Just how unpopular is President Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in a Texas prison received four out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary.

Inmate Keith Judd, 53, is serving 17 years for extortion at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution. He was sentenced in 1999 for making threats against the University of New Mexico and is due to be released on June 24 next year.

With 93 per cent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 per cent of the vote to Judd’s 40 per cent.
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Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s office.

At least he gives a damn about the Constitution:

According to the Charleston Gazette, Judd circulated his political standpoints to local media. These include opposing national health care reform on the grounds that it violates the 10th Amendment.

In spite of that, many believe Biden’s replacement has been found.

Update: Biden must feel a little threatened by Judd, because Plugs is sporting a new look:

Everyday, helpless occupiers are arrested, and jailed. They are crying out for help.

For just $18 a month, only 60 cents a day, you can help rescue occupiers from their police state abusers.

Here’s the touching video. If this doesn’t make you shed a tear and dig deep to help these poor souls, nothing will:

I’ll preface this with a reminder of what President Obama said about Egypt in February of last year:

“Obviously, there is still a lot of work to be done in Egypt itself,” Obama said in the wake of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the takeover of government by the army. “What we have seen so far is positive.”

Obama said Egypt is going to require help in developing democratic institutions, but so far the country is sending “the right signals.”

Al Gore and Thomas Friedman have said the US needs its own “Arab Spring” — the kind that brought about changes in Egypt, along with Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and others.

But, as we’re painfully aware, “change” doesn’t necessarily mean something good is happening.

Let’s check in with how these Arab Spring-induced changes are coming along as it pertains to women’s rights in Egypt:

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives – for up to six hours after their death.

The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.

It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women’s rights of getting education and employment.

So far people have praised the “Arab spring” as a new hope for that region, but in Egypt we’re seeing a step backwards in women’s rights, and spousal death is being transformed into a disgusting and perverted sequel to Weekend at Bernie’s.

Those who want to bring the “Arab Spring” to the U.S. are the same ones who are always on about the GOP’s “war on women.” Go figure.

The title of this post was for dramatic effect only — in reality I think Jill could kick his ass.

From the Daily Caller:

Vice President Joe Biden suggested on Wednesday that the GOP’s opposition to the Democratic version of a domestic violence bill will give the green light to male violence against women.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was passed in 1994 and was reauthorized in 2005. Approval of an updated law is stalled because Republican and Democratic senators disagree over what provisions should be added to the law.

“Just ask yourself, what message does it send to our daughters, to every women imprisoned in their own homes … if the law is not reauthorized,” Biden declared today at a White House meeting of feminists and groups that are funded by the law.

Social opposition to male abuse of women “became part of our social fabric, our social culture,” because of the 1994 law, Biden said. ”Just imagine the impact on the moral disapprobation of society if this Congress refuses to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.”

Poor ol’ Sheriff Joe still thinks morality comes from legislation.

But what do I know? I’m just a wife-beating white male. Here’s Phyllis Schlafly’s take on the VAWA:

For 30 years, the feminists have been pretending that their goal is to abolish all sex discrimination, eliminating all gender differences no matter how reasonable. When it comes to domestic violence, however, feminist dogma preaches that there is an innate gender difference: Men are naturally batterers, and women are naturally victims (i.e., gender profiling).

Starting with its title, VAWA is just about as sex discriminatory as legislation can get. It is written and implemented to oppose the abuse of women and to punish men.

Ignoring the mountain of evidence that women initiate physical violence nearly as often as men, VAWA has more than 60 passages in its lengthy text that exclude men from its benefits. For starters, the law’s title should be changed to Partner Violence Reduction Act, and the words “and men” should be added to those 60 sections.

The law should be rewritten to deal with the tremendous problem of false accusations so that its priority can be to help real victims. A Centers for Disease Control survey found that half of all partner violence was mutual, and 282 scholarly studies reported that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men.

Currently used definitions of domestic violence that are unacceptably trivial include calling your partner a naughty word, raising your voice, causing “annoyance” or “emotional distress,” or just not doing what your partner wants. The law’s revision should use an accurate definition of domestic violence that includes violence, such as: “any act or threatened act of violence, including any forceful detention of an individual, which results or threatens to result in physical injury.”

Women who make domestic violence accusations are not required to produce evidence and are never prosecuted for perjury if they lie. Accused men are not accorded fundamental protections of due process, not considered innocent until proven guilty and in many cases are not afforded the right to confront their accusers.

Legal assistance is customarily provided to women but not to men. Men ought to be entitled to equal protection of the law because many charges are felonies and could result in prison and loss of money, job and reputation.

The VAWA is discriminatory as hell. No wonder Barbara “ma’am” Boxer likes it so much.

Odd though how these self-proclaimed champions of women can then turn around and fully justify throwing over a half million females a year in the trash can.

Vice President Joe Biden described former Saturday Night Live comedian, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., as a “leading legal scholar,” presumably in the Senate, today.

“He has been one of the leading legal scholars,” Biden said of Franken today, according to the pool report. He also said that Franken “is deadly serious” as a senator. He made the comments while recalling concerns that then-candidate Franken could not be taken seriously as a Senate candidate given his SNL work.

Yep, one of Joe Biden’s “leading legal scholars” among congressional Dems is this guy:

I’m not saying Biden is wrong though — maybe Al Franken is one of the Dems’ leading legal scholars. Judging from the laws they push I have little doubt.