Monthly Archives: January 2010

Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech. As a reaction to the recent supreme court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the New York Times has a truly execrable piece where they twist and/or ignore the meaning of an individual’s right to free speech. With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, [...]

What happened tonight in Massachusetts was something else. It is sending shock waves through the political establishment of Washington with ripples that will continue on through the elections of 2010 and beyond. This election shows that the Tea Party movement is real. It is not a fringe movement of crazy anarchists. It is an uprising of regular Americans, [...]

I was disappointed with Google’s previous decision to censor search results in China when they launched Google.cn. Helping the Chinese government suppress free speech clearly violates their motto, “don’t be evil,” in my opinion. So I applaud their decision to “reconsider their approach:” These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the [...]