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Your Name in a Novel -- Again!
This year's First Amendment Project character name auction is underway on eBay. Check it out at www. ebay. com/fapProminent Authors Again To Raise Money For First Amendment Project eBayCharity Auction...
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Do Mark Foley's Sexually Suggestive Electronic Communications Constitute a...
Keeping Eyes on the BallsBy CLINTON FEINOctober 8, 2006Annoy.comThe Mark Foley IM sex scandal, (which revelation after revelation confirms the scandal itself has been anything but instant) is shining a...
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Mistakes v. Lies
When Fox News Channels delusional Bill O’Reilly's show, The O'Reilly Factor, incorrectly identified disgraced Republican congressman, Mark Foley, as a Democrat, it was almost immediately lampooned by...
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TXU's First Amendment Pollution
In an example of corporate bullying and one of the more frivolous threats filed by a corporation, Texas energy giant TXU is threatening an environmental group, Downwinders at Risk, alleging trademark...
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If News Corp. Did It
Amidst the cries of censorship and the frenzy surrounding the OJ Simpson/Judith Regan/Fox News saga, people seem to be confusing censorship with public backlash.Despite a long-winded screed defending...
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The Nigger Trigger
How about the F-word?I’m so over hearing the likes of Jesse Jackson, the black male version of media whore, Gloria Allred, preaching his self-righteous drivel.As much for the ridiculous thought process...
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Dead at Last: I Have a Nightmare
I wrote this back in 2003, shortly after Trent Lott was given the boot as Minority Leader following his December 2, 2002 whiskey-drenched toast to Senator Strom Thurmond, at a hundred year birthday...
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Unacceptable In Any Context or Circumstance
Isaiah Washington doesn’t read much. Nor do members of GLAAD, executives at ABC, gossip bloggers or a billion other people running around with knotted knickers. Yes, it’s an ugly word when tossed as a...
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The Horrors of Torture, Reinterpreted through Art
Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle reviews my latest exhibition, Torture, posing some interesting questions. I have received a lot of praise and a lot of criticism related to this show, but art critic...
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Putting a Noose around the News
By JAYNE LYN STAHLFebruary 16, 2007If it seems to you you're getting the same news no matter which channel you watch, you're right, and you can thank newspaper consolidation for that. There are only...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Just Lie
Ann Coulter, the self-professed “patriot” always quick to criticize liberals calls them faggots. General Peter Pace, the fey Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, despite looking like one, (and...
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ACLU Reading: The Bookseller Who Fought for "Ulysses"
"The Battle for Ulysses" tells the story of an American bookseller's struggle to publish a banned novel that became a literary classic: James Joyce's "Ulysses." Sylvia Beach moved to Paris, opened a...
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Who's Ho?
Oh My God! Who would have guessed? Thatch-headed shock jock, Don Imus, was suspended by MSNBC and CBS for a whole whopping two weeks following a conversation with resident twerp and Executive Producer,...
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Free Speech, Not Consequences
And so it came to pass that MSNBC, caving to intense pressure, dropped Don Imus from their morning line up. A day later, followed by a meeting with Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson with CBS Corp. chief...
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FISA Revisited
By JAYNE LYN STAHLApril 16, 2007Remember all the hooplah, and righteous indignation, on the part of Congress, when the National Security Agency electronic surveillance program story first broke,...
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NBC: Bringing Decency Back
The famous ACT UP refrain that galvanized a movement was “Silence = Death”. Despite a reputation for silence worthy of a monk, Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui, who peers and roommates say rarely...
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The Right of Peaceful Assembly. Gone.
By Nezua Limón Xolagrafik-JonezMay 3, 2007TheUnapologeticMexican.orgTHERE IS NO RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY IN AMERICA. There were signs earlier, it's true. But now it can be said to be official. File...
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American Liberal Liberties Union
In an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, The American Liberal Liberties Union, Wendy Kaminer takes the ACLU to task for trending towards what she sees as a selective approach to free speech.This is...
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Fair Use and Copyright
"Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless...
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June 2007 FAP Newsletter
“At a time when access to information, and free speech and press freedom are all under attack, First Amendment Project should be cherished and supported as an essential resource, both for independent...
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Free Speech is Sacred
A well reasoned, and articulate criticism of the UN's decision to even contemplate a resolution banning religious criticism, by Pat Condell.
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Cry My Diluted Swastika
As the rhetoric heats over healthcare reform, the swastika has taken center stage. The problem is that no one knows whether the once dreaded symbol is being used to identify the target or the...
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Anonymity: Social responsibility, civility...or fear?
An article in the New York Times, China Web Sites Seeking Users’ Names, reveals a new intrusion by Chinese authorities. This argument against anonymity has been made here in the United States as well....
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Ralph Lauren: Impossibly Skinny, Impossibly Fashionable
Yep. Believe it or not, the Ralph Lauren model above has not been manipulated. At least not by me. By Ralph's fashion empire. He placed her in a slightly different context however. Note the body types...
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Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Condemn No Evil
The latest issue of Index on Censorship magazine includes an interview with Jytte Klausen about her new book on the Danish cartoons crisis and why Yale University Press chose to publish it without any...
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