The Democrats today failed in the Senate to pass so-called "card-check" legislation that would allow unions to form without the benefit of a secret ballot election. The headline that came over the wires late this afternoon read: Senate Republicans block bill making it easier to form labor unions Sounds pretty mean, huh? The lede: Senate […]
MSNBC has corrected the numbers in its article on journalists giving to political candidates. (Correction: One of the names was included in error in the list of newspeople who contributed to political campaigns ("The list: Journalists who wrote political checks") on June 21. Joe Cline, a graphic artist at The San Diego Union-Tribune, is in […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down two decisions with implications for free speech. In each case, the Court seemed to make its decision not based on any constitutional principles, but on getting the right outcome. The first case is the famous "Bong Hits for Jesus" case. A Juneau, Alaska, high school student unfurled a banner […]