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Mark Steyn compares President Obama\u2019s religion policies to those of Henry VIII, whose \u201cAct of Supremacy\u201d gave him sole authority over his subjects\u2019 faith and practice.\u00a0 You need to read what he says.<\/p>\n

But I draw your attention to just two parts of that essay.\u00a0 The first, where he quotes a provision of Obamacare that gives Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sibelius authority over our teeth:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The second is his conclusion, which is a strikingly-phrased statement of the dangers of big government:<\/p>\n

The bigger the Big Government, the smaller everything else: First, other pillars of civil society are crowded out of the public space; then, the individual gets crowded out, even in his most private, tooth-level space. President Obama, Commissar Sebelius, and many others believe in one-size-fits-all national government \u2014 uniformity, conformity, supremacy from Maine to Hawaii, for all but favored cronies. It is a doomed experiment \u2014 and on the morning after it will take a lot more than a morning-after pill to make it all go away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via The Church of Obama \u2013 Mark Steyn \u2013 National Review Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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