Laptop Detention
August 4, 2008
There is a reason why I don’t take my *good laptop* outside the country. We have turned into a nation of mewling cowards — prepared to sell our freedom for
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There is a reason why I don’t take my *good laptop* outside the country. We have turned into a nation of mewling cowards — prepared to sell our freedom for
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog gives us “Defamation of Religion” — The New International Legal Craze? Apparently, the United Nations is beginning to embrace the idea that there should
One of my favorite targets for the ass-hat award, the normally-uber-swine Sam Brownback is on the right side of an internet freedom issue. The Chinese government (enshrined with a permanent
Add this to the billion reasons I’m proud to be a Masshole. After the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that “equal protection” means… well, “equal protection,” and thus gays could marry
University of Florida Student Body President, Kevin Riley, and Chief Information Officer, Marc Hoit, recently issued this letter to the Florida Attorney General asking that the Florida Office of the
In Frazier v. Winn, __F.3d__ (11th Cir. 2008), the Eleventh Circuit struck down part of Florida’s Pledge of Allegiance statute, Fla. Stat. § 1003.44(1) and upheld part of it. The
From Commercial Appeal via hawkhead at biglawboard Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of
George Lilly, a Republican candidate for congress in Colorado’s First District makes this following lofty statement on his website: The oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution is
COPA is Congress’ attempt to revive the Communications Decency Act, which was a Congressional attempt to expand indecency rules to the Intertubes. On the heels of United States v. Stevens,
I can sellz video? INTRODUCTION If there is one fixed star in our constitutional sky, it is that content-based restrictions on free expression are repugnant and almost never permissible. If
Popehat.com reports: The ACLU has long refused to acknowledge an individual right to bear arms, insisting on a narrow, collective-militia-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. That’s unprincipled. It’s not unprincipled
This post is a corrected version. The New York Times and Simple Justice report on a Bronx District Attorney’s First Amendment overreach. Somebody in the Bronx District Attorney’s office (nobody
