Tag Archives: Jacob Frey

Wrecking the Suburbs on Purpose

Posted on August 26, 2020 by David E Smith

President Trump caused a stir in July when he issued an order terminating some Obama housing policies aimed at killing off the suburbs.

“The [Democrat] plan is to remake the suburbs in their image so they resemble the dysfunctional cities they now govern,” he wrote in a recent Wall Street Journal column jointly authored with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. “As usual, anyone who dares tell the truth about what the left is doing is smeared as a racist.”

Outraged Democrats called the president a racist.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Benjamin Carso, Bill Clinton, Black Lives Matter, Chinese Communist Party, George Floyd, George Soros, Housing and Urban Developmen, Jacob Frey, Nancy Pelosi, National Review, Roger Ruvolo, Scott Wiener, Stanley Kurtz, Wall Street Journal | Comments Off

The Bill of Rights is Not Dead Yet

Posted on June 8, 2020 by David E Smith

Until recently, several states—including Minnesota—declared that it was unlawful to engage in the free exercise of religion in groups of ten or more. When churches dared pursue legal recourse to correct that issue, politicians, pundits and journalists offered criticism. As one of the attorneys on the receiving end of that criticism on more than one occasion, it left me perplexed. “What’s the big deal?” they might say, “Why can’t churches just worship online?!

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Bill de Blasio, Bill of Rights, Cornovirus, COVID–19, First Amendment, freedom to worship, J.B. Pritzker, Jacob Frey, lock-down, Religious Liberty, Tim Walz | Comments Off