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Buffett says taxes are too low, but doesn’t pay more himself

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, capitalism, personal responsibility, privacy, rights, taxes | No Comments »

Echoing his comments in June, Warren Buffett is complaining about tax rates as being too low. The relevant question is: has he done anything about it or is he just being a hypocrite, again?
Let’s see what Buffett has actually done instead of said: Buffett is giving away is fortune (http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/). [...]

Hillary Clinton’s Million Ideas

Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government | No Comments »

I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all. - Senator Hillary Clinton, October 11, 2007 (Boston.com)
Hey Senator Clinton, thank you for letting us know you have a million ideas. I have a million ideas too, the key difference is that I am not using force to make everyone else pay for [...]

Power-hungry Univ of Florida, Gainesville Police

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, media, rights | No Comments »

Power-hungry and abusive police arrest and taser a student asking John Kerry speech:
Look at those little Napoleon police. Pathetic officers.
Capt. Jeff Holcomb of the University Police Department and the officers involved should be fired.
see
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20070918/NEWS/709180325/1007/NEWS
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ec_1190097717&p=1

McCain-Feingold limits McCain’s Campaign

Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, elections, rights, supreme court | No Comments »

One might call it ironic that the McCain campaign is faltering due to lack of funds. Ironic because he has helped to silence his own speech rights while limiting everyone else’s. Instead of being free to donate and disclose to a candidate who shares your views, you are greatly limited. McCain suffers [...]

Supreme Court Eases Restrictions on First Amendment Ads

Monday, June 25th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, elections | No Comments »

The United States Supreme Court today (in a 5-4 ruling) ruled that some restrictions on speech that were contained in the McCain-Feingold Campaign finance act were un-Constitutional.
While the Supreme Court should have tossed out all restrictions on television ads airing close to elections and campaign funding as contrary to the First Amendment (among other [...]

Brian Lamb of C-SPAN and the meaning of “give”

Thursday, June 21st, 2007
First Amendment, big government, rights, taxes | No Comments »

Brian Lamb of CSPAN obviously has no idea what the meaning of the word “give” is.
Politico.com quotes him as stating:
“We are not a taxpayer organization … We get no federal funds, state funds, local funds. We get our money from you. You give us a nickel a month when you pay your bills, and that’s [...]

Republican Ron Paul Excluded from June Iowa Debate

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
First Amendment, big government, elections | No Comments »

Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance hosts a Republican presidential debate Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, and Tom Tancredo will participate. Republican Ron Paul was not invited.
The most ardent tax reformer of the Republican hopefuls, the candidate [...]

Free Speech - McCain Feingold Unconstitutionality

Friday, April 15th, 2005
First Amendment, big government, rights, supreme court | No Comments »

April 15, 2005 McCain Feingold Unconstitutionality
The Internet was exempted from the McCain-Feingold regulations in a 4-2 vote by the FEC in 2002, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly overturned the decision during the Fall of 2004. Two things that need to be made perfectly clear:
1. Several people have advocated impeaching the Judge. But the problem [...]

Federal Government’s recent actions demonstrate a tremendous danger to free speech

Thursday, February 26th, 2004
First Amendment, big government, media, privacy, rights | No Comments »

Thursday, February 26, 2004
Censorship
The Federal Government’s recent actions on censorship demonstrate a tremendous danger to free speech.
Once you start down the path of the government deciding permissible content for radio (or TV, newspapers, or the internet) to air, the country is in very serious trouble. A company such as Clear Channel may decide it doesn’t [...]

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Whim?

Monday, November 20th, 2000
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, elections, rights, supreme court | No Comments »

November 20, 2000
The Florida Supreme Court faces a clear choice: Whether to act in place of the Florida Legislature and re-write a statute, thus ignoring the will of the people who voted for the legislators who enacted the legislation, or whether to follow the expressed will of the people by upholding the law as written. [...]

Bill of Rights of the United States

Monday, July 4th, 1994
Abuse of Power, Constitution, First Amendment, big government, history, rights | No Comments »

The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights:

AMENDMENTS
1st Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for [...]