Linkfest: Sunday Updates
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Time to clean out the aggregator.
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ITEM: The "No More VT's" mania has begun -- Yale bans weapons -- even fake weapons! -- in student drama performances. You don't want another Blacksburg, do you? (Via Political Mavens.) Meanwhile, the Psychiatrist-in-Chief has begun the inevitable process of federalizing mental health.
"No psychopath left behind"?
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ITEM: The "Voting Rights for D.C." mania continues -- the House has passed a insolently unconstitutional bill granting the District a full seat in clear violation of Article I. The bill is expected to wither in a Senate filibuster; the President has also promised a veto. I guess even a broken president is right twice a year. Most recent post here.
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ITEM: This week's socialized medicine item -- how exactly will states, such as Massachusetts and California, that are proposing mandatory health insurance, go about enforcing that dictate?
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ITEM: The Texas Senate has passed a bill raising that state's smoking age to 19. I blogged against a similar warm-fuzzy-feeling stunt in New Jersey. The fate of the bill is unclear. (Via Fark.)
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ITEM: There has been another "anti-gay t-shirt" case, this time in Illinois. I touched upon the previous such case, Harper v. Poway School District, in this post; see also the (much more complicated) "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. This time the message was "Be Happy, Not Gay." And while I don't necessarily agree will all the federal case law on "student speech," I think it was correctly applied in this case. Clearly that message disrupts the classroom environment for gay students, just as a shirt reading, "Be Happy, Not Christian" would disrupt the classroom environment for Christian students. As long as the dress code is viewpoint-neutral, is meant solely to protect other students, and is not patently absurd (cf., the "Tigger socks" case), then educrats should be given the benefit of the doubt. (Via How Appealing.)
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ITEM: Speaking of gay students, how are the Soulforce Equality Riders doing?
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ITEM: And on the subject of the Soulforce Equality Ride, be sure to enter my "Guess What's in the White Box" contest on YouTube.
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ITEM: The "No More VT's" mania has begun -- Yale bans weapons -- even fake weapons! -- in student drama performances. You don't want another Blacksburg, do you? (Via Political Mavens.) Meanwhile, the Psychiatrist-in-Chief has begun the inevitable process of federalizing mental health.
"No psychopath left behind"?
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ITEM: The "Voting Rights for D.C." mania continues -- the House has passed a insolently unconstitutional bill granting the District a full seat in clear violation of Article I. The bill is expected to wither in a Senate filibuster; the President has also promised a veto. I guess even a broken president is right twice a year. Most recent post here.
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ITEM: This week's socialized medicine item -- how exactly will states, such as Massachusetts and California, that are proposing mandatory health insurance, go about enforcing that dictate?
People who refuse to obtain health insurance could be tracked down by the state or a private contractor, enrolled in a plan and fined until they pay their premiums under one proposal Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is considering as part of his vision for covering all Californians.A "health IRS" hunting down "deadbeats." Welcome to the New Health Order. (Via John Ray.)
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ITEM: The Texas Senate has passed a bill raising that state's smoking age to 19. I blogged against a similar warm-fuzzy-feeling stunt in New Jersey. The fate of the bill is unclear. (Via Fark.)
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ITEM: There has been another "anti-gay t-shirt" case, this time in Illinois. I touched upon the previous such case, Harper v. Poway School District, in this post; see also the (much more complicated) "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. This time the message was "Be Happy, Not Gay." And while I don't necessarily agree will all the federal case law on "student speech," I think it was correctly applied in this case. Clearly that message disrupts the classroom environment for gay students, just as a shirt reading, "Be Happy, Not Christian" would disrupt the classroom environment for Christian students. As long as the dress code is viewpoint-neutral, is meant solely to protect other students, and is not patently absurd (cf., the "Tigger socks" case), then educrats should be given the benefit of the doubt. (Via How Appealing.)
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ITEM: Speaking of gay students, how are the Soulforce Equality Riders doing?
In what is being hailed as the Equality Ride's first victory in the changing of policies discriminating against openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students at Christian colleges & universities across the country, Brigham Young University announced yesterday that they have revised their student code of conduct policies regarding openly gay students and the "advocacy" of LGBT civil and human rights.One wonders how much (additional) flak BYU and the Mormons will now get from the radical Evangelicals.
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ITEM: And on the subject of the Soulforce Equality Ride, be sure to enter my "Guess What's in the White Box" contest on YouTube.
Posted by Kip on
22 April 2007
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