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...Most Discussed” section hosts the conversation, “Bitch vs. Cunt: You Decide!” This thread has over 100 replies vilifying two students at Tulane University. The starting post explicitly gives the full names of both girls and is indisputably defamatory. Although such speech in print or by a website publisher would usually warrant a lawsuit, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act grants immunity from liability arising from content posted by users. Of course, Web sites do not exercise full control over what content gets posted. When reputable websites providing forums for conversations responding...
Perhaps it is fitting that the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech falls on Easter Sunday. After all, many had believed Reagan's grand plan for a system that would render Moscow's nuclear-tipped missiles "impotent and obsolete" died along with the Soviet Union. But "Star Wars" has been resurrected, and has been standing guard over America's skies since 2004. But the more than $120 billion spent over 25 years to build the "Star Wars" missile shield has not left the U.S. less vulnerable to attack - some would argue that it has done exactly...
...Somewhere above, Ronald Reagan may be nodding, and brightening the heavens with his genial smile. "Free people must voluntarily, through open debate and democratic means, meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion," he said in that speech 25 years ago. He was speaking of the Soviets. But he just as easily could be speaking today of the "Star Wars" boosters who have made building the missile-defense system into a memorial for President Reagan, regardless of the changes in the real threats facing the nation since he spoke those words...
...more disown [the Rev. Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother," Barack Obama said in the most powerful sentence of his extraordinary speech about race on March 18 in Philadelphia, "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me ... but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe...
...black surrogate father and his white surrogate mother, was something any fair-minded person could understand: almost every one of us has an uncle or a grandmother good for at least two jaw-droppers every Thanksgiving. Yes, the Senator was comparing apples and freight trains: Wright's hate speech was as public and consequential as the grandmother's stereotypes were private, but Obama came to this comparison only after he had unequivocally condemned his pastor for having "a profoundly distorted view of this country...