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That Supreme Court decision against free speech is not quite as bad as it seems in some of the media coverge, although it was a major betrayal by some Trump appointees that was shocking. The court did not rule on the merits of the case just on what is called "stanading" meaning the right of plaintiffs to file a lawsuit. What it means is that the case is being sent back to the federal district court for a hearing on standing and then has to go back through the process again, which will take well over a year to reach the Supreme Court again.

This was a cop out. The SCOTUS should have just affirmed the excellent opinion from the Circuit Court of Appeals. Now there are no constraints on the Biden regime monkeying around with censorship during this presidential election.

Amy Barrett was a particular disappointment. She wrote the cop out decision of the court, and even used the lefty weasel words "content moderation" to describe what is clearly censorship in violation of the First Amendment. Trump could have done a lot better than Barrett to fill that vacancy.

Commented: Thursday, June 27th, 2024 @ 10:06 am By: Steven P. Rader

Superintendant Cheeseman does not care about what is good for education in Beaufort County, just about what looks good on his resume to get a higher paying and more prestigious job in a bigger system. Unfortunately, the majority of our school board are little more than seat warmers who do not really engage on school policy but instead just rubberstamp whatever Cheeseman tells them to do. Mack Hodges, T.W. Allen, and Eltha Booth are particularly pathetic examples of this. We need a school board that engages on policy, not the weak fools we have warming so many of those seats now.

Commented: Thursday, June 27th, 2024 @ 8:56 am By: John Steed

Now, it turns out that Jeremy Bash, who was the husband of CNN debate moderator Dana Bash, was on the payroll as a CIA contractor at the time he signed that letter trying to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop. I hope it is possible to prosecute and jail some of these scoundrels. nypost.com

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 8:29 pm By: Conservative Voter

Lock him up!

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 5:21 pm By: Bubba

Republicans must remember the bungling on this set of debates that let the Democrats set the rules, and bad ones at that. Republicans need to come out early with their expected standards. One needs to deal with moderators, and probably the fairest thing is to have two and let each side name one of them. The other has to do with questions, and the Lincoln-Douglas standard of having the campaigns come up with them or at least some of them is a good one. It is too late for this election cycle, but we simply have to get this right in 2028.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 2:06 pm By: Steven P. Rader

At the time the demostration and counterdemonstration happened at Charlottesville, there were radicals on both sides, the neo-nazis on one side and the Marxist ANTIFA on the other. If both of them went away, it would be no loss to society. However there were also normal people on both sides who just cared about their own position on the statue, not what the radicals on either side said or did. It was those normal people that Trump was clearly talking about, and if one listens to the whole of his comments, that is very clear. The spin by the MSM and the left is a distortion. IT is late in the game, but I guess it is better late than never that Snopes has finally admitted the truth.

Oh and that video on "fact checkers" says it all. It is great.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 1:20 pm By: Conservative Voter

He told them to fight like hell.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 11:59 am By: Big Bob

I watched Trump on TV when he said it.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 11:54 am By: Big Bob

The issue here is proper and transparent financial planning for school construction, something we have had little of here in Beaufort County, something that goes back beyond those individuals involved in the current controversy. The last big bond issue saw very poor planning resulting in schools that are still half empty in some cases. This mega school shows the signs of the same jury-rigged process instead of proper planning. The fact that they are suddenly trying to move the actual location of the school on the property shows how totally inept the planning process was.

This issue is much bigger than Richardson or Cheeseman, "Bath Parent". Richardson is a politician and all politicians have their hits and their misses. Cheeseman is a career bureaucrat and career bureaucrats have their ways of looking at things that are often very different than the perspective of the taxpayers who pay the freight for government.

I would not say Richardson is always right or Cheeseman always wrong, but the questions Richardson is asking on this issue are spot on, and are questions any competent person in management ought to be asking on such a project. What shocks me is so many of our elected school board members and county commissioners just sitting there like deer in the headlights on this $50 million plus project. Do they plan to blame it on someone else when it becomes a boondoggle?

Clearly, "Bath Parent" you have a personal dislike of one person and project that onto any issue he takes a stand on. Most of us focus on the issue.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 12:00 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Every excuse. I'm impressed.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 10:32 am By: Big Bob

Fighting to stop illegal immigration is an election winnder all over the western world. It will make Donald Trump a winner in November.

Commented: Wednesday, June 26th, 2024 @ 9:55 am By: borderhawk