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Florida priest threatens to cancel employee health insurance as challenge to federal birth control decision

By | 12.02.11 | 4:32 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A Catholic priest in St. Petersburg is threatening to cut health insurance benefits from employees as a form of “civil disobedience” to challenge a recent decision by the federal government to include birth control in a list of preventive health care.

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Taxpayers have been paying for Viagra prescriptions due to software error

By | 03.16.11 | 9:26 am

While some lawmakers are trying to prevent nary a taxpayer cent from ever coming into contact with a clinic that also provides abortion, there’s a group out there whose sexual practices have been partially funded by taxpayers. And that group is senior citizens.

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Coburn: No Viagra for Rapists, Child Molesters

By | 03.24.10 | 1:41 pm

The list of amendments that Republicans are hoping will derail the health reconciliation bill moving through the Senate this week is an entertaining read, if only because it so clearly illustrates the GOP’s strategy of forcing Democrats to go on the record to vote against some pretty odd things.

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Viagra as Counterinsurgency Asset

By | 12.26.08 | 8:19 am

The portrait of 2009′s passel of counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan is becoming clearer. Bolster troop levels. Recruit tribal militias to battle extremists, in a second-time-as-farce version of Iraq’s Anbar Awakening. Mitigate increasing distance with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in advance of elections. Work with the Big-T More…