Tag: "Kathleen Sebelius"

Lilypad Ecopolis, 2008, Vincent Callebaut Architectures
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Apologies from Utopia

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What was once character has become branding.

 Federal Judge Approves Plan B for Over the Counter at Any Age
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Federal Judge Approves Plan B for Over the Counter at Any Age

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It is difficult to imagine that any public official could possibly march to the left of Barack Obama or HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, but last week Federal District Court Judge Edward Korman did just that when he approved the sale of Plan B to children of any age. Previously, Sebelius ordered that based on the […]

Eliminating People to Help People?
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Eliminating People to Help People?

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Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and […]

Corporate Exercise of Religion and Other Thoughts on Mandate Litigation
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Corporate Exercise of Religion and Other Thoughts on Mandate Litigation

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There has been a curious silence in the news and on the blogs about the preliminary injunction in Newland v. Sebelius.  True, there are some unique issues involving the nature of the plaintiffs, but the case may indicate the direction that courts which get over the ripeness hump and do reach the Religious Freedom Restoration Act […]

Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate
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Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate

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The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it has filed an emergency motion asking that Federal District Judge Robert H. Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan stop the HHS Mandate which goes into effect on August 1, 2012.  The motion was filed late […]

Obama and Sebelius Sittin’ in a Tree…
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Obama and Sebelius Sittin’ in a Tree…

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Obama and Sebelius sittin’ in a tree K-i-s-s-i-n-g First comes sex without marriages Then come empty baby carriages The teasing little rhyming ditty familiar to children for generations, of which the above is a parody, bespeaks that even children know something very fundamental about the natural and right order of things – that first comes […]

Caesar Overreaching Once Again
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Caesar Overreaching Once Again

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What do political pundits Peggy Noonan, Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and Mark Shields have in common? Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, is Catholic. Matthews and Dionne claim to be loyal but dissident Catholics at least on matters such as contraception (Dionne) and public policy on abortion (Matthews). Mark Shields, another Catholic, is […]