Facing heated protest, the United Nations on Wednesday defended Tunisia’s hosting of a U.N. summit about Internet access in the developing world, even though the north African nation has been repeatedly accused of rights abuses that include blocking Web sites it dislikes.
Of course! It’s the same organization that put Sudan and Cuba on the Human Rights Commission. The UN’s goal is control, not provision, of information services.
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Yale University Press just sent us, Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. which is sure to be a hit with the Looney Left. It’s kind of the inevitable sequel to What’s the Matter with Kansas — starting from the assumption that the election of Republicans to run Washington is an obvious error it goes on to the logical next step and argues that the exercise of power by those “elected” officials is per se illegitimate and ways must be found to stop them. […]
In short, what they see as obstacles to the kind of America they want to live in are: the American political system; the American people; and the elected government of America.
That’s been clear for a while. In some sense it’s good that the Modern American Left is finally openly admitting it.