Kirby Delauter is no fan of freedom of the press.

The First Amendment wins again over "conservative" opposition. 

• Last year, a Georgia Baptist College President argued in court that only "people that are qualified to render those opinions i[n] the market place and exchange of ideas in academia and elsewhere" were allowed to use fair use to criticize him. (This was after he tried to get a six year old, five year old, and a four year old to sign non-disparagements.) He lost. 
• The then Senate Minority Leader argued that a blogger could not use fair use criticism to point out his mistake. He lost. 

This year, a Maryland Republican is threatening to sue his local paper if they even mention his name. The paper's response is priceless.  Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter

Blanks? Sure, we sometimes use hyphens in the case of expletives. Perhaps we could do that: "K---- D-------." Or, perhaps, "Councilman [Unauthorized]." We giggled a bit more than we should have when we came up with "the Councilman Formerly Known as Commissioner Kirby Delauter," which doesn't seem as funny written down in black and white and includes his name, which defeats the point. Maybe we should just put his initials, "KD," with an asterisk to a footnote (KD*), or refer to him as GLAT, the acronym for his campaign: "Govern Like A Taxpayer." We could even make it sound a little hip-hop with a well-placed hyphen: G-Lat. Speaking of, could we get away with "K-Del"? Or we could simply go with the Harry Potter-esque "He Who Shall Not be Named." (Cue the lightning strike and peal of thunder.)

Communist Party weighs in on Allen West

Priceless...

"We agree with the Progressive Caucus more than some other groups in Congress, but we also have a lot of differences with them," said Libero Della Piana, vice chairman of the Communist Party USA. "We have areas of agreement with the Republican Party, too. We support public education and public parks and Republicans do, too. But that doesn't make Republicans Communists." [1]

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Child's cat killed due to politics

(CBS News) An Arkansas political campaign manager was shocked to discover his family pet with one side of its head bashed in -- and the word "liberal" scribbled across the corpse in paint.


Jacob Burris has served as Ken Aden's campaign manager since October 2011. Aden, a Democrat, is currently running for Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District.


"To kill a child's pet is just unconscionable," Aden said in an official statement. "As a former combat soldier, I've seen the best of humanity and the worst of humanity. Whoever did this is definitely part of the worst of humanity."


Burris told the Blue Arkansas Blog that one of his younger children found the pet, an adult, mixed-breed Siamese cat, on their front porch. He said the children are doing fine, but he is not taking the threat lightly.


"I've got a gun and I know how to use it," Burris told Blue Arkansas. "If I have to protect my kids, I'll do it without hesitation."


The Associate Press confirmed with the Russellville Police Department that the campaign manager had filed a report, but they did not have any suspects at this time.


Although the campaign between Aden and incumbent Steve Womack has been tense, Aden's group stated they do not think anyone in the opposing campaign to be responsible.


"We suspect this is the action of a rogue individual or group of individuals who are the type of folks that stoop to the lowest common denominator instead of engaging in civil political discourse," Aden said in a statement. "It is unfortunate this has occurred, and we will await the results of the police and federal investigations." [1]

Imagine if a Republican President had said this

“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever’s left out there about that.”[1]