By Chris Camire, ccamire@lowellsun.comlowellsun.com Updated: 05/16/2012 09:56:03 AM EDT CARLISLE — Looking to hit the spot with a savory ice cream at Great Brook Farm State Park this week? You may be out of luck. The park’s popular ice-cream stand was unexpectedly shut down by state officials over the weekend, after the stand’s operator made [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Let’s think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law — and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional — requiring American families to attend church services at least three times a month. Should we obey such a [...]

May 15, 2012 – Ken Blackwell Editor’s Note: This column was coauthored by Bob Morrison. Sen. Dick Lugar’s defeat in a Republican primary this week has not been attributed, as nearly as we can tell, to his 1979 trip to Moscow with Joe Biden. Then, the two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee left [...]

By Ken Blackwell (Archive) · Saturday, May 12, 2012 Editor’s Note: This column was coauthored by Bob Morrison Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of an embattled Great Britain on May 10, 1940. At last, his political exile was over. Also that day, Adolf Hitler launched his blitzkrieg against Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg, and his armored [...]

American freedoms are being replaced with the illusion of security By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Tampa, Fla., wants to cancel the rights of concealed-carry permit holders in the vicinity of the upcoming Republican National Convention. Commuter-train passengers in Chicago will be subjected to frisking and airport-style X-ray scanning during [...]

At America’s top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government. May 6, 2012 WSJ By PETER BERKOWITZ It would be difficult to overstate the significance of The Federalist for understanding the principles of American government and the challenges that liberal democracies confront early in the second decade [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, May 6, 2012 WASHINGTON — Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, [...]

By Mark Alexander · Thursday, May 3, 2012 A Case Study in Grassroots Restoration of the Rule of Law “The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, April 19, 2012 WASHINGTON — Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze with a keen intellect. His disapproval of much current thinking about how the Constitution [...]

April 18, 2012 By Janet Levy The U.S. Constitution, which has guided American society for over two centuries, inspiring nations worldwide and serving as a model for governance, is under serious threat today.  Ironically, that threat comes from the very individuals charged with protecting the Constitution — federal, state, and local government officials. All these [...]