Missouri Professor Faces Assault Charge
The University of Missouri is facing continued bad publicity emanating from its campus turmoil of last year. Now, a professor who joined the students in the protests has been...
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Supreme Court to Rule if Obama Immigration Orders Violate Constitution
Obama's unilateral executive order on immigration will be reviewed by the Supreme Court to determine if he violated the Constitution's requirement that a president "take care" that the laws...
Uncivil War
In war, barbarities will inevitably occur. The Civil War was no exception, as exhibited by Camp Douglas. ...
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McConnell Would Give President Sweeping War Authority
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's proposal would give President Barack Obama, and the next president, sweeping authority to go to war against ISIS. ...
Oklahoma Legislator Seeks to Rein In Civil Asset Forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture laws are an assault on the very concept of private property and the legal position that an accused person is innocent until found guilty beyond reasonable...
Congress, White House Ignore Grim CBO Debt Report
With the country heading toward ever-increasing debt, neither the Republican Congress nor the Democrat president appear prepared to take the needed action to solve the problem. ...
Friedrichs Case May Impact Religious Freedom If Forced Union Dues are Outlawed
A case before the Supreme Court will decide whether teachers who are non-union members should have to pay "agency fees" to the union. Interestingly, the case could also strike...
Planned Parenthood Sues Undercover Video Makers
Planned Parenthood took a major hit in 2015 with the release by the biotechnology company Center for Medical Progress (CMP) of several undercover videos in which officials of the...
Martin Luther King Day Based on MLK’s Image, Not Reality
Former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond once observed of Martin Luther King, Jr., "It may be that ... one reason he is so celebrated today [is] because we celebrate a...
University of Missouri Student Enrollment Down After Last Year’s Protests
The University of Missouri is beginning to pay a price for its promotion of radical causes. Football recruits are going elsewhere, and student enrollment is down. ...
Lawsuit Challenges Anti-gun Policy in Oklahoma
Anti-gun rights zealots are always looking for "back-door approaches" to curtailing the right to keep and bear arms. A lawsuit in Oklahoma challenges yet another such effort. ...
Court Hearing Provides New Testimony in Okla. Beheading Case
The horrors of an Islamic terrorist beheading in the middle of America --- in Moore, Oklahoma --- illustrates the need for an armed citizenry. ...
Year After Paris Attack, Jews Jittery as Soldiers Still Patrol Their Streets
A year after the attack on a Jewish kosher grocery in Paris in which four hostages were killed before police fatally shot the lone jihadist gunman, hundreds of French...
H-1B Program Using Universities to Expand
American colleges and universities provide a gaping loophole to expand the number of foreign workers under the H-1B program, thereby increasingly taking away jobs from qualified U.S. professionals. ...
Legislators Move to Protect First Amendment at University of Missouri
A majority of the Missouri State Legislature has moved to protect freedom of the press on the campus of the University of Missouri, leading some liberals to claim that...