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There is very dangerous legislation making its way through both the House of Representatives and Senate that will finish the United States. The sharia bill calls for Islamic blasphemy laws — the criminalization of speech that offends or insults — who, exactly? Well, that is up to the enforcer, is it not? On Wednesday, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced “The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014″ (S.2219), which seeks “to examine the prevalence of hate crime and hate speech on the Internet, television, and radio to better address such crimes.” Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) introduced a companion bill in the...

May 22, 2012 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid S-221 The Capitol Washington, D.C. 20510 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell S-230 The Capitol Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senators Reid and McConnell, I am writing to express the National Rifle Association's strong opposition to S. 2219, the DISCLOSE Act. In its landmark Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on certain political speech by nonprofit membership associations, including the National Rifle Association, in an effort to mischaracterize that ruling as something other than a vindication of the free speech and associational rights of millions of...