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Shortly before noon Thursday, live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)< CNN political reporter Peter Hamby described the gathering as a “conservative petri dish” to measure “how Mitt Romney is received and how his challengers are received too.” Anchor Suzanne Malveaux chimed in: “I love that, conservative petri dish. That’s a great way to describe it.” A petri dish is defined as “a shallow circular dish with a loose-fitting cover, used to culture bacteria or other microorganisms.” As if conservatives are some kind of organism in a contained space to be studied from above by the “scientists” at CNN for our harmful effects. We’re not the Ebola virus, but that seems as if it’s how …
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That’s the title of a new article by Gary Lawson and me, forthcoming in a symposium issue of Boston University’s American Journal of Law & Medicine. The Journal has a large readership among medical professionals who are interested in legal issues relating to medicine. Accordingly, if you have been following the VC’s debate on the ACA over the past couple years, most of what is in the article will already be familiar to you. Here is the abstract: The question whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) is “unconstitutional” is thorny, not simply because it presents intriguing issues of interpretation but also because it starkly illustrates the ambiguity that often accompanies the word “unconstitutional.” The term…
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The exile of T op Totty (beer) from a House of Commons bar (following a co mplaint f rom the Labour Party’s “equalities” spokeswoman) has been a big story in the UK in the last week, and it appears to have taken a happy turn: Family-run Staffordshire brewer Slater’s revealed it has seen sales jump since one of its ales upset a MP Kate Green and attracted headlines around the world last week. Slater’s sales director Fay Slater announced that the firm has been bombarded with phone calls and emails from landlords wanting to get their hands on barrels of Top Totty. Keep reading this post . . .
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When attack ads attack attack ads.
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From the diaries… We had a smallish political brush-fire here in Michigan in 1982. The grizzled old William Milliken had finally decided that 124 terms was enough as Governor, and he was hanging up the cleats. Jim Blanchard, a weirdo Democrat downriver Detroit Big Labor congressman decided he would run, as did a few other miscreants from the Democrat party. Even the benighted John Conyers toyed with the idea, until someone pointed it out to the congressman that if he were elected Governor, he’d actually have to LIVE in Michigan, and to heck with that. On the Republican side, all the usual suspect lined up: Jim Brickley, Bill Milliken’s lieutenant …
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If $1.1 trillion owned by Americans to China is no big deal, as MSNBC weekend host Chris Hayes would have you believe, at what point does it become one — five trillion? Ten? Ever? Hayes, filling in as guest host on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Feb. 6, was criticizing GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra’s “Debbie Spend It Now” ad against incumbent Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow. (video after page break) Hoekstra’s ad, Hayes predictably inveighed, was racist as all get out and “makes some substantive claims, which are …
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We have been told that an “independent” panel from the Institute of Medicine put together the recommendations upon which the current mandate we’ve been talking so much about here and elsewhere is based. But it’s worth noticing that the “reproductive rights” activists were well represented on that panel. Human Life International further compiled : Keep reading this post . . .
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That video Kathryn linked to, of last night’s event at the Catholic Information Center , is a “must see.” It was an excellent panel discussion on the HHS mandate and will be of interest to anyone—Catholic or otherwise—with a concern for religious liberty. The point is worth reiterating: this is not just a “Catholic Issue.” You will find nary a sectarian argument in the entire 86+ minute video. Anyone interested in a serious discussion of the issue by a panel with unequaled expertise in the matter will find this video well worth their while. Keep reading this
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Judicial Watch on an election integrity project to pressure the states to clean up voter registration rolls to satisfy Section 8 of the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), a law that all too many states have been violating for years. Judicial Watch and True The Vote have sent letters to California, Ohio, Indiana, and Florida
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Dan Abrams is on the case (via Instapundit).
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Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, head of the Archdiocese of New York, has now publicly criticized the Obama administration’s new HHS mandate. Specifically, he has stated that the President Obama betrayed a commitment made to him weeks ago in a personal meeting. CBS reports : Dolan said he met with the president weeks ago in the Oval Office to talk about the law . Dolan said the president gave his promise the provision would go away, but it hasn’t. “It seems to be at odds with very sincere assurances that he gave me, that he wanted to continue to work with the church in these endeavors and views and projects he shared a passionate interest in, so I can’t figure it out,” Dolan said. Keep reading this post . . .
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From the Diaries by Leon… Keith Impink runs Westmoreland Electric, a small business in Tarrs, Pennsylvania which was founded in 1988 with two employees and a truck. His company, now 65 employees strong, is the type of job creator we should empower to move our state and country out of these difficult economic times. The painful irony for local job creators like Keith is their very own Congressman, Tim Murphy, has consistently voted to make it harder for small businesses to grow, thrive and prosper. Small business can’t compete against Big Labor, and it’s tough to find a more …
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So, it’s an understandable slip of the tongue….
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The FBI releases the file it had on Steve Jobs.
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Why Planned Parenthood knew it had to hit back hard when Komen pulled its funding.
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Stanford Review, and this weekend, Review staffers and alumni are gathering in Palo Alto to celebrate the occasion. The Review has published every semester since 1987, making it the second-oldest continuously publishing conservative student newspaper in the country. During this time, the Review has provided a source of conservative commentary to the Stanford campus and has been a persistent thorn in the side of the university administration. In fact, in one of the Review ’s finest moments, a Review staffer even defeated …
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From the diaries by Leon… Let me begin with two brief qualifiers. First, I believe in fiscal conservatism. I am a 100% fiscally conservative believer in small government. I also happen to be 100% in favor of social conservatism and a strong national defense. So, in short, I am a Reagan conservative. The following diary is not a critique of fiscal conservatism but rather those fiscal conservatives who continually bash social conservatives while at the same time asking for their vote. Second, those aforementioned fiscal conservatives were not exactly loners. They simply wanted social conservatives to shut up and move to the back of the bus. Despite their rhetoric, they still very much need social conservatives to triumph at the ballot box. Throughout 2010 and 2011, fiscal conservatives loudly proclaimed that the upcoming presidential election was…
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Evangelical pastor Rick Warren tweets : I’m not a Catholic but I stand in 100% solidarity with my brothers & sisters to practice their belief against govt pressure Keep reading this post . . .
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On Monday, Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times had a post on his Loyal Opposition blog analyzing whether or not abortion is rare. Interestingly, he argued that both sides in the abortion debate have a vested interest in making the case that abortions are common. People who are pro-life want to call for greater restrictions on abortion by suggesting that access to abortion is too easy. Supporters of legal abortion want to make the case that obtaining an abortion is fairly common and thus part of the medical and cultural mainstream. According to the Guttmacher Institute, there were 1.2 million abortions performed in 2008. Rosenthal finds that during the same year, there were more blood transfusions and cardiac catherizations and about the same number of upper gastrointestinal endoscopies performed. …
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