President Obama

Can anyone, anywhere, please ask President Obama to speak to the country, invoke Lincoln and appeal to “the Better Angels of our Nature?”
We need it. Now.
It’s time for you to speak about the Trayvon Martin tragedy again.
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The Obamacare health insurance mandate appears to be teetering on the edge of being struck down by the Supreme Court, as the only potential swing justices – Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts – expressed deep skepticism that the…

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President Obama insists that all Americans receive mandatory/universal healthcare coverage. This mandatory/universal edict even extends to women who want abortifacients—that is, birth-control drugs that cause an abortion. Obama is so dedicated to this…

If you shake out the Obama budget in terms of bold headlines, it’s really a class-warfare, tax-the-rich budget. Layer upon layer of tax hikes are piled on successful investors, small-business owners and corporations.
The capital-gains tax goes from 15 percent…

President Obama Punts on US Deficit

by Debra J. Saunders February 19, 2012

In February 2009 — having signed into law his $787 billion stimulus package — President Barack Obama made a pledge to the nation. “Contrary to the prevailing wisdom in Washington these past few years,” the president noted, “we cannot simply…

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Bishops Get Tough with Obama’s Compromise

by Phil Lawler February 12, 2012

After an initial muted reaction to President Obama’s proposed “accommodation,” the leaders of the US bishops’ conference have released a second, stronger statement, declaring that the mandate for contraceptive coverage in health-care programs remains “unacceptable and must be corrected.”
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How Will the Bishops Respond to the Mandate?

by Russell Shaw February 10, 2012

A quiet, closed-door meeting in Washington next month will be of crucial importance in shaping the Church’s response to the nation’s biggest church-state crisis in decades.
When some 40 bishops of the administrative committee of the national bishops’ conference gather…

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The Obama Mandate to Catholics: Where’s Notre Dame?

by Dr. Paul Kengor February 9, 2012

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