FREE SPEECH UNDER FIRE IN MICHIGAN CATTLE FIELD:

Is it illegal to paint a political message on the side of a makeshift hay loft and leave it in your cattle pasture? If you live in Gaines Township, Mich., apparently, yes. Vern Verduin did that, painting “Marxism/Socialism = Poverty & hunger” and “Obama’s ‘mission accomplished.’ 8% unemployment. 16 trillion debt” on the side of two tractor trailers on his 40-acre farm.

For doing so, Verduin has now landed in court, having run afoul of a local zoning rule that prohibits political signs larger than 20 square-feet in size.

As the Professor would say: Tar. Feathers.