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Video: Dem Leader Jim Clyburn Calls For Government Censorship Of Free Speech (His Daughter is FCC Commissioner)
Never let a crisis go to waste: And via Gateway Pundit: Rush Limbaugh: Left Will Use AZ Shooting to Institute a Clampdown ...

Never give up on your constitutional rights
With the Arizona shooting that killed six and wounded fourteen more, I find it egregious that the Democrats across this Nation along with the Democrats In Drag (Republicans acting like democrats) wish to silence their opposing forces.  As the new 112th Congress has so stipulated that the Powers of Congress must issue the Constitutional requirements to bring forth Bills to be voted on, passed or discussed (HR 450), why are the Democrats wanting to bring forth their edicts of silencing their ...

Republicans banish 'civil rights' and 'civil liberties' from House subcommittee
© unknown Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) blasted Republicans for planning to change the name of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to the "Constitution Subcommittee." "Once again, the new Republican majority has shown that it isn't quite as committed to the Constitution as its recent lofty Rhetoric would indicate," Rep. Nadler, who has served as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties since 2007, said...

Federal judge upholds state's 'top-two' primary voting
Washington's "top-two" primary-election system survived another court challenge when a Federal Judge ruled Tuesday that the state ballot is constitutional. However, U.S. District John Coughenour did strike down the way Washington runs Elections for the parties' grass-roots organizers. In his ruling, Coughenour found that voters were not confused by the Washington ballot, which allows Candidates to list which political party they prefer. The two top vote-getters in a primary then advance to the...

Attorney General rejects abortion initiative
From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage --- The new state Attorney General has found a ballot initiative essentially seeking to outlaw Abortion in Alaska to be Unconstitutional. “The proposed bill meets the ‘clearly unconstitutional’ standard because it would supersede a woman’s Constitutional Right to Privacy,” said the opinion, released late yesterday. “This right is a federal Constitutional Right recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.” Attorney General Joh

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Corporations Are Persons, But Women Are Not?
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the corporation was elevated to the highest level of democratic Citizenship and endowed with the right to free Speech under the First Amendment as the equal of human beings (arguably including women). U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia joined the majority in Citizens United; and in a recent interview said the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not protect women against Discrimination. "Certainly th...

Democrats two-fold agenda in aftermath of Arizona Shooting
Democrats in the aftermath of the Arizona massacre in which Jared Loughner went on a shooting spree, killing six innocent by-standers and critically wounding Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, immediately defined their agenda: blame conservative pundits and the Tea Party. But casting the blame on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News is only part of the agenda of the far left Democrats. Let it be known Democrats have a two-fold agenda: Democrats Agenda #1: Shut Down Free Speech Wh...

Fitting Memorial For Arizona Shooting Victims
President Obama, will speak at tonight’s public memorial service for the Victims of last weekend’s shootings in Arizona. The service and Speech will be carried live on Cable News networks, online, and elsewhere, beginning at 8PM EST. As he grieves with and consoles thousands in person at the University of Arizona’s McKale Center in Tuscon, the president will also be reaching out to the entire nation, helping with the healing process, and framing this terrible tragedy as the tea...

You Are Now Free To Swear in Pennsylvania
Thanks to the ACLU, you can now say all seven of George Carlin’s seven dirty words in Pennsylvania without fear of being fined by the State Police: Travelers and residents in Pennsylvania, feel free to break open that swear jar — you no longer need it to make bail. This week, the Pennsylvania State Police reached a settlement with the ACLU that retires them from policing the dictionary. This, after 770 people were cited in a one-year period, and faced a fine and potential jail time, for spe...

Gingrich Group Calls For Elimination of Ninth Circuit Over Cross Ruling
Yesterday, it was announced that Jim Garlow, chairman of Newt Gingrich's Renewing American Leadership, would be participating in a Protest against the Ninth Circuit's ruling that the Mt. Soledad Cross was Unconstitutional: Said Dr. Jim Garlow, Senior Pastor of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, and Chairman of Renewing American Leadership located in Washington DC, "These revisionist judges consistently confuse the historic recognition of the role that the Christian faith -- embraced by 9...

Let's Just Say...
...for shits and giggles that Jared Lee Loughner grew up in a void and the violent Rhetoric and imagery that permeates our national political discourse had no relation whatsoever to his actions. Let us leave aside any notion that people are affected by growing up in a culture in which it's acceptable to a Republican president for his lunch guests to say things like "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus—living fossils—so we will ne...

Loughner's Former Prof Describes His 'Illogical-Logic' Rant (VIDEO)
Debbie Scheidemantel, the adjunct Professor at Pima Community College who called the cops to have Jared Loughner removed from her classroom last year, told The Early Show that when she first heard the description of the suspect in the shootings in Tucson that claimed six lives and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), she thought of Loughner. Scheidemantel described the events that led to her call to the police and have Loughner removed from her classroom. Loughner failed to bring...

The limits of silencing Tunisia
If history remembers one thing about Tunisia's long-reigning President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, it would likely be how he silenced his critics.  Since coming to power 23 years ago, Ben Ali has systematically controlled Tunisia's media and silenced his opposition. The last month of social riots in Sidi Bouzid have confirmed that domestic Censorship is more than a political constant. It is a reason of being for a government that has never been familiar with Press Freedom.  This sta...

Its time to dial down the political rhetoric (Rep. John Lewis)
Last week, members of Congress took time out of the congressional schedule to read the words of the U.S. Constitution. It amazes me, in light of the critical condition Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) now confronts, that somehow by some twist of fate she fell in line at the place where she read the words of the First Amendment. The Constitution is the touchstone of every legislator; it is almost a sacred text in our Democracy. In view of our reverence for the document, I think some Americans ...

Palin: It's 'Irresponsible ... To Apportion Blame' For Arizona Rampage
What is this? Saying that "after this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion blame for this terrible event," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has issued her first lengthy statement about the shootings in Tucson on Saturday and the debate afterward about whether the harsh tone of American politics — and things she has said and done in recent years — played any role. You c...

Palin Rightfully Indignant
We think she’s vapid, clueless, patronizing and totally unfit to hold public office (well … beyond being Governor of a state that’s frozen over). On top of that, we think she’s a whiny bitch - incessantly complaining to the media over perceived slights that make absolutely no difference in the grand scheme of things. Well, for once, we believe that Sarah Palin’s righteous indignation is well-founded. And for once, it actually does matter in the grand scheme of...

Shameless Palin Claims Victimhood, Refuses to Apologize
Wow, Sarah Palin sure has got no shame. You’d think after the horrible shooting in Tucson, and after literally putting Gabrielle Giffords in the cross-hairs, that Palin might have had the dignity either to say nothing or to show at least an ounce of remorse or pledge to lower her own Rhetoric by a decibel or two. But not Palin. No, now she’s made herself the Victim. She said: “Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood Libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violen

Not A Video Game: Grand Theft - The Constituion
The disturbing level came last week when the Republicans in the House kicked off the new session of Congress with a public reading of the Constitution"a muck-reeking exercise unmitigated by bi-partisan participation. While supposedly showing their f ealty to the " original meaning " of the Constitution they used a prop. Putting con into Constitution, they read from a censored version of the document that selectively excluded salient passages like those pertaining to Slavery. But more debilit...

Wednesday round-up
Yesterday the Court issued two decisions, including Justice Kagan’s first decision as a Justice, and heard oral argument in two cases. The former attracted much more attention than the latter. In a tax case decided yesterday, Mayo Foundation v. United States, the Court (in an opinion by the Chief Justice, with Justice Kagan recused) unanimously upheld a Treasury Department rule that treats medical residents as full-time employees rather than Students, thereby subjecting them to Payroll Tax...

Does Sarah Palin's Handling of This Week's Events in Tucson Tell Us Anything about her Presidential Ambitions?
Sarah Palin today release a video on Facebook expressing her grief and outrage over Saturday's shootings in Tucson. She also explained her Rhetoric and hit back at those who have suggested that the level of political discourse in the country is, in part, to blame for Jared Lee Loughner's unhinged rampage. “We know violence isn't the answer. When we ‘take up our arms', we're talking about our vote,” Palin says in the seven-and-a-half minute video. “Yes, our debates are ful...

The other odd claim in Palin's Tucson video
Much has been made of former Sarah Palin's use of the term "blood Libel" in her videotaped statement this morning on the shootings in Arizona. However, the line that drew my attention was this one: Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to Talk Radio, not with maps of Swing Districts used by bo...

First Amendment Baiting
Sarah Palin’s statement on the Assassinations in Arizona is days late and more than a few dollars short. Jonathan Singer notes: It takes Palin nine paragraphs to condemn the violence. By contrast, Palin begins striking a defensive tone in just the fifth paragraph. What more could we possibly expect than the master of making herself the center of the news cycle? Singer goes on: The assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords that took the lives of six Americans was not about Sarah Palin. ...

Playing politics with the Tucson tragedy
By Nicholas Wilbur Nobody doubted the depth of denial that would gush from Rush Limbaugh's radio studio following the murderous rampage in Tucson this weekend. The "vitriol in politics" became a primary focus of the national media almost immediately after the news of the shooting broke. Those who had made references to "Second Amendment remedies" and "firing Machine Guns" and "violent revolution" were targeted for contributing to the hate-filled Rhetoric that has marked the past two years of p...

Arizona Shooting Funeral Protest Strains the First Amendment
The tragic shootings in Tucson raise, yet again, a critical question in a country which cherishes the First Amendment: how much must we tolerate intolerance in the defense of free Speech? It’s not even about conservative rabble-rouser Glenn Beck, who commonly uses heated Rhetoric (and some outright misstatements) to rally his supporters—and who is now piously attacking the left for purportedly using the shootings to taint the Tea Party movement. The sad truth is that while the shoo...

Palin says efforts to lay blame 'reprehensible'
Sarah Palin spoke out on the Arizona shootings Wednesday, calling the events "tragic" and sharply chastising those who have suggested charged Rhetoric from her and others on the right may have motivated the killings. "Like many, I've spent the past few days reflecting on what happened and praying for guidance. After this shocking tragedy, I listened at first puzzled, then with concern, and now with sadness, to the irresponsible statements from people attempting to apportion b...