Where are all those strict-constructionist Republicans who’ve been complaining about activist judges who don’t respect the fact that the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to the Congress? Don’t those Republicans realize that it is just as unconstitutional to transfer legislative powers to the executive branch?
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When President Vicente Fox came to the United States this year, he reiterated this line, proclaiming that “the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders” and includes migrants living in the United States. He called for open borders and endorsed Mexico’s new dual citizenship law.
Continue reading →“I am ruling out a tax increase,” the new Governor of debt-ridden New Jersey declared the day after his election. He said he is embarking on “an agonizing reappraisal of what government should do, and perhaps more importantly, what government ought not be doing.”
Continue reading →The Bush Administration’s announcements that it will delay indefinitely the admission of refugees from terrorist countries, and that it will find and deport foreigners who are illegally in the United States because their visa terms have expired, are two moves in the right direction.
Continue reading →The anthrax scare has made Americans suddenly and acutely very disease conscious. Until a few weeks ago, most Americans had never heard of anthrax, and worries about smallpox had been abandoned years ago.
Continue reading →If the hijackers had used guns for their crimes on 9/11, we would surely now be caught up in a frenzy of demands that this “lesson” calls for tough gun-control legislation.
Continue reading →As President Bush has warned us, this is a new kind of war. He is doing a good job of the military and diplomatic legs of the U.S. response to terrorism, but it’s up to citizens to insist that the response on the homeland front be effective and constitutional.
Continue reading →The Patients’ Bill of Rights has moved to the back burner on Capitol Hill because of priorities such as closing our wide-open borders and stopping visa approvals to terrorists. The Senate and House have passed different versions of the bill, which have yet to be resolved, but only the House bill (H.R. 2563) contains a provision that offers real hope to reform our health care system.
Continue reading →The current attempt to inflict Americans with the burden of having to carry a national ID card did not begin on 9-11 and, indeed, is unrelated to it. The attack on the World Trade Center is just a convenient excuse to promote this thoroughly un-American idea.
Continue reading →After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Left moved quickly to use it as an excuse to enact draconian federal gun control. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed by showing that no new gun control laws would have been the slightest deterrent to that tragedy.
Continue reading →The act of war that was committed against America on 9-11 has changed the way we look at many things. I guess we won’t hear much now from the conspiracy-debunkers; it had to be a criminal conspiracy that planned and carried out the simultaneous hijacking of four airliners.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration properly walked out of the ridiculous United Nations Conference on Racism in South Africa because we didn’t care to be insulted (or have our friends insulted) by Fidel Castro and his allies.
Continue reading →A teacher re-certification system, under which public school teachers take special “development” courses to boost their knowledge and teaching skills, was started a year ago in Illinois.
Continue reading →Those who officially advise government agencies whether or not to force Americans to submit to vaccines should not be on the payroll of the corporations that profit from the government mandates.
Continue reading →Students starting college this fall need survival instructions to enable them to understand the jargon and prepare for the challenge of strange encounters.
Continue reading →Perhaps one good result of President George W. Bush’s toying with the unpopular notion of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens is that Americans are starting to have a frank debate about the constitutional, cultural, social, language, moral, and economic questions involved.
Continue reading →When demonstrators displayed anti-American signs against our President while traveling to Europe last month, we could brush it off as a bunch of street radicals getting their kicks. But it is an insult when a foreign head of state comes to the heart of the United States and attacks our laws while his audience waves foreign flags.
Continue reading →President Bush and 30 Republican Senators are trying to crowd our highways with Mexican trucks that are not required to meet the same safety, weight, licensing and insurance standards required of American trucks.
Continue reading →On July 12, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) offered Amendment 899 to release the river water to the farmers. That should have been a no-brainer — what could be easier than choosing between desperate farmers and a couple of ugly fish?
Continue reading →The NEA got widespread national publicity by announcing on Independence Day that it was withdrawing its controversial proposed “New B” resolution regarding “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education.”
Continue reading →A broad coalition of companies, organizations and activists, ranging from Focus on the Family to Ralph Nader, have kicked off a campaign to stop Primedia’s Channel One from exploiting school children for commercial gain. Channel One is the in-school television program with a daily captive audience of about eight million children in 12,000 schools, broadcasting 10 minutes of “news,” music and filler, plus two minutes of advertising for a variety of products and services aimed at youngsters.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration plan is to allow Mexican trucks to operate freely on U.S. highways in all 48 states without auditing their safety practices for up to 18 months.
Continue reading →The anti-Bush brigade in the United States and abroad has coalesced around the Kyoto Protocol, thinking it is a neat hammer with which to hit our President.
Continue reading →President Bush deserves an “A” from Americans for his five-nation European tour because he stood firm for the U.S. positions on missile defense, the Kyoto Protocol, capital punishment, and non-involvement in expanded military engagements.
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