Who supports political profiling?

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Napolitano issued a “Rightwing Extremism” report, which labels law-abiding citizens as “right wing extremists” and potential “terrorists.” She has also instructed state and local law enforcement to monitor, investigate and “report information concerning suspicious or criminal activity to DHS and the FBI.”

Potential terrorists include

• Veterans
• gun owners / supporters of the Second Amendment
  
• citizens who support secure borders
• Pro-lifers
  
• citizens who support traditional marriage
• citizens who believe in limited government
  
• citizens who prefer American sovereignty to global government

More than 20 conservative groups are standing up to say: no more political profiling!

The group is requesting:

1. The Resignation or Removal of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano for her partisan political profiling of veterans, and conservatives and her abuse of power.
2. An apology from President Barack Obama to ALL Americans for his administration’s call for domestic spying.
3. The Immediate Retraction of the “Rightwing Extremism” report for
   labeling law-abiding citizens as “Terrorists” because of their political views.

Visit nopoliticalprofiling.com to find out what you can do!

The Law of the Sea Treaty should be sunk, 4-26-09

By Ben Lerner
Special to The Examiner | 4/26/09 8:51 PM

Supporters of American ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (aka the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST) tend to spout the following mantra:

(1) Ratification of LOST provides critical benefits for America in energy, navigation and other areas;

(2) A list of high-profile personages support LOST, including former presidents from both parties, the Navy, the oil industry and others; and

(3) Critics are "ideologues" who, acting on a purely knee-jerk suspicion of the U.N., have "hijacked" ratification of LOST and are irrationally preventing the U.S. from taking advantage of this no-brainer.

This last point implies that there are no legitimate reasons to be concerned about the enormously complicated treaty. But name-calling aside, there are numerous risks associated with signing up for LOST, and ample reason to question the urgency with which proponents insist that the United States ratify, lest we lose our "seat at the table" in future deliberations involving the world's oceans.

Read more

In GOP base, a 'rebellion brewing'

This Is No Time to Go Wobbly

After 29 years, Senate ratification of the CEDAW treaty is still a terrible idea. by Austin Ruse, The Weekly Standard, April 27, 2009

Steele urged to label Obama a socialist

State RNC leaders raise dissent

By Ralph Z. Hallow (Contact) | Thursday, April 23, 2009

Republican state party leaders are rebelling against new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele for failing to dub President Obama and the Democrats as "socialists." And the rebels insist that the label matters.

Even though Mr. Steele has called his Democratic adversaries "collectivists," at least 16 state leaders say the term lacks the pejorative punch needed to sway public opinion and want all 168 members of the Republican National Committee to debate and vote on it.

It is the first time in memory that a sitting national leader of the Republican Party has faced a public challenge over his ideological leadership by conservative members of his own national committee.

Critics say it is also a sign of Mr. Steele's rocky start as RNC chairman and his continuing struggle to assert control of the party's message since his election in January.

Read more here

Schlafly to Receive Dobson Vision and Leadership Award

This was announced:

FRC Action will award Phyllis Schlafly the James C. Dobson Vision and Leadership Award at this year's Values Voter Summit.

Schlafly has written 20 books on the family and feminism, nuclear strategy and child care, among other topics. In 1972, she founded the volunteer organization Eagle Forum.

"With incredible grace, Phyllis Schlafly has articulated the vision of the conservative movement since revolutionizing it in 1964," said Tony Perkins, president of FRC Action.

Unbelievable victory' for families in Mass.

A pro-family advocate in Massachusetts says the latest state budget proposal includes some good news.
In the past, Brian Camenker of MassResistance took issue with the state budget because it included $850,000 for homosexual activism in public schools. Now because of the recession and the efforts of MassResistance and concerned citizens, Camenker says those funds have been slashed from the 2010 state budget.

"And this is the first time that that's happened since they started doing it back in the early '90s," he exclaims. "Of course, we have to make sure that it stays that way, but it's an unbelievable victory."
Read more here

Sebelius Cleared for Confirmation Vote But Loses Republican Support

How Obama actually delayed pirate rescue

How Obama actually delayed pirate rescue
SEAL team deployment stalled 36 hours, hampered by limited rules of engagement

WASHINGTON – While Barack Obama is basking in praise for his "decisive" handling of the Somali pirate attack on a merchant ship in the India Ocean, reliable military sources close to the scene are painting a much different picture of the incident – accusing the president of employing restrictive rules of engagement that actually hampered the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and extended the drama at sea for days.

Multiple opportunities to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama from three young pirates were missed, these sources say – all because a Navy SEAL team was not immediately ordered to the scene and then forced to operate under strict, non-lethal rules of engagement.

They say the response duty office at the Pentagon was initially unwilling to grant an order to use lethal force to rescue Phillips. They also report the White House refused to authorize deployment of a Navy SEAL team to the location for 36 hours, despite the recommendation of the on-scene commander.

The White House also turned down two rescue plans offered up by the Seal commander on the scene and the captain of the USS Bainbridge.

The SEAL team operated under rules of engagement that required them to do nothing unless the hostage's life was in "imminent' danger.

Read more here

Low- and middle-income Americans will pay dearly for this Democratic idea.

Michele Bachmann, 4-07-09

John Boehner Condemns DHS Categorizing Veterans and Conservatives as Security Threats

Texas Governor Affirms Texas Sovereignty Under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

On April 9, 2009, Rick Perry, the Republican Governor of Texas, held a press conference in which he said that the federal government has become oppressive and stated his unwavering support for the U.S. Constitution which guarantees the sovereignty of every individual state under the Tenth Amendment. Governor Perry called for the adoption of a resolution asserting the proper role of the federal government and the states as designed by the Founding Fathers.

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states the following:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Americans should welcome Governor Perry’s leadership in protecting the sovereignty of the great State of Texas and his determination to rein in the power seekers at the federal level of government.

We urge you to urge the governor of your state to join with Governor Perry in this essential move to restore constitutional rights to the states and to the people.

Governor Perry’s press conference can be viewed here

Wall Street Still Finds Ways to Hire Foreigners

Some big U.S. banks that have received billions of dollars from the government are shipping some of their newest recruits overseas in order to comply with a federal law that restricts their ability to hire foreign workers for U.S. jobs.

Although some financial firms have rescinded job offers to such prospective employees, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley are offering international jobs to foreign students whom they have recruited from U.S. colleges and graduate schools. The new hires are being sent to global financial centers like London and Hong Kong.

Read entire article at WSJ.com, 4-15-09

What do you think about this practice?

Sebelius lowballed donations from abortion doctor

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's Health secretary nominee got nearly three times as much political money from a controversial abortion doctor as she told senators.

The Health and Human Services Department said Monday that the omission was an oversight that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius would correct.

In a response to questions from the Senate Finance Committee made public last week, Sebelius wrote that she received $12,450 between 1994-2001 from Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers. But in addition to those campaign donations, records reviewed by The Associated Press show that Tiller gave at least $23,000 more from 2000-2002 to a political action committee Sebelius established while insurance commissioner to raise money for fellow Democrats.

Sebelius did not tell senators about that additional money, although Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., asked specifically about any Tiller donations to her PAC.

"There was an oversight in the initial answer provided to the committee," HHS spokesman Nick Papas said Monday. "Obviously donations to the PAC are a matter of public record. The governor is updating the answer to this question and will resubmit it to the committee."

Read more here

DHS to monitor "right wing extremists," groups opposed to abortion and illegal immigration

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Federal agency warns of radicals on right


The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. "It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

Read the full story here.

Climate bill could trigger lawsuit landslide

The Wash. Times reports:

Self-proclaimed victims of global warming or those who "expect to suffer" from it - from beachfront property owners to asthmatics - for the first time would be able to sue the federal government or private businesses over greenhouse gas emissions under a little-noticed provision slipped into the House climate bill.

Environmentalists say the measure was narrowly crafted to give citizens the unusual standing to sue the U.S. government as a way to force action on curbing emissions. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sees a new cottage industry for lawyers.

"You could be spawning lawsuits at almost any place [climate-change modeling] computers place at harm's risk," said Bill Kovacs, energy lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Some people benefit from climate change, so perhaps they will also be suing if there is not enough climate change.

Why do Hungarians and the Capitol Hill Prayer Alert oppose patent reform?

. . . John Schlafly, a lawyer for Eagle Forum, declared that supporters of the reform act want to weaken patent laws. "They are the same forces that seek to send U.S. jobs and technology to other countries while retaining a free and open access to the U.S. market," he said. Schlafly then suggested that "90 percent of the great or important inventions in the history of the world were here in the U.S." and that "what other countries do is steal our ideas and technology and use much cheaper labor and then sell them in the U.S." . . .

Read entire article at Wired.com

Opposition Mounts to Patent Reform Act of 2009

March 18, 2009

Dear Senators Reid and McConnell, Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Boehner:

We are writing to ask you to strongly oppose the passage of The Patent Reform Act of 2009, S. 515 and HR. 1260, legislation sponsored by Senator Leahy and Rep. Conyers, respectively. These bills, under the mantle of "reform," will actually severely damage U.S. international competitiveness and threaten most American businesses - along with the jobs they create - by undermining America's historically strong intellectual property rights. . . .

Letter cosigned by Phyllis Schlafly

Judges are like baseball umpires

Law prof Ilya Somin writes:

Conservative columnist George Will has written an op ed describing the role of umpires as "baseball's judicial branch." He joins a long list of jurists, including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who have analogized umpires to judges:

Roberts famously used this analogy in his Sept. 2005 confirmation hearings:

"I come before this committee with no agenda, no platform," said Roberts in his brief opening remarks. "I will approach every case with an open mind."

And using a baseball metaphor, he compared his judicial role to that of an umpire, saying, "My job is to call balls and strikes, not pitch or bat."

Eagle Forum members learned about it first from Phyllis Schlafly's book, The Supremacists, first published in July 2004, which said:

We need judges for the same reason that baseball needs umpires. Someone has to call the balls and strikes and resolve close plays. But umpires are never allowed to change the rules of the game.

Others have used the analogy previously, but she seems to have helped popularize it.

Single women are buying sperm

Out-of-wedlock births have hit a record high in the USA, as single women just buy their sperm from sperm banks. CNN reports:

Nearly 40 percent of babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by unwed mothers, according to data released last month by the National Center for Health Statistics. The 1.7 million out-of-wedlock births, of 4.3 million total births, marked a more than 25 percent jump from five years before. ...

What she said about cultural differences and expectations might help explain some of the numbers. Other data released last month showed the percentage of unwed mothers differs from race to race. While 28 percent of white women gave birth out of wedlock in 2007, nearly 72 percent of black women and more than 51 percent of Latinas did. ...

When California Cryobank, which claims to be the world's largest sperm bank, opened its doors in the late 1970s, 99 percent of its business catered to couples grappling with male infertility, spokesman Scott Brown said. Now, that market in the sperm donor world accounts for less than 14 percent, according to projections by Charles Sims, the organization's co-founder and medical director.

About 50,000 women delivering babies each year are single moms by choice, said Mikki Morrissette, author of "Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide," and founder of the online resource Choice Moms.

White House confirms it got 2 million red envelopes

Chelsea Schilling, over at Worldnetdaily.com, reports that the White House mail office received as many as 2.25 million red envelopes. Each empty red envelope represented the life of an unborn child who's opportunity to contribute to society was stolen from him or her. It's likely that the "Red Letter" campaign was larger than most White House mailing movements in the last 35 years.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Read entire article.

88% of Americans Oppose World Currency

88% Say It’s Important To Keep The Dollar As America’s Currency

Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Americans say it is important for the dollar to remain the currency of the United States, including 70% who say it is Very Important.

Only three percent (3%) say it is not at all important if the dollar remains America’s currency, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Read entire article

Will the Real Secretary Geithner Please Stand Up?, Phyllis Schlafly column, 4-03-09

Phyllis Schlafly interviewed

Phyllis is interviewed in Time magazine.

School-to-Work still alive

Work force training in 4th grade, courtesy of taxpayers

It may be new economic times, but we're still spending on education experiments -- like $200,000 to teach 4th and 5th graders in Baltimore City about a career in transportation technology.

The money is a grant from the Federal Highway Administration to the Baltimore City Public School System. It will be used to teach 40 students per year for two years “civil, structural and mechanical engineering, physics and environmental sciences.”

Read entire article

Eagle Forum School-to-Work articles

Dr. Oz to Oprah and Michael J Fox: "The stem cell debate is dead."

To have this truth presented by Dr. Oz to an audience as big a Oprah's is HUGE. "We are fearfully and wonderfully made". As we have known for a long time, life improving and life saving treatments are available without destroying little babies. Now a whole new constituency knows it -- people we probably would never have access to. God is SO good.See Video HERE.

UK complaints about sex equality

The London Telegraph reports:

Many charities have been told that they must extend their counselling and outreach services to men because of new equality laws which require local authorities to ensure that services do not discriminate on grounds of sex.

Fiona Mactaggart, the former Home Office minister, said an "unintended consequence" of the law has meant some domestic violence services have lost grants or contracts for refusing to do so.

She said: "There are some local authorities who interpret equalities to mean that a refuge has to provide for men, not only for women.

"There are some stupidnesses developing in the system that nobody intended." ...

The new Gender Equality Duty, created under The Equality Act 2006, requires that 'public bodies must promote and take action to bring about gender equality, which involves: looking at issues for men and women'.

Stupidness that nobody intended? When they passed a law to provide services equally to men and women, just what did they intend? Did they secretly intend that the money would continue to flow to man-hating feminist activists?

If that is not socialism, what is?

Anyone who doubts that the Bush and Obama administrations collectively transformed America into a socialist state should consider this: For every dollar American citizens generated last year, the federal bailout consumed more than 90 cents in outlays, loans, and commitments.

Bloomberg News has tallied Washington’s spending and promises as it props up banks, insurers, automakers, and seemingly everyone except hardworking taxpayers who promptly pay their bills. Bloomberg deserves great credit for focusing on this constantly moving target. In its latest estimate, Bloomberg correspondents Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry reported on March 31 that the Federal Reserve, Treasury, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Department of Housing and Urban Development have saddled taxpayers with $12.8 trillion so far. America’s 2008 gross domestic product was $14.2 trillion. Hence, the federal bailout now equals 90.14 percent of GDP.
Read more here

Bill Ayers's Visit to Chicago High School Canceled

Kermit Eby, one of Ayers's students, now teaches American History at Naperville North High School. Eby invited Ayers to speak at the high school on April 8, but after public outcry, Ayers's visit was canceled. According to Supt. Alan Leis of the School District 203, "clearly our community has let us know that they just don't think that's [Ayers' visit is] appropriate" (Chicagotribune.com).

Ayers brashly admitted that he was "guilty as hell" in planting bombs in the 1970s, and that he has no regrets and feels that he and his Weather Underground associates "didn't do enough." From his prestigious and safe university position, Ayers has been teaching teachers and students in rebellion against American capitalism and what he calls "imperialism" and "oppression." The code words for the Ayers curriculum are "social justice," a "transformative" vision, "critical pedagogy," "liberation," "capitalist injustices," "critical race theory," "queer theory," and of course multiculturalism and feminism. Read more of Phyllis Schlafly's column:
Bill Ayers's Scary Plans for Public Schools.

Supremacist Judges Can’t Resist Legislating Gay Marriage In Iowa

Eagle Forum issued a press release after the Iowa Supreme Court struck down an Iowa law preserving a traditional definition of marriage this morning.

“We can never allow the definition of marriage to simply mean two consenting persons who agree to share quarters and start applying to the government for benefits,” says President of Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafly. “Eagle Forum calls on the Iowa state legislature to work to adopt a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman only, and by subsequently passing a state law that withdraws jurisdiction from the state courts over this issue.”

Hundreds Rallly at Cape Coral Tea Party: "We're tired. We don't want more taxes."

Watch the news footage from a Tea Party yesterday in Cape Coral. Hundreds rallied to express their frustration with out-of-control government spending.

"We don't like what's happening to our country. We're tired. We don't want more taxes. We don't want a big government. We don't want Washington running car companies and insurance companies. They can't even run themselves," said one attendee.

Another woman said, "We've all been asleep for too long. We need to wake up and get involved again and get active and make ourselves be heard."

Don't miss attending a Tea Party in your area on April 15: www.teapartyday.com.

Network with as many people as possible and use these contacts to form a study group at your home to cover all the topics basic to maintaining our freedoms. Visit "Home Meetings" at www.eagleforum.org to learn how.

Another Outrageous Obama Appointment: Justice Hamilton

Republicans walked out of a confirmation hearing for Hoosier David Hamilton, Obama's appointment of to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, because there hasn't been enough time to examine Hamilton's previous rulings.

In 2005, Judge Hamilton ruled that the 1st Amendment bans the practice of opening the chamber's business with prayers mentioning Jesus Christ or using terms such as "Savior" since that would amounted to state endorsement of a religion. Judge Hamilton wrote: "The injunction orders the Speaker not to permit sectarian prayers and to advise those offering official prayers "(a) that the prayers must be non-sectarian and must not be used to proselytize or advance any one faith or belief or to disparage any other faith or belief, and (b) that the prayers should not use Christ's name or title or any other denominational appeal." Hamilton, moreover, said that praying to "Allah" does not violate the 1st Amendment.

In 2003, Judge Hamilton struck down part of an Indiana law on abortion. The law had required abortion clinics to give women information about alternatives to abortion in the presence of a physician or nurse, 18 hours before the procedure. The 7th Circuit court also reversed Hamilton's bad decision in that case and now he's been appointed to that very court that has frequently overruled him.

Congressmen Not Impressed Even With Inflated Petition Numbers

Obama supporters have been hitting the streets and knocking on doors to garner support for Obama's something-for-everyone FY2010 budget. Despite canvassing and pounding on Obama's 13 million strong email list, the effort to get petitions to deliver to Congress resulted in a less than blusterous response: 214,000 signed pledges. The DNC photo copied these pledges 3 times (one for each signer's senators and one representative) to inflate the number to 642,000 according to Washington Post.

Despite inflating the the number, Congress didn't seem to notice this particular effort. A 6th-term Congressman from Oregon, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) said, "We get bombarded all the time. I haven't seen any big uptick in my e-mails since they knocked on doors. It's not that effective."

Yahoo News Headline: "Lawmakers shrug as Obama's grass-roots lobby delivers pledges"

Conservatives Condemn Another Controversial Census Move

See this statement from House Minority Leader John Boehner.