So much for wishing and hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would declare race-based college admissions policies unconstitutional. On Monday, the court ruled 7-1 that the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals didn’t hold the University of Texas at Austin (UT) to the burden of strict scrutiny as expressed in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) when it upheld the school’s race-based admissions policy. The court sent Fisher v. University of Texas back to the 5th Circuit.

As if the slaughter of unborn babies weren’t enough, the pro-abortion lobby wants taxpayers to continue funding the dismemberment for “poor” women. But Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and others are trying to restrict such funding. On Monday, the Republican governor signed into law a bill that bars private insurers in Pennsylvania’s state health exchange, set up under the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” from including abortion coverage.

I’ll admit my bias. I want Tim Tebow—Heisman Trophy winner and former quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the New York Jets—to have a successful career in the NFL because he’s a Christian. I want to see him continue to walk the straight and narrow and hold himself out as a witness to Christ’s grace and mercy.

Last year, American Atheists filed suit in Bradford County, Fla., to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the courthouse grounds on a separation of church and state claim, a principle that doesn’t appear in the U.S. Constitution. The parties settled. At the end of the month, American Atheists will be allowed to erect a large, granite bench on the grounds with quotes from fellow unbelievers—Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, among others. The bench will be the first such monument on U.S. government property. 

The old medical practice of bleeding sick people was based on the ancient idea that the body contained four substances called “humors.” The doctor withdrew blood from the patient to restore the body’s balance. But advances in science and medicine have long since proven bloodletting to be wrongheaded and harmful. Looking back, I wonder how intelligent people could have thought that draining an already weak person’s lifeblood would cure him of his ailment.

What’s the old saying? It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you.

By now you’re probably aware that the IRS, the taxpayer-supported government agency charged with collecting chunks of our income and enforcing the Byzantine tax code, told its processors to scrutinize “political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement” applying for tax-exempt status.