Can I get an Amen! We’ll see how mushy/maliable she is, but the one thing is now that she’s talking issues I would say she’s considering running for President. In a race between her and Giulani, ack. I just hope someone gets to her about the life issue, if she was pro-life then this might be feasible, but still I am with Alex on pulling for Mike Pence (or Herman Cain or Pat Toomey).

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, recalling how her father took up arms to defend fellow blacks from racist whites in the segregated South, said Wednesday the constitutional right of Americans to own guns is as important as their rights to free speech and religion.

In an interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Rice said she came to that view from personal experience. She said her father, a black minister, and his friends armed themselves to defended the black community in Birmingham, Ala., against the White Knight Riders in 1962 and 1963. She said if local authorities had had lists of registered weapons, she did not think her father and other blacks would have been able to defend themselves.

Birmingham, where Rice was born in 1954, was a focal point of racial tension. Four black girls were killed when a bomb exploded at a Birmingham church in 1963, a galvanizing moment in the fight for civil rights.

Rice said she favored background checks and controls at gun shows. However, she added, “we have to be very careful when we start abridging rights that the Founding Fathers thought very important.”

Rice said the Founding Fathers understood “there might be circumstances that people like my father experienced in Birmingham, Ala., when, in fact, the police weren’t going to protect you.”

“I also don’t think we get to pick and choose from the Constitution,” she said in the interview, which was taped for airing Wednesday night. “The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment.”

The First Amendment protects religious, press and speech freedoms as well as the rights to assemble and petition the government. The Second Amendment guarantees “a well-regulated militia” and “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” Gun-rights supporters and those who favor gun control disagree over whether the amendment guarantees individual gun ownership.

Bolton out of committee. But Sen. Voinovich (RINO-OH) stated that “he was the poster child for someone you don’t want in the diplomatic corps.” If Frist can’t get Bolton confirmed then they should run him out of town for having the weakest control and so little backbone, and when he finds it he does it in the wrong places (AKA the weird “faith and politics” rally).

I don’t know about you, but I think most Americans (who aren’t hardcore Dems and why would we want to appeal to them anways) will love to have an Ambassador who will knock in some heads over at the UN. Our Senators are way too wussy, you almost never hear Democratic Senators selling out their majority positions to score some popularity points, but over here on the Right it seems like selling out can’t happen fast enough. So are there any good conservatives in Ohio to primary this iditoic RINO next time around? I sure hope so.

Alarmingnews has a post on a story that may be hard to believe, but believe it or not there are some pro-choice republicans aka RINOs who are aligning themselves with the democrats to block Judge William Pryor from being appointed to the federal bench. Again I must ask a question…….Who is our enemy? You tell me.

Dem. Congressmen Obey and Dingell want an investigation into the hiring of conservatives at PBS (the horror!). I agree with them, but I want it expanded to the CPB’s practice of hiring and spending money, period. Public broadcasting in television and radio is an unconstitutional mandate, and one we will never be able to do away with. It seems to me that we defeat ourselves by simply trying to make it “our PBS” or “our NPR”. I didn’t need to tell you that though.