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  • Karen Calls Cops On Man For Wearing MAGA Hat, Only To Discover He’s Most Influential Person In State

    12/06/2024 3:54:40 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 8 replies
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  • Antonin Scalia’s Opinion of the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan Decision

    11/30/2024 5:53:37 PM PST · by conservatism_IS_compassion · 10 replies
    youTube ^ | 2014 | Scalia, Ginsberg, & Kalb
    Relevant section starts at 21:40 into the youtube video.The 1964 New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan was handed down as a unanimous decision of the (to conservatives, notorious) Warren Court. It was not only unanimous, but included enthusiastic concurrences by justices who wanted to go even further.In is the Sullivan decision which severely inhibits the filing of libel suits by “public figures” - emphatically including politicians. The theory of the decision basically was that politicians are big boys who can handle themselves in propaganda contests because they have political parties behind them. Scalia’s rebuttal is that “the” freedom of speech,...
  • Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3 October 1789...By the President [Washington] of the United States of America. a Proclamation.

    11/28/2024 8:14:29 AM PST · by daniel1212 · 2 replies
    US government ^ | 3 October 1789 | George Washington
    By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor— and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of...
  • In Congress. November 1, 1777. Forasmuch as it is the indispensible duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God, to acknowledge with gratitude their obligations to Him for benefits received ... [Boston

    11/28/2024 8:14:25 AM PST · by daniel1212 · 3 replies
    US government ^ | November 1, 1777 | US congress
    In CONGRESS, NOVEMBER 1, 1777. Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased him in his abundant mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence, but also smile upon us in the prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the defense and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased...
  • Trump stuns ‘disinformation’ cartel with pro-free speech FCC nominee. ‘I’m pretty f****** scared,’ said one censor…

    11/27/2024 6:50:49 AM PST · by CFW · 41 replies
    Revolver News ^ | 11/26/24 | staff
    President Trump is sending shockwaves through the Deep State and the uniparty with his bold cabinet picks. They’re quickly realizing that 2024 won’t be anything like 2016, when so many establishment hacks infiltrated his administration and sabotaged the MAGA agenda. This time, President Trump is choosing America First warriors who are ready to shake things up and turn our crooked government upside down. And his latest pick for FCC chairman has the “disinformation” crowd absolutely panicking. President Trump has tapped First Amendment champion Brendan Carr for the top FCC spot, and this guy is poised to dismantle the censorship industry...
  • FBI used ‘software tools’ to search social media for election-related talk: analyst

    11/14/2024 10:01:09 AM PST · by Libloather · 30 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/12/24 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — House Republicans are demanding more information from the FBI about its use of “software tools” to seek out election-related speech on social media after a bureau analyst mentioned their use during a recent deposition — before being barred from saying any more by FBI lawyers. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told FBI Director Christopher Wray Tuesday to hand over the information as President-elect Donald Trump’s looming return to office creates uncertainty for Wray’s future employment. “In a transcribed interview… on October 23, 2024, an FBI Criminal Investigative Division Analyst previously assigned to the [Foreign Influence Task...
  • GWU president 'personally offended' by art slamming China's human rights record, has it removed from campus

    02/07/2022 7:38:23 PM PST · by Right Wing Vegan · 39 replies
    Fox News ^ | Emma Colton
    The newly minted president of George Washington University said he was "personally offended" by art posted around the college's campus condemning China's human rights abuses. "Please know that I am personally offended by the posters. I treasure the opportunity to work with talented people from all over the world, including China," George Washington University President Mark Wrighton wrote in an email. "I, too, am saddened by this terrible event and we will undertake an effort to determine who is responsible." A screenshot of the email was posted to Twitter by the artist behind the posters, known only as Badiucao. He...
  • Scarborough: Dems Lost Because They Focus on Identity, Cancelling People

    11/06/2024 7:58:59 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/06/2024 | Pam Key
    MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday on “Morning Joe” that Democrats lost the election because of identity and cultural politics. Co-host Willie Geist said, “I live in a relatively rural area outside the city. There was a local race there, and the Republican changed her signs picking up on this. And every sign said ‘Save Girls Sports.'” Scarborough said, “Let’s dig a little deeper because you have that stacked on top of what happened on college campuses this fall, stacked on top of what’s been happening on college campuses over the past four or five years. I have said this...
  • First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris

    11/05/2024 9:36:02 AM PST · by JohnRLott · 19 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | November 2, 2024 | John R Lott Jr
    Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday, she argued that people need to vote for her to preserve the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments, that Trump “wants to terminate the Constitution.” Yet, on the First Amendment, Harris previously called for government “oversight or regulation” of social media to stop what she calls misinformation. In 2022, her vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Tim Walz, claimed: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” On gun ownership, Harris went so far as claiming: “I am in...
  • Harris-Biden try to put the US under United Nations sovereignty

    11/04/2024 6:04:07 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 29 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 4 Nov, 2024 | Andrea Widburg
    Fortunately, the Constitution should still operate to prevent a leftist administration from handing to the UN American sovereignty and Americans’ rights. When five different people send you a link, you know that something very important has happened, even if the drive-by media aren’t trumpeting it on their outlets. In this case, it’s Robert Williams’ report at the Gatestone Institute that, in September, the Harris-Biden administration, without fanfare, adopted a UN pact that gives the UN and the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) control over American speech, foreign policy, and, possibly, internal sovereignty. Thankfully, while the administration can sign someone’s name on...
  • Pentagon, other agencies funded censorship firm accused of suppressing The Post, House committee reveals

    10/25/2024 4:11:35 PM PDT · by blueplum · 4 replies
    NY Post ^ | 25 Oct 2024 | Josh Christenson
    A House committee revealed Friday that the Pentagon, other US agencies and the European Union — in addition to the State Department — have funded a for-profit “fact-checking” firm accused of suppressing The Post. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote a letter to the firm, NewsGuard, demanding more details about the public-private collaboration that led last year to the State Department being sued by conservative outlets that were labeled more “risky” than their liberal counterparts..... The Oversight panel in June opened its investigation into NewsGuard’s apparent participation in a government-funded “censorship campaign” to allegedly discredit and even demonetize...
  • Harvard professors argue that America needs a 'militant democracy' to stop Trump

    10/25/2024 2:27:56 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 65 replies
    Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt advised pushing a "militant democracy" to ensure an "authoritarian figure" like former President Trump never rises to power again. In an op-ed for the New York Times, Levitsky and Ziblatt describe how they spent the last year "researching how democracies can protect themselves from authoritarian threats from within," lamenting how close Trump remains to getting a second term. "How could such an openly authoritarian figure have a coin flip’s chance of returning to the presidency? Why have so many of our democracy’s defenses seemingly broken down, and which, if any, remain?" they wrote....
  • MRC Honors Original Vision for Free Speech Week with 2024 Awards

    10/24/2024 11:04:10 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 1 replies
    MRC Free Speech America ^ | 10/24/2024 | Joseph Vazquez and Dan Schneider
    The Media Research Center (MRC) seeks to uphold the original vision of Free Speech Week, and nothing encapsulates those efforts more than the free speech advocates MRC has honored this year. Free Speech Week was founded in 2005 by The Media Institute and the National Association of Broadcasters “to raise public awareness of the importance of free speech in our democracy – and to celebrate that freedom.” The freedom of speech is a fundamental American liberty, one that transcends political differences. According to the official website, the event, “is designed as a unifying celebration, elevating the vision of the Founding...
  • Globalists Are Taking The Mask Off And That’s A Bad Sign…

    10/11/2024 7:44:09 AM PDT · by george76 · 35 replies
    Alt-Market ^ | October 10, 2024 | Brandon Smith
    Remember the last time the globalists took the mask off? It wasn’t that long ago, but some people might have already forgotten how the western world almost lost all individual freedom under the guise of an over-hyped health emergency. When globalists are honest about what they truly want, it usually coincides with an engineered calamity. In the two years since the failure of the covid pandemic narrative I have argued that globalist organizations are trying to regroup under a new plan. The evidence suggests that these people suffered a shocking revelation after their attempt to implement perpetual medical tyranny. They’ve...
  • Disinformation Is Not The Problem... Government Coverups And Censorship Are The Problem

    10/10/2024 9:09:59 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Rutherford Institute ^ | 10/10/2024 | John & Nisha Whitehead
    “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”- Hannah...
  • Adam Schiff Demands Election ‘Misinformation’ Crackdown Through Social Media Censorship

    10/03/2024 10:07:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 44 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/03/2024 | Lucas Nolan
    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is calling on Big Tech to censor alleged election misinformation, conveniently ignoring his own history of propagating the debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff is now demanding that major tech companies take aggressive action to combat the spread of so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation” ahead of the 2024 election. However, Schiff’s sudden concern about election integrity rings hollow given his prominent role in spreading one of the most damaging political conspiracy theories in recent memory — the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. In a letter sent this week to the CEOs of Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok,...
  • Kerry at the WEF: First Amendment Is the Problem

    09/30/2024 9:45:01 AM PDT · by DeweyCA · 30 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 9-30-24 | David Strom
    Democrats have been ramping up the rhetoric, not just about eliminating Donald Trump and MAGA, but about getting rid of the Constitution itself. The first two Amendments of the Constitution are constantly attacked by the left, followed closely by the Electoral College. Your right to speak, to defend yourself, and for people outside New York, California, and deep Blue urban areas to be represented are all under attack. The latest example of this fact is John Kerry, Special Envoy for the President for the Climate (yes, John Kerry is the Earth's representative according to the Biden/Harris administration), bemoaning the fact...
  • Joe Rogan issues grave warning for what he thinks will happen to America if Kamala Harris wins

    09/27/2024 11:22:54 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 51 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | September 27 2024 | Bethan Sexton
    Joe Rogan has warned that the First Amendment will come under threat if Kamala Harris is elected president. The podcast host was discussing censorship on social media platforms during a Thursday episode of his show. He stated that currently X and Rumble are the only places with unfettered free speech.
  • The Counter-Constitutional Movement: The Assault on America’s Defining Principles

    09/27/2024 6:50:25 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | September 25, 2024 | Jonathan Turley
    Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the growing counter-constitutional movement in the United States. This assault on the Constitution is being led by law professors who have lost their faith in the defining principles and institutions of our Republic. Here is the column: Kamala Harris declared in Tuesday’s debate that a vote for her is a vote “to end the approach that is about attacking the foundations of our democracy ’cause you don’t like the outcome.” She was alluding to the 2021 Capitol riot, but she and her party are also attacking the foundations of our...
  • News Majority of Americans Admit to ‘Self-Silencing’ on Hot-Button Issues, Survey Finds

    09/25/2024 8:35:20 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 45 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | 25 Sept 2024 | Rebeka Zeljko
    Nearly two-thirds of Americans conceal their political opinions on contentious issues in public, according to a new Populace Research/YouGov survey. Most Americans, 58%, said they cannot express their private opinions publicly, and 61% admit to “self-silencing” their political views, according to the survey. At the same time, Americans publicly claim to have higher trust in our institutions than they do in private. Only 36% of Democrats publicly said that they trust the government to tell the truth, but only 5% agreed with the statement in private, according to the survey. Similarly, 42% of Democrats publicly report that they trust the...