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The State will define your “information rights” [Darleen Click] UPDATED

On the heels of the rather stunning decision of the FCC to send government agents into newsrooms across the country to “study” “perceived station bias”, supporters of this unConstitutional move have discovered a new “right” … Is the @FCC trespassing upon press freedom or defending our info rights? Watch @benshapiro & my debate w/ @megynkelly http://t.co/mGp0gfRxlK — Mark Hannah (@ProfessorHannah) February 21, 2014 Shorter Mark Hannah: Trust us! ******************************************* UPDATE:

“Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011” [Darleen Click]

WaPo The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material. In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications

Obama already legislates from the White House [Darleen Click]

So why shouldn’t he just rewrite the Constitution, too? President Obama on Saturday offered one of his strongest defenses to date of his signature domestic achievement, lambasting Republican critics of his health care law as obstructionists who are playing politics with the well-being and economic security of millions of Americans. In blunt terms, Mr. Obama used his weekly address to describe health insurance as a “right” and distinguished states that

Art must remain private – otherwise an artist is just a public accommodation [Darleen Click]

Which is what the New Mexico Court of Appeals is declaring in their ruling against Elane Photography. So the New Mexico Court of Appeals held last week in the long-pending Elane Photography v. Willock (N.M. Ct. App. May 31, 2012). The court began by holding that the state law that bans sexual orientation discrimination in places of public accommodation applies to professional wedding photographers’ decisions not to photograph same-sex commitment

HHS Kathleen Sebelius channels Sergeant Schultz … [Darleen Click]

“I know nothing …” h/t sdferr

Barack Simpson [Darleen Click]

Thanks to LYBD