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The lefty legal freakout over the Supreme Court’s Carson v. Maykin ruling continues. This time it’s Noah Feldman. The Supreme Court Has Just Eroded First Amendment Law – In an important church-and-state decision, the justices have effectively ended the centuries-old constitutional ban on direct state aid to the teaching of religion, Noah Feldman/Bloomberg. In an extremely important…

A brief breakdown of a Quinnipiac poll response.  Nearly 6 in 10 Americans, 59 percent, think that rising prices in the United States is a crisis and 38 percent think it’s a problem but not a crisis. That is an increase in the percentage of Americans who say it is a crisis from a Quinnipiac…

“Forget it, Jake, it’s D.C.-town.” Muriel E. Bowser (D), the pragmatic politician who has led the District for eight years, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, according to projections from the Associated Press, beating out two left-leaning members of the council on her path to becoming just the second three-term mayor in D.C.’s history. D.C.…

It’s a victory in Maine with bigger implications for dismantling the educational hierarchy driving wokeness. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that a Maine tuition assistance program violated the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause for excluding religious schools from eligibility. The program provides tuition assistance for students without a local public school to attend private…

Gender pronouns, in. The Navy is training its members to create a “safe space” by using proper gender pronouns in a new instructional video modeled after a children’s show. “Hi! My name is Jony, and I use he/him pronouns,” Naval Undersea Warfare Center engineer Jony Rozon, who sports a rainbow-colored t-shirt, states in the video’s opening.…

The ‘Wise Latina’ is not happy with the Supreme Court’s religious freedom decision. “This Court continues to dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that the Framers fought to build,” Sotomayor wrote, dissenting from the 6-3 decision that broke along ideological lines. “In just a few years, the Court has upended constitutional doctrine,”…

We spend a lot of time talking about the Buffalo massacre. And we should. But we don’t talk about the Waukesha massacre and we really need to. Thousands of spectators turned out for a bit of holiday normalcy Sunday afternoon, the kind we so desperately need right now. It was the Waukesha Christmas Parade, a cherished…