It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws have immunized internet carriers from many of the usual rules that govern public dialogue. Rights must always stay ahead of technology to assure that constitutional protections apply to all forms of communication.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.