Results for First Amendment

  1. An Opportunity To Appease https://redstate.com/streiff/2012/09/17/an-opportunity-to-appease-n44433
    Were Nasrallah serious he could take a huge first step by advocating freedom of worship and freedom of religion in the Arab world. … Obama is distrustful of American power and American culture and will not take any meaningful step to use the first or defend the latter … Amendment.…
  2. Media Malpractice https://redstate.com/erick/2012/10/02/media-malpractice-n44548
    the press, as the situation in Libya unfolded, decided to spend more time accusing Mitt Romney of gaffes than either defending the first … amendment relating to that idiotic video or actually reporting on just how screwed up the White House’s response was — objectively…
  3. Tech at Night: Reformist regulators are needed to undo the Obama damage https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2012/10/02/tech-at-night-r…ormist-regulators-are-needed-to-undo-the-obama-damage-n44547
    A basic problem with FTC privacy regulation seems to be that it breaks the first amendment, per Facebook.…
  4. A Clash of Civilizations At Home And Abroad https://redstate.com/streiff/2012/10/01/a-clash-of-civilizations-at-home-and-abroad-n44546
    He concludes that free speech really isn’t an American value, notwithstanding that First Amendment nonsense, and it is really over … This is that Americans need to learn that the rest of the world—and not just Muslims—see no sense in the First Amendment. … They seem to be advocating what even NPR contemptuously calls a “foreign policy exception” to the First Amendment.…
  5. Charles Boustany: The Most Pro-Palestinian Republican in Congress https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/09/28/charles-boustany-the-most-pro-palestinian-republican-in-congress-n44532
    Meanwhile, Charles Boustany not only attended their first annual conference, he received their endorsement for Congress. … Boustany offered an amendment that would have removed Egypt’s accountability for Hamas’ arms smuggling into Gaza (roll call #535, 6…
  6. Ross Douthat Misses The Obvious https://redstate.com/streiff/2012/10/14/russ-douthat-misses-the-obvious-n44656
    First, there was no riot in Benghazi. Second, there was advance warning of the attack. … Christians and that silly First Amendment thing were to blame.…
  7. Tech at Night: FCC's own snooping scandal? Also, Collins turns on Obama on cybersecurity https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2012/10/11/tech-at-night-f…scandal-also-collins-turns-on-obama-on-cybersecurity-n44624
    and EFF lose in their anti-AT&T jihad over the right to call terrorists abroad and the right of said terrorists to have fourth amendment … Hey guys: an IP address hasn’t uniquely identified a person since the first dial-up dynamic IP address pool.…
  8. A Look at Chuck Todd and Conspiratorial Media Incest https://redstate.com/erick/2012/10/09/chucktodd-and-the-incest-conspiracy-n44618
    You’ll probably even get some poo-pooing about excesses of the First Amendment with regards to Coptic Christians and Citizens United…
  9. Joe Walsh For Congress https://redstate.com/erick/2012/10/09/joe-walsh-for-congress-n44615
    issues, as a freshman member of Congress he has led on numerous Conservative priorities including leading our balanced Budget Amendment … The first piece of legislation that Joe Walsh introduced was a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.…
  10. Blast from the past: Michael Barone predicted the Obama Thugocracy in '08. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/02/28/blast-from-the-past-michael-barone-predicted-the-obama-thugocracy-in-08-n45512
    natural to suppress speech that they don’t like and seem utterly oblivious to claims that this violates the letter and spirit of the First … Amendment.…
  11. Susan Crawford’s Captive Audience Filled with Misplaced Fear https://redstate.com/fredcampbell/2013/02/28/susan-crawfords-captive-audience-filled-with-misplaced-fear-n48052
    The First Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging either “the freedom of speech” (the Speech Clause) or the freedom “of the press … The Supreme Court has stated that new types of speakers or forms of communication are entitled to the same First Amendment protection … The Court has applied First Amendment protection to television broadcasters and cable operators, and I expect the Court will apply…
  12. Conservatives, Not Liberals, Are the Problem https://redstate.com/erick/2013/02/26/conservatives-not-liberals-are-the-problem-n45494
    It is time for conservative Senators to pledge to filibuster everything under the Sun.Let’s start with the House first. … When Republican freshmen come to Washington for the first time every two years, House leadership immediately drills into their heads … Demand number one is to allow bills to be on the Senate floor for a few days and will a real opportunity for amendment.…
  13. Shotgun Joe Inspires a Great Idea: Free AR-15! https://redstate.com/theplumber/2013/02/21/shotgun-joe-inspires-a-great-idea-free-ar-15-n48259
    think of it, spearheading Obama’s pathetic and cynical play on the Newtown massacre to deny law-abiding Americans their Second Amendment … In a firefight with multiple intruders where you are defending your home and your family, 10 rounds will get used up in the first 4 … The Second Amendment is not so much about home defense as it is about the ability of the citizens to protect themselves from government…
  14. What’s the Point of the Ryan Budget? https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/03/11/whats-the-point-of-the-ryan-budget-n45598
    Ted Cruz has introduced an amendment to defund Obamacare.  … amendment.  … There will be no balanced budgets without first derailing implementation of the biggest budget-buster in American history.…
  15. Dianne Feinstein slanders PTSD sufferers. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2013/03/08/dianne-feinstein-fool-california-ptsd-n45584
    this errant nonsense: At a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Thursday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) opposed an amendment … any liberal Democrat (or other kind of historical illiterate) reading this… the properties of post-traumatic stress disorder were first…
  16. Citizens, Subjects and The Greatness of Rand Paul's Filibuster https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2013/03/07/citizens-subjects-and-the-greatness-of-rand-pauls-filibuster-n45572
    “Would you tolerate a Republican who said I like the first amendment, I don’t plan to violate the first amendment, but I might,…”…
  17. What New Conservative Members Need to Know About AIPAC https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/03/07/what-new-conservative-members-need-to-know-about-aipac-n45573
    They actively lobbied against Rand Paul’s amendment to block transfer of planes and tanks to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, weapons … First, in an attempt to ensconce the partisan divide over Israel, they will never support anything that Democrats will not vote for…
  18. Restore Growth First – Defund Obamacare https://redstate.com/ted_cruz/2013/03/06/restore-growth-first-defund-obamacare-n48325
    The very first priority of every elected official—Democrat and Republican—should be restoring economic growth, so we can ensure continued … Therefore, when the Senate votes on the Continuing Resolution, I intend to offer a “Restore Growth First” amendment which will delay…
  19. Colorado Senate Meeting to Restrict 2nd Amendment TODAY https://redstate.com/erick/2013/03/04/colorado-senate-meeting-to-restrict-2nd-amendment-today-n45535
    On Monday morning the Colorado Senate will take up a package of anti-second amendment measures, four of which have already been passed … State Capitol TODAY and then do two things when you get there.I would like to join him in calling for those who support the Second Amendment … and the human right to self defense to do two things on Monday morning: First, show up at the Colorado State Capitol early Monday…
  20. Led by Sen. Mike Enzi, Republicans Will Vote to Raise Taxes & Tax iTunes Downloads https://redstate.com/erick/2013/03/20/led-by-sen-mike-enzi-r…blicans-will-vote-to-raise-taxes-tax-itunes-downloads-n45671
    Senators Durbin and Enzi are inserting an internet tax as an amendment to the Senate budget bill.The tax sounds innocuous enough. … The Marketplace Fairness Act, for the first time, establishes a national sales tax. It does so by hiding behind the states.…
  21. Sen. Ted Cruz' CPAC 2013 keynote speech: Conservatives are winning https://redstate.com/california_yankee/2013/03/17/sen-ted-cr…zs-cpac-2013-keynote-speech-conservatives-are-winning-n45646
    McCain’s derisive comment calling Cruz and Rand Paul wacko birds: “When Rand and I first heard that we thought maybe that was a new … Senator Cruz cited Rand Paul’s recent filibuster, sequestration implementation, and Cruz’ amendment to repeal funding for ObamaCare … , the campaign to restrict gun rights, called for repeal of the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”), in highlighting the First…
  22. Liberty Foundation Formed to Promote "Competitive Federalism" https://redstate.com/jasonahart/2013/03/14/liberty-foundation-formed-to-promote-competitive-federalism-n48176
    With the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913, the federal government gained the ability to siphon more money from the states through … The same year, the 17th Amendment sharply undercut state legislators’ influence by subjecting U.S. … As a first step toward putting competitive federalism into action, Mayer explained that the Liberty Foundation plans to ask members…
  23. Defunding Obamacare is This Easy https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2013/03/12/defunding-obamacare-is-this-easy-n45615
    For the first time in almost two years we are actually having a discussion about the rising cost of health insurance engendered by … Cruz is proposing an amendment to the CR, which is already full of Barbara Mikulski’s pork, to defund Obamacare. … Supporting the amendment in the abstract is not good enough. …
  24. You Will Be Made to Care https://redstate.com/erick/2013/03/29/you-will-be-made-to-care-n45747
    First, you are not loving your neighbor if you are cool with them going to hell. Do you want to go to hell? No? … We are using the state to protect our ability to preach the scripture under the first amendment.…
  25. Same Sex Marriage Is Not the Same As Opposite Sex Marriage https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2013/03/28/same-sex-marriage-is-not-the-same-as-opposite-sex-marriage-n45739
    Fifty-eight percent of first births among this group are now to unmarried women. … About 60 percent of first born children in Denmark now have unmarried parents. … (Solely on the “marriage” front, in Massachusetts’s first four years, this statistic was 62 percent.)…