Results for First Amendment

  1. Iowa Republicans: please consider extra campaigning assistance for Joni Ernst for the next two weeks. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/07/12/iowa-republicans-pl…xtra-campaigning-assistance-joni-ernst-next-two-weeks-n49709
    Oops, sorry, that’s language from the First Amendment to the Constitution.  …
  2. Philly doctor Lee Silverman shoots murderer at 'gun-free' hospital. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/07/26/gun-control-shooting-philadelphia-lee-silverman-n49866
    Lee] Silverman was armed in the first place since bringing a gun to work is against the rules at the hospital. … Some of my more, ah, rigorous fellow-travelers on the Second Amendment have a saying: Better to be judged by twelve than carried by…
  3. Why Have a Bill of Rights ? https://redstate.com/drrobertowens/2014/07/26/bill-rights-n49863
    would have been impossible to gain the votes needed if the backers of a centralized national government had not promised that the first … In consequence the Constitution was lengthened to include the first ten amendments as the opening business of Congress. … Ever since the 17th Amendment stripped the States of their representation in Congress our federal system has been debilitated to the…
  4. Wikipedia bans Capitol Hill from making Wikipedia edits. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/07/25/congress-reptoid-don-rumsfeld-wikipedia-n49860
    Where do you think he got the money to fund Fang Island in the first place? Via Memeorandum. … *Let me note, in passing, that while religious cant like that is certainly protected by the First Amendment it’s still probably not…
  5. What is Obama Hiding at His Wealthy Donor Fundraisers? https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/07/24/obama-hiding-wealthy-donor-fundraisers-n49846
    The first is that in 2010, Obama took the nearly unprecedented step of blasting a sitting Supreme Court for their Citizens United decision … said Obama stands by his opposition to the Citizens United decision and support of the DISCLOSE Act and even a constitutional amendment…
  6. Outrage: the FEC tramples Paul Ryan's First Amendment rights https://redstate.com/lifeofgrace/2014/07/24/outrage-fec-tramples-paul-ryans-first-amendment-rights-n49845
    The FEC’s trampling the First Amendment rights of a sitting Congressman is beyond every red line of Government tyranny we have. …
  7. E.J. Dionne's Unseemly Whinging About the Judiciary Continues Apace https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/07/24/e-j-dionnes-unseemly-whinging-judiciary-continues-apace-n49844
    Not to be outdone, numerous judges over the last forty years have echoed in their decisions their belief, first set forth in the repudiated … Georgia decision, that the death penalty is unconstitutional, in spite of the fact that the explicit text of the Fifth Amendment states…
  8. Why I own an AR-15. https://redstate.com/patrickmillsaps/2013/01/09/why-i-own-an-ar-15-n48043
    Maybe it was Wayne LaPierre’s, “Don’t-Blame-the-Second-Amendment-Blame-the-First-Amendment” speech.   … Well, I don’t think the First Amendment had anymore or less to do with some psychopath nut job killing small children than the Second … Amendment–I don’t believe in selective Constitutionalism.  …
  9. Harry Reid Plotting to Abolish the Filibuster https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/01/07/harry-reid-plotting-to-abolish-the-filibuster-n48076
    Within the first few weeks of the new session, we must confront a grave assault on the Filibuster in the Senate. … absurd argument that the Senate is not a continuous body, and is therefore not governed by the rules of the previous session on the first … Harry Reid always uses a parliamentary maneuver to fill the amendment tree with pro forma amendments before anyone can offer anything…
  10. GATA https://redstate.com/patrickmillsaps/2013/01/05/gata-n48314
    First, it has firmly been established the GOP is terrible on defense.   … First, Boehner needs to shut this Sandy debacle down.  … For instance, in the next week the House should pass and Obamacare “patch” that reinstates the First Amendment Right to religious liberty…
  11. Barack Obama planning wide-range gun-grabbing legislation? https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/01/05/barack-obama-gun-control-n45196
    If Obamacare taught us nothing else, it taught us that a Democratic politician is a Democrat first, a Democrat second – and, say, pro-life … So I recommend that nobody trust anybody in the Democratic party to keep from mucking with the Second Amendment.…
  12. Tech at Night: Netflix proves me right on Net Neutrality. DoJ on Swartz. https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2013/01/19/tech-at-night-n…tflix-proves-me-right-on-net-neutrality-doj-on-swartz-n45275
    Yes, Democrats can walk all over digital libertarians on video game censorship, too, a first amendment issue, and like sheep they will…
  13. Spending at Gun Point https://redstate.com/breeanneh/2013/01/17/spending-at-gun-point-n45265
    and now that he has, the focus of Republicans and Conservatives has been squarely on his ever-encroaching attack on the Second Amendment … the President’s move, “He paid lip service to our fundamental constitutional rights, but took actions that disregard the Second Amendment … Many Americans may think the President’s gun control spending is the first in 2013, forgetting that the federal government started…
  14. The Purpose of the Second Amendment https://redstate.com/erick/2013/01/15/the-purpose-of-the-second-amendment-n45254
    The amendment is not about sports. It is not about recreation. It is not about hunting. … The second amendment is about ensuring a “free state.” … Under the real purpose of the second amendment, a 30 round magazine might be too small.…
  15. Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/01/15/never-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste-n45250
    The House will first try to pass a bill (H.R. 152) to provide about $17 billion to address the ‘more immediate’ recovery needs, including … 51% Then the House will consider an amendment, sponsored by Rep. … As for offsets, they did make one amendment in order – a Mulvaney amendment to offset the $17 billion cost with a 1.63% cut in all…
  16. Gun Control: WWJD? https://redstate.com/aglanon/2013/01/14/gun-control-wwjd-n45236
    It has long been the position of 2nd Amendment advocates that gun control works against the public safety in that it leaves the law … “First and foremost there is no such thing as an ‘assault weapon,’” says radio host and CNN contributor Dana Loesch on her blog this … “[The] Nazi invention (Sturmgewehr) fully named Sturmgewehr 44, and is regarded as the first “assault” rifle.…
  17. "When they outlaw guns, only outlaws (and tyrants) will have guns..." https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2013/01/11/when-they-outlaw-guns-only-outlaws-and-tyrants-will-have-guns-n48073
    Moreover, (via Drudge) in Louisiana, the Sheriff’s Department in Caddo Parish is “inviting children to participate in the “Kids First … Checking the box…’ NRA blasts Biden after gun task force meeting After Meeting, NRA Says White House Has ‘Agenda to Attack the Second Amendment … ’ Handy pro-gun talking points Why I’m against gun control Two-Faced Union Bosses Help Shape Obama’s Attack On 2nd Amendment Did Union…
  18. Over 1,000 Educators Apply for Armed Teacher Training https://redstate.com/jasonahart/2013/01/11/over-1000-educators-apply-for-armed-teacher-training-n48168
    announced in a January 9 release that over 1,000 educators have applied for its partner foundation’s Armed Teacher Training Program first … Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, interest from teachers and other school employees was much higher than the pro-Second Amendment … Buckeye Firearms Foundation plans to hold the first Armed Teacher Training Program class this spring, and intends to “select a wide…
  19. Harry Reid... does not *cave* on the filibuster. Rather, he *disengages*. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/01/24/harry-reid-does-not-cave-on-the-filibuster-rather-he-disengages-n45309
    leader can short-circuit the filibuster against moving to a new bill so long as he allows the minority party to offer two germane amendment … livid, given that Reid’s given up a bit, not least of which is (in at least some cases) his time-honored trick of filling up the amendment … Yes, Democrats can point to some cherished action items that were lost in the first half of Obama’s term (the public option, card check…
  20. Stop the Reid/McConnell Filibuster Deform https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/01/24/stop-the-reidmcconnell-filibuster-deform-n45307
    First, he will offer a rules change that would need 60 votes to get over a filibuster of the rules change because it has been drafted … The first resolution would provide two options to expedite the motion to proceed.  … The first option would allow Senator Reid to file cloture shortly after filing a bill. …
  21. Saving the National Republican Rules from the Ginsberg Blunders in Tampa https://redstate.com/morton_c_blackwell/2013/01/21/saving-th…republican-rules-from-the-ginsberg-blunders-in-tampa-n48287
    That Committee, one third of our RNC members, worked diligently, debated carefully every proposed amendment, reviewed its years of … First, he systematically submitted amendments to reverse the few and useful changes adopted by the Standing Committee and the full … No such amendment shall be adopted after September 30, 2014.…
  22. Reflections on the American Revolution: The Militia https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2013/02/01/reflections-on-the-american-revolution-the-militia-n45351
    militia as both a bulwark against tyranny and a line of national defense was, of course, famously the backdrop for the Second Amendment … When Washington undertook to form a Continental Army from the forces before Boston in 1775, he initiated the first of several measures … During the first two campaigns of the war, it was the custom to encourage both the enlisted soldier and the militiaman to bring their…
  23. Schumer: Indeed Enforcement is Not a Precondition to Citizenship https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/02/01/schumer-indeed-enforcement-is-not-a-precondition-to-citizenship-n45349
    All things equal, when preparing to compromise on a policy issue, it is better for conservatives to first work together to craft a … That is why it is so disconcerting that the statement of “conservative principles” on the issue of immigration was first crafted with … In other words, we need ‘comprehensive’ enforcement first.…
  24. Tech at Night: What goes around, comes around for Sprint. Hey Chuck Grassley: Everybody knows you never go full Biden. https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2013/01/31/tech-at-night-w…huck-grassley-everybody-knows-you-never-go-full-biden-n45342
    Hey Chuck Grassley: The first amendment is not a suggestion any more than the second amendment is.…
  25. Restoring Limited Government https://redstate.com/repkerryb/2013/02/19/restoring-limited-government-n48067
    For the first time in history inaction is now a taxable undertaking. … Below is my proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. … Kerry Bentivolio is a first-term Congressman who represents Michigan’s 11th district.…