Archive for the ‘First Amendment’ Category

Friction

October 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Frankly Speaking - Frank Gillispie - October 15, 2009

Friction can be a good thing, and it can be an agent of destruction. It takes friction to smooth and polish objects and ideas. The crankshaft in your engine has to be highly polished to avoid wear and distortion. A small stone can be polished into a [...]

Has It Only Been Eight Years?

September 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Posted by permission.
Frankly Speaking - Frank Gillispie - September 6, 2009
Has it only been eight years? The dastardly attack on the World Trade Center and the pentagon, and the planned attack on our national capital occurred on September 11, 2001, eight short years ago.  How then have we already forgotten the lessons of that day?

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“There is No Campaign to Confront the Tea Baggers”

August 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Older story, but one I thought should be revisited.
Story From ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
A spokesman for the SEIU stated the following:
“The members didn’t come to talk to the angry mob outside, they came to talk to the congress people inside,” Oliver said. Oliver said about 15 to 20 members attended Thursday’s rally.
“All our members want is [...]

Tea Party Protest Organizers Target Health-Care Reform

August 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Thousands across the country attended rallies outside congressional offices protesting the Obama-Democrat Healtcare bills.
“People just want government to stay out of their health care,” said Eric Odom, executive director of American Liberty Alliance, one the groups that organized Saturday’s rallies. “It was very little about the cost and more about government intrusion.”
Eric has posted [...]

Grassley: FCC Diversity Chief May Stifle Talk Radio

August 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Senator Grassley of Iowa has got a problem with the FCC’s new CDO and his proposed regulations.
The Iowa Republican expressed his concerns because of a paper in which Mark Lloyd, the diversity director, alleged a “structural imbalance” in political talk radio and suggested increasing government involvement to regulate it. Lloyd co-authored the paper for the [...]