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Obama’s Contraception Cram-down: The Pork Precedent

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An ancient example of resistance to a tyrant’s attempt to coerce violations of religious conscience provides an interesting perspective on resistance to the Obama administration’s recent healthcare coverage mandate.
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Mandates and Bad Law

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Were the central task of government to be seen as that of aiding citizens in their own self-constitution, oriented towards real human goods including the good of religion, the HHS mandate would be seen for the unjust imposition it is.
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The HHS Mandate and Legal Precedent

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Contrary to what Obama supporters would have us believe, there’s no precedent for the HHS mandate.
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The Ninth Circuit’s Desperate Targeting of Justice Kennedy

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This week’s decision in the Prop 8 case is a desperate appeal to Justice Kennedy, and the latest assault of judicial supremacy.
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Personally Opposed, but Sleeping with the Enemy

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Personally opposed, but actively supporting…well, it’s complicated.
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Natural Causes, Divine Commands, and Human Wellbeing

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The precepts of the natural law are obligatory not because they are commanded, but because they are necessary for our well-being. God’s revelation of these precepts is better understood as a divine reminding and authoritative inviting.
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Conservative Poverty Fighting

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Neither liberal nor libertarian, a principled conservative way of helping the poor.
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Tax Romney, not Corporations

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It’s time to end the corporate income tax: it strains job-creating businesses, punishes workers rather than capital owners, encourages wealthy companies to find loopholes in the tax system, and allows some of the richest among us to pay strangely low personal income tax rates.
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Disability: A Thread for Weaving Joy

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While some people resent the imperfection, the inconvenience, and the expense of persons with disabilities, others see in them an invitation to learn how to love deeply without counting the cost. God will demand an accounting. Adapted from remarks delivered at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life.
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Trust-Busting and Trusting in the Administrative State

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The Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the cellular-phone service market through a decades-old trust-busting ideology is at odds with the courts’ more recent “new learning” approach to market competition. And there are lessons here for pro-lifers.
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To Teach and Delight

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Poetry establishes the polis, the ordered community, because poetry teaches men their “actual desires,” the desires that must be accommodated in any lasting and beneficial order. The second in a two-part series.
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God Matters: Ethical Theory and Divine Law

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The construction of an ethical theory, as a general matter, inevitably implicates philosophical theology.
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Hosanna in the Highest!

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In a recent decision, the Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment provides additional and independent rights to religious organizations, beyond those to which non-religious groups are entitled.
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A Life of Passion: Progressive Eugenics and Planned Parenthood

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A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.
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God and Moral Absolutes

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If appeals to God get ruled out, either by disbelief in his existence or reluctance to rely upon it, then it isn’t possible to demonstrate that there are moral absolutes.
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Against the Architects of Empire

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Contemporary architecture is profoundly anti-natural.
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Being Human in an Age of Unbelief

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Four points in defense of human dignity. Adapted from an address delivered last night at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Conservatives and Social Justice

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Conservatives shouldn’t ignore or attack social justice, but must articulate sound principles of social justice.
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Seven Billion Strong, and Counting

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Concern about overpopulation is unfounded; rather than implement population control policies, let’s invest in the human person.
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Human Development and Human Flourishing: Creating Capabilities Isn’t Enough

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Rawlsian “public reason” approaches to human capabilities are insufficient bases for social justice.
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Abortion, Divorce and “Same-Sex Marriage”: No Blood, No Foul?

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Political legitimization of “private” sexual and marital choices causes much public harm. We have been personally harmed by the regimes of abortion and easy divorce.
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Capital Punishment, Dignity, and Authority: A Response to Ed Feser

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Nothing that a man does can change his nature as man, and so, considered in himself, it will always remain wrong to kill him. This should be the final judgment of practical reason when brought to bear on the question of capital punishment.
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Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America

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John Locke is a deep cultural well from which we still can draw good water.
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Keynesianism, Social Services, and Solvency

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Growing national debt-to-income ratios need not become a threat to American solvency or a long-run impediment to implementation of our social policy choices. Historically-based approaches to social objectives can be improved through advances in economics.
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