This column originally appeared on the American Thinker website on February 6, 2010.

It’s a good bet that the conversation in the Supreme Court break room the morning after the president’s State of the Union speech was about Obama’s drive-by distortion of its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. Predictably, the spin at The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune was “Alito Disparages Obama’s Supreme Court Criticism.”

Where else but in the Bizarro World of Obama’s branch offices at the Post, Trib, and MS-NBC could we find such a polar opposite version of “reality”? Like their champion, these media corporations are extremely vexed that the Court […]

On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court empowered ordinary Americans to speak out on an equal footing with millionaires and the media in U.S. elections. Threatened by people being able to freely speak their minds, the president of the United States deceived the American people when discussing this court decision in the State of the Union.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday, every American should be worried when the president of the United States starts threatening the highest court in the land.

In recent months, at least three major newspapers have carried columns attempting to push Chief Justice John Roberts into voting to uphold a grossly unconstitutional federal law. But their cheap distortions and Chicken Little yammering will fail. The chief justice will do his job, and the country will be better off for it.

Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was the Imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, died in a shoot-out on Oct. 28 after firing on FBI agents during a raid in Dearborn, Michigan. Another seven Muslims were apprehended, and various weapons seized.