New Rochelle, New York removes flag as ‘offensive’ Tea Party symbol | WashingtonExaminer.com

Yet one more reason that Westchester County, New York, should secede along with all 5 boroughs of NYC plus Long Island, float into the Atlantic Ocean, and tectonically merge with France or some other Euro-socialist shit hole.

Fig. 1: Offensive speech blowing in the breeze

A veterans organization in a New York town is fighting for its right to fly a patriotic flag after the city council refused to let the group display the flag, calling it a symbol of the Tea Party with right-wing connotations.

The United Veterans Memorial & Patriotic Association replaced a tattered American flag at the New Rochelle Armory, flying the Gadsden flag underneath it. The bright yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” flag has been used by the Navy and Marine Corps since 1775.

Pigs Will Fly: Pat Condell on Islam, Free Speech, Blasphemy

Governments and internet firms are wrestling with the rules for free speech online

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Governments and internet firms are wrestling with the rules for free speech online

Oct 6th 2012 | from the print edition  The Economist

THE arrest of a senior executive rarely brings helpful headlines. But when Brazilian authorities briefly detained Google’s country boss on September 26th—for refusing to remove videos from its YouTube subsidiary that appeared to breach electoral laws—they helped the firm repair its image as a defender of free speech.

Two weeks earlier those credentials looked tarnished. Google blocked net users in eight countries from viewing a film trailer that had incensed Muslims. In six states, including India and Saudi Arabia, local courts banned the footage. In Egypt and Libya, where protesters attacked American embassies and killed several people, Google took the video down of its own accord.

The row sparked concern about how internet firms manage public debate and how companies based…

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Michele Bachmann at FRC Values Voters Summit, Sep. 2012

Via Caroline Glick:   Cong. Michele Bachmann gets it.   Watch her speech before the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit. As long as the US has leaders like Bachmann, I continue to have faith that America’s best years are still ahead of it.  She does America proud. May she go from strength to strength.

The intolerance of diversity | Pat Condell

CATO Institute responds to President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address | CATO

Ron Paul Powerful Speech – A Call for Revolution?

Ron Paul Powerful Speech – A Call for Revolution?

Watch and listen this powerful Ron Paul’s speech (where we’re at): Slavery sold as liberty. Socialism to save capitalism. A psychotic nation. Exuberant taxation. Epidemic of cronyism. 700 military basis all over the world. Tortures of 21st century. We have forgotten what made America great. Revolutionary changes are needed and foreseen. Is Ron Paul the ONLY honest man in American’s politics?