Michigan State University unveiled a controversial new website earlier this month to provide assistance to “undocumented students, refugees,” and DACA recipients with a goal to “reduce apprehension.” The Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives of the East Lansing-headquartered school announced … Continue reading MSU creates website to reduce anxiety of illegal aliens
It’s always a pleasure to hear from fans, even when they’re sputtering, violent, leftist morons. This person, who gives his name as Richard Delaney, just wrote me about a provocative, widely misunderstood piece I wrote for American Thinker. The column, … Continue reading Leftist moron whines about 9-year-old opinion piece, issues death threat
A long-shot proposal for Virginia counties to secede and become part of neighboring West Virginia gained momentum after conservative leader and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed it this week. The proposal by grassroots conservative activists, dubbed “Vexit,” calls for redrawing … Continue reading Conservative Virginia counties float seceding to West Virginia
A group of falconry enthusiasts will be allowed to pursue their lawsuit against federal and state authorities challenging “speech codes for birds” and in which they claim government inspectors routinely run roughshod over their constitutional rights. A federal judge threw … Continue reading Court finds falconry regulations run afoul of the Bill of Rights
A conservative group that claims it is being targeted by Michigan authorities for its political views on the basis of controversial research by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has won a round in court, after a federal judge denied state … Continue reading Lawsuit of conservative group targeted by Southern Poverty Law Center to go ahead
In a victory for the forces of political correctness, Yale University’s undergraduate school will stop teaching a widely acclaimed introductory survey course in art history because the artists studied are “overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male.” The move goes against the … Continue reading Yale drops introductory art history course, calling it ‘overwhelmingly white’
A father and daughter have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration, claiming that authorities seized the father’s life savings at Pittsburgh International Airport without any legal justification. The lawsuit was filed by … Continue reading Retiree sues TSA, DEA for confiscating money without cause
WASHINGTON—A tax-credit program for needy students in Montana shouldn’t be shut down merely because some of the money may end up in the coffers of private religious schools, the Supreme Court heard Jan. 22. “What we’re saying here is that … the … Continue reading Supreme Court considers parents using public money for religious schools
A musician is suing Houston in federal court over its extraordinarily strict regulations governing outdoor performances in the city, claiming his First Amendment rights are being violated. The lawsuit challenging the city’s ordinance prohibiting musicians from busking, that is, playing in public … Continue reading Lawsuit seeks freedom to busk in Houston
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has decided to hear Ford Motor Company’s challenge to Minnesota and Montana court decisions that allowed personal injury lawsuits regarding cars sold out of state to proceed. The case is potentially important because the Supreme Court could clarify where personal injury … Continue reading Ford to ask Supreme Court to clarify where it can be sued
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic order of nuns, regarding its objection on religious grounds to having to provide health insurance that covers birth control, sterilization, and abortifacients for its … Continue reading Supreme Court to hear appeal by Little Sisters of the Poor on contraception mandate
Radical U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who could be the next Commander-in-Chief, asked then-President Barack Obama in his final days in office to formally exonerate Soviet atomic spy Ethel Rosenberg, according to media reports. This was not a request for a … Continue reading Warren asked Obama to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg: Clearing the name of a traitor was a priority for the Democratic presidential candidate
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court threw out a lower court’s decision and so revived a lawsuit by IBM employees who had invested in company stock. They argued they should be able to sue managers of the company’s retirement fund in stock-drop litigation for … Continue reading Supreme Court revives employees’ suit against IBM retirement plan
Although conservatives remain the largest ideological grouping in the United States, the percentage of Americans identifying as liberals has been rising since the 1990s, according to polling company Gallup. “In 2020, conservatives remain the largest and most important ideological voter … Continue reading Gallup poll shows US center-right ideologically
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to uphold the convictions of the two former New Jersey political operatives who orchestrated the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal—the “Bridgegate” traffic-congestion scandal of 2013—but the justices didn’t seem to have been moved. Justices … Continue reading Supreme Court justices skeptical of prosecution in NJ ‘Bridgegate’ case
WASHINGTON—Defined benefit plan participants should be allowed to sue plan administrators for fiduciary breaches even when the retirement plan is overfunded and participants have not lost money, a lawyer for participants told the Supreme Court. A company retirement plan is … Continue reading Pension plan members argue before Supreme Court about right to sue for risky investments
Immigration may boost the U.S. economy overall, but it doesn’t help individual workers, especially those at lower end of the wage scale who face increased competition for jobs from the new arrivals, according to a new report from the Congressional … Continue reading Immigration hurts low-skilled workers, Congressional Budget Office says
Black pro-life organizations are arguing in an abortion case soon to be heard by the Supreme Court that “unqualified and uncredentialed abortion providers” have a long history of “disproportionately harming black women.” Oral arguments are scheduled for March 4 in the … Continue reading Supreme Court to hear that abortion disproportionately harms black women
The Texas Democratic Party and the party’s campaign arms in the U.S. House and Senate are suing Texas, claiming the state is violating the U.S. Constitution and federal and state law by rejecting voter registration applications that lack an original signature. Once ruby-red … Continue reading Democratic Party sues Texas over digital voter registration
A federal judge has temporarily shielded 70,000 independent truckers from an unusually restrictive and possibly unconstitutional California law that virtually outlaws independent contracting. Layoffs blamed on the law, known as AB5, were announced in December 2019 at media outlets across the United … Continue reading Federal judge shields independent truckers from California law