Under Argentina’s New Government, There Won’t Be Justice for Alberto Nisman, or for the Victims of Iranian Terror
And a new documentary streaming on Netflix regurgitates propaganda.
March 3, 2020
A Recent Ruling Gives the Lie to the Claim That the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Is a Tool of Oppression
Contra Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the RFRA protects minorities.
Addressing a congressional hearing last Thursday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that conservatives invoke religious freedom only “in the name of bigotry and discrimination.” Such arguments, now commonplace in progressive circles, often point to the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and its state-level equivalents as especially suspect in this regard. That the claim is scurrilous is demonstrated by the recent decision of a federal district court in Arizona in favor of a group of Unitarian Universalists who illegally entered a wildlife refuge in order to provide food and supplies to illegal immigrants.
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As the Syrian Civil War Escalates, America Must Face the Consequences of Passivity
Escalation between Turkey and Syria.
A Recent Ruling Gives the Lie to the Claim That the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Is a Tool of Oppression
Contra Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the RFRA protects minorities.
In Israel, Political Fights Have Always Gotten Ugly
From Ben-Gurion vs. Weizmann to Rabin vs. Peres.
Does Belief in the Self Require Belief in God? And Can Western Morality Exist Without Either?
Without Jewish and Christian ideas of human dignity, “universal” values are left hanging in the void.