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February 2009

February 06, 2009

Violating the Oath of Office

Congress and the President are poised to vote to give the District of Columbia a...

February 06, 2009

Obama upholds faith-based hiring

Does a "faith-based" charity that takes federal money have the right to hire only followers...

February 04, 2009

Stimulus bill forbids $$ for religion

Religious Discrimination Embedded in Stimulus Bill| Christianpost.com: Republicans, Christians Blast Contraceptive Spending in Stimulus Plan...

January 2009

January 19, 2009

“So help me God” is constitutional

A federal judge has thrown out an atheist group's lawsuit that would forbid the President-elect...

December 2008

December 23, 2008

The grandma who brought down Blagojevich

The Washington Post has a good article on how the unbelievable political corruption in Illinois--which...

December 22, 2008

Does it matter if bailouts are illegal?

Thanks to FW for pointing out the latest threat to the rule of law. Consider...

December 15, 2008

Wall Street fund as Ponzi scam

Bernard Madoff--a major Wall Street money manager, former president of NASDAQ, and a pioneer of...

December 05, 2008

The happiness contagion

A study has found that happiness really is contagious. Unhappiness is not. I'm tempted to...

December 02, 2008

Closing one-third of America’s hospitals?

Some Roman Catholic bishops are saying that if Barack Obama signs the Freedom of Choice...

November 2008

November 26, 2008

Public prayer in Jesus name declared legal

A federal district court ruled that government officials in a government context can legally pray...

November 21, 2008

Eliminating the secret ballot for union decisions

Can someone explain to me how anyone can justify the bill to replace the secret...

November 19, 2008

Powerless against Pirates?

Pirates are plundering the sea lanes practically at will, and world governments are saying they...

November 17, 2008

Retaliation against the other side

Gay activists are taking revenge on Californians whose votes took away their right to marry....

November 14, 2008

If one religion, why not all religions?

A Salt Lake City suburb has a monument of the Ten Commandments in a public...

November 10, 2008

San Francisco has its limits

Updating an earlier post about San Francisco voting on whether to legalize prostitution, the city...

October 2008

October 28, 2008

Obama’s Constitutional Theory

Obama supporters think it wrong--an example of "negative campaigning"--to draw attention to this 2001 radio...

October 22, 2008

Legalizing prostitution

From an AP report, San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution: In this live-and-let-live town, where medical...

October 13, 2008

Mark Steyn found innocent

In a case we have blogged about in the past, a Canadian human rights tribunal...

October 09, 2008

Abandoning unwanted children

Frank Sonnek alerted me to another heart-breaking phenomenon, as if we needed any more. A...

September 2008

September 26, 2008

State troopers resign over ban on praying in Jesus’ name

Six Virginia state troopers who serve as chaplains have resigned in light of a policy...

September 12, 2008

Pastors’ civil disobedience over the tax code

On September 28, some pastors are planning to endorse a candidate from the pulpit, in...

August 2008

August 26, 2008

Conscientious objectors

Plan Would Protect Health-Care Workers Who Object to Abortion: The Bush administration. . . announced...

August 22, 2008

Read what can earn you capital punishment in Egypt

Last year, the Egyptian scholar Saad Eddin Ibrahim published a column in the Washington Post...

August 21, 2008

Fighting drinking with more drinking

A bunch of college presidents want to lower the drinking age. One can make that...

August 06, 2008

Locke on tolerance

British writer William Rees-Mogg writes about John Locke's first major publication, "A Letter on Toleration"...

August 05, 2008

Solzhenitsyn on our secular legalism

From Solzhenitsyn's commencement address at Harvard that so enraged students and faculty: Western society has...

July 2008

July 04, 2008

Punished with a baby

Nat Hentoff is a non-religious liberal human rights activist. He is, however, consistent with these...

June 2008

June 27, 2008

The right to keep and bear arms

Washington, D. C., passed laws virtually banning the possession of firearms, even in the home....

June 26, 2008

The military lawyers at Gitmo

One of the reason the detainees at Guantanamo are not getting convicted and punished en...

June 20, 2008

“I now pronounce you friend and friend”

Now that homosexual relationships are winning legal, binding status, some people are calling for similar...