A Personal View of the Battle Over Proposition 8

As many here at America’s Right may know, Proposition 8 was passed in 2008 in California with a majority of 52 percent. The proposition defined marriage as an institution that existed between one man and one woman. Naturally, this proposition was challenged in federal court, and officially overturned by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker [...]

Tinkering With the Constitution

National Review: Jonah Goldberg: Constitutional Amendments and Citizenship Rights Progressives love to tinker with the constitutional design. They simply do it by stealth, appointing Supreme Court justices such as Elena Kagan, who, her testimony notwithstanding, everyone knows will treat the Constitution like Felix the Cat’s magic bag; when she searches the document hard enough, you [...]

Tanning vs. Illegal Immigration and the Compelling Government Interest

I made a big, big mistake the other day. Some might say that headlining a recent piece “Why Snooki Matters” was a mistake in and of itself, but I stand by my logic on that assertion.  Instead, my mistake was not-so-artfully concealed within one of the paragraphs in that piece, and a detail-oriented reader rightfully [...]

The Student and the Teacher

As I’ve intermittently mentioned during my time at America’s Right, in addition to my duties as an administrator for an all-boys’ Catholic college preparatory high school, I’m also one of its baseball coaches. That is where this story begins. About fifteen years ago, a sophomore at our school, Travis Rowley, was one of the young [...]

Behind Independence

I should have been studying. In fact, I WAS studying. I had the books open at Atlanta Bread Company here in Summerville about two weeks ago when a young man and an older couple sat down at the next booth over. I couldn’t help but overhear the conversation because, well, that young man might have [...]

First, Fifth, Sixth, Fourteenth…

Fox News: University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church’s teaching that homosexual sex is immoral. The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, said [...]

USA v. Arizona: Let the Games Begin

Okay, America, here we go. Today, the Guy from Chicago, aided and abetted by his mouthpiece at the Justice Department and his aide at the Department of Homeland Security, publicly announced that the lawsuit they have been threatening to file for nearly two months would, in fact, be filed today. And, surely not wanting to [...]

McDonald v. Chicago Roundup

Yesterday the SCOTUS ruled on McDonald v. Chicago. Chicago has a complete and total ban on handguns, and McDonald felt that violated his 2nd Amendment rights. This was essentially the same argument as the one in Heller v. DC. The difference is that DC is run by the federal government, and so the Constitution applies [...]

Kill Switch

With summer vacation having finally arrived, the annual family sojourn is in full swing. This year the Feeny clan find themselves at Universal Studios in Orlando, a trip against which yours truly fervently warned my wife – the summer months in Florida are no picnic weather-wise, and as staunch a hot-weather person as I am, [...]

Gather Your Armies (of Voters)

Allow me to begin by saying this about Rick Barber – when I first saw the political campaign ad that he’s put out, one that has swept the nation, I was not only inspired by someone who has the courage to actually put into a message the way he feels but also absolutely had the [...]

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