Gag Orders by George Neumayr
It would be difficult to come up with a more blatant violation of the First Amendment than the McCain-Feingold idiocy now accorded the utmost respect in our political culture. Concerned citizenship has become a felony. Pols feel comfortable rebutting "issue ads" -- a phrase which is supposed to convey unspeakable malignity -- not by saying that the ads are wrong but by declaring that they should not air at all. Pols cleave to the Federal Election Commission like Bolsheviks unwilling to abide any criticism outside tightly controlled state channels. They won't enforce obscenity laws but they will ask the FEC to enforce the new laws against the very political speech the Constitution was written to protect.

- posted by SARTRE @ 8:11 AM