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It’s the First Amendment, Stupid: Supreme Court Holds That Free Speech Prevails in Challenge to Anti-Discrimination Law
A Politico headline said that a recent Supreme Court decision “limits LGBTQ protections” while an ABC News story told us that it was about whether “businesses can refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers.” The decision today in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis wasn’t about that at all. In this 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that… -
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In Student Loan Decision, Supreme Court Affirms President’s Power Has Limits
Can limits be found even to an emergency? Can the Constitution’s tripartite division of federal powers withstand the blows and novel respiratory viruses that history lobs at us from time to time? Can they withstand the enterprising legal justifications of an administration that lacks the support of Congress? Mercifully, the Supreme Court answered “yes” to all the… -
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Justice Jackson’s Trifecta of Wrong on ‘Research’ on Racial Preferences
In her dissenting opinion to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down racial preferences in university admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson managed to pull off a trifecta: She was factually incorrect in describing the results of a study that should not be believed, which wouldn’t provide practical support for her argument even if it were… -
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On July Fourth, Remember Why Economic Liberty Matters for America
I’ve often thought there is something providential about the Declaration of Independence being drafted and promulgated throughout the American Colonies the same year that Adam Smith’s book “The Wealth of Nations” was published. After all, both texts were revolutionary, and both were fundamentally concerned with protecting and promoting liberty. The Declaration of Independence was very… -
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In Hot News, Americans Really Aren’t Beset by ‘Extreme Weather’
“Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard.” That’s the first claim in a Washington Post piece warning about the deadly summer heat—and it is almost certainly false. Similar warnings about the deadly weather appear in virtually every mainstream media outlet. First off, the only reason “extreme” temperature kills… -
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Clarence Thomas Shows How Supreme Court’s Rejection of ‘Affirmative Action’ Is a Fitting Fourth of July Victory
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” On July Fourth, we celebrate much more than our independence from Great Britain. Our Founding Fathers risked their lives and reputations in the American Revolution to establish a government based on universal, permanent principles of justice. At the core of these… -
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Nikki Haley Stresses Accountability in Appeal to Moms for Liberty Summit
PHILADELPHIA—Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, a Republican candidate for president, criticized Republicans and Democrats alike Friday as she called for a new style of leadership in a speech to the Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here. Haley began by telling the parental rights group the story of her life, how her parents had… -
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What Declaration of Independence Teaches Us About Our Rights, Duties as Americans
If we want to conserve the American nation, then we must begin with the Declaration of Independence. We should be aware of the richness of this document and what it teaches us about our rights and duties as Americans. Contained within it is a clear statement about the principles of politics, lawful government, the self-governing… -
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Biden Admin ‘Grossly Misusing Foreign Aid’ to Push Radical Agenda, Former USAID Official Says
President Joe Biden’s administration is “grossly misusing foreign aid,” says Max Primorac, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. “The Biden administration has subordinated U.S. foreign policy to its radical domestic social agenda and [is] grossly misusing foreign aid as a taxpayer-funded vehicle to promote abortion, gender… -
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Is the Fourth of July a Holy Day?
Is the Fourth of July a holiday? It is, for most Americans, a day off work. For some, it may even be an occasion for a trip to the beach or the mountains. But is it a holiday, or feast day, in the traditional sense of the word? Is it a holy day? In his… -
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Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something… -
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‘Never Compromise’: DeSantis Slams Rival GOP Candidates for Backing Disney Despite ‘Sexualization of Children’
PHILADELPHIA—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for president, addressed a packed, cheering crowd Friday at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here. In a 30-minute speech, DeSantis rallied to the group’s cause of parental rights, outlining related victories his Florida administration oversaw and tearing into progressives’ actions against families and the U.S. as… -
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BREAKING: Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme Unlawful
The Supreme Court has decided that the Biden administration acted unlawfully when it claimed authority to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans for tens of millions of borrowers. Student loan cancellation is for now a vain hope for advocates who sought to transfer the debts of college-educated Americans to those taxpaying Americans… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Plan
The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” plan Friday. The nation’s highest court heard arguments in February in two cases: Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion in Biden v. Nebraska, 6-3, striking down Biden’s plan. The court unanimously denied standing in… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Colorado Cannot Force Graphic Designer to Create Art Violating Her Beliefs
The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday that Colorado cannot force graphic designer Lorie Smith to create art that violates her religious beliefs. Smith, who believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman, wants to create wedding websites. But under Colorado’s discrimination laws, if she were to create such wedding websites, she… -
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Teen Mom Says ‘Culture of Death’ Was Her Biggest Struggle in Keeping Her Child
A teen mom opened up about her struggle to keep her son, now 1 year old, at the National Life Day Rally commemorating the one-year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade. “This culture of death that we’ve created surrounding abortion has not only led people to want to kill their children, to kill… -
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Events and Grievances Besides Taxes Led to Our Revolutionary War
Taxation wasn’t the only reason that America’s 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain, but it was certainly a factor, Hillsdale College’s Bill McClay says. “Americans believed in self-government because they lived self-government,” says McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in classical history and western civilization at Hillsdale College. The American colonists’ desire to maintain… -
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‘F— You’: Museum Hosting Moms for Liberty Vandalized
PHILADELPHIA—The Museum of the American Revolution was vandalized the night before it was to host Moms for Liberty, a parental rights advocacy organization, after several other organizations had condemned the museum for hosting the group. Vandals spray-painted “F— You” on a mural of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, the plaque commemorating the event, and… -
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Congress Expands Biden Corruption Probe to DOJ, IRS, Secret Service as Hunter Deposed
Amid whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department stymied the investigation of Hunter Biden by federal prosecutors and IRS agents, the president’s son was deposed Thursday in a civil suit regarding his laptop. Lawyers in a defamation suit brought by computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac questioned the younger Biden, who Isaac has said… -
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Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds Employee’s Right to Religious Accommodation
In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of an employee to be granted a religious accommodation by his employer unless doing so would substantially affect the employer’s business. In Groff v. DeJoy, the high court reiterated that employees must not be forced to choose between…