August 11, 2026

Book Review: The Right to Be Wrong by Kevin Seamus Hasson [Contributor]

America is exceptional. It’s exceptional because of our love for and commitment to individual freedom. And the first individual freedom delineated in the Bill of Rights is the freedom of religion. This first freedom is the subject of Kevin Hasson’s wonderful little read: The Right to Be Wrong. (Hasson is the founder of the Becket […]

Jeffs appeals. In his own handwriting.

Had enough of Warren Jeffs, yet? If you answered ‘no,’ you’re in luck. He’s doing his darnedest to stay in court, filing a pro se motion for a new trial in Texas. Written in his own hand.

Justice Alito versus…the Supreme Court?

Justice Alito wears his heart on his sleeve. And he’s not afraid to take on the whole court to do it. Yesterday, Justice Alito was the lone dissenting voice in the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Westboro Baptists to protest at military funerals. As Josh Blackman points out, though, it’s not his first time. Last […]

State Falling Apart? Repeal the First Amendment!

State Falling Apart? Repeal the First Amendment! Senate Joint Memorial 8007 [in the Washington state legislature] requests Congress to pass an amendment declaring that corporations are not persons so that their speech can be restricted.The reason, according to the Memorialists, is that corporations cannot vote and therefore should not be protected by the First Amendment. But […]

SCOTUS upholds strip club “pole tax”

Selling stuff at strip clubs costs 10% more In 2004, the Utah legislature, being what it is (and what it is, is controlled largely by conservatives, both fiscal and social), passed a 10% tax on everything sold by strip clubs. Burgers, t-shirts, drinks, key chains, bobble heads, etc.  Everything. If you’re a strip club and […]