Michele Combs's blog

Each Christmas season, the loony left keeps trying to outdo it's previous ridiculous self.  This year's champion of the loony left is Washington state's Governor Christine Gregoire who allowed a tiny group of radical atheists to post a display right next to a Nativity scene depicting the Christmas story.  Between the two displays is a huge bust of George Washington who must be rolling in his grave at the thought of politicians like Gregoire. 

The poster put up by the God-haters insulting Christians in the Washington state capitol building reads in part:  "Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."

Our children need a porn-free Internet service

The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC,) Kevin Martin, is to be applauded for pushing a pornography-free web site for children and others who do not want to be assaulted with the absolute smut which is prevalent on the Internet today.

Chairman Martin wants the FCC to act this month, one month before he leaves office, to offer television consumers the ability to have free, pornography-free wireless Internet service.  The chairman's proposal is part of a plan to auction off a chunk of airwaves in which the winning bidder would have to set aside 25% of the airwaves for a free Internet service.  Needless to say, the wireless industry has objected to the FCC's proposed pornography filter.  The company winning the bid would have to filter out pornography and other programming material unsuitable for children. 

During the past few years, there were three renegade state supreme courts which ruled that their state citizens could have homosexual "marriages."  Each of those dictatorial decisions were by one vote, in the states of California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.  There was little doubt that the citizens of at least two of those states strongly opposed such a measure (California and Massachusetts.) 

And this feeling proved right in the case of California when on November 4th a majority of California voters, including some 70% of black Americans, voted to ban homosexual "marriage" when they voted for Proposition 8 which declared that marriage is between only one man and one woman.  There were outrageous demonstrations by the homosexual lobby following the voters' decision including assaults against Christians such as an elderly woman who was holding a large cross which was grabbed from her and stomped into the ground. 

Now, an even more outrageous event has occurred and that is the acceptance of lawsuits against Proposition 8 by the same top court in California which caused so many citizens to revolt against their decision to legalize homosexual "marriages." 

In an era when many pro-lifers are discouraged that the 1973  Roe v. Wade decision is never going to be overturned  --  especially since a new pro-abortion president is expected to appoint pro-abortion justices to the United States Supreme Court  --  pro-lifers can still be encouraged that the laws they help pass at the federal level and in state legislatures can make a difference in saving the lives of thousands of innocent unborn children. 

Just think of the difference even one life can make.  Pam Tebow, the mother of Tim Tebow, the Heisman Trophy winner last year, who is the quarterback from the University of Florida and the first sophomore ever to win the trophy, was encouraged by physicians to abort her son, but she refused to do so.  All five of the Tebow children were homeschooled including during the time the Tebows lived for a number of years as missionaries in the Phillipines where Tim's father, Bob Tebow, still has an ongoing ministry. 

In today's "The Washington Times," Greg Pierce in his "Inside Politics" column, quoted a couple news analysts saying before the Tuesday's election in which Barack Obama beat Senator John McCain by 6 points, that America is still a "center-right nation."  Jon Meacham, the liberal "Newsweek" editor in a story labeled 'America the Conservative' warned that "[s]hould Obama win, he will have to govern a nation that is more instinctively conservative than it is liberal."

The editor of "The New Republic," John B. Judis, took great umbrage over Mr. Meacham's remarks on his website.  And Mr. Judis criticized the comments of a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Peter Wehner, for saying:  "America remains, in the main, a center-right nation."  

Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee to the United States Supreme Court, has the opportunity to provide the grown-up vote in a case being argued tomorrow before the nation's top court.  The case is FCC v. Fox Television Stations Inc. and it involves several instances in which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concluded that "fleeting" uses of vulgar words were indecent. 

Today's "The Washington Times" reported in a front-page article entitled "TV networks battle FCC indecency rules" that attorneys for the federal government will face off against four large television networks tomorrow before the Supreme Court over regulation of profanity on the public airwaves, marking it the first time in 30 years that the Supreme Court has considered broadcast indecency rules.

The issue of judges should be one of the top handful of issues which Americans must consider when they vote 3 weeks from yesterday. Yet another rogue majority on a state Supreme Court has come down on the side of legalizing homosexual "marriages." Last Friday, the top court in the state of Connecticut joined the top courts in the states of Massachusetts and California in allowing homosexual couples to "marry." In each case, the decision was a one-vote margin.

So what we have is a couple handful of judges in three states with tens of millions of citizens legislating from the bench their political preferences. The Founders of this country would be appalled at the dictatorial nature of these renegade judges. Thankfully, people of California are going to have an opportunity on November 4th to overturn their radical judges and indeed, the California constitutional amendment banning homosexual "marriages" is expected to pass.

Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge
By JIM DEMINT
September 10, 2008

"But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up." -- Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2008

In politics, words are cheap. What really counts are actions. Democrats and Republicans have talked about fiscal responsibility for years. In reality, both parties have a shameful record of wasting hundreds of billions of tax dollars on pork-barrel projects.

My Senate colleague Barack Obama is now attacking Gov. Sarah Palin over earmarks. Having worked with both John McCain and Mr. Obama on earmarks, and as a recovering earmarker myself, I can tell you that Mrs. Palin's leadership and record of reform stands well above that of Mr. Obama.

Let's compare.

Mrs. Palin used her veto pen to slash more local projects than any other governor in the state's history. She cut nearly 10% of Alaska's budget this year, saving state residents $268 million. This included vetoing a $30,000 van for Campfire USA and $200,000 for a tennis court irrigation system. She succinctly justified these cuts by saying they were "not a state responsibility."