By: John Paul Stevens – nytimes.com – March 27, 2018 Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of...

By: Carolyn McAtee Cerbin – usatoday.com – March 27, 2018 The Trump administration’s decision to ask people about their citizenship in the 2020 Census set off worries that non-citizens will dodge the survey altogether, diluting political representation for states that tend to vote Democratic. (March 27) AP The Commerce Department is reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 Census for...

By: Jarrett Stepman – dailysignal.com – March 24, 2018 Tens of thousands of protesters—and maybe more—gathered in Washington, D.C., and around the country Saturday to protest in favor of gun control. The demonstrations, called the March for Our Lives, featured children calling for an end to gun violence and ultimately stricter gun control laws. The Daily Signal hit the streets...

By: Michael Farris – FoxNews.com – March 16, 2018 What if the government required all Alcoholics Anonymous groups to recite an advertisement for a local bar before every single meeting? Imagine a group of people, struggling with alcohol abuse, trying hard to leave their addiction behind, being forced to endure a message about happy hour specials. And all this—delivered by...

By: Mark Bauerlein – amgreatness.com – March 20, 2018 Some students at Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta have filed a lawsuit against the university, and for a very good reason. They are members of the Young Americans for Freedom, and they allege they’re the victims of discriminatory treatment by the administration. The facts aren’t complicated. The group invited Katie Pavlich...

By Rob Shimshock – dailycaller.com – March 20, 2018 A university announced Monday that it would allow a student back in a Christian theology course after he was booted upon saying there were only two genders. Indiana University of Pennsylvania President Michael Driscoll permitted student Lake Ingle to re-enter the course and indefinitely suspended the student’s academic integrity board hearing....

By: Rachel del Guidice – dailysignal.com – March 19, 2018 A California law requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to promote abortion “affects us on a personal level too, so the ramifications are pretty far-reaching,” says Christine Vatuone, CEO at Informed Choices. Pictured, from left: Debbie Whittaker, registered nurse and nurse manager; Vatuone; Amanda McRoberts, administrative assistant; Kathleen Shaffer, office manager; and...

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – March 17, 2018 Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes — and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable. These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. To trigger the appointment of a special...

By: George Will – nationalreview.com – March 18, 2018 The Supreme Court must strike down a California law that compels pro-life crisis-pregnancy centers’ speech in violation of the First Amendment. Governments routinely behave badly, but sometimes their mean-spiritedness comes to the Supreme Court’s attention. On Tuesday, it will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of measures that California’s government has...

By: Christina Hoff Sommers – wsj.com – March 14, 2018 When I arrived at Lewis & Clark Law School to give a talk, a security officer asked if I had a gun. She’d heard rumors on social media. I didn’t, but my friend Andy Ngo, a Portland State grad student, was armed with an iPhone. A letter from several leftist...