October 18th, 2010
In a townhall meeting Terry Branstad candidate for Iowa Governor agreed to have monthly meetings with a Tea Party Advisory group. It was decided to have one meeting prior to his taking office and once a month after that. It will be setup so all 50+ groups in Iowa will be represented. You can see the video of Gov. Branstad’s response to the idea presented to him at http://www.patriotsteaparty.net/
 Marsha Ternus |
(From WorldNetDaily http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=218325
Posted: October 24, 2010
By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Judicial elections across the United States, largely ho-hum affairs that only stand out when members of the black robes commit a crime, have turned white-hot in Iowa, where residents are organizing and campaigning to fire three of the state Supreme Court members who created same-sex marriage for the state.
Supporters of the judges – Marsha Ternus and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit – are countering with arguments that Iowans who want the three removed from office have abandoned the rule of law and become “the mob.”
But former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from office himself when state officials refused to allow him to challenge an order he considered illegal, said the judges in Iowa didn’t even follow their own state law – which defined marriage as between a man and a woman. Instead, Moore said, they joined advocates for homosexuality in calling such couples “similarly situated” to traditionally married couples.
That view is accurate, said Moore, who runs the Foundation for Moral Law, only if one cannot tell the difference between a man and a woman.
The justices’ stance, he suggested, is why polls show they could be ejected from their highly paid positions of influence, even though they usually are the benefactors of approval from 80 percent or 90 percent of the voters.
Several polls show that support for the three is running only percentage points above the portion of the citizenry already committed to voting them out. Several polls suggested the small percentage of undecideds probably ultimately will be the deciding factor.
In Iowa, the Supreme Court created same-sex “marriage” in a lawsuit brought by homosexual couples, determining that they had the same “right” to marry as traditional married couples.
 Members of the Iowa Supreme Court who unanimously adopted same-sex ‘marriage’ for the state |
But Moore noted that Iowa’s Defense of Marriage Act specified one man and one woman marriages, so the justices actually were violating the law they were sworn to uphold. Moore noted that the original Iowa Constitution forbade “sodomy.”
The surge of condemnation for the three justices – the only ones from the high court on the ballot this year – sends “a signal all across the nation,” Moore said.
“People are tired of activist judges who rule not according to their own constitution and laws of their state,” he said. “If they are removed, it will stop this judicial activism.”
He quoted from the Iowa court’s own opinion that it could “protect constitutional rights … even when the rights have not yet been broadly accepted or at one time [were] unimagined.”
“What they are saying is that they can give rights to individuals that were at one time unimagined. If that’s not judicial activism…” he said. “What’s to stop them from letting men marry their own daughters. Brothers marry sisters. A whole village becoming a marriage.”
(finish reading WND article here http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=218325 )
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build courage and character by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help man permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
(author unknown though some attribute to Abraham Lincoln)
“The Obama administration has now borrowed $3 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
It took from 1776, when the United States became an independent country, until 1990, the year after the Berlin Wall fell signaling victory in the Cold War, for the federal government to accumulate a total of $3 trillion in debt, according to the Treasury Department. It only took from Jan. 20, 2009, the day President Barack Obama was inaugurated, until Oct. 15, 2010, for the Obama administration to add $3 trillion to the federal debt.
The overall debt of the federal government, according to the Treasury Department, is now $13.666 trillion. ”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/it-s-official-obama-has-now-borrowed-3-t
http://912action.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
(from Iowa Family Policy Center Action)
As the 2010 General Election absentee ballots are being sent out, many of you are calling us with questions about judges on the ballot.
By now, most Iowans are aware of the 3 Iowa Supreme Court judges who are on the ballot this November 2nd. Those Iowa Supreme Court judges said last year that One Man – One Woman Marriage is unconstitutional, and are now asking We the People of Iowa to re-hire them for another term at over $1,400,000.00 each.
But what about the lower court judges who are up for retention as well? Are any of them worthy of retaining? Is there any information available on their judicial philosophy and method of interpretation?
Just speaking for myself, I will pray for righteous judges, and will be voting no on all of them, because:
1) I’ve not heard any of them repudiate what the Iowa Supreme Court judges did, and some are actively defending them.
2) When we sent questionnaires to judges in the past, they’ve followed the Iowa Supreme Court’s advice to not answer them. This leaves us with what the U.S. Supreme Court has called “state-imposed voter ignorance.” Since I am being asked whether to re-hire someone with my own tax dollars, I won’t hire him or her without knowledge of motivation, experience, and philosophy; especially when, as a group, judges have refused in the past to answer our respectful questions about those issues.
3) If some judges are defeated because of their ties to the Iowa Supreme Court judges, it will strengthen our ability to get them to answer future questionnaires on their judicial philosophies and methods of constitutional interpretation.
4) I don’t know any of them well enough personally to be sure that they hold to the original intent of the U.S. and Iowa Constitutions.
For other information on the judges or the retention races, you may want to check out www.iowaforfreedom.com or www.judgepedia.com
Thanks for standing with IFPC Action!
Encourage all of your friends and family to get informed and make their voices heard at the polls!
Sincerely,
Chuck Hurley, JD
President, Iowa Family Policy Center ACTION
American Minute with Bill Federer
The U.S. Senate confirmed Clarence Thomas as a Justice on the Supreme Court on OCTOBER 15, 1991.
When questioned by Senator Thurmond on judicial activism during the hearings, Clarence Thomas stated:
“The role of a judge is a limited one. It is to…interpret the Constitution, where called upon, but at no point to impose his or her will or…opinion in that process.”
On OCTOBER 15, 1788, James Madison warned:
“As the courts are generally the last in making the decision, it results to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute a law, to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.”
Jefferson wrote September 11, 1804:
“The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional…not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the legislature and executive…would make the judiciary a despotic branch.”
Abraham Lincoln stated March 4, 1861:
“If the policy of the Government upon vital questions…is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”
“Justice Streit, Johnston, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2001. Born in Sheldon, Iowa, …
His current term expires December 31, 2010.”
Source: http://www.judicial.state.ia.us/Supreme_Court/Justices/Michael_J_Streit/
Judges stand for retention election near the end of their term in office. In a retention election, judges do not have opponents. Instead, voters decide whether or not to retain a judge in office. If a judge receives a simple majority of “yes” votes, the judge may serve another full term. Do not overlook this on your November ballot. April 3, 2009, Justice Streit voted to change the law from defining marriage as being between one man and one woman to include other unions. November 2, 2010 when you place your vote for Godly people to rule this land, be sure to fill out your ballot all the way to the end. Vote “NO” for retaining Justice Michael J. Streit.
Chief Justice Ternus’ current term of office expires December 31, 2010.”
(Source: Iowa Judicial Branch)
Judges stand for retention election near the end of their term in office. In a retention election, judges do not have opponents. Instead, voters decide whether or not to retain a judge in office. If a judge receives a simple majority of “yes” votes, the judge may serve another full term. Do not overlook this on your November ballot. April 3, 2009, Justice Ternus voted to change the law from defining marriage as being between one man and one woman to include other unions. November 2, 2010 when you place your vote for Godly people to rule this land, be sure to fill out your ballot all the way to the end. Vote “NO” for retaining Justice Marsha Ternus.
“Justice Baker, Cedar Rapids, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2008.
His current term expires December 31, 2010.”
Source: “http://www.judicial.state.ia.us/Supreme_Court/Justices/David_L_Baker/”
Judges stand for retention election near the end of their term in office. In a retention election, judges do not have opponents. Instead, voters decide whether or not to retain a judge in office. If a judge receives a simple majority of “yes” votes, the judge may serve another full term. Do not overlook this on your November ballot. April 3, 2009, Justice Baker voted to change the law from defining marriage as being between one man and one woman to include other unions. November 2, 2010 when you place your vote for Godly people to rule this land, be sure to fill out your ballot all the way to the end. Vote “NO” for retaining Justice David Baker.
American Minute with Bill Federer
October 13
Margaret Thatcher was born OCTOBER 13, 1925. She was the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
While traveling through New York City in 1996, Margaret Thatcher had an interview with Joseph A. Cannon, which was printed in Human Events.
She stated: “The Decalogue-Ten Commandments-are addressed to each and every person. This is the origin of our common humanity and of the sanctity of the individual. Each one has a duty to try to carry out those commandments. You don’t get that in any other political creed…It is personal liberty with personal responsibility.”
Margaret Thatcher continued:
“Responsibility to your parents, to your children, to your God. This really binds us together in a way that nothing else does. If you accept freedom, you’ve got to have principles about the responsibility. You can’t do this without a biblical foundation.”
Margaret Thatcher concluded regarding America: ”Your Founding Fathers came over with that. They came over with the doctrines of the New Testament as well as the Old. They looked after one another, not only as a matter of necessity, but as a matter of duty to their God.
There is no other country in the world which started that way.”