10 Apr 2020

Statement on the Right to Religious Freedom During COVID-19

By The Rutherford Institute

At no time in the history of this nation has the government (federal or state) ever attempted to impose such onerous restrictions on the rights of religious individuals as we are seeing play out in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

09 Apr 2020

Vanderginst Law PC Initiates Community Project to Make Protective Face Masks for Essential Workers

By Jamie Bellagamba

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (April 9, 2020) - VanDerGinst Law PC is spearheading an initiative called "Masks of Love" to help address the economic and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the community. During this crisis, a number of workers have experienced loss of employment, and as a result face an uncertain financial future.

08 Apr 2020

Secretary David Bernhardt Proposes Historic Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities

By US Department of the Interior

WASHINGTON DC (April 8, 2020) — Continuing the Trump Administration’s significant efforts to increase recreational access on public lands, US Secreta

08 Apr 2020

COVID-19: Resist Much, Obey Little, and Never Forget

By Thomas L Knapp

The COVID-19 outbreak isn't over yet, but we've reached a turning point: American politicians and bureaucrats are beginning the tricky process of trying to simultaneously walk back their predictions of catastrophe, while awarding themselves the credit for those predictions not coming true, and avoiding the blame they deserve for inciting headlong irrational panic.

07 Apr 2020

US Supreme Court Upholds Blank-Check Policing, Allows Cops to Stop Cars Registered to Unlicensed Owners, Whether or Not Owners Are Driving

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 7, 2020) — In an 8-1 ruling that empowers police to carry out dubious traffic stops and paves the way for further abuses of law enforcement’s “blank-check policing” privileges, the US Supreme Court has upheld the police practice of stopping and questioning drivers if their cars are registered to unlicensed owners, i

06 Apr 2020

COVID-19’s Challenge to the Christian Church: What Would Jesus Do?

By John W Whitehead

“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.

06 Apr 2020

After the Pandemic: Back to School, or Forward to a Better Future?

By Thomas L Knapp

Anyone who tries to tell you that the COVID-19 pandemic, and its associated social, political, and economic panics, are good things is  an idiot, or trying to sell you some kind of snake oil, or both. Society-wide disasters are always net negatives, or we wouldn't think of them as disasters in the first place. Silver linings are never as shiny as the clouds they run through are large. That doesn't mean silver linings don't exist, though. They do, and some of them are significant.

06 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Death Confirmed in Scott County Resident

By Brooke Barnes

DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 6, 2020) — Scott County Health Department (SCHD) has been notified of the first COVID-19 death of a Scott County resident, an elderly adult (>81 years old).

06 Apr 2020

Tennessee Supreme Court Allows Police to Carry Out Warrantless, Suspicionless Searches of Probationers’ Homes, Undermining Fourth Amendment

By The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON DC (April 3, 2020) — Pushing back against government efforts to chip away at the privacy and security guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment, The Rutherford Institute has asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a state court decision allowing police to search the homes of probationers without any suspicion or justification. In an 

03 Apr 2020

Neither Pandemic nor Panic Supersede the First Amendment

By Thomas L Knapp

Rodney Howard-Browne, pastor of The River Church in Tampa, Florida, strongly believes that God wants his church to continue holding live services for hundreds of parishioners, even in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister and state attorney Andrew Warren strongly believe that they're entitled to threaten Howard-Browne with arrest for holding those services, then follow through on that threat.

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