence. I urge all to find [...]
Texas’ New Social Studies Standards
By Phyllis Schlafly After months of heated discussion, the Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to new social studies and history guidelines. The liberal media accused the conservative majority of politicizing history, but the board chairman said the new guidelines merely bring balance into a curriculum that had been skewed to the [...]
Who’s Hurting in the Job Market — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly It's obvious that jobs are a topic of major interest to most Americans. Almost every family is touched by the present high unemployment. There is one industry where there is no recession: the government. Despite talk in the press about government budget problems, government salaries plus benefits are, on average, twice as [...]
Obama Prevaricates About Jobs — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The high unemployment we suffer today is devastating to more Americans than the oil spill in the Gulf, but Barack Obama still doesn't get it. He bragged to an audience of truckers in Maryland that our economy is "getting stronger by the day." The U.S. Labor Department reports a very different picture. The number of long-term [...]
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 [...]
Saga of the Mojave Cross — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The Mojave Cross has become famous among veterans and in the law books. The homemade seven-foot-tall cross was erected in a remote spot of the Mojave Desert in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a memorial to World War I veterans. For nine years the Cross has been the target of lawsuits by the ACLU representing atheists [...]
