New York Post Online Edition: business
Just a quick thought . . . Gore wants to start a left-leaning channel focused at youth.
This is not the first time that a Democrat wants control over children's education: the NEA, for example.
What philosopher of the 20th century preached similar tenets?
"Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousncss and culture."
Mao Tse-Tung, On the Correct Handling of Contradiction (1959), quoted in the Little Red Book, chap. 16.
Interestingly, Mao had more interest in teaching facts than Democrats. See Little Red Book.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Monday, December 15, 2003
Free speech defeated - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED
Free speech defeated - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED
Should the recent case of McConnell v. FEC be seen by Republicans as a victory for the strict constructionists? Is Justice O’Connor pulling the left wing into understanding that speech is ideas communicated through movement of the lips, tongue, vocal chords, etc. Justice O’Connor has maneuvered the left wing to reading the Constitution as allowing Congress to regulate elections. She has put all this together to show that spending money is not about the movement of lips to communicate ideas.
Since the Warren Court, the left wing has been happily following Justice Brennan’s doctrine of the Constitution as a living document. Brennan believed that the Constitution should be read today with the understanding of the words’ meaning as based on the most recent edition of Webster’s and interpreted to allow that definition to apply. It lead to interpretations of flag-burning and pornography as protected speech. See Scalia’s dissent in McConnell.
This means that the Constitution never means the same thing from day to day, as President Bush discovered in this case. Speech had a fifty year or more precedent of allowing expression. Now expression is limited when it comes to spending money.
Never mind that in reading the rules of the Constitution, the first amendment is more important than Congress’s right to regulate elections, since the first amendment was enacted later. The first amendment is very simple. Congress shall pass no law. If it does, the law would seem to be void on its face. But this is irrelevant in this case because speech is not spending.
But if we look at the actual law more closely, the law does not prevent all spending. Just spending by corporations. This would seem to mean corporations have less freedom of speech than individuals. Strange result, but okay. Individuals vote. Not corporations. Individuals speak. Not corporations.
Maybe if the strict constructionists play their public relations campaign well, they can usurp this decision for their own benefit. They can point out that this is the death of Brennan’s intellectual non-sense. Even Justice Ginsberg sees that reading the Constitution strictly makes more sense than trying to have a string of cases decide without any logical connection to the words of the Constitution. The speech cases have broke free of any reigns controlling the case law. This is the beginning of the end for that string of cases.
That, other happy thoughts, and a little pixie dust will get me to fly.
Should the recent case of McConnell v. FEC be seen by Republicans as a victory for the strict constructionists? Is Justice O’Connor pulling the left wing into understanding that speech is ideas communicated through movement of the lips, tongue, vocal chords, etc. Justice O’Connor has maneuvered the left wing to reading the Constitution as allowing Congress to regulate elections. She has put all this together to show that spending money is not about the movement of lips to communicate ideas.
Since the Warren Court, the left wing has been happily following Justice Brennan’s doctrine of the Constitution as a living document. Brennan believed that the Constitution should be read today with the understanding of the words’ meaning as based on the most recent edition of Webster’s and interpreted to allow that definition to apply. It lead to interpretations of flag-burning and pornography as protected speech. See Scalia’s dissent in McConnell.
This means that the Constitution never means the same thing from day to day, as President Bush discovered in this case. Speech had a fifty year or more precedent of allowing expression. Now expression is limited when it comes to spending money.
Never mind that in reading the rules of the Constitution, the first amendment is more important than Congress’s right to regulate elections, since the first amendment was enacted later. The first amendment is very simple. Congress shall pass no law. If it does, the law would seem to be void on its face. But this is irrelevant in this case because speech is not spending.
But if we look at the actual law more closely, the law does not prevent all spending. Just spending by corporations. This would seem to mean corporations have less freedom of speech than individuals. Strange result, but okay. Individuals vote. Not corporations. Individuals speak. Not corporations.
Maybe if the strict constructionists play their public relations campaign well, they can usurp this decision for their own benefit. They can point out that this is the death of Brennan’s intellectual non-sense. Even Justice Ginsberg sees that reading the Constitution strictly makes more sense than trying to have a string of cases decide without any logical connection to the words of the Constitution. The speech cases have broke free of any reigns controlling the case law. This is the beginning of the end for that string of cases.
That, other happy thoughts, and a little pixie dust will get me to fly.
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