How Appealing



Sunday, November 13, 2011

“Who gets to judge political truth?” Today in The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will has an op-ed that begins, “The Stolen Valor Act of 2005, a compound of political pandering and moral exhibitionism, was whooped through the Senate, a.k.a. the ‘world’s greatest deliberative body,’ by unanimous consent; the House, joining the stampede, passed it by a voice vote. So Xavier Alvarez now hopes the Supreme Court will save him from punishment for lying. And his is not the only case arising from government supervising speech that is demonstrably, or arguably, inaccurate.”

Posted at 9:27 PM by Howard Bashman