By: Mike Berry – townhall.com – July 24, 2018 “Did I break the law?” That was the heart-breaking first question Konnor McKay asked us after an out-of-state group of agitators sent a bullying letter to a school district—all because McKay had shared inspirational remarks with his former high school football team. McKay grew up in Arkansas watching Waldron High School’s...

By: Staff – toddstarnes.com – July 25, 2018 The commander of Warren Air Force Base is refusing to back down after she surrendered to the demands of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and removed a Bible from a POW-MIA table. Col. Stacy Jo Huser, the 90th Missile Wing commander replaced the Bible with a generic “book of faith” to ensure...

By: Hiram Sasser – washingtonexaminer.com – July 24, 2018 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be an ardent defender of religious liberty, all experience shows. As general counsel of a law firm devoted to religious liberty cases, I normally would evaluate a judicial nominee by searching through his or her decisions on the First Amendment and the free exercise clause....

By: Cynthia M. Allen – star-telegram.com – July 19, 2018 The 2016 presidential election presented people who value religious freedom with a conundrum. The moral character of both major party candidates made voting for either an unsavory task. But Trump’s campaign promise to appoint conservative judges who would defend the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty was ultimately enough to...

Portrait of Gen. Benedict Arnold by an unknown artist. The American soldier joined the colonial forces during the War of Independence, 1775-83, took part in the unsuccessful siege of Quebec, and ultimately fled to the British lines after a failed plot to surrender West Point. He’s the most famous traitor in U.S. history. (Photo: Library of Congress, AP) By: Rick Hampson...

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: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – July 17, 2018 1) Right to Left. The majority of post-war Republican Supreme Court nominees, who were initially perceived as conservative, turned liberal on the bench (Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Earl Warren), or went from right-wing to center-right or centrist (Warren Burger, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, John...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – July 17, 2018 1) Right to Left. The majority of post-war Republican Supreme Court nominees, who were initially perceived as conservative, turned liberal on the bench (Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Earl Warren), or went from right-wing to center-right or centrist (Warren Burger, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, John...

By: Jerry Newcombe – jerrynewcombe.com – July 11, 2018 Soon we can expect another contentious battle in the Senate over a Supreme Court nominee. For the last few decades, in all such battles, there has been one issue (spoken or unspoken) underlying so much of the fierce fighting: abortion. Abortion is the Holy Grail to the American left. It dominates...

By: Jerry Newcombe – jerrynewcombe.com – July 6, 2018 To hear some on the left tell it, you would think that America is finished as a nation with the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. One such person tweeted: “Literally in tears. Haven’t felt this hopeless in a long time. With Justice Kennedy leaving, we now have two options...