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• Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked to Mom of Criticized Teen

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 676
  An Illinois judge has decided that an anonymous commenter on a newspaper website will be unmasked, even though the mother of a teen about whom "Hipcheck16" allegedly made "deeply disturbing" comments hasnt yet decided whether to sue over the posting. The mother, Lisa Stone, is a trustee of Buffalo Grove in suburban ...
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• KC Running Back Disposed Of Over Gay Slur

  
  Politics, Policy, Pathology and Hope WITHIN The Black Community — Authority: 140
  Star NFL Running Back Released After Gay Slurs, Comments on Coach All that I ask is that someone publish the rules by which all of us are held accountable for. It seems that we are no longer crafting an "equal society". Instead we are carving out a "protected class" of people. Whereas they can say anything to ...
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• Influencing Public Policy

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 126
  The New York Times’ “public editor” wrote in yesterdays edition about “The Archbishop’s Blog”. In this column, Clark Hoyt discussed Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s blogs criticizing the NYT for being “anti-catholic”. Hoyt pointed out that the catholic church was the spiritual home for one quarter of ...
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• Public Financing of Supreme Court Races: The Legislature Whacks A Mole

  
  Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog — Authority: 549
  In a forthcoming article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, I argue ( the metaphor is not original with me) that campaign finance reform is like a game of Whac-A-Mole™ in which the moles always win. The state legislature has passed public financing for state Supreme Court elections . I have no ...
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• The Right to Speak in Non-Government-Approved Ways

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  School officials denied student Pete Palmer the right to wear a shirt supporting John Edwards’s presidential campaign at his Dallas-area high school. They cited the district’s dress code, which prohibited messages on student clothing except for those that supported school activities or district-approved ...
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• Health Care Bill DOA in Senate, November 9, 2009, Joseph Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Harry Reid, Obama socialist bill, Moderate Democrats oppose, Government health insurance unacceptable

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From Fox News, November 9, 2009. “House Health Bill Has Nowhere to Go in Senate Government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to some Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate . If a government health plan is part of the deal “as a matter of conscience, I will ...
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• Hanging with Luther Campbell to record soundtrack for “The U”

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 517
  By Carlos Miller So documentary filmmaker Billy Corben tells us to pretend we are at the Orange Bowl. Before they tore it down, that is. He tells us to close our eyes and imagine we are in a crowd of 60,000 crazed fans during a heated Miami Hurricane-Florida State Seminole game. I’ve been to a few of those so I ...
  18 hours ago

• “Al-Qaeda would love to buy your pictures”

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 517
  By Carlos Miller A photographer who was taking pictures inside the Los Angeles subway system was detained for 25 minutes where he accused of working for Al-Qaeda and threatened with having his name placed on a terrorist watch list. It was all caught on video. Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Richard Gylfie proved to ...
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• Health Care Bill passed in House, November 7, 2009, Scorecard for 2010, 220 to 215 vote, 39 Democrats voted no, 1 Republican voted yes, More tea parties, Senate may stall, Vote the Jackasses out in 2010

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From Fox News, November 7, 2009. “House Passes Health Care Bill” “The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care ...
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• Michele Bachmann Tea Party, November 7, 2009, GOP House Call II Rally at Capitol, Obama socialist health care, Steven King, House Gallery, Photos

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  From the Marooned in Marin blog, November 7, 2009. “GOP House Call II Rally at Capitol — Pictures and Video” “I returned just a few minutes ago from the House Call II rally at the grounds of the US Capitol, held by Reps. Steven King and Michele Bachmann, who were joined by other GOP reps. There was a much ...
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• Braving the alligator-infested waters of the Everglades

  
  Photography is Not a Crime — Authority: 517
  By Carlos Miller The boatload of tourists thought I was crazy when I stepped into the murky, alligator-infested waters of the Everglades. The water was shallow. About knee-deep. But once your feet hit the muddy bottom they start sinking as if it were quicksand. Within seconds, my feet were submerged in the mud and ...
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• Fess Up, You’re Part of the Problem

  
  The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! — Authority: 419
  America is a democracy – perhaps a little less democratic these days – but a democracy nonetheless. Many people complain about the government without seeing the irony that, in democracies, the government is us. One of the few things most people can agree on is that it’s broken. However, it’s nobody’s fault ...
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• Health care debate, Saturday, November 7, 2009, Obama visits Congress, Socialist Health Care Bill, Control, Far left support, Weekend debate

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  To: US Congress From: The American People   Who are you going to listen to? The American People, who do not want Government Health Care and higher spending. or Barack Obama, who is pushing his personal agenda and that of far left socialists.   Reported here October 22, 2009 All you need to know ...
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• Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.

  
  wacLA.org — Authority: 125
  http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says: * That ISPs have to ...
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• Bloggers In Boston

  
  Boston Blogs - Boston's blog network — Authority: 459
  Thursday night, I finally got the chance to meet Carol Gillot, the blogger behind Paris Breakfasts , one of my favorite blogs. She had the opening reception to kick-off an exhibit of her paintings called Paris Façades at the French Library in Boston . Paris Breakfasts was one of the first blogs that I ...
  2 days ago

• Conversation on Church & State

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 129
  My previous post on the “In God We Trust” lawsuit inspired the following exchange of views on Twitter (thanks to Twitlonger) between Adam4004 and myself – which is probably fairly representative of the kinds of disagreements that these cases invoke: Adam4004: So you reject originalism & wish judges ...
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• Carly Fiorina: Supporting a free Internet means supporting child rape?

  
  RedState — Authority: 801
  Carly Fiorina truly is panicked. The NRSC has been spooked by the Scozzafava/Hoffman/Owens race, and is more or less going to leave Fiorina out to dry. And while she got the support of conservative favorite Tom Coburn to match Chuck DeVore’s Jim DeMint, the rest of her supporters paint a different picture. ...
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• Flabbergasted

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 129
  A lawsuit against the the use of the motto “ In God We Trust ” on United States currency was recently dismissed. The case is Kidd vs. Obama, et. al. filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The decision is very short and you can read it in full here . Basically, the judge took the ...
  3 days ago

• Obama

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  What will it take for the media, to realize (He just does not care)? He has been degrading all of our security agencies along with help from liberals, democrats and the liberal media. They want anyone in these agencies who is just suspected of doing something wrong to be investigated and prosecuted. Is he going to ...
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• Glenn Beck Decision

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 580
  Free Speech Wins Again. The Decision is available here: Glenn Beck v. Isaac Eiland Hall, WIPO Case No. D2009-1182Other case documents available here:ComplaintRequest for StipulationResponse and annexes.Supplemental FilingSurreplyPosted in domain names, First Amendment, trademark
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