Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Oldest Duggar child to head Family Research Council’s legislative arm

The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public

“Pastors: Decriminalizing drug use is a good step” | Courier Post Online

Senator: IRS To Pay $70m In Employee Bonuses

The Regulated States of America | Neil Ferguson at WSJ

    Neil Ferguson at WSJ: Tocqueville also foresaw exactly how this regulatory state would suffocate the spirit of free enterprise: “It rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces [the] nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.” If that makes you bleat with frustration, there’s still hope.


  • Posted: 06/19/2013
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Cut worker hours: Local governments join private sector to evade Obamacare

Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Newspapers and Television News

Cruz offers voting amendment after Supreme Court nixes Arizona law

McCaskill becomes first lawmaker to endorse

Navy bans racy materials as Pentagon under increasing pressure to crack down on porn

    AL.com: According to a June 13 memo, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has ordered the Under Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps to conduct an inspection of all Navy workplaces to “ensure they are free from materials that create a degrading, hostile, or offensive work environment.” . . . Morality in Media, a faith-based group dedicated to raising awareness on the harmful impacts of pornography, named the Department of Defense to its “Dirty Dozen” list, for what it says is the military’s “serious pornography problem.”


  • Posted: 06/17/2013
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State ID databases captures facial photos of more than 120 million people

Rasmussen: Most Want Donor Disclosure from Tax-Exempt Groups

Orrin Hatch: Think the IRS Is Bad Now? Just Wait. | Orrin Hatch at WSJ

Fourth Circuit Strikes NLRB Poster Rule

House passes Defense bill aimed at blunting sexual assaults

    The Hill: The House on Friday passed a new defense bill that that seeks to reverse an increase in sexual assaults in the military. The sweeping $638 billion bill strips commanders’ ability to overturn guilty verdicts in sexual assault cases, and establishes a minimum sentence of dismissal for sexual assault offenders. It would also expand legal counsel to victims of sexual abuse, and remove service members who have inappropriate relationships with the people they train.


  • Posted: 06/14/2013
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Republican-run Arizona expands Medicaid under Obamacare

Sexual Assaults in the Military: Porn is Part of the Problem

Take a Stand Against More Nudity and Profanity on Network Televison! | MO FPC

AZ: Some in GOP join Democrats to advance Obamacare

Obamacare? Congressional aides leaving the Hill

FCC Proposes Plan to Relax Television Indecency Standards | MO FPC

Rasmussen: 64% Say Most Members of Congress Don’t Care What They Think

RI Senate OKs expanded DNA collection

Senators: NSA phone sweeping has been going on since 2007

Christie Expected To Name Lautenberg Successor

ObamaCare Increases Taxes

Anti-pornography initiative to begin national push at SBC; named ‘Join One Million Men’

Google bans porn on Google Glass; sorry ‘T*** and Glass’

Republicans Fuming Over Chris Christie’s Senate Decision

Armey on Christie’s Decision: ‘Debilitating Stupidity’

Unlikely coalition of liberals and conservatives is shifting the way we view – and treat – people who sell sex | Salon

    Salon: And now, with eight states handing down felony charges for prostitution — where non-violent, mostly female prostitution offenders are serving in state prison – a battle to lessen criminal penalties has been joined by an unlikely ally. Conservative lawmakers, looking at price tags, are also receptive to changing the way we see – and treat– people working in prostitution.


  • Posted: 06/04/2013
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Social Security Faces $9.6T in Unfunded Liabilities–$83,894 Per Household

Obamacare nullification bill on SC Senate agenda

    The State: South Carolina this week could become the first state in the country to restrict the enactment of Obamacare since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that law last year. A proposed bill, on special order in the state Senate, would allow the state attorney general to take businesses, including health insurers, to court if he “has reasonable cause to believe” they are harming people by implementing the law. The bill already has passed the House.


  • Posted: 06/04/2013
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Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’

Press Shakedown? Labor Dept. Wanted $1M from AP

IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

Two-Thirds of Americans Don’t Know If They Will Insure Under Obamacare

HHS Plows through ObamaCare’s Slush Fund

IRS Woes Grow With Report Of Conference Spending

GAO: HHS Already Rationing Enrollment in Obamacare’s Pre-Existing Condition Plan

Consumers Set to Repeal a Big Part of the Health Care Law | Rasmussen

    Rasmussen Reports: Perhaps the biggest news came last week when The Wall Street Journal reported that the mandates for comprehensive coverage apply to just 30 million out of 160 million Americans with private insurance: “A close reading of the rules makes it clear that those mandates affect only plans sponsored by insurers that are sold to small businesses and individuals, federal officials confirm.”


  • Posted: 05/31/2013
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The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations | John W. Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute

    John W. Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute: We have indeed reached a crossroads. History may show that from this point forward, we will have left behind any semblance of constitutional government and entered into a militaristic state where all citizens are suspects and security trumps freedom. Certainly, this is a time when government officials operate off their own inscrutable, self-serving playbook with little in the way of checks and balances, while American citizens are subjected to all manner of indignities and violations with little hope of defending themselves. We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age, let’s call it the age of authoritarianism.


  • Posted: 05/31/2013
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Rate Shock: Obamacare to increase Cal. premiums by as much as 146%

Study: Premiums could rise an average of 40 percent under ObamaCare

Americans Deserve the IRS | Walter Williams at Human Events

HHS finalizes wellness rules under healthcare law

Bachmann won’t seek reelection

In reversal, judge orders child porn suspect to decrypt hard drives

Natural Law and the Economy: A Reply to Miller | Samuel Gregg at Public Discourse

IRS has 8 offices to enforce Obamacare

Taxpayers Spend $536,526 to Study Smoking Cessation for LGBT Community

Some Unions Now Angry About Health Care Overhaul

Obama: Sexual Assault Threatens Trust In Military

9th Circuit: Swinger blocked from operating Vegas sex club gets another day in court

Sebelius touts ObamaCare benefits for graduates

Obama’s new Energy chief: Climate change ‘not debatable’

ObamaCare Mandates Dramatically Expand the Internal Revenue Service’s Power

GOP Sen. Thune urges IRS to stop ObamaCare work

A Ruling Could Support F.C.C.’s Net Neutrality Defense

Anti-IRS Protest Planned At Ohio Federal Building

Snowe: President thought opposition to health law would eventually fade away

Va. GOP lieutenant governor nominee under fire for comments on abortion, homosexuality

Carney: White House officials knew of IRS targeting, but didn’t tell Obama

Poll: Half of America wants Obama impeached

Big Government Loses Control

    Wall Street Journal: What to make of the political scandals that are dominating the headlines and forcing the Obama administration into Nixonian damage control? Technology is finally doing to big government what it has done to big business, big media and other institutions that once could operate with nearly full control over information. The government is losing the ability to manipulate information to avoid accountability.


  • Posted: 05/20/2013
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The Common Good: Instrumental But Not Just Contractual | Robert P. George at Public Discourse

IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election

IRS tax exemption/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses; Did Obama OK them?

Kansas City diocese settles child-porn lawsuit claims for $600,000

Man the Political Animal: On the Intrinsic Goodness of Political Community | Michael W. Hannon at Public Discourse