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• Michael Goldfarb on Glenn Beck confirms White House call and threat to Senator Ben Nelson, Obama thugs, December 16, 2009, Ben Nelson threatened to vote for Senate Health Care Bill

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 548
  Yesterday, December 15, 2009, the Citizen Wells blog quoted a report from the Weekly Standard that indicated that the White House, Obama, threatened to close an Air Force base in Nebraska if Senator Ben Nelson did not vote for the Senate Health Care Bill.  “Source: Dems Threaten Nelson In Pursuit of 60 While the ...
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• DU Cyber Rights Conference Recapped

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 420
  The University of Denvers had a conference this past November on Cyber Civil Rights, mostly devoted to how to address various forms of online misconduct, mostly harassment. Professor Eric Goldman has a detailed recap of the conference at his Technology and Marketing blog. What was discussed? Whether online based ...
  12 hours ago

• Italian student arrested in UK for filming buildings

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 529
  By Carlos Miller The problem is, there doesn’t seem to be any IQ requirements to become a police officer. Everyday we read stories at how police officers believe photographers are out to commit terrorist acts because they happen to be taking pictures of something or another. These officers are under the impression ...
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• Dear Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor: Dude, I’m Still Waiting for My Criminal Charge!

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 517
  Tuesday, December 15, 2009Mayor Allan MansoorOffice of the MayorCity of Costa Mesa77 Fair DriveCosta Mesa, CA  92626Re: Jury verdict in Acosta vs. City of Costa Mesa, et. al.Dear Mayor Mansoor:I read with great interest a newspaper report regarding the decision of a jury yesterday to uphold your decision to have ...
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• EFF Fights for Anonymity for Online Critic in Friday Hearing

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 504
  EFF Fights for Anonymity for Online Critic in Friday Hearing : Via EFF.org Updates . San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to quash a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of a Pennsylvania company called USA Technologies. A hearing ...
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• The Separation Of Church and State For Dummies

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  Once again, it’s that time of year when liberals raise a ruckus over any type of Christmas display in or around a taxpayer-funded building, such as a courthouse or a public school, claiming such a display violates the Constitutional provision regarding the separation of church and state. It’s ironic how liberals ...
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• North Carolina Councilman May Lose Job Because He Is a Dirty, Evil Atheist

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 577
  In case you were worried that North Carolina maybe wasnt doing everything it could to drag itself back into the Dark Ages after uncharacteristically handing its electoral votes to Barack Obama in 2008, you can pretty much stop worrying about that. The North Cackalackians are totally all over that shit … ...
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• Apostates Devise New Ways To Spoil Everyone’s Christmas

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 141
  One of the shortcomings I remember the most about the Christian elementary school I attended was how a number of the less-than dedicated educators would punish all of the students for the misbehavior of a single pupil. To this day, I remain convinced this had more to do with lazy teachers preferring not to mess ...
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• About Marinette / Menominee – Sons and Daughters of Liberty

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 132
  We are a Marinette, WI / Menominee, MI (Twin Cities) group with people from all over northeastern WI and the U.P. of Michigan. Our last Tea Party in Marinette at UW Marinette had over two hundred people in attendance. All of these northeastern Wisconsin and U.P. of Michigan Patriots, attending the Tea Party ...
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• The US Giveth, North Carolina Taketh Away

  
  The Gospel of Super Jesus — Authority: 118
  It is ironic that on the anniversary of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees the government will “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”,  that we have a story reporting on North Carolina’s law requiring a belief in God.Who knew that state’s rights ...
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• Atheist Elected in North Carolina, Presenting an Easy Religious Freedom Case

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 427
       David Waters of the Washington Post reports that Cecil Bothwell, an atheist, was elected to city council in Asheville, North Carolina, despite a provision of the North Carolina state constitution which provides that "any person who shall deny the being of the Almighty God" is disqualified from holding ...
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• Florida Criminalizes Arts & Crafts

  
  http://sexualintelligence.wordpress.com — Authority: 407
  Remember playing with photos and scissors as a young teen? You’d make collages: your scrawny face on a caveman’s body, your friend’s body with the head of a dog, you and a movie star on a beach in Hawaii. Silly adolescent stuff, harmless. Now what about putting your head on a movie star’s nude body? Or your ...
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• California man told he needs permit to photograph family

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 529
  Howard ‘Boots’ McGhee in a photo that was contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel By Carlos Miller Howard “Boots” McGhee was photographing his family in a California state park when a ranger told him he was breaking the law. McGhee, it turns out, did not have a permit to take pictures. And a state law ...
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• Help choose the best law blogs in the country

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 529
  By Carlos Miller First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza has been a longtime Photography is Not a Crime supporter. Ever since he penned a post about this blog on Feb. 8, 2008, Randazza has always made himself available to me for interviews for my blog posts or to answer legal questions for my research. He has ...
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• Students go to court to uphold right to be mean online

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 785
  Some courts, parents and free-speech advocates are pushing back in cyber-bullying cases, saying students have a First Amendment right to be mean in cyberspace, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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• Curious Theater Loses Smoking Ban Case

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 420
  The Colorado Supreme Court upheld that validity of a Colorado law that bans smoking even in the course of theatrical performances brought on First Amendment grounds in a 6-1 ruling. The Denvers Curious Theater company brought the challenge. I personally believe that this part of the anti-smoking law was ill ...
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• Forgive Us Our Trespasses

  
  Gene's Blog — Authority: 427
  Certain stories are very suggestive of significant alterations in the future of our great nation.  These are just four of them.  Read them and weep: Turn in Your First Amendment Privileges Upon Entering these Premises!  All employees of the Santa Rosa (CA) School District have been put on notice.   ...
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• Forgive Us Our Trespasses

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  Certain stories are very suggestive of significant alterations in the future of our great nation.  These are just four of them.  Read them and weep: Turn in Your First Amendment Privileges Upon Entering these Premises!  All employees of the Santa Rosa (CA) School District have been put on notice.   ...
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• AFA: Religious Tests Are Perfectly Acceptable

  
  Right Wing Watch — Authority: 614
  Last week we mentioned the situation in North Carolina where conservatives are threatening to sue in an effort to keep an atheist out of office, citing the state Constitution: When Mr. [Cecil] Bothwell was sworn into office on Monday, he used an alternate oath that does not require officials to swear on a Bible ...
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• Courts Uphold 1st Amendment Rights of CyberBullies

  
  BelchSpeak — Authority: 139
  Its good to see the courts pushing back against crybabies that can’t take some good-natured ribbing. From Boston.Com here : One morning in May 2008, an eighth-grader walked into Janice Hart’s office at a Beverly Hills middle school crying. She was upset and humiliated, and couldn’t possibly go to class ...
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