Category Archives: 1st Amendment

Arkansas Legislature Passes Religious Freedom Restoration Legislation

This had made liberals very upset, because institutionalized, government approved bigotry against religions (well, any religion but Islam) is a Good Thing in their world (NY Times) The Arkansas legislature on Tuesday passed its version of a bill described by proponents as a religious freedom law, even as Indiana’s political leaders struggled to gain control […]

Things The NY Times Finds Important: Free Speech On License Plates

Following in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, there has been quite a bit of discussion regarding freedom of expression, ranging the gamut from total expression to waffling to “yeah, but”. What concerns the NY Times? A License to Say Anything? SPECIALTY license plates — which bear the logo of a college or a […]

David Brooks: No, We’re Not All Charlie Hebdo

I rarely agree with David Brooks, the NY Times’ token conservative, who is less conservative than your average RINO. However, he makes a hell of a good point The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to […]

PC Loons Lose: FCC Refuses To Deem Redskins Obscene Nor Profane

The cause of doing away with the name “Washington Redskins”, primarily the “Redskins” part, became a Big Issue for liberals, a cause celebre, because someone told them that the Redskins name was mean and evil and racist and bigoted and stuff. So, for months and months they worked to do away with the name “Redskins”, […]

California Orders Churches To Fund Abortions—Or Else

Nothing can stand in the way of liberals holy sacrament of abortion,  not even pesky law and Constitutional provisions (The Federalist) For the past four years, the Obama administration and its friends on the Left were careful to claim that they still strongly support religious libertywhile arguing that Hobby Lobby’s Green family, Conestoga Wood Specialties’ Hahn […]

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Gov’t Tells Ministers To Perform Gay Marriage Or Face Jail

Remember when we were told that things like this wouldn’t happen? (Alliance Defending Freedom) Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit and a motion for a temporary restraining order Friday to stop officials in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from forcing two ordained Christian ministers to perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples. City officials told Donald […]

FCC To Consider Petition To Ban Redskins Name

Old and busted: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington “I do not agree with what you have […]

9 Circuit Court Of Appeals: It’s A-OK For Schools To Restrict The American Flag So As Not To Offend

But of course. Can’t have legal American citizens waving and wearing the American flag and Offending Mexicans waving and wearing the Mexican flag on Cinco De Mayo, a mostly made up holiday celebrated in one tiny Mexican province, and only celebrated here in the U.S. in order to get drunk (Daily Caller) It’s official: the […]

Are Feds Bringing Riot Squads To Block Illegal Alien Protesters?

If this Breitbart report is correct, this is a dangerous escalation of the federal government’s use of blatant power, which violates multiple 1st Amendment Rights As illegal immigrants continue to spill across the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities are attempting to relocate the migrants from South Texas to housing facilities in states across the nation. One […]

Obama Looking For Way To Get Women Free Abortifacients

This is something that has them Highly Concerned (NY Times) The Obama administration, reeling from back-to-back blows from the Supreme Court this week, is weighing options that would provide contraceptive coverage to thousands of women who are about to lose it or never had it because of their employers’ religious objections. The administration must move […]

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