Oct 20, 2010 – The ACLU is claiming now it’s a “rights” issue: The First Amendment, of course, protects speech only from the government. … to the Internet is provided by private corporations enabled by government, and protecting the same interests and values that the First … Amendment protects, requires in this case that the government create strong policies against incursion by companies that are, at root…

Oct 20, 2010 – tries to prevent juvenile harassment and bullying of gays (I agree with Andrew Wilcow that gay people should exercise their second amendment … Most people visiting sites on the internet want to immediately jump up and down and scream about their “First Amendment!”…

Oct 18, 2010 – Hopfinger’s confession that he started it, and the story is going no where.Red County had an eye witness at the event who provides a first … press cross the line on getting questions answered and Tony Hopfinger crossed the line by pushing back and trying to hide behind the First … Amendment.…

Nov 2, 2010 – There are five freedoms guaranteed in the first amendment, and that my opponent can’t name any of them should send shivers up the voter…

Oct 28, 2010 – And ironically, as Motley points out, the ACLU is sacrificing the first amendment, in pushing for state control of speech online, in…

Nov 16, 2010 – It was the end of the America as we knew it, and the Bush Administration was destroying the Fourth Amendment. … groping and/or fondling in order to board a plane, the left is eerily silent on the Obama Administration’s apathy towards the Fourth Amendment … Let me guess… “The TSA is simply implementing the first steps of Obamacare.  …

Nov 14, 2010 – How perfectly Orwellian that, while non-Muslim Americans are having their Fourth Amendment rights being groped, grabbed and trampled … by Napolitano & her gang, Muslims are being urged to use the First Amendment’s Freedom of Religion provision to all-but-ignore the…

Nov 12, 2010 – SENATOR NOW: Support Senator Jim DeMint’s Earmark Ban Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is offering an resolution next Tuesday during the first … Senators Secretive on DeMint Earmark Ban Next Tuesday, the Senate Republican Conference will vote on Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) amendment…

Nov 11, 2010 – Dave Camp’s substitute amendment to the $787 billion Obama-Pelosi economic stimulus bill in March 2009. … His first act as Chairman was to gain passage of the 2005 Energy Policy Act. … In the townhalls, the seeds were first sown for November 2, 2010. Now you know Joe Barton’s unheralded role in it.…

Nov 22, 2010 – When I first read the charge I had to do a double-take. … This is not the first attempt by Straus and his leadership to limit the public’s ability to influence Texas government. … During the 2009 Legislative Session, Straus’ house leaders worked to cut away at Texan’s First Amendment rights by putting McCain-Feingold…

Nov 19, 2010 – spend a little more time investigating allegations of egregious ethics violations instead of what appear to be threats against our first … amendment rights.…

Nov 18, 2010 – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has pledged to block regular consideration of the Coburn Amendment.  … Amendment number 4697 creates a point of order against earmarks, limited tax benefits or tariffs: It shall not be in order to — consider … This is the first test for all Senators to see if they are listening to the American people.…

Nov 17, 2010 – First is the fact that Senator Jim DeMint’s (R-SC) Amendment to the Senate Republican Conference rules is tough to enforce.   … Senator Reid has indicated that he will use procedural maneuvers to block Senator Coburn from offering the amendment. … The Omnibus spending bill is expected to be loaded with earmarks and may be the first test for the President.  …

Dec 6, 2010 – The first idea that should be deployed by conservatives is to force a vote on the below new rule to protect the Second Amendment rights … Second Amendment Point of Order.  … The first is that there is no language in the constitution that enshrines the filibuster.…

Dec 2, 2010 – In their first post-election coordinated assault, Democrats and their union hangers-on have taken to haranguing Republican opponents … Should supporters of First Amendment rights turn in their library cards? Nonsense.…

Dec 1, 2010 – Founders wanted Senators to be statesmen capable of compromise and negotiation in the face of the threat of unlimited debate and amendment … There is no rule that makes an exception to changes in the Senate’s rules during the first few weeks of a new Congress.  … or 80 votes for that matter) threshold, to consider any bill, resolution or any other legislative matter infringing on the 2nd Amendment…

Dec 10, 2010 – Having exercised my First Amendment rights in Gettysburg recently, I was bewildered by allegations on both Fox Nation and RedState…

Dec 23, 2010 – Liberals are going to destroy the tradition of extended debate and a free amendment process in the Senate if they can pull off this … He uses his right to be recognized first by the chair to offer just enough amendments to bills to block any further amendments. … Wichterman argues that Reid could solve this problem, not with a rules change, but with him allowing more debate and an open amendment…

Dec 22, 2010 – Harvard’s disingenuous Solomon Amendment statement. ———————————————————————- 1. … Harvard’s disingenuous Solomon Amendment statement. … Said campaign absolutely flaunts the intent of Congress (as per the ‘Solomon Amendment’), but has been generally tacitly tolerated…

Dec 21, 2010 – House leadership, as items such as the Pence Amendment which would have defunded Planned Parenthood — the nation’s largest abortion … In 2008, I was first introduced to the personhood movement.   … Did personhood proponents vote for Amendment 62 and leave the checkbox next to Ken Buck blank?  Possibly.  …

Dec 21, 2010 – Said campaign absolutely flaunts the intent of Congress (as per the ‘Solomon Amendment’), but has been generally tacitly tolerated … and desist all aspects of its civil disobedience campaign and put itself in full compliance with 10 U.S.C. § 983 (the Solomon Amendment … take the position that it’s the Ivy League contingent in our government who got the country into its current fiscal mess in the first…

Dec 20, 2010 – The attacks are disguised as political correctness, or a misunderstanding of the First Amendment to the Constitution.…

Jan 5, 2011 – The claim that in the “first day,” they can change the rules with a simple majority vote.  … First, the rules specifically forbid this power grab by liberal Democrats (See Rule 22).  … Extended debate and unlimited amendment is part of the fabric of the institution.…

Jan 5, 2011 – Hammond, former General Counsel Senate Steering Committee 1978-89 In Lyndon Johnson’s time, first-term senators were expected to … But now, a group of first-termers –- frustrated that the Senate will not give them every single legislative fragment they desire -– … He puts an “amendment tree” in place –- meaning that he uses his preferred recognition to file so many amendments that Republicans…

Jan 4, 2011 – election The democratic right of workers to freely and collectively choose if they want to form their UAW local union is the workers’ First … Amendment right. … First, the UAW wants access to employer records and, presumably, books (as in profit and loss statements).…