Mayor Bloomberg against American workers

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is calling for "eliminating the cap on H-1B visas" and believes restrictive U.S. visa policies -- particularly the limiting of employment-based green cards -- are a form of "national suicide."

Bloomberg, who spoke Thursday at the U.S Chamber of Commerce about national competitiveness, has been an advocate for eliminating the visa cap, easing access to employment-based green cards, and doing more through visa policies to attract foreign entrepreneurs and encourage foreign students to remain in the U.S.

But Bloomberg's call for more H-1B visas comes at the same time the pace of visa demand is relatively low, as is IT hiring overall. ...

Bloomberg's didn't address arguments from H-1B opponents who view the visa as a way to bring in low-cost employees or displace workers through offshore outsourcing.

Unemployment is high. We do not need to be importing foreign workers when American workers cannot find jobs. It is crazy for Bloomberg to say that limiting foreign labor is "national suicide."

China Is Invading Idaho

A plan is in the works to make Idaho the first Chinese-owned state in the United States. This plan is called Project 60. It is part of the globalization of America. Project 60 uses a federal program that grants permanent residency to foreign nationals and gives special tax exemptions to foreign firms that move to the United States. The original purpose of this program was to create more U.S. jobs and reduce our terrible unemployment rate. But surprise, surprise, the Chinese industries in Idaho are being staffed by Chinese workers imported to the U.S.

Let's Fix the Violence Against Women Act

A federal law called the Violence Against Women Act is now being considered by Congress for renewal, and it certainly needs major overhauling. We are all against domestic violence, but there are many problems with the way this law is enforced. Women who make accusations are not required to produce any evidence of violence, and they are never prosecuted for perjury if they lie. Accused men are not accorded fundamental protections of due process, not considered innocent until proven guilty, and in many cases are not afforded the right to confront their accusers. Legal assistance is customarily provided by the government to women, but not to men. Men ought to be entitled to equal protection of the law because many charges are felonies and could result in prison and loss of money, job, and reputation.

Let's Review the Violence Against Women Act

The Violence Against Women Act, which was passed during the Clinton Administration, is in major need of revision. Its billion-dollar-a-year price tag is spent by the radical feminists to pursue their ideology and goals. It's known as feminist pork, so it should be an embarrassment to Members of Congress who voted for it.

Living people on a stamp? I nominate Phyllis Schlafly!

Apparently in a furtive effort to save the Postal Service, they have removed the restriction on living persons being on postage stamps.  I suppose I should protest – more opportunity for nonsense if we remove the ban:  Kim and Khloe on a stamp in all their curvy glory?  (On second thought, that might indeed save the USPS but the crowd of preteen and teenage boys might overwhelm the ability of the post offices to serve!)  Of course Kim and Khloe might be preferable to the notorious communist Paul Robeson being placed on a postage stamp!

So I hereby suggest we nominate the great heroine of the social conservative movement:  Phyllis Schlafly.

When I was a teenager, it looked like the ERA would become the law of the land.  Do you remember, readers who are close to my age:

	Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
	Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
	Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

Need I say more how pernicious that language would have been in our Constitution?  Social Engineering by liberals and courts would have been the law of the land.  It certainly looked bad for a while:
 
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The Nanny State Goes After Daycare

The state of Colorado has just issued a 98-page proposal to regulate daycare centers, and Colorado parents are shocked at the specifics. If you didn't know some people want to move us into a Nanny states, just listen to these regulations. Here are the pending regulations for toddlers and infants that are by the Colorado Department of Human Services Child Care Division:

Interview: Mano Bakh — Stealth Tactics of Islam

Did you know that Muslims have brought more than 140 court cases trying to elevate Shariah law over the Constitution? A former Muslim will explain Islam's stealth tactics in America.

Book: From Terror to Freedom: A Warning about America's Affair with Islam

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Report From Inside Public High Schools

Anyone who doubts the dismal state of our public schools should read a book written by a teacher who has seen the problems first hand, and is willing to blow the whistle instead of going along to get along. The name of this revealing book is Set Our Children Free by Tony Caruso. Caruso is a retired engineer who decided to do something useful in his retirement by teaching math and science in public high schools.

Taxpayers are Paying for Foreign Schools

The charter school movement was presented to the American people as a way to have more parental control of public school education. Charter schools are public schools financed by local taxpayers plus generous federal grants. But the people running charter schools are able to hire and fire teachers, administrators and staff and avoid control by education department bureaucrats. No doubt there are some good charter schools, but the loose controls have allowed another kind of school to emerge.

How Did We Get Into the WTO?

How did we get into the situation where foreigners over in Switzerland can force the United States to change some of our laws! The bunch of bureaucrats in Geneva called the World Trade Organization think they can override the U.S. Constitution, our laws, and our sovereignty.

The World Trade Organization recently ruled that we must repeal our U.S. law requiring retailers to label our foods with their Country of Origin. Several years ago, these foreign busybodies ruled against our Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which was designed to protect our people against the social and financial costs of internet gambling on the argument that our law interferes with free trade in "recreational services." So they gave a couple of little countries in the Caribbean the right to punish the U.S.

County to name day after Rathgeber

During their regular meeting on Thursday, the Otero County Commission will issue a proclamation declaring Sept. 22 as Maude Oliver Rathgeber Day for her contributions to the area.

Former state Rep. Gloria Vaughn, right, presents a gift to Maude Rathgeber during the annual Legislative Prayer Breakfast hosted by Eagle Forum on Jan. 7 at the Alamo Senior Center. (J.R. Oppenheim/Daily News)

Source: Alamogordo Daily News

Time to Say Goodbye to the WTO

The World Trade Organization (known as the WTO) just ruled against the United States again. A WTO "dispute panel" of representatives from Pakistan, Portugal and Switzerland decided that U.S. laws requiring Country Of Origin Labeling for our imported seafood and meats violate free trade rules.

U.S. law requires retailers to notify their customers of the country of origin of fish, most meats, and some other products. We like it that way. Americans want to know where our foods come from, especially since nearly two-thirds of the fruits and vegetables and 80% of the seafood we eat come from foreign countries where health and sanitary standards are not remotely equivalent to ours. And we have a right to know, despite impudent foreigners who try to deny us that right. In Communist China, fish is raised in waters containing raw sewage disguised with dangerous drugs and chemicals.

Are We Living in a Nanny State?

It looks like President Obama is trying to move Americans into a nanny state. He said his energy policies will cause our electric bills to "skyrocket" and he warned we can no longer set our thermostats at 72 degrees. Where are the groups that talk about the right to privacy, limited government, and keeping the government out of our bedrooms and bathrooms? It was bad enough when the progressives and busybody bureaucrats told us the "village" should raise our children, but now they want to manage our household appliances.

Interview: Nancy Pearcey — Christians in the Public Square

A recent New Yorker article suggested that Christian politicians are dangerous when they bring their faith to work. Do Christians have the right to bring God into the public square?

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Get Government Out of Our House

If Congress can't repeal the law that banishes the Edison light bulb and forces us to buy Chinese-made bulbs we don't like, voters will ask, what was the use in electing a Republican House? Not only are the majority of Americans in favor of abolishing that obnoxious law, but even a majority of House members voted to repeal the current law, but that didn't eliminate the ban. That's because the repeal bill was brought up under a rule that required a two-thirds majority, and the vote tally of 233 for repeal to 193 against didn't meet that requirement. Thanks to Rep. Michael Burgess, the House subsequently passed an amendment to another bill to deny funding to carry out the ban. However, that's only effective for one year, so we still need to repeal the ban.

Current Attacks on the U.S. Constitution

Tomorrow will be Constitution Day, the 224th anniversary of the signing of our great United States Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787. This is a good occasion for every American citizen to study why our Constitution is so great, and to resolve to protect our Constitution against two major current attacks on it.

Afghan mom flies military chopper with child

NPR reports:

Col. Latifa Nabizada, the only female pilot in the history of Afghan aviation, travels to some of the most remote and dangerous corners of her country with a devoted partner next to her in the cockpit – her 5-year-old daughter Malalai.

They walk hand-in-hand as they head into the hangar at Kabul's Military Airport, and then board a chopper. They have flown together on more than 300 missions over the past few years, and Col. Nabizada acknowledges the risks of having her daughter on board.

But she says she has no choice. The air force has no child care facility. ...

U.S. military advisers have asked her not bring Malalai on missions — or at least move her out of the cockpit. But the little girl won't stand for it.

"As soon as they moved her, Malalai would throw a tantrum," Col. Nabizada said. "She would grab my uniform and cry. Anyhow, I am confident of my abilities to control the helicopter while my daughter sits next to me."

The colonel says things could change next year when her daughter turns 6 and can start school.

Apparently our soldiers can kill terrorists, but they cannot deal with a 5-year-old girl throwing a tantrum.

In other news, 'X' now a gender option in Australian passports.

Let's Celebrate Constitution Day

This Saturday is Constitution Day, the anniversary of the day our great United States Constitution was signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. It should be as important a national holiday as Independence Day. Our Constitution is unique in the world. Most Western democracies have constitutions that are lists of what government can do for individuals. Our U.S. Constitution is a document setting forth what government cannot do to individuals. That's the fundamental difference. And that's why our Constitution is the fountainhead of our great liberties — religious, political, and economic.

Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality

Laura Wood writes:

THIS IS a photo of the faculty of the Columbia Law School Center for Gender and Sexuality. There are eleven full professors on the center’s staff, easily totaling more than a $1 million in annual salaries. The center doesn’t even feel the need to mask its partisan agenda with a token white male. There is one male and he is, of course, black.

By the way, Katherine Franke (pictured to the far right) is director of the Gender and Sexuality Program. She recently called for a new frontier in homosexual activism: public sex. She worries that the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in New York has stigmatized promiscuity. Therefore, homosexuals need to be more publicly and openly sexual.

The bigger waste is the students paying Columbia to take classes from this department.

Time to Study the U.S. Constitution

Federal law makes it mandatory for all schools to teach about the Constitution on Constitution Day, which is September 17, or during Constitution Week if it falls on a weekend, as it does this year. It would be a good idea for you to check with your local public school and see how it is planning to comply with this law.

Our U.S. Constitution is the oldest and longest-lasting constitution in all the world's history! Every American should read it to understand why it is the fountainhead of our great liberties — religious, political, and economic. The Constitution is the instrument that has enabled America to grow and prosper, becoming the most powerful country in the world, while at the same time preserving individual freedoms. The American philosophy is that government is the servant of the people, not our master. President Ronald Reagan expressed this concept when he said that government is the problem, not the solution.

The High Cost of Dishonest Educators

Last week, I told you about the scandal in Atlanta that 178 public school teachers and principals had been cheating on the scores of standardized tests in order to make it appear that students were making progress in learning. That scandal is so big that it keeps unfolding. In some schools, principals held what they called "changing parties" in which teachers would erase the wrong answers written by students and write in the correct answers. Teachers confessed that they cheated because of pressure from higher-ups and feared being punished or even fired.

Interview: Mike McCormick — Gulity Until Proven Innocent

Divorce is tragic for everyone, but family courts often make matters worse. We'll discuss the custody system that condemns 25% of our nation's children to grow up without a father.

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The Famous Date of 9/11

Yesterday was September 11th, a day known to all Americans as 9/11, a day that will always live in infamy in U.S. history. That was the day that Muslims bent on murder and suicide flew airplanes into the World Trade Towers in New York City.

NEA Endorses Feminist Goals

The annual convention of the National Education Association in Chicago this year again passed a bunch of feminist resolutions. For example, Resolution I-61 again put the NEA on record as endorsing the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA was debated for ten years, 1972 to 1982 and rejected by the American people, but the NEA is trying to resurrect it. The NEA urges its affiliates to continue to support ratification of this amendment.

NEA's Obsession with Gay Goals

Eagle Forum always sends an observer to the annual convention of the National Education Association to report on its radical resolutions. The NEA usually has about 20 resolutions endorsing the gay rights agenda, often using the code word "diversity." Here are some excerpts from pro-gay resolutions adopted this year by the National Education Association.

Screening teens is a terrible idea

Scientific American blogger John Horgan writes:

“Support for screening teens is increasing along with recognition of the role mental-health checkups can play in improving mental health,” Wall Street Journal health columnist Laura Landro remarked in a story on TeenScreen. Although her report is largely positive, Landro does mention that school screening programs “aren’t without controversy. Some groups oppose them, arguing that they interfere with issues that should be the domain of the family and lead to over-prescription of psychiatric medications.”

Indeed. Given the recent trend toward prescribing powerful, profitable and potentially harmful psychiatric medications to children in the U.S., I fear that TeenScreen and similar programs may end up hurting more children than they help. ...

Mental illness is devastating for children as well as adults, and medication, when used wisely and sparingly, can help. But clearly our current approach to treating disturbed young people is broken. Let me give Whitaker the last word: “Twenty years ago, our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adulthood with a ‘serious mental illness.’ That is proof of the most tragic sort that our drug-based paradigm of care is doing a great deal more harm than good.”

The Phyllis Schlafly Report criticized TeenScreen in 2005.

The NEA's Radical 2011 Resolutions

The National Education Association (known as the NEA) held its annual convention in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend. This NEA teachers union has long wanted to increase its union members by requiring public schools to admit three- and four-year-old children. So, the NEA convention adopted Standing Rule Amendment 1 to order all future NEA materials to replace all references to K-12 with Pre-K-12. That's a clear message that the NEA sees its future in getting control of pre-Kindergarten children. Then, the NEA delegates passed Resolution B-1 which demands "early childhood education programs in the public schools for children from birth through age eight," in addition to "compulsory attendance" in Kindergarten. This resolution also insists that Pre-K programs have "diversity-based curricula" and "bias-free screening devices."

Gingrich against judicial supremacy

At a Republican debate, Gingrich answered a question about a possible anti-abortion law:

NEWT GINGRICH, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yes. And there's a reason -- it goes much deeper. There are five or six other issues, such as one nation under god, such as the right to have a cross on public land. There are a number of issues where the courts have now dramatically usurped their power.

Let me add to your Lincoln quote. Jefferson, being written about the question of whether or not there could be a Supreme Court, wrote back, that would be an oligarchy. Think about it. This is the center of American exceptionalism. We're a people of law. To be a people of law, you have to have a structure. The structure of the constitution says there's a formal way to [amend] the constitution. It's a very complicated process.

The idea that the founding fathers also meant to say oh, by the way, by a five to four vote, appointed lawyers can be the equivalent of a constitution convention is an absurdity.

All of this starts in 1958 with a Warren Court assertion of supremacy, which is profoundly wrong. The Supreme Court is supreme in the judicial branch, and the judicial branch is one of the three branches. It's the third branch mentioned in the constitution, and in the "Federalist Papers," Alexander Hamilton says explicitly it will be the weakest of the three branches.

And so I think for the Congress to begin a systematic process, one part of which is to eliminate the right of the courts to review certain things, and to recognize we're going to have a big fight with the lawyer class.

That 1958 court error is explained in The Supremacists:
The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It, by Phyllis Schlafly.

The Remarkable Marquis de Lafayette

Today is the birthday of one of the genuine heroes of the American Revolution, who was also one of history's most unique and remarkable individuals, the Marquis de Lafayette. Born September 6, 1757, his father died before he was two years old, his mother died when he was 12, and he inherited a fortune. He joined the French military at age 14, became a Captain at age 16. At age 19, despite the contrary advice of everyone he knew, he bought a ship and sailed across the Atlantic to fight in the American Revolution. Lafayette reported straight to General George Washington and the two men became good friends. Lafayette endured the freezing winter at Valley Forge, distinguished himself in several battles, and was wounded.

Where in the World is Michelle Obama?

Radio: Rusty Humphries with Phyllis Schlafly

Rusty Humphries with Phyllis Schlafly. Rep Steve King & Rep Michele Bachmann also join Phyllis on this program. Recorded on 7/13/2011

Scandal in the Classroom

A national scandal hit the news this summer when the Governor of Georgia released a 413-page report describing widespread cheating by Atlanta public school teachers and principals on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job. The purpose was to report that the kids were improving so that the district would qualify for federal funds. 178 teachers and 38 principals, 82 of whom have already confessed, fraudulently raised test scores by various methods, such as erasing wrong answers on tests and inserting correct answers. The truth came out from a 10-month inquiry by 60 investigators conducting 2,100 interviews. The investigation showed that principals and teachers in 56 schools had been cheating for the last ten years.

Interview: Jonathan Wells — Myths of Junk DNA

For years Darwinists have pointed to so-called "junk DNA" as evidence for evolution. A biologist will tell us how the latest science discredits that theory and supports intelligent design.

The Myth of Junk DNA

Book: The Myth of Junk DNA

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The Best Treaty America Ever Signed

The United States is famous for winning wars and losing the peace treaties that brought the war to an end. So we can pat ourselves on the back tomorrow, the 228th anniversary of the best treaty we ever signed. I’m talking about the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution, which was signed in Paris on September 3, 1783. The Revolution had ended a couple of years before, with the defeat of the British General Cornwallis, but it took a lot of negotiations to get the British to admit they lost the war.

Alamo icon enjoys her golden years

Rathgeber, as a teenager in 1940(Courtesy photo)

Alamogordo Daily News
By Saturn Noriega, For the Daily News

Posted: 08/27/2011 09:47:32 PM MDT

Had her great-grandfather, George Bradley "G.B." Oliver, snipped one whisker off his beard or a hair off his head, Alamogordo's Maude Oliver Rathgeber would never have lived to see the sun come up over the Sacramentos.

"He vowed to his wife, Elissa, back in Cooper, Texas, that he would not shave or get a haircut until he had $500 in the bank for a new life in the New Mexico Territory, specifically Alamogordo," Maude said. "That was a lot of money in the 1800s."

Oliver first migrated to Roswell, then hitched a bumpy ride on a dray wagon (the horse equivalent of a flatbed truck) and arrived in Alamogordo in 1898 -- the year the town was officially founded as a railroad center bustling with timber, cattle, fresh produce and high ambitions.

"He imbued our family with a sense of humor, entrepreneurial spirit and a bent toward adventure," Maude said during a chat at her spacious home at the foot of Marble Canyon.

You're Invited to Eagle Forum's Conference

Are you an American who has just realized that our government is taking our country in the wrong direction, and citizens need to be involved in the process of self-government, but you don't know what to do about it? Well, I have an answer for you. You still have time to sign up and come to Eagle Forum's 40th annual Eagle Council, held in Washington, DC on September 16-17-and 18. Eagle Council is not a conference where you hear from celebrity politicians you can see any day on TV. Eagle Council is a training conference to make you effective in the political process.