The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
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The delays and wrangles about President George W. Bush’s scores of unconfirmed judicial nominees highlight the underlying issues between the two political parties. The Republicans want constitutionalists and the Democrats want judicial activists.
Continue reading →The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
Continue reading →The atheists overplayed their hand. After their string of victories banning prayer and the Ten Commandments, they must have thought the time was ripe to get rid of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Continue reading →It seems self-evident that no individual should be allowed to own a law that all of us must obey.
Continue reading →Asbestos litigation has spun so far out of control that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal directly from an intermediate state court.
Continue reading →Zero tolerance has become ridiculous when applied to little boys playing cops and robbers or drawing pictures of guns, but it’s sound and sensible when applied to illegal drugs.
Continue reading →The Senate Judiciary Committee’s 10-9 partisan defeat of President Bush’s nomination of Charles Pickering contains lasting lessons for Republicans, conservatives, and all those who want to stop judicial activism and limit the imperial judiciary to its constitutional role.
Continue reading →Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes.
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 case called Alexander v. Sandoval involved a Spanish-speaking woman, Martha Sandoval, who demanded that Alabama give her the state driver’s license test in Spanish. Alabama refused, based on the section added to Alabama’s Constitution in 1990 declaring English “the official language of the state of Alabama.”
Continue reading →by Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum, issued this statement today: On April 24, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its
Continue reading →The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Utah is preparing to challenge a district court decision that properly found the state’s new official English law constitutional.
Continue reading →When President George W. Bush gets around to appointing federal judges, the issue of parental rights should be a major criterion.
Continue reading →Al Gore’s supporters and their allies in the media continue to falsify the facts about Florida in order to try to delegitimize George W. Bush’s election.
Continue reading →The U.S. Supreme Court has taken a bold step towards returning Florida’s election process to sanity. By halting the 11th hour partial hand recount, it stopped a reckless judicial attempt to elect Al Gore and potentially disenfranchise six million Florida voters.
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The original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) resolution, which passed Congress on March 22, 1972, set this time limit for the ratification period: “seven years from
Continue reading →Not only does President Clinton not feel any shame about his impeachment (as he told Dan Rather), Clinton now feels stronger than ever, able to override the U.S. Constitution and ignore Congress.
Continue reading →Cut taxes across-the-board to put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. Cut rates — the proven way to keep the economy moving. Americans are overtaxed.
Continue reading →The 1996 Kennedy-Kassebaum law authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to assign “unique health care identifiers” to each American so that the government can electronically tag, track and monitor our personal medical records.
Continue reading →The court held that it is a violation of the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association for a state university to use “students’ mandatory activity fees to fund organizations which engage in political or ideological activities, advocacy, or speech.”
Continue reading →In his struggle to hang on to his failed presidency, Bill Clinton appears only before the groups he can count on to shore up his self-esteem by giving him a standing ovation, such as the United Nations General Assembly, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Democratic “fat cats” in multinational corporations.
Continue reading →Most of what we hear on the media about “campaign finance reform” constitutes political posturing and “spin” about proposals that would do nothing to correct campaign abuses, but would do a great deal to interfere with the First Amendment right of citizens to spend our own money for the candidates of our choice.
Continue reading →Senator Orrin Hatch has taken exception to the New York Times’ criticism of his record as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he wrote a letter to the editor to object. The Times had complained that Republican Senators have “politicized” the judicial confirmation process by not confirming enough of Clinton’s judicial nominees.
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