Al Franken had his first amendment pass the Senate since being sworn in, and it is a good one: On Tuesday night, the Minnesota Democrat got his first piece of legislation passed by the United States Senate via roll call vote. The amendment stopped federal funding for those defense contractors who used mandatory arbitration clauses […]
Funny how Sarah Palin constantly invoked the first amendment as her protection, yet she and her attorney wants to take action against others who are granted protection under it: The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action […]
What Richard Poplawski did yesterday can only be summed up as domestic terrorism. He instilled premeditated violence against citizens of this country to further his political beliefs. That is the basis of terrorism. Now the right will quickly throw out that claim, despite their strong desires to pins some sort of terrorist act under the […]
Here we go with Bill O. sending out his goons again. This time Amanda at Think Progress was the target. Read her entire account of what happened here. Perhaps its time for O’Reilly to be tested. I have done some work in television in the past and when you tape someone you need a release […]
This is unbeleivable, especially coming from the son of a former President, but while on the air, Michael Reagan said the following: “How about you take Mark Dice out,” Reagan continued, “and put him in the middle of the firing range? Tie him to a post, don’t blindfold him, and let it rip and have […]
That is an interesting argument raised by Michael Froomkin about the Wikileaks case: This isn’t a classic prior restraint on speech since it reaches the registrar not the speaker — but it’s close enough to stopping the delivery trucks on a newspaper that I think this aspect of the decision is a cause for some […]
Bob Franken has written an article blasting the NV judge who said Dennis Kucinich could appear in the NBC debate: The Nevada judge who ruled that NBC must include Dennis Kucinich in the Tuesday night debate not only needs to go back to law school, he needs a refresher course in high school civics. Happily, […]
This story appeared yesterday in the U.K.’s Independent and is very disturbing: Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or […]
I (Cindy Sheehan) have some lawyers looking into filing a First Amendment lawsuit against the government for what happened tonight. I will file it. It is time to take our freedoms and our country back. John has the details on Cindy’s ordeal last night. Bush has turned this into a police state. We might be […]
It was just a couple months ago that we learned the Bush White House was illegally paying someone to write and publish “puff pieces” promoting the administrations’ education agenda. Today we learn that the military has taken the same course of action in Iraq. WASHINGTON  As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the […]