“So it’s not likely we’ll see many changes – other than the faux-pro-family Republicans sending more kids to early deaths by kicking them off PeachCare. But just in case there is a political epiphany, some enlightened doctors have a plan.”

“Kahn, for example, heads a group of physicians who tallied Georgia health-care expenditures for 2003 at $37 billion. By eliminating the insurance companies, Kahn says, we’d save $8 billion. “With that we could provide health care for everyone in Georgia, without decreasing what’s paid to doctors and hospitals, and we’d still save at least 2 percent of that $37 billion,” he says. “Everybody is covered and costs go down.” U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has proposed a similar national plan.”

“‘…The sort of robust political debate encouraged by the First Amendment is bound to produce speech that is critical of those who hold public office or those public figures who are “intimately involved in the resolution of important public questions or, by reason of their fame, shape events in areas of concern to society at large.’ Associated Press v. Walker, ”

“Debate on public issues will not be uninhibited if the speaker must run the risk that it will be proved in court that he spoke out of hatred; even if he did speak out of hatred, utterances honestly believed contribute to the free interchange of ideas and the ascertainment of truth.”

“’Outrageousness’ in the area of political and social discourse has an inherent subjectiveness about it which would allow a jury to impose liability on the basis of the jurors’ tastes or views, or perhaps on the basis of their dislike of a particular expression. An “outrageousness” standard thus runs afoul of our longstanding refusal to allow damages to be awarded because the speech in question may have an adverse emotional impact on the audience.”

“[T]he fact that society may find speech offensive is not a sufficient reason for suppressing it. Indeed, if it is the speaker’s opinion that gives offense, that consequence is a reason for according it constitutional protection. For it is a central tenet of the First Amendment that the government must remain neutral in the marketplace of ideas.”

Chief Justice WILLIAM REHNQUIST, majority opinion. Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988)

Truth is a valid defense against slander/libel.

It’s because the fact sheet is filled with contact info which is supplied elsewhere on the site. I guess.

Chris,
Have you apologized to the Gwinett Police Department yet? What is a frigtard?

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“Gwinnett police are morons”
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They closed my subdivision for 6 hours for this. Frigtards.”
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http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/house/07alpha.html

I might need another 10 minutes to revise and extend my remarks to cover his tax reform baby too.

Fair enough, Mr. Speaker?

I think you might be waking up to what has troubled me about the Republican party since GW was elected.

It’s become a big tent of only True Believers.

I’m profoundly shocked! Do you get people who also accuse you of being a Democrat because you dare point-out the flaws of some Republicans?

Erick, tell them it wouldn’t be an issue if they behaved like Republicans.