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And the ignorant keep pushing their agenda…
Fundamentalists on the attack Nationwide-are now going after birth control & in-vitro fertilization. Your action is needed.
This past weekend, social extremists from all 50 states held a conference in Las Vegas to strategize and raise resources to promote the deceptively named “personhood” agenda. They already have well organized efforts in 20 states and have started collecting signatures for ballot petition drives in Colorado, Mississippi, Oregon and Montana.
Through ballot initiatives and state legislation, the extremists will promote “personhood” which would change existing law to include that a fertilized egg has the same rights as a human being.
The passage of a personhood measure would be a direct attack on millions of families nationwide, including yours. The ramifications that would come of such a vast legal change are frighteningly ambiguous and these extremists are certainly not telling the full story. They are promoting personhood as “equal rights” for fetuses, but that could not be farther from the truth.
If personhood is passed in just one state expect that it will…
…lock that state Constitution into unwarranted big government control.
…outlaw the most effective forms of birth control used by millions of women and families.
…make it illegal for victims of rape and incest, and women who face a life-threatening pregnancy to seek an abortion.
…criminalize in-vitro fertilization along with its potential to create life.
…women who miscarry could be investigated for negligence.
…women who face an ectopic pregnancy cannot end the pregnancy and risk death.
…be a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
The loopholes in their language are so vague that it could actually lead to pregnant women being subject to a court appointed guardian for their fertilized egg who would regulate the woman’s lifestyle choices, i.e., eating habits, exercises, etc.
Their attempts to use the political system to push their own religious beliefs on our country have been stalled in Congress and; as a result, they are taking their fight directly to the state level.
Enough is enough–don’t sit silently by and assume that your rights will be protected. Don’t allow the GOP to be pulled into this misguided effort. We need to make sure that our GOP state parties and local chairs do not coordinate with these extremists. We cannot have personhood be part of local agendas if the common sense majority in the GOP wants to have a voice in 2010. These single-issue fundamentalists must not be allowed to manipulate state Constitutions and persuade GOP leaders to mindlessly follow along.
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Obama Rewrites the Cold War
Yesterday a friend of mine from College’s OpEd piece was published in the Wall Street Journal. I have posted it below because I think it is very good.
Obama Rewrites the Cold War
The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies.By LIZ CHENEY
There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week.
Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: “The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.”
The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not “competition in astrophysics and athletics.” It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet “sphere of influence” was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism.
It is irresponsible for an American president to go to Moscow and tell a room full of young Russians less than the truth about how the Cold War ended. One wonders whether this was just an attempt to push “reset” — or maybe to curry favor. Perhaps, most concerning of all, Mr. Obama believes what he said.
Mr. Obama’s method for pushing reset around the world is becoming clearer with each foreign trip. He proclaims moral equivalence between the U.S. and our adversaries, he readily accepts a false historical narrative, and he refuses to stand up against anti-American lies.
The approach was evident in his speech in Moscow and in his speech in Cairo last month. In Cairo, he asserted there was some sort of equivalence between American support for the 1953 coup in Iran and the evil that the Iranian mullahs have done in the world since 1979. On an earlier trip to Mexico City, the president listened to an extended anti-American screed by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and then let the lies stand by responding only with, “I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for the things that occurred when I was 3 months old.”
Asked at a NATO meeting in France in April whether he believed in American exceptionalism, the president said, “I believe in American Exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” In other words, not so much.The Obama administration does seem to believe in another kind of exceptionalism — Obama exceptionalism. “We have the best brand on Earth: the Obama brand,” one Obama handler has said. What they don’t seem to realize is that once you’re president, your brand is America, and the American people expect you to defend us against lies, not embrace or ignore them. We also expect you to know your history.
Mr. Obama has become fond of saying, as he did in Russia again last week, that American nuclear disarmament will encourage the North Koreans and the Iranians to give up their nuclear ambitions. Does he really believe that the North Koreans and the Iranians are simply waiting for America to cut funds for missile defense and reduce our strategic nuclear stockpile before they halt their weapons programs?
The White House ought to take a lesson from President Harry Truman. In April, 1950, Truman signed National Security Council report 68 (NSC-68). One of the foundational documents of America’s Cold War strategy, NSC-68 explains the danger of disarming America in the hope of appeasing our enemies. “No people in history,” it reads, “have preserved their freedom who thought that by not being strong enough to protect themselves they might prove inoffensive to their enemies.”
Perhaps Mr. Obama thinks he is making America inoffensive to our enemies. In reality, he is emboldening them and weakening us. America can be disarmed literally — by cutting our weapons systems and our defensive capabilities — as Mr. Obama has agreed to do. We can also be disarmed morally by a president who spreads false narratives about our history or who accepts, even if by his silence, our enemies’ lies about us.
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Hopefully this is the last we will hear from former Governor Palin.
I am hoping Sarah Palin’s resignation means that she is leaving politics. I find it amazing that so many people think she is the future of the Republican Party when in fact she is the Republican Party’s worst nightmare. We need leaders that can reach out to independents and disaffected Democrats. Former Governor Palin is the wrong person to do that. She represents what the majority of Americans don’t like about the Republican Party. She is dogmatically pro-life and for abstinence only education. And it is just the height of irony that her own daughter got pregnant out of wedlock. So there is a member of her own family that shows how futile abstinence only education is. Ms. Palin also is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Many red state Republicans may like having leaders that are not intellectuals but most Americans would like a smart person to hold the most intellectually challenging job in the world: President of the United States. Having an ex beauty queen with less than a stellar educational background is not the type of person we want to put forward to convince the country the Republicans are just not uneducated hicks. Our next presidential candidate needs to win some blue states; they just can’t win the red states. We need a leader that has shown that can win in a blue state. In Alaska you can win the state by just getting Republicans to vote for you. If you run for President of the United States, and you only get Republicans to vote for you, you will get trounced by your Democrat opponent.
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