October 9th Americans United for Life is celebrating their annual gala in Chicago. Ramesh Ponnuru, the Senior Editor for National Review and author of The Party of Death is the keynoter.

The Party of Death does not care for The Party of Death.

Pictured is one of the less clever but presentable pieces of hate mail received by AUL.

Roll over for enlargement.

The Alert Reader will note a photo of Charmaine at UVA and Ramesh Ponnuru and various symbols of Germany's National Socialism.

(There are two "N" words that are not used in polite company. One is a slander for African-Americans; the other is a four letter word for National Socialism.) (The Party of Death uses this four letter word repeatedly. The Party of Death is not polite company...)

If you are anywhere near Chicago-land on 9 October come hear Ramesh speak. Register here.


The Party of Death

Matthew Eppinette at AUL reports,

A good indicator of how the pro-life position is winning is the extreme rhetoric people use in opposing it. The more ground the pro-life position gains, the more extreme the rhetoric we hear form those who oppose us. Hate mail is a good case in point.

Ramesh begins his book,

The party of death started with abortion, but its sickle has gone from threatening the unborn, to the elderly, to the disabled; it has swept from the maternity ward to the cloning laboratory to a generalized disregard for 'inconvenient' human life.

Ponnuru writes,

Everything you think you know about Roe v. Wade is a lie...

Pull out quotes from The Party of Death at the jump.

Thank you (foot)notes,

H!tler, hate-mail, and hapless history.

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Your Business Blogger(R) was interviewed on a series of articles on Bad Managers, Maybe (Gulp) The Problem Is You and in Think Your Boss Is Bad? Some Managers Can't Manage. What to Do If You've Got a Boss Who Only Makes Things Worse. By Tara Swords, Special to The Washington Post, Sunday, September 28, 2008

Jack Yoest says many people haven't learned how to be good workers.

In my conversation with Tara, my concern was not so much with mis-managers as it was with subordinates,

"Jack Yoest, president of Management Training of DC, takes a harder line on the boss-employee relationship and says it's the employee's job to relieve the boss's anxieties, not the other way around.

"If you have a nervous, micromanaging boss who's always in your hair, he probably doesn't trust you," Yoest says. "The employee hasn't sold the boss on his ability to get anything done, and I'd say, most of the time, it's the employee's fault." "

We talk about leadership but not follower-ship. And we teach neither,

Yoest says most people haven't been taught the mechanics of being a good employee. Rather than insisting that managers empower employees, Yoest urges employees to convince the boss that they are dependable and can act as the boss would.

The goal should be to go from an employee who does nothing unless told, or who is always asking the boss what to do, to an employee who recommends a course of action and, after gaining the boss's trust, acts on the boss's behalf.

And the end result of being a good subordinate who can anticipate, adapt and learn is to give the employee more control over the timing and content of his workload,

"When you've reached that level, you're at a whole new level of job security" because you're behaving like a leader, Yoest says. And that puts you one step closer to being the leader .

Not everyone aspires to management. But everyone wants independence and respect at work.

Read the entire story here. And check out the comments.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Caution! Sales Pitch Follows: Check your calendar for Wednesday, October 8th at 4pm in Northern Virginia. I'm giving an open seminar on Solutions to Your Management Problems. No Charge, but registration is required. Email me for info.

Your Business Blogger(R) is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Northern Virginia Community College.

YouTube syllabus Here,

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Two Items for Your Consideration:
1) An Invitation
2) An Article
Your Business Blogger(R)

An Invitation for managers (with direct reports, the power to hire and fire, and a budget) Wednesday, October 8th from 4 to 5:30 pm in Northern Virginia near the Ballston Metro. A brief overview on Solutions to Your Management Problems. No Charge. Email me if you'd like more detail -- click here.

Your Business Blogger(R) was interviewed for an article on dealing with -- and managing -- Bad Bosses. It is scheduled to run this Sunday, 28 September in The Washington Post, Sunday Source section.

Let me know what you think and do make plans to attend the class.

And remember, If you are near Charlottesville, Virginia tomorrow, Saturday September 27th, Charmaine is speaking at the University of Virginia on women in leadership.

UPDATE: The article is up. Please take a look and link to the article in WaPo and I will owe you.

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Charmaine participated in a panel discussion on the Palin phenomenon. The Harbour League sends us the audio clip.

Listen Here.

The Harbour League has received numerous requests for the audio from our most recent conference call entitled "What Sarah Palin Means for Conservatives".

Charmaine, Your Business Blogger(R), The Diva, circa 1997

We are therefore pleased to let you know that the audio can be found at www.TheHarbourLeague.org/past.htm.

Presenters include:

Herb London, Hudson Institute President & THL Trustee, will take a look at Sarah Palin and her exposure to Foreign Policy.

Grover Norquist, American's for Tax Reform President & THL Trustee, will give an overview what Gov. Palin offers to conservatives and why all the concern from the left.

Mark Hyman, Syndicated TV Commentator & THL Trustee, will discuss the media's attention to Sarah Palin.

Allison Kasic, Director of The R. Gaull Silberman Center for Collegiate Studies at Independent Women's Forum, will address what the nomination of Gov. Palin means to conservative women.

Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life President, will discuss what Sarah Palin means and would as Vice President mean to the pro-life movement.

Rarely do Vice-Presidential candidates get the attention that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is currently receiving. No other vice presidential candidate in modern history has excited their base and caused such concern and scrutiny into leadership experience, foreign policy and national security qualifications, and family values by the other party as has Sarah Palin.

Please take the time to listen to and forward on this important Harbour League conference call to discussing what Governor Sarah Palin means to the Conservative movement.

Please Note: The Harbour League is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. This call is not intended to be an endorsement or in support of any candidate.

Sincerely,

The Harbour League

Listen to the audio clip here.

Media Alert: Your Business Blogger(R) was interviewed for The Washington Post on management, bad bosses and sub-par employees. Should run this Sunday, Sept 28th.

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Charmaine recently debated Sarah Flowers a consultant from Planned Parenthood. They compared the abortion positions of Obama and McCain.

Obama favors abortion through all three -- or four trimesters, as Laura Ingraham quips -- and McCain votes for Life.

Watch the clip and let us know what you think.

Thank you footnotes,

BornAliveTruth.org all over the news and Kansas Abortion Timeline as the first ever Attorney General to take on Planned Parenthood and Dr Tiller

Planned Parenthood, AUL debate Obama on Born Alive

BornAliveTruth.org all over the news Jill Stanek writes,

I cannot even keep up with all the articles and news shows reporting on BornAliveTruth.org, Barack Obama's opposition to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act, our Gianna ad, and Obama's anti-Gianna ad.

Barack Obama Faith Tour Flops With Pro-Life Voters in Jerry Falwell's Backyard
Lynchburg, VA (LifeNews.com)

For the new Barack Obama "faith tour" to have any success, it needs to be able to draw young and evangelical voters.

Yet, at its first stop in the Virginia back yard of well-known pastor Jerry Falwell, just 15 people showed up for the event.

The Obama campaign has signed up evangelical author Donald Miller, Pepperdine University professor Doug Kmiec and former Indiana Congressman Tim Roemer, for the "Barack Obama: Faith, Family and Values Tour."




The trio made a stop at Liberty University, which is home to over 10,000 evangelical students from across the county and a conservative bastion in a state Obama is targeting heavily in this election. Yet, his "faith tour" failed to resonate with people there.

Billy Valentine, director of Catholics for McCain, a grassroots organization of young Catholics not affiliated with the McCain campaign, told LifeNews.com he's not surprised the event flopped.

"Young Evangelicals and Catholics alike can't be deceived by Obama's empty rhetoric, and instead realize that an Obama administration would laugh in the face of the human rights issues they passionately fight for, such as the right to life," he said.

See more on Obama and Planned Parenthood, let the man speak for himself.

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. is president and CEO of Americans United for Life with offices in Washington, DC, Chicago and Austin.

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The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger
Founder Planned Parenthood

Barack Obama voted against his state's Born Alive Infant Protection Act. His vote would allow babies born alive -- from a botched abortion -- to die by withholding treatment.

Obama's concern was that his vote might lead to overturning Roe v Wade which made abortion legal through all nine months - and beyond.

His philosophy is not new.

Barack Obama
Supports Planned Parenthood

This thinking was born, so to say, at the turn of the last century and made "popular" by Margaret Sanger, founder of modern Planned Parenthood.

In 2003, Edwin Black wrote a national bestseller War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign To Create A Master Race.

War on the WeakAuthor Edwin Black does not oppose abortion. But he is nevertheless horrified by the disgust that elite Americans feel for the weak, "the least among us."

Elitists like Obama.

Edwin Black writes,

Sanger's solutions were mass sterilization and mass segregation of the defective classes, and these themes were repeated often in [her book] Pivot of Civilization.

"The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive period.

Otherwise, she is almost certain to bear imbecile children, who in turn are just as certain to breed male defectives. The male defectives are no less dangerous.

Segregation carried out for one or two generations would give us only partial control of the problem.

Moreover, when we realized that each feeble-minded person is a potential source of endless progeny of defect, we prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded."

Edwin Black then guides us to Margaret Sanger's solution,

Sanger was willing to employ striking language to argue against the inherent misery and defect of large families. In her book, Woman and the New Race, she bluntly declared,

"Many, perhaps, will think it idle to go farther in demonstrating the immorality of large families, but since there is still an abundance of proof at hand, it may be offered for the sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts.

The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

It would appear that elitists like Obama, in keeping with Margaret Sanger's world view, might have prefered that the Palins abort Trigg, Sarah's Down syndrome newborn.

Why?

To avoid the "pain and despair" these children have and cause, so says Obama.

Because an unexpected child is a "punishment."

What kind of political party would even consider a man with this world view to govern?

Edwin Black tells us more and connects the events in War Against The Weak,

During the period between the wars, the American [eugenics] movement viewed National Socialism [in Germany] as a rising force that could, if empowered, impose a new biological world order. [National Socialism] eugenicists promised to dispense with the niceties of democratic rule.

So even if America's tower of legislation, well-funded research and entrenched bureaucratic programs still monopolized the world of applied eugenics in the 1920's, National Socialism promised to own the next decade.

American eugenicists welcomed the idea.

Obama the Democrat: The Party of Death.

Thank you (foot)notes,

See Planned Parenthood's condom installation guide...on the Teenwire site -- for teens.

The pornographic TakeCareDownThere website by Planned Parenthood has been taken down largely through the work of the American Life League.

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AK meets UK

A few years ago Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine enjoyed a reception for Lady Thatcher hosted by Concerned Women for America in Your Nation's Capital.

Margaret Thatcher electrified the room. Just as Sarah Palin does now.

Conservative women know how to sell.

Many comparisons have been made between Margaret Thatcher, and the conservative VP nominee Palin. Margaret Thatcher tells all in her autobiography The Path to Power.

In the mid-seventies Thatcher gave a speech that, "had two main purposes. First, it was to contain a conclusive indictment of not just Labor policies or even the Labor government, but rather the whole socialist approach which was the destruction of freedom.

Secondly, I would use it to spell out a Conservative [capitalized in original] vision that did not merely employ phrases like 'the free market' and 'personal independence' for form's sake, but took them seriously as the foundation of future policy.

Reading it through almost twenty years later, there is nothing substantial that I would change -- least of all the section about my personal creed and convictions."

Thatcher continues,

Let me give you my vision:

a man's right to work as he will,

to spend what he earns,

to own property,

to have the state as servant and not as master -- these are the British inheritance...

We must get private enterprise back on the road to recovery -- not merely to give people more of their own money to spend as they choose, but to have more money to help the old and sick and the handicapped...

I believe that, just as each of us has an obligation to make the best of his talents, so governments have an obligation to create the framework within which we can do so...

Truth is timeless. Thatcher's policies and leadership saved the United Kingdom.

McCain Palin policies and leadership will save the United States.

Thatcher and Palin both share the same world view; both believe in limited government, low taxes, individual responsibility, individual freedom.

Sarah Palin

Obama would increase the size of government and let us keep less of our money and wants to control more of our money. As Grover Norquist reminds us, the freedom of citizens can be measured by the freedom to control their own money.

McCain wants tax cuts to give more freedom to citizens. Obama wants to increase taxes and take freedom of choice from citizens.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Margaret Thatcher's honorarium back in the day was 60K US$. She was worth every penny. The woman knows how to control money.

Thatcher would tell election groups in England, as Palin would later in Alaska, "In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."

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Presidential Candidate wives: How influential are women in decision making?

What is Michelle and Cindy's involvement in the presidential race?

Janet Huckabee, in red plaid
with 2 of the 3 First Hucka-Dogs
Iowa, credit: The Dreamer

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., President and CEO, Americans United for Life; Former Huckabee Spokesperson; Former Ronald Reagan West Wing White House Staffer will be interviewed on the importance of women's issues and influence in this presidential election.

How does the wife's opinion on abortion affect the candidate?

Hit time: 2:30pm eastern

Show: Fox News Live Desk

Please tune in or TiVo and let us know what you think.

We do apologize for the short lead time. The presidential campaign coverage and analysis is moving at a record pace -- important topics are now produced faster than ever.

Baby Boo, Working hard for the Mommy
Huckabee Iowa campaign HQ, Dec 2007

Also keep in mind that the topic is developing -- the segment producer may very well change the topic and guest line up at the last second.

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Charmaine will be speaking this Saturday, September 27 at the University of Virginia.

General Sessions - Saturday, September 27 (Darden School of Business)

Charmaine speaking at Princeton University

Women in Politics (9:00 a.m.)

Charmaine Yoest (PhD, College '04) - President, Americans United for Life

Karin Agness (College '06, Law '09) - Founder, Network of Enlightened Women
Jennifer McClellan (Law '97) - Virginia House of Delegates, 71st District; Democratic National Committee
Ellen Qualls (College '88) - Senior Advisor to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
MODERATOR: Lynn Sanders - Associate Professor, College Department of Politics.

From the University of Virginia conference website,

University of Virginia's Women in Leadership Conference

"Making a Difference"

Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27, 2008

Women in Leadership and Philanthropy is excited to announce the inaugural Women in Leadership Conference scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27, 2008.

The Conference will offer an opportunity for interested alumnae and friends in diverse fields to gather at the University and to share how they are "Making a Difference" in their professional and personal lives.

The two-day event will feature panels of distinguished professors, alumnae and students discussing contemporary topics in the worlds of business, public life, science and the arts, as well as prominent keynote speakers.

We invite you to attend and enjoy rich discussions and networking opportunities.

Register here.

This is proving to be a timely and relevant conference. With Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska now the conservative Vice Presidential nominee, voters are more interested in how a woman would lead a very large organization.

Charmaine will be speaking from her experience as senior advisor to Mike Huckabee during his presidential campaign. She will also review the challenges as president and CEO of a public interest law firm.

Like Sarah Palin, Alert Readers know that Charmaine has five, count 'em, five children.

Feminists hate Sarah Palin. And don't care much for Charmaine either...

Feminists are not happy with any successful woman who has made it to the top, without government intervention.

Charlie Rangel, Democrat from New York has even called Palin, "disabled."

Charmaine will be on FOX today at 2:30pm est discussing Women's Issues.

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Charmaine has been quoted by a number of outlets on Google's recent policy decision to accept ads from pro-life supporters

ABC News Google OKs Religious Groups' Abortion Ads

Google Agrees to Place 'Factual' Abortion Ads; Groups on Both Sides Question What That Means
By KI MAE HEUSSNER

Sept. 18, 2008--

As part of an out-of-court settlement with a British Christian organization, Google agreed Wednesday to display anti-abortion ads purchased by religious groups.

In April, The Christian Institute took legal action against the Internet search giant when Google did not approve an abortion-related ad with the text:

UK Abortion law
Key views and news on abortion law from The Christian Institute
www.christian.org.uk

At the time, Google said its policy did not permit the advertisement of Web sites that contain "abortion and religion-related content."

Arguing that it was being treated differently because of its religious beliefs, the institute filed a lawsuit against Google under the U.K. Equality Act 2006, a law that prohibits religious discrimination.

Instead of continuing to fight the case in the court, Google reviewed its abortion ads policy and agreed to revise its policy....

Stateside, religious and anti-abortion rights groups are hailing Google's decision as a victory for both free speech and people of faith.

"We really applaud Google for making the right decision and standing by freedom of speech. It really was outrageous to censor The Christian Institute," Charmaine Yoest, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit, anti-abortion organization Americans United for Life (AUL), told ABCNews.com.

Yoest said AUL had not attempted to purchase abortion-related ads on Google. But she said she had observed discrimination when attempting to purchase ads for print campaigns.

"They raise the rates -- that's usually the kind of discrimination [we see]," she added.

Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:05 PM

By: Jim Meyers

Facing a legal challenge, the Internet search giant Google has relented and agreed to accept pro-life ads for the first time.

In April, The Christian Institute -- a British organization -- took legal action when Google did not approve an anti-abortion ad.

Google said at the time that its policy did not allow ads for Web sites containing "abortion and religion-related content."

Also see It Wasn't Easy...BUT Google Agrees to Pro-Life Ads

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Alert Readers know that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches marketing at the Northern Virginia Community College.

Todd and Sarah Palin.

(This is the same College where James Carville has taught. I am not sure that this makes us "colleagues.")

Todd Palin was recently on Greta Van Susteren. And talked about supporting his wife as mayor, governor and, soon, Vice President.

Todd Palin is the new Brawny Man.

The Georgia-Pacific paper company did a series of Brawny Man ads a few years ago. The target market is women -- depicting the Real Man with Real Sensitivity.

Almost a mockery. But.

Certainly A Man With Appeal (to women...).

But this sells:

All Real Men, usually conservative men, want the women in their lives to succeed; to reach their full potential. And if there is a woman -- daughter, wife, sister, mother with the potential for outstanding success, Real Dudes support them. As Todd Palin supports Sarah.

Every feminist now realizes that breaking the glass ceiling requires a First Dude Brawny Man to back her up. This will never happen to feminists -- they really don't care that much for men.

Todd Palin: First Dude, The New Brawny Man. Men who love their Women.

See Advertising: The Good and The Bad.

Why Didn't Hillary Clinton Get the Dem VP Nomination?

Men: Get A Wife, Live A Better Life

For all of Carville's faults, he loves Mary.

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Charmaine is going on FOX, now -- hit time is 11:20 something AM eastern time.

Tune in and let us know what you think.

AMERICA has chosen....
FOX NEWS CHANNEL is # 1 in ratings, # 1 with viewers.

Obama calls out McCain on abortion

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican John McCain, an abortion rights opponent with a conservative Senate record on the issue, seems content with the public's perception that he's more moderate on the issue.

Democrat Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights, is only too happy to remind voters where McCain stands, but he tries to make his case without attracting too much attention.

Both candidates are gingerly trying to strike the right chord on abortion as they reach out to a critical voting group - independents and moderates, primarily women in swing-voting suburban regions of crucial states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio.

The candidates' carefully targeted ads on abortion and stem-cell research, topics that enflame passions among both abortion-rights proponents and opponents, illustrate how Republicans and Democrats alike are tailoring their messages to specific groups of voters.

Obama is calling out McCain in ads that say the GOP nominee takes an "extreme position on choice" and "will make abortion illegal." He is spreading his message through low-profile radio ads and campaign mailings, though, hoping to avoid being tagged as too liberal on a woman's right to choose to end a pregnancy.

McCain, for his part, is responding with radio commercials promising to support stem cell research to "unlock the mystery of cancer, diabetes, heart disease." He doesn't mention that the research may be conducted with human embryos, which many anti-abortion Republicans oppose. He also doesn't publicize that his running mate, Sarah Palin, is more conservative than he is on both abortion and embryonic stem cell research.

Palin opposes abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger; she is against embryonic stem cell research.

Cultural issues have largely taken a back seat this presidential campaign to the frail economy and the Iraq war, as well as questions of character and promises of change.

But with polls showing a close White House race, each candidate is trying to woo voters concerned about particular issues in hopes they will help tip the balance on Nov. 4. As with abortion, the candidates are likely to use radio and campaign mail on other social topics, such as gun control and gay rights.

Independent groups also are getting into the act with TV ads. One is trying to make Obama look out of the mainstream even among abortion rights supporters by casting him as far left. Another is encouraging McCain to "embrace a pro-life agenda."

Unlike Democratic presidential nominees Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, Obama has not shied away from using abortion to reach out to independents and moderate Republicans.

Democrats say President Bush's Supreme Court selections of conservatives John Roberts and Samuel Alito gave Obama an opening to press the issue.

"Women are more worried now about the future of the court than in either of the last two election cycles, and Obama has been tapping into that and making this issue a big difference between him and McCain," said Democratic analyst Jenny Backus.

Republicans question Obama's strategy. They say he doesn't understand that the general electorate is more conservative than liberal and that most people aren't single-issue voters on abortion.

"For the Obama people to try to make McCain into this passionate pro-lifer, it doesn't make any sense," said Rich Galen, a Republican operative.

Obama's radio ad, running in Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and elsewhere, features nurse practitioner Valerie Baron telling voters: "John McCain's out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right to choose."

Glossy fliers with the same messages fill the mailboxes of women in Florida, Virginia and other states.

Countering that effort, McCain rolled out his own radio ad aimed at sending a message that he's not as far right on abortion as Obama makes him seem - though he never mentions that procedure.

Instead, McCain's commercial focused on stem cell research and said he will invest more money in research to prevent disease and find medical breakthroughs to "help free families from the fear and devastation of illness."

Like Obama, McCain backs relaxing federal restrictions on financing of embryonic stem cell research while Palin - along with many ultraconservatives in the GOP - opposes that method because human embryos are destroyed. All three support research on adult stem cells.

McCain opposes abortion rights except when the life of the mother is in danger and, unlike Palin, in cases of rape or incest. He has voted for abortion restrictions permissible under Roe v. Wade and has said the 1973 decision that guaranteed abortion rights should be overturned, leaving states to decide. Advisers say he would not seek a constitutional amendment banning abortion, although he has expressed support for such a measure in the past even while saying he doubts one is likely.

© 2008 The Associated Press

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Charmaine will be on a conference call hosted by The Harbour League this afternoon.

Pick up your phone, join the call, and learn what thought leaders and key influencers are saying about the Sarah Palin phenomenon.

The Harbour League

Presents a Conference Call

What Sarah Palin Means for Conservatives

Rarely do Vice-Presidential candidates get the attention that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is currently receiving. No other vice presidential candidate in modern history has excited their base and caused such concern and scrutiny into leadership experience, foreign policy and national security qualifications, and family values by the other party as has Sarah Palin.

Please join the Harbour League for a conference call to discuss what Governor Sarah Palin means to the McCain ticket.

Presenters include:

Herb London, Hudson Institute President & THL Trustee, will take a look at Sarah Palin and her exposure to Foreign Policy.

Grover Norquist, American's for Tax Reform President & THL Trustee, will give an overview what Gov. Palin offers to conservatives and why all the concern from the left.

Mark Hyman, Syndicated TV Commentator & THL Trustee, will discuss the media's attention to Sarah Palin

Allison Kasic, Director of The R. Gaull Silberman Center for Collegiate Studies at Independent Women's Forum, will address what the nomination of Gov. Palin means to conservative women

Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life Action, President, will discuss what Sara Palin means and would as Vice President mean to the pro-life movement

WHEN: 4:30 PM, Wednesday, September 17, 2008

WHERE: Conference Call
The conference call access information is:
Phone number: 1-218-486-1300
Access Code: 788-041

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Gianna Jessen,
abortion survivor Charmaine and Your Business Blogger(R) have run a number of marathons. Charmaine always cries the last 4 miles. It always hurts -- both the physical and mental. Real Pain.

But at least Charmaine's mom didn't try to murder her...

Gianna Jessen is an abortion survivor and also runs marathons. It takes her 8 hours. (If we were on the same course, she would be the only one behind me and Charmaine.)

Watch Gianna's 30 second video
on protecting Infants Born Alive. Gianna needs a third of a day to complete the 26.2 miles because she has, as she says, "the gift of cerebral palsy."

It is a "gift" because the alternative, the intention of the mother and her "doctor" was death for Gianna.

It is not known if the "doctor" is a Democrat. But abortion is a sacrament of The Party of Death.

Gianna lived to tell her story, was adopted, and is an advocate for Infant Born Alive protections.

Our Aunt Carol spoke with Gianna and has an update.

Bookmark Americans United for Life.

"If Barack Obama had his way I would not be here," says Gianna. Visit BornAliveTruth.com.

Read more at the jump.

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Charmaine is Acela-ing to NYC this morning to appear on FOX this afternoon at 2pm. A train is faster than a plane on this route.

Charmaine in St. Paul for the RNC convention at the Xcel Energy Center

The topic is still evolving, but the bookers, media set-up pros, and Your Business Blogger(R) is predicting a Palin debate...not about Biden.

(Unless the interview is on Biden's loss of his first wife and child in a tragic car accident decades ago when Biden was first elected as young 29 year-old senator. Biden accuses the other driver of drunk driving. Which is not true. The car accident was ruled, well, an accident. Biden is slandering the other driver.)

When Charmaine was in St. Paul for the GOP platform committee meetings and the convention, she did a number of media spots. The most interesting was her interview on FOX's Strategy Room hosted by Shepherd Smith, who did not want to talk about abortion. Not at all. He got so miffed, he walked off the set.

Read Charmaine's dispatch at the jump. About the oddest thing she's ever seen.

Update: hit time is 2:20 and topics concern the financial crisis and People magazine -- more at the jump.

Continue Reading »

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The Dude is competing for first string quarterback on his football team. But the coach needed him for a defensive play. The Dude went in. The play came his way. The Dude maneuvered for the open field tackle.

The first rule of marriage for men is knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

"Let's not worry mom...until we have to," I said. "The more information we can give her, the better we all will feel." The Dude understood. Uncertainty causes the real pain in life.

While The Dude was dealing with his pain, we all in the ER were subjected to a more intense pain: Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.

While waiting in the ER Keith Olbermann was complaining that the RNC showed footage of The Towers going down. This reminded us all that we are at war and maybe we still need a war leader. Rather than talk about Obama's inexperience, Olbermann was miffed that such carnage would be replayed reminding us we live in a dangerous world.

But I think Olbermann was really upset about Sarah Palin.

No one in the elite circles or the media (redundant, I know) understands Sarah and Todd Palin and their five kids.

The Palins are on a family mission.

Somewhat like the Blues Brothers, they are on a mission from God. Our liberal friends do not quite understand this. The Christian prays for guidance and accountability.

The Dude's forefinger knuckle -- note chip on side

Big families know this sense of purpose and the marriage partner who happens to get the ball, get the call goes into the game.

Todd is not the VP nominee. Sarah is.

I am not a CEO. Charmaine is.

Real men understand the talent and the gifts that only women have can be used in these unusual times. Like the ancient Jewish judge, Deborah, Sarah is being lifted up to help John McCain get the country on the right track; to bring the country to victory over evils foreign and domestic.

The American people understand this and love Sarah Palin.

Feminists understand this and hate Sarah Palin.

The story has a happy ending:

The Dude made the tackle.

Keith Olbermann got fired.

Sarah Palin will be elected.

See The Complete Married Man's Guide To Spousal Responses

See The Dude's other big break during the Huckabee presidential campaign.

Not everyone who appears on MSNBC is an elitist.

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Sarah Palin brings truth and light. In a politician, this is a miracle...

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

A close second,

Did the troops fight and die in vain in Iraq as Obama says? Watch this 2 minute clip that has almost 5 million views.

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Charmaine will be discussing the Sarah Palin Surge on Fox and Friends tomorrow around 7am.

Sarah Palin knows how to return fire.

Charmaine will be on set in New York City. Your Business Blogger(R) will be cheering his better-half on, after I get the kids to school.

Just like Todd Palin.

Our liberal friends do not understand this woman; this movement. Charmaine will be educating the Obama surrogates on the Palin pro-life appeal.

Conservatives love strong women.

Please tune in and let us know what you think.

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We have not been attacked since 9.11.01. It is nearly impossible, in war, in politics, to make nothing happen.

So the liberals are right when they say to George Bush,

"Thanks for nothing..."

Here is a review of Reasoned Audacity's 9.11 posts over the years.

Following is background from Your Business Blogger in an article published just after 9.11. Things have changed since then. A little.

Booby traps at the Pentagon: Charmaine and Jack Yoest introduce you to the Pentagon's babes in arms. What do they want? An "open dialogue" on breastfeeding. (Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services)

Originally published in The Women's Quarterly; January 01, 2002;


Pentagon attack
ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, [2001] the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, the group most responsible for promoting women in combat, gathered in Pentagon Conference Room 5C1042. This civilian advisory committee, whose members have the protocol status of three-star generals, monitors the concerns of women in uniform. And what was the topic on the eve of the worst attack in U.S. history?

After briefings from representatives of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, DACOWITS, as the committee is known, issued a formal request for more information on what they deemed a matter of paramount military significance:

breast-feeding.

As the terrorists prepared to hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon itself, our military leaders were directed "to engage in open dialogue" on lactation tactics.

The Defense Advisory Committee on Women celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last April. At the birthday party, President Bush's deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, a man well regarded for his level-headed and conservative approach to military issues, lauded DACOWITS in his address as an outstanding organization" and told the assembly of earnest women that he "looked forward to [their] advice."

Read the article.

Dad & The Dude
preparing for war
September 11, 2001
photo credit:
Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. Just after 9am on 9.11, Your Business Blogger(R) was doing what all business owners were doing: selling something. I was on the phone with a client. Making a pitch to attend a series of seminars, with CNN on in the background. I was a bit distracted by the live feed of a burning building.

While making 'the ask,' it was clear that my customer was not aware that we had just been attacked. I wanted to say something, like, Turn on your TV and stare at real pain. It just didn't look real. I continued instead with the conversation. Your Business Blogger is not normally so focused. In denial, perhaps. Disasters are not normally good for business.

There was work to be done. My next class was on September 19.

And I didn't want the customer on the other end of the phone distracted until the sale was closed. Then we could go to war.

The deal done, I noticed my boy, The Dude, was concerned that the attacks would continue down to us in Charlottesville, Virginia. "We got to get ready!" he shouts and scampers around digging up my old uniform, boots, saber and his grandfather's bayonet. (Old soldiers never die, they just file away. Apologies to MacArthur.)

The Dude spent the rest of the morning marching outside our front door. Looking out for terrorists. It must have worked.

Charlottesville was not attacked.

But we were affected. Everyone was. But I wasn't sure that the bank was going to delay getting their money over a pesky act of war. I still had to earn a living.

How would the war affect business? Not the macro, but mine? I had a seminar and clients coming into town in little over a week and the world was on fire. Would anyone show up? Would anyone care?

We North Americans do business like we do war. We win. Donald Trump becomes Victor Davis Hanson. At 8 am on 19 September 2001, 86 professionals showed up for my class and got down to business. A packed room.

The free lunch helped.

Even my business partner, Faisal Alam, came down from New York City to join us. He is Muslim.

The country was mourning, but on the move.

I started with a minute of silence in remembrance of those lost in the World Trade Towers.

Then we all got back to work. Each making the world a better place. Even with a war on.

King Kong in New York CityFrom time to time, Your Business Blogger works out of a client's offices at the edifice at 350 Fifth Avenue in NYC.

Also known as The Empire State Building.

It is still standing.

So what didn't happen on New Year's Eve?

Nothing.

Enemy Jihadists didn't blow anything up. And they didn't touch Times Square packed with people at midnight 31 December.

President George Bush has been keeping us all safe since 9.11.

Even Michael Moore.

In war every soldier's death is a public event.

The Falling Man

credit: Richard Drew, AP

Because of 9.11, we are all soldiers now.

The Pentagon circa 9.11.06. Lit by 184 lights to commemorate each life lost there on 9.11.01
Credit: Unknown

A Thank you note to Michelle Malkin on 9.11 for Tom Junod's The Falling Man in Esquire.

Basil's Blog has open trackbacks.

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The Dude broke his hand in a football game for the Yorktown Patriots. Charmaine and Your Business Blogger(R) and Baby Boo sat with him yesterday as a cast was applied and immobilized his hand.

The Dude was not in especially good spirits. And friends rallied around him to encourage and commiserate. To lightly cheer him on.

Teenagers who showed compassion?

Lots of adults, too showed real interest -- and not just the coaches....

Lyndon LaPlante It seems that The Dude was indeed lifted up. But Charmaine and I noticed something more. The giving, the compassion, the caring did more for the giver than the getter.

The Dude was injured and would play again in a few weeks. However, we were able to get the briefest glimpse of the good, the Divine that is seen in small acts of charity.

Life's real challenges are designed, it seems, not for the afflicted but for those who surround the sufferer. Life's pitfalls, large and small, reveal the character of the bystander.

Does the onlooker render care or complain? What does the Good Samaritan do?

Another football story, a few years ago, came out of Texas. It's the story of Lyndon LaPlante who scored a touchdown. Lyndon has Down syndrome . The Dallas Morning News reports:

Keller Senior with Down Syndrome Fulfills Dream

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

By TIM MacMAHON / The Dallas Morning News

The home crowd at Keller ISD Stadium rose to its feet as soon as Lyndon LaPlante jogged onto the field during the fourth quarter Friday night.

The fans went wild during LaPlante's 99-yard touchdown run, which ended with him being mobbed in the end zone by his Keller teammates.

Never mind that the pre-arranged play didn't count. It fulfilled a dream for LaPlante, a senior who has . . .

Watch the video clip here.

Continue reading at the jump.

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A good friend sent this along and boy is it surprising...not because of the content, but because of the source.

It came from a professor in the academy.

Which proves that not all academics are leftists.

Father/Daughter Talk

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so
many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat,
and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to
support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch
Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she
had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that
her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he
thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher
taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The
self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth
and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing
in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA,
and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was
taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left
her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even
have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends
because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey
doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are
easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular
on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the
parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because
she's too hung over.'

Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the
Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who
only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that
would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily
fired back, 'That's a crazy idea, and how would that be fair! I've
worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard
work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I
worked my tail off!'

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the
Republican party.'

If anyone has a better explanation of the difference between
Republican and Democrat I'm all ears.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Here are some instructions that Your Business Blogger(R) would have -- not with daughter Dreamer, but with the knuckle heads wandering thru our front yard...Mr. Yoest's 10 Simple Rules for Dating My Daughters

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Charmaine and Your Business Blogger(R) will be getting the Penta-Posse a real education by pulling them out of the public schools...for a day.

Alert Readers will recall that we went homeschooling last winter during the primary campaign to Arkansas, up to Iowa and across to New Hampshire.

We will not have to drive as many miles to see the next president of the USA.

It has just been announced that John McCain and Sarah Palin will campaign in Northern Virginia on Wednesday, September 10, at Fairfax High School, at 10:00 am.

You can obtain tickets by going to the McCain Virginia website at Virginia.JohnMcCain.com, or by visiting the Virginia Victory offices in Arlington (1235 S. Clark Street, First Floor, 703-955-4255), Fairfax (4246 Chain Bridge Road, 703-766-4467), Prince William (4431 Prince William Parkway, 703-680-7388), or Loudoun (46950 Community Plaza, Unit # 201A, 703-340-0702).

You can pick tickets up in person today from noon until 9:00 pm, or tomorrow, from 9:00 am until 9:00 pm.

The Rally begins at 10 am on September 10; Doors open at 8:00 am. Fairfax High School is located at 3501 Rebel Run in Fairfax City.

The easiest method to get tickets is to go on-line and print out the number of tickets you want.

Please let us know if you will be coming by. Look for the happily married couple with five children...with the McCain - Palin signs.

Alert Readers will recall that Charmaine served as Senior Advisor to the Huckabee campaign,
Bringing In The New Year With Mike Huckabee

The C-4 side of Charmaine will be attending the rally.

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Charmaine debated Kim Gandy from the National Organization for Women (NOW) on MSNBC on September 4th.

Charmaine was on site at the GOP convention in St. Paul.

Key points:
Charmaine, Energy -- gas prices -- is a women's issue
Charmaine, Todd Palin has been "air brushed out of the picture"
Kim Gandy, "Republicans have discovered sexism..."

Watch the video clip and please comment to let us know what you think!

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When the story broke on the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain's VP pick Dan McConchie from Americans United for Life released a fact sheet on her record,

So what are Sarah Palin's views? While she's been Governor of Alaska, there has only been one piece of pro-life legislation pass the legislature...She does have several statements about her views and about her son Trig whom she carried to term even though she knew in advance that he had Down syndrome:

"Alaskans know I am pro-life and have never wavered in my belief in the sanctity of every human life."
Palin Responds to Expanded Call Request

I am pro-life..."
Campaign website, www.palinforgovernor.com, "Issues" Nov 7, 2006

[Referring to her and her husband] "We've both been very vocal about being pro-life. We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential."
"John McCain, here's your vice president", Nat Hentoff, World Net Daily, May 28, 2008

"I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life."
Palin Speaks to Newsmax About McCain, Abortion, Climate Change Newsmax, August 29, 2008

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Charmaine will be debating Kim Gandy from NOW on Palin's speech.

Here's what happen the last time Charmaine and Kim "shared" a microphone,

Even Rush Limbaugh noted the altercation. Back on November 5, 2005, Your Business Blogger(R) wrote about the press conference,

Please forgive the-day-in-the-life post from Your Business Blogger[R]. I was in the middle of drafting an article on the glass ceiling for women. And got a first person account instead.

Today I thought I'd give the little woman a respite from the laundry and the kids. "Go play in the Nation's Capital," I said to Charmaine this morning. "Have a fun lunch with the girls!"

Then I hear Rush talk about a smack down at the Supreme Court and see a photo of Charmaine in her red power suit at Rush Limbaugh EIB Extra... .

She had Kim Gandy in a half-nelson.

I have sat through a number of cantankerous board meetings. Adversarial budget negotiations. Hardball sales presentations. Terminations. Giving and getting.

But no one actually got spanked.

I thought the gathering of girls today would be a powder puff tea party of cooperation. Sweetness and light and reason and 'Please' and 'Thankyou.'

I was wrong. No one fights like a woman on a mission.

I'll have to rewrite the article.

(It is a joy to marry over your head.)

Hit time is 6:30 Eastern. MSNBC Race for the Whitehouse w/David Gregory -- opposite Kim Gandy from NOW -- Segment on Palin and last night's speech

They're taping in Rice Park (across the street from the Xcel center)

Thankyou (foot)notes:

Please tune in and let us know what you think. Watch the fight begin in ernest.

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In the Yoest household kitchen Answer: She's not married to Todd Palin.

On CNN yesterday Charmaine reinforced the point that women can succeed in any position at any level, if she has a deep support system. Beyond the government safety net.

The best support system is to marry a guy who will embrace the family mission, the family business. A husband who is not distracted by interns at 2am.

And will lift up his wife when her time comes...

And I'm not just talking pregnancy.

About half of all women who enter into a Ph.D. program do not finish. When Charmaine was working on her disertation at the University of Virginia, Your Business Blogger(R), MBA, and Charmaine's parents, Mom, Ph.D; Dad, Ph.D; Brother, Ph.D. and Penta-Posse gathered together and strategized on the path to make sure that Charmaine was in the half that got 'hooded.'

The extended family decided to invest in Charmaine.

Money was key but not the entire issue. Wisdom and logistical support were the real needs of house hold and five little ones.

Extended family and a hubby who will sacrifice for the family mission is the solution to whatever success the family, the mother, the mission will achieve.

Todd Palin is my kind of guy. Like me, he married way over his head and is not afraid to let the world know.

We are both married to CEO's who advance the family mission. Our extended families have made sacrifices and investments to advance very talented women, very talented wives.

If more feminists had devoted husbands, maybe they'd enjoy more success. As well as the other benefits of marital bliss (re Five Children...).

And this is the real reason the liberals hate Sarah Palin. She is normal.

Thank you (foot)notes:

Fish on a bicycle by Ray Troll Feminist icon Gloria Steinem can be blamed for a lot problems these days in verbiage and communication in the battle of men vs women.

But not this phrase.

Gloria Steinem writes to Time Magazine,

"In your note on my new and happy marital partnership with David Bale, you credit me with the witticism A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. In fact, Irina Dunn, a distinguished Australian educator, journalist and politician, coined the phrase back in 1970 when she was a student at the University of Sydney."

Credit should go to Irina Dunn, graffiti artist and Australian Senator from the Nuclear Disarmament Party.

And made popular more by U2.

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Our liberal leftist friends do not know what to make of Sarah Palin.

They do not understand her faith in Jesus Christ.
They do not understand her leadership.
They do not understand her family.
They do not understand her husband.
They do not understand her ability to persuade.
They do not understand her politics.
They do not understand her ability to win.
They do not understand her love of the military.
They do not understand her motherhood of 5.
They do not understand her balancing work and home.
They do not understand her love of small-town America.
They do not understand her pro-life (com)passion.

Watch her short talk in a church in Alaska,

GOP strategist Ed Rollins called her performance last nite at the convention "magical."

Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes observes that her manner of communication is natural and cannot be taught. Sarah Palin has both content and style.

Charmaines is quoted:

ChristianityToday.com has a substantial interview, From discouragement to excitement, by Sarah Pulliam

Americans United for Life Action president Charmaine Yoest is both relieved and excited about Sen. John McCain's vice presidential pick. Yoest spoke with me about the difference between last week and this week.

Last week, you saw the conservative base of the Republican Party really demoralized and discouraged when they were hearing all the talk about putting in a pro-abortion vice presidential pick. Now with such a solid platform coming out of the deliberations last week and a solid pro-life ticket, everybody's really excited.

People have been talking about the broadening of the evangelical agenda. Do you think that's happening?

As the leader of a pro-life organization, I find it really troubling when people try to juxtapose a pro-life agenda with other issues, like poverty, and saying there's some sort of zero-sum gain, that if you concentrate on life issues that doesn't mean you don't care about other issues as much.

13 WMAZ, For McCain, 6 Keys to Victory,

"There is an authentic McCain voice on these issues," says Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life. "He has to find it and use it."

On CNN HeadLine News, yesterday afternoon, Charmaine said that Sarah's husband, "Is being airbushed out of the picture," by the unhappy feminists.

LifeNews.com writes, Republican Party Cmte OK Strong Pro-Life Platform Condemning Abortion

"We call for a ban on human cloning and a ban on the creation of or experimentation on human embryos for research purposes" and a "ban on all embryonic stem-cell research, public or private."

Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, updated LifeNews.com on the changes.

"Very late in the day, a pro-life ally advanced an argument which opened the door to embryonic-destructive stem cell research. The amendment offered would have undermined the section's clear language banning embryonic stem cell research," she said.

"As you can imagine, the discussion became pretty intense," she added.

"After significant back-and-forth among the delegates -- which was punctuated by an adjournment to a side conference in a hallway where the delegates standing up for a strong ban were 'encouraged' to give way -- the final language remained firm on an unequivocal ban on embryonic-destructive research and experimentation," Yoest said.

"We can take deep satisfaction tonight in knowing that the platform recommended to the party by the committee will be a strong pro-life document," she told LifeNews.com.

Values Voter News writes,

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said although this is not what Sarah Palin wished for her daughter, "the way we react to life's challenges is the true testament to our character." But all this attention has brought to light an important issue!!! "Until Monday, teen pregnancy and sex education were not issues in the national political campaign. According to the Associated Press, Sarah Palin -- in a 2006 questionnaire distributed to gubernatorial candidates -- said that "explicit sex-ed program will not find my support."

Not everyone is happy. McCain's Capitulation to the Religious Right Now Complete,

Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life: "And then when [Palin] was announced -- it was like you couldn't breathe. [We] were grabbing each other and jumping up and down."

The Canberrra Times from Austrialia reports Palin's teen daughter pregnant,

Charmaine Yoest, Head of Americans United for Life, said, "We join them in welcoming this new life."

She closes at 2pm this morning summing up the Sarah speech, emailing, It was amazing! She was so great! Just came out of the CNN after-party, now stuck in the shuttle cause of protestors!!

A high-tech liberal abortion advocate who lives in both Alaska and Colorado (no, I'm sure that he doesn't vote in both states...) says, I'm speechless. I don't think I even know how to process this anymore.

OK, so Your Business Blogger(R) would not approve of tatoos. If this is her first born's biggest "fault" then the country will be just fine under a McCain administration. See Looking For A Job...With Tattoos? and Scars Are Tattoos...With Better Stories.

Alert Readers will recall that we are the biggest fans of Ed Rollins when Charmaine worked with him on the Huckabee campaign.

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Charmaine is back in Minneapolis-St. Paul for the GOP convention. Last night she worked the National Review and Weekly Standard parties meetings.

She has avoided the liberals who are smashing up St.Paul and beating up the (non-violent) cops. The liberals are hiding behind face coverings -- like bandits.

This is legal in the Twin Cities.

Charmaine on an earlier appearance on ABC

Unrelated to the domestic terrorists, Charmaine will be debating a pro-abortion-choice woman and abortion in conservative politics, Jennifer Stockman.

Andrea Mitchell, from NBC, will be moderating. Check listings for MSNBC.

Hit time is 12:30 local time -- 1:30pm Eastern.

Sex is always the theme -- not with conservatives -- but with liberals.

The Obama mantra would be that teens are going to do it, so let's all educate them to be efficient, proficient [f-word deleted by Charmaine the Editrix] [no, it wasn't THAT F-word...].

As long as they don't smoke...

We can agree that it is best that teens don't smoke.
We can agree that it is best that teens don't drink.
So let's agree that it is best that teens wait for sex.

We do not tolerant teens having a smoke.
We do not tolerant teens having a drink.
We should not tolerant teens having sex.

The Obama abortion defenders demand that the government teach safe sex techniques.
We do not teach safe drug use.
We do not teach safe alcohol use.
We do not teach safe cigarette use.

The goal in any human behavior is not perfection but to teach and work to the ideal.

If you are going to drink and drive, use a seatbelt.
If you are going to do drugs, use a clean needle.
If you are going to smoke, use filtered low tar.
So...
If you are going to have sex, use a condom...?

This is liberal logic: We demand that children and teens be able to make adult decisions.

When adults set up the premise for failure for children and teens, (they are going to do it anyway...) we are condoning -- not condemning the behavior. Somebody has to be the (discerning) parent.

Thank you (foot)notes,

The Abstinence Clearinghouse points us to The Heritage Foundation,

Christine Kim and Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation, presented a comprehensive review of 21 prior studies of the effectiveness of abstinence and virginity pledge programs. Two thirds of these studies appeared in peer-reviewed publications.

"The overwhelming majority of prior studies of abstinence education report positive results," Christine Kim said. "Sixteen out of 21 studies of abstinence education found youths who received abstinence education had lower rates of sexual activity or other positive behaviors, when compared to youths who did not receive abstinence training."

Emphasis mine. Heritage continues,

Specifically, 11 of the 15 evaluations of abstinence programs reported positive findings. Five of the six studies of virginity pledges also reported positive findings...

Heritage also reminds us that the government funds sex ed $12 for every $1 in abstinence only. Abstinence only is outspent $12 to 1 by the government.

THE FEDERAL DEFINITION OF ABSTINENCE-ONLY EDUCATION, from the U.S. Social Security Act, §510(b)(2).

An eligible abstinence education program is one that:

A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;

B) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school-age children;

C) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;

D) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;

E) teaches that sexual activity outside the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;

F) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents, and society;

G) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increase vulnerability to sexual advances; and

H) teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.

Alert Readers will recall that Charmaine and Your Business Blogger(R) sat in the President's Box in DC's Kennedy Center with Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan. See The Devil Wears Prada and Alan Greenspan: Nuance and Silence.

See the Bill Bennett comment on the Palin family pregnancy on NewsBusters. It is refreshing to see conservatives on the attack.

See Charmaine's previous media quotes here and also here.

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Tom McMahon is the best on the planet on presenting complicated ideas simply.

Here he compares Obama and Palin's position on THE issue of our times: Abortion.

The only improvement one could make would be that Obama calls a baby a "punishment" not just a "burden." But you get the idea.

Review Tom's matrix and decide this day who you would trust.

Visit Tom McMahon's 4-Block World

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Charmaine has been interviewed by a number of media outlets on John McCain's VP Palin pick and the announcement today that Palin's daughter is getting married and is pregnant.

Statement from Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life, on Palin Daughter's Pregnancy

Last update: 3:04 p.m. EDT Sept. 1, 2008 CHICAGO, Sept 01, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX

Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, issued the following statement in response to news that the daughter of McCain running mate Sarah Palin is pregnant:

"As the mother of five children, I know this situation is not the ideal Sarah Palin wished for her daughter.

But the way we react to life's challenges is the true testament to our character. The Palin family is displaying courage and constancy.

We join them in welcoming this new life. Our prayers are with the entire Palin family as they deal with this in the intense glare of the media spotlight."

In Politico, Palin electrifies conservative base
By JONATHAN MARTIN, 8/31/08 7:16 AM EST

By tapping the anti-abortion and pro-gun Alaska governor just ahead of his convention, which is set to start here Monday, McCain hasn't just won approval from a skeptical Republican base - he's ignited a wave of elation and emotion that has led some grass-roots activists to weep with joy.

Serious questions remain about McCain's pick - exactly how much he knows about her and her positions, past and present, on key issues. But for the worker bee core of the party that is essential to any Republican victory, there are no doubts.

"I woke up and my e-mail was just going crazy," said Charmaine Yoest, head of the legislative arm of Americans United for Life and a former top official in Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign. "And then when it was announced - it was like you couldn't breathe."

The Independent from the UK, McCain's choice of running mate heads off potential rebellion, by David Usborne in St Paul, Sunday, 31 August 2008

Republican officials think that Mr McCain has solved that problem with the Palin pick. And they are cheered even more by the belief that it is the evangelical Christians who are most electrified - the same people who did so well by Mr Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Charmaine Yoest, a former top aide to presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and a leading voice among conservative Republican women said the reaction to Mrs Palin has been beyond ecstatic. "I woke up and my e-mail was just going crazy," she said here in St Paul. "And then when it was announced - it was like you couldn't breathe."

LifeNews writes, Pro-Life Groups Say Sarah Palin's Abortion Rejection Reminds of McCain's' Adoption

Yoest told LifeNews.com that McCain's and Palin's actions and words point to the key differences between them and their pro-abortion rivals Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

"The Republican ticket stands in stark contrast to the stridently pro-abortion ticket put forth by the Democratic party," she said. "You can be sure the vice presidential selections will have far-reaching ramifications in this race."

Obama came under fire for appearing to back a potential decision by his daughters to seek an abortion saying he wouldn't "punish" them with a baby.

Thank you (foot)notes,

In related international abortion news,
LifeNews, Mexico Supreme Court's Decision to Allow Capital City Abortions Upsets Pro-Life Groups

Mexico City, Mexico (LifeNews.com) -- The decision by the highest court in Mexico to uphold the law allowing abortions up to 12 weeks into pregnancy is drawing sharp criticism from leading pro-life groups. The Mexico Supreme Court voted 8-3 this past week to uphold a federal district law allowing abortions and paying for them at taxpayer expense through the government health care program.

Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life tells LifeNews.com that the ruling ignores the negative impact of abortion on women and is a devastating step toward abortion on demand for other Latin American nations.

Yoest's organization was one of the American pro-life groups to file an amicus brief with the Mexico Supreme Court in the case that could have ramifications throughout the region.

"We are dismayed the Mexican Supreme Court would ignore the overwhelming evidence that abortion hurts women. Upholding this law demonstrates a total lack of concern for the health and welfare of Mexican women," she said.

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Your Business Blogger(R) just returned from meeting a number of conservative friends in Minneapolis-St. Paul in preparation for the GOP convention. It was exciting to talk with the good-guys from across the country especially during the Palin pick for VP.

I ran into my good friend Morton Blackwell who has run conservative politics in Virginia for decades and heads up the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia.

Recently, I was honored to give a brief presentation on management to LI. The overview requested was on Managing Management Time(TM) created and developed by The William Oncken Corporation.

LI also asked about some time management techiques and I certainly obliged.

But.

But Alert Readers will know that Managing Management Time(tm) is a philosophy created to teach managers to be more effective; to control events. MMT is NOT a time management course.

The briefing is divided into four short segments.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Thankyou foot(notes):

Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger(R) is a licensed agent for The William Oncken Corporation.

Charmaine and I spent last week in Minneapolis and we just put her back on a plane this afternoon to attend the GOP convention. See her quotes in The Wall Street Journal. She is the president and CEO of Americans United for Life and former senior advisor to the Huckabee for president campaign.

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