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Appeals court hears Liberty U. health reform challenge

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By Larry O’Dell The Associated Press May 16, 2013 RICHMOND A Liberty University lawyer urged a federal appeals court to overturn the Obama administration’s health care reform law Thursday, arguing that it violates the school’s religious rights by requiring it to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs. Mathew Staver told a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the conservative Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell faces millions of dollars in penalties if it refuses to provide employee health insurance that violates its religious beliefs Continue reading →

Survival urges tourism boycott of Andaman Islands

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London, May 3 : Tribal rights body Survival International has launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on the 200,000 tourists visiting the islands every year to stay away – until tourists are banned from the road through the Jarawa’s forest and an alternative sea route is put in place. Survival has written to over 200 travel companies and websites in eleven countries urging them to stop their tours to the Andaman Islands, and will place ads targeted at tourists to discourage them from visiting the popular travel destination Continue reading →

Rights group launches tourism boycott of Andaman Islands over 'human safaris'

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The tribal rights groups, Survival International, on Tuesday launched a tourism boycott of Andaman Islands urging tourists not to visit the Islands until the “degrading practice of “human safaris was stopped. It said that hundreds of tourists from India and around the world travelled along the illegal Andaman Trunk Road every day to ogle at members of the Jarawa tribe treating them like animals in a safari park. The tours have been widely condemned both in India and around the world Earlier this year, the Supreme Court banned tourists from the road for seven weeks reducing the traffic along the Andaman Trunk Road by two-thirds Continue reading →

Supreme Court Tackles Case of Patent Law, Human Genetics – Video

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Supreme Court Tackles Case of Patent Law, Human Genetics The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case on whether a biotech company can patent a gene associated with cancer. Jeffrey Brown gets details from National L… By: PBSNewsHour Continue reading →

The Libertarian Case for Life

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April 5, 2013|10:43 am But, instead of focusing on the panel’s extremely important topic, the moderator, Students for Liberty Co-Founder Alexander McCobin, decided to use his time to advance his libertarian ideal of legalizing gay marriage. He was especially inflammatory when he kept comparing traditional marriage supporters to segregationists. Continue reading →

Putting health care law into practice

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Welcome to the eye of the Obamacare storm. This year represents a deceptively calm interlude after the partisan war whoops of repeal and replace, and before 2014, when millions of Americans are supposed to get covered under the health care law. Its a year of nuts and bolts, trying to get many complicated moving parts in place for a policy that large swaths of the country still oppose Continue reading →

Health care overhaul rolls on despite budget havoc

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WASHINGTON (AP) Airline schedules, food inspections, IRS taxpayer assistance and deployments of Navy ships could all be hampered by the government’s automatic spending cuts. But President Barack Obama’s health care law a program Republicans have spent the last three years trying to kill will roll out on time, the administration says. Only a small fraction of the $1.6 trillion the Affordable Care Act spends to cover the uninsured over the next decade is subject to the so-called sequester. Continue reading →

Health care reforms: What’s in store in N.C.?

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GREENSBORO Even at their best, Medicaid and health care reforms seem like a complicated mess. Throw in years of questionable state software projects, damning audits and one of the most complex pieces of federal legislation in history President Barack Obamas health care overhaul is intrinsically tied to Medicaid and the whole thing becomes nigh impossible to follow. The bottom line of the past few weeks is that the Republicans in control of the N.C. Continue reading →

Court rules against Liberty Tax Service

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Liberty Tax Service promised its customers speedy tax refunds while failing to disclose that they were actually taking out high-interest bank loans on their behalf subject to finance charges and debt collections, a state appeals court has ruled in upholding a $1.3 million judgment against the tax preparation firm. Evidence supported a San Francisco judge’s findings that Liberty misrepresented its refund anticipation loans and violated California laws against false advertising and unfair business practices, the First District Court of Appeal said in a 3-0 ruling last week. The judge ordered $135,000 in reimbursements and $1.17 million in civil penalties against Liberty, a Virginia firm that has more than 2,000 outlets and franchises nationwide, including nearly 200 in California Continue reading →