Imagine the spiked, glutinous coronavirus sphere that Americans see constantly online and on the evening news as an immense wrecking ball smashing through the plate glass window that is the Bill of Rights. Because according to various legal experts, while…
Woody Allen and Adolf Hitler would seem to have very little in common, though the Brooklyn-born komiker did share a scene or two with the rug-munching anti-Semite in Allen’s brilliant, black-and-white 1983 comedy, Zelig. More recently, both have earned the…
During a two-hour hearing held on March 11 in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on pro-censorship, encryption-busting legislation known as the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act), there was no real discussion of the…
In an ironic, man-bites-dog moment, the Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF), a non-profit trade organization, bestowed its 2020 “First Amendment Defender Award” to U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on March 5, the same day Blumenthal and fellow sponsors…
Leave it to veteran Phoenix human rights activist Peggy Plews to sum up society’s complicity in the heinous killing of Marcia Powell, a 48-year-old, indigent, mentally-ill woman, whose heat-induced, 2009 death at Arizona’s Perryville Prison is recounted in filmmaker PJ…
