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Indiana appears to be the next state to challenge federal law by passing a law of their own. Like Arizona on Immigration, Wisconsin on public sector unions, Florida on Obamacare, Indiana is taking on Taxpayer funded Abortions.

State officials in Indiana say they will defy the decision by the Obama administration asking it to not proceed with implementing a new pro-life state law that would revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

Governor Mitch Daniels (a republican) signed the law , which would cut off anywhere from $2 million to $3 million the Planned Parenthood abortion business receives in federal funds via the Indiana government through Medicaid . Daniels said that “any organization affected by this provision can resume receiving taxpayer dollars immediately by ceasing or separating its operations that perform abortions.”

Like all other federal programs however, the feds like to have the last word. What they can not get passed through legislation they force upon the American people through the many agencies in the bloated federal government.

However, the Obama administration told the state it can’t implement the new law, with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick denying a request to deny funds saying the federal Medicaid law stipulates that states can’t exclude providers based on the services they provide.

See a pattern here? A state passes a law that the federal government does not like and the federal government steps in to threaten the state and force them to comply.

Planned Parenthood challenged the constitutionality of the law and filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis just hours after Daniels signed the legislation into law. It alleges the law would violate contracts already in place between it and the state and that it forces Planned Parenthood to choose between doing abortions and getting taxpayer funding.

On the heels of the federal government strong-arm tactics lawsuits are filed by the various special interest groups, all designed to force states to spend even more taxpayer money to fight off the federal government. The federal government has gotten way out of hand. They have usurped their limited constitutional powers and have set themselves up as supreme rulers.

“The Obama administration appears to be intent on trying to force Indiana to subsidize the business of abortion in direct contrast to the desires of the state legislature and the people of Indiana. Indiana must refuse to be bullied by the federal government and must challenge this politically-charged determination with full vigor. The state of Indiana has a right to determine how it will manage its Medicaid program and to select the providers it will partner with. Planned Parenthood is not entitled to public funding,” he said.

The people voted in 2010 and sent a strong message to Washington that "we the people" are still in charge of America. They sent a loud message that they were not happy with the direction the Federal government was taking the country and they voted to replace state and local leadership hoping they will be more responsive to the ‘will of the people’. Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Wisconsin all seem to have gotten the message and are working hard to return the country back to the people. At each step of the journey the federal government is spending taxpayer money to fight against the tax payers.

There are more of us then there are of you so be warned, things are about to get very interesting for 2012.

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A View from the Nest
Random Ramblings from the Resident Raptor
Insight from the Journey across the Sky
By Allen Scott

And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need. Revelation 21:6

The lamb in the center near the throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to springs filled with the water of life, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.” Rev 7:17 (GW)

Ponce de Leon was the first European to sight ...

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Juan Ponce de Leon was born in San Servas, Spain, in 1460. In 1493, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. From the Hispaniola, Ponce de Leon led a successful expedition to the island of Puerto Rico and established its first permanent European community. It was in Puerto Rico that he began hearing stories from the natives of a “fountain of youth.” The natives said that on the island of Bimini, a small island in the Bahamas, there was a fountain that if you drank or bathed in its sweet, perpetual waters “it would make old men young.”

Excited about the prospect of finding a fountain of eternal life, he convinced King Ferdinand of Spain to authorize an expedition to Bimini. Ponce de Leon agreed to underwrite with his own funds the expenses of the voyage. On March 3, 1512, he set sail with sixty men in three small ships.

On April 2, he landed in Florida and claimed it for Spain. For seven months he traversed the peninsula looking for the fountain. One of his ships eventually did find the island of Bimini, but no one has ever located “the fountain of youth.”

A great deal of money is spent today searching for that fountain of youth. Companies hawk age defying products with ever more frequency. Each year more and more baby boomers are reaching retirement age. These elderly citizens represent a large part of the population of the United States and they control a great deal of its wealth. Playing on the vanities of this age group, companies are trying hard to create products that will potentially prolong the life of these consumers. Plastic surgery is the fastest growing field of medicine with many doctors living a rather lavish lifestyle because of the number of clients seeking their services.

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A certain Samaritan woman went to fetch water one day from Jacob’s well, in Sychar and when she got there she found a Jewish man sitting by the well. A conversation ensued whereby the Jewish man asked the Samaritan woman to give him something to drink. This struck the woman as odd because Jewish men did not associate with Samaritan women and she asked him why he would ask her for something to drink. The man replied back that if she knew with whom she was speaking she would be asking him for something to drink. In her defense she did not know this man so she replied with and who are you? Are you more important that Jacob you actually dug this well, besides you have nothing to fetch water from this deep well so how do you suppose you are going to give me something to drink?

The man replied that if she drank from Jacob’s well she would be thirsty again, but the water he was offering would give her eternal life. (John 4:4-14 (GW))

Ponce De Leon went looking for the fountain of youth and only found water, while the Samaritan woman went looking for water and found the fountain of youth.

Living forever or at least as long as one can is the goal of everyone born under the sun, and yet it is as elusive as Juan Ponce de Leon’s fountain of youth. Scripture tells us a fountain of life really does exist. Jesus said when he was on the earth that he was the water of life, and that anyone who would drink of that water would never thirst. A fountain of water that provides complete refreshing. A fountain that provides a drink that completely satisfies. Pure living water, Jesus proclaimed, would gush up and give them everlasting life. Now that sounds like a fountain of youth to me.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)

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