Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Will Focus on Questions From 40 Pro-Family Leaders

"Values Voter Presidential Debate"scheduled for Monday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-family advocates may soon have a chance to see where Republican candidates stand on American values in September's upcoming "Values Voter Presidential Debate."

The debate is scheduled for Monday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m. at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Seven out of nine Republican candidates have indicated they plan to participate in the event, however their names have not yet been released to the general public. LifeSite.net, August 30, 2007

Leaders continue to deny existence of a North American agenda

The three-nation summit at Montebello, Que., was held behind closed doors, well guarded behind an intimidating fence and plenty of police, but the news conference that followed on Aug. 21 revealed more than the three heads of state had planned.

U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Prime Minister Stephen Harper all refused to deny that the Security and Prosperity Partnership is a stepping stone toward a North American Union. by Phyllis Schlafly, August 30, 2007

Teamsters will ask courts to block Mexican truckers

WASHINGTON — The Teamsters Union said today it will ask a federal appeals courts to block the Bush administration’s plan to begin allowing Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States.

The union said it has been told by officials in the U.S. Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on Saturday. Detroit Free Press, August 29, 2007

City calls illegal immigrants sleeping or hanging out at Municipal Park a messy nuisance

McALLEN — Sprawled across a concrete picnic table at the center of the park, a group of young men recently arrived from Honduras and Nicaragua to share a beer and discuss where they might find a room for the night.

The conversation drifts to the availability of work in New Orleans before a police car passes through the park’s parking lot, turning everyone silent. TheMonitor.com, August 27, 2007

Border Patrol chief rejects mission against aliens, drugs

A Border Patrol chief at one of the nation's most dangerous Southwest border crossings says the agency's mission doesn't include apprehending illegal aliens or seizing narcotics — perplexing front-line agents and angering a congressional critic of illegal immigration. WashingtonTimes.com, August 26, 2007

STOP THE NAU/SPP - WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN?

In July 2005, Phyllis Schlafly exposed the plans to integrate our republic with Canada and Mexico, although there were spotty articles here and there over the years about this treason (list of them at bottom of my column here). Dr. Jerome Corsi has also spent the past couple of years exposing this insidious grand plan to finally do away with our borders all in the name of global trade. This issue is a major battle ground, although tens of millions of Americans have no idea what it's about thanks to the compromised media and network cable channels. NewsWithViews.com, August 27, 2007

Mandatory deportation has illegals on the run

State law limiting benefits looms, an estimated 25,000 take to road

Thousands of Hispanics have fled the Tulsa, Okla., area in the shadow of a looming state law that limits benefits and mandates deportation for illegal aliens, according to a report from KTUL television in Tulsa.

The state of Oklahoma recently approved a new law that requires deportation for illegal aliens who are arrested, and limits benefits and jobs to those individuals. The report said in East Tulsa, where a community of Hispanics has grown over recent years, there's been a sudden drop in population. WorldNetDaily.com, August 25, 2007

Mexican rigs ready to roll

Truckers in 'demonstration' expected on roads Sept. 1

The requirements for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Mexican Truck Demonstration Project have been met, and some 37 Mexican trucking companies have been approved to run their long-haul rigs through the U.S. starting as early as Sept. 1, according to a Mexican government report.

In the United States, the inspector general of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Aug. 6 issued to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee an audit about implementing NAFTA's cross-border trucking provisions, the last hurdle DOT faced before allowing the Mexican truck demonstration project to begin. WorldNetDaily.com, August 24, 2007

Bush put on spot: Where's the fence?

Despite $800 million in funding, only 18 of 854 miles completed

With only a small fraction of the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico complete, California congressman and Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter is warning President Bush the construction mandated by the Secure Fence Act is falling drastically behind schedule. WorldNetDaily.com, August 23, 2007

Mexican Senate sides with mom deported from USA

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year. USAToday.com, August 23, 2007

Child-abusing Elvira Arellano

The headline read, "Deported activist vows to carry on cause." The headline should have read, "Convicted felon and child abuser deported." Where are Marian Wright Edelman, Hillary, Rosie O'Donnell and the Children's Defense Fund when you need them?

While some are hailing Elvira Arellano as a modern-day Rosa Parks, she should be looked at as a child abuser of the worst kind. Neglect and abandonment of any child should be looked at as a crime. Quite to the contrary with Ms. Arellano. Using and exploiting an innocent child to further her agenda are her stock-in-trade. And worse yet, religious leaders are encouraging her to do so. WorldNetDaily.com, August 22, 2007

The NAFTA Superhighway

Today the leaders of the three major nations of North America met to discuss a unified North American Union.

Why the president of our nation is looking to set our country back to the pace of our neighbors is beyond me.

Charlotteconservative.com, August 21, 2007

The NEA Lists Its Goals And Democrats Agree

Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off with their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation's largest teachers union liked what they heard.

Senator Hillary Clinton told the NEA delegates that she will fight school vouchers "with every breath in my body." Reiterating the message of her book "It Takes a Village," she called for universal preschool for four-year-olds. Phyllis Schlafly column, 8-22-07

Conservative Leaders Plead To Bush: No North American Union

While the small Canadian village of Montebello is customarily known for its posh luxury and elegant surroundings, for the last two days the village has played host to the 2008 Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America meeting between President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

SPP meetings, which are customarily held behind closed doors and known for their secrecy, represent a time when the leaders of the three most influential nations in the western hemisphere come together to discuss various issues of policy. TheBulletin.us, 08/22/2007

Eroding sovereignty

A likely upshot of President Bush's meetings this week with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts in Montebello, Canada, will be a further impetus to the effort to engage in what is euphemistically called the "harmonization" of the three countries' economies, regulatory systems and policies. The effect will be to contribute to what is on track to become one of the most worrying legacies of George W. Bush's presidency: a significant, and possibly irreversible, erosion in the nation's sovereignty. WashingtonTimes.com, August 21, 2007

Illegal Immigration Rage -- Local and National Frustrations

After the immigration bill was killed, we let ourselves breathe a little easier. But just because that battle was conquered doesn't mean we don't have a long way to go. Last week's deportation of Elvira Arellano -- an illegal immigrant who'd been hiding out in a church for over a year -- has lifted the issue to the bubbling surface of controversy once again.

My own Montgomery County is the center of a specific battle right now. An ID card is apparantly being issued by immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland. According to the Washington Examiner, the group has provided more than 10,000 ID cards to illegals over the past 10 years. HumanEvents.com, 8-21-2007

Poison PJs from China

Embalming fluid found inside children's pajamas

China's massive export industry has provided ginger contaminated with a pesticide, fish food raised in untreated sewage and toothpaste containing a solvent – and now children's clothing containing the poison formaldehyde.

According to a report in the Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday Star Times, an investigative team from the city's TV3 Target program has detailed how scientists found formaldehyde, a chemical preservative, in wool and cotton clothing at levels hundreds of times higher than levels considered safe. WorldNetDaily.com, August 20, 2007

2000 Rallied to Protest SPP

Approximately 2,000 people joined a rally on Parliament Hill yesterday to protest the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit, which took place in Montebello, Quebec.

See Ottawa Citizen article for photo of the rally (8-20-07).

China to install sensors along NAFTA highway

Documents reveal NASCO plan to militarize I-35

Radio sensing stations to track traffic and cargo up and down the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway corridor are being installed by Communist China, operating through a port operator subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. WorldNetDaily.com , August 18, 2007

American Leaders travel to Ottawa on August 20 to question secrecy of Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit

OTTAWA, CANADA - Prominent conservative leaders and politicians opposing a North American Union of the United States, Canada, and Mexico will hold a News Conference in Ottawa on Monday, August 20, at 10:00 AM. The Canadian, Saturday 18. Aug 2007

Congress tells Bush: Back off SPP agenda

Lawmakers' letter warns 'stealth' effort to 'harmonize' could undermine security

Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives – 21 Republicans and a Democrat – are urging President Bush to back off his North American integration efforts when he attends the third summit meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America next week in Montebello, Quebec.

They make it clear that continuing any such agenda at this point would be disregarding growing apprehension in Congress about the plans. WorldNetDaily.com, August 17, 2007

No Spanish? No job, teachers told, 8-17-07

'I know what the trend is, and it's not looking good,' educator says

Spanish-speaking students are flooding into an Illinois school district so fast that teachers who educate in English only are being involuntarily transferred, and they believe there will come a time when they no longer will have a job.

"I know what the trend is, and it's not looking good," Valerie Goranson told the Chicago Tribune. "Even if my job was saved this year, what about next year?"

She has twice lost a teaching assignment in the Waukegan district because she doesn't speak Spanish, she said. Last year, after teaching 5th grade at North Elementary for six years, district officials moved her to Clark Elementary to make room for a Spanish-speaking teacher at North. WorldNetDaily.com, August 17, 2007

The Nation cover story denies Superhighway

Nevertheless acknowledges massive Texas project to accommodate NAFTA, WTO

In a cover story for the current Nation magazine, Christopher Hayes is the latest to join a growing list of those who deny a NAFTA Superhighway exists.

"There is no such thing as a proposed NAFTA Superhighway," Hayes declares.

The remainder of the article, however, shows how the Trans Texas Corridor under construction parallel to Interstate 35 is specifically designed to accommodate the steadily growing volume of NAFTA and World Trade Organization traffic pouring into Texas from China and the Far East through Mexican ports on the Pacific such as Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas. WorldNetDaily.com, August 15, 2007

The Courts and the Culture War, V

"Dogma [theory] is the most important part of the law, as the architect is the most important person in the building of a house." So declared early Twentieth Century U. S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In this Briefing and Commentary, we will continue to examine the theoretical foundations of the Culture War engulfing America. We turn our attention today to America's constitutional theory which is, of course, based on the deeper levels of theory that we have addressed in previous issues. This theory occupies Level 3 on the worldview diagram which has been central to all our discussions of the courts and the Culture War. Here we will address the first two of the six major issues of constitutional theory, presenting an explanation of the issue and quotations by advocates of both the Judeo-Christian and Humanistic worldviews. These issues have become increasingly visible, as America's Humanistic judges have become more bold in attacking America's Judeo-Christian foundations. Court Watch, Aug. 15, 2007

Americans Need China-Free Food

The scandal of imported products from Communist China has accelerated to a level that the public should demand "China-free" labels on anything that goes into a mouth. This includes not only food, vitamins and medicines but toothpaste and toys which, as all parents know, go into children's mouths. Phyllis Schlafly column, August 15, 2007

Christian group plans straw poll, religion-and-politics faceoff

The Family Research Council is planning a three-day "Values Voter Summit" this fall, complete with a presidential straw poll and a conservative-liberal faceoff on religion and politics.

The council advertises the conference, Oct. 19-21 in Washington, as "the largest gathering of values voters from across the nation." It will include a gala dinner honoring James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family.

Other confirmed big names include council president Tony Perkins; Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum; activists Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich; Robert Bork, Bill Bennett and former senator Rick Santorum. No word yet on whether any presidential candidates will be working the crowd. USAToday.com, Aug. 15, 2007

Sanctuary Nation Or Sovereign Nation: It's Your Choice

Will the execution-style murder of three young students in Newark, N.J., finally turn the tide in the immigration enforcement debate? Will we at last abandon the deadly, chaotic, lawless sanctuary nation experiment and restore America's lost status as a sovereign nation under the rule of law? GOPUSA.com, August 15, 2007

Vetting LOST

Letters to the editor

I am pleased that both a former U.S. delegate to the Law of the Sea Treaty and a former Judge ad hoc of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea have come forward ("LOST at sea," Letters, yesterday) in response to my Wednesday Commentary "LOST and found," which, due to limited space, suffered the fate of many severely edited articles. WashingtonTimes.com, August 11, 2007

3rd SPP summit shrouded in secrecy

Bush to interrupt Texas vacation to join Mexican, Canadian leaders

President Bush will interrupt his summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, next week to attend the third summit meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, slated for Aug. 20 and 21 in Montebello, Quebec, at the five-star Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort. WorldNetDaily.com, August 13, 2007

Citizens sign petition

Proposal to make White Sands National Monument into a U.N. World Heritage Site questioned

A handful of locals recruited by Alamogordo resident Bill Biggerstaff spent time Saturday morning near the Tropical Sno concession in the Lowe's Pay and Save parking lot discussing their opposition to the White Sands Monument being proposed for designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site.

They also asked shoppers and passersby to sign a petition to that effect.

AlamogordoDailyNews.com, 8/12/2007

Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit Seeking Access to Security and Prosperity Partnership Advisory Group Meetings and Records

Agency’s Use of North American Competitiveness Council in Violation of Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez for denying Judicial Watch access to the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) meetings and records. According to the complaint, the council, which consists of “high level business leaders,” advises the United States, Mexican, and Canadian governments on North American competitiveness issues to be addressed through the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). (On March 23, 2005, heads of government Vincente Fox, George W. Bush, and Paul Martin launched SPP at a meeting in Waco, Texas, with the expressed goal of “a safer, more prosperous North America.”) JudicialWatch.com, Aug 10, 2007

Now is the time for all good men...

You can finish the rest of that phrase, can't you? That's right. "…to come to the aid of their country."

Those words became embedded in my consciousness when I took typing at North Texas State, attaining the dizzying rate of 40 words a minute. I must have typed that phrase 500 times, but I attached no particular meaning to it.

I do now. by Pat Boone, August 11, 2007

Mexico accused of framing border agent

Allegedly withholding witnesses who can exonerate officer

Mexico is withholding key witnesses that could exonerate Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett of second-degree murder charges and paying for others to testify against him, asserts a union leader.


Brandon Judd, vice president of U.S. Border Patrol Union Local 2544, told WND the Mexican consulate is taking care of all the expenses of three Mexican witnesses to the shooting so they can remain in the U.S. to testify against Corbett. WorldNetDaily.com, August 11, 2007

Hunter stresses need for border fence

Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter kicked off The Des Moines Register's Soapbox candidate appearances Thursday at the Iowa State Fair with his calls for beefed-up national defense, an expanded border fence and more manufacturing jobs. DesMoinesRegister.com, August 10, 2007

Big Business is LOST at sea

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Bush administration officials, the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill, and most Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) at the UN support it. So do the American Petroleum Institute, the Chamber of Shipping of America, and AT&T. With this cast of supporters, something fishy is going on.

It's the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but its detractors still use its old name: the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST. LOST was originally drafted at the end of the Carter administration, but was scuttled President Reagan. Examiner.com, Aug 10, 2007

Terrorists teaming with drug cartels

Islamic extremists embedded in the United States — posing as Hispanic nationals — are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration report. WashingtonTimes.com, August 8, 2007

LOST and found

The Law of the Sea Treaty, a k a "LOST," the leviathan of all U.N. regulatory and environmental treaties, has again reared its ugly head, despite having been "deep-sixed" years ago by the Reagan administration.

A legacy-oriented White House is now shepherding it through a Congress whose majority enthusiastically embraces collectivist European-style environmental activism and multilateral treaty-making — at the expense of constitutionally-protected individualism and property rights. by Lawrence Kogan, Aug 8, 2007

LOST at seize?

Last week, Vladimir Putin's Russia used a bit of undersea derring-do to remind us that chess is its national sport. Two deep-ocean submersibles were dispatched to the Arctic floor ostensibly for the purpose of laying claim to the Lomonosov Ridge — and, more importantly, to the potentially vast oil, gas and mineral resources that may lie within a zone 200 miles wide on either side of that underwater mountain range. This move may have been a grandmaster's feint, however, masking another purpose: blackmailing the United States into ratifying the defective Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). by Frank J. Gaffney Jr., Aug 7, 2007

U.S. military headed next for Mexican soil?

Help in war on drug cartels on coming SPP summit agenda

A Texas congressman is leading discussions with the White House to develop a military plan to assist Mexico in the war President Felipe Calderón is waging against the drug cartels.

Yolanda Urrabazo, spokeswoman for Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, told WND the discussions involve the possibility of utilizing the U.S. military directly in the effort in addition to providing military assistance. WorldNetDaily.com, August 10, 2007

Democratic Leader Blasts Administration Trade Policy

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Trade Subcommittee has sharply criticized the Bush administration’s trade policies with China and says changes will have to take place. TextileWorld.com, August 9, 2007

Question: What is the NAFTA superhighway, and how would it work?

NAFTA superhighway is a buzz phrase for major transportation corridors that carry international trade through the three biggest countries of North America: Mexico, the United States and Canada.

These highways existed long before implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement began on Jan. 1, 1994.

With total domestic freight tonnage projected to increase 67 percent by 2020, the race is on to secure funding to maintain and improve the U.S. domestic transportation infrastructure and to build new roads to alleviate critical congestion on the nation's roads. AZStar.net, 8.09.2007

Pro-Family Rally on the DC Mall August 18-19

August 18th this year will mark the launch of the Marriage Reform Movement in America. I have spent the past four years building networks of individuals and organizations who are sick and tired of entitled governmental destruction of marriage. MensNewsDaily.com, August 8, 2007

Nightmare scenario on NAFTA superhighway

Truck traffic disrupted due to bridge collapse higher than estimated

As details of the Minnesota bridge collapse become clearer, the role of international freight carried by NAFTA Superhighway trucks on I-35 remains an important backdrop of the human tragedy and the traffic nightmare the city is just now beginning to appreciate. WorldNetDaily.com, August 8, 2007

Now, here come the Mexican airplanes

Controversial SPP moves toward North American air traffic control system

The U.S. has built nine navigation systems for Mexico and Canada under the controversial Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in an apparent first step toward establishing the satellite infrastructure needed to create a North American air traffic control system. WorldNetDaily.com, August 9, 2007

Plans for Economic Integration

Canada in the summer and Mexico in the spring offer good weather for planning international policies. Nervousness about the political weather, however, is putting the third Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit on August 20-21 at a site where the uninvited can be easily excluded: the Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello resort about 50 miles outside of Quebec. Phyllis Schlafly Column, 8-8-07

NAFTA Superhighway traffic tied to bridge collapse

Evidence of increasing international trade truck traffic on Interstate 35 through Minnesota raises concerns that NAFTA Superhighway traffic contributed to last week's collapse of the freeway bridge in Minneapolis. WorldNetDaily.com, August 5, 2007

President Bush to Attend Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit

Next month, President Bush will join Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Quebec for a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit. (I would include a link to a news story on the summit, but you can’t read about it anywhere in the mainstream press, which has largely ignored the Security and Prosperity Partnership from the very beginning.) NationalLedger.com, August 3, 2007

Fisher-Price to Recall Nearly 1M Chinese-made Toys

WASHINGTON - Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.

The worldwide recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products. Associated Press,8-2-07.

See list.
See pictures of the recalled toys by entering product number.
Mattel's recall hot line: 800-916-4498
Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov

Conservative Republicans seek voice in presidential contest

Convention speakers will include several nationally notable conservatives, including former Texas congressman Tom DeLay and Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum. STLtoday.com, 8/02/2007

An Administration LOST at Sea

Once the scourge of goo-goo internationalism, the Bush administration is now desperate to appease the United Nations crowd, Europeans, and "transies," as the transnational progressives, or NGO gaggle, is called. The president's latest concession is pushing the Law of the Sea Treaty, appropriately known as LOST. spectator.org, by Doug Bandow, 7/31/2007