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Lazy People Rant! (BO2)
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"The First Amendment" Those Who Fear Lyric Video
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BOSTON -- The Sun and its staff were honored with 10 awards, including four first-place awards, by the New England Newspaper and Press Association on Saturday night.

The awards were presented at the annual NENPA banquet at the Boston Seaport Hotel.

Judges from across the country pored over more than 3,000 entries in the New England Better Newspaper Contest, the region's largest writing, photography and multimedia contest. The Sun is in the highly competitive class of newspapers with a circulation of 30,000 or more.

The award winners are:

* Business/Economic Reporting, first place: Grant Welker, for his continuing coverage of the Market Basket family feud.

* Spot News Story, first place: Given to John Collins, Hiroko Sato, former staffers Lyle Moran and Rick Sobey, and summer intern Andy Mal, for their coverage of a July fire on Branch Street in Lowell that killed seven people.

* Right to know, first place: For a series of stories and editorials on the public's right to know and First Amendment issues. The Sun's entry included coverage of the Brame case, a fatal accident involving a Westford police officer, a secret payment given to a retiring Westford fire chief, and both stories and editorials about government limiting access to public meetings and records.

* Humor Columnist, first place: Given to Dan Phelps, for columns on Nashua schools banning tag and on the Dracut political scene.

* Crime and Courts Reporting, second place: Enterprise Editor Christopher Scott, reporters Rob Mills, Grant Welker and Lisa Redmond, and Moran, for wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Alyssa Brame in a Lowell cellblock.

* Editorial Writing, second place: Sun Editor Jim Campanini

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NYU Law Professor Burt Neuborne on who should read "Madison #39;s Music"
In "Madison #39;s Music," author Burt Neuborne argues that judges must consider the full text and structure of the First Amendment in order to issue rulings in a...

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Obama Supporters Petition to Repeal the FIRST AMENDMENT. Seriously! Watch!
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Atheists Are Anti-First Amendment Bullies | AlfonZo Rachel--Response
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Picture Freedom, a nationwide scholarship contest, launches online Feb. 22.

Picture Freedom, a nationwide scholarship contest,launches online Feb. 22.

Students 13 years and older are invited toshare photos and artwork that illustrate freedom of expression on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The contest willaward 25 winners with a$1,000 scholarship.

Picture Freedom aims to build awareness of the First Amendment by encouraging young Americans to reflect on how freedom of expression enriches their lives and strengthens their nation.

News organizations are encouraged to help promotePicture Freedomby writing about it, publishing a guest column available at 1ForAll.us, or by placingmedia ads in print and online.

In the wake of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and threats againstfilmmakers, its imperative that we not take free speech for granted, said Ken Paulson, president of the Newseum Institutes First Amendment Center, dean of the College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University and founder of 1 for All. Picture Freedom is designed to encourage classroom conversations and engagement with our most-cherished freedoms.

Shining a light on the First Amendment is one of the most important things we can do, said Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors. Its vital not just for journalists, of course, but for citizens to know and cherish and value the freedoms we have.

Picture Freedom is the perfect campaign to engage students in thinking about their First Amendment freedoms, said Mark Newton,president of the JournalismEducation Association.Students are using the social media they so often get accused of abusing in a positive way. Most importantly, students are using their First Amendment freedom to share their ideas of freedom in creative and profound ways. I suspect students who participate in Picture Freedom will engage their peers and others to think more about the overall importance of all the freedoms afforded to all of us.

Students in this nation are among the few groups where full First Amendment rights are sometimes withheld under the law, said Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute. This competition is yet another way that students can both support their free expression rights and demand that school officials and the courts roll back limits not placed on other citizens.

The contest will run from midnight ESTSunday, Feb. 22,to 11:59 p.m.PST Saturday, Feb.28, timed to coincide with the Journalism Education Associations Scholastic Journalism Week. Students can enter by posting their original images to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #PictureFreedom.

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TALLAHASSEE -- An open-government advocacy group has requested that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the ouster of former Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey.

Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, wrote an open letter to Gov. Rick Scott and Cabinet members that cited Leon County State Attorney Willie Meggs' decision not to investigate the matter.

Earlier this month, the foundation also asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint a prosecutor from outside Leon County to conduct an investigation, something Bondi said she didn't have the authority to do.

The requests stem, at least in part, from questions about whether open-meetings laws were violated in discussions about Bailey's removal in December.

Media organizations, including the Orlando Sentinel and News Service of Florida, as well as open-government advocates also have filed a lawsuit alleging violations of the Sunshine Law.

"There is intense public interest regarding this matter and we think it imperative that an independent investigation be conducted to address the serious constitutional issues related to Mr. Bailey's departure,'' Petersen wrote in the open letter dated Thursday. "The continuing controversy erodes public trust and confidence in the highest levels of our government. Additionally, the controversy and ensuing media coverage calls into question Florida's well-deserved reputation as having the most progressive open government laws in the nation."

After Bailey was ousted by Scott, the former FDLE commissioner claimed that the governor and his staff had urged influence his department to take unethical actions, including accusing a former Orange County Clerk of the Court of illegal activity. The Governor's Office has denied his allegations.

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On the face of it, Pain and Misery is just about the worst name you could give a racehorse. This is not to trample on an owners first amendment rights to freedom of speech and its more creative expressions (as upheld in The Jockey Club vs. Mike Pegram in the naming of Isitingood). But this is 2015, for Petes sake, and the tolerance for any whiff of a cold-hearted attitude toward the welfare of the animal has pretty much evaporated.

Furthermore, its not as if Pain and Misery is going away anytime soon. In his first race as a 3-year-old last weekend, which was also his first race for trainer Richard Mandella, the racy brown gelding just missed winning the $75,000 Baffle Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs down the hillside course at Santa Anita. He was caught in the last jumps by Bench Warrant, who was coming off a pretty good effort to Lord Nelson and Texas Red in the San Vicente, in a race that put some life in a quiet Sunday afternoon.

Pain and Misery was ridden by young Flavien Prat, who did not as Trevor Denman suggested at one point during his call of the race drop his whip in the heat of the battle. To Mandella it didnt matter much, since his expectations were modest, and he was pleased with both horse and rider.

He came here from New Mexico during the fall meet at Del Mar, Mandella said. But he needed to back off a little before he could go forward. After that he came along really good. I needed to get a race into him, and the 6 1/2 on the turf was the only thing around. He did it really well, so now we can think about something like the San Felipe with him.

The San Felipe Stakes, on March 7, is the next major West Coast stop on the Kentucky Derby Express. Pain and Miserys pedigree by Bob and John out of a Running Stag mare suggests that the 1 1/16 miles of the San Felipe should be no sweat, and if he can handle the dirt at Zia Park he will love the stuff at Santa Anita.

This is a sweetheart of a horse, Mandella said. Good-natured. Does everything right. Just a pleasure to be around.

Which begs the question why does such a nice horse have to be burdened with such a terrible name? In a column from his collection This Was Racing, Joe Palmer held forth on the naming of horses for reasons both naughty and nice. He brought up a fellow who called one of his horses Ugly Mary and another Losing Clon.

He approached this on a practical level, Palmer wrote. He said with those names female hunch players would not bet on them, and he would get better odds when they won.

Of course, this is both sexist and wildly incorrect, unless female hunch players make up considerably more of the pari-mutuel pools that weve been led to believe. Pain and Misery went off at 10-1 in the Baffle, but the price could be blamed more on the uncertain 2-year-old form he brought to town from New Mexico, by way of Zia Park, where he won a maiden race and then the Governors Cup last fall for trainer Henry Dominguez.

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The First Amendment...(Historicaly Speaking) - Episode #16
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