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The Government Reportedly Ordered a Church to Remove Pro-Life Signs Within 10 Days or Face a Potential Fine. What Happened Next Has Officials Reversing Course.

The fight against Christianity and the Constitution continues apace and is ratcheting up. The government is poking the badger here seeing if churches will cave on freedom of speech and religion. This church did not submit and thank goodness for The Rutherford Institute’s timely intervention. Seriously? They wanted a quote from Mother Teresa and a […]

State Department: Clinton email practices ‘not acceptable’

Hillary Clinton might think doing State Department business on her own private server is no big deal.  The State Department? They say it was ‘not acceptable.’ Joyce Barr, the agency’s chief freedom of information officer, made the comment under questioning from Republican senators who used a Senate Judiciary hearing on open records laws to attack Clinton […]

March Sees CO2 At Over 400ppm, World Doesn’t End

NOAA breathlessly reports Greenhouse gas benchmark reached Global carbon dioxide concentrations surpass 400 parts per million for the first month since measurements began For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of this greenhouse gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015,  according to NOAA’s latest […]

Fiorina, the GOP’s Startup Candidate

On Monday, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced her entry into the 2016 GOP presidential primary. Fiorina skipped the standard ballroom announcement and went straight to people’s computer screens to announce her decision, and then she followed up with interviews on TV news and comedy shows. It was a smart move, as she is a […]

No law, no civilization

Why did Rome and Byzantium fall apart after centuries of success? What causes civilizations to collapse, from a dysfunctional fourth-century-B.C. Athens to contemporary bankrupt Greece? The answer is usually not enemies at the gates, but the pathologies inside them. What ruins societies is well known: too much consumption and not enough production, a debased currency, […]

Baltimore: The Intersection of the Grievance Culture and the Welfare State

After the mysterious death of suspect Freddie Gray, the Maryland state’s attorney for Baltimore charged all six Baltimore police officers involved with his arrest and transport. The crimes ranging from “second-degree depraved-heart murder” to involuntary manslaughter, assault, misconduct in office and false imprisonment. Locals cheered her decision to charge all six. The charges followed three […]

The Embarrassment of Transparency

Over the past decade or so, “transparency” has become one of the buzzwords that has guided the Federal Reserve’s culture. The word was meant to convey the belief that central banking was best done for all to see in the full light of day, not in the murky back rooms of Washington and New York. […]

The terrorists among us

The Obama administration says it is still trying to determine whether ISIS was behind the attack in Garland, Texas, in which two terrorists were shot dead after trying to kill people attending a “draw the Prophet Muhammad” contest. ISIS is not only claiming responsibility, but promising new attacks. On anonymous message board JustPasteIt, a group […]

Will the Clintons’ bills ever come due?

Whether you like it or not, Bill and Hillary Clinton are America’s wicked grandparents. And some grandparents — even fabulously wealthy and wicked people like the Clintons — just don’t have time for wasteful activities like binge-watching “The Good Wife.” They must pay the bills. Yet unlike the rest of us who didn’t make a […]

Speak truth to narrative

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely,” the actor Harry Shearer once asked, “does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” The answer, according to a lot of people, is yes. Upon receiving the George Polk Career Award last month, Gary Trudeau, the creator of the satirical comic strip Doonesbury, attacked the staff of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo: […]

Oakland Police Gave Protesters ‘Space to Destroy.’ Now a Business Owner Hits Back with the Perfect Sign

Where are our leaders? Leaders are supposed to make the tough calls; they’re supposed to protect law and order. However, in response to outright lawlessness and destruction, too-many so-called “leaders” have yielded to violent race hustlers and according to IJ Review, one business owner has had enough! The Oakland police gave the May Day protesters […]

False accuser faces jail over rape claim

In a world where we need to take EVERY accusation of rape completely credibly, a young woman in the UK faces the prospect of jail after fabricating an accusation of rape last year.  “A young woman could be facing jail after admitting she falsely accused a man of rape. Comfort Yinusa, 23, pleaded guilty to […]