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CBS/NYT Poll Finds Bad News for President Obama


By Dave Andrusko As people far more skilled than I am in reading polls have noted, the one point advantage (47% to 46%) that pro-life Mitt Romney enjoys over pro-abortion President Barack Obama is actually the least important number. It’s the response of registered voters to various specific issues—and Obama’s declining fortunes with Independents—that tell […]

Wheaton College latest to file lawsuit against Obama Mandate


By Dave Andrusko Photo: Wheaton College President Philip Ryken My apologies, I had intended to write about this yesterday but got swamped. For Evangelical Christians there are few colleges or universities more readily recognized than Wheaton College in Illinois. On Wednesday—the same day a federal judge gutted another challenge to the Obama mandate filed by the […]

Judge Tosses Challenge by Seven States to Obama Mandate


By Dave Andrusko U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom has dismissed a federal lawsuit brought by seven states against the Obama Administration’s mandate that requires religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization and contraception. Urbom threw out the suit on Tuesday, holding that the plaintiffs […]

Bishops Welcome Inclusion of Conscience Provisions in House Appropriations Bill


Photo: Cardinal Daniel DiNardo WASHINGTON— The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/HHS “took a first, urgently needed step toward upholding rights of conscience and religious freedom in our health care system,” by including two key provisions in its appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2013, according to the chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. […]