Representative Mike Pence spoke with Tea Party members in a rally in Washington promising to fight for the budget cuts they want to see from the GOP. He gave a fantastic speech, echoing history and the principles of the Tea Party movement. He exclaimed that “it’s time to pick a fight.” [...]
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Wednesday last week I posted on Hypocrisy on the fly: Obama does Latin America ; Today Jennifer Rubin posts on Obama’s jaw-dropping hypocrisy on energy It’s nice that he’s discovered the importance of domestic energy development, but his rhetoric overlooks his own policies over the past two years. Yesterday on the Senate floor Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted the president for comments he made in Brazil “when the President told the Brazilian president that the United States hopes to be a major customer in the market for oil that Brazilian businesses plan to extract from new oil finds off the Brazilian coast.” Rubin notes, Congress should test the president’s seriousness on energy development and put a bill on his desk that puts the breaks on the EPA and opens natural gas and oil fields. The sooner, the better – gas prices have doubled under Obama . [...] 
Last week two New York giants died within days of each other; one a pro-abortion political trailblazer who did much to advance abortion, and the other an auxiliary bishop who left behind him a legacy of life-giving love to handicapped children and their families. The politician is Geraldine Ferraro (my commentary on her right to a [...] 
This afternoon, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, after working closely with Sens. Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee, John Cornyn, Jon Kyl, Pat Toomey, John Thune, Jeff Sessions, and others, introduced a proposed amendment to the Constitution which would require the government to have a balanced budget. [...] One of the key amendments that the Tea Party has pushed for, the balanced budget amendment now has the support of all the GOP members of the senate. McConnell said: “It’s not too much to expect that lawmakers spend no more than they take in.” This is Sen. Mike Lee’s principle piece of legislation. [...] 
A second U.S. House committee has approved legislation to institute a government-wide ban on any direct taxpayer funding of abortions in any federal departments or programs. The beauty of the bill is that it makes the ban federal law and pro-life lawmakers don’t have to find annual battles to renew several pro-life provisions covering various [...] 
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell used the power of his office today to add a line to a bill the legislature passed concerning the state health insurance exchanges created under Obamacare to remove abortion funding from it. When Congress passed and Obama signed the legislation for the federal government program, the bill contained numerous loopholes allowing [...] **Written by Doug Powers Michelle’s written extensively on this subject, and here’s another one for the growing pile. From The Hill : Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election. Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado. [...] 
A public library in Wausau, Wisconsin has backed down from censoring a pro-life group’s desire to show the abortion film Blood Money following the threat of a lawsuit from a pro-life legal group. As LifeNews.com reported, attorneys from the Thomas More Society issued a letter to Marathon County library officials demanding that the library rescind [...] 
That is the the title of a new investigative report prepared by Reps Wally Herger (R-CA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) in which they look into the conflict of AARP’s For-Profit and Non-Profit entities and their cozy, some would say financially beneficial, relationship with the Democrats Health Care Bill (aka ObamaCare™) Details and the report itself are below, meanwhile, Chairmen Herger and Boustany Announce Hearing on AARP’s Organizational Structure and Finances : House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany, Jr, MD (R-LA) today announced that the Subcommittees on Health and Oversight will hold a hearing on AARP’s organizational structure, management, and financial growth over the last decade. The hearing will take place on Friday, April 1, 2011, in 1100 Longworth House Office Building, beginning at 9:00 A.M. In view of the limited time available to hear from witnesses, oral testimony at this hearing will be from invited witnesses only. However, any individual or organization not scheduled for an oral appearance may submit a written statement for consideration by the Committee and for inclusion in the printed record of the hearing. [...] 
Just as Congress is trying to end federal funding to Planned Parenthood across the nation comes revelations that the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Central Washington has apparently been hiring unlicensed nurses. This is the same Planned Parenthood which we exposed for having tried to force a teenager into an abortion, and then trying to stop [...] 
Former Democratic Representative Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania told the Erie Times-News she is considering a run to reclaim her Congressional seat from pro-life freshman Republican Rep. Mike Kelly. According to Dahlkemper, she has had discussions with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee about a potential rematch. With President Obama at the top of the ticket, Dahlkemper [...] National Review linked this with a “Who’s on first?” quip. But I don’t know. Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi,… [...] 
An abortion rights law firm joined with the UN agency overseeing population recently and issued a joint report declaring a human right to healthcare services, including drugs used for medical abortions. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights, a prominent pro-abortion organization to publish the joint briefing paper [...] 
In a stunning online video (below the fold), the chairman of the Texas College Republicans is seen apparently boasting that he got “hammered” and sexually “hooked up” with a girl while partying with Alex Schriver, a candidate for chairman of the College Republican National Committee. The video purports to show Texas CR Chairman Charlie McCaslin deriding as “nerds” and “fags” the supporters of Schriver’s rival for the national chairmanship, Ohio CR chairman Jonathon Snyder. The video adds new intensity to an already heated campaign for the national CR chairmanship between Snyder, a student at Ohio State University, and Schriver, from Auburn University. The election will be held July 30 at a convention in Washington, D.C. The video was posted online by Innovate CRNC, the committee supporting Snyder’s candidacy for national chairman. [...] 
On the anniversary of her 13-day starvation and dehydration death at the hands of her former husband, pro-life advocates are remembering Terri Schiavo and promising to help disabled patients like her. Kristan Hawkins, the executive director of Students for Life of America, will be speaking today at the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network’s symposium [...] 
A state House committee in Arkansas has killed legislation that would subject abortion facilities in the state to stricter standards to ensure the health and safety of women is protected. Republican legislator Jason Rapert of Bigelow sponsored the bill that the House Public Health Committee defeated today on a 10-9 vote. he argued that abortions [...] 
Great video form Reason TV detailing the continued regulations by “the Green Machine” using faulty science by un-credentialed so-called scientists and researchers. When Dwayne Whitney started his trucking business decades ago he had only one truck. Today he has eighteen and 20 employees. But that’s about to change. “The State of California says my trucks are killing people,” says Whitney. [...] 
Since a pro-life group announced that a biotech firm, Senomyx, is using aborted fetal cell lines to test their artificial flavor enhancers, two companies have announced they have disaffiliated with the firm. The group Children of God for Life, earlier this week, called for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx. Those [...] Quick Video Links VIDEO: McConnell On The Tea Party: “Is It Extreme To Propose That We Cut Spending?” Full VIDEO: McConnell To Democrats: Reducing Washington Spending and Debt Isn’t ‘Extreme’ Mid-Day Briefing Politico writes this morning, “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell welcomed tea party members protesting in Washington in a Thursday morning floor speech in which he called the movement’s aim to cut federal spending ‘pretty reasonable.’ Just a day after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lambasted the tea party for pulling the GOP away from deal-making efforts in Congress, the top Senate Republican pushed back with a jab against the other side.” It was just yesterday that Reid declared on the Senate floor , “The country doesn’t care much about the tea party.” And today he said, “We can’t have what’s going on here with the tea party demonstrating, all these very harsh cuts with unrealistic riders, punishing innocent folks just for political ideology.” In his speech this morning, Leader McConnell pushed back against Democrats’ political attacks on tea partiers saying, “Anybody who follows national politics knows that when it comes to a lot of the issues Americans care about most, Democrat leaders in Washington are pretty far outside the mainstream. That’s why we’ve got one Democrat leader coaching his colleagues to describe any Republican idea as ‘extreme.’ And that’s why other Democrats are attempting to marginalize an entire group of people in this country whose concerns about the growth of the nation’s debt, the overreach of the federal government, and last year’s health care bill are about as mainstream as it gets. . . . I’m referring of course to the Tea Party . . [...] 
Senator Marco Rubio took a very bold step last night in calling for authorization for the removal of Libyan leader Qaddafi. In his letter, he also challenged Obama to clarify the mission as such. [...] |
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