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Monday, February 26, 2018 |
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Supreme Court Justices Excoriate Union Lawyers Defending Forced Dues
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 PM :: 5770 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...The immense political influence of public sector unions appeared imperiled Monday, as several justices of the U.S. Supreme Court grilled labor lawyers over the constitutionality of mandatory union dues....
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Saturday, February 24, 2018 |
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Trump v Hawaii: More Challengers Seek to Join Case
By Selected News Articles @ 2:56 PM :: 5984 Views :: National News, First Amendment
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...Supreme Court to hear Trump v Hawaii April 25, 2018....
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Saturday, February 24, 2018 |
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Vacation Rental Home Is "Public Accommodation" -- Lesbians are Mandatory
By Robert Thomas @ 3:15 AM :: 7327 Views :: First Amendment, Small Business, Tourism
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...the court held they could be held liable, even though it is their home, first concluding that renting out a room in your home qualifies as offering a public accommodation, even though it is your residence....
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Friday, February 23, 2018 |
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Pandering to Dem Base with Fake Issue: Hawaii Sues FCC over Net Neutrality
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 PM :: 5625 Views :: First Amendment, Small Business
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...politicians striking a fashionable pose against corporations and business, fearmongering by special interest groups with an agenda....
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Monday, February 19, 2018 |
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Experts: Universities Need to be Transparent About Money Received from Confucius Institutes
By Selected News Articles @ 3:56 PM :: 6076 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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...Mounting concerns Confucius Institutes limit discussion on issues sensitive to Chinese government....
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Saturday, February 17, 2018 |
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Just Be Quiet
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:07 AM :: 6262 Views :: First Amendment, GMOs
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...When the anti-GMO activists started up on the social media back in 2013, something in me drove me into action....
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Monday, February 12, 2018 |
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Report: Delays at OIP Are Staggering
By News Release @ 3:52 PM :: 5928 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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...in recent years, OIP’s average time for review quadrupled, it is deciding fewer matters per year on average, and its backlog is trending upward despite a downward trend in new filings....
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Friday, February 9, 2018 |
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‘Net neutrality’ could keep Hawaii in slow lane
By Joe Kent @ 2:19 AM :: 6552 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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... Ige this week signed an executive order that most likely will discourage competition and innovation among internet service providers ....
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Sunday, February 4, 2018 |
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After Winning Suit Against IRS, Maui TEA Party Dissolves
By News Release @ 4:00 PM :: 5447 Views :: First Amendment, TEA Party
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...The IRS intimidation definitely had a negative effect on our local group, squelching participation....
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Friday, February 2, 2018 |
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Janus?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:17 PM :: 5329 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...a decision by the court’s nine justices that state employees can't be required to pay union dues could lead to some interesting outcomes in Hawaii....
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Monday, January 29, 2018 |
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Olelo TV Moving to Siberia?
By News Release @ 8:52 PM :: 5509 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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...Spectrum is channel slamming ‘Ōlelo – displacing channels 49, 53, 54, and 55, including Video On Demand channels 50 and 52....
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
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Another Lawsuit: Chin Jumps on Net Neutrality Bandwagon
By News Release @ 4:06 AM :: 5980 Views :: First Amendment, Politicians, Small Business
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...Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin joined 22 state attorneys general today in filing a multistate lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission’s 'illegal'rollback of net neutrality....
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Friday, January 5, 2018 |
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Tulsi Gabbard Hires Russian Agent to Keep Hawaii Media in Check
By Andrew Walden @ 6:55 PM :: 61539 Views :: First Amendment, Tulsi Gabbard
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...Gabbard’s consultant, Chris Cooper, is allegedly one of seven identified as being at the center of illegal Russian lobbying efforts reaching into the Trump campaign and Congress....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Hawaii 2018 Summer Journalism Internships
By News Release @ 2:04 PM :: 4706 Views :: First Amendment
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...Full-time internships (10 weeks at 40 hours/week) with a $4,040 pay....
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Friday, December 22, 2017 |
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Should the government be your Santa?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:24 PM :: 4546 Views :: First Amendment
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...Santa is an enthusiastic devotee of the surveillance state....
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Saturday, December 9, 2017 |
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Hula Halau to be banned from Yale?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 6279 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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...Native American student group accuses Polynesian dance group of ‘appropriating Hawaiian and Tahitian culture’....
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Friday, November 24, 2017 |
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Oahu Workshops: Learn to Raise Your Voice at the State Capitol
By News Release @ 12:49 AM :: 5147 Views :: First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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...the Legislature's Public Access Room (PAR) is offering "Your Voice," a free, one-hour workshop at several locations on Oahu....
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Sunday, November 19, 2017 |
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
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US Supreme Court agrees to weigh in on law that forces pro-life centers to promote abortion
By News Release @ 1:20 PM :: 5190 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh in on a California law that forces pro-life pregnancy care centers to provide free advertising for the abortion industry....
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Friday, November 10, 2017 |
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Civil Beat: Banks and Developers ‘help to fund a lot of stories’
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM :: 7354 Views :: Ethics, Development, First Amendment
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...“We got a few hundred subscribers, but nothing really earth shattering,” Epler says...Civil Beat has an annual budget of roughly $3 million and a staff of about 22 to 24 people....
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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Monday, October 30, 2017 |
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AG Chin: Constitution Dictates Mandatory Gay Cakes
By News Release @ 5:02 PM :: 5401 Views :: First Amendment, Small Business
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...The brief was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission....
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Friday, October 13, 2017 |
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Workers Protest as Star-Adv lays off 25% of Newsroom
By News Release @ 4:29 AM :: 6560 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...publisher Dennis Francis of OPI, owned by Canada-based Black Press Ltd., is insisting on slashing wages and benefits for the remaining journalists....
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Saturday, October 7, 2017 |
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Promise Kept: Trump Administration Protects Americans’ Religious Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:13 PM :: 6072 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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...The Obama administration winnowed the definition of religious freedom down to the narrow idea of “freedom of worship.” This was rebutted in the first line of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ memorandum....
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Saturday, September 30, 2017 |
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Will Courts Defend Free Speech -- Or Forced Speech To Promote A Political Agenda?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:01 AM :: 6924 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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Hawaii has enacted such a law and it is under challenge in federal district court. ...
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Monday, September 25, 2017 |
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Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Go to Court Over Law Requiring They Promote Abortions
By Selected News Articles @ 5:00 AM :: 6021 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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“This is an important case because Hawaii goes even further than California did, and they are clearly singling out pregnancy centers....”
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Thursday, September 21, 2017 |
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Hawaii Pregnancy Centers Ask Court to Stop Law Forcing Them to Promote Abortions
By Selected News Articles @ 5:55 PM :: 5380 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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“No one should be forced to provide free advertising for the abortion industry"
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Monday, September 18, 2017 |
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Ige Sends out Secret Memo on Information Practices
By Andrew Walden @ 10:42 PM :: 5714 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment
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...Ironically, the Memo itself was not posted on the Governor’s news feed nor is it linked by any Hawaii.gov website....
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Risks Loss of Federal Funds to Force Abortion on Churches
By Selected News Articles @ 6:10 PM :: 27494 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Life
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...federal law does not allow states that receive federal funding to force pro-life healthcare professionals to act against their conscience or religious beliefs....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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Hirono Spews Anti-Catholic Bigotry in Senate Hearing
By Selected News Articles @ 4:51 PM :: 6929 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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...“Are you or have you ever been …. ”
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Monday, August 21, 2017 |
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UH Selected to Host ‘Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center’
By Selected News Articles @ 9:46 PM :: 5553 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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...the center's "planning committee will work to develop practice spaces focused on creating new narratives and new relationships while naming and honoring the ongoing pain and trauma wrought by belief in racial hierarchy, structural racism, and white privilege."....
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum: Talk to Your Kids About Racism
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 1:45 AM :: 8016 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Life
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...The recent images from Charlottesville, VA-marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation-are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children....
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Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
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Honolulu City Lights application deadline Sept 1
By News Release @ 8:27 PM :: 5597 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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...Non-profit organizations wanting to create a display on the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds during the annual Honolulu City Lights exhibition must apply by September 1, 2017....
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
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Corporations Becoming New Arbiters Of Public Morality
By Selected News Articles @ 10:01 PM :: 4016 Views :: First Amendment
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....in this chess game, those in Charlottesville are just pawns....
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Sunday, July 30, 2017 |
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Hint to Hawaii: Court halts Illinois mandate to promote abortion
By News Release @ 9:11 PM :: 5429 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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...Injunction suspends enforcement of law which ‘targets free speech rights’....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017 |
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Mandatory Abortion: As Predicted SB501 Leads to Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 5:25 AM :: 6100 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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...Faith-based pregnancy centers file suit against Hawaii law, say it forces abortion promotion....
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Will Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Advertise Free Abortions
By Selected News Articles @ 6:57 PM :: 5322 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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All five of Hawaii’s pro-life pregnancy centers will be forced to choose between advertising free abortions and defying the state’s demands starting Wednesday July 12, 2017....
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 |
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Tiki bar owner bows to ‘cultural appropriation’ outcry: ‘I am so very sorry’
By Selected News Articles @ 9:41 PM :: 6532 Views :: First Amendment, Small Business
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“Pretty soon we will be requiring ‘cultural appropriation’ training before anyone is allowed to open a business in this town.”
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017 |
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Wikileaks: Omidyar Website Gave up Leaker to NSA
By Selected News Articles @ 11:56 PM :: 7979 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Military, Pierre Omidyar
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Civil Beat June 5, 2016: "Not all anonymous sources are created equal. Some do benefit you, and those should be protected...."
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Saturday, May 27, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 4:39 AM :: 11222 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Life, Military, Religion
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...Honor and Respect: We Will Remember....
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Friday, May 19, 2017 |
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Lawsuit against Hawaii Churches Hurts the Surrounding Community
By Selected News Articles @ 7:17 PM :: 6518 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment
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...atheists Mitchell Kahle and Holly Huber sued the churches under Hawaii’s False Claims Act....
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Thursday, May 18, 2017 |
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FCC Takes Step Towards Freeing the Internet
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:08 PM :: 5143 Views :: First Amendment, Small Business
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...preventing “1930s-era regulations on internet providers.”....
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Thursday, May 18, 2017 |
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UH Manoa Prof Demands Colleges ‘Stop Hiring White Men’--Unless They're Trannies
By Selected News Articles @ 6:25 AM :: 7119 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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...“The terrible people are coming out of the woodwork to tell me how awful (‘racist’ and ‘sexist’) I am for writing this post,” she laments....
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Monday, May 15, 2017 |
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Atheist Lawsuit Against Hawaii Churches to be Heard by State Supreme Court Friday
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 6:02 PM :: 6736 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion
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...The court will be hearing the Appeal THIS FRIDAY, and you are invited to sit in....
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Thursday, May 11, 2017 |
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Political Correctness: Conformity or Electrocution on the Waterfront
By Michael Hansen @ 1:47 PM :: 5403 Views :: First Amendment, Jones Act
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...those in the U.S. maritime industry (or, the “Jones Act industry”) demand conformity from their fellows in support of the protectionist policies, and how difficult it’s to speak-out against them....
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Thursday, May 4, 2017 |
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Trump Signs Executive Order on Religious Freedom
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 2:49 PM :: 6221 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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"For too long the Federal government has used the power of the state as a weapon against people of faith, bullying and even punishing Americans for following their religious beliefs."
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 |
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Free Speech? There are a few champions left
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 7:22 PM :: 4903 Views :: First Amendment, Life
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... SB501 Mandatory Abortion Promotion -- How They Voted ....
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Saturday, April 29, 2017 |
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SB501: Mandatory Abortion Promotion -- Final Reading House and Senate
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 11:55 PM :: 7021 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care, Life
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The bill will have it's final reading in the House on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, during the 9:00 a.m. Floor Session. The Senate reading is also scheduled for May 2, 2017, during the 10:00 a.m. Floor Session....
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Saturday, April 29, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 11:51 PM :: 6614 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care, Life
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... MAY 4, 2017 -- ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE ....
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