Published: mic (March 21, 2013)
I was reluctant to use the same Thomas Jefferson quote twice in less than two weeks, but because the governor of Mississippi missed his golden opportunity to mention it, I simply had to post it again:
“The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws.
Published: PolicyMic (September 25, 2012)
The events of the past couple days have compelled me to defend the rights of artists. Before I do that, however, I need to provide some background information on the peculiarities of this particular situation, and explain why an internet critic’s review of a martial arts cult film indicates that the internet community must start really talking about what can be done to protect artists’ rights in the age of SOPA and PIPA.
Of course, this was hardly well-known during the 1968 election, when it mattered most. Sure, a trio of British reporters later chronicled Sanders’s contributions in their classic book “An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968.”
Published: PolicyMic (April 3, 2012)
Nathan Wooten has a portrait of Adolf Hitler hanging in his living room. He named his son after a leader of the German S.S. He regularly posts comments on National Socialist message boards and created a personal profile on a white supremacist social networking site. Beyond any shadow of a doubt, Wooten is a neo-Nazi.
A new bill proposed by Pennsylvania Representative Kathy Rapp would require any woman seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound. During this procedure, the doctor would be forced to put the view screen in her field of vision so she could see the fetus and observe its heartbeat.
Published: The Morning Call (October 2, 2011)
In a recent interview with Politico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum issued a scathing denunciation of Google. “If you’re a responsible business,” he remarked, “you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”
One might expect such strong words to be reserved for the greatest rascals of American capitalism – you know, like the Wall Street firms whose chicanery plunged our nation into its current economic mess, or perhaps the corporate executives who throw hardworking employees onto the unemployment rolls instead of accepting modest cuts to their own massive salaries.... Read Original Article