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May 15, 2013 — Scott Johnson
Obama presents himself as detached from the events giving rise to the controversies that now beset his administration. He’s just the president. Obama has found this a useful pose in the face of the exposure of the IRS as the handmaiden of his efforts to help friends and harm enemies. He has touted the IRS as an independent agency. How can he be responsible for the shenanigans of agents that
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February 4, 2013 — Scott Johnson
In the 2012 election results I learned that just about everything I “know” is wrong. One thing I thought I knew was that the average American’s natural sense of religious tolerance would be grossly offended by the Obamacare contraception mandate. False! And that the average American would find the administration’s hypothetical solution — the magical provision of the contraceptive benefit at no expense to objecting religious institutions (narrowly defined) —
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August 5, 2012 — Scott Johnson
We’ve been following the issues raised by the Obamacare regulation requiring employer-provided health insurance plans to provide “preventive services” including abortifacients, contraception, and sterilization. John McCormack notes that the mandate took effect last Wednesday, and triggered the filing of a lawsuit by Wheaton College. David Catron notes that one federal judge has enjoined enforcement of the “preventive services” mandate against Hercules Industries in a lawsuit pending in federal court in
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May 22, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the University of Notre Dame filed a lawsuit against HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other high ranking officers of the Obama administration. The complaint is available online here. I urge readers to check it out for themselves. It is a document of great interest. In this post I offer a few observations. 1. It was only three years ago that the University of Notre Dame invited President Obama to
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March 28, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Our friend Bill Katz holds down the fort at Urgent Agenda. He writes to follow up on my brief celebration of “Wonderful Town,” the Wonderful Musical that I saw on Broadway in the 2004 revival starring Donna Murphy. Bill adds back into the mix much of the incredible human interest that I left out of the story: Earlier this week Scott wrote a piece on the musical, “Wonderful Town,” which
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March 24, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Last weekend I struggled to understand the Obama administration’s advance notice of propose rule making reformulating the happy hour on contraception, sterilization and abortifacients that is to be shoved down the throats of Catholic institutions under Obamacare. The powers-that-be in the government call the services at issue “preventive services” and struggle with how to make them “free.” The advance notice has been posted here. Take a look. It provides a
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March 17, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Whatever happened to baby pain? I mean, has the the Obama administration’s ludicrous “accommodation” of the Church’s opposition to the compelled provision of free contraception, sterilization and abortifacients resolved the serious constitutional affront involved? Or has it thrown one more into the mix? Somehow the Democrat Media Axis has transformed the discussion into something else entirely. I’ve been looking for a copy of the regulation enacting the “accommodation” and requiring
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March 5, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Attorney Mark Leach writes from Louisville in response to “Adventures in Ad Law, cont’d”: While the focus on the HHS mandate under Obamacare has focused on “free” birth control, that same regulation also requires insurance companies to provide as of August 1, 2012, no-cost prenatal testing for genetic and developmental conditiosn. As I’ve written in the column linked below, and further at the link to Hugh’s blog and the Washington
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March 4, 2012 — Scott Johnson
The whole idea of “administrative law” — regulations with the force of law promulgated by executive agencies pursuant to powers delegated by Congress — squares uneasily at best with the Constitution and its scheme of separated powers. Obamacare presents us with a case study that amounts to a reductio ad absurdum. The agencies promulgating Obamacare regulations will produce a code that rivals the United States Code in length and complexity.
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March 1, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Whatever happened to baby pain? I mean, has the the Obama administration’s ludicrous “accommodation” of the Church’s opposition to the compelled provision of free contraception, sterilization and abortifacients resolved the serious constitutional affront involved? Or has it thrown one more into the mix? Somehow the mainstream media have transformed the discussion into something else entirely. By the way, has anyone actually seen a copy of the regulation enacting the “accommodation”
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February 12, 2012 — Scott Johnson
The whole idea of “administrative law” — regulations with the force of law promulgated by executive agencies pursuant to powers delegated by Congress — squares uneasily at best with the Constitution and its scheme of separated powers. Obamacare presents us with a case study that amounts to a reductio ad absurdum. The agencies promulgating Obamacare regulations will produce a code that rivals the United States Code in length and complexity.
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August 4, 2011 — Steven Hayward
A couple weeks ago I linked to my list of the top 12 environmental books over at my EnvironmentalTrends.org site, but then yesterday I noticed that our pal Kathryn Jean Lopez, writing over at the Corner, wondered what list of books a young conservative should read, and linked to Jonah Goldberg’s top ten book list from several years ago. It’s been a while since anyone asked me for my top
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December 12, 2010 — Paul Mirengoff
George Will marks the tenth anniversary of the Bush v. Gore decision by reminding us of the facts that undermine claims by the left that the decision was hypocritical activism on the part of the Supreme Court’s more conservative Justices. In reality, there is nothing “activist” about a higher court reversing the activist adventures of a lower court — at least not in any sense that a conservative should find
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August 20, 2010 — Scott Johnson
Michael Walsh is the editor of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Journalism site. He is also a notable writer in his own right. This week sees the publication of his new book Early Warning. I thought the book would be of interest to many Power Line readers and invited Michael to write something for us about it. He has graciously responded with the following column: My new thriller, Early Warning, is out
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May 9, 2009 — Scott Johnson
In the new issue of the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here), Andrew McCarthy reviews three of the left’s new assessments of the war on terrorism. Now that George Bush is out of office, McCarthy contends, liberals are at pains to reclaim his Wilsonianism for themselves. McCarthy is not amused. McCarthy was never a fan of Bush’s Wilsonian efforts, but he is also unimpressed by the critique of the left.
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October 4, 2008 — Scott Johnson
June 9, 2007 — Scott Johnson
Anyone seriously trying to understand American politics must reckon with what Charles Kesler has called “the three waves of liberalism,” beginning with Woodrow Wilson. As a Progressive academic steeped in the Hegelian dialectic, Wilson laid the intellectual groundwork for the assault on limited government. He hated the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which he frankly condemned as obsolete in his academic writings. Paul and I sketched an outline of
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