My new hero, Ezra Levant, gives the Alberta Human Rights Commission what for: More — much more — at his website. The Alberta Human Rights Commission was investigating his publication, in a now-defunct print newspaper published in Calgary, the famous… Continue Reading
A Constitutional crisis is brewing. A real one, this time. Nearly lost in the news of all the recent elections was a veto by President Bush on December 28. Bush wanted more money to go to the military, and didn’t… Continue Reading
Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy asks a very loaded question: Imagine that your state is considering a law to impose the death penalty for the rape of a child. Would you be in favor of or against such a law,… Continue Reading
I’ve looked in depth at four Republican and two Democratic candidates for President, all of whom are polling higher than 10% in national polls and any of whom is poised to potentially take the White House. Here is a short… Continue Reading
Biography John Sidney McCain III will be 72 years old on the next Inauguration Day. McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone, which at the time was a United States possession. Both his father and grandfather were… Continue Reading
Biography Barack Obama will be 47 years old on the next Inauguration Day. Obama’s father was a Kenyan exchange student at the University of Hawaii when he met Obama’s mother, a student from Kansas. When Obama was two years old,… Continue Reading
The nativity scene wars in Wisconsin are heating up. Prepare for the Battle of Racine. In a nutshell: Racine permits a Christian nativity scene on a public park in its downtown area. So atheists decided to erect a pyramid with… Continue Reading
A follow-up on the Green Bay, Wisconsin nativity scene story from Sunday — last night, someone described as “a white male, 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall, weighing between 150 and 170 pounds, and wearing a gray parka-type jacket and gray… Continue Reading
This year’s battleground in the War On Christmas: public displays of nativity scenes. For instance, in a small town in Connecticut, a town had a long tradition of having a Christian nativity scene on the town square (a public park).… Continue Reading
Biography Mike Huckabee will be 53 years old on the next Inauguration Day. Born in 1955 to a blue-collar family, Mike Huckabee married his wife when he was 18 years old, graduated magna cum laude in two and a half… Continue Reading