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Signs are emerging that House Democrats may have more membership problems on the horizon. Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI) has been called to testify before a Federal Grand Jury in Michigan U.S. Eastern District Court. Representative Cheeks announced the subpoena pursuant to House Rules, but the specific nature of her testimony was not mentioned.

Speculation is that Representative Cheeks' subpoena relates to charges against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who happens to be her son.

The New York General Assembly is at it again. They're looking out for the health of the people of New York, legislating behavior for the betterment of all. Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) has proposed a new law that would fine restaurants $1,000 for each violation for including an additive in their meals that has been linked to heart disease and other health problems when it is consumed in excess.

That additive is salt.

"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises," the bill, A. 10129, states in part.

Never mind that uncounted recipies require salt.

Yesterday, Obama came to St Louis to once again explain to us Rubes the Obamacare Bill. At St Charles High School some 400 people attending Obama’s campaign rally, or I mean Obamacare Rally. Elsewhere in St Charles there was a gathering of 2225 when only 600 were expected for an anti-Obamacare rally.

Gateway Pundit has the details:

Pro-Life Democrats appear ready to stop the Health Care Takeover, according to Fox News:

The health care reform bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve appears to be dead on arrival in the House, as seven anti-abortion Democrats intend to join the ranks of lawmakers who plan to vote against the legislation, Fox News has confirmed.

Seven new no votes would be enough to kill the Senate bill, and several more fence-sitting lawmakers are under pressure from both sides of the aisle.

Foremost among the seven new no votes is Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., whose anti-abortion amendment to the House version of the legislation got the bill passed in that chamber last year.

The House bill passed last year by a 220-215 vote. With four House seats vacant, the new majority level is 216. Losing seven to twelve “Yes” votes for the bill effectively kills the legislation as it stands.

We've come a long way since the days of minority segregation in sports. It has been 74 years since Jessie Owens won gold and Matthew Robinson won Silver in the 200-meter dash at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, right under the nose of Adolf Hitler. Matthew's brother Jackie would break the color barrier in Major League Baseball 11 years later. Doug Williams was the first black quarterback to win a Superbowl when he played for the Washington Redskins, a traditionally white-led team even in the mid-1980s. In a majority of traditionally "white" sports and competitive events today, minorities playing hardly causes one to bat an eye. It is hardly true the other way around, however.

It seems that the winners of the first ever Sprite Step Off competition will have to share their first-place trophy. Coca-Cola made the decision on March 1st after reviewing hundreds of comments when a white sorority from the University of Arkansas won the competition at the end of February. Citing a "scoring discrepancy" Coca-Cola (the major sponsor via its Sprite brand) awarded Alpha Kappa Alpha, a team from Indiana University, the first-place tie.

Message boards were filled with vitriolic comments after the ladies from Arkansas won, much of it racially charged.

Apparently, that is a tough question for Arianna Packard to answer. It seems that Ms. Packard wrote a response to Senators Inhofe, Coburn and Kyl who were supporting Carly Fiorina in the California Senate primary. In her letter, which our good friend at Redstate, Erick Erickson has posted Ms. Packard says such things as;

All of this might be forgivable if Ms. Fiorina had the proven record of conservatism on the issues that you attribute to her. Sadly she doesn't.

by Rose Pedenko