David French

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  May 4, 2015

  Swinging for the Fences: Thinking Through the Baltimore Criminal Charges

  Over the weekend, noted Harvard Law professor and criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz made headlines attacking Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby for allegedly overcharging the Baltimore police officers blamed for Freddie Gray's death and for placing "politics and crowd control" over the interests of justice.

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  Apr 29, 2015

  Are Gay Activists Suddenly Worried About Justice Kennedy's Vote?

  Oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges are now complete, and there is just a bit less triumphalism from the Left than expected. It turns out that Justice Kennedy — the presumed deciding vote — was not uniformly enthusiastic about expanding the definition of marriage, noting at one point that he had "a word on his mind, and that word is 'millennia.'"

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  Apr 27, 2015

  Freedom of Conscience Wins a Round

  Amidst the unrelenting bad news regarding freedom of conscience it's refreshing to read a bit of constitutional sanity.

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  Apr 14, 2015

  Let's Apply Some Common Sense to the Police Shooting Debate

  One of the most frustrating aspects of the loud and vitriolic debates over police shootings is the extent to which they ignore common sense and human nature.

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  Apr 10, 2015

  Timid Christians on College Campuses Are Their Own Worst Enemy

  I'm sorry, but I have a real problem — in an era when Christians are getting their heads sawed off in the Middle East — with the idea that, say, an American sociology professor feels to scared to proclaim his real beliefs on a liberal campus.

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  Mar 31, 2015

  Want Evidence of Hysterical Anti-Christian Bigotry? Look No Further Than #BoycottIndiana

  After litigating religious liberty issues for more than 20 years, I'm used to utter hysteria erupting on the Left when Christians try to assert conventional and traditional religious liberty rights.

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  Mar 26, 2015

  Bowe Bergdahl and Our Leaders' Lost Honor

  An army can survive desertion, so to hear that Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion hardly represents an existential crisis for the military or its character.

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  Mar 20, 2015

  Every Conservative Should Root for Kentucky Basketball

  While I will freely disclose that I grew up in Kentucky — only 20 miles from Rupp Arena, the Center of the Basketball Universe – my bias should in no way distract from the sheer, blinding logic of my argument. As the NCAA tournament starts rolling today, the rooting interest of the conservative world should be clear: John Calipari's Wildcats are the only reasonable choice.

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  Mar 17, 2015

  The Ferguson Report Reminds Me Why I Became a Conservative

  I grew up in a small town in Kentucky, the son of — at that time — McGovern Democrats. My dad was a math professor at the local college, my mom was a public-school teacher, and neither one of them had voted for a Republican in their lives — and had no intention to.

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  Mar 13, 2015

  Here's One Way to Reach Scientific Consensus on Environmental Issues

  Earlier this week, I wrote about Dr. James Enstrom's successful settlement of his lawsuit against UCLA. Long a dissenter against environmentalist scare-mongering, Dr. Enstrom sued UCLA officials after they fired him shortly after Dr. Enstrom discovered that new California regulations of diesel emissions were based on junk science advanced by a scientist with a fraudulent degree.