‘Phyllis Schlafly’ Archives
Death for Innovation
By Phyllis Schlafly The Democratic Senate is itching to pass a bill that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth. Senator Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) bill, S.23, is called patent reform, but it's not reform; it will kill innovation by litigation. Now that the globalists have transferred millions of [...]
Remembering the Super Bowl Hoax
By Phyllis Schlafly A few weeks ago we passed the 18th anniversary of an event that precipitated the passage in 1994 of the Violence Against Women Act (known as VAWA). The event is known as the Super Bowl Hoax, the assertion made on January 28, 1993 in Pasadena, California, with big media coverage, that more women are victims of domestic [...]
Feminist Devaluing of Fulltime Homemakers
By Phyllis Schlafly The most scholarly book written about the feminist movement by a non-feminist is Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism by Carolyn Graglia. She read all those tiresome books and articles by the feminist leaders, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir, and concluded that [...]
Truck Drivers Should Speak English
By Phyllis Schlafly U.S. law requires truck drivers to speak and understand the English language. The Obama Administration plans to admit Mexican trucks to our highways and roads, and says it will "conduct an English Language Proficiency" test of each Mexican driver. However, it does not say the Mexican drivers must speak English or pass [...]
Obama’s Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks
By Phyllis Schlafly It is amazing that, with unemployment so high, the Obama Administration is pushing a plan that will put many American truck drivers out of work and make highway driving for Americans more dangerous and less pleasant. Obama wants to admit Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads. The result would be that [...]
How to Replace ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. House fulfilled its promise when it voted to repeal the law called ObamaCare, which grants 2,000 powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. For example, regulators will decide what clinical drugs seniors will be allowed to get. The regulators are empowered to use "comparative effectiveness research" [...]
U.S. Need for Anti-Missile Defenses
By Phyllis Schlafly President Obama successfully pressured the Lame Duck Senate to ratify his New START Treaty with Russia despite Senators' demands for more time to study it. A big issue was whether the treaty restricts U.S. right to build an anti-missile defense. Ronald Reagan believed that an anti-missile defense is essential to protect [...]
Cheers for Repeal of ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. House did what its candidates had promised and the voters expected: the House passed repeal of ObamaCare, the centerpiece of Socialism. According to public opinion polls, support for repeal remains strong among the American people despite Obama's prediction that once his favorite bill was enacted into law, we [...]
The Core of the Feminist Agenda
By Phyllis Schlafly It's time that somebody explained what a destructive force feminism has been in American society, and I believe that my new book being published next month does exactly that. The book explains the true nature of feminism, which I have been fighting ever since the 1970s, and the book brings new insights about current [...]
A Warning About Things to Come
By Phyllis Schlafly Have you seen the television pictures of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees? If so, you've had an advance peek at the sort of demonstrations that will take place if state legislatures are foolish enough to pass resolutions [...]
Alabama Passes Paycheck Protection
By Phyllis Schlafly Unions of government employees, particularly the teachers unions, have for many years been able to get state governments to deduct money out of the payroll checks of state employees and transfer it directly into the unions' political funds, where the money is used to support their favorite candidates, which, surprise [...]
Nearly 1 in 4 Fail Military Exam
By Phyllis Schlafly Almost a quarter of young people who tried to join the military during the last five years did not pass the entrance exam, which is called the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude test. The is even more disturbing because the exam is only given to people who meet other requirements. The Pentagon reports that three-fourths [...]
Tell Your Children About George Washington
By Phyllis Schlafly Today is not Presidents Day; it is the legal holiday designated by federal law as Washington's Birthday. There used to be a picture of George Washington hanging in every public school classroom. Somehow, those pictures were removed. So, it's up to us to remind ourselves and our children why we honor the American who is [...]
California Votes NO on Legalizing Drugs
By Phyllis Schlafly A couple of years ago, it had become very trendy among liberals to say that illegal drugs should be legalized for general use by the American people. A Washington Post editorial said, "It's Time to Legalize Drugs." California became the first of 14 states to legalize the use of marijuana with a physician's [...]
Free Trade with Protectionist China Cheats America
By Phyllis Schlafly It looks like the Russians fooled us again in nuclear treaty negotiations. After President Obama bamboozled the Senate into a hurry-up ratification of his New START Treaty, Russia impudently rejected the McCain "understanding" that we don't have to abide by the Preamble's language limiting the U.S. from building [...]
G.E.’s Change of Heart About China
By Phyllis Schlafly A few years ago, General Electric caved into the Chinese government's demand that G.E. build a large wind turbine factory in China. Since G.E. owns a crucial patent for wind turbines, this demand was based on the Chinese anti-free trade policy called indigenous innovation (which is "a blueprint for technology theft"). [...]
Reevaluating Free Trade with China
By Phyllis Schlafly The voters who elected the new Congress expect it to cast off unconsitutional and discredited policies such as big deficit spending and judicial grabbing of legislative prerogatives. We also hope Congress will shake itself loose from the dishonest, anti-American trade policies of other countries, especially Communist [...]
Is Imagination Important to Children?
By Phyllis Schlafly Childhood isn't what it used to be. Gone are days spent exploring the woods, tinkering with gadgets, or making up games to play with the neighbor kids. Those days have been replaced with daycare or long school days, video games, soccer practice and almost constant adult supervision. A new book by Anthony Esolen argues [...]
The Definition of Feminism
By Phyllis Schlafly My newest book is called The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know and Men Can't Say. It dives right into the middle of the current buzz about the meaning of feminism and who is a feminist. My co-author for this book, Suzanne Venker, belongs to a younger generation, and our book is designed to give the facts [...]
Feminism Has Become a Hot Topic
By Phyllis Schlafly The liberals have unjustly blamed Sarah Palin for many things, but there's one thing for which she is probably responsible: making feminism the hot topic that it has become today. Every couple of years Time and Newsweek ask "Is Feminism Dead?", but all of a sudden feminism is being discussed and debated in the [...]
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
By Phyllis Schlafly As a resident for more than four decades of the state of Illinois, which proudly calls itself the Land of Lincoln, I’m happy to remind you that tomorrow we will be celebrating Abe Lincoln’s birthday. He was a truly remarkable man for many reasons, and he deserves his special day on our calendar. In Illinois, we honor [...]
Will Fat Government Make Kids Skinny?
By Phyllis Schlafly The President has signed Michelle Obama's Child Nutrition Bill. This law is supposed to provide children with more nutritious school meals. Many people believe that, instead, it will lead to greater reliance on the badly managed school food programs while simultaneously weakening good parenting. Parents should be the key [...]
ACLU Continues to Target Christmas
By Phyllis Schlafly The American Civil Liberties Union (known as the ACLU) continues to carry on its war against Christmas. The Tennessee branch of the ACLU sent a warning letter to 137 school superintendents in Tennessee warning them about having school Christmas celebrations. The letter suggested that celebrating Christmas while excluding [...]
VAWA Is an Excellent Target for Spending Cuts
By Phyllis Schlafly While the U.S. House is trying to figure out how to cut wasteful and/or extravagant federal spending, Members should be mindful of Reagan's advice to begin by cutting programs that are harmful. One that fits this definition is the billion-dollar-a-year Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), now up for re-authorization. This week [...]
What’s Wrong With Those New Light Bulbs?
By Phyllis Schlafly Today I'm telling you more about a new law called the Energy Independence and Security Act, which is designed to banthe electric light bulbs we've always been using, and instead force us to buy a new kind of light bulb called a CFL that is made in China. They don't give as much light as the bulbs we have been using, but [...]
Goodbye to Edison’s Greatest Invention
By Phyllis Schlafly A new law called the Energy Independence and Security Act is designed to force all Americans to stop using the light bulbs we've always known, which were invented by Thomas Edison. This law will impose environmental "standards" that will eliminate 276 versions of incandescent light bulbs by the year 2012. The drop-dead [...]
New Year’s Resolutions for State Legislators
By Phyllis Schlafly The most important news of 2010 was the election of 680 new members of state legislatures. Here are some New Year's Resolutions for laws I hope they will consider passing. First, health care: Out-of-pocket medical expenses should be tax deductible, and self-paying patients should not be charged more than insurance [...]
The Strange Push for More College Students
By Phyllis Schlafly One of President Obama's fallacious notions for how to reduce unemployment, especially among young adults, is to get more students in college. He claims the United States is "falling behind" other nations in graduation rates, it's down to 12th place in the world, and he says we should regain "leadership" by inducing more [...]
A Short History of American Conservatism
By Phyllis Schlafly A new book called The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism by David Farber describes 20th century politics through separate chapters on five leaders who built the conservative movement: Robert Taft, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, and Ronald Reagan. What distinguishes this book from other [...]
Obama’s Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks
By Phyllis Schlafly It is amazing that, with unemployment unacceptably high, the Obama Administration has endorsed a plan that will cost U.S. jobs and make highway driving for Americans more dangerous and less pleasant. Obama wants to admit Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads. Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the [...]
