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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Free Speech</title>
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		<title>Citizens for a Totalitarian State?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/citizens-for-a-totalitarian-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;m officially worried. I&#8217;m currently in Fairfax, Virginia, on the (really beautiful) campus of George Mason University; I&#8217;m here as one of the 71 judges of the national &#8220;We the People&#8221; finals. For those who don&#8217;t know anything about &#8220;We the People,&#8221; it is probably the single most effective civics curriculum being used in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even Jerks Have Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, the Indianapolis Star ran a story about a group of very odd bedfellows who are urging the Indiana Supreme Court to accept and reverse a case that presents significant First Amendment issues. I was one of those &#8220;bedfellows,&#8221; and I will admit that I would never have imagined teaming up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Speech Means Free</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2012/09/free-speech-means-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday night, a student in my Law and Public Affairs class asked a question I get every so often. We were talking about free speech, and she wanted to know whether the right to say one&#8217;s piece extended to speech that &#8220;offended&#8221; people. It was pretty clear that she expected some variation of &#8220;well, no, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Step in the Right Direction</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2011/10/a-step-in-the-right-direction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Citizens United should have been a wake-up call for those of us who have been concerned over the growing power of corporate America. Corporations have their place&#8211;by shielding entrepreneurs from personal liability, they encourage risk-taking and innovation; I have no problem with the corporate form as a useful business mechanism. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy and Polarization</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2010/04/policy-and-polarization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers cruncher Nate Silver took a look at the recent New York Times poll of people who consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement, and noted that media habits were the most salient predictor of such support. According to Silver, “Tea-partiers are disproportionately attached to, and perhaps influenced by, FOX News. And they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homophobia at Purdue</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2009/11/homophobia-at-purdue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The local media recently reported on a controversy at Purdue, where a professor had posted anti-gay opinions on his private website. Not long afterward, I had a call from a student who was curious about my opinion of the situation. She knew me as a strong proponent of equal rights, so she wanted to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the Idea We Hate</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2008/04/protecting-the-idea-we-hate-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to beat up on the United Nations. I’m one of those “can’t we all get along” people who would just like to hold hands (metaphorically speaking) with people everywhere while singing kumbaya.&#160; Plus, our increasingly interrelated world desperately needs an effective international body. The problem is, the U.N. keeps demonstrating that it isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whose First Amendment Is It?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/09/whose-first-amendment-is-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Ever wonder why freedom of the press was singled out for specific protection in the First Amendment? After all, the Free Speech clause obviously protected the press as well as other citizens. Why include a specific provision about freedom of the press? &#160; The answer is that the architects of our constitution believed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Amendment Follies</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/03/first-amendment-follies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60; P &#62; I n 1 9 9 3 , N a t H e n t o f f w r o t e a b o o k t i t l e d “ F r e e S p e e c h f o r M e b u t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Amendment Follies</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/03/first-amendment-follies/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2006/03/first-amendment-follies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1993, Nat Hentoff wrote a book titled “Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee: How the American Right and Left Relentlessly Censor Each Other.” After amply documenting this thesis, Hentoff concluded that the human animal’s urge to censor was at least as strong, and perhaps stronger, than its sex drive. &#160; Whatever the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Pass</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/07/press-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2005/07/press-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent revelations and speculation about Karl Rove&#8217;s possible role in outing Valerie Palme have eclipsed, for the general public at least, what has come to be called the &#8216;Judith Miller issue&#8217; despite the fact that Miller is serving a jail sentence for refusing to name her source. The recent revelations and speculation about Karl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the Idea We Hate</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2003/10/protecting-the-idea-we-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2003/10/protecting-the-idea-we-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine once summed up the purpose of Bill of Rights by analogy; as he put it, &#34;Poison gas is a great weapon until the wind changes.&#34; The best reason for refusing to allow government to suppress bad ideas is that tomorrow, government may use that authority to suppress good ones. Our legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Free Speech Works</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2000/01/how-free-speech-works/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2000/01/how-free-speech-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite free speech stories concerns a young man who called me back in my ICLU days, to complain that a local fast-food chain wouldn&#8217;t hire him because he was tattooed all over. They found it unappetizing, and worried that customers might also. &#34;Don&#8217;t I have a First Amendment right to express myself?&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twinkies &amp; Oliver Stone</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1999/05/twinkies-oliver-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1999/05/twinkies-oliver-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I write a mystery novel in which a murder is committed in a particularly gruesome way, and someone reads that novel and commits a similar crime, am I responsible? If I produce a&#8230; If I write a mystery novel in which a murder is committed in a particularly gruesome way, and someone reads that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Freedom</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/1999/05/intellectual-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/1999/05/intellectual-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a librarian involved professionally with issues of intellectual freedom. &#34;Sometimes,&#34; she said, &#34;I get so tired of it. I wonder why I continue to fight.&#34; I&#8217;ve thought about that conversation&#8230; Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a librarian involved professionally with issues of [...]]]></description>
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