As far as I know, Michele Bachmann is the only Republican candidate who has stated her support for a federal amendment on this topic. Elwyn Tinklenberg, the Democratic candidate for this seat also stated publicly at his announcement press conference that he supported the Federal Marriage Amendment. I thought it was noteworthy that the Federal Marriage Amendment did not come up as a question during a forum geared towards the Republican base.

Eva Young
Minneapolis

Cyn Collin responds: According to his campaign manager, Jay Esmay’s position is, if the state or federal judges did not allow states to define marriage, then he would support the Federal Marriage Amendment. In March, State Reps. Krinkie and Knoblach voted in support of HF 0006, a bill proposing an amendment to the MN Constitution recognizing marriage as only a union between one man and one woman.

The Rockefeller Connection to Halliburton
I loved your article “Covered in Oil.” Here are a few related facts that you might be interested in:

In 1936 a Texas construction company, Brown and Root Corp., was almost bankrupt and in receivership. At the same time (as broke as they were) they were also the biggest single campaign contributor to a rising Texas star, LB Johnson. LBJ was elected. Brown and Root got some juicy government contracts, and they all did “right well” for themselves.Years later, as a pay-off for LBJ’s supporting his good friend Nelson Rockefeller’s oil war in Southeast Asia (a ploy to force China into the Rockefeller hegemony) Rockefeller suggested Brown and Root’s monopoly construction contract in Vietnam (no bid payment for all construction and the right to sub-contract anything they didn’t want to do themselves).

After Nixon officially closed the deal between Standard Oil and China, and China’s Oil began to flow to the United States, we pulled out of Vietnam and Brown and Root were folded into a Rockefeller company, Kellogg Corp. (forming Kellogg, Brown and Root Corp.) The Rockefellers later put this into the care of one of their subalterns, the Bush family, who morphed the corporation into Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown and Root Corp. You can check with your stockbroker on this.

Like Korea and Vietnam, Iraq is just another war in the expanding Rockefeller/Standard Oil Empire. If one checks the various cabinets of U.S. presidents since Eisenhower (who sold out his country to the Rockefellers for 30 pieces of Phillips Petroleum stock), one will find that half the players were Rockefeller employees or former employees. John Foster Dulles was a former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, as was Dean Rusk. During the Vietnam War the casualty reports were total fiction made up three weeks before their supposed occurrences (my father’s best friend, Ray Carlson, was Officer in Charge of Public Information Pentagon East, Vietnam during the Nixon administration). The older I get the more I realize that Orwell’s 1984 was not a work of fiction.

Mac McGinnis