Free Speech Applies to Those We Disagree With, Too (May 09)


	Free Speech Applies to Those We Disagree With, Too (May 09)

TripodGirl

5-20-2009 5:10 PM

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civil rights, free speech

TripodGirl says:

Why the Philadelphia Inquirer is publishing columns by controversial law prof / torture memo author John Yoo.

This is exactly why America is so fab.

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