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January 2, 2010
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Cut the Power of the Family Courts
Around Texas

  

Texas Shows Its Swagger in New Population Estimates

by Michael Barone

Every year roundabout Christmastime, the Census Bureau releases its population estimates for each state for the 12 months ending on July 1. The numbers look dry on a sheet of paper (or on an Excel spreadsheet on your computer), but they tell some vivid stories. The more so when they reflect, as the numbers for 2008-09 do, the effects of a sharp downward shift in the nation's economy.

 

Simple Ways to Help Governor Perry

Share your support for Rick Perry on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.

 

Hutchison Releases Transportation Plan, but Not How She Would Fund It

After months of hammering Gov. Rick Perry's record on transportation, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison outlined her own plan to keep Texas traffic moving Tuesday.

 

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Presidential News
 

Handling Problems the Obama Way

by Carol E. Lee

There is a sense of déjà vu in the Obama administration's response to the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day. A by-now familiar pattern has been established for dealing with unexpected problems.

 

Barack Obama 'Trying to Pretend'

by Dick Cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of "trying to pretend we are not at war" with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term "war on terror" and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

 

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?  

By Andy McCarthy

You just can't make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

 

The Obama Administration Gives INTERPOL More Favorable Immunities Than American Law Enforcement Agencies

by Erick Erickson

Okay, okay. I know a lot of you know about this already. For about a week I have been getting emails about Barack Obama surrendering American sovereignty to Interpol, the international criminal police force under the UN's jurisdiction, but I honestly couldn't believe even Obama would do that.

 
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National News
   

Democrats Revive 'Party of No' Attack

Democrats are retooling and reprising their "Party of No" attack on Republicans in Congress after they unanimously rejected financial reform and health care bills in votes this month.

 

Whose Tent Is Bigger?

by Erick Erickson

Had this been Christie Todd Whitman or a host of other Republicans, it would have been the lead story on the nightly news today. William Daley of the Chicago Clan, former Bill Clinton's Commerce Secretary and Al Gore's President Campaign Chairman in 2000, sees all sorts of apocalyptic warning signs on the horizon for the Democrats.

 

Keep the Big Tent Big

by William M. Daley

The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party -- my lifelong political home -- has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come.

 

The Best Christmas Present Ever: Senator DeMint Objects to the Appointment of the Conferees

by Dan Perrin

When Senator DeMint engineered, and Republican Leader McConnell actually objected to the appointment of the conferees, he was really handing the ball off to the left wingers - progressives if you will - and now they have their shot to either hold their own clan members who are against the Senate compromises and force them to vote No, or have their policy demands be ignored and take the crumbs from Senator Nelson's and Senator Lieberman's table.

 

It's Not the Economy, Stupid! It's National Survival!

by David Limbaugh

The Washington Post's Dan Balz thinks that "with new priorities, Obama and Democrats can recover in 2010." Sorry, Dan; it's about more than priorities. It's a matter of their worldview.

 

Warning, Satire Alert: Liberal Take on Terror!

by Debra J. Saunders

Gosh darn, I feel great to live in a country that gives full constitutional rights to a foreign national who, on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, was tackled by passengers and crew as he reportedly was trying to blow up the plane.

 

Justice Department Moves Panthers Pursuer to South Carolina

The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year's elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina.

 

Ten New Reasons Why Obamacare Can Still Be Killed

by Phyllis Schlafly

New reasons emerge almost daily as to why Obamacare can and must be defeated.

1. The American people oppose Obamacare by almost two to one in the latest CNN poll. Other polls show lopsided opposition to passing either the Senate or House health care bill.

 

Judge Dismisses Blackwater Case

A federal judge, sharply criticizing Justice Department prosecutors, dismissed all criminal charges on Thursday against five former Blackwater guards accused of manslaughter in connection with an alleged massacre that left at least 14 Iraqis dead in Baghdad in 2007.

 

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Cut the Power of the Family Courts
  
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Phyllis Schlafly
Do you think judges should have the power to decide what religion your children must belong to and which churches they may be prohibited from attending? We have long suspected that family courts are the most dictatorial and biased of all U.S. courts, routinely depriving divorced fathers of due process rights and authority over their own children, but this December a Chicago judge went beyond the pale.

Cook County Circuit Judge Edward Jordan issued a restraining order to prohibit Joseph Reyes from taking his three-year-old daughter to any non-Jewish religious activities because the ex-wife argued that would contribute to "the emotional detriment of the child." Mrs. Rebecca Reyes wants to raise her daughter in the Jewish religion, and the judge sided with the mother.

As Joseph Reyes' divorce attorney, Joel Brodsky, said when he saw the judge's restraining order, "I almost fell off my chair. I thought maybe we were in Afghanistan and this was the Taliban." The lawyer is appealing.

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