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| Jan. 3, 2018 |
Good morning from Washington, where special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the election shows no signs of wrapping up. Fred Lucas reports. Contrary to conventional wisdom, politics-driven redistricting is preferable to the alternative, Jarrett Stepman argues. The Supreme Court ought to take on an overreaching bureaucracy, Elizabeth Slattery writes. Plus: Emilie Kao and Zachary Jones on what Canada teaches us about protecting religious freedom, and Walter Williams on the toll of government intervention in the economy. |
CommentaryReligious Liberty Is Eroding in Canada. Here's What Americans Should Learn.Alberta's Child and Family Services bars a Christian couple from adopting a child because their religious views about sexuality were incompatible with "the official position of the Alberta government." |
NewsSpecial Counsel and Russia Probe Seen Likely to Carry OnSpecial counsel Robert Mueller "is operating like the king of the Justice Department. There is no check on him whatsoever," says Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton. |
CommentaryEliminating Partisan Redistricting Would Make Politics Worse, Not BetterFormer President Barack Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, has begun beating the drum, calling for the Supreme Court to end gerrymandering, or, if that fails, passage of legislation to somehow make the system free from partisanship. |
CommentaryWhy the Supreme Court Shouldn't Bow to Government AgenciesA series of Supreme Court decisions is allowing officials in administrative agencies—rather than judges—to have the final say in interpreting statutes and rules. |
NewsCalifornia Democrat Wants to Mandate State Colleges Have Abortion Pills Ready for StudentsLegislation would mandate that community colleges and public universities provide women with abortion pills for up to 10 weeks of pregnancy so they don't face the "burden" of traveling to obtain an abortion. |
CommentaryHow Big Government Made the Depression Worse, and Would Do Similar Damage TodayThe most often-stated cause of the Great Depression is the stock market crash of October 1929. Little is further from the truth. The Great Depression was caused by a massive government failure. |
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