Phyllis Schlafly

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  • Sessions Gets Right With the Truth On Immigration

    Sessions Gets Right With the Truth On Immigration

    House Republicans went into a "retreat" in a Maryland hideaway to consider a statement of "principles" put before them by the House leadership. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., immediately said they are "the same recycled talking points, crafted with the help of the same consultants and special interests," and that the proposed legislation "ensures only the amnesty and not the enforcement."

  • Obama Betrays U.S. Military Superiority

    Obama Betrays U.S. Military Superiority

    The takeover of Fallujah by al-Qaida wipes out our costly 2004 victory in which we captured the Iraqi city at the cost of 100 Marines and soldiers killed in action, and hundreds more wounded. Fallujah isn't just an Obama mistake; it's the exemplar of Obama's disastrous foreign and military policies designed to reduce the power and prestige of America on the world stage.

  • Parents and Teachers Object to Common Core

    Parents and Teachers Object to Common Core

    Now we are told we need a new national system called Common Core State Standards Initiative, and it has provoked a grassroots uprising. Parents don't want federal control or a federal curriculum, and teachers don't like the CC tests.

  • Whom is John Kerry Representing?

    Whom is John Kerry Representing?

    Secretary of State John Kerry is turning out to be even more dangerous than former Secretary Hillary Clinton. "The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over," he took it upon himself to unilaterally proclaim.

  • The President Misled Americans

    The President Misled Americans

    Obama's words will levy even more contemporary embarrassment and political immortality than George H.W. Bush's "Read my lips. No new taxes," or Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

  • Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants is Suicide for GOP

    Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants is Suicide for GOP

    If the Republican Party is to remain nationally competitive, it must defeat amnesty in every form. Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, summed it up: "I think it would be crazy for the House Republican leadership to enter into negotiations with (Obama) on immigration, and I'm a proponent of immigration reform. ... He's trying to destroy the Republican Party, and I think that anything that we do right now with the president on immigration will be with that same goal in mind, which is to destroy the Repub

  • Obama's Religious Intolerance is Evident in Government Shutdown

    Obama's Religious Intolerance is Evident in Government Shutdown

    The harassment of religion in the military may be part of Obama's attempt to make the government shutdown as painful to the public as possible.

  • Obama Disobeys Law of the Land

    Obama Disobeys Law of the Land

    The Democrats are chanting that Republicans must fully fund Obamacare because it is the law of the land, passed by Congress, signed by the president and upheld by the Supreme Court. Therefore, they say, it must be obeyed and can't be altered by Republicans who want to defund it.

  • Obamacare and Medicare; A Train Wreck In the Making

    Obamacare and Medicare; A Train Wreck In the Making

    The problem with ObamaCare isn't only that it's careening toward a financial train wreck. It's also a slush fund to pay off Obama's political activists to carry out a massive invasion of privacy that dwarfs the NSA's collection of personal data on American citizens.

  • Why Republicans Didn't Win In 2012

    Why Republicans Didn't Win In 2012

    The official Republican Party's analysis of the election was issued last June by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. It was so self-serving and inadequate that it was dubbed an autopsy, i.e., the dissection of a dead body.