Author: Glenn Hauman

Memo to News Corp. Stockholders

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Specifically, to Christian Brothers Investment Services, Ethical Investment Advisory Group, and other religious organizations that own shares in News Corp.: should you own stock in a company that regularly violates the Ninth Commandment?

And to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and other pension funds for unions and government employees: do you want to own stock in a company that so often bashes government employees as parasites, and tries to get many of your members fired, which if nothing else makes it harder to keep up contributions to your funds?

Murdoch takes on shareholders at annual meeting – Yahoo! News.

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We already went through this, Senator DeMint…

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…but why would history and judicial precedent stop him?

Instead of focusing on job creation, congressional Republicans have spent their time passing socially conservative legislation like the “Let Women Die” bill that would allow hospitals that receive federal funds to deny women life-saving abortion procedures.

Now Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), one of the most die-hard anti-choice lawmakers, has jumped on the bandwagon by sneaking a radical anti-abortion amendment onto a completely unrelated piece of legislation. DeMint’s amendment would ban women and their doctors from discussing abortion over the Internet:

Anti-choice Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just filed an anti-choice amendment to a bill related to agriculture, transportation, housing, and other programs. The DeMint amendment could bar discussion of abortion over the Internet and through videoconferencing, even if a woman’s health is at risk and if this kind of communication with her doctor is her best option to receive care.

Under this amendment, women would need a separate, segregated Internet just for talking about abortion care with their doctors.

via GOP Senator Pushes Radical Bill To Restrict Discussion Of Abortion Over The Internet | ThinkProgress.

Look, Senator, I know it was before your time in Congress, but you might want to take a look at the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which criminalized any discussion of abortion or distribution of information about abortion on the Net. Violators of the provision would have had to pay up to $250,000 in fines and/or spend five years in prison.

Or, rather, that would be the case if my former company BiblioBytes and a bunch of friends at the ACLU didn’t challenge that law, and the Supreme Court didn’t strike down that law as unconstitutional back in 1997.

If you think there’s a single thing that makes your hypothetical law any less likely to be overturned, I’d love to hear it. Otherwise, I’d like you to actually live up to the oath you took to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Still, it’s nice to see you aren’t opposed to making busywork for government employees. But there are more productive forms of government stimulus. Maybe you could consider passing a jobs bill.

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Ron Paul Media Blackout Confirmed

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Now the real question: why are they skipping over him?

Ron Paul loyalists have been vindicated. After months of observations that the mainstream media was ignoring the libertarian standard-bearer, a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shows just that: the Texas Congressman, who has consistently polled in the high single digits — Real Clear Politics’s aggregate poll currently has him at 8 percent — has received the least overall coverage of any candidate.

via Ron Paul Media Blackout Confirmed – Yahoo! News.

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