First Amendment

Blogline of the Day: Reagan brought it down in Germany – Is Obama rebuilding it here?

May 20, 2013

ABC NEWS TEAM SHADOWED BY ARMED GUARDS: Has An Iron Curtain Descended On The Cincinnati IRS Office? Does a Free Country so severely control a Free Press?  Last time I knew, no. We are often told, when we object to more Governmental intrusion, “If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about!”.  [ Read more ]

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OK, so where DOES it state “Separation of Church & State” in the Constitution?

May 16, 2013

For many, the answer is “er, somewhere in there”.  For others, it’s an inside joke (watch and find out). I agree with the Professor – what has come to pass was never written at all.  This is splendid discussion of what I have posited in the past – that perhaps it is time to bring [ Read more ]

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Some people in Colorado are upset! Awwww…

April 30, 2013

“Two billboards in which images of Native Americans are used to make a gun rights argument are causing a stir with some residents who say the image is offensive and insensitive.” (You can read the whole thing HERE.) It’s called the First and Second Amendments, all you politically correct chumps. This is still America, not [ Read more ]

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HHS Mandate Suffers Setback

March 14, 2013

From Caffeinated Thoughts, long time friend of the Grok Shane Vander Hart reports on a court decision in favor of Thomas Monaghan and his property management corporation, which objected to the HHS contraceptive mandate on religious grounds. Judge Zatkoff’s decision protects freedom granted under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  Thomas More Law Center, in their press release, [ Read more ]

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Freedom depends on who gets to choose and make the decisions

March 3, 2013

The abridged definition of “Freedom” is how many choices one can make, unforced and unfettered.  I get to make the choice – not you and not Government.  When you and Government starting making those decisions for me, that by definition, is less Freedom. The Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution, was [ Read more ]

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“Gun Control has Racist Roots” … Wait. What? Part II

February 22, 2013

Grokster Scott’s post was not what I was expecting and certainly the folks in the video were speaking their hearts.  But in putting up some of the quotes, I think he missed one – and the one that makes the most importance, so I transcribed it.  Rev. William Owens Jr., Founder, “God, Guns and the [ Read more ]

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Talking Head Show Doodlings – Assorted

February 10, 2013

I DVR and watch the “Talking Head Sunday Morning shows” like Meet the Press, This Week, Face the Nation, and even WUMR’s Closeup”; why?  Somebody is bound and determined to say something stupid.  Well, it is still early and have only gone through Fox New Sunday, but Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi did not disappoint.  In [ Read more ]

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Tyranny #1 – Where Steve Vaillancourt decides to make it about himself…and approves of overt threats of Tyranny

February 3, 2013

“They may as well attack me as well.”   OK, battle joined – you asked, we’ll oblige: You’re an arse of a Libertarian for siding with Statists that promote promise threaten Governmental Tyranny against fellow citizens simply for holding opposing political views. This is the first of a series of posts about Governmental Tyranny (or [ Read more ]

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Wahhhhhh…

January 28, 2013

‘If you think Democrats are overstepping on guns now, wait til they get a hold of the first amendment!’ H/T The Looking Spoon

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Turkey Feathers and AR-15s

January 12, 2013

I’m so very tired of the intellectually empty argument from self-loathing (yet surprisingly haughty) Americans that “the Constitution was written by a bunch of dead, white, slave-owners” and that “the second amendment was written about muskets“. Regarding the first of these two arguments: The Founders were the intellectual superstars of their time.  Most of them [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – F. A. Hayek

December 31, 2012

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people. – F. A. Hayek, the Road to Serfdom   Certainly, Progressives believe that they have new “freedom not to be bankrupted from illness” with Obamacare – but are destroying [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Dr. Matthew J. Franck

December 26, 2012

I have been getting Imprimis (a monthly commentary from Hillsdale College) for a while now.  I had kept this one, entitled “Individual, Community, and State: How to Think About Religious Freedom” as it has a number of things to reflect upon: Fourth, the power of government, necessary as it is to maintaining a shared moral [ Read more ]

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Merry Hanukwanzmas

December 24, 2012

Happy Christmakwanzukkah?  How about Yule or Saturnalia?  Whatever your winter solstice holiday poison may be you can bet your Establishment Clause and his eight tiny ACLU reindeer that the real winners will be the secular humanists and the flying monkey Lawyer-politicians that pull their empty sleigh; craven acolytes of the void, committed to pressuring anyone [ Read more ]

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Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA): “The Rights of the few…”

December 17, 2012

Every Sunday, I DVR the talking head shows.  This week was more arduous than most because we already knew what the topic du show were going to be: Newtown and the horrific event that happened there.  Knowing, too, who was going to be on the shows, I heard exactly what I thought I would – [ Read more ]

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Facebook Doodlings – really, Christian Shariah?

November 19, 2012

There’s a whole lot of yakking going on in the Right side of politics – what went wrong and “what went wrong” but really different.  And of course, the various nostrums of what to fix and what to leave alone will be as numerous (at the least) as the number of folks yakking (EVERYbody’s got [ Read more ]

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Our government is spinning out of control….

September 16, 2012

Skip wrote about it yesterday HERE. It’s worth revisiting to see the updated comments. Brownshirts. In the middle off the night. On trumped up charges. With plenty of TV cameras there. This sucks. Our President does too. He is…something other than what a President should be. This is simply disgusting.

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Obama, you’re no Margaret Thatcher when it comes to Free Speech

September 16, 2012

Glen Reynolds over at Instapundit is just.all.over.this Obama #FAIL and the way it illustrates the hypocrisy that ReProgressives and Socialists have between the words they speak and what they want you to believe about them, and the actions that belie those words and public beliefs, as he floats all over the blogosphere and reports back: [ Read more ]

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“Carefully considered and narrowly tailored…?”

June 13, 2012

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch Vetoed SB175 this week, a bill that would allow heirs to control the commercial use of a celebrities identity.  But I’m not all that interested in the Veto or the bill, I am more…amused…by the hypocrisy in his explanation for it. The Union Leader reports Governor Lynch as suggesting that [ Read more ]

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Once again, Republican politicians deciding that they have the right to shut down private speech.

May 24, 2012

Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech… Back to “Really, Judd?” But what is the point, if you govern out of control, at cross-odds to Constitutional philosophy, once you get there, as the Democrats now wish to? Oops, this time, its Republicans showing a lack of knowledge of Constitutional values – and respect [ Read more ]

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And so it begins – resisting religious tyranny

May 17, 2012

Although the political conversation over the last week or so has been Obama’s personal redefinition of what traditional marriage is, let’s not forget that he and HHS Secretary Sebelius decided that they were after yet another “First” – the First Administration that felt they had the authority to redefine what a religious organization is or [ Read more ]

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Please Keep Your Hands Off My Speech

May 8, 2012

Political speech is a popular subject these past few days, and seeing as that is what we do here, it should be.  Any slight change about what is defined as paid speech could make what we do very difficult to define financially, and more cumbersome to execute.  Take for example the value of web space [ Read more ]

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The Reality of Progressive Intimidation

March 14, 2012

What you should take away from the Rush Limbaugh fracas, other than that aside from the choice of words, he was right. First, advertisers who initially abandoned Rush Limbaugh are afraid of the left.  They are afraid that the party of big government will come at them with all their resources to undermine whatever it [ Read more ]

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First Amendment Rights – one NH Senator gets it Right, the other does not. Guess which one?

March 10, 2012

Well, at least ONE of our Senators is getting it right on this whole Obama HHS breaching of our First Amendment Right – shhhh, it’s not Senator Jeanne Shaheen that gets the Blunt Amendment right (emphasis mine): Unfortunately many have tried to characterize this amendment as denying women access to contraception. That’s a red herring, [ Read more ]

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Data Point – Importance: First Amendment Right or Free Contraceptives?

February 25, 2012

Gallup has the latest on the views concerning those who believe that the enumerated First Amendment Right to Religious Freedom should reign supreme, or Obamacare forcing religious institutions to provide “free” contraceptives, abortifacients, sterilization, or abortion services to those they cover.  First chart is broken out by sex: Next is support shown by the religious [ Read more ]

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Tyranny of the Pen – but in spinning, Obama’s Jack Lew leaves a glaring and obvious hole

February 13, 2012

Jack Lew used to be Obama’s Budget Director – well, given that the Democrat controlled Senate has now gone 1,100 days since passing a budget (as the law requires), methinks he has had little to do.  Now given that Daley didn’t make nice (or couldn’t) with Jarrett or Michelle, he was elevated to The One’s [ Read more ]

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