Kathleen Parker says that Lawrence Summers, the former Harvard President, is the prototypical example of this generation’s McCarthyism – political correctness in academia. Summers, you’ll recall, was driven out of his university post in 2005 after he suggested at a conference that gender differences might account for an under representation by women in science, math…
Category: Free Speech
Freedoms
A while back George Will wrote a column titled “Valuing Speech” that is apropos for Independence Day, I think, and another discussion about the relative correctness of liberalism, conservatism, and constructionism. Will says: Marriage is the foundation of the natural family and sustains family values. That sentence is inflammatory, perhaps even a hate crime. At…
ARI Counters the U.N. “Human Rights” Council
Yesterday the Ayn Rand Institute weighed in on the farce that is the United Nations Human Rights Council by saying: The U.N. Human Rights Council recently passed a resolution urging nations to pass laws prohibiting the dissemination of ideas that “defame religion.” It appears that the resolution was partly a response to last year’s Danish…
OK to Filter Porn at Public Libraries
In a better ruling than was issued in regards to the scourge of affirmative action, the Supreme Court ruled it is constitutional for libraries to filter porn on public computers. As you may know, I still believe it would be most effective to begin to partition the Internet into zones using top-level domain suffixes like…
Hillbillies
For some reason, Appalachians don’t like the upcoming TV show “Real Hillbillies”. OK, they have a point, but if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Citizens of America must unite and demand our “Real Hillbillies”. Maybe if we stand up to these bumpkins, football fans can do the tomahawk chop and…
YourDomain.porn
Depending on your view of on-line porn, this article 5/restore your faith in the justice system or make your blood boil over what’s plainly a violation of the 1st amendment. Ironically, this solution, blocking access to web sites based on the site’s server address, does offer significant possibilities for creating child-safe zones on the Net….
The case against U. of North Carolina I commented on some time ago is in the news again. Read the MSNBC/Washington Post article It seems to be worth repeating: you are not guaranteed the right not to be offended in this country. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, remember?
The 11th Commandment: “Don’t be Ridiculous!”
A homeless, unlicensed Texas lawyer is making a name for himself by suing the state over a monument of the Ten Commandments. Read the AP article about it. This case is similar to the Pledge of Allegiance case in California in that both deny the fact that the United States was founded as a Christian…