Truth, Lies and In Between

And you thought Bush was out to squash liberty? Man, are you an idiot. Pay attention to Obama and his cronies. They are doing whatever they can to curb your freedoms. This latest moron; the regulatory czar; (WTF is that?); is the latest idiot to open up a can of worms that was best left the hell alone. Another Obamabot that should be fired post haste.

Ministry of Truth, Obama-style
By John Griffing

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
– George Orwell

President Obama has been agitating for the authority to criminalize political opponents since he took office.  First there was the raft of DHS reports profiling conservatives as terrorists. Then came the push for a new fairness doctrine, subsequently refined to be achieved in diversity regulations to be imposed on local radio stations. Following these attacks on free speech was the much debated hate crimes legislation, considered by many to be a back-door path to silencing critics of the administration. But, while dangerous to free speech, none of these draconian policies could do as much damage as new regulatory czar Cass Sunstein’s shocking proposal to ban “falsehoods” — a term left up to the Obama administration to define.  If Sunstein succeeds, free speech will be truly dead in America.

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Civil Rights in the Age of Obama
By Lauri B. Regan

One of my liberal friends looked at me the day after Obama won and gleefully declared, “We finally have our civil rights back!” Perhaps it was the remnants of the bottle of champagne she drank with her husband the night before in celebration of their perceived victory in the election, or perhaps it was the remnants of a drug-induced haze from her hippy days, but she made no sense to me then. And she makes even less now.

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