Phyllis Schlafly

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  Nov 4, 2014

  Obama Starts Democrats 'War Against Women'

  Barack Obama has suddenly made himself the leader of a new war on women. In a Rhode Island pre-election campaign speech, he repudiated the principle of giving choices about careers to women.

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  Oct 29, 2014

  Illegal Voters May Decide Fate of Senate

  Control of the U.S. Senate is up for grabs on Nov. 4, and illegal voters may tip the balance. Estimates are that more than 14 percent of non-citizens were registered to vote in the elections of 2008 and 2010, and that could now easily exceed the margin of victory in many tight Senate races.

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  Oct 21, 2014

  GOP Needs a Big Toolbox to Win In 2014

  Although the midterm elections are still two weeks away, about two million Americans have already voted. The circus of early and mail-in voting undermines the federal law, which provides: "The Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election."

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  Oct 14, 2014

  Stopping Disease at the Borders

  Americans against amnesty are not only worried about unemployed Mexicans crossing our southern border illegally to take U.S. jobs. More than ever, we need the fence that Congress voted for and President George W. Bush made a television photo event when he signed it into law.

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  Oct 8, 2014

  Obama Fails to Protect Us, Again

  Of all the examples of incompetence and failure to protect Americans that the Obama administration has displayed, its failure to keep Ebola out of our country may be the worst. Obama's No. 1 job is to keep dangerous people from coming into America, and he has flunked the test.

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  Oct 1, 2014

  The Best Interest of the Child Is Now the Best Interest of the Dog

  The supposed standard for child custody in family courts is the "best interest of the child." The Vermont Supreme Court has now extended that to the best interest of the dog.

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  Sep 23, 2014

  Who Killed the American Family?: How the Breakdown of the Family Is Impacting Our Children

  Much has been written about the decline in the percentage of Americans who live in a traditional nuclear family. The scholar Charles Murray has pointed out that the shocking rate of illegitimate births (now 41 percent) is the most serious social and fiscal problem America faces because it is the factor that drives everything else.

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  Sep 16, 2014

  Immigration Tricks Are Turning On Democrats

  The strategists who base their political advice on public opinion polls have just had a surprise. A new poll reports that the American people are now more likely to trust Republicans to handle immigration and less likely to trust Democratic plans to offer illegals a path to citizenship (aka amnesty).

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  Sep 9, 2014

  Gambling: Where Is the Payoff?

  For those who promote legalized gambling as a means of economic development or revitalization, or as a painless way to pay for public schools, the recent news from Atlantic City, New Jersey, is sobering.

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  Sep 3, 2014

  Putin Pushes the Envelope On Obama, US Territory

  While the world's attention was distracted by his incursions into Eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin quietly made another provocative move that could lead to a direct confrontation with the United States. The Russian Navy sent a ship to remote Wrangel Island, planted a Russian naval flag on August 20, and announced plans to build a naval base there for Russia's Pacific Fleet.