“The behavior of our employee, as portrayed on the video, if accurate, violates PPCNJ policies, as well as our core values of protecting the welfare of minors and complying with the law, and appropriate action is being taken,” Phyllis Kinsler, CEO of Planned Parenthood of . . . . Continue Reading »
Responding, I assume, to Don’t Forget Stalin , our friend Dimitri Cavalli sent the link to a newspaper article from 1953 giving Bishop Fulton Sheen’s modernization, read on his television show, of the funeral scene from Julius Caesar — modernized to refer to Stalin . . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked by a commenter to reflect on the following story and opine as to whether it would be a proper conscience clause refusal. I do so here, taking the facts stated in the story at face value—and without judging the Idaho law in question with which I am not familiar. Nor am I . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Secondhand Smoke , I take some time to summarize and analyze yesterday’s big ruling in Florida voiding Obamacare as unconstitutional. But I think something more needs to be written here, as well as at SHS. The Administration is apparently stating that since Judge Vinson did not . . . . Continue Reading »
The 78-page ruling in Florida by Judge Roger Vinson in a constitutional challenge brought by half the states against Obamacare is a deeply reasoned decision that is, I think, not only right on the law, but alongside the earlier Virginia decision declaring the ACA’s unconstitutionality, creates . . . . Continue Reading »
You’re probably pretty stressed right now, aren’t you? You’re not alone: Researchers say they quizzed 3,000 people about stress levels and discovered that half pin-pointed mid-morning on Tuesday as their ‘stress peak’. The majority of workers said they coast through . . . . Continue Reading »
In the October issue of First Things , twenty-two-year-old Lila Rose wrote about her crusade against Planned Parenthood . She tells how she went undercover to two Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinics posing as a young, scared, pregnant fifteen years old, the victim of a twenty-three-year-old . . . . Continue Reading »
New research shows that the political soundbite has been shrinking for more than a century : A professor at the University of California had just published research showing that the length of the average TV sound bite had dropped dramatically, from 43 seconds in the 1968 presidential election to a . . . . Continue Reading »
By now you’ve probably heard that a federal judge ruled Obamacare is “unconstitutional” since it includes a mandate requiring citizens to purchase health insurance. But did you know the ruling includes a footnote noting that when Obama was on the campaign trail he . . . . Continue Reading »
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