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I haven’t been to the Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville, VT, but it sounds like a beautiful place. A glimpse at their website shows a near-definitive New England setting of clapboard buildings with panoramic views of rolling, tree-covered hills and blossoming meadows. And families. Wildflower Inn was voted Best Family Resort by Yankee magazine last year, and the word “family” pops up repeatedly on the website and in the Inn’s brochures. Clearly, that’s the favored clientele, although the Inn’s owners allow that their place is also ideal for romantic weekends. The Inn used to offer its facilities for weddings, too. Not...

ADF: More than 800 attorneys nationwide ready to combat attempts to censor Christmas Third annual Christmas Project declares, "Merry Christmas. It's okay to say it."Wednesday, November 02, 2005, 10:30 AM (MST) ADF Media Relations | 480-444-0020 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The Alliance Defense Fund announced today it has more than 800 attorneys available nationwide to combat any improper attempts to censor the celebration of Christmas in schools and on public property. "An overwhelming majority of Americans of all faiths agree that we should celebrate Christmas," said ADF President Alan Sears.  "This is a time for goodness, giving, and hope--not a time...

For Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founders, three of the most pre-eminent rights were as "self-evident" as they were "unalienable": "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." But for the American Civil Liberties Union, pretended heir to Jefferson and self-proclaimed protector of our nation's civil rights, it is increasingly and tragically apparent that "one out of three ain't bad" – and even there, they have problems. For the ACLU, the pursuit of certain select happinesses (and not those of the sort envisioned by the Founders) for a certain select few is worth the sacrifice of virtually any liberty, and worth...