The Study Corner
458 – Librarians vs The People’s Representatives
Who decides what is appropriate for public libraries? That is at the heart of the case Fayetteville Public Library et. al. v. Crawford County, Arkansas et. al. The representatives of the people of Arkansas passed a law, Arkansas Act 372, which both established a crime of furnishing a harmful item to a minor and established guidelines for selection, relocation, and retention of such materials. A group of libraries, librarians, and related organizations sue Arkansas 28 prosecuting attorneys in the federal District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. The District Court issued a preliminary injunction, preventing the law from going into effect. Or does it?
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457 – Medical Censorship
There were plenty of infringement on people’s rights during the COVID scamdemic, and censorship was rampant. Not only did we have members of our own government colluding to censor information they didn’t like, but we’ve had professional associations joining in. Worst of all, the so-called medical professionals seemed to be at the forefront, violating the central tenant of the hippocratic oath, “First, do no harm”.
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456 – What’s Wrong with the Crucial Communism Teaching Act
There are a lot of things I’d like to see done better in this country. On that list, education is right up near the top. But is it right to break the law to improve education? That’s the question I asked myself when I read the text of H.R. 5349, The “Crucial Communism Teaching Act’’. You see, while teaching the truth about communism’s history is important, should this bill pass Congress and be signed, it cannot be the supreme law of the land, because it was not made pursuant to the Constitution of the United States.
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455 – United States v. Skrmetti – Oral Arguments
The transgender agenda has been moving fast the last few years. That said, several states recently have moved to slow their progress, especially among our young people. One state, Tennessee, is being sued by the federal government. Oral arguments were heard by the Supreme Court in November. What the question regarded a restraining order preventing the state from enforcing the law, a lot of time was spent on the primary question of the lawsuit, does the Tennessee law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
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454 – New Year
For many, New Year’s Eve is a time for drinking and partying, which frequently makes New Year’s Day a time for dealing with a hang over. For others, New Years is a time for making resolutions, promises to ourselves to be better. I rarely drink, so hang overs are not a problem for me. I also do not make New Year’s resolutions, not because I don’t think there are ways I can be better, but because I don’t wait until the New Year to act on them. That said, a new year is a good time to look at where we are and make plans for the future.
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453 – Merry Christmas
There are many things most Americans will take for granted this Christmas Holiday. For example, even that fact that it is a holiday is something most of us don’t even think about. Let’s take a look at this federal holiday in America.
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Supreme Court to Hear South Carolina’s Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood
Federal appeals courts disagree on a funding provision in the federal Medicaid Act.
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452 – Corrupted Census
We’re all familiar with the decennary census, the enumeration of the population every ten years, but this isn’t one of those years. While the census is an important part of the union, it’s been corrupted and used illegally for decades. But these calls for more data are not only corrupted, but illegal.
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