From my Memoirs:

When your pedigree and bloodlines link Hoosier Agrarian with Kentucky Hilljack... It's difficult to approach life with great expectations.

While other children had grandmas and grandpas, I had a mamaw and papaw, and I didn't know why.

I grew up believing Miracle Whip was mayonnaise and Velveeta was cheese.  Before leaving grammar school I had consumed more cream of mushroom soup that Joseph A Campbell ever intended. Exotic Italian cuisine was singularly tied with the name Boyardee, and dining out meant sitting in a car, balancing a hamburger and fries in my lap.

My mother had no driver's license, and I didn't know why.

I valued what the rich kids had... A swimming membership at Green Hills.  But my parents valued wall-to-wall carpeting.  I swam not.

I craved popularity but didn't fit in.  My classmates were chic, polished, and sophisticated... They were Prime Rib, and I was a can of Spam.

I was full-blooded redneck, but with none of the toughness.

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 Righteous and Ineffective

Mike Pence recently criticized Donald Trump for saying he wouldn't sign a federal abortion ban.

But when Pence suggests that the federal government should pass laws banning abortion, isn't he saying that the federal government has the right to decide the abortion issue... Which means they can also make laws making abortion legal nationwide?

For 50 years we've been quoting the 10th Amendment and saying that because abortion is not mentioned in The Constitution, the states have the right to make their own abortion laws.

I'm Pro Life, but I know what will happen if the federal government decides when protected life begins.  Every Pro Life Republican should be telling his congressman, his senators, and his presidential candidate to shut up and stay out of it. 

We live in a sexually immoral country and abortion will always be available because a majority of women want the right to terminate their unborn children. For now, states and communities have the right to regulate abortion and make laws that reflect their morals and values.  I really believe this is as good as it's going to get.

And I fear that Mike Pence and the Pro Life Movement may continue to promote a national ban on abortion until the backlash makes abortion legal everywhere and there is a clinic in every neighborhood.

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