"I think that any (laws) there are in Constitution or in life, are already made."

Hey, come on. That's kind of a great answer. Now, it gets a bit odd after that: I think that we should have a straight way to go in our...

Danny Boyle has declined a knighthood.

He's about being "an equal citizen," he says. Who else has declined a knighthood? Among others: David Bowie, musician Francis ...

"Of all the constraints imposed on us that restrict our freedom — constraints of morality and decorum, constraints of class and finance..."

"... one of the earliest that is forced upon us is the constraint of a language that we are forced to learn so that others can talk to ...

"We're all adults here, it's time we take our freedom back."

Fabulous slogan from ad — viewable at the link — for blu eCigs. Most living Americans had never before seen a cigarette advertised on telev...

"Some men were here to learn, and it's not a simple binary, not all of us are men or women."

2 reasons given for why it was wrong to kick all the men out of the discussion session at the London Feminist Film Festival after the scree...

Want to hear Bob Costas scold America about our terrible, terrible guns?

Here's the video from last night's NBC football broadcast.  Well, you knew it was coming. In the aftermath of the nearly unfathomabl...

Prof "assaulted by employees of a McDonald’s in Paris who objected to his wearing a cyborg-style eyepiece while eating dinner with his family."

McDonald's claims its people were respectfu l but concerned that he was secretly filming customers and invading their privacy (under Fre...

"I don't really care about politics. What I care about is how the pissant goings-on of political people affects the important things in this life..."

"... such as family, comfort, peace, security, art, beauty, freedom and happiness. And all of those things are further imperiled by las...

"Culture Does Matter," writes Mitt Romney.

In National Review , pushing back efforts to make it seem racist to say that nations prosper when their culture has certain qualities that I...

"Money the government is spending on old people means young people are free not to take care of them."

A response to the argument that young Americans should support vigorous spending cuts because so much more is spent on old people than on yo...

"We’re making a safe motorcycle."

Is that a motorcycle?  The C1 is gyroscopically stabilized – sort of along the lines of a Segway – so it can’t tip over. Do 2 wheels, motor...

Utilikilts.

Instapundit brings up the topic this morning, pointing to Manolo, who says he gets the idea: You are the unconventional, free-spirited, ma...

"Our whole society is based on... making women nod."

Video found after a search for "making women nod" — which I knew was a longstanding Bill Maher theme — which I got the idea to do ...

What do Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison, John Glenn, and Madeleine Albright have in common?

Obama is giving them all a medal — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking for freedom, Bob's got an old song called "I Shall B...

Is "liberation" an outdated word?

Yesterday, I wrote "Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if it turned out feminism served, above all, the interests of commerce and n...

Adam Liptak — at the NYT — says the SG tried to appeal to Justice Kennedy's idea of liberty.

Liptak refers to the way the Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli Jr., ended his argument by connecting the health care law to liberty: “T...

"An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe... we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing..."

One more Bob Dylan quote... one more post about freedom... ... because I just asked Meade what his favorite Bob Dylan song was, and he hadn...

There's a human rights complaint against Earls Albino Rhino beer.

"Ikponwosa (I.K.) Ero of Vancouver has alleged to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal that the name singles out people like her who suffer f...

Time-shifted live-blogging of this morning's Obamacare oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court.

I've finally got time to curl up with a nice MP3 and transcript . I'm going to treat this like a live-blog, with frequent updates un...

"Freedom, in Shin's mind, was just another word for grilled meat."

The amazing story of Shin Dong-hyuk, who was born in a North Korean forced labor camp, and escaped at the age of 23: In the garment factory,...