Entries by Dr. Rich Swier

“Medical” Marijuana: The History, the Strategy and the Profiteers

Who is behind the legalization of smoked pot as a medicine and why? Teresa Miller, a Florida resident, has decided to answer this key question. To help understand what  is behind the Florida Amendment 2 initiative, Miller created a website with information, research, and articles on medical marijuana and its consequences. Miller provides thoughts and ideas for […]

Making Gay Okay — and Criticizing It Taboo: An Interview with Robert Reilly on his book on the rationalizing of homosexual behavior

Last month Robert R. Reilly published a new book “Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behaviour is Changing Everything.” “Despite its high-interest subject matter, it met with a media blackout. Neither The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal or even more conservative publications wanted to review the book – not even to tear it […]

True The Vote files motion for Restraining Order Against Mississippi Republican Party et. al.

Destruction of Absentee Ballot Documents, Double Voting and Discarded Legal Votes Found Statewide. True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today filed a motion with the Jackson Division of the U.S. District Court, requesting temporary restraining order and injunctive relief be issued against the Mississippi Republican Party and all defendants to prevent […]

Woman Business Owner Challenging HHS Contraceptive Coverage Gets Relief from 6th Circuit Court of Appeals

Karen Mersino, one of 14 female owners of for-profit companies challenging the HHS Mandate, is finally free to continue offering health insurance to her employees that does not cover contraceptives and abortion causing drugs. Reacting to the 6th Circuit Court’s order, she commented, “It’s a real win for religious freedom.” The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), […]

Florida Under Seige: Obama moving illegal aliens to the Sunshine State!

Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have already been smuggled into our country, with millions more to follow unless we act now to stop it. Numbers USA reports, “These underage aliens, and the much larger group of adults, are crossing our border now because they’ve figured out that President Obama will never deport them. Moreover, Obama seems […]

STUDY: Marijuana Amendment 2 troubling for Florida teens

Fresh research casts troubling light on adolescents and relaxing marijuana laws. A newly released scientific studies showing that marijuana use among adolescents and teens causes memory loss, impairs learning, creates new driving risks and leads to addictions are causing researchers to urge caution as states such as Florida consider ballot measures to relax cannabis laws. […]

How School Board member Shirley Brown sold out Sarasota County public school students for $3.5 million

Shirley Brown is the Democrat candidate for the Sarasota County School Board in District 4. A campaign fund raising letter states, “Shirley Brown is Proudly Leading our A-Rated School District into 21st Century Excellence!” The letter tout’s Browns “Sound Fiscal Management”, “Educational Excellence” and “Legislative Leadership.” But are these statements true? Under Brown’s “legislative leadership” the […]

GOPFaith.com launched: But will Republicans truly stand with people of faith?

The Republican Party has launched a new outreach focused on Christians and Evangelicals its “biggest, most reliable voting bloc.”. In the 2012 Presidential election 1 million Christians did not vote in Florida, President Obama won Florida by less than 80,000 votes. Question: Is GOPFaith.com politically compatible with GOProud.org? Some think not. The new website GOPFaith.com was announced in the […]

Florida: Sarasota School Board Candidate Marsh supports Common Core “sexuality education standards”

Ken Marsh, while a member of the Sarasota County School District staff, donated to the Keith Fitzgerald for Congress campaign. According to the Florida Family Policy Council Democrats Keith Fitzgerald and Ted Deutch offered HB 169 to the Florida legislature for consideration: “This bill pushes what is called ‘comprehensive sex education’ upon our young people and requires teaching children […]

Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate threatens Florida Press Association and Florida Association of News Editors

The Florida Press Association (FPA) and the Florida Society of News Editors (FNSE) will be hosting a Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on July 10th, 2014. However, not all candidates have been invited. It appears that at least one candidate for governor will not be attending the forum and he is not happy. He has threatened the FPA […]