from Chip Bok:
Last week AG Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee and it did not go well. Though he has threatened to sue Arizona over its recently passed immigration law, it turns out he hasn’t read the 10 page bill. He also refused to name the one thing the Underpants Bomber, Major Hassan, and the Times Square bomber have in common. Michael Barone has a theory about this. He calls it the Howling Mob theory. Namely, our leaders don’t trust us to distinguish between criminals, terrorists, and most Muslims and brown skin people.
from hopenchangecartoons:
Elena Kagan, Obama's nominee for lifetime Supreme Court Justice, doesn't have much of a track record to show where she stands on important issues. But a notable exception exists in the case of Freedom of Speech...specifically, political speech...which she believes should be regulated and controlled by the government.
Acting as Obama's Solicitor General, Kagan argued this point before the Supreme Court, prompting Chief Justice Roberts to say that she "asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of pamphlets, posters, and the Internet."
Justice Kennedy said that Kagan's legal argument amounted to an illegitmate attempt to use "censorship as thought control." Fortunately, Kagan failed to convince the Supreme Court of the merits of her argument and it was voted down...causing a belligerent Barack Obama to criticize the members of the court (and mischaracterize the findings of the court) during his State of the Union address.
We hope that Kagan's anti-free speech views, and the danger of losing freedom of political speech, will be thoroughly discussed on "television and radio broadcasts, pamphlets, posters, and the Internet"...while they still can be.
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