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.…

Nov 27, 2012 – What is true is that Reid routinely files cloture on matters before the first word has come out of either side’s mouth. … Thus, Reid effectively shuts off any debate or amendment on some of the most important issues of our time. … Remember several things: First, two years ago, Reid promised that he would reciprocate for Republican concessions by allowing the…

Nov 26, 2012 – We Are Ohio’s slogan regarding the constitutional amendment proposed by Ohioans for Workplace Freedom reads like a combination of George … or describing what the amendment would actually do. … The full text of the proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution is included below.…

Dec 13, 2012 – With his March announcement of a constitutional amendment to ban right-to-work and reverse Republican-led government reforms, sources … It was the UAW’s Bob King who fired the first shot.…

Dec 13, 2012 – transformational change, such as free market entitlement reform, elimination of a number of discretionary departments, or a balanced budget amendment … Boehner and the boys are scared to fight now; for the same reason they were scared to fight a dozen other times, including during the first…

Dec 12, 2012 – Thompson, who wrote the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment, also authored the amendment to the Ohio Constitution proposed by Ohioans … “Between 1947 and 1992, the number of jobs grew by 88.5 percent in first-tier counties on the pro-business side, 26 percentage points … more than the 62.6 percent increase for first-tier counties on the anti-business side,” Holmes wrote in the Spring 2000 issue of the…

Dec 11, 2012 – Last June, Senator Rand Paul illustrated this liberal hypocrisy by introducing an amendment to the Farm Bill, S. 3240, which would … Only 1 Democrat (Herb Kohl) in the entire Senate voted for this amendment. So what gives?  … It’s not evil to be rich, so long as that wealth is first transferred through the circuitous cycle of government, special interests…

Dec 18, 2012 – This ban was a truly bad idea when it was first imposed under the equally feckless Bill Clinton in 1994 as the Orwellian named Public … Back in 2004, when the first assault weapons ban had lapsed and Senator Dianne Feinstein was trying to generate interest in its extension … The ban on assault weapon simply allows the anti-Second Amendment people to use the next tragedy… and the last body had hardly hit…

Dec 17, 2012 – whom they wouldn’t care were they just inside the birth canal, let’s have the “conversation” about pretending away the Second Amendment … Because they want to change the law, the burden of proof lies on them; so here is the first question they must answer: Why didn’t … But if we are to discuss the value of gun restrictions, we first need an explanation from gun control advocates of why their ideas…

Jan 4, 2013 – But the first step will be to demolish the Senate rules so that gun control only requires 50 votes -– or so that gun control can be … The first McCain-Levin rules change would make it impossible to fight a motion to proceed to gun control legislation.   … Senator Rand Paul is currently planning to offer an  amendment requiring a two-thirds vote in the Senate before any anti-gun measure…

Jan 3, 2013 – The First Amendment is an important part of the Constitution to remember when it comes to these issues, he reminds us.…

Jan 2, 2013 – Even if something in the Constitution did stand in the way, what’s so onerous about the amendment process?   … John Adams supported the Alien and Sedition Acts, which violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech. … Amendment, as Professor Seidman wrongly suggests.…