Recent Posts in Commentary Category
Posted on Apr 9, 2013 By Becker Law Firm
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David Coppedge has been writing the story of the JPL intelligent design discrimination case in installments on a new website. This is a great place to see how an employer goes about disenfranchising ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A new law set to take effect the first day of the new year -- the Workplace Religious Freedom Act -- makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of religious ...
Continue reading "New Law: Diverstiy In, Assimilation Out" »
Posted on Dec 27, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Gary Trudeau decided to use his Doonesbury comic strip to mock Christians over the Christmas holiday by summarizing the leftist and atheist position against the display of Nativity scenes on public ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Two days ago, the Drudge Report headline linked to a Los Angeles Daily News story relating that the property management company for a senior living home in Newhall, California, north of Los Angeles, ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
One day after publishing my views on the Santa Monica Nativity scene controversy in The Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times again rejected a separate op-ed piece I had offered it for publication. ...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My op-ed piece appears in today's print edition of the Washington Times newspaper: In Santa Monica, Calif., city leaders earlier this year pulled the plug on a 59-year-old community celebration of ...
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Posted on Nov 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
On Monday (December 3, 2012), we will be back in U.S. District Court opposing the City of Santa Monica's Motion to Dismiss the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes lawsuit. A copy of our opposition to the ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The American Thinker features my lamentation on the end of conservatism, from People's Park to Palisades Park, in the wake of the court's decison rejecting the right of the Santa Monica ...
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Posted on Nov 20, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins denied the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction. It means that for the first time in 60 years, the Nativity ...
Continue reading "In the News:The City that Hates Free Speech and Religious Freedom" »
Posted on Nov 7, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My colleague Rob Muise posted this today: “These Are the Times that Try Men’s Souls” Dear Fellow American, Yesterday was a disappointment to all freedom-loving Americans as our ...
Continue reading "Commentary: Forward ... with God's Help" »
Posted on Oct 22, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
In a feature article on the front page left column of today's Los Angeles Times (10-22-2012), writer Thomas Curwen documents the history of a federal lawsuit that led to the removal of a veterans ...
Continue reading "The Desert Cross Case's Hidden Meaning" »
Posted on Oct 18, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
While writing my last commentary touching on the atheist's absolutist interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's metaphor explaining the legislative intent behind the meaning of the First ...
Continue reading "The Jefferson (& Barton) Lies" »
Posted on Oct 16, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
"All in all it's just another brick in the wall." – Pink Floyd * * * The topic refers, of course, to the "wall of separation between church and state" – not to the ...
Continue reading "The Wall (and the Atheists of Palisades Park)" »