Remembering the ‘Name of the Game’ in 2017

Let me paint a picture for you. America is suffering under the weight of eight years of failed liberal policies, government has expanded, people are ready for change, and a strong conservative Republican candidate is replacing a liberal Democrat president. If you were to guess this is February 2017, you’d be right. However, the same circumstances were true in February 1969, when the Phyllis Schlafly Report headlined the article “Patronage Is the Name of the Game.” Phyllis knew that electing the right people is only the first step to real change. The next step is to surround the right person with a strong and competent team of staff and advisors.

Trump Battles the ‘Shadow Government’

The President of the United States is often called the most powerful man in the world, but the forces arrayed against Donald Trump are unprecedented. To the 63 million Americans who voted for him, the campaign to undermine President Trump is downright frightening.

Radio Live: 4/28/17 | Trump's 100 Days, Inside The Beltway, PSR 50th Anniversary

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar discuss the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. D.C. Director Rebekah Gantner gives our weekly "Inside the Beltway" update. Research Director Jordan Henry talks about this week's installment of "50 Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report."

Reasons to Oppose the Travel Ban

While liberals around the country were busy complaining about President Trump’s travel ban that sought to stop the onslaught of outrageous aggression, the liberals in California made their own travel ban against religious expression. According to a new California law, public universities are no longer allowed to send students to states that oppose gay rights. Students that have prepared for months to make presentations of their research have been told to cancel their plans. Athletes have been told not to expect any games with rivaling teams from states like Tennessee, Kansas, or North Carolina. The logic is that California doesn’t want taxpayer dollars going to states that hold conservative, pro-family principles.

Radio Live: 4/27/17 | Court Watch, Chris Herrod on Illegal Immigration

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar get our weekly "Court Watch" update from Andy Schlafly. Should the 9th Circuit be broken up? What's the latest judicial action against the conservative Trump agenda? Listen in to find out! We also talk with Chris Herrod today, author of "The Forgotten Immigrant - How Tolerating Illegal Immigration Hurts Immigrants."

Radio Live: 4/26/17 | Judicial Activism Against Trump, Argument Against Con Con

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar are joined by John and Andy Schlafly today as we talk about their latest column "100 Reasons to Celebrate Trump's First 100 Days," the latest in judicial activism against Trump, and the latest news on efforts for a new Constitutional Convention.

Radio Live: 4/21/17 | "Fox Factor" Interview, Inside The Beltway Report, 50 Years PS Report

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar cover timely topics and reports. Ed Martin was featured on Fox News's "Factor" program last night to talk about Elizabeth Warren's war-of-words on President Trump. D.C. Director Rebekah Gantner gives us her "Inside the Beltway" report. Research Director Jordan Henry guides us through this week's installment of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phyllis Schlafly Report - Getting Education out of the hands of "professionals."

Radio Live: 4/12/17 Alex Newman On Syria, Andy Schlafly on Column, ConCon

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar talk with author and writer Alex Newman about our foreign policy in Syria and what comes next. Andy Schlafly weighs in on the Fourth Circuit "lawyering up" against Trump and an update on a Constitutional Convention.

Radio Live: 4/10/17 | Roger Stone, Burgess Owens

Hosts Ed Martin and Cherilyn Eagar talk to Roger Stone about the Trump administration, policies moving forward, and reflections on the campaign. Burgess Owens joins us as well to talk about the current state of the NFL as well as his take on race relations in the United States.

White House Cracks Down on Illegal Immigration

Illegal aliens who pose a risk to others or to the security of our nation should be deported immediately without awaiting formal criminal charges or convictions. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly’s new policy sensibly authorizes government officials to make such determinations.

Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: Communists Still Use the “Trick Called Trade”

All conservatives agree that we need to “drain the swamp,” but it is much harder to agree on how to do that. Ultimately, draining the swamp means removing the corrupt influence of Washington bureaucrats from an otherwise superior system of constitutionally limited government based on personal rights and free enterprise. To most, trade policy might seem irrelevant to this goal. However, Phyllis Schlafly understood that politicians use trade policy as a way to broker their power and pick winners and losers in a blatantly uncapitalistic fashion. She saw the importance of the trade issue when she wrote her August 1972 Phyllis Schlafly Report entitled “Subsidizing the Soviets with a Trick Called Trade.”  In order to truly drain the swamp, we must seize this unconstitutional power wielded by Washington bureaucrats who offer financial and commercial aid to those acting in aggression to American interests.

Trump Must Fight Judicial Overreach

The recent anti-Trump decisions by federal judges have reached far beyond the legitimate constitutional boundaries of the federal judiciary. That’s why the disappointing remark made by Judge Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, was a cause for concern among conservatives.

Judges Join the ‘Resistance’

Resistance has become the rallying cry for those who failed to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box last year. The well-funded Center for American Progress, which employs much of Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign, said it hoped to be “the central hub of the Trump resistance.”

Judicial Supremacy Threatens Trump’s Agenda

A decade ago Phyllis Schlafly published her book entitled “The Supremacists,” which sounded the alarm bells about how the federal judiciary has elevated itself above the other two branches of government. This is the opposite of what the Founders intended, when they created the federal courts to be the “least dangerous” part of the federal government.

On February 3, a single federal judge sitting in Seattle, Washington, blocked a common-sense immigration order by the newly elected President Trump as he attempted to protect our Nation against migration from countries associated with terrorism. Those nations were Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. This solitary federal judge issued a sweeping temporary restraining order (TRO) that tied Trump’s hands nationwide and prevented him from implementing his mandate from the American people to protect us.

In contrast with ability of a CEO of a private business to implement his agenda, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is finding that activist courts will block much of what he tries to accomplish.

President Trump’s immigration order was being enforced by the temporary Attorney General he installed in D.C., after the prior one had refused to enforce Trump’s order. Upwards of 60,000 visas were being revoked from those nations. But those visas were then abruptly restored against the will of the Trump administration.

Federal judges hold unelected, lifetime positions and can only be removed through impeachment by Congress, which has never happened based on judicial rulings. The underused method for reining in an overreaching judiciary is for Congress to withdraw its jurisdiction, or for the president to decline to enforce its orders. Some of the temporary restraining orders may be reversed or curtailed on appeal or in subsequent rulings. But liberals bring multiple lawsuits on issues like these until they win and it is affirmed.

Several prior presidents, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, stood up against federal courts when they grabbed power beyond their rightful role under the Constitution. The checks and balances in our Constitution should flow both directions.

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Americans Support Smart Immigration Policies

It should be obvious that we need to pause the admission of refugees and others from known terror havens, and Donald Trump was elected on a promise to institute a temporary ban followed by “extreme vetting” of future visitors. The America people are entitled to get what we voted for.

Trump versus the Judge

Donald Trump won the presidency fair and square, but there’s a well-funded movement to resist his victory and defy the new president’s authority over the executive branch of our government. One federal judge, who sits nearly 3,000 miles away in the “other” Washington, has raised the stakes by ordering federal bureaucrats to disobey a lawful order by President Trump.

The Darkness of the Women’s March

President Trump’s inaugural address was well received by the people who voted for him, but the media reacted with predictable hostility as the plain-spoken non-politician repeated the themes he used so successfully during the campaign. Newspapers called the speech dark, a word that was repeated by almost every reporter.

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: Making America “Safe – Not Sorry”

No one would dispute the fact that Phyllis Schlafly did not fit into the mold of Washington politicians. She knew that the issues facing Americans were not fuel for empty campaign promises. To Phyllis, they were real problems that she had to face like everyone else. When she wrote the May 1968 issue of the Phyllis Schlafly Report, the passion of personal experience can be clearly seen in the headlining article entitled “CRISIS IN LAW AND ORDER.” Without a doubt, her prophetic writings on the riots of 1968 very clearly apply to the protests that have swept the nation in recent years.

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Phyllis Schlafly Report: Reversing the "Pattern of Surrender"

“You had to get used to Phyllis being ahead of her time, all the time.” Those are the words of Helen Marie Taylor, Chairman of the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund. That could not be illustrated any better than with the very first Phyllis Schlafly Report to be released. In August of 1967, the first PS Report was released with “GIVEAWAY OF OUR PANAMA CANAL: Secret Treaties Imperil U.S. Rights” pasted in bold print across the top of the page. Just as her revolutionary 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo exposed the secrets of the Republican kingmakers, her first PS Report exposed the secret treaties that promised to undermine American sovereignty and deliver us another humiliating foreign policy defeat on the world stage.

Trump Can Clean Out Executive Agencies

One federal regulation that is due for swift removal by the new administration is a last-minute rule to prevent states from defunding Planned Parenthood. This new rule became final on December 19 following an unusually short 30-day comment period, and was set to take effect on January 18, just two days before President Trump was sworn in.