Border fence fiasco

Last week Customs and Border Protection officials reported that two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff approved a $20 million virtual fence along a 28-mile stretch in Arizona (called Project 28), the fence was scrapped as impractical and ineffective.

Is anyone really shocked by this security fence fiasco? Another government solution bites the dust.

Read entire article, 4-28-08

Washington University to award Phyllis Schlafly honorary degree at 147th Commencement , 4-28-08

Schlafly, a native St. Louisan and two-time Washington University graduate, has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the 1964 publication of her book, "A Choice Not An Echo." With 3 million copies sold, it is listed as one of 10 best-selling conservative books of the past 50 years.

A prolific writer, Schlafly is the author or editor of 20 books on subjects as varied as the judiciary, family and feminism, nuclear strategy, child care and education.

She earned a bachelor's in political science in Arts & Sciences from Washington University in 1944; a master's in political science from Harvard University in 1945; and a juris doctorate from Washington University School of Law in 1978.

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H-1Bs: Still Not the Best and the Brightest

In pressuring Congress to expand the H-1B work visa and employment-based green card programs, industry lobbyists have recently adopted a new tack. Seeing that their past cries of a tech labor shortage are contradicted by stagnant or declining wages, their new buzzword is innovation. Building on their perennial assertion that the foreign workers are “the best and the brightest,” they now say that continued U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) hinges on our ability to import the world’s best engineers and scientists. Yet, this Backgrounder will present new data analysis showing that the vast majority of the foreign workers — including those at most major tech firms — are people of just ordinary talent, doing ordinary work. They are not the innovators the industry lobbyists portray them to be.

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Patent Bill Should Die, 4-22-08

The so-called Patent Reform Act is fundamentally flawed. It combines many bad provisions. Some of the worst parts of the bill include a new, administrative route to challenge patents after they are granted, the ability to infringe a patent without having to pay back what the patented product is truly worth, giving a patent to the first party to file an application rather than the traditional first-to-invent standard, and forcing publication of patent applications at 18 months.

A group of the largest high-tech firms is pushing this legislation, which certain lawmakers are all too eager to accommodate. In short, though, S. 1145 and H.R. 1908 would destroy what the Founding Fathers put into the Constitution with the specific intent of stimulating invention.

Read entire article at HumanEvents.com

Pro-lifers urge passage of legislation, 4-25-08

What would it mean to Tennessee if SJR 127 passed the House of Representatives?

Some people think it would mean all abortions in Tennessee would instantly become illegal.

In fact, it would mean that Tennessee voters would be allowed to vote on whether the amendment should become part of the Tennessee Constitution, according to David Fowler, of Family Action Tennessee. He is a former state senator.

Read entire article, 4-25-08

Rosalind Kress Haley, 'true southern belle,' dies at 97

Rosalind "Ros" Kress Haley, who has been hailed as a vigorous force for the conservative movement and deemed a "true southern belle," admired for her elegance and resolve, died early Wednesday in Midland Memorial Hospital's Hospice Midland Inpatient Unit after suffering a series of strokes. She was 97. MyWestTexas.com, 4-24-08.

Patent Reform Legislation Has Many Foes, Little Friends

Three weeks have passed since Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced plans to bring patent reform legislation to the Senate floor. But since his proclamation of intent the bill, S. 1145, has disappeared from the radar amidst a heavy assault from conservative and liberal activists alike, raising questions as to the fate of the legislation.

Though Mr. Leahy has argued minor disagreements have kept the bill from the floor, opponents of the bill believe otherwise.

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Further reading: PATENT RIGHTS

State advocates rally support to ban partial-birth abortion

David Fowler, president of Family Action of Tennessee and Bobbie Patray, president of Tennessee Eagle Forum, hope to rally statewide support for a bill that would set the groundwork to ban partial-birth abortion in Tennessee.
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Fowler and Patray held a press conference and spoke to supporters this afternoon in front of the Madison County Courthouse.

They invite people to visit their Web site at www.LifePetition.org to learn more.

AN EVENING WITH PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

"What's the Problem With Judges?" Phyllis Schlafly speaking. Sponsored by Kansas Judicial Review and Kansas Eagle Forum. 7 p.m. Blue Valley Baptist Church, 151st and Antioch, Overland Park. Free. (913-393-3978)

Jessica Echard on Neil Cavuto - Clinton Fundraising

YouTube.com Video, aired 4-21-08

Illegal Immigrant Found Stranded on Makeshift Cart Under El Paso Border Bridge, 4-22-08

A Chilean man was halfway to freedom when his alleged border-crossing attempt was derailed.

The man, who was deported from the U.S. once before, was using a makeshift cart Sunday to shuttle himself along the support beams of an international bridge over the Rio Grande. But a wheel on the cart broke, stranding him on the span at least 20 feet above the ground, the Border Patrol said Monday.

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The HPV Vaccine: Herd Immunity or Human Sacrifice?, 4-22-08

(NaturalNews) Reports of adverse reactions to the new HPV vaccine are escalating. One particularly heart-wrenching example is the story of an active 12-year-old little girl named Brittany who recently lost all feeling in her leg and collapsed two weeks after receiving the Gardasil vaccine. Although she once had dreams of earning an athletic scholarship, she now struggles to hobble around each day with the aid of braces and a walker, First Coast News reports. According to the article, she has been diagnosed with Acute Demyelinating Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), a condition characterized by inflammation of the brain and associated with the vaccination

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Summit renamed to defuse 'North American Union' critics, 4-22-08

Bush with Mexican, Canadian leaders in New Orleans for 4th annual meeting

NEW ORLEANS – As the fourth annual summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America begins in New Orleans, the White House is engaged in a public relations campaign to reposition the meeting away from the controversial issue of continental integration.

Billed instead as a "North American Leaders Summit," the meeting appears designed to create photo opportunities showing President Bush with Mexico's President Felipe Caldron and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper rather than emphasize the trilateral cooperation that was the centerpiece of previous SPP summit meetings.

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Congress Tells Bush: 'Stop the Closed-Door Diplomacy and Allow Legislative Oversight', 4-21-08

WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The House of
Representatives sent a letter to President Bush this week advising him to
stop all plans to advance the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of
North America until there has been full congressional oversight. The
letter, which was authored by Reps. Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Marcy
Kaptur (D-OH), is brief and simply states that the U.S. Congress "objects
to a process that permits the executives of the respective countries to
bypass constitutionally mandated review" and that all SPP negotiations
should be halted until the details of this closed-door diplomacy "are made
transparent and proper legislative oversight is established." The letter
reached President Bush on the eve of the fourth North American summit,
which will be held in New Orleans on April 21st and 22nd.

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From Mexico, Drug Violence Spills Into U.S., 4-20-08

Brutality Gives Rise to Formidable New Problems for Both Countries

PUERTO PALOMAS, Mexico -- Javier Emilio Pérez Ortega, a workaholic Mexican police chief, showed up at the sleepy, two-lane border crossing here last month and asked U.S. authorities for political asylum.

Behind him, law and order was vanishing fast. In the four months he had served as Puerto Palomas police chief, drug traffickers had threatened to kill him and his officers if they tried to block the flow of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines into the United States, his former colleagues said on condition of anonymity.

Read entire article, 4-20-08

Lou Dobbs: Travel warning for Americans going to Mexico

YouTube.com Video, aired 4-15-08

Makeover urged for 'North American Union' effort, 4-16-08

Heavy criticism of continental integration prompts plan to save flagging movement

On the verge of next week's North American summit in New Orleans, a Canadian think tank has suggested renaming the "North American Union" to renew progress toward continental integration in the face of mounting criticism.

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TEXANS BATTLE TTC, 4-14-08

TEXANS UNITING FOR REFORM and Freedom (TURF) marched up
Congress Avenue and held a big rally on the capitol steps in Austin April 5, short circuiting an apparent underhanded effort to suppress grassroots turnout against the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC).

This is the second straight year that ranchers and various other opponents have converged on Austin to passionately voice their opposition to the TTC, or NAFTA Superhighway, an invasive mega-tollway network that would carve out at least 584,000 acres of Texas land, forcing most landowners to sell their properties at a big loss.

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Notre Dame To Host Bobby Schindler, Phyllis Schlafly, 4-07-08

NOTRE DAME—Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo and syndicated columnist Phyllis Schlafly, founder and president of Eagle Forum, will be among the keynote speakers Friday, April 11 at the University of Notre Dame.

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Obama's insistence on sex-ed leaves America's youth unprotected

The latest hot quote from U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) leads me to wonder exactly what values and morals he's instilling in his daughters and what values and morals he will advocate if he becomes the next president.

When a western Pennsylvania woman encouraged the senator to stop abortion, Obama said that "good people can differ" on the abortion issue. Then Obama, an abortion rights supporter, made it clear he also thought children should have access to federally funded, sexually explicit materials provided through so-called comprehensive sex education.

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The Real Cost Of Immigration, 4-04-08

Immigration: As some experts tell Congress to fight a possible recession with more immigrants, a respected economist warns that immigration's costs are grossly underestimated -- because the government won't study them.

Set for release Tuesday is a report published by Social Contract magazine, "The Fiscal Impact of Immigration: An Analysis of the Costs to 15 Federal Departments and Agencies."

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Group plans Saturday rally to oppose Trans-Texas Corridor, 4-03-08

Opponents of the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor plan to stage a big march and rally Saturday, April 5, at the Capitol in Austin.

Gov. Rick Perry’s corridor plan calls for 4,000 miles of privately financed and operated toll roads throughout the state.

Rally organizer Terri Hall, executive director of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom - or TURF - said if the toll roads are built, truckers will pay a high price.

"They’ll be facing 50 cents a mile minimum truck start toll rates, added onto our already high cost of fuel," Hall told "Land Line Now" on XM Satellite Radio.

"This will be an absolute disaster for the trucking industry that already operates at a very thin margin of profit, if not now running at a loss with the gas prices we’re seeing."

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Cathie Adams Texas Eagle Forum Trans Texas Corridor

Cathie Adams Texas Eagle Forum -- Trans Texas Corridor at the Texas Senate Transportation Hearing in March 2007. youtube.com video

China advances on U.S. trucking, 3-30-08

The bigger question is why are we doing business with a communist-based country

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – China is advancing quickly on the U.S. trucking industry with its dominating presence at the world's largest trucking trade show, held here this weekend.

Signs were posted identifying exhibits run by between 120 and 140 individuals as representatives of some 40 Chinese companies at this year's Mid-America Trucking Show.

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AT&T Unable to Find Qualified U.S. Workers

Lou Dobbs: AT&T Unable to Find Qualified U.S. Workers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SoElUy7MpE