Tag Archive 'Censorship'
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Despite the fact that Republicans are currently busy working the circular firing squad, making outside efforts to destroy them somewhat redundant, the Progressives/Democrats/Media/Usual Suspects aren’t taking any chances about the November 2012 election and have already brought out the big gun: They’re crying racism. The racism claim that got the biggest headline this week is [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2011 | Filed under: Free speech, Judges, Judicial activism
Do you have any spare change lying around? Yes? I thought you might. My dollar coins say “In God We Trust.” My dollar bills say “In God We Trust.” My quarters say “In God We Trust.” My dimes say “In God We Trust.” My nickels say “In God We Trust.” My pennies say “In God [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2010 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence, Religion
Sometimes, to their creator’s dismay, ideas take on a life of their own. In the wake of Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode that didn’t actually draw Mohamed, but merely suggested the possibility of doing so, Molly Norris came up with the idea of “everybody draw Mohamed Day.” Then, terrified by the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Free speech, Government, Media matters
Twenty-four hours after the fact, the AP finally figured out that, maybe, just maybe, it’s worth reporting that the White House tried to freeze out a news organization that challenges it, and was stopped only because other news organizations realized that, if they let this one pass, they would forever be barred from voicing any [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Free speech
The Brits turned Geert Wilders back at the border for daring to try to enter the country to show an anti-Islamic film. Wilders isn’t too pure himself, since he advocates muzzling Islam, which just goes to show that Europeans fundamentally fail to understand free speech. (England once understood it, but a combination of leftism and [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Islam, Muslim violence
The director of the BBC has finally admitted that, yes, of course the BBC treats Islam with unusual deference. Mark Thompson offers a 98 word defense of the BBC’s un-evenhanded approach: ‘My view is that there is a difference between the position of Christianity, which I believe should be central to the BBC’s religion coverage [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
A righteous Andrew McCarthey puts together in a single place what astute observers have long known: Obama is an active enemy of Free Speech. Using tried and true Leftist tactics, including coopting sympathetic officials in the current administration, Obama and his team are doing everything they can to stifle speech. It’s just the beginning of [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
I won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking: They have amused us, angered us and sometimes – just occasionally – they have actually made us buy something. But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels. And, this being the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 25 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’m still happil figuring out all the bells and whistles on my new iPhone, so I’ll start off this Monday with a few quick picks: No wonder Putin still dreams of the old Empire: it turns out that, if the Soviet Union still existed, it would have left all the other countries int he dust [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Two of my favorite bloggers — Paragraph Farmer and Joshua Pundit — got “spam blocked.” Their blogs are still accessible, but they can no longer post. The way spam blocking works is that someone who doesn’t like the content on your Blogger-hosted blog clicks repeatedly on the little “spam” button up in the corner. This [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Education
When I last traveled, I bought Larry Elders’ superb book Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card–and Lose. I promptly took the cover off, worried that I would be subject to harassment as a white woman reading a book entitled “Stupid Black Men” — never mind that the book was written by a [...]
