Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Welfare Use By Illegal Immigrants

Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children

Panel to Examine New Report with Latest Data

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2011) – A new Center for Immigration Studies report finds that, 13 years after welfare reform, the share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes – not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. The major welfare programs examined in this report include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized housing.

The findings also show wide variation in welfare use by country of origin, with immigrants from some countries making extensive use of such programs, while those from other countries have relatively low use rates. Welfare use also varies by state, with Arizona, Texas, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oregon, and Colorado having some of the highest levels of welfare use among immigrant households.

The report, “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs,” is authored by Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. It will be released Tuesday, April 5, at 9:00 a.m. during a panel discussion at the National Press Club, 14th & F streets, N.W. Please RSVP to press@cis.org.

Panelists:

Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies?

Mickey Kaus, blogger and author, KausFiles.com at the Daily Caller

Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy, Competitive Enterprise Institute

Moderator: Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Monday, March 28, 2011

Immigration News

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[FYI --

1. Options to Inhibit Sanctuary Policies in Maryland (Testimony)
2. Big Moment in Telemundo's Census Coverage (Blog)
3. Immigrant Politics Harmful to the Republic's Health (Blog)
4. As Mexicans Flee Violence, Many Come to the U.S. (Blog)
5. The Birth Tourism Industry Continues to Grow (Blog)
6. 80 Miles North of the Arizona Border, The Drugs Keep Coming (Blog)
7. Immigration Court Overload (Blog)
8. All in the Family (Blog)
9. It's The Metrics, Stupid! (Blog)
10. A Cloud No Larger than a Man's Hand at the Southern Border (Blog)
11. From the Halls of Montezuma (Blog)
12. Wonderland on the Mississippi (Blog)
13. As Obama Arrives, a Report on El Salvador (Blog)
14. E-Verify Yourself (Blog)
15. 'You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard!' (Blog)
16. Sheriff Joe: Job Creator (Blog)


-- Mark Krikorian]


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Options to Inhibit Sanctuary Policies in Maryland
Statement by Jessica Vaughan
Written Testimony for the Maryland House of Delegates, March 21, 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/2684

Excerpt: Chair and members of the Rules Committee, thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony on House Joint Resolution 10, regarding the significant public interest in the enforcement of immigration laws and the need for state action to discourage sanctuary policies that impede immigration law enforcement in Maryland.

For several years I have advised state and local lawmakers on immigration law enforcement issues and how to reduce illegal settlement. This resolution is a responsible and comprehensive approach and, based on what I have observed in jurisdictions that have implemented similar initiatives, the recommended actions will be effective without overreaching the state’s authority or leading to discrimination against immigrants. It is a balanced approach that focuses appropriately on criminal aliens, preventing illegal employment and preventing illegal aliens from accessing certain publicly funded services.

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Big Moment in Telemundo's Census Coverage
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, March 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/telemundo-census-coverage

Excerpt: There was a remarkable moment during Friday's Telemundo evening newscast. It came in a story that anchor Jose Diaz-Balart billed as revealing 'the dark side of Hispanic growth' and showing why 'many fear that the anti-immigrant climate will grow.'

The story was prompted by the new report from the Census Bureau that the Hispanic population had grown to more than 50 million, an increase of 15 million during the past decade. That represents a 43 percent jump since 2000.

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Immigrant Politics Harmful to the Republic's Health
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, March 28, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/census-politics

Excerpt: We're now seeing develop immigration-provoked political mischief. Here comes the next round of adverse political effects caused by mass immigration.

An article in Saturday's Washington Post indicates that identity politics plus reapportionment plus redistricting equal an ugly power struggle coming to America. This imbroglio will disenfranchise native-born Americans and enable the identity politics of the Left that undermine America's 'out of many, one' ideal and heritage.

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As Mexicans Flee Violence, Many Come to the U.S.
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, March 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/as-mexicans-flee-violence

Excerpt: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited the Mexican border on Thursday, offering assurances that it remains open for business and that the murderous violence now commonplace among rival drug trafficking organizations has not crossed into the United States.

But tens of thousands of Mexicans terrorized by the violence and by threats from the traffickers are coming north, according to a report by the Geneva, Switzerland-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, which cites research by a Mexican organization.

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The Birth Tourism Industry Continues to Grow
By Jon Feere
CIS Blog, March 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/feere/birth-tourism-continues-growth

Excerpt: Citing building code violations, police and city inspectors in the city of San Gabriel — a Los Angeles suburb — recently closed three townhouses which had been converted to operate as a maternity center for birth tourists. According to city officials who spoke with the Chinese and Taiwanese temporary aliens, they traveled to the United States for the specific purpose of adding a U.S. passport-holder to their families. The effort had apparently become a lucrative business according to the observations of one neighbor who claims to have seen 'groups of women in the advanced stages of pregnancy taking walks in the neighborhood and a lot of cars in the middle of the night.' He explained, 'I knew something from the get-go was going on. There was a lot of coming and going.' Officials reportedly found 10 newborns and 12 immigrants inside the home.

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80 Miles North of the Arizona Border, The Drugs Keep Coming
By Janice Kephart
CIS Blog, March 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/Kephart/TohonoOodhamDrugSmuggling

Excerpt: New game camera footage obtained by SecureBorderIntel.org time-stamped March 2, 2011, shows seven drug mules likely carrying about $50,000 worth of marijuana each, for a total of about $350,000 in street value.

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Immigration Court Overload
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, March 25, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/immigration-court-overload

Excerpt: The big story on last night's Univision newscasts was the census report that the Latino population has grown by 43 percent over the last decade and now totals 50 million.

While the demographic shift is big news across the country, Univision also covered a related story that has not received much play – the crushing workload of the nation's 270 immigration judges, whose courts are clogged with 350,000 cases per year.

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All in the Family
By Jessica Vaughan
CIS Blog, March 24, 2011
http://www.cis.org/vaughan/all-in-the-family

Excerpt: The release of new Census data based on the 2010 count has focused public attention on immigration's role in driving U.S. population growth. I recently completed a report on how our prioritization of family immigration guarantees this outcome.

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It's The Metrics, Stupid!
By W.D. Reasoner
CIS Blog, March 24, 2011
http://www.cis.org/reasoner/have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too

Excerpt: This just in from our You-Can-Have-Your-Cake-and-Eat-It-Too Department.

Very recently, the RAND Corporation examined border effectiveness metrics. The following nugget can be found in Chapter One of the report, entitled 'Measuring Illegal Border Crossing Between Ports of Entry: An Assessment of Four Promising Methods' . . .

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A Cloud No Larger than a Man's Hand at the Southern Border
By David North
CIS Blog, March 24, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/mexican-asylum-seekers

Excerpt: At the moment the cloud at the southern border is no larger than a man's hand, but it has prospects for seriously complicating the nation's immigration control programs.

Observers have long known that if there were a massive number of asylum applications by Mexican nationals, legal and illegal, the entire immigration apparatus would be seriously challenged, if not totally swamped.

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From the Halls of Montezuma
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, March 23, 2011
http://www.cis.org/krikorian/from-the-halls-of-montezuma

Excerpt: '13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in California Wearing U.S. Marine Uniforms'. Not only was their illegal entry into the U.S. a crime but impersonating a member of the armed forces is also a crime. But don't hold your breath for them to be prosecuted — U.S. Attorneys often don't bother to prosecute even re-entry after deportation, which is a felony, because they're just 'willing workers', don't you know.

Perhaps the only reason this group of illegals was stopped at all was that their uniforms all had the name 'Perez' on them. Fodder for a 'least competent criminals' entry at News of the Weird.

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Wonderland on the Mississippi
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, March 23, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/wonderland-on-the-mississippi

Excerpt: A recent panel event in St. Louis can only be described as bizarre and mean-spirited. Alice would have felt more at home in Wonderland than a regular American would when several ethnic ideologues and post-American elites convened to decry Missouri's and St. Louis's decline in the share of their populations comprised of foreigners.

A couple of immigrants' rights lawyers, a legal services lawyer, a former governor, and an internationalist advocate sought to reframe the immigration issue. They contrasted St. Louis's 1850 population, which they said was half immigrant, with today's less than 7 percent immigrants in the city population. They hardly noticed that this is up from 2.5 percent in 1970. Nor did they assent to any benefit from or desirability of unity, patriotism, or devotion to one's fellow countrymen. It was all 'diversity, good; unity, evil' to these people.

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As Obama Arrives, a Report on El Salvador
By Jerry Kammer
CIS Blog, March 22, 2011
http://www.cis.org/kammer/obama-in-el-salvador

Excerpt: The massive headline across the top of the front page of today's Prensa Grafica, published in San Salvador, reads 'OBAMA'. Just below comes the subhead, 'USA President arrives today', followed by a large photo of the president and a caption stating that the visit is expected to produce support both for social programs and for the fight against drug traffickers.

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E-Verify Yourself
By Mark Krikorian
CIS Blog, March 22, 2011
http://www.cis.org/node/2672

Excerpt: A new pilot program was launched Monday allowing people to run themselves through E-Verify and make sure the database has the correct information about them. For now, E-Verify Self-Check is available only to people in Arizona, Colorado, D.C., Idaho, Mississippi, and Virginia. If you live in one of those states, it's definitely worth doing (the whole thing, including confirmation of my identity, took me maybe two minutes). The most common error in the database I'm aware of is women who haven't informed Social Security of their married names — something you certainly want to fix now, not when you're 65.

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'You Can't Tell the Players Without a Scorecard!'
By David North
CIS Blog, March 21, 2011
http://www.cis.org/north/immigration-daily-scorecard

Excerpt: That was the repeated call, if I remember correctly, of the guys selling scorecards at the big league ballparks of my youth.

What they offered was the crucial recording system that they said you really needed to understand the game.

Well, that's often my reaction to Immigration Daily, a publication written for immigration lawyers and other more-migration advocates.

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Sheriff Joe: Job Creator
By James R. Edwards Jr.
CIS Blog, March 21, 2011
http://www.cis.org/edwards/sheriff-joe-job-creator

Excerpt: Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, whom the Obama administration has targeted with intimidation tactics to quash other local law enforcers' resolve, now has effectively become a job creator for Americans. A local TV news report from Phoenix followed up on what happened after the arrests of illegal alien workers that the sheriff made at a string of Pei Wei Asian Diners.

The local restaurants had employed many illegal aliens, including as dishwashers. Sheriff Joe investigated, got enough evidence, and swept in to arrest the foreign lawbreakers. After the arrests, the diners had to close until they could hire new legal workers. That's where the heart-tugging news report picks up . . .

Deposition Testimony - The 5 Simple Rules

Luke Ford writes:

I’ve been sued for libel five times. I know a thing or two about lawsuits from firsthand experience.

I can’t get over how inadequately attorneys prepare their clients for deposition. Big bucks, reputations, lives are often on the line and people just go into depositions without sufficient preparation.

Here are five rules for giving deposition testimony from a training program called Deposition Testimony: 5 Simple Rules:



Deposition Testimony - The Rules

Luke Ford writes:

I’ve been sued for libel five times. I know a thing or two about lawsuits from firsthand experience.

I can’t get over how inadequately attorneys prepare their clients for deposition. Big bucks, reputations, lives are often on the line and people just go into depositions without sufficient preparation.

Here are five rules for giving deposition testimony from a training program called Deposition Testimony: 5 Simple Rules:



Why Obamacare Is Bad For America

From DennisPrager.com:

Monday, March 28, 2011 Radio Show
20110328 -01 Riots in London
Prager H1: There were protests, complete with riots, in London. What were they protesting so passionately? Budget cuts. When you give people things, it’s very tough to take them away… The Green Party in Germany made big gains in Germany over the weekend. The Greens are left of the Left. The issue is nuclear power. Germany has been scared out of its wits by what happened in Japan… Dennis talks to Gwyneth Cravens, former editor of Harper's Magazine and New Yorker Magazine about the latest from Japan’s nuclear power crisis. Her important book is Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy

Monday, March 28, 2011 Radio Show
20110328 – 02 Locked in a Closet
Prager H2: VP Biden’ staff locked a reporter in a closet. This is being treated as a big joke. Think it would have been a big joke if it had been Dick Cheney’s staff?… Dennis talks to Michael Young, opinion page editor of the Daily Star, English language paper in Beirut, Lebanon, about the protests in Syria… Dennis talks to Michael Oren, Ambassador of Israel to the US, about the consequences to Israel of the upheavals in Syria, Egypt and Libya.

Monday, March 28, 2011 Radio Show
20110328 – 03 Thinking Transgender
Prager H3: The Maryland legislature is on the verge of passing a bill that will allow the transgendered to come to work in a dress… Dennis returns to the topic of the London riots this weekend over budget cuts… Dennis talks to Grace Turner, President of the Galen Institute. Her new book is Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights.


Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America

Dennis talks to Grace-Marie Turner, the president of the Galen Institute. Her new book is Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America: How the New Health Care Law Drives Up Costs, Puts Government in Charge of Your Decisions, and Threatens Your Constitutional Rights.

Cautionary Tale: This Is What Happens When People Come to Depend on Government

Massive protests and riots in London protesting spending cuts. The rioters broke into department stores. The police asked them politely to leave. Mark Steyn saw it all.

Dennis Going to Israel. Join Him!

Al Qaeda Inserts Itself into Libya Conflict

On the side of the rebels. If this is true, that they are stealing weapons such as surface to air missiles (did we provide them?), then it’s the scariest story of the year.

Michael Young from Beirut: What's Going on in Syria

http://www.michaeltotten.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Ghost-of-Martyrs-Square.JPGDennis talks to Michael Young, opinion page editor of the Daily Star, English language paper in Beirut, Lebanon, and contributing editor to Reason Magazine. His latest book is The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon's Life Struggle

Power to Save the World

http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2007/12/nuclear_cravens_cover_250px.jpgDennis speaks again to Gwyneth Cravens, former editor of Harper's Magazine and New Yorker Magazine. Her book is Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy. Now out in paperback.

Freedom-Loving Facebook/Twitter Revolutionaries Muscled Out by Muslim Brotherhood

That didn’t take long. What do you say now, Mr. Friedman?

The Never Ending Battle: Wisconsin

The Left never stops. We can’t.

Frank Luntz on Winning through Good Communication

Dennis talks to Frank Luntz, renown pollster and Fox News analyst. His new book is Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Cats Kill 250 Million Birds a Year

That’s a lot of birds. And who counts the bodies?

Royal: How Religion Built the West

Dennis talks to Robert Royal, president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His new book is The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West.


Corn Is the New DDT

People are starving today so that do-gooding liberals can save the world from computer-model-projected overheating a hundred years from now.

FLASHBACK: The Delta Smelt Obsession Starves CA Farmers and Workers

The famous Delta Smelt, a preoccupation of environmentalists, has caused California farmers millions of the dollars and farmer workers thousands of jobs. The farmers can't get the water they need because the Delta Smelt has been declared an endangered species.

Melanie Phillips Investigated for Calling Palestinian Infant Murderers “Savages”

Melanie Phillips states the obvious and is investigated for it. This is Orwellian. What a sad place the UK has become.

Text Message Marketing Tips

Some tips from the New York Times:

  • Avoid youth texting slang. Texting isn’t just for kids anymore, so don’t treat it as such.

  • Pick a service provider that fits your budget and time frame.

  • Text-message marketing works best in combination with other marketing strategies.

  • Increase participation with coupons, special offers and invitations.

  • Give your program time to build.



Saturday, March 26, 2011

Luke Ford: The Happiest Moment Of My Life

Luke Ford writes: I knew this girl at school. She was super cute. Busty. Asian. Sweet. Shy. Christian! Just how I love ‘em! I thought I’d never have her. That’s how my life had been — that which I wanted most — a mother, health, community, stability, friends — was always out of reach.



She Looked Like Julia Roberts

Luke Ford writes: It was the Spring semester of 1988 at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, California. I stood in the parking lot talking with a friend of mine from Calculus class. He said that girls in Southern California were really loose. I was a virgin at the time and the prospect of loose girls seemed heavenly.



Bill Clinton's Role In The Housing Crash

Luke Ford writes: The crash of 2008 destroyed $14 trillion in American household wealth. Who's to blame? I'm reading Paul Sperry's new book — The Great American Bank Robbery. He says that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac underwrote $1.8 trillion worth of toxic subprime loans and that KO'd our financial system. Why did Fannie and Freddie underwrite such loans? Because their HUD (Housing and Urban Development department) pushed them to. What was Wall Street's role? They sold the subprime securities that Fannie and Freddie underwrote and guaranteed to earn Affordable Housing Credits from HUD.



Luke Ford's Shemini Torah Talk Highlights II

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Luke Ford's Shemini Torah Talk Highlights

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Friday, March 25, 2011

Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) X

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) IX

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) VIII

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) VII

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) VI

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) V

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) IV

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) III

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47) II

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)

Luke Ford writes: I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs every Monday at 7pm PST on my live cam and on YouTube.



Thursday, March 24, 2011

Train Your Witnesses For Deposition With Video System

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Deposition Testimony Preparation Videos

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What Are The Rules For Deposition Testimony?

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How To Give Deposition Testimony - Training Videos

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Deposition Preparation Videos - Five Simple Rules

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Giving A Testimony - Deposition Testimony Training Videos

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What Is A Deposition? Testimony Deposition Training Videos

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5 Simple Rules For Deposition Testimony

Luke Ford writes:

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Deposition Testimony: 5 Simple Rules Video Training

Luke Ford writes:

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Deposition Testimony: Five Simple Rules Videos

Luke Ford writes:

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Text Message Marketing

What percentage of people open marketing emails? About 20%. What percentage of text messages are opened? About 97%. People tend to open their text messages and that's why text message marketing is hot.

Quick Tips:

  • Avoid youth texting slang. Texting isn’t just for kids anymore, so don’t treat it as such.

  • Pick a service provider that fits your budget and time frame.

  • Text-message marketing works best in combination with other marketing strategies.

  • Increase participation with coupons, special offers and invitations.

  • Give your program time to build.

Suggested Reading (and Viewing):

  • A new report makes the case for text-message marketing.

  • A detailed case study on Moosejaw, the online retailer, and its use of text marketing.

  • A trade guide to mobile marketing.

  • A TV/text ad created by the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago that outperformed traditional ads.

Wikipedia says:

Text message marketing is the link between online marketing and offline marketing for many companies, replacing email in many ways as the preferred way to communicate with prospects and customers. SMS Text message marketing is a permission based form of marketing , meaning that before sending a marketing message to someones cellphone a company, that person must have initiated the relationship by opting in to receiving messages from that particular company. The company must also allow someone to opt out of receiving further messages by replying via SMS text message with the words STOP or END, thus taking that persons cellphone number off of that company's text message list.

Dennis Prager's Radio Show Highlights

Fraser Nelson writes for the Spectator:

t’s a funny old world. I have now been contacted by two journalists informing me that Bedfordshire Police are investigating The Spectator. Why? Because of the Melanie Philips blog where she referred to the “moral depravity” of “the Arabs” who killed the Fogel family in Israel. CoffeeHousers can judge for themselves if they agree or disagree with her language and views – but should this be illegal? The Guardian has written this story up, claiming The Spectator is being investigated by the Press Complaints Commission. This is untrue. The PCC tell me that a complaint has been lodged, but that’s as far as it has gone. They investigate only if they believe there is a serious prospect that their code has been breached, and it hasn't. Our blogs, as well as the magazine, adhere to the PCC code.

But all this raises an interesting point about freedom of speech. It baffles me why the Bedfordshire Police – who presumably have plenty real crime to solve – should have to sit down with a print-out of Melanie Philips' blog and decide whether to prosecute The Spectator for printing her remarks. It’s not their fault: laws have been passed which means that (for example) Tony Blair faced a six-month investigation from the North Wales Police when they read in Lance Price’s memoirs that he had been rude about the Welsh. In a way, I felt Blair deserved it – because it was under him that such daft laws crept their way into the system. Under him that Britain started to become a country where people are prosecuted for what they say, rather than what they do.

Just over a year ago, the Crown Prosecution Service put out a statement saying that they had decided, on balance, not to prosecute Jan Moir for her remarks about Stephen Gately. This again conjured up another mental image: of CPS officials, all bent over a page of the Daily Mail and working out whether the author should be put in jail. Again, think of the other crimes going in in Britain – the other demands on the CPS time. How did we get to this point? The Bedfordshire Police are not expected to be a local Stasi. Last time I checked, this is not East Germany. To me, the idea of being imprisoned for what you say, or what you tweet, is deeply sinister. And one which should raise more protest than it does.


From DennisPrager.com:

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110324 – 01 Kinetic Military Action
Prager H1: We’re not waging war against Colonel Kaddaffi; we’re engaged in a “kinetic military action.”… Dennis talks to London-based columnist, Melanie Phillips. She’s now under investigation by UK police for calling the Palestinians who murdered a family in Israel “savages.”… Detroit is emptying out…

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110324 – 02 Corn Is the New DDT
Prager H2: The price of corn has skyrocketed because so much of the harvest goes to making biofuel. People in the Third World are going hungry so liberals can feel good about themselves… The Chevy Volt may be going the way of the Edsel… Dennis talks to Robert Royal, president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His new book is The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West… Dennis considers the upside down moral nature of the Left.

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Radio Show
20110324 – 03 Words that Count
Prager H3: Frank Luntz, renown pollster and Fox News analyst, returns to the show to talk about his new book is Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary… Frank thinks Dennis should run for President.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Radio Show
20110323 – 01 Discriminating Church
Prager H1: An unmarried pastor claims he's a victim of discrimination because of his marital status. This may be true, but is it wrong? Why can't a church say it wants a married pastor to lead its parishioners? This is an issue that says a lot about where our society is today.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Radio Show
20110323 – 02 Male/Female Hour: Looking Back
Prager H2: When women of the past couple of generations, the sexually liberated generations, look back on their past, are they happy with their sexual experiences? Do they wish they might have been a little more traditional in their thinking? Callers tell their stories.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Radio Show
20110323 – 03 Anxious about Libya
Prager H3: As the West keeps it up attack on Libya, there are disturbing questions about who we are fighting for… Today is the first anniversary of one of the worst, if not the worst single piece of legislation ever written – ObamaCare. Even a good liberal like Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, has his doubts.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Radio Show
20110322 – 01 The Wrong Direction
Prager H1: The vote for a new constitution for Egypt went in the wrong direction. It helps the people we don't like, the Muslim Brotherhood, and hurts the people we do… The President announces we're in Libya as a humanitarian gesture. But how long will it last? No one seems to know... Leftist Democrats think we're in Libya for oil.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Radio Show
20110322 – 02 Insulting Evangelicals
Prager H2: Chris Matthews and David Corn of Mother Jones have a laugh while insulting Evangelicals' devotion to the nation of Israel. Have Matthews or Corn ever had a coffee with an Evangelical, let alone tried to understand their theology?.. Why do Leftists defend Israel's enemies?

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Radio Show
20110322 – 03 Ultimate Issues Hour: Raising Good Kids
Prager H3: How do you raise good kids? The question is critically important to the future of our society. We train people to be brain surgeons. But there are no goodness lessons. Parents need to ask themselves: what do you most want your child to be – successful, smart, good.

Monday, March 21, 2011 Radio Show
20110321 -1 Disaster Averted
Prager H1: The worse fears about the nuclear power plant disaster in Japan appear to have been averted… What's the mission in Libya? Does anybody know? Who's in charge?

Monday, March 21, 2011 Radio Show
20110321 -2 Shores of the Tripoli
Prager H2: The Arab League which begged us to intervene is now unhappy we've intervened… Are we going to depose Kaddafi? Let him stick around? This confusion can't be helpful to anyone.

Monday, March 21, 2011 Radio Show
20110321 -3 Halls of Montezuma
Prager H3: Dennis talks to Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations about the Libya situation… Why do mothers (and fathers) let their daughters leave the house dressed like that?.. Hit seventy, get sick and you're pretty much on your own in the UK. Here's a possible solution in the US -- let the states take care of the problem and find their own fixes.

Friday, March 18, 2011 Radio Show
20110318 – 01 Mad Libya
Prager H1: Even after the Arab states called for intervention in Libya, Pres. Obama still would not intervene. Now that Kaddafi fears military intervention he has begun talking about a cease fire. Dennis also discusses the radiation threat from Japan, and the "Bullying" summit at the White House; why is the federal government involved stopping school bullies?

Friday, March 18, 2011 Radio Show
20110318 – 02 Happiness Hour: Fun v Happiness
Prager H2: A new study says the experience of pleasure or positive feeling is far less important to long term happiness than engaging in meaningful activity. Dennis could have saved them the money; he wrote a whole chapter called "Fun v Happiness" in his happiness book.

Friday, March 18, 2011 Radio Show
20110318 – 03 Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: do you think Willie Mays was the best baseball player of all time; a caller from Japan asks why doesn't the Left find anti–Jewish rhetoric in the Muslim world appalling; do you feel that most people are selfish; do you like what you are good at, or are you good at what like doing; do you think that God punishes one for the sins of their father.

Frank Luntz on Winning through Good Communication

Dennis talks to Frank Luntz, renown pollster and Fox News analyst. His new book is Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Cats Kill 250 Million Birds a Year

That’s a lot of birds. And who counts the bodies.

Royal: How Religion Built the West

Dennis talks to Robert Royal, president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His new book is The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West.


Corn Is the New DDT

People are starving today so that do-gooding liberals can save the world from computer-model-projected overheating a hundred years from now.

FLASHBACK: The Delta Smelt Obsession Starves CA Farmers and Workers

The famous Delta Smelt, a preoccupation of environmentalists, has caused California farmers millions of the dollars and farmer workers thousands of jobs. The farmers can't get the water they need because the Delta Smelt has been declared an endangered species.

Melanie Phillips Investigated for Calling Palestinian Infant Murderers “Savages”

Melanie Phillips states the obvious and is investigated for it. This is Orwellian. What a sad place the UK has become.

WSJ: ObamaCare Costs Keep Rising... and Rising

Today is the one year anniversary of the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Congress -- ObamaCare. One year later the looming disaster is already apparent. Even a good liberal like Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz knows something is very wrong.

Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?

Good question. Author has a perceptive answer. Dennis used this article as the basis for Male/Female Hour.

Single Pastor Says He's a Victim of Discrimination

This may be true, but is it wrong? A church can’t say it wants a married pastor to lead its flock? That’s against the law?

Dennis in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 4

Dennis will be at the Westwood Village Theater on Wednesday May 4 for the premier of "Baseball, Dennis & The French". For more information and tickets to the premier, click here.

Who Won the Egyptian Election This Past Weekend?

Exactly the people we don’t want to win -- the Muslim Brotherhood and the military.

Thousands of Seniors Denied Cancer Treatment in UK

Hit seventy, get sick and you’re pretty much on your own. Here's a possible solution in the US -- let the states take care of the problem and find their own fixes.

MIT: Did You Get in Because You’re a Woman?

Affirmative action produces its usual distortions, even at the best schools.

WSJ: What’s the Mission?

The WSJ supports the effort, but they ask some basic questions $. Does anybody have answers?

Meaningful Better than Fun

New Happiness Study: Meaningful Better than Fun
Dennis could have told them that for free. But now there's research to back Dennis up. Click here to read the article.