30 Ways to Save Your Family

Parents today are faced with many problems in raising children to be honest, moral, and good citizens. On this New Year's Eve, I want to tell you about a new book that you may find helpful. It is called 30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family by Rebecca Hagelin. The 30 chapters of this book overflow not only with helpful information for parents, combined with encouragement, inspiration, and practical advice to equip parents to rescue their children from the rising tide of corruption in American culture.

1st Annual Conservative Leadership Conference -- January 21-22, 2010

Eagle Forum Executive Director Colleen Holmes will be a guest on a family values panel during the first annual Conservative Leadership Conference, at the Union League Club in New York City on Jan. 21-22.

Like Mushrooms, Health Care 'Reform' Flourishes in the Dark

In a key scene in Frank Capra's 1939 film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," appointed senator (and unwitting pawn in a corruption scheme) Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, suggests to a colleague that perhaps it would be a good idea to read bills before voting on them.

"The bills?" responds an incredulous Senator Paine, played by Claude Rains. "These bills are put together by legal minds after long study. I can't understand half of them myself, and I used to be a lawyer."

Forget it, he tells Smith. "When the time comes, I'll advise you how to vote."


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Yale Censors Danish Cartoons

In 2005, a Dutch newspaper published 12 cartoons describing various aspects of Islam. This ignited a series of violent protests in the Muslim world; 139 people died and many more were injured.

China Selling Us the Rope to Hang Us

On the eve of a visit to the United States in October by Communist China's No. 2 ranking military officer, Gen. Xu Caihou, President Obama issued what is called a "presidential determination" that loosened export controls on technology to benefit Chinese missile development. Obama altered a key provision of the 1999 Defense Authorization Act, which had required that the President notify Congress whether a proposed transfer of missile and space technology to China would harm the U.S. space-launch program or help China's missile program. Loral Space and Communications was allowed to provide 200 pages of data to China to correct the guidance system problems in their rockets, which had been blowing up 3/4th of the time.

U.S. Use of Chinese Drywall

The use of Chinese-made drywall in new home construction has escalated into an international scandal. Thousands of homeowners bought new houses constructed with drywall imported from Communist China. State and federal investigations found that the drywall emits "volatile sulfur compounds" and contains traces of strontium sulfide, which can produce a rotten-egg odor, along with organic compounds never used in U.S.-made drywall. Homeowners complain that the fumes are corroding copper pipes, destroying TVs and air conditioners, blackening jewelry and silverware, and even making them ill. Even worse is the fact that insurers are denying claims, and homeowners are being told their insurance is canceled or will not be renewed.

Dee Wampler — Taking Christmas out of Schools

Out of fear of the ACLU, many school administrators and teachers are removing any mention of Christmas in schools. An expert attorney will explain the effect of these measures and what you can do to fight back!

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Weighing a Vaccine's Risks

To the Editor:
This past summer, you reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration published a “reassuring” study about the safety of Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine that is routinely recommended for girls as young as 11 ("Study on Vaccine for Cervical Cancer Finds Benefits Despite Some Risks" news article, Aug. 19).

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The Second Most Important Christmas

Americans today are searching for a leader, a good man who stands on principle and can lead us to adopt the right policies for our nation. Leadership requires many important qualities, and one we sometimes overlook is that a leader must be willing to take risks for the cause he believes in. I suggest that anyone who is trying to be a leader should carefully study the character and the decisions made by George Washington.

Keep Uncle Sam Away from Toddlers

Among Barack Obama's campaign promises was his promise to increase the federal government's commitment to early childhood education. He has announced his “Zero to Five Plan,” which emphasizes not only expanding educational opportunities for three- and four-year-olds, who are not yet eligible for kindergarten, but also will develop a federal government program for “early care and education for infants.”

Reagan's Rendezvous with Destiny

It certainly was not inevitable that Ronald Reagan would be elected President in 1980, even though his opponent, Jimmy Carter, was very unpopular. Conservatives had suffered so many defeats that they didn't anticipate Reagan's victory. As late as Election Day, newspaper headlines reported the Reagan-Carter race "too close to call."

A bill of bribery, extortion, secrecy, fraud, and corruption

List of "Sweetheart Deals"

Made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) 

to Secure 60 Votes for his Health Care Bill

Prepared by Republican Study Committee, a caucus of 
conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Just when you thought secret deals with the industry, closed-door meetings and Chicago-style backroom politics couldn't get any worse . . . they did. According to Reid, "A number of states are treated differently than other states. That's what legislation's all about: compromise". Really? Rather than thoughtful policy, H.R. 3590 is the result of Democrat desperation and includes countless political handouts. In an effort to meet an artificial holiday deadline, the bill itself has come to look like a Christmas tree with goodies for all Democrat holdouts.

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Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel

by Sarah Palin

Last weekend while you were preparing for the holidays with your family, Harry Reid’s Senate was making shady backroom deals to ram through the Democrat health care take-over. The Senate ended debate on this bill without even reading it. That and midnight weekend votes seem to be standard operating procedures in D.C. No one is certain of what’s in the bill, but Senator Jim DeMint spotted one shocking revelation regarding the section in the bill describing the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (now called the Independent Payment Advisory Board), which is a panel of bureaucrats charged with cutting health care costs on the backs of patients – also known as rationing. Apparently Reid and friends have changed the rules of the Senate so that the section of the bill dealing with this board can’t be repealed or amended without a 2/3 supermajority vote. . . .

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Final vote on Senate health bill set for Christmas Eve at 8 a.m.

Senate Democrats plan to hold a vote on final passage for their healthcare reform bill on Thursday, Christmas Eve, at 8 a.m.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters on Tuesday that he'd scheduled the vote for the morning of Christmas Eve, the timing of which would conceivably allow senators to travel to their home states to celebrate the holiday.

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Who Caused Our Current Depression?

It has become the fashion in book publishing to have a short title of hot words and then a very long subtitle describing what the book is really about. The subtitle of a new book by Peter Schweizer, called Architects of Ruin, is: How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy -- and How They Will Do It Again If No One Stops Them.

TV Ad: Harry Reid Failed!

Senator Harry Reid has shown contempt for the American people and the people of Nevada. Now, "We The People" are fighting back, and the Tea Party Express (and its principal sponsor, the Our Country Deserves Better Committee) fights back with this TV ad campaign against failed Democrat Senator, Harry Reid.

Silence is Acceptance!

Keep calling your Senators! 202-224-3121 Dist offices: http://bit.ly/66oxgr

The Harbour League's 1st Annual New York City Conservative Leadership Conference

A day long conference featuring some of today's most prominent conservative thinkers and public-policy experts. 

Colleen Holmes, Executive Director, Eagle Forum to speak at Harbour League's 1st Annual New York City Conservative Leadership Conference.

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The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed -- that's including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting.

Unemployment Rates by County Jan. '07 - Oct. '09, multimedia graphic

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Who Has the Solution for Unemployment?, Phyllis Schlafly, 12-18-09

Gardasil Researcher Drops a Bombshell

Last year I aired a radio commentary called "Caution Advised for Gardasil." Gardasil's manufacturer, Merck, had launched a big marketing campaign to sell this new vaccine, which was supposed to partially protect girls against Human Papilloma Virus, commonly known simply as HPV. That's the virus that causes genital warts, a sexually transmitted disease, and can lead to cervical cancer in some women. Merck's aggressive marketing of Gardasil produced a honeymoon with the media, and caused several states to pass laws to require or to pay for or to educate the public about the merits of the vaccine. Many states considered requiring the vaccine for girls to enter public school.

Ben Nelson caves on abortion, announces support for health care bill

Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced to his colleagues Saturday morning that he would support the Senate reform bill, clearing the way for final passage by Christmas of President Obama's top domestic policy priority.

Asked if he had secured the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) told reporters, "It seems that way."

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Take Action!

Call your Senators over the weekend

Call your Senators over the weekend at 202-224-3121 and urge them to kill The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3590)

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A merry Christmas; Senate eyes Dec. 24 vote on healthcare reform legislation

The Senate is heading toward a Christmas Eve vote to pass landmark healthcare legislation, but instead of holiday cheer, Democrats and Republicans are digging in for trench warfare.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is determined to finish work before the Christmas holiday and has set a schedule that would end with a final vote on the evening of Dec. 24.

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Feminist Attack on Marriage

While the gay lobby gets most of the blame for the assault on marriage, the modern feminist movement has always been aggressively anti-marriage. When the movement marched onto the stage of the culture war in the early 1970s, they called themselves the women's liberation movement. Their buzz word was liberation, which specifically meant liberation from home, husband, family and children.

Bachmann: Obamacare 'Largest Middle-Class Tax Increase in History'

A conservative rising star on Capitol Hill says President Barack Obama and the Democrats are about to drop “the largest middle-class tax increase in American history” onto the backs of taxpayers in the form of unfunded mandates saddling small businesses with massive debts.

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Poll: Huge majority doesn't want Democrats' health care bill

With House Democrats racing to pass their 2,000-plus page health care reform bill this weekend, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that an overwhelming majority of those surveyed -- 72 percent -- want Congress either to make major changes, start over from scratch, or simply stop working on health care legislation. Just 26 percent want Congress to pass the current health care proposal as is, or with minor changes.

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Ted Poe's White House Trespassers speech:

Speaker Pelosi to shield vulnerable members from controversial votes

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has privately told her politically vulnerable Democratic members that they will not vote on controversial bills in 2010 unless the Senate acts first.

After a year of bruising legislative victories that some political analysts believe have done more to jeopardize her majority than to entrench it, Pelosi is shifting gears for the 2010 election.

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Feminists Don't Believe in Choice

One of the major goals of the feminist movement has been to get all wives and mothers out of the home and into the workforce, and women are now half of the workforce in America. Women's percentage in the labor force keeps rising because of who is going to college. Thirty years ago, the ratio of males to females on college campuses was 60-40; but now it's 40-60, and women receive the majority of college degrees.

Today Is Bill of Rights Day

We don't hear much about it in the mainstream media, but today, December 15th, is a very important date. Today is the 218th anniversary of the day the Bill of Rights was ratified and the first Ten Amendments became part of the United States Constitution. In 1789, the first Congress of the United States approved the amendments to the U.S. Constitution that later became known as the Bill of Rights, and sent them to the states for ratification. The amendments were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens, guaranteeing freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly; the right to bear arms; the right to fair legal procedure for all persons accused of crime; the right to trial by jury; the right to be secure in our persons and houses against unreasonable searches and seizures. The 9th and 10th Amendments were very important in establishing the boundary of what the federal government may and may not do. Those Amendments say that the powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people.

American Exceptionalism

COP 15 SECOND REPORT

The climate change conference being held from December 7-18, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark has very little to do with climate change and everything to do with the dismantling of America. There are three groups represented at the conference of the parties (COP15) — the rich countries, the poor countries and the most radical environmental groups. This is the largest United Nations conference ever conducted with 45,000 participants held in a facility built to accommodate 15,000. Negotiations are deadlocked as they have been all year. The poor want the rich to forfeit their money and technology as payment for climate debt and the rich want the poor to make emission reduction commitments while the radical environmentalists cheer for the poor. Although there are 190 countries represented, only two countries need to reach agreement and they are the U.S. and China. The other countries will follow suit.


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Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

The Senate passed a huge end-of-the-year $1.1 trillion omnibus spending measure Sunday afternoon by a vote of 57-35.

The chamber was forced to work for the second consecutive weekend after talks broke down late Thursday to move the massive spending package and Republicans continued to filibuster it. Senate Democrats overcame the opposition Saturday when the Senate voted 60-34 to end debate and clear the way for a final vote.

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Government's Role in Marriage

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. When the famous French commentator Alexis de Toqueville traveled the United States in the early-19th century, he recognized the fact that respect for marriage is very American. He wrote: "There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated."

The Curious New Debate about Polygamy

If our government cannot define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, then it follows that we cannot have laws against same-sex marriage, and also that there can be no law against polygamy, a practice that is totally demeaning to women.

Missouri Joins 22 Other States to Protect Freedom of Choice in Health Care

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the nation's largest individual membership association of state legislators, is promoting a way for states to protect Americans' medical care freedom. At least 22 states have or will introduce legislation modeled after ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act, including Missouri.

Sen. Sessions Expresses Concerns about DHS & Holder's Decision

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, addressed America’s immigration policy during the opening of today’s DHS oversight hearing with Secretary Janet Napolitano. A text of those remarks follows:

“Secretary Napolitano, I want to thank you for appearing before the committee today to discuss concerns we have with the mission and performance of the Department of Homeland Security.

Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st-Century Issue

No sooner had we celebrated the departure of Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, Mr. Van Jones, because he was a Communist, we heard about another embarrassing Obama appointment. The President nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (known as the EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 15

EF Correspondent Pat Carlson reporting from Copenhagen, Denmark

What Do You Know About the 1960s?

A lot of people have been led to believe that the decade of the 1960s was all about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But I recently interviewed an author on my Saturday call-in radio program who gave a different view. His name is Jonathan Leaf and the name of his book is The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties. Yes, there were campus riots and a lot of youthful rebellion and social upheaval. There were protest demonstrations, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the Vietnam War, and Hollywood. There were a lot of bad aspects of the 1960s, and Jonathan Leaf does a good job of describing them. One was the radical feminist movement, which Mr. Leaf says was a key factor in the breakdown of the American family, and the legalization of abortion and unilateral divorce.

Where We Are in the Senate Health Care Debate

The Senate has been debating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) health care bill, the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3590), continuously for the past week. Reid even kept the Senate in session this weekend for both Saturday and Sunday to ensure that his key Senators were kept far away from their constituents in their home states.

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The Day that Lives in Infamy

Today, December 7, is the day about which President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said, will always "live in infamy.” December 7, 1941 was the day of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii which caused our entry into World War II.

Court jurisdiction can be stripped

A recent column said:

KSM fits the statutory definition of a terrorist: an "unlawful enemy combatant" who engaged in premeditated, politically motivated violence against noncombatant targets. He's not a U.S. citizen, and he was arrested outside the United States.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to override this Obama-Holder outrage. Congress can and should prevent this travesty, and the sooner the better.

We don't need any 2,000-page legislation – a single sentence will suffice: "Federal district courts shall have no jurisdiction over any case involving unlawful enemy combatants, as that term is defined in the United States Code (Title 10, Section 948a)."

Constitutional authority is clear. Article III, Section 1, states, "The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."

Playing by Reid's rules on filibusters

By U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Friday, November 27, 2009

The Silliest Celebration

A few weeks ago, the American Library Association announced with much fanfare that it was celebrating the ridiculous event called "Banned Books Week." This announcement accused Americans of being “zealots and bigots who live in fear of discourse" and of being "screamers and book banners and book burners.” This Association arranged events and set up displays at libraries all over the country to pretend we have a problem with censorship.

How Safe Is the School Safety Czar?

One of the 34 czars appointed by President Obama is the School Safety Czar, a man named Kevin Jennings. He turns out to be another Obama appointee who has a background that many people find unacceptable. 53 Members of Congress have called on Obama to fire him as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. The objection to Kevin Jennings, according to the letter signed by the Congressmen, is that Jennings played an "integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America's schools." In 1990, Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (known as GLSEN). GLSEN now claims more than 4,000 student chapters all over the United States.

GAO Should Audit Fed Before Bernanke Reappointment

An effort is underway to mandate a GAO audit of the Federal Reserve system to let the American public as well as Congress how much money the Fed has actually spent and who the major beneficiaries are.

Phyllis Schlafly, along with others, are urging the Senate to "delay action on Mr. Bernanke’s reappointment until an audit of the Fed’s books takes place, the results are made available to the Congress and Mr. Bernanke answers a serious inquiry into the actions he took."

Sullivan not a conservative

The British blogger and former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan writes:

I found it intolerable after 2003 to support the movement that goes by the name "conservative" in America. I still do, even though I am much more of a limited government type than almost any Democrat and cannot bring myself to call myself a liberal (because I'm not).

Was this guy ever a conservative?

Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate” scandal

Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as “Climategate”.

Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”.

The Ins and Outs of Health Care

It's time to review the discrepancies between Obama's promises about health care and what is actually in the legislation. Joe Wilson's outburst that "You lie!" is ringing very true.

Barack Obama promised that if you like your current health insurance you won't have to change it, but Senator John Cornyn's amendment to assure present health insurance owners that they can keep the coverage they now have with their current employer was defeated.

Message of the 2009 National Elections

The media and the leftwing commentators have been enjoying themselves ever since Barack Obama was elected President by writing articles gleefully announcing that the Republican Party is dead. The elections last month prove that those obituaries, in the famous words of Mark Twain, were premature.