There's a couple of good reads on free speech -- or lack thereof -- online. The first comes from George Will and who notices the so-called heckler's veto at work in Oakland. Some African American Christian women working for Oakland's government organized the Good News Employee Association (GNEA), which they announced with a flier describing […]
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 […]
There's good foreign aid and there's bad foreign aid. Helping prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa: Good. Giving one red cent to the neanderthal thugs sitting on the Middle East's largest proven oil reserves: Bad. The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to prohibit any aid to Saudi Arabia as lawmakers accused the […]
It's time to once again clean up some of the open Web pages with some stuff that's worth reading: Scot McKnight over at Jesus Creed has an excellent post on the "Love the sinner, hate the sin" philosophy vis a vis homosexuality. John Leo gives out his annual award to the worst college president in […]
Do you think that any newspaper in this country would turn over its opinion pages to an op-ed exploring the wants, needs, and desires of the al Qaeda terrorist organization and give a byline to Osama bin Laden or Mullah Omar? Last week, the New York Times gave a hint as to what their response […]
Over at Patterico's Pontifications, he's got a pretty good, long comment thread regarding this story on John Edwards I highlighted on Saturday. I posted a couple of comments, and as you can probably expect, the responses from the lefties was little more than name-calling. (The exact comment was: "You're a real jacka$$ aren't you?") What […]
Senator and presidential contender Barack Obama spoke to the 50th anniversary convention for the United Church of Christ yesterday. I'll say it again: Politicians shouldn't be making campaign stops in church services or denominational convention -- and that goes for Republicans too. Church leaders said that the speaking invitation to Mr. Obama was not an […]
Friday's New York Times had an informative article on presidential hopeful John Edwards' anti-poverty organiztion. John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff. Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that he […]