College Not Necessary for Many New Careers

U.S. News & World Report, which has made a name for itself by ranking and announcing the Best Colleges every year, is now ranking and listing the Best Careers for young people. A comparison of the latest lists shows a shocking disconnect and makes for dispiriting holiday reading. 1-02-08 Read more

Head of Texas social conservative group injured in car wreck, 12/28/07

A champion of social conservatism in Texas was recovering Thursday after being seriously injured in a car wreck over the holiday weekend, her husband said.

Cathie Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum since 1993, suffered a crushed vertebra and a fractured rib when the car driven by her husband, Homer Adams, was pushed off Interstate 45 by a speeding truck.

Read entire article, 12/28/2007

Throw out LOST, 12-21-07

We must protect United States sovereignty. We must not blissfully give control of 2/3 of the earth's surface to an unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative, burdensome, taxing, regulating and adjudicating global bureaucracy. I am referencing the negotiations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). President Ronald Reagan rejected the efforts to create an international authority that would ultimately control the world's sea beds.

Read entire article, December 21, 2007

Will a Dark Horse Take the Republican Reins?, 12-26-07

Although the next presidential election won't take place until November 2008, and the nominating conventions won't convene until next August and September, the media have been covering the candidates all through 2007 as though they were running a horse race. Read more, 12-26-07

Ramos, Compean pardons? 'No,' 'No,' says Bush rep, 12-22-07

Spokesman won't allow questions to be asked

The White House apparently is so reluctant to discuss the issue of pardons or commutations for convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean that a spokesman doesn't even want to allow questions about the issue to be finished.

Read entire article, 12-22-07

Some Parents Seek Options to Vaccine Orders, 12-23-07

CONCERNED about possible side effects of vaccines and an ingredient they contain, some New Jersey parents are investigating ways to opt out of the shots, four more of which will be required of public school students beginning next fall.

Read entire article at the New York Times, December 23, 2007

The Incredible Disappearing Border Fence, 12-19-07

Do you know the story of the Incredible Disappearing Border Fence? It's an object lesson in gesture politics and homeland insecurity. It's a tale of hollow rhetoric, meaningless legislation and bipartisan betrayal. And in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, it's a helpful learning tool as you assess the promises of immigration enforcement converts now running for president.

Read entire article, December 19, 2007

North-of-border link finishes NAFTA superhighway grid

Atlantic-Pacific route would allow cross-continental goods deliveries

Canada has announced a plan to extend the NAFTA Superhighway network north in a way that would finish a continental grid designed to accommodate an anticipated tsunami of containers from China and the Far East.
The Canadian Intelligent Super Corridor, or CISCOR, is a national transportation route designed to reach from the West Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert to Montreal and Halifax.

Read entire article, December 18, 2007

Ramos, Compean abandoned in Bush pardons, 12-13-07

Moonshiner, thieves, drug dealers get help
But Ramos, Compean abandoned in Bush pardons

Carjackers, drug dealers, thieves and a moonshiner have been granted pardons this year by President Bush, but not Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of firing their guns at a fleeing drug smuggler while they were protecting the integrity of the U.S. border with Mexico.

Read entire article, December 13, 2007

The Courts and the Culture War, VII

Read Eagle Forum's Court Watch update on The Courts and the Culture War, VII

During this year of 2007, our Briefings and Commentaries have emphasized the weighty obligation which we Americans have of asking tough philosophical questions of judicial nominees, of those responsible for their selection, and of any officials who may influence court decisions. To prepare ourselves for the effective exercise of this duty, we have been ranging across the gamut of general philosophy, legal philosophy, and constitutional philosophy.

To Assimilate Or Not To Assimilate; That's The Question, 12-12-07

Are you tired of anonymous voices on the phone telling you to "Press 1 (or sometimes 2) for English"? The ability to speak and communicate in English is the litmus test of whether our immigrants are assimilating into the American culture or
not.

To become a naturalized American citizen, the law states that the immigrant must demonstrate "the ability to read, write and speak ordinary English." All public opinion polls confirm by majorities approaching 90 percent that this is what the American people want.

Continue reading Phyllis Schlafly's 12-12-07 column

Small Towns Grapple with Diseased Immigrants, 12-09-07

The incidence of a Somali meat packer in Kansas who died from tuberculosis has officials calling for better health screening for the waves of unskilled immigrant workers flooding smaller American communities.

In the wake of the January death at a Tyson Foods plant in Emporia, Kan., public health officials found 160 cases of latent TB among the facility’s 500 Somali workers, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.

Read entire article, December 9, 2007

Iran-Mexico meeting deepens ties to Islam

President Calderon welcomes Khatami in effort to bypass confrontational West

In a little notice meeting reflecting growing ties between South America and the Islamic world, Mexican President Felipe Calderon welcomed former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami to Mexico City.

The two leaders met Wednesday at Los Pinos, Mexico's official presidential residence, to discuss deepening cultural bonds with the Islamic world in the face of Western notions of a "clash of civilizations.

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Moms should not be sent off to fight, 12-07-07

In Josh Groban's rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," a servicewoman at war and mother of a 4-year-old speaks of her sadness at not being with her daughter at Christmas. When I hear it I get a little sick.

Look, if enemy troops are coming into my neighborhood, I'll be out there "manning" the barricades with my neighbors. But what kind of a people unnecessarily sends women, many of them young single mothers, into the line of fire to defend men back on the home front?

Read entire article, December 7, 2007

Support Builds for Pro-Enforcement Immigration Bill, 12-06-07

Urge your Congressmen to Support the SAVE Act!

Even though the House and Senate have yet to finish 11 of the 12 spending bills this year, there is at least one Member of Congress who has not been dilly-dallying around. Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC) has been hard at work crafting legislation to properly and seriously confront the illegal immigration issue. Eagle Forum is proud to support and endorse Mr. Shuler's bill, which is gaining many co-sponsors especially after the Senate's disastrous attempt to "reform" immigration over the summer through amnesty.

Read entire alert, 12-06-07

UNSAFE MEXICAN TRUCKS ROAM US HIGHWAYS & POSE GRAVE RISK, 12-05-07

Members of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association say they have documented hundreds of safety violations by Mexican trucks rolling on U.S. roads under the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project.

"The Department of Transportation is allowing Mexican long-haul rigs to operate in the United States without requiring U.S. rules and regulations to be enforced," Rick Craig, the director of regulatory affairs for the group, told WND in a telephone interview yesterday.

Read entire article, December 5, 2007

Eagle Forum Endorses Shuler Bill to SAVE America from Illegal Immigration, 12-05-07

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eagle Forum, a leading
pro-family organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, fully supports and
endorses the Secure America with Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act,
H.R. 4088, recently introduced by Representative Heath Shuler (D-NC). For
years, Eagle Forum has been a tireless advocate of an enforcement approach
in remedying the illegal immigration problem in the United States. The
introduction of this bill is exciting because it is the first to seriously
address the issues of border security and interior enforcement since the
stunning defeat of the Senate's "Grand Amnesty" plan this past summer.

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Atheist has another go at banning pledge, 12-05-07

Inside an ornate marble courtroom in San Francisco, one of the nation's most persistent atheists tried yet again Tuesday to persuade a federal appeals court to strike down the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.

But based on an hour of legal sparring and occasional musings about the meaning of God in public life, it is a tossup as to whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will take the same tack as five years ago, when it found the pledge in school unconstitutional because it contains the phrase "under God."

Read entire article, 12/05/2007

Atheist back before appellate court over “under God” in Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency

Michael Newdow, the atheist doctor turned lawyer, once again is bringing his case against “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

In a hearing scheduled for 9 o’clock this morning -- the same day he will face the U.S. Justice Department and Sacramento’s Rio Linda Unified School District in court over the pledge -- Newdow, in a separate action, is challenging the use of “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency.

Read entire article, December 4, 2007

Pledge, Motto Cases to Be Heard by Court, 12-04-07

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An atheist seeking to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and U.S. currency is taking his arguments back to a federal appeals court.

Michael Newdow, a Sacramento doctor and lawyer, sued the Elk Grove Unified School District in 2000 for forcing public school children to recite the pledge, saying it was unconstitutional.

Read entire article, 12-04-07

Atheism Back in Court Again, 12-05-07

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on December 4 will again hear a challenge by Michael Newdow to the Pledge of Allegiance and its phrase "under God." Newdow won his prior lawsuit against the Pledge until the Supreme Court, perhaps to avoid public outrage in the 2004 presidential election year, tossed out his case on a procedural technicality.
Read entire Phyllis Schlafly 12-05-07 column

Letters: Taking sides on immigration, 12-02-07

View Opinion Letters about Immigration, Dallasnews.com, December 2, 2007