Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of this essay was originally commissioned by the opinion page of the Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam.
In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of this essay was originally commissioned by the opinion page of the Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam.
As is with the current situation with Gaza, when Israel is performing air strikes, everyone is vulnerable -- militants, civilians, and journalists alike.
95% of British internet users have been prevented from accessing an article on Wikipedia because it contains an image -- presented in an encyclopedic manner -- of the jacket of a 1976 heavy metal album.
In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?
James, Sean and Brian Gunn think they've done something sexually daring - but not too sexual and not too daring - by creating what they call "PG Porn....
While the Chinese Communist Party has lifted the bans on the Amnesty International and BBC News sites, one site has continued to be totally blocked in Beijing: Huffingtonpost.com.
The military has been so effective in muting the war, and the war photographer, that many of our best shooters have found themselves turning to the technique of irony.
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are now unable to view the website Donia al-Watan because the site has been reporting on widespread corruption among Abbas' entourage.
As 60 Minutes was putting its show together, the White House put pressure on CBS to kill the show. And during the Don Siegelman portion, the screen went black.
The death of Journalism began it was expected to begin to earn a profit -- or maybe we're witnessing the birth of Journalism.
In the near future, China will eclipse the Middle East and terrorism to be our number one foreign policy challenge. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for any real change in our China policy.
Pesky foreigners like Forestier probably think Sarah Palin was manufactured in a lab -- or pulled out of a hat -- in order to pander to specific demographics.
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a defamation of religion resolution that threatens to undermine the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
Even if America's pediatricians manage to successfully censor fiction and crush artistic freedom, they will never be able to stifle the facts about autism.
My two installations, "The Assassination of Barack Obama" and "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton" made headlines when law officials detained me over the use of the word "assassination."
But I'm sure you're asking yourself, why is she telling me this? Here's my angle, other than the fact that I was forced, forced I tell you, to look at the crotch shot to write this piece.
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