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Civil Liberties

Brickbat: WTF?

Charles Oliver | 8.28.2012 6:00 AM

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Officials at Oklahoma's Prague High School have refused to give a diploma to Kaitlin Nootbaar, the valedictorian of the 2012 graduating class. They say they won't give it to her until she writes an apology for saying "hell" in her graduation speech.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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