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Why is Public Education Failing?

Tom DeWeese — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:00:42 +0000

Children are coming out of school dumb because they aren't taught academics. They have, instead, become experiments in behavior modification.

It's a fact. Most of today's school children can barely read or write. They can't perform math problems without a calculator. They barely know who the Founding Fathers were and know even less of [...]

Why Illegal Immigration is a Threat to the United States…And How Local Communities are Fighting Back

Tom DeWeese — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:00:17 +0000

If a community opens its arms to illegal aliens, of course they flock there. If a community stands up to them, they leave.

In June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down [...]

The Principles of Freedom vs. Public/Private Partnerships

Tom DeWeese — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:00:32 +0000

Public/private partnerships are used not as a way to diminish the size of government, but rather to increase government's power, stamping out the individual in the process.

Address by Tom DeWeese at Freedom 21 National Conference in Dallas, Texas.

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"Freedom." We use that word a lot. Do we all really know what that word means? [...]

Stupid Human Tricks: The Sad Case of the Spotted Owl

Tom DeWeese — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:50:13 +0000

A decade and thousands of broken dreams later, comes this report from the federal government on the real reasons for the spotted owl's endangerment: "Oops."

Environmentalists are quick to lecture the rest of us about the ways of nature. Don't clean the dead trees off the forest floor, it's natural. Cattle and horses on [...]

The Food Police Finally Get Their Smoking Gun

Tom DeWeese — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 02:55:29 +0000

The Attorney General of the State of California, Bill Lockyer, is calling for warning labels on potato chips and fries.

We have been warning for years that they were using the exact same playbook used to destroy the smoking industry. Now the food police have what they've been looking for. A special report that [...]

There Is No Man-Made Global Warming

Tom DeWeese — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:38:37 +0000

Modern-day environmentalism has little to do with protecting the environment. Rather, it is a political movement led by those who seek to control the world economies, dictate development, and redistribute the world's wealth.

There is no scientific evidence to back claims of man-made global warming. Period. Anyone who tells you that scientific research shows [...]

Foreign Election Monitors Driven by Leftist Political Agenda

Tom DeWeese — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:39:36 +0000

The man who will actually appoint the OSCE's election monitors, for example, is Alcee Hastings, a disgraced former federal judge who was impeached for taking a $150,000 bribe.

The U.S. State Department cracked open the door and now the invasion has begun. Foreign election monitors determined to oversee the U.S. election this November seem [...]

Congress Must Get Us Out of UNESCO. Again!

Tom DeWeese — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:20:36 +0000

On July 7, 135 members of the House voted for Congressman Ron Paul's resolution declaring that the United States should withdraw from UNESCO.

The nation laid Ronald Reagan to rest with a massive outpouring of respect and affection for the accomplishments of this great man. One of his most important achievements was to get [...]

The Sierra Club’s Immigration Wars

Tom DeWeese — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:48:26 +0000

Immigration issues are generating an internal war within the famed Sierra Club.

My recent commentary, “What part of ‘illegal’ don’t Americans understand?,” generated a lot of flack. Several responses called me a bigot. Others called me a Nazi. Most of the negative comments parroted the pro-amnesty party line that says illegal aliens are really [...]

Is Bush a Conservative?

Tom DeWeese — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:49:31 +0000

The White House is so seriously out of tune with its political base one wonders how President Bush thinks he will be re-elected.

The great problem affecting Americans these days is a mixture of apathy and anger over the growing realization that nothing they say or do matters. It is a growing sense of [...]