April 30, 2007 – 01:58 pm
Watch the video Sen. Mike Gravel Censored: “On March 14, Sen. Mike Gravel, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, addressed big media’s attempts to censor his campaign.” [FYI: On all YouTube links, you can now hover over the link, wait for the Snap Preview window to come up, and then play the video directly [...]
October 13, 2006 – 11:41 am
In Censored Stories, The Tucson Weekly reports on Project Censorship, a media-research project at Sonoma State University that publicizes the Top 25 big stories the media had censored, ignored or underreported in the previous year. It also presents “the 10 stories the nation’s mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year.”
“The university police at Gainesville’s University of Florida have targeted a graduate student in the English program over his publication of a piece of horror fiction on his LiveJournal. The police have repeatedly visited the student and demanded that he submit his fingerprints and DNA to them so that they can compare the fictional murder [...]
April 23, 2006 – 04:09 pm
Last year about this time, I posted my final paper for my government 101 class up at Alaska Pacific University. It was called “The worm in the core,” and it was all about Apple’s lawsuit to find out who leaked its trade secrets to a couple of bloggers, bloggers who are protecting their sources because [...]
February 24, 2006 – 02:12 pm
In “Them Damn Pictures,” a political cartoonist, Doug Marlette (who is also responsible for Kudzu and who has come under fire for his own Mohammed cartoon) admonishes the West about its response to the Cartoon War.
I’m still not sure where I come down on this, but I lean more toward the concept of free [...]
February 21, 2006 – 07:33 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court came back with rulings on a bunch of different cases today, some of which I agree with and some of which I don’t . Let’s take a look at them, shall we?
The Good
In Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal,, the Court ruled that the a small church in [...]
April 26, 2005 – 02:34 pm
Why is it that all the important questions come up in areas where the necessary answer is difficult to defend? It could be because Progress likes to have its fun with us, as if it was saying, “You want to continue down the path of a mature society? Well, you’re going to have to walk [...]
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