American Constitution

The transgender movement received an unexpected setback from two very different authorities on Monday. Pope Francis, who has been applauded by liberals in many other contexts, declared that efforts to change a person’s biological sex are unacceptable as an affront to human dignity, while the leading association governing sports at 250 small colleges rejected allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports....

“We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, reacted to Donald Trump revealing his post-Dobbs, 2024 position on abortion. Trump, rather than pro-life activists, gets it right here. After foolishly floating a national ban on abortions that take place after the 15th week of pregnancy, Trump embraced the logic of the Dobbs decision:...

AP Images Elon Musk Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to block specific accounts in Brazil. X CEO Elon Musk is also being investigated for disseminating fake news in Brazil and is accused of obstructing Brazilian justice by de Morales, who stated, “The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat...

John Whitehead The government wants to play god.It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy,...

Khaosai Wongnatthakan/iStock/Getty Images Plus As the calendar flipped to April this week, consumers in Canada were hit with a steep 23-percent increase in the nation’s carbon tax. The tax, originally instituted in 2018, is aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, which climate zealots argue are leading to global warming, which creates out-of-control climate change. The federal carbon tax went...

AP Images Sonia Sotomayor Leftists are so frightened that Donald Trump will win the 2024 election that they’ve called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before disaster strikes.The reason: They remember what happened when the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire before Trump was elected in 2016. She died on September 18, 2020, and the seat went...

Dressed in green military fatigues and a blue garrison cap, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to local television last month to criticize the United States and sever the long-standing military partnership between the two countries.  “The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations and interests of its people, revokes, with immediate effect, the...

Twitter/X Two referendum questions proposing changes to the Wisconsin constitution passed yesterday in the state’s spring election. In an announcement released by the Wisconsin GOP earlier today, Chairman Brian Schimming stated: Victory! Wisconsin has spoken and the message is clear: elections belong to voters, not out-of-state billionaires. Thanks to the efforts by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and grassroots organizing,...

Cultures as different as Italy and South Korea are facing the same crisis: declining birth rates that have fallen far below what is needed to sustain a population and an economy. Italy just reported another drop in its birth rate to its record low, decreasing by a startling 34.2% since 2008. There were nearly twice as many deaths as births...

12963734/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Clinton-appointed judge granted last Friday the demand by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that the ATF be prohibited from enforcing its “pistol brace” rule until all pending litigation has been resolved. Wrote U.S. District Court Judge Sam Lindsay: “The court determines that the NRA’s motion should be granted maintain the status quo pending the resolution of...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Liberalism, it is claimed, is associated with tolerance. But you wouldn’t know it from a new study finding that of the 10 states with the most religious-discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eight gave their electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.Not surprisingly, there’s a secularism connection, too: Of the 15 states with...

AP Images Glenn Youngkin Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 gun-control bills on Tuesday, signed into law two gun-control bills that have little consequence, and sent back six others with amendments for the state’s Legislature to consider.Behind the flurry of bills the Democrats dumped on his desk is the real story: the hyper-partisanship that divides the two parties on...

Bill Oxford/iStock/Getty Images Plus The youth ministry 71Five Ministries filed suit in federal court earlier this month complaining that the state’s new “anti-discrimination” rule is unconstitutional and violates the group’s First Amendment rights. The ministry’s name comes from Psalm 71:5: “Lord God, You are my hope. I have trusted You since I was young.”Since 1964 the ministry has been serving...

The stunning landslide by underdog U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in the Ohio GOP primary shows the way for Republican victory throughout the all-important Rust Belt this fall. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and nearby Wisconsin can all be won with Moreno’s campaign theme: creating jobs for Americans. Polling showed a too-close-to-call race between Moreno and the establishment-favored candidate, state senator Matt Dolan. Ohio Gov....

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu A Hawaii Senate committee controlled by Democratic Party legislators has passed two resolutions applying for an Article V constitutional convention.On Wednesday last week, the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs voted in favor of Senate Resolution No. 168 (S.R. 168) and Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 196 (S.C.R. 196).These...

marcusamelia/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution against efforts to radically change it, New York has rescinded all its applications for an Article V constitutional convention, or Con-Con.On March 20, the State Assembly passed Senate Resolution No. 1460 (B1460) by a 102-46 vote. Most Democrats voted for the resolution, and most Republicans against, though both parties had two...

The Supreme Court went 0-for-4 on Monday, which in spring training for baseball would justify sending the batter to the minor rather than the big leagues. In four cases the Court should have stood strongly against wrongdoing by Biden, the Department of Justice, and the State of New York, but instead acted to appease those liberal regimes. First up was the case...

Jewish enclave, home of a deported nation, a present for the Ukrainians: The long journey of the Crimean peninsula. Exactly 10 years ago, the Crimean Peninsula was reunified with Russia. On March 18, 2014, President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement with the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on their entry into the Russian Federation. After more than...

hayesphotography/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) joined with many of its closest ideological friends in sending a letter to state legislators last week. The letter said, “We are deeply opposed to any bill that would install chaplains in our public schools.”Of course they are. The ACLU and its friends (including Americans United for Separation of Church and State,...

James Madison James Madison was born at midnight between March 16 and 17, 1751. James’ mother was away from her own home, paying a visit to her mother’s house, when the anxiously awaited hour of her son’s delivery arrived. James’ grandmother’s house in Port Conway was some 55 miles from his mother and father’s own house in Orange County, Virginia.Nelly...