The Patent Act Is A Cheat On Americans

When displaced American workers complain about outsourcing U.S. manufacturing jobs to take advantage of cheap Chinese factory labor, and about insourcing low-paid Asians on H-1B visas to take engineering and computer jobs, the globalists and multinational corporations have a ready answer. They recite in chorus: don't worry, be happy, because American technology and innovation enable us to compete in the global market.

But now those same globalists and multinationals are trying to outsource our technology and innovation advantage by delivering a body-blow to our unique and original patent system. This plan comes under the deceptive label Patent "Reform" Act (H.R. 1908), and it's already been rushed through the U.S. House.

Read Phyllis Schlafly's Oct. 10th column.

Fast-tracked LOST faces Senate vote

GOP battling plan to give U.N. control of 70 percent of planet

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote today on the ratification of the United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of the 70 percent of the planet under its oceans.

With Democrats in nearly unanimous agreement with the treaty and the Bush administration behind it, it will be up to a handful of determined Republican senators to derail it.

WorldNetDaily.com, October 31, 2007

What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?

That's a good question – it deserves an answer. Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers may surprise you!

In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupted hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested.

Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominate language again.

Read the entire article

The Halloween Treaty: Law of the Seas

Today, the Senate will consider a Halloween treat, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. More than 150 nations have joined the convention, which was signed by President Clinton in 1994, although the Senate has yet to ratify it. Although President Bush and his administration urge ratification, the Senate would do well to reflect before accepting treats — or treaties — from the United Nations.

Of course, parts of the Law of the Sea Treaty, appropriately titled LOST, make sense. LOST grants governance rights of "exclusive economic zones" within 200 nautical miles of shore. With sovereignty over islands throughout the Pacific, America would have strong claims on large swaths of oceans. Indeed, we would have the largest oceanic claims in the world. Thus it is not entirely surprising that the State Department and the Department of the Navy are ardent supporters of LOST.

Read entire article, October 31, 2007

LOST runs silent, runs deep

In over 30 years of working in and watching the ways of Washington, I must say, I have never seen anything quite like it.

According to Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the president and an implausible alliance of special interests from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace. At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Yet, it seems not one of the "establishment" media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments.

Read Frank Gaffney's entire article at the WashingtonTimes.com

MEXICAN CONSULATE DEAL DOGS HUCKABEE CAMPAIGN

Critics charge he established 'magnet' for illegals financed by citizens, U.S. businesses

A lingering controversy over the role former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee played in establishing a Mexican consulate office in Little Rock financed by taxpayers and local businesses continues to follow the Republican presidential candidate's campaign, even as he enjoys a surge in polls.

Critics in Arkansas contend Huckabee worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to draw illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs.

Read Jerome Corsi's entire article on WorldNetDaily.com

LOST at Sea

The Law of the Sea Treaty threatens American sovereignty.
By John Fonte
10-29-07

Will Americans rule themselves or be ruled by others — this is to be a great question of the 21st century. An opening scene is currently being played out in the U.S. Senate concerning international courts and supranational institutions.

Read Fonte's entire article on nationalreview.com.

FOREIGN RELATIONS TO VOTE ON LOST!

Tell Your Senator to vote NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty!!

This Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The committee is made up of 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans. If passed, the next step would be ratification vote on the floor of the Senate, which requires a two-thirds majority of Senators present (67 votes if all Senators are present).
Members of the Foreign Relations Committee: Biden, Boxer, Cardin, Casey, Coleman*, Corker*, DeMint, Dodd, Feingold, Hagel, Isakson*, Kerry, Lugar, Menendez, Murkowski, Nelson (FL), Obama, Sununu* , Vitter, Voinovich, Webb

* Designates top tier target Senators. Please call these Senators first!

Read entire alert on LOST

"United States Is Stupid"

"United States is stupid...I come back every time." Those words were spoken by Mexican national Rolando Mota-Campos to an immigration agent after his latest and 11th arrest in the United States. Incredibly, Mota-Campos has been deported three times and has vowed to return again after completing his prison term and yet another obviously meaningless deportation to Mexico.

Mota-Campos whose face is adorned with a teardrop tattoo, stood in a Norfolk, Va. federal courtroom last week to be sentenced for threatening to cut off a social worker's head with a machete. U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. said: "The defendant has expressly stated that he has no respect for the United States and that once deported he will reenter again and come back to Newport News where his history of alcohol abuse will further endanger the residents of this district." Judge Morgan sentenced Mota-Campos to 14 1/2 years in prison.

Read entire article, (10/29/07)

U.S. territory hits 'amnesty' as threat

A U.S. territory in the Pacific is battling to stop Congress from imposing federal guest-worker rules and an "amnesty" for current temporary workers, saying aliens could then use the territory as an entry point to get into other places in the U.S.

The government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) says two bills working their way through Congress to impose federal immigration law on the territory would go back on the 1976 convention with the U.S. and put the islands' economy, already reeling, into a tailspin. WashingtonTimes.com, October 29, 2007

Law of Sea Treaty draws GOP focus

The Law of the Sea convention, a relic of the 1970s, could become the next fight of this year's Republican presidential campaign, with some of the candidates trying to push it to the front of the debate. WashingtonTimes.com, October 26, 2007

ALERT UPDATE on Puerto Rico statehood bill, 10-19-07

Tuesday, October 23, the House Natural Resources Committee approved H.R. 900 by a voice vote. The bill was amended, but Eagle Forum remains opposed to its passage. A floor vote has not been scheduled at this time, but we should continue making Members of Congress aware of this dangerous bill.

Read entire alert on Puerto Rico statehood bill.

Phyllis Schlafly comments on Huckabee's lack of conservatism

Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum, is even more blunt. "He [Huckabee] destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles," she says. "Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a 'compassionate conservative' are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee."

Read the entire OpinionJournal.com article Another Man from Hope by John Fund (10-26-07).

Phyllis Schlafly's quote made headlines on drudgereport.com today.

Media Bias Could Save U.N. Sea Treaty

The momentum on the issue of the U.N’s Law of the Sea Treaty seems clearly to be with the opponents. All of the Senate’s top Republicans have said they oppose it, with several saying it can’t or won’t pass. GOP presidential candidates are falling in line against it. Even Senator John McCain, previously considered a sure vote in favor of the pact, now says he has his doubts about it. But don’t underestimate the value of biased reporting in favor of the controversial pact. Media bias could turn the tide.
Read more . . ., October 26, 2007

ALERT UPDATE: U.S. House passes bill establishing Hawaiian race-based government

On Oct. 24, the House passed H.R. 505 by a vote of 261-153.
The battle now moves to the U.S. Senate.

Read entire Eagle Forum Alert on H.R. 505

Further Reading:
Does Hawaii Want To Secede From The Union?
by Phyllis Schlafly, 9-28-05

The Hawaiian Race
by the National Review Editorial Board, 10-24-7

Multicultural Racism
by Peter Kirsanow, 10-24-07

ALERT UPDATE: DREAM Act is dead for this session of Congress

On Oct. 24, the Senate failed to invoke cloture by a vote of 52-44 (60 votes were required to proceed). This means the DREAM Act is dead for this session of Congress. Thank you for your calls and letters!

Read the entire Eagle Forum Alert on the DREAM Act.

Senate Wakes from DREAM and Votes Down Amnesty

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, a leading
pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, commends the U.S.
Senate today for defeating the cloture motion to proceed to S. 2205, the
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, by a vote
of 52-44 (Roll Call 394). The bill would have granted amnesty to illegal
aliens who came to this country before the age of 16 and who have lived
here at least five years. This was the Senate's first attempt to grant
amnesty to millions of illegal aliens since the defeat of the
Kennedy-McCain-Kyl bill in June of this year. PRNewswire.com, 10-24-07

How Much Is That Degree Really Worth?

Do you know any young people with college degrees working in restaurants, retail stores, or somewhere else for which their degree is worthless? Do they owe tens of thousands of dollars in student loans? There are lots of them out there. Perhaps they are reevaluating the worth of a college education. I’m not talking about people who want to be engineers, nurses, biologists, or something else in the hard sciences. I’m talking about some of the so-called “soft sciences” like Women’s Studies or Art History, or some other useless course of study. Only people with huge trust funds should pursue these majors. By Tom McLaughlin, October 23, 2007

Feds outsource Mexican truck safety

Trilateral trade association becomes chief inspector

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delegated key inspection requirements for Mexican trucks to a non-governmental trilateral trade association, whose goal is to impose North American standards on all commercial motor vehicles operating in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Since the early 1980s, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, or CVSA, operating as a non-governmental organization, has quietly knit together the motor-vehicle agencies in the three countries, building a common regulatory continental structure below the radar of public opinion, available now to function as the backbone of the FMCSA effort to allow approved Mexican trucking companies to run their long-haul rigs throughout the United States. WorldNetDaily.com, October 22, 2007

GOP 'values voters' seek consensus

VIEWS DIFFER ON LEADING CANDIDATES

WASHINGTON - Since 2000, the social-conservative coalition has known this time would come: a 2008 presidential race without the sitting vice president as the Republican's standard bearer.

Yet in the past seven years, the evangelical Christians, abortion foes and traditional-family advocates in the coalition failed to develop or find a consensus candidate to represent their views.

So beginning today, the best-known Christian conservative leaders will meet here through the weekend to hear the GOP presidential hopefuls - none of whom they really approve. Newsday, 10/19/2007

ALERT: Will the U.S. Sew a Fifty-first Star onto the Flag?, 10-19-07

Urge your Representative to vote NO on the Puerto Rico statehood bill!

If Puerto Rico were added as a U.S. state:

• The U.S. would transform, overnight, into a bilingual nation. Puerto Ricans do not speak English, the language of our U.S. Constitution and founding documents. The Washington Times article, "Puerto Rican statehood," analyzes all the implications of adding a foreign language-speaking state to the Union.
• It would bring immediate demands for massive federal spending. The average income of Puerto Ricans is less than half that of our poorest state, and infrastructure and the environment are far below American standards.
• Puerto Rico is already a democracy. Despite the deceptive title of the bill, Puerto Rico already has an elected government and exists as a self-governed commonwealth of the U.S.
• Statehood would give Puerto Rico more congressional representation than 25 of our 50 states! It would inevitably give Democrats two additional U.S. Senators and 6 to 8 additional Members of the House.

Read entire Alert

Blowing the Whistle on U.N. Corruption, 10-18-07

On the eve of a Senate vote on the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, a former senior staffer in one of the key institutions created by the treaty says that U.S. senators should have the complete and honest truth about mismanagement and financial corruption there. The International Seabed Authority, which is one of the main organizations created by the treaty, stands to receive millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact. Accuracy in Media, October 18, 2007

Blowing the Whistle on U.N. Corruption

On the eve of a Senate vote on the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, a former senior staffer in one of the key institutions created by the treaty says that U.S. senators should have the complete and honest truth about mismanagement and financial corruption there. The International Seabed Authority, which is one of the main organizations created by the treaty, stands to receive millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact. Accuracy in Media, October 18, 2007

All is nearly LOST!

What could be wrong with a treaty governing the oceans championed by President George W. Bush, the secretary of the Navy and the overwhelming majority of the members of both political parties who make up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?

Everything!

Just as the president was leading us down the wrong path on immigration, he is leading us down the wrong path by asking the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST). WorldNetDaily.com, October 18, 2007

Parents Use Religion to Avoid Vaccines

BOSTON (AP) - Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her deeply held religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required to enter preschool.

She is among a small but growing number of parents around the country who are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses. Some of these parents say they are being forced to lie because of the way the vaccination laws are written in their states.

"It's misleading," Rahim admitted, but she said she fears that earlier vaccinations may be to blame for her son's autism. "I find it very troubling, but for my son's safety, I feel this is the only option we have." LasVegasSun.com, October 17, 2007

Texas deputy freed from prison

Says Mexican consulate, prosecutor set him up

A former deputy sheriff in Texas, jailed for shooting at a van loaded with illegal aliens whose driver was trying to run him down, has been released from prison and says he was set up by the Mexican consulate and the prosecutor.

Former Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez was released yesterday from a halfway house, finishing the prison term to which he was sentenced for the shooting incident, in which two fleeing Mexican illegal aliens were wounded. He was in federal prison from Dec. 1, 2006, to Sept. 13, 2007, about 10 and a half months. WorldNetDaily.com, October 16, 2007

Canadians call for vote on SPP

Activists demand national referendum on 'continental divide'

Canadian activists are demanding Prime Minister Stephen Harper fulfill a promise and submit the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America to a national referendum for an up or down vote.

"The Prime Minister of Canada and his cabinet in both Liberal and Conservative regimes support the unification of North America as witnessed by the fact of [former Prime Minister] Paul Martin and [current Prime Minister] Stephen Harper being signatories to the SPP process," said Connie Fogal, leader of the Canadian Action Party. WorldNetDaily.com, October 15, 2007

Dream Act Is Backdoor Amnesty

The American people rose up out of their usual apathy this year and soundly defeated the Bush-Kennedy-McCain-Kyl bill to give amnesty to illegal aliens. Now, some Senators are trying to get Congress to pass a backdoor amnesty by calling it the DREAM Act, and it's really a nightmare for Americans.

The cutesy title DREAM, which is meant to be a double entendre, is an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (S.774).

Continue reading Phyllis Schlafly's 10-17-07 column.

Would the ERA enshrine a right to abortion in the Constitution?

Read an article giving a brief history of the ERA, its many flaws, and why the pro-life movement should continue to oppose the ERA by Dr. Jack C. Willke, former president of the National Right to Life Committee for ten years and an internationally renowned expert on abortion and human sexuality for the last two decades. Life Issues Connector, October 2007.

Reagan on LOST: "No national interest of the US can justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the Earth's surface over to the Third World."

Have the Bush Republicans ceased to be reliable custodians of American sovereignty? So it would seem.

Bush has signed on to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which transfers jurisdiction over the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans and all the oil and mineral resources they contain to an International Seabed Authority. This second United Nations would be ceded eternal hegemony over two-thirds of the Earth.

In 1978, Ronald Reagan declared, "No national interest of the United States can justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the Earth's surface over to the Third World."

Read Pat Buchanan's Oct. 12 column "George W. Bush, globalist" at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58108

LOST: U.S. senators' spines

Call your senators (202-224-3121) and ask each of them for their position on the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Ten-to-one says that a young, well- tutored voice will say something like: "We don't have a statement on that," or "the senator has not taken a position yet," or "the senator is still studying the issues."

What happened to: "He opposes it," or "he supports it"?

This Convention on the Law of the Sea has been kicking around since Ronald Reagan kicked it out of his administration. Bill Clinton had the treaty reworked, and asked the Senate to ratify it. The Republican Senate refused. George Bush asked the Senate to ratify it during his first term; the Senate refused. Now, the administration is again pushing for ratification. Any senator who has not yet decided whether to support or oppose this treaty should not be in Washington. WorldNetDaily.com, October 13, 2007

The Democrats' Unhealthy Poster Child Abuse

A few weeks ago, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lured two young children to the public spotlight to help him pass a massive expansion of government health insurance. Gemma and Graeme Frost, 9 and 12 years old respectively, were severely injured in a car accident three years ago. Their parents obtained government health care through the non-means-tested Children's Health Insurance Program in Maryland. President Bush's veto doesn't change that -- and there's the rub.

Because liberal lawmakers cannot honestly defend their expansion plans as bona fide aid to the needy, they have surrounded themselves with the Frosts and other kiddie human shields to deflect any tough scrutiny. As they push for an override of the president's veto, scheduled for Oct. 18, the desperate Dems will shamelessly invoke the Absolute Moral Authority kiddie card to attack their critics for "attacking the children." Michelle Malkin, 10-10-07.

Permission Slip for the Sea

WASHINGTON -- In his 2004 State of the Union Address, President Bush said, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Members of both parties and both houses of Congress applauded. But if the Senate votes to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- known as the Law of the Sea Treaty -- or its appropriate acronym -- LOST -- he and his successors are going to need lots of permission slips.

In 1982, Ronald Reagan, concerned about the treaty's implications for our sovereignty and national security, formally rejected LOST because it did "not satisfy the objectives sought by the United States." In 1994, William Jefferson Clinton, eager to appease One World Government advocates in his own party and at the United Nations, negotiated a parallel "agreement" that purported to address Mr. Reagan's concerns -- and urged ratification. Since then, LOST has gathered dust in the bowels of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All that may be about to change. The deeply flawed, Soviet-era agreement giving unelected, unaccountable international bureaucrats control over 71 percent of the Earth's surface is now on a fast track to ratification. Townhall.com, October 12, 2007

SUPREME COURT CASE PREVIEWS DAMAGE OF LOST!

Tell Your Senator to vote NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty!!

Just this week, the United States Supreme Court gave us an important look into what kind of global power grabs we face if the Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). On October 10, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Jose Medellin, an illegal alien rapist-murderer now on death row in Texas. Medellin, a citizen of Mexico who lived illegally in the United States, was convicted and sentenced to death after he confessed in 1993 to the brutal rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston.

Long after Medellin had received the full due process of the American legal system, in 2003 the Mexican government sued the United States in the International Court of Justice (known as the "World Court"), an agency of the United Nations which sits at The Hague in The Netherlands.

In 2004 the World Court ruled in favor of Mexico and ordered the United States to give Medellin another hearing, or perhaps another trial, at which he could receive the assistance of Mexican consular employees.

Read entire of alert . . . , October 11, 2007

Mexico's Fox openly calls for North American Union

Merger with Canada, U.S. is part of his dream to compete with Europe, Far East

WASHINGTON – Mexico's former President Vicente Fox is making no secret of his desire to promote a "North American Union" to compete economically with Europe and the Far East.

In a promotional tour for his new book, "Revolution of Hope," Fox told NPR's "Talk of the Nation" audience: "That's part of my Americas dream, that we can build our future together. We are partners with United States and Canada through NAFTA. There are other blocs in Latin America, but at the very end a continental trade agreement and union on the long term would be a way to develop ourselves and to be able to have the standards and level of living that we all need." WorldNetDaily.com, October 12, 2007

Another U.N. Power Grab

What would Reagan do? On the Law of the Sea Treaty, we know the answer.

BY WILLIAM P. CLARK AND EDWIN MEESE

It is an impressive testament to the abiding affection and political influence of former President Ronald Reagan that the fate of a controversial treaty now before the U.S. Senate may ultimately turn on a single question: What would Reagan do?

As we had the privilege of working closely with President Reagan in connection with the foreign policy, national security and domestic implications of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty or LOST), there is no question about how our 40th president felt about this accord. He so strongly opposed it that he formally refused to sign the treaty. He even sent Donald Rumsfeld as a personal emissary to our key allies around the world to explain his opposition and encourage them to follow suit. All of them did so at the time. OpinionJournal.com, 10-8-07.

High Court Case Pits Texas Against Bush and International Court of Justice

One of the cases the Supreme Court will hear in its new term has officials from Texas accusing their former governor, President George W. Bush, of overstepping his authority by ordering them to follow an international court's ruling about an illegal immigrant who's been convicted of murder.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Oct. 10 regarding Medellin v. Texas, and the high court's decision will affect the treatment of more than 50 Mexicans on death row in the U.S., as well as about 6,000 American citizens who are accused of crimes each year while traveling or living abroad. CNSNews.com, 10-2-07.

Scholars Explain Bush's SPP

Those who seek to understand what's behind the chatter about Bush's Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) as a possible prelude to a North American Union (NAU), similar to the European Union (EU), should read the 35-page White Paper published recently by the prestigious Hudson Institute called "Negotiating North America: The Security and Prosperity Partnership." This Washington, DC think tank is blunt and detailed in describing where SPP is heading.

Here's how Hudson defines SPP's goal: "The SPP process is the vehicle for the discussion of future arrangements for economic integration to create a single market for goods and services in North America." The key words are "economic integration" (a phrase used again and again) into a North American "single market" (another phrase used repeatedly). Phyllis Schlafly 10-10-07 column

Ex-Mexican prez: Yes, there will be an amero

Vicente Fox confirms long-term plan worked out with President Bush

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox confirmed the existence of a government plan to create the amero as a new regional currency to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso, in an interview last night on CNN's "Larry King Live."

It possibly was the first time a leader of Mexico, Canada or the U.S. openly confirmed a plan to create a regional currency. Fox explained the current regional trade agreement is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration. WorldNetDaily.com, October 9, 2007

Bush backs Mexico, rapist-murderer

International court seeks to block death penalty in Texas

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday in which the Bush administration will seek to overturn the death penalty of a convicted rapist-murderer at the behest of the International Court of Justice.

Jose Medellin confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime. WorldNetDaily.com, October 8, 2007

The World Dictatorship Treaty: Does that get your attention? Many senators in the dark

Only three Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee knew what the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is, according to a recent survey. Only 3 out of the 12 GOP committee members. There was no known survey of Democrat members.

That reinforces this column's point last week ("What's the rush?" — Oct. 1, 2007) that there are 10 other Senate committees besides Foreign Relations (dominated by the bipartisan internationalist Biden-Lugar cabal) that need to hold open and (hopefully) well-publicized hearings of LOST to inform senators. Renewamerica.com, October 8, 2007

Bush seeks NAFTA expansion to Peru

Advocating open trade across hemisphere 1 nation at a time

The Bush administration, having been rebuffed on plans to advance a Free Trade of the Americas Act that would open a free trade market to the tip of South America, now is working on the expansion one nation at a time, according to critics.

The Bush administration is pushing Congress to pass a new "free trade" NAFTA-like agreement with Peru, amid growing opposition among Republican voters. WorldNetDaily.com, October 6, 2007

Conservative leader speaks at UM

Conservative movement leader and author Phyllis Schlafly spoke about the incompatible ideologies of conservatism and feminism at the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday night.

"I know that women in other countries are very much treated as oppressed, but in the United States, it's very different. Women have always been well treated," said Schlafly during her lecture about the "great debate." DailyCollegian.com, 10/5/07

Fewer migrants mean more benefits

Immigration hawks have been on a winning streak lately. An unprecedented surge of public outrage at the prospect of amnesty for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in June of the Senate immigration bill and the probable end of President Bush's dream for comprehensive immigration reform.

And that was merely the latest in a series of victories for supporters of tighter controls, including the Real ID Act of 2005, the Secure Fence Act of 2006, proliferating enforcement efforts at the state and local levels and a new package of modest but meaningful enforcement measures announced in August by the Department of Homeland Security. Star-Telegram.com, Sep. 30, 2007

LOST at sea!

I awoke in a cold sweat to the familiar surroundings of my bedroom. The chain that had restrained me was a sheet wound tightly around my body. It was a bad dream.

I had seen an imposing figure in a long blue robe rise from the ocean, bearing a striking resemblance to Karl Marx. Neptune, the sea god, looked down on the subjects who were pleading with him to release our country from his grasp.

Among those poor souls groveling at his feet were George Bush, Harry Reid and Richard Lugar – the very men who gave Neptune the power to control us. Now, they were on the receiving end of the prongs of his trident bearing the U.N. logo.
WorldNetDaily.com, October 4, 2007

SENATE TO HOLD ONE MORE HEARING ON L.O.S.T.

Urge your Senators to Vote AGAINST the UN Law of the Sea Treaty!


This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be holding its second hearing on the UN Law of the Sea Treaty.

The Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, created the International Seabed Authority (ISA), giving it total jurisdiction over all the oceans and everything in them, including the ocean floor with "all" its riches ("solid, liquid or gaseous mineral resources"), along with the power to regulate seven-tenths of the world's surface. The treaty remains highly defective, despite claims by both the Clinton and Bush Administrations that all Reagan's concerns have been "fixed." If the Senate were to ratify it, LOST would do the following:

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Costa Ricans fear trade deal threatens sovereignty

Referendum on proposal scheduled Oct. 7

Costan Ricans fear a trade deal similar to the North American Free Trade Agreement could threaten their nation's sovereignty and the issue has been put up for a referendum on Oct. 7.

The outcome will have an impact on how the United States does business in that Latin American country, where an estimated 30,000-50,000 U.S. citizens live and another 700,000 visit annually, and perhaps other nearby nations as well. WorldNetDaily.com, October 4, 2007