Celebrating Cesar Chavez Day

Today is Cesar Chavez Day, the anniversary of his birthday. You may not know who he is, but nine states recognize March 31 as an official holiday called Cesar Chavez Day: Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin. The National Education Association passes a resolution nearly every year calling on Congress to give Cesar Chavez a national holiday. That's a very interesting idea, and I'd like to tell you why.

Phyllis Schlafly Still Championing The Anti-Feminist Fight

She's a lawyer, author, mother of six and a icon of the country's anti-feminist movement. Phyllis Schlafly is best known for her successful 1973 campaign to stop the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. For decades, she has stuck by her beliefs that a woman's place is in the kitchen. She's been named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by Ladies Home Journal. As part of Tell Me More's focus on Women's History Month, host Michel Martin speaks to the 86-year-old conservative activist about her life and career. (NPR News)





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Ellen McCormack, Anti-Abortion Presidential Candidate, Dies at 84

In a 2007 column on the Web site Eagle Forum, Phyllis Schlafly, long a national leader in the fight against abortion, said Mrs. McCormack had played “a major role in the pro-life movement.”

“Her leadership,” Ms. Schlafly added, “enabled the then-young pro-life movement to flex its muscles and demonstrate political courage, determination and perseverance.”

Read more at NYTimes.com

Schlafly: If You Don't Have A Husband, "You Look To Big Brother To Provide"

This weekend at the Conservative Principles PAC Conference, anti-feminist hero Phyllis Schlafly told Political Correction why women who don't get married are bad for society:

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY: The people who are saying we shouldn't talk about the social issues are simply trying to pretend that they don't cause the fiscal problems. Um, the Heritage Foundation has added up and thinks that we are spending nearly a trillion dollars a year because of the non-marriage. Really to support the single moms who are having babies without getting married. And it stand to reason, if you don't get married and have a husband to provide for you, then you look to Big Brother to provide.

And we had a 41 percent illegitimacy across the board last year in this country and they're only supported by the tax payers in whole or in part. We've got about a 40 percent of the American people  who are getting all or part of their, living expenses from the government. And this is the breakdown of marriage, because they — we ought to have a stable society where fathers provide and mothers take care of their babies.

Source: PoliticalCorrection

Further Reading: Feminism

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Zero Tolerance Overreaction

Zero Tolerance is one of the foolish policies inflicted on public school students. It requires disproportionate punishment for minor and unintended offenses. Even when school policies permit lenience and exceptions, some school personnel insist on taking a hard line for petty violations

The Fraud of the Century

Feminism is back in vogue as a controversial topic. The blogosphere and newspapers all over the country are debating the meaning of feminism – and what it means to be female and powerful. The female left always argues for women to be independent of men, self supporting, sexually uninhibited, and liberated from the obligations of marriage and motherhood. They talk endlessly about the need for women to have empowerment.

Interview: James Wanliss — Is The Green Movement Christian?

Radical environmentalism has co-opted many Christians. A geophysicist will explain how the green movement is not the same as the biblical call to be good stewards of the earth, but in reality is a new religion that hurts the poor and threatens human life.

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Mount Soledad Cross Banned by the Court

Beginning in 1913, three different crosses have stood on Mount Soledad in southern California. The first two were built by groups of private individuals in 1913 on a spot used as a veterans' memorial park. In 1952, a large concrete cross, known as the Mount Soledad Cross, was erected by the American Legion in memory of Korean War veterans.

Museum exhibit focuses on Equal Rights Amendment

ALTON — Charlene Gill of the Alton Museum of History and Art wants to educate people about the role Alton played in the Equal Rights Movement.

"People think the Equal Rights Amendment was passed," Gill said.

The Equal Rights Amendment would have mandated equality between men and women, especially in the workplace. It was proposed in 1923 and passed through Congress in 1972. It was only ratified by 35 out of the 38 required states, however, so it failed to become the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Neither Illinois nor Missouri ratified it.

One of the biggest voices against the proposed amendment was Phyllis Schlafly, an Alton native and syndicated columnist. Schlafly and her conservative group, the Eagle Forum, would attend meetings that supported the amendment and protest it. Charlene Gill was in attendance at a large rally in Houston in 1977.

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Funny Turnabout on Fluoridation

Our government first began urging cities to add fluoride to their municipal water systems in the 1950s. That was highly controversial. Groups of people, much like the Tea Parties of today, organized, wrote letters against this practice, claiming that fluoride is a poisonous substance, and in any event was government interference with what we put into our mouths. The people who objected were vilified, called nasty names such as extremists and conspiracy-fanatics. Nevertheless, federal health officials assured us that fluoridation was completely safe and would protect our teeth, especially of our children. Government power overrode all the protests; fluoridation went right ahead, and those who objected were silenced.

Idle Teachers Still Cost Taxpayers

Do you wonder why public schools cost the taxpayers so much money? Well, here's one reason. When a public school teacher is accused of misconduct or incompetence, the disciplinary hearings can drag on for years. During that time, the teachers continue drawing their full salaries and benefits, while they sit idle in what are officially called reassignment centers, but are known informally as "rubber rooms." There they sleep or play cards or otherwise entertain themselves. The city of New York has been paying more than $30 million a year to 700 teachers and administrators in these rubber rooms. Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a much-ballyhooed announcement last April that these people would be assigned to administrative or other non-classroom duties until their cases are resolved. He increased the number of arbitrators who were supposed to wipe out the backlog of cases by the end of 2010.

'Flipside of Feminism' drops avalanche on NPR

Comments are 'more than we've ever had on a single topic on this program'

Suzanne Venker, the Boston University graduate who co-authored "The Flipside of Feminism" with her legendary aunt, Phyllis Schlafly, is happily disrupting Women's History Month around the nation.

She was interviewed just days ago on NPR affiliate WBUR in Boston, where an excerpt from her book was featured in the station website.

Audience reaction was so swift and loud that co-hosts Meghna Chakrabarti and Anthony Brooks followed up with another program on "Flipside."

Read more: 'Flipside of Feminism' drops avalanche on NPR

Further Reading: Feminism

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Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker, authors of 'The Flipside of Feminism' on the Laura Ingraham Show

Laura Ingraham substitute Raymond Arroyo hosted on March 15, 2011

Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker, authors of The Flipside of Feminism

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America's Solution to Energy Dependence

Natural gas has been produced in the United States for over 100 years and is produced in 38 states. It is used primarily to heat homes and buildings. It's also used as a fuel to generate electricity and as fuel for vehicles, including automobiles. In the last three years, large deposits of natural gas have been discovered, and new technology has been developed so that natural gas can be extracted economically. The largest of these gas deposits in the United States is located mostly in Pennsylvania. Experts estimate that it holds as much as 500 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. That means enough gas to meet all America's gas needs for more than 20 years.

Interview: Mike George — Is The Federal Deficit Hopeless?

The Obama administration and the last congress rang up more debt than our first 100 Congresses combined. Is the federal deficit hopeless? The man who showed the Army and Navy how to save billions says the same methods can save our federal government from financial disaster.

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Mexican Studies in Tucson

Arizona passed a law last year that bans public school courses that promote resentment toward a race or class of people, or encourage the overthrow of the United States government. This law also prohibits courses designed primarily for a particular ethnic group or that promote ethnic solidarity rather than treating kids as individuals. This law took effect the first of this year. If the school violates the law, it can lose some of its state funding.

Detaching the Anchor from Anchor Babies

The worst decision of the U.S. Supreme Court was the Dred Scott decision in 1857, which ruled that African Americans born in the United States could not be U.S. citizens. The purpose of the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was to overrule that Dred Scott decision and assure that African Americans born in the U.S. would be citizens. Those who support court-made law should forever be reminded of Abraham Lincoln's warning that if we accept the supremacy of judges, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers."

King’s Conservative Principles Conference To Feature Potential Republican Presidential Candidates

King’s Conservative Principles Conference Features Stellar Line-Up
Phyllis Schlafly serves as honorary chair of the event

Des Moines, Iowa – Potential Republican Presidential candidates Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Governor Haley Barbour, Herman Cain, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, and former Senator Rick Santorum are all on the program for Congressman Steve King’s Conservative Principles Conference. They will be joined by Ambassador John R. Bolton as well as keynote speaker Senator Jim DeMint along with a host of other conservative leaders for stimulating discussion.

Congressman King is pleased to announce his good friend and ally in the conservative movement, Phyllis Schlafly, has agreed to serve as honorary chair of his Conservative Principles Conference. Mrs. Schlafly has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. She led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. A lawyer, Mrs. Schlafly is America's best-known advocate of the dignity and honor we owe to the role of full-time homemaker. The mother of six children, she was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year.

Feminists flip over this book

Phyllis Schlafly, niece take on the old-girl's network

WASHINGTON – Following a lengthy and reverential introduction by John Hilboldt, director of lectures and seminars at the Heritage Foundation, Phyllis Schlafly, the grande dame of the conservative movement, strode to the microphone and addressed an intimate gathering in the think tank's auditorium as well as cameras from C-SPAN's BookTV.

"Yes, I've had a very interesting and fun life, and I don't owe any of it to the feminists," the sprightly 86-year-old activist said in promoting her newest book, "The Flipside of Feminism," written with her niece, Suzanne Venker. "Feminism has become a very hot topic. I suppose the reason is Sarah Palin. Feminists cannot resist attacking Sarah Palin. It's not just because she's a successful woman. She has a cool husband, a lot of kids, a great career, making lots of money. … And the acid in their wounds is that she's pretty too."

Legends are made of such stuff – and Schlafly is a living legend among conservatives.

Read more: Feminists flip over this book

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The Racket of Importing Pregnant Women

It's long overdue for Congress to stop the racket of bringing pregnant women into this country to give birth, receive free medical care, and then call their babies U.S. citizens entitled to all American rights and privileges plus generous handouts. At least 350,000 babies are born to illegal aliens in the United States every year. That's 10% of all births. An entire industry called "birth tourism," offering "birth packages," imports pregnant women from all over the world, Korea to Turkey. 12,000 U.S.-born Turkish babies have been arranged in the last few years. An electronic billboard in Mexico advertises the services of an American doctor and proclaims in big letters, "Do you want to have your baby in the U.S?"

White House wants new copyright law crackdown

The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.

In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix "deficiencies that could hinder enforcement" of intellectual property laws.

The new wiretap law would be an expansion of the Patriot Act, which was passed to fight terrorism. Pres. Obama is proposing wiretaps to prosecute the watching of pirate YouTube videos.

Feminism Has Become a Hot Topic

The liberals have unjustly blamed Sarah Palin for many things, but there's one thing for which she is probably responsible: making feminism the hot topic that it has become today. Every couple of years Time and Newsweek ask “Is Feminism Dead?”, but all of a sudden, feminism is being discussed and debated in the Mainstream Media. The feminist writers -- and there are many of them -- always picture women as the victims of mean men. The feminists' legislative agenda, from unilateral divorce in the 1960s, to the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, to taxpayer-financed daycare in the 1980s, to the Violence Against Women Act in the 1990s, to the Paycheck Fairness Act in the 2000s, is always wrapped in whines about alleged discrimination against women.

'Seal my lips': No new Census

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe

Americans look to flip off invasive federal questions

A Texas congressman has been joined by nearly a dozen others in the U.S. House in an effort to push back against the invasive personal questions contained in the Census Bureau's annual "American Community Survey."

A bill to make most of the questions in the multi-page interrogation optional has been introduced before by U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, but with this year's GOP majority, the legislation could advance.

His proposal, H.R. 931, has been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.


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How Anti-Religious Can Judges Be?

Hard to believe, but a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled last spring that our National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional because it calls on citizens to take part in a religious activity. Judge Barbara Crabb said the statute that created the National Day of Prayer violates the First Amendment. Judge Crabb was appointed about 30 years ago by President Jimmy Carter, and this is one more example of how Carter betrayed the evangelical Christians who elected him.

Twenty Questions About A Constitutional Convention

1. How would Delegates be selected or elected to a Constitutional Convention?
   
2. What authority would be responsible for determining the number of Delegates from each state?
   
3. What authority would be responsible for electing the Delegates to the convention?
   
4. Would Delegates be selected based on Population, number of Registered Voters, or along Party lines?
   

Interview: Thomas Woods, Jr. — States Take On The Federal Government

Some states claim they don't have to obey federal mandates that are forced on them. We'll talk about the constitutional tool our nation's Founders provided to protect us from an overreaching federal government.

Books: Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century

Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse


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No Need for a Constitutional Convention

Resolutions are popping up in many state legislatures asking Congress to call a convention to discuss amendments to the United States Constitution. These resolutions originate because some people want Congress to vote for a certain constitutional amendment, and Congress hasn't done it, so its proposers have moved to Plan B and want to use the never-before-used section in Article V of our Constitution which says that if 34 states request Congress to call a convention, Congress must call one. Some of these people want a Balanced Budget Amendment, some want the Equal Rights Amendment, some want what is called the Repeal Amendment to allow the states to repeal an act of Congress, some want to get rid of the electoral college, and one group wants a list of ten new amendments.

Why men won't grow up

By Suzanne Venker
© 2011 

According to Kay Hymowitz, whose new book, "Manning Up," was featured prominently in the Wall Street Journal in February, "legions of frustrated young women" are dealing with a new crisis in America: modern men refuse to grow up.

It appears the 21st-century male is living a kind of extended adolescence. In the past, it was assumed men would receive a high-school diploma or college degree, then get married and settle down to the responsibilities of work and family life. Today, young men "hang out in a novel sort of limbo," keeping adulthood at a distance as they enjoy a lifestyle that demands few, if any, obligations.

The question is why – and how – did this happen? And the answer is simple: feminism.

Read more: Why men won't grow up

Further Reading:  Feminism

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VAWA: A Target for Spending Cuts

While Congress is trying to figure out how to cut wasteful and extravagant federal spending, Congressmen should be mindful of Reagan's advice to begin by cutting programs that are harmful. One that fits this definition is the billion-dollar-a-year Violence Against Women Act (known as VAWA). In addition to other problems with VAWA, it is a big fiscal problem. A billion dollars a year are streaming into the hands of leftwing feminists without accountability. Taxpayers' funds are then used to lobby for feminist legislation, to train law enforcement and judicial personnel in the aggressive enforcement of feminist laws and feminist ideology, and to break up families instead of giving them pro-family and anti-substance-abuse counseling.

Deadbeat moms

By Suzanne Venker
© 2011

As many of you know, my new book, "The Flipside of Feminism," which I've co-authored with Phyllis Schlafly, will be released next week. The timing couldn't be better. Not only have the media been reporting on women who shirk their obligations in the name of self-fulfillment, but last week the White House released what its denizens believe is a meaningful report on the state of American women.

In fact, the report highlights nothing we don't already know: Men make more money than women throughout their lifetime. That's because women have something called a womb; and most women, when they become mothers, choose to tailor their lives around the needs of their children. Naturally, this means most women are not in the marketplace on a consistent basis.

Read more: Deadbeat moms

Further reading: Feminism

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Remembering the Super Bowl Hoax

A few weeks ago we passed the 18th anniversary of an event that precipitated the passage in 1994 of the Violence Against Women Act (known as VAWA). The event is known as the Super Bowl Hoax, the assertion made on January 28, 1993 in Pasadena, California, with big media coverage, that more women are victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year. That radical feminist assertion lacks even a shred of truth. It was designed to feed the feminist anti-male and anti-masculine prejudice that men are naturally batterers, women are naturally victims, sports fans are prone to aggression and macho posturing, and football is especially guilty. Reinforcing this non-news-story was an appearance on Good Morning America by Lenore Walker to regurgitate her book called The Battered Woman. It is credited with originating what is known as the "battered woman syndrome," which spread the propaganda that batterers are always men, and the definition of domestic violence includes acts and words that are not violent. NBC joined the propaganda push by airing a public service announcement before the 1993 super bowl to remind men that domestic violence is a crime. All this propaganda was later conclusively proved false by the scholar Christina Hoff Sommers.

BU Alum Assails Feminism as “Dead-End Road”

Suzanne Venker

New book urges women to “make lemonade out of lemons”

During her years as a BU undergraduate, Suzanne Venker was known, she writes, as “that conservative girl from the Midwest,” with values that collided head-on with most of her peers’. Writing frankly, at times contemptuously, about what she sees as the sins of progressive liberals in general and feminists in particular, the former middle school teacher has made a name for herself among right-wing pundits such as David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, and Laura Schlessinger.

Now, Venker (SED’90), 43, has teamed up with her 85-year-old maternal aunt, lifelong antifeminist warrior Phyllis Shlafly, to write The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know — and Men Can’t Say (WND Books), a polemic that blames “the so-called women’s movement” for lowering women’s happiness quotient even as they can claim — as the writers concede — more freedom, more education, and more power. The book, which seeks to liberate women from “feminism’s dead-end road,” caps a lifetime of activism for Shlafly, a Harvard-educated political scientist and lawyer best known for leading the 1970s right-wing charge against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

Source: BU.edu

Further Reading: Feminism

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Michele Bachmann exposes $105 billion in hidden ObamaCare funding

Feminism's legacy: 'Heartache, STDs, abortion'

'It turns out human nature cannot be repealed by judicial fiat'

"The truth is that feminism is the single worst thing that happened to American women."

So wrote Suzanne Venker and her aunt, Phyllis Schlafly, in "The Flipside of Feminism" What Conservative Women Know – and Men Can't Say."

And if that doesn’t elicit feminist fury or bewilderment, what will? But it's more reason for feminists and non-feminists to read this new title published by WND Books. After all, you'll see people you know, people you love – maybe even yourself – in "The Flipside of Feminism," the authors say.

"My hope is that any person between the ages of 18 and 50, male or female, who feels as though they've absorbed feminist ideology, will read this book," said Venker, who describes herself first and foremost as a wife and mom, even though she's authored a previous book and numerous articles.

Schlafly, author or editor of 20 books, founder of the Eagle Forum, and Supreme Court attorney most famous for leading the Equal Rights Amendment defeat, hopes that the young will read "Flipside" before they make "too many mistakes."

Source: WND.com


Further reading: Feminism

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Feminist Devaluing of Fulltime Homemakers

The most scholarly book written about the feminist movement by a non-feminist is Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism by Carolyn Graglia. She read all those tiresome books and articles by the feminist leaders, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir, and concluded that the principal goal of the feminists since the 1960s has been "the status degradation of the housewife's role."

Rep. Bachmann Helps Expose Secret Stash of Obamacare Cash

You’d think that billions of dollars in government spending would be hard to hide, especially from the Members of Congress who voted for it. Think again.

Buried in the 2,700 pages of last year’s Obamacare legislation lies $105 billion in appropriated funds that bureaucrats are already using to implement Obamacare. On Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) brought that news to light when the subject turned to budget cuts.

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Truck Drivers Should Speak English

U.S. law requires truck drivers to speak and understand the English language. The Obama Administration plans to admit Mexican trucks to our highways and roads, and says it will "conduct an English Language Proficiency" test of each Mexican driver. However, it does not say the Mexican drivers must speak English or pass the test. We know from congressional testimony of the previous Transportation Secretary that the Department's policy is to approve Mexican drivers as "English proficient" even when they respond to an examiner's questions in Spanish.

Interview: Tom Pauken — Bringing America Home

Since a hundred new members of Congress were elected last year, it's time to deal with important conservative issues that have been neglected. A former Reagan administration official believes these issues must be addressed to get America back on track.

Book: Bringing America Home

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HAGELIN: 'The Flipside of Feminism'

Culture challenge of the week: feminism

Are women happier than they were 30 years ago?

They ought to be, according to the feminist blueprint.

But they’re not.

An excellent new book, “The Flipside of Feminism,” explains why. Written by Phyllis Schlafly, the icon of conservative women, and her niece Suzanne Venker, this witty and fast-reading book dismantles the myth of feminism and prescribes a “new road map” for women’s happiness.

Source: Washington Times

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Obama's Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks

It is amazing that, with unemployment so high, the Obama Administration is pushing a plan that will put many American truck drivers out of work and make highway driving for Americans more dangerous and less pleasant. Obama wants to admit Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads. The result would be that American truck drivers would lose jobs to Mexican drivers who are not subject to U.S. regulations. Mexican trucks are known to be overweight and lacking in safety regulations. Mexico doesn't have national databases that track drivers' records, background checks, drug usage, and arrests, and it's known to be easy to get a commercial driver's license with a bribe.

5 Ways Feminism Has Ruined America

With the debate of feminism revived by Sarah Palin's recent claim that she's one of them, Phyllis Schlafly is jumping in with a new book that suggests the 1960s "women's revolution" movement is ruining women and the country. Written with her niece Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism provides readers with a new view of women in America.

The bottom line, says Venker, is that, "Feminism has sabotaged women's happiness." Worse, she adds, it's flipped male-female relationships upside down. Just one example: Men more than ever are seeking love, marriage and kids while women want independence.

Read more: USNews.com

Further reading: Femininsm

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Authors want feminism to get out of the way

Opportunities 'always there' for American women

One of the authors of the new book, "The Flipside of Feminism," is suggesting what would be good for American women is for feminism to get out of the way.

Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker have authored the work that essentially documents the failings of the leftist ideology, instead offering practical solutions for a better understanding of womanhood.

Noting federal studies that reveal women are less happy now – after 40 years of the so-called women's rights and women's liberation – the book suggests feminism is a dead-end road that preaches faux empowerment from men and marriage.

Get out of the way, suggests Schlafly.

Read more at WND.com

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Congresswoman Hartzler sponsors bill calling on President Obama to respect the law

For Immediate Release
March 4, 2011
Contact: Steve Walsh
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steve.walsh@mail.house.gov 


Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-4) is the lead sponsor of legislation calling on President Obama and his Department of Justice to respect the law and enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

“President Obama’s decision to order his Justice Department to stop defending DOMA is not a surprise but it is disappointing,” Hartzler said. “Once we start going down the road of selectively enforcing our laws we are headed for chaos. President Obama took an oath to uphold the laws of the United States and he is breaking his word to the American people.”


“The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was enacted through large majority votes in both the House and Senate and was signed into law by President Clinton,” added Hartzler. “President Obama is subverting the will of the representatives of the people. The good citizens of the 4th Congressional District are expected to follow the law and President Obama should not put himself above the law."


In 2004, Hartzler served as state spokesperson for the Coalition to Protect Marriage, which supported Missouri’s defense of marriage amendment. That amendment passed with the support of 71 percent of the state’s voters.

Vicky Hartzler was elected to Congress on November 2, 2010. She is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee.

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Female Winners in 2010 Elections

One of the surprising results of last November's elections was that so many women were victorious. Call the roll of women newly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Sandy Adams of Florida, Diane Black of Tennessee, Ann Marie Buerkle of New York, Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, and Martha Roby of Alabama, plus Kelly Ayotte elected U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. But to the dismay of the feminists, most of the victorious women are Republicans. They certainly are not feminists, and the ones I named are all pro-life.

The grizzly truth: identity politics and conservativism don't mix

By Carey Roberts

Sarah Palin has emerged as the nation's foremost advocate of conservative ideals. By design, she has also become the most prominent purveyor of feminist identity politics.

In numerous speeches, Mrs. Palin has proclaimed herself a feminist. In America by Heart the former vice-presidential candidate announces: "It surprises some people to hear that I consider myself a feminist."

Exactly what does this mean?

"Feminism is all about power for the female left," explain Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly in their hot-off-the-press sizzler, The Flipside of Feminism. "Feminism, like communism, depends on hypothesizing an oppressed class."

Read more: Renewamerica.com

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How to Replace ObamaCare

The U.S. House fulfilled its promise when it voted to repeal the law called ObamaCare, which grants 2,000 powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. For example, regulators will decide what clinical drugs seniors will be allowed to get. The regulators are empowered to use "comparative effectiveness research" to determine whether seniors get care at all. That's code for the authority of bureaucrats to decide (based on your age and condition) whether you are worth spending any money on; that means whether you live or die.

Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer buck Obama on patent change

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is breaking with her party and the Obama administration to fight a landmark change to the patent system that would move from "first to invent" to "first to file." Just as it sounds, the bill would grant a patent to the person who files for it first -- part of an effort to harmonize U.S. standards with the rest of the world.

Feinstein warned that the change would kill California's fabled gararge start-up "ecosystem," citing Apple, HP and Google. "I wouldn't trade America's record of innovation with anyone," she said.

Her opposition also puts her and Sen. Barbara Boxer on the same side of an issue as Phyllis Schlafly.

Read more: SFGate.com

Further Reading: Patent Rights

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Cheers for Repeal of ObamaCare

The U.S. House did what its candidates had promised and the voters expected: the House passed repeal of ObamaCare, the centerpiece of Socialism. According to public opinion polls, support for repeal remains strong among the American people despite Obama's prediction that once his favorite bill was enacted into law, we would like it. In addition, 200 distinguished economics experts signed a letter predicting that ObamaCare will be a barrier to job growth, inflict us with a crushing debt burden, and is not real health care reform.

U.S. Need for Anti-Missile Defenses

President Obama successfully pressured the Lame Duck Senate to ratify his New START Treaty with Russia despite Senators' demands for more time to study it. A big issue was whether the treaty restricts U.S. right to build an anti-missile defense. Ronald Reagan believed that an anti-missile defense is essential to protect American lives. His steadfast support of an anti-missile defense was the principal reason he won the Cold War.

The Back Room Politics of Patent Reform, 2-28-11

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said Monday the Senate could move patent reform legislation this week.

“During the next few days the Senate can come together and pass this legislation,” said Leahy, who added that the bill “cuts across the political spectrum.”

Leahy said the patent reform bill would help U.S. businesses compete with counterparts in China and other countries.

“Delaying is saying we want China to overcome us,” said Leahy. “Moving is saying we want to remain competitive. We should be able to complete this work easily by the middle of the week if we want.”

The bill would modernize the U.S. patent system, moving it from a first-to-file system to a first-to-invent system. That change, aimed at reducing patent litigation costs, would bring the U.S. system in line with those of almost every other country in the world.

Source: Huffingtonpost.com

Further reading: Patent Rights

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Leahy says Senate could move patent reform this week, 2-28-11

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) said Monday the Senate could move patent reform legislation this week.

“During the next few days the Senate can come together and pass this legislation,” said Leahy, who added that the bill “cuts across the political spectrum.”

Leahy said the patent reform bill would help U.S. businesses compete with counterparts in China and other countries.

“Delaying is saying we want China to overcome us,” said Leahy. “Moving is saying we want to remain competitive. We should be able to complete this work easily by the middle of the week if we want.”


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