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Will FCC be allowed to police ?fleeting expletives??

Posted on June 16, 2008
Jeff Johnson reports on OneNewsNow: “Pro-family law firms are weighing in with the U.S. Supreme Court on a case that could determine how much profanity viewers have to tolerate from over-the-air television broadcasts . . . Glen Lavy, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, says the FCC decided enough was enough after singers [...

Bobby Schindler: Competent Enough to Live

Posted on June 16, 2008
Bobby Schindler has this article on Townhall. He writes: . . . the physically and mentally ?inferior? are being denied the most basic care?food and water?in our nation?s medical facilities every day . . . Perhaps our general public doesn?t have a clue as to how widespread this problem is in our nation today ...

McCain wobbles on judges?

Posted on June 16, 2008
Bower said he'd liked McCain's answer on judges, in which he "pointed out that he supported Bill Clinton with both Ginsberg and Breyer."

UK: Schools to open sexual health clinics to hand out contraception and abortion advice without parents? knowledge

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Daily Mail reports: Sexual health clinics are to be opened in secondary schools to hand out contraception and help arrange abortions. Pupils as young as 11 will be able to drop in for free condoms, contraceptive pills, morning-after pills, pregnancy testing and screening for sexually-transmitted diseases...

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The Empty European Village: Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need more government support, or less?

Posted on June 16, 2008
Jennifer Roback Morse has this article on MercatorNet: “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” was Hillary Clinton?s Big Idea in the 1990s. Hillary?s supporters and detractors alike regard that slogan as a thinly-veiled code for increasing the government?s responsibility for the care of children...

Wisconsin: ?Welcome mat out for gender-neutral restrooms?

Posted on June 16, 2008
The classic public restroom arrangement - men over here, women over there - is giving way in some Wisconsin department stores, college campuses and elsewhere to a combined, gender-neutral facility . . .

Cal. clerk, Barnett, entitled to run office as she sees fit

Posted on June 16, 2008
Marylee Shrider has this opinion piece in the Bakersfield California. She writes: . . . Those opposed to the no-wedding edict also point to Barnett?s early consults with the conservative legal group Alliance Defense Fund as evidence of her REAL intentions...

Cal. Clerk: Weddings a financial loser

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Bakersfield Californian reports: County Clerk Ann Barnett released figures Friday showing her office lost $18,000 in the past year performing civil marriage ceremonies . . . ?The bottom line is that (Barnett) has the discretion not to perform wedding ceremonies under the law … she doesn’t need to justify her decision,? Alliance Defense Fund attorney [...

NY: Justice dismisses charge over messages on trailer

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Watertown Daily Times reports: Daniel W. Burritt, owner of Acts II Construction, 662 Route 11, had been ticketed for not having a permit for the trailer that displays numerous messages. The town claimed he was using the trailer as a billboard, while he contends the messages are protected by his First Amendment rights of free speech...

Calif. same-sex weddings will affect other states

Posted on June 16, 2008
The AP reports: Worried that their court victory in California could be offset by defeats elsewhere, a coalition of nine national gay-rights groups last week issued an appeal ? titled “Make Change, Not Lawsuits” ? to gays and lesbians considering California marriages ...

Stroke victim?s kin split on food tube

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Palm Beach Post reports: Karen Weber’s descent into limbo began on Florida’s Turnpike in November. She and her husband of 34 years, Raymond, had driven to Orlando International Airport to pick up her mother. On the way home to Okeechobee, happy talk about Gracie, the new baby in the family, ended suddenly when Karen [...

?Lawyering and the Craft of Judicial Opinion Writing: The Second Conversation with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the Law of the Constitution.?

Posted on June 16, 2008
How Appealing reports on this July 30th Pepperdine symposium featuring some notables including Justice Alito. Visit Site » Share This

Checks and Judicial Balances: What if on Monday, you walked into work and gave yourself a raise?

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports: Here’s a weekend daydream: What if on Monday, you walked into work and gave yourself a raise? That’s what happened in New York this week, when a state judge ordered the Governor and state legislature to pony up bigger paychecks for him and the rest of his judicial friends...

California Chief Justice Ronald George ?sees equal rights for gays, lesbians?

Posted on June 16, 2008
Bob Egelko reports on the San Francisco Chronicle: California Chief Justice Ronald George is prepared for the voters’ verdict on his ruling legalizing same-sex marriages - but whatever comes this autumn, he says it won’t be long before most Californians accept equal rights for gays and lesbians as a matter of course...

Alex Kozinski?s Wife Speaks Out ? Judge is into comedy, not porn

Posted on June 16, 2008
Patterico’s Pontifications blog carries this email which is purportedly from Alex Kozinski’s wife. She writes: Turning to the facts of the matter, the LA Times story, authored by Scott Glover, is riddled with half-truths, gross mischaracterizations and outright lies...

World Congress of Families Decries Brazilian President?s Call to Criminalize Opposition to Homosexuality

Posted on June 13, 2008
Besides labeling opposition to the radical homosexual agenda a mental disorder, Lula called for the criminalization of said dissent.

The List of 52 Members of US Congress Committed to Promoting Homosexuality

Posted on June 13, 2008
LifeSiteNews has this report identifying those members of the House of Representatives who have formed the LGBT Caucus. Visit Site » Share This

McCain Meets Privately with Fr. Pavone - Says Constitutional Right to Life Applies to Unborn

Posted on June 13, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: . . . Before his remarks, McCain met privately with Rev. Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life. Father Pavone’s organization promotes voter education and registration throughout the nation, and his pro-life advocacy has been crucial in bringing the non-negotiable life issues to the attention of Catholic voters ...

Catholic Bishops Approve Statement Opposing Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on June 13, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: The nation’s Catholic bishops followed through on their desire to put forward an initial statement opposing embryonic stem cell research. They voted almost unanimously — 191 to 1 — to approve the statement at their annual meeting in Orlando, Florida...

D.C. Mayor orders review of marriage redefinition options

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Washington Blade has an interview with the mayor discussing this and other issues. It reports: . . . Blade: The issue of same-sex marriage became the focus of national attention last month when the California Supreme Court issued a decision legalizing same-sex unions in that state...

Irish Rebuff Sends Europe Reeling

Posted on June 13, 2008
Time reports: Officials in Brussels and other European capitals appeared shell-shocked as they absorbed the news they had dreaded to hear on Friday the 13th: Irish voters had rejected the Lisbon Treaty aimed at updating the European Union’s creaking institutions...

NC: Strip club opponents will argue case before Supreme Court

Posted on June 13, 2008
The News & Observer reports: ‘The state Supreme Court will allow opponents of a planned strip club near the Raleigh-Durham International Airport to argue their case for keeping it out of the area . . . ” Visit Site » Share This

?Chipping away at DOMA: Partial repeal would be ?absolutely huge,? but remains unlikely?

Posted on June 13, 2008
Ryan Lee has this article on the Southern Voice. He begins: The two-headed monster that has officially kept same-sex marriage illegal in the United States since 1996 is beginning to absorb some damaging body blows. But the federal Defense of Marriage Act remains a mighty nemesis to committed same-sex couples, preventing them from attaining full equality [...

Americans U. for Separation of Church and State challenges proposed Florida vouchers amendments

Posted on June 13, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued this press release that begins: Americans United for Separation of Church and State has joined litigation in Florida designed to remove two ballot amendments that would erase religious freedom safeguards and harm public schools in the state...

9th Circuit Judge under scrutiny declares mistrial in LA obscenity case

Posted on June 13, 2008
The AP reports: A federal judge under scrutiny for posting sexually explicit material on his own Web site declared a mistrial Friday in an obscenity trial over which he was presiding. Judge Alex Kozinski said he would ask that the case be assigned to another judge...

Fatherhood and the Future of Civilization

Posted on June 13, 2008
Albert Mohler has this post on his blog. He writes: Will the world soon experience a return of patriarchy? That is the question raised by Phillip Longman in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Policy. The magazine’s cover features a rather stunning headline: “Why Men Rule–and Conservatives Will Inherit the Earth...

Kansas: Sexually oriented businesses can harm communities

Posted on June 13, 2008
Dodge City Commissioner Brian A. Weber has this article on Dodgecity.com. He writes: Consider this scenario; a drastic increase in burglary, theft, robbery and assault. A developing culture of fear, then commercial businesses begin to suffer and deterioration sets in...

United Nations: ECLJ Denounces ?Anti-Blasphemy? Laws in Pakistan

Posted on June 13, 2008
ACLJ reports: The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) continued its presentation at the Human Rights Council of the United Nations - arguing in support of human rights and religious freedom . . . During its oral intervention in the Human Rights Council, the ECLJ highlighted three keys areas involving religious freedom in Pakistan: [...

ACLJ Hears From More Than 133,000 People Urging U.S. House to Consider Broadcaster Freedom Act to Prevent Return of Fairness Doctrine

Posted on June 13, 2008
ACLJ reports: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, said today it has received more than 133,000 signatures on a petition urging the U.S. House of Representatives to consider the Broadcaster Freedom Act, a measure that would prohibit the return of the Fairness Doctrine...

Family Policy Council of WV: In Defense of Democracy and Marriage

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Family Policy Council of West Virginia Blog has this post in response to an editorial in the WV Gazette which praises judicial redefinition of marriage and claims objectors to such redefinition are intolerant. Visit Site » Share This

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