Giving Wisconsin Taxpayers A Say On Pay

February 25, 2011

Regular readers know me as a fiscal conservative, but that’s not the crowd I run with. My small Facebook posse tends toward liberal Democrats — and they are in an uproar over the goings-on in Wisconsin. “Today I stand with the teachers, nurses, and all public employees of Wisconsin who are fighting for their rights,” a writer friend I have known since high school posted last weekend, after that state’s …

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Don’t Like The Speech? Attack The Speaker

October 22, 2010

If you don’t like what someone has to say, you can attack his right to say it. That is the approach President Obama and fellow Democrats have adopted when it comes to political advertising by businesses. In his State of the Union address last January, the president openly challenged a Supreme Court ruling that said corporations and labor unions have the right to express their opinions in the pivotal weeks …

MoveOn Targets Target, And Free Speech

August 18, 2010

The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org believes in freedom of speech for everyone, with the exception of anyone who backs Republican or conservative causes with corporate money. So when Target Corp. recently got involved in politics, MoveOn made a target of Target. MoveOn’s call for a national consumer boycott against the retailer is an obviously self-serving, demagogic attempt at commercial intimidation. It is also perfectly within MoveOn’s rights. They don’t pretend …

Free Speech Finally Means All Speech

January 22, 2010

After decades of willful blindness, a bare majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has finally acknowledged that it should never be a crime in this country to say, “Vote for Joe.” By allowing corporations and labor unions to buy advertisements extolling or criticizing candidates for public office, the high court has reshaped the American political landscape. Its 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission establishes that the First …

The Power To Fix Mistakes

September 21, 2009

For 58 shameful years prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the words of Justice Henry Billings Brown defined “equal protection” in American race relations. Writing for the majority in Plessy v. Ferguson, Justice Brown declared in 1896 that states could require racial segregation in public places, because “separate, but equal,” accommodations are permitted under the Fourteenth Amendment. “The object of the amendment was undoubtedly …

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Court Considers Free Speech For All

July 10, 2009

One of the biggest decisions the Supreme Court made last week before leaving for its summer recess was a decision not to decide. Rather than ruling on the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which deals with restrictions on campaign speech, the Court said that it will rehear arguments in Citizens United in a rare September session. In the meantime, it has requested briefs exploring the broader issues underlying …

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