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<p>From the HSLDA E-lert Service...</p> <p>A bill that would force New Jersey homeschool children to submit to the same statewide assessment tests required of public school students, and force their parents to give the local school board proof the student had received an annual medical examination, is set to be introduced in the New Jersey legislature this Thursday.</p>

Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried heads in memory of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They'll hold hands, light candles and pass around a plateful of platitudes: "Never forget," they'll intone. "Let's roll," they'll thunder. "God bless America," they'll warble in perfect harmony. They'll assure us that they are committed to fighting terror and securing our borders and doing whatever it takes to protect the homeland from another horrific mass murder at the hands of freedom-hating fanatics. And then? And then, from Washington state to...

On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will officially cease to exist. But the same disastrous mix of political correctness and political cronyism that plagued INS will preside over the new "customer service" branch of the old agency. Case in point: President Bush has nominated banker Eduardo Aguirre to head the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Rank-and-file employees from New York to Arizona – many of them loyal but dispirited Bush supporters – are livid at the prospect of another clueless financier taking over the reins. So much for boosting post-Sept. 11 morale....

Dear American soldier, You don't know me, but I know who you are, and I will not forget. You are deploying from Fort Carson and Fort Hood and Fort Bliss and Fort Stewart. You hail from Middletown and Middleboro and Greenville and Redding and Thousand Oaks and Maple Tree. You are white, black, brown and yellow -- but always Americans first. You are with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 10th Combat Support Hospital and the 571st Air Ambulance Medical Evacuation Company. You are with the 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division and the "Iron Horse"...

As I helped my toddler get dressed this morning, in a crisp white T-shirt imprinted with an American flag and a pair of embroidered blue jeans, I couldn't erase a heinous picture from my mind. It was an Associated Press photo taken Saturday in Berlin, Germany, of a father and his little girl. He is an unidentified Palestinian demonstrator; she is riding on his shoulders with a giant poster of Yasser Arafat in the backdrop. The smiling child - no more than four or five years old -- has dark, wavy hair and caramel skin like my daughter's. She is...

Published Thursday 11, 2002 Michelle Malkin: Filipinos stand with America BY MICHELLE MALKIN WASHINGTON - To your average Howard Stern fan, the Philippines is a carnival land of shoe-crazy, dog-eating jungle dwellers who are a perennial source of cheap jokes. Some Americans know better. Just ask the thousands of surviving U.S. soldiers who fought with Filipinos against the Japanese during World War II. Many returned to the Philippines to mark the 60th anniversary of the fall of Bataan and the commencement of the Bataan Death March. "Despite our bittersweet memories, we still see the Philippines as our second home," wrote...

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Michelle MalkinQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comMichelle Malkin (back to story)February 27, 2002Paying tribute to Rick Rescorla If politicians can find it in their hearts to give away government aid to illegal alien relatives of the victims of Sept. 11, isn't it time to reward a naturalized American hero who sacrificed his life to save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives on that day? Rick Rescorla was born in England and came to the United States to enlist in the Army in 1963. He was a key figure ...

February 20, 2002Lest we forget Run to the grocery store this week and buy the Feb. 25, 2002, issue of People magazine. The cover photo is a special, double-paged layout that you must see. No, it's not a Victoria's Secret model shoot. No, it's not the cast of "Friends" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." It's a group picture of mothers and babies -- 31 widows of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the 32 infant sons and daughters their fathers will never hold. There are lean babies. Chubby babies. Smilers. Criers. Snoozers. A bubbly set of twins. All of them ...