July 7, 2014 – 7:12 am
If this Breitbart report is correct, this is a dangerous escalation of the federal government’s use of blatant power, which violates multiple 1st Amendment Rights As illegal immigrants continue to spill across the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities are attempting to relocate the migrants from South Texas to housing facilities in states across the nation. One […]
July 5, 2014 – 8:49 am
This is something that has them Highly Concerned (NY Times) The Obama administration, reeling from back-to-back blows from the Supreme Court this week, is weighing options that would provide contraceptive coverage to thousands of women who are about to lose it or never had it because of their employers’ religious objections. The administration must move […]
July 1, 2014 – 6:44 am
The stupid keeps coming in from Leftists at an alarming expected rate. Let’s look at what the Paper Of Record has to say, via their Editorial Board Limiting Rights: Imposing Religion on Workers The Supreme Court’s deeply dismaying decision on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case swept aside accepted principles of corporate law and religious […]
June 30, 2014 – 8:23 pm
One of the whiny tropes from Leftists regarding the ruling for Sebelius v Hobby Lobby is that corporations are not people. One can find a gazillion (slightly more than a sh*tload) examples in blogs, Tweets, Facebook posts, op-eds, editorials, and so forth. So, are corporations people? Remember back to the last general election when Mitt […]
June 30, 2014 – 10:30 am
Breaking news, no details yet, the Supreme Court had ruled 5-4, just like I predicted earlier (though not a hard prediction to make), in favor of religious freedom in Sebelius v Hobby Lobby. Details to follow. USA Today starts out with an interesting analysis The Supreme Court advanced the cause of religious freedom Monday in […]
June 30, 2014 – 7:45 am
How will the Supreme Court rule? (Fox News) Supporters of the arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby — the business at the center of one of this session’s most closely watched Supreme Court cases — are sounding a confident tone ahead of Monday’s expected decision in their case challenging ObamaCare’s so-called contraception mandate. The court meets for […]
May 1, 2014 – 8:06 am
Regardless of what your opinion of Rush Limbaugh is, when he makes pronouncements, he tends to be way more often than not. When he says “don’t doubt me on this”, he tends to be right. And said pronouncements aren’t usually the easy. common sense, “well, sure, of course” type ones. Here’s another (The Blaze) Following […]
March 8, 2014 – 8:57 am
They’ve been pushing this issue for years, ever since they learned that the 9/11 cross would be a part of the museum. As far back as 2011 they filed a lawsuit to stop the inclusion. Why? The typical silly argument about a cross being on government land, and because they might be offended. Mostly because […]
March 4, 2014 – 8:08 am
Why? Because they’re “offended”, and we wouldn’t want an itty bitty tiny number of people to be offended, so they have to ruin it for everyone (Fox News) A humanist advocacy group has filed a federal lawsuit to remove a cross-shaped World War I memorial in Prince George’s County, alleging the display violates the First […]
February 28, 2014 – 2:29 pm
I’m a little late on this story from yesterday, but it brings up an interesting thought (Washington Post) Today’s Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School Dist. (9th Cir. Feb. 27, 2014) upholds a California high school’s decision to forbid students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. (See here and here for more […]