Not because of the outcome, in which a federal court ruled that the University of Cincinnati’s “free speech zone” cannot stand — that’s to be celebrated. Rather, what’s sad is that at the University of Cincinnati, and many more universities all across the country, students wishing to exercise the very free speech rights that are at the heart of academic freedom and a culture of intellectual discovery have today to
June 13, 2012
June 13, 2012
“Report: UN to consider $1,300 green tax on US”
— Which is ironic, because I was just considering how we might move to completely defund the UN and reassert our own sovereignty. So. Kismet!
June 13, 2012
Fair shares
Once again, I say to the GOP establishment — and this includes the Romneybots, who themselves are pushing for increased “revenue enhancers” from “the wealthy” — that there’s a way to break the left’s class warfare argument, and that way is push a flat or fair tax, even if only as a rhetorical maneuver to illuminate what is meant by “fair” from the perspective of the left (progressive income tax)
June 13, 2012
Imperialism between the lines
It’s the best way to bring about a kindly form of liberal fascism, you see. And if representative government gets in the way, well, the answer is to bracket representative government in order to remove that particular impediment to statist Utopia. It is, after all, for our own good — and if the voters keep voting wrong, what choice is left us, really? Roll Call, “Allies Urge Barack Obama to
June 13, 2012
You can’t call Obama “cool”
— because, as has been pointed out, doing so is just another form of racism. More than that, though, is this: it simply isn’t true. In fact, Obama is to “cool” as Mitt Romney is to “mad sick.” Case in point: Now tell me: can you watch that video without cringing for the guy? The truth is, Obama wants to be cool — he craves adulation and power, and tries
June 13, 2012
I get emails
This time, from Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU: Dear , [yes, that’s what it said; they couldn’t be bothered to fill in the name field] It probably comes as no surprise that Florida is ground zero in the nationwide fight over voter suppression. And the ACLU has been right in the middle of it. When they passed a law making voter registration next to impossible here in Florida,
June 13, 2012
Laying the groundwork for Obama’s defeat: It’s the RAAAAACISM! [Darleen Click]
Just like Obama has no responsibility for the FUBAR economic situation we are in, so any criticism of his policies and performance are really the result of racism. We know this because, gasp, racially-tinged searches [Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard University] chose a common racial insult that starts with “N” and looked for searches that used the singular and plural forms of the word. “The most
June 13, 2012
British Sock Puppets — when “charities” become shadow government [Darleen Click]
Telegraph In a new report, the Institute of Economic Affairs will argue charities have become a “shadow state”, because they are so reliant on around £12 billion a year of public grants and contracts. The paper also reveals the Government is now spending millions of pounds on “lobbying itself” because taxpayer-funded charities have hired so many public affairs and media advisers. It will say charities are less likely to criticise