I am certainly against the “marriage” amendment to the Constitution, and I have some serious qualms with the anti-abortion amendments that get proposed. But the constitution does need to be amended. I believe that the second amendment ought to be rescinded, and that the gray area between presidential and congressional war powers ought [...]

Michigan’s primary is today, as you may have heard. As you may have also heard, neither Barack Obama nor John Edwards appear on the Michigan ballot, and no Democrat has campaigned at all there. Neither has any Democrat campaigned in Florida, which holds their primaries in a couple weeks. The Democratic Party, [...]

One of the great ironies of the Scooter Libby trial was that the same conservatives who have for years fought for high mandatory minimum sentences–and against allowing judicial discretion to reduce those sentences–ended up complaining that the sentence given to Mr. Libby based on those sentencing guidelines was too harsh.  Now we have the second [...]

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed us last Friday.  The court ruled that citizens of the United States do not have standing to sue the government if they cannot demonstrate direct harm to particular individuals,  even if the government acknowledges violating some people’s civil rights.  The issue in question was whether the warrantless wiretapping [...]

This story is about a week old now, but I just had it come to my attention yesterday, and I was curious if any of my readers here had an opinion about it. The case revolves around an alleged rape that happened between a girl and her boyfriend’s brother. According to the girl [...]

Periodically, I check on a variety of conservative Christian websites, mostly because I always find it fascinating which issues they focus on. Anyway, two things jumped out at me at the Family Research Council, both dealing with political correctness and homosexuality, so I thought I would address them together.

This is the kind of witness that a church ought to be to the world.
Currently, America seems to have two primary phobias: Arab terrorists, and sex offenders.  Our fear of these two things have driven us, as a country, to redefine how we treat criminals and suspects.  And when it comes to these two villains, [...]

There are roughly 2000 working hours in a year (8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year), at least for most white-collar employees. There are roughly 215 immigration judges employed by the Justice Department to handle asylum cases. Those judges are asked to handle roughly 350,000 asylum seekers each [...]

I’ve read two stories today on teenagers who made life-altering, stupid decisions. But both cases are also about the arbitrariness of our laws.

Legally, there is only one way to know that someone is a criminal: you put them on trial, display your evidence, and convince a jury of the defendant’s peers that he is a criminal. Short of that, you don’t know anything; you can only suspect. If the government doesn’t put a suspect on [...]