In a consequential and encouraging decision, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that The Satanic Temple cannot sue the State of Idaho over its abortion law, no matter how much the Satanists dislike it. The group has tried repeatedly to argue the case, saying the abortion is part of its religious practice … Read more
The second Trump Administration must soon decide how to deal with the controversy over “birthright citizenship.” Indeed, determining citizenship is an essential role of any nation. The United States’s pronounced slumber on the issue is speeding toward an uncertain end. The Nature of Birthright Citizenship The Supreme Court’s decision to limit its ruling in the … Read more
Unable to score a victory in their three-year war to overtake Ukraine, the Russians are getting desperate. The latest move is to “recruit” volunteers who end up being unwilling suicide bombers. Using this scheme, a single unidentified (and expendable) courier plants a weapon deep in enemy territory. The new wrinkle is that these missions are … Read more
“It is dangerous to be right when everyone else wants so badly to be wrong.” The phrase certainly applies to anyone who expresses traditional sexual values in an American university. A case in point is Dr. Mark Regnerus, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2012, Dr. Regnerus published the … Read more
“Putin is waging a war buttressed by an invisible army of the coerced and forgotten.” That quotation comes from an analyst working for The Atlantic Council, a think tank oriented toward closer relationships between nations on both sides of the Atlantic. He discussed Russia’s recruiting troops from Third-World countries to fight in its war against … Read more
The news media treated Trump v. Casa (2025) as an immigration case. Even though such concerns underlaid this important Supreme Court ruling, it would be a mistake to characterize the case in that way. The central issue in Trump v. Casa was of another nature. The Supreme Court did not convene to decide what the … Read more
During Vladimir Putin’s time at the Kremlin, over 100 statues of Stalin were erected throughout the Russian Federation. At the same time, BBC reports, many of the over 700 plaques commemorating Stalin’s victims have been removed. A sculpture commemorating Stalin was installed last May in the Taganskaya subway station in Moscow. It duplicates one installed … Read more
Chris and Andy Henry own a twenty-one-acre farm in Cranberry Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Their great-grandfather purchased it in 1850. The parcel is hardly the bucolic site that the word farm implies. According to an article in NJ.com, it is surrounded by warehouses. Warehouse developers have been making offers to the Henrys for years, … Read more
Back in the days when schools taught something more than self-pity, indignation and jumping to conclusions, many teachers required that students read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1863 poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” For generations of Americans, its opening line, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,” was, perhaps, the single … Read more
Scientists have found a flaw in the computer processes collectively known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Remarkably, a giant in the industry, Apple, has published their work. To say the least, it calls into question the machine-dominated future that many so-called experts see coming. Knowledge and Intelligence In many minds, knowledge and intelligence are synonyms. In … Read more
