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  • Barack Obama as Boss Tweed (Cartoon)

    09/29/2008 4:26:22 PM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 1 replies · 586+ views
    9/29/08 | Winged Hussar 1683
    It's not the people who cast the votes who matter, it's the people who count the votes who matter. http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/clinton-campaign-obama-campaign-intimidated-voters-in-nevada/ for the Clinton campaign's accusation of voter intimidation and other Tweed-style strongarm tactics during the Nevada caucuses.
  • AP Correction: Shannon Tweed not performing at Baghdad International Airport

    12/24/2003 4:20:42 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 36 replies · 7,761+ views
    Associated Press | December 24, 2003
    Correction: U.S. military show in Iraq The Associated Press 12/24/03 4:34 PM BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- In a Dec. 16 story about a U.S. military show at Baghdad International Airport, The Associated Press, relying on information from a U.S. Army officer, reported erroneously that actress Shannon Tweed was a featured performer. Fox sportscaster Leeann Tweeden took part in the touring show, not Shannon Tweed, according to the United Service Organizations, the organizer.
  • Book Review: DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF FREE SPEECH

    12/06/2002 11:55:52 AM PST · by bvw · 18 replies · 399+ views
    ScottLondon.Com ^ | sometime after 1993 | ScottLondon.Com
    DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF FREE SPEECH By Cass Sunstein The Free Press, 1993, 300 pages According to Sunstein, the First Amendment protects many forms of speech that should not be protected -- commercial speech, libelous speech, speech that invades privacy, and certain forms of pornography and hate speech -- while it ignores genuine victims of defamation and in some cases gives the government too much power over speech. These inconsistencies are reflected in the great deal of attention given to free speech issues in recent years. Sunstein maintains that modern economic and technological changes, together with shifting popular attitudes...