Posts Tagged ‘first amendment’
Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single time outside of class. Rosenbloom, who supports his wife and two young children as an [...]
The Free Speech Gag Bill Stalls on the Floor of the Senate!
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America - "This DISCLOSE Act is not about reform...." "This DISCLOSE Act is not about reform, it's nothing more than Democrats sitting behind closed doors which favored groups they want to speak in the 2010 elections -- all in an attempt to protect themselves from criticism of their government takeovers, [...]
Victory for Academic Freedom: ‘Human Heredity’ Professor Receives $100,000 Settlement
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In [...]
Senate Scheduled to Vote on Free Speech Stranglehold Bill
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Just as gun owners are engaged in the intense battle over anti-gun Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a new version of a bill that will gut the First Amendment rights of groups like GOA. The so-called DISCLOSE Act, which passed the House last month, puts severe [...]
Who can be a member of FILOA? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, To be considered for membership in Fiercely Independent Locksmiths of America (FILOA) you have to be at least 5’ 10” tall and weigh no more than 250 lbs…; no that won’t work, gotta’ come up with some realistic membership rules. I read a short article by Steve Farrell over at The Moral Liberal on Fundamental Rights of [...]
Washington State gets message on bias reporting protocols; will other universities?
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org The advent of bias reporting protocols on university campuses is viewed by FIRE as a pernicious threat to student speech, and with good reason. Universities that maintain and operate such policies typically encourage students and others on campus to report, often anonymously, occasions in which they experience [...]
Apparatchiks and News Media — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Rush Linbaugh, on his radio talk show yesterday, used a term which defined major news sources like CNN better than most, Apparatchiks . It shouldn’t surprise anyone to find Apparatchiks’ meaning linked to the former Soviet Union and other Communist states as our major market media have been pushing their leftist agenda for [...]
Kagan Sails Through Senate Judiciary Hearings!
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Contact Your Senators Before the Full Senate Votes! The Senate Judiciary Committee recently voted to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate floor. The 13-6 vote was not a surprise. Democrats outnumber Republicans 12-7 on the committee, and their ranks include the anti-gun extreme [...]
Is Media Deceny Unconstitutional?
By Maurine Proctor Two recent developments bring into question what the Founders intended when they penned the First Amendment's clause regarding free speech. For example, did they intend for your 13-year old to be able to receive sexually explicit texts or for an unsuspecting viewer of network television to be surprised with profanity or a [...]
University at Buffalo Revises Unconstitutional Speech Code
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Samantha Harris In January 2009, FIRE named the University at Buffalo (also known as SUNY Buffalo) our Speech Code of the Month for a residence hall "Statement of Civility" which provided that Students are expected to act with civility. To be civil means to be courteous and polite or, simply put, to be [...]
Supreme Court Case Regarding Pickets Could Weaken First Amendment Protections
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – The case involving controversial protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers is raising concerns about the future of First Amendment protections for all Americans. Liberty Counsel is concerned about the effects this case could have on First Amendment rights and has filed an amicus brief [...]
Urgent Message From Ron Paul and Campaign For Liberty’s John Tate
Liberty Alerts, Ron Paul and Campaign For Liberty Dear Liberty Activist, The FEC has launched a pair of investigations on Campaign for Liberty. Both are meritless, but could seriously disrupt our growing program. Please read Campaign for Liberty [...]
We Are Still A Few Votes Shy of Killing the Kagan Nomination
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The hearings on Elena Kagan to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court are over. Senate Democrats slammed them through quickly, in the same way they did ObamaCare. And, like ObamaCare, they made sure that Senate Republicans would not have the material they needed to review Kagan's record -- [...]
University of Illinois Professor Fired For Standing By Catholic Teaching on Homesexuality — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell Calling it hate speech, the University of Illinois has fired a Catholic professor hired to teach an introductory course on Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought for responding to a student question about why homosexuality is immoral under Natural Law. The professor, Ken Howell answered in his email: "Natural Law says [...]
Trouble Right Here in River City — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Somebody must have put in another pool table, look at all the trouble we’re in now. Heck, it’s gotten so’s a body can’t offer up a proper prayer or teach school without raisin’ up a ruckus. That Music Man feller’ passing through warned us about having a pool table; should’ve listened to him. Look what’s [...]
Strong Support for National Day of Prayer
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ There's a real bi-partisan effort in Congress to protect the National Day of Prayer under attack in the federal courts. Today we filed a critical amicus brief on behalf of nearly 70 members of Congress urging a federal appeals court to uphold the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. As you may recall [...]
Defending National Day of Prayer
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law & Justice We are once again in federal court defending the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. This time representing members of Congress in a critically important amicus brief to be filed in a federal appeals court. As you know, a federal district court in Wisconsin recently ruled in [...]
Florida School Tries to Ban Bibles on Religious Freedom Day
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Fort Myers, FL – Today Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit to overturn a recent ban on distributing Bibles on the public school campuses of Collier County, Florida. For years, the school board allowed World Changers to distribute free Bibles to interested students during off-school hours on Religious Freedom Day, [...]
Saga of the Mojave Cross — Phyllis Schlafly
By Phyllis Schlafly The Mojave Cross has become famous among veterans and in the law books. The homemade seven-foot-tall cross was erected in a remote spot of the Mojave Desert in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a memorial to World War I veterans. For nine years the Cross has been the target of lawsuits by the ACLU representing atheists [...]
Is Gun Ownership a Fundamental Right? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The question of the day at News Radio 740am was, “Do you agree with the Supreme Court – is gun ownership a fundamental right?” The replies came back 52.26 % said “Yes”, 7.14 % said “No” while 40.59% went with “You’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands”. In the play My Fair Lady, Eliza confronted [...]
Is the Decline of Newspapers a Market Failure or Creative Destruction?
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Edward J. Lopez Over the past year there has been a flurry of government-related activity aimed at stopping the decline of the newspaper business. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has held three series of workshops on the subject, drawing dozens of top academics, national politicians, business leaders [...]
Benjamin Franklin: Applying to the Father of Lights — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer The Constitutional Convention was in a deadlock over how large and small states could be represented equally. Some delegates gave up and left. Then, on JUNE 28, 1787, 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin spoke and shortly after, the U.S. Constitution became a reality. As recorded by James Madison, Franklin [...]
ACLJ Disappointed in Supreme Court Decision that Damages Constitutional Rights of Religious Organizations
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, said today it is "extremely disappointed" in the Supreme Court's decision involving the constitutional rights of religious organizations. In a 5-4 decision, the high court upheld a [...]
Martinez Ruling: Ninth Circuit Affirmed, but with Remand — David French
Liberty Alerts, David French — Alliance Defense Fund, Senior Counsel Supreme Court renders a 5-4 decision against the Christian Legal Society. Justice Ginsburg is still reading from the bench, but here’s the Scotusblog summary: The Court rules that an “all comers” policy, at least as it exists at the Hastings College of Law, is [...]
Minneapolis Schools Sued for Denying Equal Access to Good News Clubs
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Minneapolis, MN – Today Liberty Counsel is filing a lawsuit on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Minnesota (CEF), the sponsor of Good News Clubs, against the Minneapolis Special School District No. 1 for unfairly denying equal inclusion in its promotion of after-school programs. CEF was an approved [...]
The First Amendment, Domestic Terror, And Right-Wing Extremists
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Alex Newman Responding to the U.S. Supreme Courts' 6-3 ruling that upheld criminal penalties for peaceful political speech, Alex Newman writes in his June 23rd NewAmerican.com column: The federal government has already made clear who it considers the biggest “domestic terror” threat: “right-wing [...]
House Narrowly Passes Gag Order (DISCLOSE) Act
Liberty Letters, Gun Owners of America "Now the NRA are the big defenders of the Second Amendment of the Constitution, the right to bear arms. But yet they think it's all right to throw everybody else under the table so they can get a special deal, while requiring everyone else to comply with all the rules outlined in this bill, and [...]
Online Society, Offline Civilization: How the Internet is Ushering in the End of the Age — Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad. On one side, they may mention how the Web, along with talk radio, has broken the stranglehold over public opinion the mainstream media once enjoyed; on the other, they may cite the pernicious effects of pornography, cyber-bullying or [...]
Victory: University of Idaho Drops Charges of Harassment and Discrimination for ‘Offensive’ Speech
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Peter Bonilla After FIRE intervened, the University of Idaho (UI) abandoned disciplinary charges of "harass" and "discrimination" against student Alexander Rowson relating to political statements he made at two campus events. On or about March 30, during César Chávez Day at UI, there was a musical [...]
Democrats Attack the First Amendment With Disclose Act — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has lately taken to saying that the failure to pass the Cap-and-Trade Act would be “immoral.” I suggest that the White House and the Democrat congressional leadership and members haven’t a clue when it comes to determining the morality of anything. They are so politically corrupt that they [...]
