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DAILY SHVITZ
Shvitz Spritz: Forget Free Speech
by Avi Kramer, June 27, 2007
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  • American prisons and policies failing at immigration detention. [The New York Times]
  • "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" ruling shows free-speech hipocrisy of Supreme Court. [The Los Angeles Times]
  • In the Vice President's office--"with no real remit and no real limits, open to exploitation and abuse"--Cheney's ongoing disregard for the Constitution. [The Nation]
  • The most dangerous Vice President since Aaron Burr. [The New Republic]
  • Doctors in the UK vote to make early-stage abortions more accessible. [The Daily Telegraph]
  • Harper's editor Wyatt Mason on his friendship with Leonard Michaels. [Harper's Magazine]
  • Robust opium crop in southern Afghanistan. [Guardian Unlimited]



Avi is a fiction writer living in Boston.


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Anonymous

06/27/07 11:37 am

Wednesday's Shvitz Spritz

An important-- and sobering-- smattering of news clips on today's Shvitz.  The ruling on "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," and Cheney's disregard for our Constitution-- for our rights as the people he is meant to serve-- are chilling.



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