Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Wins Iowa Straw Poll

Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll on Saturday, as Texas Governor Rick Perry
formerly announced his bid for the Presidency in South Carolina and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a nemesis of Bachmann, bowed out after a fairly strong third place showing....must have ran out of money.

Bachmann, a Congresswomen from Minnesota, narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul to win the nonbinding mock election, giving her both a fund raising advantage and an emotional victory in Bachmann's birthplace.

Bachmann won with 29 percent of the vote. Paul, was a close second with 28 percent, while Pawlenty had 14 percent.

Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, from Pennsylvania, was fourth, businessman Herman Cain came in fifth, and Rick Perry was sixth. Perry finished with 3.6 percent of the vote even though he was not on the ballot. That was more than Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who was on the ballot but did not participate in the poll. He finished seventh.

With a national straw poll conducted just after the results of Iowa were announced, the results were somewhat different:

Ron Paul 29%

Mitt Romney 20%

Michele Bachmann 18%

Herman Cain 14%

Newt Gingrich 8%

Jon Huntsman 6%

Rick Santorum 3%

Tim Pawlenty 3%

These were surprising to me after the National televised debate where Ron Paul seemingly shot himself in the foot with his un-educated views on the World, particularly the Islamic terrorist threat, and his whiny rant on Iran not being a threat. I know, I know, you watched it too and you said "What?!?!?".

Bumper Sticker of the Week - Prayer For President Obama

My wife and I were in slow-moving traffic the other day and we were stopped behind a car that had an unusual Obama bumper sticker on it.

It read: "Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".

When we got home my wife got out the Bible and opened it up to the scripture. She started laughing & laughing. Then she read it to me. I couldn't believe what it said. I had a good laugh, too.

Psalm 109:8 ~ "Let his days be few and brief; and let others step forward to replace him."

At last -- I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up -- it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray. Brothers and Sisters, can I get an AMEN?

Wisconsin and Ohio versus the Unions - Right to Work at Stake

The Union's are on the attack again fighting against Wisconsin's union bargaining reforms and now against Ohio's new right to work law for the government sector.

How can any responsible person be against the concept of "right to work". Right to work simple means, having the right to work in a job your are qualified for without having a union "tax" (at best) or "extort" (at worse) part of your pay check to pay for, among other things, political ads overwhelmingly for liberal, socialist values?

Wisconsin and Ohio both righted a moral wrong by eliminating the union's power over government employees,...but as the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation correct asserts, the union bosses won't relinquish their special legal privileges without a fight.

Right now union lawyers are scheming and working to overturn Wisconsin's monopoly bargaining reforms in the courts, union bosses and their allies in Ohio have launched a massive campaign in support of a ballot measure that would repeal Ohio's new government-sector Right to Work law.

This past week, with free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, 15 Ohio school teachers filed a class-action suit demonstrating once again why the new Right to Work protections are so clearly needed. All 15 teachers who launched the lawsuit have exercised their right to refrain from membership in the Ohio Education Association (OAE) union and its affiliates, but nonetheless are forced to accept the "representation" of and pay tribute to union bosses as a condition of employment.

In the Foundation-won precedent Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment guarantees that nonmember teachers cannot be forced to pay dues or fees for union-boss politics and other non-bargaining activities.

OEA union officials have unlawfully overcharged the teachers for costs supporting the union's political activism and electioneering, which of course is again over-whelmingly if not 100% in support of Democrats, Liberals, Big Government spending, anti-constitutionalists and Socialists,....ahh, but I'm being redundant.

One of big wrongs this Country has to fix is when workers can be compelled to support an unwanted union.

The above article was para-phrased in part from a report by The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. This is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, is assisting thousands of employees in nearly 200 cases nationwide. The Foundation's mailing address is 8001 Braddock Road, Springfield, Virginia 22160. Its web address is www.nrtw.org/