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  • Safeway's Health Plan

    June 29th, 200910:59 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    As lawmakers debate healthcare in Washington D.C., businesses across America are wondering how the promised legislation will affect their bottom lines. One CEO is charging into the debate.  He hopes that, rather than nationalize healthcare, Congress will consider what his company, Safeway Incorporated, has done to hold its per capita healthcar...

  • "Safe Schools" Czar

    June 22nd, 200912:25 PM ET
    By Penna Dexter
     One of President Obama's appointments needs to be discussed... with parental discretion advised. The president has tapped Kevin Jennings to be Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.  Jennings will operate as a sort of Safe Schools Czar.  Safe for whom?  In particular, for open homosexuals a...

  • We Should Not Centralize Education

    June 16th, 200908:44 AM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    Recently forty-six states and the District of Columbia announced an effort to establish common standards for what children should learn each year, from kindergarten through high school.  This push towards a national yardstick is led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Once the standards are agr...

  • Defunding Planned Parenthood

    June 01st, 200912:07 PM ET
    By Penna Dexter
    When the movie Juno received four Academy Award nominations and actually won the Oscar for best screenplay, former Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt was worried. In the film, Juno, a pregnant teenager, decides against an abortion partially due to her experience at an abortionclinic.  Ms. Feldt admits, "The clinic in Juno is terri...
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