NEA Conventioneers Plot Anti-Voucher Action
The National Education Association (NEA) adopted several new goals at its annual convention held in Dallas over the long Fourth of July weekend. No, they don’t have anything to do with improving schoolchildren’s reading, writing or calculating skills.
Continue reading →Important Court Decisions On Schools
The atheists overplayed their hand. After their string of victories banning prayer and the Ten Commandments, they must have thought the time was ripe to get rid of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Continue reading →Copyrights and The Constitution
It seems self-evident that no individual should be allowed to own a law that all of us must obey.
Continue reading →Asbestos Is Gold For Trial Lawyers
Asbestos litigation has spun so far out of control that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal directly from an intermediate state court.
Continue reading →Zero Tolerance On Illegal Drugs
Zero tolerance has become ridiculous when applied to little boys playing cops and robbers or drawing pictures of guns, but it’s sound and sensible when applied to illegal drugs.
Continue reading →Republicans Must Prepare For The Next Battle Over Judges
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s 10-9 partisan defeat of President Bush’s nomination of Charles Pickering contains lasting lessons for Republicans, conservatives, and all those who want to stop judicial activism and limit the imperial judiciary to its constitutional role.
Continue reading →Court Puts The Lid On Nosy Questionnaires
Many parents assume that the tests given to their children in public school are only for educational purposes.
Continue reading →Humans vs. Fish at Klamath Falls
On July 12, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) offered Amendment 899 to release the river water to the farmers. That should have been a no-brainer — what could be easier than choosing between desperate farmers and a couple of ugly fish?
Continue reading →The Importance Of The English Language
The case called Alexander v. Sandoval involved a Spanish-speaking woman, Martha Sandoval, who demanded that Alabama give her the state driver’s license test in Spanish. Alabama refused, based on the section added to Alabama’s Constitution in 1990 declaring English “the official language of the state of Alabama.”
Continue reading →Supreme Court Decision Is Opportunity to Overturn Clinton's Midnight Order and Regs
by Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum, issued this statement today: On April 24, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its
Continue reading →English Language Controversy In Utah
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Utah is preparing to challenge a district court decision that properly found the state’s new official English law constitutional.
Continue reading →Bush Judicial Appointees Should Be Pro-Parent
When President George W. Bush gets around to appointing federal judges, the issue of parental rights should be a major criterion.
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The Supremacists
By Phyllis Schlafly (revised and expanded edition published in 2006) The complete text of this basic book on the courts, with questions for discussion.
Schlafly says activist judges are new conservative target
Calling the U.S. Supreme Court “the most powerful branch of government,” conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly said that grassroots conservatives who have focused on family and social issues are setting their sights next on reforming America’s “imperial judiciary.”
