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  1. The Obama Administration's Assault on Religious Freedom https://redstate.com/streiff/2012/03/09/the-obama-administrations-assault-on-religious-freedom-n42500
    This is not as extreme a question as it appears at first blush. … So, would that not be protected by the First Amendment? MS. … If this HHS regulation survives court challenge, we will have crossed a Rubicon and the First Amendment will never again mean what…
  2. Conservatives Should Mobilize to Help Don Manzullo Against Adam Kinzinger in Illinois https://redstate.com/erick/2012/03/09/conservatives-should-m…help-don-manzullo-against-adam-kinzinger-in-illinois-n42495
    As I noted at the time, “Blackburn’s amendment, by its own description, would have ‘reduce[d] spending by 5.5% in 8 non-securiy spending … It was the first major vote that separated the men from the boys.…
  3. Morning Briefing for March 9, 2012 https://redstate.com/erick/2012/03/09/morning-briefing-for-march-9-2012-n42494
    designed to ensure the House GOP lived up to is “$100 billion in cuts” pledge to nowhere.As I noted at the time, “Blackburn’s amendment … Democrats in a refusal to cut the budget was House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy.It was the first…
  4. Pandering Murkowski Regrets Blunt Amendment Vote, Wishes She Had Voted on Lies Instead https://redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2012/03/06/pandering-murk…t-amendment-vote-wishes-she-had-voted-on-lies-instead-n42464
    I know, it’s not as sexy as someone being called a ‘slut’, but that is what the actual amendment was about. … In fact, the rights delineated in the First Amendment are so crucial, America would not be America without them. … But what says Murkowski, who did vote for the Amendment on Thursday? Total mistake! …
  5. Limbaugh, Fluke, ‘War on Women’ and the Travesty of Cravenly Caving to Lies of the Left https://redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2012/03/05/limbaugh-fluke…d-the-travesty-of-cravenly-caving-to-lies-of-the-left-n42456
    Let’s get the absurd slut faux-outrage and the hypocrisy out of the way first, since Leftist hypocrisy and misogyny happens so often … She is an enemy of the First Amendment, enemy of the truth, enemy of individual liberty and is harmful to all especially women.…
  6. Obama Judge Rules Companies Must Post NLRB's Union Posters, Declines to Consider NLRB Appointments https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2012/03/03/obama-judge…union-posters-declines-to-consider-nlrb-appointments-n42438
    believe the court did not go far enough by failing to determine that the NLRB does not have rulemaking authority, in denying our First … Amendment claim, and in denying our challenge to the alleged recess appointments.…
  7. Yes, Past Performance Does Indicate Future Results https://redstate.com/newt_gingrich/2012/03/19/yes-past-performance-does-indicate-future-results-n42595
    The Senator sponsored the “Santorum Amendment” to raise the Minimum Wage 21.4%. … The result was the first GOP majority in 40 years and the largest increase in pro-life votes in House of Representatives history. … When I was Speaker, we balanced the budget for the first time since the 1920s — and it stayed balanced for four straight years.…
  8. Past Performance Indicates Future Results https://redstate.com/rjsantorum/2012/03/18/past-performance-indicates-future-results-n42581
    by $2.418 billion, and Medicare expenditures increased by $1.426 billion for a total increase of $8.569 billion in RomneyCare’s first … I will balance the budget in my first term.  … I will also call on Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.…
  9. Strange Bedfellows: Unions Protesting For The Right To Target Private Residences Get Tea Party Approval https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2012/03/28/strange-bed…t-to-target-private-residences-get-tea-party-approval-n42695
    Now that the State of Georgia may become the first state to outlaw the offensive tactic, oddly enough, unions are getting support from … “When we’re talking about the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution, we’re not talking about political right-versus-left.…
  10. RSC Budget: Cut, Cap, and Balance is Back – And Here to Stay https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/03/27/rsc-budget-cut-cap-and-balance-is-back-and-here-to-stay-n42682
    Last year, we were proud to be one of the first websites to publicly promote the Republican Study Committee’s Cut, Cap and Balance … It is the first proposal that shows how to balance the budget in 5 years, even without reforming SS and Medicare immediately.  … On Thursday, the Cut, Cap, and Balance budget will be proposed as a floor amendment (H. Con. Res. 113) to the Ryan budget. …
  11. Handicapping Health Care https://redstate.com/steven_willis/2012/03/26/handicapping-health-care-n42670
    The Act violates the 10th Amendment in general or through Medicaid issues. The Penalty violates the taxing power. … First, per Bob Jones, the AIA does not bar persons who show irreparable harm and certainty of success.  … They claim the 14th Amendment effectively repealed the apportionment requirement.  I answer that here.…
  12. Here's What The Court's Going To Do On ObamaCare https://redstate.com/mikehammond/2012/03/25/heres-what-the-courts-going-to-do-on-obamacare-n42662
    Four problems: First, 116 billion is nothing but a politicized magnification of the amount (43 billion) which the insurance companies … Finally, there was the opportunity to reopen the bill to further amendments, including an amendment on the severability clause, to … assuage Democratic moderates like Ben Nelson, after the manager’s amendment had been presented.…
  13. Obama's Continuing Assault on the Law, History, and Facts https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2012/04/04/obamas-continuing-assault-on-the-law-history-and-facts-n42765
    on judicial review yesterday, President Obama offered the following lame (and incorrect) walkback today: THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first … By way of contrast, an excellent example of judicial activism would be virtually every SCOTUS Eighth Amendment decision for the last…
  14. Morning Briefing for April 3, 2012 https://redstate.com/erick/2012/04/03/morning-briefing-for-april-3-2012-n42744
    Circuit’s opinion pretty clearly says that when judges act and the people choose to amend their constitution in response, such an amendment … That is the entire point of the doctrine of judicial review, first announced in Marbury and affirmed without serious challenge ever…
  15. Tech at Night: CISPA is fine, Lieberman-Collins is not. Let Verizon innovate. Make Netflix compete. https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2012/04/18/tech-at-night-c…lins-is-not-let-verizon-innovate-make-netflix-compete-n42905
    Ah, the first amendment. I guess it doesn’t actually matter, since it’s over 100 years old and all.…
  16. A New Highway Bill to Cave City https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/04/16/a-new-highway-bill-to-cave-city-n42877
    Well, the manager’s amendment appears to have vitiated that agreement. … The amazing thing is that 22 Republicans actually voted for this boondoggle, probably without ever reading the manager’s amendment … We need to put our best proposal on the table first. …
  17. I Have No Sympathy for Gary Stein https://redstate.com/erick/2012/04/11/i-have-no-sympathy-for-gary-stein-n42833
    They don’t completely surrender their first amendment rights.Stein has gone beyond that though and does not seem to think he has any…
  18. Sign Letter for Open Appropriations Process in the House https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/04/26/sign-letter-for-open-appropriations-process-in-the-house-n42972
    First, House Republicans were denied the opportunity to vote on all 12 appropriations bills individually.  … last year’s insanity, Tom McClintock has drafted a letter to House leadership requesting adherence to their promise of an open amendment … Yesterday, Congressman Jeff Flake offered an amendment to cut another $95 billion in spending, and let’s just say that the results…
  19. The Second Coming of American Liberal Fascism? https://redstate.com/erick/2012/04/25/the-second-coming-of-american-fascism-n42959
    During the First World War, Woodrow Wilson and the progressive movement used war as a means to rally society to the collective good … George Perkins, a financier of progressive causes at the time, boasted that the First World War “is striking down individualism and … In the second decade of the twenty-first century, progressive activists are engaging in a similar pattern of intimidation and violence…
  20. Another Capitulation on Postal "Reform" https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/04/24/another-capitulation-on-postal-reform-n42954
    First, the bill would rebate $11.1 billion in “overpayments” to the Treasury.  The problem is that these are not overpayments. … Later on, Senator McCain proposed a substitute amendment (S. 1625), which would create a new postal oversight board (similar to BRAC … its own merits or becomes a private entity – free of government regulations, but also free of its government-sponsored monopoly on first…
  21. Michael Booth's #Obamacare conflict of interest at the Denver Post/Colorado Health Foundation. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/01/10/michael-booth-obamacare-denver-post-colorado-health-foundation-n47611
    First, it just recently came out that Senator Mark Udall’s office tried to strong-arm Colorado’s Division of Insurance back in November … Amendment has Always give cover to Democrats written in invisible ink. … To which I say: you first, sir.…
  22. The GOP Open Borders Train Revs Up its Engine https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2014/01/08/the-gop-open-borders-train-revs-up-its-engine-n47591
    Why not wait until Republicans control the White House, and we can trust the president to faithfully execute the enforcement first, … And thanks to Harry Reid’s new precedent, that would include control over the amendment process. …
  23. Veterans Used as Pawns in Omnibus Bill https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2014/01/15/veterans-used-as-pawns-in-omnibus-bill-n47639
    There is certainly no open amendment process.  … Now they are using the omnibus to reinstate that funding, forcing members who never backed the deal in the first place to vote for…
  24. Tech at Night: Reading Amazon's shipping patent. Netflix admits the Net Neutie scare stories aren't true. https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2014/01/23/tech-at-night-r…etflix-admits-the-net-neutie-scare-stories-arent-true-n47695
    They want to get items that are likely to be ordered into the networks of their package carriers, down to the local hub or first three … It’s time to repeal the 26th amendment. Kids today, sheesh.…
  25. Connecticut discovering that Scary Gun control is harder than it looks. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/02/19/connecticut-gun-control-registration-civil-disobedience-n48386
    my general rule of thumb that the average gun-control activist is about twenty or so IQ points dumber than the average Second Amendment … This November will be the first election after the law was passed; neither party’s legislators are particularly eager to have this … And there’s some argument that they are stupid, alas; after all, Connecticut passed this law in the first place.…