Interview: Tara Ross — Electoral College and the NPV (National Public Vote)

Book: Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College

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


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Economics in Christian Perspective

In order to try to understand what is happening to our economy, Americans need to have basic knowledge of economics. Today I'm going to share with you some thoughts from a book that is not new, but is a good resource without technical jargon. The name of the book is Economics in Christian Perspective by Victor V. Claar and Robin J. Klay, a couple of mainstream economics professors who also happen to be Christians. The book is an excellent guide for people who want to support policies based on biblical principles as well as economic realities.

Brewer to Obama: Warning Signs Are Not Enough

Earlier this month, Governor Jan Brewer sat in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama to discuss the critical issue of border security. The Governor personally related to the President the concerns of millions of Arizonans over the lack of security on Arizona's southern border. During their visit, President Obama committed to present details, within two weeks of their meeting, regarding his plans to commit National Guard troops to the Arizona border and commit to spend $500 million in additional funds on border security.

Governor Brewer remains eager to receive the specific details of President Obama's border security plans. She continues to extend an invitation to the President to visit with families living along the southwestern border and see the situation firsthand.

A "Peace Through Strength" Platform

In a world of growing threats to freedom and our U.S. Constitution, America's very existence is at risk. We should demand that all our political candidates this year endorse a comprehensive national security posture that is relevant to the threats posed by nations and groups that are or could be our enemies. Here is check list of points that ought to be in that platform.

Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration law challenge

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear a legal challenge by business, civil rights and immigration groups to an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

The nation's highest court agreed to decide whether the 2007 state law infringed on federal immigration powers and should be struck down.

The law at issue in the case is different from the strict new Arizona immigration law passed earlier this year and criticized by President Barack Obama that requires the police to determine the immigration status of any person suspected of being in the country illegally.

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UN Treaty Returns to Haunt Us

Unfortunately, unratified treaties never die; they don't even fade away. They just stay in the bottom drawer of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee forever so any globalist can later pick them up and breathe new life into them.

Homeschoolers Learn How to Lobby

One of the projects in which some homeschoolers participate is going to lobby at their state capitol so they can learn first-hand how our government functions. For several years, I have known about active homeschooling groups that do this in Missouri and in Utah. Let me tell you about the experience of a group of 14-to-18-year-old Minnesota homeschool students. Each year, they choose a public policy topic to research, discuss, and draft mock legislative resolutions. This year they selected the health care bill which was then making its way through Congress.

Problems with the START Treaty with Russia

After the Cold War was over, after the Berlin Wall came down, and Mikail Gorbachev started giving lectures in the United States, Americans stopped worrying about a surprise nuclear attack. However, Russia did not destroy its nuclear weapons. They are still there. And Russia continues to give priority to its nuclear warfighting capabilities.

Fontbonne/KMOX Book Club Discusses Supreme Court History, Politics

June 11th, 2010 

 

ST. LOUIS – The Fontbonne University/KMOX Book Club will host a forum on the politics and history of the Supreme Court during the July book club event, focusing on the upcoming Senate hearings featuring Elena Kagan, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. The event will take place Thursday, June 24, from 9 – 11 a.m. and will broadcast live from the KMOX studios.

Guests include Phyllis Schlafly, author of “The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It” and president of Eagle Forum and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund; and Roger Goldman, the Callis Family Professor of Law at St. Louis University School of Law and author of “The Role of the Supreme Court in Protecting Civil Rights and Liberties” and “Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All.”

Schlafly and Goldman will discuss the history of rulings in the Supreme Court and the political leanings of the justices. They’ll discuss the background, political speeches and political leanings of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, who, if approved, will replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

Learn more about the Fontbonne University/KMOX Book Club.

Learn more about studying pre-law/social science at Fontbonne.

Source: Fontbonne.edu

Defending America Against Our Enemies

On April 5 this year, President Obama said in Prague in the Czech Republic: "So today, I state clearly and with conviction, America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." I believe that statement is rash and ridiculous. Obama is starting down the path of destroying and obsoleting American nuclear weapons, but there is no way he can abolish the weapons owned and built by the bad guys of the world. The best way to have security for the United States and peace for the rest of the world is for the United States to have nuclear superiority. That means more, better, and bigger weapons than any other country in the world. That's what kept the peace during all the years of the Cold War, and that's the only way to prevent the bad buys from threatening the rest of the world with nuclear weapons.

Don't Hang Labels on Kids

The American College of Pediatricians mailed a letter this spring to 14,800 U.S. public school superintendents urging them to avoid prematurely labeling children as “gay” or “transgender.” The letter announced a new website called FactsAboutYouth.com to provide factual information to educators, parents, and students about sexual development. The letter stated, “As pediatricians, ... we are increasingly concerned that in too many instances, misinformation or incorrect assumptions are guiding well-intentioned educators to adopt policies that are actually harmful to youth dealing with sexual confusion.” The letter reminded superintendents that adolescence is “a time of upheaval,” when young people are confused about many things, including sex" and may be “vulnerable" to encouragement by school personnel to “come out” and “be affirmed.”

Obama tells Kyl in private Oval Office meeting: I won’t secure border b/c then Republicans will have no reason to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”

On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”


Sen. Kyl also said he reminded President Obama that the President and the Congress have an obligation, a duty, to secure the border.

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Some Pay and Some Receive

The news that the United States has become a two-class society: half of Americans pay federal income taxes and half don't, has bounced around the media and shocked Americans. Even worse is the reality that 40% of Americans receive federal government handouts of cash and valuable benefits. Those handouts are financed by the people who do pay federal income taxes. Those handouts create a tremendous bloc of people who depend on the government for their living expenses. The Tax Foundation reports that 20% of Americans now get three-fourths of their income from the federal government, and another 20% get nearly half of their income from the government.

Training Teachers To Teach "Social Justice"

The monthly journal called Education Reporter recently published an informative expose by a teacher who attended a conference on training teachers how to teach students what is called "social justice." "Social justice" has become a code word for a specific type of teaching in U.S. public schools that is contrary to traditional American notions of justice based on individual rights. "Social justice" teaches children that America is an unjust oppressive society that should be changed. Social justice materials typically include far left proposals such as acceptance of homosexuality and alternate lifestyles, radical feminism, abortion rights, illegal immigration, cultural relativism, and the redistribution of wealth.

It's Not About Kids; It's About Money

An enterprising reporter and television producer named Bob Bowdon has produced a documentary film that every parent ought to see. He asks the question: How has the richest and most innovative society on earth lost the ability to teach our children? He spent two years investigating public education in the United States, specifically in New Jersey, which spends more per student than any other state. He talked to school administrators, teachers, parents, students, and education experts. He tried to get answers to the burning question: How can a state that spends $17,500 per student each year fail them so badly?

Arizona warns residents with signs against hiking in region near Mexico border

The drug cartel violence coupled with increased crime along the Arizona/Mexico border has prompted Arizona officials to place signs along a heavily-traveled and known smuggling route leading from Mexico to the state’s capitol of Phoenix.

Signs went up a couple weeks ago along the southern side of I-8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend Arizona. The region is about 80 miles north of the Mexican border and it warns American citizens of the dangers of hiking in the area.

Mexican drug cartels appear to control large areas of Southern Arizona, according to the Pinal County Sheriff.

According to Borderland Beat, the Pinal County Sheriff says, "We do not have control of this area."

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Violence Forces Closing of Parkland Along Mexico Border to Americans

About 3,500 acres of southern Arizona have been closed off to U.S. citizens due to increased violence at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The closed off area includes part of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge that stretches along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu told Fox News that violence against law enforcement officers and U.S. citizens has increased in the past four months, forcing officers on an 80 mile stretch of Arizona land north of the Mexico border off-limits to Americans.

The refuge had been adversely affected by the increase in drug smugglers, illegal activity and surveillance, which made it dangerous for Americans to visit.

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Testimony Opposed to NJ SCR 108:

Eagle Forum of NJ Continues to Urge Governor Christie to Join the State Lawsuits Against Obamacare

June 14, 2010

Nothing will stop the growing citizen opposition to budget busting Obamacare until we repeal it lock, stock, and barrel.

Not Governor Christie’s procrastination to join state lawsuits opposing Obamacare; nor his Attorney General’s dalliance filing an amicus brief opposing religious liberty in a court case involving a California law school; nor the action of New Jersey Democrats proposed by SCR108 today; nor President Obama’s new $150 million public relations campaign trying to market the nationalization of health care as midterms approach -- nothing will abate this opposition. Money and principles will not let us relent.

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Congress Votes Wrong on Puerto Rico

On April 29, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a terrible bill to move Puerto Rico toward becoming the 51st state in the United States. The game plan of the people who are pushing this bad idea is unconstitutional and outrageous: (1) let Puerto Ricans think they can decide by referendum to become a state (rather than this decision being made by "we the people" of the United States, (2) hold a ballot referendum in Puerto Rico dishonestly rigged in favor of statehood, (3) allow persons born in Puerto Rico but living in the U.S. to vote in this election (that should be held unconstitutional because is bases voting on ethnicity rather than residency), (4) after Puerto Ricans approve statehood, they would elect representatives to send to Congress, put them on a plane to Washington and demand they be seated, (5) call anybody who opposes this plan a "racist."

21 Radicals Rule America from the Grave

How did our great America get to the state we find ourselves in today? This is explained in a new book called Grave Influence: 21 Radicals and Their Worldviews that Rule America from the Grave by Brannon Howse. The author leads readers on a whirlwind tour of 21 historical figures and the anti-capitalist, anti-Christian worldviews that motivated them to plan and promote the destruction of America, the most free and successful nation in history. Brannon Howse summarizes the influence of radical philosophers and their impact on contemporary leaders.

Celebrate Flag Day

Today is Flag Day, not a national holiday but nevertheless an important date on our calendar. Americans honor our flag as the symbol of our country, our nation, our culture, our allegiance, and our exceptionalism. And we like to recite the Pledge of Allegiance just the way it reads, including the words "one nation under God." Incidentally, there is no comma between one nation and under God, so there is no reason for a pause between those words. We should recite the Pledge saying "one nation under God."

POLITICO Arena: Colleen Holmes's response to 'Deficit politics: Who wins?'

Colleen Holmes

Republicans have succeeded and will continue to succeed when they adhere to the party’s platform, which dictates limited government, fiscal responsibility and the utmost respect for life and human dignity.

Republicans are working hard to demonstrate that they’ve learned that acting like liberals, spending taxpayer dollars and inflating national debt to achieve “compassion” was misguided. Americans are now demanding the true compassion the Republican platform accomplishes by protecting taxpayers and maintaining a free market economy, which allows all Americans to thrive, prosper and compassionately contribute according to their consciences.

The Republican platform’s unequivocal commitment to protecting human life has the added advantage of protecting taxpayers’ wallets and consciences by prohibiting taxpayer-funded abortion (a prohibition that polling consistently indicates that more than 60 percent of Americans favor regardless of whether they consider themselves pro-life or pro-choice).

Americans looking for solutions to the nation’s debt and spending problems will find them in the Republican Party platform, and they must demand that the politicians who subscribe to it adhere to it once they take office.

Source: POLITICO.com

Democratic Subsidizing of Unmarried Women

The Obama Administration has introduced 83 bills in Congress to subsidize the living costs of single moms. That means taxpayer incentives to avoid marriage. Most of these bills have acronyms with cutesy titles.

Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate

Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.

“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there'll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress' promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”

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Democrats Try to Lock Up Their Base

"You have to decide what your goals are." That's what the Democratic staffer who wrote the marriage penalty into Obama's Health Control Law told a Wall Street Journal reporter. Indeed, the Democrats and their feminist allies have decided that one of their major goals is to increase the number of single moms by increasing the flow of taxpayer-paid incentives that subsidize the non-marriage lifestyle. This plan locks in this group's dependence on government and allegiance to the Democratic Party. The plan is conveniently set forth in a 60-page document called "Advancing the Economic Security of Unmarried Women" just published by John Podesta's leftwing think tank called Center for American Progress.

Interview: Jack Thompson — Violent Video Games

It would surprise, if not shock you, to see the type of violence and sexual perversion that is commonplace in our young people's most popular video games!

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POLITICO Arena: Colleen Holmes's response to 'Fall of the angry left? Will purity doom Republicans in November?'

Last night's election results and pundits' premature proclamations of political forces' demise prove once again that political strategists underestimate American voters.

If there is an emerging trend to be discerned in 2010 so far, it's that more than ever voters are doing their homework and are thinking for themselves.

Labels like "establishment," "tea party" or "moderate" and national endorsements were neither determinative nor fatal across the board.

At a national level, strategists are looking for poison pills and panaceas. Voters, on the other hand, are looking for candidates with principles and plans they're satisfied will best serve their communities.

Source:  Politico.com

The Welfare System is Anti-Marriage

The liberal TV commentators like to tell us that there are two kinds of Republicans, the fiscal conservatives and the so-called social conservatives, and pretend that their interests are different and mutually exclusive. In fact, the overwhelming reason for big government's extravagant spending, which is what the fiscal conservatives constantly criticize, is the breakdown in our culture. And that is exactly what social conservatives have been battling for years.

Redistributing Taxpayers' Money to Non-Taxpayers

President Obama says he wants to "fundamentally transform" the American nation by spreading the wealth around. He has already co-opted the executive and legislative branches of government to do his bidding. Now he wants to use the judiciary, too. On January 18, 2001 on Public Radio WBEZ-FM, Chicago, Obama complained that the Earl Warren Court "wasn't that radical" because (and I'm quoting) "It didn't break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. . . . The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth . . ." (close quote)

America Becomes a Two-Class Society

The tremendous spending programs demanded by Barack Obama and voted into law by an obedient Democratic Congress have divided America into two classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and the freeloaders. Half of Americans, 47%, pay no federal income tax at all. That isn't the worst of it. Most of the half of Americans who pay no income tax actually receive handouts of cash or financial benefits paid for by those who do pay income taxes.

Race to the Top -- or to the Takeover!

Barack Obama arranged to have nearly a billion dollars included in his Stimulus law so his Administration can hand out new federal taxpayers' money to the public schools. The money will be spent by the politicians Obama brought with him from the Chicago Democratic political machine, headed by Arne Duncan, now Secretary of Education. One of the projects this money will be used for is called Race To The Top. The plan is for state education departments to submit grant applications to the federal government to compete to get a sizable hunk of this money.

Don't Admit Mexican Trucks to U.S. Highways

The ban on allowing Mexican trucks to drive on U.S. highways recently expired, and President Obama's Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Trade Representative Ron Kirk have both announced that they are eager to start allowing Mexican trucks to drive their loads onto U.S. highways and roads. The American people are very much opposed to this idea. A law banning Mexican trucks passed the House in 2007 by the overwhelming vote of 411 to 3, and passed the Senate by 75 to 23. A Rasmussen poll found that 66% of Americans oppose this policy, and only "19% of Americans say the U.S. Congress should let trucks from Mexico cross the border and carry their loads on American highways, as Mexican President Felipe Calderon requested." There are many reasons for this.

Two Americas

There are, indeed, two Americas: the increasingly straitened world of the private sector, where jobs are competitive, money is scarce, and job security is, for many, nonexistent; and the lush world of the government employee, where competition is more or less unknown, salaries and benefits often double those available to private workers, retirement is ten or more years earlier than in the private sector, and it may take a felony to get fired. This is the central economic conflict of our time, between lavishly compensated and ever more gluttonous government employees, and wealth-creating private citizens who are increasingly unable to support their public-sector masters in the style to which they have become accustomed.

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We Don't Need a New Constitution

George Washington, James Madison and Ben Franklin did a magnificent job of producing our United States Constitution. Washington and Madison both called it a "miracle." It has lasted over 220 years, protecting our liberty while accommodating our geographic, economic, and population expansion. Now some politicians (from both Right and Left) have the conceit and arrogance to think they can do a better job than the Founding Fathers. So they are promoting the calling of a new Constitutional Convention (colloquially called a Con Con). These politicians naively think they will be able to control the Convention and improve on the wording of our existing Constitution

Obama's Second Supreme Court Nomination

Barack Obama has thumbed his nose at veterans and many other Americans by nominating the liberal Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, the only veteran on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kagan is mainly noteworthy for excluding military recruiters from Harvard Law School when she was the Dean. Kagan even joined a brief submitted to the Supreme Court that tried to obtain a constitutional right for schools to exclude military recruiters. The Supreme Court rejected her argument 8-0.