Amnesty By Any Other Name
When President Bush unveiled his “temporary foreign workers” plan, he got cheers from his carefully selected invitees in the East Room of the White House, but he’s getting jeers from everyone else from Rep. Tom Tancredo to Senator Ted Kennedy.
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Amnesty Isn’t ‘Reform’ — It’s Open Borders
When President Bush unveiled his “temporary foreign workers” plan, he got cheers from his carefully selected invitees in the East Room of the White House, but he’s getting jeers from everyone else from Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) to Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
Continue reading →Does Tom Ridge Believe in the Rule of Law?
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s shocking words were a broadside attack on current law: “We have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind of legal status some way.”
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Caving In To Foreign Bureaucrats
The Bush Administration tried to camouflage its 180-degree reversal of its tariffs on imported steel with happy talk about an improved economy and efficiency efforts by the domestic steel industry. But nobody’s fooled; the Bush Administration ceded control of U.S. trade policy to a bunch of bureaucrats in Geneva who meet and decide in secret, and from whose ukases there is no appeal.
Continue reading →The High Price of Free Trade
Trade representatives from 34 Western Hemisphere countries (all except Cuba) are now gathering in Miami to take the next step to expand NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) into the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Continue reading →The Great Awakening About China
American businessmen and farmers are finally waking up to how they were sold a bill of goods by those who promised that China would be a profitable billion-mouth market if we just gave that developing country Most Favored Nation trade privileges and assisted its admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Like Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” the Bush Administration is “shocked, shocked” to discover that Communists don’t play by the rules or keep their promises.
Continue reading →The House Must Be Elected NOT Appointed
Why are some people now trying to abolish the most democratic feature of our constitutional republic, namely, the right of the people to elect the U.S. House of Representatives?
Continue reading →Do Voters Really Have Equal Protection?
Most Americans assume that the election of the House of Representatives is fairly based on the geographic distribution of our population.
Continue reading →More Children Left Behind
A gaudy sign reading No Child Left Behind, the education slogan of the Bush Administration, guards the entrance to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
Continue reading →Whose Side are the Politicians On?
In a flip-flop to court the Hispanic vote, California Governor Gray Davis signed a bill (which he had rejected twice before) to allow illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses.
Continue reading →Marriage Must Be Protected From The Judges
President Bush has proclaimed the week of October 12-18 as Marriage Protection Week because it’s becoming clearer all the time that the institution of marriage needs protection against battering by the courts.
Continue reading →Iraq Should Pay Its Own Way
At the Senate hearing to consider the Bush Administration’s request for an additional $87 billion to pay for what is going on in Iraq, the sensational news emerged that $20.3 billion of that amount is allocated, not to pay for the war or for the benefit of U.S. troops, but to build Iraq into a modern country with water and sewer systems, power grids, roads, bridges, schools, post offices, prisons, and even 3,000 housing units.
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