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  • Constitutional Law Professor: Americans Must STOP “Worshiping” the Constitution

    By Selwyn Duke Years ago, comedian/commentator Bill Maher complained that too many Americans think the Ten Amendments are the Ten Commandments. (In reality, people such as Maher think the Ten Commandments are the Ten Amendments.) Yet now this sentiment is coming from someone who, one might hope, should know better: A constitutional law professor who…

  • Is the Constitution Now an “Inconvenient Document”?

    By Selwyn Duke “My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri in March, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” This comment virally raised eyebrows, and for good reason: The Constitution’s whole purpose when crafted was, and still is, to hamstring…

  • Hillary Clinton Unchained: Gun Ban “Worth Looking at”

    By Selwyn Duke Would Hillary Clinton ban guns in the United States? She apparently supported the idea last Friday, but then supposedly dismissed it three days later. It’s the difference between an on- and off-Teleprompter candidate. During an October 16 town hall meeting at Keene State College, a questioner asked Clinton if we could follow…

  • Christians Need Not Apply

    By Selwyn Duke “Haters of humanity” was the charge leveled against Christians in early first-millennium Rome. Thus impugned because they didn’t want to participate in the empire’s pagan festivals, they suffered a plight common to those swimming against their civilization’s tide: persecution. Of course, even in a nation that appreciates freedom of speech and religion,…

  • Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Jailed: Christians Need Not Apply

    By Selwyn Duke “To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.” So said the father of our nation and first American president, George Washington, in the 18th century. Now, in the 21st century, the “distinguished character of a Christian” is increasingly considered a…

  • Clerk Defies Unconstitutional Court: Won’t Issue “Marriage” Licenses to Homosexuals

    By Selwyn Duke Few people take moral stands today that could land them in prison, but Kim Davis (shown) is an exception. The Rowan, Kentucky, county clerk has made national news by refusing to issue marriage licenses to anyone — homosexual or straight — since the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional June Obergefell faux-marriage ruling. And now…

  • Grassroots Nullification: Ky. Clerk Says “No” to Homosexual “Marriage” Licenses

    By Selwyn Duke The media don't have much to say about “sanctuary cities,” which defy constitutional federal immigration law. But when the matter is a moral-sanctuary locality or bureaucracy that defies the unconstitutional Obergefell faux-marriage ruling, it’s a different story. And such is the story in Morehead, Kentucky, where a county clerk has responded to…

  • The Sexual-heresy Agenda: The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance That Isn’t

    By Selwyn Duke So-called “LGBT” activists are citing a certain political battle in Houston as being “the next stage of the struggle for full LGBT equality.” But what they advocate truly is a case of some citizens being more equal than others.   At issue is the euphemistically named “Houston Equal Rights Ordinance” (HERO), which expands the number of…

  • Pound Sand, Your Honor! More Americans Want States to Ignore Federal Courts

    By Selwyn Duke While dissenting from the recent Supreme Court decision rubber-stamping same-sex “marriage,” Justice Antonin Scalia warned his colleagues that with “each decision … unabashedly based not on law” the Court moves “one step closer to being reminded of [its] impotence.” And a new poll shows that another such step has in fact been…

  • States’ Reaction to Same-sex “Marriage” Ruling: A Little Talk, Even Less Action

    By Selwyn Duke “To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.” So wrote Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the…