ACLU on Townhall

• Why the No-Fly List Doesn't Fly Sun Mar 31
  Steve Chapman
  Flying commercial can be a terrible hassle these days, but not for Steven Washburn. The people in charge of airport security have decided to spare him all the inconveniences. ... more
• Oh, My God Sat Mar 9
  Bill O'Reilly
  With the shorthand "OMG" (oh, my God) becoming a huge cliche, it might be worth taking a look at how Americans are seeing the Almighty these days -- that is if they are looking at all. ... more
• ACLU Loses Plaintiff, and Ten Commandments Case Wed Feb 27
  Robert Knight
  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has lost its six-year campaign to tear down a Ten Commandments monument at the Dixie County, Florida courthouse. ... more
• The ACLU’s Sounds of Silence Tue Dec 11
  Robert Knight
  In George Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984, a tyrannical government masks its activities through the use of Newspeak — saying or doing something opposite of what the word means. ... more
• The ACLU’s Culture War in Cranston Wed Oct 24
  Robert Knight
  If you want to see what the New Normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, Rhode Island. That city of 80,000, the third largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU’s War on the Normal. ... more
• Look Out for Eroding of Parental Authority Wed Sep 26
  Marybeth Hicks
  It’s been an eventful week at the intersection of parenting and politics, that busy corner where decision-making often is affected by the onslaught of traffic from social engineers, liberal educators, public health experts, and civil rights activists who know better than parents what’s best for their kids. ... more
• The ACLU’s Battle Against “Blatant Gender Stereotypes” Thu Sep 20
  Michael Brown
  Have you heard about the ACLU’s latest antics? Their most recent victory is so outrageous, so outlandish, and so ridiculous that words actually fail in trying to describe it. Not surprisingly, this legal theater of the absurd is being played out in Rhode Island. ... more
• The Irreconcilable Conflict Tue Sep 18
  Pat Buchanan
  Perhaps we should inspect more closely our irreconcilable conflict -- what Harvard's Michael Ignatieff calls "the fatal dialectic between Islamic rage and Western free speech." Consider first American values, as seen from an ACLU point of view. ... more
• Is That a Spy in Your Pocket? Wed May 23
  Jacob Sullum
  In January, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that tracking a suspect's movements by attaching a GPS transmitter to his car counts as a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. But because the majority opinion emphasized the physical intrusion needed to surreptitiously install the transmitter, it did not resolve the constitutional implications of surveillance using cellphones, the tracking devices that Americans voluntarily carry in their pockets and purses. ... more
• Krauthammer on Domestic Drone Use: "I'm Gonna Go ACLU" Tue May 15
  Washington
  It's that serious. ... more
• Judge Takes a Chisel to the Ten Commandments Sun May 13
  Robert Knight
  God Almighty needs an editor, according to a federal judge in Virginia. At least, He does when the Ten Commandments are on government property. ... more
• Bank of America Representative Opposes Pro-Family Legislation in North Carolina Thu Mar 29
  Brian Raum
  On May 8, North Carolinians will vote on Amendment One: an act which amends “the constitution [of North Carolina] to provide that marriage between a man and woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in [the] state.” ... more
• Arizona wades into contraception controversy Thu Mar 15
  Townhall.com Staff
• A Nuke to Ensure Religious Freedom? Wed Mar 14
  Robert Knight
  As the American Civil Liberties Union prowls the land to muzzle public prayers, rip out Ten Commandments monuments and terrify small towns over nativity scenes, help may be on the way from the U.S. Supreme Court. ... more
• Feds' War on Religion (Part 2 of 2) Tue Dec 27
  Chuck Norris
  Last week, I documented more than a dozen ways in which, in just the past six months, the Obama administration is trampling on the religious liberties of America's finest military service members. ... more
• Obama Didn't Get the 'Truce' Memo Tue Dec 20
  Janet M. LaRue
  The Obama administration, predictably, is not calling a “truce on social issues,” as Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) suggested that the next president should do. ... more
• Holder Plays the Race Card Even Before Election Day Tue Dec 20
  Robert Knight
  In a speech Tuesday at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. warned that recent state reforms, such as requiring photo IDs, might repress the minority vote. He said the Justice Department was reviewing photo ID laws just enacted in Texas and South Carolina, and early voting procedures in Florida. ... more
• NAACP and ACLU want probes of Vegas police slaying Thu Dec 15
  AP News
• Tis the Season For Christmas Phobia Thu Dec 1
  Robert Knight
  Atheists must be the most fragile peaches in the basket. They’re always getting bruised by the slightest exposure to public displays that remind them of Christmas, God, the Ten Commandments, or worst of all, Jesus. ... more
• If You Don't See the Baby, Is It Still a Baby? Wed Nov 16
  Steven Aden
  The American Civil Liberties Union has pulled out all stops to keep women from viewing ultrasound pictures of their babies in the womb before deciding whether to abort them. The ACLU asks, “If you don’t see the baby, is it still a baby?” ... more
• Latest developments in the Occupy protests Tue Nov 8
  AP News
• First Amendment arguments boost Occupy protest Mon Nov 7
  AP News
• Latest developments in the Occupy protests Fri Nov 4
  AP News
• La. law on sex offenders, Facebook argued in court Wed Nov 2
  AP News
• Picture This! Tue Nov 1
  Cal Thomas
  U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles last Tuesday granted a request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocks a provision in North Carolina's new abortion-restriction law that would require women seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image of their womb within four hours of the procedure. ... more

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