The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said the FCC's "rules on indecency are too vague and violate the First Amendment, undermining the government's primary tool for policing civility over the airwaves. With its decision, the three-judge panel handed a victory to broadcasters such as Fox, CBS and ABC, which had petitioned the court to challenge the agency's muscled-up approach of imposing steep fines for impromptu expletives and sexual content. Broadcasters had taken their arguments against the FCC's policy to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the agency April 29. It said the FCC followed administrative procedure, but it did not address whether the rules were constitutional -- an issue it sent to the appeals court. On Tuesday, the appeals judges called the FCC's policy, in place since 2004, 'unconstitutionally vague, creating a chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives at issue here.' The vagueness left broadcasters uncertain about what they could air, which impinged on their freedom of speech, the judges said." Tweet
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Dodd-Frank "Financial Reform" Bill Includes Racial And Gender Quotas
The recently passed "Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill, ostensibly aimed at reforming Wall Street and preventing a future financial crisis, will impose racial and gender quotas on financial institutions... Section 342 of the bill will establish Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion in at least 20 federal financial services agencies. These offices will be tasked with implementing 'standards and procedures to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, the fair inclusion and utilization of minorities, women, and minority-owned and women-owned businesses in all business and activities of the agency at all levels, including in procurement, insurance, and all types of contracts.' So called 'fair inclusion' will apply to 'financial institutions, investment banking firms, mortgage banking firms, asset management firms, brokers, dealers, financial services entities, underwriters, accountants, investment consultants and providers of legal services.'The provision goes on to assert that the government will terminate contracts with institutions they deem have 'failed to make a good faith effort to include minorities and women in their workforce.'" Tweet
Friday, July 16, 2010
Federal Court Says That Law Prohibiting Falsely Claiming To Be A Military Hero Is Unconstitutional As It Violates The First Amendment's Free Speech
The AP reports that a "law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero is unconstitutional because it violates free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday as he dismissed a case against a Colorado man who claimed he received two military medals. Rick Glen Strandlof claimed he was an ex-Marine who was wounded in Iraq and received the Purple Heart and Silver Star, but the military had no record he ever served. He was charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime punishable by up to a year in jail to falsely claim to have won a military medal. U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn dismissed the case and said the law is unconstitutional, ruling the government did not show it has a compelling reason to restrict that type of statement."
To read UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh's amicus brief which lays out the argument in 15 pages as to why the Court should have upheld the law, visit http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/stolenvaloract.pdf
To read the concise 14 page opinion in United States v. Strandlof itself, visit http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4aOmucPTb-IOTM4NjA4MGQtZDdjZC00MjNjLTlmMWUtMTY4N2I3MmY5NzA4&authkey=CMeB_bwO&hl=en&pli=1
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Israeli Salafi Imam Nazem Abu Salim: We Are On The Verge Of Defeating The US
Visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2532.htm to see the clip for yourself. Tweet
Carville Slams Obama Administration On Deep Sea Drilling Moratorium
To view the clip from CNN visit http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdZuaG6U2G. Tweet
Sheila Jackson Lee: “Today We Have Two Vietnams, Side By Side”
This historical ignoramus is sitting as a member of the House of Representatives?! "South Vietnam" ceased to exist in 1975. One of the central reasons for it no longer existing is that the US Senate, led by Rep. Jackson Lee's Democratic Party, refused to provide promised aid and support to the government in Saigon as tanks from North Vietnam rolled in. It is a shameful history of both betrayal and defeat that the Democratic party in Congress brought about by exploiting the weakness of the presidency due to the Watergate scandal to push for the end of all aid to South Vietnam.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Obama Administration Approves First Direct Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Through New High-Risk Insurance Pools
CNSNews.com reports that if "you want proof that President Obama's Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio). Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state."
"The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable," Boehner said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
New Black Panther Leader Defends Saddam Hussein
To see the video for yourself visit http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdZuqG4zSU. Tweet
Megyn Kelly Rips Apart Liberal Pundit Kirsten Powers Over Black Panther Voter Intimidation Case Dropped By DOJ
You know that Megyn Kelly has completely destroyed Kirsten Powers by the end when Powers is saying she never claimed there was no voter intimidation despite the fact that earlier in that very same interview she repeatedly said just that. After Powers is confronted with facts that she had a few minutes earlier admitted knowing nothing about, she then goes on to just try and blame Bush.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Geraldo Rivera Rips Apart New Black Panther Leader Malik Shabbaz
To watch the 15 minutes of arguing visit http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdZu6U4znz. Tweet
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