Second judge strikes down Dems' healthcare law as unconstitutional

A federal judge in Florida struck down the entire healthcare reform law Monday afternoon, ruling that the requirement for individuals to purchase insurance is unconstitutional and is too central to making the law function.

In the highest-profile challenge to the reform law yet, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the so-called individual mandate exceeds congressional power. Further, he said the whole law cannot stand because the law depends on the mandate to work.

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Interview: Anthony Esolen — Nurturing Your Child's Imagination

A typical day for a young child is filled with video games, day care, and constant supervision. Are these modern child-rearing trends destroying your child's imagination?

Book: TEN WAYS TO DESTROY THE IMAGINATION OF YOUR CHILD

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Reforming Our Universities

It's no secret that American universities have become safe havens for radical professors who confuse indoctrination and political activism with scholarship and teaching.  David Horowitz's new book Reforming Our Universities focuses on his campaign to restore academic integrity to liberal arts programs.  His central goal is to persuade universities to adopt an Academic Bill of Rights in order to ensure that instructors "1) provide students…with both sides of controversial issues; 2) do not present opinions as facts; and 3) allow students to think for themselves."  The overwhelming response of universities has been to deny that there is any problem, and to point out that most universities already have made strong statements of support for academic freedom.  However, these policies exclusively protect the faculty, not the students.

Eric Metaxas Speaks at Educational Policy Conference in St. Louis

Eric Metaxas, author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, spoke to a small group of pastors in the morning, and then addressed the entire Educational Policy Conference in St. Louis on Jan. 27. While addressing a serious topic, Metaxas delivered presentations full of godly humility, as if reflecting the character of Bonhoeffer.

The Strange Push for More College Students

One of President Obama's fallacious notions for how to reduce unemployment, especially among young adults, is to get more students in college. He claims the United States is "falling behind" other nations in graduation rates, it's down to 12th place in the world, and he says we should regain "leadership" by inducing more young people to attend college. To deal with this fictitious problem, Obama set a national goal of "retaking the lead" by using more taxpayers' money to finance more students to go to college. Of course, some students are well prepared for college and eager to learn, and will therefore gain knowledge from college they can turn into a high-paying career. Unfortunately, a large number of young Americans are poorly prepared for college -- after social promotion and grade inflation in high school -- and are not willing or able to do college work; they expect college to be a big Five Year Party.

Closer Look At Higher Ed

Here are some more facts about colleges that parents and grandparents should consider before taking out a second mortgage to finance a college education for a child or grandchild. First, will a college degree be some sort of assurance of financial success? The fact is that 29% of college graduates today are working in high-school level jobs. The Census Bureau reports that 20% of individuals making less than $20,000 a year have college bachelor's or master's degrees. After considering the cost of a college education and the cost of forgone wages, the average earnings advantage for college graduates over a lifetime is not going to be the million dollar figure that is often given, but will be maybe half of that and maybe only one-tenth of that figure.

Local organization leader talks against abortion

Executive Director for King's Treasure Thrift Store and Living Alternatives, Stan Richardson, spoke on the controversial subject of abortion and abortion laws at the monthly luncheon meeting of Eagle Forum Tuesday.

According to the Living Alternatives Website, Richardson heads the Alamogordo branch of Living Alternatives, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to offering young women a place to find hope and practical help as they walk through an unintended pregnancy.

The Living Alternatives was founded in 1982, in Tyler, Texas. The Alamogordo branch was founded in 2004 and formerly called Seeds of Life.

Alamogordo Living Alternatives is funded by monetary donations from individuals, churches and businesses. The organization also receives 68 percent of the proceeds from King's Treasure Thrift Store, 1500 N. White Sands Blvd., sales funds the organization's Pregnancy Help Center, 1222 N. White Sands Blvd.

More gov't support for trust in God

Another California city has chosen to adopt and display the national motto in a government building.

The city of Lake Forest announced after an hour-long debate that it will display "In God We Trust" in the council chambers, making it Orange County's 14th city to display the statement in a government building. The proposal, initiated by Councilwoman Marcia Rudolph, passed by a 3-2 vote with the help of newly elected Councilman Scott Voigts.

Orleane Koehle, state president of the Eagle Forum of California, is pleased with the city's decision.

Orleane Koehle (Eagle Forum) "It's wonderful. It's been the motto of our nation from the beginning of our founding fathers, and for any city to think that that is not appropriate is very strange," she contends.

Congress Must Protect Our Patent System

A major reason why the United States has such a high standard of living is that America has produced nearly all the world's important inventions. This is the result of the unique provision in the U.S. Constitution that guarantees to inventors the property right to own and realize the value of their own inventions, plus the private enterprise system that makes it possible for new inventions to be produced and marketed.

Interview: Deborah Tavares — The Dangers Of Smart Meters

Electric companies are installing smart meters in millions of American homes and small businesses. Join us to find out why having one isn't so smart for your health or your privacy.

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A Short History of American Conservatism

A new book called The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History by David Farber describes 20th century politics through separate chapters on five leaders who built the conservative movement: Robert Taft, William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, and Ronald Reagan. What distinguishes this book from other recent books on the conservative movement is the author's analysis of the persona of each of those five and how their personalities interacted with their life work in politics: where they came from ideologically, what made them tick, and how they combined their lifestyles with their political activities.

Is College Worth Its High Price?

Yesterday we talked about the extraordinarily inflated price of college tuition. Today we are going to ask if the students who stick it out for four (or five or six) years are getting a real or useful education. The exorbitant tuition prices cover salaries for well-paid leftwing professors to teach hundreds of so-called "niche" courses instead of courses teaching general knowledge and skills.

The High Price of College

The favorite question liberal newsmen ask incoming Republican members of Congress is: you promised to cut federal spending, so what programs will you cut? A good answer is college student grants and loans because those handouts are probably wasteful and harmful.

The State of the Family 1960, 2010, and Beyond

Phyllis Schlafly has worked for fifty years for the pro-family cause during some of the most difficult years of this nation's history. Kevin Swanson interviews Mrs. Schlafly on the ERA, feminism, illegitimacy, and the role of the Great Society in breaking down the family. What is the future of the pro-family movement? We stand on the shoulders of those who fought the good fight over the previous fifty years. How will the next generation take this battle forward?

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Phyllis Schlafly: “Obama is a Committed Socialist”

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Interview: Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morse — Non-Religious Reasons To Support Traditional Marriage

Young Americans are delaying or avoiding marriage while gay couples demand marriage as a civil right. What is at stake in this battle over traditional marriage and what can be done?

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Climate Change Report from Cancun

Two of my close associates attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico last month, along with 20,000 delegates from 194 countries. My friends concluded that this conference had nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with getting the United Nations to redistribute the wealth of the United States and other industrialized nations to poorer nations.

Feminists Attack High School Sports

Now that the radical feminists have succeeded in using the power of the U.S. Department of Education to cancel hundreds of men's college athletic teams, the feminists have announced that they will carry on their anti-male vendetta against boys' sports in high schools. A radical feminist organization called the National Women's Law Center is now trying to force high schools to ban boys sports teams. Using the courts and feminist judges to carry out their malicious agenda, this organization of feminist lawyers has filed lawsuits in 12 school districts across the country from New York to Chicago to Houston to the west coast. These lawsuits complain that the schools don't sponsor enough girls' sports teams. Everybody knows that the high schools will respond to these lawsuits not by creating girls teams but by cutting boys teams, because that's the less costly way to react. The maliciousness of the feminists is shown by the way they even trying to ban donations for boys sports from parent booster clubs.

Compliance with Title IX is not a process of equalizing money spent on boys and girls. It is feminist pursuit of an anti-male vendetta. At the college level, the feminists forced the cancellation of more than 450 wrestling teams, which is the cheapest of all sports.

However, there are many extracurricular high school activities in which girls outnumber boys, such as dance and drama, but nobody is asking that those activities be forced to increase their percentage of boys.

I believe girls should be offered equal opportunities for sports in high school. Long, long ago, when I went to high school, I played basketball, field hockey, and soccer. But I don't believe boys sports should be eliminated in order to force an equal count of girls and boys into sports competitions if many girls prefer other extracurricular activities.

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Prepare to get wiped away

NPR radio just reported this:

Columnist Ruben Navarrette ... "They're not fools — they realize that there are those places where they can overplay their hand, and I think the 14th Amendment change is a perfect example of a bridge too far," Navarrette says. "It's poison. You play with that, and I am never, ever going be able to go before a group of Hispanic women ... and convince them that the Republican Party isn't anything but a bunch of ogres." ...

"Demographics do not lie. They will never again elect a Republican president if they don't get this right in short order," he says, "because Hispanics are increasing in population at a rate where they're going to wipe away everything else."

So by this reasoning, the Hispanics are going to "wipe away everything else" in the USA, and anyone who opposes the illegal invasion of anchor babies is an ogre.

For more info, read Detaching the anchor from anchor babies, soon to be posted on this site here.

Cap and Trade by Regulations Not Law

The Senate's expert on environmentalism, Jim Inhofe, warns us that since Congress refused to pass the so-called Cap and Trade bill, the Obama Administration is trying to implement it anyway by Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Directives are coming fast to increase energy costs and kill jobs. This agency has issued what it called a tailoring rule to govern new power plants, oil refineries and factories that emit carbon dioxide and other gases. This tailoring rule will reduce our manufacturing base and especially hurt the poor and elderly. Senator Inhofe warns that the new rules on ozone emissions will cost many jobs, and he predicts that the EPA standards planned for commercial and industrial boilers will cost 798,000 jobs.

The Paycheck UNfairness Act

Women didn't vote for Democratic candidates in last November's election in the expected numbers, so President Obama tried to woo them back by passing the Paycheck Fairness Act in the Lame Duck Session. Fortunately, this plan failed because Congress realized this bill is a job killer, not a job creator.

Globalists Want to Bypass Treaties

In a previous broadcast, I told you how, when Congress refuses to pass the legislation that Barack Obama wants, the Obama Administration is trying to put his policies into effect by executive branch regulations. That's an unconstitutional way to get around the legislative process which is spelled out in our U.S. Constitution, where it states that "all legislative powers" are vested in Congress.

Feminist Silliness Is Downright Dangerous

Last month I visited Santa Cruz, California and for the entire three days the front page of the local newspaper and the local TV newscasts featured a dramatic story that proves how ridiculous it is to pretend that women can do all men's jobs. It's feminist dogma that males and females are always interchangeable.

A prisoner named Maurice Ainsworth, who had a history of anti-police violence and was facing a life sentence, was being escorted to the hospital for an MRI test by a policewoman. Ainsworth is 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 275 pounds, while the policewoman is only 5 feet 3 inches and weighs 120 pounds. That means the prisoner was a foot and 2 inches taller and nearly 2-1/2 times as big. The local television showed silhouettes of the two figures, and anybody could see that giving this assignment to the woman was just plain nuts. So, surprise, surprise, the prisoner punched the policewoman in the face, grabbed her Taser, shocked her to the ground, grabbed her gun and escaped. During the manhunt before he was recaptured, the prisoner invaded a preschool and a private residence.

After the local TV eyewitness newscast showing the prisoner and the policewoman side by side, clearly illustrating the gross difference in size, the female newscaster (who is obviously infected with feminist silliness) said, "Obviously, no one is questioning her [the policewoman's] capabilities." Well, yes we are. It's just plain ridiculous to pretend that it's safe to assign a woman to control a male prisoner 2-1/2 times her size. After this event, the sheriff announced he is reevaluating procedures. I'll bet he is; but I also bet he won't admit that reevaluation is caused by the stupid feminist notion that men and women should be always treated the same.

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Interview: Thomas Kidd — Religious History Of American Revolution

What role did America's founding fathers want religion to play in public life? A leading historian will give us the facts about religion and the American Revolution.

Book: God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution


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Hope and a prayer

State legislators say budget will be the top issue when session begins Jan. 18

District Judge Jerry H. Ritter Jr. echoed the sentiments of many Alamogordoans on Friday at the 32nd annual Legislative Prayer Breakfast.

Ritter was master of ceremonies at the breakfast.

He stated in his opening comments that "in many respects, it has been a long and difficult week in Alamogordo and Otero County."

Ritter was referring to this week's passing of Jack Rathgeber, husband of Eagle Forum chairman Maude Rathgeber, and the sudden passing Tuesday of Alamogordo Department of Public Safety school resource officer Andrew J. Dominguez, 39.

"We are grateful for the blessings at the end of the week to gather together in fellowship," Ritter said. "We are especially grateful to Maude and members of Eagle Forum for their hard work every year in putting on this event, and especially this year. Even in the midst of our troubles, there's hope in our future. We can always put our faith in God and turn to him in prayer."

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Where's that wind power when you need it?

Nowhere, says this article on the failure of wind power in England during the recent cold spell:

Despite high demand for electricity as people shivered at home over Christmas, most of the 3,000 wind turbines around Britain stood still due to a lack of wind.

Even yesterday , when conditions were slightly breezier, wind farms generated just 1.8 per cent of the nation’s electricity — less than a third of usual levels.

The failure of wind farms to function at full tilt during December forced energy suppliers to rely on coal-fired power stations to keep the lights on — meaning more greenhouse gases were produced.

Carolee Adams of the Eagle Forum also sent me this link to an article about a certain governor of a northeastern state who is pushing a cap-and-trade scheme to build offshore windmills.

If Chris Christie ever hopes to make a move on the national scene, he'd better drop that  cap-and-trade scheme that would fund a hugely expensive farm of these windmills.

If the Governor goes ahead with it, that could be the first "too big to fail" plan that actually fails.

And with snow falling outside my window as I write, I'd also suggest that this winter will mark the moment when a whole lot of politicians decide the greenhouse-gas fad has run its course.

Source: blog.nj.com 

Denton GOP hosts conference on the Constitution

Just as the 112th Congress convened with a reading of the Constitution, so will the Denton County Republican Party as they kick off the new year by sponsoring a workshop on understanding and reviving the Constitution.

The conference on Saturday, Jan. 15, at the First Baptist Church of Lewisville, will begin at 9:00 a.m. and dismiss at 1:00 p.m.

The main sessions will be taught by the President of the Blackstone Institute and National Chairman of Eagle Forum’s Court Watch, Dr. Virginia Armstrong.

Dr. Armstrong will address topics such as ‘How to Understand and Revive the Constitution’, ‘What is the Constitution’s Worst Enemy’, and ‘How can Americans Effectively Fight this Enemy’, in addition to other issues relating to our Constitution.

One unique facet to this particular conference is that attendees will also be given the opportunity to take part in small group sessions to explore ways to act on and apply what they have learned, in order to be able to “pay it forward” by training others in the future.

“We live in historic times when Americans are stirred as never before to exercise their rights as citizens of this great nation and make their voices heard, “ said Denton County Republican Chairman Dianne Edmondson.

“However, it is vital that we be educated on how to effectively take such action. We are very excited to have the renowned Dr. Armstrong instruct us on better understanding the Constitution, what role our founders intended it to play in our nation, and how we can equip ourselves to revive and preserve it.”

Registration fees are $15 per person, which covers all printed materials for the seminar. Registration runs through Jan. 12th.

More information and registration forms can be obtained by contacting partyadmin@dentongop.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (940) 321-2671.

Source:  crosstimbersgazette.com

Congress Must Face the Reason for Deficits

If Congress is going to make significant cuts in federal spending, Congress will have to face up to the almost $1 trillion of taxpayers' money currently spent each year on social problems caused by the decline of marriage. That is the major cause of the growth of the welfare state. This breakdown in our culture has caused 40% of Americans to rely on government for all or part of their living expenses. Last year, more than one and a half million babies were born out-of-wedlock. That's 41% of all births, and their unmarried moms now look to Big Brother as their financial provider. The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that one-fourth of those unmarried moms actually have a partner living with them, so the taxpayers' money is being fraudulently received. The taxpayer handouts are only the start of the costs because most social problems come out of female-headed households: crime, drugs, sex, teen pregnancies, suicides, runaways, and school dropouts.

Congress Must Reform ObamaCare

Most of the new Members of Congress ran on a promise to repeal ObamaCare (or at least to defund it). Even if Congress accomplishes this, that will be just the end of the beginning. We need much, much more to repair the damage of two years of leftwing legislation and executive orders.

White House stirs gay marriage debate

Many social conservatives, such as Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly of Ladue, refuse to believe that a majority of Americans would support gay marriage. Obama's shifting position, she said, "is the story of politics: An aggressive well-funded pressure group can achieve goals contrary to what the majority of people want. I think same-sex marriage would be a terrible mistake. I don't think there are any good arguments for it."

Gays, she said, are already free to live together. "Nobody's stopping them from shacking up," she said. "The problem is they are trying to make us respect them, and that's an interference with what we believe."

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Interview: Thomas Sowell — Dismantling America

Well-known economist and social commentator Thomas Sowell has a gift for cutting through the fog of political rhetoric. Join us for clear thinking and straight talk on everything from financial bailouts to illegal immigration.

Book: Dismantling America: and other controversial essays

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New Mexico Alamogordo breakfast event yearly draw for legislators

The 32nd Annual Legislative Prayer Breakfast, set to honor and share a prayerful occasion with Otero County state legislators, will be Friday, Jan. 7.

The event, which kicks off promptly at 7 a.m., will be held at the Alamogordo Senior Center on Indian Wells Road and Puerto Rico Avenue.

"This is our 32nd year to host this event," said Maude Rathgeber, chairman of the Eagle Forum of New Mexico. "The purpose of the breakfast is to share a prayerful time with our community and state legislators, particularly do the prayers for our legislators safety in their travel, health, for their sessions for the year to go well and their issues to go well. This year our master of ceremony will be 12th Judicial Judge Jerry H. Ritter Jr."