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Cyndi Lauper Pens Op-Ed Blasting Hobby Lobby Decision

Cortney O’Brien  Cyndi Lauper, known for iconic songs such as “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Time After Time,” has decided to join the Hobby Lobby debate. Writing for The Daily Beast, the 1980s pop singer criticized the Supreme Court’s recent decision to grant the Christian owners of Hobby Lobby an exemption from Obamacare’s contraception […] Continue reading →

Walter E. Williams: Economic Freedom

 A couple of years ago, President Barack Obama, speaking on the economy, told an audience in Osawatomie, Kansas: “‘The market will take care of everything,’ they tell us. … But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. … I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.” To believe […] Continue reading →

The Progressive War on Hard Work Continues

Michael Schaus  The misguided attempt to increase the minimum wage can almost be passed off as institutionalized economic illiteracy. Many people, however, have argued that it’s more than simple ignorance that drives the Left to ignore fiscal sanity and push for a $15 per hour burger-flipping wage.  Well, if the latest attempt to institute mandated-minimum-pay […] Continue reading →

What the Zimmerman Prosecution Did Not Do (and Why)

Jason Kissner Post-verdict analysis and commentary on the Zimmerman trial has run the gamut from predictably, ostentatiously, and dangerously clownish to the genuinely insightful.  Given such a broad range, it is most curious indeed that while there has been a surfeit of reflection on what the prosecution did charge, there has been none with respect […] Continue reading →

Same - Sex Marriage: The State V. God

 Ben Shapiro On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States doubled down on the newly popular perspective that same-sex marriage opponents are motivated by hate and nastiness. Making little pretense at legal reasoning, the Court declared that the Defense of Marriage Act was just a government attempt to “degrade or demean” homosexuals. While the […] Continue reading →