DUGGAR FAMILY IN WEST BEND SATURDAY - TODAY 3/31

The DUGGAR FAMILY of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting"

will be making a short-notice appearance THIS

SATURDAY  (today 3/31) at First Baptist Church in 

West Bend at 6:30 p.m.

• Music
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• Testimony
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• Q&A Time

RICK SANTORUM at Hartford MINESHAFT TODAY

Join

Republican Presidential Candidate

RICK SANTORUM 

at the 

MINESHAFT IN HARTFORD

TODAY

2:45 P.M.

MARCH PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT NOW AVAILABLE

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Phony Divide Between Fiscal & Social Issues

in the MARCH PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT 

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

The Big Issue:  Dependency vs Liberty

Graphs

We Can't Separate Social Policy From Tax Law

NEWS AND NOTES: EAGLE FORUM 2/24/2012

MISSOURI EAGLE FORUM HOSTS SUCCESSFUL ANNUAL SWEETHEART LUNCHEON FEATURING PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY AND DAVID LIMBAUGH. With full fanfare, over 100 Missouri Eagles gathered at the Deer Creek Club to honor Phyllis Schlafly on Feb. 7, 2012.The program included a choir singing well-known show-tunes including "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." A special message from Rick Santorum was read as part of the introduction of Phyllis Schlafly, who introduced David Limbaugh. Limbaugh is a well-known author, speaker, attorney and son of Millie Limbaugh, who was honored as the National Eagle Forum Homemaker of the Year in 1993.


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NEWS AND NOTES: EAGLE FORUM 1/13/2012

SUPREME COURT ISSUES UNANIMOUS DECISION FAVORING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the unanimous decision stating: the "authority to select and control who will minister to the faithful is the church's alone." If an antidiscrimination lawsuit attempts to interfere with such matters, the First Amendment does not permit it to proceed."USAToday.com, 1-11-12.

 

WHEN WILL A NOMINEE BE CHOSEN? Not until April, according to some estimates. The new RNC rules allow for 2,286 delegates to be sent to the Republican National Convention; therefore, it will take 1,143 delegate votes to win the nomination. Several states were penalized half their delegates for holding their primaries too early: NH, SC, FL, MI and AZ. Until April, there will not be enough delegate votes to nominate a candidate. States awarding delegates proportionally will likely split delegates making it even less likely that any candidate can lock up the nomination earlier, as long as two or more remain in the race.

 

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY'S IMPACT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES; FORMER FEMINIST COLLEGE STUDENT WRITES A BOOK OPPOSING DAYCARE 20 YEARS LATER. "Around 1992," wrote May Saubier to Phyllis, "you came to Skidmore College to debate a former President of NOW.  I cannot remember this other woman's name, but I do remember yours.  I was knee deep in women's studies classes at the time and my friends and I could not wait to 'burn you at the stake.'  We did not consider your opinions might be worthwhile, so brainwashed were we into believing the feminist ideals we had been taught.  I recall a great deal of screaming, yelling and booing each time you spoke.  You remained poised through it all.  At the end of the debate, I got on a long line to shake the other woman's hand.  How I wish I had, instead, gotten on your line to shake yours. Your example will serve me well as I work to promote my recently self-published book, Doing Time: What It Really Means To Grow Up In Daycare. Please accept my apologies and keep up the good work," written with sincerity by May Saubier.  

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Phyllis Schlafly Named 3rd Most Powerful Conservative Woman

Via The Blaze:

The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and Human Events have collaborated to bring us the Most Influential Conservative Women in America.
According to a letter from Alyssa Cordova, lecture director of  CBLPI, the organization decided to pull together this top 10 list to “promote mentors and women leaders from all walks of life who are committed to the constitutional principles of individual freedom, economic liberty, limited government, personal responsibility, and traditional values [...].”
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Phyllis Schlafly: Schlafly is the founder and president of Eagle Forum and advocated against and rallied other women to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. Rep. Steve King in his profile on Schlafly writes that she is “one of conservatism’s most successful grassroots activists.”

November NEWS & NOTES

via EAGLE FORUM

MICHIGAN EAGLE FORUM HOSTS SEMINAR FEATURING PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY, FRANK GAFFNEY, AND JOHN MCMANUS. On November 12, Eagles gathered for a one-day seminar titled: "Fundamentally Transforming America." 
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U.S. HOUSE REAFFIRMS "IN GOD WE TRUST" MOTTO RESOLUTION 396-9.  President Obama criticized the House action by stating "That's not putting people back to work.  I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work" (video). 
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Eagle Forum NEWS & NOTES 11/11/11

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LISTEN TO EAGLE FORUM LIVE. Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 12 noon (CST) on 40 stations across the country. Also accessible on the Internet: at Bott Radio Network This week, Phyllis Schlafly will interview Marcello Pera on "Can Democracy Survive Without Christianity?" 

Eagle Forum LIVE

LISTEN TO EAGLE FORUM LIVE. Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 12 noon (CST) on 40 stations across the country. Also accessible on the Internet: at Bott Radio NetworkThis week, Phyllis Schlafly will interview Mike McCormick on "Gulity Until Proven Innocent."

EAGLE FORUM HOLDS NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Citizens Gather from Across the CountryPhyllis Schlafly will host the 40th annual Eagle Council on September 16-18, at Arlington, Virginia at the Crystal Gateway Marriott. Some 250 leaders from 50 states are expected to attend. Eagle Council XL opens at 6 p.m. on Friday, September 16 and ends at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 18.

Headline speakers will include Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and Phyllis Schlafly, president and founder of Eagle Forum. Saturday will feature in-depth sessions on integrating the latest technologies into winning campaigns, the Republican presidential nominating process, school tax and bond elections, effective pro-life legislation, preeminence of American law, Agenda 21, Voter Registration Reform, and saving the Electoral College.

The Fulltime Homemaker Award, to recognize the high value of motherhood and personal sacrifice, will be presented on Saturday evening to Teiro Cuccinelli, wife of Ken Cuccinelli.

"Eagle Councils are always a combination of informative speeches and training to build effective citizen activists," said Schlafly. "The Council will present an opportunity to learn from specialists in campaign technology and strategy, volunteer lobbying on specific pro-family issues, and use of the internet and social networking websites."

Eagle Forum, a national conservative pro-family organization of volunteers, was founded in 1972 in St. Louis. It has about 80,000 members nationwide, with chapters in every state and offices in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Alton, Illinois. Eagle Forum trains its members to participate in the public policymaking function, especially in education, foreign policy, and constitutional issues.

China - What the candidates aren't talking about

From Phyllis Schlafly:

The media are absorbed with the race for the Republican presidential nomination, commenting on daily fluctuations in the polls, and predicting who will win. But why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the room — China?


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Scandals in the Classroom - Phyllis Schlafly

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Elementary school curriculum isn't just about the three R's any more. Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic now have to make time for lessons in gender diversity and for nosy questionnaires that lead kids into teen sex and illegal drug usage.

Students in all grades at Oakland, California's Redwood Heights Elementary School were given two days of gender diversity lessons designed to teach them that gender is not confined to the "binary concept" of two options. The lessons promoted "gender neutrality," the concept that no distinctions between male and female should be legally allowed.

AUGUST 2011 Phyllis Schlafly Report now available

Go HERE to read the latest Phyllis Schlafly Report online.

May EDUCATION REPORTER Now Available ---

Click HERE to view the May Eagle Forum EDUCATION REPORTER....

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Free Lunches Feed School Coffers

'Common Core' Tests Ahead

Union Thuggery 101

Court Rules For Fuzzy Math

'White Privilege' Conference Spared Budget Axe

BOOK REVIEW:
The Five-Year Party

Teachers Unions Working Feverishly to 'Organize' Charter Schools

The Toxic Influence of Progressive Education on K-12 Curricula

WVCY "In Focus" Interview re: Youth Risk Behavior Survey

I was invited to WVCY's "In Focus" program with Jim Schneider to explain the dangerous and overstepping "Youth Risk Behavior Survey."

You can read about the survey HERE:

You can WATCH THE INTERVIEW ON VIDEO HERE:

The survey has now been administered in our West Bend School District.  Contact your local school board and let them know you would not like to see this again in our District.

School Board Contact Information:

President- Randy Marquardt:  rmarquardt@west-bend.k12.us
Vice-President- Tim Stepanski:  tstepanski@west-bend.k12.us
Clerk-Bart Williams:  bwilliams@west-bend.k12.us
Treasurer- Rick Parks:  rparks@west-bend.k12.us

Board Member:  Dave Weigand:  dweigand@west-bend.k12.us

Board Member:  Todd Miller:  tmiller@west-bend.k12.us

Board Member:  Kris Beaver:  kbeaver@west-bend.k12.us

Eagle Forum of Wisconsin's New Vice President

From Dottie Feder, President of Eagle Forum of Wisconsin:

I am delighted to introduce Janet Spiewak, Wisconsin's new Eagle Forum Vice President; Janet's commitment and credentials are an asset and answer to prayer for our state organization.  Janet has degrees in English, Professional Writing and History from Mount Mary College, and has worked on numerous political campaigns.    Phyllis Schlafly's  comment says it best, "Welcome aboard, Janet.  We need you.  Wisconsin has moved to front and center in the national debate, so let's keep winning!  Phyllis"   Eagle Forum of Wisconsin has a great team and I look forward to our future endeavors.

Dottie

Eagle Forum to Host Richfield Village Trustee Candidate Forum

Richfield: Eagle Forum of Wisconsin-Washington County will host a candidate forum for Richfield Village Trustees on Thursday, March 31, at 7:00 p.m.

The event will be held at Richfield Elementary School, 3117 State Hwy. 167.

The format will include an introductory statement by each candidate. Candidates will take turns answering questions and will be allowed conclusion time.

Trustee candidates for the village of Richfield are Rock Brandner (I), Bill Collins (I), Reid Snedaker, and Sandy Voss.

The moderator will be State Representative Don Pridemore.  Pridemore is a 1977 graduate of Marquette University, a former electronics researcher and engineer, and an amateur chili judge. A veteran from the Vietnam Era, he served in the Air Force from 1965-1969. He is a former president of the Hartford Area Taxpayer Association, a member of the Hartford Lions, and Greater Hartford Optimists, as well as the American Legion, VFW, and the NRA. In the past he has served as assistant scout master for Boy Scout Troop 741, and state director for Wisconsin Citizens for Legal Reform, and a member of the Erin Park Board since 1995. In 2004, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly, and has been unopposed for the last two elections.

Eagle Forum is offering this event as a community service to the greater Washington County area. The forum will be videotaped and shared via the Eagle Forum website at www.eagleforumwc.blogspot.com for later viewing.

No direct debate will be permitted, and no questions will be taken from the floor.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Washington County chapter president Ginny Maziarka via email at eagleforumwc@gmail.com.

S303 ALERT! Gives EPA Foothold on Private Property

Call Your Senators Today!

As feared by everyone, the U.S. Senate and Harry Reid are bringing those fears to fruition and are set to destroy America’s future by taking all the private property they can with one bill, unless we act this week!

It used to be called the CLEAR (Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources) Act of 2010, but Mr. Reid pulled a legislative trick and substituted the CLEAR Act for a completely unrelated, bill S. 303, and now calls it the “America’s Great Outdoors Bill of 2010.”

Call your Senators today and demand they oppose S. 303 in its entirety.  Demand that they oppose every section of this bill.  No part of this bill is good for America’s landowners.

S. 303 was introduced and passed by the Senate in early 2009, as the “Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 2009.”  It was amended and passed in the House and sent back to the Senate for passage where it has languished until now.  In a near midnight Sunday session with no one on the Senate floor, Reid asked for unanimous consent to substitute the CLEAR Act for S. 303.  The President of the Senate said: “Without objection, granted,” and S. 303 was placed on the Calendar for consideration.

Fred Kelly Grant explains how Reid slyly made the switch and the devastating implications the bill has for private property rights in today’s report. 

In this one maneuver, Mr. Reid used S.303 as a shell bill completely gutting it, added 1,003 pages with 108 separate land bills, and renamed it “America’s Great Outdoors Bill of 2010.”

Among the bills rolled into this amendment are 13 sections covering the National Park Service, National Wilderness Preservation System, Forest Service, Department of Interior, National Heritage Sites, BLM, Rivers and Trails, Water and Hydropower, Insular Areas, Wildlife Conservation and Water Quality Protection and Restoration, Oceans and Fisheries, Indian Homelands and Trust Land, and Miscellaneous.

This means additional wilderness, wild and scenic rivers and trails designations, the expansion of EPA authority to control ocean beaches through regulations that will adversely affect all farms and ranches, and multiple land transfers, among other significant negative implications for America.

Early estimates are that this bill will cost Americans a minimum of $18 billion dollars, and that is just the cost of the bill, not the long term loss to our local and national economies as more of America’s land is removed from productive use.

Mr. Reid is pulling out all the stops before the old Congress adjourns.  We must try to stop this bill before we lose more of our land and more of our liberty.

There is no time for any member of Congress to actually consider this type of massive legislation, some of which has not even had a hearing.

Contact your U.S. Senator and demand they oppose S.303, Reid’s massive Omnibus Lands Bill.

ACTION ALERT!! Stop the START Treaty...

Call your U.S. Senators and tell them not to let Obama and Harry Reid's lame duck Senate repudiate Ronald Reagan!  

Reagan was a consistent stalwart booster of U.S. anti-missile defenses.  He won the Cold War by standing firm on his plan to build an Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)  Treaty.  Obama's New START Treaty ties our hands against building anti-missile defenses to protect American lives from all the bad guys of the world.  The lame duck Senate absolutely must NOT ratify this dangerous treaty. 

The Senate has never voted its consent on an arms control treaty in a lame duck session, and we should not start now! 

Here is a list of reasons the New START treaty should not be ratified, provided by the Center for Security Policy:

• The treaty deals with only SOME of Russia’s nuclear threats and none of the world’s others, like China, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela.
• The Treaty imposes limits on missile defense, despite the Obama Administration’s insistence it does not.
• There is no claim that we need the Treaty urgently to monitor Russian compliance.  We should follow Ronald Reagan’s wise mantra, “trust but verify.”  Yet, Missouri Senator Kit Bond, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has warned the treaty is not verifiable.  
• Requiring the three newly seated Senators to vote on the Treaty during the lame-duck session will not allow them enough time to thoroughly research the treaty in order to fulfill their Constitutional duty to advise and consent to treaties.
• The Treaty will be implemented on the watch of newly elected Senators.  Eleven of them have asked to have a say in its ratification.  Consideration should be deferred until they take office, new and more balanced hearings can be held and there is an opportunity for improvements to this accord.

Take Action

Call your Senators today and tell them you are counting on them to stop the dangerous new START Treaty.

Capitol Switchboard:  (202) 224-3121

Keep the Calls Coming!

On Election Day, Americans spoke out against the radical liberal agenda in Washington, D.C. Voters demanded a Congress that will strengthen the economy and create more jobs. 

But, the liberal left is still pandering to feminists and trial attorneys at the expense of American jobs by bringing the so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act” to a vote during the Lame Duck Session that begins Monday, November 15th.

The “Paycheck Fairness Act” would stifle job creation, send existing American jobs overseas, and burden employers with expensive paperwork and frivolous lawsuits.   

Your calls are urgently needed to stop the feminists from causing unemployment rates to rise even higher!

Originally introduced by Hillary Clinton during her time in the Senate, and reintroduced by Sen. Harry Reid, the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772)(PFA) would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) in the following ways:

• Allows for unlimited compensatory and punitive damages to be granted, even without proof of intent to discriminate.  Currently, an employer must be found to have intentionally engaged in discriminatory practices in order for an employee to receive monetary compensation, and even then, the employee is entitled only to back pay.  The provision in the PFA is unacceptable and unnecessary, as damages are already available under Title VII for pay discrimination.
• Changes the “establishment” requirement.  The EPA currently requires that employees whose pay is being compared must work in the same physical place of business.  The PFA would amend the word “establishment” to mean workplaces in the same county or political district.  It would also invite the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to develop “rules or guidance” to define the term more broadly.  This leaves the door open for the EEOC to compare a woman’s job in a rural area to a man’s job in an urban area that has a much higher cost of living, which would drive up the cost of employing the woman in the rural lower cost area.  Such increase in employment costs would result in fewer people being employed, and would also result in employers shipping jobs overseas.
• Replaces a successful pay discrimination-determining system with a proven failed system.  The PFA would invalidate the successful, Supreme Court-endorsed system for determining whether pay discrimination has occurred (known as the Interpretative Standards for Systemic Compensation Discrimination), and would replace it with the highly inaccurate Equal Opportunity Survey, which has found true discriminators to be non-discriminators 93 percent of the time.
• Increases the numbers in class-action suits.  Under EPA, if an employee wants to participate in a class-action suit against his employer, he must affirmatively decide to participate in the suit.  The PFA would automatically include employees in class-action suits, unless they affirmatively opt out.  This change would result in booming business for trial attorneys, and huge costs to employers, who may decide to ship jobs overseas to avoid such costs altogether.

In addition to these changes, the PFA would institute a system of  “comparable worth” effectively allowing judges, juries and unelected bureaucrats to set employees’ wages, instead of employers.  Thus, an employee’s compensation level would be based on some vague notion of his “worth,” instead of on concrete factors like education, experience, time in the labor force, and hours worked per week.  The PFA would also cause employers to avoid hiring women in low-paying positions, since the employers may then become targets for burdensome lawsuits.  This trend would result in even higher unemployment for low-skilled women, potentially increasing the number of families dependent on government assistance. 

President Obama has called the PFA a “common-sense bill.” The truth is, this bill makes no sense during good economic times, and would only add insult to injury now, when unemployment is near double-digits nationwide. 

Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush, called the PFA a “job killing, trial attorney bonanza,” and said employers potentially would see female applicants as instigators of lawsuits, instead of contributors to productivity. 

Take Action

The House of Representatives has already passed the Paycheck Fairness Act, and President Obama has said that he will sign the bill into law if the Senate passes it.  The Senate vote is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, November 17, so call your Senator and tell him or her to vote NO on S. 3772 the so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act!”

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121