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Jeffrey Murphy | Thursday, November 15, 2018
“A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.” – the late-Justice Scalia, in dissent June 26, 2015 should have been one of the greatest days in American history (right behind November 8, 2016). For literally thousands of years, same-sex
Jeffrey Murphy | Thursday, November 1, 2018
“[I]t is the state — not free speech — that has been the oppressor of women. It was the state, not pornography, that burned women as witches. It was 18th and 19th century law, not pornography, that defined women as chattel … 20th century laws that refused to recognized rape within marriage … It is the state,
Jeffrey Murphy | Friday, October 5, 2018
Disclaimer When I first sat down to begin writing this column, I harbored animus toward Christine Blasey Ford. I wasn’t even alive when Anita Hill accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual assault, yet I was somehow having flashbacks to watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that plagued his ultimately successful nomination to the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Murphy | Friday, September 7, 2018
This past June, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in the infamous Masterpiece Cakeshop case. For those who are not familiar with the case, it involves a Christian baker in Colorado who refused to provide a wedding cake to a same-sex couple. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission imposed a series of penalties
Jeffrey Murphy | Friday, August 24, 2018
“They serve in our military, they go to our colleges and universities and they work in Fortune 100 companies. These are exceptional people making important contributions to our country.” -Senator Kamala Harris on Dreamers They’re valedictorians! They’re serving in the military! They’re CEOs! They’re Dreamers! By the way the media portrays these young illegal aliens,