Well, Club For Growth is crowing about Governor Huckabee’s endorsement of Don Young. I’m on record saying that this was something I couldn’t go along with it.  I support Sean Parnell for Congress.

Huckabee didn’t pick the right guy. Nobody does 100 percent of the time. Huckabee’s choice comes from mostly out of loyalty for Young’s support. I can understand it, I don’t agree with it.

That said, the Club for Growth is full of hot air:

Over the past year, the Club for Growth has been criticized by Huckabee and some conservatives for painting the Arkansas Governor as a fiscal liberal. If ever there was proof that that the Club was right from the start, it is this outrageous endorsement of Rep. Young who embodies the worst of the Republican Party’s wasteful habits.

So, endorsing Don Young proves one is a fiscal liberal? Perhaps. I mean after all, Huckabee called him a hero to taxpayers with the bridge to nowhere, etc. Oh wait, that wasn’t Mike Huckabee, that was Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform.

Why hasn’t the CFG run an ad explaining why Don Young is a corrupt fiscal liberal just like Grover Norquist? Probably because Norquist is one of the most powerful men in Washington. You give him this type of smackdown and you’ll smart from it. Huckabee, though is fair game. I don’t believe it’s true of Norquist (who I have many disagreements with) nor do I think it’s true of Huckabee.

To me, this show’s how blindly destructive the Club’s Huckahate is. Is there little press release going to hurt Don Young? Is it going to make people more willing to vote for Sean Parnell? Or, if this thing spreads will it make Alaska’s huckavoters (Huckabee finished 2nd in Alaska) give pause about whether they want to give Parnell their support and give the Club a victory in the Huckawar.

Instead of making this election about Don Young, Sean Parnell, the future of Alaska, and Congressional reform,  CFG is trying to turn this into a battle between them and Mike Huckabee, thus reducing the chance of their guy and my guy winning up there. It’s stupid and it’s destructive, but it’s anti-Huckabee, so the CFG says, “Let’s do it.”

Finally, Kathryn Lopez declares, “Goodbye, Huck.” as if:

1) She’s had anything positive to say about him since Iowa and there was any chance of her supporting him in any future effort after he beat Romney.

2) One Endorsement finishes a political career. This has never been the case, and if so who is going to go and check everyone’s “Endorsement purity” record to decide who is forever voted off?

Neil Stevens has risen in defense of that most defenseless group, the Club for Growth in regards to their attack on Governor Bobby Jindal:

Hairs shot up on the necks of a great many Republicans. At least, among those who took Governor Mike Huckabee’s side against the organization, Club for Growth’s subdued, objective comments about the recall seemed an implied attack on Jindal. Jindal was The Next Target of the Club For Greed™.

However I saw no such thing. Certainly CfG wasn’t jumping to Jindal’s defense, but they are a single interest group. It’s not their job to get awed at the way he wantonly tears down the corrupt, fascist Kingfish legacy. In fact, if Jindal were to raise the tax burden of his state way up, I’d appreciate it if CfG were to warn us before we go and nominate Governor Jindal in 2016.

Why the posts, though? Soloveichik says that CfG is attempting to follow the news on all the leading prospects for Senator McCain’s running mate, and of course that includes Jindal. CfG is also looking at the economic records of each candidate, just as they did for the Presidential candidates.

I believe it. Governor Jindal does not have much of a record yet. It’s not his fault, but he hasn’t been in office for even a year yet. So naturally, Club for Growth has little to work with in evaluating him, and so when they count the pay hike as a strike against him, they don’t have much else to balance against it. But just the same, they’re not treating this one thing the same as, say, Governor Huckabee’s long record which included multiple substantial tax and spending increases.

One wonders what Huckabee people they’re responding to. As Leon at Red State linked to my piece cross-posted at the Next Right, I’m assuming they mean me.  To quote Robert DeNiro, “I don’t see anyone else here, so you must be talking to me.” 

Anyway with Club for Growth, it’s not what they tell you, It’s what they don’t tell you.

They were correct about Huckabee’s tax and spending increases. What they didn’t tell you is that Huckabee’s veto could be overridden by a majority vote and that he had a Democratic legislature that’s 70-90% Democratic through his entire tenure in office.

They didn’t tell you that there were 2 court rulings that forced additional money to be spent on Education and Medicaid.

I wonder what conservative here could have done better than Huckabee did under those circumstances?

As for Jindal, the idea that his record is short is notable except during his brief time in office, he accomplished a school choice program and introduced and gained passage of a tax cut for business.

His educational accomplishments has been given short shrift, and I’ve seen no mention in recent discussion of his vitally needed business tax cut.

They’ve gone after his Congressional record, but somehow failed to note his 98% anti-pork performance on the 2007 RePork card. Their own report card! And they didn’t bother to mention it when trying to explain that his record was uninspiring among their list. I don’t know, I consider someone with a 98% anti-pork record to be fairly inspiring.

I didn’t come out for Huckabee until after Super Tuesday. But then I began to research this, I became angry. The Club for Growth didn’t lie, but they sure as heck deceived me with incomplete information. They’re doing the same thing with Bobby Jindal.

The nomination of John McCain can be laid at the feet of the Club for Growth whose obsessive compulsive campaign against Mike Huckabee gave John McCain the South Carolina Primary and the nomination. Where we’ll their economic puritanism lead in 2012 or 2016?

I still read the Club for Growth blog and they find stories I use on my blog or website,two or three times a week. I have two currently endorsed CFG candidates, Lt. Governor Sean Parnell and Congressman Paul Braun (R-GA) on my slatecard, along with former CFG candidates, Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho) and Michelle Bachmann (R-MN). There’s no denying that CFG does some good work, but their recent antics have caused me to view their statements with a far-more skeptical eye.

“We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.”-Benjamin Franklin.

Imagine your city council enacts controversial legislation with no public notice despite city employees telling concerned citizens that before any action was taken, they’d read about it in the paper. Imagine that your city continues to refuse to hold a public hearing despite the uproar and you sue. The judge not only finds against you, but orders you to pay $10,000 in legal fees.

Your city tries to thwart your every effort to get your issue on the ballot, using a long and frivolous legal battle to strain your resources. The State Supreme Court grants you your day at the voting booth. You opt not to ask for attorney’s fees from your city, choosing not to burden taxpayers with the costs of the foolish policy of the people they elected.

Due to the national political situation and voter fatigue brought about by the city’s delaying tactics, you lose your vote at the polls. You accept defeat even though you don’t like it. You move on with your life.

In 2007, in a light turnout election the Mayor is re-elected by a whopping 19.2% of the registered voters in your city.

Now, it’s been fifty months since the ruling requiring you to pay, but the city has never made an attempt to collect, perhaps thinking better of a policy that was widely seen as mean-spirited, and reacting to your gracious move not to demand they pay your fees.

You then receive a letter dated four days prior informing you that there’s a lien on your house and that that you have less than three weeks to produce more than $10,000 or face a government attempt to seize your property to satisfy your debt. You then find out that your city placed a lien on your house four years previously and by the way, didn’t bother to tell you.

Such a nightmare scenario need not be imagined by two conservative activists in the City of Boise.

The City decided to remove a Ten Commandments monument from a Boise City park on the pretext of a threatened lawsuit by fringe hatemonger Fred Phelps. Though there were strong feelings on both sides, and the community wanted to have its say, the city instead tried to avoid controversy by reaching a closed door deal and then putting an item on the agenda that was vague to outsiders. Rather than mentioning a “Ten Commandments Monument” it instead cited it as a “Fraternal Order of Eagles Monument.”

Most people didn’t know what a Fraternal Order of Eagles Monument was and the motion was slipped through by underhanded politicians, who offered nearly 40 years of Boise history up as a sacrifice to a hateful out of state extremist. Mayors of nearby communities did the right thing and told Phelps in slightly more official terms to go jump in the lake.

Reverend Bryan Fischer, a Parks and Recreation Commissioner filed suit against the city, along with pro-life stalwart Brandi Swindell. The case was thrown out of court and the city asked for court costs from its citizens, and was granted more than $10,000, which they did not attempt to collect for four years.

Fischer, Swindell, and hundreds of grassroots activists stood against the capriciousness of Boise Mayor Dave Bieter for 70 days, until, at the end of the March, the city moved the Monument to a local church. Fischer and Swindell proposed a citizen’s initiative to place a new monument in the park. This monument, like the old one, would not be paid for by the city and would also feature Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom. In the heat of July and August, volunteers worked desperately to collect enough signatures. Many wondered if ragtag volunteers could do it, but they did. The city responded by saying they wouldn’t allow a public vote on the legally qualified initiative.

This led to a two year court battle, and while Fischer and Swindell prevailed, justice delayed was truly justice denied. When the court’s ruling came down, it put a dormant Ten Commandments Issue back in the spotlight in the middle of a hotly contested general election where conservative money and attention was already divided, the conservative turnout was low, and Democratic Congressional Candidate Jim Hansen was running a turnout machine in Boise. Rather than continuing the momentum from the petition drive, the Keep the Commandments Coalition had to start from scratch, with many supporters having left Boise to escape its high taxes. The initiative lost 53-47%.

Life went on for Reverend Fischer and Ms. Swindell until , when they received the first notice they’d ever gotten in regards to the $10,000 in fees from 50 months before. The demand was as arrogant and out of touch as the original actions of the city, which were designed to avoid a lawsuit, but have already landed the city in the midst of at least two.

Who Are These People?

The left has its political activists, people whose only job seems to be to make trouble for taxpayers. Big environmental special interests, big labor, and the ACLU have their claws into every state in the Union. They fund people whose job it is to expand government and take away your freedoms.

They have fewer counterparts on the right for the simple reason that there are no counterweights to teachers’ unions that can coerce away the money of unwilling union members, abortionists who have a vested interest in wholesale slaughter, or big liberal foundations that seek to undermine the very system that allowed the prosperity that makes their existence possible.

Bryan Fischer and Brandi Swindell are some of those rare counterweights. They fight for conservative values every day.

Ms. Swindell has spent the prime of her life traveling the country trying to get the post-Roe generation involved in the pro-life issue. While many people her age are living out HBO and MTV shows, she’s chosen to be a voice for sexual purity and biblical values in a confused time.

She went to Florida to fight for the life of Terri Schaivo. She has stood for traditional values at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. She fought for conservatives to get a fair shake in the selection of speakers at Boise State University rather than being presented a slate full of nothing but liberal speakers.

In recent months, Swindell has appeared in the newspaper far less, because her work has been so positive. Her long time dream has been to do more than activism: to help women in crisis pregnancy situations, and that’s just what she’s done through her new organization, Stanton Health Care Services. She’s personally gotten involved in the lives of these young women.

Through her involvement in the lives of these women, she became a leader in the fight for Idaho’s landmark law against coercing women into getting abortions that was opposed by the state’s extreme liberals.

Bryan Fischer is a former pastor and Senate chaplain Idaho families couldn’t have a more tireless advocate. After a State Constitutional Amendment banning same sex marriage died in committee in 2004, and failed on the Senate floor in 2005, he led efforts to educate voters about how their Senators had voted leading to a complete reversal of fortune with practically the same Senate in 2006.

Fischer has been out front on nearly every conservative issue you could imagine over the past four years, from discussion of intelligent design and opposing economically harmful legislation on global warming, to decreasing the burden of grocery taxes on Idaho families, to standing for the English language and against illegal immigration, and against Idaho’s star chamber selection process for judicial vacancies. There hasn’t been an issue of concern to conservatives that he hasn’t touched.

Fischer’s daily updates provide a clear conservative view of what’s going on in the world and in our state, which counterbalances the bias of the Idaho Statesman. On top of this, Fischer produces the Gem State Voter Guide (http://www.gemstatevoterguide.com), which is the best example I’ve ever seen of a complete conservative voter guide.

The last time Idahoans for Tax Reform prepared their list of the top 50 conservatives in our State, Fischer ranked 24 and Swindell 30. Then-1st District Congressman, now Governor, Butch Otter ranked 36. They set a powerful example for Conservative Christians in our state.

Making An Example

Why is the Bieter Administration going after them? Governor Otter was elected by only nine points in 2006, and the presumptive Democratic frontrunner for Governor in 2010 is the Mayor of Idaho’s largest city, Dave Bieter.

What it is apparent, both in how it’s trying to collect the judgment and in the request for the judgment in the first place, is that the Bieter Administration has been trying to make examples of political opponents: Oppose Team Dave and they’ll roll over you.

I want you to think for a moment about what that means to grassroots activism. The threat of litigation or a threat to their home will scare some people off from the arena or from taking on powerful people. City Hall is trying to strong arm its opponents into silence.

The Conservative Response

The normal Conservative response would be to wish Ms. Swindell and Reverend Fischer well on getting $10,000 together on their modest income, and to hope someone else takes care of this. Many may wonder, if they don’t live in Idaho, why they should even care.

There’s one very simple reason to care: politicians watch one another. If one politician finds a slick new method of increasing his power, others will duplicate it. Corrupt political bossism is a cancer.

You rarely hear of liberals losing their homes or being forced into crippling debt because of their stances for liberal principles. You do hear of this quite often about conservatives, who find their ideological fellows absent when needed. The conservative movement is full of sunshine soldiers and summer patriots.

In Bryan Fischer and Brandi Swindell, we have two rare individuals who have born the heat of the battle. These people are no summer soldiers, these are no sunshine patriots, and they deserve our support.

At the beginning of America’s Revolution, when the usurpation of government on the rights of the people was most evident in Boston, it would have been easy for other colonies to simply say, “Well, that’s Boston.” However, the cry of the Revolutionary era was, “The cause of Boston is the cause of us all.”

I hope across America, people see the danger of what the Bieter Administration is doing, and that its misuse of legal processes against its own citizens will be denounced. “The cause of Boise is the cause of us all.”

To help:

1) Call the City of Boise and politely and respectfully express your concerns. If you live in Boise, it’s important to remind the city leaders that if the Mayor wants to bring the city together, he should stop trying to punish his political opponents. You can reach the Mayor’s hotline at 208-384-4404.

2) Insure that this matter does not create hardship for these two great conservatives through your support. Any donation will help. If 1,000 people send $10, this will be nearly enough to resolve the issue. You can send checks or money orders made out to the Keep the Commandments Coalition, PO Box 140031, Boise, Idaho 83714.

3) Forward this story on to anyone who might be interested. You may freely distribute the entirety of this particular column through any and all means without any written permission, as long as attribution is given.

4) Pray for Reverend and Mrs. Fischer, as well as Ms. Swindell as they go through this that God’s peace and wisdom will be with them and that they will be granted justice.

Gov. Bill Ritter is another one of those politicians no longer serving his constituents. It’s all about getting re-elected and sucking up to those anti-Christ activists who contribute the most coin to their campaign efforts. If you go to his web site you’ll see photos of the Gov. Bill Ritter signing legislation helping the boy scouts, people with developmental disabilities and Boys and Girls Clubs. These kids have no idea that this new bill could open them up to a whole new world of sexual predators in public restrooms. Way to go Gov’…you put the “core” in “corruption.”

From the fine folks at World Net Daily:

‘Religion in private’ OK, says ACLU
New limits on Christians leave family groups reeling

Colorado Knucklehead Gov. Bill Ritter

Colorado’s new state law that was based on the apparent belief that free speech rights are not unalienable and they sometimes must be restricted is scaring residents who now fear expressing their opinions in public.

WND has reported previously that the law, SB200, which was promoted as an “anti-discrimination” plan favoring alternative sexual lifestyles and gender perceptions, has made it a criminal offense to discriminate against someone based on those lifestyles or perceptions.

The Christian publishing house Focus on the Family has called it a payback by the Democrat-controlled legislature and Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter to homosexual activists such as millionaire Tim Gill, who has donated widely to pro-homosexual political candidates.

The Focus analysis of the plan, according to spokesman Bruce Hausknecht, shows that besides the obvious impacts of opening restrooms and locker rooms statewide to members of either sex, depending on a perception of their gender, “the biggest danger this law poses is to the religious or moral consciences of small business owners who may object to doing business with people whose lifestyle they do not want to promote.’

“Who would have believed that the Colorado state legislature and its governor would have made it fully legal for men to enter and use women’s restrooms and locker-room facilities without notice or explanation?” Focus founder James Dobson said. “Henceforth, every woman and little girl will have to fear that a predator, bisexual, cross-dresser or even a homosexual or heterosexual male might walk in and relieve himself in their presence.”

Other groups also have issued warnings.

Colorado Family Action wrote of the plan: “This bill lays groundwork for state-sanctioned abuse of individuals and organizations who have faithfully held religious convictions and refuse to offer or sell goods or services to homosexuals, bisexuals, transgendered, or transsexual individuals because of such beliefs.

“This desire to limit the constitutionally guaranteed right to the ‘free exercise of religion’ can be seen in Cathryn Hazouri’s, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, testimony given before the Colorado House Judiciary Committee,” the group said.

“One may practice one’s religion in private; however, once a religious person comes into the public arena, there are limitations in how the expression of their religion impacts others,” she had said.

Individual residents also now are beginning to realize the potential of the new law, which was approved by the legislature with a declaration that it is needed for “public safety” so it is not subject to any vote of the people.

“Now, as I stand outside of a movie theater bathroom or a swimming pool shower room door and guard the most precious thing in my life: my wife and daughter’s safety, modesty and privacy, I can no longer stop a man from entering a woman’s domain,” wrote a concern resident whose name was withheld. “(I will anyway, that’s why I’m a criminal!)”

“An act that once was criminal is now legitimate, and what was taught to me as a virtue is now a vice. Not only am I liable for civil penalties but criminal, as I can be sentenced for up to a year in jail,” he wrote.

“I immediately contacted my state representative, Wes McKinley, to ask him what his stand was on this bill. He proudly told me he supported it. I brought to his attention the recent case in New Mexico that was in national news. A photographer refused to photograph a lesbian ceremony. The lesbian couple found another photographer who would and then turned around and sued the Christian photographer for refusing. They won the suit and the photographer was fined over $6,000.00. I asked Rep. McKinley if he thought this was right. He told me no and assured me that wouldn’t happen with this bill,” the resident wrote.

“I then contacted my attorney who told me that SB200 does, indeed, open the door to this kind of litigation, and that I would have to be careful to not express my convictions in public in this kind of situation,” he wrote.

He also reacted to Hazouri’s comments, which were unchallenged by the state legislature.

She said, “You give up some of your rights when you go into the public square,” the resident said. “Wow, I didn’t know that. I was taught in school that these rights of free speech were ‘unalienable.’ Apparently, gay rights trump heterosexual rights, as well as the First Amendment.”

“So, as long as I keep my convictions to myself and only express them in my home or church, I’m legal. Somehow, I don’t think this is what the Bill of Rights meant,” he said.

“Will SB200 be the end of it? No. Next, hate crime legislation must be passed so that it is illegal for me to write this letter (as it is now illegal in Canada); then enforced homosexual/transsexual indoctrination of our children in the public educational system; finally, all other alternative forms of education must be outlawed. Impossible, you say? It’s already happened in California,” he said. “As I’m being forced into this ’shotgun wedding’ with the radical homosexual agenda, I hope it’s not too late to ’speak now, or forever hold my peace.’ What is it called when you are forced, against your will, to participate in a sexual lifestyle that you find objectionable? I believe that is called ‘rape.’ My state legislature has ‘violated’ me and charged me with the crime.”

Tom Minnery, the senior vice president of government and public policy for Focus, told the Denver Post there are “multiple problems” with the plan, “but the problem of restrooms is the most breathtaking one. … With SB200, however, we no longer have two ’sexes,’ we enter a brave new world with a myriad of ’sexual orientations’ that must not be discriminated against, upon pain of the substantial civil and criminal penalties contained in the bill.

“Woe to the first women’s fitness facility or mall owner who objects to a man dressed as a woman who wants to enter previously forbidden territory. And what an opportunity for sexual predators,” he wrote.

He said every Christian, Jewish or Muslim business owner now is under a threat.

“We’ve seen … charges brought by homosexuals against a video reproduction business in Virginia, a medical clinic in California, an adoption service in Arizona and a church in New Jersey,” he continued. “Colorado tops them all on the potential outrage meter, however, because in addition to civil fines and penalties, small-business owners can be prosecuted under the criminal laws of Colorado and spend up to one year in jail for trying to live according to their faith.”

There are other groups preparing for full-scale war in Colorado.

“American RTL [Right to Life] Action is a political 527 group headquartered a half-block from the Colorado capitol, and we’re not going to hire someone cohabitating outside of marriage, let alone a homosexual,” said Steve Curtis, the group’s president and former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. “SB200 also makes it a crime for us to publish biblical teaching on immorality, so we are prepared to violate this anti-Christian government censorship. The liberals always said what homosexuals do in private could never affect anyone else; of course that was always a lie; they’re trying to criminalize traditional Christianity. The fight is on.”

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Podcast Show Notes

I interviewed Karen Holgate, Author of From Crayons to Condoms and we discuss the problems in America’s public schools: Teachers as Amateur Psychologists messing with the minds of America’s youth, Self-esteem trumping academic achievement, death education, and what you can do about it.

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Podcast Show Notes

John McCain announces his support for offshore drilling but sends a troubling signal on judges. (Hat Tip: The Corner.) And gives a troubling answer in answer to Michelle Obama.  (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Bobby Jindal gets school choice legislation passed in Louisiana while legislators vote themselves a big pay raise.  (Hat Tip: The Corner.)

Democrats try to gag the military.

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One Obama supporter suggests that Obama’s story should be added to the Bible. (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.)

A Christian PAC forms in support of Obama.

While Obama learns a new Commandment regarding his new religious youth organization, “Thou Shalt Not Rip Off a Legal Defense Association.”

One Congressman withholds his endorsement from Obama.

Ron Paul plans a counterconvention while McCain continues to struggle with religious conservative voters.

The voters are speaking on drilling for oil but neither candidate is listening. (Hat TipL: Club for Growth.)

Congress once again fights crime and secures the border–for other countries. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

While voting for the government to take over everything else, the Senate privatizes its own restaurant.

Voters wise up: most don’t even believe the media is trying to be objective. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

The ACLU raises more than $300 million to expand its far left operation. (Hat Tip: Stop the ACLU.)

The abusive Canadian Human Rights Commission strikes again and orders a pastor to not speak against homosexuality.

A West Virginia Mayor opposes a pay raise for himself.

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As the price of gas continues to rise to nose-bleed levels our freedoms are being compromised. How many of us are being stripped of activities and freedoms we used to enjoy? It’s easy to point the finger at “greedy” oil executives but that honestly isn’t the problem. It comes down to the basic supply and demand tug o’ war. As supplies decrease our demands haven’t changed a bit. It takes a change in behavior to lessen the demand on oil. We have heard so much yada yada yada of efforts to lower prices of gas and it keeps us all hoping that they will fall. That’s where the danger lies—because it give us just enough hope to keep us from making any efforts to change our consumption. Seriously, have we ever seen prices at the pump fall to where we all breathed a sigh of relief? Seriously!

Investors Business Daily estimates there are 1 trillion barrels of oil trapped in shale in the U.S. and Canada. Retrieving just a 10th of it would quadruple our current oil reserves. There is a pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that is estimated to be as large as any in the Middle East. There is an equally large pool believed to be in Alaska.

The Chinese are attempting to tap into the Gulf oil by drill diagonally from Cuba! They don’t have the environmentally safe technology that the US has. What is our predominately Democratic Congress going to do about it?

We have environmentally safe ways to extract oil from shale and drilling in Alaska and the Gulf. Our Democratic Congress continues to block those efforts. Last week the Senate voted to block extraction from shale in Colorado. They essentially voted to keep gas prices at present inclining levels, and airline tickets rising with even more job losses in the industry expected, and to make heating our homes at comfortably temperatures an option for most.

I’m pretty hot about this topic. I think I’ll go cool off in a carpool!

Podcast Show Notes

Why Obama’s decision to leave his church smacks of politics.

Why Hillary supporters are wrong to make a stink about the DNC decision to admit half of Florida and Michigan’s delegates.

Is big ears the only thing keeping Barack Obama off Mount Rushmore?

Plus Barack Obama’s dangerous plans for national security.  (Hat Tip: Obama Watch.)  Plus Obama’s new states.

Is Tom Coburn off his nut when he suggests John McCain can lead us back to true conservatism. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Plus a new rallying cry for conservatives wary of McCain: “No More Susan Sarandon” (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.)

Congressman Paul Ryan proposes bold reform  (Hat Tip: Save the GOP.)

Bob Dole nails Scott McClellan. (Hat Tip: Wizbang.)

Reuters sues New York State over New York’s over-reaching.

Organ donations go to foreign mobsters over U.S. citizens.  (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

The California Assembly takes a step towards Euthanasia.  (Hat Tip: Right Mind.)

Child pornography by any other name.

Virginia takes steps to protect children from teacher predators after an AP investigation.

Bureaucratic rules mean that a student with the highest GPA won’t be her class valedictorian and will cost her a college scholarship.

A 10 year old was suspended and faces potential probation for bringing a Memorial Day souvenir to school.

Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee face off over Iwo Jima.

Are 70% of Americans wrong when they say divorce is alright? (Hat Tip: Evangelical Outpost.) 

Why are so many liberals against transracial adoption but for homosexual adoption? (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Watch out ladies in Colorado, new legislation makes locker rooms and restrooms gender free.

Rowan Williams futilely appeals to the UN. to intervene in Zimbabwe.

An apology to the class of 2008.

A Sandpoint employer takes care of his employees.

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Subway apologizes for their slight of homeschoolers.

Anti-male bias in domestic violence shelters. (Hat Tip: Political Correctness Watch.)

Taking risks for God in China.

A U.S. soldier in trouble for sharing the gospel in Iraq. (Hat Tip: Stop the ACLU.)

What a restored house tells us about how to address the environment and the future of our nation. (Hat Tip: Crunchy Con.)

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