Hobby Lobby will not be fined for pursuing liberty of conscience...
Good news for the craft store chain: In a health care decision giving hope to opponents of the federal birth-control coverage mandate, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hobby Lobby stores...
View ArticleHobby Lobby locks down injunction over HHS abortion drug mandate.
Note that they haven’t won, yet: they’re merely no longer under the gun while they sue to have the HHS abortion drug mandate declared unconstitutional. Today, a federal court granted Hobby Lobby a...
View ArticleHobby Lobby #Obamacare conscience exemption case to be heard by Supreme Court.
Not unexpected, but not before time, either. The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to review the lawsuit filed by Hobby Lobby against the federal government over the Obamacare mandate that employers...
View ArticleHad my regular @HobbyLobbyStore framer today!
As I opened up the art packaging she murmured And what interesting thing have you brought me to be framed today*? …I get the impression that I bring in some of the more unusual items for framing. This...
View ArticleRemember: oral arguments Tuesday on the Hobby Lobby case.
I came perilously close to writing this post in a white-hot fury (for reasons only indirectly related to the case), but wrath is a counter-productive emotion in this particular situation. Suffice it...
View ArticleFirst thoughts, Harris v. Quinn, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby.
Basically: ‘Constitutional law scholar,’ my white Irish middle-aged tuchis. That being said, both decisions are relatively narrow. The Right was looking for grand slams; we got RBIs. But remember: the...
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Two kinds of people commenting about the Hobby Lobby case…
…the people who are familiar with the case and what was being argued; and then there’s the Activist Left. The people who are familiar with the case understand that while Hobby Lobby did in fact get...
View ArticleAdd the Washington Post to the list of those who never researched Sebelius v....
Sheesh. The Supreme Court's 49-page Hobby Lobby ruling mentioned women just 13 times http://t.co/jFyktUDb2D — Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 1, 2014 Neil’s comment is apropos, here: RT...
View ArticleWhy Barack Obama won’t just unilaterally fund access to abortifacients.
In the course of a not-entirely-unfair piece by Time magazine that makes it clear that the Obama administration has decided to play partisan politics with the Hobby Lobby decision*, the magazine...
View ArticleTweet of the Day, The Hypocrisy Surprises Even ME edition.
This is still the best encapsulation of the online showdown over the Hobby Lobby decision that I’ve seen: "Get your politics out of my bedroom!" "Not a problem. I'm just going to grab my wallet before...
View ArticleThe false narrative of ‘both sides don’t understand each other over Hobby...
I like this Megan McArdle post on the clashing ideological worldviews on Hobby Lobby, but I object to her suggestion that the Left and the Right “misunderstood each other so profoundly — and continue...
View ArticleProposed Bible Museum apparently freaks out evangelical atheists like...
Background: The Green family (the folks who own Hobby Lobby) plans to spend some of their money on building a Bible Museum in NYC [DC. My bad.] – actually, they’ve been planning to do this for some...
View ArticleWent to @hobbylobbystore today to get something framed.
Was going to go somewhere else, but then the government decided to screw with freedom of conscience wrt Obamacare. So I figured that Hobby Lobby needed the business. Background here.
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New exhibits to the Lane Art Collection.
Private viewings by appointment only, I’m afraid. First off (from Robyn Seales) we have this lovely updating of the traditional British exhortation: Note the ironic placement of the piece in the...
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