Tag Archive 'Censorship'
Bookworm on Feb 16 2012 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Islam, Israel, Lefties on Parade
Tweet My brain is slowly warming up here so I’m not yet capable of original content. Instead, let me offer other people’s wonderful stuff. To get this set started, you have to begin by reading a speech that the Ayatollah Khomeini made in 1942, in which he stated explicitly that Islam is not a religion [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, White House
Tweet This morning, I linked to a very clever post that Bad Catholic put up, chastising the Obama administration for doing a sleight-of-hand, completely fake “compromise” regarding its demand that religious organizations fund birth control, sterilization and abortifacients. At the end of the post, Bad Catholic invites readers to sign a petition urging the administration [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2011 | Filed under: Free speech, Judges, Judicial activism
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2010 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence, Religion
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Free speech, Government, Media matters
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2009 | Filed under: Britain, Free speech
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 15 2008 | Filed under: BBC, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 25 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet 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. [...]
Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Education
Tweet 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 [...]
