Our interview this week is with Kate McMillanof Small Dead Animals and Kathy Shaidleof Five Feet of Fury, two of the Canadian bloggers being sued by former Human Rights Commission employeeRichard Warman.

Richard Warman has been caughtout by several Canadian websites using Canada's human rights machinery to make claims and collect money based onincitefulspeechposted on websites.

Speech which sometimeswas posted by...Richard Warman, using various pseudonyms.

In Blog News we look at the Hamasendorsement of Barak Obama. The audio clip we play is taken from the Powerline blog.

We speak about theAustralian Labor Government's 2020 conference. You honestly don't want to read any more about it.

For more on the weird Fatwa ofthe week,take a look at the reverential treatment the BBC give it.

DougPayton is talkingabout the illegality of refusing to photograph Lesbians. Sounds like a sensible law to me. More details here.

We have our regularchatwith Evan Sayet andyoucan pre-order his newbook on Amazon

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