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- Opinion · Mar 9, 2012Plan B vs. Religious Liberty: Not So Fast
Finally -- some good news in the battle between so-called reproductive rights and religious liberty. How supremely ironic is it that at the same time the Obama Administration is seeking … says quite clearly that Plan B “may inhibit implantation” of a fertilized egg by causing the lining of a woman’s uterus to thin. Friends, that means a genetically complete
- Alexander's Column · Mar 8, 2012The Politics of Self-Destruction
that end, the Republican candidates do a great disservice to the fight to restore Liberty as it was bequeathed to us and, by extension, to our posterity. Jeb Bush … field might cause some Republican and conservative heartburn, but it is fully consistent with our mission to “ support and defend “ our national foundation of Essential Liberty . As such
- Opinion · Mar 6, 2012Rush: At the Tip of Liberty’s Spear
years because he is the most effective and influential spokesman for the conservative cause. What I am observing is the most radical display of hate and intolerance that … spending. We are experiencing an unprecedented assault on our Constitution and the God-given liberties it seeks to guarantee. We were already spending unconscionable amounts of money, but President Obama
- Opinion · Mar 2, 2012Vending Machine Abortions: Missing the Point
almost non-stop over the last two weeks about this huge threat to religious liberty from this administration, requiring employers to provide contraception and abortion-inducing medication for their employers … already fertilized egg. And it’s up to 89 percent effective in causing an abortion to occur. Well, it’s tempting to just shake your head
- Opinion · Feb 28, 2012Christian Conservatives Guard Religious Liberty
damage to the second clause and defeat the overarching purpose of both: ensuring religious liberty. Ever since the so-called Christian right began its organized activism during the 1980s, liberals … this period of crisis are at least annoying and possibly detrimental to the cause of electing a Republican who can build a wide enough coalition to defeat the primary culprit
- Opinion · Feb 18, 2012Rationing Our Rights
black. This HHS health care mandate is the gravest assault on religious liberty in American history. We must legislate against it. We must sue in federal court. We must line … mandate will force us to violate our consciences and provide drugs that can cause abortions. To us, killing unborn children at any stage is never health care
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2012Outlawing Rent Control
several intervals of sanity, since the “emergency” declared because returning soldiers faced housing shortages caused by a building slowdown during World War I . Most tenants in rent-controlled units … American freedom, said property rights, which he defined to include rights to “lives, liberties and estates,” exist prior to, and independent of, government, and their preservation is “the great
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Quakers, Conscience, and Contraception
virtually anyone who wants them). It isn’t economical (using insurance for routine expenses causes health-care spending to soar). It isn’t constitutional (the government has no legitimate authority … much to recommend them, but neither goes to the essence of American pluralism. Religious liberty, on the other hand, is the very first freedom in the Bill of Rights. © Copyright
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Can Obama Order Grocers to Give Away Bread?
Hatch said. “Nothing.” Orrin Hatch spoke prophetically. Yet Obama’s escalating attacks on American liberty in the post-Obamacare era are nonetheless shocking -- for they reveal a president full … cover sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortion. Because Obamacare mandates that all Americans must purchase health insurance, this regulation would require Catholics
- Opinion · Feb 15, 2012Free Health Care? That’s Rich
about contraception,” thundered GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum. “It’s about economic liberty. It’s about freedom of speech. It’s about freedom of religion. It’s about government control … Obama misled voters when he promised that the Affordable Care Act wouldn’t cause anyone to lose their current coverage). That would at least allow religious organizations to uphold their
- Opinion · Feb 10, 2012‘To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit’
bunch of wealthy white women and elite Washington bureaucrats defend the trampling of religious liberties in the name of “increased access” to “reproductive services” for “poor” women, the ghost … from callers posing as eugenics cheerleaders who wanted to earmark their contributions for the cause of aborting minority babies. “We can definitely designate it for an African-American,” a Tulsa
- Opinion · Feb 2, 2012Romney Told Catholic Hospitals to Administer Abortion Pills
provide them to the rape victim if she wanted them even when they would cause an abortion. Maria Parker of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, the public policy organization … still opposed the bill because it would facilitate abortions. But at least the religious liberty of Catholic hospitals had been preserved -- or so it seemed. On July 25, 2005, Romney
- Opinion · Jan 30, 2012The Real ‘Iron Lady’
caused by the build-up of weapons,” she told the U.S. Congress. “They are caused when an aggressor believe he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.” In addition … lose just cheer -- or grumble -- on the side-lines. “For those who love liberty, the fortunes of America are even more our preoccupation than in years gone
- Article · Jan 30, 2012Occupy Oakland Burns U.S. Flag
either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” --Samuel Adams Occupy Oakland lit up this weekend … establishment everyplace. No longer will the recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street. ... God bless them for their spontaneity. It’s independent ... it’s young
- Article · Jan 21, 2012Open Thread: Stonewall Jackson
equally great faith who gave his life for the cause of liberty and states’ rights. Jackson died of pneumonia after being accidentally shot by his own men during the Battle
- Article · Jan 19, 2012Open Thread: Robert E. Lee
also a great man of faith who gave his all for the cause of liberty and states’ rights. There were many honorable men of the Confederate States of America, whose
- Opinion · Jan 4, 2012I Love Greed
economics, meant when he said in his classic “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776), “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher … course, they have what they consider to be good reasons for restricting liberty, but every tyrant who has ever lived has had what he considered good reason for restricting liberty
- Alexander's Column · Dec 22, 2011Our Founders Were Forthright About Faith
associated with Christmas. If not for its dire implications for the future of Liberty, the seasonal contortions over “non-offensive greetings” would be humorous. The Left insists the word “Christmas … White House these days. For the record, civilian Inspectors General and military JAGs cause a lot of heartburn for millions of government and military personnel, who must constantly check their
- Opinion · Dec 21, 2011Manure Makers, Yes; Catholics, No
cover, without any co-pay, sterilizations and all-FDA approved contraceptives, including those that cause abortions. The regulation, published in August by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, includes … rescind the regulation, and calling it, accurately, an “unprecedented attack on religious liberty.” But at an October fundraiser in St. Louis, Obama arrogantly bragged about the regulation. “Darn tooting
- Alexander's Column · Dec 15, 2011Liberty v. the Fatal Cycle of Democracy
genuine Patriots to stand ever ready to defend Liberty, convicted that, in the words of George Washington, “Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind … published in 1776, as our Patriot ancestors were declaring our natural right to Liberty. Gibbon outlined in detail how opulence and entitlement led to the incremental loss of civic virtue