by Erik Kain on February 29, 2012
Art Jones wants to go to Washington D.C. but even as crazy as the Republican party has gotten, there’s no way it’s going to happen: “As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more…
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by Erik Kain on January 29, 2012
The fight for an open and free internet is taking place on many different fronts across the globe. In Europe, the latest battle took place in the Court of the Hague. Anti-piracy group BREIN won its case against two of the largest ISPs in the Netherlands – Ziggo and its smaller competitor, XS4ALL – forcing [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 23, 2012
Updated below. When sites like Wikipedia and Reddit banded together for a major blackout January 18th, the impact was felt all the way to D.C. The blackout had lawmakers running from the controversial anti-piracy legislation, SOPA and PIPA, which critics said threatened freedom of speech online. Unfortunately for free-speech advocates, these pieces of legislation are [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 11, 2012
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) showed up at in to issue a stark warning: we’re running out of time to stop legislation aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement. That legislation – the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate – is intended to [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 27, 2011
Firefly fans and the Foundation for Individual Rights in helped protect free speech, and a university professor’s job, with a little help from author Neil Gaiman and Twitter. (Note: beat me to the punch on this one. Read his post here.) Social media is changing the world and certainly University of Wisconsin professor James Miller [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 7, 2011
Hank Williams Jr. caused a ruckus earlier this week when he compared President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to Adolf Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu. The country singer was dropped from ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ show almost instantly after the comments. Now Williams is upset and thinks that his rights have been violated by the [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.