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.
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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?
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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.
Continue reading →Oath Of Citizenship Should Not Be Changed
Somebody or bodies in the new Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) planned to celebrate Constitution Day on September 17 by changing the oath of citizenship which new citizens take when they are naturalized.
Continue reading →Congress Should Stand Up and Be Counted
Federal court decisions banning the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments, and the possibility raised in Lawrence v. Texas that marriage may no longer be defined as the union of a man and a woman, show that the time has come to curb the Imperial Judiciary.
Continue reading →California Candidates Should Face the Big Issue
Over the last decade, one million people have illegally entered California from Mexico, while two million Americans have fled California to a half dozen nearby Western states in search of lower taxes, less regulation of business, better schools, less crowded highways and safer communities.
Continue reading →Congress Should Stand Up And Be Counted
Federal court decisions about the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments , and the specter raised in Lawrence v. Texas that marriage may no longer be defined as the union of a man and a woman, show that the time has come to curb the Imperial Judiciary.
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