Dick Durbin wonders if the 1st Amendment applies to bloggers. “Written over 200 years ago.”

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These guys truly believe that they are a special class. They are the Washington class, the privileged, the blessed, the powerful. Sure the #oldmedia probably deserves the protections of the 1st Amendement, Durbin grudgingly admits, but bloggers? C’mon.

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Harry Reid says “Government is inherently good. That’s why we have a Constitution.” (Video)

That’s funny. I am pretty sure that the reason we have a Constitution which seeks to limit the power of government at every turn and  which in theory seeks to protect the rights of the everyday citizen is precisely because our founders did not believe government was inherently good.

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Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston Bombing

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What is with this guy? He just thinks there is too much freedom. Guns, salt, soda, whatever. He knows best. The citizenry are to be tolerated to the degree that they are living annuities which keep the economy humming and that is about it.

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In Letter to Rand Raul Eric Holder Says the President IS Authorized Potentially to Use Drones Inside the US Against US Citizens.

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Our Attorney General says this if things were sketchy enough a drone strike on American soil against a US citizen could be warranted. That whole due process thing? And the military not operating within the country? C’mon. Those ideas are so 20th century. You do know we have the NDAA right?

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Every American who believes in the rule of law should read this op-ed, It ran in the Sunday New York Times, “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution”

Let’s give up on the Constitution. That is where we are now. The New York Times, the paper once read by everyone who made any kind of decision of any significance in the world, runs an op-ed entitled, Let’s Give Up on the Constitution.

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Cass Sunstein Tries to Explain that the Equal Protection Clause doesn’t Actually Mean what it Says

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution)

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