RR16/free speech

From the page: "�oeBy using the excuse of not upsetting anyone, the politically correct are demanding that people behave like the fool who would please everyone; that everyone must become such a fool! All must accept the notions of the Politically Correct as truth, or else! This is the same mentality that inspired the Inquisition and forced Galileo to recant; the same mentality that inspired the Nazis and obtained the Holocaust. Once expression gets placed in a straitjacket of official truth, then the madness that occurs in all totalitarian states is obtained. Life, in private and public, becomes a meaningless charade where delusion thrives and terror rules.”"

From the page: "Pat Condell and his Love Letters"

From the page: "TEL AVIV �" The White House's recent frontal assault on the Fox News Channel is drawing criticism from some unexpected sources, including members of the left-leaning media.

"Cutting off a media outlet can be a risky strategy. It can reduce the voice and effectiveness of a politician or a party," Doug Heye, a blogger for U.S. News and World Report, wrote today.

"It's not likely to work, however. The far-left may love potshots at O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, but it loves a healthcare public option, card check, and closing Gitmo even more," Heye added of the White House campaign. "

From the page: "The Obama Administration has now actually co-sponsored an anti-free speech resolution at the United Nations. Approved by the U.N. Human Rights Council last Friday, the resolution, cosponsored by the U.S. and Egypt, calls on states to condemn and criminalize "any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence."

What could be wrong with that? Plenty."

From the page: "The mainstream media is dying. The Obama campaign may go down as the death blow of a herd of vicious and powerful dinosaurs who once seemed to blot out the sun, but now find themselves headed irreversibly toward extinction. But though the media may have helped lift the crown to the head of Barack the First, they did it at the cost of stripping away their last shreds of credibility. Their coverage of Obama was a running joke even during the campaign. It has only become more absurd since then. And that is only fitting, as the major media corporations choose to perish not as reporters, but as liberal activists, above all else."

From the page: "Four years ago on September 30, 2005, Jyllands-Posten published twelve drawings of Islam�s prophet Muhammed. To demonstrate that prohibition of any depiction of the prophet, as stipulated by sharia law would not trump Denmark�s freedom of the press, twelve cartoonists had their entries published.

Here they are:"

From the page: "Another One Bites the Dust �" NEA Director �oeReassigned”"

From the page: "Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors."