Adults almost never pretend to be married. Pretending to be married is usually the province of little girls. Men occasionally pretend not to be married by removing their wedding rings in out-of-town bars and female sales reps will do the same … Continue reading How do you prove you are still married?
September 17, 2019 | Jason Morgan, PhD for tfp.org – Tradition, Family & Property Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino,Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2019) More than any other country, the United States is rooted in ideals. Americans share no common ethnicity or religion, and increasingly no common language. The nation is divided into two general political camps that vilify each other. One thing that keeps America together as a nation is the assumption that fairness and equality before the law will guide government and citizens alike. Truth, justice, and … Continue reading The Kavanaugh Hearings: When Justice Was On Trial
By Elise Cooper for The American Thinker July 21, 2019 Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino is a powerful book, whatever a person’s political affiliation. This story reads more like a novel than a fact-filled book. It explains the historical context of the court nomination system and how political and cultural trends change the shape of the institution over time. Readers can grasp how the nominating process works and get a behind-the-scenes look at what really happened during the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice. The authors provide an objective account in talking with American Thinker as they … Continue reading The Kavanaugh Hearing Revisited
In the July 1992 issue of Scientific American Stephen Jay Gould wrote a scathing review of Phil Johnson’s book Darwin on Trial. My cmnt: I have included Gould’s review, in full, below because it is hard to find without a visit to the library. He called it, Impeaching a Self-Appointed Judge, a clever take on the fact that Phillip Johnson was one of the premier law professors in the country. After unsuccessfully ignoring the book for two years, Gould finally attempted to discredit it with his nasty review, claiming the book was full of errors. Johnson wrote a detailed response–but Scientific American refused to … Continue reading A review of “Darwin on Trial” and a response
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