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ACLU bullies Nampa into submission

Some things are worth fighting for, and one of them is protecting the sexual innocence of young children. It’s unfortunate that Nampa city officials apparently do not have the stomach for that fight, afraid that an activist judge will deprive them of their right to govern themselves. But by capitulating without firing a shot, they have already forfeited their right to govern themselves and have succumbed to a form of tyranny.

Nampa City Attorney Terry White said the cost to litigate a major First Amendment case could easily exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars. Keller said he believes the June policy change was a good compromise, but that the financial viability of the public library was paramount.

The goal is already in reach in North Dakota and Mississippi, each of which has just one remaining abortion facility, and Nebraska and Kentucky, which have just two.

Despite the plain meaning of the First Amendment, which denies to the federal government any right to interfere with the free exercise of religion, the IRS has for half a century been dictating sermon content to the pastors of America by threatening to cancel their tax exempt status if they talk frankly about the public policy positions of candidates for public office.

 

 

• Sarah Palin continues to have a devastating effect on Sen. Obama’s presidential aspirations. Latest polling data indicates that prior to her selection, Obama led Sen. McCain among white women by a 55% to 37% margin. But since, a seismic shift has occurred, and the same women now prefer the McCain ticket by 53% to 41%, an overwhelming 30 point shift (from 18 up to 12 down) virtually over night. No wonder the left continues its unconscionable attacks on this woman and her family. Click the second link for an example of just how reprehensible the uber-left blogosphere can be. Remember: these are the self-proclaimed voices of tolerance and compassion speaking.(Newsmax.com – Analysis: Palin Smears Intensify; I Miss My Mommy: I Hayte Me – hat tip: Adam Graham)
• Despite Joe Biden’s claims on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” that he opposes taxpayer funding of abortions, his voting record reveals the exact opposite. He voted against a ban on abortion funding at Indian health care service facilities this year, voted against the Mexico City Policy in 2005 (which prohibits taxpayer funding of overseas groups that promote or perform abortions), and voted for international abortion funding in 2003. In 2003, he voted for taxpayer funding of abortions at U.S. military bases, as he had done in 1999, 2000, and 2002. According to National Right to Life, Biden has not voted against taxpayer funding of abortions in nine years. (Joe Biden Has Supported Taxpayer-Funding of Abortion Despite Interview Claim)
• The liberal New Republic devotes a feature article to Sen. Obama’s role as a “community organizer” before he ran for public office. He ran for public office because he came to the conclusion that community organizers don’t actually accomplish anything. He told a friend that to “make major changes in poverty or discrimination” you either had “to be an elected official or be influential with elected officials.” As a community organizer, Obama tried to pressure companies and the city of Chicago to increase its manufacturing base – and failed. He tried to get a job center built, but there were no jobs to distribute. He then failed at an effort to create what he called a “second-level consumer economy.” So he turned his energies to providing social services for a government-run apartment complex, where he could not get the city to keep its promise to remove asbestos from the units. As of last year, some residences had still not been cleared of asbestos. Says the New Republic, “It is both funny and scary that one of America’s major political parties would offer this record of sheer futility as its nominee’s chief qualification to be president of the United States.”(Creation Myth)
• Despite the Idaho Health Department’s decision to reject abstinence education funding, abstinence ed has been proven to be effective. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (note: not a right wing think tank) reports that the number of sexually active teens has declined from 54 to 46 percent, and that a majority of teens said that abstinence education was an important factor in their decision to abstain from sex. Extensive studies by the Adolescent and Family Health journal credit abstinence for a 67 percent decline in teen pregnancies. And a study by the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health showed a 40 percent lower likelihood of pregnancy for girls taking virginity pledges. Perhaps it’s time for Idaho’s health officials to reconsider. Child Trends say that the keys to delaying sexual activity are parental involvement, good friends, strong faith and participation in church activities. Once again, we see the importance of faith and family for society’s health.(Reducing Teen Pregnancies and Abortions)
• Three more American citizens are dead because of the federal government’s failure to secure our southern border. An illegal immigrant in Aurora, Colo. has been held for suspicion of vehicular homicide in their deaths. He was driving an SUV erratically, ran a red light, and hit a northbound pickup. The collision killed the two occupants of the truck and sent it careening into a Baskin-Robbins where flying debris killed the third victim, a three-year-old girl. The illegal alien had been arrested 16 times in five years but never deported. His crimes range from forgery to assault to theft to fraud to driving under restraint. As recently as July 18, he was arrested and charged with numerous crimes, including resisting police. The driver has 11 aliases, two listed birth dates, and four listed birth places, including Mexico.(ICE holds driver in crash - The Denver Post)
• The first half of this year was the coolest in at least five years, another indication that the “global warming theory is going in to the freezer.” The global warming that has taken place during the past 30 years is over, according to professor emeritus Don Easterbook of Western Washington University. Easterbrook, who has written eight books and 150 journal publications, predicts that temperatures will cool and actually be one degree lower at the end of the century than they are today. The highly respected “Farmer’s Almanac” predicts that the coming winter will be “catastrophic” because of bitter and cold weather. The Almanac’s accuracy rate over the last 192 years is between 80 and 85 percent. A cold winter will put upward pressure on heating costs and create additional pressure on Congress to end its restrictions on increasing domestic energy supplies. Environmentalism is bad for no other reason than it is hard on the poor, who are the first to feel its harmful effects. An Ivy League geologist says that “for most of Earth’s history, the globe has been warmer than it has been for the last 200 years. It has rarely been cooler.” Meanwhile, a scientist at Mexico’s National Autonomous University is predicting a coming “little ice age” of up to 80 years because of a decrease in solar activity. He points out that glaciers are actually growing in the Andes, on the highest mountain in Canada, and in New Zealand.(Newsmax.com – Global Warming’s Kaput; 2008 Coolest in 5 Years)

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