This is a guest post by Mrs. Slammin’, regarding not only the issue of abortion, but also that of state’s rights.  Whether you agree or disagree with the opinions expressed here, your comments are welcome.

Last week, Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Indiana HEA 1210, which (in part) states:

(b) An agency of the state may not:
(1) enter into a contract with; or
(2) make a grant to;
any entity that performs abortions or maintains or operates a
facility where abortions are performed that involves the
expenditure of state funds or federal funds administered by the
state.

You can read the entire bill here: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/HE/HE1210.1.pdf

Before the injunction, Planned Parenthood, which performs 52% of abortions in Indiana (but provides services to less than 1% of Hoosier Medicaid recipients), was set to have its Medicaid funding pulled. They argued that Medicaid patients who sought their women’s health services would be left out in the cold.  Of course, this is simply not true.  Just ask Planned Parenthood’s own employees…
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Here we sit, 6 full months into the 112th session of Congress, with little to no progress made in resolving America’s financial or unemployment problems and, to top it all off, we’re in another conflict in Libya with the goal of toppling another middle-eastern regime. In the meantime, the size of government (at all levels) is steadily increasing it’s employment levels under the pretense that it’s various departments, commissions, and bureaus can come up with the solution to every American’s problem.

Hello comrade! Welcome to your new America!
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In April of 2011, President Barak Obama announced that he would be seeking a second term on the Democratic ticket. In the minds of most Democrats, the only feasible replacement for Mr. Obama would be Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton who has already announced that she will not run in 2012.

This has caused an influx of people, who strongly disagree with President Obama’s policies, to run on the Republican ticket. The list has already become long and the ensuing debates are likely to cause quite a bit of  chaos in the Republican primaries. Wherever a shark smells blood, it will come to feed and whenever a politician smells a free meal, it too, will come to feed as well.

Which brings me to the point of this article…
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We are all familiar with the historic quote from the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, as she took to the microphone and told the American people, “We must pass a bill to find out what is in it.”

Two years later, Bob Schieffer of CBS’s Face The Nation scores an interview with Ms. Pelosi and asks her a few policy questions. To see is to believe:
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