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Some things worth knowing about that I didn't devote separate posts to:
- Much ado about not much
Paul Mirengoff: I haven't commented on the lobbying Fred Thompson may have done on behalf of an abortion rights group in 1991, and frankly I don't think it deserves more than passing comment. Thompson had a solid anti-abortion voting record in the Senate, whereas Rudy Giuliani favors a woman's right to choose and Mitt Romney did too until fairly recently. As Thompson explained on this blog (quoting John Roberts), "it’s a tradition of the American Bar that goes back before the founding of the country that lawyers are not identified with the positions of their clients." Having myself represented an alleged (and later convicted) war criminal and illegal immigrants, among other "politically incorrect" clients, I have no time for those who raise these questions about Thompson's legal career, whether in an effort to assist other candidates or otherwise. ...
- A Colloquy On The Fairness Doctrine
Ed Morrissey: The debate over the Fairness Doctrine continued in the Senate today, as Dick Durbin blocked Norm Coleman from offering an amendment that would forbid content control in political speech on the airwaves. Coleman and Durbin then got into a series of volleys on the nature of speech and broadcast licensing, which capsulizes the differing approaches to freedom between the two parties: ... (H/T: Dan Riehl)
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