Italian PM covers nude statue to avoid offending visiting Muslim prince
We see the principle everywhere reinforced: when Western values and Islamic values conflict, it is Western values that must give way. Western officials such as Matteo Renzi willingly apply this principle themselves, not realizing or not caring about the implications of what they’re doing. “PM covers nude statue to spare Sheikh’s blushes,” The Local, October…



The Obama White House routinely bars news media from meetings with foreign leaders and other events, then releases its own photos of those events. But the remnants of what once was a free press in America are meekly fighting back. The Associated Press reported last week, “The presidents of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press Media Editors have urged their members to stop using White House handout photos and video, saying they amount to propaganda.”
In our ongoing fight for free speech with the city of Boston, we had filed a second lawsuit against the MBTA for their capricious and arbitrary flouting of the First Amendment.
As the Constitutional Convention was ending in 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got: a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” Apparently, we can’t.
