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Whining college students need lessons in tolerance and free speech

BY PETER SCHEER—There’s nothing like the massacre of 129 Parisian civilians at the hands of jihadi sociopaths, utterly convinced that their barbarism manifests the will of God, to provide some perspective on the recent whinings of students at a number of America’s most elite colleges and universities. For the past few weeks, students across the country—at Yale University in Connecticut, Amherst College in Massachusetts, New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College, the University of Missouri, and southern California

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In Russia, fears of Internet censorship

The Russian government has blocked access to material on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the name of protecting children, but others see it as a step toward wider Internet censorship, according to the New York Times. Full story

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Federal judge back prison inmates in contesting postcard-only mail policy

The Columbia County Jail in Oregon suffered a setback in its quest to limit prison mail to postcards when a federal district judge issued a injunction against enforcing the policy. The judge wrote that the prison failed to show that the postcard-only restriction was essential for safety or rehabilitation purposes. -db From a commentary for  the First Amendment Center, May 31, 2012, by David L. Hudson Jr. Full story  

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