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
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Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | 
July 1, 2024 6:15 AM | 
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Written by Robert Knight
One of the most chilling scenes in the anti-communist 1965 film “Dr. Zhivago” shows the doctor returning to his Moscow home after forced duty in the Red Army.
The Bolsheviks overthrew the czar and took power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917.
As his wife, Tonya, gives him a hug and a silent warning, Yuri looks around and sees dozens of people unrelated to him. What was once the Zhivagos’ home — a large, magnificent house — is now a sordid commune crammed with state-sponsored squatters.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Bidenomics, Bolsheviks, Carolyn Hax, Dr. Zhivago, Michael J. Coren, Riley Gaines, Ten Commandments, The Washington Times, Valerie Richardson, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 25, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on The Left’s War On The American Dream
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 | Comments Off on LGBTQ Movement Working to Transform Society in its Own Image
Written by Robert Knight
We’re living in a time of moral confusion.
Or moral cowardice. Or fatal indifference. Or all three.
How else to explain the inability to draw any meaningful distinction between an after-school Good News Club for children that imparts the love of Jesus and an After School Satan Club?
In Pennsylvania, the Saucon Valley School District tried but failed. They held off the Satan Club (motto: “Educatin’ with Satan!”) for a while until the absurdities of our morally relativistic legal system caught up with them.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
Don’t look now, but the resistance to woke tyranny is rising rapidly, and not just in the United States.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon resigned on Wednesday after eight years in office. A leftist and climate change extremist, she opposed Brexit while leading the fight for Scottish independence from Britain.
During her tenure, according to the Daily Mail, Scottish life expectancy plunged, drug deaths doubled, alcohol deaths increased, schools continued failing, and Scots were worse off economically than when she took office.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Center for Law and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Daily Mail, Drag Queen Story Hour, Gender Recognition Reform Bill, Jamie Reed, Jason Miyares, Josh Hawley, Merrick Garland, Nicola Sturgeon, Protecting Our Kids From Child Abuse Act, Southern Poverty Law Center, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Washington University Transgender Center
LGBTQ Agenda, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | February 20, 2023 12:00 PM | Comments Off on Pushback Against ‘Woke’ Agenda Happening Around The World
Written by Andrew Harrod
Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “staffers have admitted that the hate accusations leveled by the SPLC are a ‘con,’ a deceptive scheme to raise money,” writes PJ Media Senior Editor Tyler O’Neil. In his new book, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, O’Neil shreds the SPLC’s claims to be an impartial “hate arbiter” and exposes the SPLC as a corrupt, leftist smear merchant.… Continue Reading
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Political | David E. Smith | April 13, 2020 4:00 AM | Comments Off on The Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Hoax
Written by Robert Knight
Post-modern progressives, contrary to popular belief, are not irreligious. They worship at the altar of government power, lifting the chalice of “diversity” and eating the bread of “tolerance.”
Under their arms they carry certain portions of the U.S. Constitution, plus copies of court rulings that are considered sacred and “settled” – but only if they advance progressive notions of progress. All others are open to revision.
For example, progressives have pledged to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling that recognizes the individual right to collective political speech in unions and nonprofits.… Continue Reading
