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Cato on Contraception Mandate: 'We Should All be Exempt'

As a companion must-read article to Tim’s column on the ObamaCare birth control mandate, John Cochrane of Cato explains why President Barack Obama’s proposed compromise to exempt church-related institutions misses the point:

Our nation is divided on social issues. The natural compromise is simple: Birth control, abortion and other contentious practices are permitted. But those who object don't have to pay for them. The federal takeover of medicine prevents us from reaching these natural compromises and needlessly divides our society.

The critics fell for a trap. By focusing on an exemption for church-related institutions, critics effectively admit that it is right for the rest of us to be subjected to this sort of mandate. They accept the horribly misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable…[more]

February 10, 2012 • 04:52 pm
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Love Relationship with 50 Cent Not Worth $50 Million Print
Friday, February 27 2009

Rapper 50 Cent ended up on the right side of the decimal point in a $50 million lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend.  Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead dismissed the lawsuit, ruling that ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins' claim that 50 Cent orally agreed to take care of her for life was unenforceable and unlikely.

"It is incredible that two then-unemployed, penniless, 21-year-olds would make such an oral contract," Judge Edmead said.  She further ruled that the breach of contract claim was barred by the six-year statute of limitations.

According to news reports, the rapper (real name: Curtis Jackson) denied promising to support Tomkins forever if he "made it big."  Judge Edmead said 50 Cent stated that if that was what he intended, he would have married the mother of his son.

This was "an unfortunate tale of a love relationship gone sour," Judge Edmead added.

—Source:  The Associated Press

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