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California Private Schools Can Expel Lesbians 
Chalk up a victory for the rights of private schools. A California appellate court has ruled in favor of a Lutheran high school that expelled two 16-year-old girls for having a "bond of intimacy" that was "characteristic of a lesbian relationship." The girls sued based on the state anti-discrimination law, and lost on appeal. 6-15-09
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Colleges Treat Illegal Aliens Better than Americans
A Baptist pastor in Montana assisted in a petition drive for a ballot initiative for traditional marriage in 2004. For what became Constitutional Initiative No. 96 ("CI-96"), Pastor Bethold Stumberg approved placing in his church foyer about 20 copies of the petition to amend the Montana state constitution. 5-28-09
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Church Wins Freedom to Campaign
A Baptist pastor in Montana assisted in a petition drive for a ballot initiative for traditional marriage in 2004. For what became Constitutional Initiative No. 96 ("CI-96"), Pastor Bethold Stumberg approved placing in his church foyer about 20 copies of the petition to amend the Montana state constitution. 4-11-09
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Court Wants Politically Correct Title
Courts are so ingrained in politically correct language that they even express irritation when a party departs from it. Consider, for example, the decision in Stark v. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. 4-05-09
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Logic Loses in 2nd Amendment Case
Chicago’s rising murder rate is now about three times the murder rate in New York City. Chicago has 75,000 gang members, more than six times its number of police officers. This adopted home of Barack Obama may have suffered from his politics, as he even opposed making it a crime in Illinois for convicts on probation or on bail to have contact with a street gang. Criminals, apparently, have little to fear from law enforcement or innocent victims. 3-18-09
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Rights 'Left Behind' By Public Schools
There are about 2,500 public schools in New Jersey, and 517 of them – more than 20% – must offer and pay for private tutoring for many of their students. This is the result of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The far-reaching effects of this legislation, considered the most significant of the Bush Administration, are still growing. 3-07-09
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Right to Work Wins a Campaign Finance Case
“Teen screen” is a public school program that subjects teenagers to psychological evaluation, labeling, stigmatizing and ultimately mind-altering medications. Teen screen is marketed as a “voluntary mental health check-up,” ostensibly to identify teenagers at risk for suicide in order to channel them into profitable and potentially harmful medication. It is a marketing dream-come-true for the drug industry anxious to increase sales. Although supposedly voluntary, and despite assurances that parental rights would be respected, the psychological evaluation is given to nearly every student without meaningful notice and consent. 2-15-09
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Right to Work Wins a Campaign Finance Case
The National Right to Work, the leading group that opposes forced unionization, took on the teachers’ unions in Utah and won a remarkable victory in court. 2-05-09
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Save Those Emails!
According to the United States Automated Records Management System, it saved emails at the White House from 1994 to 2002. Perhaps due to the burgeoning use of email, or a desire for privacy, in 2003 the Bush Administration stopped saving the tens of thousands of emails that were sent and received by White House staff. Much of that email is probably spam or personal in nature, some may even be privileged communications between spouses. All of it became burdensome to manage, sort through and retrieve for the countless requests for information made on the government. 1-24-09
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Victory for Homeschooling
In October, a Pennsylvania appellate court rejected any “rule that requires children to attend public schools when parents who share legal custody cannot agree on home schooling versus public schooling.” The Court became the first to establish that homeschooling is equivalent to other modes of education, although it allowed the ultimate decision about the education of the children of divorce to continue to be made by family court. 1-11-09
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Feminism vs. Women
Oppressive. Authoritarian. Patronizing. Choosing "intimidation and groupthink" over reason and education. Pursuing their own political agenda at the expense of women." These descriptions now apply more accurately to American feminists than to any vestigial "patriarchy," argues Ohio University student and author Ashley Herzog.
6-8-09
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Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and their Assault on America
In her latest bestselling book, Ann Coulter exposes the "victim" ploy that has "the most aggressive people…always wailing about their victimhood." 6-3-09
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A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Bernard Goldberg, 28-year veteran of CBS News and author of Bias, writes that 2008 was "the year the mainstream media finally jumped the shark." What most observers-even 62% of Democrats and independents-couldn't fail to notice, Goldberg has now chronicled: the media's strong bias toward Barack Obama and belief that electing their favorite was nothing less than a "righteous crusade."
4-19-09
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Taken into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family
“Each divorce is the death of a small civilization,” wrote novelist Pat Conroy. “No-fault” divorce, which 50 states adopted between 1969 and 1985, means that one spouse, without the other’s consent, can destroy the “small civilization” the two have built together. In two-thirds of divorces, it is the wife who does so; and she can do it with the near certainty that she, not her husband, will win custody of their children.
3-22-09
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Great Quotations that Shaped the Western World >
"To destroy the Western tradition of independent thought, it is not necessary to burn the books," said Robert Hutchins. "All we have to do is leave them unread for a couple of generations." In Great Quotations that Shaped the Western World, Carl Middleton provides a useful guide to the Western tradition and a gateway to its great books and thoughts. 2-23-09
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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage
In this book, New York Sun editor Nicholas Wapshott has achieved a dual biography of these two great leaders, as well as an interesting portrayal of their behind-the-scenes relationship as close allies and like minds. 2-08-09
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Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care
With humor and common sense, Kathleen Parker tours one front in the gender wars after another, showing how each one affects our sons and daughters. The question of women in combat, the "goddess" movement, and such feminist rituals as the Vagina Monologues all come under Parker's fire, but she most strongly attacks the marginalization of fatherhood. 1-18-09
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Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It
Europe: land of leisure, land of the good life, of sipping wine at sidewalk cafés and enjoying the security and equality that social democratic systems create; unlike in America, where a nation of workaholics slaves away to pay for its own health care. Meanwhile the gap between the American rich and poor widens, driving all but the super-rich to futility and despair. Right? 1-04-09
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