Who’s Afraid of the Ten Commandments?
A court dispute reflects just how far America has fallen from its Founders’ vision.
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JOSH HAMMER
South Florida
Josh Hammer is a Contributor to The New York Sun.
Mr. Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, he is a constitutional attorney by training.
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