Morning Bell: The Left’s War On The CIA
In June of 2008, while campaigning for the election of President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder promised the leftist American Constitutional Society: “We owe the American people a...
View ArticleStatement by Former Attorney General Ed Meese on the Retirement of Justice...
Following the retirement announcement by Justice John Paul Stevens today, it is now up to the United States Senate to ensure that the successor justice will be a responsible jurist who will remain...
View ArticleStewardship, Compassion, Justice and the U.S. Budget Crisis
Stewardship, compassion, and justice have been mentioned frequently in recent Christian commentary on our national fiscal crisis, and rightly so. Budgets are indeed moral documents; for example, it is...
View ArticleTop 10 Reads: July 5, 2011
Catching you up on clips, commentary and news of the day. Sign up for the daily email update from Scribe. A decent military takes cash – Ed Feulner The Year of School Choice – Wall Street Journal Game...
View ArticleOperation Fast and Furious: The Buck Stops…Well…Somewhere Else
Senator Charles Grassley (R–IA) and Representative Darrell Issa (R–CA), the ranking members on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,...
View ArticleHeritage Intern Award Winners: Our American Heritage
Each semester, we bring together more than 60 young leaders from across the country to participate in our internship program in D.C. They are given the opportunity of practical experience working on...
View ArticleBoyer v. Louisiana: A Conflict in Constitutional Rights Postponed
Jim Pickerell Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom How should courts respond when the legislature does not adequately fund operation of the criminal justice system and thereby denies a defendant his...
View ArticleCongress Takes a Positive First Step to Address Overcriminalization
Newscom On Tuesday, Congress took a definite step in the right direction toward addressing the serious problem of overcriminalization by announcing the creation of a bipartisan House Committee on the...
View ArticleJudicial Activism: Trading the Stable Rule of Law for the Fickle Rule of Men
Walter Choroszewski Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it would bar most forms of protest on the marble plaza in front of the court, as...
View ArticleFrederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom to Statuesque
Photo credit: World History Archive/Newscom The only thing that’s really surprising is that it took so long. Lawmakers recently unveiled a statue of Frederick Douglass in the Emancipation Hall of the...
View ArticleDiverted from the Straight and Narrow Path for Diverting Sewage
After decades of striving to obey the law and teaching his children to do the same, Lawrence Lewis turned to crime. His offense? Diverting sewage into a storm drain that, unbeknownst to Lewis,...
View ArticleSexual Assault in the Military: Fix the Right Problem
Some conservatives have joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D–NY) effort to remove the chain of command from cases of sexual assault in the military. They give the bill’s champion critical...
View ArticleFlashing Headlights as a Felony: Why Helping Reduce Crime Shouldn’t Be Criminal
Bernd Westneck/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom Most people have probably done it. Some, if pressed, might concede that it isn’t the right thing to do. But most people probably wouldn’t think it was a...
View ArticleIs a Gun Loaded If the Bullets Are Beside It?
Frank Chmura Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom For proof that prosecutors will apply laws in ways that are at odds with societal expectations, look no further than the case of Oriol Dor. Dor came...
View ArticleAn Election Integrity Victory in Mississippi
Newscom There was a historic victory for election integrity on Wednesday: A federal court approved a consent decree in a lawsuit filed in Mississippi by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) that...
View ArticleChief Justice Roberts: “Fundamental Concerns” Surrounding Class Action Awards
Sipa USA/Newscom Have you ever received a class action notification? The e-mails and letters contain a lot of legalese—“You might be entitled to an award as a member of this class”—but the end result...
View ArticleSexual Assault in the Military: Top JAGs Slam Gillibrand Scheme
Newscom The first two female Judge Advocates General (JAGs) of the Navy and Army, joined by the other top uniformed JAGs from the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, wrote a strongly worded...
View ArticleMeet the Serial Killer Who Murdered Living Babies
This is Kermit Gosnell. The 73-year old may be the most prolific serial killer in American history. Last April he was charged with the murder of seven infants who were born alive after failed abortion...
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