by jstewardfree | Sep 8, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Philip Wegmann | A small-town cafe ignited a firestorm of controversy that has engulfed Minnesota. On Aug. 1, the state bumped the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8 an hour. A few days later, Stillwater Oasis quietly added a corresponding 35-cent “minimum wage fee” to...
by jstewardfree | Aug 18, 2014 | Grey Matter
By David Skeel | After Hobby Lobby, a Christian college asked for a different kind of exemption. Then came the backlash. When D. Michael Lindsey, the president of a well-known Christian college in Wenham, Mass., called Gordon College, signed a letter to...
by jstewardfree | Aug 6, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Jesse Saffron | When I first read University of Pennsylvania professor Marybeth Gasman’s June 12 Inside Higher Education op-ed titled “Give the Money Back,” I was baffled by the author’s strong, hyper-political opposition to the Koch brothers’ recent $25 million...
by jstewardfree | Jul 3, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Lyle Denniston | The Supreme Court sent a fairly strong signal on Tuesday that its ruling giving some for-profit businesses a right not to provide birth control services to their female workers goes beyond the specific methods at issue in that decision. It issued...
by jstewardfree | Jul 2, 2014 | Grey Matter
By James Taranto | ….as we bounce crazily off the walls of Political Correctness. FIRE is attempting to light one. The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education today filed four lawsuits challenging campus censorship at institutions across the...