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By: Misconceptions about the Obama Administration’s Contraception Mandate for Religious Employers

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:54:49 +0000

[…] schools and hospitals) to cover contraceptives and certain abortifacients. First, as a commentator notes, it’s not true that states in general already require such coverage:HHS chose the narrowest […]

By: Bumper

Bumper — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:16:35 +0000

Nicholas,

With absolutely no respect for your comments re: Louisiana, we have the best food, the best music and the best government that money can buy. And because of Tulane and LSU we have an abundance of Damn Yankees who came for the education, got it, but won’t go home.

Not to belabor you choices for the pedestal, but California is broke, out of money, has been ruined by Democrats and their labor unions and they aren’t doing a thing to resolve the problems. Which interestingly is pretty much what Obama is doing with the same sad results.

By: Darleen Click

Darleen Click — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:29:01 +0000

Nicholas evidently does not live in CA.

and OR is no great shakes either

And laboratories of democracy doesn’t include violating Constitutional rights.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:25:46 +0000

Besides, ‘laboratory of democracy’ is predicated on the states, not individuals and certainly not the federal government. The idea is that each state could try its own solutions to problems. Other states would have the chance to see 49 different essays and chose among them for what best works. It is certainly not that the federal government comes up with a unitary solution and imposes it on all. Even if Congress, the Courts, and the Commerce Clause get contorted in arguing otherwise.

By: MF

MF — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:34:16 +0000

Gitarcarver is absolutely right. We have to be careful about what is truly a right (and where it was granted), and what is considered by some/many as just or fair.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:50:02 +0000

There is a reason we want our federal government to look more like California, New York….

If these are the successes, I’d hate to see the failures.

And by the way Nicholas, the vote of a majority does not overrule the rights of a single person.

By: Bill Alexander

Bill Alexander — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:32:31 +0000

I don’t know about New York and Oregon, but California is in a huge budgetary problem. But then, so is the Federal Government. Is this the “laboratory of democracy” to follow?

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:03:59 +0000

Ah, yes. For years we hear about how Republicans want states to be “laboratories of democracy”, but when the federal government actually assumes a couple of the successful laboratory experiments (Obamacare, this particular regulation), suddenly they don’t want that anymore.

There is a reason we want our federal government to look more like California, New York, and Oregon — it’s because those are among the most successful states. If Louisiana had had a good idea in the last century, we might be looking to it instead.