Washington D.C. Metro surrenders to potential Assassin’s Veto U.S. News (Steven Nelson) reports: The mass transit authority that oversees commuter buses and trains in the nation’s capital is banning issue-oriented ads for the remainder of the year after receiving an ad proposal featuring a cartoon of Muhammad, Islam’s central figure. […] It’s hard to characterize this, I think, as speech derogatory of Muslims in general as people (though such speech