Category Archives: 1st Amendment

Obama To Attempt More Interference With Private Corportations

If it’s yet another day ending with a “y,” it must be another day that Obama is planning on hosing private business President Barack Obama, criticized by campaign finance reform advocates for not living up to his repeated pledges to reduce the role of special interests in elections, plans an aggressive push-back to last week’s […]

In SCOTUS McCain-Feingold Decision, People Miss The Best Way To Reduce Monetary Influence In Elections

If you haven’t heard about the SCOTUS decision, here’s a little recap Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the […]

Wacky Alan Grayson (D-Fl) Wants To Jail Critic For 5 Years

Just imagine the furor from the media, the Nutroots, and Democrats on the floor of the House if Grayson had an “R” after his name Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that […]

Chinese PWN Obama During Human Rights Speech

This is the kind of thing that was bound to happen after the Sec. Of State started off the year by telling the Chinese government that human rights were second to economic survival. It’s also the the kind of thing a country can do when they hold a huge chunk of the U.S. debt in […]

Derogatory Language Equals Bad Times, Unless……..

Food for thought #1 Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson issued his second apology in 12 months Tuesday and was told to stay away from the team while the NFL and the Chiefs complete their investigation into his use of a gay slur. As Johnson was releasing his apology, a national gay rights advocacy […]

Obama’s Capable Of Threats And Trashing Constitution At Same Time

I guess Mr. Constitutional professor was all out of bubble gum President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of airing “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to strip the industry of its longstanding exemption from federal anti-trust laws. In unusually harsh terms, […]

Hey, Cool, Obama And The Dems Finally Have A Health Care Opponent

I’m guessing the Washington Post forgot all about the Republican electa-critters who decried government run health care and offered up all sorts of plans, not too mention the TEA Parties, and all those folks who were questioning their electa-critters at Townhalls, who knew more about the legislation than the electa-critters. Moving on Now they have […]

White House Has Plan To Data Mine Social Networks

Ah, remember the good old days, when people on the Left flipped out and lied about a program to monitor communications from overseas to known and suspected Islamic terrorists without a warrant? Remember when the left pitched hissy fits over the the Bush administration gathering information about phone call patterns from the telecoms, which included […]

Texas State Law Requires Teaching Of Bible In Public School

If anything should bring the ACLU out of the woodwork, well, other than protecting Islamic Jihadis, and cause a full Force 10 freekout, this should The school year is almost here, and if literature of the Bible is not already offered in your child’s school, it will be this fall. Books are a common sight […]

HCToday: Democracy Is Sick, Woops, A New Anti-Public Option Poll

Ezra Klein is seemingly all over the map with his latest post It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick. Too start with As Josh Marshall says, we’ve reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen’s op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some […]

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