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Question: Do the new conscience-protection regulations the administration released last week maintain or rescind President Barack Obama's regulatory mandate that health insurance plans provide co-pay-free coverage for sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives — which include abortion-inducing drugs and devices?
The football stadium was the only feature of the Air Force Academy visible from the highway that day. Everything else was obscured by a dense, low-lying fog.
From the earliest days of American football, there was a fear that professionalization could ruin the game.
Liberals talk about "income inequality" as if it is caused by insufficient government action — including insufficient taxation of those they call the "rich."
Former President Barack Obama made a profound — if not plainly stated — concession in an essay he posted on Facebook last week attacking a decision by President Donald Trump.
The political optics were some of President Trump's best — as he prepared on May 4 to sign an executive order defending freedom of conscience.
The border in question divides two countries that in some ways are among the most starkly different on earth.
Winning in Afghanistan is not about what happens there. It is about what happens here.
If you are going to be a student athlete, the coach said, there are only two things you can do: Be a student and an athlete.
No reasonable person can absolutely predict that a major hurricane will or will not hit the United States before the end of September.
The House Budget Committee has approved a budget that declares deficit spending "a sin," makes a powerful case for why this is so, and then presents a plan for continuing in this sin for nine more years.
"I am pleased to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States." So declared conservative Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions at a rally in his home state of Alabama on Feb. 28, 2016, two days before Super Tuesday.
"None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used to carry out Title X of the PHS Act." That simple sentence constitutes the entirety of Section 226 in a bill a House subcommittee passed last week. In its report on this bill, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies explained why it included this sentence.
It was a bright April day in Washington, DC, when a large crowd gathered on the South Lawn of the White House to greet a man celebrating his 81st birthday. The president of the United States introduced him. Then he gave a brief address — still viewable on C-SPAN — that focused on the greatness of America. Pope Benedict XVI understood this nation's vision.
John Dickinson was both passionate and polite — and served as a role model for political rhetoricians in an era long before the Age of Twitter.
Would Justice Sonia Sotomayor let Christian schools play public schools in basketball? Or would she declare that such a game — or at least some iterations of such a game — would violate the First Amendment prohibition against the government establishing a religion?
The day before he ordered the U.S. military to intervene in Libya's civil war — without securing a constitutionally mandated authorization from Congress — President Barack Obama, with presumably unintended irony, attempted to sound poetic about the need to defend "democratic values" in the nation then ruled by Moammar Gadhafi.
In 2010, the Republicans took control of the House; in 2014, the Senate; and, in 2016, the White House.
You could still see his mouth and his chin, but only the right side of his face from the nose up.
Real federal taxes per capita have more than doubled since John F. Kennedy served as president — and argued for lower taxes.
