Guest today:
- 7:00 AM – Agriculture Commissioner John McMillan
- 8:00 AM – Athens State University’s Dr. Jess Brown
Last debate… thank God.
Some audio:
0222 DEBATE: Gingrich Defends Contraception Issue, Accuses Obama of Backing Infanticide
0222 DEBATE: Gingrich Says Obama Dangerous on National Security
0222 DEBATE: Paul Calls Santorum a Fake
0222 DEBATE: Paul Makes Economic Argument on Foreign Policy
0222 DEBATE: Romney Accuses Obama of Attack on Religious Freedom
0222 DEBATE: Romney Fires Back on Santorum on Earmarks
0222 DEBATE: Romney Notes Santorum’s 2008 Support, Blames Him for Obamacare
0222 DEBATE: Santorum Attacks Romney on Earmarks
0222 DEBATE: Santorum Charges Obama Afraid to Stand Up to Iran
0222 DEBATE: Santorum Defends Outspokenness on Social Issues
0222 DEBATE: Santorum Says Romney Adopting Occupy Wall Street Rhetoric
Frontrunners Santorum and Romney sparred all night:
Santorum: Governor Romney even today suggested raising taxes on the “top 1%,” adopting the Occupy Wall Street rhetoric. I’m not going to adopt that rhetoric. I’m going to represent 100% of Americans. We’re not raising taxes on anybody.
Romney: Let’s not forget that four years ago, well after Romneycare was put in place, four years ago, you not only endorsed me, you went to Laura Ingraham and said, ‘And this is the guy who is really conservative and we can trust him.’ Let’s not forget you said that.” (Applause) . . . “The reason we have Obamacare is because the senator you supported over Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, the pro-choice senator of Pennsylvania that you supported and endorsed in a race over Pat Toomey, he voted for Obamacare. If you had not supported him, if we had said no to Arlen Specter, we would not have Obamacare. So don’t look at me. Take a look in the mirror.”
Santorum: Governor Romney asked for that earmark. That’s really the point here. He’s out there on television ads right now unfortunately attacking me for saying that I’m this great earmarker when he not only asked for earmarks for the Salt Lake Olympics in the order of tens of millions of dollars, sought those earmarks and used them, and he did as the governor of Massachusetts, $300 million or $400 million. He said something like, ‘I would be foolish if I didn’t go out and try to get federal dollars.’
Romney: You mentioned the Olympics coming to the United States Congress, asking for support. No question about it. That’s the nature of what it is when you lead an organization or a state. You come to Congress and you say, ‘These are the things we need.’ In the history of the Olympic movement, the federal government has always provided the transportation and security. So we came to the federal government asking for help on transportation and security. I was fighting for those things. Our Games were successful. But while I was fighting to save the Olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere.
John King and CNN can’t keep themselves from fighting over stupid issues, he tried to raise birth control by asking, “who is against birth control”…
Best part of this was when the audience booed when the question was asked, but the candidates were forceful in their answers:
Romney mentions religious freedom…
I don’t think we’ve seen in the history of this country the kind of attack on religious conscience, religious freedom, religious tolerance that we’ve seen under Barack Obama.” (Applause) “Most recently, of course — most recently requiring the Catholic Church to provide for its employees and its various enterprises health care insurance that would include birth control, sterilization, and the morning-after pill. Unbelievable. And he tried to retreat from that, but he retreated in a way that was not appropriate because these insurance companies now have to provide these same things and obviously the Catholic Church will end up paying for them.
Satnorum had the best line of the night when discussing morals and government…
We have a problem in this country, and the family is fracturing. Over 40% of children born in America are born out of wedlock. How can a country survive if children are being raised in homes where it’s so much harder to succeed economically? It’s five times the rate of poverty in single-parent households than it is in two-parent homes. We can’t have limited government, lower taxes — we hear this all the time, cut spending, limit the government, everything will be fine. No, everything’s not going to be fine. There are bigger problems at stake in America. And someone is gonna go out there — I will — and talk about the things. And you know what, here’s the difference. The left gets all upset, ‘Oh, look at him talking about these things.’ Here’s the difference between me and the left, and they don’t get this. Just because I’m talking about it doesn’t mean I want a government program to fix it. That’s what they do. That’s not what we do.
Gingrich hammers Obama…
There is a legitimate question about the power of the government to impose on religion activities which any religion opposes. That’s legitimate. But I just want to point out, you did not once in the 2008 campaign, not once did anybody in the elite media ask why Barack Obama voted in favor of legalizing infanticide. Okay? So let’s be clear here. If we’re going to have a debate about who the extremist is on these issues, it is President Obama who as a state senator voted to protect doctors who kill babies who survived the abortion. It is not the Republicans.
Their was some foreign policy talk…
Gingrich slammed Obama as “dangerous” as he warned of the threats facing the U.S…
We live in an age when we have to genuinely worry about nuclear weapons going off in our own cities. So everybody who serves in the fire department, in the police department, not just the first responders, but our National Guard, whoever’s gonna respond, all of us are more at risk today, men and women, boys and girls, than at any time in the history of this county. And we need to understand that’s the context in which we’re going to have to move forward in understanding the nature of modern combat. I think this is a very sober period, and I believe this is the most dangerous president on national security grounds in American history.”] SOUNDCUE (:35 OC: . . . in American history.)
Santorum will take on Iran….
This president has obviously a very big problem in standing up to the Iranians in any form. If this would have been any other country, given what was going on and the mass murders that were seen there, this president would have quickly joined the international community, which is calling for his ouster and the stop of this, but he’s not. He’s not. Because he’s afraid to stand up to Iran. He opposed the sanctions in Iran against the central banks until his own party finally said, ‘You’re killing us. Please support these sanctions.’ Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president who isn’t going to stop them. He isn’t going to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon. We need a new president or we’re gonna have a cataclysmic situation with a power that is the most prolific proliferator of terror in the world, that will be able to do so with impunity because they will have a nuclear weapon to protect them from whatever they do. It has to be stopped, and this president is not in a position to do that.
Ron Paul took the anti-US side…
I’ve tried the moral argument. I’ve tried the Constitutional argument on these issues, and they don’t, they don’t go so well. But there’s an economic argument, as well. As a matter of fact, al-Qaida has had a plan to bog us down in the Middle East and bankrupt this country. And that’s exactly what they’re doing. We’ve spent $4 trillion of debt in the last 10 years being bogged down in the Middle East. The neoconservatives who now want us to be in Syria, want us to go to Iran and have another war. And we don’t have the money.
He also argued that Iran wants the bomb because we surround them, yeah it has nothing to do with wanting to destroy Israel, it is about us.
Law enforcement in New Hampshire loses it’s damn mind when it comes to gun issues…
A New Hampshire man who fired his handgun into the ground to scare an alleged burglar he caught crawling out of a neighbor’s window is now facing a felony charge — and the same potential prison sentence as the man he stopped.
Dennis Fleming, 61, of Farmington, was arrested for reckless conduct after the Saturday incident at his 19th century farmhouse. The single grandfather had returned home to find that his home had been burglarized and spotted Joseph Hebert, 27, climbing out of a window at a neighbor’s home. Fleming said he yelled “Freeze!” before firing his gun into the ground, then held Hebert at gunpoint until police arrived.
Scary.
Penny Dean, a spokeswoman for the Gun Owners of New Hampshire, said her organization is “absolutely outraged” by Fleming’s arrest.
“This homeowner fired at the ground, from all accounts, in a safe direction and held a burglar for police and did things correctly,” Dean told FoxNews.com. “The fact that this man would be charged is an outrage. Burglars in New Hampshire must know it’s open season, since homeowners cannot defend themselves, as evidenced by this case. This is charging the victim.”
Rick Pelkey, Fleming’s longtime neighbor, said he’s now worried how the “straight-forward, working-class guy” will pay legal fees associated with the arrest.
“I think it’s outrageous,” Pelkey told FoxNews.com. “He did the community a service here. We ought to thank him for it.”
Savannah Hardin, the 9-year-old girl who died Monday at Children’s of Alabama, was forced to run for three straight hours after lying to her grandmother about eating a candy bar, a spokeswoman for the Etowah County sheriff’s Office said.
It was that punishment that led to extreme dehydration and ultimately Savannah’s death, authorities said.
Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, and Jessica Mae Hardin, 27, were both charged with murder in connection to the death. Joyce Garrard is the child’s grandmother and Jessica Hardin is her step-mother.
No idea what to say…
Remember how we are constantly told everyone hates Alabama by liberals IN Alabama?
According to a recent poll, people were asked which states they viewed favorably, and which ones they hated. California ran away with the prize of most hated state in the Union by Republicans and Democrats alike.
What is it about California that they hate? I know I hate the government of California and the way Hollywood people act. The state is a welfare state with people who act entitled either by wealth or poverty.
I would have thought with the coast and the weather, California would have faired better than dead last.. I know this is upsetting to Californians, but that’s the way the poll went.
It’s too bad that the left coast is viewed that way. It once was considered a haven for all, but with government regulations and taxes, no one wants to live in the state of California, and I know a lot of people who are now moving from California to the midwest, and they are much happier.
How did Alabama….
Hell we don’t even make the top 5?
Let’s try harder!
Obama to state the government…
President Barack Obama is confronting Americans’ anxiety over rising gasoline prices by drawing attention to his energy policies and taking credit for rising oil and gas production, a greater mix of energy sources and decreased consumption.
Obama is heading to Florida on Thursday to promote an energy strategy that the administration says will reduce dependence on foreign oil in the long term. But Obama’s pitch will also have a subtext: that the federal government can do little to halt the current rise in gasoline prices.
Could this be blamed on Bush?
To be sure, oil and gas production has increased during the Obama administration, though the trend began during the presidency of George W. Bush, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The increase has reversed a decline that began in 1986, and the agency projects that by 2020 oil production will reach a level not seen since 1994.
Remember how they ley Bush off the hook on gas issues?
Despite more domestic oil and less consumption, “these prices are going up, and that tells you that there are other things beyond our control, like unrest in the Middle East or other factors like the growth of emerging countries such as China and India,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday.
A New Hampshire man who fired his handgun into the ground to scare an alleged burglar he caught crawling out of a neighbor’s window is now facing a felony charge — and the same potential prison sentence as the man he stopped.
Dennis Fleming, 61, of Farmington, was arrested for reckless conduct after the Saturday incident at his 19th century farmhouse. The single grandfather had returned home to find that his home had been burglarized and spotted Joseph Hebert, 27, climbing out of a window at a neighbor’s home. Fleming said he yelled “Freeze!” before firing his gun into the ground, then held Hebert at gunpoint until police arrived.
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How was Ron Paul’s answer “anti-US”?
The part you quoted is him saying that our enemies want to trap us in very expensive, unsustainable military campaigns. What is anti-US about that answer?
It’s the exact strategy that was used in Afghanistan against Russia. A missile that costs a few thousand dollars can take down a helicopter that costs millions. It’s pretty easy to win a war when your opponent has to outspend you 1000 to 1, especially if that opponent is borrowing the money and you’re not.
Now, look at the global war on terror. Actually, no, just look at the domestic side of it, the money we’re spending on the TSA. Terrorists spend a few thousand dollars in Afghanistan and we end up spending $8 billion a year on security measures that do nothing more than annoy people.
Which part of this is anti-US:
(1) The federal government has higher expenses than revenues, and
(2) The war on terror is very expensive
“Monstrously ignorant” might be the best way to describe the tragedy in Gadsden.
So the kid had a bladder problem and I assume that means candy was bad for her health. But if the stepmom and grandmother was genuinely concerned for the child’s health, they wouldn’t have done this. The need for humans to consume water is pretty common knowledge. I think a 1st degree (premeditated) murder can be argued.
Just think if Cap & Trade had passed in 2009. Alt energy would now be in a price war with gas AND coal and prices would be dropping like a rock. Thanks for screwing everything up Republicans.
AC McMillian said today what us lefties have been saying all along. HB-56 has brought about a “crisis”. The most encouraging news he has is “We’ll just have to wait and see”. A repeal of the law is the only sensible choice. Bring back the people that ran for their life from a country that can’t control their mass murdering drug cartels, and pass stronger labor laws. (jail time for those paying less than minimum wage) Our farmers are going to take a devastating hit from climate change as it is. (bugs, drought and floods) It would be monstrously ignorant to turn it all into a perfect storm.
Another fine example of why lay people should not be allowed near the law.
In Alabama there is only Murder, not Murder 1 and Murder 2. Murder in Alabama is a homicide + any one of 4 different conditions: (1) intent to kill, (2) depraved heart, (3) felony murder, and (4) death of an emergency responder in an arson (which is probably redundant, given the felony murder rule).
3 and 4 are out. It’d be extremely hard to argue intent to kill here (remember, burden is on the prosecution). Prosecution might go for depraved heart, but that’s typically much more severe scenarios, like driving your car down a crowded sidewalk.
The more likely charge will be Manslaughter (recklessly causing the death of another), or Negligent Homicide.
The current charge is “murder”. (that’s all they said) And yes I’m very “lay” in these matters. If it is lowered to manslaughter or negligent homicide, would a plea deal would be the only possible way?
Depends on if the prosecution wants to play hardball. If they do, they’ll threaten manslaughter and offer negligent homicide as the plea.
If they’re feeling nice, they’ll threaten negligent homicide, and offer some sort of less child endangerment charge as the plea.
I think the latter is probably appropriate, if any charge is. Sure, the punishment was harsh and a bit stupid, but this was also a bit of a freak accident. Kids run around for hours all the time without dying, and you’d certainly expect the kid to just collapse from exhaustion far before reaching the point where death is a risk.
Witnesses saw the grandmother ordering the child to continue running and the stepmother doing nothing to stop it. Wouldn’t that eliminate any chance of a “freak accident” defense?
It’s a freak accident because death is not what you expect to happen.