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One year from now, Americans will be going to the polls to cast ballots in the most important election of our lifetime.

And the outcome depends on what pro-family conservatives do between now and then.

Everything is up for grabs…

• Supreme Court appointments
• Important pro-life legislation
  
• Overturning ObamaCare
  
• Reforming our tax code
  
• Reducing our national debt

And that’s just for starters.
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It never ceases to amaze that American liberals are astounded that European-style socialism just does not work in the United States of America, and no other place, and never will.  The latest issue of "Time" magazine (Oct. 10, 2011) provides yet another example of baffled liberals in the "mainstream" media  --  mirroring the attitudes of the hard-left in the Obama administration  --  bewildered about why America's economy is still in a tail-spin almost three years after Barack Obama took the oath of office. 

Rana Foroohar, in her lead story article in Time magazine entitled "A New Era of Volatility" , writes:  "A global double-dip recession, implausible in spring, is now a distinct possibility come autumn."  Today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today in testimony before Congress said that the U.S. economy is growing more slowly than the Federal Reserve expected.  Poor job growth is depressing consumer confidence.  read more »

Just when you thought it could not get any worse, it does.  It seems like Americans these days are living in two separate universes.  The overwhelmingly majority of the American people (conservatives, independents, Tea Party supporters, etc.) believe that the country is going in the wrong direction.  On the other hand, over half of Democrats believe the nation is going in the right direction.
 
Most Americans from the first universe will be outraged when they hear the story about the Florida teacher, Jerry Buell, who won Teacher of the Year honors, and who was suspended because he voiced opposition to homosexual "marriage" on his personal Facebook account.  The 22-year veteran teacher who was taken out of the classroom is now being represented by the Liberty Counsel.
 
The First Amendment gives Jerry Buell constitutional rights to say what he said; that he "almost threw up" in response to a news story about homosexual "marriages".  He also called such couplings part of a "cesspool" and maintained that they were a sin.
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The recent action in such a high profile state as New York, pushing gay marriage without input from the voters, brings the issue back to the fore.  And no matter how much he would like to push the whole issue under the rug, (or back in the closet?), Barack Obama is going to have to deal with it on his way to re-election.

New Hampshire, a state which just elected an overwhelming majority of Republicans plans to try to repeal gay marriage in that state early next year…about the that the Presidential primaries are in high gear.  In addition, Minnesota will feature a traditional marriage amendment to its state constitution on the November ballot next year. 

Most of the key swing states Obama will need to carry in order to win, such as Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan, have such amendments, all passed with large majorities of support from voters.  Add to that the fact that blacks, Catholic Democrats and senior citizens are more opposed to gay marriage than most – all groups that Obama needs big support from in order to carry those states. read more »

As the heat continued to rise in negotiations over whether (and/or how much) to increase our national debt limit, President Obama tried to scold Republicans into being more cooperative by suggesting that they needed to act more like Reagan and be willing to compromise.

"Ronald Reagan repeatedly took steps that included revenue, in order for him to accomplish some of these larger goals," Obama told CBS in an interview.  "And the question is if Ronald Reagan could compromise -- why wouldn't folks who idolize Ronald Reagan be willing to engage in those same kinds of compromises."

Of course, as you can imagine, Obama is clearly (and intentionally) misleading in how he characterizes Reagan, and what he would have done.  And the article doesn't do much better.  It goes on to report:

He (Reagan) was known for adopting aggressive tax cuts, but amid a burgeoning deficit agreed to several measures designed to raise revenue for government coffers such as closing loopholes and cutting tax breaks.

In a parallel with today's drama being played out between Democrat Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner, Reagan forged a budget with Democratic speaker Tip O'Neill despite their political and ideological differences. read more »

New abortion statistics have been released in England after a Freedom of Information Request filed by a pro-life group, and the information is shocking.  In short, it reveals thousands of abortions performed on disabled babies for everything from Down Syndrome to cleft palate.

This is the first time the British government has released information regarding abortions performed on the grounds of disabilities in over ten years.  It seems there's probably a reason for that - that being that the data makes people uncomfortable.

Just in the last year alone, records showed:

• 2,290 abortions due to foetal medical problems last year
• 35,000 abortions among under-16s since 2002
• 26 since 2002 due to cleft palate fears
• 147 on babies over 24 weeks into term last year
• Thousands of abortions on 15 and 16 year old girls

From the Daily Mail:

Julia Millington, spokeswoman for the ProLife Alliance, said: 'This is a great victory for transparency and freedom of speech and we are delighted that full information about the justification for late abortions is now being made available in the same detail as it was in 2001.'

The data reveals that in 2010, 482 foetuses were aborted for Down's syndrome, including 10 who were over 24 weeks. read more »

The highly popular Tea Party candidate, black conservative Herman Cain, is just not yet ready for prime time.  A recent example of why he is not was his appearance this past Sunday on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.  Wes Pruden, in his "The Washington Times" column today entitled "No grandeur yet in this old party" says that "Mr. Cain, like most newcomers to major-league politics, stumbles when he strays from what he knows."

"When Chris Wallace of Fox News asked what he thought of the Palestinian 'right of return,' one of the fundamental obstacles to peace in the Middle East, the prospective candidate was clearly befuddled.  'The right of return? The right of return?'

"The interlocutor explained, gently, that he was talking about the off-the-table Palestinian position that refugees should have the right to return to territory lost with the establishment of Israel. Mr. Cain hesitated again, and then compounded innocent ignorance with unforgivable folly. 'I don’t think [the Israelis] have a big problem with people returning,' he said. 'The issue is there are some things they simply do not want to give in on.'"

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Since the historic election last November turning over control of the House of Representatives to the Republicans, within just a 4-month period, Barack Obama has capitulated in the first two major battles over the fiscal crisis in America, a crisis which got the Republicans elected in the first place.  And, Obama will be forced to give in on the next two major gigantic battles, raising (or not) the debt ceiling which is set to expire in July, and to sign into law a budget for the federal government for Fiscal Year 2012 (and spending levels for the next decade.)
 
During December's lame-duck session of Congress, the president was forced to give in to the Republicans  --  even though his party overwhelmingly controlled both chambers in Congress  --  on extending the tax cuts "for the rich" and for everyone else, which caused him to break his 2008 campaign promise to not extend President George W. Bush's massive tax cuts.
 
Just before midnight last Friday night, Obama was forced to surrender to the Republicans yet again by agreeing to a $38.5 billion cut in domestic spending, the largest in American history.  He had begun negotiations with the Republicans by saying he wanted no cuts at all.  Obama was also forced to return to the policy of no federally-funded abortions in Washington D.C. and a restoration of the school choice voucher program for the District of Columbia.
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