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'Swallowing Some Horse Pills For Liberty'

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April 1, 2011

Over at the John Locke Foundation's Carolina Journal Online, Donna Martinez reminds readers, with the help of FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, that even speech with which one disagrees can be an integral part of discourse, as the cases of Alexandra Wallace and Snyder v. Phelps remind us.

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