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On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down California’s law mandating that nonprofits turn over their lists of donors to the state. Back in 2015, then-Attorney General Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) demanded that two conservative nonprofits, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), hand over their donor lists. This demand threatened to reveal the identities of donors, potentially subjecting them to threats and harassment.
By a 6-3 majority in
Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta (2021), the Court struck down the donor disclosure requirement, ruling that the disclosure mandate violated the Free Association Clause of the First Amendment. The Court declared the law “facially invalid” because it “burdens donors’ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an important government interest.”
Two turkey hunters entered the predawn darkness of a spring wood.
Well, let’s be honest. One was a turkey hunter, and the other was his neighbor, outfitted in borrowed camos and a hand-me-down shotgun. The day before he had used a turkey-sized hunk of cardboard for target practice.
In the darkness, the hunter said to wait and listen. If a tom turkey gobbled from his roost, they’d go toward him. And like some miracle, a tom gobbled, and they bushwhacked toward the sound. At the edge of a pasture, they climbed into a buckthorn thicket and waited.
An hour passed. The hunter played with his turkey calls, and the neighbor tried to hold still. An indigo bunting perched on a branch just inches from their shotguns, and a small doe walked up for a sniff. They were invisible. The hunter shook his camo seedcap on the ground. The sound mimicked a turkey dropping from his roost. Amazingly, the hat trick worked, and a tom gobbled close by. It was daylight now.
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Chris Fink s Perspective March 11, 2021
My eyeglasses are like a school of fish that swim through the house. Just yesterday I knew their secret hiding places. Where are they today? It’s morning, and I have my coffee. Now it’s time to read something. No glasses. I yell out to the house, as my father did before me, Who stole my spectacles?! No answer. There is never any answer. My voice must spook the fish.
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There are half a dozen glasses finning in the school, gathering and dispersing in random patterns. Cheap readers, these aren’t exotic neon tropicals. Still, they are attractive in their subdued, Midwestern way: a clear fish and a bluish fish, tortoiseshell fishes in myriad shades. Like the plecostomus, they hide from me in the dark corners of the aquarium. I look and look and look for them. Finally, they materialize in the laundry room, one on the washing machine, and another dangling lazily from the co
Dan Libman learns it takes modern technology to enjoy an ancient sport.
Ice fishing is a revered winter sport in the Midwest – as soon as the ice is thick enough, tiny huts start popping up on lakes across the region. But the sight of ice shanties is less common in Illinois than it is in some neighboring states, where ice may freeze thicker and lakes are more plentiful.
Rule #1 of ice fishing: Don’t reveal the site of your favorite fishing spot. Under penalty of being laughed at, don’t even ask.
Dan confesses the extent of his ice fishing knowledge begins and ends with