Excerpts from the 2012 Republican Platform
Constitutional Government – In a free society, the primary role of government is to protect the God-given, inalienable, inherent rights of its citizens, including the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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No Higher Power: The Treacherous Trio of Myths
In her newest book, No Higher Power, Phyllis Schlafly and journalist George Neumayr rip away all masks from Barack Obama’s “War on Religious Freedom” in America and reveal the “ominous shadows” of Obama’s hypocritical calls for “separating church and state” in our contemporary American culture and Constitution.
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The Significance of Party Platforms
House Speaker John Boehner was quoted during the Republican National Convention as saying, “Have you ever met anybody who read the Party platform? I never met anybody.”
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Democrats Have No Plan to Create Jobs
The bounce expected from Barack Obama’s Democratic Convention speech collapsed the following day under the reality check that the current unemployment figure is 8.1 percent. And 40.7 percent of those have been out of work for 27 weeks or more.
Continue reading →Labor Day Reminds Us of the Need for Jobs
The businesses that support and lobby for so-called free trade are always trying to wrap themselves in Ronald Reagan. But that’s false because Reagan would not have allowed America to be cheated coming and going by foreign countries.
Continue reading →Good and Bad Immigration Proposals
After a genuinely grassroots Republican platform committee produced a principled document on a plethora of issues, including immigration, some people who were not part of the process are promoting pro-amnesty proposals. Writing this week in the Wall Street Journal, Jon Huntsman suggested that President Obama’s executive order offering work permits to 1.6 million illegal immigrants doesn’t go far enough.
Continue reading →The NEA Shows Its Politics
August 2012 Political conversation on the media is full of chatter about how to cut spending and debt, but it reminds us of the comment
Continue reading →Why Did Ted Cruz Win the Texas Primary?
To the surprise of the pundits, pollsters and predictors who think they are smarter than the rest of us, Ted Cruz won the nomination for U.S. Senator from Texas. A few months ago, he rated only 2 percent in the polls, but in the Primary Runoff he coasted to a 14-point win.
Continue reading →Obama Sabotages Welfare Reform
President Obama on July 12 ended welfare reform, the crowning achievement of the Republican Congress of 1996. That reform succeeded in reducing the welfare rolls by almost half, and was so popular with the American people that Bill Clinton felt compelled to sign it.
Continue reading →The NEA Shows Its Politics
Political conversation on the media is full of chatter about how to cut spending and debt, but it reminds us of the comment attributed to Mark Twain: Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
Continue reading →The Constitution Win in the 2012 Elections: Some Steps We Must Take
America’s political parties will soon conduct their national conventions for the elections of 2012 – a time of unprecedented decision-making for the parties and the nation.
Continue reading →One Nation Under Government, Not Under God
Who does President Barack Obama think he is that he can change the wording of the Declaration of Independence? Again and again he presumes to quote the great Declaration while making a crucial change: he omits the word “Creator.”
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