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The IRS and the Drive to Stop Free Speech | David Rivkin and Lee Casey at WSJ
David Rivkin and Lee Casey at WSJ (access via Google): Such a scandal was bound to happen after the government started trying to rule the expression of political views . . . The proper lessons of the unfolding IRS scandal are twofold. First, any effort to have the IRS police advocacy activities of social-welfare organizations is bound to be clumsy and prone to degenerate into either selective or broad witch hunts. Second, the remedy is not to further limit political speech by nonprofit entities—which would certainly raise significant constitutional issues—but to encourage such speech by imposing fewer restrictions.
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Snowe: President thought opposition to health law would eventually fade away
thehill.comThe Hill: “He thought the opposition to it would lessen after the [2010] election. I said, ‘It’s just the beginning.’ I said, ‘It’s going to grow because I can tell you it’s not going to go away and it’s going to get worse,’” Snowe said in a radio interview moderated by Julie Mason, host of SiriusXM’s Press Pool.
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In Belize, Global “gay” Movement’s Legal Roadshow Comes To Town
www.turtlebayandbeyond.orgPiero Tozzi at Turtle Bay and Beyond: Ten years ago, the late, great American jurist Robert Bork wrote a short book entitled Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. He described how the “American disease” of judicial legislating—activists using constitutional courts “to outflank majorities and nullify their votes” on controversial social issues—was becoming a global phenomenon.
