Mar 06, 2019
Good morning from Washington, where a surprising number of Democrats appear interested in loosening voter registration and election requirements across the land. Conservatives are sounding the alarm about noncitizen voting, Kevin Mooney reports. Jack Phillips, probably the nation’s best-known Christian baker, prevails again in Colorado. Fred Lucas has the latest. Plus: Emilie Kao on humanists’ challenge to an American tradition, Jameson Broggi on one state’s stand for teaching America’s founding documents, and Walter Williams on the resilience of the third planet from the sun.
‘A Win for Freedom’: Colorado Drops Second Case Against Christian Baker
After his triumph at the Supreme Court, Jack Phillips almost immediately faced a second legal case—this time over a gender transition cake.
South Carolina Stands Up to University, Defends Study of Founding Documents
The South Carolina Senate recently passed the REACH Act, which would require all college students at state colleges to take a class on the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers.
Noncitizen Voting Called ‘Next Battle Space’ in Fight for Election Integrity
The “next battle space” in voter integrity, former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams says, involves illegal immigrants who acquire driver’s licenses that enable them to become registered voters.
Why the Peace Cross Case Represents the Best of America
French law has erased religious symbols from public view under a policy of secularism known as laïcité.
Meet the California Lawyer Defending Covington Teens, Former Google Employee
"Destroying people's lives over something they said or a smile or a smirk ... is a big societal-cultural problem that we need to address," says Harmeet Dhillon.
In 1969, biologist Paul Ehrlich said, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Despite such harebrained predictions, Ehrlich has won no fewer than 16 awards, including the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ highest award.
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March 5, 2019
By Jason Snead, Hans von Spakovsky, and Caleb Morrison
Many on the left and in the media seem far more interested in spinning the situation for partisan gain than finding genuine solutions to the election insecurities that enabled this fraud in the first place.
By Peyton Smith and Hans von Spakovsky
Perhaps 40 percent of global pharmaceutical output is from China, yet the communist regime has few laws governing controlled substances such as fentanyl.
By Ana Quintana
From March 19 to April 17, Americans will be able to sue 205 companies in Cuba that are owned or operated by the communist regime’s military, intelligence, and security services.
By Andrew Kerr
If the Federal Election Commission finds that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign operated in affiliation with the Justice Democrats PAC, it would open the New York Democrat and her former campaign chairman to “massive reporting violations,” former FEC member Brad Smith says.
By Peter Hasson
“God forbid the men are upset—no worries, Nancy to the rescue to stroke their egos,” the co-chairwoman of the Women’s March writes of the speaker of the House.
By Rachel del Guidice
The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s priority legislation, dubbed the “For the People Act,” an “attempt to federalize and micromanage the election process and impose unnecessary, unwise, and in some cases unconstitutional mandates on the states.”
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