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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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Wednesday, March 17 2010

A 74-year-old Pensacola man is off to prison for 15 years after attempting to rob a store that he visited earlier the same day to apply for a job. 
 
Roy Carlton Keith inquired about a job and left his name and phone number at the Flowers Baking Company.  A few hours later, Keith returned and demanded all the money in the register, lifted up his shirt and pointed at something sticking out of his belt.  The clerk fled to the backroom where other employees were working.  An employee called 911 and Keith left the store, taking nothing with him.
 
Keith was identified by the store employee and arrested at a nearby motel, which Keith listed as his home address.  Keith was found guilty of robbery and two charges of aggravated assault.  The "weapon" it turned out, probably was a cell phone, not a gun.
 
—Source:  Pensacola News Journal

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