Go Figure

A new study, “Freedom in the 50 States,” done by George Mason University supposedly measures economic and personal freedoms and found North Dakota to be our freest state.

Um, tell that to someone who wants the personal freedom to have an abortion.

The next freest were South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma.

The least free were New York, California, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Rhode Island.  I’ve been in California for the past thirty years and have always felt quite free here, thank you very much.

Anybody think lots of people are about to flee the oppression of Hawaii for balmy North Dakota?  Me either.

For more, see “Americans Are Migrating to More Free Republican States,” John Merline, Investors Business Daily

The Bizarre Link Between Oil and Abortion

North Dakota just passed the most draconian abortion ban in the country — six weeks.

And North Dakota is also the most booming state in the country because of the oil being extracted there.

So what’s the connection?  North Dakota’s state government currently has a $2 billion surplus thanks to oil revenues, so they’re happy to throw away money to defend their clearly unconstitutional abortion ban.

Another reason to hate the oil companies!

New GOP — Same as the Old

North Dakota is going to have a “personhood amendment” on its ballot in 2014.

You know, the provision that says a fertilized egg has the same constitutional rights you and I have.   The thing that would ban not only all abortions (rape, incest, life of the mother), but also hormonal birth control and in vitro fertilization.

The provision that those wild and crazy leftist radicals in Mississippi defeated.

Having measures like this on the ballot will generate lots of attention beyond North Dakota in 2014 and affect other races, just as ignorant extremists like Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin tainted the GOP beyond their own losing races and hurt the party across the board, including Mitt.