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...harm to society. But the speech and harm are distinct. American democracy's shining beacon has been the tolerance of views that many consider abhorrent and dangerous. Communists may freely run for office. Nazis may march through a city with a large Jewish population. The Klan may advocate the repeal of civil rights statutes. Anything else is thought control. At the heart of the First Amendment is the belief that, except in the rare circumstances when speech will demonstrably cause immediate physical harm, it is simply impossible to draw a line...
...regulations can be blown away without so much as a formal hearing. As part of a crusade to curb federal authority, and with only a simple assertion that the regulations are burdensome, two congressional committees have sent to the floor for a vote this week legislation that would repeal federal standards. There would be no protection against patients' being restrained, no standards on staffing or when someone could be discharged after using up all his or her money. Niceties like nurses would be optional, since there is no requirement in the new legislation that a licensed nurse be present. Instead...
...coalition also opposes the establishment of a national school curriculum, supports repeal of Roe V. Wade, and calls for a halt to any sex education courses which "preach homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle," Nagy says...
...origins among intellectually gifted Europeans during the Enlightenment, it can't be all bad; that American slavery was not a racist institution; and that segregation was merely a well-meaning attempt by paternalistic whites to help blacks "perform to the capacity of their arrested development." He urges the repeal of every major civil rights law in the land, including those that allow blacks to sit at lunch counters and use the same water fountains as everyone else. Thenceforward the government would be required to function in a race-blind manner, but private citizens and institutions, from taxicab companies to huge...
After a University-wide task force recommended cutting the pension contribution by one percent and capping retirement health care benefits, faculty members issued a counter-proposal, asking for a soft cap on retirement benefits and the repeal of the pension reduction...