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Coach Can't Bow Head During Prayer 
Another federal appellate court has struck a blow against faith in public schools. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which presides over Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, held that a football coach may not even bow his head in respect as his high school football players lead a pre-game prayer. 7-20-08
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Texas Town Battles Supremacist Court Over Illegal Aliens
Many towns, from Hazleton, Pennsylvania to Valley Park, Missouri, have passed local ordinances to combat the harm caused by illegal aliens. These ordinances discourage landlords from renting to illegals and penalize employers who hire them. 7-03-08
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ACLU Fights Single-Gender Classes
The ACLU is at it again, this time demanding that public schools stop using all-boys or all-girls classes, even though they are becoming popular ways to improve teaching and learning. At least 392 public schools nationwide are using some all-boys or all-girls classes for the learning benefits of the students. This must stop, the ACLU insists, and it could win millions of dollars in legal fees if the courts agree. 6-21-08
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Court Upholds Photo ID for Voters
In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 128 S. Ct. 1610 (2008), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification prior to voting. The Court held that “[t]he application of the statute to the vast majority of Indiana voters is amply justified by the valid interest in protecting the integrity and reliability of the electoral process.” 6-08-08
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Will Homeschooling Be Illegal?
Homeschooling has produced the greatest inventor in history (Thomas Edison), many great mathematicians, innovative businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie, and leading statesmen including Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. But according to a California appellate court, homeschooling is illegal. 5-18-08
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A Win for American Sovereignty
The biggest decision so far this year concerned sovereignty, globalism, the death penalty and the power of the President. To the pleasant surprise of conservatives, the Supreme Court delivered them a 6-3 victory, although the reasoning was less than satisfactory.
5-09-08
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English is Winning Now
What a difference a few years make. It was not long ago when advocates of English-only rules were demonized by name-calling, protests and smears, and subjected to claims of discrimination.
4-27-08
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'Choose Life' Wins in Missouri
Specialty license plates allow environmentalists, veterans, fraternities, charities and others to express their viewpoints on their official car plates. But when Choose Life of Missouri and its founder, college student and conservative activist Kevin Roach, sought to have a specialty plate with the slogan “Choose Life,” Missouri said “no”.
4-06-08
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Are Violent Video Games Just Free Speech?
Extremely violent video games are the obsession of a significant portion of our youth. Studies have shown that "violent video games may be more harmful than violent television and movies because they are interactive, very engrossing and require the player to identify with the aggressor." http://www.apa.org/releases/videogames.html
3-22-08
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Legal Shoot-Out in the Biggest Case of the Year
It was back in 1939 when the U.S. Supreme Court last addressed the right to bear arms. In United States v. Miller, the Court held that a sawed-off shotgun was not protected by the Second Amendment.
3-01-08
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Roberts Court: A Pro-Business Decision >
With Bush-appointed John Roberts and Sam Alito on the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court rendered a string of pro-business decisions in 2007. It just delivered a stunning pro-business decision worth several billions of dollars. 2-21-08
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NCLB Law Having Trouble Making the Grade
In April 2005, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, filed suit in Michigan to block standards required by No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This bill, the hallmark of President George W. Bush’s first term in office, imposes standards on public schools as a condition of their receipt of federal monies.
2-04-08
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Court Upholds Combatting Illegal Immigration
Illegal immigration lost big in Congress in 2007, but continued to win in the courts. Besieged by an influx of unlawful immigration, the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton passed ordinances prohibiting the harboring and employment of illegal aliens and also requiring tenants to prove they are lawfully here. But ACLU-supported aliens persuaded a federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton to strike down the ordinances as unconstitutional. 1-27-08
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Jurisdiction-Stripping is Commonly Upheld
Legal scholars have debated and some have even denied that Congress has the power to withdraw or strip jurisdiction from federal courts. For 200 years Congress has limited and withdrawn jurisdiction from federal courts as authorized by Article III of the Constitution, but liberals tend to disparage or ignore the numerous precedents. 1-20-08
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
No one disputes the fact that economics is an important social science. Unfortunately, many people lack a basic understanding of it because of fallacies disseminated by politicians and the media. Thomas Sowell has separated truth from myth in a highly readable, non-polemical look at some common assumptions in economics today.
7-14-08
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Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism
In this wonderfully entertaining history of the conservative movement in America during the second half of the 20th century, Alfred S. Regnery tells both an up-close and wide-ranging story. From his vantage point as author, publisher, confidant and enabler, he was in a perfect position to watch the unfolding of the Right both in its formative years and its later ascendancy. 6-29-08
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Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America
Republicans have gotten a lot of grief over the years for being the party of “big business,” for supposedly valuing greed over compassion, and for using money for their own nefarious ends rather than giving it to charity. But in fact many of the owners of big businesses are ardent liberals and funnel billions of dollars into organizations that attack capitalism and work for radical environmentalist causes and open borders. 5-24-08
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and De Gaulle
Paul Johnson may be the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic historian today. Any book he writes overflows with brilliant insights and bizarre opinions. Even if one doesn’t agree with everything he says (and surely very few do), he inspires reflection on important subjects and admiration for the depth of his thought. His newest book is no exception. 4-19-08
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The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
This major work by a distinguished historian traces the growth of the conservative movement since World War II, becoming the dominant political force by the end of the 20th century. Author Donald Critchlow's sympathetic treatment of the GOP Right is a refreshing departure from the typical academic spin placed on history. 3-30-08
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In the Words of Our Enemies
It’s often better to find out what someone actually said than to read somebody else’s interpretation of it. Currently the editor of Human Events and former deputy undersecretary of defense in President George H.W. Bush's administration, Jed Babbin does us all a favor by bringing together a collage of statements by Muslim terrorists, Kim Jong-il, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and others to form a chilling picture of hatred of America. 3-06-08
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Power to the People
Nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author Laura Ingraham doesn’t believe in gloom and doom. If we really want to improve American culture, we need to shake off our lethargy and get involved in the culture war.
2-23-08
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My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir
It is a truism that the people who raise us affect our lives profoundly. In his deeply moving account of a childhood and adolescence spent with his grandparents, Clarence Thomas pays homage to this truism and to the man who, more than anyone else, made him what he is today.
2-10-08
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The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada
Brush up on your Spanish. That's the word from author Jerome Corsi, a Harvard-educated historian who has carefully documented a movement at the highest levels of our government to build a North American Union modeled on the European Union. If this sounds like paranoia, you should read this book.
1-18-08
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