By Jacob G. Hornberger

February 3, 2020 - Many years ago, I was giving a lecture on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to a class at a public high school in Virginia. During the course of my talk, I made the following statement: “The First Amendment does not give people the right of free speech.”

I asked the students whether my statement was correct or incorrect. Everyone immediately told me that I was wrong. They said the First Amendment did in fact give people the right of free speech.

How do they do it?

PUTNEY, Vermont (PNN) - January 31, 2020 - In just a couple of weeks, 50 boys with learning disabilities will take to a stage in Vermont, one after the other, to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s a daring experiment undertaken each February at the Greenwood School and its population of boys who’ve struggled in public schools. Diagnosed with ADD, dyslexia, and executive function impairments, Greenwood’s boys stand before an auditorium full of people (and once even a Ken Burns documentary crew) to recite powerful words many adults would struggle to retain.

By Stephen MacLean

LONDON, England (PNN) - January 30, 2020 - When the Fascist United Kingdom exits the European Union late on Friday, Brexit will be hailed as a victory for British democracy. Three times Britons voted to leave the EU and “take back control”: in June 2016, when the Leave campaign won at the EU referendum; in the general election the following June, when the vast majority of voters cast ballots for political Parties promising to fulfill the referendum will of the people (even though the Conservative Party itself only achieved a minority government); and finally, in December 2019 - the second general election in as many years - after months and months of Remainer parliamentary obstruction, Britons overwhelming elected Boris Johnson on the pledge to “get Brexit done”. Third time’s the charm.

January 29, 2020 - January 29 is the birthday of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the fiery rhetorician of America’s Revolution whose importance was such that John Adams said, “[W]ithout the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”

Common Sense, first published in January 1776, argued strongly for Independence from England and was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, selling almost 500,000 copies to a population of 2.5 million. The first essay of The Crisis (with the famous opening line, “These are the times that try men's souls”), written by Paine at the front lines with Washington’s army in 1776, was read aloud in every army camp. Its essays (from 1776-1783) were read by a larger fraction of the population than now watch the Super Bowl. Paine did not make a penny from either, as the proceeds went to the revolutionary cause.

RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - January 24, 2020 - It’s another day, another crazy proposed bill in Virginia. While the State has been making headlines for its assault on the Second Amendment, that’s hardly the only bullet point on its agenda.

The State doesn’t have much respect for the Second Amendment, and we’re about to see if its attitude is the same towards the First. Bill HB 1627 is titled Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue, and was introduced by Democrat Jeffrey M. Bourne on January 16.

By Gary D. Barnett

January 22, 2020 - The question seemingly always raised is that the idea of true freedom sounds good, but how do we do it? What is the single plan to fix everything? Obviously, there is not one answer or any legitimate short answer to this question, and those that ask it are usually not really interested in real freedom in the first place. In fact, most people do not want the responsibility of freedom, and that makes the government’s job easy, because as a rule, the only thing required by the State to keep the apathetic public at bay is to offer them safety and benefits. They are happy to remain slaves, as long as they can get the things they want without much effort, and can through their proxy government, use others to gain for themselves.

By Gary D. Barnett

January 21, 2020 - The weak-minded cattle called the general population accept government as their god, observe all of its bogus laws, support its worldwide murders, use it to steal from their neighbors, worship its hired killers even while in so-called religious houses on Sunday, vote in fraudulent elections meant to give power to those who rule over them, and call these elected criminals representatives while ignoring their nefarious deeds; never taking responsibility for the evil they commit in the name of that same population. This is today’s Amerika, and this is the result of a national religion that worships the State.

RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - January 21, 2020 - On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, Junior, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights.

King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, when Freedom Riders integrated bus terminals, when black students sat at segregated lunch counters in North Carolina, they challenged State law in the name of what they said was a Higher Law.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 21, 2020 - A broad coalition of scientists, doctors and advocates sent a National 5G Resolution letter to Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump demanding a moratorium on 5G until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from the telecom industry. The 5G Resolution was developed during the first three-day FPSA medical conference fully dedicated to this topic, Electromagnetic Fields Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment, which convened in Scotts Valley, Kalifornia in September.

Is the tide turning?

TRENTON, New Jersey (PNN) - January 21, 2020 - The battleground is now set. On one side are those who continue to claim “the science is settled” on vaccine safety and want to eliminate all vaccine exemptions, essentially forcing all children to get vaccines whether their parents agree or not. On the other side are those who believe that the science is far from settled, and that parents should have the right to choose what gets injected into their children’s bodies without fear of punishment.