By Kelly Shackelford – foxnews.com – June 21, 2019 Thursday’s 7-2 Supreme Court decision allowing a Peace Cross war memorial to remain on public land in Bladensburg, Md., near the nation’s capital is a landmark victory for religious freedom. This is good news for America. Thankfully, the days of activist courts illegitimately weaponizing the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause to attack religious symbols on...

By: Gary Bower – ouramericanvalues.org – June 21, 2019 The Peace Cross Can Stay The Supreme Court’s 7-to-2 decision yesterday allowing a large cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, to remain on public land is a significant victory.  The cross was erected in 1925 in honor of 49 local heroes who gave their lives in World War I.  Kudos to Kelly Shackelford, President and...

By: First Liberty – firstliberty.org – June 13, 2019 Today, in a 7-2 decision, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States preserved the nearly 100-year old Bladensburg WWI Veterans Memorial, along with memorials like it bearing religious symbols across the country. Most importantly, in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Justices reaffirmed that the First Amendment...

By: Lathan Watts – fedsoc.org – April 8, 2019 As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi leads House Democrats closer to passage of the so-called Equality Act, Americans may get a rare but necessary object lesson on the system of checks and balances established in our Constitution.  Proponents of the Equality Act claim it will “make America fairer.”  But as the Heritage Foundation has explained,...

By: Daily Signal Staff – dailysignal.com – May 22, 2019 Texas’ Republican-controlled House voted Monday to pass a “Save Chick-fil-A” bill. The “Save Chick-fil-A” bill does not allow the government to take “any adverse action” against any contractor, individual, or business because of their religious beliefs. “It strengthens and reaffirms Texas’ First Amendment rights,” Republican state Rep. Matt Krause said to The...

By: Terence P. Jeffrey – cnsnews.com – April 3, 2019 The five federal court districts that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border were the top five districts in the country for the number of defendants they convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in fiscal 2018, according to data published by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The U.S. District Court for the Western...

By: Jarrett Stepman – dailysignal.com – April 10, 2019 A full-blown war is raging against the Electoral College. But as activist groups become more desperate to overturn our way of electing presidents before voters go the polls in November 2020, their arguments become more absurd and hyperbolic. CNN recently ran a preposterous segment suggesting that James Madison called the Electoral...

By: David French – nationalreview.com = May 9, 2019 The Democratic party’s current war on Attorney General William Barr is one of the most misguided, misplaced bursts of outrage that I’ve seen during the first term of the Trump administration. Barr protected the Mueller investigation, he went above and beyond legal requirements to release Mueller’s report to the public, and...

By: First Liberty Institute – firstliberty.org – March 6, 2019 First Liberty Institute today sent a letter to Manchester (NH) VA Medical Center (“MVAMC”) officials affirming their decision to display a Bible donated by a WWII veteran. The letter was sent by First Liberty on behalf of its client, the Northeast POW/MIA Network, the veterans service organization that originally included the Bible in...

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2019 Having thus far failed to break through in the Democratic primary, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey is seeking to gain an edge in the contest by advancing the most extreme package of gun-control proposals to be touted by any presidential aspirant in two decades. In addition to the usual laundry list —...