By: Sarah Rumpf – redstate.com – August 13, 2018 Michael Drejka, who killed Markeis McGlockton last month in a shooting that reignited the debate about Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law, has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. Drejka, 47, shot McGlockton, 28, after an argument in a convenience store parking lot on July 19th in Clearwater, a Tampa Bay-area...

By: David French – stream.org – August 10, 2018 Imagine this news report. National media exploded today with wall-to-wall coverage of the latest fringe right-wing threat to peace and public order. A sheriff raided a New Mexico compound. It was controlled by 41-year-old Roy Austin Graham. He is the son of Franklin and grandson of Billy Graham, both famous Christian...

By: Star Parker – dailysignal.com – July 25, 2018 It is rare these days in Washington to see bipartisan support for anything, let alone for a major issue with far-reaching implications for the nation. This is why the bipartisan passage in the House, 360-59, of the First Step Act to reform our federal prisons is such big news. The 360...

By: Mary Papenfuss – huffingtonpost.com – July 31, 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the U.S. Justice Department is launching a “religious liberty task force” — and Twitter erupted. The new unit will aid the department in fully implementing the religious liberty legal “guidance” issued last year under President Donald Trump’s direction, Sessions said in a speech at...

By: Michael D. Shear, Tiffany Hsu & Kirk Johnson – nytimes.com – July 31, 2018 For years, Cody Wilson, a champion of gun-rights and anarchism from Texas, has waged a battle to post on the internet the blueprints for making plastic guns on 3-D printers, claiming the First Amendment gives him the right to do it. Plastic guns are difficult...

  By: Bob Unruh – wnd.com – July 26, 2018 The transgender agenda in public schools, which insists a person’s sex is a subjective matter based on feelings, took a huge step forward this week with a federal judge ruling boys must be allowed to use girls’ rest rooms and showers, and vice versa. U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez in Oregon...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 19, 2018 The stage may be set for Brett Kavanaugh’s first Second Amendment test as a justice. Every now and then the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals — arguably the nation’s most progressive federal circuit — can offer up a legal surprise. Yesterday, it gave us a legal shock, when a divided panel...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – June 8, 2018 Single-Payer Health Care Won’t Pass Muster in California or Other States Not so long ago Democrats would run for cover whenever a colleague proposed a government-run, single-payer health care system. Today, they scramble to out-single-payer other Democrats, even at the state level. Under a single-payer system, the government pays most if...

By: Mimi Teixeira & Robert Rector – dailysignal.com – April 11, 2018 President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order calling for reforms in the welfare system to promote work and strengthen marriage. The president is right to address this pressing issue. Welfare reform is needed. Today, the welfare system aggressively penalizes marriage among low-income parents and discourages work...

By: First Liberty – firstliberty.com – February 2014 Federal Court of Appeals Orders Removal of 90-Year Old Veterans Memorial Veterans memorials are living reminders of the service and sacrifice of those who gave their lives defending our country’s freedom. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit declared unconstitutional the historic cross-shaped Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial,...