There have been so many ridiculous Obama-based products released on the market since 2008. Obama bobbleheads, Obama plates, Obama condoms, and now Obama mints. However, these mints are not exactly pro-Obama. Nicknamed “DisappointMints,” the tin cover asks “This is change?”

This has so many implications for evening opinion news programs. An Ohio judge has ruled that barking and hissing are not protected by the First Amendment. You see, a man named Ryan Stephens got himself into a spot of trouble when he was charged with abusing a police dog after barking and hissing at the law-enforcing canine, who had been sitting in a police cruiser at the time. Stephens attempted to have the charges dismissed on grounds that they were vague and compromised his First Amendment right.

Bill O’Reilly brought on Fox News colleague Megyn Kelly, who is a lawyer in addition to being host of America Live, to debate the Supreme Courts’ ruling protesting the Westboro Baptist Church. Kelly, while making it clear that she’s no fan of the WBC or their frequent, headline-grabbing demonstrations.

Congratulations are in order to First Amendment attorney and Mediaite contributor/dad Floyd Abrams, who made it onto Above the Law‘s list of Top Partners to Work for in New York! The list in no particular order commends New York’s law partners who are the most fulfilling to work with as associates, and is compiled based on surveys distributed throughout the state.

If you live near Ames, Iowa, you could have killed two birds with one stone yesterday. Nondenominational Cornerstone Church is the first of two houses of worship in the area to offer satellite voting at the same time that services are going on.

“THE RATE at which a person can mature is directly proportionate to the embarrassment he can tolerate,” said the great American inventor, Douglas Engelbart. *** REALLY? Well, I hate to disagree with a famous brain, but if we were to take Mr. Engelbart at his word, the entire GOP (especially since the election of Barack [...]

Oy, this so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” issue is vexing. So much debate, rhetoric, angst, grandstanding, outrage, outrage over the outrage, op-ed writing, pundit pontificating, facebook-note-penning and fingers jabbed emphatically in the air — and for what? The issue is flat-out moot, for just the simple reasons that President Obama articulated: “Let me be clear: as [...]

Though President Barack Obama has promised to close Guantanamo Bay’s detention center, the issue has largely been overshadowed by other stories in the news lately. Today, Mother Jones‘ Nick Baumann writes that a group of news organizations may be close to suing the Obama administration over press restrictions surrounding Gitmo.

Tonight Bill O’Reilly took on Canadian editor and playwright Susan G. Cole on the differences between our two countries’ educational systems. O’Reilly’s point: Students should be educated on every viewpoint possible, and no one was forced to see Coulter.

Cole argued, “We believe…universities are not the place for provocateurs and people who target certain minorities.” Below, CNN’s video of Coulter’s comments, and The O’Reilly Factor segment.

After the recent Supreme Court ruling that threw out limits on corporate political spending, the sketch group Bobby Chicago imagined a world where politicians would have similar names as bowl games and sports stadiums. Scary thought. But not too far off. The video was conceived, shot and edited over the weekend.

There has been so much news in the last two weeks between Haiti, Leno and Conan, Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts that it’s easy to wonder whether the full impact of yesterday’s radical Supreme Court decision, to lift the limits on how much U.S. corporations can spend on a political campaign, is getting lost in the mix. Rachel Maddow calls it a a lightning bolt into “the entire American political establishment.”

It would be hard to find a current public figure more rigorously exercising his constitutional right to freedom of speech than Glenn Beck. Alas for Beck, the First Amendment may not be his best friend in this instance. A court has sided against Beck in the case of a controversial website launched this past September.