I don’t usually watch Saturday Night Live but it does seem to come into its own every four years in the two months prior to the election with its political clips (Tina Fey’s impressions of Sarah Palin will forever remain the gold standard) and parodies of campaign commercials. [Read more…]
I have written in the past about the odious piece of legislation known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would enable the administration to indefinitely detain without trial people whom the government on its own decides is providing “substantial support” to groups “engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners”. (See here, here, and here.) [Read more…]
Mitt Romney sure has a way with words.
Starting with his visit to the UK, which reportedly caused the British prime minister to state that “Mitt Romney had that unique distinction of uniting all of England against him”, and then Israel, and Poland, he has shown un uncanny ability to demonstrate that the more one gets to know him, the less one likes him. [Read more…]
We know that free speech is not an absolute right. There are some limits that even the most tolerant societies have imposed in order to (say) protect children. In the US, the limits to what adults can say is usually judged according to the landmark US Supreme Court decision in the 1969 case of Brandenburg v. Ohio. [Read more…]
Three Republican state officials have unanimously ruled that Barack Obama’s name will be on the ballot in Kansas in November after all, frustrating birthers who had been hoping for a victory. [Read more…]
The site Politico had a long piece on the disarray and infighting within the Romney campaign. This is just one of a slew of articles in a similar vein as can be seen here, here, and here. [Read more…]
So now a key figure in Iran’s Islamic hierarchy has said that the reason that the film Innocence of Muslims was even produced was because Ayatollah Khomeini’s order to execute novelist Salman Rushdie was never carried out, thus emboldening critics of Islam. Yes, he seems to feel that the fear of summary execution is a worthy threat to hold over anyone who even thinks of offending his sensibilities. [Read more…]
He delivers a good rant on 9/11 commemorations, god, religion, money, and the war on terror. [Read more…]
So I decided that I owed it to myself to watch the infamous trailer of the film that has caused all this trouble around the world. From news reports, I expected it to be poorly done but I had no idea that it would be such absolute dreck. [Read more…]