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Supreme Court Justice Refuses to Block Morning-After Pill Provision in Obamacare

Dec. 26, 2012 11:00pm Jason Howerton

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied a request to block part of the federal health care law, known as Obamacare, that requires employee health-care plans to provide insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar emergency contraception pills.

Hobby Lobby Stores and a sister company, Mardel Inc., sued the government, claiming the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners.

Supreme Court Justice Refuses to Block Morning After Pill Provision in Obamacare

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In an opinion, Sotomayor said the stores fail to satisfy the demanding legal standard for blocking the requirement on an emergency basis. She said the companies may continue their challenge to the regulations in the lower courts.

Company officials say they must decide whether to violate their faith or face a daily $1.3 million fine beginning Jan. 1 if they ignore the law.

Attorneys for the government have said the drugs do not cause abortions and that the U.S. has a compelling interest in mandating insurance coverage for them.

In ruling against the companies last month, U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton said churches and other religious organizations have been granted constitutional protection from the birth-control provisions but that “Hobby Lobby and Mardel are not religious organizations.”

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Skrewedretiree
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:25am
Sotomayor: An Obamunist. What did we expect under the Obamanation?

To the Democrats: Feeling it yet? You will soon……!

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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:13am
  The fact that they allowed a judge whom openly supports Obamacare to judge on it’s constitutionality and the Republican congressman didn’t protect us by railing against having her on the bench in this major decision shows just how truely fake our two party system is . It’s a two party country that’s for sure pRIVATE CITIZEN TAX PAYERS HOST AND GOVERNMENT LEECHES
  Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise there of…. Hobby Lobby need only invest in an insurance plan that doesn’t give morning after contraception or any other precedures that violate their religious rights. More over if the federal government is providing these services then it is within Hobby Lobby’s right to refuse to pay taxes that are used in violation of their religious beliefs. And fact is the government is in total violation of the the Constitution on alot of levels the DOE being the biggest offenders.
  
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- termyt
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:10am
  To exempt religious organizations is to acknowledge there is a reasonable, viable, religious objection to the mandate. But they are also saying that Christians have no right to object. So apparently Christians should only found and work for religious organizations. And I think they’d like that just fine.
  
  This is the same as what the Freedom from Religion Foundation is doing. They are trying to drive Christians out of every corner of the public discourse and force us into hiding. Through measures like this, they are trying to convince Christians to leave willingly. Next they will deal with those who don’t go quietly.
  
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- coachpan
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:15am
  And with 4 more years of Obama appointees (for life) this country will fundamentally change. Everything is going Obama’s way. (For the time being)
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:28am
  One glaring fault with this article is that it refers to this drug as a contraceptive. The word contraceptive means something that prevents conception. This drug does not do that. This drug works by making the endometrium hostile to an implanting embryo. The usual place of conception of a new life, is in the fallopian tubes. This drug does not prevent that conception if an egg was released just before or within a day of intercourse. That conceived individual enters the womb within 5-8 days, and by design would implant in the endometrium (that implantation is called “pregnancy”). But, this drug prevents implantation and the conceived individual cannot obtain nutrition and its life ends. That is called abortion. Scientifically speaking, this drug is an abortifacient and if conceived, a human is killed in the process.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:17pm
  @Sparky
  
  “That is called abortion.”
  
  That is actually not true. Abortion is caused when an -implanted- fertilized egg is destroyed. A fertilized egg is not considered viable until it implants; as you mentioned, if it fails to implant, it will not develop. Pregnancy does not begin until this point, nor does abortion enter into the picture.
  
  As you referenced, most fertilized eggs naturally fail to implant. These are not miscarriages or abortions; a “life” is not lost because there’s no way for the egg to develop further without implantation. The fertilized egg will not proceed beyond about 100 cells without implantation and thus has no more of a chance to become a human than a sperm or an egg alone do.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:19pm
  @Sparky (again)
  
  None of that really matters though, because Plan B and those types of medicines do NOT stop implantation; they only stop fertilization.
  
  Good article on it: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/06/morning-after-pills-dont-actually-keep-fertilized-eggs-from-implanting/#.UNyCy2-Ckeg
  
  “In the last 13 years, research into Plan B’s mechanism has advanced, and scientists are now able to say with some certainty that the drug works by delaying ovulation, keeping the egg and the sperm from being in the same place at the same time, so the egg is never fertilized. Women who take Plan B after they’ve ovulated still get pregnant. And in lab tests using cultured cells, the drug does not keep a fertilized egg from attaching to a layer of uterine cells.”
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:34pm
  Locked, you are obviously mistaken in your terminology. You need to educate yourself in the science of human embryology. Therein you will find the error of your thinking and will gain an understanding of how oogenenis and spermiogenesis create haploid cells, how those cells live and die, how fertilization takes place and how that new cell is completely different from the egg and the sperm, and from the maternal compliment and the paternal compliment, where fertilization takes place and the length of time and the number of cell divisions that take place prior to the entry of the zygote into the womb. Then study the mechanics and chemistry of the implantation process. It is termed a “pregnancy” only when implantation is complete. You will learn of the building and the function of the endometrium and then if you really wish to get educated, you will study the effect of this drug on the endometrium. Then and only then will you be able to correct your misconceptions about abortion, for you are currently very wrong in your understanding. I truly doubt you will do this, as you are a lefty, and truth is not a concern when the ends justify the means.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:04pm
  60 PERCENT OF CATHOLICS VOTED FOR OBAMA AND CATHOLIC BISHOPS WANTED TO BE PART OF OBAMA’S VICTORY
  
  I become so angry at Mass and when I pass by a Catholic Church knowing that 60 percent of Catholics excluding Hispanics voted for Obama. They call themselves Catholic yet they support abortion, homosexual marriage, and the Democrat Party that forces loyal Catholics to fund abortion.
  
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- ThatCatGirl
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 3:36pm
  @SKREWEDRETIREE
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:25am
  To the Democrats: Feeling it yet? You will soon……
  
  This is what the DEMs want. *Big GOV, nanny state, free everything, no moral absolutes, gimmee all and ask for nothing. *
  
  I see so many on our side waiting for them to wake up and see the truth. This *is* their truth- their glory, their agenda. The ones who need to wake up are our side… wake up and see that it is not only the corrupt politicians and the corrupt news media that are our adversaries. That list also includes a majority of our own citizens; people with no loyalty to the Constitution or the rule of law.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:20pm
  If Obamacare covers birth control/abortions, how about tattoo removal? Or breast implants? Or facelifts? Or liposuction? Or enhancements? Like abortion, all of them are optional and don’t require life to be in danger to be performed.
  
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- Deuteronomy22
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:01pm
  The idiocy of claiming Christians are being persecuted in a nation that has 73% of it’s citizens identifying themselves as Christians is beyond ridiculous.
  
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nesmond
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:23am
Little by little our government is seizing power from the people. They think if they do this incrementally, it will prevent an all out war. They are probably right. So far, all I see are a few rants on conservative websites whenever another one of our inalienable rights is being threatened. I think conservatives will gripe and moan,but eventually they will bend to their will. Seriously, who wants to put themselves and their families in jeopardy? By now a great leader for the right should have shown up and started to rally the troops. We got Glenn Beck. No offense, but Glenn is no G.W. I appreciate that we are still allowed to have sites like this to sound off. Soon “The Blaze” will only be a fond memory for some.

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- charles116
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:06pm
  What ‘power’ have you lost?
  
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QuincySmith
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:18am
sotomayor, who would have guessed.

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- Skrewedretiree
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:27am
  Well, all the Consrervatives and the Republicans for a start….
  
  What? We should be surprised?
  
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1snake1
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:13am
I know this is tough for you blazebots to understand, but your ‘religious freedom’ does not extend to the right for your business to discriminate. You can’t say ‘no bIacks’, and you can’t say ‘no healthcare for women’. Sorry.

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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:19am
  Taking a pill that kills the baby a woman helped create is a strange definition of “healthcare” you sicko.
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:05am
  @SQUIDVETOHIO
  
  Speaking like a true moron. Do you honestly believe that the MORNING AFTER I have s3x with a woman, there is a baby there? Ya know, providing that fluids are exchanged? You can’t be that nutty
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:44am
  SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:19am
  Taking a pill that kills the baby a woman helped create is a strange definition of “healthcare” you sicko.
  _____________________
  It is not the Employers right to dictate what helathcare procedures an employee can an can not have. Nor is a clump of cells a baby.
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:13am
  Yo encinom, you continuously exhibit your ignorance. What you refer to as a clump of cells is actually proven by science to be a unique, living, human being. I thought you liked science. If so, go and educate yourself. I’ll help. The mother’s egg is a cell from her body. It contains half of her DNA compliment. Once released, if not fertilized, it dies. That is its design. The father’s sperm is a cell from his body. It is also haploid. if it does not fertilize an egg, it dies. That is its design. But if its DNA compliment penetrates an egg, it combines in the nucleus of the egg with the mothers compliment, and becomes a cell destined to multiply and divide and unless someone takes its life, it is destined to die approximately 80 years later of old age or some disease. Science proves that it is a living human. It is unique from its mother and from its father – and it has independent life. Certainly it is totally dependent on the mother it is growing inside, same as it is totally dependent on its mother for the first 2 years once outside the womb. When is it totally viable? When it turns 18 and becomes an adult. Lump of tissue? The only clump of tissue here is encinom. It’s time he used his own brain instead of relying on what his loony leftie friends and parents have pumped into the mush between his ears.
  
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- brigott
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:14am
  Bluehen, go back to science class!
  
  Yes, the morning after there IS a baby there.
  
  And how does forcing an employer to pay for anything for an employee a right? He doesn’t even have to hire any employees.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:18am
  The morning after pill uses the chemical levonorgestrel, which prevents fertilization. If you don’t have fertilization, you don’t have a zygote.
  
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- jessieH
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:40pm
  The pill has nothing to do with healthcare.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:07pm
  What baby?
  The gal is not even pregnant.
  
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Raging_Waters
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:43am
Tolerance: What’s your limit?….

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- lani59
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:19am
  She’s probably thinking about her own children and the no restriant when it comes to sex. Hopefully they’ll use it so we can stop her family from breeding more idiot liberals.
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:20am
  As a rule, societies do not become more tolerant
  Instead, societies change the objects of their intolerance
  
  In a couple of decades, it could well be that the testamentary bequests of a parent will be nullified if a homosexual child gets a share of the estate that is smaller than a child who has married a person of the opposite sex and has had children.
  
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Chancellor
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:28am
Easy way around it gentleman {and I did it}

Move your businesses out of the US. Only keep the retail end here and use part time workers so you don’t have to pay healthcare. Keep them under 28 hours a week and they don’t qualify.

I don’t care about what people think about it! Maybe people will finally get the message and throw this government out and go back to a Republic run by Laws!

Democracy’s never work and they ALWAYS fail taking millions of innocent people with them to they’re grave!

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- bertr
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:38am
  You kind of sum it up at the end, democracies don’t work, hence people won’t get it from the fallout alone, we’ve run out of time on the loosing side of the game. Our government controls the most powerful force ever known to this planet, the US military and we’re on the fast track to communism.
  If you’re a drama fan this is the time to be alive i guess, utterly depressing and woeful otherwise
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:45am
  Indeed Democracies, literal mob-majority rule, does not work, we need to be back with a Republic, one of law, and of justice and equality for all. NOT the communist network Obama and the Democrats are close to establishing.
  
  May God grant us the victory over the darkness in the end.
  
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- KangarooJack
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:51am
  French Revolution…whilst they kept calling for AND lopped off the heads of those who ACTUALLY provided the bread…they soon found themselves very hungry.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:55am
  @BERTR
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:38am
  Our government controls the most powerful force ever known to this planet, the US military
  ——————————–
  Maybe some will be government zombies, but many are just like us — Fed Up.
  Like I stated below, there are over 14 million civilian armed sportsfans.
  Right now the US military numbers are approx 1,458,697 all inclusive with the largest
  CUTS in history on the way shortly.
  
  Vastly outgunned and outnumbered 9:1
  
  WE THE PEOPLE.
  
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- rmburton
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:33am
  “Blaze-posters” all make very good arguments, but your spelling and grammar are atrocious. It makes it hard to take any of you seriously. I’m not trying to single out this one post; this applies to nearly all of them. Please take the time to make your comments proper.
- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 5:23am
  Great ideas CHANCELLOR except the agenda that is to use public policy to subvert America from inside. Infiltrate and influence our culture to DESTROY FAMILIES, BUSINESS, RELIGION and MORALITY. If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
  Professors, educationalists and journalists are the Gramscian shock troops of the future to control the culture and once you control the culture you can shape the thought of rising generations and change the country in a way where it can never be changed back again.
  
  Do you know who the Fabians (with logo of wolf in sheep’s clothing), SDS, Frankfurt School and Willi Munzenberg, John Dewey , Antonio Gramsci, Mattechine Society, Alinksi (who dedicated his book “Rules for Radicals to Lucifer), which Obama taught in Chicago for years, Committees of Correspondence are? Connect all the dots that allowed Obama to waltz into the White House…
  
  All part of the Agenda to create an America so corrupt it stinks and to drive this culture in a direction designed to destroy it. If you don’t know all this you need to find out! I have watched it 12X to absorb all that is in it!
  
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this
  together. Watch it. Share it. Arrange a showing in church, groups, clubs, with friends or family. Everyone who loves America needs to see this movie,
  It is free on line for the moment
  
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:37am
  Agreed. I have been looking for a country to setup businesses that Freedom and Rule of Law Americans can move and work. We should stick together and establish a free nation somewhere. If enough of us move there to have enough power to establish a free state we could grow rapidly because there are so many people that are craving freedom from the oppressive tyranny we face here.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:21pm
  Henry: Envy the pilgrims who could sail to the New World for religious ( away from the new state religion of atheism ) and political ( away from the new international Big Brother Left government ) freedom. Where the heck could we go ?
  
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- bertr
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:33pm
  @YAHSHUARULES
  Good video, I sent the ’58 list of communist goals and link to the video to my friends which i have political discussions with which include an atheist militia oath keeper, non-religious hard core conservative Texan(Bush sort), self proclaimed fascist republican voter with Utopian ideals of social leveling and forced labor(Fabian sort), and a liberal christian(McCain sort)
  Im conservative religious libertarian if worldview can be boiled down to 3 words(and it can’t but for the sake of simplicity) and its wild that these are the friends i have, and they are more then merely friends, we all feel the country is doomed and we vote nearly identically, oddly. It’s a real problem when the only people who think anymore are classified as radicals, i try to talk to the other 90% of people i work with and they mostly have no clue, they are completely asleep. Under different conditions we would be all but enemies, but in these times we all feel threatened and band together(we all keep our eye on the Fabian guy, but ironically he has a good heart and we all hope he is simply misguided because he does actually think). It all comes down to respect for people i guess and we all share that amongst each other.
  I dread the future but i do appreciate how easy it is to tell the people who actually realize the world is shaking from those who are otherwise very intelligent but have no clue these days. If the world hadn’t shook i don’t know if i ever would have found ultimat
  
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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:13am
It would be a good idea for everyone, including businesses, to transfer their assets overseas to banks paying more interest. Tax would have to be paid on the interest earned, but the principal would be safe from government taking taxes/penalties.

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- catty
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:24pm
  How American of you.
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:07am
Time to Stand up…and say HELL NO,WE WILL NOT COMPLY.

Those black robes in DC were NEVER meant to be the say all,be all.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:46am
  Absolutely.
  
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- Skrewedretiree
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:31am
  Remember Jury Nullification. No Court can order you to convict, and you DO NOT have to explain why. They will tell you you do, but MAKE THEM PROVE IT! Of course, that will piss them off, and they will probably throw you in jail, which is another violation of the Constitution. But, hey, that’s what this is all about….removing the Constitution and installing Obamunism.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:01am
  @Screwed
  
  “Remember Jury Nullification. No Court can order you to convict, and you DO NOT have to explain why. They will tell you you do, but MAKE THEM PROVE IT! Of course, that will piss them off, and they will probably throw you in jail, which is another violation of the Constitution.”
  
  Depends who you are. If you’re a juror who is purposely attempting to nullify a law, you’ll simply be replaced following the auspices of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 23(b). If you’re a lawyer who is picking jurors specifically to nullify a law, you’ll be likely be disbarred and unable to practice law in the US any more (lawyers are officers of the court, and vow to uphold the law; advocating jury nullification purposely breaks that vow).
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:49am
  Oh no, you can not impose your will and backward religion on others, how dare they.
  
  Look at the whiney conservatives upset they are no longer getting their way.
  
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Salamander
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:04am
EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR OBAMACARE ought to be on a political removal list and the Republican Party would be wise to sponsor such a list and OVERTLY go after the seats that would be vacated!–AFTER ASSISTING WITH THE VACATION!

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- decendentof56
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:21am
  Salamander…The Repubs are nearly as bad as the Socialist Dems.
  The last 4 Pres’s all were for UN Agenda 21.
  2 Dems
  2 Repubs
  All these things tie in with equal distribution of wealth, health, and property.
  WildlandsProject, Walkways
  Greenways, Tying-in of wilderness tracts by coercing landowners to give up usage rights so BEARS can navigate from one large forested area to another will prevent humans from inhabiting all but designated “population centers.”
  
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- drenfroe
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:40am
  Sorry but honestly theProgressive Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats. They are in it together. Looks to me like they are all in it together and just playing games with the people as usual.
  
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Salamander
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:02am
Contraception generally isn’t healthcare! Rather, it is a social planning device that encourages risky behavior! If you’re going to hand out condoms and morning after pills, why not serve alcohol and provide day-beds so our youngsters can relieve their anxiety in a government-sponsored ‘waste-a-life’ program?

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RisetovotesiR
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:49pm
we should sterilize anyone with an IQ under 100

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:57pm
  Careful for what you wish for. might lose a lot of your base/
- bertr
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:18am
  The US actually used to do that, back before world war II we forcefully sterilized over 80,000 i believe. Eugenics is not the answer to where we’re heading, and angry urges for a quick fix will only hurt our side, we’re heading into a very dark age, and it will likely be a long one if we’re not near the end of this mortal phase
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:20am
  But you will lose the whole base….
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:04am
  Then there would be a shortage of comments on The Blaze….
  
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- RisetovotesiR
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 5:11am
  there would be less religious zealots
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:25am
  @RISETOVOTE,
  
  I guess that reveals your I.Q. since you are seemingly clueless to the test scores of private religious school students to that of public schools.
  
  Glass houses and all that……
  
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- Sparky101
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:38am
  Then encinom would never have been born and then he’d never be able to procreate. We need people like him to do our bidding, to work for us at low pay, to carry our water. Sterilization of such peons would make our lives harder. I think that is a bad idea.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:10pm
  Then there would be no Republicans
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:53am
  RISE: I think arrogance is a greater danger to the common good… Witness Obama and his Trolls like young 116 !
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:42pm
Hellooooooooooooo, 29 hours per week.

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- KangarooJack
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:59pm
  You are Sooo correct. I have to chuckle, so many do NOT realize the corner they have painted themselves into. FREE healthcare. lol
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:04am
  That’s not too likely to happen. Remember how Papa John’s was going to cut hours so they didn’t have to provide insurance? Not only was there a huge backlash (go figure, people don’t like it when you treat your employees like dirt), but after crunching the numbers it turns out that hiring additional employees to work along with all that is involved in the process (hiring, training, tracking, organizing) actually would increase costs more than Obamacare would.
  
  Might not be the same for all employers, of course.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:42pm
Attorneys for the government have said the drugs do not cause abortions and that the U.S. has a compelling interest in mandating insurance coverage for them.
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Attorneys are not medical doctors or scientists, but to tell the truth it depends on what the definition of an abortion is. The drugs prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb, and if you believe that life begins at conception, the fertilized egg is a life. If the egg can’t attach/implant on the wall of the womb, doesn’t an abortion occur?

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:04am
  No, if you want to equate lack of fertilization with abortion then you have to accept the fact that the chemistry of the human body aborts fertilized eggs all on its own. For every one fertilized egg that manages to survive, hundreds are left out.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:11am
  does it matter? if you are against abortion don’t get one. don’t take the pill. if you are for it take the pill. simple as that. no more debate needed. just mind your own business and notice everyone has differing convictions.
  
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- Alky
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:15am
  @SimpleTruths “For every one fertilized egg that manages to survive, hundreds are left out.”
  
  I sure hope they were liberal eggs!!
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:27am
  @ Simple Truths
  
  First of all, “fertilization” occurs when a sperm cell penetrates an egg. This is called conception, and in many people minds, is when life begins. After that, the fertilized egg attaches to the wall of the womb.
  
  While it’s true that many fertilized eggs don’t make it to “attachment” for other reasons, this is caused by natural reasons or accidents. The Day After pill makes sure that the fertilized egg doesn’t attach, by unnatural means.
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:50am
  And that’s the only moment in his entire life that Simple was a winner by his own means….
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:21pm
  @Diane TX
  
  “The Day After pill makes sure that the fertilized egg doesn’t attach, by unnatural means.”
  
  Actually, it prevents fertilization. The morning after pill does not prevent implantation.
  An article from Discovery:
  ” In the last 13 years, research into Plan B’s mechanism has advanced, and scientists are now able to say with some certainty that the drug works by delaying ovulation, keeping the egg and the sperm from being in the same place at the same time, so the egg is never fertilized. Women who take Plan B after they’ve ovulated still get pregnant. And in lab tests using cultured cells, the drug does not keep a fertilized egg from attaching to a layer of uterine cells.”
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:39pm
Company officials say they must decide whether to violate their faith or face a daily $1.3 million fine beginning Jan. 1 if they ignore the law.
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Hmmmmm…..sell my soul and burn in Hell for all of eternity, or tell Caesar to stuff it in his ObamaCare?

Luke 22:36

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- Skrewedretiree
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:36am
  I think it would be better to save my soul than face damnation and Obamanation dominance. I am a retiree, but my retirement check was EARNED and if these CORK SUCKERS want to take away that and force me to be a slave, then fine. I will lose everything but my life. BUT: I am a trained veteran, and I was trained to fight against the enemy. I remember those skills.
  
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Racemosa7
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:36pm
True, the individual is responsible for taking the pill but when we the people are forced to pay for that persons decision we suffer loss. I thank God,by His grace I have been born again and understand that it is wrong. I thank God I am not the person who uses this pill, and I thank God I am not Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

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Cavallo
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:35pm
Just going to have to pay the penalty and raise prices or cut salaries, and not offer benefits. If their faith in fact means anything to them. This is not a free country. You cannot choose to offer the benefits you wish. Those are dictated by a central authority in the capital. We have no freedoms in this country, just what the State will allow and what they will not.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:12am
  melodramatic much?
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:12am
  They won’t have to raise prices or cut salaries because they don’t have to pay any more for policies that comply with they law than they would for policies that deny their employees the required coverage.
  
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- Skrewedretiree
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:45am
  @ChetHempstead: Get off the Hemp and smell the coffee! Obamacare is ALREADY taking its toll on small business! Maybe if you got off your bong and got a real job or worked for a small business this might reveal itself to you.
  
  Maybe, just maybe, you might be in a position to experience the effects of Obamacare first hand, such as getting LAID OFF!
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:38am
  Skrewedretiree
  Hobby Lobby isn’t such a small business that they wouldn’t already have to have a healthcare plan. I don’t know whether Obamacare will force them to pay more than they have already been paying, but buying a plan that covers contraception will not cost them any more than buying one that excludes it. That is what I said in my first post, and it is truthful and accurate.
  
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BODYBAG
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:31pm
Its no joke. Sooner or later Americans are going to have to stand up to this Nazi clown
court and the Communist Regime running the country right now.

They WORK FOR US.

THE REAL REASON FOR GUN OWNERSHIP
by The Company of Freemen
http://www.eoffshore.com/real-reason-for-gun-ownership

Over 14 million US citizens went hunting last year at least once.
That is the largest standing Army on planet Earth.

George III learned that lesson the hard way. Maybe its time again.

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:56pm
  Fantasy: 14 million people went hunting at least once last year = a organized (standing) army ready to overthrow the United States government by force.
  Reality: A guy with a big chip on his shoulder, and a big imagination, with maybe 20 -30 buds, at most, that are ready to sign up for the above mission.
  
  You are the kind of unstable person that I wish didn’t have access to a firearm.
- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:07am
  @ SimpleTruths
  
  Yup, you have us right where we want you.
  
  The difference between you and Adam Lanza is that Adam only misused a tool on one day, but you are a tool that’s used 24/7/365 and you’re too stupid to realize it.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:08am
  @SIMPLETRUTHS
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:56pm
  You are the kind of unstable person that I wish didn’t have access to a firearm
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  After you read facts then you can apologise for being an imbecile F face.
  
  The state of Wisconsin = over 600,000 hunters.
  750,000 are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week
  Michigan = 700,000 hunters
  Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia
  Thats just 4 states out of 57
  
  The best trained and well armed army you’ll ever encounter One determined group of SOBs. No equal on the face of the Earth!!! Ever see a duck hunter in the Louisiana Bijou, covered in ice and snow, waist deep in water? An Elk hunter in the mountains of Montana taking a 600 meter shot? A White tail hunter on a blood trail in the deep woods of Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or New York traveling ten miles over some of the roughest terrain you’ll ever encounter, just to be sure of their kill. I haven’t mentioned Tennessee, or Alabama and all the rest.
  
  You want trouble? Piss off somebody from hills of Kentucky or the granite of Virginia! Georgia and Arkansas are no one to mess with either. I could go on and on. There is no more determined group of humans on the face of the Earth.
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:13am
  @ Bodybag
  
  Thats just 4 states out of 57
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  That one almost slipped right by me. That’s hilarious.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:20am
  @TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:13am
  @ Bodybag
  
  Thats just 4 states out of 57
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  That one almost slipped right by me. That’s hilarious.
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  LOL.
  Thanks for the assist. God I despise trolls.
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:28am
  I never dreamed that I would post a link to this story when I came to look at this story but you folks fit the mold perfectly:
  http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/04/dumb_white_peop.html
  
  Simpletruths is very much correct…what a joke!
- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 3:23am
  @ Winedude
  
  Interesting study. However, when the poop hits the fan I’ll be content to throw lead downrange while you high-I.Q. phaso-heads can throw your charts and your superior intellect at them.
  
  I think me and my pathetic 131 I.Q. will do just fine.
  
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- Revolution1
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:21am
  Agreed. Now is the time.
  
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- Revolution1
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:40am
  Wow…you are ignorant. High-powered rifles and shotguns aren’t required to be registered, therefore unless this moron went door to door asking these questions then he hasn’t even accounted for half the firearms in the country. Point two: Your scores shows more white people own guns because we actually obtain them through the required channels, unlike most blacks. It is also because we can afford them (can’t by too many guns with your EBT card).
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:01am
  @WINEDUDE
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:28am
  I never dreamed that I would post a link to this story when I came to look at this story but you folks fit the mold perfectly:
  
  Simpletruths is very much correct…what a joke!
  ——————————————————
  Typical effeminate anti-gun whiner. Predictable is a despicable progressive character flaw.
  You post a link because you’re too much of a coward to openly state the hypothesis your charts are
  attempting to make. Pathetic.
  
  You want to try to assert that ALL GUN OWNERS are inferior to your highly advanced IQ?
  Man up and say it plainly in the open for all to see.
  I’ll bet more than a few gun owners will take issue with you and your positions.
  It will be fun to watch.
  
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- Revolution1
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:21am
  @winedude @simpletruth
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Bodybag. : Arrogance is a common characteristic of the radical Lefties most of whom grew up in the “good job” era where momma gushed over normal breathing patterns, everyone was deemed “beautiful,” and schools threw out the grading curve. Suffer severe ego inflation. Probably one of the reasons Obama hides his school records : majored in community organizing, Black History, and Marxism also ?!
  
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cmjones
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:26pm
And so it begins.

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Rashomon
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:24pm
http://wh.gov/QpIu

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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:18pm
Just a thought…take it easy on me: Sooner or later, as Christians, we are going to face THOUSANDS choices the following years regarding our faith vs. The World. We are going to be rounded and cornered little by little trough laws and regulations. This very serious, our faith will be challenged even with the smallest things. For these owners, I don´t see other way that selling, but on the other hand, I just thought this: We all say here, day after day, that guns don’t kill people, knives don’t kill people, cars don´t kill people…..people kill people!…..wouldn’t be the same to say that pills don’t kill people, but mothers wanting abortion kill babies??….or it’s just me looking for a way to serve two kings at the same time??

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- Martha4LIFE
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:27am
  I would say that there is a difference between the arguments you’ve given regarding guns & the morning-after pill. To begin with, he morning-after pill serves no other function besides to abort a baby; while a gun (or car, or knife, etc) is not usually purchased with the intent of taking an innocent life. And, my employer is not being forced to buy ammunition for my gun if they don’t agree with my opinion; however, employers are being forced to pay for the morning-after pill regardless of their personal beliefs regarding abortion.
  
  While I agree that the root of the problem is that the hearts of the mothers (and fathers) need to be turned to their unborn children, there will be evil and sin in this world until Jesus returns. You’re right, as Christians in this age, we will face tons of decisions in which the world will call for us to compromise, though God’s Word requires that we stand firm. My thoughts, though, are that I live in a nation where I’m given freedom to voice my opinions…and I want to be found speaking for those who have no voice – the unborn.
  
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- andrew36
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:52am
  So you both seriously believe that taking the pill the morning after pill the day after sex is killing babies. Its not even close to being a baby, if you believe that then you must believe killing sperm is the same as killing babies as well. FFS why do you think its your right to force woman to have a baby when it isnt wanted, dont we have enough unwanted kids in the world now. Wether businessses should pay for it but is another argument.
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:59am
  Ok, I agree with you, but I will push the envelope a little bit more. In essence, you are giving “something” to somebody, and it’s up to that person whether or not using it for doing good or for doing evil,…… or am I wrong?…let me give another example: What about paying taxes to an evil government?…you don’t want to do it, and you certainly know that that government will use your money for things that are against God. You don’t want to do it, you are basically forced to do it, and the gov’t is using YOUR MONEY FOR EVIL PROJECTS!!!….basically is the same, and this is not my idea, because some Christians are claiming that complying with a corrupt government makes you guilty of its sins too. For example, the government is killing babies with your money right now…and allowing the gay marriage, and etc, etc. But don’t think about this government; think about a future gov’t much worse…how bad do you think this is going to be at that point? This is a deep problem….
  
  I think we are going to need playing with the system to some degree, while we don’t lose our souls. To which point? I don’t know, and that’s why I’m asking these tough questions. I think that a line on the sand could be the free choice and the free will. I mean, since there is not collective salvation, so there is not collective condemnation. I’m not responsible for your sins, and because I’m not encouraging them either, I cannot pay for you, or along with you.
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:01am
  Part 2
  
  I’m being forced to give you something that in the end is up to you to sin with it. What about if while I’m handing you the pill, I explicitly say that I’m being forced to, and then I take the chance to give you an extra advice so why you shouldn’t swallow that pill??
  
  As I said, I think like you, but we need to make the tough questions and cover all the bases today so we can be ready tomorrow….
  
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- Locked
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:20am
  @Martha
  
  “To begin with, he morning-after pill serves no other function besides to abort a baby”
  
  The morning-after pill does not cause an abortion. Abortion is caused after implantation; Plan B and its ilk only prevent implantation. It was once theorized that an implanted fertilized egg could be aborted by Plan B, but several studies have revealed this does not happen.
  
  If you think an unimplanted (ie, non-viable) fertilized egg is equivalent to a living human, I disagree. As does the Bible, but that’s a discussion for another time.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:14pm
What did the other 8 SC Justices have to say in this matter?

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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:20pm
  Hey Monk,
  
  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:30pm
  Hi GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas,
  
  Thank you and the best to you and yours ! : )
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:09am
  @MONK . .. that was my question also .. did the rest go on vacation and leave her at the court over the Christmas to rule?
  
  Merry Christmas and PRAYERS for the New Year my friend.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:17am
  Thanks CatB….. : )
  
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brigott
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:14pm
Wrong decision, in my opinion.

If it’s a pending case, then there should be no penalty until it is decided.

I truly hope that Hobby Lobby pays not one penny, whether it is upheld in the Supreme Court or not.

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- brigott
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:25pm
  There is a Higher Judge than Sotomayor. In fact, He is a Higher Judge than the whole Supreme Court put together.
  
  I truly respect Hobby Lobby’s stand so far, and I will be sorely disappointed if they capitulate.
  
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Diane TX
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:12pm
I don’t understand. Why does only one Justice get to decide?

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- sfrich
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:32pm
  This will explain it: http://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/reportersguide.pdf
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:45pm
  Thank you sfrich. I understand now.
  
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- sfrich
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:55pm
  You’re welcome. :) It was a good question, especially because, often, the news doesn’t explains how these things work.
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:22am
  @SFRich…thanks for posting this link. I wasn’t quite certain how it all works myself. I did find it interesting in looking to see what Justices are assigned to which states. I noticed that Justice Thomas, the stupid one, is only assigned 3 states, all of which are in the South…how appropriate!
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:30am
  WINEDUDE,
  
  Nice you racist slime ball. But, we know all liberals are bigots. Justice Thomas has forgotten more knowledge than you and all your slack-jawed trolls combined have.
  
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LoveBringsTruth
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:07pm
57 stories on the homepage.

7 of those stories are important.

A couple of the funny/light hearted stories are needed.

So its safe to say 45 stories on the homepage are useless.

78% of the homepage stories are useless. Pretty amazing.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:19pm
  What homepage?
  
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- LoveBringsTruth
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:33am
  the home page of this website.
  
  I am bitter right now because the blaze is not doing real reporting. Our country is losing our constitution through corruption and criminal activity and the blaze is posting old viral videos.
  
  I wrote an open letter rant to the blaze because I thought this organization was going to be different.
  
  You can read it here – cleaned up some typos and grammer.
  http://lovebringstruth.blogspot.com/2012/12/open-letter-to-theblazecom.html
  
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- Normanator01
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:28am
  For you it is the case
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:52am
  You put your faith and salvation in Glenn Beck…sucker! He’s nothing different from the early 20th century revivalists who went from tent to tent, preaching salvation. They were quacks and Glenn’s is their equal in quackdom (if that can be today’s made-up word). Don’t be too disappointed, there are others in your shoes and there are fools worship other false prophets…
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:23am
  @ Winedude
  So Beck is wrong because he doesn’t drink wine anymore?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 3:31am
  Winedude: Still running that Divide the Dumb Conservatives routine ? Let’s see we have that one and the old ” make them think all hope is gone routine ” going on right now. A page out of Rules For Radicals which is updated Lenin. Such a lovely group of Societal and moral misfits.
  
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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 6:31am
  @WINEDUDE
  Can you be more specific on your rant? You know, give us your argument on where Glenn is wrong because if I’m being duped I want to know.
  Give it your best shot.
  
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- BehindBlueEyes
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:26am
  @BARBER2
  Your right we are dealing with the “Rules for Radicals” simpletons. They are all the same and possess the same mindset. Pathetic misguided people with personality disorders.
  
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gyro
Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:05pm
so it begins

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- KangarooJack
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:33pm
  {apologies} so it CONTINUES and NOW it will INCREASE in speed.
  
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