Palmetto Family Alliance sent around this information this morning. The senate has no business doing ANY business until H. 3545 is on the governor’s desk. Contact info here.
The SC Senate is currently sitting on H3245, a bill passed by the SC House that will increase the reflection period required before an abortion can be performed from ONE HOUR (the shortest in the country) to ONE DAY (the national standard).
Women who have time to reflect are less likely to go through with an abortion.
All bills not passed this year will die and have to be reintroduced in 2011.
Pro-abortion legislators have put a hold on the 24-Hours for Life bill.
The only way the 24-Hours for Life bill can come up is to “set it for Special Order.”
Senate Republicans decide what is set for Special Order, usually in meetings early TUESDAY.
Please contact your Republican Senator PREFERABLY ON MONDAY OR BEFORE 10 AM ON TUESDAY and ask him to set H3245, the 24 Hours for Life Bill, for Special Order immediately.
“I found it fascinating that the people who were editorializing against it were The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company,” Justice Thomas said. “These are corporations.”
The part of the McCain-Feingold law struck down in Citizens United contained an exemption for news reports, commentaries and editorials. But Justice Thomas said that reflected a legislative choice rather than a constitutional principle.
He added that the history of Congressional regulation of corporate involvement in politics had a dark side, pointing to the Tillman Act, which banned corporate contributions to federal candidates in 1907.
“Go back and read why Tillman introduced that legislation,” Justice Thomas said, referring to Senator Benjamin Tillman. “Tillman was from South Carolina, and as I hear the story he was concerned that the corporations, Republican corporations, were favorable toward blacks and he felt that there was a need to regulate them.”
Sally Jenkins flays the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time” in today’s WaPo:
You know what we really need more of? Famous guys who arent embarrassed to practice sexual restraint, and to say it out loud. If we had more of those, women might have fewer abortions. See, the best way to deal with unwanted pregnancy is to not get the sperm in the egg and the egg implanted to begin with, and that is an issue for men, too — and they should step up to that.
“Are you saving yourself for marriage?” Tebow was asked last summer during an SEC media day.
A vote for Scott Brown was a vote against federally-funded abortions. However, if the Republican Party cannot, on balance, do better than Scott Brown, we will never see the bottom of this genocidal pit.
Brown told ABC’s This Week that he disagrees with his party’s position that the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion should be overturned. The incoming lawmaker says the abortion question is one that’s best handled by a woman, her family and her doctor. He also says more effort needs to go into reducing the number of abortions in the U.S.
Mike Adams, ascerbic as usual, shines the light on a state university’s “Joke Ban:”
In my view, there are at least three fundamental dangers associated with the UNCO speech code.
First, and perhaps most obviously, it empowers people to trump the speech of others by simply becoming offended. So it really protects and defends the speech of those least able to protect and defend their own speech through reasoned discourse.
I wanted to pass along this note from Harry Kibler about this afternoon’s “workshop.”
I received a phone call from a true conservative member of the County Council to inform me of a special and little known meeting scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 PM. This meeting will be held in meeting room D in the same building that houses the County Council. Enter the building as you would to go to the Council Chamber and walk down the hallway looking on the right hand side and you will see room D.
This “Planning Workshop†is actually a backdoor opportunity to implement many of the Agenda 21 items that were supposed to be brought back to the County Council in a regular meeting. Folks, if you were there at the Property Rights Rally and stayed for the Council meeting, you know that the Comprehensive Land Use Plan was approved, but the implantation of the plan was supposed to be brought back and be voted upon as separate issues. These issues were to be debated in public before being approved for implementation. Now the Agenda 21 supporters are trying to gain approval in a meeting that has not been publicly advertised in any reasonable way. Please attend this meeting and support the Council members that are standing up in support of Property Rights. No public input will be allowed, but our presence will speak volumes.
The picture that keeps forming unbidden in my mind was taken by a German military photographer at Lubny, near Kiev, in 1941, relatively early in the campaign of Einsatzgruppen massacres. I can’t explain why it troubles me more than the thousands of similar photographs in the Yad Vashem collection. Perhaps because I have children of a similar age. Perhaps because the family looks so normal: these people have not been left hungry or bedraggled by years of war, but seem to have come straight from a comfortable home.
POTUS’s SOTU will feature “plea for help” from jobless man. With all due respect, if President Obma had any interest in repairing the economy, he wouldn’t have spent the past year heaping insurmountable loads of debt on us and our children and attempting to heap layers of new bureaucratic deadweight on the economy. How quickly we forget that this is a man who feels a bond of spiritual kinship with Jeremiah Wright — Mr. “G-D- America” himself.
If President Obama really cares about creating jobs, he will cancel the remaining stimulus spending, quit threatening to destroy America’s already languishing energy resources, quit trying to restructure private-sector healthcare delivery systems, and quit using incendiary language every time he talks about the banking industry.
Ed Rumsey of Seneca, South Carolina, had this to say in today’s Greenville News about our “Republican” legislature’s continuous failure to deliver on school choice:
It is ironic that the platform of the Republican Party in South Carolina states, “We support the concept of ‘school choice’ and do not fear the healthy competition that will result from equitable voucher and charter school plans.” Yet, with a Republican majority in both the Senate and the House, school choice can not get out of committee for a vote.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod told POLITICO: “I think that it would a terrible mistake to walk away now. If we don’t pass the bill, all we have is the stigma of a caricature that was put on it. That would be the worst result for everybody who has supported this bill.” He said the administration will work with Capitol Hill to figure out how.
Obama’s former campaign manger, David Plouffe, added on ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “I’m very confident we can pass health-care reform.”
I rarely ever hear anything about 1978. Since that’s the year I was born, my ears always perk up when I hear “1978.” So, for those of you who don’t know (or remember) anything about 1978, here’s a little bit of retro from the American Thinker.
It appears that the “reform” was in the wrong direction:
According to the Lawsuit Climate 2008 report conducted for the US Chamber of Commerce (ILR), South Carolina’s ranking was in the bottom 10 in the nation.
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You may have heard about United Nations Biosphere Reserves. Well, I've been thinking that what we really need are some United States Liberty Reserves -- places where people are free to live without the meddlesome interference of the State in every detail of their lives.
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