Troops, drop your weapons.  Surrender.  The war is over and it hasn’t even begun.

The war for which I’ve already thrown in the towel is, of course, the war on contraception.  Why so eager to raise the white flag?  Because the war doesn’t exist.  With the exception of some tin foil hat-wearers, no one, and I mean no one, in the conservative movement wants to rid the world of contraception.  If you listen to the always-insightful left, however, you’d think our artillery was aimed at the headquarters of Pfizer and Bayer.  The simple truth is that nobody on the right cares if you want to pop birth control like skittles or buy condoms by the crate; just don’t make me, or the Catholic Church, pay for it.

At the this point, the issue involving the Catholic church and birth control seems to have been solved.  The President was right to walk back his earlier mandate to Catholic organizations that would require them to pay for the birth control of their employees.  Such a mandate puts the Catholic church at odds with a major part of their teachings and it violates their religious freedom.  Some debate remains as to whether the church is actually in the clear, but I’ll give the President the benefit of the doubt for now.  Whether it’s truly been resolved or not, this ordeal still exposes a very valid question:  Why did birth control become government mandated right anyway?…

To read the rest of this article about President Obama’s birth control mandate, visit The Dysfunction Junction at the link below:

http://www.thedysfunctionjunction.com/2012/02/17/catholics-cough-drops-and-the-war-on-contraception/

President Obama presented his latest “budget” proposal, and as Democratic Representative Emanuel Cleaver said, it’s like a nervous breakdown on paper.  Not for the reasons that Cleaver cites, but because it makes no attempt to close or even shrink the astronomical budget deficit.

Just over a year ago, President Obama released his budget for fiscal year 2012. The budget, which called for a $1.1 trillion deficit, received not a single vote in the Senate.  Republicans, Democrats, and everyone in between voted in a 97-0 vote to stamp the proposal with “Return to Sender” and put it right back on the President’s desk.  With such a unanimous defeat, one would assume that President Obama would have his errors in mind as he drafted his 2013 proposal.  With the budget proposal currently making its rounds, I’m seeing now more than ever that Washington never learns from its mistakes.

The proposal calls for $3.8 trillion in spending, which will actually increase the 2013 budget deficit to over $1.3 trillion.  That’s $200 million more than the 2012 budget that was universally panned by everyone in the Senate.  His latest effort involves tax cuts to the so-called rich by ending the Bush tax cuts…

To read the rest of this artilce on the pros and cons of Obama’s Budget, read the full article at The Dysfunction Junction by visiting the link below:

http://www.thedysfunctionjunction.com/2012/02/14/president-obamas-budget-problem-214-golden-biden/

http://www.thedysfunctionjunction.com/2012/02/04/nevada-caucus-results-live-blog-exit-polls-and-video/

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With Mitt Romney the clear favorite to win the Nevada Caucus, there have been far fewer polls of the race than we enjoyed with previous primaries.  Even if there had been a wealth of polls for today’s caucus, I’m not sure how useful they would be: In 2008, polls projected Romney would win by 5 points.  His actual margin of victory?  37.5 points.

Look for a similar trouncing by Romney when 2012′s Nevada ballots are counted.  The real question is by how much will he win and who will come in second.  To the first, I say that Romney will likely win by 24 to 30 point range.  In 2008, Romney pulled in 50% of the vote despite the fact that it was McCain who had the big momentum at the time.  The Mormon vote in Nevada can’t be underestimated, as 2008 proved.

To read the rest of this Nevada Caucus Prediction, read the full article at The Dysfunction Junction by visiting the link below:

http://www.thedysfunctionjunction.com/2012/02/04/nevada-caucus-results-live-blog-exit-polls-and-video/