Politically Minded

Kamran Khan presents another fresh episode of Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Saath in Geo TV and talk Ahmed Fraz (GEO NEWS), Afrasiab Hatak , Ameen Hafiz (GEO NEWS), Rahman Malik (PPP).

Ali Ahmed Kurd President SCBA, Athar Minallah Spokesman CJI, in fresh episode of Meray Mutabiq with Dr Shahid Masood.

Syed Munawar Hussain (Amir Of Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan), Imran Khan Chairman PTI in fresh episode of Meray Mutabiq with Dr Shahid Masood.

LAHORE : According to fresh reports at least 20 persons were killed and 50 were wounded in terrorists firing and grenade attacks in Manawa Police Training School on Monday.

LAHORE: Governor of Punjab has said according to reports eight to 10 armed men were involved in attack on Manawan Police Training School in Lahore .

LAHORE: Police have captured suspected terrorist involved in attack on police training centre in Manawan, Lahore. A hand grenade has been found from the arrested man.

Lahore : Khawaja Khalid Farooq I.G.Punjab talking to media.

"Eric Fischl ... created this bronze sculpture of a woman plummeting to her death, basing it on the many people who did just that during the 9/11 attacks ... ... Immediately, members of the public began complaining about the upsetting nature of the piece, and administrators at the center quickly covered it in cloth and hid it behind a screen." Right, because we wouldn't want to make mass murder look like something horrible? Watching policy getting made to appease those who don't get the point.

So bad it's worth reading, because you're going to see this argument, again, I'm sure. The author argues that universities are, themselves, victims of censorship if they are not free to fire faculty members for expressing political viewpoints which they don't like, because they are being forced to support views they don't like. This is question begging, because it presupposes that by allowing them to stay on its payrolls, a university has allowed those faculty members to speak for it; that the very act of allowing them to stay signals support for their views. This is nonsense. They are paid to teach. Their political views are their own business. Making the point, quite unintentionally I would guess, that the last thing Libertarianism promotes is individual liberty. If you're not free to speak your views openly without fear of destitution, then just how free is speech, really?

The book is Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". I wonder if they'll burn it?

Criticism of the decision in the Lori Drew case.

About the Bush administration's attack on separation of powers

Paul Krugman says something about Obama's statement that there would be no widespread investigation of Bush administration abuses that should be common sense, but sadly isn't, and so badly needs to be said. Found on Furl.

You've long suspected, and now somebody thinks he knows. If he's right, what does that say about lassez faire?

Another great moment in modern American law enforcement. Man gets bludgeoned and tasered by the police for having an epileptic seizure.

What was becoming of civil liberties during the recently departed Bush administration. Doesn't address the uncomfortable question of whether this is a continuation of trends seen during the Clinton administration.

Commentary on the notion that the Bush Administration and neocons were pro-free enterprise.

More about the young man who was shot and killed while face down on the pavement, "execution style", as the author says, by a transit cop on BART, the San Francisco Bay Area's rapid transit system. Perhaps I'm missing something, but weren't the police supposed to be enforcing the laws, including the one against murder?

Another police officer who didn't know he was being taped.

A best moments video as the ex-president speaks out about ... something.