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January 21, 2013 — John Hinderaker
The Washington Post reports today that al Qaeda’s successful attack on the Algerian natural gas plant has greatly boosted al Qaeda’s prestige in Africa. Along the way, the Post notes rather casually: The assailants were well-trained and armed with what appear to have been weapons from the late Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s arsenal. The overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi has turned out to be a terrible blunder. It has empowered radical
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December 5, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Last night the Jack Kemp Foundation held its annual dinner at the Mayflower Hotel. Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio were there to begin testing the waters for 2016. Byron York saw the event as an opportunity to recast the Republican Party and its candidates as, in Kemp’s words, “bleeding heart conservatives” and thereby “attempt to get out from under the legacy of ’47 percent.’” Byron is likely right about that.
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November 11, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Do Democrats engage in soul-searching after they lose an election? Maybe I miss it because I’m not a Democrat, but it doesn’t seem that they do. After John Kerry lost in 2004, did Democrats agonize over whether they should stop opposing the war in Iraq, or become pro-abortion? When Democrats were “shellacked,” as President Obama put it, in 2010, did they debate whether they should come up with a coherent
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November 7, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I think I know what the morning after the 1948 election was like, when everyone’s expectations of Dewey’s victory over Truman were upset. I recall my mother once telling me that normally gregarious people in her west LA workplace walked around in shocked silence all morning. No silence here. We’re in it for the long haul. As T.S. Eliot said, there are no lost causes because there are no gained
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October 12, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Joe Biden got away with a number of whoppers last night, one of them on the enormities committed against religious institutions by Obamacare. Today the Catholic Bishops have issued a statement putting the lie to Biden’s whopper: Last night, the following statement was made during the Vice Presidential debate regarding the decision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force virtually all employers to include sterilization
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September 20, 2012 — Scott Johnson
David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale and the author, most recently, of America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), just published by Encounter Books. He wrote “Why do we live in America-Lite?” for us, briefly summarizing the themes of his new book. Professor Gelernter returned to expand on the themes of his book in “What keeps this failed president above water?” and
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September 6, 2012 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats’ serial bungling of the “God” and “Jerusalem” issues is being universally derided as an unforced error. And, of course it was. But it was not an error that occurred in a vacuum. On the contrary, these events–dropping any reference to God from the party’s platform, and refusing, in effect, to identify Jerusalem with Judeo-Christian history, followed by the spectacle of a majority of delegates voting against reinstating God
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August 12, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
First, the selection of Paul Ryan is very unlikely to change the outcome of the election. Only once in my lifetime has the VP selection probably changed the outcome (the selection of Lyndon Johnson in 1960). This may be the only such case in American history. Even taking into account that this election is likely to be closer than average, I doubt there is more than a 5 percent chance
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June 28, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Finally back in Ashland, Ohio, after my turn this morning at Bill Bennett’s radio mic, which is always fun. Dinner tonight with Mike Huckabee. Wonder what will be on his mind? I wont’s sugarcoat this: today’s Supreme Court decision was a significant defeat for the cause of constitutionally limited government, made all the more galling by the fact that Justice Kennedy—the usual wobbler—was on board for striking down the whole
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May 28, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday (video below). FNS host Chris Wallace and Wuerl discussed the 12 lawsuits brought by 43 Catholic institutions against officers of the Obama administration seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the “preventive services” mandate promulgated (and to be promulgated) by the administration. The complaint in one of the 12 lawsuits — University of Notre Dame v. Sebelius —
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May 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
We have written several posts about the lawsuits by dozens of Catholic institutions against the federal government that seek to invalidate the HHS mandate requiring them to violate their religious precepts by providing employees with contraceptive and certain abortion services. It strikes me as obvious that the HHS mandate violates the free exercise clause of the First Amendment, but this is not an area in which I am an expert.
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May 24, 2012 — Scott Johnson
As Quin Hillyer observed a while back, E.J. Dionne has made the descent from a thoughtful liberal columnist into a left-wing hit-man and, finally, a flagrantly dishonest left-wing hit-man. From his Washington Post column on the 12 lawsuits filed around the country by 43 Catholic institutions against the Obamacare “preventive services” mandate, one will learn precisely nothing except what a shill he is. In my notes on University of Notre
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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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May 21, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Today, as Scott Johnson noted in an earlier post, multiple Catholic Dioceses and organizations filed lawsuits in federal courts around the country challenging the Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate requiring religious organizations to provide coverage in their health care plans for drugs (contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs) and procedures (sterilization) that are in direct conflict with their religious beliefs. Twelve Archdioceses or Dioceses are participating, each in a
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May 21, 2012 — Scott Johnson
In a story we’ve been following for several months now, Terry Jeffrey reports today’s development: The Archdiocese of New York, headed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., headed by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the University of Notre Dame, and 40 other Catholic dioceses and organizations around the country announced on Monday that they are suing the Obama administration for violating their freedom of religion, which is guaranteed by
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May 20, 2012 — Scott Johnson
This past Friday we had another Obamacare against the Church moment, this one facilitated by Georgetown University. Georgetown invited HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to give the commencement address to graduating public policy students. Sebelius’s commencement speech faithfully followed the traditional form. It was just boring and humorless enough to sound like she may have had a hand in writing it herself. Politico easily extracted the theme from the complete text
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April 14, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Jonathan Tobin comments on the universal implications of the Church’s stand against the “preventive services” regulation of Obamacare to be promulgated by the agencies of the federal government as soon as they can figure out how to make the services materialize for “free.” The Obama administration would like you to forget all about it. Annoy them and remember: [T]he nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are trying to refocus Americans on the
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