The best sentence that I’ve seen on the Citizens’ United case.
Comes from Matt Welch over at Reason (although he wrote it for CNN), and it should serve as a useful answer for everybody who wants to play “Let’s try to scare the right-wing by talking about...
View ArticleJohn Brennan’s a little… touchy for his position, no? #rsrh
I was looking for fodder for a couple of light and fluffy posts, but I probably shouldn’t let this pass by without comment. In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy...
View Article#rsrh Free speech victory in Virginia.
A federal court has come to the fairly common sense realization that when the Constitution says “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,” it kind of means it: A...
View ArticleSince when is Twitter public property?
As I understand this stalking case, the guy’s facing criminal charges for cyberstalking, which in this case seems to be somewhere between ‘being a relentless jerk’ and ‘there may be actual worms in his...
View Article#rsrh Dancing Bear Watch: New York Times on Citizens United.
There’s something fascinating about this article from the New York Times on the Citizens United case. The author (Adam Liptak) noticed that the decision removed certain onerous restrictions on...
View ArticleJames Taranto wrote a far-too-good-to-excerpt piece…
…here about the free speech brawl that he got into while in college. Short version: James Taranto exercised it while working at a student paper; a certain faculty advisor/mentor/publisher went ripsh*t...
View ArticleThe funniest Supreme Court amicus curiae submission you’re likely to read today.
I’m not going to go overmuch into the background: you should instead read the amicus curiae. Which, given that it was clearly written by PJ O’Rourke and the Cato Institute on the virtues of humor and...
View ArticleOn the difference between ‘must’ and ‘should’ when it comes to free speech.
This is a good point. As I noted when Chris Kluwe called on people to steal (or perhaps borrow) Ender’s Game because purchasing the book would put a few pennies in the pocket of a person he disagreed...
View ArticleHow the GOP used social media to outsmart anti-free speech laws.
Looks like the NRCC was on the ball this cycle. Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice...
View ArticleWhy Barack Obama offered up some weaksauce support for free speech.
(H/T: Instapundit) I decline to follow this suggestion: “Give President Obama some credit — when he was asked to comment on the wave of protests sweeping colleges across the country, he didn’t fully...
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