Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just told Mike Wallace on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that “The Court receives over 8,000 applications for review each year.
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Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review, and now hears only about half the cases it heard 25 years ago. This means that many lower federal court decisions are final.
Continue reading →The hottest issue at the grassroots is illegal immigration and what our government is not doing to stop it. The question most frequently heard is, Why doesn’t the Bush Administration get it?
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What is the United States of America? Is it merely an accident of geography, or a job market for the world, or a multiethnic, multilingual lot of people who agreed (more or less, and probably temporarily) to live under a Constitution?
Continue reading →It’s not just American ports that are fast slipping into foreign ownership; it’s highways, too. A Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., has bought the right to operate a toll road through Texas and collect tolls for the next 50 years.
Continue reading →Grassroots Americans of all parties and economic classes rose up out of their political apathy a few months ago and forced President Bush to reverse his administration’s decision to allow a Middle East government to own America’s major ports.
Continue reading →The hottest issue at the grassroots is illegal immigration and what our government is not doing to stop it.
Continue reading →Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don’t approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA). Meeting in Orlando this year in annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the NEA adopted a long series of left-liberal resolutions.
Continue reading →Who could have guessed that Osama bin Laden’s driver/bodyguard would be one of the privileged few to be granted a hearing by the high and mighty U.S. Supreme Court justices! After refusing to hear appeals from thousands of Americans during the past year, the Court’s liberals jumped at a chance to rule that President Bush was wrong.
Continue reading →President Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who improved public school standards with “No child left behind.” It now looks like his legacy will really be “No illegal alien left behind.”
Continue reading →North Korea’s threat to test a long-range ballistic nuclear missile capable of reaching the United States comes as no surprise. President Bush already branded North Korea as part of the “axis of evil.”
Continue reading →Bush entered the White House in 2001 hoping he would be known in history books as the education president who raised public school standards with “No child left behind.” It now looks like his legacy will be “No illegal alien left behind.”
Continue reading →Some Republicans, from senators to the new chief justice, are falling for the seductive goals of consensus and bipartisanship. More often than not, those words mean abandonment of principle.
Continue reading →As President Bush’s poll numbers drop dramatically even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is, why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys?
Continue reading →The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed by President Bush in January without any public debate, but evidence is now surfacing which Congress should have examined before the law was passed.
Continue reading →The illegal aliens in this country carried out a massive boycott on May 1 to demonstrate they are so essential that the U.S. economy would shut down without their labor. On the contrary, their boycott exposed the lie expressed by President Bush in Cancun, Mexico that they are “doing work that Americans will not do.”
Continue reading →by Phyllis Schlafly The illegal aliens in this country are threatening a massive boycott on May 1, purportedly to demonstrate they are so essential that the U.S. economy would shut down without their labor. On the contrary, such a boycott will expose the lie expressed by President Bush in Cancun, Mexico that they are “doing
Continue reading →Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like.
Continue reading →Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like.
Continue reading →Like many teenagers, President Bush dashed off to Cancun for spring break. Protected by a long and impenetrable fence and plenty of security guards, he met privately with the Mexican president and wealthy CEOs from both countries.
Continue reading →To President Bush’s approval of the $6.5 billion sale of terminals at six of our most important ports to the United Arab Emirates, Americans are shouting, “That needs to change.” We are fed up with the post-9/11 failure (i.e., the refusal) of the Bush Administration to secure our borders and ports.
Continue reading →When our supposedly compassionate federal government pokes its nose into areas that, under our principle of federalism, should be none of its business, the result is often unintended consequences, gross injustices, and of course massive costs.
Continue reading →The conservative movement that elected Ronald Reagan twice, George Bush I once, and George Bush II twice, is essentially a movement of grassrooters who don’t like to take orders from the top and who revolt when they believe they are betrayed or bossed by those they elected.
Continue reading →President George W. Bush, Senators John McCain, Edward Kennedy, Arlen Specter and several others are promoting legislation to grant some kind of guest-worker/amnesty status to millions of illegal aliens residing in the United States, as well as to an indefinite number of additional foreign workers.
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