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Sean Treglia, a former high-ranking operative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, a foundation worth more than $4 billion, last year openly admitted that passage of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law—which bans political free speech in the 60 days leading up to an election—was engineered, planned, funded and executed by several lavishly wealthy, anti-gun foundations. In other words, it was not a grassroots movement of people throughout the country. It was a big scam. A fraud. A con job. Or, to be more exact, a midnight assassination hit on America’s First Amendment. In an explosive videotape obtained by the New York...

THOMAS MITCHELL: The spreading menace of McCain-Feingold There is one law Congress, in all its collective wisdom, can never repeal: the law of unintended consequences. In a fit of pique over the huge sums it was costing them to successfully defend their coveted seats of power, Congress passed the McCain-Feingold law, setting limits on what people could spend -- and when -- exercising what had once been their free speech right to advocate candidates for federal office. Of course, before the ink was dry on the parchment, along came the 527s -- MoveOn.org, billionaire George Soros' America Coming Together and...