Jane Chastain : Politically Direct

The United States is under siege!

Last week in Los Angeles and other sites across the country, hundreds of thousands of people gathered to protest a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would build a fence along our southern border, enforce our immigration laws and punish employers who hire illegal aliens.

The amazing part of all this was not the size of these crowds, but that not one demonstrator was asked to show proof of citizenship.

Conservatively, some 11 million people are in this country illegally. Many have been here for years with no fear of deportation. Now, they are boldly wagging their fingers at us. Read the rest of this entry »

(This column, written in March of 2006 for WorldNetDaily.com, was on runaway spending. However, you can take any issue that is important to you and get the attention of your representatives if you use the suggestions below. I guarantee it!) Read the rest of this entry »

Osama bin Laden is dumb. There was no need to send a team of radicals to hijack American planes and guide them into th.e World Trade Center in order to destroy the U.S. economy. If he just had a little patience – instead of hiding in a cave – he could have joined some of his Islamic buddies and bought this country at bargain basement prices.

A plan is underway t.o bankrupt the United States, and the terror cell that is implementing it is hiding in plain sight in the nation’s capital. In fact, it is operating within the nation’s capitol building. Read the rest of this entry »

Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states, for any reason during the full nine months of pregnancy, is on a collision course with science. When the 1973 court handed down that infamous decision, it overlooked the most important issue: when life begins.

Since there was no window to the womb, seven of the nine justices felt perfectly free to classify pre-born children to be non-persons, property of the mother that could be discarded at will.

During the last 33 years, technology has given us that window through ultrasound and fiber optics. Not only can we view these tiny humans, doctors can treat them in utero, performing lifesaving surgery on their miniature patients. Others study the growth and behavior of these babies as they develop and have made startling discoveries. Read the rest of this entry »

Frankly, I’m grateful that Dubai Ports World struck a deal to buy the London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company which has control of six major U.S. Ports.We have not had an honest discussion on why we allow foreign companies – any foreign companies – to assume control of U.S. ports since 1998, when Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., blocked the Clinton co-presidents from leasing a 144-acre terminal at the former Long Beach Naval Station to the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company – a subsidiary of the People’s Liberation Army. This is long overdue! Read the rest of this entry »