By: Mike Berry – firstliberty.org – October 9, 2018 It is said that the passage of time can heal all wounds — but when wounds heal, we still want to remember the important battles in which they were inflicted. So we build memorials and create ceremonies and traditions. We set aside special days to remember our hard-fought freedoms. September 26...

By: Kelsey Harkness – dailysignal.com – October 22, 2018 The former owners of an Oregon bakery, ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for declining to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, are appealing their case to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for Aaron and Melissa Klein filed a petition Monday asking the Supreme Court to reverse an earlier decision handed...

By: Rebecca Friedrichs – nydailynews.com – January 8, 2016 When you’re an elementary school teacher like me, you happily tackle a number of unpleasant job requirements: cleaning up from finger-painting, wiping runny noses and removing the occasional piece of gum from a student’s hair. But there’s one requirement I’m not happy about: paying dues — about $1,000 a year for full-time...

By: Jack Crowe – nationalreview.com – October 18, 2018 House minority leader Nancy Pelosi met with survivors of the Parkland, Fla. mass shooting Wednesday to discuss their gun control advocacy work and to praise the students for forcing lawmakers to confront the issue of gun violence. During a round table discussion moderated by Representative Ted Deutch (D., Fla.), Pelosi credited...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – October 16, 2018 A good man’s legal ordeal is at an end. Yesterday, my friends and former colleagues at the Alliance Defending Freedom announced that former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran had reached a $1.2 million settlement, ending a case he brought after the city fired him for writing — and distributing to a...

By: Corinne Weaver – newsbusters.org – October 10, 2018 Is the world’s largest search engine really free? And, if not, are its users? An 85-page document leaked to Breitbart argued that in order to prevent certain political events, tech companies would have to start censoring web content. [UPDATE, 12:40PM ET: MRC President Brent Bozell has responded to this report: “This...

By: Corinne Weaver – newsbusters.org – October 10, 2018 Is the world’s largest search engine really free? And, if not, are its users? An 85-page document leaked to Breitbart argued that in order to prevent certain political events, tech companies would have to start censoring web content. [UPDATE, 12:40PM ET: MRC President Brent Bozell has responded to this report: “This...

By: Jeremy Dys – wsj.com – October 11, 2018 Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. Three federal judges decide a century-old monument violates the Constitution. By Jeremy Dys As a lowly corporal, Milton Edward Hartman’s death shouldn’t have drawn much attention. But on a summer day in 1919, it seemed as if half the town of...

By: Mike DeBonis – washingtonpost.com – October 11, 2018 Endangered Senate Democrats won their freedom to campaign for next month’s midterm elections Thursday and, in exchange, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got something he highly values — votes on 15 of President Trump’s judicial nominees. The deal struck by the two parties on Thursday allowed the Senate to wrap up its...

By: Elana Schor, John Bresnahan & Burgess Everett – politico.com – September 25, 2018 The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford appear before the panel to discuss Ford’s allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than 30 years ago. According...