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University toxicity: America should stop nursing the viper 0
- June 19, 2022
Middle Americans are the givers. The professors and bureaucrats . . . are the takers. Gratitude is a rare commodity: It is human nature for the takers to resent the givers
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SCOTUS should uphold the right of religious people to refuse to serve the LGBT agenda 0
- March 19, 2022
The state and would-be “customers” interfering with [a religious] business model have no more constitutional standing than a thug who disrupts a church service or shouts down a speaker.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch: religious freedom’s new champion 0
- December 27, 2021
When his fellow justices defend religious liberty only tepidly, Gorsuch’s concurring opinions stake out stronger positions. When his colleagues do not defend religious liberty at all, he dissents.
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Twitter v. Trump, Part 3: Trump’s best ‘free speech’ claim against Twitter 0
- August 4, 2021
If the plaintiffs actually do uncover systematic efforts by the Biden administration and other Democratic officeholders to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of the press, this will be the most egregious abuse-of-power scandal in recent times.
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Trump v. Twitter, Part 2: Can a private company violate the First Amendment?0
- August 3, 2021
So, the theory goes, if Congress invited Twitter to exercise political censorship, then Congress violated the First Amendment. But this theory also has weaknesses . . . .
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New from the Supreme Court: A smashing victory for religious liberty 0
- November 26, 2020
This case reflected an irony common these days: The majority the media calls “conservative” applying liberal precedent while the three most liberal justices argued against it!
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