Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably insurmountable hurdle that McCain-Feingold faces. The Kentuckian makes no bones about how he feels about a soft-money ban, calling it "one of the tragedies of our time" that such a bill "is allowed to be advanced as reform." McConnell equates unlimited campaign money with free speech, and his solution to the ongoing sale of U.S. politicians is to raise prices, not lower them. With McConnell waiting to pounce with his own version of the Mr. Smith myth, McCain and Feingold need 60 votes to pass their bill, and they remain about eight Republicans short...
...filled with photographs of the BU football team while electric fans hum overhead. Two burly Boston cops sit in the booth behind ours, shouting at the short order cook in a Boston accent worthy of a Jordan's Furniture commercial. Their noise does not drown out the precise, thoughtful speech and South African accent of Mr. Morris, however, and somehow the two tables, worlds apart, settle into an even coexistence. The short order cook begins to sing the theme song of the brady bunch over the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" coming from the juke...
...today. While it may be tempting, therefore, for those of us who support the mayor to just render due kudos and go home, perhaps we should take advantage of this fresh opportunity to explain why he was right--maybe even to propose a just accommodation of publicly funded speech and decency, artistic freedom and religious values...
...Free speech will be at the core of the debate, since the museum filed its suit against the city on First Amendment grounds. But it shouldn't be. The First Amendment is indeed about the right of expression. But it is not about any chimerical right to have others subsidize that expression. As long as we keep this crucial distinction in mind, there should be no problem with the government insisting on certain criteria as a precondition of funding--those who find the stipulations stifling can seek money elsewhere and leave the matter at that...
During the question and answer session following the speech, one audience member asked what the Pope had accomplished in relations with China...