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Libertarianism, Birth Control, and Religious Accommodations

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Who would have thought that birth control would be in the news in 2022? The House of Representatives recently passed the Right to Contraception Act (H.R.8373). The bill “sets out statutory protections for an individual's right to access and a health care provider's right to provide contraception and related information.” The vote was 228–195, with just eight Republicans voting with the Democrats to pass the bill. What would prompt the House to pass legislation like this? In his concurring opinion in the recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case in which the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973), Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.” Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) is the case that established the “right of married persons to obtain contraceptives.” Lawrence v. Texas (2003) is the case that established the “right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts.” Obergefell v. ...

It’s Up to Them

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President Joe Biden has done it again. He’s committed another gaffe. But this comes as no surprise since he acknowledged during a stop on his book tour in 2018 that he was “a gaffe machine,” and has not stopped proving the truth of that statement ever since. In late December of last year, Biden spoke with state governors on a call regarding potential strategies to manage the continued impact of COVID-19. After a Republican governor spoke about challenges his state was experiencing in responding to the pandemic and stated that he did not want federal solutions to stand in the way of state solutions, Biden unintentionally made the case for federalism when he then said that “there is no federal solution” to the COVID-19 pandemic and declared that it “gets solved at the state level.” And now, earlier this year, on the day after a federal judge struck down the public transportation mask mandate issued by the Centers for Disease ...

7 Ways the Right Has Failed Americans

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Earlier this year, Republican members of the House held their three-day annual retreat, the House Republican Issues Conference, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. “Americans are facing the worst inflation crisis in 40 years and struggling to make ends meet,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, chair of the House Republican Conference. She also mentioned “record high gas prices, a grave crisis at the southern border, worsening crime, and a national security crisis.” She blamed these crises on the Biden administration and congressional Democrats: “And these crises, make no mistake, have been created by President Biden and House Democrats’ failed leadership and reckless policies. And yet, despite this, President Joe Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and House Democrats are doubling down on this failed agenda and trying to pass the buck for the pain they are causing American families.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California reminded the attendees that Republicans had previously created seven task forces to listen to Americans and ...

And Then There Were Three

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The Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R.7691), which provides $40.1 billion for “appropriations for defense equipment, migration and refugee assistance, regulatory and technical support regarding nuclear power issues, emergency food assistance, economic assistance, and seizures of property related to the invasion,” that is, for U.S. defense contractors, recently passed the Senate by a vote of ...

Republicans Fail to See the Real Issue with Head Start

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President Biden’s “Path out of the Pandemic” mandated that four groups of people be vaccinated against COVID-19: all federal executive branch workers, contractors that do business with the federal government, health care workers at Medicaid- and Medicare-participating hospitals, and employees of private-sector businesses with 100 or more employees. Federal courts have struck down three of these mandates. ...

Equality and Fairness for All but Property Owners

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The grossly misnamed Equality Act is a government attack on the rights of private property, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. According to the official summary of bill (H.R.5): This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, ...