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Law and Government
Majority of Democrats favor criminalizing hate speech
A poll released Wednesday by the online pollster YouGov found that a plurality of Americans, as well as a majority of Democrats, support…
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Politics
Supreme Court expands gun rights for felons
The Supreme Court expanded gun rights for felons Monday by ruling that they are allowed them to keep the proceeds from…
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Law and Government
Obama makes false claims yet again about Supreme Court’s Ledbetter v. Goodyear decision
Recently, President Obama once again made false claims about what the Supreme Court did in its decision in Ledbetter v.…
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Email Featured
Coverage of ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest reveals stupidity of liberal journalists
Progressive journalists often not only get the law wrong, but then have the audacity to smugly talk down to people…
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Economy
Water war: Virginia Senators blast EPA ‘end-run’ rule
Virginia’s 21 Republican state senators say a “Waters of the United States” rule targets farmers and could cost the state…
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Economy
About half of state Obamacare exchanges may go belly up
According to the Washington Post about half of the Obamacare heath insurance exchanges set up by the states are real…
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Economy
Deceptive anti-discrimination laws undermine justice and harm small businesses
Discrimination may be bad for business, but that doesn’t mean laws banning discrimination are good for business. Often, these laws…
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Law and Government
Senate GOP leaders cosponsor bill to extend Obamacare subsidies to 2017 in event SCOTUS strikes them down
In the midterm elections in November 2014, the American people spoke at the ballot box with unparalleled clarity. Their vote —…
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Economy
Liberals peddle debunked myths about corporate personhood
Progressivism is essentially a religion based on a set of shared myths and boogeymen. True believers cling to those myths…
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Law and Government
Myths about Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Myths have permeated the media’s coverage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted in Indiana. (I have no position on such legislation, which I previously…
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Law and Government
Harry Reid’s 12 greatest hits (Video)
In honor of Democratic Minority Leader Harry Reid’s announced 2017 departure from the Senate, The Daily Caller News Foundation has…
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Education
Fallout from racist Oklahoma frat may harm free speech and even private colleges
Recently, members of the Oklahoma chapter of the SAE fraternity were caught on video chanting a mind-bogglingly racist song that…
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Law and Government
Ferguson is more typical than President Obama thought
On March 4, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division issued a report criticizing the Ferguson police department and courts. In…
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Politics
Dick Durbin’s office once called Bush judicial nominee ‘dangerous’ because ‘he is Latino’
Some day, all of the politicians in Washington who were born before Al Gore invented the internet will have died. No…
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Law and Government
Study reveals there is no shortage of free-market alternatives to Obamacare
As the Supreme Court considers whether to restrict Obamacare subsidies, a new report seeks to refute the false perception that…
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Law and Government
How Justice Kennedy might justify saving Obamacare
Justice Anthony Kennedy revealed Wednesday how he might justify a vote to save Obamacare, as the Supreme Court began hearing…
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Education
To level playing field, SATs spot blacks 230-point ‘bonus,’ penalize Asians 50 points
So this is how fairness works. An article in the Los Angeles Times, which not only buries the lede but…
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Education
Education Department floods schools with new rules and regulations, flouting legal limits
Recently, a task force of college presidents chronicled massive regulatory overreaching by the U.S. Department of Education, which, on a daily basis,…
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Law and Government
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘I wasn’t 100% sober at the SOTU’ (Video)
Being a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court has its privileges. For one thing, you have job security — all justices…
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Education
NPR ombudsman erroneously claims free speech doesn’t include hate speech
National Public Radio (NPR) receives taxpayer subsidies based on its false pretense of objectivity and accuracy. Its departing ombudsman, Edward…
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Education
Congress should reject Obama’s proposed budget increase for the Office for Civil Rights
The Obama administration perversely rewards agencies that overstep their authority by giving them bigger budgets to handle the increased workload…
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Media
TV network founded by nun sues over Obamacare contraceptive mandate (Video)
A television network founded by a nun with a dream that has grown into an international Catholic media giant is…
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Education
Misleading NPR report leads to costly, illegal Education Department rules on sexual harassment
Bad things can happen when an agency (like the Education Department) throws caution to the wind and imposes rules based on misleading…
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Unyielding
In response to warrantless spying, Utah legislature considers shutting off NSA’s water
It’s vaguely reminiscent the classic showdown between a landlord and a tenant habitually in arrears on his rent. Except in this…
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Education
Education Department says Harvard violated Title IX by failing to parrot bureaucrats
Can a federal agency find you in violation of the law, not for actions that violate a statute, but for…
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Economy
Central planning disrupts the harmonious order created by free markets
Beginning in the 1930’s, the federal government sharply increased central planning of the economy and society. (Perhaps as a consequence,…
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Education
California school baits kids to get expelled in new public service announcement
California’s North Oakland Community Charter School helped produce a Public Service Announcement encouraging kids to do something that would get them expelled…
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Law and Government
Latest Gruber video the worst yet for the Obama administration (Video)
Of all the Jonathan Gruber videos released so far, this one could be the most damaging. It does not show the…
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Law and Government
Progressives violate Establishment Clause through taxpayer-funded green ministries
Liberal reporters like separation of church and state, except when it’s violated by their fellow progressives. Then, they lose interest…
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Email Featured
Supreme Court gives Obamacare opponents second bite at apple
In what Richard Wolf, writing for USA Today, described as “a setback for the [Obama] administration and proponents of Obamacare,”…
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Education
California: Another school teaches Islamic religion; parents pull son out (Video)
Equal for thee but not for me.
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Education
Obama administration federalizes school bullying in disability-harassment ‘guidance’
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), where I once worked, declared yesterday that schools can be liable for…
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Law and Government
Arizona same-sex marriage ban struck down
ABC News reports that a federal judge has cleared the way for legally recognized same-sex unions in Arizona. The ruling Friday…
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Education
State-mandated dirty talk in California: Governor signs unconstitutional SB 967
Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill regulating college students’ romantic lives, which I discussed earlier.…
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Education
Poll: Most Democrats support ban on ‘hate speech,’ which they equate with conservative views
Fifty-one percent of Democrats support banning “hate speech,” while only 21% oppose such a ban, in a recent You.Gov poll. This…
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