‘Phyllis Schlafly’ Archives
More Reasons to Oppose National Popular Vote
U.S. CONSTITUTION, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT The National Popular Vote campaign lets people believe that their plan will elect Presidents who win the majority of popular votes, but that is false. Because of third parties, we've had many elections (including three of the last five) when no presidential candidate received a popular-vote majority. [...]
National Popular Vote is Bad Idea
U.S. CONSTITUTION, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Moving quietly without any publicity is a plan to change how U.S. Presidents are elected. It would bypass the procedure spelled out in the U.S. Constitution which has been used successfully for over two centuries. The Constitution prescribes how we elect our Presidents. It is a mirror image of the Great [...]
Day of Reckoning for Violence Against Women Act
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 2 on a straight party-line vote. That proves again that the feminists control the Democratic Party, and also is a refreshing indication that Republicans are no longer intimidated by feminist demands. VAWA [...]
Bad Effects of Internet Gambling
UNDERMINING CIVIC VIRTUE, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT Since Barack Obama opened the door to internet gambling on Christmas Eve by having his Justice Department re-interpret the law to allow gambling online, we can expect the gambling industry to become an even bigger player in politics. It is already a major contributor to political candidates and [...]
Jan Brewer’s Photo with Obama
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The now-famous picture of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer shaking her finger at President Barack Obama is both appropriate and deserved. In America, we don't have rulers entitled to the deference and obsequiousness other countries show to their kings; our elected officials are ordinary citizens whom we are free to [...]
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. [...]
“Progressive” Means National Control
PROGRESSIVISM, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT The various presidential debates continue to bring up the question, will you abolish the U.S. Department of Education? That may seem like an off-the-wall idea, but Ronald Reagan supported it, and it was a plank in the Republican Party Platform in the 1980s. We never had a Department of Education before [...]
GAO Gives Commercial Colleges a Failing Grade
EDUCATION, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT The Obama Administration is determined not to cut a penny out of the billions of taxpayer dollars poured into our schools and colleges, even though they can't show any progress toward the designated goals established for the spending of that money. The government has just started to look at some areas of [...]
Feminist Propaganda in College Textbook
FEMINISM, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT A woman walked into my office recently and handed me the textbook her daughter was assigned for her "Women and Gender Studies" Course at the University of Missouri/St. Louis. I was shocked at this textbook and I'm going to share it with you. The title is Women's Voices, Feminist Visions by Susan M. Shaw and [...]
Unconstitutional Recess Appointments
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama's latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was NOT in recess. He appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), plus Richard Cordray to head the newly created Consumer [...]
Women in Direct Military Combat?
FEMINISM & THE MILITARY, PHYLISS SCHLAFLY REPORT U.S. law says that if the U.S. military plans to assign women to direct military combat, Congress must first be notified. The Obama Administration is scheming to find a way around this law and to send women into direct ground combat without telling Congress or the public. The push to get [...]
ACLU Still Attacking the Ten Commandments
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT No school is too small to escape the anti-religious fervor of the American Civil Liberties Union, known as the ACLU. A battle has been going on about the 10 Commandments for about a year in rural Virginia, nearly 300 miles southwest of Washington, DC. The 10 Commandments had been peacefully hanging in [...]
We Need Pro-Family Tax Policies
By Phyllis Schlafly Why did Senator Rick Santorum suddenly surge to the status of a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President after having been treated like a not-to-be-taken-seriously contender in the many television debates? It's not only because a significant segment of conservatives voted by a super majority to back him [...]
Don’t Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aid
By Phyllis Schlafly Don't Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aidis the provocative title of a book by Marybeth Hicks and published by Regnery. She says that the culture wars are over and parents lost. An entire generation of young socialists has come of age, and few parents have even noticed. Marybeth Hicks tries to remedy this ignorance by telling [...]
Public Schools Import Foreign Teachers
By Phyllis Schlafly There has been a strange recent trend to import teachers from foreign countries to educate American students in our public schools. During 2010, the Department of Labor certified 13,157 foreign workers to teach classes in elementary schools and high schools. These foreign workers come into America on H-1B visas, and they are [...]
Elected Judges End Liberal Censorship
By Phyllis Schlafly Montana’s Supreme Court judges have to race re-election every eight years. This brings accountability to their rulings and is an essential check and balance on judicial activism. A recent decision about religion in the Montana court illustrates the value of judicial elections. At the public high school graduation in [...]
Canadian Court Affirms Traditional Marriage
By Phyllis Schlafly The Canadian courts have legalized same-sex marriage. Will they legalize polygamy, too? After all, if consenting adults should be able to marry anybody they like, then why should same-sex marriage be allowed but not polygamy? Many libertarians now insist that government should get out of the business of marriage, and not [...]
The Master Plan of Agenda 21
By Phyllis Schlafly Agenda 21 is a comprehensive master plan to reshape and control the United States and lock us into the clutches of the United Nations under the innocuous phrase Sustainable Development. Advocates of Agenda 21 talk about the three E's of Sustainable Development: Economy, Equity, and Environment. Equity means replacing our [...]
The Mischief of Agenda 21
By Phyllis Schlafly The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa last month is one of a series of UN meetings working toward the UN goal of moving the United States into global government by environmental regulations and a vast network of taxes. These newly-imposed taxes will give the UN a tremendous stream of money. The [...]
How Einstein Ruined Physics
By Phyllis Schlafly Albert Einstein is universally admired as a genius for discovering relativity and for forging a new model for scientific breakthroughs. I recently talked on my Saturday radio program with a mathematician and scientist, Dr. Roger Schlafly, to learn why he believes that most of what you learned about Einstein is wrong and why [...]
Cyber Schools Are Popular
By Phyllis Schlafly In Pennsylvania, online, computer-based education for secondary school has become very popular. Charter “cyber” schools have a right to obtain reimbursement from local public school districts for students in districts that enroll. One cyber school alone has grown to 11,000 students, and is now larger than some public [...]
Bailing out the European Union
By Phyllis Schlafly It was bad enough when President Obama bamboozled Congress into passing a Stimulus bill that didn't produce any jobs, then increased the federal deficit in the 2012 omnibus spending bill, then raised the debt ceiling, then bailed out the big U.S. banks, then tried to bail out his pal Solyndra to try to save it from [...]
Left Coast Court Bans U.S. Flag
By Phyllis Schlafly The “Left Coast” is a humorous term to describe liberal news from California, and here we go again with another example. A federal district court in California upheld a ban by a high school principal against students wearing a T-shirt with an image of the American flag. Many offensive liberal phrases are allowed to be [...]
Free Trade and Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly I'm eager to hear our presidential candidates discuss the colossal failure of the doctrine of free trade and how it enables protectionist countries, especially Communist China, to play the U.S. for a sucker while using the tremendous profits China makes on sales to the U.S. to build an awesome and threatening military. For [...]
Let’s Talk About Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly The presidential candidate debates on television have included little or no mention of what is widely conceded to be the number-one issue: jobs. The unemployment figures remain unacceptably high, and the figures for young people are truly shocking. The general unemployment rate has been about 9% for the past couple of years. [...]
The Future of ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U. S. Supreme Court scheduled an extraordinary five and a half hours for oral argument in the legal challenge to ObamaCare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The last time the U.S. Supreme Court granted so much time for oral argument was 35 years ago, and that was for four consolidated [...]
Obama Gives Gambling a Christmas Present
By Phyllis Schlafly Just before sneaking off to Hawaii where he barred news photos on the golf course, President Obama overturned longstanding U.S. policy that prohibited internet gambling. In yet another presidential shenanigan that bypasses U.S. law, Obama used the device of a secret Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion, dated [...]
Globalism Is a Dead-End Road
By Phyllis Schlafly Yesterday I told you some facts about Europe's decline from what we thought was the prosperous model of the European Union to a bunch of countries on the brink of financial and cultural collapse. Their plan originally sounded so rational, so much like helping history in a march toward the process of unifying Europe. During [...]
We Don’t Like the Future We See
By Phyllis Schlafly Americans don't need a fortune teller to predict our future. We can see the future right before our eyes: Europe; and we don't like it. Europe, whose economy we so generously subsidized with billions of dollars given by hardworking U.S. taxpayers, and whose freedom we repeatedly defended with the blood of our young men, [...]
Get Ready for Armageddon
By Phyllis Schlafly If you are hungry for some good news, you won't get it in Mark Steyn's new book called After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. But if you are prepared to hear the truth about America’s decline, Mark Steyn delivers it with style and wit, and even a few chuckles. Mark Steyn notes that the interest payments alone on our [...]
Do Fish Have More Rights Than People?
LIBERTY ALERTS, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Is an obscure fish more important than California farmers who need water? The Ninth Circuit sided with the “delta smelt,” a fish lacking in any commercial value which typically grows to only 2 to 3 inches in length. Water is scarce in parts of California, but water distribution has been limited out of [...]
Good News from the UN!
By Phyllis Schlafly After spirited discussions from November 28 to December 11 (including two days of overtime that ended only in the wee hours), the United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa failed to achieve its two main goals: producing a new treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gas emissions, [...]
Cape Cod Wind Farms Blown Away
By Phyllis Schlafly "Wind farms” consist of many large wind turbines, or windmills, which try to generate electricity. They are an eyesore and stand motionless on a calm day. They are not as efficient as other energy sources, and are often noisy. But the “green energy” crowd pushes wind power at taxpayer expense, and a massive offshore [...]
How Evil Works: Destructive Forces
By Phyllis Schlafly Today’s sensational news stories describe an America that is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. We find people trying to surgically change into the opposite sex, celebrities treating mental-emotional-spiritual problems with powerful psychotropic drugs. In a new book with the awesome title How Evil Works: [...]
The Thomas Sowell Reader
By Phyllis Schlafly One of our most favorite writers has just published a new book which is a great collection of articles, book excerpts and biographical sketches written by Thomas Sowell over many years. Dr. Sowell taught economics at Cornell and UCLA. His textbook called Basic Economicsis widely used and has been translated into six [...]
My Favorite Christmas Story
By Phyllis Schlafly By popular request, I'm going to tell you my favorite Christmas story that I first told five years ago on these broadcasts. I have a good friend who has enjoyed a tremendously successful career in television and radio. I going to tell you a true story about one of these media personalities that he personally told to me. [...]
How to Raise an American Patriot
By Phyllis Schlafly American schoolchildren used to learn history and patriotism in public school. Now they are more likely to be taught that America conquers and steals from other nations and victimizes and oppresses our own people. Author Marijo Tinlin has written a book that gives parents an antidote to make it "okay for our kids to be proud [...]
China Celebrates Outwitting Us in the WTO
By Phyllis Schlafly Communist China is this month celebrating its tenth anniversary of joining the World Trade Organization. The subtitle ought to be China's tenth anniversary of cheating the United States. The globalists talked us into supporting this cozy trade relationship with China by getting U.S. manufacturers and farmers to salivate [...]
Questions Media Should Ask the Candidates
By Phyllis Schlafly I don't know about you, but I'm not satisfied with the questions that the media are asking the Presidential candidates in the televised debates. Here are some additional questions I think would be good to ask the candidates. Will you promise to nominate for the Supreme Court or other federal courts only those who believe [...]
Mental Health Screening in Public Schools
By Phyllis Schlafly More and more public schools are screening their students for mental health. A controversial procedure called TeenScreen is now used at 600 schools in 46 states. The screening consists of a 52-item survey asking questions about social phobia, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. TeenScreen reports that nearly [...]
Candidates Just Don’t Get It
By Phyllis Schlafly Despite the great quantity of press coverage about next year’s presidential election, the polls show that no candidate in either party is reaching 50% public support. Why hasn’t any candidate been able to ride citizen dissatisfaction into majority support? I recommend that every presidential candidate read three books [...]
A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith
By Phyllis Schlafly A professor at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Carol Swain, has written a very useful handbook for people who are concerned about the way America is headed today and need to be reassured that we still live in the greatest country on earth. She believes it is the job of the grassroots to preserve the route to the American dream. [...]
UN Schemes to Tax Americans
By Phyllis Schlafly UNESCO — The Model To Say Goodbye A trigger provision buried in U.S. laws since 1990 quietly took effect at the end of October. The U.S. taxpayers' annual donation of 22% of UNESCO's budget was summarily terminated when UNESCO voted 107 to 14 (with 52 abstentions) to approve full membership for Palestine. The cutoff [...]
Will America Survive to 2025?
By Phyllis Schlafly The NBC poll reports that 74% of Americans think our government is taking us in the wrong direction. A new book by Patrick Buchanan called Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?will help readers to understand why. This book explains in depressing detail why grassroots Americans are convinced that our [...]
We Don’t Like the Future We See
By Phyllis Schlafly Americans don't need a fortune teller to predict our future. We can see the future right before our eyes: Europe; and we don't like it. Europe, whose economy we so generously subsidized with billions of dollars given by hardworking U.S. taxpayers, and whose freedom we repeatedly defended with the blood of our young men, [...]
Anniversary of Washington’s Death
By Phyllis Schlafly Today, December 14, is the anniversary of George Washington's death in 1799. He caught a chill riding horseback for several hours in the snow while inspecting his Mount Vernon farm. The next morning it developed into acute laryngitis and the doctors were called in. The common medical practice in those days was to bleed the [...]
Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids
By Phyllis Schlafly Can parents really raise their kids IQ? Scientists now estimate that the genetic, hard-wired component of IQ is only 50% at most, so parents have a tremendous opportunity to help kids develop their intelligence to its greatest potential. In a new book called Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids, licensed psychologist David Walsh [...]
What’s Wrong With Flat Tax Plans?
By Phyllis Schlafly It was landmark legislation when Congress passed the joint income tax return for husband and wife back in 1948 over President Truman's veto. As originally designed, the joint return recognized a husband and wife as two equal partners, even if the husband earned all the family's income. Each tax bracket, deduction and [...]
Curtains for the Utah Crosses
By Phyllis Schlafly There are thousands of crosses on federal property in Arlington Cemetery honoring our fallen soldiers, and rightly so. But a group of atheists sued to remove 13 privately funded crosses from roadsides in Utah, and a federal appellate court held in favor of the atheists. This case, American Atheists v. Utah Highway Patrol [...]
National Popular Vote Is a Bad Idea
By Phyllis Schlafly Moving quietly under cover of presidential debates and the enormous publicity given to the race for the Republican nomination is a plan to change how U.S. Presidents are elected. It would bypass the procedure spelled out in the U.S. Constitution which has been used successfully for over two centuries. The Constitution [...]
