Does Your Public School Teach Arabic?

Does your local pubic school teach Arabic? Parents in Mansfield, Texas were shocked when they discovered that their school has made plans to embed Arabic language and culture across the curriculum. Almost 200 parents showed up at a meeting with questions for school administrators. The program is funded by a five-year $1.3 million federal Foreign Language Assistance Program grant that identifies Arabic as a "language of the future." The grant calls for Arabic culture, government, art, traditions and history to be integrated into social studies, language arts and other subjects in elementary school.

Phyllis Schlafly helps fire up a crowd at rally

COLLINSVILLE — Former Alton resident Phyllis Schlafly helped fire up a crowd gathered Wednesday to hear potential GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty and his call for low taxes, small government, traditional family values and a reliance on God.

Schlafly, 86, appeared at a rally themed "The Metro East Miracle," hosted by Adam Andrzejewski, the founder of For the Good of Illinois PAC.

Schlafly, Andrzejewski and other speakers urged the Republicans in the crowd to rely on grass-roots efforts when it appears the cards are stacked against them.

Schlafly became nationally famous when she wrote "A Choice, Not an Echo," Andrzejewski pointed out. The book was written in support of Republican nominee Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. It sold 3 million copies.

"The most important person in American politics is not the president of the United States, it is the precinct committeeman," she said.

She recalled the time in the 1970s when she helped rally the conservatives in Springfield to defeat the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. She said that nobody thought it could be done when leaders from both parties were for ERA.

"It is possible to win when everybody is against you," she said.

Read entire article: TheTelegraph.com

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Drug Tunnels Along the Mexican Border

Most Americans know about the influx of illegal drugs coming across our southern border, many in vans guarded by heavily armed members of the Mexican drug cartels. Less well known is the large quantity of illegal drugs that come into the United States through underground tunnels that are marvels of modern engineering.

Phyllis Schlafly: “We Need to Have Someone Look at this Birth Certificate… Trump Was Right”

By: Posted by Jim Hoft

I spoke with conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly at the “Metro East Miracle” event today in Collinsville, Illinois sponsored today by former gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski. Phyllis said that we need to have some experts now look at the birth certificate that was released today. She also gave credit to Donald Trump for forcing Obama to finally release the document.

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Feds Illegally Funding Curriculum

A 1979 law prohibits the federal government from funding public school curriculum. That law was passed because Congress and the American people don't want government bureaucrats dictating what kids are taught in taxpayer-funded schools.

Homeschoolers Defend their Rights

Homeschooled kids are well known for their academic excellence,so it was a surprise that Illinois State Senator Edward Maloney recently introduced a bill in the Legislature to compel parents of homeschooled children to register annually with the State Board of Education. We estimate there are about 60,000 homeschooled students in Illinois. Senator Maloney said his plan is to force "more accountability" for children not attending public schools. However, Chicago public schools are not generally known for their academic excellence, so why go after the homescoolers?

Interview: Kay Hymowitz — How The Rise Of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys

Young women today have it all. They have more educational and career opportunities than ever before. But one problem remains — where have all the good men gone?

Book: Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

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American Exceptionalism

American exceptionalism is an old idea. It was written about by the famous Frenchman Alexis de Toqueville, who traveled our country in the 1830s, by Abe Lincoln who looked upon Americans as the chosen people, and to Ronald Reagan who talked about America as a shining city on a hill. It is true that we are unique as a nation. Unlike other great powers in history, we do not hunger for empire. We are the only great power who, upon arriving in a foreign country, asks the question, "what's our exit strategy?" Certainly the colonial powers never asked that question.

Teleprompter inventor dies

A Connecticut newspaper reports:

Hubert Schlafly, an Emmy Award-winning engineer who helped shape modern television by inventing the teleprompter and executing the first satellite transmission of a cable program, died Wednesday.

The teleprompter is the invention that made the Barack Obama presidency possible. Five years ago he was a nobody whose principal assets were the ability to read a speech from a teleprompter, and to convince the liberals that he was a symbol for change.

Judge Brown on American Exceptionalism

One of the best judges in America is Judge Janice Rogers Brown. She served on the California state supreme court, and now she is a federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals. In a speech to the Fund for American Studies last year, she talked about what she called "The Fortress Stone of American Exceptionalism." She said it is becoming increasingly clear that the assault on American exceptionalism is really an assault on American constitutionalism.

Memorization Coming Back into Vogue

Billions of new taxpayer dollars have been flowing into so-called "education reform," so people have a right to expect that this will improve academic achievement. We are constantly told that more education is the key to more prosperity and more jobs. But those billions are not making kids smarter. One reason is that the education establishment is constantly plagued with new fads that are untested and just don't work. Let's take one example.

Michele Bachmann 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet' by Toots Sweet

ObamaCare - Live Your Carefree Lifestyle

The Russians Fooled Us Again

It looks like the Russians fooled U.S. negotiators again about a nuclear weapons treaty. President Obama bamboozled the Senate into a hurry-up ratification of his New START Treaty with Russia by adding a so-called "understanding" that we will not be bound by any limitation on our building anti-missile defenses because that language is only in the Preamble. However, Russia impudently rejected this "understanding" and then ratified New START Treaty with its own understanding that the language about anti-missile defense is "indisputable" and must not be ignored.

What the feminist movement hath wrought

Many of the assumptions of the feminist movement are so ingrained in our thinking, we have come to take them for truth. To speak ill of the social movement called feminism is to speak ill of women, or so we've been led to believe.

Authors Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly, in their new book, The Flipside of Feminism, have courageously laid bare the false premises -- and promises -- of "the women's movement." And they have mercilessly quantified, to the extent possible, the negative effects that the feminist movement has had on American culture.

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What's On the White House Website?

Yesterday in this series of broadcasts, I told you about how President Obama is quietly, without media coverage, reinvigorating the plan launched under President George W. Bush to put the United States into a North American Union, modeled on the European Union. Obama signed a document with the president of Mexico called "Beyond the Border: a Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness." Canadian Prime Minister Harper signed a separate but similar document. Obama then posted on the White House website what was called "Declaration by President Obama and Prime Minister Harper of Canada." It is unclear why the Mexican president was not mentioned. This four-page Declaration announced Obama's plan to "pursue a perimeter approach" and to accelerate the "flow of people, goods and services" by "expanding trusted traveler" programs. This joint Declaration stated that the Beyond the Borders Working Group, "composed of representatives from the appropriate departments and offices of our respective federal governments," will submit a "Joint Plan of Action to realize the goals of this Declaration." All these plans are being implemented without congressional legislation, or even approval or oversight.

Interview: David Brog — Defending The Christian Faith

Hollywood, the media, and political elites charge that faith, including Christian faith, is the root of hate and violence. Find out how to defend your faith and show that Christianity is behind every modern fight for human rights.

Book: In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity

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Moving Toward a North American Union

Several years ago, I told you about a meeting of President George W. Bush, the president of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada to form what was called the North American Union. That was a detailed plan to erase our borders with Mexico and Canada, to allow the free flow of people and goods across those borders, and to integrate the three countries into an economic union and then into a political union much like the model of the European Union. A common currency like the euro, to be called the amero, was also discussed. The first step was creating something called the Security and Prosperity Partnership, with planning committees from the three countries meeting secretly in the U.S. Commerce Department. The whole plan was terribly unpopular with the American people.

Patent system reforms could squeeze out start-ups

As Congress moves closer to reforming a patent system that often has become an impediment to the innovation it is meant to inspire, many in America's innovation community - including garage entrepreneurs and venture capitalists - are worried that the reforms are only going to make matters worse.

"The way the bill came out really disadvantages small start-up companies," said Kelly Slone, an analyst at the National Venture Capital Association, which is among a diverse group of opponents to the America Invents Act of 2011.

Read entire article at JSOnline.com

Further reading: Patent Rights

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What Do We Get for Spending on Education?

For a half a century, since Congress began to pour federal taxpayers' dollars into public school education, the spending has had two purposes: to raise achievement and to narrow the gap between high- and low-income students and between minority and white students. We the taxpayers have spent roughly $2 trillion on these efforts since 1965. On this income tax day, let's ask: Did we get our money's worth?

What Is President's Obama's Ideology?

Many books have already been written about President Obama. Various writers have analyzed his actions and tried to figure out his motives. Some books have called him a civil rights leader, some a closet Muslim, some a radical Socialist. Now author Dinesh D-Souza offers a provocative explanation based largely on Obama's own autobiography called Dreams From My Father. This explanation is that Obama is an anti-colonialist like his father, who was a citizen of Kenya in Africa committed to Kenya's struggle for independence from Britain.

Women earn more, work less

Carrie Lukas writes in the WSJ:

Recent studies have shown that the wage gap shrinks—or even reverses—when relevant factors are taken into account and comparisons are made between men and women in similar circumstances. In a 2010 study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30, the research firm Reach Advisors found that women earned an average of 8% more than their male counterparts. Given that women are outpacing men in educational attainment, and that our economy is increasingly geared toward knowledge-based jobs, it makes sense that women's earnings are going up compared to men's.

Meanwhile, NY Times letters from physicians admit that women work less:

My husband and I are physicians of both persuasions. He works more than 60 hours each week and takes calls and pages 24/7, 365 days a year, including while on family vacations. His compromise so I can sleep is that the pager clipped to his pajamas buzzes almost silently.

When I was pregnant with my third child, I switched to part time, and am currently working 27 hours a week with no night call.

Learning the Facts About Feminism

The ideology of feminism has poisoned the media, most college courses, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and even daily conversation. Feminism starts with the premise that women are victims of an unjust patriarchy and need government to help them. This is especially hurtful to young women because feminism teaches them to plan an independent life in the workforce, without any space for husband and babies. I've been wanting to write a book about feminism for years, but there were always so many other urgent battles to fight. This problem was solved this year by a collaboration with my niece, Suzanne Venker, who has a wonderful husband and two darling children, and is an author in her spare time. Suzanne writes about feminism from the viewpoint of the younger generation, which is so important! Our book, called The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know and Men Can't Say, shows young women a roadmap to a happier life than the life of victimhood and resentment offered by the tired old feminists whining about how the men have put up barriers to their success.

Congressional Votes Against Waste

Let me tell you about some more welcome cuts in the federal budget that the House of Representatives has passed.

Interview: Craig Brandon — Is College Just A Five-Year Party?

A former professor says many colleges have become adolescent resorts rather than institutions of higher learning. He'll explain how parents can cancel the five-year party known as college.

Book: The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It

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So Refreshing; Congress Doing Its Job

Republican Members of the House of Representatives, goaded on by TEA Partiers, have made a good start in fulfilling their promise to cut $100 billion out of current spending of taxpayers' money. The House approved 66 amendments, most on roll-call votes by big majorities, to the Act called the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011. Here is a sampling of those 66 amendments, which are only a drop in the bucket for dealing with the federal deficit, but they reveal some of the nonsense now embedded in the federal budget.

What the LA Times is Afraid to Tell You About Phyllis Schlafly

Feminists are cowards. They hide behind the power they’ve been given, and routinely abuse this power, because they lack the courage to confront the issues head on. That’s why there wasn’t a word in Daum’s column about the book she was supposed to be covering. Rather, she dredged up the same tired argument feminists have belabored for decades: Phyllis Schlafly spent her life telling other women to “stay home” while she herself did not.

That is simply false.

Phyllis Schlafly was what we today call at “at-home mom” for two decades. She was not employed in all that time but was very politically active. These two things work fine in tandem, for it does not require an allegiance to the workplace or a boss. Your time is your own, and you can work around the needs of your children. That Phyllis had help during the day to assist in various household duties has nothing to do with Phyllis’s political stance. She did not spend her career fighting the concept of childcare. She spoke out about why daycare is not a healthy environment for babies and toddlers.

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Further reading: Feminism

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Wake Up to Indigenous Innovation

The right of inventors to own their own inventions is a precious American right written into our U.S. Constitution even before the famous rights of freedom of speech and religion. This inventors' right is uniquely American: it was an original creation by the Founding Fathers and it's still unique in the world. That's why nearly all the world's great inventions are American. Our superiority in inventions and innovations is the principal reason for our world leadership and standard of living. For years, foreign corporations have been trying to destroy our innovation superiority under the code word "harmonization." That means persuading us to harmonize our patent law with foreign laws, down to the levels of unfair European and Japanese systems.

Free Trade with China Cheats America

Some people foolishly call our relationship with China "free trade." But there is nothing free or fair about it; we are in a trade war between a militantly protectionist Communist government and a U.S. shackled by obsolete illusions about trade. The whole notion of free trade with China is dishonest. China is pumping public funds into its government-run companies, such as the airlines and steel mills, and the proportion of industrial production controlled and subsidized by the government is increasing rapidly.

PRO-LIFE VICTORY IN IL; DOCTORS’ FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IS PROTECTED BY U.S. CONSTITUTION

Eagle Forum endorsed Ed Martin for his congressional run in 2010, but long before that, nearly six years ago, he joined with fellow pro-lifers Luke Vander Bleek and Glenn Kosirog in their fight against the Planned Parenthood-managed Blagojevich administration effort to force citizens to act against their conscience and join in the abortion industry. Ed Martin served as lead attorney.

“No matter how often Planned Parenthood and its bullies try to take away the rights of pro-lifers, we will fight back and we will win. Our Constitution protects individuals’ rights from the growing and oppressive hand of government in our lives especially when government goes too far as today’s court found Blagojevich did,” said Ed Martin in response to the ruling in Illinois Circuit Court striking down a Rod Blagojevich-era law that hoped to force pro-life medical professionals to leave the profession unless they acted in accordance with Planned Parenthood drafted rules.

Morr-Fitz v Blagojevich (Acrobat PDF)

AAPS Asks Appeals Court to Declare ObamaCare Unconstitutional

In an amicus brief filed today in support of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s case against the Affordable Care Act (ACA), physicians ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to affirm the unconstitutionality of the individual health insurance mandate (Section 1501), and also to hold that it is not severable from the rest of the Act.

The brief is filed by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) and several individual physicians (http://www.aapsonline.org/hhslawsuit/aapsamicusapril42011.pdf).

“ACA is the most divisive, harmful, and unconstitutional legislation enacted by Congress in a generation,” observes AAPS counsel Andrew Schlafly. In addition to Virginia, 27 other states have challenged ACA’s constitutionality.

Read entire article: AAPSonline.org

Further reading: Health Care Reform

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America at Risk: A Documentary

About a year and a half ago, Kitty Werthmann of the Eagle Forum in South Dakota spoke in Rapid City about her experiences growing up in Nazi-controlled Austria. Her presentation was entitled “Socialism vs Freedom” and was a part of the SDFPC “Heritage Under Attack” series. The audience was riveted that night as they listened to Werthmann describe how Austria had come to embrace socialism and government control. What was even more striking was the fact that many of those descriptions could have been ripped from today’s headlines in the United States.

I wrote an article about Werthmann’s presentation, and that article was the #1 most read article at Dakota Voice for the entire year of 2009, even though it was written in the eleventh month of that year. The article continued to hold the #1 most read article of the week each week for months into 2010.

Read entire article: DakotaVoice.com

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Warning About Things to Come

Did you seen the pictures on television of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees? If so, you've had an advance peek at the sort of demonstrations that will take place if state legislatures are foolish enough to pass resolutions asking Congress to call a national convention to consider amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Barack Obama's political arm, called "Organizing for America," swelled the crowds by busing in protesters from Wisconsin and from other states, too. A national convention to amend the U.S. Constitution would become the media event of the century, and "Organizing for America" would flood the process of electing delegates and then demonstrate to hurl demands on their deliberations.

Interview: Suzanne Venker — The Flipside Of Feminism

Women have more education and more power than ever before. So why do surveys show they are less happy than their mothers and grandmothers? Let's talk about it.

Book: The Flipside Of Feminism

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Obama Europeanizing Our Constitutional Patent Rights

Candidate Obama said he was five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. Boy, he wasn’t kidding. I thought he was a socialist. Maybe corporate-statist is a better description.

As his onslaught of grossly anti-American and pro-European-style plans, policies and projects continues, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Here’s another, and here’s why this one really matters.

Obama, his Democrat allies, and many “tenured” Republicans are working with some of the world’s largest multinational corporations to “harmonize” America’s patent system with those of Europe and Japan by weakening America’s system (currently the best in the world) to match the systems used by these foreign countries.

Why care about patents? If we Americans can’t control the fruits of our own inventions and technology, our country is done.

Read entire article: UnifiedPatriots.com

Read more: Patent Rights

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A Plunge into Constitutional Chaos

Several state legislatures are considering resolutions to use a never-before-used power in our Constitution's Article V to petition Congress to call a new national convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. Most of these resolutions say they want the convention to consider only the one amendment that state is pushing.

Harmonization Will Kill Innovation

Today I'm going to tell you some specifics of why the proposed law called patent reform is not reform at all, but it a betrayal of American inventors. The globalists tell us that Americans should harmonize our laws about granting patents with the rest of the world. Actually, it's a betrayal of American inventors to harmonize our system down to inferior foreign practices; we should encourage foreign countries to harmonize up to our better system.

Death for American Innovation

The Senate is itching to create a law that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth. The sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, calls his bill patent reform, but it's not reform; it will kill innovation by litigation. Now that the globalists have spent our country almost into bankruptcy and transferred millions of good American jobs to Asians willing to work for as little as 30 cents an hour with no benefits, all we have left to maintain and restore our economic wellbeing is our innovation superiority. The United States is the world leader in inventing useful and important products and processes, while other countries build their economies by copying our innovations.