The head of a worldwide pro-Israel Christian ministry says no one
should be surprised that a lack of unity between rival factions has
resulted in a cancellation of Palestinian elections.
What began as a disagreement over a requested menu change for a
banquet by a home-schooling mom has turned into litigation that could
affect all employer-employee relations in Indiana.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced today it is changing its mind and will continue financial grants to the abortion-provider Planned Parenthood.
OneMillionMoms is challenging J.C. Penney's effort to reshape its
identity. The retailer is pinning its hopes in part on an ad campaign
that features a high-profile homosexual entertainer.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is going forward with a scheduled prayer breakfast next week, despite the controversy over the originally scheduled keynote speaker.
Since at least one lawmaker recognizes that people won't change their religious beliefs to comply with a government mandate, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate to protect religious organizations from ObamaCare.
With the Nevada caucuses on the horizon, a political commentator isn't sure whether the real estate mogul and reality TV personality's endorsement of Mitt Romney will help or hurt the GOP presidential hopeful.
In this video, Barack Obama is asked why we are importing foreign labor while Americans are out of work: Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth asked why the government continues "to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?"
She was persistent and at one point broke in on the president as he gave a response, to ask: "Why do you think the H-1B program
This is just a quick note to my Missouri friends to let you know that I'm planning to vote for Rick Santorum in the non-binding presidential preference primary on Tuesday, February 7.
Faithfully,
Phyllis Schlafly
Mitt Romney got attention for these two quotes: “I like to being able to fire people who provide services to me.”
“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor — we have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”
Romney is being widely misquoted as saying that he likes to fire people and that he does not care about the poor.
The differences
Liberty Counsel writes: When describing the nature of a constitution, Justice Ginsburg did appropriately recognize the importance of a constitution and the duty of the citizens to defend it. Justice Ginsburg did not, unfortunately, take her own advice. She undermined insight of its crafters and stated, “I would not look to the US Constitution if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012.”
In the dozen presidential debates that we've watched on television over the last year, one of the topics that has not gotten the attention it deserves is the judiciary. After all, the power of the U.S. President to nominate federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, is one of the most important duties of the President, and we have a right to judge presidential candidates based on what
President Obama's lack of respect for the U.S. Constitution has reached the point that he thinks he can act like a king and do whatever he wants. In addition to giving away our money recklessly, he has announced his intention to refuse to enforce laws he doesn't like, even though the U.S. Constitution makes it the prime duty of the President to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
It was bad enough when President Obama bamboozled Congress into passing a Stimulus bill that didn't produce any jobs, then increased the federal budget deficit, then bailed out the big U.S. banks, and then appointed a Jobs Czar who creates jobs only in China. But it's over the top when Obama told the European Union Council President and the European Commission President that "the United States
Welfare spending is at record levels, with government handouts now making up 1/3 of U.S. wages. Former welfare recipient Star Parker will explain why welfare can't end poverty.
Star's Website
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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. Trial attorneys would have a field day if they could sue every time government makes a
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 Jimmy Carter created it as a payoff to the teachers unions that endorsed his candidacy for
The UK Mail newspaper reports: Would YOU let your teenage daughter sleep with a boyfriend in your home?
These middle-class mothers do. The alternatives, they insist, are even more worrying...
When Sarah Watts’s 16-year-old daughter Alicia asked if her boyfriend of three months could stay the night, she wasn’t outraged or upset. Instead, she responded in a way that would horrify many parents —
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is dominated by Democratic-appointed judges, and many of its decisions have been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Ninth Circuit is even more liberal than the Obama Administration. A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel struck down a plan by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to delist grizzly bears from the category of “threatened” species. Such
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 downright fraud in federal spending for education. The Government Accounting Office (GAO)
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 Janet Lee. This textbook is a collection of propaganda essays to sell students on
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 women in direct combat is not coming from the infantry women who would be involved; it's coming from
In the 1950s, Australian doctor Fred Schwarz left his lucrative medical practice to warn America and the world about the dangers of Communism. We’ll take a fresh look at his work and its relevance for America today.
The Schwarz Report
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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 the public schools in Giles County for at least ten years, and then suddenly one student
Don't Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aid is 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 parents what they are missing as their kids grow up amid the never-ending
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 assigned to all kinds of public school classes, including math,
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 Butte, Montana, the valedictorian included the following in her prepared
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 prohibit same-sex marriage. But if government lets everyone do what
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 American constitutional system with central planning and "social justice,"
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 plan for taxes was launched at the 1992 UN meeting in Rio de Janeiro,
Can Darwinian evolution explain the transformation of the humble caterpillar into the beautifully painted butterfly? Our guest says butterflies make a powerful case for design by an intelligent creator.
DVD: Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies
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President Obama has used his executive power in many ways to expand the role of government. But there’s one area that stands out: Obama’s frequent and repeated use of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue emergency and disaster declarations. Heritage’s Matt Mayer reports that Obama “eviscerated the record books by issuing 243 declarations in 2011,” continuing an alarming pattern that begin under President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush. Mayer says FEMA has become a “political pork-barrel spending agency.” The trend is illustrated in this week’s chart, which … More
The U.S. Department of Transportation imposed new regulations on airlines Jan. 24 that were supposed to benefit consumers. The rules require all government taxes and fees to be included in advertised fares and allow passengers to withhold payment for 24 hours after making a reservation, if it’s one week before the flight’s departure. Some consumers might be jumping for joy that the nanny state is imposing new rules on airlines. But for low-cost carries like Spirit Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air, it’s grounds for a lawsuit against the federal … More
The people of the United States ordained a Constitution of limited government. As time passes, the people have more of the “government” and less of the “limited.” Americans must work at maintaining their freedoms. Defense of the constitutional freedom of association involved in choosing roommates to share housing illustrates the effort required. Government has attempted to regulate our ability to choose a roommate, but efforts to resist that intrusion pay off in preserved liberty. Tricia Rowe, a 31-year-old single woman who owned a three bedroom, single-family house, wanted a roommate. … More
Two well-connected government unions in California are teaming with Gov. Jerry Brown to support a multibillion-dollar tax increase. The California Teachers Association and Service Employees International Union were the top two spenders for lobbying in 2011 with combined efforts totaling more than $10 million, according to Sacramento Bee. Now they’re using their muscle to champion Brown’s tax hike. Brown’s plan “would raise tens of billions of dollars by temporarily increasing the sales tax and the income tax on wealthy Californians, generating about $35 billion over five years,” according to the … More
Details of a large non-profit’s plans to combat the Keystone XL pipeline have surfaced, and offer some insight into the strategies and tactics of groups looking to combat the use of fossil fuels. Canadian news channel Sun News uncovered of a PowerPoint presentation from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund detailing its work with other groups to derail the Keystone XL pipeline and other similar projects it deemed parts of “a globally significant threat.” The presentation, written in 2008, describes the allocation of $7 million to environmental non-profits for tactics that include … More
Saturday marks the anniversary of the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act, which in 1887 created the first federal regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Although those who created the ICC had no intention of establishing the modern administrative state we now have, the creation of the ICC was an inadvertent first step toward the federal leviathan that governs us today. The ICC was originally created to address growing problems created by the expansion of railroads in America. It was the outgrowth of the “Granger” movement, which took hold … More
February 6 is Ronald Reagan’s birthday. While the right has long looked to Reagan as the standard-bearer of conservative leadership, over the past few years, even liberals are waxing Reaganesque. For instance, before he was the class warrior in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt, President Obama invoked the Gipper to support his millionaire tax. As Reagan historian Steven Hayward remarked, “Ever so slowly, liberals are attempting a subtle revisionism” of our 40th President. Let’s set the record straight. Just take a look at Ronald Reagan’s greatest achievements as evidence of … More
Earlier this year, the Obama Administration trumpeted the recently passed United Nations regular budget as a triumph of fiscal discipline. To some degree, it is justified in that claim. The initial appropriations for the 2012–2013 budget (at $5.15 billion) are $263 million lower than the final expenditures for the 2010–2011 budget, and nearly $44 million lower than the 2012–2013 budget originally proposed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. This is only the third time since 1960 that the initial U.N. regular budget appropriation was lower than the final appropriation for the previous … More
As we have been reporting, Iran is increasingly expanding its presence in Latin America, as evidenced in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent tour to Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. More troubling, of course, are reports uncovered by the Univision News Network that Iran is using Latin America as a base for possible terrorist plots against the United States. Unfortunately, despite the obvious national security threat of Iran’s increasing reach in Central and South America, this Administration’s policy toward Latin America has been devoid of urgency to reassert American leadership in … More
This week the U.S. State Department announced the launch of the Stakeholder Advisory Board for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Nanny-state scolds on the left have increasingly called for more corporate social responsibility (CSR). Their mantra is “doing well by doing good,” and they have enshrined CSR principles not only at the OECD but in such vehicles as the U.N. Global Compact and the International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 26000 International Standard: Guidance on Social Responsibility. Membership on the advisory board is weighted … More
We have had egotistical presidents before, but never to my knowledge have we had one who saw himself as replacing God.