I shit thee not. The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached a settlement with the Sacramento (California) Public Library over a trial program the library was conducting that let patrons borrow Barnes and Noble NOOK e-book readers. DOJ and the National Federation of the Blind objected to the program on grounds that blind people could not use the NOOK e-readers for technological reasons. The Justice Department said the settlement

Dunno. They weren’t showing it on the jumbo-tron at Bronco’s pre-season game I was watching, instead. Though I’m sure our team talked a lot about liberty.  Which, yay, liberty!  Yay, team!  Yay, celebrities and minorities supporting our team! And liberty! Yay!

I myself don’t do bumper stickers, but I do like to approach people with Obama/Biden bumperstickers in the parking lot of Starbucks and demand my fair share of their poppy seed muffins and vanilla lattes.  Which they never give me.  Because racism. (h/t JohninFirestone)

Just in case any of you ever believed that Politifact, like every other journalistic endeavor of recent vintage, wouldn’t devolve into yet another arm of leftwing advocacy. Which of course you didn’t.  But you might know a few idiots who do.  And if that’s the case, disabuse them.

If the Democrats can’t legislate away your country, they can rely on the courts to help do it for them; and if you stand up and demand to be counted, John Boehner will look right through you as if you don’t even exist. The courts have now ruled, in a series of surreal (but quite predictable, given their arrogant reliance on their own bad precedent) that some states have no

But it’s okay. It’s only political speech he wants to see limited, which we know wasn’t very important to the founders and framers. On the plus side, the ol’ <strike>”Constitutional Law Professor”</strike> part-time lecturer on racial grievance and political opportunism seems to have remembered that an Amendment is required, at least on something like this, where a dictate from the Executive isn’t likely to get his political opponents to stop

Washington Times: Here is a statement from Tuesday night’s Republican convention that won’t prompt any fact-checking by liberal media: “In states with Republican governors, the average unemployment rate is a full point lower than in states with Democratic governors. Republican governors lead seven of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates, and 12 of the 15 states ranked best for business.” The reason liberals won’t challenge this statement, made