Missouri
57 pieces tagged “Missouri”, newest first.
Missouri State Removed Its Bias Response Team After a Lawsuit Challenged It
When universities create systems that censor speech, students and outside organizations cannot simply complain about the problem. They have to challenge it directly.
Pushing Back Against the Cultists
From fed-up state legislatures to disillusioned transgender case workers, people are beginning to call out the gender cult.
Senate 2022: Winners Wanted
In an all-too-promising election year, the last thing Republicans need are bad candidates.
Biden DOJ Sues Missouri on Gun Rights Law
The Show Me State isn’t inclined to let the federal government encroach upon its citizens’ right to keep and bear arms.
Missouri Takes Action Against Minimum Wage Hike
St. Louis’ $10 hourly wage is no more thanks to action by the state legislature.
A Win for Religious Liberty — SCOTUS and Trinity Lutheran
The 7-2 ruling overturns a circuit court decision that favored Missouri’s discrimination against a church.
A Missouri Town Demands Substantive Due Process
If Pagedale, Missouri, is a glimpse of the future, the future is going to be annoying. Pagedale might represent the future of governance unless some of its residents succeed in their lawsuit against their government. If they do, it will be because they successfully invoked the principle of substantive due process. Pagedale is 1.19 square miles of St. Louis County. Approximately 93 percent of its 3,000 residents are African-American and about 25 percent live below the poverty line. There is not much of a tax base for their government. But supposed necessity does not confer constitutionality on Pagedale’s decision to budget on the assumption of a steady blizzard of capricious fines.
Syrian Immigration
I joined more than 60 conservative leaders today in the Conservative Action Project (CAP) calling on Congress to take action addressing the potential national security threats posed by the insufficient vetting of Syrian refugees. ... We outlined compassionate approaches that mitigate the security risks that currently exist. Meanwhile, doubts are growing in Europe about the wisdom of taking in hundreds of thousands of unvetted migrants, mostly from Islamic countries. German authorities are reporting that many Muslim migrants are seeking out Arab language mosques, some of which are known to be havens for Islamic extremists.
A Constitutional Conservative for Missouri and America
I’ve spent a good part of my working life contemplating the importance of the rule of law in making America the most prosperous society in the history. First as a public official (mayor of Cincinnati, treasurer and secretary of state) and now as a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and American Civil Rights Union, I’ve come to believe that none of the many factors that contribute to our astonishing prosperity is more important than the rule of law over the rule of special interests.