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by | Jun 25, 2022

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has emerged as the Supreme Court’s most outspoken secularist. She subscribes fervently to the left’s myths about a religiously neutral Constitution. In a recent dissent, she complained that the majority on the court “continues to dismantle the wall…

by | Apr 23, 2022

In 2020, the Trump administration filed a lawsuit against the University of Vermont Medical Center for forcing a nurse to assist at an abortion. Trump’s Department of Justice called the hospital’s bullying of the nurse “the kind of indecent coercion…

by | Mar 12, 2022

The propaganda sloshing through public schools grows more toxic with each passing year. Students are increasingly subject to corrupting pressure under the guise of education. Liberal activists masquerading as teachers push condoms on students and urge impressionable and confused children…

by | Jan 25, 2022

We are approaching another “Presidents’ Day,” which will be celebrated this year on February 21. This federal holiday has evolved from a celebration of George Washington’s birthday (February 22) to an amorphous celebration of all of our nation’s presidents. But…

by | Nov 30, 2021

Thomas Jefferson’s statue was recently removed from New York’s City Hall. The city’s Public Design Commission voted 8-0 to remove the statue from the City Council Chamber where it has stood since 1915 because Jefferson was “a slaveholder who owned…

by | Nov 2, 2021

“You are a prize bigot and un-American idiot. TAKE ME OFF YOUR VILE MAILING LIST NOW!!!” If you write or talk about politically charged issues for a living, you get angry calls, letters, and emails. They’re par for the course….

by | Sep 14, 2021

Washington — How did the weekend that commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 — America’s Pearl Harbor for the 21st century — go for you? There were huge American flags draping the skyscrapers of northern Virginia. The streets below, however,…

by | Jul 4, 2021

The centerpiece of the recently defeated Senate Bill 1 was the nationalization of voting laws. It would have taken away from the states the right to govern their own elections, something they have enjoyed since the inception of American independence….

by | May 11, 2021

There will be other commemorations of Napoleon Bonaparte down the road, on the occasion of his 250th this or that, but it is worth remembering, as Americans, that it is not necessarily a sign of pathetic nostalgia for a people…

by | Feb 28, 2021

In 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their religious freedom. Allaying fears they had conveyed in a letter to him, Jefferson wrote that the “principles of the constitution…

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