Bookworm on Dec 19 2009 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet Alan Grayson, last heard of when he accused Republicans of backing a health care plan that told sick people to die, is at it again: Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2009 | Filed under: Africa, Iran
Tweet Through the Bush years, those in the grips of BDS likened him to Hitler based upon their contention that he was running the most oppressive administration ever in American history. They made this claim despite the fact that, insofar as I know, no protestor was ever imprisoned merely for having protested. (This is separate [...]
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 Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Tweet Charles Krauthammer identifies the enormous damage the Obami risk doing as they attack and try to destroy national entities associated with conservatives (the Chamber of Commerce, talk radio, Fox news): There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality or constitutionality. We have [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech, Islam
Tweet All of us have been worried that the Obama Administration, working in tandem with a wildly Democratic Congress, wants to clamp down on freedom of speech. Heck, in true Orwellian fashion, the House of Representatives has already taken myriad terms off the table for fear that they might be used against their Fearless (albeit [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
Tweet A few days ago, I quoted from some representatives saying that those attending town halls are an ill-informed mob that must be ignored. The editors at National Review nicely sum up the Democratic party attitude and its profoundly anti-democratic meaning (links omitted): President Obama likes to pose as the tribune of the common people, [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2009 | Filed under: Free speech, Judges
Tweet Sotomayor’s statements about judges (better if they’re female and minority) and their role (to make policy) have been disturbing. It’s worth nothing though that, as James Taranto points out that, on at least one occasion Sotomayor came out strongly in favor of free speech, even though it was very ugly speech: Sotomayor Plays Against [...]
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 Nov 21 2008 | Filed under: Abortion, Barack Obama, Free speech, Judges, Judicial activism
Tweet Okay, I admit it. I’m easy. Call me “winsome” and write a thoughtful, well-informed, interesting article about the continuing resonance abortion has on the political process — even if it did not serve as the centerpiece of this last political campaign — and of course I’m going to link to the article. In this [...]
Bookworm on Oct 22 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Tweet Thought to be extinct, Marinicus Republicanus is emerging from its long dormancy and beginning to make itself known. Tonight, I attended an enthusiastic rally of at least 100 people crammed shoulder to shoulder in a beautiful home in Marin. People were informed, excited, and refused to be intimidated by the polls. Melanie Morgan, former [...]
Bookworm on Oct 14 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Leftist morality
Tweet As I do, my in-laws, all of whom are McCain supporters, live in a liberal community. They periodically get together with their conservative friends and bemoan the fact that lawn signs are stolen or despoiled, or that cars bearing McCain-Palin bumperstickers are targets of vandalism (keying, smashed windows, etc.). Along with the rest of [...]
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 27 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
Tweet “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.
Bookworm on Sep 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Free speech
Tweet 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 [...]
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 05 2008 | Filed under: Free speech
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Media matters
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Jun 12 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Education, Free speech
Tweet 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
Tweet . . . 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 [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech
Tweet 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 protect [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, United Nations
Tweet 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. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: Education, Free speech, Media matters
Tweet 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 [...]
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