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I wholeheartedly support gay marriage. And I am happy for the many gays who rejoiced at the California Supreme Court's 4-3 decision on May 15 ordering the state to stop calling committed gay couples "domestic partners" and start calling them "married." So why do I see the decision as an unfortunate exercise in judicial imperialism? Let me count the ways. Then I'll touch on how it could be a harbinger of the constitutional innovating that we might see if the next president engineers a strong liberal majority--a likelier prospect than a strong conservative majority--on the U.S. Supreme Court. First, the...

One Reporter's Opinion - The Systematic Dismantling of America George Putnam Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 It is this reporter's opinion that we are witnessing a form of legal blackmail - legal terrorism - in our own court system. Anti-American groups like La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense Education Fund (MALDEF), the League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and MEChA - aided and abetted by the ACLU - are battling us on U.S. soil, screaming racism if anyone protests illegal migration and promoting their agenda "Reconquista of Aztlan," and are attempting to tear our country apart using our very own...

Senate Republican leaders plan to move legislation next year to protect the Boy Scouts of America from attacks by liberal groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union over government ties to the organization, which has an oath that acknowledges God.     The Defense Department recently agreed to warn military bases that department policy does not allow them to be official sponsors of Boy Scout units and that military personnel may sponsor Boy Scout groups only in their civilian capacity. [snip]Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist introduced legislation this month stipulating that no federal law, directive, rule, instruction or order should...