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...First Amendment exists to protect speech that is controversial; ideas and assertions that are commonly accepted do not require its protection. "Hate speech"--whatever the term means--may have undesirable consequences. But to punish speech because of its content or because it is successful is to violate the very principles on which our nation was founded...
...there may be a price to pay at home. The N.R.A. promised to punish those who voted in favor of the ban more than those who supported the Brady Bill, because that bill only delayed ownership of handguns by five days and didn't ban them outright. Hyde, who voted for the Brady Bill, recognizes that the assault-weapons measure "is a bigger nose in a smaller tent," and he anticipates continuing static from the pro-gun forces. While there is growing concern about guns in his district, it is the other side that is galvanized to retaliate. "The N.R.A...
Maybe that's a reasonable price to pay for the deterrent effect these state legislators are counting on. But then again, maybe it's not. We should not be afraid, in any case, to think hard about why we punish the way that...
...than victims of sexual violence know the pain of being judged too hastily?) but also, form what we've all seen happen on campuses and in the workplace and even in the Senate, we know that those who actually make the rules would rather deny sexual violence than to punish...
...little people," whom she called angels from God. Bassett herself saw "balls of light" around her house at age five. She also said that as a child she had a space-alien friend named Jane, who healed her hands after a neighbor stuck them in boiling fudge to punish her for snooping...