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This is happening in a UK with a "Conservative" prime minister. http://secularright.org/SR/wordpress/fire-brimstone-free-speech-and-english-law/ A baptist church was at the centre of a police probe after a sign which suggested non-Christians would ‘burn in hell’ was investigated as a ‘hate...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/court-says-drug-dogs-sniff-at-front-door-is-unconstitutional-search/2013/03/26/cd02ce84-9621-11e2-8764-d42c128a01ef_story.html?hpid=z4 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot bring drug-sniffing police dogs onto a...

This raises ignorance of the Constitution to another level. Does this mean that speakers may not say that God gave them strength or that they prayed during a troubled time in their lives and received guidance? I wonder what half-assed lawyer gave them this advice. Cue the ACLU to step in on...

He was right on Viet Nam and the military-industrial complex. He refused to equate the Wallace insurgency with racism. Interesting portrait. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/come-home-america-2/ As for acid, amnesty, and abortion, McGovern’s positions now seem positively...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/ct-met-chicago-chick-fil-a-20120725,0,929023.story A Chicago alderman wants to kill Chick-fil-A's plans to build a restaurant in his increasingly trendy Northwest Side ward because the fast-food chain's top executive vocally opposes gay marriage...

You'd expect this from the "law and order" crowd, but not from the Hope and Change administration. http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/18/ninth-circuit-to-dea-putting-a-gun-to-an At 7 a.m. on January 20, 2007, DEA agents battered down the door to Thomas and Rosalie Avina’s mobile home in Seeley...

Here I was thinking that one party was against these handouts. http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/republicans-join-democrats-to-save-corporate-welfare-again/#more-49026 From the Hill: The largest spending cut proposal came from Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), which would have eliminated the...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-shares-tales-of-loss-with-families-friends-of-military-casualties/2012/05/25/gJQAdUMcqU_story.html?hpid=z2 Vice President Biden, speaking Friday to families and friends of military personnel killed in action, gave a powerful retelling of the death of...

We're sometimes told American conservatives need to be more like their British counterparts. Apparently, this is what is meant. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9273559/No-10-guide-to-changing-nappies-and-baby-talk.html No 10 guide to changing nappies and baby talk David Cameron said...

Last night, National Review editor Rich Lowry severed the magazine's ties with John Derbyshire. This is part of his explanation. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295514/parting-ways-rich-lowry Derb is also maddening, outrageous, cranky, and provocative. His latest provocation, in a...

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/the-case-for-infanticide.php Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued...

Last week, a federal court issued an opinion in a case brought against roommate.com by the San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council. The council said that allowing people to advertise their racial, familial or sexual preferences in choosing roommates was a violation of federal and state fair...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html?_r=1&hp The study, to be published in June in The New York University Law Review, bristles with data. Its authors coded and analyzed the provisions of 729 constitutions adopted by 188 countries...

I really should have an ongoing thread entitled "This Week in Government Failure" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.html Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were...

I thought it was appropriate to post this along with the decision by Hardee's not to play any Christmas music referencing You-Know-Who. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1387918 Gov. Deval Patrick capitulated over the controversy surrounding today’s tree lighting...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact. Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by...

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/muslims-want-catholic-school-to-provide-room-without-crosses.html The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing...

Video Included http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/12/jackson-obama-should-declare-a-national-emergency-add-jobs-with-extra-constitutional-action/ Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the...

This structure was, in reality, one of the lesser crimes when compared to the gulag, the purges, the Great Leap Forward and other atrocities committed in the name of "socialism." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/14/german-left-berlin-wall-anniversary A group of leftwing politicians in...

It should be noted that the City Council could see the handwriting and altered its approach today, allowing ranges. Still, you should read the ruling to see how far these zealots will go. The arguments got farcical. http://volokh.com/2011/07/06/seventh-circuit-tempo...