Gearing up for Roe v. Wade events
I got to DC yesterday and will be in an all-day meeting today. I’ll try to blog if there’s wireless service.
One year ago tonight I flew to Washington for the March for Life and related events – the night of Barack Obama’s inauguration.
My daughter’s apartment was 2 blocks from the White House. I said we should walk over because it was an historical night. She refused, and she made the right call. Doing so would only have poured salt in the wound. A whole year later I still have trouble thinking about or looking at the WH. I drove by it yesterday and only got upset.
What a wild year it has been. You may recall I took last January off from blogging due to burnout (and probably slight depression) from the election.
Turns out I needed it for Obama’s onslaughts to come. I’m more energized than ever. Anger can be a helpful emotion.
But I digress!
Students for Life of America has a schedule up of DC events the next few days.
If you can’t be in DC, Americans United for Life has got just the suggestion for you. It is sponsoring a Virtual March for Life. Create your own avatar and join!
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I’ve been upset looking at the White House since I became politically conscious at 13. That was during the Clinton years. And lets face facts…even Bush chipped away little by little at the Constitution. We haven’t had a true patriot in the White House in over a century.
I hope based on the election results in Mass. that Obama’s days as a socialist dictator in the White House are numbered.
“socialist dictator?” Come on. If that were only partially true, we’d have some real reform by now. Instead, as the Right likes to point out, not too much has been accomplished. Dictators get more done.
Anyway, I’d advise we all refrain from riding the ups and downs too much. Politics is a long term endeavor. Three years is a long time. I wouldn’t have predicted the reelection of either Clinton or Bush II one year into their first term.
“… not too much has been accomplished”
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Thank Heaven and the eternal vigilance of the people for that…
cool! Jill has an avatar too: http://www.virtualmarchforlife.com/leaders/
This piece comes from the “No Apologies” website (article 6436).
Obama is winning his war against America.
The Wall Street Journal – January 20, 2010
The U.S. Isn’t as Free as It Used to Be
By Terry Miller
The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. This year, of the world’s 20 largest economies, the U.S. suffered the largest drop in overall economic freedom. Its score declined to 78 from 80.7 on the 0 to 100 Index scale. The U.S. lost ground on many fronts. Scores declined in seven of the 10 categories of economic freedom. Losses were particularly significant in the areas of financial and monetary freedom and property rights. Driving it all were the federal government’s interventionist responses to the financial and economic crises of the last two years, which have included politically influenced regulatory changes, protectionist trade restrictions, massive stimulus spending and bailouts of financial and automotive firms deemed “too big to fail.” These policies have resulted in job losses, discouraged entrepreneurship, and saddled America with unprecedented government deficits.
In the world-wide rankings of economic freedom, the U.S. fell to eighth from sixth place. Canada now ranks higher and boasts North America’s freest economy. More worrisome, for the first time in the Index’s 16-year history, the U.S. has fallen out of the elite group of countries identified as “economically free” by the objective measures of the Index. Four Asia-Pacific economies now sit atop the global rankings. Hong Kong stands in first place for the 16th consecutive year, followed by Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Every region of the world maintains at least one country among those deemed “free” or “mostly free” by the Index.
Some countries, notably Britain and China, have followed America’s poor example and curtailed economic freedom. But many others — such as Poland, South Korea, Mexico, Japan, Germany and even France — have maintained or expanded economic freedom despite the global crisis. Ignoring the pressures of recession, these enlightened nations have continued to liberalize their economies, granting their entrepreneurs and consumers greater freedom. As a result, the average Index score dropped only 0.1 point in 2010. Eighty-one countries out of the 179 ranked recorded higher scores than in 2009.
Read the complete article online at the Wall Street Journal’s website.