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“Moderate” Democrats Think Your Tax Dollars Should Fund Their Campaigns

Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) are viewed as two of the most moderate candidates in the Democratic 2020 presidential field. After the most recent Democratic…

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House Democrats Vote Unanimously to Silence Conservatives

Last week, Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats rammed through H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” in a party-line vote. While Democrats and their media allies claim the House…

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Battle over Pronouns Presents Growing Threat to First Amendment

Earlier this month, a Virginia high school teacher was fired over his declining to use a transgender student’s preferred gender pronouns. Peter Vlaming had been a French teacher at West…

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Politics

Hawaii Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Secure Important Court Victory

The pro-life movement had a major victory last week in an unexpected state: Hawaii. A federal judge struck down a recently passed Hawaii law that required pregnancy centers to notify…

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Politics

The Supreme Court Slaps Down Coerced Speech

The Supreme Court released two 5-to-4 decisions this week that have serious First Amendment implications. In both decisions, the Court ruled against government coercing speech. In NIFLA v. Becerra, the…

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Culture

WATCH: Pro-Abortion Students Destroy Pro-Life Messages on Wash. Campus

Abortion advocates at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., took it upon themselves to protect the campus from sidewalk chalkings made by a pro-life student group, alleging the chalked messages to…

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Politics

WATCH: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Grilled over Censorship of Conservative Content

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in the hot seat in Congress this week, facing an hours-long interrogation by two Senate committees on Tuesday and another by a House committee on Wednesday. Zuckerberg was…

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Why the First Amendment Is at Much Greater Risk Than the Second

This article was originally posted at Townhall. Our nation’s elites are waging war on the American people, wielding the institutions they’ve spent several decades capturing to punish those who disagree with their preferred…

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Politics

Abortionist Compares Pro-Lifers to Taliban in Federal Court Hearing

Merle Hoffman, a prominent New York abortionist, compared pro-life sidewalk counselors to the Taliban while testifying in court earlier this month, referring to their beliefs as comparable to the terror…

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University of Iowa Becomes Latest School to Attack First Amendment

This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. It seems almost every day we hear of incidences of…

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Will SCOTUS Heed a 182-Year-Old Warning in Wedding Cake Case?

This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In her Liberty Minute titled “Flocks of Sheep,” Helen Krieble…

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Truth Is the Greatest Weapon Pro-Lifers Have Against Abortion

Alliance Defending Freedom recently announced it is suing Miami University of Ohio on behalf of the campus’ Students for Life chapter. Why? Because an administrative official required them to post…

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Politics

Supreme Court to Decide If California Pro-Life Centers Must Promote Abortion

While it begins its final sitting of 2017 this week, the Supreme Court already has many Americans anticipating the hearing of a case the justices just announced they will take…

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Culture

Liberal Prof. Ordered to Pay Fine for Destroying Pro-Life Students’ Messages (VIDEO)

A federal court has ordered that a liberal Fresno State University professor must pay $17,000 in damages and undergo training on the First Amendment after he violated the free speech…

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A Win for Freedom: USDA Issues New Guidance to Protect First Amendment Rights

This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In a Liberty Minute entitled “Less Free,” Helen Krieble discusses…

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Poll Shows Americans Would Deny Free Speech to Opponents — And That’s a Problem

This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In her Liberty Minute titled “Do as I Say Not…

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Will Christian Baker’s Supreme Court Case Decide Future of First Amendment?

It strikes one as an episode of the Twilight Zone to think that in the present moral climate, as The Washington Post reports, the Department of Justice would argue in…

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When Government Picks Winners and Losers, Everybody Loses

This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. Last week, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Seattle University’s…

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Analysis

In the Age of Facebook, the First Amendment Is More Important Than Ever

This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. The First Amendment is under attack. Of course, that shouldn’t…

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Will Candidates Soon Be Arrested for Promoting the “Wrong” Ideas?

This article is part of series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In a Liberty Minute entitled “Arrest that Candidate,” Helen Krieble discusses…

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