‘Climate Change’ Analysis Now Required

A “climate change” analysis is now required for most new projects initiated by the National Forest System, which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This new rule is now requiring speculation about the project's impact on climate, and inclusion of this speculation in what is called what is called an “Environmental Assessment.” For example, if the government proposes a forest-clearing project of only 30,000 acres of pine trees, the Assessment must include a discussion of the “climate change” supposedly caused by the project.

Interview: Bill Federer — "Stories Of The Past That Affect Us Today"

Did you know that one of the Pilgrim ships was captured by Muslim pirates and sold into slavery in Morocco? A historian will share stories of the past that still affect us today.

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China's Military Power is Growing

Communist China's military power is growing rapidly, and China has billions of U.S. dollars to spend. The U.S. Secretary of Defense's annual report to Congress says that "China has the most active land-based ballistic and cruise missile program in the world. It is developing and testing several new classes and variants of offensive missiles, ... and developing methods to counter ballistic missile defenses." China also has a growing force of mobile ICBMs capable of hitting targets in most of the United States, and China is deploying a large number of short- and medium-range missiles that could devastate its neighbors with a mix of nuclear and conventional warheads. And remember, it's all bought with U.S. dollars.

Tale of One Mad Scientist

Since 1948, Alfred Kinsey has been hailed as a scientific pioneer whose research into sexuality liberated Americans and has now become the basis for the sex education taught in public schools. Author Judith Reisman corrects that myth in her new book called Sexual Sabotage: How One Mad Scientist Unleashed a Plague of Corruption and Contagion on America. Judith Reisman exposes Kinsey as a deviant sex addict who perpetrated "the most colossal academic fraud of all time."

Thanksgiving According to More Presidents

On Thanksgiving Day, I like to recite for you some of the Thanksgiving prayers and proclamations issued by our Presidents on this unique American feast day. The first Thanksgiving Proclamation was delivered by George Washington, but every President thereafter followed his example. So here are some quotes from proclamations by lesser-known Presidents.

Texas Speaker Showdown

Phyllis!

By Jay Nordlinger    

Today, I have a little something called “Cruising Speed, Part I.” It’s the beginning of a cruise journal. A journal of what cruise? Well, the cruise — the one NR just concluded. For Part I, go here. In it, I have an item about Phyllis Schlafly, who was one of our guest speakers. And I thought I’d share a letter about her:

Jay,
. . . Back in the ’80s, she did a short newsy radio program called The Phyllis Schlafly Report. It was produced and recorded at the studio/agency where I was working, and I was assigned to be her producer. I even wrote her theme song! She came in about once a month and recorded a couple dozen three-minute shows.

I was impressed by how much she knew about so many things, and what a professional she was. This was, of course, at a time when she was being demonized in the press, much as Sarah Palin is today. The years I spent producing her program were significant in making me more politically aware, and swinging me way to the right. (Both recording engineers from those sessions also remain firm right-wingers, 20 years on.)

. . . We had virtually no “outtakes” from her sessions because she was just so darned good.

Can I tell you my favorite line from this letter? “Both recording engineers from those sessions also remain firm right-wingers, 20 years on.”

Note:  Phyllis still records her daily 3-minute radio commentary and hosts a weekly live call-in radio program, Eagle Forum Live.

Source:  NationalReview.com

Most Expensive School Ever in Los Angeles

Los Angeles School District recently opened the most expensive school ever built, the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex. It cost more than a half Billion dollars. It has six small schools on 24 acres and will serve 3,700 K-12 students. With its architectural flourishes and posh amenities, the locals say it looks like a museum. The school is designed to restore certain features of the site where Bobby Kennedy, when he was a presidential candidate, was assassinated. Museum-style features include a library that resembles the Ambassador Hotel ballroom where Kennedy made his final speech, and a 580-seat auditorium that boasts a starry ceiling and entrance modeled after the Coconut Grove nightclub. A $5 million park features talking benches that cost $54,000 and play a three-hour audio of the site's history and a wall of quotes from Ted Kennedy, Maya Angelou and Cesar Chavez. Other deluxe amenities include a state-of-the-art swimming pool, two gyms, million-dollar murals and other art.

COSTS FOR PAYING TAXES SOAR

By Dr. Jerome Corsi

New regulations on preparers increase price tag; Paying federal taxes just got more expensive.

With the Obama administration fiscal year 2010 federal budget deficit coming in at $1.3 trillion, the IRS has implemented new rules to make sure tax preparers are sufficiently regulated so that they can be dismissed from the profession if they fail to collect all possible taxes from taxpayers.

In the process, the added costs tax prepares face in complying with new IRS rules are certain to be passed on to taxpayers, making the costs of paying federal taxes even more expensive for any taxpayer wanting or needing professional help.

According to the IRS website, all paid tax preparers must apply for or renew their mandatory "preparer tax identification number," or PTIN, to become registered as an official tax preparer by Jan. 1, 2011.

By mid-2011, the IRS expects to have available an IRS competency exam that federal tax preparers must pass to demonstrate their proficiency at preparing federal tax returns.

High Tuition Doesn't Mean Good Education

Parents may want to think long and hard before taking out a second mortgage to finance Junior's tuition at one of the elite and pricey universities. According to an evaluation by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, less prestigious schools offer a better grounding in core subjects that are essential to a well-rounded education. This organization evaluated 700 four-year colleges and universities based on their core curricular requirements in literature, composition, math, economics, U.S. government, history, and a foreign language. Those are the seven core subjects that should give students the knowledge and skills they need to be informed, productive citizens.

Interview: Brent Morehouse — TEA Party Awakening

Tea Party activists have been called everything from "astroturf" to racists. Now hundreds of these citizen activists are speaking for themselves and sharing their stories of waking up and getting involved.

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The Vanishing Supreme Court Caseload

The U.S. Supreme Court decided only 72 cases in its annual term ending in June this year, and only a handful of them concerned issues of big significance. The Supreme Court has accepted only 51 cases for its upcoming winter term. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Supreme Court took 200 to 300 cases a year, and even in the 1980s took about 150 cases each year.

MO ALERT: Will Bond Leave a Legacy of Pork?

Tell Sen. Bond to vote NO on Democrats' Omnibus Bill

November 19 2010

Dear Missouri Friend,

Retiring Senator Bond needs to hear from you today. A Missouri Eagle confirmed this morning through a phone conversation with Sen. Bond's office that  he has several projects, pork, for Missouri in the over-the-top omnibus  spending bill coming up for a vote possibly today. It's likely he'll vote with the Democrats to get it passed!

Sen. Bond needs to hear from Missourians: we don't want these pork projects. 

The mid-term election results are clear: Missourians want government to be more fiscally responsible. 

Call him or send an email now.

Sen. Bond needs to know that a NO VOTE on the Omnibus bill is a better legacy to leave than one of supporting projects paid for by our children and grandchildren.

Americans for Prosperity first sounded the alarm, and pointed out a Wall Street Journal article by Betsy McCaughey outlining the implications of an omnibus on ObamaCare:

To achieve this goal, Senate Republicans should filibuster to stop the omnibus spending bill, delaying action until after Jan. 3. Stopping it is vital not only to shrink government spending but also to defund ObamaCare.

If Republicans say "no" to the Democrats' lame duck omnibus bill, then in January Republicans can write numerous, specific appropriations bills that fund federal departments but bar money from being used to  implement the new health law. They can prohibit funds appropriated for the Internal Revenue Service from being used to hire agents to enforce compulsory insurance, and bar funds for the Department of Health and Human Services from being used to write ObamaCare regulations.

Take Action

Call Sen. Bond to thank him for his service and urge him to stand strong for Missouri values to the end. He needs to hear that Missourians do not want an additional $1.1 trillion in spending. We want to begin the fight against ObamaCare NOW!

Urge Sen. Bond to use his last days in the Senate to do the right thing.

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Warning: Textbooks with Pro-Islam Bias

The Texas State Board of Education recently adopted a resolution that warns publishers against printing textbooks infused with anti-Christian, pro-Islamic bias. The resolution was approved 7-6 by the board as a caution against creeping Middle Eastern influence on American textbook publishers. The resolution declares that "pro-Islamic/ anti-Christian half-truths, selective disinformation, and false stereotypes" have been inserted in some social studies textbooks. Pages of footnotes document the "patterns of pejoratives toward Christians and superlatives toward Muslims." Some of the textbooks describe Christians as "Crusaders aggressors, 'violent attackers,' or 'invaders' while euphemizing Muslim conquest of Christian lands as 'migrations' by 'empire builders.'"

N.J. Supreme Court says tea party group cannot proceed with Sen. Robert Menendez recall effort

Peggy Ackermann/Statehouse Bureau   
 
TRENTON — A recall committee cannot proceed with its effort to unseat U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, the state Supreme Court ruled today in a decision that strikes down part of the state constitution.

Voting 4-2, the justices said parts of the state law and constitution that allow such recalls are unconstitutional. The decision reverses an appellate court, which had said the recall could proceed but stayed its decision to allow Menendez to appeal.

"The text and history of the Federal Constitution, as well as the principles of the democratic system it created, do not allow the states the power to recall U.S. Senators," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote for the majority.
Menendez's attorney hailed the ruling.

Smith Republicans host conservative women's conference

In a predominantly liberal environment, the Smith College Republican Club aims to bring more awareness to conservative viewpoints and ideologies. The club will host its first Conservative Women's Conference this weekend.

The conference will feature a keynote address by Vice President of Young America's Foundation Kate Obenshain and talks by former Chair of the Massachusetts GOP Jean Inman, libertarian financial analyst for CNBC and author of You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Executive Director of conservative, grassroots organization Eagle Forum Colleen Holmes.

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Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment

David Limbaugh, who is well known as a lawyer, author, speaker, and commentator on national affairs, has written a new book called Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama. Already, Obama's presidency has proven to be destructive, according to attorney Limbaugh. He organizes his allegations into three primary themes: offenses against Americans, offenses against American institutions, and offenses against America's general welfare and security.

Courts Uphold Expelling Christian Students

Two recent federal court decisions have upheld the dismissal of Christian students from university counseling programs because of their moral objections to homosexuality: a student in Michigan and another in Georgia were both expelled from the Master's in Counseling programs after expressing their unwillingness to affirm homosexual behavior when counseling clients.

Mayor Bloomberg Wants To Be a Kingmaker

New York City's billionaire Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has decided he wants to be a political kingmaker using his own deep pockets plus his rich friends. He's unhappy about the remarkable success of the Tea Partiers in nominating conservative candidates, and he wants to remake the Republican Party under the label Moderate. Bloomberg started off with this project by hosting a fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. That alone should disqualify Bloomberg from respectability in the Republican Party. Bloomberg also endorsed other Democrats for the new U.S. Senate. Bloomberg says his idea of how the Senate should function is the 40-year collaboration of the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch.

Judges Strike Down Immigration Law

The city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a small town previously having only 23,000 people, became a magnet for illegal aliens. In just a few years, they increased the population of this town by over 50%. This put a great burden on the city's social services and police force, and was associated with some shocking crimes. The Hazleton City Council, led by its popular Mayor Lou Barletta, passed an ordinance denying business permits to companies that hire illegal aliens, and penalizing landlords who rent to illegal aliens. The illegal aliens sued, and a trial court banned enforcement of the city ordinances. The city appealed to the appellate court.

HERE COME THE ENERGY POLICE!

By Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

California installing millions of smart meters

As Red Alert has previously warned, the energy police are about to invade your home with "smart meters," new electronic/Internet based devices that determine precisely how much energy you are using.

While the devices are being sold as energy-saving tools, the technology also gives the energy police the ability to shut you off or charge you additional if you refuse to install energy saving measures demanded by green ideologues and enforced by utility companies doing their bidding.

The California Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, has given permission to deploy an Advanced Meter Infrastructure project that will upgrade both metering and communications software to install 5.1 million electricity meters and 4.2 million natural gas meters in homes in the Pacific Gas & Electricity in California.

Tea party fights back

Orlean Koehle, an active tea-party member and a member of the Sonoma County Republican Central Committee, has begun to fight back.

"What is a smart meter?" Koehle asks. "It is one that contains RF (radio frequency) so that it can be remotely controlled and read. No longer will a meter reader have to come to your home to read the meter. It will all be done remotely."

Ana Puig speaks at Arkansas Eagle Forum event

Dismantling America: Thomas Sowell's Advice

Well-known economist Thomas Sowell has a gift for cutting through the fog of political rhetoric and getting to the core of an issue. His newest book, called Dismantling America showcases his talent. This book includes 100 of his best newspaper columns grouped into five sections: government policies, political issues, economic issues, cultural issues and legal issues. His essays explore various forces that are undermining the traditions, laws and values that made America great.

Globalization: Agenda for Global Government

We hear a lot about the need for our country to adapt to a global economy and that globalization is inevitable for America's future. If you doubt that powerful people are really planning to push America into world government, you should read a new report just published by the U.S. National Intelligence Council in conjunction with the European Union Institute for Securities Studies. It's called "Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Junction." We can thank best-selling author Jerome Corsi for alerting us to this danger. He says the conclusion is inescapable that the U.S. and EU intelligence apparatus is setting the stage for one-world government by 2025.

Mexican Trucks Welcomed by Obama Administration

In the midst of a drug war with Mexico so severe that Americans have been warned not to venture into sections of U.S. territory on the U.S.-Mexican border, the Obama administration has agreed to allow Mexican long-haul rigs into the United States without constraints. The White House is enacting the provision to meet the requirements of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

WND reports:

In March 2009, President Obama signed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill into law, along with the provisions ending the Department of Transportation’s Mexican truck demonstration project.  

One day after signing the omnibus spending bill, Obama instructed the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to work with Congress, DOT, the State Department and Mexican officials to come up with legislation to create ‘a new trucking project that will meet the legitimate concerns’ of Congress and the U.S. under NAFTA.

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HERE COME MEXICAN TRUCKS!

By Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

Despite drug war, Obama wants long-haul rigs in U.S. without constraints

Just in case you thought the North American Union was dead and gone - here come the Mexican trucks, all over again.

It's mind-boggling, but despite the drug war raging uncontrolled in Mexico, the Obama administration is planning to roll out yet another plan to let Mexican trucks roll without constraints on highways throughout the U.S.

TheTrucker.com, a trucking industry magazine, warned last month that the Department of Transportation has been patiently waiting until after the November midterm elections to unveil a proposal DOT expects to resolve the Mexican truck controversy.

Marriage Is the Key to Spending Cuts

Yesterday on these broadcasts we talked about how most of the people who are classified as "poor" by government census bureau statistics are women who have babies without getting married. Contrary to a lot of chatter, this isn't a teenage problem (only 7% of new single moms are minors), and it isn't a failure of birth control, and it isn't the accidents of unplanned pregnancies. These single moms want their babies and confidently expect Big Brother Government to provide for them.

START To Stand Up for America

The upcoming Lame Duck Session of the current Congress, which includes so many Members who were defeated on election day, poses a real and present danger to America's future. President Obama is pushing hard for this Lame Duck Senate to ratify the treaty called New START, which he signed with Russia in Prague on April 8. This bilateral arms control agreement has nothing good in it for the United States and reads like it was written by the Russians. New START allows the United States to have only as many nuclear warheads as Russia can afford to build. The treaty allows Russia to build new and modern weapons to reach New Start limits, whereas the United States is locked into reducing our current number. That means Russia will have new and tested weapons, but the U.S. will be stuck with its current, out-of-date, untested warheads.

What's Costing Taxpayers So Much Money?

The attack on the institution of marriage is not only the biggest cultural but also the biggest fiscal issue of our times. Political and judicial attacks by gays are only part of the problem. Forty-five years ago, a liberal in Lyndon Johnson' Labor Department, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, shocked the nation with a report called "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action." The Great Society's welfare handouts to women were starting to break up black families by making husbands irrelevant. Since the Moynihan Report, out-of-wedlock births in the United States have grown to 72% for blacks, 52% for Hispanics, and 28% for whites. For the population as a whole, out-of-wedlock births rose from 6% in the 1960s to 41% today.

Interview: David Limbaugh — Crimes Against Liberty

Lawyer and author David Limbaugh calls Barack Obama's presidency the most destructive administration our country has ever known. Listen in as Limbaugh outlines Obama's crimes against traditional American liberty.

Book: Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama


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Framed man goes free

The show ABC TV 20/20 had a special last Friday evening on the story of Ray Spencer who was imprisoned for 20 years based on a false accusation from a vindictive ex-wife. The case was discussed here in Aug. 2009, June 2010, and Aug. 2010.

Liberals Unhappy With Elena Kagan

The liberals cheered when the U.S. Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as the newest Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Because she is known to be such an aggressive leftwinger, the liberals were counting on her to join the four liberal Supreme Court justices and produce many 5-to-4 leftwing majorities. Funny thing, the liberals are grumbling about Elena Kagan now. You see, before her appointment, Kagan was not a judge; she was a lawyer in the Obama Administration. So now, she must recuse herself from all the cases she worked on as an attorney, and that turns out to be about half of the important cases that are now pending before the Supreme Court. She will not be participating, for example, in an important appeal concerning one of Arizona’s immigration laws.

CNN: Which spending cuts should be made?

The Court Cases on ObamaCare

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (which is known as ObamaCare) was immediately challenged by several lawsuits. The state of Virginia filed one lawsuit, and 20 other states joined a lawsuit filed in Florida. Both these cases test whether Congress has the power under the U.S. Constitution to compel Americans to buy a product (namely, health insurance) they may not want. Section 1501 of ObamaCare requires all Americans to buy a government-approved health insurance plan or else pay a penalty, which the government is now describing as a tax.

The Culture War Battle

Arthur Brooks, an economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute, has written a new book called The Battle. He believes that America is in the midst of a new culture war, and the big question is whether America will retain our free enterprise identity OR succumb to European-style socialism. This battle between Free Enterprise and Big Government will shape America's future, and Arthur Brooks lays out the intellectual and moral map we need to win this war.

Yes, We Want Congress to Vote NO Many Times

Some people criticize Congress by calling it the Department of NO. In fact, we really do want Congress to vote NO on all the mischief that is presented by the liberals. Here is a list of very bad ideas that we are counting on the new Congress elected today to reject and vote NO.

Interview: David Horowitz — Campaign For Academic Bill Of Rights

Every day in classrooms across America, college students are bullied and belittled for disagreeing with their far-left professors. We'll talk about what students can do to fight back.

www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org
The Students for Academic Freedom Information Center is a clearing house and communications center for a national coalition of student organizations whose goal is to end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.

Book: Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign For An Academic Bill Of Rights


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Stifled by feminism

Facing the 'man up' challenge

By SUZANNE VENKER


Republican Sharron Angle famously told Sen. Harry Reid to "man up" during a Nevada debate this month -- the implication being that Reid is a wuss, or not man enough to do his job. You'll get no argument from me, but I did note Reid didn't fire back at his opponent. That's because feminists have taught him well.

When faced with whether or not to make a disparaging remark about the female gender, most men know to keep their mouths shut.

In politics today, women can do and say whatever they want about the opposite sex, but men can't do likewise. "You can't come back on gender grounds to a female candidate," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.


Read more: NYPost.com

Hopes for the New Congress

We look forward to the election tomorrow in the hope that we can decisively reject Barack Obama's plans to "fundamentally transform the United States." Here are some goals we hope the new Members of Congress will address. In regard to taxes, we want them to vote against all tax increases and new taxes; vote to cut federal spending to the pre-bailout level; and vote to abolish the death tax.