Barley Syder's Sean Summers is interviewed by Scott Drake  He is the attorney for Albert Snyder who  is the father of a Marine killed in Iraq whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters. [read post]

Hedonic economic theory would be an easy discussion point, but as a student of the First Amendment, and given our post-Tucson fleeting interest in so-called civil discourse and the recent Syder decision, I asked myself the following questions: Given the fact that consistent polling shows that we use words like "frustrated," "bad," "mean," "childish," and "corrupt" to describe our government, elected officials and state of politics today, why… [read post]