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First Amendment freedom can’t survive ‘war on women’ mobs

By Melanie Sturm
Published April 14, 2014 4:00am ET
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First Amendment freedom can’t survive ‘war on women’ mobs
Perhaps the most liberty-assaulting decree (cunning, too, given its election-year timing) was the unprecedented mandate forcing employers to provide free contraception, including abortion-inducing methods, or face a $100 per day/per employee fine. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) | Danny Johnston

Shouldn’t college students know as much about American civics as they do about pop culture?

Media Research Center TV went to American University last month to find out, discovering few who could name a single U.S. senator or the number of senators from each state. But most knew the Oscar-winning song “Let It Go.”

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