Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. Phyllis Schlafly has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when Phyllis Schlafly started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Phyllis Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, Phyllis Schlafly appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. Phyllis Schlafly was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal. Phyllis Schlafly's monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report is now in its 38th year. Phyllis Schlafly's syndicated column appears in 100 newspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 460 stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Phyllis Schlafly Live" is heard weekly on 45 stations. Both can be heard on the internet. Phyllis Schlafly is the author or editor of 20 books on subjects as varied as family and feminism (The Power of the Positive Woman), nuclear strategy (Strike From Space and Kissinger on the Couch), education (Child Abuse in the Classroom), child care (Who Will Rock the Cradle?), and a phonics book (Turbo Reader). Phyllis Schlafly's most recent book, Feminist Fantasies, is a collection of essays on feminism in the media, workplace, home, and the military. Phyllis Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. Phyllis Schlafly has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues. Phyllis Schlafly is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science from Harvard University. Phyllis Schlafly is America's best-known advocate of the dignity and honor that we as a society owe to the role of fulltime homemaker. The mother of six children, Phyllis Schlafly was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ The stunning repudiation of Sen. Richard Lugar's, R-Ind., bid for a seventh term has sent shock waves through Washington's internationalist lobby. A former Rhodes Scholar, Lugar has spent his career promoting a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/05/16/defeat_law_of_the_sea_treaty__again 0025ae9a-1e58-4632-9cc9-fbf008bd0a91 Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT The abortion industry racks up profits by dumping expensive procedural complications on hospitals, legitimate physicians and the public. Many abortionists lack staff privileges at local hospitals, so when women... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/05/08/steve_king_stands_up_to_the_war_against_women a7809105-baf7-45c3-8a03-62f8aa25f5c3 Tue, 08 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Where is the mainstream media's coverage of the shocking "memo" issued by nine state attorneys general detailing 21 specific violations of law by the Obama administration? That's too many violations to list in this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/05/01/obama_is_a_bigtime_law_violator 7d787223-42d2-40f3-b10a-907845d7d8d1 Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Increasing public disapproval of Barack Obama is based on more than his extravagant spending, which hangs debt like an albatross around the necks of our children and grandchildren. He is presiding over the most... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/04/24/obama_bogged_down_by_scandals eebdcbad-6ee3-4772-86bc-5ac4c75fa58c Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Hilary Rosen's attack on Ann Romney by saying that, although she raised five children, she "never worked a day in her life" perfectly fits the definition of a gaffe. A gaffe is a statement that reveals what the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/04/17/obamas_war_on_women 1a95bfc6-085e-497d-9ab8-a584be29a7b4 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT The charter school movement was presented to the American people as a way to have more parental control over public school education. Charter schools are public schools financed by local taxpayers and federal grants.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/04/10/phyllis_schlafly 0239dfc6-5f67-4c40-88d7-3fea4c04f78f Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Political correctness has a double standard when it comes to teaching about religion in public schools. Drop Christianity down the memory hole but give extensive and mostly favorable coverage to Islam.Even the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/04/03/islamic_indoctrination_in_textbooks 3bb76a95-1364-4833-a30d-4bd2715638c2 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT How long are we going to put up with the fiction that free trade with China is beneficial to the United States? China uses our myopia about free trade to cheat us coming and going, steal our patents and manufacturing... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/03/27/spying_and_stealing_by_communist_china 8f82235b-179d-4eca-b7bb-17bd64da2076 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT When President Obama was participating in a live video chat, Jennifer Wedel asked him, "Why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/03/20/h1b_visas_take_american_jobs 0fecc8db-5638-4ca3-84c8-4795c4c484bb Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Contrary to foolish meanderings of politicians, social issues are not only an integral feature of our fiscal policies but also specifically of our tax laws. The majority of Americans say they support traditional... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/03/13/we_cant_separate_social_policy_from_tax_law a5711045-376a-4c41-aa69-c3a64383160f Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Contrary to politicians who want to call a truce about social issues, there is absolutely no way to separate social and fiscal issues; they are locked in a tight political embrace. Politicians who say we can ignore... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/03/06/phony_divide_between_fiscal_and_social_issues c9775152-7be8-4872-8572-53a5555a7ea8 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has proved again why she doesn't belong on the U.S. Supreme Court. She really doesn't like our U.S. Constitution, which she swore to uphold and defend, and she probably would like to rewrite... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/02/28/ginsburg_likes_use_of_foreign_law b29ea3a8-4dc1-4f9e-b24e-a6b8dd83bcd7 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Welcome to the real ObamaCare, whereby a handful of leftists in Washington, D.C., impose the views of their big-money donors on more than 300 million Americans. If the Obama mandate for contraception remains intact,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/02/20/phyllis_schlafly d8ec88fa-91b0-43ae-9fcd-bd23cb44702b Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Proclaiming in a New York Times headline that "Obama Adjusts a Rule Covering Contraceptives," the pro-Obama media tried to dig the president out of the political hole he had jumped into. But calling... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/02/14/obama_obeys_the_feminists_again df354617-0983-455e-96a3-9314cf3daecd Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 2 on a straight party-line vote. That proves again that the feminists control the Democratic Party, and it's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/02/07/day_of_reckoning_for_violence_against_women_act 2039963d-f0ec-46f8-8b9c-6bd2055fc467 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT The now-famous picture of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer shaking her finger at President Barack Obama is both appropriate and deserved. In America, we don't have rulers entitled to the deference and obsequiousness other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/01/31/jan_brewers_photo_with_obama 79e47183-629a-4ff5-9b0a-fabb89d71b70 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Barack Obama's latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was not in recess. He appointed three... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/01/24/unconstitutional_recess_appointments 6c41143d-9bcf-4832-ab60-d750f6356a75 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Why did Sen. Rick Santorum suddenly surge to the status of a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president after having been treated like a not-to-be-taken-seriously contender in the many television... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/01/18/we_need_profamiyl_tax_policies d5c9482d-238b-4ed3-8629-e887f7ee1567 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT It was bad enough when President Obama bamboozled Congress into passing a stimulus bill that didn't produce any jobs, then increased the federal deficit in the 2012 omnibus spending bill, then raised the debt ceiling,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/01/10/bailing_out_the_european_union 8e419475-83d5-4454-8b1a-6cee079aa34d Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Just before sneaking off to Hawaii, where he barred news photos on the golf course, President Obama overturned a longstanding U.S. policy that prohibited Internet gambling. In yet another presidential shenanigan that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2012/01/03/phyllis_schlafly 8b429006-f8ea-4dbc-80f4-f7b93026c5fa Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT After spirited discussions from Nov. 28 to Dec. 11 (including two days of overtime that ended only in the wee hours), the United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban, South Africa, failed to achieve its two... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/12/27/good_news_from_the_un c72183b4-0ebd-4754-9468-1d8bc1ada723 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT This month, communist China is celebrating its 10th anniversary of joining the World Trade Organization. The subtitle ought to be China's 10th anniversary of cheating the United States.The globalists talked the U.S.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/12/20/china_celebrates_outwitting_us_in_the_wto 8263e6c7-4a28-4272-bc5b-7482d47c3aba Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Americans don't need a fortuneteller to predict our future. We can see the future right before our eyes: Europe. And we don't like it. Europe, whose economy we so generously subsidized with billions of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/12/13/we_dont_like_the_future_we_see 0d2937e9-3420-447d-80ae-7d25b1e4626b Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT Moving quietly under the cover of the presidential debates and the enormous publicity given to the Republican nomination race is a plan to change how U.S. presidents are elected. It would bypass the procedure spelled... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/12/06/national_popular_vote_is_a_bad_idea 22089bd0-7447-470d-803e-6ff459c089cb Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, opening on Nov. 28, called COP-17, is one of a series of U.N. meetings working toward a specific goal. Advertising for this meeting features a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/11/29/un_mischief_from_durban_to_rio 3d777b5e-5075-466c-b5c7-8a0f5b9e8b4c Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT A trigger provision, buried in U.S. laws since 1990, quietly took effect at the end of October. The U.S. taxpayers' annual donation of 22 percent to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/11/22/goodbye_unesco c4488017-74f5-48b6-a0b2-279bb281673e Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT We watched a couple more TV presidential candidate debates and, funny thing, again there was little or no mention of what is widely conceded to be the No. 1 issue -- jobs. The unemployment figures remain unacceptably... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/11/15/lets_talk_about_jobs e919f5dd-bf6e-4670-ac2c-0d17969bc2f0 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT After years of negative votes in Congress and the opposition of the American people, on Oct. 21 Barack Obama allowed the first Mexican truck to cross the border at Laredo, Texas, and head north to deliver... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/11/08/mexican_trucks_are_on_our_roads c2fbf422-1bb7-4cad-b614-bfa2f2f2f7c2 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:01:00 GMT Does Rick Perry want to undermine traditional marriage? This question leaps out from his new 20 percent flat-tax plan, which would eliminate all tax advantages for married couples where one spouse is the primary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/11/01/rick_perrys_marriage_problems 8d541862-1003-4379-ab32-10eb570c809b Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:01:00 GMT Most Americans are unaware that about $700 billion a year of federal taxpayers' money is handed out to non-taxpayers who are allegedly below the poverty line (in addition to $250 billion a year given out by the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/10/25/the_high_costs_of_marriage_absence 28de1435-85b4-43c2-a55f-c6bc5a31b638 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT Despite the inordinate quantity of press coverage about next year's presidential election, attention to TV debates and the consuming desire of the media to predict who will win in 2012, the polls show that no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/10/18/americas_decline_candidates_just_dont_get_it a0c703f5-2ec9-4e43-b08c-cb2d986c3191 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT President Barack Obama, with the help of some Republicans who take their orders from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is trying to pass a bill that will kill U.S. jobs, send more jobs overseas and make more Americans... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/10/11/korean_agreement_is_a_job_killer 5b4b9a6d-b7d4-4797-90a2-8e27deb2858c Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT It's a problem for U.S. retailers when Communist China makes fake designer handbags and illegal copies of our music CDs, but it's a much bigger problem when the fakes are chips installed in our military... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/10/04/buying_counterfeit_chips_from_china 9978775b-400a-4fac-97b1-94d4027b490d Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:01:00 GMT Outsourcing is not the only way we are losing American jobs to Communist China. The Chinese have figured out how to capture jobs inside the U.S. by using our EB-5 visas (employment-based, fifth priority). ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/09/27/us_citizenship_should_not_be_for_sale 52a0b49a-6cfd-4d50-94cc-d96b3c2c4a1e Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT We are now beginning to grasp the definition and the scope of the words "new world order," an expression inserted into the U.S. political vocabulary by the first President Bush. He never defined it, leaving that task to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/09/21/high_costs_of_green_jobs 53d27f6a-1e91-4798-b556-738ecbcabee1 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority, but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules. In another striking proof that the Obama administration is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/09/13/college_may_be_dangerous_for_men fde8e866-286b-45a2-88ef-84068bd0d88f Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT Yes, Virginia, there is a gender gap. In fact, there are two gender gaps: one bad and one good. The bad gender gap is that the biggest losers in the Obama economy are men rather than women. This is a fact that is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/09/06/yes,_virginia,_there_is_a_gender_gap 012321d8-b668-4e95-ad81-ced5a5e0eae2 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:01:00 GMT The media are absorbed with the race for the Republican presidential nomination -- commenting on daily fluctuations in the polls and predicting who will win. But why are they omitting discussion of the elephant in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/08/30/candidates_should_be_talking_about_china 2ab2f420-f684-45db-a95c-abc520be3764 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT The feminists are having another tantrum. The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women and the New York Civil Liberties Union are squealing about a 64-page decision in a workplace, class-action suit... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/08/23/feminists_have_a_tantrum cbc20a75-2423-4f85-8620-2508cb3ca1e1 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT USA Today published one of its colorful front pages last week detailing how America has not only grown dramatically in population over the last two decades, but has radically changed ethnically, geographically and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/08/16/oh,_how_america_has_changed f4ba834d-52eb-43ab-851c-ceec498bc02d Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:54:00 GMT Remember how we were threatened that if the Republican House of Representatives didn't raise the U.S. debt ceiling, the stock market would crash and Standard & Poor's would punish us by downgrading our credit rating?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/08/09/debt_ceiling_up,_sp_rating_down 619ca20f-f644-4968-aa91-4fa3434e1840 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT If Congress can't repeal the law that banishes the Edison light bulb and forces us to buy Chinese-made bulbs we don't like, voters will ask, what was the use in electing a Republican House? Not only are the majority of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/08/02/get_government_out_of_our_house 3639d733-7f85-4625-9713-36c378ce92de Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:01:00 GMT A national scandal hit the news when Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past 10 years on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2011/07/26/scandals_in_the_classroom 350a229c-b3ef-4c29-860f-48e2f06a28c9 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:01:00 GMT