Ken White: The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution. DOJ is targeting Reason.com, a leading libertarian website whose clever writing is eclipsed only by the blowhard stupidity of its commenting peanut gallery. Why is the government using its vast power to identify these obnoxious asshats, and not
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February 25, 2015
Leftism is the most dynamic, and jealous, religion of the 20th & 21st Century [Darleen Click]
In California, it means stripping university students of any competing religious club – especially Christian. When Cal Poly Sal Luis Obispo hosts its annual Open House this April, during which campus clubs typically greet and recruit prospective visiting students, one longtime mainstay at the university will be conspicuously absent: Cru. The Christian club will not be allowed to set up a table and pass out fliers, or meet and greet
October 22, 2014
California forces Churches to pay for abortions, immediately [Darleen Click]
So where are the staunchiest peoples who claimed this could never happen, and promised their support in fighting it if it did? California’s Department of Managed Health Care has ordered all insurance plans in the state to immediately begin covering elective abortion. Not Plan B. Not contraceptives. Elective surgical dismemberment abortion. At the insistence of the American Civil Liberties Union, the DMHC concluded that a 40-year-old state law requiring health
October 19, 2014
In the fight against hate speech, subversive propaganda and the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, Federal Government to place monitors in Newsrooms across the country [Darleen Click]
I’m sure the New York Times, LA Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, et al, will welcome such Truthy overlords … Oh, wait, that would be against the First Amendment, right? Nevermind. Let’s just have the Feds monitor private citizens instead, m’kay? If you take to Twitter to express your views on a hot-button issue, does the government have an interest in deciding whether you are spreading “misinformation’’? If you tweet your
October 19, 2014
It’s come to this: Government tells Christian ministers to perform same-sex marriages or face jail, fines [Darleen Click]
Now where are the staunchiest among us who said this would never ever, pinky promise, happen? COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit and a motion for a temporary restraining order Friday to stop officials in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from forcing two ordained Christian ministers to perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples. City officials told Donald Knapp that he and his wife Evelyn, both ordained
August 2, 2014
US Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki: 18-22 year-olds don’t deserve First Amendment speech rights [Darleen Click]
… because Science™!!1! says they have mushy brains … Here’s an excerpt from the tentative transcript, which matches my recollection of the comments; Commissioner Yaki is questioning Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: And it seems to me that there are ways that you can create a very apprehensive coordinate [possible transcription error -EV] of sexual harassment on a campus, but you [Greg Lukianoff -EV] probably
July 18, 2014
“Mr. President, when did the Democratic Party declare war on the Catholic Church?” [Darleen Click]
Rhetorical question, eh?
December 27, 2013
A&E’s humble pie [Darleen Click]
As several PW regulars have already noted, Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson is back The network suspended Robertson last Thursday after he compared gays to “drunks” and “terrorists” in a GQ interview in which he also said African-Americans were perfectly happy before Civil Rights. (huge SIC) But the network suffered a huge backlash from “Duck Dynasty” fans and social conservatives, who said it had limited Robertson’s right to free speech. Also
July 19, 2013
Hobby Lobby wins injunction against HHS mandate [Darleen Click]
Just in WASHINGTON, DC – Today, a federal court granted Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. a preliminary injunction against the HHS abortion-drug mandate, preventing the government from enforcing the mandate against the Christian company. This victory comes less than a month after a landmark decision by the full 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled 5-3 that Hobby Lobby can exercise religion under the First Amendment and is likely to win