Weekend Reading, Volume 16

by Ron Davis on January 28, 2012

Here are a few reading links for you fine folks for this weekend. Fidel Castro has been watching us, and he said the GOP presidential race is “the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance there has ever been.” He’s an expert on idiocy and ignorance, you know. Apparently Newt Gingrich hasn’t always had nice things [...]

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A Call to Action

by Ron Davis on January 26, 2012

On Saturday I had the opportunity to speak to my friends at the Paulding County Republican Party meeting. I offered a challenge to pay close attention to our legislators and mentioned two bills (NDAA and SOPA/PIPA) that have been topics of discussion in Washington lately. (If you’re from Georgia, I encourage you to sign up [...]

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Friends of Liberty in California

by Ron Davis on January 25, 2012

This week I’m attending a training class in Santa Clara, California. It’s my first trip out here, and in addition to the training class, I’m getting a chance to spend some time with coworkers I had not previously met. There are some people here who have worked hard to help me complete some projects, and [...]

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Rand Paul, the TSA, and the Fourth Amendment

by Ron Davis on January 24, 2012

Yesterday morning word spread very quickly that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was being detained by TSA in Nashville. The full story was told by Paul in an interview with CNN later in the day. He had gone through the security scanner and was told that there was an anomaly on his leg. He refused the [...]

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Thoughts on South Carolina

January 24, 2012

This weekend, the good people of South Carolina voted for their choice of the GOP presidential candidates. Here are the results: Newt Gingrich – 243,153 – 40.4% Mitt Romney – 167,279 – 27.8% Rick Santorum – 102,055 – 17% Ron Paul – 77,993 – 13% Gingrich was expected to do well on Saturday. A combination [...]

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Weekend Reading, Volume 15

January 20, 2012

What a week this has been! An internet blackout, Perry ends his campaign, and more scandal on Newt Gingrich. What fun! Here are some reading links for the weekend. A thank you note to the Internet from Senator Ron Wyden regarding Wednesday’s SOPA and PIPA blackout. Rick Santorum spoke out about SOPA and PIPA last [...]

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GOP Presidential Candidates on SOPA & PIPA

January 19, 2012

With all the talk on the SOPA/PIPA issue online yesterday, it was easy to almost forget that voters in South Carolina will be voting in the GOP presidential primary on Saturday. I hadn’t heard much from any of the candidates (save one) on the Stop Online Piracy Act or PROTECT IP, so I did a [...]

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PIPA Alternative? Looking at the OPEN Act

January 18, 2012

I’ve written a good bit about the SOPA and PIPA bills in Congress, but I haven’t written much about the proposed alternative, the OPEN Act. OPEN, which is being drafted to do what SOPA and PIPA claim to do, is the brain child of Darrell Issa, one of the more outspoken opponents of SOPA and [...]

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An Update on Georgia Constitutional Carry

January 17, 2012

Back in December, I wrote about a bill that was pre-filed in the Georgia House called the Georgia Constitutional Carry Act. I’m a big fan of laws that reinforce our Second Amendment rights, so I emailed my state representative, Paulette Braddock, and asked that she sign on as a cosponsor. This past week I found [...]

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An Update on SOPA and PIPA

January 16, 2012

There was great news from the Internet this weekend on SOPA and PIPA. The battle isn’t over, but the forces on the Internet gained some ground on a critical issue. In the House Justin Amash posted on Facebook over the weekend that the DNS blocking portions of SOPA would be removed. Of course, depending on [...]

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