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Louisiana College, a private Baptist school, is suing the federal government over the requirement that religious-affiliated hospitals and organizations must fund contraceptives as part of health care, even in spite of strong beliefs against such measures. Louisiana College and other religious organizations are quick to note that Obama’s “healthcare” mandate violates their constitutional rights.

Doug Powers notes that the mainstream media is giving President Obama a “free ride” about the ridiculous price of gasoline, when it blamed George W. Bush for it at every opportunity.

(Longtime readers will know that I have never been a fan of either Obama or Bush. They’re the two worst Presidents in American history, in my book…)

I juxtapose these two seemingly unrelated items before you, good readers, because I remember plenty of times during Bush’s presidency when too many Christians simply “rolled over and took it” when he and his administration violated ...

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CatholicVote.org is reporting that every single bishop in the United States has gone on record as opposing President Barack Obama’s mandating the funding of contraception as part of health care, even for those institutions (such as Catholic hospitals) which oppose contraception as a matter of belief.

It must also be noted that in the past week or so a significant number of Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox, Pentecostals, Seventh-Day Adventists, and members of many other denominations have rallied support behind their Roman Catholic brethren.

It should thus be noted that Barack Obama has pulled off something that has not taken place in about nineteen hundred years of church history:

He has unified the body of Christ, and found them to be of one accord....

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…and my anger and disbelief at what I am watching right now in this country, just won’t let me be as mercurial a wordsmith as some have alleged me to be.

So I’m going to relent to brute-force attack.

Regarding how President Obama is trying to force Catholic hospitals and other institutions to fund birth control, against that faith’s beliefs and teachings:

If this isn’t a situation that demands civil disobedience and even flagrant lawbreaking against the government, then I don’t know what possibly WOULD be!

I try my best not to judge the spiritual state of another. For the first time, I am inclined to be compelled to wonder about that of Barack Obama. How can anyone of conscience even conceive of mandating such a thing?...

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So it’s coming out that a bunch of Republicans, including senators Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell, are expressing concern about President Obama making recess appointments when the Senate was not in session. Former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese is saying that Obama is committing “a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers.”

Oh please…

The Justice Department headed by Eric Holder is defending the appointments as legal. Y’know, just like the Justice Department under President George W. Bush defended his firing of the United States attorneys as being legal. Just like John Yoo went out of his way to argue why his boss Bush should be given powers of a dictator in everything but name. Just like Samuel Alito sought to increase the power of the President by means of redefining so-called “signing statements”.

But now the shoe is on the other foot. It’s a Democrat in ...

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I hate to say “I told you so” buuuuuuut…

For quite a long time now and most recently five days ago, I have argued that going to war in Iraq would have disastrous long-term consequences and chief among those is that without a “strongman” to hold that country together, Iraq will tear itself apart into sectarian strife. The classic model for my thesis is Yugoslavia: a “nation” that much like Iraq was cobbled together from leftover realms in the aftermath of World War I. And just as Marshal Tito kept the various factions like the Croats, the Bosnians, the Serbs etc. from killing each other, so did Saddam Hussein put a lid on the Sunnis, the Shiites, the Kurds and everyone else from destroying Iraq from within.

That’s NOT any justification for Saddam Hussein, mind you. The man was an evil bastard. It’s just the peculiar dynamic of ...

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On this day, the Iraq War has officially drawn to a close. It began in March of 2003, lasting nearly nine years (more than twice as long as the United States took to fight and win World War II across both the Pacific and European theaters).

The Iraq war cost our own country nearly one trillion dollars. It also cost the lives of more than 4,500 American military personnel and more than 100,000 Iraqis (many of whom were innocent civilians not attached to Saddam Hussein’s army).

Now… can anyone finally tell me why it is that we went to war in Iraq in the first place? “Enforcing sanctions” won’t cut it. We lost too many lives and wasted way too much money on this fiasco. What has come of it? An Iraq which will sooner than later tear itself apart across ethnic and religious lines (specifically Sunni, Shiite and ...

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I once met Newt Gingrich. He’s a strong writer and speaker. I think he’s got a very good mind for history. I also happen to share many of the views that he holds.

Nonetheless, I’ve got to say it…

Newt Gingrich is poised to become for the Republican Party in 2012 what John Kerry was for the Democrat Party in 2004.

Meaning that if Gingrich is the GOP’s nominee for President, that will most likely assure that Obama will be re-elected.

Part of me is wondering if that might have been the plan from the start, although by whom and for what purpose, I could only speculate.

Can anybody provide evidence strong enough to compel me that there is any significant difference between the “two major parties” running the show in the United States? And that’s all this really is: a show. Albeit one that has cost us billionstrillions ...

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Late last night this blog joined numerous other outlets in reporting that the Obama Administration was set to impose a 15-cent tax on all freshly cut Christmas trees. You can read that initial post for more information, including some stuff I came across during a bit o’ investigatin’ (I’m still curious as to who the heck the people behind “Christmas Tree Promotion Now” are…)

Looks like Obama and gang got the message: the tax is being put on hold. But not without some snide commentary from the White House…

White House spokesman Matt Lehrich told ABC News that despite some media coverage, “I can tell you unequivocally that the Obama Administration is not taxing Christmas trees. What’s being talked about here is an industry group deciding to impose fees on itself to fund a promotional campaign, similar to how the dairy producers have created the ‘Got Milk?’ campaign.”

Nonetheless,

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This is not satire and it’s not from The Onion. I already checked and it’s true…

President Barack Obama’s administration is trying to impose a 15-cent “Christmas Tree tax” on all freshly-cut trees intended for Yuletide celebration. Fifteen cents on the sale of every tree to… get this now… “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States.”

Okay, two things that already stick out in this blogger’s mind: that this is a tax without any representation or due process, regardless of what the administration is arguing. Indeed, within the text of the “order” issued by the Department of Agriculture it is found that “…the assessment provided for in this type of program is not a tax nor does it yield revenue for the Federal government. These producer and importers funds raised by producers and importers are for the benefit of producers ...

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Did Armstrong Pharmaceutical not pay enough kickback to President Obama’s campaign?

Well, I had to wonder that, given that the federal government is BANNING Primatene Mist from being sold after this coming December 31st! If you’re an asthma sufferer, you’re gonna have to get a doctor’s prescription in order to purchase an inhaler that doesn’t use a CFC agent as its propellant.

Yeah you’re inferring correctly, Dear Reader: the Environmental Protection Agency, in collusion with the Food and Drug Administration, have decreed that those little asthma inhalers are dangerous to the ozone layer. I suppose that while you’re gasping for breath on the way to your physician, that you can take heart knowing that the Obama Administration is sacrificing your good health for sake of a polar bear or spotted owl.

But seriously: What. The. F-CK?!?

It was twenty years ago this summer that Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines ...

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