Monthly Archives: April 2006

The 2006 Pig Book is out!

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Pork

Produced by Citizens Against Government Waste it details almost 10,000 pork projects in the Federal budget. Here are some of the lowlights:

Pig Book Oinkers

The Flushing our Money Down the Toilet Award

to Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-Mich.) for $1 million for the Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative.

The Taxpayers Get Stuffed Award

for $234,000 for the National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield, South Carolina.

Also included in the Pig Book is $100,000 for the “South Carolina International Center for Automotive Research Park Innovation” brought to you by my home state Senator, big spender Lindsey Graham. (Who I will never vote for again because he’s soft on immigration reform.)


Lott of Pork

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ACLU wants to limit free speech

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Censorship

The hypocrital ACLU is at it again. They’ll stand up for free speech, as long as it’s speech they agree with. But if you want to say something they don’t agree with, they want the government to censor you.

ACLU endorses bill limiting pregnancy center rights

A new congressional effort to police advertising by crisis pregnancy centers is unnecessary, pro-life advocates said, and unconstitutional, free-speech defenders charged.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has long promoted itself as the leading defender of freedom of speech and civil rights, is right in the middle of the controversy, promoting the new legislation to the surprise of some.

This is not suprising to us at all. The ACLU have a long history of being selective defending free speech, especially when it comes to pro-lifers. Besides, defending the first amendment is only third on the ACLU’s list of priorities, abortion is their number one priority.

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