​This summer, we have all witnessed the heavy hand of government intervening in the freedom of speech, as the behavior of the Secret Service at both the Republican convention in Cleveland and the Democratic convention in Philadelphia was troubling and unconstitutional.

  Given the court's determinations at the time of the initial trial (1981), John Hinckley was treated as a psychotic and deranged individual who desperately needed treatment. the public needed to be protected from the unstable and dangerous man whom Hinckley had demonstrated to be.
  Hinckley was assigned to the care of a psychiatric facility and his freedom was taken from him in a far greater way than a common criminal ever experiences. He was forcibly drugged with therapeutic drugs. He had no privacy from medical personnel. He had greatly limited information of the outside world.
  Thanks to the advances in psychiatric medicine, Hinckley now poses no danger to the public. That is a very carefully researched and scrutinized decision this federal judge has ever presided over.
 The political outcry for Hinckley's further incarceration is little more than if a man cut off his own nose to spite his own face.  Hinckley has been costing us millions of dollars in criminal justice procedures and orders. He now finally has to pay for his own lodging and meals. Yes, right now Hinckley is medically disabled. But part of his court order is to begin doing volunteer work. That will hopefully go well and add to the progression of his recovery.
Hinckley will never fully repay his debt to society. But no one repays debts by sitting in prisons of any kind.
  

 Ted Cruz began the race cozying up to Trump, and that was a strategic mess, it turned out, because in the end, there were those who didn’t trust him. I was one of them.

As it became clear that it would be a battle between Trump and Cruz, Trump not only abandoned the pledge, but took everything to the gutter.

He attacked Heidi Cruz’s looks (not everybody can wear plastic and Bond-o like Melania), spread vicious rumors to the tabloids about multiple affairs Cruz had supposedly had, and spewed conspiracy theories about Cruz’s dad.

Trump didn’t just go dirty politics. He went dirty. Period. Because he’s incapable of debating policy and record, he did the only thing an adulterous reality TV joke can do, and he tried to ruin Cruz’s family!
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HIS. FAMILY.

Way more important than any public office, and Trump meddled in the sanctity of Cruz’s home by trying to cause hurt and heartache. Were I his wife, and he simply caved to a man of such low character as Trump, there would be hell to pay.

His duty as a husband, father, and son should always take precedence over his “job.”

  Heidi Cruz is part of Ted’s reason here for not being able to offer an endorsement: How could I support a man, he says, who’d insult my wife? Could you support him if you were in my position? That’s clever politics in that it turns the alpha-male bravado that so many Trump fans prize about him against them. As a matter of simple masculine honor, what kind of schmuck would shill for a guy who’d mocked his wife’s looks (and had casually suggested that his father might be involved in the Kennedy assassination, by the way)?
   What you’re seeing from Cruz here and last night is a reflection of the two core #NeverTrump arguments, one ideological and the other more moral and visceral. Cruz made the ideological argument last night: I can’t support any candidate who doesn’t take the Constitution seriously. He made the moral argument this morning: I can’t support a bad guy. Whether he would have made this second argument if things hadn’t gone sideways last night is an open question. To me, it seems like he’s lurching towards the moral argument now because he senses that the ideological one wasn’t well received, even with his own delegation from Texas.
   As we’ve learned through bitter experience this year, a lot of Republicans don’t care much about conservative ideals. Everyone, however, can understand the straightforward righteous fury of a husband in defense of his wife. You may see more of this from Cruz if his beating on the right for snubbing Trump is harsher than expected. What was I supposed to do after what Trump said about Heidi, he’ll say? What was he supposed to do?

  I’m surprised, by the way, that that’s the only reason Cruz gave here for breaking his pledge. Did he forget that time in March when Trump took a very public dump on the pledge live on CNN?  Trump killed the pledge months ago. Cruz was simply following the new rules.

  Gov. Mary Fallin's office is still determined to find some criminal activity she can use
​ to justify a crackdown on this home education innovation.