The Establishment Clause case I’ve been keeping my eye on, Salazar v. Buono, will be orally briefed before the Supreme Court today. The case involves a large but not huge Christian cross on a hill located within the Mojave National… Continue Reading
Why has America fallen into such desperate and horrible straits? Oh, yeah, that’s right, it’s the atheists’ fault. Or, as Doug Mataconis puts it, “Yea, it has nothing to do with all those religious people who’ve, you know, actually been… Continue Reading
The hyperbole needs to end. Right f–ing now. Conservatives need to condemn birthers. They need to cast out the nutjobs that are poisoning serious debate about serious issues. They need to dump WorldNetDaily. And now they need to dump NewsMax.… Continue Reading
That is, Justice Scalia believes the government should promote religion as opposed to non-religion (emphasis added): It has not been our American constitutional tradition, nor our social and legal tradition, to exclude religion from the public sphere. Whatever the Establishment… Continue Reading
I know that an intellectual critique of Ray Comfort is kind of like gravity-testing lead weights in terms of intellectual challenge. The lead is going to fall, and Comfort is going to be demonstrably ignorant. But this lovely young Romanian… Continue Reading
Proposed: “While federalism was a useful concept in the early development of the United States, as a nation and as a people, we have outgrown it. We would be better off with a standardized, uniform set of comprehensive laws for… Continue Reading
The human rights hate speech law that has been used of late to investigate and punish people who say things that the commissars do not like has been found to violate that nation’s Constitution. You’ll recall a particular magazine publisher,… Continue Reading
It would be wrong to write off Justice Stevens as “just another liberal Justice on the Supreme Court” because he is one of the most creative, original voices to grace our bench in a generation. On hot-button social issues, yes,… Continue Reading
Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California USA 2009, was stripped of her title after she spoke publicly against same-sex marriage. Yesterday, she filed suit against the Miss California USA pageant and two of its directors, claiming that she was discriminated… Continue Reading