Virginia Right!

I will be a guest on the Thomas Hayes-Morrison Show at 2pm today!  It’s an experiment and perhaps a try out!  We’ll see if I am up for the radio or as Tom White put it, “I have a face for the radio.”  Well, I probably do have a face for the radio BUT we’ll [...]

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Last week, The Daily Caller reported, “President Barack Obama used the online springboard provided by Reddit to . . . call for a constitutional amendment to curb the free-speech of wealthier people and corporations. ‘I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United. … Even if the amendment process falls [...]

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I found this posting from a site I do not read often but my deep background tells me is a very reliable site:  The Volokh Conspiracy.  Here’s a highlight: But denying a private business permits because of such speech by its owner is a blatant First Amendment violation. Even when it comes to government contracting [...]

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Since Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell gave a major speech last week on threats to the First Amendment and free speech coming from the Left, liberals have predictably attacked him for the suggestions. Among those targeting Leader McConnell are Fred Wertheimer, former DCCC chair Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Daily Kos, Robert Reich, Ed Schultz and Norm Ornstein. In an interview with Commentary’s Alana Goodman yesterday, Leader [...]

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From Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Over the past couple of years, I and others have grown increasingly concerned by the Obama Administration’s repeated attempts to silence its critics through federal agencies like the IRS, the SEC and HHS, and even through an executive order aimed at denying contracts to its political opponents. But [...]

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The New York Times reports today, “On David Axelrod’s New York City itinerary for Monday: to meet privately with potential donors to a ‘super PAC’ supporting President Obama’s re-election, then publicly declare that if that re-election happens, Mr. Obama will stop at almost nothing to undo the ruling that made super PACs possible. Days before the Supreme [...]

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On its Editorial Page Editor’s Blog, The New York Times complains, “Long before he became the Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell had built a career out of opposing limits to political fundraising and spending, supposedly in the name of free speech. . . . But Mr. McConnell has outdone himself with a legal brief submitted [...]

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Henrico County, Virginia has decided to toss the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution, settled Supreme Court Validated Law and common sense by demanding that individuals remove signs from their own private property or pay fees to the County. In 1994, a lady named Margaret P. Gilleo lived in a Missouri town called Ladue. Gilleo [...]

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RICHMOND, VA (March 2, 2011) – Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the following statement regarding today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Snyder v. Phelps.  Back on June 1, 2010, the attorney general decided not to join other states in an amicus brief on behalf of Albert Snyder in the case.  Mr. Snyder [...]

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The nation has had an interesting week, has it not? And this week’s Watchers Council vote was no less interesting, mainly focused as it was on the tragic events in Tucson and their highly instructive aftermath, as the Left and their allies in the media decided not to let a good crisis go to waste [...]

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You remember the Westboro Baptist Church, right? These are the folks that hate the wars and manifest their hatred by celebrating the deaths of soldiers who die on the battlefield. But how can a church – Baptist no less – spread hatred and intolerance? Isn’t that just the opposite of what the Christian faith teaches? [...]

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` Americans want us to focus on jobs, but by taking us off the small business bill and moving to this one, Democrats are proving the jobs they care about most are their own. Think about it. Here we are in the middle of the worst recession in memory, and Democrat leaders decided to pull [...]

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‘Taxpayers are still fuming over a health care process where their money was thrown around like a high roller in a hotel lobby to win last-minute votes, and now the same backroom dealing is being repeated with their freedom of speech’

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Tuesday on Democrats’ efforts to carve out special deals for organizations in exchange for their support of the partisan DISCLOSE Act.

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Since the 1960′s, Americans have expressed their First Amendment right to free speech in great numbers previously unseen. Civil right’s protests, Anti-War protests, anti-abortion protests, pro-this and anti-that protests. Most are peaceful, or at least relatively so, others lead to arrests, property damage, and even a few deaths, the Kent State Massacre being a sad example of the results of an overanxious government to quell the protests.

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President Obama plans to head to Denmark to make a pitch for the 2016 to be granted to his Chicago hometown.

What will he say? Chicago has the best pay for play politics in the country (excepting the Federal Government, of course). Hang out on the streets a while and you will be most likely to witness a murder, gang activity, or both?

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I believe a BUYcott would send a stronger message. Watch the Glen Beck show and send off an email to all that advertise on his show on FoxNews. Let them know you appreciate their pro-First Amendment stance and you will be buying their product in the name of Free Market economics. And then do so!

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