Category: First Amendment
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If you were Ozzie Guillen you’d be fired
I like Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen. He’s an old school manager a la Billy Martin — hard-drinking, profane with a high baseball IQ. Politically, he’s not what you’d call bright. The fracas started over the weekend, when Time magazine published an interview on its website in which the Marlins skipper said he “loved” Castro. “I respect…
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‘The most seriously professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson’ doesn’t understand the 1st Amendment
Professor Newt demonstrates a fundamentally profound misunderstanding of Amendment 1. “We’re going to serve notice on future debates,” [Gingrich] told Fox. “We’re just not going to allow that to happen. That’s wrong. The media doesn’t control free speech. People ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to.” To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the media…
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We’re discussing the First Amendment here — no reporters allowed!
Actually, it’s worse than that. After Occupy Bellingham protesters were told to leave a public park, the group’s legal advisor insisted that Occupy is “a first-amendment-protected activity” and that city officials are “encroaching on their first-amendment rights.” Meetings about this were held Tuesday afternoon, but… The protesters refused to let a Bellingham Herald reporter in…
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Another tea partier ignorant of the Constitution
Bocephus, fired as the Monday Night Football balladeer after comparing Obama to Hilter, plays the martyr. “After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision,” he wrote. “By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of *The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My…
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Quid pro no
The Corner’s Andrew Stuttaford on Lindsey Graham’s utter disregard for the First Amendment: If we start allowing Muslim mobs to dictate the limits of American free speech, this country will have sunk a very long way down. (via Andrew Sullivan)
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Republicans demand broader powers for Obama justice department
You know the Republicans have lost their way when they vigorously argue in favor of something they warned against just two years ago. Remember hearing conservatives insist that Obama was going to revive the Fairness Doctrine as part of his Marxist plot to give Omar Sharif his own show on government-run radio? I understand if…
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