When we surrender control of language to the receiver—that is, when we insist that the important intent in the communications process belongs to the person decoding the message—we open ourselves up to the very kinds of ludicrous arguments that Crooks and Liars’ John Amato makes here: Brit Hume called former Senator John Glenn a “partisan—spearchucker” to describe his role in a Fred Thompson investigation back in his old Senate days

From Ronald Cass, Chairman of the Center for the Rule of Law, Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law, and Author of The Rule of Law in America.writing at Real Clear Politics: On May 17th, Sandy Berger, President Bill Clinton’s National Security Adviser, voluntarily gave up his law license and with it the right to practice law. That is a stunning move for an accomplished lawyer, one of the

…For lying and obstruction of justice.  Whereas Joe Wilson, for lying and attempting to undermine the administration’s case for invading Iraq, is sentenced to the lecture circuit, and given a hero’s welcome by anti-war types who believe, with Machiavelli’s parodic narrator in The Prince, that the ends justify the means. Truth is a luxury; the message is the thing.  Seems not only is Justice blind, but she’s getting a bit

Given my abhorrence for what “progressive” speech codes / “free speech zones” / “tolerance” and “diversity” intitiatives are doing to undercut first amendment protections, I would be remiss were I not to forcefully criticize the Administration for its equally deplorable support of a challenge to free speech in danger of being supported by the Supreme Court, with Anthony Kennedy (the progressive’s conservative) acting as the swing vote. Jacob Sullum, writing