Toward the end of Minnesota's state budget debate, Rep. Mike Jaros, DFL-Duluth, took to the capitol steps and, among other things, said this: "The new Republicans are extreme right, and some of them ...

Sometimes, folks who haven’t put much thought into it will say, "You can’t legislate morality," when in fact, morality is legislated all the time. Morality and legality do not exist in separate, ...

When the debate over vice laws, those governing drugs, gambling, or pornography, reaches the halls of our Legislature, a ...

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. We hear a lot about being a nation administrated under the rule of law.

Recent responses to the Virginia ultrasound bill included this comment by Del. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond: "We cannot legislate medicine. We cannot legislate morality. We cannot legislate religion ...

Different viewpoints on the appropriate response from state lawmakers to Saturday night’s deadly shooting in Dadeville surfaced soon after the Alabama Senate convened today, meeting for the first time ...

In the last 20 years or so, I have heard the saying you can’t legislate morality at least two dizen times. The latest time was on March 15 in a Bible study at church. Thinking about that, I’ve been a ...

Last month, much of the media was in an uproar over horribly racist social media posts previously shared by a young staffer in the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. The 25-year-old ...