NPR's Nina Totenberg had a fascinating story about our Solicitor General, Elena Kagan. And while the issue of religion didn't come up, a peripheral concern did: how do you balance personal views with judicial responsibilities as advocate for the United States...
Via Ed Brayton, Reuters reports that the UN has passed a non-binding resolution condemning the "defamation of religion" for the fifth straight year, though with less support than the previous year. The assembly passed the Islamic-sponsored resolution with 80...
If you read only one piece about holiday church-state controversies this year, make it Jonathan Zimmerman's op-ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. His point is simple, but poignant and true: disputes over government-sponsored Christmas displays are nothing...
Musician Michael Feinstein asks a question about diversity and the holidays in a NYTimes ope-ed: Whose Christmas Is It? We live in a multicultural time and the mixing, and mixing up, of traditions is an inevitable result. Hence we have the almost century-old...
Portions of a North Carolina statute intended to keep convicted sex offenders away from children is overbroad and vague, according to a trial court ruling by Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour. The provision effectively prohibited registered offenders from attending...
