Lamar Smith’s E-Verify Bill Must Be Amended
E-Verify, a computer process that makes it fast and easy for employers to check the validity of employees’ Social Security numbers to ascertain if they are legal, was created by Congress as a voluntary system. It demonstrates its utility by verifying individuals within a few seconds with 99.5 percent accuracy, but only about two percent of businesses actually use it.
Continue reading →Libya and the War Powers Act
One of the reasons leftwingers voted for Barack Obama for President in 2008 was that they opposed the war in Iraq. The anti-war left is disappointed that Obama continued the Iraq war, escalated Afghanistan, and started a new war in Libya.
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The Cost to Taxpayers of Missing Fathers
With Father’s Day coming up, we should ponder the sad plight of the 20 million American children who are growing up without their fathers in the home.
Continue reading →States Deal With Illegal Alien Problems
June 10, 2011by Phyllis Schlafly Alabama has suddenly become the leader in comprehensive immigration reform, passing up Arizona whose laws have had so much news
Continue reading →Obnoxious Classroom Curricula
Elementary school curriculum isn’t just about the three R’s any more. Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic now have to make time for lessons in gender diversity and for nosy questionnaires that lead kids into teen sex and illegal drug usage.
Continue reading →Perpetuating Federal Spending on Education
The Obama Administration is now trying to get around FERPA by the subterfuge of having the states build the databases and assign each child a different ID number.
Continue reading →Patent Act Is Dangerous to U.S. Security
More and more dangerous effects of the proposed changes to U.S. patent law (S.23, H.R.1249) keep emerging, especially since the hearings failed to hear from any real inventors.
Continue reading →Trade Agreements Cost Jobs
How do the candidates plan to replace the millions of U.S. middle-class jobs that have gone overseas, and what will the candidates do about the millions of illegal aliens in our country.
Continue reading →Who Will Answer the Jobs Question?
Why did millions of good blue-collar jobs go overseas and what is your plan to restore them? Who and what is responsible for this national disaster?
Continue reading →The Patent Bill is Unconstitutional
One of the most valuable individual rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution is the right of “inventors” to own “the exclusive right” to their “discoveries” for “limited times.” This right was set forth in Article I, Section 8, years before the rights to freedom of speech and religion were added.
Continue reading →What We’ve Learned from Budget Debate
Obama and Mexican Trucks
Barack Obama’s deal with the president of Mexico to allow Mexican trucks to carry their loads onto U.S. highways and roads is new evidence of his high-handed solo behavior that has become Standard Operating Procedure in the Administration.
Continue reading →What Students Learn and Don’t Learn
If you are attending college to get teacher certification, you will probably be required to attend classes on “multicultural education.” This is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom and prepare teachers to teach pupils of various ethnic or national backgrounds.
Continue reading →Education Spending Won’t Create Jobs
Contrary to Obama’s political rhetoric, more taxpayer spending to send more students to college will not reduce unemployment or improve the economy.
Continue reading →Education Spending Has a Simple Solution
Federal spending on public schools (which is only a small percentage of their school budgets) was given specific goals in the 2002 law called “No Child Left Behind,” the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Continue reading →Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) discovered $105 billion of taxpayers’ money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had hidden in ObamaCare.
Continue reading →Death for Innovation
The Democratic Senate is itching to pass a bill that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth.
Continue reading →So Refreshing; Congress Doing Its Job
Republican Members of the House, goaded on by TEA Partiers, have made a good start in fulfilling their promise to cut $100 billion out of current spending of taxpayers’ money.
Continue reading →A Warning About Things to Come
Have you seen the television pictures of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees?
Continue reading →Free Trade with Protectionist China Cheats America
After President Obama bamboozled the Senate into a hurry-up ratification of his New START Treaty, Russia impudently rejected the McCain “understanding” that we don’t have to abide by the Preamble’s language limiting the U.S. from building anti-missile defenses.
Continue reading →Feminism Has Become a Hot Topic
The liberals have unjustly blamed Sarah Palin for many things, but there’s one thing for which she is probably responsible: making feminism the hot topic that it has become today.
Continue reading →VAWA Is an Excellent Target for Spending Cuts
Taxpayers’ funds are used to lobby for feminist legislation, to train law enforcement and judicial personnel in feminist ideology and in the aggressive enforcement of feminist laws, and to break up families instead of giving them pro-family and anti-substance-abuse counseling.
Continue reading →Cheers for Repeal of ObamaCare
The U.S. House did what its candidates had promised and the voters expected: the House passed 245 to 189 a repeal of ObamaCare, the centerpiece of Socialism.
Continue reading →Obama’s Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks
Detaching the Anchor from Anchor Babies
It’s long overdue for Congress to stop the racket of bringing pregnant women into this country to give birth, receive free medical care, and then call their babies U.S. citizens entitled to all American rights and privileges plus generous handouts. Between 300,000 and 400,000 babies are born to illegal aliens in the United States every year, at least 10 percent of all births.
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