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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 4: “Smoking in the Rain”

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If anything showed the second-class citizen status of tobacco users, it was what we encountered at our rally point prior to today’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” event.  Outside of the office building next to Freedom Plaza stood smokers who are not ...
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Involuntary Greenwashing is a Dirty Business

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In an item I blogged and wrote an op-ed about last week, I examined how California environmental activists are using irrational and unscientific arguments to push for an unjustified ban on polystyrene food service items. Now, we are learning of ...
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White House Birth Control Statistics Don’t Add Up

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As part of its campaign to promote its HHS birth control/early abortifacient mandate, the Obama Administration has repeatedly claimed that 99 percent of all women have used birth control at some point in their lives. For instance, on February 10, ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C. — “Causing a Commotion”

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It wasn’t a traffic jam on Pennsylvania Avenue, just unhappy taxpayers. Today’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” activity engaged and enlisted the support of D.C. motorists unhappy with paying even more of their alleged “fair share” under Obama Administration tax policy. In ...
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Et Tu, Eric?

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Deroy Murdock wants to know: If Attorney General Eric Holder believes it is racist to require voters to show ID cards to vote, why does the U.S. Department of Justice require visitors to show I.D. cards to gain access to ...
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Catholic Bishops Cannot Accept White House “Compromise” on Birth Control Without Surrendering Principles

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President Obama’s “compromise” mandatory birth control/early abortifacient regulation, announced today, has a huge problem within it the White House should have foreseen. If it didn’t, it is incompetent; if it did, it is going out of its way to offend ...
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Horace Cooper on Obama Administration’s Non-Compromise on Birth Control Mandate

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National Center adjunct fellow Horace Cooper criticizes President Barack Obama’s attempt to claim a compromise has been made on his mandate that faith-based institutions alter their values and beliefs to comply with Obamacare contraception/abortifacient rules.  This interview was broadcast on ...
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Steven Crowder to Host CPAC Blogger Awards

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On Friday night at CPAC 2012, the National Center’s Steven Crowder will host the “Red Carpet Blogger Awards.” Blogosphere luminaires slated to be recognized at the event include Dana Loesch, Ed Morrissey, Ben Shapiro and James O’Keefe. The awards program ...
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Would Jesus Pay for Abortions?

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That question may seem sacrilegious to some, and for that I apologize, but it seems pertinent in light of the Obama Administration’s new rule, announced by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelious on January 20, that religious institutions providing social services must ...
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Green Activists Push Polystyrene Ban in California; We Push Back

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In an op-ed in the Orange County Register, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution and I argue against a legislative effort to ban polystyrene foodservice containers throughout California. We write: The California Assembly could soon vote to make ...
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