The last night I spent on Blogwatch Street,

Goodbye house forever…

The Club for Growth has created a new Free Speech Action Center to fight restrictions on political speech:

…Since the House passage of H.R. 513, columnist George Will said the action was “traducing the Constitution and disgracing conservatism.” Forbes Magazine called that bill “McCain-Feingold on steroids” and said “the move is like banning printing presses because your opponents use them to publish brochures criticizing you.” The Rocky Mountain News called it “noxious legislation.” Earlier, National Review said “There’s nothing conservative about trying to regulate your opponent to defeat.”

The provisions from H.R. 513 go far beyond the reviled prohibitions on ads imposed by the 2002 McCain-Feingold law. This unprecedented provision would ban any such ads placed anywhere at any time in any kind of medium by a 527 group unless sponsored by a highly-regulated PAC.

This legislation holds immense dangers to all nonprofit groups and all Americans. Please read the information and take action today to preserve your free speech rights.

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Reporters Sans Frontieres does a round-up on press freedom and attacks on journalists in 2005 (“the most deadly year for a decade”)–with a bizarrely sunny closing paragraph about those Mohammed cartoons. Link via Colby Cosh.

Also via the Golden Treasury of Colby Coshery, many many memories of British school fights.