Some are perennial favorites used by both sides, some are leftist projections of Democrats’ dirty intentions, some are theories concocted especially for this unique political climate. Whatever their provenance, let’s make sure these specious explanations are top-of-mind so we can be prepared to shoot them down when commentators start filling the airwaves with them on [...]

Some are perennial favorites used by both sides, some are leftist projections of Democrats’ dirty intentions, some are theories concocted especially for this unique political climate. Whatever their provenance, let’s make sure these specious explanations are top-of-mind so we can be prepared to shoot them down when commentators start filling the airwaves with them on [...]

Do sex offenders have constitutional rights to celebrate Halloween?  Civil rights attorneys and activists say yes.  What do American parents think about child rapists handing out candy to innocent children, who may become the next fixation for violent criminals?  Who deserves constitutional rights, children or thieves of childhood innocence?  And, is this really a constitutional [...]

Every time I think something is the last straw, that “they” (The Powers That Be) have gone too far, something happens to lower the bar to even more ridiculous levels than a Sylvester and Tweety Bird cartoon. Case in point is this latest headline from Fox News: Michigan Woman Faces Civil Rights Complaint for Seeking [...]

We’re at a point in our country’s history where Americans are so polarized, they have their own realities. These alternate universes collided last week during a debate between Delaware candidates for US Senate, Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons. The point of contention was the First Amendment and its oft misrepresented “separation of church and state.â€� [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

Sharia Alert from Michigan: apparently the First Amendment only applies to Muslims at this point in Dearborn, Michigan. More on this here and here….

An update on this story: several Christian activists from the Acts 17 Apologetics group were arrested in Dearborn, Michigan a few weeks ago, after they started having discussions with Muslims. Is it now illegal — in accord with Sharia — to preach Christianity to Muslims in the United States?…

Not surprisingly, as I predicted yesterday, the gun prohibitionists are attacking the Supreme Court’s correct decision yesterday interpreting  the Second Amendment according to its original intent -  as a fundamental individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The New York Times in its lead editorial today called the Court’s reasoning “infuriating abstract.” I call the Court’s opinion refreshingly judicious.
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The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 majority, has once again vindicated the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms as constitutionally guaranteed by the Second Amendment.  The Court today extended to the states and local governments its 2008 ruling that individuals have a federally protected individual right to keep and bear arms, questioning the constitutionality of  Chicago’s [...]