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July 2, 2009
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CONGRESSWOMAN MICHELE BACHMANN CONFIRMED FOR EAGLE COUNCIL. Rep. Bachmann confirmed this week to speak at Eagle Council, called How To Take Back America Conference. You can help promote the conference on your blog or website using special graphics on the "promotion" tab at howtotakebackamerica.org. For the best rate, register before July 4!
TWO BIG SUPREME COURT VICTORIES. In the final days of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with our amicus briefs and delivered 5-4 victories in its two biggest cases. The first opinion (Horne v. Flores), written by Justice Sam Alito, was a rebuke to the phony "bilingual education" that is a euphemism for taxpayer-funded teaching of basic subjects in Spanish in public school. This prevents students from ever learning English well and from reaching their full potential in America. Yet since 1992 a federal court has reigned over a lawsuit in Arizona demanding more and more taxpayer spending on this wrongheaded program. Last week the Supreme Court finally halted this judicial supremacy. Justice Alito observed that more money does not mean better education, and he embraced English immersion as a likely superior educational approach. He put quotes around "bilingual education" and cited study after study criticizing it. He also suggested that the trial court had exceeded its jurisdiction (authority), and had erred in requiring more funding (for teachers' unions) rather than considering non-financial ways to improve schools. The second decision, another 5-4 decision, invalidated reverse discrimination by the New Haven, CT fire department. In Ricci v. DeStefano, the Court observed that 18 white and Hispanic firefighters "likely would have been promoted based on their good test performance," but that reverse discrimination by the City of New Haven caused it to deny the promotions. The Court held that the City had wrongly thrown out the test results in order to find a way to promote African American firefighters. Such race-based intentional discrimination in favor of minorities is itself a violation of the Civil Rights Act, the Court held to the dismay of liberals.
Thanks to Eagle Forum Georgia State President and National Chairman of our Parents Rights Committee, Sen. Nancy Schaefer, for alerting us to a terrible bill passed by the Texas Legislature. Eagle Forum sent out a major alert to Texans asking Gov. Rick Perry to veto SB 1440, which would have given Child Protective Services (CPS) expansive new power to search and seize children without consent or even notice to their parents, without a court hearing, and without "good cause," just on the basis of unverified, uncorroborated anonymous tips. This government arrogance was in direct violation of a recent federal court of appeals decision, and was a direct attack on the fundamental rights of every Texas parent. Gov. Perry did veto the bill after an estimated 5,000 people contacted his office. Parents' rights are under attack all over the U.S. by CPS, Family Courts, and all those who believe that the schools or the "village" should make major decisions rather than their parents.
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