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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Alito Takes The Bait

January 29, 2010

Never in living memory has a president chosen to bait the U.S. Supreme Court in his State of the Union message. But that is what President Obama did this week, and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took the bait. Obama and fellow Democrats are livid over the high court’s 5-4 ruling last week that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to advertise for or against political candidates. To …

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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 …

Federal ‘Shield Law’ Threatens Press Freedom

October 21, 2009

The walls around ancient Troy were impregnable, but things did not work out too well for the Trojans. American journalists would do well to remember that. The First Amendment is the nearly impregnable wall that guards our most basic freedoms: to speak, to write, and to worship as we wish, or not at all. The Amendment is expressed as an absolute, because it demands that “Congress shall make no law” …

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