Song glorifies lesbianism; GOP update

Artist Kay Perry is now all over the radio, notably KZMG-FM, Magic 93.1, with a song, “I Like It,” that glorifies lesbianism, and will encourage young

teenage girls to experiment with same sex relationships.

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don't mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don't mean I'm in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it

Other helpful lyrics include ”I’m curious for you,” “Just wanna try you on,” “No, I don’t even know your name, It doesn’t matter, You’re my experimental game,” and “Too good to deny it, Ain’t no big deal, it’s innocent.”

If you’d like to contact the station manager at 93.1 and express your sentiments on this song, you may do so here: KZMG-FM

The battle for the heart and soul of Idaho’s Republican Party continues today and tomorrow at its state convention. From every indication I have received, current chairman Kirk Sullivan simply does not have enough grassroots support to be re-elected. Yet he continues stubbornly to resist appeals to accept that reality and step down, appeals coming even from conservative leadership of the state legislature.

The election for state chairman will be held tomorrow, and it seems that nothing short of convention shenanigans can prevent challenger Norm

Semanko from receiving the majority of delegate votes.

Semanko had promised the governor that he would not thrown his hat in the ring until it became clear to him that Sullivan did not have sufficient support to be returned to his post. Semanko kept his word, and only jumped in in the last week when it became evident that Sullivan did not have majority support.

Semanko is a principled conservative and a very gracious and personable figure. He is a leader who can unify the party, and I believe will enjoy virtually universal support from all segments of the party – from the top down - once the dust clears. I think it is quite likely that everyone will rally to him almost the instant the results are in on Saturday.

To an outsider, it all looks like political wrangling as usual. To delegates and other interested parties inside the GOP tent, however, the issue carries far greater meaning. If Semanko wins the day, this family feud could be the conservatives’ first step in calling what they refer to as the “GOP elite” to heel.

“If that happens, it’s going to be an embarrassing loss for the republican establishment and, in particular, for Gov. Otter,” said Bryan Fischer, who has become an influential voice on conservative issues as executive director of the Idaho Values Alliance.

Through his blog, Fischer has become one of the primary spokespeople for the state’s conservative, grassroots contingent. His group supports more stringent anti-abortion legislation, broad gun-owner rights and strict judicial oversight, while vocally opposing gay rights and the teaching of evolution in schools.

For a growing number of Idaho conservatives, this political checklist has come to represent a test for who is a “real” republican and who is a moderate imposter in GOP clothing.

“They’ve taken it for granted that disgruntled conservatives will stay in the party because we have nowhere else to go,” Fischer said. “Grassroots republicans who really care about conservative principles of governance are dissatisfied with the GOP establishment in general. They see this year’s state convention as a centerpiece in the battle for party control.”

For conservatives like Bryan Fischer, though, simply being renowned as “the reddest of the red states” in the U.S. is no longer enough. Going forward, entering Republican tent could require subscribing to a roster of “grassroots” principles.

“Just because it’s the most Republican state in the union doesn’t mean it’s the most conservative state in the union,” he said. “It’s time to switch that around and take control of the Republican Party.”

Semanko, meanwhile, has won the endorsement of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna and U.S. Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, as well as anti-abortion activist Bryan Fischer.

Semanko also got the backing of Rod Beck, a former state Senate majority leader who has challenged Sullivan over the closed primary issue. Those who favor restricting the GOP primary to registered Republican voters worry that moderates and Democrats have crossed party lines to elect candidates who don't reflect Republican values.

The strange brew of social conservatives such as Callear and Fischer, closed primary advocate Beck and laissez-faire supporters of outsider presidential hopeful Ron Paul makes for especially intriguing political theater, said Gary Moncrief, a political scientist at Boise State University.

"What's going on right now is an effort by Rod Beck and Bryan Fischer - the extreme wing of the Republican Party - to purge the Republican Party of those who hold more moderate views," Roark said. "That's a dangerous thing for any party to do. But if Rod Beck, Norm Semanko and Bryan Fischer, if that whole group wants to make my job easier by purging the Republican Party of moderates, then God bless them."

Fischer said bolstering conservative principles, not watering them down, will preserve the party.

"The grassroots of the party sees what's happening on the national level," he said. "The national party abandoned any pretense of fiscal conservatism, that's why we got hosed in 2006. We don't want to see that disaster repeated in Idaho."

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Ø You will have heard by now about yesterday’s incomprehensible Supreme Court ruling giving constitutional rights to terrorists who have never set foot on U.S. soil. The worst aspect: terrorists determined to kill as many Americans as possible now have more righ

ts than the

U.S.

soldiers who are fighting them. American GIs, if court-martialed, are restricted to military tribunals, as these terrorists were before yesterday.

Ø Justice Scalia, in a stinging dissent, in which he was joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas and Alito, criticized the majority as both “irrational and arrogant.” Says Scalia, “The writ of habeas corpus does not, and never has, run in favor of aliens abroad ... (This ruling) will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. The consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court’s blatant abandonment (emphasis in original) of such a principle that produces the decision today.”

Ø More from Scalia: “What competence does the Court have to second-guess the judgment of Congress and the President on such a point? None whatever ... [H]ow to handle enemy prisoners in this war will ultimately lie with the branch that knows least about the national security concerns that the subject entails. What drives today’s decision is neither the meaning of the Suspension Clause, nor the principles of our precedents, but rather an inflated notion of judicial supremacy.”

Ø More: “Most tragically, it sets our military commanders the impossible task of proving to a civilian court, under whatever standards this Court devises in the future, that evidence supports the confinement of each and every enemy prisoner. The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today.”

Ø Chief Justice Roberts wrote his own dissent, which includes these words: “So who has won? ... Not Congress ... Not the Great Writ ... Not

the rule of law ... and certainly not the American people, who today lose a bit more control over the conduct of this Nation’s foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges.”

Ø This raises questions about how much we can trust Sen. McCain to appoint justices in the mold of Roberts and Alito. He wants GITMO closed and aggressive interrogation of terrorists stopped, and therefore will most likely offer some words of support for the 5-4 decision. Yet the justices who argued so strenuously against it are the kind of judges McCain claims he wants on the bench.

Ø This certainly highlights the critical issue of judicial appointments in the choice of our next President. An Obama presidency would likely give us two to three more judges just like the majority in this case, setting back the rule of law beyond my lifetime and perhaps forever. But we must remember that Supreme Court justices are not in fact “unaccountable.” Congress has the power of impeachment, and, in my judgment, it is time for Congress to exercise its constitutional authority to remove these dangerous judges from the bench. The ruling of the majority in this case has no constitutional, legal, rational, ethical or historical legitimacy and could and should properly be ignored by the Commander in Chief. (Townhall.com::The United States Supreme Court Versus America: Awarding "The Privilege of Habeas Corpus To Terrorists"::By Hugh Hewitt)

Ø ANWR is about the size of South Carolina, and John McCain says we must not drill t

here in order to keep it “pristine.” If we were to drill for oil there, the footprint of the extraction effort would be about the size of Dulles Airport. Says Jonah Goldberg, “Has South Carolina been ruined because it has an airport?” Further, the drilling would take place, not in the Brooks mountain range you always seen in the pictures, but in the mosquito-plagued tundra and bogs of the coastal plain, where temperatures reach 70 degrees below zero in the winter amid round-the-clock darkness. Before getting religion on ANWAR, even the Washington Post said in the late 1980s that the area is “one of the bleakest, most remote places on this continent, and there is hardly any other where drilling would have less impact on surrounding life.” (Townhall.com::ANWR Not the Frosty Paradise It's Cracked Up To Be::By Jonah Goldberg)

Ø Joe Arpaio is the toughest sheriff in America. His Phoenix-area inmates live in old Army surplus tents, eat bologna sandwiches, wear pink underwear, and are not allowed fancy gyms, cigarettes, or salt and pepper. He believes illegal immigration is an enormous problem: 22% of his inmates are illegal aliens, and they are responsible for a huge percentage of illegal drugs which come into the U.S. He suggests building jails and courts right on the border to deal with apprehended illegals, and has inventively sworn in 300 federal officers who thus can now enforce Arizona law as well as federal law. And 160 of his officers are sworn in with full power as federal agents. Business licenses are yanked from anyone who knowingly employs illegals. (Newsmax.com - Sheriff Arpaio Knows How to Secure the Border)