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Obama’s Contraceptive 'Compromise' Doesn't Pass the Smell Test
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2012 Comment (154)Take a look at the White House fact sheet just released on the president's "accommodation" on the Health and Human Services ruling on contraceptives and religious liberty:
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On Women in Combat, Rick Santorum Insults Military Men
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2012 Comment (26)So Rick Santorum says that he was not talking about over-emotional females when he raised objections to the idea of women in combat. Instead, he says, he was talking about how over-emotional males might behave. OK fine, so instead of insulting women, he's insulted men, and military men in particular.
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To Avoid a Failed February, Mitt Romney Needs a Big Idea
Tweet Share on Facebook February 10, 2012 Comment (7)To borrow a headline from Matt Drudge, former Gov. Mitt Romney got "Rick Roll[ed]" on Tuesday night, thanks to decisive victories by Rick Santorum in the Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado Republican presidential nominating contests.
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How Mitt Romney Should Respond to the Improving Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (10)The terrain of economic debate is moving under former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's feet. His response, so far, has amounted to an acknowledgement of reality with a subjective caveat: Things are getting better in spite of President Obama's policies, not because of them.
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The Problems With the Catholic Church and Birth Control
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (24)On January 20, when Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius issued a final rule requiring that all women have access to free preventive care services, including contraceptives, the heat from congressional leaders, Republican presidential candidates, and Catholic groups increased. (The rule includes an exemption for churches and houses of worship, but not for other religious institutions such as hospitals, universities, and charities.)
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Democrats Rebelling Against Obama Birth Control Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (6)As news spread that a provision in President Obama's landmark healthcare legislation mandated that religious institutions, such as schools and hospitals, be forced to provide birth control and contraceptive protection for employees in spite of the institution's religious grounding, the reaction was immediate: The move was a blunder, an unforced error from an administration that had finally started making some headway with voters.
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Catholic Birth Control Fight About Healthcare, Not Just Religion
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (12)Why, in the 21st century, is birth control still such an uncomfortable subject in America?
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Rick Santorum's Sweep Means It’s Still Anybody’s Race
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (4)Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum swept the "mini-Tuesday" contests in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri, much to the surprise of those following the GOP presidential primaries. These back-to-back-to-back victories breathed new life into a campaign which seemed a fool's errand when it began, with few people thinking Santorum had the ability to go the distance except as a ticket-balancing vice presidential possibility from an electorally important state.
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Don’t Ban Earmarks--Fix Them
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (4)This week's Washington Post investigative feature on congressional earmarking highlights serious—but fixable—problems with the earmark vetting process. Tuesday's article identified $300 million in member-directed funds for projects located so close to properties of the sponsoring lawmakers that they may have benefited financially from the funding. Wednesday's article named 16 members of Congress who had ordered earmarks for organizations or businesses that employ their own family members. Predictably, some legislators are already calling for a permanent ban on all earmarking. Although the articles raise questions that the Ethics Committees should thoroughly investigate and punish if warranted, the best solution isn't to ban earmarks but rather to oversee them more carefully, make them completely transparent, and severely punish those who violate conflict of interest laws.
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Obamacare Birth Control Mandate Tramples Religious Liberty
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (20)For most Americans the idea of religious liberty is sacred. It's the reason the country came into being, the Massachusetts Bay colony having been founded by religious pilgrims seeking the right to worship as they chose without interference from the state. Yet this most elemental of our freedoms is now in jeopardy thanks to an effort by the Obama administration to force religious institutions to offer healthcare benefits that violate the basic tenets of their faith.
