Support Worthy Candidates This Year

In this vital election year, hundreds of worthy candidates are running for office. Running for office is much like caring for children: it’s based on a lot of tedious, time-consuming, repetitious chores, but in the end you can produce an important and worthwhile result. I urge all my friends to find a candidate you admire and volunteer your services for office work, making phone calls, or even going door-to-door. You can choose a candidate for Congress, or your state legislature, or some county or local office.

Bringing Up Girls

This may be the most challenging time to raise girls in modern history, according to psychologist Dr. James Dobson, but parents can still raise confident girls with commendable character. It's been ten years since Dr. Dobson wrote his best-seller called Bringing Up Boys, so it's time for him to give good advice about girls, which he does in his new book, entitled Bringing Up Girls.

Interview: Ian Fletcher — Free Trade Doesn't Work

America is running huge trade deficits with strategic rivals and bleeding jobs to cheap laborers in China and India. Is our free trade policy helping or hurting us? An economist will join us to explain why Free Trade Doesn¹t Work.

Book: Free Trade Doesn't Work

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Educators Under Fire for Test Tampering

In several states, student test scores have gone up, but so have suspicions of test tampering by teachers and administrators. Six states have announced investigations into cheating this year. Three teachers, the principal and assistant principal resigned from an elementary school near Houston after it was discovered they provided students with a detailed study guide of questions on the state science test. The educators got the questions by using a technique known as “tubing,” They squeezed the plastic surrounding a test booklet to form a tube through which they could read and copy test questions without breaking the seal.

Chris Matthews promotes the mosque

Chris Matthews of MSNBC just said on his TV show:

I have just cited a major national poll that says most Republicans don't like Islam, period. I have just quoted Rush Limbaugh from today's broadcast where he is making it sound like we elected a guy who is Islamic and therefore we are not anti-Islamic. Playing that old game again, that canard again, that he's really not a Christian. I would think if I were a guy sitting in a Cairo cafe right not, I'd be thinking, "I don't really want to go to Michigan State and study engineering, because those people don't like me."

Here is the Pew poll. The first three questions have been "held for future release". Question 5 was "Would you say you have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of Islam?" None of the respondents were Moslems.

I am not sure why anyone should have a favorable view of a different religion. If you belong to some religion other than Islam, then you have some set of beliefs that you regard more favorably than Islam. So surely all 100% of respondents have a less favorable view of Islam. I suspect that Democrats are less likely to say so, only because they are more eager to sound more tolerant.

Rush's point is that if Americans were truly bigoted against Islam, then we would not have elected a President with an Islamic name. That is a true statement, and it in no way implies that we would dislike a student from Cairo.

This is typical for illogical partisan propaganda on MSNBC.

Mosque of conquest?

By William J. Federer

Muslim groups are proposing a 13-story $100 million mosque in the most prominent spot in America – the heart of downtown New York City near the World Trade Center site.

Is this mosque a sign of America's tolerance, or is it a sign of Muslim conquest?

The past may hold answers:

In 630, Muhammad led 10,000 Muslim soldiers into Mecca and turned the pagans' most prominent spot, the Ka'aba, into the Masjid al-Haram Mosque.

In 634, Rightly Guided Caliph Umar conquered Syria and turned the Christians' most prominent spot, the Church of Job, famous for being visited by Saint Silva in the fourth century, into the Mosque of Job.

In 637, Caliph Umar conquered Hebron and turned the second-most prominent spot in Judaism, the Cave of the Patriarchs, into the Ibrahimi Mosque. (This was repeated by Saladin in 1188.)

In 638, Muslim generals Amr ibn al-As and Khalid ibn al-Walid conquered Gaza and turned the prominent fifth-century Byzantine church into the Great Mosque of Gaza.

Read entire article at WND.com

Unpaved, Good Intentions, 8-25-10

The dream: a Canada-to-Mexico superhighway. The reality: haggling.

In the 1980s, David Graham, a fifth-generation native of Daviess County in southwestern Indiana, started thinking about how to reverse the economic slide that since mid-century had beset what was once a dynamic agricultural and manufacturing region. He was too late to help his own family—his eight children were grown, and they had all moved elsewhere in search of better prospects. But Mr. Graham knew that Daviess couldn't afford the continued loss of industrious young people. He soon identified what he regarded as the main culprit: The vast network of interstate highways created by the Eisenhower administration's Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 never reached southwestern Indiana.

Read entire article at WSJ.com

Women's Equality Day

Today is called Women's Equality Day. It's the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution on August 26, 1920, which assured that women could vote in every state. Prior to that time, women voted in about half the states in the Union, but this constitutional amendment overrode state law and made it possible for women to vote in every state. Women having the right to vote has not been a controversial issue in my lifetime; I never heard anyone argue against it.

New York Math Grades Don't Add Up

Student scores on the New York state mathematics tests are up in every grade tested this year, with some grades showing astonishing double-digit improvement. Some experts and critics claim that's because the tests were easier than prior years, despite the schools’ promises to “increase the rigor” of both the questions and the scoring for the 1.2 million kids who took the math exams in May. A Brooklyn teacher was so angry about the grading standards that she went to the media and told the New York Post, “They were giving credit for blatantly wrong things.” She provided a scoring guide proving that kids got half-credit or more for showing fragments of the calculation, even if they gave incorrect answers or left the answer blank. Here are some examples from the 4th-grade scoring guide:

What It Means to be Poor in America

Professor Walter Williams is an African-American economist at George Mason University who is nationally known for his scholarship and original approach to economic issues. Let me share with you one of his new articles. He said, Imagine God has condemned you to a life of poverty but permits you to choose the country you will live in. He is betting that you would surely choose the United States because what has historically been defined as poverty no longer exists in the U.S.

Interview: Michael Cordner — Founder, Teen Eagles

Is the next generation a lost cause? The founder of the Teen Eagles is inspiring teens to be independent thinkers prepared to face the social and political environment of our world.

Teen Eagles

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Grassroots Groups Urge Obama Against End-Run Amnesty

Legalization by Wholesale Use of Administrative Powers Amounts to "Abuse of Power," Organizations Say in Letter to White House

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eighteen grassroots organizations representing millions of Americans today insisted that the Obama administration forego usage of narrow legal authorities as a means to legalize millions of illegal aliens.

In a joint letter to the President, released at the National Press Club, the organizations said such usurpation by the executive branch would represent an "abuse of power" and "feed public cynicism."

Read entire article at PRNewswire.com

Patent Reform Is a Sellout of America

Every time I hear the word "reform" I get suspicious. That word is often used to conceal the real purpose of legislation that the public doesn't want. This is certainly true of the current bill in Congress called Patent Reform. It is really a sellout of American rights to placate foreign interests. The United States has the best patent system in the world, which is why America has produced 95% of the world's great inventions. Other countries are jealous and want to steal our innovative ideas so they can produce them with their own cheap labor.

You Can Host a House Meeting

You can host a House Meeting for your friends and neighbors. All this takes is a willing host to invite 10 to 20 friends, a computer, and probably some simple refreshments. House Meeting hosts who are not computer-savvy should can call on their children or grandchildren for help.

Summer Reading Is Lightweight and Leftist

More and more universities are telling incoming freshmen to read a book over the summer. One college says the purpose is to promote “a shared intellectual experience” and “campus-wide dialogue”; another college says its summer reading program “is an important first step in building a cohesive, dynamic, educational community.”

More Family Court Injustices to Fathers

There seems to be no end to the series of disturbing injustices committed against fathers by family courts. Family courts routinely deprive divorced fathers not only of their own children, but even many constitutional rights, such as due process, the right to a fair trial, and the right to confront their accusers.

US breast cancer drug decision 'marks start of death panels'

America's health watchdog is considering revoking its approval of the drug Avastin for use on women with advanced breast cancer, leading to accusations that it will mark the start of 'death panel' drug rationing.

A decision to rescind endorsement of the drug would reignite the highly charged debate over US health care reform and how much the state should spend on new and expensive treatments.

Avastin, the world’s best selling cancer drug, is primarily used to treat colon cancer and was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008 for use on women with breast cancer that has spread.

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Cap and Trade Is War on Capitalism

A legislative proposal called Cap and Trade passed the U.S. House of Representatives last year, but fortunately has not passed the Senate, so it is not law. It is very bad idea; in fact, it would a big attack on our private enterprise system and on our standard of living.

The Democrats' Running for Cover Summer Continues . . .

Nancy Pelosi claimed on ABC's This Week,

"We [Democrats] are very proud of the agenda that we have put forth to the American people..."

Yet, her Democrat puppets in Congress are refusing to face the American people when they return to their districts. Instead, they are running for cover. To date, few vulnerable Democrat Members of Congress have committed to engage their constituents face to face this August.


Contact Democrats refusing to engage the voters in person by clicking here.

Controversial Arizona Immigration Laws

The new Arizona immigration law has really stirred up nationwide controversy, and the big majority of the American people like that law. Similar laws have been introduced in 20 other states.

8% illegal

An estimated 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were the offspring of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

Unauthorized immigrants comprise slightly more than 4% of the adult population of the U.S., but because they are relatively young and have high birthrates, their children make up a much larger share of both the newborn population (8%) and the child population (7% of those younger than age 18) in this country. ...

Read the full report at pewhispanic.org.

The report on pewhispanic.org is in English.

Feminists Cut Men's Sports Again

The Department of Education has just reversed a previous Title IX regulation that allowed colleges to survey student interest in athletics in order to decide which sports are more popular with their students. This new rule makes gender quotas the only sure measure of compliance and the only sure way to avoid lawsuits.

Diminishing Power of Big Media

The bad news about the media is that what we call the mainstream media are just as leftwing as ever and have what Bernard Goldberg called “a slobbering love affair with Obama.” But the good news is that the power of big media is diminishing. Newspapers and networks are steadily losing audience. The big television networks all do market research to find out who is listing to their programs. The expensive TV ads they run on CBS, NBC, ABC Evening News prove that the networks know that their current audience is just old folks. The ads are mostly for drugs to deal with seniors' problems: osteoporosis, heart attacks, arthritis, heartburn, cholesterol, cancer, alzeimer’s, scalp stress, gray hair, cataracts, backache, restless leg syndrome, false teeth cleaner, and other conditions I prefer not to hear mentioned on television.

American People Are Waking Up

This year, 2010, could be the most important year of our time. The November election will determine whether Barack Obama succeeds in his goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States,” or stop spending our nation into what our government now admits is “unsustainable debt” that will burden our children and grandchildren. We must make a solid right turn, starting with the typical American can-do attitude. Conservatives should be of good cheer!

Interview: Pam Pryor — SpendingRevolt.com

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Trying to Abolish the Electoral College

A well financed group of political busybodies is trying to change our United States Constitution by unconstitutional means, that is, without amending the Constitution in the proper way. These people don't like the way the Constitution provides for electing our Presidents by the Electoral College, and they want to abolish it in a very devious way. These people call themselves the National Popular Vote project. Their plan is to get state legislatures to pass laws promising that, in the next presidential election, the legislators will ignore how their own state voted, decide which candidate they think has the most votes nationwide, and then order their state's electors to vote for that candidate. In other words, they would steal votes away from some candidates and transfer those votes to another candidate. That would be vote-stealing on a massive scale.

Video Games Are Not Free Speech

Parents nationwide have tried again and again to get some help from governmental authorities to protect their kids from the violent video games on the market. Several states have passed laws stating that retailers cannot sell violent video games to kids under a certain age unless they show parental consent. Unfortunately, supremacist judges have again and again called these laws unconstitutional, as a violation of the First Amendment. Some judges even have claimed these games are as much entitled to First Amendment protection as the Bible or Shakespeare. The U.S. Supreme Court has just agreed to review these cases, and we hope the High Court will come down on the side of parents' rights.

Doctors rally in New Brunswick against Obamacare

Hundreds of doctors and their patients filled a pavilion in Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick on Saturday afternoon as part of New Jersey's participation in the National Doctors' Tea Party.

Republican Congressional candidate Anna C. Little addressed the rally, which took place between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.. Also addressing the rally, mainly to talk about the devastation that President Obama's massive health-care bill would wreak for patients everywhere, were Grace-Marie Turner, head of the Galen Institute in Washington, DC; Lou Keeler, former head of the Medical Society of New Jersey; Alieta Eck, director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons; Lois Copeland, the AAPS' past president, and Andrew L. Schlafly, the AAPS' general counsel.

Read entire article at Examiner.com

The Hiroshima Bomb Was the Right Decision

When I graduated from Washington University/St. Louis many years ago, the Commencement speaker was General George Marshall, a man who was then much admired. That was before we knew about his terrible mistakes. The George Marshall plan for winning World War II was to land our troops on Japan's beaches where they would fight the Japanese island by island. That invasion would have been a slaughter because the Japanese were prepared to defend their homeland with 5,000 kamikaze planes and 2 million troops, all sworn to fight to the death. Predictions were that 30% of U.S. soldiers would be killed or wounded during the first 30 days.

Can Obama Buy Women’s Love?

Obama has to hold the women if he wants to keep his job as President. Apparently he thinks it helps to do so by hugging them, as he did the women of ABC’s “The View,” a kind of everywoman’s Ratpack show. Reportedly, 5.6 million watched Obama’s appearance July 29. He also makes an effort to embrace women at his unstoppable string of post-election campaign stops.

The country has 8 million more women than men, and 57 percent of the pro-Obama vote in 2008 came from women, according to Gallup polling; and 65 percent of the unmarried females voted for him. Some 67 percent of the least educated—those with some grade school learning–cast votes for him.

In case hugs alone don’t work, Obama can expect some return from his Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls to deal with issues they face and—the document said– “to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies across the federal government consider how their policies and programs” address the needs of women and girls, including women of color.

Read article at FrontPageMag.com

Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court?

Let's review what kind of a person is the woman President Obama chose to be his second appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Elena Kagan never was a judge so her paper trail is short, but it's long enough to prove she is a clear and present danger to the Constitution. When Kagan was dean of the Harvard Law School, she brought to the campus a guest speaker who is known as the most activist judge in the world: Judge Aharon Barak, formerly on the Israeli supreme court, and called him her "judicial hero." Judge Barak is such an activist that he thinks a judge should "make" and "create" law, and take a major "role in the legislative process."

Arizona won't back down from Obama and illegal aliens, say officials

Republican state lawmaker Russell Pearce, who sponsored the Arizona immigration reform bill, pledged to take his battle against illegal and criminal aliens to the U.S. Supreme Court, after a Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. Circuit Court, blocked the enforcement of that law's strictest provisions.

Pearce has gone as far as calling for children born in the U.S. -- known as "anchor babies" -- to be denied citizenship if their parents are here illegally. Many illegal aliens have used this ploy -- having a baby while illegally in the U.S. -- in order to avoid deportation.

"Americans are not coldhearted. They hate the idea of separating a child from his or her parents, who have violated U.S. law. But many are beginning to understand that Americans' generosity and compassion are being preyed upon in a large-scale immigration scam," said former NYPD detective and military intelligence officer Sid Franes.

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Social Issues vs. Fiscal Issues

The media are forever trying to create a division in the conservative movement between those care most about so-called social issues and those who want priority for fiscal issues. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is the most recent politician to fall into this trap by asserting that the next president will "have to call a truce on the so-called social issues." The truth is that social and fiscal issues are locked in a political and financial embrace that cannot be pried apart. Those who want to emphasize runaway government spending and out-of-control debt and deficits must face the fact that those trillions of dollars are being spent by government on social problems. Government powers, as well as the money in government's hands, have expanded to deal with social problems.

The Biggest Tax Increase Is Coming Soon

The largest tax hike in history, affecting all taxpayers, will take place at the end of this year when the Republican tax cuts will expire. Starting January 1, 28 million middle Americans will be socked with a massive Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) which George W. Bush had eliminated. That's a "gotcha" which penalizes taxpayers in ways they never expect, adding big tax penalties based on an "alternative" way of calculating taxes due. Upper-income Americans will see a big jump in their marginal tax rates. Their accountants are already telling them that the more they work, the less additional money they will take home, so they may be already slowing down, canceling investments, or retiring to draw Social Security. Hardworking parents who are saving for their children's future will be hit by the reinstatement of the massive "death tax" on January 1. They may wonder why they work hard and save, if their money will go to Uncle Sam and to people who choose not to work.

Interview: Michael Coffman — Rescuing America

Book: Rescuing a Broken America: Why America is Deeply Divided and How to Heal it Constitutionally

America is deeply divided, on many fronts. We stand at the precipice for her very survival as a Constitutional republic.

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America's "Unsustainable" Debt

"Unsustainable" is a scary word that recently entered political discourse. It is being used by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, known as the CBO. Unsustainability is now the label for Barack Obama's massive deficit spending, which the Director said "cannot be solved through minor tinkering." The CBO predicts a increase in our public debt from $7.5 trillion at the end of last year to $20.3 trillion at the end of 2020 if current budgets are implemented. Senator Kent Conrad sharpened the focus by asking the CBO Director: "What's going to be necessary [is] either a 25% increase in taxes or a 20% reduction in spending, or some combination thereof. Is that correct?" The CBO Director answered "yes."