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March 2017

March 21, 2017

Other rights are not equal to religious liberty

The hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court got started. Judge Gorsuch...

March 21, 2017

Trump and the FBI

FBI director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee that an active investigation is underway...

March 17, 2017

A comma rule goes to court

Which is correct?: men, women, and children. Or men, women and children. Some authorities, including...

March 16, 2017

Judge blocks Trump’s new travel ban

President Trump's new travel ban, revised to eliminate the legal difficulties that a judge found...

March 15, 2017

Forcing pro-life centers to advertise abortions

Hawaii is on the verge of passing a law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to post...

March 14, 2017

Saying Christ is the only way to God is “abusive and criminal”?

Two British street preachers were arrested for publicly reading the Bible, particularly the parts about...

March 14, 2017

The ACLU “resistance”

The American Civil Liberties Union conducted livestreamed training across the country Saturday, teaching people how to...

March 13, 2017

LCMS judge is censured for following her church

We blogged about (here, here, and here) the case of Judge Ruth Neely, a municipal...

March 13, 2017

The difference between Mike Pence’s e-mails and Hillary Clinton’s

Vice-President Mike Pence, it turns out, used his private e-mail account for government business when...

March 10, 2017

The checks & balances of Federalism

Obama's executive orders and side-stepping of Congress provoked opposition from the states, whose attorney generals...

March 09, 2017

Trump pushing conservatives to adopt GOP health care bill

President Trump is taking ownership of the Republican bill to replace Obamacare with an alternative...

March 08, 2017

President Trump’s new travel ban

President Trump has issued a revised travel and immigration ban. This one is designed to...

March 07, 2017

Trumpcare vs. Obamacare

The Republicans have finally introduced a bill to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. Let us call...

March 06, 2017

Did the government wiretap Trump Tower?

President Trump tweeted an accusation that President Obama wire-tapped his Trump Tower headquarters before the...

March 06, 2017

Did the Attorney General commit perjury?

During his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was asked, under oath, if he had...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

The USDA inspects for ideological purity

The Christian owner of a meatpacking business had some pamphlets lying around in the breakroom...

February 23, 2017

Trump on bathrooms, immigration enforcement

President Trump keeps doing what he was elected to do, thereby sending his opponents into...

February 22, 2017

Do foreigners have constitutional rights?

The Supreme Court has taken up a case that will decide whether or not foreigners--even...

February 22, 2017

The fall of the gay right-winger

Conservatives used to have moral qualms about homosexuality, but Milo Yiannopoulos had become a right wing...

February 17, 2017

Survey finds 2 million non-citizens illegally registered to vote

A 2013 survey of Hispanics in America found that of the 56% who were here...

February 16, 2017

Are U.S. spies staging a “soft coup” against the Trump administration?

President Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn lost his job because someone leaked records from his...

February 14, 2017

Trump’s national security advisor resigns

Michael Flynn, President Trump's national security advisor, has resigned. He was caught negotiating with the...

February 13, 2017

Chicken sacrifices and overturning the travel ban

We now have an answer questions about the appeals court's legal reasoning in throwing out...

February 10, 2017

Appeals court rejects Trump’s immigration ban

The lower court that blocked President Trump's ban on immigrants from seven terrorist-plagued countries was upheld...

February 09, 2017

Should tax-exempt churches be allowed to preach politics?

In 1954, President Lyndon Baines Johnson pushed through a law that would revoke the tax-exempt status...

February 07, 2017

Don’t expect a religious freedom order

A draft copy of an Executive Order on religious freedom was leaked, creating indignation among liberals...

February 06, 2017

Judge reverses Trump’s immigration order

A federal judge has thrown out President Trump's executive order on immigration. So visitors and...

February 03, 2017

Trump will retain Obama’s LGBT policy

As conservatives are giddy and liberals are panic-stricken over various policies put into place by...

February 03, 2017

“An intellectual superstar”

Princeton's Robert P. George is one of our most prominent conservative thinkers, so it's interesting...

February 01, 2017

Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...