volokh.com - 2/23/2009
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Florida City Authorizes Use of City Funds to Sue for Libel of Government Officials: From the Deltona (Florida) City Commission After Action Agenda (Feb. 16, 2009) : After discussion, the Commission voted 4 to 3 (Commissioner Denizac, Commissioner McFall-Conte, and Commissioner Zischkau voted ...
volokh.com - 3/1/2009
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Rush Limbaugh's Living Constitution: From his speech to
the Conservative Political Action Conference: We want every American...
to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, ...
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volokh.com - 2/17/2009
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Should Libertarians Go Red or Blue? I have
been enjoying the recent dialogue over so-called liberaltarianism (links...
are in Ilya's post). I don't have that much to add except perhaps this: In a two party system, such as ours, each party is a coalition ...
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volokh.com - 2/24/2009
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North Carolina Senate Bill Would Extend Criminal Libel
to Online Communications: North Carolina law now bans "Communicating...
libelous matter to newspapers" : If any person shall state, deliver or transmit by any means whatever, to the manager, editor, ...
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RANDY BARNETT: “Republicans be warned: No demonstrably creationist politician will be elected Presi…
Instapundit —
... RANDY BARNETT: “Republicans be warned: No demonstrably creationist politician will be elected President of the United States.” ...
The GOP and Creationism
Little Green Footballs —
... For reference, I’m not the only blogger who believes that the GOP’s association with creationism is one of the factors that caused massive losses in the last two elections; Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy: This is Not Good. ...
Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, Creationism and the GOP
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... This is NOT good for the GOP.
Everything the media tried to pin on Sarah Palin, [Bobby] Jindal actually did: he promoted and signed a creationism bill (with help from the Discovery Institute), he took part in an amateur exorcism and claimed it cured a woman of cancer, and possibly worst of all, he pals around with people on the extreme edges of fundamentalist Christianity, and at least one person who has associated with outright neo-Nazis.
The details are here.
Flap had the creationism worry earlier ...
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