How to Write a College Application

The college application essay is the most nerve-wracking writing assignment most 17-year-olds ever face. Students can write about 500 words to set themselves apart and convey personal qualities not readily apparent in grade point averages, SAT scores, and lists of extracurricular activities. A new book called 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked offers a straightforward learn-by-example approach that can help any applicant write a persuasive essay to win acceptance to competitive colleges. The most helpful aspect of the book is the compilation of essays written by students who were ultimately accepted to the nation's top-ranked school.

Intercourse judge with condom acorns

We monitor stories about activist judges, ACORN, sex ed, and the coarsening of American culture by those with a leftist-secularist-narcissist agenda. These all came to a head in a town called Intercourse PA. The NY Times reports:

Police said a district judge from Intercourse, Pa., hid condoms inside acorns and handed them out to women in the state Capitol complex last week. A summary charge of disorderly conduct was filed Tuesday against Isaac H. Stoltzfus, who presides over low-level cases as a district judge in Lancaster County.

This is not a joke. It is a real AP story, and Judge Stoltzfus really is the Intercourse judge.

The Closing of the Muslim Mind

In a new book called The Closing of the Muslim Mind, foreign policy expert Robert Reilly tells how the Islamic people made a very important decision in the 7th century when they came in contact with the Greeks, who believed that God endowed man with reason so man could know God and his moral order. Islam rejected this theology and instead adopted the belief that man is unable to determine what is right or wrong, and that actions are good or evil only because Allah deems them so. Islam believed that Allah can will whatever he wants and does not follow natural laws of cause and effect. For example, an apple does not fall from a tree as a result of gravity, but because Allah wills it. This theology, therefore, rejected scientific inquiry. As a result, no major invention or discovery has emerged from the Muslim world for more than seven centuries.

How Capitalism Will Save Us

The liberals are looking for someone to blame for the current recession, and they are pointing their fingers at capitalism. However, magazine editor Steve Forbes and economics writer Elizabeth Ames do a good job of defending private enterprise with a new book called How Capitalism Will Save Us. They remind readers of the "explosion of prosperity" and innovation that were caused by President Ronald Reagan's pro-market reforms following what was called the stagflation of the Jimmy Carter regime in the 1970s. This book demonstrates how overregulation and high taxes have failed to produce prosperity every time they are tried.

Concern about global cooling

While most of our intellectuals are warning about global warming, the top secret Bilderberg Group is discussing global cooling:

The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.

Will the U.S. Imitate the European Union?

In an important new book, former journalism teacher Orlean Koehle exposes the plan to form a North American Union similar to the European Union by bringing about an economic and political merger between the United States, Mexico and Canada. Borders between the three countries would be erased, and they would share only an outer security "perimeter." The U.S. executive branch has entered into a series of agreements and treaties that move us towards this North American Union without congressional or citizen oversight. For example, the author describes a meeting between then-President George W. Bush, Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in 2005 to form what they called the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The purpose was to bring about "convergence, harmonization and integration" of the laws and policies of the three nations.

College dropouts increase

The Boston Globe reports on federal policies that are driving boys out of colleges:

There now are more collegiate rifle teams for women than there are for men. More schools offer women’s equestrian teams than men’s water polo teams. Quinnipiac has seven sports for men and 14 for women. UCLA has a swimming team for women but not for men.

Such is the college sports landscape as athletic departments try to comply with federal Title IX regulations while cutting budgets in daunting economic times.

To achieve gender equity amid enrollment shifts and reduced revenue, colleges have been chopping men’s sports, with at least half a dozen on the endangered list and a couple facing extinction.

Most Contentious Supreme Court Case

On its last day before adjourning for the summer, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its most controversial decision of this year. This case was argued in November 2009, and the eight months required to render its decision was historic. No one expected this low-profile issue to tie the Court in knots for so long.

Focus Shifts to Lower Courts

“Gridlock” is a term customarily applied to Congress, particularly when government control is divided between Democrats and Republicans. But gridlock at the U.S. Supreme Court, which is divided between liberal and conservative voting blocs, means that much power shifts to the lower federal courts. This year's most important case concerned the extension of the Second Amendment to the States. It took the Court many months to finalize, and the justices wrote 214 pages of opinions. Other cases on the Supreme Court’s docket resulted in contentious decisions that left many questions unanswered due to a lack of agreement among the Justices.

Senators take oath to uphold the Constitution

A legal blog explains the error in this statement, from a prominent legal reporter for Slate.com:

O’Donnell explained that “when I go to Washington, D.C., the litmus test by which I cast my vote for every piece of legislation that comes across my desk will be whether or not it is constitutional.” How weird is that, I thought. Isn’t it a court’s job to determine whether or not something is, in fact, constitutional? And isn’t that sort of provided for in, well, the Constitution?

The reporter, Dahlia Lithwick, got her law degree at Stanford, and her clerk experience in the Ninth Federal Circuit. Obviously, no one ever taught her that all three branches of the federal government take an oath to uphold the US Constitution, and they all have that responsibility.

Phyllis Schlafly wrote a whole book to explain what Lithwick did not learn in law school. It is The Supremacists, and you can read a sample chapter for free.

Republican National Coalition for Life interview at Huffington Post

Dianne Edmondson of the Republican National Coalition (RNC) for Life told The Huffington Post that there are absolutely more candidates this election cycle supporting abortion without exceptions. Each election cycle, her political action committee, founded by Phyllis Schlafly, submits questionnaires to GOP House candidates about their positions on choice issues and then endorses candidates who advocate a strict no-abortion platform. "I know that we have many more candidates responding to us this year than we did in the last election cycle -- probably about three times as many -- and I'd say at least half of them do meet that criteria," she said. "The rest are pro-life to one extent or another."

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What the NEA Thinks about Diversity

What does Diversity mean to you? Same-sex marriage? Building a giant mosque on the 9/11 spot in New York City? Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court? To the largest teachers union, the National Education Association (known as the NEA), diversity means celebrating the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China by Mao Zedong. That's what the NEA posted on its website calendar as a Diversity Event for October 1. This Diversity activity suggestion for teachers was reported on the website of WorldNetDaily, and then suddenly the Mao calendar item disappeared from the NEA website. That shows how great the internet is and how rapidly it can spread news that is ignored or suppressed by the mainstream media. But parents, Tea Partiers, conservatives, and students can now get around it with the internet and talk radio.

The NEA Wants to Make Kids Globalists

Here's some more information about the radical resolutions passed by the National Education Association, the NEA, at its 2010 convention held in New Orleans this past summer. The bias of the NEA in favor of internationalism, globalism, and the United Nations is very apparent from the passage of these resolutions. The NEA would like to add all sorts of classes in the public schools in global education, multiculturalism, and climate change. The NEA is very big into the teaching of environmentalism, the so-called danger to the environment of population growth, transferring American wealth overseas, and celebrating Earth Day instead of Easter. Somehow I get the impression that those propaganda courses are more important to the NEA than reading and math.

Senate Votes Tuesday on Bill Allowing Abortions at Military Base Hospitals

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Senate is slated to vote this week on the Department of Defense Authorization bill, which includes a provision to allow abortions on military base hospitals both domestically and abroad. The Senate will vote on a motion filed by pro-abortion Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.

He will ask lawmakers to stop the filibuster against the bill and approve a motion to proceed to a vote on the measure.

Most Republicans, potentially joined by a couple of Democrats like Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, are expected to oppose the Reid cloture vote motion and continue with their strong opposition to the bill.

Several pro-life groups have been working actively to urge pro-life advocates to contact their senators to oppose the bill and support the filibuster against it.

Read complete article at LifeNews.com

Interview: Matthew Spalding — Progressive Assault on the Constitution

Interview: Matthew Spalding — Progressive Assault on the Constitution

A scholar will help us celebrate Constitution Day by explaining why our 200-year-old Constitution is not “defective” or “out-of-date,” but is still the very best in the world.

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Questions To Ask Congressional Candidates

Many people believe that the congressional election coming up on November 2nd will be the most important election of our times. More and more, voters want to be certain that they are voting for conservative candidates who respect the United States Constitution. Here are some good questions to ask the candidates who seek to represent you.

Social conservatives feel strong momentum at Values Voter Summit

Social conservatism is “going to play a huge role,” said Phyllis Schlafly, the president of the Eagle Forum who gained attention for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.

“The fiscal conservatives have got to ask what is the money being spent on and the money is being spent on social issues,” she said in an interview Saturday. “So where is the money being spent that the fiscal conservatives are complaining about? It is being spent to remedy the social issues.”

Democrats recently have called on the GOP to renounce Schlafly for comments she made this summer at a fundraiser about unmarried women giving their overwhelming support for President Obama, according to reports from Talking Points Memo. Schlafly endorsed some 60 Republican candidates this year.

Read entire article at TheHill.com

Malkin: Harry Reid's Illegal Alien Student Bailout

The so-called DREAM Act would create an official path to Democratic voter registration for an estimated two million college-age illegal aliens. Look past the public relations-savvy stories of "undocumented" valedictorians left out in the cold. This is not about protecting "children." It's about preserving electoral power through cap-and-gown amnesty.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this week that he's attaching the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill. With ethnic activists breathing down his neck and President Obama pushing to fulfill his campaign promise to Hispanics, Reid wants his queasy colleagues to vote on the legislation next week.


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Phyllis Schlafly: 'Jesus is not on the ballot'

MIAMI – "Jesus is not on the ballot."

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 19: Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, listens to applause during the Family Research Council's 2007 Washington briefing October 19, 2007 in Washington, DC. The legislative action arm of the Family Research Council held the yearly event at which 2008 U.S. presidential hopefuls spoke, including Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and others. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

That reminder comes from longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly who is urging voters to choose their candidates with more care than usual this November.

"When you think about an election, you have to realize first that somebody is going to be elected; and secondly, Jesus is not on the ballot," Schlafly said at WND's "Taking America Back Conference" which began today in South Florida.

"You need to be very careful who you vote [in] for Senate. This year 2010 could be the most important election of our time."

Read more at WND.com

Let's Celebrate Constitution Day

Today, September 17th, is Constitution Day, and it's too bad that it isn't a national holiday like Independence Day. However, the legacy of the late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is the federal law he sponsored requiring all schools that receive federal funding to teach something about the Constitution on Constitution Day. And we can credit the Tea Parties for encouraging grassroots Americans to have a renewed interest in and appreciation of our great Constitution, the fountainhead of our liberties. I hear more citizens making constitutional arguments today than ever before. More people are actually reading the Constitution and carrying around a pocket Constitution for reference.

‘Fire From the Heartland’: Story of the Conservative Woman in Her Own Words

The first-ever film to tell the entire story of the conservative woman in her own words, “Fire from the Heartland” is a powerful statement about America at a crossroads and the women who have awakened to the crisis. With role models such as Clare Boothe Luce, Margaret Thatcher, and Phyllis Schlafly as inspiration, these women are the unintended consequence of the liberal feminist movement.

Tracing the long history of the many conservative women who have been the backbone of this great nation, from the founding mothers of our Republic to today’s “Mama Grizzlies,” this powerful and compelling documentary honors the self-made American woman.

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"Self-Defense Is a Basic Right"

The biggest case in the Supreme Court this year was whether the Second Amendment means individuals have the right to keep and bear guns. The City of Chicago had banned handgun ownership, so the issue was the constitutionality of that law. The name of the case is McDonald v. City of Chicago. Many thought this issue had already been settled in favor of gun ownership by the High Court's decision two years ago in D.C. v. Heller. But that case merely held that the federal government could not ban handgun ownership, and the question remained as to whether the Second Amendment would be applied against state and local gun control laws.

Eagle Forum urges ban on violent video game sales

With bloody video game scenes playing behind him, Eagle Forum attorney Andy Schlafly labeled such interactive entertainment “addictive,” saying it could cause children to “go on a killing rampage.”

For the second time in a month, the ultra-conservative advocacy group held a press conference urging Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to side with a new California law that outlaws the unlimited sales of video games to children. That law is now being challenged with a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court.

At Wednesday’s news conference at the State Capitol, Schlafly, an attorney for the national Eagle Forum, unspooled a montage of violent video game scenes from YouTube, which included beheadings and chainsaw attacks from such popular games as “Mafia,” “God of War” and “Resident Evil.”

“Video games are getting increasingly more violent as the technology gets better,” Schlafly said.

Read entire article at The Salt Lake Tribune

 

Group makes last-minute push for support in violent video game case

SALT LAKE CITY -- A conservative group wants Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to say no to violent video games being sold to children. It's a case that is now going to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The proposed law goes along with something California has already ruled on. Five years ago, California legislators made it illegal for children under 18 to buy violent video games, but an upper court said that was unconstitutional.

Read entire article at  KSL.com

Social conservatives stay in fray

Economy dims cultural issues

The nation's social conservatives may have ceded center stage to economic conservatives and the "tea party" movement for the midterm elections, but they're not keeping quiet.

Even as the fiscal tea party movement grabs the headlines, social conservative leaders are getting out their own message to selected audiences via e-mail, newsletter and pulpit - trying to ensure their followers flock to the voting booths in November.

Read entire story at WashingtonTimes.com

To Student: Drop Your Christian Views!

Thank goodness we have some public-spirited lawyers who are willing to step up and defend college students whose religion rights are trampled on by an intolerant university. The Alliance Defense Fund has sued Augusta State University in Georgia on behalf of a student who claims the university told her to deny her Christian beliefs in order to graduate. Jennifer Keeton, age 24, is pursuing a master's degree in counseling. She says she was ordered to undergo a re-education plan that requires her to attend "diversity sensitivity training," do additional remedial reading, and write papers describing their effect on her beliefs. The university's ultimatum to Jennifer was: Complete this re-education plan or be expelled from Augusta State University's Counselor Education Program. Jennifer said that in the remediation plan she was ordered to take, the university questions her ability to be "a multiculturally competent counselor, particularly with regard to working with gay, lesbian, homosexual, transgender populations."

Why Can't We Learn from Past Mistakes?

Thomas Sowell is a distinguished scholar and economist based at the Hoover Institution in California. He's the author of many useful books and a nationally syndicated columnist. His analyses of current events, and political and economic problems and trends, is always accurate and helpful. He is a fountainhead of common sense in a world where many prominent people often appear out of touch with reality.

Vulnerable Democrats duck public events

Steve Driehaus and Glenn Nye

Try to find Rep. Steve Driehaus.

There are no public meet and greets listed on the Ohio freshman's campaign website — even though he signed a welcome note on his home page claiming it is the place to "find out about upcoming events."

Ditto for Virginia Rep. Glenn Nye, who has a tool that lets users enter their zip code to get listings of events near their homes. Entering the zip code for Nye’s campaign office yields nothing within 50 miles.

Driehaus and Nye, both Democrats, are in two of the most hotly contested House races in the country.


Read more: Politico.com


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Phyllis Schlafly Signs the Spending Revolt Bus at Eagle Council 2010

Our nation is in the midst of a massive spending crisis.

U.S. Government spending per household has increased an astounding 40% in the last 10 years and is scheduled to increase another 40% in the next ten.

The national debt is piling up at an unprecedented and irresponsible pace.

The current level of spending is unsustainable, reckless and negligent.

We need real and permanent spending reform in Washington now.

Learn more at spendingrevolt.com

Interview: Benjamin Wiker — 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read

Book: 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor

If someone asked you why they should be a conservative instead of a liberal, what would you say? Is conservatism more than being against liberalism?

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China's Awesome New Anti-U.S. Weapon

Have you ever been on an aircraft carrier? I have, and it's an awesome experience. The enormous size of it, and its capability for fighter jets to take off and land on its deck, just blow you away. America's invincible carrier fleet is a tremendous sign of our naval superiority, which is essential to U.S. security.

The NEA Wants to Teach Kids about Sex

Would you like to hear about some more resolutions adopted by the National Education Association, the NEA, at its annual convention held this summer in New Orleans? I am continually amazed at how leftwing the resolutions are even though surveys of NEA membership report that this teachers union has more conservative members than liberals.

What Is Early Childhood Education?

We hear a lot of loose talk about the need for Congress to appropriate lots of new money for early childhood education, but news reports almost never are very specific about the details. At the annual convention of the National Education Association, known as the NEA, the NEA passed Resolution B-1 which spells out what that means. To clarify this question, I'm going to read you NEA Resolution B-1 which is entitled Early Childhood Education. (quote) "The National Education Association supports early childhood education programs in the public schools for children from birth through age eight. [You heard that right -- from birth through age eight. That means the NEA wants to control and raise your children beginning at birth!] Continuing with this resolution, "The Association also supports a high-quality program of transition from home or preschool to the public kindergarten or first grade. The Association also believes that early childhood education should include a full continuum of services for parents and children, including child-care, child development, developmentally appropriate and diversity-based curricula, special education, and appropriate bias-free screening devices. The Association believes that federal legislation should be enacted to assist in organizing the implementation of fully funded early childhood education programs offered through the public schools. These programs must be available to all children on an equal basis and should include mandatory kindergarten with compulsory attendance."

The NEA's Latest Shenanigans

The National Education Association, known as the NEA, held its national convention in New Orleans this summer. The NEA adopts a lot of policies that have nothing whatever to do with education or making the public schools better.
Let me tell you about some of them. The NEA adopted a Legislative Program that calls for --

Attacking net neutrality

The buzz phrase net neutrality was a big liberal cause a couple of years ago, and its biggest supporter was Google. But now Google has flip-flopped, and come out against it. But this Scripps News article blames Tea Party activists, who are also against it. The article is biased towards the Obama administration, so I am translating some of it for you.

By opting for corporate control of the Internet rather than government regulation, Tea Party activists may be acting against their own best interests, say people knowledgeable about the fight.

Translation: The smart people say that Tea Party activists are stupid.

They oppose net neutrality -- the notion that the federal government should establish rules of the road to prevent companies from indiscriminately blocking or slowing traffic for their own competitive advantage.

Translation: If companies are allowed to give the consumer what he wants, then the companies that do might be more popular then the companies that do not.

For Tea Party activists who think the government is already too heavily involved in private affairs, the issue of net neutrality is deceptively simple -- the government should keep its hands off the Internet. But that position contains a potentially profound unintended consequence for an Internet-based grassroots movement: getting inferior service or paying more to get premium service.

Translation: In a free market, some people will pay more money to get better services.

Interview: America's Schools – Prof. Allen Quist

Book: America's Schools: The Battleground for Freedom



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What Does the NEA Say About Education Issues?

The National Education Association, known as the NEA, holds a national convention every summer attended by 10 to 12,000 delegates from public schools all over the country. Every year, Eagle Forum sends observers so we can report to our members and the public what policies, legislation and candidates the NEA is promoting. This week, I'm giving you a report based on the documents handed out at this year's convention, which was in New Orleans.

Stimulus Money Is a Waste

On this Labor Day, which is a national holiday to honor American workers, millions of Americans will be worrying about getting or holding a job to support their families. President Obama apparently thinks he can create new jobs by taking our country deeper into debt that will hang over the shoulders of our children and grandchildren for many years into the future. Most people have the common sense to know that nobody can spend ourselves into prosperity. The billions of Stimulus money Obama have already spent have only made UNemployment worse, yet he is still demanding that Congress vote another Stimulus package.

Who Is the Biggest Campaign Spender?

We are constantly warned to beware of the legislative clout that big business can buy. But when it comes to political campaign money, the biggest spenders are not the oil companies or the banks. The number-one biggest campaign spender in federal and state political campaigns and ballot measures during the 2007-2008 election cycle was the National Education Association, known as the NEA. The NEA spent $56.3 million, far more than any other big-bucks donor.
[according to a comprehensive analysis compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute.]

More Busybody Obama Czars

The term czar has come to mean a presidential crony appointee who was never vetted by the Senate and who exercises sweeping regulatory authority without congressional oversight. President Obama has appointed at least 35 czars. They are paid by the U.S. taxpayers, but they were never interrogated and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The latest Obama czar is Donald Berwick, who will have vast authority over Medicare and Medicaid. Czar Berwick's bureaucracy will have a budget that is larger than the Defense Department. Obama gave Berwick a recess appointment in order to avoid a Senate hearing and keep Berwick's damaging statements out of the news.

More Unaccountable Obama Czars

Barack Obama has appointed another Czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives. He's joining the list of more than 35 Czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending. Everybody laughed when Senator Tom Coburn asked Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan if it would be constitutional for Congress to order Americans "to eat three vegetables and three fruits every day." Kagan declined to give a straightforward answer, maybe because she knew that exactly that type of dictatorial mandate is coming soon, in both Obamacare and regulations issued by the new Food Czar.

Elko GOP chief has meltdown over ‘Republicans for Janine’

A growing number of conservative Republicans have opted to support the independent conservative candidacy of longtime conservative activist Janine Hansen in Elko-area Assembly District 33 race instead of the moderate GOP nominee, John Ellison. As such, they recently formed an informal group called “Republicans for Janine.”

And Elko County GOP chief Charlie Myers is having a cow over it.

After the Elko Daily Free Press reported on the establishment of the “Republicans for Janine Hansen” group last week, Chairman Myers sent a rant-to-the-editor which was subsequently published by the paper.

Read entire article at ElkoDaily.com