First Amendment
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GovernmentLibertyPolitics
Freedom Caucus’ Jim Jordan: Freedom Under Attack
by Nancy Thorner April 17, 2019Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan told a private group at Chicago’s Trump Tower this week that the current Democrat Party is the craziest he has ever experienced.
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Government
California’s New Privacy Law is No Model for the Nation
by Bartlett Cleland January 4, 2019The fundamental problem of defining privacy is the same as defining obscenity. What is an outrage to one person is no big deal to another.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep133) – The State of Health Care, Freedom and Firearms, and the First Amendment
by Donald Kendal March 29, 2018With John Nothdurft out, Government Relations employees Arianna Wilkerson and Charlie Katebi join Donny Kendal to present episode #133 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute.
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Will other states follow North Carolina’s example?
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ConstitutionEducationFeaturedPolitics
The NFL Flap Exposes Media Ignorance and the Failure of Civic Education
by Robert Holland November 14, 2017The huge dust-up over the protests of the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem by National Football League players has served to dramatize a massive deficiency in civics education in this nation.
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EducationFeatured
‘Hate Speech’ Makes for a Fascinating Discussion
by Diane Carol Bast November 9, 2017Does the First Amendment allow public universities to adopt rules prohibiting hate speech? Seventy-four percent of us attending a National Constitution Center debate said no.
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There is a difficult paradox between the NFL protests today directly at the center of the debates: it may be American to have the right to protest, but it may be un-American to choose to use it.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Net Neutrality Proven Titanically Stupid – By Net Neutrality’s Proponents
by Seton Motley August 29, 2017Network Neutrality has for more than a decade been all the rage on the Left. Emphasis – as is alway the case with the Left – on rage.
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ConstitutionGovernmentLegal Affairs
With Due Respect to the Supreme Court, Some Campaign Finance Laws Are Unconstitutional
by Rob Natelson July 31, 2017Many on the left are campaigning to “overturn Citizens United.”
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Government
Twitter Users Claim 1st Amendment Rights Violated
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold July 18, 2017President Trump, in defending his use of Twitter, says “he’s redefining the American presidency, describing his use of social media as ‘modern day presidential’ and necessary to fight what he deems fake news.”
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Liberal politicos celebrating court decisions voiding President Donald Trump’s travel orders seem not to have noticed something: Those decisions pose a direct threat to the state constitutional language they rely on to block school choice programs.
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FeaturedLibertyPoliticsSpeaker Series
Heartland Event: Assaults on Free Speech and the Future of Liberty
by Nancy Thorner March 11, 2017A defense must be mounted against what happened at Berkeley, and what is also taking place on other college campuses. The act of speaking is not “violence.”
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GovernmentLegal AffairsLiberty
America’s First Freedom Doesn’t Just Protect Political Speech
by Rob Natelson September 10, 2016The modern U.S. Supreme Court grants more First Amendment protection to political discourse than to other forms of expression, such as commercial advertising. The court holds that political discourse enjoys a “preferred position.”