In an August, 18th Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Richard L. Hasen, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine, offered his insight into the problem of “cheap speech.”
Framing the context in an opening paragraph that fingers White Supremacists in Charlottesville, President Trump’s twitter feed, and Facebook, Hasen warns, | More…
“…as the school year gets underway, teachers in cities and towns across New Hampshire are preparing to talk with students about what happened in Charlottesville.
Tom White, coordinator of educational outreach for the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, has been working with teachers to provide guidance and resources on how best to approach this topic.” | More…
A judge has tossed out the voter fraud case against a Sunapee man alleged to have altered an email just prior to the March 2016 school board elections which ended in a victory for his wife.
Judge Gregory Michael ruled that prosecutors had filed three new misdemeanor charges against Joseph Furlong, 40, after the one-year statute of limitations had expired. Furlong had initially faced six other misdemeanor charges in Newport’s district court; however, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dropped those charges July 11, months after new evidence surfaced. *| More…
Dartmouth College is standing behind its statement that lecturer Mark Bray is “supporting violent protest” in comments made to the media about antifa, the far-left activist movement that has clashed with white supremacists in recent months. …
Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon issued a statement repudiating Bray, and college spokesman Diana Lawrence said Tuesday that position “remains unchanged.”
“As an institution, we condemn anything but civil discourse in the exchange of ideas,” Hanlon’s Aug. 21 statement said. “The endorsement of violence in any form is contrary to Dartmouth values.” | More…
New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald and Secretary of State Bill Gardner issued a statement yesterday saying that archived copies of the state’s voter database won’t be turned over to the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity or available to the public until further notice.
While scanning copies of the documents in order to provide them to the commission, workers discovered hand written notes on some checklists that divulged non-public information on domestic violence victims allowed to vote by absentee ballot because of protective orders but marked on the checklist as having voted in person. | More…
More than 100 faculty members at Dartmouth College have signed a letter to Philip J. Hanlon, its president, asking him to retract a statement that disavows comments by Mark Bray, a lecturer. Since this month’s deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., Mr. Bray has conducted a series of interviews with national news outlets about antifa, an abbreviation of the term “anti-fascist” that refers to radical far-left groups. | More…
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general is asking people to be cautious before donating to help those who are in need in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Gordon MacDonald says every time disaster strikes, there are scam artists who take advantage of people’s good intentions and set up fake appeals. | More…
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday agreed to a request from Texas officials to temporarily block a lower court order directing Texas to redraw two of the state’s 36 congressional districts.
The case, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott v. Shannon Perez, centers on two districts in a court-ordered redistricting plan the state adopted in 2013, two years after its initial plans to draw the maps were challenged as racially discriminatory. | More…
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The iconic film “Gone with the Wind” has been deemed so “insensitive” by Memphis, Tennessee, locals that an organization has ended annual showings.
Director Victor Fleming’s epic drama set during the Civil War and the Reconstruction era was screened for the last time Aug. 11 by The Orpheum Theatre Group. The organization said the 1939 classic would not be included on its 2018 Summer Movie Series due to local backlash surrounding its content, which ironically garnered Hattie McDaniel the first Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress — for a black actor. | More…
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