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$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Deacon Greg Kandra shares the New York Times<\/em> story where someone in the Administration admitted, \u201cwe were getting killed.\u201d<\/a> Any day now, we\u2019ll probably get the shocking (not!) news that Kathleen Sebelius has decided to \u201cresign from HHS in order to persue other interests.\u201d That would not surprise me at all.<\/p>\n

But this did, and in a good way. From the folks over at Fox News, \u201cThe following is a statement ed. on Notre Dame letterhead) signed by more than three dozen religious scholars and leaders on the Obama administration\u2019s announcement regarding its contraceptive coverage policy.\u201d Click on it immediately and be amazed. <\/a><\/p>\n

Huzzah! Resist the tyrant.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"