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Posted at 8:14am on May 14, 2008 End the corn subsidies?

By mdetlh

Recently a Contract with America brainstorming blog posted with the idea that the corn subsidies should end. Sen Hutchinson proposes the idea of freezing current ethanol production, so that progress toward the total current corn crop being produced by 2022 doesn't progress any further for the time being to assess the move towards the subsidized fuel.
Of course a problem with the above cold turkey government cutoff is that Billions have already been spent on the ethanol refining capability.

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Posted at 2:53pm on May 10, 2008 Ask Obama

By Steve Foley

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Posted at 11:49am on May 9, 2008 Obama on judges

Protecting the Powerless?

By Feddie

Here is Senator Obama describing what he will look for in a judge if elected president:

[W]hat I do want is a judge who is sympathetic enough to those who are on the outside, those who are vulnerable, those who are powerless, those who can't have access to political power and as a consequence can't protect themselves from being being dealt with sometimes unfairly, that the courts become a refuge for justice. That's been its historic role. That was its role in Brown v Board of Education.

Except for unborn babies, of course.

Those, you can kill with impunity (even after they're born).

UPDATE (Dan McLaughlin): San Diego Union-Tribune cartoonist Steve Breen made this same point with a cartoon worth a thousand words during the Alito hearings:

Cartoon below the fold...

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Posted at 9:32pm on May 8, 2008 We Need To Just End This War

By ilitigant

Both sides have been fighting now for far too long. The country's powers have decided and that means the one who can't take the heat has to get outta the kitchen. It isn't losing. It isn't cutting and running. It is just ending the war. There doesn't have to be a winner and there certainly doesn't' have to be a loser. Let's just call it quits.

It doesn't matter if the people who fought along side the 'sides' don't have a solution. This is war. War doesn't require solutions. It just takes somebody saying enough.

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Posted at 1:33pm on May 8, 2008 Douglas Kmiec Will Have a Plate of the "Safe, Legal and Rare" with a Side of "I Feel Your Pain," Please.

By Leon H Wolf

Comes now the latest insanity (via hot air) from former sentient being and Romney advisor Douglas Kmiec, who would like to tell us all how Obama is better than McCain on abortion. By way of reminder, when Kmiec originally decided to endorse Obama, our own Pejman Yousefzadeh took him to task, which provoked the following response from Kmiec on the abortion question:

Senator Obama has the interesting capacity to go to people and emphasize the values of self responsibility. So when he goes to Planned Parenthood, he says the usual things the Democrats say, but then he also emphasizes that we need to teach young people to have a reverence for what sexual intimacy means and how it’s necessarily linked to new life and parenting. That’s remarkable for someone on his side of the world to say. It’s not enough to satisfy my concerns as a Catholic and conservative who believes the Court had no business in that territory. But it is a kind of federalist reminder – that these problems get solved first in family, church and the community.

Apparently, after having basked in the glow of His Obamaness for a week or two, Kmiec has decided to recant. Not only is Obama not unsatisfactory on abortion, he is more satisfactory than Reagan, McCain, or either of the Bushes!

More below...

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Posted at 8:40am on May 8, 2008 C3PO, the She-Nerd's McDreamy

By Uma Richie

It is a truth academically purported, that a single man in possession of no social skills, must be in want of a fembot.

The Marriage Amendment was never a hot button issue for me. Sure, I support it -- Marriage, one man, one woman, got it, can we move on? I never considered the institution of marriage a potential slippery slope victim.

Then I discovered robot love.

After the fiasco of my first post , I abandoned my efforts on the follow-up “Cavalry Carnage in the American Civil War” and clicked over to Scientific American. For those not familiar with that publication, it targets an academic audience looking to keep apace of technological developments outside their chosen field. If you can muscle past the anti-God arrogance of the editorial staff, it is an interesting read. However left it leans, it is certainly not a periodical on the fringe.

There I found the article "Not Tonight, Dear, I Have to Reboot" which explores the possibility of marriage between humans, particularly anti-social ones, and robots. You may have read similar stories over the past few months. What bothered me about this particular piece was the publication that carried it. More suitable for a Larry Flynt smut mag than a so-called science periodical, the article gives new meaning to the words “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.”

I will refrain from posting the tawdry details; however, there are two quotes that provide insight into how David Levy, the researcher on this project, feels about humans and marriage.

In a question and answer segment, the clearly misogynist Levy states, “Then I got the idea that sex with dolls is like sex with prostitutes—you know the prostitute doesn't love you and care for you, is only interested in the size of your wallet.”

Where is the outrage from liberal feminists?

Later he says, “I think the nature of marriage in the future is that it will be what we want it to be. If you and your partner decide to be married, you decide what the bounds are, what its purpose is to you.”

Scientific American’s decision to grant credibility to Levy’s work tells me everything I need to know about the left’s designs for marriage. Levy is British, but I nominate federal funding of any similar American research for the chopping block in the first round of McCain era spending cuts.

And, yes, sign me up for that Marriage Amendment.

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Posted at 5:51pm on May 6, 2008 Americans Grow Despondent - And McCain Can't Help

By GordonTaylor

Americans are sullen, gloomy, despondent, morose [pick your favorite adjective] and with very good reason. April's polls show 81% of Americans believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and they are absolutely right. And their fears and anxieties are not based on our political direction, they go much deeper then that. Overwhelmingly, people do not believe any President or other government body can help this country "turn things around", and I say it's about time that they realized that fact. America was not made a country and people to emulate, by our politicians, but rather the people and industries that make up the basis of our real power.

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Posted at 2:14pm on May 6, 2008 Why the Post in Moe Lane's Post Grows On You!

By From ME to you

If you haven't already gone to Moe Lane's REDHOT post do so now!

"This post grows on you, after a while"

Moe, I've seen that type of behavior in our older population firsthand. I remember talking to my mom and dad about their youth and their friends. I remember the look on their faces and the tremor in their voices. The memories of relatives and friends that were just memories, nothing else.

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Posted at 9:31pm on May 5, 2008 My first Blog--Most Important Ethical Issue Republicans Face

By J.Hancock

1/4 of all pregnancies are terminated-resulting in more deaths by abortion than by all the wars this country has been in. 1/3 of women will have had one abortion by the age of 40. Most of these abortions are for convenience sake. We're not talking about medically indicated abortions. Pregnancy termination for medical reasons is not as common as elective abortion. We are talking about people being irresponsible with their sexuality, and then punishing the unborn when nature takes its course. Abortion is a violent practice, institutionalized by American hedonism, protected by extreme liberal feminism, and legitimized by the silence of well meaning Americans who are uncomfortable telling others how to live. We need to realize that abortion is not about choice, its about irresponsibility, removal of accountability, selfishness, avoidance of consequences, objectification of inconvenient life, disregard for inherent human worth, and above all ……death. Abortion causes the death and suffering of a voiceless class, for the pleasure and convenience of another. It is unjust. Abortion is the single greatest form of institutionalized violence this country has had since slavery, and it is essential we address and eliminate this deplorable practice.

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Posted at 11:20am on May 1, 2008 Because you never know....that's why!

By Jaded

I sometimes see people here throw out Terri Schiavo as a religious right over reaction and not being religious myself I have questioned why? is it not just a human over reaction?

I know that a lot of conservative's went out on a limb (or so the MSM said) for this case....it was definitely a right to life issue....but it was with out a doubt a what if she was or could become "alive" case. The young lady Haleigh (in my link below) who was one signature away from being put to death for no crime is alive and well and we as a human race will never know if Terri Schiavo would have "come alive"....because of our rush to literally "starve" her to death.

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Posted at 11:34pm on Apr. 27, 2008 Attention Patriots - This Will Give You A Lump In Your Throat

By GordonTaylor

Before you watch this video, read this. This was recorded at a Texas Tech basketball game on February 9, 2008.

These young ladies are between the ages of 6 and 8 years old. Once you hear them sing this song, it'll never sound the same again.

And listen to the crowd, a packed field house, and not a sound...you could have heard a pin drop.