When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the key element of the response to the pandemic in America was to essentially take away the Bill of Rights, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling it a “coup d’etat against democracy by the military-medical-industrial complex.” At that time, the government began censoring speech for the first time in American…

Any American with a high school diploma should recognize the names and deeds of our country’s most renowned Founders, patriots like Washington, Jefferson, and Abigail and John Adams. Some former students may recollect less familiar figures from that era who appear in most history texts, like Nathan Hale, Lafayette, Molly Pitcher, and John Paul Jones….

The federal government has taken a step toward providing better protection for renters. President Joe Biden has released a document called a Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights. The white paper is merely a proposal that presents some principles, guidelines, and goals that laws in the future might contain to protect renters. In its…

Commentary September 17th is the day that we reserve for honoring our Constitution. The day was codified in 1917 when many people rightly feared that the country was losing its appreciation for its merits. Did you celebrate the day last Saturday? I’m afraid that many people did not. This is surely not something that is…

Commentary Many of us have favorite stories we can recite by heart. They may be bedtime stories we heard as children—stories we repeat to the young people in our lives. We may know the stories of our families—where we came from and how we arrived where we are now. Some of these stories are fairy…

News Analysis House Democrats introduced a symbolic “transgender bill of rights” last month that has been erroneously hailed as a package of major civil rights reforms. Shortly after five House Democrats held a press conference to introduce House Resolution 1209 on June 28, a windfall of national media and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer…

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has unveiled a Bill of Rights that he claims would overrule decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights, such as the recent interim measure which blocked the deportation of several illegal immigrants to Rwanda. Raab, who is also the deputy prime minister, says the Bill of Rights—which would supplant…

Commentary One of the main arguments for the enactment of a national Bill of Rights in Australia is that they are effective mechanisms to protect fundamental human rights. For example, Craig Kelly, who lost his parliamentary seat in the last federal election, believes that a national Bill of Rights would “protect the rights of all…

Commentary Attorney General Merrick Garland has now repeatedly and clearly demonstrated his intention to tow the party line, as it drifts inexorably from Constitutional principles and the Bill of Rights—in lieu of serving as an independent and objective enforcer of federal law. He first exposed his partisan contempt for objective facts in a speech given…

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–The Florida Department of Education (DOE) in an emergency meeting on Friday unanimously passed two orders to prop up the state’s recently enacted Bill of Parental Rights. The first order provides a mechanism to transfer a child to a private school or another school district under a scholarship when a student is subjected…