The Right To Lie

March 28, 2011

The Stolen Valor Act sounded like a throwback when President George W. Bush signed it in 2005. It conjured images of a Victorian damsel seduced with lies and liquor, or of a soldier trudging wearily home to find that a shopkeeper has taken his place at the family homestead. Valor exists in our hearts. It shows itself in the things we do. How can it be stolen? It can’t. The …

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Libel And The Shield Of Truth

November 19, 2010

In Hungary, two men are involved in a trial. One is a renowned American-Israeli Nazi hunter who has spent the past three decades tracking down war criminals. The other is a former Hungarian soldier who escaped charges of mass murder by fleeing to South America after World War II. The Nazi hunter is the one being tried. Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s office in Jerusalem, was …

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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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