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Objections to Obama's Contraceptive Mandate Keep Building
Tweet Share on Facebook February 29, 2012 Comment (7)The pushback against the Obama administration's assault on religious liberty continues. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Archbishop of New York, recently signed on to a statement explicitly rejecting the new federal mandate that employers make available, either directly or indirectly, healthcare insurance that provides for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and other artificial contraceptives despite the dictates of the church.
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Republicans Are in Danger of Losing the Contraceptive Fight
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2012 Comment (24)The Obama mandate requiring unreproductive heath services to be made available to workers as part of any employer-provided health insurance plan has put the Nannystate squarely at odds with America's time-honored respect for religious liberty.
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Blame Barack Obama for Rising Gas Prices
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2012 Comment (29)With the economy in the doldrums the price of gasoline should be stable. Demand is down—and that should be reflected in the price at the pump. Instead it's creeping up, rising faster than most Americans can keep pace with, taxing family budgets that are already stretched paper thin.
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Vatican Endorses Pro-Life Movie Doonby
Tweet Share on Facebook February 21, 2012 Comment (3)The popular culture remains resolute and largely of one mind in its defense of abortion.
On television and in the movies, no one ever seems to die or suffer serious health or emotional consequences after undergoing a legal abortion. Abortion opponents are most often portrayed as kooks, hypocrites, murderers, or worse. No one ever seems to question the morality or the constitutionality of the laws that keep the process legal. Is there any other issue in the legal or medical field that Hollywood treats with such one-sided reverence?
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It’s Washington’s Birthday—Not Presidents' Day
Tweet Share on Facebook February 17, 2012 Comment (17)That time of year is once again almost upon us: Presidents' Day, the perennial excuse for a three-day weekend and a chance to buy stuff on sale. Commercialized beyond even Christmas, the holiday has lost its meaning.
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Barack Obama's Budget Is Even Worse Than It Looks
Tweet Share on Facebook February 16, 2012 Comment (23)While running for president, Barack Obama promised the American voters that he would change the way things were done in Washington.
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Barack Obama's $5.6 Billion Valentine's Day Tax
Tweet Share on Facebook February 14, 2012 Comment (1)To all you lovebirds out there, we wish you a happy and healthy Valentine's Day. If it costs you a little more this year than in years past you can thank the federal government—at least that's what the nonpartisan Americans for Tax Reform has determined.
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On Contraception Mandate, Obama Blunders Into the Culture Wars
Tweet Share on Facebook February 14, 2012 Comment (5)Up to now, the Obama administration has been fighting for changes in public policy confined largely to the economic sphere, stimulating class envy and seeking to divide the entitlement-minded among us from those who manage to make their way in a generally free-market system.
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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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Obamacare Birth Control Mandate Tramples Religious Liberty
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2012 Comment (22)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.
