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Free speech under assault by government's new disinformation board
The Bill of Rights, now in many ways the core of the relationship between American citizens and their government, was a happy accident of political necessity, brought about finally by the voters in a congressional race in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1788.
No, Disney's freedom of speech wasn't violated. Neither was yours.
Since the state of Florida dissolved the Reedy Creek Improvement District, partly in response to Disney's opposition to legislation precluding teachers from talking about sex and gender with kindergarteners, there has been a steady drumbeat from those who contend that Disney's freedom of speech has been violated.
Biden's transformation of federal judiciary in full swing
President Biden took office in January 2021 with clear instructions about undoing his predecessor's impact on the federal judiciary.
Dear Christian parents: You're failing miserably
Dear Christian parents: you're failing ... miserably. The pervasive guilt I feel typing these words is insurmountable, yet we cannot keep denying our agonizing reality: Culture is engulfing us.
Unstable, short-lived policies result from the failure of the Constitution's separation of powers
"I'm president, I'm not king.... There's a limit to the discretion that I can show because I'm obliged to execute the law. I can't just make the laws up myself.
Sleepwalking into a China-style social credit system
As Canada demonstrated, Western governments and tech companies are mobilizing to cut off mainstream citizens from public life and constrain their private lives.
Respecting separation of powers key to restoring Congress
In a March 1789 letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The tyranny of the legislatures is the most formidable dread at present, and will be for long years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period."
China is reportedly rewriting the Bible. Here's why that should terrify us all
One of the most dangerous facets of our ever-secularizing culture is the creeping, metastatic hostility many Americans have toward religious liberty.
Yes, you really do need God: Dismantling secularists' and atheists' big lie
Suicide and overdose deaths abound. Unhappiness has become endemic. Confusion is our newfound cornerstone. All the while, the most relevant solution to the afflictions of the soul -- authentic, personal faith -- is dismissed, diminished and laughed off.
Outlying biblical truth? Why every American must closely watch this bizarre case
A society dominated by emotion breeds a culture unable to grapple with fact. And the unfortunate culmination of the intensification of these ideological toxins is a civilization unwilling and ill-equipped to tolerate divergent viewpoints.
Freedom comes from God, not men
No text is more celebrated as a guide to the genius of our nation's founders than The Federalist, and no single essay from The Federalist is more celebrated than James Madison's No. 10. In it, Madison offers the promise of the "well-constructed union" that tends "to break and control the violence of faction."
Transitioning the U.S. energy economy can be done without declaring war on fossil fuels
Our political parties cannot message environmental policy effectively; Democrats push the doomsday narrative to support every new legislation, while Republicans opt for virtually no platform except to highlight hypocrisies.
Government supports would grow to $76,400 per poor family
This week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the partisan "Build Back Better Act." This legislation, if enacted, would generate the largest increase in means-tested welfare spending in U.S. history.
Be careful when writing blank checks
Congressional Democrats' $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending plan would greatly expand the power and reach of the federal government. Its fate rests on what Congress does with the debt limit.
America's powerful administrative state would be unrecognizable to the Founders
The Biden administration's slow, weak response to protests in Cuba is nothing if not predictable.
Think less of judges and rely more on democratic processes
The Constitution gives me as a federal judge the power to preside over certain cases and controversies. This isn't much, as federal cases make up only a tiny fraction of the millions of cases filed in American courts each year, with the overwhelming majority presided over by state and local judges.
Federalism: A cure for what ails the U.S.
We all have a direct stake in protecting federalism, even if we don't always like what it produces.
The Devil went down to Dallas
Donald Trump is back. And he was on FIRE on Sunday night in Dallas.
Governments must pay owners more than 'fair market value' when seizing property
The Fifth Amendment specifically mandates that owners receive "just compensation," which the Supreme Court has long interpreted as the "fair market value" of the property.
Government's power to seize private property must be reined in
Despite the deep polarization of American politics right now and the concurrent divides on a wide range of constitutional issues, there is at least one issue on which there is considerable cross-ideological agreement: limiting the power of eminent domain.
