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May 2024

May 03, 2024

DISCUSS: Presidential Immunity

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Donald Trump's claim that the office of the president...

May 02, 2024

Abortion Supply and Demand

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, the number of abortions in the United...

April 2024

April 29, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 4/29/24

Major medical report repudiates transgendering children. Not hiring someone with a criminal record is racist?...

April 19, 2024

DISCUSSION: Trump’s “Deal” on Abortion

Donald Trump has been saying that he would work out a "deal" on abortion that...

March 2024

March 22, 2024

The New Critiques of Religious Freedom

When we hear of attacks on religious freedom, we usually think of government restrictions or...

March 22, 2024

DISCUSSION: In Vitro Fertilization

After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen human embryos, engendered in fertility labs, are...

March 18, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 3/18/24

Imprisonment without trial for a "hate crime" before it's committed, the UK bans puberty blockers,...

March 15, 2024

Why Conservatism Needs God

We have been blogging about the different kinds of conservatism contending today--National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism,...

March 15, 2024

DISCUSSION: Daylight Savings Time

Last Sunday we switched to Daylight Savings Time, bringing back the great debate about whether...

March 13, 2024

“Pre-Christian Man” vs. “Post-Christian Man”

Sebastian Morello makes an important distinction between being "pre-Christian" and "post-Christian." He then says that...

March 12, 2024

Shock at the Belief that Rights Come from God

A journalist was shocked to find that "Christian nationalists" believe that rights come from God...

March 11, 2024

Monday Miscellany 3/11/24

Another bad idea from France, Colorado's DNA scandal, and world hunger gives way to world...

March 04, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 3/4/4

Who gets to have free speech? Rejecting a church ad for "religious indoctrination." And the...

March 01, 2024

DISCUSSION: Frozen Embryos

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos used in IVF clinics are children and...

February 2024

February 29, 2024

How Monarchs Treat Their Rivals

British observer Mary Harrington thinks the United States is drifting back to the frame of...

February 16, 2024

DISCUSSION: Parents Guilty for their Children’s Crimes?

A school shooter's mother has been convicted of manslaughter because her son killed four students....

February 09, 2024

DISCUSSION: Making It Impossible to Speed

The European Union will soon implement a law requiring cars to have technology that makes...

February 02, 2024

DISCUSSION: Banning Social Media for Kids

States are proposing laws that would restrict children's use of social media or or even...

February 01, 2024

How the Founders Wanted Us to Elect a President

In the midst of our current presidential campaign, with its turmoil and polarization,we would do...

January 2024

January 23, 2024

Undoing a “Constitutional Revolution”

The Supreme Court has just heard a case that might undo what has been called...

January 22, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 1/22/24

October 8 Jews, Christian Civilizationism, and Finnish persecutors appeal to the Supreme Court.

January 09, 2024

Legal Prayer vs. Illegal Prayer

The Australian state of Victoria has passed a law that regulates prayer, specifying what kinds...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Colorado Supreme Court Throws Trump Off the Ballot

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump is disqualified from appearing on that...

December 18, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 12/18/23

The military stalemate in Ukraine, the Government's plan to seize patents, and locking out teachers who...

December 13, 2023

Napoleon Complex

The biggest problem of "Napoleon" movie is that it conveyed nothing about why Napoleon was...

December 06, 2023

Major Case Involving Lutheran High School & Hillsdale College

A judge has ruled that not taking federal funds does not exempt a nonprofit from...

November 2023

November 20, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 11/20/23

Finnish Lutherans acquitted--again; the two most vocal Christians pull out of the presidential race; and...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

Americans of Both Parties Giving Up on Democracy

A recent poll shows that rank and file Americans from both sides of the political...

October 16, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 10/16/23

The cost of Ivy-League radicalism; "preserve, protect and defend" doesn't mean "support"; and Bigfoot makes...

October 10, 2023

The Trial of the Century

The second trial of Finnish member of parliament Päivi Räsänen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola,...