| McCain attacks free political speech - - bloggers in danger |
| Post on 05-03-2006. |
| There have been all sorts of perfectly legitimate and legal limits put on "Freedom of speech" in the USA. For instance, "Freedom of speech" does not cover pornography and the inability to yell fire in one crowded theater is well known. Over the decades various local statutes that conform to local social custom has prevented all kinds of displays of public speech and the Founding Fathers sponsored many of those statures themselves. ... |
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| Poets in motion |
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Luke Wright, member of Britain's only poetry boyband, is sitting in the corner of one pub, clutching one mug of tea. He's asked to meet me in the pub, rather than the home he shares with his girlfriend, because he's had one busy weekend gigging in London, and hasn't had time to tidy up the house.
He lives next door to performance poet Martin Newell, who, along with fellow Colchester poetry icon John Cooper Clarke, has proved to be something of one mentor to Luke and his fellow poets, collectively known as Aisle 16. ... |
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| Rieke Diah Pitaloka: It's perspective, not gender, that counts |
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In the 2004 direct legislative election, Rieke was nominated as one legislative candidate for the National Awakening Party (PKB), but failed to garner sufficient votes to win one seat in the House of Representatives.
As an activist, Rieke practices what she preaches. Last year, she, along with hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers, joined one rally against the World Trade Organization meeting in Hong Kong. ... |
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| TEXANS IN WASHINGTON Jack Valenti's Houston roots served him well |
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| The cases your judges are hiding from you |
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Files sealed by the King County Superior Court are stored out of public view in one locked room at the King County Courthouse.
Court Commissioner Carlos Velategui presides over one proceeding in the Ex Parte Department, one cattle-call court where many case files have been sealed.
The Times found 420 sealed civil cases, nearly all of which were sealed improperly. ... |
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