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• 11.07.08
  How do you say Nihil Obstat in Finnish?
  Free speech (0)

  The government of Finland says "Little House on the Prairie" shouldn't be shown publicly to children. That would be a show of good judgment if it had been based on the content of the program. I've long said that if we're going to have censorship of television, that should be the first program to go. The producers took good literature and ruined it. Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose had given us some interestingly drawn characters in their books. In the TV series they were turned into typical Hollywood ninnies. But, alas, it's only that the ...
  
  
• 11.02.08
  Fairness
  Free press, Free speech (0)

  So Obama doesn't support reimposing the Fairness Doctrine. That's good, I guess, considering his chilling statement that he wants to "clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum." But will he go to the mat for the First Amendment? As far as I can tell, he has had absolutely no experience in bucking the wishes of the Democrat establishment. Why would he start now?
  
  
• 10.31.08
  Protect a hundred flowers from blooming
  Free speech (0)

  Conservative Republicans for years have had to put up with hostile questions from LeftDemocrat reporters. It comes with the territory. There is a certain amount of whining and complaining about it from people like myself, but the politicians generally learn to take it in stride. Take, for example, Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric. (I didn't watch it, but I read a transcript.) Now Joseph Biden got a small taste of it himself when Barbara West of WFTV asked some hostile questions. She asked her questions in a polite, respectful manner, and Joseph Biden handled ...
  
  
• 10.22.08
  More clarity
  Free speech (0)

  When Barak Obama says he wants to "clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation’s spectrum," maybe he's trying to be Bush III: URL and URL
  
  
• 10.09.08
  A sample of Obama’s diplomatic skills
  Free speech (0)

  James Corsi, The author of an anti-Obama book was detained in Kenya and deported. He may (or may not) be a crackpot and his book may be full of lies, but this response looks a lot more like government censorship than a case of, "I may disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." Here was a chance for Obama to prove that he means it when, as his web site says, "Obama supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions." OK, he's not president yet but he probably ...
  
  
• 08.07.08
  My decision on Pardeep S. Gundara
  Free speech (0)

  Important announcement: Here is my decision in the matter of Ezra Levant and the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission: I. Pardeep S. Gundara in his capacity as a private individual is hereby authorized to send a communication to Ezra Levant informing him that he respects his rights to free expression of opinion. Such communication must be made using his personal letterhead, personal e-mail, or personal phone. II. Pardeep S. Gundara, in his capacity as Southern Director, is PROHIBITED from sending such communication, because it would have an intimidating effect suggesting that Ezra Levant may speak and publish only ...
  
  
• 07.04.08
  Swift bloggers
  Free speech, electoral politics (0)

  This article inspired me to see if the domain name swiftbloggers.com is available. The old Swift Boaters have such piddling amounts of money to spend on their work, and I don't have much to add. And I'm not interested in supporting the McCain campaign. I don't think I'll even vote for him. (I got in the habit of not voting for his type when I didn't vote for Bush - twice.) But I could come up with ten dollars for a domain name to honor the work of democracy as was undertaken by the Swift ...
  
  
• 06.27.08
  Grantrepreneurs
  Bash the Messenger, Free speech (0)

  Ezra Levant has added a necessary word to our vocabulary: Grantrepreneur. So I'm adding him to my blogroll. How else am I going to keep up with the human rights violations of Canada's Human Rights Commissions? Go to Google News and search for information on Ezra Levant or Steve Boissoin. You get absolutely nothing from those people who used to criticize George W. Bush for not paying any attention to what people in other countries think.
  
  
• 04.12.08
  Google and net neutrality
  Free speech, Regulation (0)

  The usually reliable Wall Street Journal editorial page seems to be carrying water for Comcast in the net neutrality issue. I could agree that there are problems with some versions of the net neutrality rhetoric, but that's not what the WSJ discusses. Instead it defends Comcast's behavior wrt its throttling of BitTorrent, saying it comes under the terms of "reasonable network management techniques." But if what Comcast was doing was reasonable management, why did it lie about about what it was doing and what it was selling to its customers? (I'm still irritated ...
  
  
• 04.09.08
  No blasphemy, please. We’re Google.
  Free speech (0)

  Some of my fellow conservatives used to think I was over the top when I talked about how abortion is becoming the Holy Sacrament of the secular left. I predicted that soon no nominee would get past the Senate Judiciary Committee without personally performing the sacrament in front of the assembled senators. Well, look at this. Google will put up with a lot in the name of free speech, subject to Chinese government veto, of course. But one thing it will not tolerate is abortion ads if they also include religion. That is blasphemy ...
  
  

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