First Amendment - Page 16

Climate Change Activists Clamp Down on Free Speech and Scientific Inquiry

Climate change activists have been secretly coordinating with one another regarding ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. They met to develop a strategy to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), which was intended to provide stronger weapons for prosecuting organized crime, against those who speak out against the Obama administration’s war on fossil fuels.

Under the Paris Agreement, 195 nations vowed to hold average global warming to well under

Lefty AG Blinks: Drops Climate Inquisition Investigation Against ExxonMobil

Only a few months after a coalition of left wing attorneys general and environmentalists commenced an intimidation campaign against ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) for its presumed politically incorrect views on climate change, the effort has begun to stall after the U.S. Virgin Islands dropped its subpoena amid accusations of political bias and civil rights violations.

An Exxon gas station is pictured in Arlington, Virginia

Op-Ed: Fight Back Against the ‘Stop the I-word’ Campaign

The PC political culture is campaigning hard to stop use of the terms “alien” and “illegal alien.” The mainstream press is tortuously contorting and elongating sentences to avoid use of the terms. A link provided below lets you fight back and hopefully put a stop to this coercive political correctness.

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Exclusive Video: Veteran Forcibly Dragged from Air Force Ceremony for Mentioning God

When a veteran started offering traditional remarks at a military flag-folding ceremony, several uniformed airmen assaulted him, dragging him out of the room because his remarks mentioned God. Now First Liberty Institute lawyers representing retired Senior Master Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez are demanding that the U.S. Air Force apologize and punish those responsible or face a federal civil-rights lawsuit.

Exclusive Video: Veteran Forcibly Dragged from Air Force Ceremony for Mentioning God

Charge Against Pro-Life Planned Parenthood Videomaker Dropped

One of the charges against the pro-life Planned Parenthood video maker has been dropped. Lawyers for David Daleiden provided Breitbart Texas with a copy of the order from the Harris County criminal court judge dropping the Class A misdemeanor charge for prohibition of the purchase and sale of human organs.

David Daleiden, center, one of the two anti-abortion activists indicted last week, address

Gen. Jerry Boykin: Americans Must Study and Protect the Constitution

“We have to do now restore the founding principles of this nation … We’ve got to get back to understanding that the Constitution is the bedrock of who we are,” retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin told Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, as Boyle guest-hosted that show on SiriusXM Patriot channel 125 this weekend.

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House Kills Transgender Bill After Moderate Republicans Panic

The full U.S. House of Representatives swats down a transgender measure, just hours after 43 Republicans voted for a Democratic amendment that would have forced transgender rules on all 50 states, and disqualify faith-based groups including the Salvation Army from doing business with the federal government.

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‘Long Live the Intifada’: Mob Disrupts Israeli Film at UC Irvine

Anti-Israel student protesters at the University of California Irvine chanted “Long live the Intifada” as they disrupted a screening of the Israeli film Beneath the Helmet: From High School to the Home Front on Wednesday night. The disruption , forcedcampus police to escort mostly female Jewish students who felt threatened by the protest safely out of the room in which the movie was being shown.

Students for Palestine UC Irvine (Facebook)

Supreme Court: City Violated Cop’s Free-Speech Rights

Last week, the Supreme Court held that when the government mistakenly believes a person is exercising his free-speech rights, yet that person is, in fact, not exercising any rights at all, it still violates the First Amendment to punish that person for what officials thought he was doing. The Court’s conservative justices disagree.

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Monday, March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Ap

Texas HD 128: Lawsuit Seeks Videos for Use in Campaign

A Republican candidate for state representative filed a lawsuit seeking the right to use legislative videos taken during proceedings of the Texas House of Representatives in his campaign advertising. He claims that the videos highlight votes and positions that his opponent incumbent Wayne Smith (R-Baytown) has taken that are inconsistent with what Smith tells constituents.

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Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Journalists Reject Plea Deal

The investigative journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s apparent practice of selling the body parts of babies it aborts on the open market have rejected plea deals offering them probation. Center for Medical Progress (CMP) project lead David Daleiden and his

Video of Planned Parenthood Transaction Center for Medical Progress

Trump Fans Protest West Hollywood Mayor’s ‘Ban’ on The Donald

Several dozen demonstrators gathered outside the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station on Thursday evening to protest Mayor Lindsey Horvath’s attempt to ban Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump from speaking in town. Horvath argued on CNN earlier this week that Trump’s political speech is “hate speech,”

West Hollywood Trump protest (Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart News)