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Among all the arguments against the extremely modest abortion regulations being proposed in Texas, this one from Burnt Orange’s Ben Sherman has to be the most bluntly forthright and entertaining. It turns out the issue is really about men’s ability to control their bodies:

As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's team of health care consultants prepares a plan for overhauling California's $200 billion health care industry, administration officials say the governor is willing to consider all solutions -- including those that may be unpopular with the governor's allies in the business community. Though employer groups vociferously oppose requiring businesses to cover their workers, the governor's staff says that could be a part of his proposal. "Everything is on the table," Schwarzenegger's communications director, Adam Mendelsohn, said last week. Schwarzenegger actively worked in 2004 to repeal Senate Bill 2, a state law requiring big employers to provide...

<p>The secretary of state has certified a referendum for the November ballot that will ask voters to repeal California's controversial new law requiring companies to buy health insurance for workers, backers of the referendum effort announced Monday.</p> <p>Official certification of the more than 624,000 petition signatures submitted will allow opponents of the new law, a coalition of business groups called Californians Against Government Run Healthcare, to put their referendum on the ballot.</p>

The governor is getting into a tricky new campaign, and -- if he wants Californians to keep siding with him -- he needs to watch out for his propensity for cheerily dismissing behavior on his part that doesn't sit so well with others. You're a sly one if you guessed I want to talk about the insurance and health care industries. These fat cats gave scads of money to Gov. Gray Davis, and now some are pouring fortunes into the coffers of Arnold Schwarzenegger's various campaign committees. Unless you've been stuck in solitary confinement, you know that Schwarzenegger refuses to...

<p>A state appellate court cleared the way Thursday for a business-backed coalition to ask voters this fall to repeal a new California law requiring employers to buy workers health insurance. The decision came down as a new poll indicated the referendum would face an uphill fight in November. The Field Poll released Thursday found 65 percent of respondents favor the health law while 27 percent oppose it.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO -- A state appeals court here cleared the way Thursday for a ballot measure that will ask voters to nullify a law requiring all but the smallest California businesses to provide health insurance for their workers. Barring further legal action, voters will decide in November whether to override the hotly debated state law, under which many California businesses would pay 80 percent of their employees' health insurance premiums. The bill could give up to 1.2 million workers and their families health insurance. Employers, who scored a victory with the ruling, call it a crippling government mandate. Because the...

He did not get the other moves to the left hurt him.

You can bet the Republicans and Democrats are trying to figure out Stockton's Linda Mora and Jim Molina. Mora, 60, and Molina, 46, are registered Democrats -- mostly because that's the way their Latino families always voted. But put a decent Republican in front of them, and loyalty goes out the window. Given the choice between one good elephant and one good donkey, they're likely to play "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." "You have to get beyond party lines and look beyond that, at the person and the issues," said Mora, a program coordinator at El Concilio. "I vote independent of the party,"...

<p>WEDNESDAY'S recall debate broke little new ground as meek journalists and inexperienced citizens lobbed softballs at Gov. Gray Davis and the candidates, failed to ask the toughest questions and let false statements go unchallenged. Why was Cruz Bustamante silent during the gross overspending of the Davis years? Why did Davis ignore former chief economist Ted Gibson that the state's revenue had dried up? Is Arianna Huffington, the anti-tax loophole candidate who uses tax loopholes, merely gathering anecdotes for a book?</p>

Setting the Story Straight: The Truth About Corporate Inversions BY: Grover Norquist and Damon AnsellDATE: May 15, 2003SECTION: WORD COUNT: 1066For a PDF version of this document, please click here. Several Members of Congress have recently proposed offsetting the tax cuts in the Bush Economic Growth Package with something they are referring to as "revenue raisers." Unfortunately, despite the rosy image that these Members have attempted to create, the revenue raisers are, in fact, nothing more than a list of unjustifiable and unethical tax increases. One of the intended targets of the new legislation is the practice of corporate inversion....