Bookworm on Sep 27 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” — Harry Truman.
If you can’t stand the heat, get goons to frighten your opponents — and in Missouri, this means rounding up Democratic government prosecutors and officials to threaten people with prosecution for political speech.
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Bookworm on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: Gay marriage
This is the second in my series of marriage posts. My first draft, which was a failure, tried to trace the history of marriage, something that’s much better done by better informed people. What I realized from that valiant, although pointless and time-wasting effort, is that what I’m really interested in is a religion’s interest [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: Education, Free speech, Media matters
In a victory for free speech, a United States Magistrate in the Northern District of California ruled that free speech includes the right to be rude, and squashed a California State University rule barring “incivility”:
To the relief of a campus Republican group, the 417,000 students at California State University’s 23 institutions no longer face the [...]
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