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Freedom of Conscience for Pro-Life Taxpayers
Now that Barack Obama has decided to push for a hyper-partisan healthcare bill, the issue of taxpayer-funded abortions is front-and-center. The current proposals would lead to this taxpayer mandate, and could even drive conscientiously objecting doctors out of medicine. Continue reading
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Sotomayor and the Sordid Business of Race
Technicalities aside, the plain fact remains that President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, approved outright racial discrimination carried out by a petty local politician who didn’t want to upset a “politically important racial constituency” led by a man forced to resign for making ethnic slurs in the course of advocating discriminatory hiring practices, and convicted for perjury and stealing funeral money from the elderly. Continue reading
How to Handle Sotomayor
Republicans have been given fair warning. Should GOP senators treat Sonia Sotomayor as contemptuously as Democrats treated Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, they should expect Hispanic hostility for a generation. Continue reading
Justice is not a popularity contest, Judge Sotomayor
Is a U.S. Supreme Court judgeship big enough to suit Sonia Sotomayor? Or will she settle for nothing less than a seat on the Supreme Court of World Opinion? Continue reading
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The Seinfeld Hearings
Supreme Court confirmation hearings do not have to be about either results or nothing. They could be about clauses, not cases. Instead of asking nominees how they would decide particular cases, ask them to explain what they think the various clauses of the Constitution mean Continue reading
Ricci and the Skills Gap
The main function of the race industry today is to repackage problems of black underachievement as instances of white racis Continue reading
