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That’s What They Want

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: May 14, 2015

The political class sings monotone, striking one note ad nauseam. The song is “Money.” One night an Amtrak train crashes, with fatalities; early the next morning a crowded chorus argues for amped-up spending on “infrastructure.” Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) pled to the MSNBC lens, “Is it going to take more…

Wouldn’t Freedom Be … Easier?

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: June 5, 2018

To bake or not to bake, that is the question. Actually, the question was may a state discriminate against Christians in regulating “public accommodations”? The Supreme Court has decided, in a supermajority 7-2 ruling, that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission wrongly prosecuted a Christian baker who would not make a…

Atrocity Meets the Commerce Clause

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: November 1, 2018

There may be no better example of an evil, real-world villain needing to get justice (good and hard) than the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.  Since he survived the shoot-out, he must now be put on trial. But by whom? In Allegheny County Court, Pittsburgh police filed a 34-count criminal complaint against…

Authority and Accountability

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: April 10, 2017

Roll, Founding Fathers, roll over. The situation with Congress is grave. You designed three branches of government, each to check the others’ power. The first branch, and the most essential, is Congress. It not only controls the purse strings, but also the power to declare war. But today’s Congress cannot…

Not Having It

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: July 27, 2023

U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika is not having it, as yesterday’s headlines indicate. The super-lenient “deal” that Hunter Biden’s lawyers made with the Department of Justice to let the president’s son off with barely a scrape stinks. And she’s not signing off on it. But there is a hitch,…

The Reign of Trickery

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: November 13, 2015

Arkansas State Sen. Jon Woods’s reign of trickery is ending. As reported Monday, he has chosen not to seek another term in the legislature. It’s ironic. Woods defrauded Arkansas voters with a deceptively worded 2014 ballot measure. His successful scam weakening term limits allows him to stay in the Senate…

Collusion!

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: September 8, 2022

Yes. Active collaboration every step of the way. Material produced during the discovery phase of a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of censorship is confirming what was already obvious: Big Tech’s ongoing censorship of social-media opinion about the pandemic has been undertaken largely at the behest of government. A few…

Fired for Being on Parler

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: February 5, 2021

Is the desire to speak freely a bad thing? In tweets now “protected” from public view, Jennifer De Chiara, president of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, professed distress upon learning “that one of our agents has been using the social media platforms Gab and Parler. We do not condone this…

Affirmative Action Disaffirmed

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: June 30, 2023

Congratulations to WHITESUPREMACY for winninga huge victory today. Thus tweeted Gene Wu, District 137’s representative to the Texas legislature.  That was his reaction to yesterday’sSupreme Court decision striking down racial discrimination in picking students for colleges and universities. He’s a Democrat and in a tricky situation. The case was brought…

Andrea Millen Rich

Relevance: 14%      Posted on: October 26, 2018

It has been hard to find the words to express my sense of loss upon the passing of Andrea Millen Rich, one of the sweetest, most glamorous, and toughest champions of liberty I have ever had the privilege to know. Fortunately, the Cato Institute has produced a beautiful short video in…