The Obama Administration continues its bizarre behavior in selecting targets for its wrath.<\/p>\n
For reasons unknown, the Administration has ostentatiously and histrionically escalated its condemnation of Israel<\/a>, our most loyal Middle East ally.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Merely because Israel announced preliminary approval (the fourth stage of a seven-stage bureaucratic planning process) to build housing units within its own municipal boundaries<\/em> in Jerusalem.\u00a0 Meanwhile, as The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reminds us<\/a>, the Obama Administration continues to treat such anti-American rogues as Libya, Iran, Venezuela and Syria with kid gloves.<\/p>\n Then yesterday, chief White House heavy David Axelrod characterized our First Amendment free speech and petition rights as “a threat to our democracy.”<\/a> The First Amendment explicitly states that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech … or of the right of the people … to petition the Government for redress of grievances.”\u00a0 Despite those protections, federal laws like McCain\/Feingold literally prohibited, under penalty of imprisonment, political speech within 30 and 60 days of an election.\u00a0 Fortunately, the United States Supreme Court struck a blow for First Amendment rights in January by overturning some of those restrictions in Citizens United v. FEC<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The Founding Fathers would not have taken kindly to McCain\/Feingold’s unconstitutional restrictions on free speech and the right to petition Congress.\u00a0 To them, abridgment of free speech was a threat to democracy.\u00a0 In contrast, that towering intellectual and philosophical sage David Axelrod considers free speech itself “a threat to our democracy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Obama Administration continues its bizarre behavior in selecting targets for its wrath. For reasons unknown, the Administration has ostentatiously and histrionically escalated its condemnation of Israel, our most loyal Middle East ally.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Merely because Israel announced preliminary approval (the fourth stage of a seven-stage bureaucratic planning process) to build housing units within its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,152,716,503,386,24,957],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-citizens-united","tag-david-axelrod","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-israel","tag-obama","tag-settlements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}