"NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS," SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, & CONGRESSIONAL PORK BARREL POLITICS:  THE "CELEBRATING AMERICA'S HERITAGE ACT" AS PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION TO EARMARK OVER $ 135 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS FOR SOCALLED NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS, CREATE SIX NEW NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS, INCREASE FUNDING FOR NINE EXISTING HERITAGE AREAS, & THEREBY FURTHER EMPOWER & ENRICH ANTI-PROPERTY RIGHTS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS -- GRANTING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, IN LEAGUE WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, THE POWER TO FORCE LAND USE RESTRICTIONS ON OWNERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY -- GIVING MILLIONS OF FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS TO ENVIRONMENTALIST GROUPS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF LOBBYING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO DEPRIVE LANDOWNERS OF THEIR PROPERTY RIGHTS -- LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO INGRATIATE CONGRESSMEN WITH THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS

THE RENEWABLE ENERGY & ENERGY CONSERVATION TAX ACT OF 2007:  A PARTICULARLY NOXIOUS PIECE OF ENERGY TAXATION LEGISLATION BEING PROPOSED BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -- LEADING CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS PLAY POLITICS WITH WITH AMERICA'S ENERGY NEEDS & ECONOMIC FUTURE -- PARTISAN DEMOCRATS IGNORE THE REALITIES OF ENERGY ECONOMICS, DISSEMINATE THE PROPAGANDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS, & COME UP WITH THE WORST POSSIBLE PLAN TO MEET THE ENERGY NEEDS OF THE U.S.A. -- PUSHING FOR PUBLIC POLICIES WHICH, IF ADOPTED & IMPLEMENTED, WOULD GUARANTEE AMERICANS A BLEAK ECONOMIC FUTURE, INCLUDING SEVERE ENERY SHORTAGES & SHARPLY RISING ENERGY PRICES, AS WELL AS LOW PRODUCTIVITY & HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT

THE "NEW DIRECTION" PROCLAIMED BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY IN THE U.S. CONGRESS:  MOVING THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES TOWARD DEFEAT IN IRAQ, THE U.S.A. TOWARD THE LARGEST FEDERAL TAX INCREASE IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, & THE ENTIRE WORLD TOWARD ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE, A DISASTER TO BE CREATED BY SERVING THE IDEOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY AGENDA OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & IMPOSING SEVERE LIMITS ON THE USE OF ENERGY DERIVED FROM FOSSIL FUELS -- CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBAL-WARMING ALARMISTS, & THEIR GRAND DESIGN FOR A NEW DARK AGE

PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL & STATE LEGISLATION ATTACKING AMERICAN NATIONAL CULTURE & SOVEREIGNTY:   REPUBLICAN AS WELL AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS ENDANGER AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & GIVE SHORT SHRIFT TO AMERICA'S TRADITIONAL VALUES -- THE POLITICAL CLASS SEEKS TO PERPETUATE THE UNCHECKED, MASSIVE FLOW OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A. -- THE SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE" ISSUE AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TACTICS BEING EMPLOYED BY COUNTERCULTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE STATE GOVERNMENTS TO DESTROY AMERICAN CULTURE

AMERICAN PARTISAN POLITICS & AMERICA'S FUTURE:  VICTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE 2006 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS & DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIES IN THE TWO CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS -- WILL THE PARTY OF LEFTWING LIBERALISM, STATIST ECONOMIC POLICY, & A FOREIGN POLICY CHARACTERIZED BY APPEASEMENT OF AMERICA'S ENEMIES BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY STEER THE U.S.A. IN THE DIRECTION THAT THE DEMOCRATS WANT IT TO GO? WHAT RELEVANT CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED IN AMERICAN SOCIETY SINCE THE LAST TIME THE DEMOCRATS HELD CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITIES?

THE BASIS OF AMERICAN LAW:  JUDEO-CHRISTIAN MORAL & ETHICAL ABSOLUTES, AS CODIFIED IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -- LAWLESSNESS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT -- REJECTING THE BOUNDARIES OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH & UNDERMINING THE RULE OF LAW

U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON JUDGE SAMUEL A. ALITO, NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH FOR APPOINTMENT TO FILL A VACANCY ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT:  JUDGE ALITO'S RUNNING THE GAUNTLET THROWN DOWN BY PARTISAN DEMOCRATIC INGUISITORS ASKING GRUELING QUESTIONS & MAKING POLITICALLY BIASED PRONOUNCEMENTS EXPRESSING THEIR OWN LIBERAL LEFTIST NOTIONS REGARDING ISSUES OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & THE ROLE OF THE COURTS IN THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

PRESIDENTIAL & CONGRESSIONAL POLITICS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.:  EXISTENCE OF A WASHINGTON POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT THAT PLACES ITSELF ABOVE THE LAW -- FAILURE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION & THE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN CONGRESS TO HOLD THE DEMOCRATS IN THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE ABUSES OF POWER & OTHER CRIMES THEY COMMITTED WHILE HOLDING FEDERAL OFFICE -- MORALLY BANKRUPT REPUBLICANS ABETTING DEMOCRATS IN SUPPRESSING THE BARRETT REPORT, WHICH WOULD EXPOSE MAJOR MALFEASANCE WITHIN THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S EXERCISE OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL POWER TO MAKE RECESS APPOINTMENTS IN ORDER TO CIRCUMVENT THE SENATE FILIBUSTER OF THE PRESIDENT'S NOMINATION OF JOHN BOLTON FOR APPOINTMENT AS UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS:  GETTING AROUND THE SENATE DEMOCRATS' BLATANTLY PARTISAN USE & ABUSE OF THE FILIBUSTER, DELAYING & OBSTRUCTING THE SENATE CONFIRMATION PROCESS IN AN EFFORT TO WEAKEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, AS WELL AS PREVENT APPOINTMENT OF THE TYPE OF SPOKESMAN & REPRESENTATIVE THE U.S.A. NEEDS AT THE UNITED NATIONS

THE SELF-SEEKING PRAGMATISM, UNPRINCIPLED POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, & UTTER TREACHERY OF "REPUBLICANS" CALLING THEMSELVES "MODERATES" & "CENTRISTS" -- THE GRANDIOSE PLAN OF JOHN MCCAIN & OTHER SOCALLED "REPUBLICAN MODERATES" IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE TO "RULE FROM THE CENTER":  HOW THE "MODERATES" HOPE TO GAIN DOMINANT POLITICAL POWER BY COLLABORATING WITH THE DEMOCRATS, BETRAYING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & ITS LEADERSHIP, & UNDERMINING THE POSITION OF THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE SENATE

THE SELLOUT:  THE SOCALLED "COMPROMISE" OF MAY 23, 2005 -- THE SURRENDER BY SEVEN SOCALLED "MODERATE" REPUBLICANS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE TO THE LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' FILIBUSTER OF REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S JUDICIAL NOMINEES -- WILL CONSERVATIVES COME TO GRIPS WITH THE FACT THAT FIFTY-TWO TRULY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN SENATORS WOULD CONSTITUTE A BETTER & MORE RELIABLE MAJORITY THAN A LARGER SENATE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY CONTAINING "MODERATES" READY & WILLING TO BETRAY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & ITS LEADERSHIP, COLLABORATE WITH LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS, & UNDERMINE THE CONSERVATIVE ENDEAVOR TO RESTORE CONSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY TO THE UNITED STATES COURTS

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY:  TEN YEARS AFTER THE REPUBLICANS GAINED CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATIVE & EXECUTIVE BRANCHES OF THE U.S. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, DO WE HAVE THE FISCAL RESTRAINT & SMALLER GOVERNMENT PROMISED BY THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA, OR DO WE HAVE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME BIG SPENDING, REGULATORY, & OTHER LIBERAL STATIST POLICIES WE HAD WHEN THE DEMOCRATS WERE THE MAJORITY PARTY?

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS & PARTISAN POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE:  HOW LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. SENATE WORK TO BLOCK APPOINTMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGES WHO WILL UPHOLD THE INTERGITY & TRUE MEANING OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION -- WHY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS NEED TO MAKE CLEAR THAT THE SENATE FIGHT OVER JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IS ABOUT PROTECTING & PRESERVING THE BASIC FEATURES OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM, INCLUDING JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, SEPARATION OF POWERS, CHECKS & BALANCES, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, & POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. SENATE & THEIR FILIBUSTER OF THE PRESIDENT'S JUDICIAL NOMINEES:  THE DETERMINATION OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC MINORITY IN THE SENATE TO PREVENT THE APPOINTMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGES WHO ARE DEDICATED TO UPHOLDING THE INTEGRITY OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION & PRESERVING THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENT -- CONSERVATISM VERSUS LIBERALISM, JUDICIAL RESTRAINT VERSUS JUDICIAL ACTIVISM:  WHETHER THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, AS ENVISIONED BY THE FOUNDERS, WILL PREVAIL OR FADE INTO OBLIVION -- REPUBLICANS MUST STAND FIRM & UNITED IN COUNTERING LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC OBSTRUCTIONISM & IN FIGHTING FOR SENATE CONFIRMATION OF PRO-CONSTITUTION JUDGES

THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN THE PRESIDENTIAL & CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 2004 -- WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEADERSHIP IN THE CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENCY MUST HEED THE CONSERVATIVE MESSAGE SENT FORTH SO CLEARLY BY THE AMERICAN VOTERS ON ELECTION DAY & EFFECTIVELY RESIST THE PRESSURES BEING EXERTED BY THE SOCALLED "MODERATE," OR "CENTRIST." ELITISTS WHO SEEK TO UNDERMINE & NEGATE THE VOTERS' MESSAGE BY PERSUADING THE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP TO PURSUE A POLICY AGENDA THAT WILL MOVE BOTH THE PARTY & THE COUNTRY DECIDEDLY TO THE LEFT OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM

PEYTON KNIGHT'S REVIEW OF MAJOR PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES THAT FACED THE U.S. CONGRESS DURIND 2003 &WHAT WAS DONE ABOUT EACH OF THE ISSUES:  TAKING STOCK OF THE WINS & LOSSES FOR AMERICA'S NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ORDER, SYSTEM OF LIBERTY UNDER LAW, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM, VITAL PUBLIC INTERESTS, & FUNDAMENTAL CULTURAL VALUES & BELIEFS

IN WHAT SENSE IS "JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY" OR "IDEOLOGY" A PROPER & LEGITIMATE CON- CERN OF THE U.S. SENATE WHEN DECIDING WHETHER TO CONFIRM OR REJECT THE APPOINT- MENT OF A PERSON NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT TO FILL A VACANCY ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT OR ON SOME OTHER FEDERAL COURT?

SENATE CONFIRMATION OR REJECTION OF PROPOSED FEDERAL JUDGES NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT TO FILL VACANCIES ON THE U.S.COURTS--SHOULD POLITICAL IDEOLOGY MATTER IN THE APPOINTMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGES?

THE PROPER ROLE OF THE U.S. SENATE IN THE APPOINTMENT OF FEDERAL JUDGES--SENATE CONFIRMATION OF PROPOSED JUDGES NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT:  SHOULD POLITICAL IDEOLOGY BE INJECTED INTO THE CONFIRMATION PROCESS?

TO CONFIRM OR NOT TO CONFIRM--THE U.S. SENATE'S EXERCISE OF ITS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONFIRM OR REJECT PROPOSED SUPREME COURT JUSTICES NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A.:  WHAT CRITERIA SHOULD THE SENATORS USE IN DETERMINING WHETHER TO CONFIRM OR REJECT A NOMINEE?

ABUSE OF THE FILIBUSTER IN CONTROVERSIES OVER U.S. SENATE CONFIRMATION OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES--THE FILIBUSTER'S USE BY A MINORITY FACTION IN THE SENATE TO THWART THE WILL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AS EXPRESSED THROUGH A MAJORITY OF THEIR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES IN THE SENATE

WHY U.S. SENATE CONFIRMATION OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES, COUPLED WITH PARTISAN USE OF THE FILIBUSTER TO PREVENT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS FROM CHOOSING CONSERVATIVE FEDERAL JUDGES, IS A PROCESS THAT IS BROKEN & NEEDS TO BE FIXED

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Volume V, Issue # 165, June 25, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE FILIBUSTER & THE JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT PROCESS
IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

By Dr. John C. Eastman

THE U.S. CONGRESS, THE UNITED NATIONS, & AMERICAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY -- A SURVEY OF VOTES IN THE 107TH. CONGRESS ON LEGISLATION AFFECTING U.S. SOVEREIGNTY

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Volume V, Issue # 4, January 6, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

UNITED STATES SOVEREIGNTY VOTE SURVEY:

OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IS STILL AT RISK

By Tom DeWeese

THE U.S. SENATE, THE 2002 ELECTIONS, & THE BUSH/REPUBLICAN POLICY AGENDA

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Volume IV, Issue # 12, February 2, 2002

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE REPUBLICANS MUST REGAIN MAJORITY CONTROL
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE

By Trent Lott

UNITED STATES FISCAL POLICY -- THE BUSH II PRESIDENCY, FEDERAL TAX CUTS, & THE SENATE DEMOCRATS

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Volume IV, Issue # 5, January 14, 2002

DISCUSSION POPIC:

WIPING OUT THE FEDERAL SURPLUS:
DESPERATE DEMOCRATS TAKE BLACKJACKS & TIRE IRONS
TO THE TINY BUSH TAX CUTS

By Vin Suprynowicz

THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE SUBVERSIVE POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES -- EXERCISE OF THIS POWER IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA,
Volume III, Issue # 38, December 8, 2001

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BRING BACK THE U.S. HOUSE
COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

By Chuck Morse

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