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May 17, 2006

“Senate OKs Border Fence, Mulls Citizenship”

From Breitbart / AP: The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally. Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for

My first brief conversation with a plate of Szechwan-style pork

me: “So.  Any last words?” szechwan-style pork: me:  “Eh, just as well.  Because I’m freakin’ starving, brother.” szechwan-style pork: me:  “Anyway—CHARGE!”

As long as we’re talking about speech codes, intentionalism, and the like…

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released a report on Denmark that—astoundingly—suggests that support for free speech in that country is proof of Danish of “intolerance”. Allah excerpts this portion of the report concerning Danish Muslims, from the section headed “vulnerable groups”: In September 2005, with the stated intention of verifying whether freedom of speech is respected in Denmark, a widely-read Danish newspaper called on cartoonists to send

The slippery slope of hate speech

Unsurprisingly, the testing grounds for nannystatist encroachment on speech at the municipal level (the feds, predicatably, have set the tone by caving to aggrieved identity groups and legislating them into a kind of de facto “endangered species” status) is Boulder, CO—about 10 minutes west of my future home.  Which should make for some interesting times.  From David Harsanyi, The Denver Post: There’s a famous joke that goes like this: What’s