Results for: First Amendment

Secretary Geithner, spending is not a problem of the past
https://redstate.com/senator_jim_demint/2011/05/18/secretary-geithner-spending-is-not-a-problem-of-the-past-n39051
– trying to solve a real problem with new rhetorical spin while advocating for more of the same policies that caused the problem in the first … All Senate Republicans support passage of a balanced budget amendment. … Geithner should be one of the top supporters of the balanced budget amendment; it would mean he’d never have to ask Congress for a…
Tech at Night: George Soros wants your Internet, and the Democrats are peddling online censorship, and Ryan Giggs is still an adulterer
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/05/28/tech-at-night-g…nline-censorship-and-ryan-giggs-is-still-an-adulterer-n39174
– Curse that pesky First Amendment we have in America.…
Cut, Cap, and Balance
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/27/cut-cap-and-balance-n39170
– In the letter, they first state unequivocally that they will not vote for a debt-ceiling increase without accompanying cuts and reforms … fundamentally and permanently reform the way that Washington budgets and spends, we must send to the states a Balanced Budget Amendment … (BBA) with strong protections against federal tax increases and including a Spending Limitation Amendment (SLA) like the statutory…
Senator Jim DeMint Talks About Union Thugs and their Attack on Boeing
https://redstate.com/tex_whitley/2011/05/27/senator-jim-demint-talks-about-union-thugs-and-their-attack-on-boeing-n39165
– , I think we would eventually get the balanced budget amendment passed. … passed, that would mean next year the states would be debating ratifying that amendment. … But unless we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution this government will bankrupt our country.…
Jon Kyl and Mitch McConnell Are Whipping Colleagues to Oppose Gun Protections
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/26/jon-kyl-and-mitch-mcco…ell-are-whipping-colleagues-to-oppose-gun-protections-n39159
– “Senator Kyl wanted your boss to be aware of a possible firearms amendment that could be voted on today as part of an amendment agreement … Paul USA Patriot Act Gun Records Amendment? … Paul amendment prevents this hypothetical scenario from becoming reality.…
Morning Briefing for May 26, 2011
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/26/morning-briefing-for-may-26-2011-n39146
– “Dirty Harry” Moves To Shut Out Pro-Gun Rand Paul Amendment ———————————————————————- 1. … Koch Brothers.Today Fang attacked the freshman Republican from Arizona’s First Congressional District, Paul Gosar. … The “amendment tree” used to block Republicans from offering amendments on the floor?…
“Dirty Harry” Moves To Shut Out Pro-Gun Rand Paul Amendment
https://redstate.com/mikehammond/2011/05/24/dirty-harry-moves-to-shut-out-pro-gun-rand-paul-amendment-n39132
– The “amendment tree” used to block Republicans from offering amendments on the floor? … In order to circumvent Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s pro-gun amendment to the bill, Reid has now scuttled the Senate version of the … As you know, Rand Paul’s amendment would exempt 4473’s and other gun records from the blanket information demands which BATF can make…
Tech at Night: Crowder on Net Neutrality, Walden on the FCC, Apple on the patent troll, Ryan Giggs is an adulterer
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/05/24/tech-at-night-c…apple-on-the-patent-troll-ryan-giggs-is-an-adulterer-n39117
– Because, you know, in America we have the First Amendment and all that.…
The Time for Action is Now
https://redstate.com/pat_toomey/2011/03/31/the-time-for-action-is-now-n38506
– That’s why I am very pleased that today, the Senate Republican Conference will roll out a balanced budget amendment, cosponsored by … The new, consensus balanced budget amendment is exactly what our country needs. … The balanced budget amendment is the first major step this Congress can take to impose a straitjacket on government spending, restore…
On Ethanol, Conservatives Should Stand With Tom Coburn
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/03/29/on-ethanol-conservatives-should-stand-with-tom-coburn-n38467
– He points out: Unfortunately, this is not the first time your organization has defended distortions in the tax code. … You opposed my amendment on the grounds that it was a “tax increase.” … As CCAGW President Tom Schatz wrote in support of my amendment, “At a time when the nation’s debt has ballooned to more than $14.2…
Where This Is Headed
https://redstate.com/mikehammond/2011/03/24/where-this-is-headed-n38404
– Instead, says the Republican leadership, this is only the first of a series of battles. First, there will be the debt limit. … A balanced budget constitutional amendment? … sound bite, that this is different from the “18% of GDP, subject to sequestration, with supermajority and emergency escape valves” amendment…
When Will the Real Fight Finally Commence?
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/04/10/when-will-the-real-fight-finally-commence-n38628
– They propose an awesome Balanced Budget Amendment as a concession for raising the debt limit. … The amendment would force Congress to pass a balanced budget; the President to submit a balanced budget; the capping of spending at … Boehner has already punted on the first one. …
Of a certain Mississippi poll on marriage, and of those who make hay of it
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/04/08/of-a-certain-mi…ippi-poll-on-marriage-and-of-those-who-make-hay-of-it-n38607
– First, the mention of ‘weighting’ is unusual in that back in the runup to the 2010 elections, PPP polls didn’t mention any weighting … And lastly we move onto the question that brought this poll into prominence in the first place. … The state had already defined marriage as between a man and a woman in 1997 when a constitutional amendment doing the same was passed…
Exclusive Report: RSC Budget, Honest Solutions, Builds Upon Ryan's Blueprint
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/04/07/exclusive-report…c-budget-honest-solutions-builds-upon-ryans-blueprint-n38597
– Earlier this week, Paul Ryan bravely offered the first steps toward achieving fiscal solvency and vitiating dependency on government … This proposal will be introduced as a floor amendment to Ryan’s budget resolution next week. … On Tuesday, we posted an analysis of Ryan’s budget from a conservative perspective, noting that it was an excellent first step; however…
Is Barack Obama Obfuscating the Cause of the Shutdown?
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/04/07/is-barack-obama-obfuscating-the-cause-of-the-shutdown-n38594
– First of all, Obama himself has in the past been okay with the D.C. abortion restrictions. … , Pelosi, and Obama have all voted for appropriations bills that included the Dornan amendment. … President Obama signed the Dornan amendment into law in the fiscal year 2009 budget.…
Mark Steyn: Lindsey Graham Is Unfit For Office
https://redstate.com/snarkandboobs/2011/04/04/mark-steyn-lindsey-graham-is-unfit-for-office-n38546
– I did not think it would be necessary quite so soon to take the same stand in the land of the First Amendment against craven squishes…
Support the RSC Budget Along With Ryan's Budget Today
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/04/15/support-the-rsc-budget-along-with-ryans-budget-today-n38689
– Rodgers and David Dreier switched their votes from yes to no in the last minute in order to thwart a Democrat plan to let the amendment … Every conservative should support this amendment.  … Tell them to vote for the RSC budget amendment!  After all, this is the real fight, isn’t it?…
The Compromise
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/04/11/the-compromise-n38633
– see the survival of the D.C. school voucher program that black parents in Washington, D.C. have been begging for only to see the first … Barack Obama had signed that, called the Dornan Amendment, into law in 2009 and it had the support of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and…
Tech at Night: Privacy, Apple, Copyright, Patent, FCC, Bill Shock
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/04/28/tech-at-night-privacy-apple-copyright-patent-fcc-bill-shock-n38824
– Free State Foundation makes the argument that “Bill Shock” even violates the First Amendment, which is a clever argument.…
When Government Tries to Equalize Free Speech - We End Up With Zero Speech
https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2015/10/26/government-tries-equalize-free-speech-end-zero-speech-n54769
– The First Amendment reads (in part): “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech….” … These two First Amendment assaults were imposed in the name of government-defined-and-mandated speech “equality.”…
Political Wire (.@politicalwire) lies about Ben Carson's abortion position
https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/10/25/political-wire-politicalwire-lies-ben-carsons-abortion-position-n54759
– I’ll be the first to say I applaud Dr. Carson’ comments. … We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections…
It appears that the federal government has no problems at all with people carrying concealed weapons
https://redstate.com/kentucky_dana/2015/10/24/appears-federa…government-problems-people-carrying-concealed-weapons-n54750
– Sometimes you can find interesting articles in industry trade publications.¹ From Concrete Products²: Second Amendment meets NLRA … Media International publication, Volume 118, Issue 10, October 2015, p. 4 _________________________________ Cross-posted on The First…
Democrats are More Bothered by the Second Amendment than Socialism
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/10/22/democrats-bothered-second-amendment-socialism-n54719
– First, voters were asked whether it made them less supportive of Bernie Sanders that the man called himself a socialist. … On the other hand, having even the smallest amount of respect for the Second Amendment is a political death sentence.…
Big Abortion’s Crony Capitalism – Shut Down the Competition
https://redstate.com/matthewclark/2015/10/19/big-abortions-crony-capitalism-shut-competition-n54676
– (You can read more about the bill as we explained it when it was first proposed here.)  … At the ACLJ, we challenged these restrictions on First Amendment grounds, winning an injunction at the district court. … Amendment rights.…
Lies and Flopsweat: The Three Democrat Attacks on the Benghazi Committee
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/10/19/lies-flopsweat-three-democrat-attacks-benghazi-committee-n54670
– In fact, this deliberate lie formed the basis of Hillary Clinton’s first nationally televised campaign ad: [youtube]https://youtu.be … She was aided in this by every Democrat on stage in the first debate, and also by her water carriers on this issue, including Elijah … In fact, they never sought to uncover the information in the first place; they merely subpoenaed emails pertaining to the handling…
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