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A joint resolution passed by both houses of Louisiana state government is up for vote in a December 10th statewide special election. If it passes, Amendment 1 will codify in the Louisiana constitution that only American citizens can vote in any level of election statewide. While noncitizens cannot vote in federal elections since 1996’s Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, election laws regarding noncitizens at state and local levels are left for those jurisdictions to decide. Over the past 26 years, progressive states and localities have pushed at those boundaries laid in the IIRIA. Municipalities like Montpelier, Vermont have...

​PUBLIC NOTICE WEST VIRGINIA MEDICAID PROGRAM REGARDING: WEST VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1 NOVEMBER 9, 2018 On November 6, 2018 West Virginia voters ratified West Virginia Constitutional Amendment 1, which states: “Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires funding of abortion.” This amendment in turn abrogated the holding by the West Virginia Supreme Court in Women’s Health Center of West Virginia, Inc. v.Panepinto (1993) that West Virginia Code §9-2-11, which limits Medicaid funds paying for pregnancy terminations to several limited circumstances, is unconstitutional. As a result of the ratification of this Constitutional Amendment as described...

Pro-life Group Slams Manchin for Refusing to Support Amendment 1 Charleston, WV – The national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) today announced the details of a $500,000 campaign to educate West Virginia voters on Amendment 1. The pro-life ballot initiative could save the lives of more than 1,500 unborn West Virginians a year by stopping taxpayer-funded abortions. Currently, elective abortions up to five months of pregnancy are paid for by taxpayers under Medicaid. In January Metro News reported that the number of abortions funded by taxpayers had more than tripled in the last five years. The campaign...

Passage of Amendment 1 in West Virginia on November 6 will return control of a state-funded abortion law to the West Virginia legislature where it belongs. In 1993, three of the five Supreme Court Justices decided in the infamous Panepinto Decision that the taxpayer should foot the bill for abortion on demand performed for any and all reasons up to birth. Over the years 35,000 abortions are estimated to have taken place with $10 million of taxpayer dollars according to figures from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. It’s not enough that incumbent Senator Joe Manchin’s voting...

On Thursday, Williamson County Circuit Court Judge Michael Binkley rejected pro-abortion advocates’ efforts to invalidate Tennessee’s Amendment 1, which clarifies that the state Constitution contains no right to abortion. Abortion advocates had challenged the law, which voters enacted in 2014, on an interpretation of the state requirements for constitutional amendments that claims the number of “yes” votes must be equal to or greater than the number of people voting for governor plus one, and therefore only voters who voted in the gubernatorial race should have their votes on the amendment counted. The state countered by arguing that Amendment 1 was...

NASHVILLE — The approval of a constitutional amendment to give the state Legislature more power to regulate abortions in Tennessee may have opened the floodgates to proposals from Republican lawmakers in the upcoming session, but Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey said Thursday that he doesn't expect most of them to be enacted.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Voters have decided to amend Tennessee’s constitution in regards to abortion, according to the AP. The amendment reads: Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.

Name Votes Vote % Yes (x) 20,899 61.4% No (x) 13,145 38.6%

A new CBS News/New York Times Poll shows a solid majority of Americans support legal recognition for same-sex couples - though not necessarily through the official act of marriage - and the number of people who do support full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples is significantly higher among younger generations. Overall, 38 percent of those who responded to the survey said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, just like any other couple. Another 24 percent said civil unions should be used to grant same-sex couples legal rights similar to male-female partnerships. Combined, that means 62 percent -...

“Majority of NC voters OPPOSE gay marriage ban.” So reads the headline accompanying a recent a Daily Kos blog post. The headline was based on a poll, conducted by Elon University, in which 54 percent of respondents said they would reject a measure, appearing on the Tar Heel State’s May 8 ballot, which declares: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” Supporters of same sex-marriage, including the Daily Kos, the flaming left-wing Democrat blog, cheered the Elon poll numbers. But there’s a glaring problem with...

The 58-year-old's daily three-hour radio show, which has been running for 20 years, is syndicated to 600 stations across the US and attracts an estimated 20 million listeners a week. The Right-wing host has been hailed as a Beatles-esque phenomenon for pioneering talk radio and is seen by fans as a refreshing alternative to the mainstream media - or "liberal media", as Limbaugh dubs it - for his outspoken, sometimes satirical, partisan diatribes. Critics, however, view his broadcasts as divisive and inflammatory political propaganda, even dangerous demagoguery. Time magazine's Mark Halperin has labelled Limbaugh an "American iconic" figure. Meanwhile Arianna...

NEW YORK (UPI) -- A New York City councilman is proposing a ban the "n-word" in the city, and lawmakers are expected to vote on the ordinance this week. The New York Times says Councilman Leroy G. Comrie Jr. came up with the idea for the ban just days after actor Michael Richards was caught on tape in a racist tirade at a California comedy club. Comrie told the Times it upsets him that so many young blacks use

Mixed Messages Proponents say they offer 'support,' but a Stanford study finds that patients who visited pro-anorexia Web sites were sicker longer. Web Exclusive By Karen Springen Newsweek Updated: 7:09 p.m. ET Dec 7, 2006 Dec. 7, 2006 - Drink ice-cold water ("your body has to burn calories to keep your temperature up") and hot water with bullion cubes ("only 5 calories a cube, and they taste wonderful"). When a food craving strikes, give yourself a manicure ("applying extra layers of slow-drying polish. It will keep your hands occupied"). These kinds of tips are common fare in the growing world...

The way the state keeps rehashing the issue of marriage for gay couples, you'd think we were caught in the movie "Groundhog Day." It just keeps coming up over and over. In early 1996, the Tennessee legislature declared that the Volunteer State would not recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. The law also said that marriage was a union between a man and a woman. Think of the state law as a belt to keep Tennesseans safe from loving gay couples who sought the protections that civil marriages provide. You'd think that the belt would calm any homophobe's fears, but you'd...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Erosion by wind and water is a big part of the story at Makoshika State Park, a place of badlands and dinosaur fossils, bobcats and bluebirds. Now some people who enjoy firing guns at a range there fear erosion of what they have come to view as an entitlement. The state parks agency plans to eliminate a decades-old rifle range at Makoshika, a rolling expanse of peculiar sandstone formations in eastern Montana. The 11,500-acre park gets about 54,000 visits a year, and is especially popular among gun enthusiasts in Glendive, about a quarter-mile from the rifle...

Muhammad Cartoons Rile Calif. College Wednesday, March 1, 2006 7:54 AM EST The Associated Press By GILLIAN FLACCUS IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — A student panel discussion that included a display of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons descended into chaos, with one speaker calling Islam an "evil religion" and audience members nearly coming to blows. Organizers of Tuesday night's forum at the University of California, Irvine said they showed the cartoons as part of a larger debate on Islamic extremism. But several hundred protesters, including members of the Muslim Student Union, argued the event was the equivalent of hate speech disguised as...

The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge to a New York law banning the wearing of masks at public gatherings by a group claiming ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Without comment, the justices let stand a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that upheld the law as constitutional and rejected the challenge by the Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The group advocates white separatism and "white pride." It calls itself an "ideological descendant" of the original Klan, but says it does not use violence. Members wear white...

The liberal spin machine insists on supporting terrorist countries, the U.N., and terrorists, all of whom are involved in some way in efforts against America. Just over three years ago they succeeded in attacking New York, murdering some 3,000 people, and creating family as well as economic destruction. Carefully planned military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq revealed melanomas which have been removed before the disease spread. We now remain there to both assure the cure and teach them to live healthy lives. Even so, our liberal spin machine remains on the sidelines rooting for the disease, no mention of the...

Determined to preserve the Founders’ vision of God-given rights, Chief Justice Roy Moore has been targeted by Morris Dees and like-minded leftist radicals.Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore first attracted national attention as an Alabama state circuit judge in 1995, when the ACLU unsuccessfully sued in an attempt to require the judge to remove from his courtroom a homemade plaque of the Ten Commandments. In 2000, Alabama voters elected Moore chief justice of the state Supreme Court. During the campaign, Moore had pledged to bring the Ten Commandments to the State Supreme Court to conform to the spirit of...