Carrie Bartkowiak v. 5.0

There’s a reason that folks who don’t like the GOP call it “the rich old white man” party.
Take a look at the current 10 leading Republican candidates.
I’m just sayin’.

Last night these 10 got together in the Ronald Reagan Library to have a debate hosted by Chris Matthews. Nancy Reagan was present, and she looked lost. It was heartbreaking to see that first shot of her. Arnold Schwarzenegger (I hope I spelled that right) sat by her side.

You can watch the 90-minute debate online at MSNBC, but I don’t think it’s worth getting into until Fred Thompson jumps into the fray. It’ll be business as usual until he gets in there; I’m looking forward to him really shaking things up. He should make it fun.

On the other side of the aisle, Senator Barack Obama has been assigned a Secret Service detail. He is the first candidate to get a detail this early in the race - normally candidates don’t receive a detail until after their party’s nomination, about 8 months before the election. Hillary Clinton already has one due to being the former First Lady, but watch for the other Democratic hopefuls to start crying “unfair” and demanding details of their own very shortly.

On the Libertarian front, it’s still a mess. Fox News seems to think former Republican Bob Barr could be a formidable Libertarian candidate. Over half of the U.S. states now have a ballot option for Libertarians, and the party is working hard on completing the list before the primaries.

While it’s interesting to see how desperate the two major parties are to get a jump on each other and start campaigning two years before the actual election, I wonder if there will come a time when we’re so overloaded and utterly sick of campaigning, that we’ll revert to the campaigns of old- when candidates only had 3 months or so to campaign before the election. Wouldn’t that be nice?

No years of infuriating commercials on all forms of media. No time for the candidates to rip each other apart and muck around in long “negative campaigns”. Just a short, fast “Here’s what I have to say, what I plan to do, and how I plan to do it” campaign.

I’m all for that.

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With the gruesome happenings of last week, I completely missed this. You probably did, too.

4/19/2007 - Infanticide Is No Longer Legal - Opinion - Chattanoogan.com

Finally. FINALLY. The U.S. has made it illegal to perform an abortion on a baby that’s ready to be born. Why did it take so damn long?

The Congress finds and declares the following…

…”A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion–an abortion in which a physician deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living, unborn child’s body until either the entire baby’s head is outside the body of the mother, or any part of the baby’s trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother and only the head remains inside the womb, for the purpose of performing an overt act (usually the puncturing of the back of the child’s skull and removing the baby’s brains) that the person knows will kill the partially delivered infant, performs this act, and then completes delivery of the dead infant–is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited.”

…”In light of this overwhelming evidence, Congress and the States have a compelling interest in prohibiting partial-birth abortions. In addition to promoting maternal health, such a prohibition will draw a bright line that clearly distinguishes abortion and infanticide, that preserves the integrity of the medical profession, and promotes respect for human life.”

…”The vast majority of babies killed during partial-birth abortions are alive until the end of the procedure. It is a medical fact, however, that unborn infants at this stage can feel pain when subjected to painful stimuli and that their perception of this pain is even more intense than that of newborn infants and older children when subjected to the same stimuli. Thus, during a partial-birth abortion procedure, the child will fully experience the pain associated with piercing his or her skull and sucking out his or her brain.

You can find the full text of the decision at the link above.
These babies are heartbeats away from life outside the womb, and could be given to parents who would love and care for the child. No more last-minute cold-feet decisions.

All in one week… so many children senselessly killed, so many senseless killings stopped.
Wherever you are today, raise a glass to the Supreme Court and to the babies who will get to live full, happy lives.

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Melissa Busekros, the German homeschooled teen who was forcibly removed from her home 3 months ago and forced to live with a foster family and attend public school, is home today!

She could be removed again, though, and there are 5 children from other families who have been placed into the custody of the government for homeschooling but haven’t been removed from their homes yet.

Click here for more info on Melissa Busekros and the other homeschooling German families.

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