Sweet Home Alabama (for once)
As Ralph Luker at Cliopatria has pointed out, for example, Gerald Allen, a state legislator in the county where I live, is sponsoring a silly bill to withdraw tax funds from any non-fiction work that"appears to condone homosexuality." For my part, I have lamented the attack on the first amendment by the Faculty Senate at the University of Alabama, where I teach, which has proposed a draconian speech code.
For this reason, it was refreshing to see that Alabama has struck a blow for liberty in a very uncharacteristic way. According to a news report in The Chicago Sun-Times, the state government has filed a legal brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of California's medical marijuana law.