Plead the First

I’m a little late on this, but wanted to mention it anyway. We’ve had conversations about the establishment clause before. When someone argues in favor of government officials offering sectarian prayers, or allowing religious displays of one faith to the exclusion of others, I often ask a question like “Would you feel the same if […]

What’s the deal lately with college students disrupting invited speakers at their colleges? First we had the Gilchrist incident at Columbia, and now this: Protesters said they came to show their opposition to controversial Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, who spoke at the event. Before Tancredo arrived and while the event was being set […]

This past week the High Point City Council got a bit of a reprimand due to the content of their pre-session invocations: High Point City Attorney Fred Baggett has issued a stern warning to the High Point Council about the content of their invocations. Baggett said he received a phone call from the ACLU in […]

Addressing a recent action alert by the Thomas More Law Center, Ed Brayton at Dispatches From the Culture Wars had this to say: Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance? A man named Francis Bellamy. Who was Bellamy? Well, he was a Baptist minister. And a socialist. And his original pledge, the one used in schools […]

Marcus Kindley, Chairman of the Guilford County GOP, has his sights set on a statewide position. Unfortunately, his blog – The Chairman’s Corner – has gone AWOL. Fortunately (for someone – not necessarily Marcus) The Chairman’s Corner lives on in Google Cache. By phrasing your search just right, and by clicking on the “cached” link […]