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State Attorneys General and Violent Video Games

By Phyllis Schlafly (Sep 07, 2010)

Extremely violent and addictive video games are polluting the minds of an entire generation of children, and most parents are clueless. Young players earn game points based... more

Time to START Standing Up for America

By Phyllis Schlafly (Aug 31, 2010)

Among the dangers lurking in Congress's fall session and lame duck session will be Obama's demand that the Senate rush to ratify the treaty called New START, which he signed... more

Obama Versus Majority Public Opinion

By Phyllis Schlafly (Aug 24, 2010)

Americans are being treated to welcome entertainment during the dog days of summer as we watch the Democrats wring their hands over Barack Obama's tone deafness about... more

The Feminist Left Goes Global on Our Money

By Phyllis Schlafly (Aug 18, 2010)

Just when we thought President Obama had reached the ultimate in seizing extravagant power by appointing a Health Care Czar (Donald Berwick) to exercise life-and-death... more

Un-American American History Courses

By Phyllis Schlafly (Aug 10, 2010)

Arizona's new law that requires the police to ask people to show ID, which was just knocked out by a supremacist judge, may not be the most controversial Arizona law about... more

The NEA's Latest Shenanigans

By Phyllis Schlafly (Aug 03, 2010)

What does diversity mean to you? Same-sex marriage? Building a giant mosque on the 9/11 spot in New York? Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court?To the largest teachers union, the... more

More Unaccountable Obama Czars

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jul 27, 2010)

Barack Obama has appointed another czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled senior policy adviser for healthy food initiatives, but he's... more

Obama Takes Illinois Mistakes Nationwide

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jul 20, 2010)

"Unsustainable" is a scary word that recently entered political discourse, coming authoritatively from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf.... more

Kagan Must Answer Question About DOMA

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jul 13, 2010)

If Elena Kagan is confirmed for the Supreme Court, it will not matter that Martha Coakley failed to win her bid to fill out Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Kagan's 30-plus years... more

America's Great Religious Document

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jul 06, 2010)

Tea Parties and other spontaneous groups of activists are bringing a new appreciation of the U.S. Constitution to grassroots America, so this Fourth of July would be a good... more

Elena Kagan Should Be Rejected

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jun 29, 2010)

Barack Obama revealed his goal for the Supreme Court when he complained on Chicago radio station WBEZ-FM in 2001 that the Earl Warren Court wasn't "radical" enough... more

A Good Father's Day Gift

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jun 19, 2010)

A good Father's Day gift would be to reform the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), make it gender-neutral, and assure men that family courts will accord them constitutional... more

Social Issues vs. Fiscal Issues

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jun 15, 2010)

The media are forever trying to create a division in the Republican Party between those who care most about so-called social issues and those who want priority for fiscal... more

Obama Prevaricates about Jobs

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jun 08, 2010)

The spectacular loss of American jobs is devastating to more Americans than the oil spill in the gulf, but Barack Obama still doesn't get it. This month he bragged to... more

Obama Missed a Great Chance

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jun 01, 2010)

President Obama had a golden Memorial Day opportunity to show the country that (contrary to his left flank) he is not anti-military and not anti-Christian, by telling... more

Obama STARTS to Disarm America

By Phyllis Schlafly (May 25, 2010)

Would you be satisfied if your only access to a computer was to try to boot up one that hadn't been used or tested since 1992? That's the predicament of our nuclear... more

How Republicans Can Blow the Coming Election

By Phyllis Schlafly (May 18, 2010)

Pundits are predicting that Republicans could pick up 40 to 100 seats in the U.S. House this November. But Democrats are about to unveil their secret weapon to keep Nancy... more

Obama Steers the Court Sharp Left

By Phyllis Schlafly (May 11, 2010)

Barack Obama has thumbed his nose at veterans and many other Americans by trying to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens with the liberal Elena Kagan.... more

Why Tea Partiers Say Throw the Bums Out

By Phyllis Schlafly (May 04, 2010)

Proof that the Tea Partiers and others are on target when they criticize both political parties was supplied by the behavior of the U.S. House on April 29. Demoting all... more

Democrats Try to Lock Up Their Base

By Phyllis Schlafly (Apr 27, 2010)

"You have to decide what your goals are." That's what the Democratic staffer who wrote the marriage penalty into Obama's health control law told a Wall Street Journal... more

Some Pay, and Some Receive

By Phyllis Schlafly (Apr 20, 2010)

The news that the United States has become a two-class society -- i.e., half of Americans pay federal income taxes and half don't -- has bounced around the media and shocked... more

America Becomes a Two-Class Society

By Phyllis Schlafly (Apr 13, 2010)

Income tax day, April 15, 2010, now divides Americans into two almost equal classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and the freeloaders. The... more

Good Advice Against a Con Con

By Phyllis Schlafly (Apr 06, 2010)

Suggestions that the United States call a new constitutional convention, as allowed in the Constitution's Article V, have popped up in some state legislatures and even on a... more

Supreme Court Needs at Least One Veteran

By Phyllis Schlafly (Mar 30, 2010)

For as long as we can remember, the U.S. Supreme Court has included at least one military veteran. Recent examples include Republican-appointed Chief Justice William... more

Obamacare Versus Freedom

By Phyllis Schlafly (Mar 23, 2010)

Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi spent the weekend telling Democrats to hurry up and get the job done -- i.e., end the legislative agony by passing Obamacare (even though polls... more

Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks

By Phyllis Schlafly (Mar 16, 2010)

"Don't Mess With Texas" is a popular slogan in our most prosperous state. By a 10-to-five margin, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) just told liberals to stop... more

Putting Private Info on Government Database

By Phyllis Schlafly (Mar 09, 2010)

Far more personal information on students than is necessary is being collected by public schools, according to the Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy,... more

Patent Reform Is a Patent Giveaway

By Phyllis Schlafly (Mar 02, 2010)

Americans should beware when members of Congress talk about "reform" and "comprehensive" because those words usually cover a lot of mischief. The latest example of this... more

Organizing Kids for Obama

By Phyllis Schlafly (Feb 23, 2010)

President Barack Obama's budget has added more than $100 billion of federal taxpayers' money to what is called "education," so that means it will be spent by alumni of the... more

The Problem Is Government Unions

By Phyllis Schlafly (Feb 16, 2010)

The Senate's decisive defeat of confirmation of radical labor lawyer Craig Becker is the first tangible result of the Massachusetts Miracle, which made... more

Obama Panders to the Feminists

By Phyllis Schlafly (Feb 09, 2010)

Barack Obama's "spread the wealth around" doesn't mean only higher taxes on taxpayers and more handouts to non-taxpayers. More especially, it means transfers of financial... more

Global Warming Is Frozen Over

By Phyllis Schlafly (Feb 02, 2010)

Whether or not the groundhog sees his shadow on Feb. 2, there's no denying that January put into a deep freeze the claims of crisis by global warming alarmists. Frigid... more

The Real Loser In The Massachusetts Election

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jan 26, 2010)

Smarting from their surprise loss in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, the Democrats are throwing their candidate, Martha Coakley, under the bus. They... more

Why Kids Don't Do Well in School

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jan 19, 2010)

Let me share with you an interesting article from The Washington Post about the teacher of an all-black class in a high school in Alexandria, Va., who expressed his... more

The Marriage Penalty in Health Care

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jan 12, 2010)

Hidden in Obama's health care bill is a huge marriage penalty. Both the Senate and House bills would set up yet another federal program to provide financial incentives to... more

The Causes of Unemployment

By Phyllis Schlafly (Jan 05, 2010)

Much has been written about our current high unemployment, but there is a strange reluctance by both liberal and conservative commentators to assess blame for the dramatic... more