Rush Limbaugh had this to say about Houston’s own Sheila Jackson-Lee, who had earlier impugned his character on the floor of the House of Representatives:

“I wonder if Ms. Jackson Lee has any regard for the truth. Does she have any regard for hoping, desiring to sound intelligent and knowledgeable, or is she content to be happy and proud to go the floor of the House of Representatives and make a fool of herself?

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He added, “She can say what she wants. These are the people who have power over us … I don’t have any power over Sheila Jackson Lee and I don’t seek any power over Sheila Jackson Lee. She, on the other hand, is the opposite. She wants power over not just me, but of as many people she can get.”

In fact that is the entire meme of the ultra-liberal wing of the Democratic party, to bring American freedoms to heel under the authority of the federal government.

Consider all that has changed in the last 75 years as a result of so-called progressive government action.  Are we truly better off as a nation as a result of the massive intrusion of government into everyday life?  Is it true that there must be a law to cover every conceivable situation?  And must there be a federal program that remedies every possible downfall in a human life? 

Progressives answer “Yes!” to these questions in spite of the fact that they fly directly in the face of the United States Constitution, a document that they have little regard for, no more now than when their heroic FDR was president.

Sheila Jackson-Lee is among the worst offenders in Congress.  Unfortunately her seat is essentially a safe one, which makes it all the more problematic for Houstonians to rid themselves of a representative who no more represents them than the dead and departed socialists of FDR’s time whose mad quest for power and inept fiscal policies prolonged the Great Depression by a good 5 years.

17-year-old Rifqa Bary should be a household name after her recent attempt to break free of her Muslim parents and live her own life as a Christian. Sadly that dream came to an end today after a judge ruled that she must return to Ohio and go into foster care rather than stay in Florida as she’d hoped.

One has to wonder what will become of her now.  Will her parents or other relatives, outraged that the girl has rejected Islam, make her fears a reality:

“If I had stayed in Ohio, I wouldn’t be alive,” she said. “In 150 generations in family, no one has known Jesus. I am the first — imagine the honor in killing me.”

Perhaps the publicity that her high-profile case has generated to-date will serve as a shield substantial enough to protect her from the fate suffered by many young women around the globe who turn away from Islam.  Or perhaps Ms. Bary has never been in any danger from her family, despite her fears.  Or perhaps she will in fact be murdered in Ohio in the months to come.

Presumedly she will be free to do as she wants when she turns 18.  If she lives that long.  If not, her fate will have been sealed by the ill-advised judgment of Judge Daniel Dawson, a man whose understanding of the larger world struggle seems to be lacking.