Category: Health

D.C. “Lunch-In” Protests Federal Guidelines That Denied a Four-Year-Old Her ‘Nana and Juice Box

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Protesters to Resist Government, Eat Homemade Lunches Washington, D.C. - Concerned parents and their supporters will be having a "lunch-in" on Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. at noon on Thursday, February 23 to protest federal school nutrition guidelines that allegedly ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 8 — Eating Their Lunch

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In solidarity with the four-year-old North Carolina girl who was forced to eat chicken nuggets instead of her homemade lunch so that her school could remain in compliance with federal nutrition regulations, today’s “Occupy Occupy D.C.” contingent dined on the ...
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Three More Reasons to Ignore the Left’s Fake Birth Control Scare, Plus a Really Useful Point that Can Put Cash in Women’s Pockets

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More "war on women" nonsense from Mother Jones magazine today, which, in an article by Ben Breedlove, Maya Dusenbery, and Tasneem Raja, has set up an utterly unreliable "calculator" to make women believe they spend exaggerated sums on birth control ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C., Day 4: “Smoking in the Rain”

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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Democrat Congresswomen Walk Out of HHS Mandate Hearing to Protest Omission of Witness Who Wanted to Talk About Something Else Entirely

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Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked out of a hearing on the First Amendment implications of the HHS birth control/early abortifacient mandate in protest today because Committee Chairman Darrell Issa did not invite a specific ...
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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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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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Obama Compromise Infringement of the First Amendment Guarantee of Freedom of Religion is Still Unconstitutional, Experts Say

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Washington, D.C. - Officials at the National Center for Public Policy Research are responding today to President Obama's "compromise" infringement of the First Amendment guarantee of Freedom of Religion in the matter of the HHS "free" contraception/early abortifacient mandate. Horace ...
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White House Claim that Religious Employers Would Not Be Subsidizing Mandated Anti-Pregnancy Coverage is Morally Meaningless

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Insurers Would Pay for New Mandate on Them with Savings Brought About by Blocked Pregnancies Washington, D.C. - Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, is responding to claims made by the White House and HHS ...
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