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"Happy Constitution Day."
Says Instapundit ... with this: (I wasn't sure which of my already-existing tags would work for this post, but then I remembered oath-botching . …
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"U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman of the District of Columbia said Trump’s rhetoric 'violates all recognized democratic norms'..."
"... during a speech at the annual Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture in Washington on Wednesday. 'We are in unchartered territory,' said …
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"I’m sad... They’re already talking online, so they don’t need a club."
So said "event organizer" Darwin Bebo, quoted in this article about the obsolescence of "social groups" for gay people. The tug …
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Spontaneous and non-spontaneous protests at the Capitol.
Here 's an interview with the new Wisconsin Capitol Police Chief Dave Erwin, giving some explanation for the new, stronger enforcement of the rul…
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"'Firefly' and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus."
Instapundit highlights this story from UW—Stout, stressing the threat of criminal charges against a professor who put a quote from the TV show "…
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"It’s abusive, a walking rejection of all our freedoms.”
One use of freedom is to choose -- for yourself alone -- not to be free . Is it not an abuse of freedom to reject the freedom to choose submission? D…
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"Well, I don't know who this pork eater is, but I have a question for her."
"I hear she is the Home Secretary of the former England. When has this witch heard my show, since it's not syndicated in England? When has t…
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"The freedom of expression of at least 1.5 million people is standing trial together with me."
Says Geert Wilders, on trial in the Netherlands for writing, among other things: "I've had enough of the Quran in the Netherlands: Forbid th…
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"Google will leave a controversial video clip about the Islamic prophet Muhammad on YouTube..."
"... despite a White House request that the company review it under its own policies, the company said Friday." “We work hard to create a c…
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"When May the Government Require Groups to Endorse Certain Views in Order to Get Government Benefits?"
Eugene Volokh frames the question of what was at issue in the Supreme Court's opinion in Agency for Int’l Development v. Alliance for Open Socie…
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"When I was a kid — and my parents are hippies — we lived in San Francisco... and so I always thought of liberals as being people who were... open-minded... not wanting to silence people, letting people speak."
"They're all about just letting people be who they are, not trying to enforce, like, rigid patterns of behavior and thought on people. But t…
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"Islamists’ Ideas on Democracy and Faith Face Test in Tunisia."
A new article by Anthony Shadid , the "gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The B…
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"When May the Government Require Groups to Endorse Certain Views in Order to Get Government Benefits?"
Eugene Volokh frames the question of what was at issue in the Supreme Court's opinion in Agency for Int’l Development v. Alliance for Open Socie…
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"The official line — that the slaughter of American officials was some sort of improvised movie review that got a little out of hand..."
"... is now in the process of modification to something bearing a less patently absurd relationship to what actually happened. That should not …
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Christopher Hitchens on shouting fire in a crowded theater.
I arrived at this video, via Wikipedia , after writing this post (and participating in the comments ): Text here . (What if everyone had 5 "kee…
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"This is a strike against the professionalism of the industry... Now, anyone can get up off their couch and say, 'I’m a tour guide.'"
Said a licensed Washington D.C. tour guide after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the city's licensing requirement on free speech gr…
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Stephen Fry won't be charged — under Irish anti-blasphemy law — for calling God a "maniac."
But he was investigated. It didn't take long , but it still has a chilling effect on the freedom of speech in Ireland. Why does this law even exi…
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"Let me be clear. I will let no one question my love of this country."
Not going to let us question him? Why that's unAmerican in itself!
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You can't demonstrate here. This is the Supreme Court.
81 people were arrested for demonstrating in front of the Supreme Court today.
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