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I will be on the “Talk With Ron Williams” show at 4 p.m. EST today on WCIT-AM. I usually am on Thursdays but a schedule conflict has me on this afternoon.
You can listen on AM 940 in the Lima, Ohio, area or online at http://tho.lu/listen940.
Call in at: +1 419-228-9494 or +1 888-894-3776. You can email questions and comments to [email protected].
If you miss it, the show will be archived at Talk With Ron Archives.
Obama Versus Birth Control © by (F)oxymoron
After an outcry from the nation’s Catholics, President Barack Obama modified his unconstitutional attempt to provide free birth control to women. The situation has now gone from bad to worse in a way that has little to do with birth control or religion.
Originally, Obama’s plan was to force religious groups to pay for behavior that violates their core beliefs. That is, he wanted religious organizations to pay for free birth control for their employees.
The revised diktat shifts the cost of contraceptive coverage to insurers when the faith-based employer morally objects.
While Obama’s change might have appeased some Catholics — especially liberal and moderate ones — by essentially giving the church political cover while achieving the same result, the rule is still bad.
A common complaint heard from the libs on this matter is that the Catholic Church’s proscription against birth control is antiquated and should be changed. The church, their illogic goes, should conform to liberal mores.
This goes to the very definition of religion. The church has a set of core beliefs. It preaches those beliefs and people choose to follow or not follow. If the polls are any indication, a majority of Catholics, at least those of the American variety, choose not to follow, at least on this point.
Still, that does not give anyone the right to try to use the force of law to make the church change its beliefs. That is called religious liberty.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls President Barack Obama the “food stamp president.” A study released this month proves the moniker is deserved.
Gingrich bases his claim on the fact that 14.2 million new people have joined the food stamp rolls since Obama took office. The total as of October stood at 46.22 million Americans on government food assistance. If that seems a phenomenal number, that’s because it is. It represents about 15 percent of the American population.
But that is not the whole picture.
The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday released its latest Index of Dependence on Government report. The results were staggering.
America has truly become a welfare state.
The most frightening thing in the new report is that the average American relying on federal government assistance now receives more in benefits than the average American’s disposable personal income. The Index reports Americans who rely on government receive an average $32,748 worth of benefits, surpassing the average American’s disposable personal income of $32,446.
Overall, some 67.3 million Americans, or almost 22 percent, rely “on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid, or other assistance once considered to be the responsibility of individuals, families, neighborhoods, churches, and other civil society institutions,” according to the abstract of the study, which was authored by William Beach and Patrick Tyrrell.
Supporting those 67.3 million Americans costs U.S. taxpayers about $2.5 trillion each year. More than 70 percent of federal spending goes toward these dependency programs.
The problem is compounded by the fact that 49.5 percent of American workers pay no federal income tax.
You don’t need a doctorate in economics to see this trend cannot be sustained.
prevention © by brains the head
If there were any doubt as to whether this administration is waging a war on religion, it should have disappeared by now.
The administration has ordered — without congressional input — that most health insurance plans cover preventive services for women including recommended contraceptive services without charging a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible. That would include sterilization and emergency contraception, colloquially known as the morning after pill.
The federal government — actually just one branch of the federal government — ordering private companies to offer services at a certain price goes beyond the pale of decency in a free society. By itself, such an order would merit strong backlash from the people.
But it gets worse.
The order forces religious entities, ones that might have a moral aversion to birth control, to provide, i.e., pay for, this insurance for their employees.
Or as Green Bay, Wis., Bishop David Ricken said during Mass in St. Francis Xavier Cathedral on Jan. 29: “If we pay for those services for people who work for us, we are in effect saying don’t do it, but then giving the money to pay for it.”
So much for religious liberty.
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I will be on the “Talk With Ron Williams” show at 4 p.m. EST today on WCIT-AM as I am every Thursday.
You can listen on AM 940 in the Lima, Ohio, area or online at http://tho.lu/listen940.
Call in at: +1 419-228-9494 or +1 888-894-3776. You can email questions and comments to [email protected].
If you miss it, the show will be archived at Talk With Ron Archives.
In the Jan. 22 edition of New York Magazine, journalist Joe Hagan said this year’s campaign will ”be the most negative in the history of American politics.”
While his piece was great reading, his statement may just be hyperbole. I love it when journalists talk about things being the “most,” “worst,” “best,” etc., without any real justification. It is just pure hyperbole without research. What he meant to say is that it will be the most negative in recent memory or recent history. And even that might be questionable.
One good example of a truly negative campaign was the 1800 election between John Adams, a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican (the party was founded by Jefferson and was commonly known at the time as simply Republican). It was so contention and caused a sea change in American politics that it is often referred to as the Revolution of 1800. It also, because of a tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr, also a Democratic-Republican who was supposed to be running for vice president, was sent to the House of Representatives to decide the winner. That resulted in a change in how elections were held.
This video from Reason uses the candidates’ own words to give just a sampling of how nasty the candidates were. The only difference is that we have television today, which allows the nastiness to move at the speed of light.
However, it is all just politics. We shouldn’t be too concerned as the nastiness does serve a purpose, especially given that we can no longer trust the national press corps to give us real coverage.
As Reason.TV says:
How would Sen. Barack Obama view President Barack Obama’s administration? Find out by watching this debate.
The 39th anniversary has passed marking the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). I am referring, of course, to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that gave women a right to commit murder under the rubric of a “right to privacy.”
Conservatives challenge this rule by arguing there is no right to privacy in our Constitution.
This is wrong. There clearly is a fundamental right to privacy. Things such as the Fourth Amendment, the right to be free from unreasonable searches, requires a right to privacy or it makes no sense. The right can also be discerned in what lawyers call the “penumbras” of the First, Third, Fifth and Ninth Amendments.
While the court has not always used the phrase “right to privacy,” it has recognized the right since the founding of the Republic. In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis said “the right most valued by civilized men” is “the right to be left alone.”
So it is easy to see that there is a zone of privacy around our bodies and homes that the government may not casually breach.
Still, the right to privacy does not give one the right to kill, as liberals argue.
Radio Free Strawberry © by cogdogblog
In case you missed it, below is the audio from Thursday’s “Talk With Ron Williams” radio show.
Guest host Kurt Neeper and I talked mostly about presidential politics and other national issues.
Enjoy.
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I will be on the “Talk With Ron Williams” show at 4 p.m. today on WCIT-AM as I am every Thursday.
You can listen on AM 940 in the Lima, Ohio, area or online at http://tho.lu/listen940.
Call in at: +1 419-228-9494 or +1 888-894-3776. You can email questions and comments to [email protected].
If you miss it, the show will be archived at Talk With Ron Archives.
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