Tom Monaghan sues feds over new health care law
The founder of Domino's Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the new health care law.
Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception is not health care and instead is a "gravely immoral" practice. He's a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court, along with his Domino's Farms, which runs an office park near Ann Arbor.
Monaghan offers health insurance that excludes contraception and abortion for employees. The new law requires employers to offer insurance that includes contraception coverage or risk fines. Monaghan says the law violates his constitutional rights, and he's asking a judge to strike down the mandate.
The government says the contraception mandate benefits women and their role in society. There are similar lawsuits pending across the country.
Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20350175/tom-monaghan-sues-feds-over-new-health-care-law#ixzz2FE5jGYGl
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HSBC: Too Big to Jail
All banks stretch the limits and meaning of regulation. HSBC, the world’s third largest bank, and one that has been frequently warned, has simply been the most egregious. Without the rule of law, civil society devolves into either totalitarianism or anarchy.
The problem is not just the fact that no one at HSBC was jailed for criminal activities that make Jessie James, Willie Sutton and Bernie Madoff look like amateurs; it is that there seems to be collusion between the bad guys (the big banks) and government. The government imposes fines, which appear steep but are manageable, payable to the agencies charged with monitoring their behavior. It is symbiotic, crony capitalism. Banks simply look at fines as a regular cost of doing business. Agencies view them as a source of revenues. It is the public, the bank’s customers and shareholders who bear the cost. Society’s moral fiber becomes weakened.
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President Barack Obama, who supports raising taxes and passed Obamacare, told Noticias Univision 23 on Thursday he thinks he would be considered a "moderate Republican" in the 1980s because of his economic policies.
"I do believe that it makes sense that everyone in America, as rich as this country is, shouldn't go bankrupt because someone gets sick, so the things I believe in are essentially the same things your viewers believe in," Obama said.
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Is the wind industry entering panic mode?
For advocates of widespread use of renewable energy, continued government subsidization should not be the goal. Continued federal privilege is hardly a way to encourage price efficiency and market viability, which is the only route through which more and more people will be able to voluntarily and affordably purchase these renewable energies.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/12/14/is-the-wind-industry-entering-panic-mode/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Politicians across the country are vowing to do more to prevent school shooting tragedies like the one that unfolded Friday in Newtown, Conn. But over the last few years, the Obama administration and Congress allowed funding for several school safety initiatives to lapse.
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/washingtons-school-security-failure
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In 2009, days after Barack Obama’s inauguration, Kerry was sent to Syria as part of a policy review by an Obama administration looking to establish new relationships with countries the Bush administration considered hostile. Bush had repeatedly accused Syria of willful ignorance regarding the arming of terrorists in Iraq, and supporting terror in general. In 2005, following the assassination of Lebanon’s former premier Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing most likely orchestrated by the Assad regime, the United States withdrew its ambassador.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/john-kerry-assads-man-in-washington/
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Indeed, the Energy Department report found that gas exports benefit the economydespite higher domestic prices — in part because they also mean a corresponding fall in the prices that Americans pay for other goods and services that we import. That is, lucrative exports allow our nation to import more of those goods and services that can be produced at home only at relatively high costs.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/let_america_gas_industry_boom_tp8U0EtNyDPRHvtiobMw0J
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Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged in voter suppression in the November election:
“Unfortunately the First Lady’s comments continue the baseless attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections. This past election speaks for itself.
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So how has President Obama responded to the Egyptian government’s human-rights violations, its failure to protect the Copts from persecution (indeed, its willing participation in that persecution), and its provocations against Americans — which now include ordering their killing, through a kangaroo-court process that flouts our due-process standards, over their engagement in activity that is expressly protected by our Constitution?
Well . . . the president has announced that not only will he continue funding Egypt’s Islamist government, but he intends to include in that U.S. aid the provision of 20 F-16 fighter jets. Moreover, Obama is continuing his administration’s collaboration with the 57-government Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the “Istanbul Process.” That is the OIC’s campaign to impose sharia’s repressive blasphemy standards.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335716/blasphemy-and-islam-andrew-c-mccarthy#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Politicians across the country are vowing to do more to prevent school shooting tragedies like the one that unfolded Friday in Newtown, Conn. But over the last few years, the Obama administration and Congress allowed funding for several school safety initiatives to lapse.
http://www.washingtonguardian.com/washingtons-school-security-failure
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John Kerry: Assad’s Man in Washington
In 2009, days after Barack Obama’s inauguration, Kerry was sent to Syria as part of a policy review by an Obama administration looking to establish new relationships with countries the Bush administration considered hostile. Bush had repeatedly accused Syria of willful ignorance regarding the arming of terrorists in Iraq, and supporting terror in general. In 2005, following the assassination of Lebanon’s former premier Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing most likely orchestrated by the Assad regime, the United States withdrew its ambassador.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/john-kerry-assads-man-in-washington/
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What a ghoulish trade, and no wonder Americans loathe the media. Few go near real danger -- Jake Tapper and Rajiv Chandrasekaran are exceptions -- but many think nothing of descending on carnage once the yellow tape is up and the hotels booked.They will move on in three or four days time, just as they did after Sandy, leaving even their neighbors in the dark and the cold. That is how they roll.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The argument against natural-gas exports is also economically backward.A nation prospers through international trade precisely by exporting those goods and services that it can produce at relatively low cost.
Indeed, the Energy Department report found that gas exports benefit the economydespite higher domestic prices — in part because they also mean a corresponding fall in the prices that Americans pay for other goods and services that we import. That is, lucrative exports allow our nation to import more of those goods and services that can be produced at home only at relatively high costs.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/let_america_gas_industry_boom_tp8U0EtNyDPRHvtiobMw0J
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Hillary in Hiding
The basic question here is whether Hillary Clinton has so completely dissolved her own moral core -- the way her boss and fellow Alinskyite clearly has done -- that she is incapable of feeling even the fear of self-revelation when she is called to account for her words and actions. In other words, is this week's illness and fainting spell just a convenient excuse for avoiding her responsibilities, or might it be the pounding of a tell-tale heart?
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/hillary_in_hiding.html#ixzz2FJIWihPp
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/hillary_in_hiding.html#ixzz2FJIWihPp
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Watergate, Zippergate or Benghazigate...Which Is Worse?
Some of my recent articles addressing the Benghazi consulate debacle have quoted Senator John McCain comparing it with another White House scandal. To whit: “It is the worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life. Somebody the other day said to me, this is as bad as Watergate, but nobody died in Watergate.” That association with presidential misdeeds leading to impeachment provoked contentious reader responses, some offended by the connection, and others in agreement.
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Among the gifts Nancy Pelosi brings to the House of Representatives is her ability to draw a hearty guffaw from the most jaded observer of American politics. This talent for comedy was on display last Wednesday when she told a group of toadeaters disguised as journalists that she belongs to the anti-corruption party. The Orwellian absurdity of the claim, combined with her trademark vapid expression, was enough to make a cat laugh. I do, however, wish C-SPAN would flash some sort of warning on the screen when the former Speaker is about to deliver one of these howlers. That one caught me unawares with a mouth full of coffee and I had to spend the next ten minutes cleaning off my keyboard and monitor.
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State Department to get independent Benghazi report
After months of accusations and political recriminations, the State Department is getting ready to present the most detailed explanation yet regarding the circumstances surrounding the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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It’s become a political football,” Beck said. “When Republicans take office they mandate that employers and unions tell people about the rules. When Democrats take office they erase them to keep workers in the dark.”
President Barack Obama issued an executive order rescinding the posting of Beck rights in workplaces that receive government contracts just ten days after being sworn in. The Department of Labor put the order into practice in June 2010.
Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee (NRWC), said the federal government’s refusal to safeguard Beck rights has been a major impetus behind the push for right-to-work laws at the state level.
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