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Republican Candidates are Using ‘Freedom of Speech’ and Religion as Weapons to Make Political Points
ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There is outrage in some quarters about the 9th circuit’s ruling that California’s Proposition 8 violated the Constitution not only by rescinding a right already in effect but also because it was unconstitutional on its face. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly was positively apoplectic and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough argued that two [...]
Continue reading...Romney Doubles Down on Anti-Immigration Stance
10 February 2012 – 12:28 am PST
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In the first of two Florida debates held in that state before Mitt Romney triumphed easily in the Republican Party‘s presidential primary a week ago Saturday, the former Massachusetts governor was asked a question about immigration. He not only restated his opposition to the Dream Act — humane legislation [...]
Continue reading...The problem with making the morning-after pill as easy to get as a candy bar
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
Fox News reported today that a Texas high school coach faces felony charges after giving the morning-after pill to one of her underage 16-yr-old students. There’s the first reason not to make the morning-after pill easily available to adults: Just because an adult buys it doesn’t mean an adult will take it. Shippensburg University in [...]
Continue reading...Life Links 2-9-12
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat At Talking Points Memo, former Planned Parenthood presidents Faye Wattleton and Gloria Feldt discuss the Komen controversy. Wattleton notes the AT&T battle, which she blames on them for going public with their defunding decision: In reference to Komen, Feldt says, “Planned Parenthood has to play really hardball or [...]
Continue reading...Breaking: Multiple lawsuits filed against contraceptive mandate; megachurch pastor vows jail
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
Breaking news… EWTN has just announced it filed a lawsuit today to block the contraception mandate. From the National Catholic Register: “EWTN’s lawsuit is important because the network is not a church. They are a lay-run organization, and they have a right to live by and practice their faith and project the messages they want [...]
Continue reading...Someone call the president! Stupak says executive order bars contraceptive mandate
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
Greta Van Susteren interviewed former Congressman Bart Stupak last night to get his take on the Obama administration’s new mandate forcing religious institutions to cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their employee insurance plans. Pro-lifers will have no trouble remembering Stupak as the leader of a group of pro-life Democrats who signed on to Obamacare [...]
Continue reading...Lunch Break: Scrat’s continental crack-up
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
by LauraLoo Here’s one for the kids…of any age. Hilarious! Click here to view the embedded video. Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions. HT: From my friend Miranda, who turned 11 on Sunday. Happy Birthday! <3
Continue reading...Pro-life Democrat who voted for Obamacare has regrets?
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
I would have never voted for the final version of the bill if I expected the Obama Administration to force Catholic hospitals and Catholic Colleges and Universities to pay for contraception…. We worked hard to prevent abortion funding in health care and to include clear conscience protections for those with moral objections to abortion and [...]
Continue reading...When even Chris Matthews opposes Obama’s contraceptive mandate, you know it’s in trouble
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
When even infamously liberal Catholic and Obama worshipper Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews has problems with the Obama administration’s mandate forcing religious institutions to cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their insurance policies, you know it’s in trouble. “It gets to that interesting point to me, which is frightening, when the state tells the [...]
Continue reading...WashPo: Contraceptive insurance mandate due to waning abortion support?
10 February 2012 – 12:27 am PST
All of us agree the Obama administration’s decision to force religious institutions to cover contraception and abortifacients in insurance policies was to keep his liberal feminist voting bloc happy and further line the pockets of Planned Parenthood. That’s kind of a “duh.” But Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post pitched a new theory today I [...]
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10 February 2012 – 12:28 am PST
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