Virginia Right!

People might laugh at this idea, but there are at least three good solid reasons why the Tea Party (I am a member of my local Tea Party group – the Mechanicsville Tea Party!) should support the initiative that Senator Chap Petersen has introduced on the Appellate Defender’s (more details here!) office: 1.  The Tea [...]

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This is an Op-Ed written by Terry Beatley of No Excuse Ministry PAC. In response to the letter to the editor with the title “Think you have control over your own body, ladies?” I would like to share a counter viewpoint from Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the co-founder of NARAL, America’s largest abortion lobby group.  On [...]

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When religions clash, nothing good ever happens. There is no doubt that American freedom allows both the building of the Ground Zero Mosque and the burning of the Koran, but these are both horrible ideas if unity and understanding is the goal. I am of the opinion that the Koran burning is no more than [...]

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Conservatives recall well the Miss USA fiasco last year.  Carrie Prejean, Miss California USA was asked the infamous question about Proposition 8 in California, reversing the state supreme court’s decision establishing a state constitutional right to gay marriage.  She stated she supported it.  Some, including Prejean, have suggested that she lost the crown due to the answer.  [...]

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Since the 1960′s, Americans have expressed their First Amendment right to free speech in great numbers previously unseen. Civil right’s protests, Anti-War protests, anti-abortion protests, pro-this and anti-that protests. Most are peaceful, or at least relatively so, others lead to arrests, property damage, and even a few deaths, the Kent State Massacre being a sad example of the results of an overanxious government to quell the protests.

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The 10th Amendment

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people.

The 10th Amendment neither adds to nor subtracts from the US Constitution. It simply gives any politicians that would subvert the constitution with laws a heads up: Federal powers are limited.

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What a move by the Republicans!

So, do we have freedom of choice or not? Democrats believe strongly in the Constitutional “right” for a woman to chose to have an abortion, but the mandatory requirement that everyone purchase health care really does not give us much of a choice about our health, now does it?

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