Below The Beltway

As if it’s recent efforts to define what constitutes “fair use” weren’t bad enough, the Associated Press now says that it intends to charge bloggers for quoting even small portions of AP articles:
The AP’s disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it’s now offering to being served with takedown notices involves [...]

Markos Moulistas links to and reproduces an Associated Press story about the gay marriages in California, and then has this to say:
The dinosaurs at the AP think they know what the “spirit of the internet” is, and they claim it has nothing to do with copying pieces of information from other sources for purposes of [...]

Not surprisingly, there’s been a lot of discussion among bloggers about moves by the Associated Press to define what constitutes “fair use” of it’s articles by bloggers:
The Associated Press, one of the nation’s largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its [...]

How would do you do ?

Your Vocabulary Score: A

Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.

How’s Your Vocabulary?
H/T: Vivian Paige

With apologies to Kip Esquire.
Riley writes about Jim Gilmore’s position on abortion.
To which I ask:
Most conservative Republicans seem to support the idea that abortion should be an issue of state law, not Federal law, through the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
So, a question…….
Why should it matter what a candidate for the United States Senate thinks [...]

Two options here. Either provide a caption for the photo, or tell us what Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln are thinking:

I already mentioned this earlier this week, but decided to post it again since things are likely to be quiet around here this weekend and this post will be on top for awhile.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a Facebook profile so send me a friend request if you’re on there as well. It may [...]

Over at The Liberty Papers, I’ve got two posts up about the future of liberty in an increasingly unfree world.
First, I give my take on Bruce Bartlett’s assertion that the Libertarian Party is a waste of time.
Second, I take a look at Jim Pinkerton’s look backward from 2058 and the future of liberty over the [...]

The latest edition of the The Jeffersoniad Journal is up over at CatHouse Chat. It’s well worth checking out, and I’m not just saying that because one of my posts got included.

Stephen Littau and Jason Pye, two of my co-contributors at The Liberty Papers will be attending the Libertarian National Convention in Denver, which begins tomorrow:
The Libertarian National Convention will run this Memorial Day weekend beginning on Thursday, May 22nd and ending on Monday, May 26th. I plan on attending the convention representing The Liberty Papers [...]