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National Review Online: Supreme Court: Obama Wrong on Citizens United

Ed Whelan writes on NRO’s Bench Memos blog: There has been broad agreement that President Obama didn’t get it right in his State of the Union address two years ago when he criticized the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision for supposedly “revers[ing] a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to […]

Finding God Daily: Finding God in The Gift of Life Movie

The new documentary, “The Gift of Life,” premiered in Des Moines, Iowa, on December 14, 2011. People who see it will find God in “The Gift of Life” movie. The anti-abortion documentary is narrated by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. He was present and spoke at the premiere, but he wasn’t the only one. According […]

Stand Against President Obama’s Abuse of Recess Appointments

Congressman Jeff Landry (R-LA) has just introduced the Executive Appointment Reform Act to reverse the Constitutional damage President Obama has done with his unprecedented “recess” appointments. Contact your Representative today by calling (202) 224-3121 to urge them to cosponsor and support Rep. Landry’s Executive Appointment Reform Act and stand against President Obama’s abuse of the […]

Cagle Post: Keeping Obama In Check

The unprecedented actions taken by President Obama to “recess” appoint his liberal nominees showed a new level of abuse of power by his imperial presidency. Never before has a politician campaigned in such a dramatically different way than he has governed. The American people were sold a false bill of goods in 2008 and President […]

Reason: Why Liberals Favor Campaign Season Censorship

…Media corporations such as those, which spend huge sums of money talking about politicians, just can’t stand it when non-media corporations get to do the same thing. And lest anyone forget that is precisely what the case was about. In 2008 a nonprofit, incorporated group called Citizens United wanted to distribute a documentary about Hillary […]

Time to Take Energy Independence Seriously

Great article via the Stonegate Institute titled “Taking Energy Independence Seriously.”  Worth a read: At year end, 2011, as Americans emptied their wallets at the gas pump and crude oil reached almost $100 a barrel, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia reported an $81.6 billion 2011 budget surplus. The White House action at the same time was […]

Politico: Obama recess appointments wise?

The unprecedented actions taken by President Obama yesterday showed a new abuse of power by his imperial presidency. Never before has a politician campaigned in such a dramatically different way than he has governed. Unfortunately, the American people were sold a false bill of goods in 2008 and President Obama has time and again abused […]

Seattle Times: A look at the Citizens United decision

A snapshot of the Citizens United v. FEC decision: ….When his case reached the Supreme Court, the conservative justices voiced alarm that the government could restrict such a movie, or perhaps a book, simply because it was paid for with corporate money, and decided to broadly consider the issue of corporate-funded election ads. Chief Justice […]

WSJ: The Super PAC Boomerang

Today’s Wall Street Journal points out “Campaign-finance scolds denounce the system they created”: In the common media wisdom, super PACs are a result of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. This is said to have created a “loophole” that the super PACs have exploited to evade campaign-finance restrictions on the money that candidates can […]