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Monday, May 31, 2010

How China Treats Its Kids with Drugs

One of China's best-known investigative reporters, Wang Keqin, published a newspaper article in the China Economic Times about provincial authorities improperly storing vaccines in rooms without air-conditioning, thereby rendering them ineffective. The vaccines were then administered to children as though they were okay. Chen Taoan, chief spokesman of the Shanxi Province Disease Control and Prevention Center, said all hospitals in the province were required to buy vaccines at steep prices. The reason for this is curious. The government puts a sticker on each package of vaccine to show that it was approved. But the stickers would not stay stuck to the packages in air-conditioned rooms, so in 2006 and 2007 the vaccines were routinely transferred to a warm room so the stickers would stay attached. The reporter said, "I saw boxes and boxes of vaccines piled up high like a hill in a hot room without air-conditioning. I complained more then 30 times that these vaccines were no longer effective."

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Al Gore Gives the Most Depressing Commencement Speech Ever



Instead of providing encouragement for the graduates of the University of Tennessee, Al Gore takes the opportunity to promote his doomsday global warming scenarios.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Brian Sussman — Climategate

Book: Climategate: A Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam

Now that the lid has been blown-off the Global Warming hysteria, listen as a highly acclaimed 20 year veteran of meteorology explains how Marxist philosophy is the true motivations behind these false claims!

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Friday, May 28, 2010

Teacher of the Year Sounds Off

John Taylor Gatto, who is a former New York State “Teacher of the Year,” has issued an urgent message for American parents in his blockbuster book called Weapons of Mass Instruction. Gatto says: “School is not a good place for your kids,” even if they get good grades. The author explains that, while we are told that the purpose of modern compulsory schooling is to help people achieve their best, historical documents tell a very different story. For example, William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, was shockingly blunt about his vision. Harris regarded children as property of the state, and believed they should be alienated from families, traditions, and religion so they would not pose a threat to the state or the industries they were trained to serve. Other powerful people concurred. Gatto knows that sounds incredible, so he presents the evidence.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Deceitful Tactics to Make Puerto Rico a State

Most Americans do not want Puerto Rico to become our 51st state in the United States. One of the many reasons is that making Puerto Rico a state would overnight turn the United States into a bilingual country. The overwhelming majority of Americans want English to be our official national language. Our Constitution and all our laws are written in English, and English is the common tongue that unites us. Most Puerto Ricans speak a language other than English, and do not want to accept English as their official language. Other countries that have two or more languages have experienced major national problems. Even in Canada a few years ago. the province of Quebec almost seceded from Canada largely over the language issue.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Federal Courts Manifest Bias Against Religion

It was so long ago that the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed prayer in public schools that most Americans have forgotten what a public uproar that caused back in 1962. Since then, the lower federal courts have taken their cue and manifested an even more virulent anti-religion bias, plus a bias to uphold the public schools' power to take even more extreme anti-religion positions than the Constitution could possibly require. Public schools bend over backwards to avoid being sued by the atheists, take an anti-religion position, and then are upheld by supremacist judges.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

NJ high court hears arguments on recalling senator

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

TRENTON, N.J. -- Lawyers for a tea party-inspired group and U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez squared off before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday over whether New Jersey voters have a right to attempt to recall the senator.

Conservative groups in several states have initiated efforts to recall senators over their votes in Washington and their positions on issues such as immigration and health insurance reform.

Andrew Schlafly, a lawyer for the Committee to Recall Robert Menendez, told New Jersey's high court that because the federal constitution does not mention the right of citizens to recall members of Congress, it's an issue regulated by the states.

Give Your Kids a Real Head Start

When it comes to getting small children ready for school, it's not enough to go shopping for clothes and school supplies. There is something else you can do that will be benefit your kids more than new clothes.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Interview: Michael Graham

Book: That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom: Team Obama's Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans

This book is for every typical American who has been insulted, attacked and abused by the liberal media. Get ready to laugh!

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How Schools Are Failing Boys

The statistics are rather grim: Boys are twice as likely as girls to repeat a grade, and 32% of boys drop out of school as compared to 25% of girls. Girls have long been recognized to have a verbal advantage over boys; now in many states, girls do slightly better on math tests as well. Women have been earning 57% of college bachelor’s degrees. It’s no surprise to educators that American boys are lagging behind girls academically.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Taxpayers Misled about Costs of Public Schools

The amount Americans spend on education has risen dramatically and consistently over the past century, with a 25% increase in per-student costs between 1995 and 2005, even after adjusting for inflation. In fact, public education spending accounted for more than one-third of state budgets last year.
Yet taxpayers are regularly asked to dig deeper into their pockets for public schools, all the while having little to no idea how much their district is already spending per child per year. A report released in March by the Cato Institute explains how figures provided by officials and reported in the media often leave out major costs, and thus understate education spending.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Parents Have an Awakening about Curriculum

What could motivate hundreds of parents to attend a local school board meeting? Well, parents in the Alpine School District in Utah have been attending in large numbers to demand comprehensive changes in the curriculum. It all began when a 6th-grade history teacher told eleven-year-old Susan Schnell that the United States is a democracy rather than a constitutional republic and that quotes from the Founding Fathers were “fiction.” Susan's mother decided to homeschool her for the rest of the year. When she went to the district office to fill out the paperwork, she was shocked to see a 30-foot mural that read, “Enculturating the Young into a Social and Political Democracy.” Mrs. Schnell wondered why the district’s motto emphasized politics instead of educational excellence. The mission statement was linked to an essay by radical Green Party activist William Meyers of California, who argues that the Founding Fathers were “predatory elitists” who started the U.S. for their own selfish gain, and that for two centuries people have been working to correct that “dangerous mistake” and transform our nation into a Socialist Democracy.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Exposing the Errors of Intellectuals

One of America's most respected scholars, Thomas Sowell, has just examined the mindset and biases of the intelligentsia. He exposes their frequent bad influence on public policy and society. The name of his new book is Intellectuals and Society. Dr. Sowell defines intellectuals as "people whose occupations deal primarily with ideas – writers, academics, and the like." Their work products are not subject to the everyday accountability faced by engineers, brain surgeons and scientists. Nevertheless, the intellectuals have influence since their ideas are disseminated more widely than ever by journalists, teachers, legislators, and lawyers.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Interview: Tim Carney — Obamanomics

Book: Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses

Do you know who is REALLY profiting from our President's financial policies? It may not be who you think!


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More Good Advice from James Madison

The Father of the United States Constitution, James Madison, wrote a strong warning against ever calling a new constitutional convention. Let's recall some of his compelling reasons.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Good Advice Against a Con Con

Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution's Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a page in the Wall Street Journal. Grandstanding politicians are proposing a wide assortment of many constitutional amendments to produce big changes.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Eagle Forum Joins Coalition Opposed to the Dodd Bank Bill

On April 23, 2010, Eagle Forum signed onto a coalition letter opposing Senator Chris "Countrywide" Dodd's (D-CT) bank bailout bill, otherwise known as the Restoring American Financial Stability Act.

Read the coalition letter.

Important article on BigGovernment.com: Why the Dodd Bank Bill is Worse than Obamacare

Rounds’ administration won’t seek federal child-care grant

PIERRE — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has $500,000 allotted for South Dakota in its Early Childhood Learning and Care program. But Gov. Mike Rounds’ administration doesn’t plan to apply for the money.

Anti-Religion Extremism in Federal Courts

Federal judges not only manifest an anti-religion bias, but also a bias to uphold power of the public schools to take even more extreme anti-religion positions than the Constitution could possibly require.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

States Are Suing over Obamacare

All polls show that the majority of the American people oppose the Obama Health Control Law recently passed by Congress with votes only from Democrats.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Obamacare versus Freedom

Congress passed the Obama Health Control Law with a bare majority, but passage certainly doesn't end the controversy. This issue will stick around to plague the Democrats not only through the 2010 elections but for the rest of Obama's Administration. That's because the American people have figured out that the issue is not health care; it's about freedom. It's about whether Obama will succeed in "fundamentally transforming" the American nation, which he said he wants to do. And the first leg of that transformation is to put complete control over every individual's health into the hands of government bureaucrats. Opposition to this Health Control Law is manifesting itself in Tea Parties, Town Hall Meetings, a tsunami of phone calls to the U.S. Capitol, and spontaneous demonstrations in unprecedented numbers.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Truth about the Texas Textbook Flap

The controversy about the Texas State School Board's decision about Social Studies textbooks got a lot of national press coverage, but it was usually very lopsided in favor of the liberals. Here is the truth about what happened.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Interview: Dr. Don Dutton — Fathers' Rights

Book: Rethinking Domestic Violence

We hear about the need for women to be treated with equality, but are American women treated unjustly?


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Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias from Textbooks

"Don't Mess with Texas" is a popular slogan in Texas. By a 10-to-5 margin, the Texas State Board of Education just told liberals to stop "messing" with social studies textbooks. For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on public school students, expunging important facts and historic figures while loading the textbooks with liberal propaganda, distortions and cliches. It's easy to get a quick lesson in the virulent leftwing bias by checking the index and noting how textbooks treat President Ronald Reagan and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Friday, May 07, 2010

Americans Should Study the Courts

I urge all Americans to attend House Meetings in order to study the extraordinary power of the judges who believe in the unconstitutional theory of a "living" Constitution, to learn what the judicial supremacists are doing to our Constitution, and what the American people can do to restrain supremacist judges. The best handbook to understand the problems of the judges is my book called The Supremacists; The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It. It's a good book for study purposes because you don't have a to be a lawyer to read and understand it. Concerned Americans need to know what the stakes are when President Obama fills judicial vacancies. Concerned Americans should participate in Judicial House Meetings in order to have all the good arguments on the tip of their tongue to tell your Members of Congress that we are not going to tolerate supremacist judges doing such things as trying to deny our right to recite the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thursday, May 06, 2010

American flag forbidden in California school

An American public school seems to have more loyalty to the Mexican flag than the American flag:
Five Live Oak High School students’ First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to comment on the situation, but one student said an official called the T-shirts “incendiary.”
This is from a legal blog where a law professor says that the school violated the law.

One Nation Under . . . Atheism?

Atheists such as Michael Newdow and the American Civil Liberties Union have been carrying on a campaign for several years to remove references to God from public life. They file suits against Ten Commandments monuments, prayers in schools, our motto "In God We Trust," and particularly against the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. The atheists claim that saying these words is an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion in violation of the First Amendment.

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Can a U.S. Senator Be Recalled?

Many Americans are very concerned, even upset, about the way a runaway Congress is spending our nation into bankruptcy. 18 of our 50 states have laws that give the people the right to bounce state officials out of office by a system called Recall. Nine of those states authorize the recall of any elected official, including U.S. Senators. Some people now want to use the Recall procedure against United States Senators who voted to spend trillions of dollars of money that will put our children and grandchildren forever into incredible debt. The U.S. Constitution neither explicitly authorizes, nor explicitly prohibits, a recall of a Member of Congress.

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Who's on Obama's Short List for the Supreme Court?

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the only veteran on the High Court, just announced his resignation. We should demand that President Obama nominate a veteran to replace him. We are not pleased with the lawyers who are said to be on Obama's short list for appointment. Let's take a look.

Monday, May 03, 2010

Interview: David Kupelian — How Evil Works

Despite the human race's extraordinary capacity for invention and progress, we clearly have a millennia-old blind spot in one all-important area.

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Supreme Court Needs at Least One Veteran

For as long as we can remember, the U.S. Supreme Court has included at least one military veteran. Recent examples include Republican-appointed Chief Justice William Rehnquist who died in 2005, and Justice John Paul Stevens, who has just resigned. The Democrats have not placed a veteran on the Supreme Court in nearly half a century. When President Obama fills Justice Stevens' seat, will the High Court be left without anyone who has military experience? Veterans in the U.S. Senate should make sure that such an embarrassment does not occur. Cases concerning the military reach the Supreme Court every year, and our nation will not be well-served by a Court totally lacking in military experience.