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Video: Speak Loudly and Make No Sense

Thomas Peters — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:24:58 +0100

So much for civil discourse in our highest chambers of power:

Innocence Videos: Fads, Elites, & Iowa Core Math

Thomas Peters — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:32:11 +0100

Here is the third installment in our series of videos explaining the work and mission of our Preserve Innocence project.

Emmett McGroarty, Director of Preserve Innocence, talks about the problems in the math portion of the Iowa Core Curriculum.

The Iowa Core Math program and the elitism and adherence to education fads seen in its adoption are the subject of a recent Innocence Report:

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If the video does n...

Video: "Better Bail Faster, Billy!"

Thomas Peters — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:20:00 +0100

This ad is brilliant in its simplicity:

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H/T: HotAir.

On religious liberty, what would Kagan do?

Thomas Peters — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Rick Garnett asks (and answers) this important question in the pages of USA Today:

To no one's surprise, Solicitor General Elena Kagan displayed intelligence and charm during the hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to the Supreme Court. In addition, and also as e...

Samelson on an Institutionalized Oxymoron

Ashley Samelson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:54:54 +0100

Ashley Samelson comments on the latest episode in the Arizona imbroglio - proof positive that bad federal law, mishandled, brings about additional legal paradoxes at the state level.

An Institutionalized Oxymoron

The federal government has done some serious judicial dentist work on the Arizona immigration la...

Michael New on the "New Abortion Providers"

Thomas Peters — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0100

More signs that the culture of life is making progress in this country:

The Sunday New York Times Magazine featured an interesting article entitled “The New Abortion Providers,” which details efforts by supporters of legal abortion to cultivate a new generation of physicians who perform abortions. Unsurprisingly, the article painted a very sympathetic picture, but it still makes interesting reading for pro-lifers, because it demonstrates that the...

Latinos and the progressive agenda

Thomas Peters — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:12:41 +0100

Latinos and the progressive agenda are an odd political combination because they do not agree on fundamental issues - such as the right to life, traditional marriage, and entrepreneurship.

The stress between the goals of progressivism and the aims of the Latino community are beginning to become more evident. Allow me to show a couple of examples...

Coalition of Pro-Life Groups Tell FDA to Not Approve Ella Abortion Drug

Thomas Peters — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:48:29 +0100

Our founder Robert George signed the letter mentioned below as an individual (this is not an officially-sponsored APP activity:

A coalition of pro-life groups is sending a letter to the FDA and Drug Administration asking it to not approve the new abortion drug Ella that backers have mislabeled as a morning after pill. The dr...

APIA Announces $1 Million CA Campaign for Carly!

Thomas Peters — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:41:52 +0100

Our sister organization American Principles in Action is undertaking an independent expenditure in the race for Barbara Boxer's Senate seat in California this November:

Conservative Hispanics Launch $1 Million "Tus Valores" Campaign

The Latino Partnersh...

Alert: Robby George to appear on Bill Bennet tomorrow morning!

Thomas Peters — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:45:20 +0100

APP founder Dr. Robert George will be on the Bill Bennet show tomorrow morning at 8:30AM (July 27) to discuss the new information on the release of the Lockerbie bomber and the Obama administration's actions.

As I blogged earlier today, new reports have surfaced recently claiming that the "White House backed release of Lockerbie b...

Video: APP's Aguilar on Gov. Crist's Abortion Flip-Flop

Thomas Peters — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:27:33 +0100

Alfonso Aguilar, the Executive Director of our Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, is featured in a new APP video this week discussing Gov. Charlie Crist's record on abortion:

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On a related note, you can expect some exciting news from the Latino Partnership tomorrow!

AP - Obama's message to voters: Things could be worse

Thomas Peters — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:50:19 +0100

A possible preview of the President's fall pitch to the nation:

President Barack Obama, who rocketed to the White House promising "change you ca...

Sullivan: Conservative Folly on the High Court

Thomas Peters — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:34:14 +0100

Gregory Sullivan writes at The Public Discourse that "in a series of recent cases, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have abandoned judicial restraint":

As expected, the U.S. Supreme Court nationalized the right to bear arms in the recent case McDonald v. City of Chicago. They did this by “incorporating” the Second Amendment—that is, by requiring the states to abide by the restrictions in the Second Amendment that originally bound only the federal g...

"White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi"

Thomas Peters — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:16:31 +0100

Remember months and months ago when APP was urging the administration to act with transparency regarding the release of the Lockerbie bomber?

Recently we have been reading that our suspicions were accurate:

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday T...

Offbeat: Local picket hires non-union workers

Thomas Peters — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0100

I found this story particularly touching because I have had the occasion to walk by this demonstration - yes, the very same picket as the one pictured above - that is mentioned in this Wall Street Journal article several times since APP moved its offices:

Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for wo...

Congress at record-low approval

Thomas Peters — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:18:22 +0100

Public polling firm Gallup has revealed that American confidence in Congress is at a new historic low:

The current Congress is made up of a large majority of Democrats in the House, and an almost-supermajority of Democrats in the Senate.

The fastest way to reestablish faith in our public institutions is for t...

Robby George, fighting for freedom in principle, and in Washington

Thomas Peters — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:26:58 +0100

One doesn't have to look far these days to find examples of religious freedoms being curtailed by our society and government, whether it is a student being told to change their beliefs or face expulsion from school, or teenagers being told they cannot pray on the steps of the Supreme Court.

Last week in th...

Gregg makes a principled case for the Gold Standard

Thomas Peters — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0100

I've written before about my regard for Sam Gregg's scholarship. Yesterday, writing for the Public Discourse, he writes "In charting our future monetary policies, we should remember the trade-offs of competing alternatives." Let's take a look at what he means:

In recent months, we have witnessed fierce arguments betw...

Does Obamacare allow abortion funding? Of course.

Thomas Peters — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:36:40 +0100

Last week the National Right to Life Committee charged that the high-risk government health care plan proposed in Pennsylvania would pay for elective abortions.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement saying this was not the case, and that abortions will not be paid f...

Newly-discovered Health Care amendment forces citizens to report gold transactions

Thomas Peters — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:29:04 +0100

Now why on earth did the Democrats decide to tuck this amendment into their health care overhaul legislation?

Those already outraged by the president’s health care legislation now have a new bone of contention — a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers a...

Photo: Faces of Intolerance

Thomas Peters — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:46:05 +0100

Photo caption: Same-sex marriage advocates (in red and blue) disturb a peaceful rally in support of traditional marriage in front of the Rhode Island State House on Sunday. [More from local NBC 10]

Follow the "Summer for Marriage RV" Tour on Flickr and visit their website.

Krauthammer on Obama's Next Act

Thomas Peters — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Krauthammer provides another perspective on our President, warning not to count him - or his long-term policy goals - out:

In the political marketplace, there's now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House.

I have a warn...

Noonan to UK's Cameron: Don't be Obama

Thomas Peters — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0100

It's very clear the scales have fallen from Peggy Noonan's eyes. Caught up in the Obamania during the 2008 elections, Mrs. Noonan is now once again making sense:

Dear Mr Cameron, welcome young friend. Welcome to America. Bring your bright, dashing self to our shores. Speak your piece with af...

Infographic: What America's Debt Looks Like

Thomas Peters — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0100

For the full-size image, click here. It's explained below:

"At the end of March 2010, the national debt stood at $12.8 trillion. And if you look at some of the U.S. debt clocks that display real-time estimates, such as this one here, you will see that in the three months since that number has exceeded $13 tril...

Video: CNN on "Sex Ed for Kids in Kindergarten?"

Thomas Peters — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:17:53 +0100

CNN is taking note of the horrible policies being introduced across the country which threaten the innocence of children:

Learn more about what you can do to prevent this from coming to a school near you at our Preserve Innocence website.