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The Boy Scouts must have gone to the Barack Obama School of Media Management, where rule number one of controversial news-making is burying the story on a busy Friday. The BSA headquarters tried that strategy unsuccessfully last week, hoping Boston's massive manhunt might overshadow a bombshell of its own. In a move that caught both…
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I have worked in law enforcement in some capacity for 17 years, the last 10 as a deputy. I have seen the best and worst humanity has to offer. I am a public servant, a member of a community, a student, a mom, a wife, and a citizen of this awesome country. We have a…
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When people ask whether kids in public schools have First Amendment rights, I’m tempted to answer “only if you think they’re human.” After all, the U.S. Constitution recognizes that every person is born with certain inalienable rights not granted by the government, including freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. But to be polite,…
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“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.” – Martin Luther This morning I did a radio interview concerning our recent First Amendment victory at Boca Raton, Fla. (which happens to be our second one…
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After more than five years of federal litigation, members of the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative have settled their federal lawsuit against the City of Rockford over the city’s alleged harassment of pro-life individuals and other alleged federal civil rights violations. The agreement, reached between attorneys from the Thomas More Society and the city, will result in…
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While discussing freedom of speech and freedom of religion with a group of German students last week, newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry told them "Americans have the right to be stupid." Kerry came under fire, particularly among political conservatives, for misrepresenting Americans and American liberties abroad. The quote was part of his explanation…
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In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson The only way we citizens can bind down the politicians with the chains of the Constitution is if we KNOW the Constitution. The reason that Obama, Biden, Feinstein,…
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The Obama administration has launched another challenge to the rights of individuals to act on their religious beliefs, this time focusing on a family of homeschoolers. The administration already has argued in legal cases against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate that religious business owners can be forced to pay for abortifacients for their workers in violation…
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Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a friend-of-the-court brief that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review a sweeping appellate court decision that “mandates government hostility towards religion … and puts the First Amendment rights of religious students at risk.” The brief asks the high court to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit decision that prohibits…
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