Mar 3, 2014 – It’s an unbelievably conflated view of the First Amendment. In legalese, this is called a heckler’s veto.  … And with it, they have expelled the First Amendment.…

Mar 21, 2014 – their concern that I’ve swallowed the line of the gun control advocates — that I’ve left the reservation, if you will… Simpson, who first … He opposed a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Idaho, is bad on guns, once said he has “a tendency to lean toward … I just donated $25 to Bryan Smith — the actual pro-second amendment conservative in Idaho who has a better record on guns than Mike…

Mar 18, 2014 – Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) was the first to pioneer this strategy in 2012.  … In an act of desperation, he went up on broadcast television with an ad that touts his support for a balanced budget amendment, spending … It continues: “Ellmers voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment to cut the debt and stop the wasteful spending in Washington.…

Mar 26, 2014 – Charles Boustany is definitely among the first in line. … But this past February was not the first time Boustany carried water for leadership.  … Boustany offered an amendment that would have removed Egypt’s accountability for Hamas’ arms smuggling into Gaza (roll call #535, 6…

Mar 26, 2014 – the leftwing Talking Points Memo, has seemingly failed to grasp that the issue at stake in the Hobby Lobby case is not about the First … Amendment per se, but about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. … Undoubtedly, a corporation with a First Amendment right to speech has one related to free exercise of religion.…

Apr 4, 2014 – the Illinois Supreme Court ruled a law passed in Illinois which effectively banned carrying a loaded weapon violated the Second Amendment … When new crime statistics were released covering the first quarter of 2014 an amazing thing happened Chicago’s first-quarter murder … The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than…

Apr 4, 2014 – Less noticed was the direct assault on the First Amendment by the four justices who made up the minority in this case. … And here’s how Breyer sums it all up: “Accordingly, the First Amendment advances not only the individual’s right to engage in political … In Breyer’s view, the purpose of the First Amendment is to see that (in Chief Justice Hughes’s words) “the will of the people” is done…

Apr 3, 2014 – Congressman Tom Petri (R) hails from Wisconsin’s 6th Congressional District, and since his first few re-election campaigns he’s had … In 2009, Petri voted on the House Education and Labor Committee to approve an amendment offered by Rep. … Democrats in the House later removed the amendment from the Affordable Care Act when it got to the floor.…

Apr 2, 2014 – Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced an amendment that would have allowed states to opt-out of ObamaCare if they established their own … Democrats in the House eventually stripped the Petri-Kucinich amendment from the final version of the Affordable Care Act. … Petri explained that he cast his vote after “we had an amendment in our committee by Dennis Kucinich.”…

Apr 2, 2014 – down limits on campaign speech and the Supreme Court’s decision previously upholding those limits, which he says “denigrates core First … Amendment speech and should be overruled.”…

Apr 18, 2014 –   Nine years ago the US Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by noted Second Amendment authority John Paul Stevens, eviscerated … the “takings” clause of the Fifth Amendment. … another plan in the works for Fort Trumbull, as the city’s coffers remain empty thanks to a missing tax base, this time “a national first​—​a…

Apr 18, 2014 – The religious liberty in the first amendment is meant to protect the religious as they seek to draw people to them. … But the world demands instead that the first amendment be used to draw the religious to the world and silence those who refuse to go…

Apr 17, 2014 – commonsense reform and working to fix our immigration system, House Republicans have voted in favor of extreme measures like a punitive amendment … Wrong Timing First and foremost, we cannot trust Barack Obama to faithfully execute the laws of the land.…

Apr 30, 2014 – First you put in two years slogging away, and then it’s off to Comedy Central to work for the likes of John Stewart. … I was under the impression that we did away with that particular difficulty by ratifying and enacting the 13th Amendment.…

Apr 27, 2014 – Constitution is to limit the power of the federal government and specifically the 10th Amendment states, “powers not delegated to the … For example, first education is a parental issue, then community, then local government and ends with the state as the final and least … But instead of relying on family first and government last, we have turned our unique and once great American way of life on its head…

Apr 25, 2014 – On the first day of revision, they took out the entire line “one nation under God.” … Although disrespectful to our great nation, we can all agree that it is a choice (under the 1st Amendment) to stand and/or recite the…

Apr 21, 2014 – First, it means that any dissent with be met with destruction of your livelihood. … We have a 1st Amendment Thingy that already does that. … One of the big questions is how to define bullying in the first place.…

Apr 21, 2014 – Randall Munroe went off on First Amendment issues in his xkcd comic last week. … Let’s apply the first amendment to all of us, not just some of us.…

Oct 24, 2012 – One of the major reasons why Mitt Romney was able to make such rapid inroads against Barack Obama in their first debate, and why … Clinton’s first two years in office were – aside from championing NAFTA and GATT with Republican support and passage of the Religious … Bush had a much longer record than this of bills that drew bipartisan support in his first term.…

Oct 22, 2012 – . …” The first lady still says that sort of thing. … To justifying high-handed government interference in business, first and foremost by deciding that the government is within its rights … In his first presidential campaign, late in the 2008 primaries, Obama responded to a debate question from Charlie Gibson by admitting…

Nov 8, 2012 – First, this doesn’t account for the increased black turnout.  What is their plan to win black voters (I don’t have one)?  … Romney underperformed the marriage amendment in MN despite spending more money in the state than the pro-marriage campaign. 9)     …

Nov 7, 2012 – A year and a half ago, when Senator Rand Paul literally forced the Senate to consider an amendment to exempt gun records (4473’s) from … In Particular, The Second Amendment Community Became More And More Livid At Boehner’s Reluctance To Force A Show-Down On “Fast And … Thus, Rather Than Making Things Happen, Conservatives Became A “Peanut Gallery” Cheering Section, Hoping Events Like The First Debate…

Nov 20, 2012 – Not that it matters: Susan Estrich’s use to Obama disappeared the second the polls closed, and thanks to the 22nd Amendment he’ll never … ever have to care about her again… Moe Lane (crosspost) PS: You should have seen the first draft of this.…

Nov 28, 2012 – over pot legalization that’s been stacked with groups that can be relied upon to bitterly resent pot legalization is an excellent first … So is ‘asking for guidance‘ from the Justice Department, which is code for Get this stupid amendment bogged down in court, already.…

Nov 28, 2012 – going to Washington sell out the conviction he ran on, but actually, as we’ve all known, does believe in federalism, the tenth amendment … He’s very much a proponent of the 10th Amendment. … This is a most excellent first step by the Senator-Elect from Texas. The conservative movement should congratulate Ted Cruz.…