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• in Politics
  Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Showdown at the Civil Right Corral
  Will Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally get what’s coming to him?
  by jimmyzuma / on Jul 19, 2012
• in Videos
  The Ten Commandments of Flirting With The Westboro Baptist Church
  How exactly does one flirt with the Westboro Baptist Church? Watch these Aussie hunks to find out!
  by kdbarclay / on Jul 5, 2012
• in Politics
  The Controversial KKK Looks to Adopt a Highway
  Why can't the Ku Klux Klan adopt a highway?
  by kdbarclay / on Jun 30, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “first amendment”

 

• And the Other Shoe has Dropped … Senior IRS Officials Knew Tea Party was Targeted in 2011, not 2012 … Why Has No One Been Fired?

  
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  So we  have a government agency that is targeting groups in the United States for their 1st Amendment political free speech and no one has been fired? The other day when the IRS came out and apologized for targeting Conservative groups and Tea Party organization, we asked, is this the tip of the iceberg, where ...
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• Why Do We Need Human Rights? (38): Different Justifications for Different Types of Free Speech

  
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  ( source ) There are different types of speech, and therefore also different types of free speech. The point I want to make here is that different types of free speech require different justifications. It’s a common error to reject some kinds of free speech because they seem unacceptable from the point of view of ...
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• Pennsylvania youth games cancelled due to rival gun rallies

  
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  Hundreds of youngsters werent able to play scheduled youth baseball league games Saturday because of competing rallies by groups on either side of the gun control debate in the community park thats home to the leagues fields, an official said. Dan OConnell, president of Morrisville Little League, said five of the ...
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• Listening to Glenn Beck weekend review on The Blaze

  
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  And going through the discussion of Benghazigate on his radio show, I decided to look for his YouTube channel to see what he had had on his TV channel. It is a Muslim in the White House, and our government is infested with them. We must keep this going. Even the media is starting to wake up. Or rather, they’ve ...
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• Obama Admin FAIL: The Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Defense Distributed Censored 3D Printable Gun

  
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  By Susan Duclos The other day I said the genie was out of the bottle when news hit that Defense Distributeds 3d-Printed gun blueprints had been downloaded over 100,000 times in just two days. Immediately after writing that piece,  the updates started, when the Obama administrations Department of Defense Trade ...
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• Update: Deadlines for Indecency Comments Extended

  
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  If you have the vague sense that you might like to file comments in response to the bizarre invitation for comments relative to the FCC’s indecency policies, but you’re still trying to figure out exactly what those policies are in the first place, youre in luck.  The General Counsel’s office and the ...
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• Reaction to the IRS Apology

  
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  Law Blog rounds up reaction to Fridays acknowledgment by the Internal Revenue Service that it flagged conservative groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names for extra scrutiny.
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• Labor: D.C. Circuit Strikes Down NLRB Poster Rule

  
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  Walter Choroszewski Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom On May 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule that required more than 6 million employers to post certain types of notices at work informing employees of their rights under the National Labor ...
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  Apparently the Federal Government is still operating under some marked delusions as to how the internet works and what they can or cannot actually control. Granted, this time it is the Department of State Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, rather than the White House , but you would think they would at ...
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• State Dept. tells Texas law student to take down Web blueprints for 3-D printer to make plastic gun

  
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  A University of Texas law student says he has complied but is reviewing his legal options after being ordered by the U.S. State Department to take down blueprints posted online that show how a 3-D printer can be used to create a plastic gun. Cody Wilson is a founder of…
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• Steve Thomas, Greg Abbott still wingnuts on Kountze ISD, 1st Amendment

  
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  This is not supposed to be religiously coercive??? Kountze football player #6 Jamazdon Powell carries a flag as the team comes into the stadium (last fall). This was the first home  game in Kountze since the sign controversy started & since Thomass injunction. Dave Ryan/Beaumont Enterprise Thomas, the ...
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• Lost in Benghazi arguments: Significance of Obama, Romney and the First Amendment

  
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  As leftwingers attempt to deflect criticism of the administration of President Barack Obama on the Benghazi meltdown, rightwingers are having a field day arguing that the deaths of 4 Americans were unnecessary and could have been prevented. Image: The US Report What’s missing from both sides is an ...
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• Michigan teachers’ union fails in lawsuit to block dues change

  
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  A Sixth Circuit panel declines to strike down a state law under which public schools will no longer withhold union dues from teachers’ salaries. The Michigan Education Association had claimed that Public Act 53 interfered with its First Amendment right to speak. [ David Shepardson, Detroit News ] Tweet ...
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• Texas Cheerleaders Win Court Battle

  
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  A Texas court has ruled that public high school cheerleaders may display banners which claim that God wants their team to win. District Judge Steve Thomas Wednesday ruled that the Kountze Independent School District cannot prevent the displays. The controversy began when the cheerleading squad at Kountze High ...
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• May Shine On – Monthly Chat with First Amendment Foundation

  
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  Barbara Petersen with the Florida First Amendment Foundation is back! Last month she discussed what she thinks the State of Florida could be doing to make local and state governments more transparent and open. This month we ask her about taking pictures of documents and how far of a reach the Federal HIPPA law has ...
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• Some Good News and Some Bad News

  
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  Another late night, thanks to Miss Pink dragging me out of the house to Sauvie Island .  The downside is that we didn’t really find much in the way of beaches or little hiking trails this time around.  The upside is that we found a great little public house with really tasty sandwiches after heading back. ...
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• Well, At Least TMZ Will Be OK

  
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  Via Walter Olson Can websites be forced to change to accommodate the disabled — by using “simpler language” to appeal to the “intellectually disabled or by making them accessible to the blind and deaf at considerable expense? Apparently, the White House is gearing up to force costly changes on websites ...
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• Department of Defense has 3D printed gun yanked... but I got it anyway (and so can you!)

  
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  The Liberator: Coming soon toa desktop near you!Defense Distributed has made a lot of headlines lately about the Liberator: a firearm which is completely fabricated by "3D printing", apart from the firing pin.  I think the success of this gun already is that its got politicians like Charles Schumer and Steve Israel ...
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• Let’s revisit Benghazi and the 1st Amendment

  
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  If you didn’t get a chance to watch the Benghazi whistleblowers testify before Congress yesterday, you should. Part of what made it so interesting was how dramatically their testimony contradicted the official line received and published by the media in previous months. It was also just a good lesson in how ...
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• Watergate Era: ‘A’ Peak in Journalism

  
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  INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT By Gene Policinski Forty years ago this week, The Washington Post – and its self-described “young and hard-digging reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein” – took home a Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the Watergate scandal. Other winners in journalism that ...
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