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Eco-Logic / Powerhouse Commentary... Feds cooperate with U.N. programs to steal private property By Jennifer Foster June 1, 2005 I am reaching out for help for a lady who has become a very good friend of mine. She lives in the 1933 Ivanpah General Store, located in the East Mojave Desert. Her home happens to lie in the middle of the Mojave National Preserve, which is under management by National Park Service (NPS). NPS's crimes against the environment and human rights out there would be unbelievable - if my husband and I had not witnessed these crimes for ourselves. Connie...

WorldNetDaily / CommentaryThe Constitution, version 2.0 Posted: June 4, 2005 1:00 a.m. EasternBy Alan Sears © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com During the next 15 years, the United States could see some incredible transformations. Every young adult would be given $80,000 via a new tax on the "rich." Felons would be allowed to vote. A second Bill of Rights would be instituted, complete with a slew of new entitlements to ensure social and economic "equality." And most amazingly, no one will need – or even be allowed – to vote on these sweeping changes. Unelected judges could simply mandate each of them –...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb 'To form a more perfect union' Posted: June 4, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com America has long forgotten the vision that compelled our founders to gather in Philadelphia – "...to form a more perfect union." It was a vision of free people, governing themselves.The quest for political power has taken precedence over the vision of a more perfect union. The purpose of self-governance – "to ... secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity ..." – has been discarded by the politically powerful. The new vision is political power; the new...

Ron Smith's "Something to Say" CommentaryRon Smith's "Something to Say" Commentary Gawd, They Hate it When the People Speak Thursday, June 02, 2005 Ron Smith The great Sir Arthur Keith, Darwin’s successor as the leading thinker in the field of evolutionary anthropology, once wrote: “No tribe unites with another of its own free will. It will surrender its own independence only if first conquered by force; or, in the face of a powerful and aggressive opponent it may be driven to unite with other tribes to resist a common enemy.” It is this residual tribalism that lies at the heart...

WBAL AM- 1190 Baltimore Ron Smith's "Something to Say" Commentary Demographics and Destiny {The Mexican Invasion} Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Ron Smith Make sure your kids learn to speak Spanish, folks, because the USA is fast becoming Hispanicized. There will come a time – and a not too distant one – in which it will be a severe disadvantage in many parts of the land not to be fluent in Spanish. To wit: Los Angeles voters have elected a Latino mayor, city councilman Antonio Villaraigosa, who ousted incumbent James Hahn and thus became the City of Angels first Hispanic mayor...

Eco-Logic / Powerhouse Alabama Policy Institute... Consent decrees: The other Judicial activism By Gary Palmer May 15, 2005 When the issue of judicial activism comes across the public screen, most people automatically think of judges who violate the Constitution by imposing their personal, ideological agendas on every citizen, regardless of the majority's beliefs or interests. But there is another form of judicial activism, one that Congress created, that has been displacing representative government at an alarming rate. This loss of self-rule has come in the form of mandates passed by Congress over the last three decades, which drastically impact our...

Eco-Logic / Powerhouse Education in America... No Child Left Behind and its hidden agendas By Joe H. Ferguson May 1, 2005 Utah State Representative Margaret Dayton (R-Orem) and the Utah State Legislature are to be commended for their efforts to get No Chlid Left Behind (NCLB) out of Utah. "What?" some might say. "And lose all those federal dollars?" When looking at the federal dollars, some seem to forget the importance of the mind of a child. More importantly, the minds of some 240,000 students in Utah schools. Few ever ask the question, "Are there hidden agendas in NCLB?" And...

Ron Smith's "Something to Say" Commentary Tax Overhaul? Watch Out! Friday, March 04, 2005 Ron Smith No word is more misrepresented than the word “reform.” Because of cosmic realities beyond our comprehension, reform usually results in making whatever was to be fixed more screwed up than it was before the “reformers” had their way. Reform, far from making anything better, almost always makes it, at least in certain, important ways, worse. There may be improvement in one way or another, but that will be balanced by some degeneration in other. There are many examples of “unintended consequences” brought about by...

WorldNetDaily BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Clinton ally pushes 'transformational education' Sponsors closed meetings with legislators to pitch curriculum reform Posted: March 2, 2005 1:00 a.m. EasternBy Ron Strom © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com An education activist who influenced the policies of the Clinton administration has sponsored three members-only meetings for Minnesota legislators in hopes of pushing his brand of education reform on the state. Marc Tucker, head of the newly for-profit National Center for Education and the Economy, or NCEE, who helped usher in Goals 2000 and the federal School-to-Work legislation in the '90s, was to speak at one of the three closed-door...

NewsMax.com Your Kids Are in Danger Wes Vernon Saturday, Feb 19, 2005 Americans need to pay attention to what is happening to their children in school. While you go about your business, trusting the school authorities not to invade your prerogative as to how your kids are raised and not to turn your offspring against values you are teaching them at home, plans are afoot that can result in manipulating them in the interest of what social engineers place under the ever-widening umbrella of "mental health." Congressman Ron Paul, a Republican from Texas, says this is reminiscent of the Cold...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb When bureaucrats control the country Posted: February 19, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The Missouri legislators who approved a water law (HB 1433) in the waning moments of last year's session no doubt thought they were creating something to help protect clean water in a nine-county area. That's what they were told by reputable employees of the state agencies and influential lobbyists from environmental organizations. The new law created a nine-county district in which water policy would be developed and enforced by appointed – not elected – officials None realized that the law they adopted...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb Time to slam shut the 'golden door' Posted: February 12, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty says: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. For centuries, people from around the world have accepted this invitation to become a part of America – the great land of freedom and opportunity. Most of these people complied with the law...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Manufactured rights or peace on Earth?Henry Lamb Posted: December 25, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com All people everywhere share a common hope for peace on earth. This common hope begins to unravel when people discuss how to achieve peace on earth. The Taliban believe peace can be achieved only when the rest of the world submits to their dictates. Communists believe peace can be achieved only when the rest of the world submits to centralized government planning and control. Far too much of the world believes that peace cannot be achieved until Israel is erased...

TownHall.com Phony 'ethics' Thomas Sowell December 10, 2004 Two apparently unrelated stories that appeared in newspapers on the same day are in reality not nearly as unrelated as they might seem. One story appeared under the headline, "High School Students Debate Steroid Ethics." The other story had the headline: "Economic Time Bomb: U.S. Teens Are Among Worst at Math." We have known for a long time that teenagers in Japan scored much higher on international math tests than American teenagers do. But did you know that teenagers in Poland, the Slovak Republic, Iceland, Canada, and Korea -- among other places...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry Lamb The selling out of America Posted: December 4, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com For nearly 200 years, governments in America rarely bought private property, except "... for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards and other needful buildings," as specified in the U.S. Constitution. In the last 30 years, however, all governments – federal, state, and local – have gone on a buying spree, gobbling up land everywhere to protect and preserve, which, incidentally, is not one of the purposes authorized by the Constitution. Why has this change in acquisition policy come about,...

Eco-Logic / Powerhouse Commentary... They sneaked one through on you By William Jud December 1, 2004 Gang Green environmentalists have struck again at the freedom and quality of life of Missouri citizens. Missouri House Bill 1433 was signed by the Governor, and is now applicable statewide, and soon will be in effect in seven Counties in southwestern Missouri. The content of HB 1433 is such that implementation is likely to spread quickly to all Missouri Counties, once officials get a whiff of authorization to raise taxes and control the people's use of well water. The new law enables Volume Monitoring...

WBAL AM / RADIO 1090 Baltimore The New Model? Monday, November 29, 2004 Ron Smith If you’ve ever wondered what this country will look like down the road, say 30-40 years hence, there is a metropolitan area right now that is probably a pretty accurate model for the future of the United States as a whole. Nicholas Stix, writing in November’s Middle American News (the story is not yet available online), points out that in Los Angeles right now there are 8,000 unsolved murders, 50% of its students fail the high school graduation exam, half of the working population is...

WorldNetDaily ON CAPITOL HILL Attempt to stop mandatory mental screening fails Congressman pushed language requiring parental consent Posted: November 24, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com An attempt by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to add language to the omnibus spending bill in Congress to require parental consent for any mental-health screening done to children with federal money has failed. The language was proposed to blunt the effect of a program proposed by the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which President Bush established in 2002. The New Freedom Initiative recommends screening not only for children but eventually for every...

WorldNetDaily THE NEW WORLD DISORDER Putin adviser says Kyoto 'smoke screen' Treaty will create Soviet-style 'monster' threatening freedom Posted: November 20, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the Kyoto protocol ratified by his country is a propaganda "smoke screen" that will create a "supranational bureaucratic monster" threatening human freedom, similar to the Soviet Union's. For most of the world, writes Andrei Illarionov in the Financial Times, the protocol, set to become an international treaty next year, is "bad news.""Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind...

WorldNetDaily / Commentary Henry LambHere comes Kyoto! Posted: November 13, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Delegates to the 10th anniversary meeting of the Climate Change Treaty in Buenos Aires are giddy in anticipation of the Kyoto Protocol entering into force early next year. The meeting, which is scheduled for Dec. 6-17, is the first meeting since Russia decided to ratify the agreement. What does this mean for the United States? No one really knows, but whatever it means, it is not likely to be good. The international community was extremely disgusted with President Bush when he withdrew the...