Mr. Obama Would Do Well to Learn from FDR About Unconstitutional Power Grabs

By: kipling (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:01 AM  | 

In 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in a landslide against Alfred Landon of Kansas.  The landslide carried over to Congress where Democrats gained a supermajority that dominated the House of Representatives (328 to 107) and the Senate (77 to 19).  The President and the Democratic Party seemed unstoppable.  And then, FDR made a strategic error that brought it all crashing down. In his desire | Read More »

CLS v. Martinez and the Assualt on Christianity

By: kipling (Diary)  |  June 29th at 01:21 AM  | 

I just scanned through the majority opinion of Christian Legal Society V. Martinez, 08-1371 and found some very disturbing items.  First, some background.  In September of 2004, the Christian Legal Society applied to Hastings College of Law (part of the University of California system) to become a Registered Student Organization (RSO).  Hastings denied the application because the CLS required its members and officers to sign | Read More »