David French

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  Sep 11, 2014

  Tennessee Becomes Veritable Abortion Supermarket

  The Tennessee Supreme Court has decreed that the Tennessee Constitution protects abortion rights to a greater extent than the United States Supreme Court has protected the federal right to abortion. In plain English, this means that Tennessee has become a veritable abortion supermarket, with women traveling to evade pro-life regulations in neighboring states. Tennessee is a Gosnell scandal waiting to happen.

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  Aug 25, 2014

  Why Can't President Obama Tell the Truth About ISIS's Faith?

  President Obama has been in office for more than five years, has seen countless classified reports of terrorist activities and intentions, and has watched as the Islamic State, Hamas, al-Qaeda, and the full range of jihadist groups have committed one barbaric atrocity after another, and he still won't tell the American people the truth about what we face.

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  Aug 21, 2014

  Did the United Nations Commit War Crimes in Gaza?

  On Wednesday I urged conservatives to challenge jihadists and their enablers in international tribunals, including the U.N. Our ACLJ international affiliate, the European Centre for Law and Justice, sent a letter to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights detailing Hamas's war crimes and describing exactly how her accusations against Israel lead to further use of human shields and further abuse of civilian facilities.

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  Aug 15, 2014

  No Jonathan Merritt, I'm Not Sorry for Supporting the Invasion of Iraq

  As Syria burns, as casualty rates soar to levels not seen in the Middle East since the Iran–Iraq War, and as a Ba'athist dictator clings to power in part by the use of chemical weapons, it simply boggles the mind that so many Americans seem to believe that the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein — and are so committed to this view that they literally want to shut down any discourse from supporters of the 2003 invasion. Here, for example, is Bill Clinton, dismissing Dick Cheney's critiq

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  Aug 8, 2014

  Why Do Liberals Have Trouble Understanding the Pure Evil of Jihad?

  Since I've returned — and it's been almost six years — I haven't stopped talking about the nature of the jihadist enemy. I share the stories as much as I can (when the context is appropriate), yet I continue to be discouraged by how few Americans — and especially how few of my friends on the left — truly understand (or even try to understand) what the world faces. So they react in outrage when Israel strikes at Hamas, use the collapse in Iraq to once again score political points against Presiden

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  Jul 22, 2014

  Secretary Kerry's Hot-Mic Israel Critique: He Has No Excuse

  When Secretary of State Kerry criticized Israel's military operations in Gaza by calling them a "hell of a pinpoint operation," he not only validated Hamas's human-shield strategy, he handed Hamas a key propaganda victory.

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  Jul 17, 2014

  A Conservative Professor's Long Quest for Justice Ends in Victory

  In March I reported on Professor Mike Adams's victory for academic freedom in his jury trial against the University of North Carolina–Wilmington. UNCW officials had rejected Dr. Adams's promotion application in a process rife with irregularity and laced with open hostility to his conservative and Christian speech.

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  Jul 15, 2014

  Why LeBron James' Return to Cleveland Is Important to Young Athletes

  I'm not much for the idea that athletes are automatically role models. A role model should be determined by their actions, not merely their talent or fame. But I know as well as anyone the hold that great athletes can have over kids' hearts. And in that regard, I can think of few better statements about what it means to grow up, what it means to be a man, than the one LeBron James just wrote to explain his decision to return to Cleveland.

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  Jun 26, 2014

  Obama Administration Foreign Policy: We'd Laugh if Lives Weren't at Stake

  As Iraq burns, and the hard-won gains of American arms are thrown away in a bloodbath of severed heads and mass executions, more than 1,500 miles away from Baghdad a smaller, but also heartbreaking drama is playing out before the eyes of a watching world.

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  Jun 18, 2014

  No Wonder the IRS is Losing Emails: It Was Trying to Throw Conservatives in Jail

  The IRS is announcing the "loss" of mass numbers of e-mails (do they have any computers that don't crash?) even as the e-mails that do exist are beginning to show the extent of IRS corruption. Let's take this exchange (previously uncovered by Judicial Watch) between Lois Lerner, the director of exempt organizations at the IRS, and Nikole Flax, then the IRS commissioner's chief of staff. (To be clear, these are not "low level" employees.)