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Ariz House: Check Obama's Citizenship Legitimacy
PHOENIX -- The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for reelection.

Obama - "No litmus test for Supreme Justice pick - Just "Women's Rights" - No 'Children's Rights.' WASHINGTON — Obama, dealing with the explosive issue of abortion, said Wednesday that he will choose a Supreme Court nominee who pays heed to women's rights and personal privacy when interpreting the
Constitution. "That's very important to me," Obama said. Yet he insisted he will not make any potential nominee pass a "litmus test" on a woman's right to end a pregnancy.

Court Opinions:
Justice Scalia Defends Constitution, Will Not Accept Roe Precedent:
"When you give the court the power to insert new rights, you also give it the power to take out old rights," he said, adding, "The right to abortion on the part of a woman isthe end of the right to live on the part of the fetus." - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

"I write separately to reiterate my view that the Court's abortion jurisprudence, including Casey and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) has no basis in the Constitution." - Justice Thomas wrote, with Justice Scalia agreeing,
in a brief added to the April 18, 2007 Partial Birth Abortion Decision.

VIDEO of Protesters @ La. Republican fundraiser where 2 were beaten.
In the wake of reports of the beating of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s top fundraiser, Allee Bautsch, and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, outside a high-dollar GOP fundraiser in New Orleans.

Oklahoma to Join States Suing over Obamacare
Lawmakers in Oklahoma late Tuesday announced their intent to file a lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional mandate in Obamacare that forces people to buy government-approved health insurance whether they want to or not, or pay a fine.

Alaska joins 19 states suing federal government over health insurance reform.
Invoking the Founding Fathers with a dramatic statement that it is "time for us to breathe deeply this American air," Gov. Sean Parnell announced Alaska will join 19 other states suing the federal government alleging the recently passed health insurance legislation is unconstitutional.

BORN IN THE USA? Justice Clarence Thomas: We're 'evading' eligibility. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told a House subcommittee that when it comes to determining whether a person born outside the 50 states can serve as U.S. president, the high court is "evading" the issue.

Featured GerryBlog:
"GOING BANANAS??"
Who's Afraid Of Domestic Violence??

UPDATE: Beaten Republican Fundraiser Says Anti Republican Protesters are the Perpetrators. Conservatives are not the violent ones; check this out, in her latest interview Della Berning -- mother of the brutally beaten top fundraising aide to Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal -- said her daughter and daughter's boyfriend believe protesters outside the GOP event were the perpetrators of their vicious beating

Nebraska Bill Would Ban Most Late-term Abortions Due to Fetal Pain.
"…there is substantial evidence that by 20 weeks, fetuses seek to evade stimuli in a way that indicates they are experiencing pain."

Featured Report:
What REALLY happens during an abortion: One surgeon finally tells the truth!

Defense Secretary Gates critical of Obama administration's Iran nuke policy;
Report says ‘wake-up call’ prompted re-evaluation.
WASHINGTON – A memo from Defense Secretary Robert Gates to the White House warned that the United States lacks a coherent long-term plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, according to a published report.

Legal Experts Blast Judge’s Decision To Declare National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional.
Legal experts say a federal district judge in Wisconsin had no legal basis for declaring the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional – and predict the decision cannot stand.

Obama 'amused' by Tea Party rallies
Apr. 16, 2010 Obama struck a hyperpartisan note Thursday, telling Democrats that he was "amused" by the Tax Day Tea Party rallies. "Obama lied! He said he would unite this country and all he has done is divide us."

Obama's Really, Really Big Show. "Oh, it's only a paper moon, hanging over a cardboard sea, without Israel, Iran and No. Korea, too little got done in DC." As a slick nuclear "summit" takes place in Washington, Iran announces it's a month away from joining the "nuclear club"? Photo ops are no anti-nuclear terrorism strategy.

Chinese Accounts of Obama-Hu Meeting Ignore Iran Sanctions Issue
The spokesman for the Chinese delegation, which is in Washington for Obama’s two-day nuclear security summit, made no reference to sanctions, and neither did Chinese media reporting on the meeting.

Obama Seeks Global Support for Nuclear Crackdown at Summit
The historic, two-day gathering of representatives from 47 countries to discuss nuclear security in Washington, D.C., is not expected to result in a bold new strategy. Rather, the summit will showcase President Obama's eagerness to lead on the issue, according to top administration officials.

Study: Admin. Partisan Favoritism - Democrat Districts Got More Stimulus Money. A study by Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, found that congressional districts represented by a Democrat have received significantly more money from the $787 billion stimulus bill than those with a Republican representative. On average Democrat districts got 1 1/2 times as many awards as Republican districts in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Obama election-year jobs agenda stalls in Congress
WASHINGTON — Democrats have no money to pay for the program because both Republicans and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee objected to taking money left over from the fund that bailed out banks, automakers and insurers and using it for the jobs bill that would add tens of billions of dollars to the $12.8 trillion national debt. Obama's proposed $250 bonus payment to Social Security recipients is dead for the year, having lost a Senate vote last month.