Any one can be a father. It takes something special to be a "Dad". Happiest of Fathers Days to the great "Dads" out there. Make some memories, today, with your kids.

I couldn't disagree with you more, ladykrystyna. This very common, and not just in MO or California. It is all across the nation.

We need to change the way people think about divorce/family courts. Divide and conquer works to keep folks divided on the issue if we can pit women vs. men in custody/financial issues. It keeps the focus from the corruption and on the minutia. For the courts, it's about money. The litigant with the money wins. Families across America are weakened when men don't pay maintenance/child support when they violate the marriage contract or when "truly" unfit mothers (such as in the McCarty story) get custody because she has money to buy more court time.

@lizardAZ Sadly most of the judges in the county that Jack is entangled in are Republican, and I can tell you this kind of "justice" is common in this county. It's not a liberal issue. Also, this county is not unique in its handling of family court abuse. This is a particularly heinous example, of course, but none the less typical in what has become of the judiciary and family courts across the country.

While most see these abuses and throw their hands up in disgust because there seems to be no solution to the problem, I propose this:

IMPEACHMENT

In Missouri, the legislature is responsible for impeachment of judges who have gone rogue/wild. Justices who choose to rule by opinion rather than law should be impeached, whether the case be of a heinous, such as this, or prosecuting a jay walker. We are all witnessing what happens to a branch of government when the are not held to the standard of their position. When we have legislators from working from the bench, we no longer need legislators in state capitols. When rule of law becomes obsolete you have anarchy and tyranny.

If we didn't understand before, that it's not about party, it's about politics, we certainly understand it now. And politicians motivated by politics are not working to do the "right thing" necessarily. So, maybe it's now more important than ever for patriots to not only look beyond party, but to also very closely and carefully scrutinize behavior of those slithering around in the TeaParty movement. If WORDS + ACTIONS do not equal UNITY OF MESSAGE then the character of the politician we are putting into authority IS THE WRONG GUY/GAL. Party labels mean nothing. Even those with TeaParty labels.

Hats off to McCarty for bringing light to this issue. Lorben and erb, great points, and I would interject the discussion needs to turn to reintroducing the idea that education is this country's largest entitlement program. How long does it take to indoctrinate a populace to believe it is the government's responsibility to educate children? When did it become acceptable to turn parental responsibility over to the government? Institutional schooling is a fairly new concept in the larger scheme of things. Most history will show that home education or smaller collective schools were organized by local communities, paid for by local communities, and I will go out on a limb here to say, provided a better education. Time for government to get out of public ed. all together. Time for parents to take back their responsibilities and find educational answers for their children, instead of leaving it to their local public school.

What no one is talking about, Dems, Republicans, or TeaParty folks is that Health Care Costs Too Much! Why? Because the insurance lobby owns the representation in DC and across the country. If you want to get rid of ObamaCare, you need to address that Republicans do not have the backbone to abandon their insurance lobby sugar daddy. By abandoning the sugar daddy, you address infusing free market philosophy into the health care debate, which does not exist now. Of course we need reps who will repeal ObamaCare, but after that we need a new system. A system must include eradicating the old insurance good-ol-boy network that keeps us from buying insurance across state lines, discourages competition which in turn allows them to have no need to work for their clientele. If insurance companies had to change their policies (like eliminate the pre-existing condition clause) to attract business/customers we would have a lot fewer issues in the health care system. Also, if the public could deal with health care professionals directly, without the need to go through insurance companies, perhaps costs would go down, by eliminating the middle man.

What we need is representation with some back bone to insist on breathing new ideas into the great health care debate. TeaParties need to put the pressure on the Republicans to do so. That means specifically identifying the REAL causes that make health care a problem . Cost/Insurance Sugar Daddies/Lack of Competition

Republican values, by MY standards:

Small Government, and I am a Constitutional constructionist. Reagan wasn't perfect, but he was good in some areas. Perhaps he, too, was swayed by modern political structures. Perhaps the message of the TeaParty movement is to say, "Go back to the basics and follow the outline the founders gave you!" It's perfect. With your freedom of speech and assembly you have the rights to spread the word on issues and character relating to candidates/leadership that represents you or not. Then you have the right to vote them out. The problem lies in the fact that we ( the nation at large) have become lazy and disengaged. The power does really lie with the people. They just stopped using it or gave it away to the 'Political Class'.

The issue with the Rupp/Davis race parallels most of the other GOP primaries across the country. Good Ol Boy Club politics fights against tried and true conservative values to maintain power/control. Rupp is part of the ";network" that has run St. Charles and surrounding counties since before dirt was invented. They use every dirty, underhanded, deceptive trick in the book to maintain power. It's not about public service. It's about who's in control of the power structure. Republicans, of the Grand Old Party, have lost their focus/purpose and succumbed to corruption and greed. When, one of their own, comes along trying to right the ship, they are eaten. Party philosophy has been completely forgotten, or should I say sacrificed for greed.