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May 17, 2016

Safe Sex and The Second Amendment

To summarize, you can’t insist that the constitution includes a right to access to one form of protection (contraceptives) while insisting that you may prohibit access to another form of protection (the tools needed to exercise a Second Amendment right to self-defense). (Publiusforum.com) The Ninth Circuit Court remanded the case of Teixeira v. County of Alameda back to a …

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Attn VA Gov: Felons Can’t Vote if they’re Dead

Some days it’s  more bewildering than others to attempt to answer why the hellish hyperstate is trusted to do even the most basic fundamental tasks. Like you know, feeding somebody so that they don’t starve to death. It seems to me that should be mastered before taking on additional responsibilities.  How about proving you can …

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Score one for religious liberty: SCOTUS decides to leave the Little Sisters of the Poor alone for now

Try as it might, the federal government has not yet convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that the health of American women depends on forcing a bunch of nuns to help procure contraception for their employees via employer-provided health insurance. The Court on May 16 saved the Little Sisters of the Poor and several other plaintiffs …

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Bernie’s Wife Ran Vermont College into a Ditch and Left it There.

Heat Street.com is reporting that the wife of a socialist Senator Bernie Sanders drove a college she ran into so much debt it will no longer be able operate. Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under …

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