Secular Scholastic Shakedown Scheming
The secular Scholastics of the 21st century will soon meet at the Sorbonne of southern California to discuss vital issues of the day at Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations: 27th Annual Thinking...
View ArticleHow She Ruined His Life
I hope you saw Robert VerBruggen’s piece in TAC yesterday, reviewing a new book about due process and sexual assault accusations on campus. Here is a story about a case at Michigan State University...
View ArticleWith Gorsuch, Trump Delivers
So it’s Neil Gorsuch for SCOTUS: a jurist who is conservative, but not mad about it. With this pick, the president has come through in a big way for socially conservative voters who chose him over...
View ArticleGorsuch And The Evangelium Mortis
A law-professor reader writes: Did you see today’s NYT editorial on Gorsuch (Neil Gorsuch, the Nominee for a Stolen Seat)? Setting aside the silliness of the claim that the Senate had a constitutional...
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Polygamy: The Next Frontier
Here’s the jacket copy for a forthcoming book from the University Press of New England: Legalizing Plural Marriage: The Next Frontier of Family Law, by Emory law professor Mark Goldfeder. A law school...
View ArticleBig 7th Circuit Gay Rights Ruling
A federal court made a potentially huge ruling this week: In an 8-3 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday concluded that federal civil rights law — specifically, the Civil...
View ArticleTrump: An Unusually Bad Liar
So, when do the wheels finally come off this thing? From the NYT: President Trump offered a new version of his decision to fire James B. Comey, saying on Thursday that he would have dismissed the...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Treacherous Loon
News flash! Something is deeply, deeply wrong with this man: President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse...
View ArticleTrump’s Self-Pardon? Seriously?
Scoop from The Washington Post tonight: Some of President Trump’s lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, building a case against...
View ArticleThe Unstable Donald Trump
What the hell is this? So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations? — Donald J. Trump...
View ArticleSOGI Lawsuit Against Private School
Now they’re going after private elementary schools: Just before Nikki Shah-Brar’s seventh birthday, in June 2016, she was watching her mom get ready in front of the bathroom mirror when Nikki said,...
View ArticleMob Rule In Durham
Yesterday, a mob in Durham, NC, tore down a Confederate statue that had been in place since 1924. David A. Graham was there. Excerpts from his Atlantic piece: Around 7 p.m. Monday, a group of...
View ArticleAntifa Atrocities In Berkeley
Everybody’s talking about this Matt Labash story from Berkeley, and with good reason. It’s a stunner. Labash went to Berkeley to follow Joey Gibson, founder of Patriot Prayer, as he and his cohorts...
View ArticleJon Haidt Defends Amy Wax
In an extraordinary show of the collapse of standards at an Ivy League law school, almost half the faculty at Penn Law signed a letter denouncing their colleague Amy Wax for her recent op-ed column...
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Anti-First Amendment Culture Emerges
I’m fairly confident that most American religious conservatives — Christian ones, anyway — still have no idea what is coming our way. Did you see the results from the new Brookings survey of college...
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Baking The Cake, Keeping The Peace
Andrew Sullivan and I argue a lot, but truth is, if he were in charge of implementing gay marriage laws, I wouldn’t be all that worried about religious liberty. From his most recent column: Which is...
View ArticleHeck Of A Job Brownie File
I’m grateful that one of my US Senators, Republican John N. Kennedy, showed that Matthew Petersen, a Trump federal court nominee, is spectacularly unqualified for the job. The Washington Post adds:...
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Smearing Kyle Duncan
Cathode Ray Gun/Flickr I can’t let this one pass. I don’t know Kyle Duncan, a Trump nominee for the federal bench, but several friends of mine do, and vouch for him. Those are my cards on the table....
View ArticleThe Trans Teen Industrial Complex
Y’all remember around 2003, the media started propagandizing for gay marriage? I don’t mean “reporting on the emerging movement in favor of gay marriage”; that would have been entirely understandable....
View ArticleThe Devil & The Second Amendment
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, writing in today’s New York Times: Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and...
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