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Obama Is a Big-Time Law Violator
May 2, 2012 by Phyllis Schlafly
Where is the Mainstream Media's coverage of the shocking "Memo" issued by nine State Attorneys General (AG) detailing 21 specific violations of law by the Obama Administration? That's too many violations to list in this column, but here are some of the more outrageous examples of what the AGs call "violations of law" by "an increasingly overreaching federal government."

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Obama's War on Religious Liberty

Feb. 22, 2012 by Phyllis Schlafly
Welcome to the real ObamaCare, whereby a handful of leftists in D.C. impose the views of their big-money donors on more than 300 million Americans. If the Obama mandate for contraception remains intact, then liberals will next demand that Americans pay for other objectionable items that are not really medical care.

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Obama Obeys the Feminists Again
Feb. 15, 2012 by Phyllis Schlafly
Proclaiming in a New York Times headline that "Obama Adjusts a Rule Covering Contraceptives," the pro-Obama media tried to dig the President out of the political hole he had jumped into. But calling Obama's revised rule an "adjustment" or an "accommodation" or other soft-sell word can't cover the fact that the revision is essentially the same as the original rule.

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Get the Government out of Your Linen Closet!
Get the Government out of Your Linen Closet!

December 2, 2011

“We easily advanced from kerosene lamps to Edison's light bulbs, from horse and carriage to automobiles, and from cassettes to CDs and DVDs, without any laws to mandate those changes.” — Phyllis Schlafly

We're all tired of the federal government encroaching on our personal freedoms through high taxes, overregulation, and overreaching programs like ObamaCare. Now they're getting into our linen closets dictating what kinds of light bulbs we have to buy!
 
Unless Congress takes action, it will be illegal to sell the 100-watt bulb after January 1, 2012. The lower watt bulbs will be phased out between 2012 and 2014. Lighting technology might advance, and some might like the new bulbs, but we, the people, through the free market should decide what kinds of products we will buy, not the government.

There is nothing wrong with the incandescent bulb, and the new, allegedly "eco-friendly" CFL, the new bulbs we will be forced to buy once the incandescent bulbs go away, contain toxic mercury and present a grave danger to children and pets if broken. Recent reports show that large numbers of Chinese workers in the factories that make CFL bulbs are being hospitalized for mercury poisoning. Even the EPA is worried about them polluting our sewage.  

They are also significantly more expensive and less bright than the incandescent bulbs. Additionally, hundreds of American jobs have already been exported to China as a result of this ban.  

We must stop the ban from taking effect and the only way is to urge Congressional leadership to bring a repeal to the House floor to fight for the ban in a year-end budget bill.

We need you and your concerned friends and family to sign our petition today!

Our Capitol Hill staff will take the petition to Congress next week.  This is a bi-partisan issue, relevant to all Americans. Will you help us gather at least 3,000 more signatures so that we can present this petition to legislators next week?

As Phyllis noted in her column, when Elena Kagan was asked in her confirmation hearing by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) if it would be constitutional for the government to order all of us to eat "three fruits and three vegetables every day," she evaded the question.

What will they take next?

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Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret
March 18, 2011 by Phyllis Schlafly
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership in the U.S. House. She discovered $105 billion of taxpayers' money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had hidden in ObamaCare.

Now Rep. Bachmann wants her colleagues to refuse to pass must-pass bills, such as the Continuing Resolution or raising the debt limit, unless they include recapturing that secret money. What a great idea!

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Death for Innovation
March 11, 2011 by Phyllis Schlafly
The Democratic Senate is itching to pass a bill that will mean death for innovation, which is the backbone of American economic growth. Senator Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) bill, S.23, is called patent reform, but it's not reform; it will kill innovation by litigation.

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A Warning About Things to Come
February 25, 2011 by Phyllis Schlafly
Have you seen the television pictures of the tens of thousands of demonstrators at the Wisconsin State Capitol who are protesting proposed budget cuts for state employees? If so, you've had an advance peek at the sort of demonstrations that will take place if state legislatures are foolish enough to pass resolutions asking Congress to call a national convention to consider amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

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              Cheers for Repeal of ObamaCare
January 28, 2011 by Phyllis Schlafly
The U.S. House did what its candidates had promised and the voters expected: the House passed 245 to 189 a repeal of ObamaCare, the centerpiece of Socialism. Three Democrats joined every single Republican, with Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Steve King (R-IA) spearheading the charge.

According to public opinion polls, support for repeal remains strong among the American people despite Obama's prediction that once his favorite bill was enacted into law we would like it. In addition, 200 distinguished economics experts, mostly professors of economics, signed a letter predicting that an implementation of ObamaCare will be a barrier to job growth, inflict us with a crushing debt burden, and is not real health care reform.

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Obama's Plan to Admit Mexican Trucks
January 21, 2011 by Phyllis Schlafly
It is amazing that, with unemployment unacceptably high, the Obama Administration has endorsed a plan that will cost U.S. jobs and make highway driving for Americans more dangerous and less pleasant. Obama wants to admit Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads.

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Detaching the Anchor from Anchor Babies
January 14, 2011 by Phyllis Schlafly
It's long overdue for Congress to stop the racket of bringing pregnant women into this country to give birth, receive free medical care, and then call their babies U.S. citizens entitled to all American rights and privileges plus generous handouts. Between 300,000 and 400,000 babies are born to illegal aliens in the United States every year, at least 10 percent of all births.

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