volokh.com - 3/18/2009
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Enjoy this version of " A Nation Once Again ," voted the world's most popular song by BBC listeners. This great and timeless song fills me with joy about nations such as Ireland, Israel, and the United States, which have won their independence, and with hope for Taiwan, ...
volokh.com - 3/22/2009
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Richard Painter, Guest-Blogging: I'm delighted to report that
Prof. Richard Painter , of the University of Minnesota...
law school, will be guest-blogging this coming week. Prof. Painter is the author of dozens of law review articles on lawyers' ethics, ...
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volokh.com - 3/19/2009
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Still Need That Word: Almost five years ago,
I wrote a post arguing that the English language...
needs a new word. From July 17, 2004: The English language needs a word for when advocates on both sides of an ongoing debate switch rhetorical positions, ...
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volokh.com - 3/17/2009
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"Boy Banned from Wearing Obama Mask in Skit":
From Oregon Live : A mask similar to one...
President Barack Obama himself wore in a "Saturday Night Live" skit prompted a Portland school principal to ban a boy from performing while wearing it at his ...
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A FIRST-AMENDMENT REMINDER FROM EUGENE VOLOKH:
Of course, there’s the now customary quote about t…
Instapundit —
A FIRST-AMENDMENT REMINDER FROM EUGENE VOLOKH:
Of course, there’s the now customary quote about the “difference between free speech and hate speech” . . . No, there is no such difference under First Amendment law. Nor does First Amendment law draw a distinction between “commentary on Islam” (or Christianity or Judaism or atheism or whatever else) and “talking about politics,” since much commentary on religion is commentary on politics.
Read the whole thing.
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Free Speech v. Hate Speech
Neptunus Lex —
The dividing line is not as clear as some college students would like to believe.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell
No such difference
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] With the OIC and the UN colluding in a serious effort to criminalize critical discussion of Islam worldwide, Eugene Volokh fights the good fight closer to home, in re an offensive ...
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