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More from Carrie K. Hutchens and the Dakota Voice...

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It's amazing how many people think judges, prosecutors, sheriff's and all other law enforcement officers are above wrong-doing. Then we have a story that reports, "BATON ROUGE, La. - A sheriff accused of having state prisoners work at a stolen car "chop shop" and using them as his race-car pit crew resigned and pleaded guilty, becoming the third St. Helena Parish sheriff in a row convicted of federal charges." (Sheriff Pleads Guilty in Chop Shop Case, Associated Press, February 06, 2007 11:02 AM EST ).

Did it rock the boat and remove the blinders or was Ficklin getting caught for nought?

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It would also be interesting to find out how the self-proclaimed progressive state of Florida can allow a legally blind judge (without medical training) to make decisions (or assumptions) based upon videos of Terri Schiavo he couldn't have even seen well, if at all, yet call down a doctor (with medical training) for giving an opinion based upon the ones he could actually see?

But then...

When the Alleged Good Side Does Bad

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Speaking of "abandon"..............

Sounds like the Cato Institute folks agree with the democrap mantra that killing an innocent is good, trying to save her is bad, is, well, kewl.

Just say it is "nanny state" and the stealth socialism is a camel nose in the tent. Watch the poor dumb conservative suckers fall for it every time.

Jeb Bush got it right. He told conservatives at the National Review summit this past weekend that Republicans lost the 2006 elections because they abandoned their principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility.

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In one recent poll, voters preferred the Democrats by 2 to 1 to deal with the economy and the federal budget. Meanwhile, the party's tilt toward social conservatism—the anti-gay marriage amendment, the clumsy intrusion into Terri Schiavo's hospital room, the "intelligent design" crusade—has turned off younger and more libertarian voters.

A Republican Party for the Future

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>> It's amazing how many people think judges, prosecutors, sheriff's and all other law enforcement officers are above wrong-doing.

There is no immunity from sin by putting on a police uniform or a judge's robes. It is the other way around. The prosecutors and sheriffs have coercive powers, and power tends to corrupt. Power ever and always tempts one to take advantage of the powerless. Thus, corruption in government is the rule, not the exception. We honor all the more, then, the brave men and women who resist the temptations and serve with honor.