A federal judge has blocked federal funding for embryonic stem cell research because–gasp!– it’s illegal!

Finally, someone with authority over this issue recognizes that fact.

The Dickey-Wicker amendment prevents federal funds from being used to kill human embryos and it’s currently in force. However, the Obama administration issued an executive order in 2009 that allowed federal funding.

And here we go back to the problem with executive orders. Presidents can issue executive orders but only if they don’t fly in the face of laws already on the books. This administration has tried to ignore established law by issuing the executive order and giving money to researchers.

My friend Steven Ertelt has more over at LifeNews.com.

The new web project I mentioned a few weeks ago is closer to completion. I will be starting a media consultation firm and I am finalizing the web site.

As my children have gotten older and the boys’ autism spectrum disorders have improved, I would like to go back to what I love doing but with the flexibility of being able to take my sons to therapy and doctors appointments. Teaching has not turned out as well as I would have hoped. The school I have taught at for the past two years lost students this year and could not bring me back to teach.

The new firm is TOPMedia Consulting and I will be working with clients in developing skills in public speaking, public relations, crisis communications, and media training. In addition, I will be taking on some clients for the purposes of public relations management and offer services such as writing press releases and planning press conferences. Of course, potential clients include political candidates and staff members of public policy organizations.

In this day and age, it is becoming imperative that individuals in the spotlight watch what they say because words uttered in a public forum never go away.

I’ve been working on a new project and trying to get a website off the ground.

Not being an IT person, working on a website using Apache, Joomla and etc. has been an eye-opening and frustrating experience. If you think you are smart enough for Mensa but then try to design a website nearly from scratch when you have no IT experience, you quickly learn that maybe you are NOT a candidate for Mensa.

I managed to do this WordPress blog which required a great deal of time and work to tweak but I finally pulled it together so I have every hope I will do so with this new one as well.

So I’m back to the grindstone but I will begin posting again soon.

This article by Daniel Allott of American Values in American Spectator explains in a wonderfully simple way the complexities involved in how this pro-abortion administration has pushed abortion overseas– especially in the new Kenyan constitution.

Years ago, pro-abortion groups found that certain phrases resonated with the American public (“Freedom of Choice” is the prime example). They also found ways of including abortion in rules and law without using the actual word “abortion.” Allott points this out as well as why Kenyans are having difficulty understanding how this vague language in their proposed constitution can have a detrimental impact on their country.

It seems that abortion is the last frontier when it comes to Western Imperialism and this administration is determined to lead the way.

As Politico notes, National Right to Life was able to get the jump on pro-abortion groups with the following. 

The National Right to Life Committee’s press release from July 29, 2010 reads:

In New Rule Published Today, Obama Administration Backs Off Funding Elective Abortions in High-Risk Insurance Program — But Vows This is “Not a Precedent” for Decisions on Future Health Programs

The release opens with: “The Obama Administration, caught in a spotlight of publicity generated by mid-July releases from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), today issued a formal regulation that will prevent federal funding of elective abortions in just one of the new programs created by the health care bill signed into law by President Obama on March 23.”

I wrote recently about the states that were implementing health care coverage, including abortion, under the Obama plan. Of course, the President signed an executive order but executive orders really have no impact on existing legislation. National Right to Life was able to prove this– read the rest of the release at NRLC’s website.

National Right to Life pushed and pushed and was able to a) secure changes to the way abortion was included in health care plans for the moment and b) show that abortion is in health care and that this administration could change how this is implemented when and how it wants at any time.

Justice Loves Babies is a book written by sisters Darlene and Danielle Wibeto about a little boy and his family anticipating the birth of his baby sister, Destiny. One night, Justice has a nightmare that someone is trying to take Destiny from his mother’s womb so he gets on his knees and prays for her. One of the obvious facts of the book is that children automatically equate an unborn baby with a living human being. They don’t see any difference between the babies in their mothers’ tummies and the babies they see in a crib months later.

Only adults who choose intellectual dishonesty see any “difference” between the baby in the womb and the one born months later.

Now I may have some come here and argue that the baby is just the “products of conception” or a “blob of tissue” but to those people I say: did you always believe that or did you learn from someone that because a baby doesn’t “look” like a baby until about 8 weeks or because a woman doesn’t want  it that it’s not really a baby? Why? Why is it not a baby? Is it alive? Is it human? Is this entity you call “the products of conception” genetically different from its parents? If so, then maybe you should start calling “it” a he or a she.

Check out Justice Loves Babies.

Not surprising.

Contrary to the hot air that came out of the White House, and a certain Democratic congressman who was supposed to stand up for life (ahem, Stupak), abortion will be subsidized with federal money. And though Maryland is only the second state to offer a health insurance plan covering abortion, more will come.

Welcome to reality.

This Saturday, I’m dusting off my Blog Talk Radio show and will be covering U.S. Supreme Court appointments and the 2010 elections. I’m still not adept at running the switchboard and talking so I won’t be able to open up phone lines for callers but it is a goal down the road. If you can’t join me at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, the shows are recorded and you can listen to them at any time. Just follow this link  to my show.

We had an unauthorized charge on the card I use to pay for hosting for this web site and the bank had to issue a new card number. In the process, the site went down.

I also want to apologize for the scarcity of posts. We were busy with vacation and home improvement projects and I’ve been dragging my laptop around hoping to write posts but haven’t done so. My iPhone app for writing posts works just fine when I don’t have a son or daughter playing games on my phone!

We went to Disney World for vacation and had a wonderful but exhausting time. I’m always happy to be home but glad we went. Our boys seem to do so much better afterward.

Peter, our older son with the more severe autism, does seem to talk and communicate more during and after Disney World. This may become an annual event. I’ll post more on my autism blog.