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A 13-year-old schoolgirl confessed that she lied about a French teacher who was beheaded after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, according to the girl's lawyer. Samuel Paty, a secondary school teacher in a town near Paris, was killed last October by a radical Chechen teenager after showing the cartoons to students during a civics class about free speech. The unidentified girl told police that she lied about being in the class and falsely accused Paty of asking Muslim children to leave the class while he showed the pictures. Her father, who has been charged in connection with...

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe the First Amendment is under threat, according to a new survey, yet a large portion of respondents couldn’t correctly name what the amendment protects. Of the 2,000 adults who took part in the poll, half thought that “liberty” is one of the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment, while nearly half (49 percent) believed “the pursuit of happiness” was included. Thankfully, only 3 percent named “life” as one of the protected freedoms. What’s more, barely more than a quarter (26 percent) of participants knew how many amendments even comprise the Bill of Rights....

But what do college students think? Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips traveled to Lockhaven University in Pennsylvania to find out. When asked whether the U.S. should open the border to the caravan, most students shared the same sentiment: yes. “I think we should let them in, give them a fair chance at a better life,” one student said, while another echoed her point, saying, “it’s dumb that we stole this land […] and now we’re gonna point at someone else and tell them they can’t come in here.” One student explained his reasoning by saying, “I’m open to the idea of...

I've never started a post on here so forgive me if I've put this in the wrong place. I need some serious help. My 17 year old son (who lives away from home @ a boys center in Sonoma) is a Senior @ Sonoma Valley High School. I just found out yesterday that they are reading Michael Moore's book in their Civics class. My son is taken with this guy and went into how the Supreme Court stopped the Florida count when it looked like AlGore was going to win. I am FUMING! I'm going to speak with the teacher...