September 2024 Round-Up

Tim Walz Insults the Constitution and Why It Matters
 
Tim Walz Brags About Passing Laws That Restrict Speech
Governor Tim Walz’ new law prohibits employers from discussing religious or political matters at required meetings, including meetings on elections, regulations, and whether employees should join a union.  It also squelches and coerces teachers’ free speech rights.  He also bragged about the impact of the new law, saying that employers will either have to toe the line or be sent to jail.  Read more here.
 
 
Our Constitution Isn’t Dangerous, But Our Ignorance Of It Is
If ‘we the people’ are unable to defend the Constitution, then the Constitution is unable to defend us.  Read the article here.
 
The Constitution and Its Enemies
Karl Popper wrote the book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, during the Second World War in an attempt to explain — and refute — the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands of murderous dictators like Stalin and Hitler.  Read the article.
 
‘Car Insurance’ for Cancel Culture: Here’s What to Do If You Get Smeared Like Nick Sandmann
Todd McMurtry was a lawyer, but he had never practiced defamation law before legacy media outlets demonized 16-year-old Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann for the crime of “smirking” while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Now, McMurtry has published a book about defamation law—a book he recommends as a kind of “car insurance” for cancel culture.  Read more here.
 
Illegal aliens could swing the 2024 election
Either Congress must pass the SAVE Act, or states must protect the integrity of their elections — especially the seven swing states that could shift the outcome of 2024 by a hair’s breadth.  Progressives whose policies allowed illegal immigration on a massive illegal scale say illegals are already voting and there’s nothing they “can” do about it.  This position shows no respect for our electoral system or the rule of law.  Read the article here.  
 
Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work, and MIT Knows It
Racial preferences increase the number of black and Hispanic students at America’s top colleges and universities, but this policy does nothing to alleviate the real disparities that shape outcomes.  If university officials genuinely want to help underprivileged students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds get on a path to greater success as they claim, then they should refocus their efforts on reducing disparities in elementary and secondary education.  Read more here.