One of the Senators’ lines of questioning of Judge Samuel Alito that lacked follow-up concerned the power of Congress to define the jurisdiction of federal courts.
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This year’s spectacular Rose Bowl game attracted a phenomenal 35.6 million viewers because it featured what we want: rugged men playing football and attractive women cheering them on. Americans of every class, men and women, remained glued to their television sets and nearly 95,000 spectators watched from the stands.
Continue reading →When the feminist movement burst onto the American social scene in the 1970s, the rallying cry was “liberation.” The feminists demanded liberation from the role of the housewife and mother who lived in what Betty Friedan famously labeled a “comfortable concentration camp.”
Continue reading →Judge John E. Jones III could still be Chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board if millions of evangelical Christians had not pulled the lever for George W. Bush in 2000. Yet this federal judge, who owes his position entirely to those voters and the Bush who appointed him, stuck the knife in the backs of those who brought him to the dance in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
Continue reading →Late on Friday evening December 16, the House passed Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s (R-WI) Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (H.R. 4437) to require employers to verify the legal status of each employee.
Continue reading →Federal judges have just hit parents with a triple-whammy. Two appellate courts held that parents have no right to stop offensive, privacy-invading interrogation of their own children in public schools, and in a third case the Supreme Court indicated that it is not going to do anything to protect parents’ rights concerning schools.
Continue reading →President George W. Bush, Senators John McCain, Edward Kennedy, and several others are promoting legislation to grant some kind of amnesty/guest-worker status to millions of illegal aliens residing in the United States, as well as to an indefinite number of additional foreign workers.
Continue reading →“Why is it taking you five years to get through college?” I asked a student attending one of my campus lectures.
Continue reading →Clinton is gone from the White House, but the federalization laws of his Administration — Goals 2000, School-to-Work, and Workforce Investment — are still in place.
Continue reading →The recent Ninth Circuit decision proclaiming that parents’ rights over the education of their children terminate at “the threshold of the school door” has understandably stirred up a tremendous backlash.
Continue reading →When Hillary Clinton proclaimed that it takes a village to raise a child, many people didn’t realize that she was enunciating liberal dogma that the government should raise and control children.
Continue reading →The feminists have launched a devious attack on the U.S. Armed Services that could have a very detrimental effect on morale, retention, and recruitment. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was a college wrestler at Princeton, and now we will see if he is man enough to stand up to the feminists.
Continue reading →Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was reported to have said that Homeland Security will now “Return every single illegal entrant — no exceptions.”
Continue reading →Howard Fineman of Newsweek looked into his crystal ball and proclaimed the coming crackup of the conservative movement.
Continue reading →If John G. Roberts’ confirmation hearing is any guide, we won’t learn anything from Harriet Miers’ confirmation hearing.
Continue reading →Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) presided at a House hearing last week on Birthright Citizenship, Dual Citizenship and the Meaning of Sovereignty. It’s unfortunate that this important subject received little media coverage. The statistics are shocking. At least 383,000 babies are born in the United States every year to illegal aliens; that’s 10 percent of all U.S. births and about 40 percent of indigent births.
Continue reading →Former President Jimmy Carter has finally done something really constructive. He is taking the lead, along with Republican James A. Baker III, to clean up the massive frauds in our voting processes.
Continue reading →Does Hawaii want to secede from the Union? That sounds like a preposterous question, but the official Office of Hawaiian Affairs advertises on its website that the legislation scheduled to be voted on soon in the U.S. Senate will give Native Hawaiians “self-determination” to choose “total independence” or any other form of government.
Continue reading →Katrina has displaced hundreds of thousands of Americans who now need food, housing, and cash. Relief for those necessities will have to be temporary and it will be many months before they can return to New Orleans, if ever, so what they need most of all is jobs.
Continue reading →William Rehnquist was the most unlikely of appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue reading →Gallant Americans are risking life and limb in Iraq to defend Home and Country. But they never dreamed they might lose their children, too.
Continue reading →Two Democratic Governors, Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona, have declared a state of emergency and asked for federal help to deal with the costs of the violence and property damage caused by illegal aliens coming over their southern borders.
Continue reading →Hypocrisy stands at the pinnacle of the sins that the liberals most disdain. So it’s fair game to compare the free ride they gave to Ruth Bader Ginsburg with their searching the archives to pillory every word ever written by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
Continue reading →Parents are on the warpath about the way 63,000 public schools are now starting their fall term in August, some even in hot July. Thousands of parents have organized Save Our Summers campaigns, and protests in Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Florida have hit the national media.
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