‘Phyllis Schlafly’ Archives
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 [...]
Pearl Harbor Anniversary
By Phyllis Schlafly Today, December 7th, is the anniversary of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a day that President Roosevelt said "will live in infamy." The lesson we should take away from that event is that we should always be prepared for a surprise attack. After all, we live in a world where a lot of evil countries just don't [...]
Admitting Mexican Trucks Is a Bad Deal
By Phyllis Schlafly The Obama Administration has now admitted Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads. They were kept out by the administrations the first and second George Bush and Bill Clinton, but Obama sent his Secretary of Transportation to sign an agreement in Mexico to let them in. In a previous commentary, I talked about [...]
Welfare Is An Attack on Marriage
By Phyllis Schlafly The institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman has been fundamental to America ever since the founding of our nation. The famous French commentator Alexis de Toqueville wrote in the mid-19th century: "There is no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America." Not [...]
UN Mischief from Durban to Rio
By Phyllis Schlafly The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa opening on November 28, called COP-17, is one of a series of UN meetings working toward a specific goal. Advertising for this meeting features a long list of invited celebrities including Angelina Jolie, U2's Bono, Ted Turner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al [...]
Choosing the Right College
By Phyllis Schlafly If you are a student trying to decide which colleges to apply to, you might find it useful to take a look at a book called Choosing the Right College, published by the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Delaware, known as ISI. It provides in-depth research on 140 Ivy League institutions, state universities, [...]
Court Looks at Debtors’ Prison
By Phyllis Schlafly Debtors’ prison used to be a fact of life in England and in our country during the colonial period. Supposedly, the United States phased out debtors’ prison along with slavery in the mid-19th century. Well, slavery is indeed gone, but debtors’ prison is back with a vengeance in the form of sending fathers to jail over [...]
Feminists Target Boys’ High School Sports
By Phyllis Schlafly In 1972, Congress passed a law called The Education Amendments, now commonly referred to as Title IX. It prohibits sex discrimination in colleges and schools. The purpose was to assure that women have access to all education opportunities. During the Carter Administration, the radical feminists took over the Civil Rights [...]
The Candy Cane Case
By Phyllis Schlafly If you haven't yet realized that powerful groups in the United States are working hard to ban Christianity from every part of school and public life, let me tell you about the latest outrage. At a public elementary school in Plano, Texas, here is what happened. First, the school banned eight-year-old Jonathan Morgan from [...]
Court Bans Jesus from Public Prayer
By Phyllis Schlafly In a stunning ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit prohibited a city council from allowing mention of Jesus during its invocations. The Court interpreted the First Amendment as requiring censorship of references to Jesus in prayers allowed by public officials. The invocation at the Forsyth County Board of [...]
Goodbye UNESCO a Model for Goodbye UN
By Phyllis Schlafly 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 percent of UNESCO's budget was summarily terminated when UNESCO voted 107 to 14 (with 52 abstentions) to approve full membership for Palestine. The cutoff of U.S. handouts includes not [...]
Smaller Classes Are Not Better
By Phyllis Schlafly When the subject comes up of cutting the budget for public schools, we hear whining and moaning about the indignities schools are supposedly forced to endure because of the economic downturn. One of these key themes is what they call the "class-size crisis." Teachers like smaller classes; that's understandable. The [...]
The High Costs of Marriage Absence
By Phyllis Schlafly Most Americans are unaware that about $700 Billion a year of federal taxpayers' money is handed out to non-taxpayers allegedly below a poverty line (in addition to $250 Billion a year given out by the states). After Barack Obama became President, he increased federal welfare spending by a third because, as he promised during [...]
College Is a Bad Reason to Go Into Debt
By Phyllis Schlafly College students are now facing increasing evidence that college is a bad financial investment that will saddle students with debt they can never escape. Pro-college ads are seductive: "College graduates can make a million dollars more in their lifetimes than those who don't go to college." The truth is that, according to [...]
College May Be Dangerous for Men
By Phyllis Schlafly College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules. In another striking proof that the Obama Administration is totally manipulated by feminists, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent out a 19-page Dear [...]
Wal-Mart Lawsuit Limits Class Action Suits
By Phyllis Schlafly "Class action" lawsuits are tools for trial attorneys to get enormous legal fees by suing on behalf of thousands of people who never hired the lawyers or approved the lawsuit. When one person is overcharged $10 by a large company, he can recover only $10 in a lawsuit. But if an attorney can sue in a class action on behalf of [...]
Let’s Talk About Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly We watched a couple more TV presidential candidate debates and, funny thing, again there was 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 9 [...]
Stealth Tactics of Radical Islamists
By Phyllis Schlafly Every Saturday from 11:00 am central time until noon, I host a one-hour radio talk show called Eagle Forum Live. I interview a guest and then invite questions and comments from listeners. In September, I aired a program that many people found particularly interesting, and it is now archived on my website, [...]
Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty — Again
By Phyllis Schlafly One of the first things Ronald Reagan did when he entered the White House in 1981 was to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which had been laboriously negotiated by our State Department and made ready for the President's signature. Reagan said, No way. He clearly saw that the Treaty was a bad deal for the United [...]
Colleges Want Students to Major in Diversity
By Phyllis Schlafly There's been a lot of news coverage about California's budget crisis. In particular, California's state universities are crying that their appropriations of state funds have been "cut to the bone." However, the prestigious magazine City Journal just published an expose of how one college department at the University of [...]
Reagan Was Not a Free Trader
By Phyllis Schlafly The people who support free trade are forever invoking the name of Ronald Reagan and claiming he was a free trader. But the men who worked with him on trade issues say that is not true. For example, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, who served as Reagan's Deputy U.S. Trade Representative with the rank of Ambassador, said flatly [...]
Mexican Trucks Are On Our Roads
By Phyllis Schlafly After years of negative votes in Congress and the opposition of the American people, on October 21 Barack Obama allowed the first Mexican truck to cross the border at Laredo, Texas and head north to deliver door-to-door service of its load of industrial equipment. This implemented an agreement quietly signed by [...]
Questions to Ask Presidential Candidates
By Phyllis Schlafly When will Republican presidential and senatorial candidates address any of the many problems caused by China? Their silence is deafening, and the media are complicit in the silence by failing to ask serious questions about China in several presidential debates. Here are some questions we would like to hear Republican [...]
China Sells Us a Trojan Horse
By Phyllis Schlafly Yesterday, we were talking about the threat from Chinese counterfeit microchips that the Pentagon buys and puts into our planes and military equipment. The fact that the Chinese are deliberately selling us counterfeit chips is really not news to those in the know. It has been known for so many years that it has acquired a [...]
China Sells Us Counterfeit Chips
By Phyllis Schlafly It’s a problem for U.S. retailers when Communist China makes fake designer handbags and illegal copies of our music CDs, but it’s a much bigger problem when the fakes are chips installed in our military weapons. The American people are starting to discover that counterfeit computer components bought from the Chinese are [...]
Supreme Court Will Decide ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. Supreme Court accepts for review and consideration only about 1% of the cases brought to its attention. 99 out of every 100 cases brought on petition to the U.S Supreme Court are rejected without comment. Moreover, many of the cases accepted by the High Court for review are obscure to most of the public, such as an [...]
Rick Perry’s Marriage Problems
By Phyllis Schlafly Does Rick Perry want to undermine traditional marriage? This question leaps out from his new 20 percent flat tax plan, which would eliminate all tax advantages for married couples in which one spouse is the primary breadwinner. For more than 60 years, the federal income tax has treated the family as an economic unit. A [...]
