Separating Spin From Reality In Bush v. Gore
Al Gore’s supporters and their allies in the media continue to falsify the facts about Florida in order to try to delegitimize George W. Bush’s election.
Continue reading →Activist Judges Should Not Overrule Elections
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken a bold step towards returning Florida’s election process to sanity. By halting the 11th hour partial hand recount, it stopped a reckless judicial attempt to elect Al Gore and potentially disenfranchise six million Florida voters.
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Power Grab Through Executive Orders
Not only does President Clinton not feel any shame about his impeachment (as he told Dan Rather), Clinton now feels stronger than ever, able to override the U.S. Constitution and ignore Congress.
Continue reading →Eagle Forum’s Wish List for the 106th Congress
Cut taxes across-the-board to put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. Cut rates — the proven way to keep the economy moving. Americans are overtaxed.
Continue reading →A Candid Report on the 105th Congress
The 1996 Kennedy-Kassebaum law authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to assign “unique health care identifiers” to each American so that the government can electronically tag, track and monitor our personal medical records.
Continue reading →What College Tuition and Fees Are Paying For!
The court held that it is a violation of the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association for a state university to use “students’ mandatory activity fees to fund organizations which engage in political or ideological activities, advocacy, or speech.”
Continue reading →Why Clinton Still Raises Big Campaign Money
In his struggle to hang on to his failed presidency, Bill Clinton appears only before the groups he can count on to shore up his self-esteem by giving him a standing ovation, such as the United Nations General Assembly, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Democratic “fat cats” in multinational corporations.
Continue reading →Let’s Pass Real Campaign Finance Reform
Most of what we hear on the media about “campaign finance reform” constitutes political posturing and “spin” about proposals that would do nothing to correct campaign abuses, but would do a great deal to interfere with the First Amendment right of citizens to spend our own money for the candidates of our choice.
Continue reading →It’s Time to Hold Federal Judges Accountable
Senator Orrin Hatch has taken exception to the New York Times’ criticism of his record as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he wrote a letter to the editor to object. The Times had complained that Republican Senators have “politicized” the judicial confirmation process by not confirming enough of Clinton’s judicial nominees.
Continue reading →Congress Must Curb the Imperial Judiciary
The most important duty of the 105th Congress is to protect America from judicial usurpation and restore our constitutional balance of powers among the three branches of our government.
Continue reading →Feminist Assault on Reasonableness
Twenty years after women began attending law schools in greater numbers, feminists are turning up as law school professors, law review writers, state legislators, congressional staffers, prosecutors, law clerks and even judges.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Feminist World View
How does it happen that a Supreme Court nominee whose only experience in private law practice was seven years as general counsel to the ACLU came to be praised by almost everyone as a “moderate” and a “centrist”?
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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.”
