Free Speech

A Florida court recently convicted Paul "Max Hardcore" Little for distributing pornography---adult pornography, I should point out. No children were involved. I expect this sort of thing from the kind of backwards Islamic countries that punish men for shaving their beards and women for for driving cars, but I hoped our country had more of a live-and-let-live attitude by … [Read more...] about F**k the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force

Legal Satyricon contributor Sam Lea clearly know how to begin a story: Police in Winona, Minnesota charged a 14-year-old boy with desecrating a U.S. flag, after he wrote song lyrics on it, burned holes in it with cigarettes, and then proceeded to tear the flag into several pieces. He then scattered the pieces throughout his high school before skipping class to attend the "Rage … [Read more...] about Is the Band Really a Surprise?

Last week, Representative Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced a bill expressing the sense of Congress that the YouTube video hosting site should not allow "jihadist propaganda." "The war against Islamic radicalism is both a shooting war and a battle of ideology. Our enemies understand that they cannot defeat us face to face on the battleground, so they have created a new … [Read more...] about Jihadis v.s. Bikinis (and Numa Numa)

The Chinese government is well known for censoring its citizens' access to the World Wide Web. Now you can run a test to see if your website is blocked in China, thanks to the fine folks at greatfirewallofchina.org. Naturally, I had to check if they're blocking windypundit.com. The site is a little slow, so it took a while to find out... They're blocking me. Wow. There … [Read more...] about The Chinese Government Doesn’t Want You To Read This

Bong Hits 4 Jesus is going to the Supreme Court! Basically, a bunch of people showed up at a rally in Juneau, Alaska, to watch the Olympic torch pass by, and one of them held up a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. His name was Joseph Frederick and he was a student at Juneau-Douglas High School. The school had let him out early to go see the torch, so they tried to discipline him … [Read more...] about Bong Hits 4 Jesus