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Nothing, however vile, justifies censorship
Even in the hardest of cases such as this anti-Islamic film, the old arguments against censorship remain the best.
The evil collusion between Putin and a man of God
The marriage of the Kremlin and the church in the Pussy Riot affair shows how sinister matters are in Russia.
Face the facts — Syria is an apartheid state
Despite his uncompromising stance on Weiner’s erect penis, Obama still cannot find it in himself to say that Al-Assad must also resign.
Societies without God are more benevolent
Writing sometime around the 10th century BC, the furious author of Psalm 14 thundered against those who say there is no God.