20
Dec
2006
The controversy over "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas" requires that we examine what has happened to our right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances." This is one of our inherent and inalienable rights. We have a "property" in that right. This means that any prior restraint placed on that right constitutes a "taking of property without due process of law" unless we are given something of equal value in return.
Kudos go out to Sub Pop Records and its commitment to alternatives to fossil fuels. Earlier this year, the label purchased enough wind-powered Green Tags to be 100-percent Green-e Renewable Energy certified, and it debuted the first-ever "green" album with Kelley Stoltz's Below the Branches. Green Tags financially support the generation of power from renewable sources, and are meant to offset a business' or household's consumption of fossil fuels.
Near
Wheatland, Iowa, sits the 200-acre Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat.
It's roughly a 40-minute drive from the Quad Cities, and in one
approach a car will go from a four-lane highway to a two-lane road to
a dirt drive.
No
one "banned" Borat
in Russia. At least, not according to officials of Russia's Federal
Agency for Culture & Cinematography. They just "advised" 20th
Century Fox that the movie could offend some viewers and contained
material that "might seem disparaging in relation to certain ethnic
groups and religions." 20th Century Fox has promised to contest
that "recommendation," which was accompanied by a denial of a
screening license. (What kind of "advice" comes with a
prohibition?)
