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Court Monitor /td> Court Reinstates Pledge Requirement in Florida   Two years ago, a federal court in Florida invalidated a state law requiring all students to say the Pledge of Allegiance unless they have express parental consent for refusing to say it.  8-22-08 Victory for the Cross   A massive 43-feet-high cross stands atop Mount Soledad in Southern California, visible for miles around. Located near San Diego, this cross has been the subject of nearly 20 years of litigation by atheists attempting to force its removal. The ACLU has funded this attempt to censor this powerful symbol from public property.  8-16-08 Coach Can't Bow Head During Prayer   Another federal appellate court has struck a blow against faith in public schools. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which presides over Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, held that a football coach may not even bow his head in respect as his high school football players lead a pre-game prayer.  7-20-08 Texas Town Battles Supremacist Court Over Illegal Aliens   Many towns, from Hazleton, Pennsylvania to Valley Park, Missouri, have passed local ordinances to combat the harm caused by illegal aliens. These ordinances discourage landlords from renting to illegals and penalize employers who hire them.  7-03-08 ACLU Fights Single-Gender Classes   The ACLU is at it again, this time demanding that public schools stop using all-boys or all-girls classes, even though they are becoming popular ways to improve teaching and learning. At least 392 public schools nationwide are using some all-boys or all-girls classes for the learning benefits of the students. This must stop, the ACLU insists, and it could win millions of dollars in legal fees if the courts agree.  6-21-08 Court Upholds Photo ID for Voters   In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 128 S. Ct. 1610 (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification prior to voting. The Court held that “[t]he application of the statute to the vast majority of Indiana voters is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process.”  6-08-08 Will Homeschooling Be Illegal?   Homeschooling has produced the greatest inventor in history (Thomas Edison), many great mathematicians, innovative businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, and leading statesmen including Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. But according to a California appellate court, homeschooling is illegal.  5-18-08 A Win for American Sovereignty   The biggest decision so far this year concerned sovereignty, globalism, the death penalty and the power of the President. To the pleasant surprise of conservatives, the Supreme Court delivered them a 6-3 victory, although the reasoning was less than satisfactory. 5-09-08 English is Winning Now   What a difference a few years make. It was not long ago when advocates of English-only rules were demonized by name-calling, protests and smears, and subjected to claims of discrimination. 4-27-08 'Choose Life' Wins in Missouri   Specialty license plates allow environmentalists, veterans, fraternities, charities and others to express their viewpoints on their official car plates. But when Choose Life of Missouri and its founder, college student and conservative activist Kevin Roach, sought to have a specialty plate with the slogan “Choose Life,” Missouri said “no”. 4-06-08 Are Violent Video Games Just Free Speech?   Extremely violent video games are the obsession of a significant portion of our youth. Studies have shown that "violent video games may be more harmful than violent television and movies because they are interactive, very engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor." http://www.apa.org/releases/videogames.html 3-22-08 Legal Shoot-Out in the Biggest Case of the Year   It was back in 1939 when the U.S. Supreme Court last addressed the right to bear arms. In United States v. Miller, the Court held that a sawed-off shotgun was not protected by the Second Amendment. 3-01-08 Roberts Court: A Pro-Business Decision  > With Bush-appointed John Roberts and Sam Alito on the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court rendered a string of pro-business decisions in 2007. It just delivered a stunning pro-business decision worth several billions of dollars.  2-21-08 NCLB Law Having Trouble Making the Grade   In April 2005, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, filed suit in Michigan to block standards required by No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This bill, the hallmark of President George W. Bush’s first term in office, imposes standards on public schools as a condition of their receipt of federal monies. 2-04-08 Court Upholds Combatting Illegal Immigration   Illegal immigration lost big in Congress in 2007, but continued to win in the courts. Besieged by an influx of unlawful immigration, the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton passed ordinances prohibiting the harboring and employment of illegal aliens and also requiring tenants to prove they are lawfully here. But ACLU-supported aliens persuaded a federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton to strike down the ordinances as unconstitutional.   1-27-08 Jurisdiction-Stripping is Commonly Upheld   Legal scholars have debated and some have even denied that Congress has the power to withdraw or strip jurisdiction from federal courts. For 200 years Congress has limited and withdrawn jurisdiction from federal courts as authorized by Article III of the Constitution, but liberals tend to disparage or ignore the numerous precedents.  1-20-08 Court Monitor Archives 2007           Federal Court Slaps Arrogant School District  12-31           Court Intolerant of All-Male Fraternity  12-13           Court Affirms Preferential Tuition for Illegal Aliens  11-23           Federal Court Embraces Gender Quotas for Sports  10-28           Case that Might Choose the Next President  10-21           Court Forbids Congress to Save a Cross  10-03           Supreme Court Smacks Down Union Bosses  9-10           Court Rejects Pay Discrimination Claim  8-23           Conservatives Win on Faith-Based Initiatives  8-16           Court Invalidates Affirmation Action Program  7-30           Profanity Headed for Our Airwaves  7-10           T-Shirt Wars in School  6-24           Withdrawal of Jurisdiction Upheld  6-05           Take a Stance on Global Warming   5-28           Boy Scouts Rout ACLU  5-18           Giver Beware  4-13           Schools Lose Big in the Big Apple  4-06           Reinstating Affirmative Action  3-24           Court Upholds Voter ID  3-04           Access-to-Treatment Issue Vexes Court  2-23           Court Resurrects Free Exercise Clause  2-08           No Free Speech to Criticize Gays  1-17 2006           A Property Owner Strikes Back  12-30           Court Dictates Religious School Employment  11-29           Right to Sue over Educational Privacy  11-12           Court Sets Girls' Sports Seasons  10-22           Judge Orders President Not to Spy on Terrorists  10-8           Court Upholds DeLay's Redistricting  9-30           Wetlands Decision Unleashes Flood of Confusion  9-17           Court Prohibits Removal of Obscenities  9-08           Ohio Rejects Abusive Eminent Domain  8-17           Choose Life License Plates  7-27           Court Bans Discussing Religion  7-17           Key Evolution Decision Overturned  6-29           Sex Discrimination in a Lifting Job  6-12           Postscript about Embarrassing Tape  5-29           Gay Agenda Advances in Schools  5-7           Chief Justice Roberts Appeases Both Sides  4-30           Texas Supremacists Order School Funding  4-15           Maryland Court Proves ERA=Same-Sex Marriage  4-2           A Judge Gets Around the Law  3-5           West Virginia Upholds Self-Defense  2-27           Court Allows Government Funding  2-9           Homeschoolers Defeated in Pennsylvania  2-1           Private School Defeats Child Protection Establishment  1-15           Judge Opens New York Schools to Worship  1-3 2005           Race-Based Admissions Affirmed  12-04           Congress Withdraws Court Jurisdiction Over Guns  11-13           A Man's Home is His Castle?  11-09           Teacher Wins Pro-Family Ruling   11-03           Congress Fails to Protect the Pledge10-26           Who Was the Best Supreme Court Justice?  9-23           Supremacists Hurt Scouts Again  9-06           College Defeats Gay Club  8-02           Internet is Singing the Blues  7-19           Court Deals Blow to Private Property  6-30           Feminists Strike Out in Disrupting Sports League  6-27           Judge Jones Saves Life by Limiting Jurisdiction  5-29           Court Invalidates Obscenity Laws  5-16           Shootout with Gun Manufacturers  5-08           Scouts Forced out of Schools  4-17           A Gambit to Salvage the Sentencing Guidelines  4-03           Justice Department Refuses to Defend the Law  3-20           Supremacy in Cobb County, Georgia  3-09           Court Rebuffs the Military  2-27           Missouri Witchhunt Backfires  2-12           Court Wants Porn for Inmates  1-30           ERA Blocks Disciplining Male Prisoners  1-19 2004           Judges, Do Your Own Work!  12-26           'Good News' Win in South Dakota  12-06           Sports Dispute Rewrites Equal Protection Clause  11-23           Affirmative Action for Liberal Speech?  11-13           Where's the Beef?  10-24           Don’t Want Us?  Then Don’t Take Our Money  10-17           Courts Setting Wages  10-03           The City of Altus, Oklahoma  9-15           Court Ends Politically Correct Sentencing  8-07           Court Backs Public School, Again  7-29           Homeschoolers and Sports  7-12           Unanimous Court Limits Its Jurisdiction  7-04           Don't Take My Property!  6-19           Divided Court Rules Against Wrestlers  6-06           Court Just Says No to Felons Voting  5-30           Court Finally Sides with Landowner  5-12           In Pot We Trust?  4-11           California Court Defends Republicanism  3-28           Court Turns Away from Foreign Law  3-14           Seventh Circuit Dismisses Lawsuit over Illegal Aliens  2-15           Supreme Court Enters Public Lands Dispute  1-19           The Language of the Federal Courts is English  1-05 2003           Free Speech About Women in Combat  12-28           Court Orders College to Reinstate Sports Program  12-21           Ninth Circuit Bypasses Jurisdication Limit  12-07           Court Upholds Congressional Limit on Jurisdiction  11-28           Ninth Circuit Pulls Over Mexican Trucks  11-16           Hang-Up on `Do Not Call' Registry  11-02           Split Decisions on Affirmative Action  9-28           High Court Baffled on Business Speech  9-14           Ashcroft's Victory Against Terrorism  9-07           Supreme Court Upholds Library Filters  8-25           Feds Continue Vincent Foster Cover-up  7-28           Judge Pins College Wrestlers  7-13           Chief Justice Renders a Surprising Opinion  7-06           Unisex Police Claim Another Victim  6-29           Punitive Damages Capped by High Court  6-21           Judicial Activism Defeats VMI . . . Again  5-26           Eliminating Free Speech at College  5-14           Ninth Circuit Nixes Tax Credit  5-03           Forced Drugging of Citizens?  4-14           Federal Power Loses a Big One  4-06           Should Women Be Drafted?  3-23           Judicial Activism Axes Pledge  3-16           Court Eases Importing Crime  2-26           Supreme Court Upholds Pork for Mickey Mouse  1-21 2002           Ninth Circuit Limits Second Amendment  12-30           Ninth Circuit Enjoins Department of Justice  12-16           Equal Rights for Abortions?  11-17           Court Invalidates Display of Ten Commandments  11-04           Court Rejects Bilingual Ed  10-27           1st Amendment Protects Criticism of Feminism in Military  10-13           Will Private Schools Remain Private?  08-25           Justice Thomas Reaffirms State Sovereignty  08-18           Supreme Court Approves Vouchers  07-28           Affirmative Action at Law School  07-21           Activist Judge Enables Assisted Suicide  07-07           Is Computerized Child Pornography Legal?  06-11           Asbestos Is Gold for Trial Lawyers  06-01           Illegal Drugs in Public Housing  05-26           Are G-Men Accountable for Misdeeds?  04-21           Post-9/11 Supreme Court Looks at Border Enforcement  04-07           Victory for Western Property Rights  03-31           Dancing Around Campaign Finance Laws  03-24           Mandatory College Fees for Liberal Causes  03-07           State ERAs Prove Their Mischief  02-20           Supremes Accept Second FERPA Case  02-04           Colonial Judiciary Debate Reemerges  01-29 2001           Single-Sex School Wins Over ERA  12-23           Supreme Court Rejects Michael New's Appeal  12-16           Supreme Court Tackles School Monopoly  12-09           Can Someone Own the Law?  12-02           Constitutional Convention: RIP  11-26           Second Amendment Rights Upheld  11-10           Will School Records Remain Confidential?  10-15           Court Pokes More Holes in Our Porous Border  09-09           Court Rejects Legal Assault on Gun Industry  09-03           'Mena Connection' Vindication  08-22           When Government Controls Your Land  08-04           Supreme Court Closes Medical Necessity Loophole  07-29           Yes, Microsoft Did Violate the Antitrust Law  07-18           Victory for Prayer at School  07-05           Was Armed Federal Power Unlimited at Ruby Ridge?  06-25           Withholding Information in the McVeigh Case  06-21           Offensive School Testing Upheld in New Jersey  06-04           Internet Versus the Media Middlemen  05-28           English Language Wins Big In U.S. Supreme Court  05-21           Wyoming Affirms Parental Rights  05-14 For up-to-date information on judicial reform and nominees, link to Eagle Forum Court Watch

Book Monitor Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong  The most important reasons for the decline of morality in America are the imposition of secularism and the promotion of destructive behavior by the government. Americans with traditional values who want to fight for their beliefs face a hostile culture, and many are afraid to publicly express their views. If we want to make our country a better place, we need to do two things according to Jim DeMint and J. David Woodard.  8-03-08 Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies  Joe McCarthy is one of the most vilified names in American history. It conjures up images of slander, deceit, and innocent lives ruined. Yet the records of the time tell another story, and M. Stanton Evans says time to revise the history books.  7-27-08 Economic Facts and Fallacies  No one disputes the fact that economics is an important social science. Unfortunately, many people lack a basic understanding of it because of fallacies disseminated by politicians and the media. Thomas Sowell has separated truth from myth in a highly readable, non-polemical look at some common assumptions in economics today.  7-14-08 Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism  In this wonderfully entertaining history of the conservative movement in America during the second half of the 20th century, Alfred S. Regnery tells both an up-close and wide-ranging story. From his vantage point as author, publisher, confidant and enabler, he was in a perfect position to watch the unfolding of the Right both in its formative years and its later ascendancy.  6-29-08 Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America  Republicans have gotten a lot of grief over the years for being the party of “big business,” for supposedly valuing greed over compassion, and for using money for their own nefarious ends rather than giving it to charity. But in fact many of the owners of big businesses are ardent liberals and funnel billions of dollars into organizations that attack capitalism and work for radical environmentalist causes and open borders.  5-24-08 Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and De Gaulle  Paul Johnson may be the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic historian today. Any book he writes overflows with brilliant insights and bizarre opinions. Even if one doesn’t agree with everything he says (and surely very few do), he inspires reflection on important subjects and admiration for the depth of his thought. His newest book is no exception.  4-19-08 The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History  This major work by a distinguished historian traces the growth of the conservative movement since World War II, becoming the dominant political force by the end of the 20th century. Author Donald Critchlow's sympathetic treatment of the GOP Right is a refreshing departure from the typical academic spin placed on history.  3-30-08 In the Words of Our Enemies  It’s often better to find out what someone actually said than to read somebody else’s interpretation of it. Currently the editor of Human Events and former deputy undersecretary of defense in President George H.W. Bush's administration, Jed Babbin does us all a favor by bringing together a collage of statements by Muslim terrorists, Kim Jong-il, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and others to form a chilling picture of hatred of America.   3-06-08 Power to the People  Nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author Laura Ingraham doesn’t believe in gloom and doom. If we really want to improve American culture, we need to shake off our lethargy and get involved in the culture war.   2-23-08 My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir  It is a truism that the people who raise us affect our lives profoundly. In his deeply moving account of a childhood and adolescence spent with his grandparents, Clarence Thomas pays homage to this truism and to the man who, more than anyone else, made him what he is today.    2-10-08 The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada  Brush up on your Spanish. That's the word from author Jerome Corsi, a Harvard-educated historian who has carefully documented a movement at the highest levels of our government to build a North American Union modeled on the European Union. If this sounds like paranoia, you should read this book.    1-18-08 Book Monitor Archives 2007           Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't  12-30           The Death of the Grown-up  12-02           Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works  11-09           The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature  10-14           Stop the Presses: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution  9-21           How Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett Built the World's Greatest Company  9-01           Showdown: Why China Wants War with the United States  8-06           In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security  7-21           The Supremacists Revised  6-14           Mellon: An American Life  5-27           Disney  4-25           The Tyranny of Tolerance  4-17           A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater’s Presidential Campaign;  4-02           Hershey  2-20           America Alone  1-27           State of Emergency  1-07 2006           American Evita  12-15           Conservatives Betrayed  11-22           The Battle to Secure America's Borders  11-05           Diplomatic Divorce  10-15           The Compleated Autobiography  9-26           The Church of Liberalism  9-06           Princes of Darkness  8-06           The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America  7-0           The Wal-Mart Effect  6-04           How Christianity Led to Freedom  5-17           Manliness  4-23           Development of Modern Liberalism  3-15           The Man Behind the Microchip  2-19           Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild  1-23           How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture  1-8 2005           Phyllis Schlafly & Grassroots Conservatism.  12-26           The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste  12-11           The West's Last Chance.  11-25           Outrageous Government Assaults on Ordinary People.  10-25           Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World  10-09           Washington's Crossing  9-14           The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.  8-10           The Arrogance of the French: Why They Can't Stand Us.  7-25           Alexander Hamilton.  7-14           The Erie Canal and the making of a Great Nation.  6-05           An Economic History of the United States  5-22           Reagan's Revolution  5-01           A History of America's Immigration Crisis  4-11           The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media  3-27           How Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas  3-13           Affirmative Action Around the World  2-20           The Conservative Bookshelf  2-13           How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain  2-07           Challenging Environmental Mythology  1-09           Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine  1-03 2004           Where the Right Went Wrong  11-28           Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House  11-07           Inside the Asylum  11-01           Fighting the Good Fight  10-10           The Supremacists  8-22           A Victor, Not a Butcher  8-12           The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline  7-18           The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors  5-17           The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse"What hath God wrought!  5-2           America's Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake  4-18           Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges  4-03           You Can't Say That!  3-07           In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage  2-22           How the New York Times Distorts the News  1-25           The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences 800 B.C. to 1950  1-11 2003           The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight  12-14           The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I  12-06           Wild Bill: The Legend and life of William O. Douglas  11-29           FDR's Folly  11-09           Reassessing the Presidency  10-26           Making Modern Economics  10-19           The Louisiana Purchase  10-5           Treason  9-17           The Language Police  8-11           John Paul Jones  7-20           The Rule of Lawyers  6-22           A Thread Across the Ocean  6-01           The Bias Against Guns  5-19           Reagan's War  4-21           World on Fire  3-13           Let Freedom Ring  2-3           Invasion  1-30           Guns and Violence  1-12 2002           The Skeptical Environmentalist  11-11           Secret Soldiers  10-20           How to Beat the Democrats  10-14           Tuxedo Park  09-16           Franklin, The Essential Founding Father  09-08           Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right  09-02           Tilting the Playing Field, Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX  08-05           The Venona Secrets  06-30           The Boy Genius and the Mogul  06-16           The Worldview that Makes the Underclass  05-05           The New Dealers' War  04-28           The Death of the West  04-15           Coloring The News  03-07           Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House  02-18           Media Bias  02-10           What Happens When We Treat Children as Small Adults  01-06 2001           John Adams  12-31           Basic Economics, A Citizen's Guide to the Economy  12-09           Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left  11-21           Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work  10-30           PC M.D.  09-16           The O'Reilly Factor  09-09           The Birth of World Government  09-03           The Virtue of Prosperity  08-14           Fool's Errands:  07-29           The Lost Art of Drawing the Line  07-06           The Burden of Bad Ideas  06-25           Absolute Power  06-17           Reagan In His Own Hand  06-10 Newsletter Online May / June 2008   Chinese Poisons in Your Medicine Cabinet "Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures," the title of a congressional hearing on April 29, laid bare a shocking problem. At least 81 U.S. deaths appear to be the result of the Communist Chinese counterfeiting an ingredient in a blood-thinner widely used in surgery, plus the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) failure to inspect the Chinese imports.   Click here for the full story. Update on Chinese Imports Now that 80% of ingredients in our prescription drugs are imported, mostly from China, is anybody inspecting them to ascertain that they meet U.S. safety standards? The FDA does only 21 inspections annually of the 3,200 Chinese drugmaking facilities. The FDA is now trying to establish offices in three Chinese locations as a base for only eight U.S. inspectors, but China has yet to give its okay. Click here for the full story. 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