Seen originally on Digg.
Neil Gaiman sums up why we must defend unpopular speech.
If you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.
The whole essay is on his blog so go… read …..
Let also add if you like fantasy, read […]
This is an interesting article on the U.K. perspective on this issue but I’d like to chime in with my opinion.
The fact is push comes to shove liberty and human rights are what you are fighting for. Not security because flatly folks ,there is no security. Everybodies going to die someday. if not today […]
I saw this on Yahoo but Yahoo links have a habit of going poof so I’ll post News.com.au instead
Circuit Judge Paul Moyle made a very good call here and I hope other Judges show as much good sense.
I will say though that “fashion” statement of underwear showing is pretty tacky. Folks if you are […]
Sorry for the pun but its on Reason magazine of course.
In short
Treating college students like children has not made much of a dent in the rate of heavy episodic drinking on campus, which has remained around 40 percent since 1993, compared to 43 percent when the uniform drinking age was established in 1988. […]
Ron sent me this Reason Magazine article temptingly entitled How Do We “Fix” the Inherent Problems With Elections?
By making politics less important.
I liked the article a great deal. While I am in favor of far more government than Ron (Prosper or Paul for that matter) I am still at heart a minimalist when it comes […]
Excellent.
I really like this part
The Libertarian Democrat understands that there is a third danger to personal liberty — the corporation. The Libertarian Dem understands that corporations, left unchecked, can be huge dangers to our personal liberties.
Libertarian Dems are not hostile to government like traditional libertarians. But unlike the liberal Democrats of old times […]
Paul Craig Roberts an antiwar.com lays it on the line with this
All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two complicit parties of Congress, by federal judges too timid or ignorant to recognize a rogue regime running roughshod over the Constitution, by a […]
They must have been reading my mind (or the site) but people are starting to realize its not about Left vs. Right its about Freedom vs. Tyranny.
An example from the eteraz blog via Thinkprogress
SNIP portion — the fact that the real divide when it comes to electing a president isn’t about left v. right […]
From Dodd’s own page
Senator Dodd issued the following statement in response to Senator Reid pulling the Intel Committee bill from consideration until the new year:
“Today we have scored a victory for American civil liberties and sent a message to President Bush that we will not tolerate his abuse of power and […]
I have no idea why Drudge thought this was newsworthy but he posted a link on My Way News
Since I covered it (pun intended) a long ago I’ll chime in with my opinion
DUH. How people wear clothes is not a matter for the government.