Written by Robert Knight
The U.S. Supreme Court works in strange and mysterious ways.
It can enrage the progressive left with a solidly constitutional ruling like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the issue of abortion to the states.
But it can also amaze and frustrate conservatives, as when it refused before and after the 2020 election to review Pennsylvania officials’ unconstitutional changes to election procedures.
“We failed to settle this dispute before the election and thus provide clear rules.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Amy Coney Barrett, Bostock v. Clayton County, Clarence Thomas, COVID–19, cross-sex hormones, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Environmental Protection Agency, Facebook, gender reassignment surgery, Great Barrington Declaration, Hans von Spakovsky, hydroxychloroquine, Instagram, Ivermectin, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, Murthy v. Missouri, Neil Gorsuch, Obergefell v. Hodges, puberty blockers, Roe v. Wade, Samuel Alito, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith |
July 1, 2024 6:15 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
Some things are wrong regardless of intent or a claimed level of authority. If laws conflict with the ultimate authority — God — they are invalid, as the great British legal scholar Blackstone (and later, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) observed.
In most situations, parents have the God-given right to direct their children’s upbringing. But there are limits to that authority, such as evidence of child abuse.
Exhibit A is the lawsuit by parents, doctors and lawyers who are trying to get the U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Associated Press, COVID–19, Gender Dysphoria, James M. Moody Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., parental rights, Roy Cooper, The Daily Signal, U.S. Supreme Court, Walt Heyer, William Blackstone
LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith |
May 20, 2024 6:00 AM |
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Written by David Fowler
Controversy over a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks of gestation proposed by a national pro-life political action committee prompted Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, to tell Republican candidates to “talk about abortion. . . . When you don’t respond, the lies become the truth.” Okay, what about this truth? The constitutional argument for it is the same as that of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. In fact, if we are going to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment, the 15-week federal abortion ban is unconstitutional.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
The disgraced former Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, Pat Brady, has gone further to the dark side. In various media reports it has been revealed that the double-dealing Brady has joined the board of Personal PAC, a pro-abortion, pro-transgender organization. Their agenda is fixated on the destruction of innocent pre-born life and the chemical castration of confused young people. They seem to be obsessed with the devil’s war on human beings.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
We’ve had a very serious setback this last week in the cause of freedom, courtesy of a dozen “woke” Republican senators. But first, we’ll begin with a bit of pop culture that speaks to where we are as a nation.
Sad to say, Mariah Carey won’t be able to trademark “Queen of Christmas.” Yes, in time, we will get over this.
The ubiquitous songbird, whose “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is piped everywhere, tried to monopolize the title legally.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Chuck Schumer, Cynthia Lummis, Dan Sullivan, Defense of Marriage Act, Elizabeth Chan, H.R. 8404, Joni Ernst, Lisa Murkowski, Louis W. Tompros, Loving v. Virginia, Lucy Van Pelt, Mariah Carey, Merrick Garland, Mitt Romney, Nat King Cole, Obergefell v. Hodges, Queen of Christmas, Respect for Marriage Act, Richard Burr, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, Shelley Moore, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Todd Young, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
November 21, 2022 7:00 AM |
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Written by Oliver North and David Goetsch
“Drain the swamp!” Those three words were more than a mantra for the Trump administration. They were shorthand for reducing the number of nameless, faceless bureaucrats who control the lives of Americans by enforcing a plethora of government regulations without ever standing for election. Now, with Joe Biden in the White House, the swamp is again overflowing.
OpentheBooks.com recently published the latest appalling figures on the federal government’s “internal” spending.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
Something is happening out there. It looks for all the world like a punch-drunk fighter rising to his feet, shaking off the cobwebs and decking his opponent.
Republicans in Virginia swept all statewide offices and flipped the U.S. House last Tuesday. The folks at CNN and MSNBC were on the verge of hysteria. They channeled enfant terrible climate activist Greta Thunberg shouting, “How dare you!”
In New Jersey, a political neophyte truck driver apparently defeated the state Senate president.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2022 Election, 2022 midterm election, ACLU, Byron Brown, COVID–19, critical race theory, Donald Trump, Drag Queen Story Hour, Edward Durr, Glenn Youngkin, Greta Thunberg, Ilhan Omar, India Walton, Jack Ciattarelli, Jason Miyares, Jimmy Hoffa, Joe Biden, Keith Ellison, LGBTQ Agenda, Mark Herring, Mask mandates, Nancy Pelosi, Phil Murphy, Stephen Sweeney, Terry McAuliffe, Transgenderism, vaccine mandate, Winsome Sears
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
November 10, 2021 10:00 AM |
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Written by David Limbaugh
The fascist left regularly typifies the very qualities it professes to abhor. The only thing more pronounced than its totalitarianism is its stunning lack of self-awareness.
It’s ironic that leftists think of themselves as liberals, as the term “liberal” is historically and etymologically connected to the concept of liberty. Not only are they merely selective champions of liberty but the logical extension of their agenda is an eradication of liberty, from socialism to U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Aaron Danielson, ACLU, Avery Tompkins, CNN, Donald Trump, Erik Loomis, Nicholas Sandmann, Samuel Crankshaw, Transylvania University
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
September 28, 2020 6:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
What sets our current age apart from previous ones is not only technological wonders but the shocking abandonment of truth.
For Marxists, a lie is as good as truth if it works to advance their cause. A case in point was a recent article on the front page of The Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section. Next to a large, serious portrait, the headline proclaimed: “Barack Obama: Conservative.” Sure.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Alfred C. Kinsey, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bob Guccione, David Levithan, Dick Teresi, Dr. Rupal Yu, Judith Reisman, Kinsey, National Public Radio, Omni magazine, Piedmont Health Services, Planned Parenthood, Scholastic, Sex and Fraud, The New York Times, The Washington Post
Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith |
December 4, 2019 7:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
The first rule of any Marxist revolution is that rules are fine if they advance the cause or cripple opponents. The rules can be discarded the minute they get in the way.
That’s the way America’s Marxists, socialists and many liberals operate when it comes to the U.S. Constitution, especially the First Amendment.
Here’s the relevant portion:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.”
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Tags: abortion, ACLU, Antonio Gramsci, Bob Dylan, Chick-Fil-A, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Cultural Marxism, Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, Jim Crow laws, Karl Marx, Marxism, Roe v. Wade, The Equality Act, U.S. Constitution, voter ID laws, Washington Post
Uncategorized | David E. Smith |
May 30, 2019 4:00 AM |
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