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The Supreme Court ended its term today with a decision in a couple of closely watched cases involving public primary schools' efforts to achieve diversity. The Court ruled, 5-4, that having a goal of a "diverse student body" isn't sufficient reason to discriminate based on race. Of course, that's not how much of the media […]

Sorry, but I just had to read about what I missed and this jumped up an bit me. During her 23 days in jail, [Paris Hilton] said she meditated, read letters from fans, talked to other inmates through the vents, wrote in her journal and read the Bible, though she couldn't cite a favorite passage […]

You know about all those harmless, misunderstood, in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time, "alleged" jihadis that we've got down in Guantanamo Bay? We've released some of the ones that we believed were mistakenly captured. Unfortunately, we've been wrong. As early as 2004, the United States military was discovering that former Gitmo illegal enemy combatants had suckered the smartest intelligence officers […]

What a relief.

Democrats have been talking about it ever since they retook control of Congress earlier this year: Resurrecting the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." The fairness doctrine is being dug up and propped against the marble columns of the Capitol because Democrats don't like talk radio -- mainly because conservatives are good at it and Democrats can't turn […]

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 […]