William Peter Blatty, whose 1971 novel “The Exorcist” became a box office-smashing film and a cult classic, plans to sue Georgetown University for watering down the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion. (more)
The University of Notre Dame has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over the constitutionality of the contraception mandate. (more)
Whenever I hear a lecture from The Washington Post about the importance of free debate, I think about Dawn Eden. Eden is a friend and a Catholic author who has just published an important new book, “My Peace I Give You: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse with the Help of the Saints.” She recently held two book signings in Washington, D.C. — book signings that were not covered by The Washington Post. (more)
The Obama administration moved forward Friday afternoon in implementing the controversial contraception rule, saying that student health insurance plans must cover preventive services. (more)
If you thought the tea party was over, think again. Kathleen Sebelius just shot a flare into a dynamite factory. (more)
The idea of government money going toward efforts to lobby the government sounds like some type of joke, but it’s not. (more)
Just before noon on Thursday, the Senate voted 51-48 against a bipartisan amendment offered by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would have spared religious groups the choice of breaching faith or having government fines imposed on them through a now-infamous Obamacare mandate. (more)
One theory for why Barack Obama pushed the contraception mandate right now is that it helps Rick Santorum. Others theorize it’s because Obama is an anti-religious bigot with a left-wing agenda. Reasonable minds can disagree on this. (more)
Wyoming Republican Senator Mike Enzi, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is asking President Barack Obama to “reconsider” his decision to allow his top health care adviser to speak at pro-Obama Super PAC fundraising events during the president’s re-election bid this year. (more)
On his Monday show, radio talk show host Mark Levin, author of “Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America,” said “what would happen if we were living in a functioning constitutional republic is articles of impeachment would be drawn up against the secretary of [Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius]” over a slew of charges, most recently the contraception mandate for Catholic institutions. (more)
According to Pat Buchanan, the Obama administration’s decision to revise its mandate that religious institutions must offer “access” to conception, despite the mandate violating Church doctrine, still falls short. (more)
This week, the House of Representatives moved further towards repealing the largest gimmick in President Obama’s health care law, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Program. CLASS was billed as a program that would help disabled individuals pay for long-term care services. (more)
The Obama administration’s top health care administrator invoked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in justifying the landmark health care reform law Friday. (more)
On Thursday President Barack Obama defended his administration’s 11th-hour decision to keep in place an age restriction on the sale of the “morning after” birth control pill. (more)
Privacy by convenience? Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp pointed out what he says is Kathleen Sebelius’s double standard on patient privacy: one standard for abortion records while she was governor of Kansas, and another for Obamacare as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (more)
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Kansas Republican and a Tea Party Caucus member, is sounding the alarm over a proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that would aggregate confidential patient information into a single government database. (more)
The Obama administration finally deserves some credit on Obamacare. On the heels of pulling the plug on the unworkable long-term care program known as the CLASS Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) actually listened to those who know best when it comes to delivering health care: doctors, hospitals and nurses. (more)
The Obama administration adamantly denies it, but rumors are circulating in Washington that his Department of Health and Human Services is already collecting Americans’ private health information, or at least preparing itself to do so. (more)
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius backed a chief Moody’s economist in a speech before a U.S. Commerce Department conference Wednesday, saying that President Barack Obama’s jobs bill will “create almost 2 million badly needed jobs.” (more)
It’s the second time the agency has issued an outright rejection to a waiver from the healthcare law. (more)






















