Posts Tagged With President Obama

  • Obama's Approval Ratings And The Midterm Elections

    By Ian Kelly

    Rasmussen Polling reports a strong disapproval for President Obama's job performance:

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22...

    These numbers along with similar polling from the likes of Gallup and Quinnipiac point toward an interesting impact that low Presidential job performance has midterm elections.

    Bruce Drake of Politics Daily spells out this piece of historical political trivia nicely:

    If history is a guide to midterm elections, the party that controls the White House usually loses House seats in the off-year contests and the losses are bigger when the president's job approval rating is below 50 percent.

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  • Kagan Confirmed To The Supreme Court

    By Ian Kelly

    LifeSiteNews reports:

    Shortly before 4:00 PM, the Senate voted to confirm... Elena Kagan as the replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

    "Elena Kagan will emerge as one of the Supreme Court's most agenda-driven, reliably pro-abortion Justices," said Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life Action.

    The 63-37 vote was sufficient to override any possibility of a last-minute filibuster...

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  • Senate Committee Seeks To Permanently Repeal Mexico City Policy

    By Ian Kelly

    Thomas Jefferson once said:

    To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

    Flash forward to 2009 and President Obama repealing the Mexico City Policy which bans federal money from being used to pay for or promote abortion overseas. The Gallup Poll reported that American's did not take favorably to that idea:

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  • Who Can Beat President Obama In 2012?...

    By Ian Kelly

    ...Well, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll, any unnamed Republican could do it:

    A year after President Barack Obama’s political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 – 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 – 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

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  • Rep. Chris Smith Says Obama Admin Illegally Funding Pro-Abortion Kenya Constitution

    By Ian Kelly

    From LifeNews.com:

    “There is no doubt that the Obama Administration is funding the ‘yes’ campaign in Kenya,” he [Rep. Smith] said. “By funding NGOs charged with obtaining ‘yes’ votes, the Administration has crossed the line."

    "Directly supporting efforts to register ‘yes’ voters and ‘get out the yes vote’ means the U.S. government is running a political campaign in Kenya. U.S. taxpayer funds should not be used to support one side or the other," he added.

    The results of an ongoing investigation being conducted by Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Frank Wolf (R-Va.) has yielded some pretty incriminating evidence.

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  • The Gig Is Up: Abortion Funding In Health Care

    By Ian Kelly

    A few days ago I wrote about how Obama's Executive Order was a bit of a sham. Here's why:

    Pennsylvania, New Mexico and now Maryland have instituted, in accordance with Obamacare, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans [PCIP] or "high-risk pools" for those who cannot obtain individual insurance due to a pre-existing condition.

    These PCIP's are not subject to the Hyde Amendment nor Obama's Executive Order thus abortions are to be covered in these plans which means federally funded abortions.

     

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  • It's Not Okay: New Mexico Next State To Receive Federal Funding For Abortion Services

    By Susan Tyrrel

    A couple days ago we learned that President Obama authorized taxpayer-funded abortions in Pennsylvania. While we were digesting that load of bad baloney, news came that the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) had discovered he had authorized taxpayer-funded abortion in New Mexico, as well. Two states. Two days. Under an Executive Order he promised would prohibit taxpayer-funded abortion.

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  • It's Come To This: New Health Care Plan To Fund Abortions

    By Ian Kelly

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    Remember that whole Executive Order fiasco during the Health Care debates debacle? And do you recall Mr. Stupak and Mr. Obama promising that not one abortion would be paid for with taxpayer money because of said Order?...

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  • Spiritual Tug of War-Will Roe Hold?

    By Matt Lockett

    Allow me to connect just a few dots for you to emphasize the importance of remaining and continuing to contend for the Court.

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  • What Can The Righteous Do?

    By Matt Lockett

    I sat in a meeting about this time last year and listened as a well-meaning Senate staffer chastised a room full of conservative leaders over what he considered to be a lack of concern for the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. It was painful to sit still as his words scraped across the room. I, myself, found my own defenses rising to meet this man’s challenge to what he perceived as apathy on my part.

    His prickly point: Nothing is more important than the Supreme Court. If they say left is right and bad is good, then it is. And these are lifetime appointments.

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  • The Contrast In Courts

    By Susan Tyrrel
    As confirmation hearings continue for nominee Elena Kagan this week, one controversy she brings with her is that she might have to remove herself from several cases because her involvement with the Justice Department as Solicitor General has would create a conflict with court cases in which she was involved. While this is hardly the largest concern with her nomination, it certainly would create a dilemma since the reason the Court has nine justices is to ensure a majority decision on issues that have been considered important enough to be decided by the Supreme Court.
     
    This week as I stood outside the Supreme Court for the first time pondering the weightiness of the institution itself, I began reading Revelation 4 and 5 as I prayed, and I was struck by the contrast of the Supreme Court, that holds so much national power with the court of Heaven which has all the real power.

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  • Kagan Is Unfit For The Court

    By Ian Kelly

    Kagan's ideology is dangerous and "liberal".

    The majority of American's DO NOT want someone like Kagan on the court. Of course, being as American's are smart, we also knew President Obama was going to nominate exactly what we didn't want:

    A majority of Americans expect President Obama to appoint a liberal to the Supreme Court, but only one in four want that to happen, according to a new national poll.

    A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 61 percent of the public expect the president to nominate a liberal to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, 21 percent said the president will name a moderate and 16 percent predicted that Obama will nominate a conservative.

    But only a quarter of those questioned said the president should nominate a liberal, with 37 percent saying they want Obama to name a moderate and 36 percent pulling for a conservative candidate.

    Interpretation: Anything but a "liberal" judicial activist.

     

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  • Elena Kagan's Dangerous Views

    By Susan Tyrrel

    A tipping point in my thinking lately has been the egregious parading of ungodliness being demonstrated on a national level in recent months. Bound4LIFE is a pro-life ministry, so this isn’t the venue to discuss everything that exists, but, frankly, the life issues are enough in themselves to set the fear of God in my heart for this nation. While we have been dancing with darkness since Roe v. Wade was decided, sparking another mass holocaust of our world history within our borders, it’s undeniable from the facts that since the election of President Obama, abortion access and funding has increased. If you want to see an entire timeline from his election until March of this year, you can look here.

    Of course, one of the great concerns among pro-life people before the presidential election was the potential for the new president to appoint Supreme Court justices. While presidential terms last 4-8 years, Supreme Court appointments are for life. Since Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court decision, we know that the earthly hands that control abortion rest on the Court.

    Not even two years into his presidency, Obama is on his second Court nominee. Sonia Sotomayor was his first, and was also opposed by pro-life groups. But before he nominated Sotomayor, though, he made another nomination a few weeks into his presidency: he nominated Elena Kagan to be Solicitor General. Some speculated this was to help her credibility to later be a Supreme Court nominee since Solicitor General, sometimes called the “10th Justice” since she argues before the Court, is an appropriate prerequisite to the Court, especially since Kagan has no actual judicial experience.

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  • Tonight On TV: Obama Oil Spill Speech

    By Ian Kelly

    He came, he saw, he had a snow cone...

    Over the last 24 hours Obama has been checking out the Gulf Coast region, looking at clean-up efforts and gauging the impact this disaster has had and will have on the local economies. On Monday from Mississippi he said:

    "I promise you this: Things are going to return to normal. And in the end, I am confident that we're going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before."

    This is a lofty goal and one that will extend beyond Obama's time in office. But is it too little too late?

     

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  • More Doctors Opting Out Of Medicare

    By Ian Kelly

    The health care fallout continues:

    Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

    Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.

    “This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there'll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress' promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”

    The reality: If this trend continues,  President Obama will have to strong-arm doctors into working for a national health care service or there won't be enough doctors to provide care for all the people the President wants covered.

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  • Oldest to the Youngest

    By Matt Lockett

    This morning at 10AM President Obama will announce Elena Kagan to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Stevens just celebrated his 90th birthday last month. Kagan just turned 50 and, if confirmed, will be the youngest person currently serving on the Court.

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  • Obama To Announce Pick For Supreme Court Next Week

    By Ian Kelly

    The buzz on the Hill is that President Obama could announce his nomination for the Supreme Court as early as Monday. And the person heavily favored for the empty seat is Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

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  • More Buzz Over Possible Supreme Court Replacements

    By Ian Kelly

    For those of you following the Supreme Court vetting process, I have some news for you.

    Late last week, President Obama interviewed federal judges Merrick Garland and Sidney Thomas as well as Solicitor General Elena Kagan. However, I am hearing that federal judge Diane Wood is on top of Obama's short list.

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  • Abortion: The Non-Litmus Test Litmus Test

    By Ian Kelly

    President Obama is not making much sense with the whole "no litmus test on abortion" spill he's giving. This nonsensical approach to nominating a replacement for the Supreme Court is giving White House press secretary Robert Gibbs a hard time explaining where the President stands.

    Yesterday, during a press briefing, Gibbs stumbled all over himself when pressed on this issue:

    “The President just said when asked about the issue of abortion that he wants somebody who’s interpreting our Constitution in a way that takes into account individual rights, and that includes women’s rights.  Isn’t it artifice to say that this is not a litmus test?” asked one reporter, to which question Gibbs responded simply: “No.”

    The reporter continued to press the issue, asking, “So he’d be open, for example, to choosing somebody who didn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose?”

    Gibbs attempted to avoid the question, saying, “I think we’re playing the Washington game again.  If I say this, then I don’t –“

    “We’re in Washington,” shot back the reporter.

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  • Obama Takes One Question About Supreme Court Nominee

    By Matt Lockett

    This morning President Obama spoke briefly about meeting the timeline for a Supreme Court nominee so that the confirmation process can move forward during the summer months. After his statements he took one question from the press.

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  • Supreme Court Justice Stevens Is Retiring

    By Ian Kelly

    Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court's oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill.

    Stevens said Friday he will step down when the court finishes its work for the summer in late June or early July. He said he hopes his successor is confirmed "well in advance of the commencement of the court's next term."

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  • A Vacancy On The Supreme Court?

    By Ian Kelly

    The question is not so much a matter of if but when. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has been hinting at the possibility of retiring for weeks, now. Stevens probable exit from the Court has been long rumored but according to the Washington Post he plans to leave either this year or next. Stevens said: "I will surely do it while he's still president," referring to President Obama...

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  • Obama To Sign Executive Order Today

    By Ian Kelly

    Today, President Obama is due to sign an Executive Order "reaffirming" restrictions on federal funding of abortion. This was a last minute deal brokered by the White House and Rep. Bart Stupak in order to get the votes needed to pass Health Care.

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  • Abortion Ban by Executive Order

    By Matt Lockett

    As I write this Congress has not yet voted on the pro-abortion Health Care Bill. They're just beginning debate. A couple hours ago Rep. Bart Stupak held a press conference saying that he will shifting to a YES vote for the underlying Bill later today. He informed everyone that he had struck a "deal" with the White House in order to secure his vote and presumably the votes of his pro-life alliance. The nature of this deal will involve passing the pro-abortion Health Care Bill with the promise of an Executive Order from President Obama that bans the funding of abortion.

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  • Video: Obama Health Care Interview

    By Ian Kelly

    The president sits down with FNC's Bret Baier to discuss the health care reform bill.

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  • Remember America

    By Christina Martin

    This health care bill will change the face of America. Some may welcome this change, believing it will be a benefit to our nation. They assume it will get us closer to our goals of reaching the needy and providing for the poor. Perhaps in a measure this is true. I am not saying there can be absolutely no potential benefit from this bill. However, I will say this; I do believe time will prove this bill is more damaging to America than we will ever know. A bill that is being paraded as helpful is in reality, destructive to the core of who we are as a nation...

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  • Stevens To Decide Next Month About Retirement

    By Matt Lockett

    The New Yorker asks the question this week, "What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader?" 

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  • Pickett's Charge

    By Matt Lockett

    I love studying history. A favorite of American history for me is the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. I have found a lot of inspiration and courage as an intercessor by studying the dynamics of Little Round Top and the choices of Joshua Chamberlain on day two of the three-day battle. It's all about watchfulness, selflessness, valor and commitment. "Hold the ground at all hazards!"was Chamberlain's charge. He was the extreme left flank and the only thing that prevented the Union army from being routed at a critical moment. He and his men, the 20th of Maine, held the position defending the hill even when they ran out of ammunition.

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  • VIDEO: All You Need To Know About The Health Care Debate

    By Ian Kelly

    The numbers don't lie, right?

    Watch Video.

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  • Obama: Dems Should Not Pass Health Care With A 50-Plus-1 Strategy

    By Ian Kelly

    Health Care legislation will only be passed with a 50-plus-1 vote. And the President is all for it...

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  • Health Care Is Going Nuclear

    By Ian Kelly

    "During the 111th congress, opponents of Democratic legislative initiatives incorrectly began to refer to the budget reconciliation process as the nuclear option."

    We have been talking about "reconciliation" for some time now. And while it has only been rumored that Senate democrats will use this method to push through health care legislation, I think everyone saw this coming.

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  • Now You See It - Now You Don't

    By Matt Lockett

    In yesterday's Health Care Summit, pretty much everyone avoided the 800 pound gorilla in the room–ABORTION. Towards the end House Minority Leader John Boehner did bring up the issue of abortion which President Obama quickly dismissed as talking points and untrue. In her closing statements, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also took the opportunity to go after Boehner's abortion statement claiming that the White House's health care bill does not fund abortion.

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  • Rep. Bart Stupak: Current Abortion Language Is Unacceptable

    By Ian Kelly

    Rep. Bart Stupak has released a statement concerning the President's Health Care plan:

    ”I was pleased to see that President Obama’s health care proposal did not include several of the sweetheart deals provided to select states in the Senate bill.  Unfortunately, the President's proposal encompasses the Senate language allowing public funding of abortion...

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  • White Houses Releases New Healthcare Plan

    By Ian Kelly

    As was rumored, President Obama has released his own Heath Care plan ahead of the Health Care Summit this Thursday. The plan went live on the White House website at 10 am and can read here.

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  • Inside Bound4LIFE 2/19/10

    By Ian Kelly

    Updates from Bound4LIFE with Executive Director Matt Lockett.

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  • Our Action Plan

    By Susan Tyrrel

    While we rejoice over the victory of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which would create a ban on public abortion funding under the proposed national health care plan, a Planned Parenthood leader is seething. Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, sent out this letter to her mailing list Sunday afternoon. Some of the things she said struck me, not only for obvious reasons but because of the parallel we as Christians should be noting. We could actually learn a lot from them.

    “At Planned Parenthood, we fought together with you until the bitter end (thank you), and once we lost the vote on women's health, we started to do what we do best — gear up for our next fight.” - Richards

    The warrior attitude Richards is portraying should be our attitude as we battle in the heavenlies for the lives of the unborn. Jesus makes a striking point when the Pharisees accuse Him of being of Satan when He casts out demons. He says:

    "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? ... Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. (Mat 12:25-26, 29-30)

    We want the “goods”—the ending of abortion in America. This isn’t the time to cry, “Democrat!” “Republican!” It’s the time to cry, “JESUS!”

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  • "This Is A Health Care Bill, Not An Abortion Bill"

    By Ian Kelly

    President Obama tells Jake Tapper that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend.

    "I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said. "And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.

    What the President is getting at is that the Stupak amendment went to far in preventing taxpayer funded abortions. Basically, that "very simple principle" is a bit tricky.

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  • A Clear And Present Danger

    By Ian Kelly

    "One more misunderstanding I want to clear up -- under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions." - President Barack Obama in a joint-session of Congress.

    Those words, today, are meaningless. Congress, despite what President Obama promised, has but forward a bill that WILL use federal dollars to pay for abortions.

     

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  • Why We Need An Amendment

    By Ian Kelly

    Some think the debate over whether or not Health Care reform will pave the way for tax-payer funded abortion to be a pointless idea. While others believe that the Hyde Amendment bans federal money from paying for abortions. This however is only partly true.

    I want to quickly give the reason why we need an amendment that clearly states that no money will be used to pay for abortions in anyway.

    Simply put, the Hyde Amendment will not do the trick!

    The Hyde Amendment is a "rider" bill -- meaning it is "limitation amendment" of sorts. The Hyde amendment restricts funding of abortions by creating rules for the appropriation of funds within Medicaid.

     

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  • Pawlenty And Sebelius On Abortion In Healthcare

    By Ian Kelly

    GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Another controversy the President brought up -- he said no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and this is connected to the public option, Governor Pawlenty, because many supporters of the pro-life movement, the anti-abortion activists have said "No, that's not true" -- that the public option that is being considered right now in the House will actually fund abortions.

    TIM PAWLENTY: Well, there's an easy way to resolve this. There's a dispute, so just be clear in the bill. If the President is embracing the idea that public monies in public systems won't be used to fund abortions, then we should say that.

    The pro-life perspective on this has been viewed by both FactCheck.Org and The AP as having merit. So this is not something people are just making up. There's a legitimate concern about it, but it can and should be clarified.

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  • Obama Speech: Abortion Not In Healthcare?

    By Ian Kelly

    ...The reality is that the Obama-backed House bill would explicitly authorize the federal government insurance plan to pay for elective abortions and would explicitly authorize subsidies for private abortion insurance - and all with federal dollars, which are the only kind of dollars that the federal government can spend.

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  • The Devil is in the Details

    By Matt Lockett

    After all the blunt force trauma of August's town hall meetings there seemed to be a possible compromise on the horizon for a mandated public option in ObamaCare. We all heard the President say in the last week that he would be open to passing a bill that doesn't include it. But that might be changing. One wonders what special interest pressures are being exerted behind the scenes. Media outlets are now pondering if the President has been rolled on it again.

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  • Call on Congress and Conscience

    By Matt Lockett

    Pastor Walter B. Hoye II is an African American of Oakland, CA that was unjustly targeted and imprisoned recently. Hoye breaks the mold by taking an unwavering stand for LIFE in the black community and serving as a prophetic voice concerning the racial targeting of Planned Parenthood.

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  • Congress Has Obliged

    By Ian Kelly

    For decades the District of Columbia has prohibited using public dollars for abortions, but President Barack Obama inserted a measure to reverse the ban in his new federal budget request and Congress has obliged. The president also inserted language in the new law to legalize marijuana for "medical purposes."

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  • Obama's Essay

    By Ian Kelly

    "We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one."

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  • Conscience Protection Rescinded

    By Ian Kelly

    President Obama has announced that he will rescind the conscience protection for medical workers that currently provides them legal protection for refusing to violate their conscience by participating in abortions.

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  • Obama Aide: "Not Our Goal to Reduce Abortions"

    By Matt Lockett

    Two days before President Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame, I was at the White House for one of the meetings that he spoke about. About twenty of us with differing views on abortion were brought in to find “common ground.” But the most important point that came from the meeting was perhaps a slip from an Obama aide.

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  • Mr. Obama, We Agree.

    By Ian Kelly

    That, I think is the kind of justice that I’m looking for — somebody who respects the law, doesn’t think that they should be making law ... but also has a sense of what’s happening in the real world and recognizes that one of the roles of the courts is to protect people who don’t have a voice.

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  • Depopulating the Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

    By Matt Lockett

    There seems to be no end to the mind-numbing drivel steaming out of Hollywood to advance the pro-abortion agenda. Ashley Judd is one of the latest to hock her voice to beg for money on behalf of NARAL. It would seem though that Miss Judd’s busy schedule only allowed for one sitting to record endorsements for all her darling pet projects. It certainly would take a good actor to read the following two scripts–one after another–and not choke on the hypocrisy.

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