Last month, I submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of twin 9-year-olds who had been separated from their dad, Frank. Frank is gay. He lived in New York with his partner, Joseph, for four years. During that time, Frank had twin children conceived through in vitro fertilization, and Joseph’s sister carried […]
Texas billionaire and two-time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot died Tuesday at 89 after a five-month battle with leukemia. Perot is probably best known for his presidential runs in 1992 and 1996, reported the The Dallas Morning News. Perot garnered 19% of the popular vote but no Electoral College votes in 1992 and was viewed […]
Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” Proponents of the law say it’s necessary to avoid confusing consumers. That…doesn’t sound right. By Kelsey Piper Jul 3, 2019, 4:00pm EDT It’s been a good few months for the plant-based meat movement — so good that opponents of the fledgling industry are starting to mobilize. […]
Vincent Smith wasn’t in the office when a fellow Virginia Beach city employee opened fire there, ultimately killing 12 and wounding five in the carnage five weeks ago. After getting notice of the shooting that afternoon in Building 2 of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, Smith, 49, raced to the nearby emergency operations center, where […]
With the upcoming White House-sponsored ceremony honoring the U.S. military on the National Mall, this Independence Day will look a little different in Washington, D.C. A quick scan of headlines, opinion columns, and social media shows this is apparently quite upsetting to many in the political class. But to borrow the oft-used social media exclamation, […]
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the first published post of The Conservative Papers appearing on the web. Ten years ago on the seventh day of the seventh month of 2009 (July 7th), The Conservative Papers came to fruition. With over 16,000 posts along with a growing library of content, we are increasingly expanding our […]
This week, as Americans commemorate Independence Day and the creation of the most free, most prosperous nation on earth, we will inevitably hear from those who say there’s no reason to celebrate a country where not everyone gained their freedom or their equality in 1776. They will say that a nation stained with the evil of slavery, […]
As acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli becomes a key player in the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration laws. On Tuesday, Cuccinelli attended a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York as 52 persons from 28 countries became U.S. citizens. “This is a […]
The world held its breath in anticipation as President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 28 on the sidelines of the Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Osaka, Japan. The outcome of their meeting was mostly unsurprising, despite conferring for almost an hour. By the end, the two agreed to resume […]
My wife Anne and I celebrated the Fourth of July early this year when we buried her brother, Jimmy, with full military honors in a tiny cemetery outside Scranton, Pennsylvania. It didn’t matter that Jimmy was “only” a draftee and served in Alaska, where he manned a radar station, rather than Vietnam. What was […]
