The Bill of Rights has lasted 78,892 days, 11,270 weeks, 1,893,408 hours, 113,604,480 minutes or 6,816,268,800 seconds. In case you’ve never found the time to read them in full, I encourage you to do so today on this, the 216th anniversary of the ratification of the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution. They appear [...]
Bill of Rights Ratified 216 Years Ago Today
December 15th, 2007 · No Comments
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Is Barack Obama Against Freedom of Speech?
October 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
Freedom of speech doesn’t seem to rank very high on priority list of Barack Hussein Obama. I reached this conclusion after I visited the liberal Democrat presidential candidate’s campaign web site this morning. Under the “Upcoming Events” heading, I saw that the junior senator from Illinois plans to visit St. Louis Friday. When I clicked [...]
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Views of First Amendment Have Changed
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Freedom of speech and the so-called “separation of church and state” are much-talked-about subjects these days. William J. Federer offers some background on how views about them have changed in today’s American Minute: The son of one of the Boston Tea Party “Indians,” he graduated from Harvard and eventually became Massachusetts Speaker of the House. [...]
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Federal ‘Hate Crime’ Legislation Threatens Freedoms (Updated)
June 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Overshadowed by the attention paid to immigration-reform legislation in recent months, another piece of freedom-threatening legislation is quietly making its way through Congress and, in fact, has already been passed by the House. The legislation has to do with the prevention of so-called “Hate Crimes”. In this video below, Rep. Mary Fallin (R-Okla.), a first-term [...]
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