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April 2010

April 20, 2010

Outlawing the National Day of Prayer

So presidents going all the way back to George Washington have been unconstitutional for all...

April 19, 2010

Nondiscrimination policies that discriminate

Jonathan Turley offers some good analysis of a case that goes before the Supreme Court...

April 15, 2010

Pro-life Nebraska

The Nebraska legislature has banned abortion after 20 weeks, raising some new legal possibilities for...

April 09, 2010

Court kills FCC plan to regulate internet providers

A court rules that the FCC may not regulate internet providers, so as to require...

April 07, 2010

The Hutaree

Have you heard about the Christian militia cult known as the Hutaree? They have been...

April 06, 2010

Pedophile priests & liberal Catholicism

Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, points out that the cases of the pedophile priests ...

April 01, 2010

Is the health care law unconstitutional?

An editorial in the Washington Post, no less, which supported the health care reform bill,...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Abstinence funding

The health care reform bill consisted of 1,990 pages. Congressmen could hardly have read what...

March 30, 2010

Why such a visceral reaction to the health care law?

Why do so many Americans have such a visceral reaction against the new health care...

March 30, 2010

Catholicism’s secret sins

I'm not a Sinead O'Connor fan, but the Irish singer--notorious for tearing up a picture...

March 25, 2010

To stupak

Bart Stupak, the pro-life Democratic congressman from Michigan, went from a hero to a goat...

March 25, 2010

“Gee, I hope this works”

Ruth Marcus BELIEVES in the new health care reform law. But she points out that...

March 24, 2010

Obamacare is the law of the land

The President has signed the healthcare reform bill. It is now the law. How do...

March 24, 2010

What goes into effect now

The major parts of the new health care reform law won't go into effect until...

March 22, 2010

What’s in the Health Care bill

For a useful summary of the provisions of our new national health care system, see ...

March 22, 2010

The executive order

Here is the text of President Obama's executive order that bans federal money in the...

March 12, 2010

Banning salt

A New York lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban restaurants from cooking with...

March 10, 2010

Destroying the Senate

The "Christian Science Monitor," not a conservative publication, has a piece by Mark Sappenfield entitled...

March 09, 2010

Do we need a Protestant on the Supreme Court?

John Paul Stevens is the only Supreme Court Justice who is a Protestant. He will...

March 08, 2010

Analogies

I love analogies. Here is one from Charles Krauthammer on a conundrum in the health...

March 02, 2010

Check your phone bill

Look at your phone bill very carefully. It may well contain small charges that add...

February 2010

February 26, 2010

The Texas church burners

They caught the two young men who allegedly burned 10 churches in east Texas. In...

February 23, 2010

What the new credit card law will mean

Here is an unusually lucid and helpful piece of journalism, explaining exactly what the new...

February 04, 2010

Opening the military to gays

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following the lead of his Commander-in-Chief, has...

January 2010

January 15, 2010

Diploma mills

Would you like a seminary degree? An M.B.A.? How about a Ph.D.? Or even an...

January 04, 2010

Incoherent terrorism policy

Charles Krauthammer says that President Obama and his administration are confused and inconsistent when it...

December 2009

December 28, 2009

Security breakdown with Detroit bomber

So we now know that the Nigerian who tried to blow up an airliner as...

December 28, 2009

How common is religious freedom?

Not very. The Christian Telegraph reports on a Pew Forum study that found that 70%...

December 02, 2009

Huckabee’s pardons

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is a different kind of Christian conservative. Instead of coming...

November 2009

November 20, 2009

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed faces double jeopardy?

So if the 9/11 planners get acquitted in their trial in New York City, they...