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 the [...]
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.
Sphere: Related Content
Bookworm on Sep 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
Being a circumlocutious type myself, I’m not normally a fan of Glenn Reynold’s bullet point approach to sharing information. Nevertheless, it makes a powerful point in his post setting out an ever expanding laundry list of the efforts the Obama campaign is making to stifle open political debate. What’s really scary is that this list [...]
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 when [...]
Bookworm on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Free speech
One of the common responses to my post urging hidden conservatives to come out into the open in this election, if not to their friends and neighbors, at least to their fellow Republicans was that the situation can’t really be that bad. The Left isn’t any more snarky and snarly than the Right, and you [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Media matters
One of the things I’ve always admired about Harry Truman is the fact that he was able to separate principles from personal preferences. He was a racist who integrated the American military and an antisemite who was among the first to recognize the State of Israel.
I keep thinking of Truman when I see the American [...]
Bookworm on Jun 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Education, Free speech
I just attended the end of year program at my children’s elementary school. I won’t run on here about how adorable my children were or how charming the other children ewre (accept that as given). Instead, I want to focus on the show’s content, which I found both fascinating and depressing.
A little background [...]
Bookworm on Jun 03 2008 | Filed under: Education, France, Free speech
. . . but this is sad:
Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.
A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.
Bardot’s lawyer, Francois-Xavier [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech
Americans do not have any idea how lucky they are to live in a land where freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution. More than that, they should resist every “soft” effort to make speech out of bounds on the grounds that it can hurt someone’s feelings. Absent this constant vigilance to [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Do you recall that, on the day I posted the Fitna video, I wrote the following?
LiveLeak explains why it is showing this video, despite the fact that some at LiveLeak strongly disagree with its content. I note two things. First, LiveLeak understands free speech. Second, the LifeLeak discussion about its decision to show the video [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Geert Wilders’ 15 minute film about Islam is available now. While the Dutch government is afraid to show it, bloggers are not.
Those who are anti-American, those who hate Israel, those who are completely invested in multiculturalism, try to downplay the conservatives’ concern about Muslim violence by analogizing conservatives to the Nazis, who scapegoated the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, United Nations
Okay, maybe the UN will listen to the report from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) but, somehow, I doubt it:
Islamic states are bidding to use the United Nations to limit freedom of expression and belief around the world, the global humanist body IHEU told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
In a statement [...]
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 [...]
|
