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August 2012

August 24, 2012

The great soda grants

George Will describes how a stimulus program that became part of Obamacare shelled out millions...

August 14, 2012

Medicare, the free market, and a drug that doesn’t work

This story will make you discouraged about BOTH the government AND the free market when...

August 06, 2012

Give fetuses anesthetics before aborting them

On Thursday, Arizona's law forbidding abortion after 20 weeks went into effect. It prohibits abortions...

August 01, 2012

Obamacare provisions that go into effect today

As of today, women can get free contraceptives and abortifacients, as well as other goodies...

August 01, 2012

An Aurora victim whose life was spared

A former student wrote me after the Aurora shootings saying that a friend of his...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

Individuals and the Obamacare mandate

Discussion about the Obamacare contraception/abortifacient insurance mandate has centered on the religious liberty of church-related...

July 26, 2012

The insurance mandate goes into effect August 1

The Obamacare mandate that requires pro-life institutions and business owners to provide insurance for their...

July 25, 2012

Elton John credits Bush and conservatives for battling AIDS

Elton John gives credit to George W. Bush and to conservatives for their efforts in...

July 19, 2012

The penalty if religious institutions won’t comply

So what will happen if religious and other pro-life institutions refuse to go along with...

July 09, 2012

Children as cure for the common cold

More counter-intuitive mysterious health findings: A new study says that parents are less apt to...

July 02, 2012

Obamacare punishments as a tax

Thanks to Todd, who helps me with the technical side of this blog, for stepping...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

We are a little world made cunningly

The ancients talked about the human body as a microcosm, as a little world. Now...

June 19, 2012

The new prohibition movement

The old prohibition movement sought to ban alcoholic beverages. The new prohibition movement seeks to...

June 15, 2012

Testing unborn babies for 3,500 genetic disorders

Medical researchers have developed a non-invasive test that can potentially identify not just Downs but...

April 2012

April 09, 2012

Health care and “broken markets”

Here is a different argument for the mandatory insurance requirement in Obamacare from Donna Dubinsky:...

April 03, 2012

Obamacare defenders taken by surprise

Even fans of Obamacare are admitting how poorly the administration lawyers handled the argument before...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Another bad day for Obamacare

In today's final arguments over Obamacare, the Supreme Court considered whether striking down the individual...

March 28, 2012

A second abortion mandate in Obamacare

National Review has uncovered a second abortion mandate in Obamacare: Finalized on March 12, 2012...

March 28, 2012

A bad day for Obama at the Supreme Court

On the second day of oral arguments on Obamacare at the Supreme Court, the majority...

March 26, 2012

Supremes hear Obamacare arguments today

Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether or not Obamacare is constitutional. The...

March 21, 2012

Posthumous conception

The Supreme Court heard a case (Astrue v. Capato) on Monday that hinged on determining...

March 14, 2012

Obamacare will cover abortions for $1 premiums

The Obama administration has figured out how to let Obamacare cover abortions despite the Hyde...

March 09, 2012

Contraception is not health care

The great Anthony Esolen reminds us, in the midst of the Obamacare insurance mandate, that...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

Law forcing sales of abortion pill struck down

Yes, Christians have often criticized the courts. But as anti-religion laws proliferate, the courts may...

February 23, 2012

Birth control as a winning issue for Democrats?

Religious people are for the most part appalled at the Obamacare mandate that employers must...

February 20, 2012

Forcing a company to give away a product for free

Charles Krauthammer points out yet another problem with President Obama's contraceptive mandate compromise: The president...

February 16, 2012

Matt Harrison to testify to Congressional committee today

I have it on good authority that Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church...

February 15, 2012

Do 98% of Catholic women use contraceptives?

Apologists for the administration's abortion pill & contraceptive mandate are pointing to statistics that say...

February 14, 2012

A man gives birth?

Well, a transgendered man, one who used to be a woman. And evidently still is:...

February 14, 2012

Obama, Henry VIII, and tooth-level surveillance

Mark Steyn compares President Obama's religion policies to those of Henry VIII, whose "Act of...