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Florida Senator’s Spectacularly Bad Idea REPRINT

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From March 4, 2023

I don’t like to do nooze on the weekend, but if I don’t get this out of the way, it’ll fester.

A Florida state senator has proposed a bill to require bloggers who write about the governor, the attorney general, and other public officials… to register with the state or pay a fine (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/florida-bill-will-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-state/).

Whoa! Did I wake up in North Korea? Cuba? Or is State Senator Jason Brodeur just barking, screaming, head-does-a-360 mad? And he’s a Republican. We expect this kind of Stalinist horse manure from Democrats–but no, no, no! Not from Republicans.

Far Left Crazy must be licking its chops over this. “Ooooh, why didn’t we think of that! Quick! Set it up in every Blue state and every Blue city on the map!”

Really, you don’t expect the First Amendment to be attacked from this direction. I believe God Himself has granted me the right, from birth, to say or write anything I please about anyone occupying any public office. “Endowed by our Creator”–dig? “Inalienable rights”–which means you can’t take them away.

Somebody find this senator a civics class.

This absurdity wouldn’t last ten minutes in any federal court.

 

Congressman’s Biggest Worry

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, says his great worry is the threat to our First Amendment and free speech (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/07/breitbart-fight-club-roundtable-jim-jordan-greatest-worry-threat-first-amendment/).

I thought we all knew that! If freedom of speech goes, they all go.

Meanwhile we’ve got Democrats telling their reps to encourage violence, or whatever else it takes to un-elect President Donald Trump.

It’s not the 1970s anymore. All those decent Democrats I knew (and interviewed) back then, they’re all gone. Only the bad guys are left.

Oh, let’s see if the Party can stand up to its own rabble-rousers. [Cue hysterical laughter.]

‘America 2.0’ (My Newswithviews Column, March 21)

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When does the First Amendment stop protecting our right to free speech?

Well, heck! Whenever there’s an “emergency”–right?

And that would be whenever the government decides there’s an emergency.

America 2.0

T’other day Supreme Court “Justice” Kitanji Whatsit complained that that pesky First Amendment “hamstrings” the government. Guess what, sunshine: That’s what it’s for! To limit the power of government. That’s what the whole Constitution itself is for!

Someone sign her up for a high school physics class. If we can find one.

When It’s Okay to Ignore the First Amendment

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I’m going to write this up for Newswithviews, but I think the subject is important enough to justify giving you a sneak preview here.

As we read this, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case in which the government argues that it’s okay to suspend the First Amendment if that’s what it takes to deal with an emergency–in this case, a “Once-in-a-lifetime Pandemic” (https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/18/federal-government-claims-once-in-a-lifetime-pandemic-excuses-first-amendment-violations/). Yowsah, yowsah, we gotta do what we gotta do!

Uh-huh… Until it becomes apparent that they’re all once-in-a-lifetime emergencies that must be tackled with whatever it takes. Suddenly election interference and Hunter Biden’s laptop furnish excuses for suspending that pesky First Amendment.

God help us if the Court lets them get away with this.

But I’m afraid He won’t help us. I mean, why should He?

Yes, FBI Targeted ‘Traditional Catholics’ as ‘Domestic Terrorists’

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Birds of a feather

Congress has obtained documents that show that “multiple offices” of the FBI–Didn’t they used to be law enforcement?–“colluded” to target “traditional Catholics” as “domestic terrorists.” Agents even went so far as to “infiltrate Catholic parishes” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/organized-evil-newly-released-documents-reveal-multiple-fbi/).

Weaponize government agencies against half or more of the population–this is the quintessence of Bidenism.

Did someone toss out the First Amendment while we weren’t looking?

Yeahbut! Don’t those traditional Catholics oppose abortion, phony same-sex “marriages,” and Transgender? That’s terrorism–right?

No, Joe. That’s freedom.

Hello, Congress! You need to stop this–now.

By the way… Biden always describes himself as “a devout Catholic.”

God’s gonna see through that, Joe.

‘Ending Free Speech’

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Legal scholar Neil Richards on the First Amendment in the digital age.

This is a long essay by Kenin Spivak, but I post it here because it’s well worth reading and critically important.

Ending Free Speech

Currently, “the Biden Administration is asking whether we should have a First Amendment.” I mean, heck, it’s only the foundation of our free republic: that’s why they made it No. 1. Free speech, freedom of religion, our right to petition government for redress of grievances–if we don’t have this, we don’t have the United States of America.

But the government is fighting tooth and nail–and so far, thank Heaven, losing–against a federal judge’s ruling, in Missouri v. Biden, that bars government agencies and officials from censoring free speech on the Internet.

Without our First Amendment guarantees, our republic and our freedom are dead.

It will seem obvious to most of us that this administration has done everything in its power to restrict our free speech rights–at least, when those rights are exercised by anyone who disagrees with its policies.

[And now the tech team is here to assemble our new computer hutch, so I must step back for the time being. I hope you read the essay, and we’re eager to see what you think of it.]

First Amendment? What First Amendment?

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Not in California, baby!

If you can’t shut people up, the next best thing, maybe even the best thing, if you’re a dictator, is to compel them to say what you want them to say–or else. At the very least, you destroy their self-respect: makes it easier to control ’em.

And that brings us to California’s community colleges, where aspiring teachers are “required” (they love that word) to teach “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility,” and, of course, “anti-racism”–a euphemism for racism directed against white people (https://todaynationnews.com/california-schools-are-reviving-the-pledge-of-loyalty/).

“Faculty and staff shall (“shall” means “have to”) employ instructional practices and curriculum that reflect DEIA and anti-racism principles.” Oh! And they’ve also got to put “a social justice lens across all disciplines.”

See that? I found another public education outrage without having to look for it. Straight from the California Community College Administration. Every lesson in every subject is to be laced with Far Left Crazy dogma.

Is this blatantly unconstitutional? Or would you prefer “flagrantly”?

It’s “Red for Ed”! On steroids. And all on the taxpayers’ dime, too.

We are paying these people to assassinate our country.

 

The Last Free Country Left on Earth

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Is the United States of America the last free country left on earth? Sometime it seems so.

Have you ever wondered why we have a First Amendment, and other countries don’t? This important piece of our law, the Constitution, guarantees us (in order) freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom to assemble and petition the government for relief of our grievances. No other country has these guarantees.

Which doesn’t stop Democrats and other elements of Far Left Crazy from trying to take them away from us and either erase them altogether or else reserve these liberties to themselves alone. Hence a “Disinformation Governance Bureau,” “hate speech” rules, and all the rest. (Hint: It’s “fundamental transformation”!)

There are countries in the, ahem, “Free World” where I’d be silenced for the things I write. Tell me I’d be safe in Canada, the UK, or Australia. All of these countries had more freedom not that many years ago.

Our country’s founders had to have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. They hazarded their lives to win these freedoms, and so they could pass them on to their descendants. The leftids would replace these our natural rights with BS made-up pseudo-rights (unlimited abortion, LGBTQetc, transgender, illegal immigration, and on and on and on)–and above all, a supposed “right” to fornication.

There’s global government sniffing around, in search of vulnerabilities. Global government whose grand panjandrums think of most of us as “useless” or “worthless” people, fit only to be kept quiescent with drugs and video games.

We need our Spirit of ’76! Yes, we still need it after all these years; and always will.

‘Protected by the First Amendment (We Hope!)’

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Should we be scared of a couple of silly old apostate churchmen with their homosexual rainbow flag?

Protected! by the First Amendment (We Hope)

After all, unlike Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and all the rest of the not-so-free “Free World,” the law of our land, enshrined in our Constitution, the First Amendment, forbids the government to abridge our freedom of speech.

So California in 2019 could only “resolve” that it’s all Christians’ fault that sexual aberrants are miserable, yatta-yatta, and we’d better straighten up and “affirm” them if we know what’s good for us. Of course, that’d mean throwing our own core beliefs overboard–but if “progressives” can’t force regular people to do that, they feel they’ve lived in vain.

A word of warning: our First Amendment will only protect us for as long as we protect it–and may God protect us both.

‘Good News, for Once!’ (2016)

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America needs to start being America again! Some years ago, a high-school girl showed us how.

Good News! (For Once)

“School officials” told the students that no one could mention the name of Jesus Christ–especially not at any point during the graduation ceremony. The girl did it anyway! And what could the dunderheads do but sit on their hands and fume?

What has all this COVID bullschiiff taught us?

No more speech police, no more transgender propaganda, no more elites lording it over us, no more lockdowns, and no more atheism as the unofficial state religion! A teenage girl’s courage, just five years ago, has already shown us the way.