http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=Print_Article&Content_ID=263799 <--- Link to the text only "Print" version of this article. The rest of the site, however is not child safe or workplace safe. (I'm told there might be a popup ad here... I don't see it so it is either not able to force itself on a mac, or it came from some other spyware on the computer which saw it.)
Commentary: Pornography and The Problem with History
By: Mark Kernes
CHATSWORTH, Calif. -
The problem with United States history – you know, one of those subjects that's currently being cut back in public schools in favor of more hours on reading and math so the students can pass the "No Child Left Behind" mandated tests – is that there's so much of it around, and that so much of that is so well documented.
History is certainly one of the interests of the Heritage Foundation, the religio-reactionary think tank heavily bankrolled by Richard Mellon Scaife, who's been on the foundation's board of directors since 1973, and who's given millions to the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution as well. Scaife also reportedly paid for Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against President Clinton. In any case, there's no question as to which side the Heritage Foundation comes down in the War on Pornography.
And since the Heritage Foundation, whose averred mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense," is so interested in America's heritage, and since the primary U.S. document is its Constitution, the Foundation decided to "bring[] together more than one hundred of the nation's best experts to provide the first ever line-by-line examination of the complete Constitution and its contemporary meaning." Better still, they brought on board Edwin Meese III, the Reagan-era attorney general responsible for the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, more popularly known as the Meese Commission, to chair the project's editorial advisory board.
The result was The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a 475-page volume that indeed attempts to dissect the meaning of every phrase in that document and its amendments, with various legal scholars having been assigned to deal with specific sections of the document. The one assigned to the First Amendment's freedom of speech and press clauses was Eugene Volokh, a well-respected libertarian-leaning scholar who once clerked for recently retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and who's now a professor at the UCLA School of Law.
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