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31 January 2016
Photograph from a public Facebook page of Tom Carbone, 31 Jan 2016
Related: The Haunting Last Words of Oregon Protester LaVoy Finicum, video posted by Joe Miller.
This drone footage of the killing of Lavoy Finicum was released by the FBI. It is alleged to […] January 31st, 2016 | Tags: Ammon Bundy, Blaine Cooper, Bureau of Land Management, David Fry, due process, freedom, KrissAnne Hall, Malehur National Wildlife Refuge, Oath Keepers, public lands, ranchers, Rep. Matthew Shea, Robert 'Lavoy' Finicum, Ruby Ridge, Ryan Payne, Sam Culper, Waco | Category: Audio, civil liberties, FBI, law enforcement, Oregon, Property rights, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Newsmax 23 Jul 2015 US Secretary of State John Kerry faced accusations Thursday that he had been “fleeced” and “bamboozled” by Tehran as he defended the Iran nuclear deal publicly for the first time on Capitol Hill. Kerry appeared before the Senator Foreign Relations Committee to defend the hard-fought agreement, which he called a “good […] July 23rd, 2015 | Tags: Ernest Moniz, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Medellín v. Texas, Rep. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Tom Cotton, Susan Rice | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Iran, National Security, nuclear weapons, Politics, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Barbara Boland The Washington Examiner 7/15/2015 The Christian owners of the Oregon “Sweet Cakes by Melissa” bakery had until this past Monday to pay a financially-crushing $135,000 fine for their refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding — but a crowdfunding campaign set up for them has raised $358,500. Aaron and Melissa Klein, […] July 15th, 2015 | Tags: 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Continue to Give, contraception, insurance mandates, Little Sisters of the Poor, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), same sex marriage, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, wedding cake | Category: 1st Amendment, Health Care, Oregon, Politics, Progressives, religion | Comments are closed
Office of the Governor Greg Abbott The State of Texas 6/11/2015 Governor Greg Abbott today signed Senate Bill 2065 (Estes, R-Wichita Falls; Sanford, R-McKinney), the Pastor Protection Act, which protects religious organizations and individuals from performing marriage ceremonies that violate sincerely-held religious beliefs. Governor Abbott hosted the signing ceremony at the Texas Governor’s Mansion and […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "Pastor Protection Act", Greg Abbott, religious freedom, same sex marriage | Category: legislation, religion, Texas, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Alex Pfeiffer The Daily Caller 6/26/2015 …Thomas’ dissent focused on the idea of negative rights, “As one later commentator observed, ‘[L]iberty in the eighteenth century was thought of much more in relation to ‘negative liberty’; that is, freedom from, not freedom to, freedom from a number of social and political evils, including arbitrary government power,’” […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "disparate impact claims", 1968 Fair Housing Act, due process, gay marriage, human dignity, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, same sex marriage, slavery | Category: Civil rights, Racism, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Richard Wolf USA Today 6/22/2015 WASHINGTON — Score one for the little guy. The Supreme Court sided with a renegade raisin farmer Monday in his battle against a federal program designed to keep excess raisins off the market. A majority of justices ruled that the Agriculture Department program, which seizes excess raisins from producers in […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Marvin Horne, Michael McConnell, raisins | Category: 5th Amendment, Agriculture and Food Production, California, Department of Agriculture, Property rights, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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