Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
United States Constitution, Amendment No. 1 The continued devaluing of the words written in the U.S. Constitution is back in the news this week, though sadly, I'm not sure I'd classify the story as "grabbing headlines." This time, it's not the Second or Fourth Amendments the peoples' representatives are attempting to roll back, but the First Amendment that has become too politically uncomfortable to be tolerated in Washington. Of course, I'm talking about the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 and specifically Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Amendment redefining and limiting the definition of a "journalist." That puts rights of free speech and of a press squarely on the chopping block, the next victims of a government that resents our Constitution for being the check against their power that it was written to be. And, according to Sen. Charles Schumer, the Bill's author, the measure has the votes to clear the U.S. Senate. As NASA's dwindling funding inhibits the space program across the board, they have paid for a study that may prove that civilization (as we know it today) is a mere few decades from total worldwide collapse. Commissioning mathematician Safa Motesharri to write a report on his findings, the results show we are on a trajectory toward the end of the world as we know it.
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