November 15, 2017

Yes, Virginia, there is vote fraud

If ever there were an election that proved the importance of accurate voter rolls, it was Virginia's on Nov. 7. With control of the General Assembly hanging in the balance, at least three Democratic candidates demanded recounts of their Republ...

August 2, 2017

Maryland city to allow non-citizens to vote...again

If you want to know where the progressive left wants to take U.S. elections, a trip through Maryland's Washington, D.C.-area suburban counties is instructive. The City of College Park in Prince George's County is on the verge of becoming t...

July 3, 2017

The spirit of 1776 in a time of division

America may seem hopelessly conflicted right now, but it's good to keep in mind that the longest surviving democratic republic in history began with much disagreement over America's destiny.  Not everyone wanted to plunge into the unpred...

June 21, 2017

The ACLU, from Paris to Broadway

"World Ends: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit" is the way satirist Mort Sahl once lampooned how liberal news organs like the New York Times might report a devastating nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. ...

May 3, 2017

Here’s your license, now get into that voting booth

Having killed a perfectly good photo voter ID bill in late April that was backed by Republican Gov. Paul LePage, Maine's Democrats are bidding to use the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to cram the voting rolls with people who can't be bot...

April 22, 2017

ACLU: Force Catholic hospital to aid in 'sex change'

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a California-based nonprofit hospital chain because a Roman Catholic hospital declined to give a hysterectomy to a woman who said she identifies as male and was doing so i...

April 4, 2017

ACLU takes a buggy whip to Lancaster County

Surrounded by Pennsylvania's Amish country, with its farmland, horses, and buggies, Lancaster School District officials are finding out how expensive it is to have the world come to them – especially if it comes in the form of briefcase-wie...

March 9, 2017

The ACLU's radical roots

Examining the pedigree of groups helps us understand why they act the way they do today. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) purports to uphold First Amendment freedoms for all Americans, but its seminal doctrines and selective choice of cas...

February 28, 2017

Firing the 'diversity' bullet at the Marines

Dying in foreign lands in the service of a nation that enshrines freedom of religion in its Constitution doesn't cut any mustard with the irreligious left. Alarmed by the presence of a crèche complete with three Wise Men last Christmas ...

December 21, 2016

ACLU helps put Maine on the horns of a pagan dilemma

A Maine man credits the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for his winning a battle with the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles over his insistence that his ID card photo include goat horns on his head. Phelan Moonsong, 59, of Millinocket, a practi...

December 13, 2016

ACLU: Sight of cross on public tree inflicts 'irreparable harm'

Joseph Tompkins is an "irreparable harm" survivor.  He's the guy who got the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to force a small Indiana town to remove a cross from atop its municipal Christmas tree on Monday.  Mr. Tompk...

November 24, 2016

Reasons for thanks, 2016

This year, Thanksgiving feels more appropriate than ever, given the huge turn of events on Election Day. For those of us worried about the arc of our country toward lawlessness, socialist economics, and ever growing government, it was an answer to...

November 8, 2016

ACLU: Investigate governor for telling students to obey election law

Maine Republican governor Paul LePage should face a federal inquiry for his remarks on Monday suggesting that college students obey state laws regarding voting, residency, vehicle registration, and taxes, according to the ACLU’s state chap...

October 22, 2016

A mountaintop victory over the ACLU

If you didn’t hear about this last month, it’s for good reason.  The media do not like publicizing defeats for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A 27-year battle with the ACLU over the Mt. Soledad mountaintop cross at a K...

September 15, 2016

ACLU celebrates non-victory over school’s male-only policy

With crime rampant in urban areas, educators and city officials are experimenting with new approaches to steer young black males into constructive behavior and away from gangs.  Their main opponent?  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...

September 10, 2016

A somber reminder of the stakes in November

Americans have long set aside days to remember our men and women in uniform, some of whom gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect our God-given freedoms. Sunday, Sept. 11 is the 15th anniversary of the Islamist attacks on the World Trade Cente...

June 23, 2016

Black Lives Matter IDs the real culprits in Orlando attack

Just when you thought nobody could top the Obama administration’s penchant for denial about Islamic terrorism, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) folks did just that. Despite Muslim gunman Omar Mateen’s stated motive in a 911 call that he mu...

May 26, 2016

Texas Democrat revives ‘early and often’ voting slogan

A Texas congressional candidate has boldly resurrected a popular East Coast Democratic catchphrase from the late 19th century: “Vote Early, Vote Often.”  Actually, it works just as well in today’s Chicago, the Rio Grande Valley...

May 24, 2016

GOP sues over Virginia governor's felon voting order

The Democrat felon voting express train in Virginia hit a sharp curve on Monday when Republican lawmakers went to the state's highest court to derail it. Constitutional attorney Charles J. Cooper's law firm filed a lawsuit on behalf of Rep...

May 19, 2016

The Pink Wig Brigade

President Obama’s bombshell edict on bathroom and locker rooms last week to all American school districts did not come out of the blue. Friday’s joint letter from the Departments of Education and Justice, plus Attorney General Loretta ...

May 4, 2016

ACLU wants Christian college to adopt ACLU's values

In the warped world of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "academic freedom" no longer means freedom of inquiry and expression; it now means forcing all institutions, including religious-affiliated colleges, to accept leftist values...

April 13, 2016

Judge refuses ACLU demand to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took one on the chin Monday when a federal district judge dismissed a lawsuit against a multi-state Catholic-run health care chain. Score another win for religious liberty, not to mention unborn children. ...

March 22, 2016

RIP, cartoonist Glenn Foden

America has lost one of its finest humorists and political commentators. Glenn Foden, a widely published conservative cartoonist, died suddenly of an aneurysm at age 60 on Sunday. He was visiting his father at the time in Massachusetts, accordi...

March 9, 2016

ACLU: Maui is one big outdoor bathroom

There's trouble in paradise. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants Hawaii's island of Maui to forgo legislative measures to keep sleeping homeless people off the sidewalks and from relieving themselves in public. That's ri...

February 15, 2016

RIP Antonin Scalia

Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden passing leaves an enormous void in principled leadership at the U.S. Supreme Court.  The 79-year-old conservative jurist’s sharp intellect, integrity, humor, and uncompromising application of the Co...

February 6, 2016

Chicago Cops Blame ‘ACLU Effect’ for Increase in Gun Violence

Drown the police in paperwork if they make a street stop, and what do you get?  Fewer stops and more violent crime, including a near doubling of the murder rate.  At least that seems to be the case in Chicago, where violence has gone viral ...

January 27, 2016

Planned Parenthood indictment: Punishing the pursuer instead of the perp

If all else fails, shoot the messenger. On Monday, a grand jury in Houston indicted two journalists who made the explosive undercover videos that feature Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted babies' body parts while sipp...

January 12, 2016

Tubal Litigation: The ACLU's War on Conscience

In any power struggle, language is supremely important. That’s why the Left constantly invents euphemisms to mask immoral aims and tyrannical demands.   If you ask a Roman Catholic doctor, the term “reproductive health care”...

November 26, 2015

The Indispensable Benefits of Gratitude

Talk show host and movie critic Michael Medved once told a cultural conference in Washington that people could be divided into two basic groups --- those who are grateful to God and those who are not. For the ungrateful, the day begins with new co...

July 24, 2015

Mt. Soledad's Sale Could Leave ACLU Without a Prayer

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) may have run out of bullets to fire at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego and its 29-foot Latin cross. High atop a mountain just north of downtown, the cross has driven the ACLU bonkers for y...

July 9, 2015

'Politiqueras' and vote fraud in the Rio Grande Valley

In the vote-rich Rio Grande Valley of Texas, home to hundreds of thousands of legal and illegal immigrants, the American Civil Rights Union is fighting a legal battle to clean up dirty voter rolls. At the same time, a left-wing campaign called Bat...

June 10, 2015

Hillary's millions

Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped aboard the “voter suppression” express while in Texas on Friday, claiming that “Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting.” As pro...

April 5, 2015

The Season of Hope and Courage

With religious freedom in America under attack, as evidenced by the hysterical media and corporate reaction to Indiana’s enactment of a common-sense religious freedom law, it’s more important than ever to reflect at Easter on our God-give...

March 26, 2015

ACLU gets Stung in Wisconsin

Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin voters, and champions of clean elections won a crucial decision at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday when the justices declined to hear a challenge to an appeals court’s decision upholding Wisconsin’s ...

March 1, 2015

Calaveras County Makes the ACLU Hopping Mad

Calaveras County became famous 150 years ago when Mark Twain in 1865 penned the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” which also became the title of Twain’s very first book. Now, thanks to an American Civ...

February 11, 2015

ACLU: Banning Obscene Rap at Parade Is Racist

In an attempt to keep the upcoming annual Mardi Gras parade family-friendly, the St. Martinville, LA police have asked participants to refrain from playing rap music with vulgar lyrics. The American Civil Liberties Union’s Louisiana chapter ...

January 11, 2015

ACLU Pockets Hefty Award in Alabama Prison Case

Good news -- Alabama taxpayers have been dunned only $1.3 million by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which sued to end the segregation of HIV-positive inmates in the state prison system. It’s good news because the ACLU wanted $2.4...

October 17, 2014

ACLU 'Thrilled' to Kill Voter ID in Arkansas

Reacting to the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling declaring the state's voter-identification law unconstitutional, ACLU of Arkansas Legal Director Holly Dickson said her group is “thrilled.”  Well, why not. They...

January 31, 2014

'Income Inequality?' How Reagan Handled It

Now that we've solved the "healthcare crisis" with a government healthcare takeover, another bad idea -- the guaranteed income -- has resurfaced, and Republicans who should know better are flirting with it. The guaranteed income, by which the govern...

October 4, 2013

Are Minorities too Dumb to get ID?

Attacking North Carolina's new voter ID law as the "harshest voter suppression law in the nation," the ACLU's North Carolina chapter saluted the U.S. Justice Department for filing a lawsuit on Sept. 30 challenging the law. Like Attorney General Eric ...

July 21, 2013

ACLU Official Blasts Marathon Bombing Case Investigation

There's not much that doesn't outrage the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whether it's the "not guilty" verdict in the George Zimmerman trial or America's continued reluctance to shed its Christian heritage. In Boston, however, the ACLU seem...

February 3, 2013

ACLU, Unions Sue Michigan Over Right to Work Law

Do you recall what happened at the Wisconsin state Capitol building in March 2011, when the state Senate was considering legislation to curb public employee unions? For days, union members trashed the place. They blew horns. They swore at legislators...

September 29, 2012

ACLU Sues to Stop Citizenship Question on Michigan Ballots

Only citizens of the United States can legally vote in federal elections.  So Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson added a yes/no question on ballot applications that asks: "Are you a United States citizen?" According to the American Civil L...

August 31, 2012

ACLU Begs Colorado Springs to Rethink Panhandling Proposal

Visitors to downtown Colorado Springs are besieged by panhandlers, according to city officials.  So they drafted an anti-solicitation law that prohibits begging in a designated area. Quicker than you can say "Got a quarter?," the American Civil ...

June 27, 2012

ACLU Loses Challenge to Indiana's Sex Offender Social Media Law

In a victory over odd men in raincoats, a federal judge has upheld Indiana's 2008 law barring convicted sex offenders from using Facebook, MySpace, and other social media.  A class-action suit had been filed against the statute by the Ameri...

May 17, 2012

Pyrrhic Victory for the ACLU in Texas?

In Lewisville, Texas, there will be a benediction and invocation at the graduation ceremony on June 3rd this year, but thanks to the ACLU, the program will call them something else. "Our attorneys have made it clear that we can continue to have stude...

May 1, 2012

ACLU Promotes Christian-Bashing Speaker

The ACLU of Oregon gave a prominent platform in March to sex-advice columnist and "anti-bullying" advocate Dan Savage, who bashed the Bible and Christian teens in a profanity-laced speech on April 13 in Seattle. "Savage was supposed to be delivering ...

February 3, 2012

ACLU Fights Sunshine in Wisconsin Recall

When should names on public rolls be kept secret? Judging by the ACLU's double standard, secrecy is warranted if exposure might reveal voter fraud.  On the other hand, if exposure puts marriage supporters at risk for harassment by radical activi...

January 16, 2012

The Left's War on Voter Fraud Reform

Pretty soon, the right to cast a meaningful vote might be just a memory. The issue at hand is ensuring that American citizens can exercise the most fundamental civil right of being an American -- casting a vote with the assurance that it will count a...

August 19, 2011

Don't Dial DOJ for Voter Fraud Protection

If you thought the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder was already shockingly biased toward far-left causes, get ready for a more permanent problem. As Hans A. von Spakovsky has outlined in the first of five articles for Pajama...

November 1, 2010

Pay No Attention to the Communists behind the Curtain

The evidence is overwhelming. The media interest is zero. The UFO strategy is in force. Let me explain. I'm talking about the unsolved Weather Underground murder of San Francisco Police Officer Brian V. McDonnell. A bomb placed on Feb. 16, 1970 outsi...

May 20, 2010

With Arizona, You Get Egg Roll on Your Face

Oh, that Arizona. What a handy thing to have in your transnational quiver for those times when you want to identify with the tyrants of the world. "We brought it up early and often," State Department official Michael Posner said of Arizona'...

October 31, 2009

ObamaCare's Scary October Surprise

Stung by a rising tide of resistance and a closing window of opportunity, House Democrats have unleashed a new version of ObamaCare, weighing in at 1,990 pages and with a $1 trillion price tag. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to ram it through qu...

October 23, 2009

The Congressional Scam that Failed

A funny thing happened on the way to one of the biggest scam attempts in history. It got ratted out. And Capitol Hill got an earful.  So the U.S. Senate failed by seven votes to invoke cloture on Wednesday and push forward a bill that even had W...

October 11, 2009

The Clergy Who Want an Abortion Ba'al Out

Did you know that the Priests of Ba'al Coalition has weighed in on the health care debate?Okay, they don't really call themselves that. Ba'al was the god of ancient pagan tribes that sacrificed babies in fertility rites and whom the children of Israe...

September 2, 2009

When Post Editors Attack

The Washington Post's behavior lately goes so far beyond mere bias that it looks like a caricature cooked up by a comedian or saboteur. The paper's bid to fix the Virginia gubernatorial election is right out of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Alin...

July 11, 2009

The Feminist Way of Interviewing

What do you think a New York Times writer would do if a conservative Supreme Court justice like Antonin Scalia opined that:"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe [v. Wade] was decided, there was concern about population growth and particula...

June 10, 2009

Call It What It Is: Rationed Health Care

Fresh from grabbing much of the U.S. auto and banking industries, the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are moving briskly toward nationalized health care. In a letter to Senate Democrat leaders, President Obama has called for forcing ...