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Religion
Poll: Public broadly supportive of school prayer
Just when you thought the pendulum couldn’t swing further Left, along comes a report that suggests their may be hope…
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Law and Government
Rush Limbaugh: ‘Prepare yourself’ for Eric Holder nomination to Supreme Court
Eric Holder will soon be gone from the Justice Department. But he is not likely to be forgotten if Rush Limbaugh’s…
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Law and Government
Protester challenges Supreme Court speech-free zone with claims gov’t kills blacks, Hispanics
They didn’t kill him, but Capitol police did arrest Harold Hodge for silently standing outside the Supreme Court with a…
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Education
Civil rights official says campus speech should be restricted to shield young people’s brains
U.S. Civil Rights Commission member Michael Yaki says speech on college campuses should be restricted to protect young people’s developing…
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Law and Government
Will donors punish GOP outliers on Holder-friendly election law?
More than two-thirds of the Republican co-sponsors of a controversial voter bill have gone silent. And they have good reason…
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Ted Cruz blocks bill to blow up Hobby Lobby decision, Valerie Jarrett responds (Video)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, took to the Senate floor Wednesday to argue against a bill introduced to circumvent the…
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Law and Government
Justice Department erodes free speech by investigating anti-Obama parade float
As noted earlier, the Justice Department reacted to an anti-Obama float in a Nebraska parade by treating it as a…
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Law and Government
NOW doubles down on claim that Little Sisters of the Poor are ‘dirty’
Fox News host Megyn Kelly gave the National Organization for Women a chance to back away from the organization’s statement…
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Law and Government
July 4, 2014 sadly marked Non-independence Day
The events of July Fourth of 2014, more than any previous one, demonstrated just how far we’ve fallen from the…
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Law and Government
Tweet of the Day: Is there a More Supreme Court that Obama plans to appeal to?
One appreciates that the president has his own Constitution, which is different from the one the rest of America is…
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Education
FIRE announces all-out war on campus speech codes
FIRE, an acronym for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is one of the nation’s leading campus free speech…
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Law and Government
Supreme Court correctly rules for religious businesses in Hobby Lobby decision
In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled Monday that it violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act…
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Law and Government
The Democrats go ‘all in’ on Obama’s immigration power grab
The Democrats’ reasoning on immigration reform evidently goes something like this: It is a given that at some point decades…
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BREAKING: Hobby Lobby wins, Obama and Obamacare lose; UPDATE: Dems vow to fight back
The U.S. Supreme Court has handed the Obama administration, and to a lesser extent his signature legislation coup (aka Obamacare), another stunning defeat.…
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Law and Government
Supreme Court rules against another Obama power grab
On Wednesday, in NLRB v. Noel Canning, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down President Obama’s “recess” appointment of NLRB members…
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Economy
How disparate impact law can lead to veiled racial quotas
We wrote earlier about the Obama administration’s use of disparate-impact theory to pressure some school districts into adopting veiled racial…
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Law and Government
In new book, Ben Shapiro advises, ‘Don’t impeach Obama — arrest him!’
President Obama has decided that he will rule via executive fiat (aka, using “his phone and his pen”). Commentators will…
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Education
First lady denounces segregation, while Obama administration promotes it
On the 60-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, first lady Michelle…
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Law and Government
The Supremes get it right on public prayer
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Greece, New York, and its tradition of reciting a public prayer before City…
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Education
White House attacks cross-examination, due process rights on campus in ‘guidance’ on sexual assault
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once noted that “the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal,…
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Education
Taxpayers and equality win: The Supreme Court upholds Michigan’s Proposal 2
Taxpayers of all races pay more when state contracts are doled out based on race, rather than awarded to the…
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Foreign Affairs
Can Argentina stiff U.S. bondholders? Supreme Court case divides Obama administration, ex-State Dept officials
Can a country seeking to welsh on its debts invoke sovereign immunity to evade not just court orders to pay…
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Law and Government
Gay marriage supporters have their eye on Republican backing
Are Republicans starting to change their position on same-sex marriage? Some gay marriage supporters think so. “A 55 percent majority…
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Unyielding
Surprising admin 180: Home-schooling German family permitted to stay in U.S.
The news today is good for a family that emigrated from Germany to the United States in 2008 to escape religious…
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Unyielding
Illinois mom who is sick son’s caretaker fights state law mandating unionization
Thanks to a cushy deal, the union siphons off a portion of the son's disability check as "dues."
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Law and Government
Oklahoma spared Utah’s same-sex-marriage-limbo
No Supreme Court precedent exists to justify any state or federal court declaring that state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex…
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Law and Government
Little Sisters in Gulag Nation: ‘Just sign the form’
What an interesting moment we have arrived at with the Obamacare contraception mandate. The Catholic order Little Sisters of the…
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Law and Government
Courts on same-sex marriage: Adieu, rule of law
Adam Smith famously said there’s a lot of ruin in a nation. America today is testing just how much there…
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Economy
Petition asks High Court to hear arguments over whether lap dance is artistic expression
Maybe the plaintiff’s attorneys should have tried making the case that the dances are ethnic in nature, like Brahms’s Hungarian…
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