Search Results for: the church against obamacare
July 27, 2017 — Scott Johnson
I last watched a segment of the PBS NewsHour in 2010 when Ray Suarez served up a paean to the alleged glories of the Cuban health care system. You had to be an idiot of the variety called useful (useful to Communists) to peddle that line 50 years ago. To peddle it in 2010 you had to be an idiot pure and simple, or an idiot for Obamacare. My friend
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August 27, 2014 — John Hinderaker
The government of the United States is suing the town of St. Anthony, Minnesota, a Twin Cities suburb with a population a little over 8,000, to force the town to allow development of an Islamic center in an area reserved for industrial development. It is a minor news story, but one that sheds light on broader legal and cultural trends. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports: The federal government on Wednesday
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June 30, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
What are the implications of today’s Hobby Lobby decision for challenges by non-profit religious institutions, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, to Obamacare’s mandate that they facilitate the free distribution of contraceptives and abortifacients to any of their employees who desire them? Professor Mark Rienzi, who together with the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty has been litigating these sorts of religious liberty cases against the Justice Department, offers
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January 10, 2014 — Steven Hayward
The case of Chris Christie presents a certain amount of irony for the Power Line editorial board. Unlike Paul, I tend to like Christie, and think his overly enthusiastic embrace of Obama before the election in 2012 is possibly forgivable for the simple reason that it stemmed from his effusive style that has made him so effective on other fronts (like smacking public employee unions around), and as Churchill liked
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December 24, 2013 — Steven Hayward
Alex Pareene on Salon.com is out with the site’s annual “Hack List,” this year written in the style of the target. (His parody of Peggy Noonan is especially good.) And his takedown of Thomas Friedman, America’s most overrated columnist, appears to be a work of genius. The lede: I was at a conference in Brussels last week and having trouble with my column. Thomas Friedman hadn’t changed as a writer
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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 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 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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