David French

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  Oct 29, 2014

  What the Vile Treatment of Bristol Palin Teaches Us

  Let me begin by plainly stating my biases. I like and admire the Palins. My wife has worked with Bristol for years, she collaborated with Sarah on her most recent book, and I have successfully represented Bristol in free-speech litigation. We Frenches share the Palins' political, cultural, and religious values, and we're proud to call them friends.

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  Oct 24, 2014

  The Absurd Reason Why an Idaho City Claims Pastors Must Perform Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies

  What is this absurd reason? They're running a business. If pastors are operating a "for-profit" wedding chapel, then they must officiate at gay weddings regardless of their religious objections.

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  Oct 22, 2014

  Top U.S. Aid Recipient Is Set to Hang a Christian Woman for Blasphemy

  Last week, a Pakistani court of appeals upheld Asia Bibi's death sentence for blasphemy. She's a Christian and a mother of five. Death. For allegedly saying bad things about Mohammed. Barbaric.

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  Oct 16, 2014

  City of Houston Attacks Pastors, Demands to See Emails, Text Messages

  The story sounds like something you'd read on a crazed e-mail forward — the city of Houston demands to see the contents of pastors' sermons on the topic of homosexuality, gender identity, and . . . restroom access. In fact, when I first heard the story from a parent at my kids' school, I didn't believe it.

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  Oct 14, 2014

  Left Wing Anti Semitism Has Consequences

  It is, at this point, beyond obvious that quarters of the hard-left academic world are overrun with anti-Semitism disguised as anger at alleged Israeli mistreatment of the terrorist-governed citizens of Gaza.

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  Oct 11, 2014

  Is President Obama Serious About the Air War Against ISIS?

  It's becoming increasingly clear that President Obama has no intention to actually "destroy" the Islamic State. Even his much-vaunted air war represents a mere shadow of American military capabilities.

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  Oct 8, 2014

  Campuses Keep Coming Up With More Reasons to Censor Christians

  The brazen intellectual bankruptcy of campus censorship never fails to impress. Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education was the latest prestige publication to cover the California State University system's mass-scale de-recognition of so-called "exclusionary" Christian groups.

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  Sep 30, 2014

  The New York Times Publishes an Ignorant, Condescending Anti-Christian Op-Ed

  Academic leftists are so used to talking to themselves (and their under-educated students), that they long ago passed the point of even realizing their own ignorance. They delight in their own arguments and their ability to make students "shift uncomfortably in their seats," yet succeed only in singing to their own condescending choir, with the music published in their house hymnal, the New York Times.

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  Sep 18, 2014

  9th Circuit Appeals Courts Guts Student Free Speech, Upholds 'Heckler's Veto' of the American Flag

  On Wednesday morning the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request for an en banc hearing in a case holding that school officials could censor students who peacefully wore American flag clothing because those students were violently threatened by anti-American classmates. In other words, the court upheld a classic "heckler's veto," and in so doing empowered violent bullies and undermined decades of free-speech jurisprudence.

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  Sep 15, 2014

  Did Obama Learn Anything From Libya That He Can Use In Syria? The Easy Answer is 'No'

  So, now, here we are again aiding rebel groups like the "Army of the Mujahideen" in a fight against other mujahideen while the Islamic State gathers its strength and mocks us with beheading after beheading.