On Election Day, there will be more than just a presidential race and statewide tax initiatives on the ballot. Local measures include a soda tax in Richmond and El Monte and the “Porn Actors Required to Wear Condoms Act” in Los Angeles County. Also, Mendocino County, San Francisco, and the cities of Chico, Richmond and Arcata are considering resolutions declaring that corporations are not entitled to a constitutional right to political free speech.
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Mark Fitzgibbons, an Examiner oped contributor and president for corporate and legal affairs of American Target Advertising, Inc., has launched an important new blog, CharityRegulatorWatch.com, that is a rarity on the Right side of the Blogosphere.
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrel Issa, R-Calif., had wanted Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew to testify on President Obama’s draft “Disclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors” executive order, but the White House declined to provide him.
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Passengers at San Francisco International Airport might soon be able to avoid the antics of aggressive solicitors, but critics of the newly proposed plan say it would violate free-speech rights.
Under a measure being recommended by airport officials, representatives from various religious, nonprofit and other organizations will be barred from a number of locales in the airport, including sidewalks, escalators, restaurants, ticketing and baggage sites, and any air-operation areas.
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Upwards of 60 percent of Americans opposed Obamacare before it was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. Now that it's on the books, the same percentage want Obamacare repealed, according to Rasmussen Reports.
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Irony reaches new heights as Comedy Central is going to “strictly prohibit filming” of the Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive. PJTV’s Washington Bureau chief Richard Pollock inquired with the Comedy Central’s senior vice president of corporate communications Steve Albani about receiving credentials.
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Examiner Sunday Reflection contributor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame reports that the photoshopped illustration below is generating death threats to him and others.
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Dutch political leader Geert Wilder is on trial for exercising a right most Americans take for granted - the right to speak our minds on any topic whatsoever and to say whatever you and I choose to say on that topic, regardless of how inflammatory, idiotic, or brilliant it might seem to anybody else.
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In this newspaper’s Sept. 20, 2010, editorial entitled “Government and journalists cower at threats to cartoonist” concerning the plight of Seattle News cartoonist Molly Norris, we noted that The Examiner asked the national office of the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) if it had made a public statement on the issue.
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