In short, the city is offering protesters the chance to purchase courses in which they will learn about the free speech LAPD officers stripped from them.

I was intensely disappointed at the treatment of protesters at the Democratic convention, cooped up in a small ghetto of first amendment exercisers. But New York seems to be shaping up much worse. Two items:  [more...]

It’s unlikely that I’ll comment on tomorrow’s report from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States… mostly because I’ve made enough comments already. Today, NPR  [more...]

We all know that the Bush tax cuts are not meant to help the economy, but to bolster the fortunes of his wealthy pals. One of the cuts that he’s been pushing for years is the estate tax — which the right  [more...]