Articles in Category: 'First Amendment'

By: Kenric Ward | Posted: April 2, 2012 3:55 AM

A bipartisan "tweak" in a citizen-protest law is eliciting squawks from activists on the right and the left who call it one more way for politicians to distance themselves from the public.
 
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By: George Will | Posted: November 2, 2011 3:55 AM

WASHINGTON -- Illustrating an intellectual confusion common on campuses, Vanderbilt University says: To ensure "diversity of thought and opinion" we require certain student groups, including five religious ones, to conform to the university's policy that forbids the groups from protecting their characteristics that contribute to diversity.

 
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By: Nancy Smith | Posted: December 12, 2011 3:55 AM
I Beg to Differ

Wanting to call the Christmas season Christmas season -- which hasn't been politically correct in Florida for decades -- turned state Sen. Stephen Wise into my new favorite hero.

 
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By: George Will | Posted: November 30, 2010 4:05 AM
 
WASHINGTON -- An eminent Harvard law professor, James Thayer (1831-1902), argued that although the judicial function is "merely that of fixing the outside border of reasonable legislative action," this still gives courts "a great and stately jurisdiction." While patrolling that jurisdiction today, Supreme Court justices may be playing the video game "Postal 2," whose rich menu of simulated mayhem provoked California's Legislature to pass a problematic law.
 
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By: L. Brent Bozell | Posted: November 10, 2010 4:05 AM
 

On Election Day, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Schwarzenegger vs. Entertainment Merchants Association. The irony of this case name was obvious: The celebrated violent-action-hero governor of California had signed a bill into law in 2005 forbidding the sale of ultraviolent video games to minors, a law that lower federal courts prevented from ever going into effect.

 
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