Bookworm on Jan 23 2013 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet I winnowed down half of my emails yesterday, but still have more than 200 to go. Some of them, I’m embarrassed to admit, date back to early-ish December. Those that I’m linking to here are still relevant, though, so don’t be deterred by my delay in posting them. Also, heads up to those who [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2012 | Filed under: California, Free speech, Law, Unions
Tweet The State Bar of California, which I have to pay into in order to practice law in the State of California, long-ago abandoned its core responsibility of ensuring that people who hold themselves out as lawyers to California citizens are at least minimally qualified. As with all these mandatory organizations, it’s turned into a [...]
Bookworm on Dec 02 2012 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet Nothing in this morning’s news, or in my own life for that matter, is moving me sufficiently to justify a full post on a single subject or idea. I did find some interesting things online, though, that I’d like to share with you. Also, I always appreciate it when you share interesting things right [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2012 | Filed under: Conservative ideology
Tweet My forte is spotting problems, not finding solutions. Thankfully, when I put out a call for suggestions, many of you responded. This post sets out practical list ways to get conservative messaging past the media gatekeepers that so effectively insulted Romney, praised Obama, and squelched or promoted news stories depending upon whether they help [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2012 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet I wish I’d said it this well: It’s really quite amazing. In Pakistan, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being harassed, brutalized, and even murdered, often with state support, or at least state indulgence. And let’s not even talk about the warm reception Jews receive in much of the Muslim world. And yet, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 19 2012 | Filed under: Books, Free speech
Tweet I was doodling about on that Folio Society site I told you about, and I came across a book I’ve never heard of: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Here’s the product description: ‘Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there’s no stopping it’ On a hot spring afternoon in Moscow, a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2012 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet There’s nothing funny about the Obama administration’s decision to trample on the First Amendment in its rush to placate radical Islamists. Well, almost nothing. If you give the conservative masses a crack at their still functioning right to free expression, you end up with marvelous examples of political wit. Here are a few of [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
Tweet Obama made a statement today. Here is the official transcript of what he said (emphasis mine): I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2012 | Filed under: America, Egypt, Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet Yes, I understand that the embassy in Cairo is besieged but it does strike me as cowardly to abandon core principles as this juncture (emphasis mine): U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement September 11, 2012 The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings [...]
Bookworm on Jul 11 2012 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet A woman named Jane Pitt recently exercised her Free Speech rights by sending a letter to a local paper castigating Obama for supporting same-sex marriage and urging people to vote for Romney, because he will support traditional marriage. She was predictably savaged by Leftists who didn’t merely challenge her beliefs, but effortlessly went to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 22 2012 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet Dan Savage made a name for himself as the face of the “anti-bullying” campaign sweeping America’s schools. He’s gotten lots of money, lots of media face-time, and lots of access within the Obama administration because of his “peaceable” message. Savage’s own behavior, though, makes clear that his anti-bullying message is just another Leftist scam, [...]
Bookworm on May 30 2012 | Filed under: Blogs and Blogging, Free speech
Tweet I bet all of you all remember “Everyone Blog About Bret Kimberlin Day.” After all, it took place less than a week ago. For those unfamiliar with it, this is the way it worked: Conservatives bloggers learned that Brett Kimberlin, using both the legal system and a bit of self-help, was harassing those bloggers [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2012 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech
Tweet I’ve been following a free speech story out of England and have been meaning to blog about it. Since the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, I never did get around to writing that post. Fortunately, someone else did, and a whole lot better than I would have done so.
Bookworm on Mar 28 2012 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam
Tweet This video is a year old but, especially with the latest Koran burning “scandal,” is as pertinent now as it was when first made: Hat tip: W”B”S
Bookworm on Mar 15 2012 | Filed under: Free speech, Media matters
Tweet I always love it when Leftist idiocy highlights some sort of life lesson I just imparted to young people. Today’s life lesson is that fairness should be a reasonably objective standard, rather than one that, as Bill Maher would have it, depends on whether you, personally, are benefiting from the standard imposed. Back in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 23 2012 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet Back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, when political correctness first floated into the realm of mainstream culture, everyone thought it was the same as being nice or having good manners. It’s not. Good manners, to my mind, means assuring that the people around you feel comfortable. Political correctness means controlling people’s thoughts and [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2012 | Filed under: Education, Free speech
Tweet American universities pay lip service to multiculturalism and inclusiveness, but one of their despicable secrets is that, while conservative and Jewish speakers are ignored or shouted down with no push-back whatsoever from the university administrations, pro-Palestinian speakers are given a bully pulpit. The worse their rhetoric — the more anti-inflammatory and antisemitic — the [...]
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 Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Constitution, Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet If you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s, you recognize my post title: Gilda Radner’s famous character Roseanne Roseannadanna would let loose with a foolish tirade, and then wrap it up by saying “It’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” Someone needs to resurrect that character, or at [...]
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 May 04 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech, GBLT, Homosexuality
Tweet In 1931, Nancy Langhorne Astor’s son Robert Gould Shaw III was arrested for committing a homosexual act (in a park, I believe). This was a continuation of a long-standing British public policy of prosecuting “sodomists.” Arguably the most famous prosecution was that against Oscar Wilde, for public indecency. The trial, scandal and imprisonment destroyed [...]
Bookworm on May 03 2010 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet In the early television era, one of the most innovative and imaginative shows around was Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone. Certain episodes were so compelling that they entered the popular imagination, and are familiar to anyone over 30. One of the most brilliant episodes, shown in 1961, was It’s a Good Life, based upon [...]
Bookworm on Apr 27 2010 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet If you’re on the ball, this week you have the opportunity to bid on a great sounding book, get an iPad, and help Soldier’s Angels. Everyone’s wondering why multiple New Yorkers just walked by as a good Samaritan bled to death on the sidewalk in front of them. The intelligentsia has jumped on the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2010 | Filed under: Free speech, Identity politics, Jihad, Media matters, Muslim violence
Tweet Unless you’ve been visiting some other planet somewhere in the universe, you already know about Comedy Central’s South Park debacle. That’s the one, of course, that saw Comedy Central, the oh-so-hip-and-edgy (meaning often offensive) television station brutally censoring a South Park episode that implied that Mohamed was walking around wearing a bear suit — [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2010 | Filed under: Education, Free speech, Jihad
Tweet I’m working on a post, but thought you all would find this interesting in the meantime: From AJ Strata, something that’s not just interesting, but is also terrifying: the terrorists are out there and, having gotten the measure of our new president and his administration, they are massing for war. If you needed a [...]
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