From the Pirate’s Cove: Obama Pivots To Jobs Again, Goes To Texas, Learns Nothing By William Teach May 9, 2013 – 7:39 pm Question: what happens when a POTUS who is economically illiterate heads to a state that is doing much better than the United States as a whole? He asks how they’re doing it? Brother, you [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Freedom of Speech category.
I told you so!
I have been told, many times, that my concern that legalized same sex marriage would lead to the law being used against churches which refuse to perform same-sex weddings was completely unfounded and totally ridiculous; the First Amendment would prohibit that. Well, it’s getting closer: Students mobilize to remove priest by Chloé Sorvino | April [...]
Liberal “Logic” Befuddles Me – But It Provides Laughter – Unfortunately THEY VOTE
One of Rush’s Bottom of the Barrel Low Information Voter Liberals Letter to the Editor Goes Viral For Its Stupidity February 15, 2013 A letter to the editor sent to the Carteret County News-Times spread like wildfire around the internet. After being reposted on the Fox News Facebook page it received over 4,000 comments according [...]
A bad winter for Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan, who should have stayed as a judge on talent shows, replaced Larry King as CNN’s evening interviewer. Mr Morgan’s strong support of gun control earned him the ire of sensible Americans who support our constitutional rights, and after some calls that he be deported back to his mother country, said that he might [...]
From around the blogroll
From North Carolina’s mostest beautifulest bloggess, Shocking: Implementation of ObamaCare is a job killer for franchise expansion January 11, 2013 at 10:58 am Via Fox Business (bolded emphasis added by me): Dan Drennen says his franchisees are sitting on their hands. According to the general manager of Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services, multi-unit franchisees are withholding expansion [...]
Another attack on freedom of speech
From In praise of Vallaud-Belkacem, or why not to tolerate hate speech on Twitter The US has made a fetish of first amendment rights. We should follow France’s example in restricting bigotry’s free expression By Jason Farago | Wednesday 2 January 2013 08.00 EST If you’re looking to diminish your faith in the future of [...]
Keeping the Constitution
This is, unsurprisingly enough, from : Let’s Give Up on the Constitution By Louis Michael Seidman1 | Published: December 30, 2012 AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience [...]
From around the blogroll
Our friends on the left had a field day after the press conference by National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre, and his suggestion that armed school attacks could be better prevented by having armed guards in the schools. Robert Stacey Stacy McCain has a good, and well-documented, article on what he calls the Progressive Civility™ [...]
The Orlando Sentinel endorses Mitt Romney
From Karen, the Lonely Conservative: Another Left Leaning Newspaper Endorses Mitt Romney October 18, 2012 What’s that old saying? Oh yeah, “It’s the economy, stupid.” I guess that’s what the editors of the left leaning Orlando Sentinel were thinking when they endorsed Mitt Romney. It’s another case of “We don’t like this guy all that much, [...]
William Saletan and the Freedom of Speech.
Found on the editorial page of : Hate speech and hypocrisy By William Saletan Jews have too much influence over U.S. foreign policy. Gay men are too promiscuous. Muslims commit too much terrorism. Blacks commit too much crime. Each of those claims is poorly stated. Each, in its clumsy way, addresses a real problem or [...]
