That’s uanimous, folks: The Supreme Court has rejected the Obama administration’s argument that it can dictate who churches hire as ministers or clergy in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Obama administration unsuccessfully argued that the government can dictate who churches hire, as long as it also subjects secular [...]
In 2010 the voters of Oklahoma were presented with a proposed amendment to their state constitution that would ban all state courts from using international or cultural laws to arrive at rulings in cases before them. A US District court has now ruled that this amendment violated the US Constitution’s 1st Amendment protections: An amendment [...]
It’s tragic that a 15-year-old Texas boy was killed this week, dying by police gunfire. According to the story, Jamie Gonzalez, a student at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, TX, brought a pellet gun to school, one that closely resembles an actual firearm. He was supposedly brandishing that gun which is what got the cops [...]
It was just after the 2005 Supreme Court Decision was announced that I first wrote about the hideously wrong ruling in Kelo v. New London. (Yes, that’s a Wikipedia article. It’s just for general info, not a legal analysis.) I have written about it since, of course, and you can see what I’ve said, specifically, [...]
OK, this is just as politically stupid as it gets: Yesterday a South Carolina law firm representing 87th House District candidate Jo-Ann Chase demanded that I “cease and desist any and all publication regarding [their] client” or they would “immediately commence legal action” against me. Well, here at BVBL we don’t take kindly to ridiculous [...]
No event could possibly highlight better the sheer disgust that’s plagued me over any attempt to rationally discuss anything with the Left these days than the shootings last week in Tucson, AZ. No sooner than I had decided to relaunch my blogging efforts did a true tragedy occur. A literally insane man (if the evidence [...]
You literally can’t make this stuff up: It was to be the perfect end to a perfect day. Hillary and Jason Martin had just gotten married. They arrived at Bakersfield’s swank Padre Hotel — the bride in her wedding dress, the groom in Marine Corps dress blues. … The two were old enough to marry. [...]
Over the last week you may have heard references to some techie topic that used the term “Firesheep” and wondered briefly what that was. You might also have heard that it deals with hacking, a security loophole in WiFi, or any number of other things. I’ve been looking at this for a few days and [...]
After all of the ginned-up outrage President Obama, his fellow Democrats, and their media allies have sprayed all over the place over their completely unsupported accusations of foreign money and activities assisting efforts against them, you’d have to be forgiven for assuming they’re against such foreign intrusion into our electoral process. Apparently not, as this [...]
Just wanted to raise a couple of items of note this morning. First, I’m attending a wedding later today so blogging will be light. Hopefully I can comment tomorrow on a couple of other items, namely: A Wisconsin judge has ruled that WI’s ban on concealed carry is unconstitutional. Interesting. I’m looking for the ruling [...]
