Defense Spending Bill Gets It Right on Nuclear and Missile Defense
Last week, Congress passed the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), sending it to the president’s desk. This bill advances many commendable nuclear weapon and missile defense policies. The bill affirms Congress’s commitment to ensuring strong, extended measures of deterrence, and it addresses Russian arms control violations—including their potential violations of the New […]
Defense Spending Bill Gets It Right on Nuclear and Missile Defense
Last week, Congress passed the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), sending it to the president’s desk. This bill advances many commendable nuclear weapon and missile defense policies. The bill affirms Congress’s commitment to ensuring strong, extended measures of deterrence, and it addresses Russian arms control violations—including their potential violations of the New […]
Little Sisters of the Poor Are Returning to Court
The Little Sisters of the Poor is returning to court to defend itself against lawsuits from two states that seek to remove the order of nuns’ religious exemption from the Health and Human Services rule. “Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro and California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra have now filed lawsuits trying to take away the […]
U.S. threatens to sue Harvard over admissions policies
By Scott Malone and Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has threatened to sue Harvard University to force it to turn over documents as it investigates whether the Ivy League school’s admission policies violate civil rights laws by discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The Justice Department cited a 2015 lawsuit that charges Harvard’s […]
If The Cops Can Track You, You Should Be Able To Track Them. Here’s How.
The limitless possibilities of new technology are allowing people to fight back against police abuse like never before. Not only can people record occurrences of police brutality, but there are also dozens of apps that are designed to help you stay a few steps ahead of “the man”. Out of the many helpful apps that […]
Democrats in Meltdown Mode as Obamacare Individual Mandate Moves Toward Extinction
Democrats, of course, oppose the tax cuts moving through Congress. They believe government knows how to spend your money better than you do. But what has really got their goat is eliminating the Obamacare tax—known as the individual mandate—that Americans have to pay to the IRS for simply choosing not to buy health insurance. This […]
After Agent’s Death, Trump Declares US ‘Must Build the Wall!’
President Donald Trump is renewing his demand that Congress fund a wall on the southern border after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed from injuries inccurred while working over the weekend in southwest Texas, while his partner was injured. “Border Patrol officer killed at southern border, another badly hurt,” the president said in a […]
A Surprising Legacy From My Father, Antonin Scalia
The speaker at my high school graduation was my father, Justice Antonin Scalia. Although he delivered a fine speech, he did not deliver the line I remember most vividly from that day—I did. It was my responsibility to introduce him with a brief speech of my own. I told the assembled throng about my father’s […]
Here’s Why We Should Still Celebrate the Pilgrims at Thanksgiving
For most American families, Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones, eat delicious food, and perhaps watch some football. But not everyone is pleased with the celebration of this holiday, and some have taken to maligning its “originators,” the Pilgrims. An editorial in Al Jazeera labeled Thanksgiving a “thoroughly nauseating affair,” one that […]
Redrawing Districts Is the Job of Elected Leaders, Not Judges
There aren’t many issues the Supreme Court has managed to sidestep, but political gerrymandering is one of them. Until now. The court recently heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin case that involves how voting-district lines are drawn—an issue Justice Felix Frankfurter called a “political thicket” that the courts should avoid. We should […]
As GOP Looks to Eliminate State Tax Deduction, New Jersey Democrat Wavers on Millionaires Tax
New Jersey is potentially holding off hiking its income tax due to the possibility of the state and local tax deduction being eliminated in the GOP tax plan, according to the president of the New Jersey Senate. “I’m actually very concerned for the people of this state if this Trump tax happens, and I think […]
