When Phyllis Schlafly Speaks the Truth, Democrats Call It ‘Extremism’

Phyllis Schlafly is one of conservatism’s great heroines. Both Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter acknowledge Schlafly’s influence as a role model. Forty-six years after her rallying cry for Goldwater, A Choice Not an Echo, and three decades after she led the crusade to stop ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, she’s still driving liberals nuts:

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How Railroad Hospitality Civilized the Wild West

A fascinating new book by Stephen Fried is called Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. This book introduces you to Fred Harvey, originator of American fine dining at chain restaurants, a man who did more to tame the Wild West than all the sheriffs. Fred Harvey brought fresh meat and vegetables to dusty towns where even hot coffee was more than rail travelers could expect to find. In 1905, without the benefit of modern refrigeration, Harvey restaurants managed to serve 6 million eggs and 2 million pounds of beef.

The 'Gamesmanship' of Restraining Orders

One of the big problems with family courts is that judges issue restraining orders virtually for the asking, without any evidence of actual domestic violence or even threat of violence. The Illinois Bar Journal explained that women use these restraining orders as a tool for the mother to get child custody and to bar the father from visitation. The Journal proclaimed that these restraining orders have "become part of the gamesmanship of divorce.” The “game” is that mothers can assert falsehoods or trivial complaints against the father without presenting any evidence, and easily get a restraining order.

Schlafly endorses Tiahrt

Longtime conservative matriarch Phyllis Schlafly, now 85 and admittedly not as active as she once was, traveled to Topeka on Wednesday to announce her support for U.S. Senate candidate Todd Tiahrt.

"There's only about six candidates that I have the strength to go out and make a personal appearance for, and Todd is one of them. I think this race is so important," Schlafly told about 60 supporters at an ice cream social and Tiahrt rally at McFarland's Restaurant.

Tiahrt, Kansas' 4th District representative, is battling 1st District Congressman Jerry Moran for the GOP nomination to replace Sen. Sam Brownback, who is leaving his Senate seat to run for governor.

"I just want to say it's so important to get your friends to vote in the primary," said Schlafly, who became best known during her opposition to the Equal Right Amendment and her foundation of the conservative Eagle Forum organization.

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Depriving Men of Constitutional Rights

Family courts routinely deprive men of their fundamental right to parent their own children by charging them with a wide variety of trivial offenses. Family courts generally uphold feminist demands to kick a man out of his own home, and take control of their children and his money, based on a woman's unsubstantiated allegations. A major weapon in this ongoing battle between men and women who don't get along is the Violence Against Women Act. This law was passed in 1994 as a payoff to the radical feminists for helping to elect Bill Clinton President in 1992.

Reauthorizing the Domestic Violence Law

The federal law called the Violence Against Women Act will be coming up for its five-year reauthorization later this year, and I believe it is in need of major reform. Many people believe that reforming the Violence Against Women Act is today's basic civil rights issue because family courts have used it to deny American citizens, especially men, their basic constitutional rights.

Will Green Policies Bankrupt America?

You may have heard that environmental policies are camouflage for raising taxes and seizing political power. Christopher Horner presents the research to prove this in his new book called Power Grab: How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America. Horner provides a relentless series of facts that demonstrate how environmentalists and the government are well aware of the destructive consequences of their proposals.

We Still Hold These Truths

When Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention in 1776, someone asked him if had created a monarchy or a republic. Franklin replied, “A republic,” and then famously added, “if you can keep it.” Author Matthew Spalding in trying to help us keep our republic in his new book called We Still Hold These Truths; Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future. This book is essentially a primer on the founding principles every American should have learned in school, but probably didn’t. The Founding Fathers devised a government that, for the first time in history, allowed people to come together to decide how they should govern themselves and secure their natural rights given by God.

Update on China's Version of Free Trade

"Free trade" has become an article of faith and a sort of mantra with many conservatives, but, as the old saying goes, "it takes two to tango," and, indeed, it takes two countries to engage in free trade. Let me give you an update on Communist China's version of Free Trade.

More Teachers for Fewer Students

Public school student enrollment has fallen in recent years because of the growth of homeschooling, private schools and charter schools, but the public schools have steadily hired more teachers and staff. A recent report found that New York public schools added 15,000 teachers between 2000 and 2009, despite losing 121,000 students.

Advocacy Groups Express Support For California Game Legislation

Advocacy organizations Common Sense Media and Eagle Forum have submitted amicus briefs in support of California's Supreme Court battle regarding a struck-down California law that restricts violent game sales to minors.

These organizations follow in the wake of eleven states who offered their own briefs in favor of the law, which has been struck down by lower courts as "an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech."

Common Sense Media, a conservative advocacy organization focused on informing parents about the media their children consume, comments in its supporting document that it believes that minors exposed to video games are more vulnerable than older players.

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As Maine Goes, So Goes . . .

There is an old saying that, "As the State of Maine goes, so goes the nation." In recent years, nobody has recalled that old adage because Maine's two U.S. Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, are both so-called "moderates" and are probably the least conservative of all Republican Senators.

Interview: Mary Eberstadt — The Loser Letters

Book: The Loser Letters

In the tradition of C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters", prominent conservative author exposes the vacuous and tired arguments of the New Atheist movement.

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Indoctrinate Kids To Green Their Parents

We assume it's the job of Mom and Dad to tell their kids to eat their vegetables, turn off the TV, and go to bed on time. It’s the parents’ job to train children to do the right thing, not the other way around. However, the environmentalists are trying to reverse this concept. They see children as the ones giving orders to their elders to protect the environment. The environmentalists are on a campaign to get children to change their parents’ behavior by constantly nagging them to recycle, turn off the lights, and take reusable bags to the grocery store. Kids are urged to ensure that their parents do “the right thing.”

Immigration solution: 'Enforce the law'

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah

WASHINGTON – Jason Chaffetz knows all about winning an uphill battle. In 2008, he booted six-term Congressman Chris Cannon from the ranks of his own Republican Party to win the nomination for Utah's 3rd District seat in Congress.

Chaffetz did not have big money to spend, but he did have some big ideas, including building a volunteer grass roots organization that focused on issues that were frustrating the voters of his district.

One of those issues was illegal immigration, and Chaffetz is not shy about stating his beliefs regarding one of the most heated controversies in the nation's capital.

"We're going to enforce the law. We should not reward illegal behavior."

Chaffetz made this statement to about 250 students gathered at the 17th annual Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership Summit hosted by Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly yesterday.

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China Taking U.S. High-Tech Research

For years, many of Communist China's best and brightest engineers and students came to the United States to take high-tech jobs away from Americans. That's why, when I lecture on college campuses, a lot of guys tell me they are switching to accounting from engineering because there aren't many engineering jobs available to Americans. Now, more and more, U.S. high-tech firms are moving to China. One of Silicon Valley's most prominent firms, Applied Materials, which made the equipment to perfect the first computer chips, and which is the world's biggest supplier of equipment to make semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays, is moving from Santa Clara, California to China. Applied Materials has built its largest research lab in China, and even held its annual shareholders' meeting there.

Arizona Grades Teachers on Language

The Arizona State Board of Education has notified school districts they will enforce the law regarding English fluency for teachers. This law applies primarily to classrooms with students who are still learning English, and requires teachers to use comprehensible pronunciation, correct grammar and good writing skills. The superintendent of education said, "As you expect science teachers to know science, and math teachers to know math, you expect a teacher who is teaching kids English to know English.”

Interview: Tom Pauken — Bringing America Home

Hard-won political gains during the Goldwater-Reagan eras have been squandered by today's Republican leadership. The future of the GOP leadership is up for grabs.

Book: Bringing America Home

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Prosecutor Warns About Sex Ed Law

A Wisconsin prosecutor recently sent a letter to five school districts warning that a new sex education law passed by the State Legislature could lead to criminal charges against teachers for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Wisconsin schools aren’t required to offer sex ed courses, but if they do, they must include instruction on how to use condoms and birth control pills. Prosecutor Scott Southworth contends that the law is not just “objective instruction” but is “implicit encouragement and advocacy” by teaching kids how to use contraceptives. He wrote: “It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks.”

Annual Washington event features conservative leaders, authors

WND managing editor and best-selling author David Kupelian will join the lineup of congressmen, senators, authors and activists addressing hundreds of highly motivated college students at the 17th Annual Eagle Forum Leadership Summit.

Held at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., Thursday and Friday, the event, presented annually by Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, will feature prominent members of Congress on Thursday, and authors and activists on Friday.

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Students Challenge ‘Our Lord’ on Diplomas

I think a lot of college students simply have too much time on their hands, so they take up worthless endeavors. Here's one example. Some students at Texas Trinity University in San Antonio lobbied to have the phrase “in the Year of our Lord” removed from their diplomas. A female Muslim named Sidra Qureshi, who was president of the Trinity Diversity Connection, objected to the wording because, she said, “not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.” Her arguments apparently persuaded the student government and a campus commencement committee.

Looking for gains in Pennsylvania

John Gizzi writes:

At the Philadelphia event, venerable conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly told HUMAN EVENTS that she was putting such emphasis on Pennsylvania because “my people tell me we can win the most House seats there. They say in Illinois [Republicans] could gain three or four [Democratic-held] House seats and in California, one or two. But here, they say we could win seven.”

Why you cannot escape school sex-ed

From a major S. California newspaper:

I did not let my fifth-grade son attend the sexual education seminar at his school because, frankly, I did not want the school to teach my son about these things. All of the other kids went, however, and that is all they talked about for the rest of the year at lunchtime. I should have let him go, I guess, because he is hearing these other kids' interpretation of things that are just way beyond their level and the things these kids come up with is comical!

After that, the column tries to explain why the schools throw sixth-grade graduations.

Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds

The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year -- an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The study, a copy of which was provided to FoxNews.com, “is the first and most detailed look at the costs of illegal immigration ever done,” says Bob Dane, director of communications at FAIR, a conservative organization that seeks to end almost all immigration to the U.S.

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Arizona Eliminates Classes in "Resentment"

The Tucson, Arizona public schools teach an ethnic studies program known as Raza, the “race” studies. This program has been taught for 14 years and has an annual budget of $2.5 million. Arizona recently passed a law to stop school districts from teaching courses that encourage the overthrow of the U.S. government, or promote resentment against a particular race or class of people, or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individual Americans. The bill does not prohibit ethnic studies in general, or teaching historical facts about the oppression of a particular group of people based on ethnicity, race, or class.

Texas' New Social Studies Standards

After months of heated discussion, the Texas State Board of Education gave final approval to new social studies and history guidelines. The liberal media accused the conservative majority of politicizing history, but the board chairman said the new guidelines merely bring balance into a curriculum that had been skewed to the left over years of liberal control. Contrary to most states, the Texas State School Board is elected by the people, so it is more responsive to parents and the public than the school boards that are appointed by a Governor or the state department of education.

Who's Hurting in the Job Market

It's obvious that jobs are a topic of major interest to most Americans. Almost every family is touched by the present high unemployment.

Obama Prevaricates about Jobs

The high unemployment we suffer today is devastating to more Americans than the oil spill in the Gulf, but Barack Obama still doesn't get it. He bragged to an audience of truckers in Maryland that our economy is "getting stronger by the day." The U.S. Labor Department reports a very different picture. The number of long-term unemployed, who are Americans out of work for 27 or more weeks, is at its highest level since the Labor Department began collecting such data in the 1940s. In May, nine-tenths of the jobs added were government jobs. Unemployment of young men is the highest in 61 years of record-keeping, and the numbers for minority teenagers are tragic.

Celebrating America's Birthday

I'm so glad that the Tea Parties are bringing a new appreciation of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution to grassroots America. Federal law now requires public schools to teach something about the Constitution on Constitution Day, September 17, but there is no such law about the Declaration of Independence, and most schools are closed for the summer anyway.

Interview: Roy Den Hollander — Domestic Abuse

"VAWA" — taking the "he said" out of the "he said, she said"!

Federal & State government(s) are using domestic-abuse crimes as an excuse to usurp personal privacy at an alarming rate.

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• Domestic Violence and VAWA

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The Immigration Law Critics Don't Read

A short, ten-page law passed by the Arizona State Legislature kicked up a national firestorm and dominated the national news for weeks. Yet, most of the public officials who criticize it admitted that they have not read it, such as Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, this law requires local police to ask about the immigration status of any person they reasonably believe could be in the country illegally.

Saga of the Mojave Cross

The Mojave Cross has become famous among veterans and in the law books. The homemade seven-foot-tall cross was erected in a remote spot of the Mojave Desert in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a memorial to World War I veterans. For nine years the Cross has been the target of lawsuits by the ACLU representing atheists who claim they are offended by the Cross and want judges to rule that it violates the First Amendment because it is on government property. In order for atheists to claim they are offended by the sight of the Cross, they would have to travel 10 miles from the nearest highway and 30 miles from the nearest town, across a rocky terrain.