I've always thought British tabloids and newspapers were pretty trashy, especially the page six girl bit that has become a mainstay in the various British rags. However, because of more heavy-handed (bad pun?) restrictions on smut peddling in the U.K., the porn industry has never been able to be as public and, dare I say, out in the open as in the U.S. But of course, Larry Flynt, the self-proclaimed "smut peddler," is out to change all that by opening his very own specialty shop where even a teacher would feel comfortable. Flynt also challenged Britons to mobilize against these repressive anti-porn laws just as he did through the American court system. Is this really what we mean by the spread of American values?
For a great new book that attacks judicial supremacy and the Supreme Court for "playing quarterback to the smut industry" see Phyllis Schlafly's The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It. We had Mrs. Schlafly in for a Federalist Society event, and she navigated a mine field of some tough questions to give one of the sharpest presentations on judicial activism I have ever seen. And she is 80 years old! God bless Phyllis Schlafly and her battles against folks like Flynt and his defenders in the commanding heights of the culture.