Robert Knight

While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration’s order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona is attacking a proposal to restore employers’ freedom of conscience. (more)

Which part of the U.S. Constitution guarantees women the right to have other people pay for their birth control pills and abortifacients? Which part says that the federal government has the power to force religious employers to violate their beliefs or face fines? (more)

Always imaginative, the ACLU’s elves are finding new ways to step on Christmas, which they seem to regard as about as important in America as, oh, churches. (more)

In its long history of empowering nuisances that shatter civility, the ACLU has chalked up another victory. (more)

Remember those lists of school problems that contrasted the problems that faced schools in the 1950s with the problems that face schools today? In the ’50s, gum chewing, running in the hall and tardiness were right up there. Today, it’s drugs, sex, unwanted pregnancies, STDs, gang fights, assaults on teachers, bullying and all-around violence. Plus, some high school students can’t read at a sixth grade level, or go to the movies without texting -- even during car chases. Example: “This R a gud flik. U shud B here!” (more)

Thanks to the ACLU of Pennsylvania, motorists in that state will be free to swear at and give the finger to police officers and other motorists, thus lowering public decency another notch. Meanwhile, the officers themselves will be forced to undergo “training” on the “right” to flip people off. (more)

It’s Christmastime, so the ACLU is doing what it does best -- hounding public officials to turn observance of this Christian (and federal) holiday into a winter solstice thingy -- or else. (more)

Under constituents’ heat to deal with corruption exemplified by the multiple-count indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Illinois legislators on Oct. 15 approved placing a recall of governors law on the November 2 ballot. (more)

As we watch in disbelief, the United States Senate is about to take the Fifth on a Supreme Court nominee who has no business being near a courtroom except as a defendant. (more)