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03-15-12 AmatoTalk on KCBQ San Diego with Dr Gina Loudon – Bill Maher in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Alabama Federation of Republican Women will hold a news conference to publicly call on the Alabama Democratic Party to cancel their upcoming fundraiser with offensive TV personality Bill Maher on Thursday, March 15, at 10:00 a.m. in front of the State House.
Elois Zeanah, President of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women (AFRW) will speak as well as Valerie Askew, State Director of the Concerned Women for America. Other speakers include State Representative Becky Nordgren and Radio Talk Show Host Dr. Gina Loudon.
The Alabama Democrat Party has promoted an upcoming fundraising event featuring Maher scheduled for Saturday, March 17. The event features a “Chairman’s Reception,” with tickets selling for $100 per head.
Even though Maher has drawn fire for his hate-filled, misogynistic comments toward women, the Democratic Party has yet to cancel the event. Conservative women and members of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women from across the state will join together in demanding respect from the state Democrat party, insisting that they cancel the event immediately.
WHO: Alabama Federation of Republican Women, President Elois Zeanah (Speaker)Concerned Women for America, State Director Valerie Askew (Speaker)Radio Host Dr. Gina Loudon (Speaker)State Representative Becky Nordgren (Speaker)
WHAT: News conference calling the Alabama Democrat Party to cancel upcoming fundraising event with Bill Maher
WHEN: Thursday, March 15, at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Front steps, Alabama State House, 11 South Union Street, Montgomery
SOURCE Alabama Federation of Republican Women
This column by Dr. Gina is cross posted from Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/ginaloudon/2012/03/02/the_andrew_i_knew
The Andrew I Knew
- Gina Loudon Ph.D.
Everyone who knows him struggles to define him.
Andrew Breitbart died this morning, and leaves behind a beautiful wife, and four young children. He died (as so many of the great ones do), way before his time. He could aptly be called a revolutionary, a radical, a giant among men, a warrior. But to those of us he took the time to mentor, the word “teacher” (however un-sexy the word) might be the best description.
I have had a lot of teachers in my time. And while it is important to learn to read and write and dissect frogs, I think no one ever taught me the life lessons that Andrew taught.
We met at the birth of the Tea Party when we both spoke at one of the first Tea Party rallies. This thing we were calling a “Tea Party” had zero credibility, and none of us knew how much we would fight, how much we would sacrifice, or how much we would change the complexion of politics. Andrew knew. There was the fierce determination in every fiber of his being. He was the general leading us to war, whether we were willing or not.
Many warriors fell. Many warriors were born that day. Many of us unwitting, but all of us watching his cues as to where the next battle would be fought.
He made a promo for my show that called me his “long time friend, and co-troublemaker.” He was the first to publish my work, and he was the first to text me for a battle well-fought. We shared a birthday week, and he made sure I knew he remembered and felt celebrated. But none of that means as much as the wages of war he taught me, and the courage he engendered in my soul. I think all who knew him feel that way.
He took time to mentor my daughter as she struggled to launch the first national “Tea Party Youth” movement. He always took her calls, he always moved away from reporters to greet her and discuss her ideas in concerns. Her text to me this morning (as I am out of town) read, “Mama, IDK what to say. Can’t even look at the news because I don’t wanna hear anyone talk about it…”. She feels without ballast. We all do.
Larry Solov, one of Andrew’s best friends and most trusted colleagues said it well, “Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.”
Andrew would not want us to blink. He would demand our resolve. Our tributes should not be in the form of words, and tears, but rather in our resolve to fight on! Let’s resolve to live as boldly as he did: “I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.” We should all endeavor to go so boldly and live so fearlessly. That will be the patriot’s tribute to this amazing leader, who will be so missed.
This column is cross posted from Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/ginaloudon/2012/02/25/alabama_tackled_illegal_immigration_and_unemployment_started_dropping
Alabama Tackled Illegal Immigration and Unemployment Started Dropping
By Gina Loudon
Alabama politicians ran on the issue of reforming illegal immigration in the state, mostly in response to an outcry from citizens hurt or unemployed by the problem of Illegal Immigration.
They kept their promise.
Last session, the Alabama Legislature led by Senator Scott Beason (R-Gardendale) sponsored and passed House Bill 56 that essentially upheld the federal law already on the books. Governor Bentley signed the bill. The beast was loosed…
National social welfare advocates descended on Alabama like vultures on road kill and the stage was set for an ugly battle. Self identified “religious groups” (whose faux religion is social liberalism) scared the “bejesus” out of unsuspecting (and under-informed) religious leaders who fell for the threats of arrest and worse if they were to comply with Alabama’s new law. The main stream media, from NBC to Al-Jazeera, was more than happy to do the heavy lifting for the so-called religious groups opposing the bill. Cries of racism, bigotry, and mayhem resonated with those who are generally susceptible to such rhetoric.
Patriots rallied for the rule of law and held the politicians’ feet to the fire. Speakers at the rally included mothers of Hispanic babies, victims of crimes of illegal immigration, and those exploited by the failed permissive policy on immigration. Politicians, especially Alabama Senators, listened to the people, and stood firm on their promise to keep the law in place that upholds the rule of law.
The Department of Justice sued, but the bill was upheld in court.
Immediately after the bill (HB 56) was passed, the unemployment rate began to drop. Since the bill passed last legislative session, in some counties, unemployment has dropped dramatically. For example, unemployment has gone from 10%-6.9% in the former illegal immigrant hotbed of Marshall County, Alabama.
But social liberals don’t tire easily. Fueled by the throngs of union-funded Occupiers, those opposed to the rule of law threatened that the crops would rot in the fields, because no legal workers would work under the conditions and for the pay that the illegal immigrants would.
But they were wrong.
In fact, Alabamians were starving for jobs and the supply was choked by a massive influx of illegals who swallowed up the jobs as they came available. Legal Alabamians stood in line for blocks at job fairs hoping for their turn to work the job previously dominated by illegals.
It worked. Alabama went back to work.
Further, the same patriots who held the politicians’ feet to the fire with their rallies, local talk, and blogs, protected employees under the law, while the opposition supported the contention that people, any people, should sweat in the fields, with no protection from standard employment law, or fair wages. In essense, we did the job that the unions wouldn’t do.
Liberals had to face the irony and hypocrisy of their dichotomy that what they supported was a permanent underclass without the rights all men should enjoy. While conservatives championed the positive economic impact as the heavy social welfare burdens began to ease, the crowded emergency rooms thinned, and unemployment continued to drop.
“In the last three months alone, we’ve seen an unprecedented drop of 1.7 percentage points,” said Alabama Republican Gov. Robert Bentley in a January 20 statement.
Alabama House Majority Leader Rep. Micky Hammon (R-Decatur) said the law is replacing illegal immigrant labor with Alabamians.
“Despite how desperately illegal immigrant sympathizers have tried to portray this law as somehow harmful to our state’s economy, the truth is more Alabamians are working today thanks in part to our decision to crack down on illegal immigration.”
Alabama’s unemployment rate has shrunk and they have added 35,400 new jobs since January of 2011.
Other states should take notice.
On Friday, Jan 27th, many of Dr. Gina‘s friends called into the show to wish her happy birthday! Andrew Breitbart even called in twice! Once to say “Happy Birthday,” and then to give us the breaking news that Spencer Bachus is being replaced as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Here is the list of people who called in with their birthday wishes…
Steve Bannon
Fingers Malloy
Phillip Dennis
Pamela Geller
James Carafano
Andrew Breitbart
David Limbaugh
Michael Walsh
Stephen Kruiser
Dr. Milton Wolf
Dr. Dathan Paterno
Rusty Humphries
Mark Skoda
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/ginaloudon/2012/03/05/the_cost_of_eugenics_obamastyle
The Cost of Eugenics, Obama-style
By Gina Loudon PhD
3/5/2012
I was discussing the Obama birth control mandate with a friend who is less “political” than me and posed the question of why Obama would mandate free birth control. Was it to please the Feminist left? My friend responded immediately that Obama already has the support of the Feminist left, so that can’t be the reason. We speculated about deals with Big Pharma, or Planned Parenthood. It is hard to imagine a rational, national public interest, in the creation of a “free birth control culture”. We know Obama is politically shrewd. If pandering isn’t his rationale, the motive of this birth control entitlement, when coupled with other policies, begins to appear sinister.
Seniors – During the Obamacare debate, when Pelosi was telling us to pass the bill in order to learn what was in it, both sides argued about whether Obamacare included rationing. Sarah Palin labeled the rationing boards “death panels”. We now know that Palin was right. Rationing treatment to patients by “review panels” is absolutely part of this bill. Seniors will dread the words “comfort care” which will convey that the country you built has decided you are carved out of protection, and you will be left to die.
Babies – The radical left has long favored population control, as has every totalitarian regime throughout history. While death panels in Obamacare will purportedly exist to save money, the birth control mandate carries costs into the billions of dollars. Sticking the mandate on insurance does not mean the cost will magically vaporize. Worse, what can we expect when the next generation learns that sex without pregnancy is a government entitlement? How will a rationed healthcare system handle the STD pandemic? This sends the message, “Sorry Grandma, since your grandchildren need treatment for syphilis, you are getting “comfort care.’”
Down Syndrome Eliminated – So much attention has been focused on the birth control entitlement, many of us missed the latest in Obama eugenics: A Down Syndrome free USA. This administration is sending you the bill for the $1000 + prenatal test to find where all the babies with Down Syndrome are hiding and target them for elimination from the gene pool. As an adoptive parent of a beautiful child with Down syndrome, I take special offense at this Mengelean expenditure.
Mark Leach, an attorney and fellow parent of a child with Down syndrome put pen to paper on this one:
Fiscally, public funding of prenatal testing for DS just does not make sense.payday loans There are an estimated 2.4+ million pregnancies each year eligible for Medicaid-funded prenatal care. Down syndrome has a birth rate of 1 in 691 pregnancies, with an estimated incident rate, i.e. the number of pregnancies carrying a child with DS, being equal to that. This means that of those 2.4 million pregnancies, only about seven thousand actually are pregnant with a child with DS. Yet, current medical recommendations are to offer both screening and diagnostic prenatal testing to all pregnant mothers. Therefore, the millions of pregnancies not carrying a child with DS may nonetheless accept the testing and thereby incur the cost to the Medicaid system. Current diagnostic testing costs over $1,000. That results in a possible exposure of $2.4 billion to the Medicaid system. All for just 7,000 pregnancies actually carrying a child with DS.
Let me spell this out. Over 90% of babies with Down syndrome are aborted already. Columnist George Will has labeled the aggressive screening a “search and destroy mission”. The Obama administration has targeted the Down syndrome babies of the poor for elimination, obligating taxpayers to a $2.4 billion liability. Presumably the entitlement means now we will pay for their abortions as well. How long before the Obama administration mandates insurance pay for screening for the entire population and their abortions?
When Obama went looking for a Director of Health and Human Services, he chose a Governor with zero background in health care. That is not entirely unusual. What is unusual is that he picked the Governor with the hands down, number one, top credential in her support of abortion. Sebelius provided a safe haven to an abortionist who was the subject of numerous investigations, including the fact that he was a top cash donor to her campaigns. Together, Sebelius and George Tiller made Wichita, Kansas the abortion capital of the nation, a title of dishonor and outrage to many. He earned the title “Tiller the Killer” by his willingness to flaunt late term abortion laws and perform any abortion on any girl, as long as the check cleared. This President put Sebelius in charge of health, when her greatest distinction is her experience with death.
The hallmark of the United States is individual liberty, not collective liberty or liberty for the sovereign. While the Democrat party of yesteryear ostensibly stood for the rights of the little guy, this new Democrat Party is systematically defining people groups out of the scope of government protection, and committing billions of dollars to do so. They are poised to create a brave new world–a world free of people with Down syndrome, the elderly, the infirmed, the inconvenient, and anyone else the panels choose to eliminate from the system.
We all know the short version of the piece that begins with “First, they came for the Jews…” The actual speech was by Pastor Martin Niemöller, who was put in a concentration camp in 1941 because he would not be silent. I think it is a timely reminder of the path many see, and the reason we can no longer be silent:
When the concentration camp was opened we wrote the year 1933, and the people who were put in the camps then were Communists. Who cared about them? We knew it, it was printed in the newspapers. Who raised their voice, maybe the Confessing Church? We thought: Communists, those opponents of religion, those enemies of Christians – “should I be my brother’s keeper?” Then they got rid of the sick, the so-called incurables. – I remember a conversation I had with a person who claimed to be a Christian. He said: Perhaps it’s right, these incurably sick people just cost the state money, they are just a burden to themselves and to others. Isn’t it best for all concerned if they are taken out of the middle [of society]? — Only then did the church as such take note. Then we started talking, until our voices were again silenced in public. Can we say, we aren’t guilty/responsible? The persecution of the Jews, the way we treated the occupied countries, or the things in Greece, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia or in Holland, that were written in the newspapers. … I believe, we Confessing-Church-Christians have every reason to say: mea culpa, mea culpa! We can talk ourselves out of it with the excuse that it would have cost me my head if I had spoken out.
We preferred to keep silent. We are certainly not without guilt/fault, and I ask myself again and again, what would have happened, if in the year 1933 or 1934 – there must have been a possibility – 14,000 Protestant pastors and all Protestant communities in Germany had defended the truth until their deaths? If we had said back then, it is not right when Hermann Göring simply puts 100,000 Communists in the concentration camps, in order to let them die. I can imagine that perhaps 30,000 to 40,000 Protestant Christians would have had their heads cut off, but I can also imagine that we would have rescued 30-40,000 million [sic] people, because that is what it is costing us now.
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