Liberty Valedictorian Joins YAL
Sep/100
Liberty Valedictorian Joins YAL
I am so tickled about her joining YAL!! I just used Erica’s video and transcript of her Valedictorian speech to dress down my son’s English teacher today! Synchronicity?
Erica Goldson’s valedictorian speech attacking public education received more than 420,000 views in one month. Now she is a new member of the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at the University of Buffalo.
Erica’s blog — http://americaviaerica.bl…
Watch the whole speech — http://www.youtube.com/wa…
Read the speech transcript — http://tinyurl.com/3y4nmp4
Everyone who joins YAL in September will receive a free t-shirt, sticker, and pocket Constitution.
Join today — http://www.yaliberty.org/…
The Web’s Most Vocal Critic of LVRJ / Righthaven Copyright Troll Suits
Sep/100
By Steve Green | The Las Vegas Sun – Las Vegas’s good Newspaper
Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010
Colleen Lynn is an admitted copyright infringer — at least by the standards of Las Vegas newspaper copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC.
The Austin, Texas, woman hasn’t been sued by Righthaven, but in recent weeks she has emerged as one of the most vocal behind-the-scenes critics of Righthaven’s lawsuit campaign in which at least 117 bloggers and website operators have been hit with lawsuits since March.
Most defendants say they were sued without warning or even a request to take down the material at issue.
These lawsuits target people and companies that Righthaven says infringed on copyrights to Las Vegas Review-Journal material by re-posting all or portions of stories, columns and editorials. In some cases, the suits say the material was posted not by website operators but by message-board users.
After learning about Rightaven in early August, Lynn anonymously set up the website http://righthavenvictims.blogspot.com, one of at least five online sites where Righthaven defendants find and share information to help each other.
Continue at: The Las Vegas Sun – Las Vegas’s good Newspaper
The Nation: Rand Paul’s Kentucky Derby – 9/09/10
Sep/100
Rand Paul’s Kentucky Derby
Dan Bischoff | The Nation
“I spent two weeks in my home state this summer trying to figure out how Rand Paul could overturn every imaginable convention of a populist Kentucky politician yet still lead the race for senator. After all, Paul rarely smiles, he often seems to be talking to himself when he gives a speech and he almost never backslaps another pol or shmoozes with regular voters. And Paul doesn’t praise Kentucky or speak of its special place in American life. Kentuckians put a certain effort into believing their own kitsch—the derby, the bluegrass, the big blue moons—but Rand seems strangely indifferent to all that. As the Lexington Herald-Leader recently bemoaned, “A person who has ‘lived’ in Kentucky for 17 years might know how ‘Bloody Harlan’ [the county where the United Mine Workers fought a war with strikebreakers in 1932] got its name and that ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ was set in the fictional Hazzard (two Z’s) County, Georgia, not the Kentucky city of Hazard (one Z).”
Even if the 47-year-old Paul is not quite a carpetbagger—he moved to Bowling Green in 1993 and married Kelley Ashby, from nearby Russellville, soon after—there’s little doubt that he’s an insurgent. In the primary he beat lawyer and banking heir Trey Grayson, the handpicked protégé of Kentucky’s longest-serving senator, minority leader Mitch McConnell, with more than 61 percent of the vote, largely thanks to his full-throated opposition to the bank bailouts McConnell helped engineer. Paul’s best-known TV ad in the primary, “Machine,” showed a computer-generated Capitol building putting out huge, pincer-armed tentacles that plunge into corporate logos like AIG’s and slammed Grayson’s acceptance of contributions from bailed-out firms.
Paul’s general election opponent is Attorney General Jack Conway, 41, a big, handsome, self-financed and well-connected political insider who is often described as a young politician from central casting. In contrast to Paul, Conway, who co-owns Stately Victor, the thoroughbred that placed eighth in last year’s Kentucky Derby, often seems to want to do everything by the book: he shakes hands, smiles like he’s visiting the orthodontist and pays court to every county kingpin he can find—yet without quite erasing his natural air of nervous arrogance.
The race has scrambled the politics of the two parties. Conway says he would have voted for the Iraq War, while Paul says he would have voted against it; Conway supports the Patriot Act, while Paul has criticized it as an “overreach”; Conway crusades against marijuana, calling it a “gateway drug,” while Paul has said that ten- and twenty-year sentences for possession are too harsh—a mildly countercultural stance that was only highlighted by a GQ article depicting the college-age Rand as a pot-smoking, girl-hazing, Christian-mocking devotee of the “Aqua Buddha.” Worst of all, Conway says he would gladly extend the Bush tax cuts for the very rich for “five, eight, maybe ten” years—a position thoroughly in sync with Paul’s anti-tax crusade. “
Continue at: The Nation
Interesting article. Rand comes out on top in this one– plus, it highlights Conway’s anti-liberty positions. Great one to send to your liberal friends.
‘We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future’ says Publisher
Sep/100
The publisher of the New York Times acknowledged Wednesday that the newspaper will go out of print — eventually.
“We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at a London media summit Wednesday.
Sulzberger’s statement came in response to a prediction that the newspaper would go out-of-print by 2015.
“This sounds obvious, but it’s a big deal,” Business Insider founder Henry Blodget wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/arthur-sulzberger-w…
‘We Will Stop Printing The New York Times Sometime In The Future’ Say Publisher
Sep/100
The publisher of the New York Times acknowledged Wednesday that the newspaper will go out of print — eventually.
“We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at a London media summit Wednesday.
Sulzberger’s statement came in response to a prediction that the newspaper would go out-of-print by 2015.
“This sounds obvious, but it’s a big deal,” Business Insider founder Henry Blodget wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/09/arthur-sulzberger-w…
